Editing Taylor Hebert (section)

==Appearance==
===Civilian Identity ===
Taylor was a tall,<ref> Broomstick arms and legs, gawky, with a wide, guileless smile, her eyes just a fraction larger behind the glasses she wore, a little too old fashioned.  Her long dark curls were tied into a loose set of twin braids, one bearing a series of colorful ‘friendship braclet' style ties at the end.  Only her height gave her age away. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/03/19/interlude-19/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 19.z]]</ref> stick-thin,<ref name="I10.5e1"/><ref>A girl, skinny, but not in the attractive way you saw in magazines.  Spindly. - [http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/04/21/sentinel-9-6/ Excerpt] from [[Sentinel 9.6]]</ref> young woman with long, curly black hair<ref name="19.ze1"/><ref name="I10.5e1">A girl with curly black hair and glasses, stick thin, hugging a red-haired girl.  The body type was a match. <br><br>[...]<br><br>The goal was always the same: to look for the girl with the slight build, curly black hair and glasses.  Taylor Hebert. - [http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/05/17/interlude-10-5-bonus/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 10.5]]</ref><ref>Skinny teenage girl with black curly hair entering and leaving the same building that the skinny teenage villain with black curly hair was operating out of? - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/05/19/infestation-11-1/ Excerpt] from [[Infestation 11.1]]</ref><ref>Her expression was masked behind a shifting mass of bugs that moved in and out of her hairline.  Sierra couldn’t even tell where the bugs ended and the scalp began, as the small black bodies crawled into and onto the black curls. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/interlude-14/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 14.x]]</ref> and glasses. She had a thin-lipped, wide, expressive mouth she inherited from [[Anne-Rose Hebert|her mother]], and her large eyes and gawky figure made her look a lot like [[Danny Hebert|her father]].<ref name="1.1">[[Gestation 1.1]]</ref><ref name="I22">[[Interlude 22.x]]</ref> According to Wildbow's Patreon art, she has brown eyes.<ref>[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/parahumans/images/b/b7/Taylor_hebert_by_YunYunHakusho.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20200914181936 Close-up] of Taylor pic.</ref> She was approximately 5'8 at the story's outset,<ref name="SB532"/> but grew to 5'9 at the time of her Wards physical,<ref name="25.1 e2"/> and then later 5'10.<ref name="26.2"/>

Taylor didn't wear clothes that showed skin, or bright colors. Emma presumed this was an unconscious effort to blend in or hide.<ref name="19.ze1">Taylor kneeled in the middle of a massive puddle of juices and sodas, some of it still fizzing around her.  She was drenched, head to toe, trickles still running off of the lengths of her hair.  Her style of dress had changed over the past little while, in ways Taylor probably wasn’t fully aware of.  She wore darker clothes now, cloaked herself in sweatshirts and loose fitting jeans.  Her long hair was a shield, a barrier around her face.  All measures to hide, signals and gestures of defeat.<br><br>More than that, she’d changed in behavior, had stopped fighting back. She’d stopped reacting, for the most part.  Her expression was impassive.  It took some of the fun out of it.  It was almost disappointing. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/03/19/interlude-19/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 19.z]]</ref> [[Lisa Wilbourn]] came to a similar conclusion.<ref>Your personality is reflected in your fashion choices.  Muted colors.  Brown, gray, black, white.  If you are wearing something with color to it, you’re wearing it under a sweatshirt, sweater or jacket.  Never anything that would stand out.  Never showing much skin.  While most people our age are picking clothes with the intention of defining an identity for themselves, fitting into a clique, you’re focused on staying out of sight and not attracting attention.  You’re being too cautious, overthinking things you don’t need to, always making the call to play it safe. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/shell-4-2/ Excerpt] from [[Shell 4.2]]</ref> At various times, she wore a brown hooded sweatshirt over a green t-shirt.<ref name="1.1"/>

