The stuff with the brute syringes might not be a domian power.

She's also got a host of generic 'I'm a god, sucker!' powers. Stuff like her brute rating isn't related to any domain.
While true, I think that broad-spectrum matter manipulation without an inherent domain would be considered under one of those "Must Train" powers like making Portals, falling more under the purview of transmutation/conjuration magic. I don't think it would be something she could pull off subconsciously while in a state of altered consciousness before even receiving any training on how to consciously access the power that lets her manipulate things outside of her domains.
 
While true, I think that broad-spectrum matter manipulation without an inherent domain would be considered under one of those "Must Train" powers like making Portals, falling more under the purview of transmutation/conjuration magic. I don't think it would be something she could pull off subconsciously while in a state of altered consciousness before even receiving any training on how to consciously access the power that lets her manipulate things outside of her domains.

I agree its normally a 'must train' power.

But if you were a 15 year old girl and somebody brought out the Brute Syringes, I think its fair to say your first thoughts would also be 'OH HELL NO!'

What you instinctively do with that 'NOPENOPENOPENOPE' with your newfound powers, well, that's a little more up in the air I think.

I don't think she deliberately did it, I think it was basically a panic reflex.
 
I agree its normally a 'must train' power.

But if you were a 15 year old girl and somebody brought out the Brute Syringes, I think its fair to say your first thoughts would also be 'OH HELL NO!'

What you instinctively do with that 'NOPENOPENOPENOPE' with your newfound powers, well, that's a little more up in the air I think.

I don't think she deliberately did it, I think it was basically a panic reflex.
I seem to remember @Gounders10 made a post to that effect on spacebattles or here can't remember which and I'm to lazy check but I'm pretty sure your right and it was a generic god's fuck you matter power.
 
Would think that the brute syringe incident would be part of Taylor's Fox domain since they are often described as tricksters. And what is more tricky than converting your tool into a toy?
 
Wasn't that also when she was high as a kite due to the Chlorine in the swiming pool? That might have influenced her decision making process a wee bit. ^^
 
F.A.Q. by Corwin
I have gone back through the thread and have compiled every post made by our fluffy overlord that provides any information on the story as a sort of FAQ.
Taylor will lean towards "yes" eventually.

The first scene is June 25th 2010. The latest chapter is Tuesday June 29th 2010.
*blinks and points at date* Date as of this chapter is Friday the 9th of July 2010. Sophia becomes a ward late August 2010.
IT'S JULY. *headdesk kitsune* *mumbles about lockers*
Pre-locker scene. We're in July 2010 at present. Though in hindsight I'm really starting to regret having her shoved in a different locker. this is really confusing people... myself and my editor included.
Story is July 2010... I am adding a date note to the next chapter somewhere.
Ah, see that's your issue. We're on Summer Break.
... You realize its *July* at present in story? And it started at the end of the school year in *June*.

Taylor isn't going to look older than she is, she's just going to be beautiful for her age. Like Emma or Victoria, though perhaps more so. *wiggles tails* its a grey area that I'm not going to elaborate too much on. Point is she's going to be model-worthy at the end. She's still going to look like a teenager, however. Though it may be that 'she looks eighteen' which I will point out isn't the same as being eighteen. As I said, this is a touchy subject and I'm going to have to handle it carefully.

It's a baby megalodon.


Black, the same colour as her hair.

They were there. Whether they were behind it, or just walking down the hallway and laughed when Taylor got shoved into a locker I haven't revealed yet. The only thing that happened was the flute, which, tbh, is enough to ruin a friendship forever by itself. Even if it isn't on the same level as attempted murder.

... So you've read, but not understood the story. Nice.

Because tinker tech works in this story, exactly like that. The designs are correct, but the tinker's power lets them do it with inferior or incorrect materials.


Taylor is not a parahuman. She is not a power nullifier. Parahuman powers are, quite explicitly, based off scientific principles meaning they're part of reality.

Taylor is a God. She makes reality her bitch, pardon the language, and what is happening is she is going "hey, you're cheating here" and causing the tinkertech to break down because the design Cannot function on its own. Sure, the design is correct, but the materials are not. And since she doesn't know that a Tinker is doing external things she's unconsciously applying her perception of reality to the machines. Thus undoing, accidentally, the support structure for the design to even function. It's a bit of a hit or miss thing since you'll notice it mainly affects things that directly interact with her, but anything tinkertech in her vicinity is potentially at risk of her accidentally overriding it's existence. Goddess of Industry ladies and gentlemen. Tinkertech also runs into the fundamental flaw of being technology, but not being capable of being "industrialized". Her industry domain is based on modern perceptions of industry which tends towards mass production and large scale application.


