Magical Girl Escalation Taylor (Worm/Nanoha)

Nor is it a stretch to believe that the two branches of a family who work on the same team share similar views on heroes and villains. I'd honestly be more surprised if they didn't.
Look back at 15.X.
Considering Sarah was the one who talked her extremely reluctant sister into adopting Amelia:
Lady Photon joined Brandish on the stone stairs. "We can't let her go into foster care. It's not just the danger his enemies pose. Once people found out she was Marquis' child, they'd start fighting over who could get their hands on her."
"Sarah-" Brandish started.
"Then they'll kidnap her. They'll do it to exploit her powers, and she's bound to be pretty powerful if she inherits anything like her father's abilities"
, is far more level-headed than her sister:
"Carol-" Lady Photon spoke, her voice gentle. "Take it easy."
They stood in the mist of a ruined neighborhood. Amy had stepped outside within a minute of their arrival, blocking the door with her body. There was no resistance in the girl, though. It was more like the obstruction was a way of running, of forestalling the inevitable.
The girl hugged her arms against her body, her hands trembling even as they clutched her upper arms. Her teeth chattered, as if she were cold, but it was a warm evening.
Was the girl in shock? Carol couldn't muster any sympathy. Amy was stopping her from getting to Victoria. Victoria, who she'd almost believed was dead.
"Amy," Lady Photon spoke, "What's going on? You won't let us inside, but you won't explain. Just talk."
And was the one who came up with the idea of New Wave in the first place, I firmly disagree.
 
Look back at 15.X.
Considering Sarah was the one who talked her extremely reluctant sister into adopting Amelia:
, is far more level-headed than her sister:

And was the one who came up with the idea of New Wave in the first place, I firmly disagree.
Are you saying that Lady Photon is substantially nicer and more reasonable? No wonder she was ignored in favor of the dsyfunctional half of New Wave. :V

/onlymostlysarcastic

edit: actually, maybe sarcasm isn't the right word. tongue in cheek?.. grim-salty? :V
 
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-UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK! He can do that?
Yes he always could. Remember, he spent the canon post-Birdcage release period building up an insane charge just anticipating fighting Scion, and off pretty much the entire Birdcage while he was in there(so of course Scion never got into melee range of Lung)
Secret of Flare Spells?
Spells inflict both their physical component as damage and also does a spiritual body impact when they connect. This is how a spell can tear through a building but only knock out the human hit by it, the inanimate building has no spiritual presence or resistance, while the spell can translate it's energy into psychic shock for a knockout.

Which I suspect means that Lung can't regenerate his spiritual energy easily, so a nonlethal Flare shot can weaken him down to a KO point if he keeps eating hits. Whereas a lethal one is raw unshielded EM energy, which he DOES resist.
 
Yes he always could. Remember, he spent the canon post-Birdcage release period building up an insane charge just anticipating fighting Scion, and off pretty much the entire Birdcage while he was in there(so of course Scion never got into melee range of Lung)
That sounds like an exploit you'd think the shards would remove. Either that or something Lung should have stumbled upon before.
Spells inflict both their physical component as damage and also does a spiritual body impact when they connect. This is how a spell can tear through a building but only knock out the human hit by it, the inanimate building has no spiritual presence or resistance, while the spell can translate it's energy into psychic shock for a knockout.

Which I suspect means that Lung can't regenerate his spiritual energy easily, so a nonlethal Flare shot can weaken him down to a KO point if he keeps eating hits. Whereas a lethal one is raw unshielded EM energy, which he DOES resist.
That should sound utterly stupid, yet it doesn't.
 
Spells inflict both their physical component as damage and also does a spiritual body impact when they connect. This is how a spell can tear through a building but only knock out the human hit by it, the inanimate building has no spiritual presence or resistance, while the spell can translate it's energy into psychic shock for a knockout.

Which I suspect means that Lung can't regenerate his spiritual energy easily, so a nonlethal Flare shot can weaken him down to a KO point if he keeps eating hits. Whereas a lethal one is raw unshielded EM energy, which he DOES resist.
NOPE! :D It's something that only shows up with lethal Flare spells. I implied when I first introduced Flare Shooter that the Flare MCA was not a natural Rare Skill but was instead genetically engineered, and the "secret" is the entire reason the Warring Era Galeans designed it in the first place. They were nasty bastards.
Yes he always could. Remember, he spent the canon post-Birdcage release period building up an insane charge just anticipating fighting Scion, and off pretty much the entire Birdcage while he was in there(so of course Scion never got into melee range of Lung)
That sounds like an exploit you'd think the shards would remove. Either that or something Lung should have stumbled upon before.
He did something similar during the Kyushu fight.
 
