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| | wildbow apparently brought up these [https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/4gft4i/whose_line_is_it_no_one_else_posted_it_yet_edition/d2h79cw guys before]. [http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Sovereign_citizen Sovereign Citizens] taking the names from [http://pdsh.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Patriotic_Characters old patriotic superheroes], I wonder if they know anything about the [http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=1234 flag code] |
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| ===Taylor Anne Hebert=== | | ===Taylor Anne Hebert=== |
| [1], is the main character of Worm. Her surname is pronounced "Hee-bert"[2]. | | [1], is the main character of Worm. Her surname is pronounced "Hee-bert"[2 |
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| Taylor was a tall, rail-thin, young woman with long, curly black hair and glasses. She had a thin-lipped, wide, expressive mouth she inherited from her mother, and her large eyes and gawky figure made her look a lot like her dad[3][4]. She was approximately 5'6" at the story's outset[5]
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| She had long, dark curly hair[3], which she described as her "only feminine feature."[3] Emma described it as "long black curls"[6] Taylor didn't wear clothes that showed skin, or bright colors[3]. At various times, she wore a brown hooded sweatshirt over a green t-shirt[3].
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| Parahuman Identity
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| As Skitter
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| As Skitter, Taylor wears a black-and-grey spider silk bodysuit with armor panels made out of insect shells and exoskeletons augmented with more spider silk. Her mask has sections of armor imitating mandibles that covers her jaw and dull yellow lenses that incorporate lenses from a spare pair of her glasses. Her mask leaves the back of her head uncovered and her hair free to fly behind her.
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| As Weaver
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| As Weaver, Taylor uses a flight pack developed and maintained by Defiant. She wears a generic version of her costume created by Dragon, which lacks the armor of her earlier costume, and sometimes wears her old silk costume for added protection. Her costume is light grey bodysuit with cleaner, slim dark grey armor panels. The mantle around her shoulders and the cloth hanging from her belt are marked in electric blue with the Undersiders' emblem (a beetle facing downwards) in miniature at each corner, flipped upside down so that they face upward. [7]
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| Wildbow had her down in his notes as 5’8″ (178 cm), 125 lbs (56 kg) during her stay in prison[8]. According to her Wards physical, she was five feet and nine inches tall[9]. She later described herself as a hundred and thirty pounds and 5'10"[10]
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| Taylor wears a spider-silk version of her Weaver costume. After it's partially destroyed during the oil-rig battle, she wears a costume that combines elements of several provisional costumes she had created in different color schemes.
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| As Khepri
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| As Khepri, Taylor wears a black bodysuit with white armor panels and lenses[citation needed]. She is missing an arm, and appears to not be able to control her body very well. Throughout the fight with Scion, she usually had Doormaker and Clairvoyant attached to her, though when Doormaker ran out of energy for his power, she left him behind.
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| Personality
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| Taylor is initially a shy and awkward girl with a keen interest in capes. She looked forward to the part of her World Issues class where they discussed capes "since the start of the semester".[3] She had seemingly never heard of Trigger Events, but this may have been a mistake by the author.[11]
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| "I didn’t follow that stuff, didn’t buy into the hero worship. I’d always found the capes interesting, I’d followed the non-gossipy news about them, but with the exception of a phase around the time I was nine where I’d had an Alexandria t-shirt and had my mom help me find pictures of her online, I had never really got giddy over any particular hero." - Tangle 6.7
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| She was "'surviving', for lack of a better word," from the point her mother died, and then surviving from the point she started getting bullied -- she just wanted to get by. She responded to stress with silence and withdrawal. [12][4] She suspected that she would hurt herself before she hurt the Trio[13]. However, Wildbow has stated that if she hadn't triggered, Taylor would likely have simply stopped going to school[14].
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| Taylor considered joining the Wards, but felt that "the notion of escaping the stresses of high school by flinging myself into a mess of teenage drama, adult oversight and schedules seemed self-defeating."[15] She had no trust in organized institutions, and felt happier having some independence and control[16].
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| Over the course of the story she becomes smart and ruthless, arguably due to the influence of her Queen Administrator shard and her career as a supervillain.
