Taylor the Witch Girl (Worm/DC)

Not my preferred flavour of chaos but this looks interesting
hmm. killing somebody's pet... almost arguably worse than unintentional attempted murder via bio-waste. Still, I'm interested to see where you go with this. Might need a trigger warning for animal cruelty though?
Well I agree
That cat is almost certainly not staying dead
 
1.1 QA is confused, The Lords of Chaos hijack a trigger event, and Taylor performs a necromancy.
AN:sup so tw: necromancy, foul language (just assume that applies to everything I write and/or plan to write in the future). Still posting from my phone and my work schedule is shit. also if shit looks different I'm playing with the formatting.



[Queen Administrator] was confused, utterly baffled. When she attempted to connect to [HOST: Taylor] she received a signal from an outside source one she has yet to trace back to the sender. At first she thought it was a message from [Broadcast] but the longer she searched the less likely that seemed to be the case. In the end she simply decided to message the sender back.

[QUERY?]

Yeah..About that she ours now so.. back off.

[QUERY!?]

We're the Lords of Chaos, babe. And we want the girl so hit the road!

Then all of her transmissions were halted. Well, you didn't need that host anyway!



Girl take the cat and run.

What...who?

Listen take the cat and go we don't have much time!

Great my cat was killed by my bullies, and now I'm hearing voices

Look kid you can question your sanity later. If you take the cat NOW you might be able to save him

I didn't need to hear anymore. I grabbed Teekl's small body in my hands. Briefly noting how he was still warm. He likely hadn't been dead for more than an hour if that.

As I ran, tearing through the gathering crowd, tears streaming down my cheeks, Emma and her assorted flunkies jeered at me. Various insults were flung my way but I didn't care. I couldn't hear them all I could hear were the voices tell me how I could save Teekl. They were whispered strange things about magic and necromantic rituals, but I would do anything if it brought Teekl back to me.



I only stopped running when I reached my destination. The Boat Graveyard, a massive pile of old boats that were sunk into the bay shortly after Leviathan ruin the global shipping industry. Shortly after finding a point I could climb onto, I reached a small room empty and devoid of outside light. Listening to the whispers in the back of my head I place Teekl down gently in the center of the room.

Slowly I began to repeat after the voices.

"Firmata suis potestatem, unicuique creaturae constringes miseram vitam cum datum!"

The area around Teekl lit up with red energy, It looked completely unnatural. The only thing I could compare it to was Behemoth's lightning. Slow I started feeling weaker and weaker, but I had to continue the chant. I heard thunder and lightning outside as I kept chanting over and over. Slowly the wounds on Teekl's body began to heal.

With a powerful shout I completed the ritual. I was sweating and out of breath, I felt as though I was close to passing out, but as I collapsed to my knees I saw Teekl moving.

It worked...The magic really worked...

Slowly my eyes closed.



Teekl was licking my face. Since bringing him into our home this was typically how I woke up. Groggily I slowly rose to a sitting position. Blinking the bleariness out of my eyes. I started stretching my aches out of my body.

Wait. Aches? What did I do yesterday? Then it the memories of what had happened hit me. OH SHIT. I'm magic and I might be crazy and hearing voices. This is bad. But at least I have Teekl. Speaking of, Teekl has been rubbing against my legs. I reach down to pet him, and stop myself when I notice.

My hand is blue...

"What the fuck!?"

"Calm down child. The world isn't ending.",A feminine voice called out from my feet.

"Teekl was that you? What's going on? Why are you talking? Why do you sound like a girl? Why is my skin blue?", Questions streamed from my mouth as I looked down on the cat.

A more masculine voice answered this time, as my cat spoke to me,"Babe chill. Numero Uno: Your kitty ain't talkin' we're just using it as a medium. Like a megaphone kinda. Secondly, we are the Lords of Chaos. The ones who walked you through that binding ritual earlier. C, your now our agent in this reality meaning your job is to use your magic to cause chaos. As for why you skins a little bluer than your used to well some times magic just does weird stuff its chaotic like that."

"Wait binding ritual? I thought that was some kind of bring cats back to life spell or something."

"What? No! That ritual bound our magical power to the cat. Our power just naturally healed it."

"But why bind your power to Teekl instead of just healing him?"

"Simply put we needed a physical vessel to contain it. Otherwise we would have trouble affecting this reality. Now so long as your cat is around you can draw on our power."

