History Fanfic / EarningHerStripes

* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: [[spoiler:Taylor's powers allow her to toss '''Winslow High''' ten feet into the air]].

* StupidEvil: Sophia is willing to endanger herself and her friends' reputations just to get one more swipe at Taylor. Emma and Madison's development is realizing how recklessly insane Sophia really is.

* ForWantOfANail: The point of divergence happened years before the start of the story, when William Manton's daughter did not have a bad reaction to the vial he stole for her. As a result, he never had the motivation to become the Siberian, resulting in a number of differences from the canon timeline:

In [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13469741/1/Earning-Her-Stripes Earning Her Stripes]], [[Literature/{{Worm}} Sophia Hess]] manages to get a trio of Cauldron vials during a cape fight, and gives two to Emma and Madison. When trying to figure out what to do with the third, they get an idea on how to take their bullying of Taylor to even greater heights...

* HeelRealization: As time passes, Emma and Madison begin to realize that their actions against Taylor were incredibly messed up and irrational.

* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: Instead of her canon PestController power, [[spoiler: here Taylor has SuperStrength and StoneWall powers]].

* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: [[spoiler: Taylor's powers allow her to toss '''Winslow High''' ten feet into the air]].

* EngineeredHeroics: When debating what to do with their final Cauldron vial, the trio eventually decides on force-feeding it to Taylor as part of a plan to make her out to be a villain, not only boosting their reps as heroes but hopefully getting her arrested in the process. [[spoiler: When it fails due to Taylor accidentally knocking herself out with her own powers, they make it look like they were just passing through and rescued her instead]].

* SuckySchool: Winslow; they have to put up a sign in the nurse's office to keep drug dealers from stealing their medication. [[spoiler: When Taylor obliterates the whole building, there are no shortage of suspects since everyone has a reason to hate it]].

* ForWantOfANail: The story takes place in an alternate timeline where William Manton's daughter did not have a bad reaction to the vial he gave her. As a result, he never had the motivation to become the Siberian, resulting in a number of differences from the canon timeline:

** Jack Slash died in 2005 to a normal with a shotgun, and since then, the Slaughterhouse Nine has been a rotating cast of parahumans taking up the name for notoriety, nowhere near as feared as the canon version.

** Jack Slash died in 2005, and the Slaughterhouse Nine has never been the same ever since.

* ForWantOfANail: The story takes place in an alternate timeline where William Manton's daughter did not have a bad reaction to the vial he gave her. As a result, he never took the vial that would produce the Siberian, resulting in a number of differences from the canon timeline:

* ForWantOfANail: While the divergence point of this story is that Sophia manages to snag three Cauldron vials and gives two of them to Emma and Madison, there are other events that happened before the story:

* {{Irony}}: Taylor expects to be able to use The Real Thing's testimony against Emma, Madison, and Sophia.

* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: Instead of her canon PestController power, here Taylor has SuperStrength and StoneWall powers.

* EngineeredHeroics: When debating what to do with their final Cauldron vial, the trio eventually decides on force-feeding it to Taylor as part of a plan to make her out to be a villain, not only boosting their reps as heroes but hopefully getting her arrested in the process. When it fails due to Taylor accidentally knocking herself out with her own powers, they make it look like they were just passing through and rescued her instead.

Can also be found on spacebattles [[here https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/earning-her-stripes-worm-au-fanfic.815267]] and sufficient velocity [[here https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/earning-her-stripes-worm-au-fanfic.60317/]]

* FakeWeakness: Madison's PowerArmor has large tubes near the joints that seem like an obvious weak point that Sophia lampshades. They're actually decoys, and if someone actually tries to remove or damage them they get a face full of live steam.
* ForWantOfANail: The divergence point of this story is that Sophia manages to snag three Cauldron vials and gives two of them to Emma and Madison.

* EngineeredHeroics: When debating what to do with their final Cauldron vial, the trio eventually decides on force-feeding it to Taylor as part of a plan to make her out to be a villain, not only boosting their reps as heroes but hopefully getting her arrested in the process.