Remove ads

The Taste of Peaches (Worm AU)

Reader mode
Pyro Hawk said:
Okay, yeah. Taylor having a third natural Domain of the Sun to go with her current ones of Sea and Storm is looking extremely likely. Which basically means that she's the Goddess of Climate. Just need to team her up with a Deity of the Earth, Volcanoes (and Lava/Magma/the Core which are all very closely linked) and Nature (or Panacea for the latter) and you have got basically everything you need to terraform worlds from barren, unbreathable, dead worlds.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
I'm actually pretty sure at this point that she's casually grabbing new domains off the "unclaimed"shelf by accident because there aren't any other gods to contest her for them. That said, something like this could also just be part of her Agriculture domain.
Mastersgtjames said:
Think you meant Ms. Hebert, not Ms. Taylor.
Also, SUPER not liking this twist on the story. I'd be fine with Vicky suddenly having ears and a tail, having similar biology, but NOT being divine anything. It's dumb. It's lame. It makes me not really like this story anymore. I mean, The MC has something special about themselves, something that sets them apart. That makes them unique. There is NO reason that suddenly other people should have that same thing about them That someone can COPY Divine blood into someone else. Making MC nothing special. Just one of many. Seriously. What's the point of a story about someone ordinary becoming special if you're just going to turn it on its head and have them be ordinary again. Fuck Glory Girl, Fuck the Dallons, and screw panacea too. Her power should in no way be able to copy Divine anything.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
This story was never going to be about Taylor being unique as a goddess to begin with. Other people also becoming deities as time goes on is something we were in-story told to expect from the get-go.
 
JadeKaiser said:
I'm actually pretty sure at this point that she's casually grabbing new domains off the "unclaimed"shelf by accident because there aren't any other gods to contest her for them. That said, something like this could also just be part of her Agriculture domain.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Most likely the latter. It's a bit of a stretch for the domain, but it's an easy stretch to make, especially when you don't have a sun diety to argue against it.
 
Crazael said:
Most likely the latter. It's a bit of a stretch for the domain, but it's an easy stretch to make, especially when you don't have a sun diety to argue against it.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
It was pretty well suggested she had the Sun domain from the beginning, as her other two 'innate' domains align with the other two of the three gods who were at her Awakening (besides Inari). So, since Amaterasu was a Sun Goddess...
 
Remove ads
Mandatory Locker Reading Material. Read Before Commenting on Locker.
  • Informational
    • Crosspost from SB, Because some people can't stop asking about the LOCKER. *wanders off to go burn down a forest with foxfire*

    First, Taylor is an unreliable narrator. She will blame people for things that they may not have done due to her perception of things.
    Second, when questioned Taylor admitted that she didn't know who pushed her. The hand was too large to be Sophia's or Emmas or Madisons. Most likely a boy's.
    Third, she heard them laughing in the hallway after she got locked in. This just means they were there. Maybe they had been planning something, maybe this was their plan, maybe they were just there. Nine months of bullying does not lead to the victim giving you the benefit of the doubt. Taylor does not know how much they were involved, but because they were there she is naturally giving them some of the blame because she is not perfect and is in that mindset of being bullied for nine months.

    Finally, the date, as of this latest chapter, is Sunday, July 18th, 2010. The original locker incident that everyone gets confused about would have happened on the first day of class January 2011. Six months later than this.

    Other details: The Undersiders normally form during late July early August.
    Sophia normally gets arrested in August for excessive force and is forced into the Wards.
    The bullying campaign has been going on since 2009 September.
     
  • Informational
    • If there's one thing you can count on when it comes to humanity it is that there will always be a herd of idiots screaming from the top of their lungs without actually checking what it is they're screaming about. It's best to just ignore them and not give them any undeserved and undue attention.
     
    *Goes back and reads first paragraph of the first chapter*
    It's been a while since I first started reading this but my memory and reading shows that there is no mention of any of the nasty stuff that the canon trio put in for their attempted murder oops sorry I meant "prank." So I'm a little confused as to how anyone could mistake the two?
    *gives fluffy Kitsune hug*
     
    Balrog said:
    *Goes back and reads first paragraph of the first chapter*
    It's been a while since I first started reading this but my memory and reading shows that there is no mention of any of the nasty stuff that the canon trio put in for their attempted murder oops sorry I meant "prank." So I'm a little confused as to how anyone could mistake the two?
    *gives fluffy Kitsune hug*
    Click to expand...
    Click to shrink...
    Its because of how deeply ingrained the locker is in the worm fandom, that when people do someone does something different with it, the canon version tends to overlap and people dont think about it enough to remember that it was different, only that Taylor got shoved into her locker.
     
