- Location
- Minnesota
Taylor didn't look any farther after seeing herself getting locked up by the PRT in worm form. If she had chosen to follow the route to that future, she would have eventually proven her ability to tell the future to the PRT, but she didn't check that far ahead.When they did find her, in precogged timelines, nothing happened at all. Or at least no indication from Taylor that there was anything beyond "stuck in isolated PRT containment and forgotten about". Could be just Taylor not going further down the scenario, or maybe it just couldn't happen.
Cauldron is not very reliable, and making them omnipotent and omniscient just takes fun away. Most likely Taylor's precog is real, absolute, trumping everyone's else.
Also, dream realm means magic! And souls. Oh and void, hah. Wonder how long it will take Taylor to get into soul magic, or her bugs.
Also hope author is not going to just magically drop in canon HK characters without either a lot of explaination as to how the hell, or just as reference for readers to chuckle at. When fanfics import canon character despite their entire culture and people developing completely differently, it gets really annoying. With some exceptions, very rare ones.
Also confused about the size of bugs here.. around 5-10cm for Taylor and others?
Also, for the sake of preserving the story somewhat, she is immune to PtV, and is hard to predict for most other precogs as well.
Taylor's precognition works on magic, rather than on quantum organic computers across multiple earths or whatever, so hers is more accurate, and isn't blind to anything, limited only by how long she is willing to search into the future, and what questions she asks of it.
I am not currently planning on dropping any directly canon HK characters into the story, but there will be expies.
Taylor is about two inches tall. Most of the bugs range from being 1-3 inches tall, with some exceptions being bigger, and some being smaller.
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my bugs are far stronger and have far more stamina than humans.
And the final group was my fighters. Each of them was carrying a needle,
But as a bug, if you removed the Not only did they have
and too unwieldy for me to use.
"Is everyone ready?" I ask.
where we would have come across a barrier of light and then stopped.
I turned a corner and came to one last air-duct.
"We'll come to get you when it's over."
I urged us forwards into the last stretch of the hallway before the gymnasium
Part of the problem with my particular brand of precognition is that I only get images.
that I had just killed a person or the way it felt on my hand because three more tackled
I shook off the sudden feeling of revulsion and kept on doing the same thing.
Then, I leaped forwards with a speed that surprised me and jabbed the spear towards it.
"You have intruded," they said in a deep voice.
"The ones from the same kinds of cocoons you came out of."
They cannot, will not after they are eaten.
Although this particular prophecy comes more from my experience as a human
and my roaches were getting tenser, holding their weapons closer to themselves.
I close my eyes and look to the future.
and they take it and leap away into the darkness.
Nearly a hundred beetles, maggots, and moths,
I see the spiders are jerks, that's unchanged.
Can bugs trigger? If so, will the powers work in different ways?
Do you plan to have interludes with the perspectives of other characters?
Will there be major, named bug characters?
What will the bugs build their cities out of?
Will there be Mosskin and Shrumal?
Good chapter, Keep going, You're doing good.
I'm debating about whether or not bugs can trigger. I don't see any reason why they can't, if Dragon can, but I haven't planned for it to happen yet. They do have other powers, though. Snails are able to use Soul to do various things, spiders are able to weave together barriers, shields, and seals, moths are able to see the imprints of memories and have some access to the dream world, the filterflies (Mosskin) are able to encourage plants to grow more than they should/are capable of growing in their current conditions.
I am planning for there to be interludes with various other characters, both bug and human.
There will be major bug characters, later on. Right now, most of them are following Taylor's lead in the lack of any other direction, but as time passes, and we meet bugs that had to figure out their first steps without Taylor (like the spiders, for instance) we'll see bugs with more agency of their own.
They will build things from trash, mostly. Whatever they can scavenge until Taylor starts to gain more power in the non-bug world and order things to be constructed for her.
If you check "Types of Bugs" under Informational, you'll see that I have included the Mosskin as Filter-flies. Filter-flies are real bugs that are very common to sewers, that remind me in many ways of the Mosskin. They possess moth-like antenna and fuzzy bodies without actually being moths, they are herbivorous, they are found in warm, wet, areas that are good for growing algae, lichen, moss, etc.
I currently have no plans for the Shrumals. Maybe they'll pop up later down the line, but I'm not sure yet.
Void is a spoiler for now but will feature in the story, life blood I have no plans for, and the other types of magic will be more important later on. We've already seen a little bit of magic in the form of the seals that the spiders put down in order to keep bugs from entering their territory through the vents.So now all I'm wondering about is how void, life blood and all the other magicy things will be handled