Editing Taylor Hebert (section)

===Background===
Taylor Anne Hebert was born in June 1995, arguably on the 12th<ref>“It’s the nineteenth,” he said.  “Your birthday was a week ago.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/12/15 Excerpt] from [[Monarch 16.7]]</ref> (i.e., a week before the 19th<ref name="25.1 e1">“Will you state your name for the record?”<br><br>“Taylor Hebert.”<br><br>“Your date of birth?”<br><br>“June nineteenth, 1995.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/29/scarab-25-1/ Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.1]] (this was later redacted by [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/44301909/ WoG])</ref>) or the 11th (i.e., about a week before the 19th and the date Worm [[Gestation 1.1|began]]).<ref>'''Assembler:''' In Monarch 16.9, Danny said that Taylor's birthday was a week before June 19th. However, in Scarab 25.1, Taylor said in court that her birthday was the 19th.<br><br>'''Maroon Sweater:''' I like it being the 12th because i like the beat where she blanked out on turning 16<br><br>'''Assembler:''' I find it interesting that about a week before the 19th is June 11th, and June 11th, 2011 is the day you posted Worm's first chapter.<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' @ Asse - I do believe that was the rationale for it being her birthday. But yeah, it's not the 19th. - Conversation with Wildbow on Discord, archived on Spacebattles</ref><!-- https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/44301909 -->

Growing up, Taylor's parents showed concern for her safety. They warned her to stay on the [[Boardwalk]] and avoided the bad part of town, a command she scrupulously obeyed.<ref name="1.3"/>

When she was around five or six, she saw a meth addict freak out on the bus, making enough of a ruckus that the driver had to stop and force him off. This fright permanently affected her.<ref name="5.8"/>

Her mother, [[Annette Rose Hebert]], died in a car crash later attributed to texting while driving. As a result of the incident, Taylor becomes closed off and rigid. Her previously strong friendship with [[Emma Barnes]] became strained due to this change, but it still served as an emotional pillar.

A year and a half before the story begins, just before they enter high school,<ref name="1.1">[[Gestation 1.1]]</ref> Emma unexpectedly abandoned Taylor to befriend [[Sophia Hess]] and later [[Madison Clements]]. [[The Trio]] then began aggressively bullying Taylor, including one event in early January<ref name="I3c">[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/interlude-3-2/#comment-11512 Comment by Wildbow on Interlude 3]</ref> that causes Taylor to trigger. They send her vicious e-mails, upend trash over her desk, and steal her mother's flute from her locker.<ref name="1.1"/> Others join in, ‘accidentally’ skipping her when passing out assignments and adding their own voices to the taunts and emails.Taylor begins lying low in the bathrooms during lunch and comes to view it as "refuge ... a place I could retreat to, a place where I was off their radar".<ref name="1.1"/>

In January 2011, she arrived back at school to find her locker had been filled with used pads and tampons, and then someone shoved her inside. She triggered after enough time had passed to realise no one who'd seen what happened was trying to help,<ref>[[Shell 4.3]]</ref> and was freed from the locker by or before the end of first period.<ref name="period">Taylor's classes are an hour and a half long, or an hour and fifteen minutes long, IIRC, with a bit of extra time for homeroom announcements and whatnot. She arrives at the start of the day and goes to her locker, she gets shoved into her locker and she has time to get a glimpse of people looking - and enough time passes that she realizes that those same people who saw didn't take any action on her behalf. She's not really in a position to bang, facing in, too cramped to turn around.<br><br>Not so much time passes that the next class starts - or it's as the class opens that people realize what happened and that's when she's let out. - Comment by Wildbow on [https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/9ap0iv/_/e4xkgwp/ Reddit]</ref> While she recovered in hospital she was visited by the PRT in case she had triggered. She was overwhelmed by the sensory input of her power and didn't notice.<ref name="TT">'''Wildbow:''' Generally the PRT will pay visits to likely triggerees - special cases, victims of extraordinary violence or disaster, etc. They paid a visit to Taylor in her hospital room, for example, though nothing came of that.<br><br>[Edit with afterthought: Crisis points, ftr]<br>[...]<br>'''Discreet:''' If she did get visited by a hero, I'd find it odd that she'd never mention it, especially when at one point or another she's fighting them later in the story or stuffing centipedes in their mouth<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' Taylor was near catatonic when she got a visit. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/44301909/ Conversation with Wildbow on Discord], archived on Spacebattles.</ref> Her near catatonic state kept them from drawing any conclusions.

Three months before the story begins -- once Taylor recovered from her trigger event -- she started to prepare herself to become a hero.<ref name="1.2">[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/06/14/gestation-1-2/ Excerpt] from [[Gestation 1.2]]</ref> She exercised, honed her abilities, doing research and preparing her costume. Her training schedule consisted of running every morning and every other afternoon.<ref name="1.3">[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/06/18/gestation-1-3/ Excerpt] from [[Gestation 1.3]]</ref> She resisted using her power in school for three months, restricting it to a faint buzzing sound at the edge of her consciousness.<ref name="1.1"/> She conducted practice sessions, "far from prying eyes", to determine the extent of her power.<ref name="1.1"/>

At some point, her backpack was stolen from her locker by the Trio and stuffed in a trash can. She bought a new one for twelve bucks. This incident alerted her to the risk of someone reading her notes, and she rewrote them in code. Around the same time, she began hiding equipment for her superheroics in a boarded-up coal chute in her basement.<ref name="1.2"/>