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Taylor never had Annette for a mother. Instead, she had Aine, a Japanese immigrant. Growing up as a half-Japanese girl in Brockton Bay was difficult, especially on top of the bullying she was already on the butt end of. But even when it seemed everything was against her, she still had two (not zero, not one, but TWO) emotionally available parents to come home too.
But of course, she lived in Brockton Bay, where you didn't get a happy ending unless you had the power to take one. The Empire decided to destroy the last thing Taylor had left, but in doing so, gave her the power she needed to take back her happy ending. The power to tear down the Empire, to avenge her mother and to rid Brockton Bay of the filth the heroes refused to scrub away.
Though whether or not walking that path would truly lead her to happiness, she could only find out the hard way.
Or: a character-based story, on dealing with grief and guilt without a support system + morality stuff + many fights and much violence. Warning for a fair bit of racist rhetoric, mostly in the first couple chapters.
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"Nobody likes it here. About one in every five doctors might be here to help the patients, the rest are here to study the patients.
But you know what? You need this, we all need this. We have to try. It’s not going to be easy, it's not going to be pleasant. It's not going to be fun, or about making friends; or even, hell, escaping—though all of those might happen. Who knows?
Being here is about one thing, and it’s the most important thing of all: getting better."
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- Part 1 of Bird
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01 Feb 2026
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On a trip to Boston, Taylor Hebert and her father were caught in the middle of a battle between the Teeth and the Boston Protectorate. In her panic to protect her father, Taylor may have made an ill-advised decision, suffocating Butcher XIV. Now that she's become the new Butcher, Taylor took a careful look at her options before deciding that the only reasonable decision would be to join the Brockton Bay Wards. Surely this plan has absolutely no problems.
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17 Apr 2025
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Summoner - Hiatus by SomeoneYouWontRemember
Fandoms: Parahumans Series - Wildbow, Worm - Fandom, League of Legends
28 Apr 2025
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Some thought that a trigger event was the traumatic part of getting powers.
In her case, it was the "vision" that followed.
Having lived thousands of years through the eyes of a hundred and more legends from another world, all in mere seconds, chosen through naught but mere happenstance during the death throes of a far distant reality, she found herself the bearer of uncountable beasts and monsters, men and women, abilities and spells, all borne from fantasy, yet far too real to ignore or pretend they did not once exist.
In the aftermath, she starts to realize that no matter how much she tries, a normal life on Earth Bet is impossible, not with what she's become, what she can do. The people she can help.
Inevitably, the walls lengthen, the bars thicken, the shackles tighten.
Undaunted, beaten but unbowed, she resolves to drag Earth Bet to a brighter tomorrow, no matter how much it kicks and screams on the way there.
Whether she can succeed is another matter entirely.
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(No knowledge of LoL is needed, but would help. There will be variation in how champions/mechanics work for realism. Story starts up a little slow but quickly ramps up to a frenetic rollercoaster.)
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19 Aug 2024
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Here Comes The New Boss (Nothing Like The Old Boss) by HowlingGuardian
Fandoms: Parahumans Series - Wildbow
12 Feb 2026
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Taylor Hebert has some big, horrible boots to fill. But she's going to walk her own way.
Butcher Taylor AU. Cross-posted from Spacebattles.Series
- Part 1 of Butcher XV aka Taylor Hebert
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26 Feb 2024
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"But my interest is in the design of people. What makes them tick? What holds them together? All too often, it’s one little thing. In architecture they call it a keystone. The one stone that keeps the entire arch from collapsing. The weak point. And I’m very, very good at finding those weak points."
Jack nominates Skitter for the Nine and the consequences thereof.
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23 Feb 2024