The Taste of Peaches (Worm AU)
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hakunoX
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counter argument:
this is taylor and Missy we are talking about.
aka
The girl who escalated a God and win
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The Girl who helped to time froze the SIGMURG
one manage to out escalate with a bug power.
the other has a incredible great power (and poor versatility) and still find different version of them.
again, Sand Bagging
Edit: @jmcdavid which ones? the real ones (based on WoFG (word of Fluffly God)) or the PRT ones?
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Missy doesn't so much sandbag as get kept from anything even hinting at being able to use her full capabilities for large parts of Canon by the PR department. Neither get 'sandbag' ratings, but their ratings do keep getting raised in canon as they prove more dangerous then previously thought. Considering PRT threat ratings normally go to 10, the fact Vista was rated as a shaker 9 at the start of canon says a lot about how capable she was considered.
Pretty sure Skitter's threat rating at the time of Golden Morning would have been adjusted upwards as a direct result of what happened too. Not willing to slog through Ward to find out though, and I doubt it gets mentioned since Taylor was already written off by Wildbow with the ending of Worm.
Pretty sure Skitter's threat rating at the time of Golden Morning would have been adjusted upwards as a direct result of what happened too. Not willing to slog through Ward to find out though, and I doubt it gets mentioned since Taylor was already written off by Wildbow with the ending of Worm.
IIRC, it was a French King (one of the Louis) who first started the fashion of high heels (possibly because he was short)
hakunoX
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again here should be a little different, i talking of the Sandbagging Here (so we can survive the Monds)
and here Vista is one of Taylor friends and future FLUFFLY! goddess.
that and Taylor is the "Face" of the PRT in Brockton, they want her "approchable and Innocent" so what they would do with people scared because she is powerfull?
and the PRT ratings going to ten feel like another of WildBlow "great" ideas: considering than we seen ratings like 11 12 17 and 20 that could offitialy said than that is bullshit
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Has Missy been intentionally sandbagging though? Or has she been handicapped by the PR department having a specific image and both PR and Youth Guard doing their best to keep her 'safe'?
The PRT clearly has no issues with Protectorate capes being known to be powerful. The issue has been that they are all faceless and thus it could be anyone underneath the mask/helmet. Being able to point at Taylor and say "Here is one of the Heroes! See, she doesn't wear a mask! She's relatable too! You can trust her, can't you? See how powerful she is? How she keeps you safe? The rest of the Protectorate are also just as relatable and trustworthy."
Of course, if Taylor ends up leaving the PRT for some reason, this Hearts & Minds campaign is likely to blow up in Glenn's face.
The PRT clearly has no issues with Protectorate capes being known to be powerful. The issue has been that they are all faceless and thus it could be anyone underneath the mask/helmet. Being able to point at Taylor and say "Here is one of the Heroes! See, she doesn't wear a mask! She's relatable too! You can trust her, can't you? See how powerful she is? How she keeps you safe? The rest of the Protectorate are also just as relatable and trustworthy."
Of course, if Taylor ends up leaving the PRT for some reason, this Hearts & Minds campaign is likely to blow up in Glenn's face.
It's pretty common fanon in other fanfics, from what I've seen. The fact that in this one Glenn straight up said "You're probably going to be Triumvirate level powerful and you don't wear a mask and that's awesome. It helps humanize super-powerful capes so the public is less afraid of them" is a breath of fresh air. Honestly I wish more fanfics had the PRT approach things in similar ways, but if an author doesn't want Taylor joining the Wards they usually need to find a way to make them look extra unpleasant.
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Fanon. Labyrinth was a Shaker 12, and this was treated as impressive but not abnormal.
Considering he had been told it shocked people who touched it, he couldn't take it to Taylor. Especially while, he had a theory, he needed to run it by Inari to see how likely he was to be right. Most likely, with the shock defense, he would have had to bring Taylor there, and that would have taken too long, as the PRT would have been involved prior. Plus he was trying to keep Taylor's 'trigger' aka her apotheosis (divine ascension) under wraps. So, he wasn't 'knuckling under' but doing his best under the situation.
I'm filled with anticipation
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Fair enough. I had forgotten the zappage and hadn't considered how much he was keeping a secret from his fellow dockworkers.
Er, all they have to do is follow canon and keep Shadow Stalker around.
How do they keep her around if she's not even a member?
Remember, this is set before she was arrested and joined the Wards so she wouldn't go to jail.
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They are talking about fics in general, not just this one.
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Why do think that?
Taylor wasn't allowed to use her powers effectively because there was a significant faction in the PRT who objected to her not being thrown in jail and/or executed for what she did.That's not an example of how they do things normally. As for giving Vista weapons
1)I don't remember any evidence in canon that Vista wanted a weapon and was denied them.
2)There's no such thing as a weapon that Vista would be able to use without training that would make her safer. Any weapon she might want to use would require her to be trained in it's use well enough to be actually effective before she'd be permitted to carry it in the field. Vista believes that the PRT considers her much more of a child than she is, weather or not that's true, her being seen as a child would explain why she'd be denied a weapon even if she asked (and again no evidence I recall that she asked).
Sure, she also could be a very powerful blaster, berform sub-orbital jumps, transporting people to anywhere in the world as fast as Strider can, nd a bunch of other stuff she didn't think of. That doesn't mean the PRT is preventing her from doing that, it means Vista didn't think of those ideas (or alternately she did and they didn't work for some reason).
i.e can cause strokes, and heart attacks at range, for that matter it doesn't actually take that much range to be able to launch a bullet at decent firearm speeds. Someone who is actually viscious and imaginative with that power would get a high shaker and blaster rating.
Is that actually canon?
I know it's popular fanon but is there any canon evidence to support it?
However even if that's canon, keep in mind we already know the PRT in this story is not at all like the canon PRT.
In other words, this PRT is actually competent.
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Can we please stop bickering over power ratings? I suspect we all have a different interpretation of how they function and I'm not even 100% sure they are actually canon, outside of a single mention (although I could be remembering that wrong). Can we please move onto something else because this is getting repetitive.
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I don't think anyone is bickering over PRT ratings, but if they were that would be a lot less annoying and repetitive than certain people trying to shut down discussions because they don't like them.
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OK, how about what divine goodies/artifacts Taylor might be able to
I mean she is the de-facto owner of the place now that everybody else is dead and other gods haven't shown up yet.
Well, if Mjolnir hasn't been destroyed, I would imagine Taylor gets it by default.
After all, she did inherit the domain of storms from Thor.
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Well, Inari may have her retrieve one of the missing legendary katanas.
Less 'inherited' and more 'succeeded'.
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Nah, Taylor already has her divine weapon. Though Amaterasu might have left a sting of beads for her to wear.
Though that makes me wonder if there are other spirits out there. I mean we have evidence of Cyclops (Greek) and Kitsune (Japan) so maybe Taylor inadvertently wakes up Jörmungandr at some point? He technically isn't a god, 'just' an impossibly giant sea serpent.
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IIIII kinda hope not. He was one of the big instigators of Ragnaroc, the one who would kill Thor with his venom after he himself was killed by the God.
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Well it's not like he or any of Loki's children had any reason to like the Norse Gods.
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Thats very true. They were kinda complete dicks. To be fair, Fenrir did deserve it, but Hel sure as fuck didnt deserve to be punted into Helheim and I dont think that Jor did anything wrong either. They were simply part of the prophicy of Ragnaroc. Makes you wonder if the whole thing wouldnt have happened if Odin hadnt acted like a paranoid old man...