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Harry Potter and the Skittering Spouse

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Fencer said:
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Do try to maintain a bit of control, you are the writer not the characters /s. (I'm teasing just to be clear.)

That said and to possibly head off any potential relationship conflicts that aren't necessary (Drama purely for Drama's sake is not good writing), I would say that Harry is at heart a good guy and not prone to forcing conflict if he isn't forced into it. He's at his core desperate for family. He's never really had any and the closest he had was just taken away from him. Taylor being an inseparable bond he now has will be, even if only subconsciously at first, highly attractive and desired by him. Beyond that he's going to want to make it work, because while they both weren't really consenting or even aware of what they were doing they're stuck together now. He'd try to do right by Taylor, and take responsibility. We even see it in how he's horrified and immediately apologetic to Taylor for getting her involved in his mess once he thinks about it, which is absolutely on point for his character.

He's not going to want to fuck this bond up, and will likely go out of his way to be as accommodating to Taylor as possible while they get to know one another. They're not always going to agree and Harry won't be a doormat, but he's not going to dismiss her opinion out of hand either. Again @Fencer, you showed that in chapter 2 when Taylor was thinking over her plan and how Hogwarts is likely to be the safest place at the moment because they talked about it. Even if she's new to magic she is clearly highly intelligent, and no stranger to combat, and Harry can see that.
 
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Y'know, when I made the Harem comment, I didn't think it'd get taken so Siriusly...the fact it was is kind of amusing, yet also concerning. Also when it concerns Taylor's sexuality, I've found that plenty of fics like to have her be bi, I've no idea why...but it is what it is, fandom's weird like that.
 
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Fencer said:
I am proud of pulling in fairly large groups of readers without needing fan service.
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You are so good at pulling in a large audience without fanservice, so maybe if you included a beach episode or something, you could get an even bigger audience. Think of the profit potential!

(For legal purposes, this is a joke. Please do not write anything you are uncomfortable with).
Neo-Devil said:
Also when it concerns Taylor's sexuality, I've found that plenty of fics like to have her be bi, I've no idea why...but it is what it is, fandom's weird like that.
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A bunch of horny people on the internet find lesbians hot. Hence, Taylor becomes bisexual.
 
Functionality said:
You are so good at pulling in a large audience without fanservice, so maybe if you included a beach episode or something, you could get an even bigger audience. Think of the profit potential!
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I dunno, using the Force made easy is very safely in the top twenty Star Wars fics on ff.net by follows and favorites :cool2: I'd say things are going just fine.
 
Functionality said:
You are so good at pulling in a large audience without fanservice, so maybe if you included a beach episode or something, you could get an even bigger audience. Think of the profit potential!

(For legal purposes, this is a joke. Please do not write anything you are uncomfortable with).
A bunch of horny people on the internet find lesbians hot. Hence, Taylor becomes bisexual.
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While yes, there is that. However, in Taylor case, it's not purely that.

Wild bow has writen her, probably accidentally, as a girl who spends alot of time checking out other girls. Girls are consistently writen more described by Taylor than the men. And more sexual/sensually described. Makin her read as someone who certainly apriciate the female form.

Ad how her entire life has been in a place where represing non sic thoughts are a legitimate survival strategy, and her general life has had her soured on close female friends before tats starts to manipulate her for her own good... and then the world is literally on her shoulders, and you get a girl who probably could be not in the know of her own preferences.

Add wogs and how she did intact have a canon straight but catastrophic relationship... you get someone who reads a bi, according to many fans.
 
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Miho Chan said:
I am going to have to educate the person who started this whole fascination with Harems on actual polyamory, in the modern sense. And they will sit and listen until I have thoroughly educated them...
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Blame whoever wrote Love Hina. It wasn't the first but it's the one that popularized the dysfunctional anime harem full of quirky characters trope and codified the harem 'romance' genre which in turn informed generations of anime, fanfiction and so on.

(And has polluted anime romance to the point that you can't have romance at all without the lead waffling faithlessly between a half dozen or more girls or guys.)
 
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Wildbow also is an author who will WoG for the sake of WoGing
ChaoticSky said:
Blame whoever wrote Love Hina. It wasn't the first but it's the one that popularized the dysfunctional anime harem full of quirky characters trope and codified the harem 'romance genre which in turn informed generations of anime, fanfiction and so on.
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*Adds another name to the list of people to quietly loathe*
 
Avernus said:
Taylor: "I don't think that's how sexual orientation works. Right?"

Tattletale: "This is what happens when the Simurgh gets a PHO account. Endbringer shippers. Did you know that Earth Bet has 78% more lesbians and bisexual women than Earth Aleph?"
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The sad thing is, this makes sense XD
 
Miho Chan said:
*twitches violently at the cursed word* I see the fandom is still obsessed with using Harems instead of actual functional polycules. God forbid poly individuals ever get representation properly... No, we have to settle for the horrific depictions of "polyamory" done by people with no fucking clue how such a relationship would even function
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Not really? Like what I know I'm going to see with the H word it's different from a polycule. In some fics it's even closer to actual real world harems than what the author probably intended (with members nearly trying to kill each other to earn the favour of the "harem-master").
 