That sounds like an exploit you'd think the shards would remove. Either that or something Lung should have stumbled upon before.
Intended exploit. Lung has difficulty actually using it though, because there is a Trump element to it(there needs to be many parahumans present) and because he must actually feel threatened for an extended period, which Lung being Lung...does not happen often AND which he seeks to avoid. Because it replicates his trigger event, feeling weak and helpless, heart racing in the face of an overwhelmingly superior foe.
Which he had spent nearly his entire life after his Trigger making sure he'd never feel like that again, building a gang where he's unquestionably the strongest, where even law enforcement dreads to challenge him.

It's like Taylor's canon range boost from being alone and isolated, it puts him in an extended flashback of the shittiest time of his life ever.
 
I first spotted this when you posted the first chapter on ff.net, and have been working on catching up so I can join in on the voting since.

I just made it to the 4rth arc, and noticed something:
Perfect Storm buzzes quietly. «I do not know the details of my own construction.»
Normally this would be fine, but earlier in the quest, Perfect Storm offered to help Taylor construct additional Intelligent Devices should she locate anyone else with a Linker Core (I think this was right before Taylor made her Guardian Beast).

So... Can Perfect Storm help Taylor make more Devices, or not?

Sorry if someone else already pointed this out, both chapters are several months old...
 
You just have to read the OP to find out.
And yes, we semi-regularly have people who need to be reminded of that.
OK, found the relevant section nestled in spoiler tags...

But that still leaves the question of how Perfect Storm can create additional devices without knowing about his construction... Eh, I'm sure it'll come up if we ever actually scanned someone to see if they had a linker core (I woulda scanned every member of the privateers day 1), or if we scan anyone in the future.

Also, Noelle hit the jackpot if she has a Linker Core, because we make her a device, and she loses her powers (we might need Panacea handy to rebuild her body though).
 
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But that still leaves the question of how Perfect Storm can create additional devices without knowing about his construction...
Then he can make other devices based off of stuff he's copied over the years, the templates, just not more of himself.
Eh, I'm sure it'll come up if we ever actually scanned someone to see if they had a linker core (I woulda scanned every member of the privateers day 1), or if we scan anyone in the future.
We've kinda procrastinated on that.
 
Hm. Do you have an invisitext viewer?
Just basic Chrome on my PC, invisitext is viewed through highlighting...

I actually just spotted a piece of invisitext in 4.6, right before seeing your post, and am wondering just how much I've missed so far...

Just installed XenForo Invisitext Handler (literally while typing this post out), so won't miss any after this.

*edit- Holy crap. Just decided to do a quick skim looking for missed invisitext. It's 5 AM, my roommate is now PISSED at me, because I woke him up (from 4 rooms away) laughing too hard after seeing the invisitext at the end of the first paragraph of the fic.

I would have found it funny if I saw it then, but not nearly as funny as I do now after seeing what happened to QA... Although... Perfect Storm burned out QA from Taylor... before Taylor met it? What?

*edit2- Some REALLY ominous invisitext around Taylor's talk with Danny right after making Samantha...
 
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I would have found it funny if I saw it then, but not nearly as funny as I do now after seeing what happened to QA... Although... Perfect Storm burned out QA from Taylor... before Taylor met it? What?

*edit2- Some REALLY ominous invisitext around Taylor's talk with Danny right after making Samantha...
1. QA ain't gone.
2. Son, you got no idea.:V
 
Perfect Storm burned out QA from Taylor... before Taylor met it? What?
I know QA's not dead, it went back to Danny. The fact still remains that it looks like PS had a permanent effect on Taylor before Taylor and PS met... Unless he bonding with Taylor had a retroactive temporal effect (effect before cause, not sure the technical name for it besides a paradox, but it actually happens in quantum physics all the time).

Finished arc 4, arc 5 and on will have to wait until after work tomorrow (or I should say today, as it's 9:00 AM already, and I need to be up for work in 3 hours, lol. Me and sleep rarely see eye-to-eye, though we frequently play hide and seek; sleep hides and I do my damndest to find it, sleep's better at the game than I am, lol), though might fit a chapter in after a I wake up before work.
 
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I first spotted this when you posted the first chapter on ff.net, and have been working on catching up so I can join in on the voting since.

I just made it to the 4rth arc, and noticed something:
Normally this would be fine, but earlier in the quest, Perfect Storm offered to help Taylor construct additional Intelligent Devices should she locate anyone else with a Linker Core (I think this was right before Taylor made her Guardian Beast).