This story is fluff. Pure and simple. I'm taking much slower pace because the fluff is the focus, not some grander story, though the is a plot. It's just going to unfold slowly.

Edit: Also her eyes are dark leaf green


... Speculated to death and back, but feel free to go at it again if you want. That is entirely on topic.



From the moment Taylor kicked the door of her locker open so hard that she punched a hole to the Celestial Realm (hyperbole people, it takes more than strength to do that) she had awakened her potential as a demigoddess. At that point only one of her natural domains had awoken. All Demigods have at least one domain. When Taylor ate the peach she was elevated with gifted power to the status of a full Goddess, in the process awakening other natural domains. Simultaneously Inari delivered her gift and gave her additional domains.

Natural: Storm, Sea, ???, and ???

Gifted: Foxes, Agriculture, Industry, Fertility

ah, no, she hasn't been taking her mother's wine. Her mother tried to get her to like wine and failed.

also xD *floofy plottings*


Crosspost then.


Gods can indeed bless people, usually in relation to their domains, but practice can allow them to expand beyond that and if they get famous enough for a particular trick they might even develop a new domain through belief.


During power testing Taylor discovered that chlorine in high enough concentrations has an effect like excessive amounts of catnip on cats. She was completely stoned for hours after she accidentally splattered the entire pool across the room and soaked herself in the process. She had no memory of it and caused numerous strange occurrences that have yet to be properly understood. Like turning syringes into squeaky toys, or cardboard cutouts. Or lighting a bush on fire while giggling.

Because she doesn't. Does this not make logical sense? Obviously, but divinity doesn't exactly track 1 to 1 with reality in this. She doesn't blush the wrong colour... because people expect a normal blush. Not someone turning oddly metallic when they're embarrassed. She isn't a space whale so she doesn't have to follow the logical scientific consequences of minor things like blood colour.

They were indeed an indication of a domain, which may or may not have other manifestations in the vision.

It's getting her shard drunk.




Link to the SB version.
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The Taste of Peaches (Worm AU)

I have gone back through the thread and have compiled every post made by our fluffy overlord that provides any information on the story as a sort of FAQ. Link to the SV version. https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/the-taste-of-peaches-worm-au.56049/post-21241093
 
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I would also like to remind the thread that the term "hear-say", as in repeating what one was told, eventually morphed into a very different term by the late-middle-ages.

Heresy.

^^ Just an odd fact that I felt like pointing out. Anyway!
That's not true. The word hearsay evolved from German (indirectly via the words hear and say and from the evolution of the phrase "to hear say") while heresy is descended from the Greek word hairesis which literally means choice, but is used to mean a choice of philosophy or school of thought.
 
That's not true. The word hearsay evolved from German (indirectly via the words hear and say and from the evolution of the phrase "to hear say") while heresy is descended from the Greek word hairesis which literally means choice, but is used to mean a choice of philosophy or school of thought.

I stand corrected, thank you. ^^ I am always fascinated by etymology, and where certain words and phrases come from, so thank you very much!
 
I'm hoping that her awakening her sun domain results in the vaporization of some threat.

Either that or the sunbeam nap was her awakening it... kind of anti-climatic if that's the case...



Also, here's a way that the PRT might treat Taylor's power:
At some point in the past there were a bunch of really powerful Parahumans, some crap went down, and the only way to stop it was to parially retrioactivly erase powers from existance. Some were able to slip their powers ahead and made sure they would go to someone they aproved. They happened to pick the same person and one was able to slap a copy of their mind to their part of the resulting powerset (Fox Guide). The Celetial Realm was partially shielded from the no powers effect and thus some stuff didn't get wiped.

...sounded better in my head TBH...
 
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Also, here's a way that the PRT might treat Taylor's power:
At some point in the past there were a bunch of really powerful Parahumans, some crap went down, and the only way to stop it was to parially retrioactivly erase powers from existance. Some were able to slip their powers ahead and made sure they would go to someone they aproved. They happened to pick the same person and one was able to slap a copy of their mind to their part of the resulting powerset (Fox Guide). The Celetial Realm was partially shielded from the no powers effect and thus some stuff didn't get wiped.

