Vineyard Shrine
is a crossover between Worm and Classical Mythology by Quolim.
Instead of Triggering, Taylor finds god... more specifically, Dionysus.
Becoming the first practicing priestess of Dionysus in Brockton Bay, Taylor begins drinking, building a Hellenic Temple, and partying with the locals.
The fic was last updated in July 2021.
This fanfic contains examples of the following:
- The Alcoholic: Taylor being one is part of the fic's premise.
- Dinah becomes one in an Omake to protect herself from Coil.
- A Round of Drinks for the House: Taylor's first action upon meeting a group of homeless people.
- A Tankard of Moose Urine: Emma comes to think all alcohol is this after taking a Quick Nip in the middle of the night.
- Adaptational Superpower Change: Taylor is a Cleric of Dionysus.
- Animal Metaphor: Sophia initially thinks Taylor is a sloth, camouflaging itself with nasty stuff to avoid being preyed on. Emma thinks Sophia should watch something other than Animal Planet.
- Downplayed later when Emma starts rationalizing Taylor with a plant metaphor.
- Berserk Button: Do NOT vandalize a Hellenic Temple or you WILL come to regret it.
- Beware the Silly Ones: Taylor is normally a placid Hard-Drinking Party Girl, but when some Nazis decide to vandalize the Temple...
- Dead Fic: Last updated in July of 2021, then locked because of Thread Necromancy.
- Drunken Master: When Taylor gets into physical fights.
- Establishing Character Moment: Taylor nonchalantly chugging wine while walking through Winslow- right in front of the Trio, no less- and tossing a wine bottle into the Ladies' Room.
- Forced Transformation: Taylor is NOT above punishing Dionysus's enemies in the city this way- several Nazis get turned into dolphins and Stormtiger gets turned into a Tiger.
- Foul First Drink: Emma sneaks into her dad's wine cellar for a sip- then promptly spits it back out.
- Hair of the Dog: Taylor's taken to having them by Chapter 13.
- Hard-Drinking Party Girl: TAYLOR. What else would you expect from a Priestess of Dionysus?
- Home-Run Hitter: Hookwolf gets tossed out of the city with a single blow.
- I Need a Freaking Drink: Taylor eventually drives others to drinking.
- Averted for Emma, who took one sip and then spat it out.
- Kids Raiding the Wine Cabinet: Taylor doing this sets off the plot of the fic.
- Emma takes a sip from her dad's wine cabinet, and then promptly spits it out and swears off drinking.
- Happens with Dinah in the Omake "Wetting the odds (Or: "How Dry I am")", since her power said alcoholism would protect her from Coil.
- Large Ham: Taylor has a highly conspicuous powerset and pattern of behavior. She does NOT do subtle.
- No More for Me: Emma stops drinking after only one sip.
- Oh, Crap!: Dionysus was the god of madness after all.
- Nazi dolphins when Kaiser and Hookwolf walk away in disbelief.
- Stormtiger before being turned into a tiger to pull Taylor's chariot.
- Hookwolf when Taylor shouts non-sequiturs at the Medhall building... right before she destroys it.
- Omake: "Wetting The Odds (Or: "How Dry I Am)" has Dinah start drinking heavily to escape her problems.
- Quick Nip: Emma sneaks one overnight and promptly stops due to the wine's bitterness.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Hookwolf starts expressing this sentiment way too late to do him any good.
- Shmuck Bait: The Temple of Dionysus under construction. Vandalizing it is a bad idea, right Empire Eighty Eight?
- Shout-Out:
- Hookwolf being on the receiving end of a Home-Run Hitter and getting Yeeted from Brockton Bay.
- "What's Updog?" sounds like "What's Up Doc?".
- The Standard Snippet "How Dry I Am" is sung in the Omake.
- Sorry Ociffer: Chapter 13 is misspelled deliberately.
- This Means War!: Taylor was content to be a
Chaotic Neutral priestess of Dionysus, then the Empire decided to vandalize her Temple. - Too Dumb to Live: The Nazi thugs who vandalized the Temple of Dionysus. Taylor instead gave them something worse.
- Transflormation: happens to the Medhall building in Chapter 13.
- Wild Teen Party: Taylor hosts one, to the Empire's detriment.
- Wine Is Classy: It's the sacred drink of Dionysus.