As time went on and under the influence of [[Lisa Wilbourn]], she began to vary her wardrobe more. Learning to vary her appearance to blend into situations. She also grew taller and gained some muscle from her training regime and activities as a parahuman.<ref name="19.ze2">The casual display of emotion was startling.  It was equally startling when, in the moment Emma’s dad slowed the car down, Taylor’s head turned, her eyes falling on them, her head and upper body turning to follow them as they passed.<br><br>She didn’t even resemble the person Emma had known way back then, not the girl who’d approached her house after coming back from camp, and not the girl who’d been drenched in juice.  The lines of her cheekbones and chin were more defined, her skin baked to a light tan by the sun, her long black curls grown a touch wild by long exposure to wind.  Light muscles stood out on her arms as she held a box, her dad standing back to direct.<br><br>Even her clothes.  She wasn’t hiding under a hood and long sleeves.  A trace of her stomach was exposed between the bottom of her yellow tank top and the top of her jeans.  The frayed cuffs were rolled up at the bottom, around new running shoes, and neither Taylor nor her dad seemed to be paying any attention to the knife that was sheathed at her back. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/03/19/interlude-19/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 19.z]]</ref> The fact that she didn't need to turn her head to look at things gave her a false appearance of extreme confidence.<ref>She wasn’t in costume.  It was odd, seeing her approach from a distance, observing her uninterrupted over a longer span of time.  She conveyed an eerie kind of confidence that he knew she didn’t have at her core.  Some of that was how she unflinchingly looked forward.  She didn’t react as the wind blew her hair across her face, didn’t turn to look around the street as she crossed an intersection.<br><br>He might have to say something about that.  If that was her using her power to assess her surroundings and keep an eye out for trouble, she should avoid doing it when she was in civilian wear.<br><br>She stopped a short distance away, holding grocery bags in one hand and tucking her hair back into place with the other.  She wore a black tank top, jeans and rubber boots, with a sweatshirt tied around her waist.  That last article of clothing would be to conceal weapons, he guessed.  Her glasses caught the light from the sun to the west, turning almost opaque in the glare as she looked his way. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/10/25 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 15.y]]</ref>
===Parahuman Identity===
<tabber>As Skitter=
[[File:Skitter by ariirf.jpg|thumb|<center>Image by [https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/cx31ed/fanart_i_painted_skitter_hope_you_like_it/ Ariirf]</center>]]

As Skitter, Taylor wore various costumes made of spider silk.

Initially, she wears a black-and-grey spider silk bodysuit with armor panels made out of insect shells and exoskeletons augmented with more spider silk. <ref name="1.2"/> She dyes it black with grey paneling before she goes out.<ref name="1.3"/>

The yellow lenses of her mask are durable, high-end swim goggles tinted to help filter out bright lights, with lenses from an old pair of her glasses sealed inside with silicon.<ref name="8.5">[[Extermination 8.5]]</ref> Her mask leaves the back of her head uncovered and her hair free to fly behind her.<ref name="5.10">[[Hive 5.10]]</ref>

The costume lacks the full extent of the armor paneling she planned, including protection for the back of her head, but the armor covers her face, chest, spine, stomach and major joints (including wrists, shoulders, elbows and knees).<ref name="1.3"/> Each had "layers" resembling a pillbug.<ref>Alas, I’m not a talented artist, or I’d be able to sketch out the armor in proper. I’ve got two pieces of work that I’ve yet to sit down and finish; one being a sketch of her armor, as she might have drawn it in her notebook (see arc 1, chapter 2) and the other being a drawing of Taylor herself, which stalled because I can’t draw hair in a way that satisfies me. I may get it done if I find a good reference image that I can build off of, as well as the mood to draw at a time to actually do said drawing.<br><br>But yeah. Keep in mind that her armor features that spade shaped compartment over her back – sort of like a beetle shell, about the size of a small backpack. There’s also shoulderpads, elbow pads, wristguards, chestguard, kneepads, etc. Each having layers in the style of insect chitin (pillbug, etc), that adds to the bulk (and internal capacity, as it happens), without making it too ‘loose’.<br><br>As I think on it, though, it is a rather high number. If I recall, it was a placeholder I put in there while I didn’t have access to the web or a library for research, and I never thought to change it while doing sweeps of edits & whatnot to the subsequent drafts. I’ll change that. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/tangle-6-6/#comment-617 Comment by Wildbow on] [[Tangle 6.6]]</ref> The mask design features dull yellow lenses and sections of armor designed to imitate a bug’s mandibles.<ref name="1.4"/><ref name="Cast2">'''Taylor Hebert, Skitter'''– A 16 year old native of Brockton Bay, Taylor gained the power to control arthropods and other simple lifeforms, sensing what they sense to varying degrees.  With a wide range (spanning nine to fifteen hundred feet around her) and the power to individually control each insect, she relies on versatility and strategic thinking to seize the advantage in battle.Her powers manifested in January 2011, triggered by a bullying campaign by her former best friend and two other girls.  She found a measure of escape with her dream of becoming a superhero, but things didn’t quite work out that way.  She’s now one of the controlling powers in Brockton Bay, a villain warlord in charge of the Boardwalk, with a small contingent of followers working under her, and leader of the Undersiders.<br>.<br>In civilian guise, she’s skinny to the point of being scrawny, with glasses and long curly hair she maintains as a desperate grasp at a single feminine feature.  Her gawky or nerdy appearance is marked by a wide mouth and large eyes.<br>.<br>As Skitter, she wears a costume of black spider silk and gray armor panels, a yellow-lensed mask that features a mandible-esque design around her jaw.  Her hair blows free.  Depending on the situation and the state of her costume, she occasionally wears a skirt or shawl of black spider silk with ragged or torn edges, for protection, concealment, and to offer more surface area for her bugs to crawl on.  When battle ready, bugs crawl over every surface of her costume, including her hair and mask.  The carapace-like panel of armor at her back serves as a utility compartment, holding her weapons and various items. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/cast-spoiler-free/cast/ Cast (in depth)]</ref>

