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Magical Girl Escalation Taylor (Worm/Nanoha)

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Silently Watches said:
Is Linker Core size inheritable? Who knows.

I will point out that Willow most likely won't defend herself. She'll defend LAURA no question, but not herself.
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Willow? Is that a hint about potential? A natural S-class and if say Laura were murdered by Jotun in front of her she'd turn into an Endbrigner level threat and be willing to wipe out all life on Earth Bet in her grief after utterly obliterating Winter Hill?

Well, you did make a reference to Manager, so why not BTVS?
 
Goldenroot said:
I don't think it Taylor knows anything about Cauldron besides that it exists
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When Taylor gave Alexandria the vials, Alexandria told her what Cauldron's overall goal was. So Taylor knows that Scion was an omnicidal alien and that the entire world cluster was at risk.
Goldenroot said:
And while I am already asking a question whats going on with the Fairy Queen?
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Who knows?
Solacen said:
@Silently Watches Im not sure what the rules are for fanart in this thread so ive spoilered it just incase.
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There aren't a whole lot of rules. I do like the picture, though. Very nice! :)

You get a training point to assign to Taylor or Tim.
SlickRCBD said:
Well, you did make a reference to Manager, so why not BTVS?
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It wasn't a reference to BTVS because I've never watched it.
 
Silently Watches said:
When Taylor gave Alexandria the vials, Alexandria told her what Cauldron's overall goal was. So Taylor knows that Scion was an omnicidal alien and that the entire world cluster was at risk.
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Alex certainly glossed over her level of involvement. Made it sound like they gave her a Vial and told her to be a Hero and that's it.
Nothing about the mutations the Vials can cause and the treatment of the C53s.

All gut-punches waiting to happen.
 
Solacen said:
Fiiiiinally finished some fanart ive been working on for this story. Ive been wanting to do something for it for ages and eventually got around to doing it. I have drawn Taylor/Calamity Witch! I admit i have taken some creative liberties but i think they work. Taylor is also abit curvier but then this could also be a slightly older adult Tay Tay :p
@Silently Watches Im not sure what the rules are for fanart in this thread so ive spoilered it just incase.
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Very impressive.
 
Solacen said:
Fiiiiinally finished some fanart ive been working on for this story. Ive been wanting to do something for it for ages and eventually got around to doing it. I have drawn Taylor/Calamity Witch! I admit i have taken some creative liberties but i think they work. Taylor is also abit curvier but then this could also be a slightly older adult Tay Tay :p
@Silently Watches Im not sure what the rules are for fanart in this thread so ive spoilered it just incase.
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That's amazing.

It must be a new costume/barrier jacket Taylor will use for her trip to Japan since it screams "Magical Girl" instead of "Foul Villain!".
 
Wyrd said:
Cricket is the only cape we know of that was with Kaiser when we melted him. The other capes he had with him were pulled into RF while Cricket was not. The Trigger that allowed her to escape was most likely Theo, who is likely Shard. Some went with Purity and wound up turning themselves in, and there's no telling how many managed to escape BB before the quarantine.

One of the downsides of Solar Wrath en masse is that we didn't get a chance to verify the identities of the E88 we killed.
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Chevalier interlude specifically states that Cricket (and whatever other people the triggered in the aftermath) was the only E88 capes to escape.

Silently Watches said:
"I thought they were wiped out after they broke through the containment wall around Brockton Bay." He distinctly remembered that from reading some of the after-action reports that were made available to him in his capacity as head of a Protectorate branch. Learning the slightly awkward Calamity Witch had an ability that more than earned her moniker was stressful enough, let alone that she had singlehandedly killed an entire gang's worth of capes in one blow.

She shook her head. "The capes in Calamity Witch's pocket dimension were killed. Two capes were outside. Victor died, but Cricket escaped along with the unpowered members and whatever cape they had that triggered in the building the other heroes were assaulting. More than enough to move to a new city and start pulling in sympathizers to their ideology. It's widespread enough, unfortunately."
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Pinklestia said:
That's amazing.

It must be a new costume/barrier jacket Taylor will use for her trip to Japan since it screams "Magical Girl" instead of "Foul Villain!".
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It matches up to the original description quite well, actually. The jacket's hem is a little too clean, and I'm not sure it looks like leather? Mostly a side-effect of the drawing style anyway, and it looks amazing for the style it's in.

Silently Watches said:
There is no pain, and in a flash of the same color, you now have a different – and far skimpier – pair of panties circling your hips. A second bolt hits you in the chest; in its wake lies a skin-tight tank top that ends at the level of ribs and leaves your entire midriff exposed. Two more crackle around your legs before turning into knee-high boots. A fifth flash of lightning creates a black miniskirt, the buckle and end of the belt tooled in what you assume is steel. The idea that it might be real silver is just too hard to believe. Three more bolts become a jacket with a ragged hem, the black leather a contrast to the red shirt. The final blast of lightning you follow with your eyes as it flies above you and becomes a dark circle above your head, a triangular tip just visible outside the edge before the entire thing falls on your face and something pinches at your temples.

