History FanFic / Seed

''Seed'' is a ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' fanfic.

Seed is a Worm Fanfic taking place in a universe where the Endbringers attacked in a few different places and a different order leading to similar but different fates for many characters. Thanks to the Simurgh attacking Boston, many of the capes of that city came to Brockton which has become much more important with Boston sealed. Thanks to the Butcher’s presence in Brockton, Taylor’s mother slowing dying in a hospital and losing Emma in the same week, Taylor triggered with Blasto’s shard. Trying to be a hero she very quickly becomes frustrated by her power's weaknesses and how dangerous her creations are for civilians. Distraught, and desperate to help her city she takes a dangerous gamble to give herself more power and chooses to be a heroic warlord to save the city from itself.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: During the Purge, Piggot was so spooked that she activated the Endbringer alarm - which caused twenty five people to die, some of heart attacks and others due to MercyKill. She is forced to retire.

* RealityEnsues: During the Purge, Piggot was so spooked that she activated the Endbringer alarm - which caused twenty five people to die, some of heart attacks and others due to MercyKill. She is forced to retire.

** Thanks to Accord being in Brockton and helping against the Endbringers, Armsmaster and Dragon’s prediction model is much better, giving almost an hour warning to attacks by Leviathan and Behemoth. This has led to far greater cooperation and casualties among the parahumans of the world.

* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: The main reason Taylor is so popular with the public is that for all her extreme and terrifying methods of heroism, they ''worked''. She did more in two months against the gangs then the Protectorate did in decades.

** While it's a stretch to call Crawler "good", in this universe he's a member of the PRT, with the same adaptive powerset that turns him increasingly monstruous the more hurt he gets.
* BackToSchool: Taylor left school after proving the Trio’s guilt, and is flourishing thanks to being a Tinker and being homeschooled. Her father wants her to go back to school to try have a normal social life and Hannah has managed to pull some strings to get her into Arcadia much to Taylor disappointment as she can’t spend most of the day experimenting.

** "We are the being who has transcended the pattern of the world. We are what your petty little God fears. We force life itself to bow to whims. We are the mad and the damned. We are the power, which eternally wills evil and eternall works good.” Said to [[spoiler: intimidate the Teeth after Taylor steals the minds and powers of the Heroes in the Butcher Collective and causes the collective to run for their lives.]]

* ClonesArePeopleToo: Averted, as Taylor intentionally makes sure they are never sentient and refuses to go into certain branches of her tech tree in case she accidentally makes one that can think or learn. WOG is that Taylor would adopt a clone as its mother if she every accidently made one with the capacity to learn and grow.

** Overmind is very much this if Dragon's description of her is accurate. She's been doing things like augmenting her henchman greatly, attacking cemetaries to essentially create zombies she can control, and is an unstable and proud MoodSwinger who once attacked a newspaper because it didn't report her activities.

* GameChanger: Taylor becoming a Butcher and gaining access to Bonesaw and Overmind's tech trees is this, allowing her to reach heights with her powers that she never could before. WoG compares it to Franchise/{{Batman}} getting MesACrowd powers, among other things.

Read it [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/seed-a-worm-au.340626/ here]] on Spacebattles, [[https://www.fanfiction.net/~theotherant here]] on Fanfiction.net, and [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/seed-a-worm-au.18224/ here]] on Sufficient Velocity.

** The Fairy Queen tried to kill the Simurgh when she first showed up in Switzerland and for whatever reason chose to disappear to Earth Bet after making her retreat.

* BigBrotherIsWatching: Overmind, a villain Tinker in Seattle, who seems to have gotten the administrative shard in this universe. She is something between big brother and a hive mind with all her implanted henchman. The docks became this after Taylor takes it over. Between the birds, hidden camera, drones, and the human infiltrators, Taylor practically is the docks.

* BigDamnHeroes: Taylor and the Undersider team up to break up the Teeth’s pit fight.

* MissionControl: Taylor’s sidekicks essentially act this way for her when she is not in the docks.