She kept her costume clean by having bugs eat and clean any waste and wiping it down with a cloth.<ref name="6.6c1">Easy peasy. There’s bugs that eat and clean the waste of other bugs (pillbugs, for example) and she can suppress or time their need to create the waste in the first place (at least for the, say, pillbugs, who would therefore not be making mess as they clean it up).<br><br>As the armor’s mostly waterproof (see chapter where she mentions trying to give Newter first aid, for this), all she’d need is a wipe-down with a wet cloth and some pillbug attention. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/tangle-6-6/#comment-620 Comment by Wildbow] on [[Tangle 6.6]]</ref>

The spider-silk fabric is too tough to cut with an x-acto knife, although it can be slowly cut through using wire cutters.<ref name="1.2"/> It was mostly waterproof.<ref name="6.6c1"/> Prior to dying, the costume's prototype had fabric that was a dirty yellow-gray color, and the armor was naturally a dark mottled brown-gray.<ref name="1.2"/>

Taylor has a detachable<ref>I reached over my shoulder, slowly, and unbuckled my utility compartment.  Tattletale grabbed it for me as it came free, and the straps fed out through the rings beneath the shoulder panels.  She handed it to me, and I drove away the bugs I’d gathered inside.  When they were gone, I sent away the bugs that were nestled in the midst of my hair, beneath each of my other armor panels and the ‘skirt’ of my armor, where it covered the scorched leggings of my costume. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/01/26/queen-18-3/ Excerpt] from [[Queen 18.3]]</ref> '''utility compartment''' for storing necessary items, weapons, and insects in the shape of a spade-shaped armor panel that covers her back.<ref name="1.4">[[Gestation 1.4]]</ref> Taylor's backpack contains "a set of EpiPens, a pen and notepad, a tube of pepper spray meant to hang off a key chain and a zippered pouch of chalk dust."<ref name="1.4"/> In [[Queen 18.3]], [[Miss Militia]] takes a look at the contents and sees: A handgun ([[Trickster|Trickster's]] spare), a length of spider silk fashioned into a long cord, pepper spray, a change purse, containing cotton swabs (to muffle the noise), needles, smelling salts, and change, a collapsible baton, and a combat knife (sturdy enough to be used as a crowbar if needed).

When her costume was damaged fighting the [[Nine]], she added a makeshift silk skirt<ref>My bugs had finished connecting the tattered pieces of fabric.  It wasn't pretty, but a few tugs to test it showed it was as sturdy as anything I'd made.  I draped it over my lap.  Until my legs healed, I'd be wearing my new costume for my upper body, with the tattered cloth as a skirt to protect my burned legs. - [[Snare 13.6]]</ref><ref>I was wearing only my old costume and the built-in makeshift skirt to cover me where the fire had eaten away at the leggings. - [[Monarch 16.13]] </ref> and a cape/shawl.<ref>I was put in mind of the moment I donned my costume, of being Skitter the Warlord, with her half-cape, half-shawl.  There had been a kind of power to the gesture, to draping myself in the cloth and assuming the title and the role. - [[Speck 30.3]]</ref><ref>She wasn't in costume, but her glower was intense enough that she might as well have been in her full garb as Skitter, complete with shawl, skirt and the carpet of insects crawling on her. - [[Interlude 24.y]]</ref><ref>Skitter sat at the end, backed by her forces, looking over the room.  Bugs swarmed her from the shoulders down, but Accord could note a shawl and hints of protective armor. - [[Interlude 20.y]]</ref><ref>I draped the shawl-cape over my armored shoulders, and then covered it in bugs. - [[Chrysalis 20.1]]</ref>

