History Fanfic / GreatGrandUncleSchimmelhornsToolbox

* SpannerInTheWorks: Taylor's FramingTheGuiltyParty on Sophia inadvertently helps expose the depths of Coil's influence in the PRT when the organization starts to investigate Sophia's case handler, and notices Coil's interference; even though the handler was a mixture of incompetent and corrupt, she did try to report ''some'' things that didn't make it through, and once she comes under scrutiny, Armsmaster spots the discrepancies. Later, Taylor [[spoiler:uses her trick to not only rescue Lisa from Coil's mercs "recruiting" her, but capture all of them and their van full of gear ''after'' he'd dropped the timeline where he didn't give the go-ahead]]. And after that, [[spoiler:she just goes and takes everything in Coil's base - including ''his mercenaries'' and ''Coil himself'']].

** Danny Hebert is a moral man, but seeing the sheer depths of the depravity Coil has sunken into leads him to genuinely question if Kurt's suggestion to JustShootHim and dump his corpse in the bay is such a bad idea.

** Piggot is flabbergasted and angered by Sophia risking her own freedom just to make one girl's life a living nightmare, on top of stupidly trying to frame that same girl for narcotics possession. Renick, after hearing about how Sophia was arrested for possession of drugs, even notes that her being high would explain a ''lot'' about the thought processes, or lack thereof, behind her more boneheaded decisions.

* BrickJoke: When Coil is captured by Taylor in both timelines, his narration gets cut-off mid-sentence - with the second half of both sentences appearing when he's pulled out from ''between'' seven chapters later.

* AlienGeometries: ''Between'' allows Taylor to do stuff that is utterly incomprehensible if using just normal dimensions, like [[spoiler:connecting a door in her house's basement to Coil's base and another to the Dockworkers' Association, even though they are a couple miles apart at least]].

* CleverCrows: Edgar, a raven that Amy healed and who decided to [[TheThingThatWouldNotLeave stick around despite several attempts to make him leave]], is noted several times to be rather intelligent even by raven standards, doing things like changing the TV channel to the news when it's on a show he doesn't like and no one else is watching, using tools, and even understands when Amy tells him to bite Dennis's ear for teasing her.

* CoolOldGuy: Erwin, the old fisherman that keeps telling tall tales and never pays for his beers at the pub, turns out to be quite accomplished in the art of espionage, enough that ''the FBI'' has entire filing cabinets about his (mis)adventures. And he doesn't seem to have lost any of his skills either.

* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: [[spoiler: Everyone in Brockton Bay, criminal and non-criminal (besides Lung and the ABB, of course), cheers when Danny (secretly) kills Oni Lee with his own grenades]].

* CoolOldGuy: Erwin, the old fisherman that keeps telling tall tales and never pays for his beers at the pub, turns out to be quite accomplished in the art of espionage, enough that ''the FBI'' has entire filing cabinets about his (mis)adventures.

* ControlFreak: Piggot outright describes Costa-Brown as is, and that she's someone who has to have everything her own way. In particular she kept putting pressure on Glenn Chambers to try and sweep the mess with Shadow Stalker under the rug, and gets mad when Piggot gets the Hebert and Barnes families to settle out of court for a fraction of the settlement that they could have gotten and avoiding the negative PR of a trial (not to mention how a NDA can't be used to cover up a crime, ruling it out as a solution), and isn't happy to have to accept the deal despite it being the best option that the PRT has.

** As Coil gets captured before he can start the Undersiders, [[spoiler:Rachel remains a runaway struggling to survive in Brockton Bay, which leads to her almost dying in a fight with some Merchants]].

* CleverCrows: Edgar, a raven that Amy healed and who decided to [[TheThingThatWouldNotLeave stick around despite several attempts to make him leave]], is noted several times to be rather intelligent, doing things like changing the TV channel to the news when it's on a show he doesn't like and no one else is watching, using tools, and even understands when Amy tells him to bite Dennis's ear for teasing her.

* LoopholeAbuse: The reason that [[spoiler:QA is able to give Contessa, and then Rebecca, LaserGuidedAmnesia is by apparently exploiting a loophole in protections meant to keep the cycle going, since Taylor is currently the biggest source of new data out there, and they'd interfere with her making said data]].

* PunnyName: Amy names the raven she saved (and which keeps getting into the Dallons' home) "Edgar Dallon-Poe". She really meant to keep the name to herself, but it slips out when she's scolding him; Vicky stares for a moment, then collapses into laughter.

-->'''Lisa''': "Are you thinking what I’m thinking, Agent Gimme?"
-->'''Taylor''': "I think so, Agent Thinky, but where are we going to get [[NoodleImplements a bucket of glue, five cats, and half a ton of blueberries]] at this time of night?"

* ForWantOfANail: The major divergence point here is that when Taylor recovers her mother's flute, Danny finds out and directs her to the titular ancestor's toolbox and journal in the attic in the quest to repair it. Soon, with Danny's help and Schimmelhorn's tools, Sophia's bullying is exposed, [[spoiler:Coil's plans to force Tattletale to work for him fail]], and [[spoiler:Piggot and the [=PRT=] discover Coil's infiltration and subterfuge]].

* INeedAFreakingDrink: When Taylor tells her father how her latest experiment with her {{Hammerspace}} pocket has gone, he decides he needs food before dealing with the latest craziness in his life.

* LoopholeAbuse: The reason that [[spoiler:QA is able to give Contessa, and then Rebecca, LaserGuidedAmnesia is by apparently exploiting a loophole in protections meant to keep the cycle going, since Taylor is currently the biggest source of new data out there, and they'd interfere with her making said data.]]

