Editing Taylor Hebert (section)

===Skills===
Taylor has come up with a multitude of creative uses of her power. For example, she can produce and manipulate large quantities of spider silk, coat her insects in petroleum jelly and capsaicin to use them like pepper spray, deploy groups of bugs to create humanoid figures,<ref>I took a page out of Grue’s playbook and gathered a group of bugs together into a densely packed, vaguely humanoid shape. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/hive-5-6/ Excerpt] from [[Hive 5.6]]</ref><ref name="11.3">[[Infestation 11.3]]</ref> mask her movements, and clear out rat infestations. She was able to catch [[containment foam]] on glass carried by her bugs and stick it to her attackers.<ref name="10.5">[[Parasite 10.5]]</ref> She can disguise or project her voice by having her insects buzz and chirp together.<ref name="9.6c1">Pinkhair:<br>I figured that Taylor did the voice trick to disguise herself, now that she knows that Sophia might possibly recognize her by voice.<br><br>Wildbow:<br>We have a winner. - [http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/04/21/sentinel-9-6/#comment-1786 Comment by Wildbow] on [[Sentinel 9.6]]</ref> Over a two year period she learned how to read braille so that she could read with her bugs.<ref name="26.2 e1">The moment the wind died down, I bid the bugs to shift position, carrying the pages to me, sorting them into the appropriate order.<br><br>I bent down and began collecting the pieces of paper.  I could feel the raised bumps on the pages as I brushed them free of specks of dirt and leaves.  Each set of bumps corresponded with a letter or punctuation mark, which had been printed over the dots in thick, bold, letters.<br><br>I gathered the pages into file folders, then clipped them shut, stacking them on the patio chair.  I made my way to the patio table, bending down to collect the pages as they made their way to me.  The writing on these was different; the letters were drawn in thick, bold strokes, fat, almost as if I’d drawn them in marker.  My notes: thoughts, things that needed clarification, ideas. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/20/sting-26-2/ Excerpt] from [[Sting 26.2]]</ref><ref name="30.2">When the bullying had started, books had been an escape.  I’d be exhausted at the end of the day, feeling a low that counterbalanced the higher adrenaline and stress of the time spent in school.  Curling up with something to read had been a refuge.<br><br>Maybe that had lapsed when I’d become a cape.  The costumed stuff had become an escape of sorts.  But I’d gotten back into it in prison, and on some of the stakeouts.  I’d taught myself braille, so I could read with my bugs, and take in more. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/17/speck-30-2/ Excerpt] from [[Speck 30.2]]</ref>

She even had some tricks she wasn't consciously aware of learning. For example, she would occasionally use her bugs to cover her while she moved without noticing, making her difficult to track.<ref>All around me, PRT employees were howling in pain, their cries silenced by the lack of an audio feed.  Either the camera hadn’t picked it up, or Glenn had muted it.  They thrashed.  One reached for me, for the <em>me</em> on the screen, and I could see how I moved out of the way without even glancing at him.  The swarm concealed me at the same time, briefly obscuring the Skitter in the video from both the man on the ground and the security camera.  When it parted, she had shifted two or three feet to the left.  A simple step to one side in the half-second she couldn’t be seen, but it misled the eyes.<br><br>And I couldn’t remember doing it.  I’d never consciously added the trick to my repertoire. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/drone-23-3/ Excerpt] from [[Drone 23.3]]</ref>

Taylor had an unusually high pain tolerance, which she blamed on [[Bakuda vs. The Undersiders|her exposure]] to a pain-bomb of [[Bakuda]]'s.<ref name="29.9 e1">“Whatever,” Panacea said.  “Works for me, actually.”<br><br>Then she touched me, and the pain went away.  I relaxed so suddenly I felt like I’d suddenly become part liquid.  I’d been so tense my head wasn’t even touching the countertop, my legs and shoulders tense.<br><br>“Thank you,” I said.  “Thanks.”<br><br>
“You have a high pain tolerance,” she said.<br><br>“One of Bakuda’s bombs, way back when,” I said.  “I think it messed with my head, as far as my perception of pain.  I found out what it’s ''really'' like to feel pain, real ten-out-of-ten pain.  A part of me knew it was too much to be true, and other stuff’s affected me more because I knew it was tied with something ''real''.  Case in point, a burn is still a motherfucker.”<br><br>“Well, we’ll fix it,” she said. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/08/venom-29-9/ Excerpt] from [[Venom 29.9]]</ref>

Post-Timeskip, she is an exceptionally accomplished martial artist; her bug-swarm-enhanced senses enable her to react to events faster than a normal human should be able to. She can easily defeat even other experienced parahumans in hand-to-hand combat. The boost to her senses and coordination due to her swarm also allows her exceptional accuracy with firearms. Personality-wise, she is noted to be cold, distant, exceptionally driven, and even ruthless by many characters.<ref>[[Cell 22.2]]</ref>