After the events of Echidna she partially redesigned her armor, replacing worn parts and changing its aesthetic to have the armor panels be more convex, and generally sharper defined.<ref>Some of my mask, the back compartment of my armor and my gloves were more streamlined.  Or less streamlined, depending on how one looked at it.  Sharper lines, convex armor panels that flared out more, gloves with more edges for delivering damage if I had to get in a hand to hand fight.<br><br>I’d only done some of the armor, pieces of my costume that were already battered and worn.  My gloves, my mask and the back compartment of my armor tended to take the most abuse.  I’d update the rest later. - [[Imago 21.1]]</ref> Among the changes are the addition of clawed fingertips.<ref>The core costume was the same, but the details, the features… clawed fingertips of Skitter or the extra armor of Weaver’s, with a spare coil of silk hidden beneath an armor panel at the back of the hand? - [[Extinction 27.4]]</ref>
|-|As Weaver=

She first wears a generic version of her costume created by Dragon, which lacks the armor of her earlier costume simply being a light grey bodysuit with cleaner, slim dark grey armor panels. The mantle around her shoulders and the cloth hanging from her belt are marked in electric blue with her personal gang emblem (a beetle facing downwards) in miniature at each corner, flipped upside down so that it faces upward.<ref name="22.6"/>

When she deployed against Behemoth in [[New Delhi]], she temporarily re-used her old Skitter costume so she would have proper protection.<ref name="23.5">[[Drone 23.5]]</ref> as she hadn't had the time to make a new costume yet.<ref>“You’re wearing your old costume,” Grue said, finally.<br><br>“Haven’t had a chance to make a new one,” I said. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/04/drone-23-5/ Excerpt] from [[Drone 23.5]]</ref> [[Colin Wallis|Defiant]] also equipped her with a flight pack which she would use for the rest of her career, replacing her utility compartment. The flight pack has antigravity wings resembling dragonfly wings which fold at the joints, antigravity panels on the bottom and sides, and mechanical arms. There are controls hidden in her gloves, as well as redundant control systems inside operated by bugs.<ref name="23.5">[[Drone 23.5]]</ref>

After [[The Timeskip]] Weaver was properly outfitted with a heroically themed costume. It had more armor in comparison to her Skitter costume, with a coil of silk hidden beneath an armor panel at the back of the hand.<ref name="27.4">[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/22 Excerpt] from [[Extinction 27.4]]</ref>
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Wildbow had her down in his notes as 5’8″ (175 cm), 125 lbs (56 kg) during her stay in prison.<ref>In my notes, I had her down at 5’8″ (178 cm), 125 lbs (56 kg). Pretty close! - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/25/drone-23-1/#comment-24568 Comment by Wildbow on Drone 23.1]</ref> According to her Wards physical, she was five feet and nine inches tall.<ref name="25.1 e2">[[Scarab 25.1]]</ref> She later described herself as a hundred and thirty pounds and 5'10".<ref name="26.2">[[Sting 26.2]]</ref>

After the start of [[Gold Morning]], she began wearing a black bodysuit again, with white armor panels and lenses. She carried mostly symbolic weapons - a handgun, taser, and pepper spray - and kept her flight pack.<ref name="27.4"/>

Later, she was given a [[nano-thorn]] knife by [[Colin Wallis|Defiant]], which she carried in a knife holster.<ref>The knife won’t degrade too much in the next day,” Dragon said.  “And we have spares, thanks to Masamune.”<br><br>“You didn’t make this much of a fuss with my flight pack,” I said.<br><br>“I included documentation,” Defiant said.<br><br>“Thank you,” I said.  I found the holster for my old knife, then put it through the belt at my back, holstering the new knife. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/venom-29-3/ Excerpt] from [[Venom 29.3]]</ref>

|-|As Khepri =
[[File:Khepri by Superwhitey.png|thumb|left|130px|Khepri by Superwhity]]

Recovering from the [[Oil-rig battle]] Taylor wears a black bodysuit with white armor panels and lenses.<ref name="27.4"/> As Khepri she is missing her right arm, and appears to not be able to control her body very well. Throughout the fight with Scion, she usually had [[Doormaker]] and [[Clairvoyant]] attached to her, though when Doormaker ran out of energy for his power, she left him behind.

The name of Khepri was first seen when Contessa refers to Taylor as such, after the fight with Scion has concluded. <ref name="30.7">[[Speck 30.7]]</ref>
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