History Fanfic / Twisted

* MidairCollision: Narrowly averted, when a helicopter carrying Paige Mcabee and a badly-injured Taylor has a near-miss with an airborne Eidolon while on the way to the hospital. Paige decides to call the FAA and report Eidolon over the incident.

** Paige belatedly realized that Taylor was the only summer camp [[ExplainExplainOhCrap after explaining what happened]] to the PRT.

--> A quarter-mile wide, that wasn’t any two-bit cone. That was a ''wall'' of shrieking fury that was pounding toward you, shredding everything in its path. “Good ''God''.” she breathed, shocked as she gazed upon the devastation and realized just how ''far'' the path went and how it widened out even more before it faded out from sight.
--> How wide was it at its maximum? How could it do such ''devastation''? How?
--> How had Taylor survived ''that'' in a bathtub?
--> Sophia realized at that moment, that it didn’t matter if you were predator or prey. Nature was the one that ruled them all and it didn’t care if you were the lowliest mouse or the mightiest of tigers. You were still squishy all the same and that meant... what did that mean for someone like her? A predator of the night?

** One of the Doctors in Arkansas Children's Hospital Trauma Center is named [[VideoGame/MassEfect Chakwas]].

* HypotheticalFightDebate: One of the tangents in the SpaceBattles thread asked what would happen if the Slaughterhouse Nine were hit by an EF-5 Tornado. The general consensus was that it would be a CurbStompBattle in the Tornado's favor, only Crawler (and maybe Hatchet Face) could tank it, and the rest would have to RunOrDie.

* {{Mundanger}}: Earth Bet is a setting with supervillain gangs, Parahuman serial killers, and Endbringers. An EF-5 Tornado is mundane in comparison, but still deadly enough to warrant Triumvirate intervention.

* Desolationshot: Alan, Danny, Emma, and Sophia receive this via an overhead view of [[SceneryGorn a tornado tearing through town]].

* {{Fangirl}}: Emma Barnes is a big one of Paige Mcabee, to the point she starts to {{Squee}} loudly when she finds out that Taylor met her.

* GodzillaThreshold: EF-5 Tornados are severe enough to warrant automatic Triumvirate intervention.

** Sophia Hess is attributed as being a fan of hard rock such as King Crimson and Black Sabbath... and also became a fan of classical music after a WikiWalk. WordOfGod is that Sophia was deliberately given characterization based on things other than violence so that she wouldn't be a one-note thug.

** Taylor has her TramaticSuperpowerAwakening ''before'' meeting Sophia, preventing her falling out with Emma.

--> ''Sophia realized at that moment, that it didn’t matter if you were predator or prey. Nature was the one that ruled them all and it didn’t care if you were the lowliest mouse or the mightiest of tigers. You were still squishy all the same and that meant…what did that mean for someone like her? A predator of the night?''

** This fic's version of Alan Barnes moved to Brockton Bay after surviving [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974_Xenia_tornado the 1974 EF-5 Tornado of Xenia, Ohio]].

** Paige Mcabee realizes that Taylor was the only survivor at the summer camp.

* RunOrDie: Pretty much the only thing anyone can do when faced with an EF-5 Tornado is to run as fast as they can to the nearest underground shelter, bathtub (in Taylor's case), or (if a Parahuman with a Mover rating) keep going in a straight line.

** Taylor sees the tornado look vaguely like a corpse when it's coming at her, which WordOfGod explains is the infamous "Dead Man Walking" tornado shape.

* AdaptationalLocationChange: In canon, Taylor's summer camp was in New England, a reasonable driving distance from Brockton Bay. In this fic it's in Arkansas.

* AdaptationOriginConnection: Paige Mcabee happens to have grown up in the town by Taylor's summer camp, and performed there a couple times before going big.

* AnArmAndALeg: In spite of Taylor having a regeneration power, her left leg is still written off as a loss by the trauma center in Little Rock.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: Sophia can't believe that a tornado is ''that'' bad. Unfortunately, they are.

* Alan Barnes starts swearing when Danny explains what "EF-5" means in context to Tornadoes.

** The deadliest tornados are the ones that happen at night. Taylor only survives because she happens to be awake, sees the tornado form, and then runs and hides in a bathtub- and it's heavily implied that she's the only survivor Paige found.

* SoleSurvivor: Taylor is heavily implied to be the only survivor in the summer camp.

* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: Taylor has a Trigger Event when her bathtub is thrown into the air by a tornado.

* CompellingVoice: Canary manages to use this power for a genuinely heroic purpose in rescuing Taylor.

* ShoutOut: The title is one to ''Film/{{Twister}}'' since Tornados are integral to the plot.

* {{Expy}}: The tornado that destroys Taylor's summer camp is explicitly one of the 2007 Greensburg Tornado, per WordOfGod.

* Expy: The tornado that destroys Taylor's summer camp is explicitly one of the 2007 Greensburg Tornado, per WordOfGod.

* RecognitionFailure: Danny Hebert has no idea who PaigeMcabee is, despite the latter being a famous singer. WordOfGod is that he doesn't listen to her genre of music.