You push the hat to its proper place on top of your head and stare at the sphere of bright red crystal forming in front of you. There is only a moment to see that it is a witch's hat you are wearing, along with a masquerade mask made from crimson wirework, before fragments of gunmetal gather around the ball and connect with each other to form a 'U' with uneven ends, the sphere held in place inside the curve by two small struts. Two wide cylinders attach to each other and then the outside of the curve, and then they shoot apart to reveal the long pole of a staff.
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Elwyn said:
It matches up to the original description quite well, actually. The jacket's hem is a little too clean, and I'm not sure it looks like leather? Mostly a side-effect of the drawing style anyway, and it looks amazing for the style it's in.
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Think of Batman costume switch to make himself less scary to the innocent, is still basically the same thing, just less scary.

Taylor probably did that to make her trip to Japan less troublesome.
 
Mal-3 said:
...why would she be in costume in Japan? The whole point of the Japan trip would be to have actual time off, and we already know from Missy and Taylor's first world trip that she doesn't have to be in costume to teleport.
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I guess none of the girls would go to a place were Cosplay is allowed just to have fun then.
 
Racoras said:
The third is that you're hoping for positive results on Danny after having only done two or so steps of his quest chain, when especially if we only get one for some reason might be exactly what gives only the vote-suppressing angst some expect and none of the resolution thats likely to come on taking multiple passes at it. Maybe two votes will see Taylor decide to act on whatever she sees and tries a plan, but lacking a third vote means we don't correct and go shonen-diehard on finding a solution after it fails to get full results. Or only two means he gets "fixed" in some fashion but QA is still there and he flips out hearing about the bodycount we'll have acquired by then in various Fallen engagements, or after meeting the Dinosaurs and hearing we invited the actually-arrived TSAB (last he knew they were merely on the way) to come get an up close view of our best capes and how they strategize for Endbringers, or after seeing the 'medical experiments and minor-corrupting' we have done with Missys various augments and how that led her to quit the Protectorate and run away to us (that last is unlikely given his views of the PRT and Hannah being a temp guardian), or after seeing how the Privateers broke up with him gone he goes depressive or decides to run away on a mid-life crisis or some other angstsplosion.....
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Is there any indication that @Silently Watches is the kind of QM who would do something like that? "Trusting people" is a strategy with a hell of a track record in this quest, and on top of that, I can't think of a single time when taking action has lead to a worse outcome. (Maybe when we met with the Undersiders back in chapter 2 and stuffed it up, but that's kind of a special case, and even then was probably more a wasted opportunity than anything else.) On the other hand, several fiascos - the breakout, Coil, Typhon, probably the big blowup with Danny - have been caused or exacerbated by not taking enough action.

It seems much more likely that "Danny wakes up and goes ballistic" is the outcome of no action taken than of insufficient action taken - and not just from a metagame perspective; he'd have much more reason to feel abandoned in that case.
 
Mal-3 said:
I... don't think any of them are actually into cosplay? And you can do touristy things in Japan without having to do cosplay; it's not like Japan is just anime nonsense regardless of how the vote was phrased.
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It's hard to guess whether cosplay would be more or less common in Bet. I mean, they do have actual parahumans with their own marketing forces. Aleph has some superhumans, too, though nowhere near as many, but I expect the primary use of Barrier Jackets would be to avoid having to worry about luggage, buying clothes, getting dirty, etc.

Now, if they wind up in... I think it's Shibuya? Massive cosplay district, regardless, they might use their cape appearances just because they could.
 
Kayleigh would almost HAVE to be the one to suggest this.

I'm not sure why Laura would care.

And as far as Taylor is concerned, she lived in the same town as the ABB. Not exactly the best impression.

"Really Kayleigh? Japan? What next? Nazi Germany? Pick someplace better."
 
I..... certainly hope Taylor isn't half that blindly racist, or if she is that Kayleigh baps her with a newspaper and cosplays a teacher for Culture Lectures.

Or is Kayleigh going to feel the same about Mexicans because of the MS-13 in her town?
 
Ada said:
Kayleigh would almost HAVE to be the one to suggest this.

I'm not sure why Laura would care.

And as far as Taylor is concerned, she lived in the same town as the ABB. Not exactly the best impression.

"Really Kayleigh? Japan? What next? Nazi Germany? Pick someplace better."
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Well, that's a stretch.

How about we instead consider what the characters in the quest would actually consider. Remember that in Worm Japan took significant damage and then had a huge diaspora - meaning people fled the country. After all that what's the Japanese economy like? Is it some place that people from the Worm-verse would consider visiting for a vacation? Or is that something they actively avoid because they "know" it isn't worth visiting?
 
Vanigo said:
I meant "stop having crippling amnesia and start being a functional human being again"; I just couldn't think of a workably succinct way to make that explicit.
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Eh, if he was going to make a sudden recovery it'd be if QA stopped fucking around. Which means either he somehow hit critical mass and second triggered from cumulative stress despite being unable to cumulative, or some hax showed up and fixed him.

Either way thats an improvement.
Even if he goes villain.
 
From 11.15


"How come you haven't gone to Aleph yet?" the other girl asks, blind to your dark thoughts.

You take a moment to think about it, and the answer you come up with surprises you. "Honestly? Because Aleph doesn't really have anything Bet doesn't. We're pretty equal in terms of culture and technology. The other worlds so far have proven to be more interesting."

Going Aleph out of character for Taylor, since she finds the other worlds more interesting.

Going to Aleph, Japan is even more so.
 
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