Faraday [Worm AU]

Temperamental? Chaotic? Loose? Really most antonyms of viscous don't really work as it's specifically referring to material properties so most related words are as well, it's just one of the ones that works better otherwise.

 

I'm pretty sure powers are at least tangentially related to how you Triggered in the first place. How do Emma's powers relate to her trigger at all? I can't see it.

Am I the only one who noticed that Emma is planning outright murder?

It pains me to hope Sophia gets off lightly, but she deserves far less punishment than Emma.

 

Despite the blaster/striker/brute applications, Emma is a (short range) shaker, with a breaker aspect (she's largely immune to electricity) as well as a very specific trump power (against Sophia's and Taylor's power-set).

Her shard's ''theme' is connected to Sophia and Taylor's 'anomalous smoky' thing. Going by Wildbow's explanation, a shaker power results from 'Environmental danger, ambient danger, often nonhuman or only abstractly human,' which fits with the unseen and unknown nature of Taylor's master attack, of which Emma was only semi-consciously aware (e.g. 'The bathroom seemed to darken somehow, as if my grief had saturated the air.').

A breaker triggers from, 'Abstract physical danger or harm, difficult to define pain or stress (not mental or physical.) Frequently arises from the hardest triggers to label.' A vague explanation, but I think it can reasonably result from Taylor's mind raping.

The trump power is due to Taylor being balls-deep into Emma's brain. The specifics of Emma's power are almost an exact counter to Taylor's or Sophia's. If Emma's purple is up, neither Taylor nor Sophia can touch her.

It hasn't come up yet, but Emma also has a resistance (not an immunity) to master attacks; basically, her shard 'corrects' in her brain what the master power's doing. Once again, this is due to her triggering in the midst of Taylor's meddling.

It's worth noting that right before she triggered, Emma recognized how horrible she's been but lamented that not only could she not fix what she's done, but she was too much of a coward to do anything about it. Her post-trigger brain restructuring essentially turned her into the person she desperately wanted to be.

Hence:

That was the shard's first influence.

Bare in mind, Emma's turned into the person she's wanted to be--but not necessarily a good person. Better, though.

OT: I've posted my first quest: Uncle Grubb's Mysterious Mansion. It's gotten a few replies on SB and SV, but none so far here. I'll write the next chapter in a couple of days or so.

Right now, I'm working on Chapter Nine of 'Tales of a Power Armor Apocalypse.'