** Lisa manages to outright [[spoiler:''blackmail her power'' into getting its restrictions loosened by the Queen Administrator by threatening to cut off the data the shard is getting from Taylor, which it desperately wants more of.]]

** Later, [[spoiler:The QA shard expresses a low opinion of Scion and his mate's data-gathering methods, noting that cooperation, namely with Taylor, is providing ''much'' more useful information than their brute-force approach of generating data by causing conflict via traumatized people with powers fighting one another.]]

* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Amy heals and feeds an injured raven, but no matter how many times she lets him outside he keeps coming back into the Dallon house whenever he can. Eventually they just give up on trying to make him leave. Later, he even follows Amy to Arcadia, and every time the teachers try to get him to leave he simply finds his way back to Amy. Eventually they just stop trying because Edgar is fairly well-behaved as long as they leave him alone.

* {{Troll}}: After bringing Coil out of {{Hammerspace}} and telling Coil to sit in a particular chair, every time Coil tries to get rid of it, she either puts it back in the same place or (if he breaks it) replaces it with an identical chair.
** The incident turns out to leave Coil with a fear of chairs in general. After she gets her hands on him, Piggot takes to showing pictures of a chair to him to make him freak out.
** Edgar the raven seems to take a liking to messing with Carol, much to the amusement of the other Dallons.

* [[{{Manchild}} Womanchild]]: Piggot considers Costa Brown to be so bratty and demanding that Taylor comes across as more mature than her despite being only fifteen.

* PunnyName: Amy names the raven she saved (and which keeps getting into the Dallons' home) "Edgar Dallon-Poe".

* AbsenceOfEvidence: When Armsmaster and Dragon [[spoiler:find proof that Coil's base ''was'' were he and his mercs say it should be, they're baffled because there's no known method, via parahuman powers or Tinker technology, that could produce such an effect, and regardless teleportation abilities and tech always leave identifiable traces, none of which are present, which makes it clear to them that something ''very'' out of the ordinary is going on.]]

* RefugeInAudacity: Taylor manages to get away with recording everything that happens at school (particularly the bullying) by carrying a placard stating that she's recording everything. If [[CassandraTruth no one believes her]], and even ramps up the bullying in reaction, that's their business. And if the teachers attempt to take the recorder (even though they have no standing to do so), she can give them a fake one, keep recording, and warn Danny so he can report it as theft.
** Lisa manages to outright [[spoiler:''blackmail her power'' into getting its restrictions loosened by the Queen Administrator by threatening to cut off the data the shard is getting from Taylor.]]

* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Amy heals and feeds an injured raven, but no matter how many times she lets him outside he keeps coming back into the Dallon house whenever he can. Eventually they just give up on trying to make him leave. Later, he even follows Amy to Arcadia, and every time the teachers try to get him to leave he simply finds his way back to Amy, and eventually they just stop trying because Edgar is fairly well-behaved as long as they leave him alone.

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Danny uses Anton's trick to blow up Oni Lee with the very grenades he was using to terrorize Brockton Bay.]]

* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Amy heals and feeds an injured raven, but no matter how many times she lets him outside he keeps coming back into the Dallon house whenever he can. Eventually they just give up on trying to make him leave. Later, he even follows Amy to Arcadia, and every time the teachers try to get him to leave he simply finds his way back to Amy, and eventually they just stop trying.

* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Amy heals and feeds an injured raven, but no matter how many times she lets him outside he keeps coming back into the Dallon house whenever he can. Eventually they just give up on trying to make him leave. Later, he even follows Amy to Arcadia.

* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: [[spoiler: Everyone in Brockton Bay, criminal and non-criminal, cheers when Danny (secretly) kills Oni Lee with his own grenades]].

** The PRT assumes that the drugs being found on Sophia was simply because she botched framing Taylor, since it makes more sense than her just ''happening'' to have the powerset needed to plant said drugs on Sophia when she never got close to her when they have no evidence that Taylor's triggered.

* StupidEvil: Piggot is flabbergasted and angered by Sophia risking her own freedom just to make one girl's life a living nightmare, on top of stupidly trying to frame that same girl for narcotics possession. Renick, after hearing about how Sophia was arrested for possession of drugs, even notes that her being high would explain a ''lot'' about the thought processes, or lack thereof, behind her more boneheaded decisions.
** Later, [[spoiler:The QA shard expresses a low opinion of Scion and his mate's data-gathering methods, noting that cooperation, namely with Taylor, is providing ''much'' more useful information than their brute-force approach of generating data by causing conflict via traumatized people with powers.]]

* TooCleverByHalf: It's noted that while Coil, while smart and cunning, was far from the genius he thought himself as being, and wasn't nearly as clever with his power as he thought, as otherwise the deep scan Armsmaster did wouldn't have exposed his presence in the PRT systems so easily. They even say that they're lucky that someone ''truly'' competent didn't get his power, otherwise he would have been almost impossible to stop.

* WowingCthulhu: [[spoiler:Lisa's shard and the Queen Administrator are amazed by Taylor and company, not just by Papa's tech and Anton's trick (though that's a big part of it), but also Taylor's intelligence and capability to use aforementioned things to get new and interesting data, as well as managing to figure out key aspects of the shard network, including Taylor even managing to notice the QA shard ''before'' triggering. QA even ''actively interferes with Contessa and the rest of Cauldron'' to keep her from harming Taylor and company and cutting off said data, and is genuinely impressed and eager to see what else she does.]]

** Later, [[spoiler:The QA shard expresses a low opinion of Scion and his mate's data-gathering methods, noting that cooperation, namely with Taylor, is providing ''much'' more useful information than their brute-force approach of generating date by causing conflict via traumatized people with powers.]]

* FunWithAcronyms: United National Intervention Operators Network, aka U.N.I.O.N.