Amelia, Worm AU [Complete]

I bet they'd be equally applicable to the current story.

Rey will ask to borrow the grotto for an evening.

 

Pretty sure there were multiple casualties among the deities of Pantheon during the Simurgh fight. What they avoided were fatalities. Mostly taken down from combat capability due to mental trauma than anything else, but still.

 

Technically, Crystal did die.

It's just that she got better before anyone outside Pantheon noticed.

 

That would just make them scarier, if anyone knew.

 

Let's not forget what happened to the one group to score anything vaguely resembling a victory. A sub-group of the Teeth fights off one force? Pantheon manages to kill off the butcher permanently AND one of the capes involved in the group that fought off the pantheon force suddenly completely vanishes.

 

Pantheon facts: Pantheon survived the Simurgh's bomb: India did not.
Behemoth has been at war with Earth for years, taking down some of it's strongest capes. Behemoth took one look at Pantheon and ran away.
Pantheon is actually a group of rouges, Hades is paying them a lot to collect the souls of the damned.
Taylor has two jobs on her resume: warlord, goddess.

 

It probably helps that Taylor is one of the people who think that way.

If she would be thinking of herself as merely Taylor's twin, then everyone else would appear cold for ignoring that. But when we keep reading chapters from the POV of someone who considers herself Taylor, it's hard to keep caring too deeply about the anti-transhumanist interpretation of existence according to which they are wrong.

 

She's Taylor Hebert just as much as the first Taylor was Taylor Hebert. However, they weren't the SAME Taylor Hebert at any point. The instant the second Taylor Hebert was "born" she diverged from the first one's memory upload.

Sort of like Dragon; every iteration has equal claim to being Dragon. However, each iteration was a unique individual and each of their deaths a tragedy.

Personally, I think preemptive cloning would be better for everything except maintaining their deceptive house of cards which I don't think they should be doing anyway. It's a weakness that can be exploited by revealing it at a bad time by anybody who has figured it out, it's unethical in the first place to deceive the people cloned and the people close to them, and it closes down some very important options like having multiple iterations of a person active at the same time. It's also probably a lot more emotionally healthy.

 

YES! YES! Thank you so much, I am surrounded by Game of Thrones' fans, I can't take it anymore!

 

Well nice update, so Vicky notices Taylor getting upset at the sight of bones that should tell her something bout how she is not some kind of monster. The Fallen as shown here were rather interesting and dangerous Parahumans by normal standards, it is no wonder Haven and the Local heroes has difficulties with them especially if you count that on the top of the parahumans featured here they also had the likes of Valefor and Eligos on their roster. As for them doing the whole reeding program thing well it is not that surprising, in fact I believe there is even a WoG saying that the fallen were made up of different families so it fits in some way.

Victoria showed how dangerous she was in a fight when dealing with the fallen, but we also got showed that her power is not always an autowin and it was nice to see that there are things it cannot crack like Theo's armor. Also Victoria worked her frustrations out on Baal by choosing to kill the guy(not that he didn't deserve) which is a slippery slope for her and doesn't resolve ll the issues this mission brought up, issues that needs to be adressed before Victoria goes to a deep end.

 

Also, sort of like everyone else, whose brain has ever diverged from a state that it was in previously. You are not the same Navrin that you were a minute ago, and diverged even more over a year or a decade. You would also be different after a brain trauma ereased a week of your memories, or a drug changed your mood. This is still not treated as a tragic example of constant death, as long as you are thought of as the same person.

This discussion is old hat. The point is exactly that a person's continued existence could be whatever we consider to be that.

It's as hard to mourn Taylor's death when she is running around, as it is mourning your death based on how you are not the same person as in your childhood. Not because both of these objectively count as survival, but because either of them being counted as survival is arbitrary.

 

That Taylor gave the command for suspending the scouting mission and saving the girl, probably helped even more.

To Vicky, this is basically bonding experience.

 

I was thinking that too...at first but then I thought about the previous updates, most notably when Victoria pointed out she could end Slitter, as she still calls her, and that the latter couldn't do anything to stop her and that Amelia would not be able to put her back together, hence Taylor ordering to nix the mission to save the girl could be perceived by Victoria and her warped logic as her doing so knowing she would NOT be able to stop her from doing it anyway, while Taylor's rection to the bones was involuntary and thus not something Victoria could shrug off as her trying to manipulate her or something.

