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.'' |
7 | ---->... |
8 | ->''All I remember is snapping back into focus as I walked into a bloodbath.'' |
9 | |
10 | -->[[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/gather-worm.278605/#post-12564766 ~Chapter 1.1.]] |
11 | |
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.]] |
21 | |
22 | ... |
23 | |
24 | It wasn't supposed to be this way. She never meant to kill anyone. [[HorrorHunger But now her power is giving her... urges]]. |
25 | |
26 | |
27 | '''Warning:''' Full story provides spoilers for ''{{Literature/Worm}}.'' |
28 | ---- |
29 | !! This series provides examples of: |
30 | |
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. |
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