So... Can Perfect Storm help Taylor make more Devices, or not?

Sorry if someone else already pointed this out, both chapters are several months old...
OK, found the relevant section nestled in spoiler tags...

But that still leaves the question of how Perfect Storm can create additional devices without knowing about his construction... Eh, I'm sure it'll come up if we ever actually scanned someone to see if they had a linker core (I woulda scanned every member of the privateers day 1), or if we scan anyone in the future.

Also, Noelle hit the jackpot if she has a Linker Core, because we make her a device, and she loses her powers (we might need Panacea handy to rebuild her body though).
Short version because I'm between patients, but Storm can give people templates without knowing how it was made. It just can't make another of ITSELF.
*edit- Holy crap. Just decided to do a quick skim looking for missed invisitext. It's 5 AM, my roommate is now PISSED at me, because I woke him up (from 4 rooms away) laughing too hard after seeing the invisitext at the end of the first paragraph of the fic.

I would have found it funny if I saw it then, but not nearly as funny as I do now after seeing what happened to QA... Although... Perfect Storm burned out QA from Taylor... before Taylor met it? What?
I do my best to be amusing. Sometimes I even succeed. :D

As for the thing with QA, Storm's distress call was strong enough telepathy that it interfered with ALL potential trigger events for that month before Taylor picked it up.
 
As for the thing with QA, Storm's distress call was strong enough telepathy that it interfered with ALL potential trigger events for that month before Taylor picked it up.
Does that mean Aisha's bud got chased out of her head? Because if it chased QA outta Taylor before she would have Triggered, then it might have chased other Shards out of other people, who now have permanently lost the abil to Trigger that would have Triggered months/years later otherwise (if they'd already been seeded with a Shard)...
 
Does that mean Aisha's bud got chased out of her head? Because if it chased QA outta Taylor before she would have Triggered, then it might have chased other Shards out of other people, who now have permanently lost the abil to Trigger that would have Triggered months/years later otherwise (if they'd already been seeded with a Shard)...
Where are you getting the idea that said persons permanently lost their "chance" to Trigger?
 
Does that mean Aisha's bud got chased out of her head? Because if it chased QA outta Taylor before she would have Triggered, then it might have chased other Shards out of other people, who now have permanently lost the abil to Trigger that would have Triggered months/years later otherwise (if they'd already been seeded with a Shard)...
No, that's not at all what that means. It means that no one in Brockton Bay could Trigger between when PS crashed onto Earth Bet and when Taylor bonded with it. Triggering went back to normal as soon as 1.2 was over.
 
Where are you getting the idea that said persons permanently lost their "chance" to Trigger?
The bit where Taylor's Gemma is burned out, but...
No, that's not at all what that means. It means that no one in Brockton Bay could Trigger between when PS crashed onto Earth Bet and when Taylor bonded with it. Triggering went back to normal as soon as 1.2 was over.
I guess that didn't happen until Taylor actually bonded with it.

Honestly, I'm probably overthinking it, I was just thrown by that line being at the start of the chapter, instead of the end.
 
OK, all caught up, just in time for there to be... No vote, damn.
...I see. Good job Alt!Laserdream, how does it feel to have accidentally killed an infant?
about the same as Brandish would have felt if she had killed Amelia when they attacked Marquis' home. Thankfully, Brandish is aparently a much less effective cape than Laserdream.
Does the upgraded linker core allows for a longer time when communicating with the TSAB?
"Sole exception to sovereign level override."

PS is NOT going to let Taylor do that.

However, if we learn the Charge Cartridge skill, we could probably manage to power it with cartridges.
That sounds like an exploit you'd think the shards would remove. Either that or something Lung should have stumbled upon before.
It's not outright stated, but implied that he used that skill to escape the Yang Ban, iirc.
 
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about the same as Brandish would have felt if she had killed Amelia when they attacked Marquis' home.
Dude, I already made a bit of a spiel on how making the Pelhams to be Dallon clones is inaccurate, and I know you've had to have read it if you're going through the comments. Don't you start that bullshit again.
However, if we learn the Charge Cartridge skill, we could probably manage to power it with cartridges.
Given the time-and-mana intensive process of making Cartridges? Probably better to just have Transcendent Gadgeteer make a power source
It's not outright stated, but implied that he used that skill to escape the Yang Ban, iirc.
I know he resisted their attempts to brainwash him, but I'm not sure that's the thing that let him do that.
 
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