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Fencer said:
He's a nice guy, and they've been forced together and will know neither is entirely for it. Very easy to feel guilt. And guilt sex does not sound sexy.
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No it is not. Heck my wife's and mine first time was awkward enough and we loved each other. They are going to be rather odd with each other at first. Takes a couple of years and false starts but it gets better with age and understanding, mostly the understanding part.
 
Inbetweenaction said:
as a girl who spends alot of time checking out other girls. Girls are consistently writen more described by Taylor than the men. And more sexual/sensually described. Makin her read as someone who certainly apriciate the female form.
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Nah, she is just showing jealousy, she ogles Brian all the time and Lisa said she was straight, Lisa will know.

People in fanfics just make her more gay than she actually is, canonically she is confirmed straight, by herself, a super thinker and the literal creator of the world, people read too much to her showing jealousy.

The main reason people "read her as bi" is that male characters in worm are mostly uninteresting, not relationship materials (Alec) or too old, and lesbians are hot, her upbringing as a bullying victim with bad body image explains her jealousy pretty well.
Fencer said:
He's a nice guy, and they've been forced together and will know neither is entirely for it. Very easy to feel guilt. And guilt sex does not sound sexy.
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He is a teen, and they are now married, while he would likely feel guilty, it probably wouldn't stop him from enjoying it.
 
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Roth963 said:
I somewhat doubt Harry will object to the losing his virginity part.
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Why wouldn't he? Just because he's a young teenage boy doesn't mean he doesn't have a well developed conscious, and in his case, his sense of self-worth is... fairly low? TLDR: That's a stereotype, and while it's an understandable one, it disregards that it takes two to tango.
 
Miho Chan said:
Why wouldn't he? Just because he's a young teenage boy doesn't mean he doesn't have a well developed conscious, and in his case, his sense of self-worth is... fairly low? TLDR: That's a stereotype, and while it's an understandable one, it disregards that it takes two to tango.
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Yeh, but he isn't raping her, Taylor already pretty much all but said the distance thing wouldn't be enough to make her sleep with him, which will mean this will be somewhat willing and after they get to know each other.

So the guilt will likely be much lower than if say, she told him now to do it to get it over with so she can go away.
 
Frankly as has been said, Taylor is willing to work with the 600 foot limit and doesn't want to just jump into bed with Harry to get rid of it. Her going back on that line of thought would be out of character without nigh impossible amounts of reason to do so. @Fencer could do it, but I feel she's more likely to swarm the offending reason to death than change her mind on that. Considering she's downplaying her abilities at the moment, though I just bet someone as experienced as Dumbledore or Moody knows she's doing so if not the extent of said downplaying, she's not even likely to do that. Really I just want to see her meeting Moody, that's going to be a meeting that'll be epic.

It's kind of a pity @Fencer chose to have this use the
"challenge" default of this taking place after year 5. Sirius would love her, be scared to bits by her at times sure, but having someone that thinks like her on Harry's side would've made him considerably happy I think. Plus his Animagus form would've been a hit with Taylor as well in my opinion. Speaking of Animagi, @Fencer you should consider using them in this story. It's a criminally under used part of the Potterverse and it's FanFics sadly.

I doubt Taylor would be an insect though. It's not really her character despite her Parahuman power. She's too forceful a person to become a bug like Rita in my opinion. She might be a hunting cat (some of the finest ambush predators), or a very big dog or wolf though.
 
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Windborne said:
doubt Taylor would be an insect though. It's not really her character despite her Parahuman power. She's too forceful a person to become a bug like Rita in my opinion. She might be a hunting cat (some of the finest ambush predators), or a very big dog or wolf though.
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I think bugs are her animals the same way rats are for Danny, there may have been a reason for QA choosing the theme.
 
The 600 ft limit is not currently a problem in either ones mind. They have been together for all of 3 days and have had no real reason to stray apart. There have been no situations that could force them apart. See combat, portkey's, apparition, flying on a broom being in wildly different areas of the castle. Taylor wanting to run a combat mission and no one wanting to let harry away from a safe house. The situation is not static. also their objections of sleeping with a stranger become less relevant as they get to know each other which may be replaced with new objections or may not.

As for guilt vs sex? Son of a single catholic mother. Believe me it is entirely possible to be guilty over things other people have done based only on shared gender. Feeling guilty over your part in a fucked up situation isn't even a stretch.
 
Well, this is alot of fun. And I like this Taylor, not an idiot, nor an amoral mass murderer, but a Teen made Ruthless by betrayal and shitty adults.
 