...sounded better in my head TBH...

sounds like the God of war cross where danny is Kratos's grandson way of trying to explain his existence after he out behamothed Behamoth so hard the PRT gave him its name instead
 
He regenerates. He's a living liver farm!
You know, I just realised it might not be the liver that might be in trouble...
That is based upon a number of assumptions that might not be valid.

First of all, Taylor is NOT a Kitsune, a Gumiho, a Spirit Fox, or whatever.
She is a Fox Goddess that just happened to default to the multi-tailed look that Kitsune and the likes were known for.
Although Inari's interference might be a reason for that.
Remember, the main traits of Kitsune etc are shapeshifting, Foxfire and illusions. Taylor hasn't shown a single one of those.

Second, She is NOT Shinto, Olympian, Aesir, Annunaki, or whatever.
She is the first member of a completely new Pantheon.
Currently the only other member is the Spirit Fox Inari, Advisor of the Ruler of that new Pantheon.
The fact that this Inari used to be the Shinto God(dess) Inari is an interesting detail, but a detail non-the-less.

Third, The liver and tofu thing.
Taylor is not Asian. She is American, what is considered the West, not the East.
Most people-eaters in Eastern myths go after the liver. Because according to eastern belief, the Liver is the seat of a body's vital energy, the life force, so to speak.
So instead of having to eat an entire human, they could just eat the liver and get all the available life energy in one go.
In Western myth however, that role is reserved for the heart. There are enough stories about eating the heart of a defeated foe to claim their power.
With bathing in the lifeblood a close second.
And the Tofu is based upon a handful of stories where a kitsune / gumiho could be convinced to accept tofu instead of going after a liver.

So, all things considered, there are a lot of reasons all those old stories might all be invalid now.
Taylor is the start of a completely new set of stories. The Asian / Shinto part might have a strong influence thanks to Inari, but in the end it wil be Taylor who will shape those stories.
So, she might go after liver when sufficiently riled up. Or after a heart. Or, considering parahumans, she might try to crack open a few skulls to get to the brains.
Or, considering what happened to Victor, she might even start with nonphysical things and eat someones personality or something like that.
And instead of Tofu, for all we know, she might be pacified by a good bowl of Corn flakes or something like that.
Seeing her interaction with Inari during breakfast, that might default to Bacon...
 
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All interesting and valid in their own way, if looking to the future... except for the little wrinkle of the fact that, while we, as outside observers, can draw these sorts of conclusions using our meta-knowledge, the inhabitants of Earth Bet do not have this perspective to draw from. They know none of the first two paragraphs, since the nature of deities and the true histories and fate of the various pantheons have been lost to myth. The third paragraph is irrelevant, since Kitsune/Gumiho are natural shapeshifters so in the perceptions of the people who know the mythology, it doesn't matter what "ethnicity" Taylor appears to be (and there is, in fact, a suspected German Kitsune/Gumiho floating around in the PHO sections.). Finally, the fourth paragraph is likewise irrelevant, since it is all supposition on future behavior of how Taylor's foxy nature could be perceived or misinterpreted depending on the unlikely event she goes "villain" or not, and therefore not applicable to the reactions of the people of Earth Bet in the "now".
 
Taylor is not Asian. She is American, what is considered the West, not the East.
Most people-eaters in Eastern myths go after the liver. Because according to eastern belief, the Liver is the seat of a body's vital energy, the life force, so to speak.
So instead of having to eat an entire human, they could just eat the liver and get all the available life energy in one go.
In Western myth however, that role is reserved for the heart. There are enough stories about eating the heart of a defeated foe to claim their power.
I just want to note that when you say "Western" you mean European, which is still applicable. The Native Peoples of the Americas do have several liver-eating creatures, specifically the Spearfinger and the Stone Man but others were noted for it to.

Even with "Western" Mythology as a specific thing, the reason why Prometheus had his liver torn out repeated was because the Greeks thought of it as the seat of the soul and intelligence as well. Not that the rest of your points aren't well thought out, but Liver Eating is somewhat universal, as is the thought that it's where the life force comes from.