 

Does Vicky still think of Amy as Panacea in the same way she thinks of Taylor as Skitter?

 

I don't think she ever thought of her as Panacea.

She is using whatever names she is the most used to. She didn't know Taylor on a first name basis, and she never learned about Pantheon's Khepri from the outside, so Skitter it is.

In Amelia's case, the same principle is showed by still calling her Amy instead of Amelia, but she was always her sister, cape name irrelevant.

 

Vicky still has a mental problem and Taylor may have been trying to have her killed off.from Taylor's point of view it was a win or win situation.get rid of the annoying mentally ill mind rapist rival/sister of my fiance or rid the world of a mentally ill murdering rapist cult leader.After all... they would just grow a new Vicky.

 

Well technically Vicky acted impulsive, but you need to be one cold bastard not to intervene when a child is about to be raped, ready for the fight or not.

I cackled merrily every time she took a shot at Bael's junk, perfect way to put a dude off his game, of course its also poetic justice.

 

When Taylor is on the job,nothing gets in the way....

 

I think that would be supposed to.

Now interesting update, with Amelia analysing Victoria's attitued towards problems in general and her reacting to Victoria behaving like in the"good ol' days"when they were in BB chasing E88 thugs, truly something has to be done about this. Now it was nice to see that Taylor took Victoria's defense as she acted like a leader should by presenting a united front and taking responsibility for her subordinate, now wether it was genuine or just for show is up to debate. but I would say vicky still needs some boundaries before it is too late for her to learn.

It was also nice to see that Theo will have some time with Kayden and perhaps Aster and that his friends opted to stay with him. Now about the Railroad bandit I think there might be a trap in their offer: The Fallen had a high powered Master in the person of Valefor, and we know that powers tend to run in families, so it is quite posssible that said team got taken over by one of Valefor's hypothetic relative and that they will be used to strike at the pantheon when they have their guard down.

 

It could be guilt for setting her up to get killed or because Vicky saved her conscience from letting a young girl get raped in front of her.only four people will know what was going through Taylor's mind,Taylor,God,Lisa and TanaNari.

 

Isn't Eidolon headquartered in Houston?

 

I thought Eidolon was the head of the Houston Protectorate. Am I misremembering?

Imped by Inverness.

 

(total lies) Umm... Butterflies! Yeah. David's conserving power, so he isn't doing heroing. Yeah. That's it!


(the truth) *Repeated head desks* Research. Failure. Fuck. My. Life.

Editing.

Exactly. Note that she doesn't say "Amelia", either. To her, it'll always be Amy or Ames. Because yup.

No. She's quite aware of Skitter's new identity as Khepri. The difference between 'knows' and 'cares' is an important one here.

 

It's totally a good thing. The more Eidolon interacts with Pantheon, the sooner they'll discover he made the Endbringers and shit hits the fan.

 

Feels like it's going to be more of a brick hitting the fan. you know. Lots of shrapnel.

 

On a completly unrelated note: you know what the scariest thing about Victoria's trigger is ? It is that it implies that all of the pantheon shards love their combat systems so much that they use them as a template for their buds: Imagine what Crystal's or Theo and the Moira's bud would be...Oh and isn't Theo visiting Aster soon ?

 

Isn't it nice how Lisa can just call up Costa-Brown and have a heart-to-heart chat? They probably spend late nights whispering sweet nothing to each other and giggling like schoolgirls.

Or scheduling covert meet-ups to stare deeply into each others' smoldering gazes...

 

She knows I know

She knows I know she knows

She knows I know she knows I know

She knows I know she... "Oh just kiss me already!"

 

Bricks and shit are not mutually exclusive.

Now I imagine them sitting down a table for a meeting. They would sit on opposite ends, both doing the Gendou pose. Just before things get too awkward for the audience they both stand up, shake hands, and conclude the meeting.

On a semi-related note, whatever makeup and behavior Costa-Brown uses to appear older must be pretty good. I wonder if she's ever done the opposite and disguised herself as a typical teenager. She probably could.

I'm trying to imagine the look on Lisa face if they met like that.

Now the Mysterious Transfer Student trope comes to mind. If this was Atonement you'd have Ms. Fortune thrown into the mix. It would be the most surreal thing ever.

...

My mind is going strange places it seems.