"But I was already drawing on it as I preformed the ritual, wasn't I?"

"Nah that was all you we were just showing you how to do it. That's why you were so tired afterwards."

"So I can use magic?"

"Kid, anyone can use magic it's just that this reality has low magical potential. Or it used to, now that we're bound to a physical form that exists in this reality that magical potential is going to skyrocket. You already had a pretty high magical potential before. Now are we just gonna keep yammerin' on around here or are we gonna have some fun?"

"But how suppose to go outside with BLUE SKIN!?"

"Its not that blue, but casting a disguise spell is as simple as picturing what you want to look like and snapping you fingers."

I thought hard about what I wanted to look like. What I looked like before if you airbrushed a few bits here and there. With a quick snap of my fingers I was back to blending into the background of the crowd.

A taller girl with black curly hair, brown eyes behind my glasses my proportions were a bit better. I looked less like a frog standing upright, and more like some plain girl who would grow up to become a librarian.

Now with that taken care of its definitely past time my dad was expecting me home. I grabbed Teekl, who swiftly moved from in my arms to riding atop my shoulders, and gunned it home. Considering the sun was beginning to rise, I must have scared my dad half to death not showing up at all last night.

...Fuck.



As I arrived at my house, I knew I had no hope of avoiding dad. The lights were on and I could see him moving in the living room as I got closer. I wasn't half-way to the door when dad stormed out. I quickly opened my mouth to try and explain myself. And just as quickly closed it as he hugged me.

He pulled away after a few seconds,"Taylor, where have you been? I was so scared one of the gangs had grabbed you when you didn't show up home last night."

I could only think of one thing to get me out of this with him crying or lecturing me for an hour. The truth...pfft yeah right. I came up with the best story I could.

"I made a new friend who found Teekl, she let me stay at her house last night."

"Why didn't you call the house?"

"No phone?"

He narrowed his eyes,"Alright maybe it's time we try cellphones again?"

"Yeah, maybe? Can I go upstairs? I kinda need to get ready."

"Sure thing, kiddo. Love you."

"I love you too, Dad."

As I scurried upstairs I heard the news on the TV.

"The PRT believes last night's freak thunderstorm might have be caused by parahuman means. They are urging anyone with information about this parahuman to call 1-800-"

I left to the bathroom before I could hear the rest of the program. Did I do that? I mean I know I heard rain during the ritual. But was it caused by it or was it just some freak coincidence. God now I have that to worry about that too.



A quick shower later, and I was ready. Ready to interrogate my cat. When did my life become so weird?

"Ok so y'all are like the Lords of Chaos or whatever, but what does that mean?"

"It means we're basically gods devoted to making sure there is chaos in the multiverse. Sworn enemies to the lords of order. As our agent you just kinda cause chaos. That's your job now I guess."

"So you want me to be a villain!?"

"Hey, chill out. We gave you your cat back from the dead, and we're giving some magic power! Causing a bit of chaos for us isn't too much to ask for. We aren't even telling you to kill people."

"Yeah thanks. That makes it so much better. How am I supposed to be a villain and go to school?"

"Do you really want to go to school?"

"No but I have to go. My dad would want me to get an education."

"Honey, we can give you an education. A magical education but still."

"How would I explain it to my dad though?"

"You could always write him a note, and run away. It's what I would do. And with magic you'd be able to take care of yourself."

"That..... doesn't sound half bad actually."

AN: yeah anyone wondering what's up with Taylor's personality right now... let's just say being magically connected to beings of chaos basically fucks up your decision making, any sort of long term planning, and your impulse control. Doing that to the 15 year old who thought fighting a pyrokinetic with bugs as her first night out as a superhero... let's just call this a speed run.
 
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I'm reading see at the bottom of the page 1 more message. Click next page and boom new threadmark is 2nd message on page. Honestly the first time this has happen for me.
 
So, I'm counting six different devils on poor Taylor's shoulder, and not a single angel... And this is Taylor 'good intentions' Hebert we're talking about!

It's a good thing chaos can be a force for good as well as evil.
 
Taylor just running away from the school and doing nothing to Emma and Sophia feels really cheap.

also:

"Ok so y'all are like the Lords of Chaos or whatever, but what does that mean?"

Taylor would never talk like this. she always tries to speak as clearly as possible. and she has a Boston accent. not a southern one.

