Well this thread has been an absolute rollercoaster today. Having seen both versions of the chapter, I have to agree that this new direction is a much more sensible one, and I want to thank
Ack for not being too proud to listen to his readers.
That said, while the original version of the chapter inspired me to put some more work into doing my own Taylor-in-Slut-Life story, I'm also a little concerned because so far both of the stories that already exist in that vein have had huge controversies that result in multiple pages worth of arguing. Who knew that this, of all the story premises on this site, would be one that is so prone to creating disconnects between author and readers.
Yeah, I started one myself too. Set after Annette's gangbang where a fucked-silly Annette is forced by the men participating to confess to Taylor that she's such a slut that she changed the contract on her so she could get a free gangbang out of it, it was all a ruse, so funny ha ha, and so on. Taylor runs out of the room after she calls out to her mother, but she is too blissed out to notice, and they find her when they go get cleaned up, face a pale purple and her body unmoving; she hung herself from a coathook in the women's locker room. She's dead.
Annette freaks the fuck out, the room spins in her senses, and she reaches the point where she's pulling her hair out. Tori tries to calm her down, but gives up when Annette slumps down across from Taylor's corpse and starts slamming her head against the wall, muttering "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." In the end she calls security and has her sedated.
Flash forward a few days. Tori and Kenneth are nowhere to be seen-- Tori fired for gross negligence, subjecting a suicidal bullied girl to even worse psychological torment, and Kenneth for going along (and setting it up in the first place, by having Annette revived into a modified body, something that might be a criminal breach of consent) with her just for a chance to sneak in better ratings by having Taylor watch her mother fucked silly-- and Annette is begging for help from the higher ups, but the issue is bigger than she expects. Reviving Taylor is a huge problem: she ended her life of her own free will, free of coercion, so if she's brought back she'll come back a resentful, twisted shade of herself. It's not an insurmountable problem given some psychological help, but the fact that it was her mother that pushed her to suicide, there's basically no hope for their relationship at all... and they'll still force her and Taylor to hold to the original contract; Annette will spend the length of the contract playing at being Taylor's mother, a Taylor who can't stand the sight of her and might actually hate her enough to harm her-- even to the point of maiming. Same goes for any of her hot button issues. Impersonal authority figures, traitors, manipulators, those who have responsibility but are negligent, bullies... Taylor comes back with her soul twisted around her break point, and her rebirth has left her galvanized.
Furthermore there's an even bigger problem, the roots of which lie in Slut Life's architecture as a large-scale mana gathering ritual. Because of Taylor's role as the focal point for the very first instance of the ritual in her multiverse (which by necessity has to include someone with an 'significant destiny'), her twisted first show has twisted repercussions for the quality and alignment of mana gathered there in the future, and for the metaphysical nature of sex to begin with; slowly but increasing with time sex becomes a dark and degenerate thing on Earth-Worm... unless Slut Life can make Taylor (and Annette) come to terms with her issues.
Flash forward to the epilogues:
Taylor finishes the show with decent ratings, her issues creating drama as her misconceptions about sex and relationships are ground down, and her trust in others is built up. At the end, she files a complaint that they never revived her mother-- there's a hoopla about semantics where the courts and Slut Life go to war about what constitutes a person, and it's ruled that revival is nothing more and nothing less than the person as he or she existed at the time of death, mind, body and soul; Annette is a body and mind possessing the wrong soul, the first legal instance... she's ruled to be an aberration holding a soul in bondage-- like a lich's philactery-- and ordered to be terminated, to be constituted again in another body and mind as of her time of death in canon.
In her depression when finding out that Taylor didn't think of her as her mother this entire time, and all that she's done in pursuit of atonement, she's been wandering. Her tendons shortened and strengthened so all she can wear are ridiculous bimbo heels, lips puffed up, tits phenomenally huge, hips wide and ass bubbly, she's an image of the slut she is inside (on Taylor's orders, over the course of the show)... and she's found suffocating on the same hook in the same locker room Taylor killed herself. The team sent to apprehend her-- itself comprised of some of the men that participated in the gangbang that started it all, and the guy who 'forced' her to confess to Taylor-- decide to have one last round with the slut while she dies. Annette's last sight and sounds in that life is the grunting scowl of the man who started her on this path, and a stream of invective over how big a useless slut only good as a cum dump she is. Unconsciousness sets in as she has one final orgasm...
And she wakes up from a coma in a hospital years after her car crash, with the love of her life at her bedside, and her beloved daughter giving her a teary smile.
Then I realized this is a fucking novel length smutfic omake and went back to writing my shitty SI fic.
