Line #14 Fanfic/Gather


1	->''Everything was the same, except for one of them, a star, just a few miles from me.''
2	->''I could see it. What it '''looked''' like, '''where''' it was.''
3	->''My god they were…''
4	->''Amazing. Perfect. Beautiful in a way that escaped words. Everything else, '''everything''', paled in comparison.''
5	->''Another one appeared, swinging into focus.''
6	->''I have to be there.''
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8	->''All I remember is snapping back into focus as I walked into a bloodbath.''
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10	-->[[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/gather-worm.278605/#post-12564766 ~Chapter 1.1.]]
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12	A [[Literature/{{Worm}} Worm]] fanfic by [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/members/cnjlc.284655/ CnJLC]] written on the Spacebattles forums, also the author of ''[[{{FanFic/Propagation}} Propagation]]''.
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14	Based on the premise of [[CloudCuckoolander Glaistig]] [[TheFairFolk Uaine]] and [[AntiHero Skitter]] [[AlternateContinuity swapping powersets]].
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16	''[[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/gather-worm.278605/ Gather]]'' opens with [[BrokenBird Taylor Hebert]] getting back from a night of 'heroing. One that went very, very wrong. Everything is wrong. Everything has been wrong- ever since she found out the truth about heroes, ever since she [[BlessedWithSuck got these stupid powers]].
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18	It started innocently enough when Taylor triggered, becomeing a parahuman and gaining her very own superhuman abilities. [[TheForceIsStrongWithThisOne A modest sensory power]], one that allowed her to track parahumans over vast distances- several miles, in fact -and it gives her insights into their personality and abilities! Not too shabby! [[HowDoIShotWeb Yet Taylor couldn't help think that there was]] [[TemptingFate something more to it]].
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20	[[FromBadToWorse She gets more than she bargained for.]]
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22	...
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24	It wasn't supposed to be this way. She never meant to kill anyone. [[HorrorHunger But now her power is giving her... urges]].
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27	'''Warning:''' Full story provides spoilers for ''{{Literature/Worm}}.''
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29	!! This series provides examples of:
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31	* AlternateUniverseFic
32	** ForWantOfANail
33	* AntiVillain: Taylor is set up for this from the prologue onward.
34	* AstralProjection: A way of interpreting the ghosts.
35	* BlessedWithSuck / CursedWithAwesome: The side-effects of her power are making Taylor miserable [[spoiler: and like all Worm powers, its fucking with her head]], but her power itself is one of the most powerful in existence: the same power as Glastig Uaine in canon, giving her the ability to deploy parahuman ghosts and various fringe benefits.
36	* BreakTheCutie: Taylor goes through a lot of shit in the first chapters of [[{{Literature/Worm}} Worm]], but getting powers helps take the edge off it. In this story, it makes it ''[[TurnedUpToEleven worse]]''
37	* CurbStompBattle: Once Shadow Stalker knocks Taylor out [[spoiler: her ghosts go into automatic protection mode, and show how they might have acted without Taylor holding them back and preventing them from inflicting fatal injury.]] She lasts ''seconds''.
38	* DarkerAndEdgier
39	* DeadFic: Author has stated that it is officially abandoned on their profile page and last update was in 2014.
40	* FallenHero: Despite being unconsious and not in control of her powers at the time, [[spoiler: Taylor]] feels she is this after [[spoiler:Shadow Stalker's death]]
41	* FromBadToWorse
42	* HowDoIShotWeb: Taylor spends a long time attempting to figure out her powers. It turns out, she just needed to be in the right place at the right time.
43	* InverseLawOfUtilityAndLethality: Averted. Taylor's power is incredibly and broadly useful, it is also ''Lethal'' with a capital L.
44	* MookMaker: Taylor can project multiple 'ghosts' of dead parahumans. In addition to possesing all the powers they had in life, these projections are completely expendable- returning whole and undamaged if destroyed -they do not experience pain, cannot disobey a direct order, and regenerate.
45	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone
46	* OriginalFlavor
47	* PowerCopying: A facet of Taylor's powerset.
48	** VictorGainsLosersPowers
49	* SuperpowerLottery: Taylor got Glastig Uaine's power. [[spoiler: In canon, that power put her on par with Eidolon is his prime and made Scion fight seriously.]]
50	* TouchOfDeath, FingerPokeOfDoom, OneHitKill: Taylor can kill any parahuman ''instantly'' with a simple touch, if she so choses. Doing so feels wrong - her power doesn't like collecting from the living.
51	* TheAssimilator: A facet of Taylor's ability incorporates all the powers of slain parahumans into her own powerset.
52	* TheForceIsStrongWithThisOne: One of Taylor's primary powers. It grows more potent and accurate with every ghost collected.

Context Fanfic / Gather