"A Colorful Symphony
" is a Worm and The World Ends with You crossover story by Elia41, based on Synesthesia. The crux of the story is Taylor triggering with powers like the Composer due to discovering Sophia's cape identity by accident, with Sophia promptly trying to kill her to keep it a secret.
This work contains examples of:
- Animal Motifs: Wolves for Danny. He gains a wolf tattoo from Taylor's powers that allows him to transform into a wolf form, and his temporary code-name is Papa Wolf.
- For Want Of A Nail: The main divergence between Synesthesia and this story is that Sophia hears Taylor when Taylor discovers that Sophia is Shadow Stalker and plans to kill her to keep the secret.
- Murder Is the Best Solution: Sophia immediately tries to kill Taylor when the latter accidentally discovers her cape identity.
- Revealing Cover-Up: Sophia's attempts to keep her secret identity by killing Taylor end up ensuring that the PRT learns who she is. For added irony, Taylor is too intimidated by Sophia to tell anyone, so if Sophia had tried to threaten her into silence instead, she would never have had her identity exposed.
- Sensory Overload: Taylor's powers mean that she can constantly hear noise around her, which is overwhelming at first. She eventually gets a music player to help her drown it out.
- Super-Empowering: Taylor can imbue those with strong Melodies with powers based on her own. Danny's abilities are easily powerful enough to allow him to join the Protectorate despite not technically being a parahuman.