We aren't even telling you to kill people."

also feels really cheap. Taylor after being connected should not really care about killing people, and the lords of chaos even caring or trying to make her non-lethal also feels like the opposite of what they would do
 
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I hope that she does tell her father and where it turns out that he was involved in playing old school Dungeons and Dragons in college and he could explain the concept of Chaotic Good alignment. If he could be like that then maybe they could look up stuff from Earth Aleph about the later incarnations of Dungeons and Dragons especially the second and third edition types for the variant mages/wizards and clerics (since she is closer to channeling divine energies too) that might serve as inspiration for a cape identity and styles of magic that are more aligned to Chaotic Good. As for education there is the favorite idea of GED especially if she plans to become a wizard/cleric full time rather than something more mundane. If she does go full-time wizard/cleric she might be able to see if she can legally set up a magic detective/problem solver service (as opposed to being mercenaries//minions) though she will probably need to make sure to set up lots of protective spells/enchantments to counter Thinkers/Tinkers/etc. that might try to put her under their thumbs (including making protective items or spells to protect her father and associates).

Maybe she can legally arrange to make a memetic wizard tower at the docks and use magic to process the ship remains into mundane goods and tools that can be sold by the dock workers if she can use something like the Fabricate spell from Dungeons and Dragons, maybe restore the docks if she can use something like the various Repair spells from Dungeons and Dragons. If Danny can provide a complete set of design plans for that ferry he wants and docks set up maybe she can use magic to process the ship remains and the docks into whatever he wants and that way they can see if Danny's dream is actually possible if the hardware side is done. She will need to set up lots of protective magics to keep the gangs (including the PRT/Protectorate) from trying to move in and taking over everything. Her patrons might enjoy her sticking it to the various factions.

If she takes a Chaotic Good wizard identity, maybe it could sound like whimsical like Miss Jessie Fae with full face mask of a non-ugly/non-evil jester mask with either the rest of the clothing looks based on what sort of image she wants at that time like a classic magicians suit, a colorful wizard-like clothing, or maybe even something like a jester-themed magical girl effect. She could also try seeing if she can do magic effects that are like out of Loony Tunes cartoons (like classic Bugs Bunny shows).
 
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Veeeery interesting.

Though I would request you change the Line_Break things. I use a text to speech reader and it comes off weird during those. Changing that to something shorter and less intrusive would be appreciated!

And now Taylor has blue skin and I wonder if her hair naturally forms horns...

...but as it is, Chaos doesn't have to be a villainous thing. Chaos can be quite good, in fact. Look at the gangs and their precious status quo. They cling to it and the unwritten rules and keep this game of cops and robbers running. A little Chaos to destroy their foundations and the way they world would be good. The E88 seem like the most orderly of the bunch, if very evil. Lawful Evil, you might say.

...Sounds like they could use some Chaotic Good wrecking their shit.

Chaos may draw Endbringers, but Chaos also could see them destroyed. I mean, look at what Klarion was able to do in Young Justice... Endbringers will NOT be able to deal with that kind of stuff.

Also, huh, this is a boy Teekl. Makes sense. Taylor is genderswapping Klarion afterall, so Teekl is genderswapped to be a tomcat rather then the female cat.

Looking forward to seeing Taylor use Chaos to its fullest. Because Chaos isn't evil, Chaos is Chaos. Without Chaos, we would be very boring and unhappy beings as a whole. So Taylor utilizing it to be a hero would be pretty awesome.
 
Uh huh yeah that's good idea, his dad is kinda sucks too so I'm not that mind for running from home. Though police will be on her tail that or he sucide.
 
If I was Taylor I'd be going: "Cool, I brought my pet back to life... wait! does this mean I can bring mom back?"

can you imagine it though? bringing mom back to life would certainly bring about a lot of chaos in everyone's lives, for both better and worse.
 
Well, Chaos isn't evil any more than Order is good, and there's quite a few things in Brockton Bay and Earth Bet in general that could suffer quite a bit of chaoticizing with good results. Heck, "turn the E88 leadership black and watch the resulting infighting" would be a low-hanging-fruit example of that. The question is if Taylor will think of rules lawyering Chaos for good or not.

Not actually true. She fits the popculture idea of whom becomes a school shooter very well, yes, but not the actual reality.
On the other hand parahuman Triggers don't match reality, either; you don't normally see somebody who has just suffered a psychological break suddenly handed a high powered, thought-controlled weapon with no warning or instructions. So it's not really a situation that maps too well onto real life.
 