    Right, begin the countdown to the next poster that doesn't bother reading the informational post and asks the locker question. Because we all know it's going to happen.
     
    Okibruez said:
    Counterpoint: Every lawyer and politician under the sun knows how to bend the truth into a pretzel in ways that would make a Fae jealous. Or at least, the skilled ones do.
    Click to expand...
    Click to shrink...
    No. Exactly the opposite. A lawyer or politician would think they're not in danger. Then they'd wonder why they're in chains with goblins throwing darts at them. At best.
    Dis Lexic said:
    Complete with douchbag tendecies and an inability to keep it in his pants.
    Click to expand...
    Click to shrink...
    ...This... is a remarkably accurate analogy.
     
    Fun fact for me; This is the first Worm story I ever read. I haven't even read the original source material, though by shear osmosis through this and other stories, both content and comments, think I've picked up on most of the pertinent bits, if not the fine details. Going back to before I read all of that, though, it means that this story's "Locker Scene" was the first impression I had of the incident, so when I learned what happened in Canon through other stories it was a bit of a shock. I still think most of the rest of them are weird for not at least trying to do something different, especially when Taylor ends up with different powers because of how associative the nature of trigger events and the powers they generate are.
     
    Almech_Alfarion said:
    Fun fact for me; This is the first Worm story I ever read. I haven't even read the original source material, though by shear osmosis through this and other stories, both content and comments, think I've picked up on most of the pertinent bits, if not the fine details. Going back to before I read all of that, though, it means that this story's "Locker Scene" was the first impression I had of the incident, so when I learned what happened in Canon through other stories it was a bit of a shock. I still think most of the rest of them are weird for not at least trying to do something different, especially when Taylor ends up with different powers because of how associative the nature of trigger events and the powers they generate are.
    Click to expand...
    Click to shrink...
    In my experience, usually when she gets different powers in the locker, it's because the locker was different somehow. Or she's connected to a different shard entirely.
     
    Crazael said:
    In my experience, usually when she gets different powers in the locker, it's because the locker was different somehow. Or she's connected to a different shard entirely.
    Click to expand...
    Click to shrink...
    Maybe just reading different stories then. And now that I think of things a bit more, most of the stories I've read have Non-Shard Taylors, so that might have something to do with it too. Because of constraints on my time I tend to avoid stories that are incomplete or appear to be "dead", or go off into the more grimdark/derp aspects of the setting. I also give a pass to stories where Taylor's powers aren't shard based because the nature of her powers in those stories are true OoCP for shard shenanigans, and part of the hook is cutting QA out before it can get its tendrils into Taylor. That doesn't change that most of the other Worm stories I've read where Taylor has Shard!Powers, said powers are gained in "the locker", even if they're radically different than in Canon, and regardless of if it's QA giving her a different configuration, or some other shard poaching her. It's kind of boring if I'm being honest, and the only one that's really stuck in my mind is Trailblazer over on SB, mostly because the rest of the story is awesome enough where I dismiss the nature of Taylor's trigger event as a mere footnote to the rest of the story.
     
    sdwood said:
    No. Exactly the opposite. A lawyer or politician would think they're not in danger. Then they'd wonder why they're in chains with goblins throwing darts at them. At best.
    Click to expand...
    Click to shrink...
    What? Why are... what? I said that 'If Vicky had SUPER TRUTH AURA that forced everyone to tell the truth, the politicians and lawyers would still be able to lie through their teeth by turning the truth into a pretzel.'
    The 'in ways that would make a fae jealous' was hyperbole.

    Unless you're trying to make a joke? Because I didn't get it, then.
     
    Frankly, an honesty aura would be much scarier. After all, you can be deseptive with the truth, but if your forced to be honest...ohhh, now that would REALLY fuck people over.
     
    Reader mode
    You must login or register to reply here.
    Remove ads
    Back
    Top