It would still be nice to enter a contest or two, even if on another worlds than earth bet. It would also be nice to see non-combat application of her power. I know she has goals and agendas, but like nami said, she needs to learn to relax.
The trouble with Taylor is that she's not the kind of person who can really relax. She sort of has to be badgered into taking a break. That's what makes her a great protagonist for Headway stories because, even without Headway's subtle compulsions to Train, Train, Train, Taylor would already be the kind of person to throw herself into a goal like this.
The Weaver arc is forgotten by most fans because of its flaws, but it's one of the main inspirations for this story. If Taylor had never met the Straw Hats, she'd probably look a lot like canon!Weaver. That kind of single-minded, isolating drive that alienates others, only really viewing other people as assets to draw training or usefulness from.
The Straw Hats ground Taylor, and they're skilled enough to not hold her back while also providing opportunities for her to do something other than train in a dark room or watch YouTube lectures. (My condolences for those of you who recently read H/NQ 1, which I wrote when I was 16/17, and is basically entirely Taylor watching YouTube videos and training.)
There's a reason that I plan on Taylor getting on pretty well with Narwhal, Cinereal, Armsmaster, and Dragon. Taylor is a workaholic who wants to make the world a better place. Relaxation doesn't really play into it, because unless she's really immersed or she's doing something with friends, she's always going to be thinking 'I could be training right now. I could be practicing a skillset that would render me more versatile, but instead I'm sitting around in a field waiting for my turn at the shooting competition or whatever'
Btw, is X-Men world just X-Men or full marvel?
Complicated. It's a Marvel world biased towards the X-Men. Other Marvel characters exist, but not in such a way that they would naturally overshadow the X-Men. Look more towards secret histories, conspiracies, characters that fly under the radar. Asgard is unlikely to appear, for instance.
I'm more likely going to be drawing from B-D list Marvel characters rather than A-listers, so that's your big hint there.
Welcome!
This is just the more fun option
I don't care who she will be with otherwise
Welcome! I'm afraid the vote was already locked by the time you posted that.
We have been told to go there and find out. Although I don't think that full Marvel is actually possible.
Correct. 616 and other Marvel dimensions will not appear in this quest. Although the
biopunk dinosaur Marvel Earth would be fun as hell to visit. If I ever break that rule, it'll be for that dimension.
Well I know we can draw tony stark interest/attention with Taylor new tinker perk.
Tony Stark pre-character development, which will possibly be butterflied away, is enough of an asshole that, unless you get very good rolls, I doubt Taylor will be willing to work with him, and might even be more likely to be willing to steal from him.
Unfortunate announcement to make. The first of several major exams I'll be taking over the next year is coming up in early July, and I want to devote my full focus to that. I was initially planning to do 500 words a day of writing, still, but I don't think that's sustainable as I ramp up my efforts at studying. I skimmed through the product of this weekend's work, and it's disjointed, redundant.
So, I'm taking a hiatus from writing until around the Fourth of July, at which point I'll be done with the exam. Assuming I pass, I'll go back to a more intense (500-1500 words a day) writing schedule, but for the next two weeks, I'm pausing writing, and thereby this quest.
This should not be taken as me losing interest in this quest. I resumed this quest at what was probably a bad point in my life to resume it, but I thought to myself that the longer I waited, the less likely it was to come back, and I wanted to prove that I was capable of reviving this for the long haul. Ninety-eight thousand words is a pretty good start, and you can bet I'll try my best to keep that going.
But until early July, this quest is on hiatus. If I get my score back and it's a failure, then I'll be retaking the exam as soon as possible, and the hiatus may be extended. I don't know what the odds are of my passage or failure, and can't guarantee the hiatus ending at July 4th, but that's the plan.
You guys know I ramble a lot - I'm going to stop typing here, because otherwise I'll just wind up repeating myself a lot.
TL;DR. Quest going on temporary, hopefully only 2 week hiatus, because of IRL stuff, not because of loss of interest. If I force the writing, I'll fail at both writing and IRL stuff - don't want that.
Please feel free to keep discussion going, planning, discussing, etc. This bit of downtime should be great for that kind of thing, the long term planning. I'll still be around answering questions, but I won't be able to devote an hour a day or multiple hours to writing for 2 weeks or so.