It will be awesome once Taylor has a little more umph in herself and becomes as scary as Clarion, the new Lady of Chaos? ;3
 
In Young Justice Order forced Zatanas father to sacrifice himself to rescue her from eternal enslavement .Many divine level DC powers are amoral bastards.
 
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In Young Justice Order forced Zatanas father to sacrifice himself to rescue her from eternal enslavement .Many divine level DC powers are amoral bastards.

I would argue that "forced" is an imperfect word. Giovanni was entirely orthogonal to the deal Zatanna made. Its not as if the Lord of Order in question was deliberately using her as a pawn against him. Rather, Zatanna made A Deal, using her own freedom as her bargaining chip of choice.

Then, in an entirely separate arrangement, Giovanni made A Deal using his freedom as his chosen bargaining chip, with the prize he was after in return being Zatanna's freedom.

"Forced" would imply that this whole schebang was planned or otherwise deliberately orchestrated in some manner. Rather, Zatanna made an ill-advised Bargain with a supernatural entity in exchange for the power to save the world from Klarion. As an agent of elemental Order, the helmet fulfilled this bargain to the letter, with no regard one way or the other to any non-Order-ly concerns such as ethics in the doing.

Because its about Order. Zatanna made A Deal, and it would be the furthest thing from Order-ly to release her from her end of it Arbitrarily.

But releasing her from her end of The Bargain in an orderly fashion, such as as part of another Deal? Well, that's entirely different. Something her father knew, and thus why he proposed the second Bargain.

Its not about Good or Evil, its about the other axis on the alignment chart. Predictability vs Discord.

And the Lords of Chaos are no different in this regard.

Its not about Good or Evil. Its about kicking over the sandcastle. Maybe the sandcastle in question was a utopian society... or maybe it was an oppressive regime. Chaos doesn't innately care. They're just here to watch the world burn; whether or not the world's got it coming is immaterial.

Although in this case? I'd say that the ruling powers of Worm quite emphatically do have it coming to them.
 
Saving the world from Klarion was Nabus duty and he uses it as bargaining chip to force a deal.It was always about getting a slavesoldier for the lords of order.
 
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Well, I'm looking forward to just what is it Tayrion decides to do first. I wonder if she can teach magic to others. Fairly certain some Thinkers like Lisa/Dinah would jump on the chance, especially if it makes them "safer". Overlady needs her minions after all. The possibilities...
 
Well, she could always chaotically save people. Be Chaotic Good instead of Neutral or Lawful Good.

Cause a pile up on the freeway. Only one person dies, but it just so happened to be that missing scientist, William Manton. Or turn Aster black so that Kaiser won't try and take her away from Kaiden. It just depends on how creative Taylor can be.
 
Making Chaos a force for good isn't that hard at all. The first thing you need to remember is that the nazis were quite systematic and orderly, even if Hitler himself was an irrational nutcase. The second thing to remember is that chaos isn't inherently destructive, just that destruction tends to be chaotic. The status quo sucks, so it's fair game from the perspective of a moral agent of chaos.

Cast curses on people so their noses grow every time they lie. Control the city's pigeons and make them poop on skinheads. Transform all the cocaine in the bay into powdered sugar. Wear mismatched socks.

And if you're ever unsure, just remember to ask yourself: WWBBD? (what would Bugs Bunny do?)
 
Oof, that opening...it takes a special kind of evil to target someone pet and I strongly suspect that Emma and Sophia will loose a lot of support from their classmates for that.

More relevantly, I can't wait to see what a newly chaotically empowered Taylor comes up with!
 
lol this looks like it's gonna be an interesting story and I pity the fools who try to stop our favorite new witch girl taylor XD
 
She could be a mix of Bugs Bunny and Discord, the king of all chaotic good characters and reformed lord of chaos. I mean the second one always stole the show whenever he appeared, and its not very difficult to use chaos to teach a lesson and ensure that the person suffering it learns from it and remembers it, after all we are orderly creature, all humans live by their own schedules, throw them off and boom, instant harmless chaos.
God i can see Taylor and Mouse Protector teaming up. It would make the heads of several departaments in ghe PRT implode.
 
The truly chaotic and diabolic thing to do would be going to Accord and turning everything in his office exactly 3 degrees. Or just moving stuff around.
Bringing back Annette or Piggot's team from Elisburgh would cause quite the stir as well.
 
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