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===Emotions=== Taylor would sometimes use her bugs to "channel" her emotions and body language, lending her an "aura of indomitable calm".<ref name="27.3e1">I was using my bugs to channel my feelings, even with my concerns about my passenger and how it might be merging with me. I was wearing that aura of indomitable calm, even though I wasn't sure I liked the Taylor of this past year and a half, who had been doing just that as a matter of both habit and necessity. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/20/extinction-27-3/ Excerpt] from [[Extinction 27.3]]</ref> This ability gives her a partial Anti-Thinker resistance, even against powerful Thinkers like Alexandria, Tattletale and Jack Slash, or Emotion-readers like Cherish. This can be seen with [[Cell 22.4|Alexandria's interrogation]], when Taylor was able to attack Alexandria off-guard as the latter was not prepared because Taylor had offloaded all of her emotional and social cues into her bugs and thus appeared calmer than she truly was.<ref>Wildbow - Had Taylor broken, raged out, in the sense of chapter one, they would have had a scapegoat for everything that happened in Brockton Bay. She could have tapped Cauldron resources and been on the alert. But Taylor offloaded all cues to her shard. She appeared far calmer and more subdued than she was, Alexandria calibrated her approach with this in mind, and things tilted off differently.<br>Wildbow - Taylor was absolutely not a killer at that stage, unless she had a reasonable target, and Alexandria presented herself as that target. Alexandria looked at Taylor, talked to her, and saw someone different. All of the profiling and information worked -against- her.- WoG from [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/22604409/ Spacebattles]</ref> [[Colin Wallis|Armsmaster]]'s lie-detector and [[Cherish]]'s power also had partially bad reads on her emotions, even [[Jack Slash]] can get incorrect reads on her. Even those close to her have trouble understanding her at times, even a powerful Thinker like Tattletale.<ref>Armsmaster's lie detector.<br>Cherish gets a partial read on Skitter, but extrapolates wrong. Jack remarks on this on two occasions, especially how (he feels) if the read had been correct, he could have convinced Taylor to kill Battery.<br>Powers set aside, she expresses frustration at people misreading her motivations, especially at the meeting with Accord/Valefor/the Teeth. Virtually everyone around her has trouble grasping what she's doing and why: her dad, Emma (most recent encounter), D&D, Grue, even Tattletale at times. - [https://redd.it/748ujh Partial comment by Wildbow on Reddit]</ref>
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