I mean no disrespect, that just stood out to me as a student of history.
 
sp....

after rereading the story i wondered which people can enter/are interested to in/wish to enter in Taylor's ftre (and unwanted certantly) pretty goddess harem, and there are MANY, so, time to make a list!

who are candidates to be in Taylor's harem?

from the ones who can enter right now!



  1. Victoria Dallon: while she ha a boyfriend, she is the only demigoddess in story, and while she is "Stright" Canon is never a wall against Fanfic...unless you are WIldblow and want to cancel Trillium Waltz; anyway, she is already part of the "Pantheon" and has started to experiment the physical changes to be part of Taylor pantheon (with the shared domain of "FOX" and a possible domain of "Fertility"); she has expressed interest on Taylor and considering her and Dean... rocky relationship, is possible to be the first girl on the Harem.
  2. Amy Dallon: the youngest of the Dallon sisters is confirmed to be Lesbian in this story, has show a LOT of interest in Taylor, have become involved with the Divinity Shenningans AND her Shard is researching Divinity, considering how everything is going, is sure that the Shard will try to experiment with Amy, making her a Demi-Goddess too, or in change of that, her power wil awaken divinity; she is the best candidate.

the ones who are interested to join:

  1. Greg: i know he WILL NOT , but her willl want.
  2. Lily/fechette:already being in the story the mention, she is confirmed to be talking with Legend abot transfering to Brockton Bay, Knowing the Shenningan this story has already show, her addition will probably come in the future chapters.
  3. Sabah/Parian: bring in Lily and you have to bring Parian.
  4. Sarah Livey (not Lisa because Coil haven't crafted tthat identity for her): is a clasical Paring for various stories with Lesbian/Bi!Taylor, this story seems to be taking her to the mystic side and even if she ends not joining, there is the chance of her being Taylor's Pantheon (the Fluffly Tail Pantheon) Pristess, last seen with Kitsune.
  5. The ZIZ: the single apparition of "The Winged One" AKA ZIZ have show to be mesmerized by Taylor, she probably will end being the (if not one) of Taylor's Endbringer allies and posibly her Mythic Beast
and lastly the list of people who wish to join:

  • Madison Clements: already show on story to be Exited by taylor, she probably will try to enter the Harem, at difference from Emma, she don't have a real link to her, so she will probably work on that.
  • Sophia hess: i be honest, i only adding her here for two reasons: one the ffects of her driking Ambrosia (which we have NOT seen yet the side effects) so her Shard is exposed to Divinity to; and the fact that i feel she is a Tsundere of the same style of Akane Tendon (CATO CORRUPT!)
  • Julia: another of the People in PHO who are interested to Join, not sure of anything else, maybe she will be a Celebrity crush and nothing else.
  • Emma Barnes: absolutly in love with Taylor, cracked enough that Taylor rejection will send her to depresion as big as her Canon one and Taylor still caring abot her, she is the one in this list with More probability to Join; i wish she get's a redemtion arc,but for now she is still in this list intead of the peolpe who wants (meaning that they could join) and the people who Can; that said, from what i seen, she is going to be at focus for a good part of the Arc.
  • Charlotte Penbroke: is classical to show this minor character in a bigger rolll, maybe it will happen here, maybe not.
okay, this si the Full List, @Grounders10 @Gekkou_Yoko i am right or i miss a few people? also, can you make thi an Informational?
 
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Go home, Hakuno, you're drunk. And put those goggles back where you've found them.
three things:

one 15 years old girl.

two: i am at home.

three: I NEED GLASSES TO SEE ASHOLE!

also, you are derailing and i can report.

you have anything about the Theme or something related to the story to say or yo come here to attack me?
 
Hate to burst your shipping bubble but Grounders has stated that this story will be kept clean.

No smut/harems (You want that, go to QQ) only fluff.
 
three things:

one 15 years old girl.

two: i am at home.

three: I NEED GLASSES TO SEE ASHOLE!

also, you are derailing and i can report.

you have anything about the Theme or something related to the story to say or yo come here to attack me?
Ok, first of all, the "your drunk, go home" thing is not meant to be taken literally. Its basically saying "you need to stop doing the thing you are doing". And the goggles being referrnced are "shipping goggles", basically a term for seeing shipping where none is happening, usually to the detriment of the story.

Hate to burst your shipping bubble but Grounders has stated that this story will be kept clean.

No smut/harems (You want that, go to QQ) only fluff.
While i am by no means demanding it... shipping can be fluff!
 
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