Roth963 said:
I think bugs are her animals the same way rats are for Danny, there may have been a reason for QA choosing the theme.
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Maybe? I don't really take Wildbow's WoGs seriously since he has such a hard on for making his worlds be as horrible as possible for little to no reason. That really makes any WoG from him automatically suspect. About the only one I take seriously, and only because it's backed up by some basic logic and various names like the PRT ENE in story, is the one that states Brockton Bay is north of Boston.

But I think really QA didn't have much choice in terms of animals if you think about it from the perspective of a Shard. By which I mean they want to gather as much [DATA] as possible. Arthopods are by the far the most numerous life form on Earth by an absolutely stupid amount of magnitude. In terms of really utilizing the power of Multi-tasking it's pretty much Arthopods, or nothing if you want to have a combat viable Host with Taylor's power set of absolute control of set life forms without having to take significant time off to replenish potential "troops".

And again the Parahuman power isn't necessarily going to reflect on Taylor's potential Animagus form. Magic operates on symbology and concepts in the Potterverse rather than Shard fuckery. An Animagus form is determined by on's inner character I think, though that could just be Fanon.

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Fair enough. Though I kind of think Taylor wouldn't be itching to take on a combat mission at the moment so her wanting "away" from Harry shouldn't be a consideration in that regard. She'll be wanting to prepare, hell @Fencer you even showed that with her gathering various weapons in Chapter 2. She knows she isn't prepared for going out and seeking combat just yet. I'm just not sure Taylor would be so combat thirsty just yet. Sure she's ready to stop any such combat that comes looking for her, but Taylor's always struck me as someone who really doesn't go on the offensive without it being the final attack against a wounded enemy or she's been forced to do so by an enemy so far out of her league that there's no point in retreating and preparing like Leviathan or the S9. That is absolutely not the current situation in terms of Voldemort and his forces.
 
I agree with that. Remember, she didn't go out for her first patrol for three months. Most parahumans don't seem to be able to make it more than a few weeks. Although I'm not sure if that is fanon or canon.
 
Windborne said:
But I think really QA didn't have much choice in terms of animals if you think about it from the perspective of a Shard. By which I mean they want to gather as much [DATA] as possible. Arthopods are by the far the most numerous life form on Earth by an absolutely stupid amount of magnitude. In terms of really utilizing the power of Multi-tasking it's pretty much Arthopods, or nothing if you want to have a combat viable Host with Taylor's power set of absolute control of set life forms without having to take significant time off to replenish potential "troops".
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Pretty sure she got bugs because they were the only thing nearby that could have possibly helped her during her Trigger. They didn't end up helping, not really, but she was covered in bugs everywhere with no other living creatures near her, and Shards do try to give powers that will keep their Hosts alive through their triggers if they can.

Bugs probably are the best thing she could have gotten, really versatile, but I don't think it had anything to do with QA's choosing, it was probably just the situation.
 
Windborne said:
In terms of really utilizing the power of Multi-tasking it's pretty much Arthopods, or nothing if you want to have a combat viable Host with Taylor's power set of absolute control of set life forms without having to take significant time off to replenish potential "troops".
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Counter point, Aidan, multitasking was given as secondary power when Taylor proved incapable of dealing with the bugs.

Aidan is given birds, some of the power expressions from the Danny WoG are him spitting out relatively intelligent rats he could control well while having cruder control of lesser rats.

QA wasn't limited, even before you go to powers like the psychic scream of anger she could have given to Danny.
Windborne said:
And again the Parahuman power isn't necessarily going to reflect on Taylor's potential Animagus form. Magic operates on symbology and concepts in the Potterverse rather than Shard fuckery. An Animagus form is determined by on's inner character I think, though that could just be Fanon.
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The reason rats featured in so many of the alternative Danny powers was purely symbolism.

Shards love symbolism.
Dahashi said:
I agree with that. Remember, she didn't go out for her first patrol for three months. Most parahumans don't seem to be able to make it more than a few weeks. Although I'm not sure if that is fanon or canon.
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Fanon I think, Taylor found retired parahumans as Khepri.
 
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I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. I just can't see QA as being that completely brain dead while being a Noble Shard.

Roth963 said:
Counter point, Aidan, multitasking was given as secondary power when Taylor proved incapable of dealing with the bugs.

Fanon I think, Taylor found retired parahumans as Khepri.
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That's a bud to a non blood related person, powers generally don't work exactly the same way when dealing with Buds like that from what I know. And I don't think she'd have been in a coma for that long if multitasking was a secondary expression of QA like Broadcast had with Jack's blades. Could be wrong though. And from what I remember, and again I could be wrong, I think most of those "retired" Parahumans she found as Khepri were all Vial Capes like Sundancer. Taylor taking so much time being unusual is Canon I think.
 
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