Editing Brian Laborn (section)

====[[Taylor Hebert]]====
Grue initially reacts to Taylor’s advances on him with the response that he thinks of her more as a little sister.<ref>"It’s… more like you’re my sister," - [[Buzz 7.6]]</ref> He had not had many relationships with unrelated women given his upbringing with his father.

However, following Grue’s second trigger, they had a brief romance. The author described theirs as a "failed relationship".<ref name="SBR">Relationships & a struggle with relationships & the impossible task of balancing relationships with the monumental goals she's set for herself are a thing in Taylor's story. Look at how she develops as a character, the failure in her relationship with Brian, with teammates and friends, having to find her own way of bonding & holding on to incomplete bonds. With Brian, especially, it sort of breaks from the norm in terms of how protagonists of YA works typically find their love and live happily or unhappily ever after. The break from that pattern & everything it entailed, awkward and all the rest, making peace with something imperfect and incomplete, ties into what Worm is about, in an abstract sense. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/12857031/ Comment by Wildbow on Spacebattles]</ref>