Editing Taylor Hebert (section)

===Gold Morning===
Taylor's sanity begins to rapidly fracture after her [[Corona pollentia]] was 'de-regulated' by Panacea. Panacea's alterations reduce the range but dramatically increase the power of Taylor's control, at the cost of the 'limiter' on Queen Administrator that prevents Taylor's powers from harming her. The consequences of the loss of the 'limiter' are fundamental. She immediately loses the ability to speak, read, or write and continues to degrade over the course of Gold Morning, eventually losing the ability to understand spoken dialogue.<ref>[[Speck 30.7]]</ref>

Shards have a pre-programmed drive to cause conflict. The loss of the limiters on Taylor's Queen Administrator shard cause this quality of her power to excessively bleed into her personality. She loses the ability to understand basic human emotional cues and bodily language, ultimately interpreting nearly any and all forms of human interaction as fighting or conflict. Driven into near-total insanity by her powers, she resolves to take over the disparate Earths in order to finally have peace, but is convinced to peacefully retreat into a self-imposed exile by several heroes, including Narwhal, Rachel, Imp, Tattletale, and Glastig Ulaine.<ref>[[Speck 30.7]]</ref>

By the end of Gold Morning, the boundaries between Taylor and the Queen Administrator shard have worn thin. Queen Administrator is able to speak and communicate through Taylor, using Taylor's own voice. <ref>“I don’t-” I started.  What had I been saying?<br><br>Not me.  The passenger.  I had to relax.  Allow myself to speak. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/29/30-7/ Excerpt] from [[Speck 30.7]]</ref> [[Contessa]] compares her to other parahumans who have lost control of themselves due to the personality bleed-over from an unleashed shard, such as [[Echidna]], [[Glaistig Uaine]], and the [[Ash Beast]] as examples of parahumans that Taylor now resembles. Taylor has by this point become so degraded that she mainly communicates through the assistance of powers, and needs to exert effort in order to be able to communicate as herself instead of allowing her shard to speak for her.<ref name="30.7"/> 

Taylor ultimately expresses regret for the long chain of decisions she's made, starting from her first meeting with Armsmaster, and culminating in Scion's defeat. At a certain point the losses of friends and the moral compromises became too much, though not even she knows when or where the balance was tipped. Taylor says, in the end, that if she had a way to do it all over again, she would find a way to be a hero differently, a way to do it all better and not pay the prices she was forced to pay.<ref name="30.7">[[Speck 30.7]]</ref>