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| Taylor had a strained relationship with the students of Winslow High. Because she was bullied extensively by "other girls and a small handful of boys" with the "trio" - Madison Clements, Sophia Hess, and Emma Barnes[3] acting as the ringleaders, she was reluctant to make friends and believed that boys didn't like her[3]. She speculates that the few boys that took seeking approval from three of the prettier and more popular girls[3]. Taylor disliked Mr. Gladly viewing him as one of the ‘popular kids' who had become a teacher.[3] Mrs. Knott, who taught Computer sciences was Taylor's favourite teacher.[citation needed]
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| Taylor's Bullies
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| Madison Clements, Sophia Hess, and Emma Barnes - the trio of students responsible for bullying Taylor. Emma was Taylor's best friend from first grade to middle school, the two girls stayed at each other's houses every weekend.[13] Upon entering high school, Emma suddenly abandoned her for Sophia and Madison. The three then tormented her - Sophia physically, Madison superficially and Emma emotionally. Because Emma knew some of Taylor's psychologically weaknesses, such the death of Mrs.Hubert, she was the only one able to really hurt Taylor.
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| Taylor resisted attacking the trio with her powers, no matter how much she wanted to[3]. She considered the thought of her father's disappointment on seeing that she had attacked the Trio "daunting" but less than her anger and frustration with them. Emma Barnes' parents blame Taylor for their daughter's death.
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| Taylor is close to Golem, serving as something of a mentor figure. She also spends a large amount of her time with Chicago wards but is considered not to be as close with them as she is with the Undersiders. Taylor was a big fan of Alexandria. She used to wear Armsmaster-themed underwear as a kid.[citation needed]
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| The impact she has on the events of the fight while in this state is large enough to warrant her being referred to simply as her in the aftermath.
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| As Weaver, Taylor visits Ms. Yamada for therapy. The Public start to see weaver as a hero following the Behemoth battle.
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| After recovering from her injuries during the oil-rig battle, Taylor collects a team of parahumans with a semi-rotating membership from capes she had known in the past. This group includes Lung, Tattletale, Shadow Stalker, Cuff, Tecton, and Canary at different points.
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| Taylor was rated by PRT analysts as a Master 5[17], which was later upgraded to an 8[18]. A rating of Thinker-1 was added when Emily Piggot deduced she could see through her bugs in a limited fashion[18]. Piggot suggested that this should be upgraded when Taylor admitted she came up with the plan to raid the PRT to stop Dragon. It later was. Even later, Director Tagg ordered her rating to increase by two in every category, trying to make sure his soldiers didn't underestimate her.
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| Taylor's ability is a form of telepathy[19] that grants her control over most invertebrates. Her power doesn't work on creatures below a certain size[20]. At different times, she speculated that she could control anything with an exoskeleton or shell -- which wouldn't explain how she could control earthworms -- and that it was based on brain size[21]. Her power does not affect squid. It's possible that she could control bug-like Case 53s, depending on their brain makeup & chemistry[22].
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| She can give general instructions, in which case she is only vaguely aware of their movements, or guide individual insects through complex tasks, in which case she is more precisely aware of their movements and environment[23].
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| Skitter's power gives her total control over insects[24]. She can make her subjects do things that they would not normally do[25], such as walk into fire[citation needed], produce so much web silk that they physically couldn't produce any more[26] or stinging while injecting little[27] to no venom[28]. She doesn't require "organized" insects. Once she stops controlling them, her bugs revert to their normal behavior patterns[24].
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| Taylor has an almost limitless ability to focus on multiple insects at once, or to focus on other things while also using her insects[29]. However, she could be distracted by the difficulty of focusing on her insects' senses[30], and by Panacea's modified insects providing contradictory signals[29].
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| The sensory input from her bugs is "fuzzy" and difficult for humans to interpret[23][31]. She can sporadically hear and see clearly, but the "signal quality" is unreliable[31]. Practicing doesn't seem to produce results[30]. However, over time, Taylor does in fact learn to sense through her bugs increasingly clearly[citation needed].
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| Based on the combined sensory input of large numbers of insects, Taylor can gain a very clear mental picture of whatever they're interacting with[23]. She can also sense the biology and location[19] of every bug she can control[32]. This gives her enhanced aim[33] and the ability to dodge attacks with supernatural reaction times[citation needed]. However, in environments where bugs are scarce, or when dealing with materials that they don't interact with well, her image of the area can become less reliable[citation needed].
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| Taylor has a limited range. During periods of stress, it would increase, but the increases weren't permanent[34]. Nevertheless, her range did slowly increase over time Chrysalis 20.5, eventually reaching over six and a half blocks. Chrysalis 20.5.
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| In addition, 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[35], mask her movements, and clear out rat infestations. She can disguise or project her voice by having her insects buzz and chirp together[36].
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| Her shard originally went to her father before jumping to the more suitable host. Had Taylor's father experienced a more stressful life, it's possible that he could have triggered with rat powers[37][38].
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| Taylor had an unusually high pain tolerance, which she blamed on her exposure to a pain-bomb of Bakuda's[39].
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| She was trained in hand-to-hand combat by Grue[citation needed].
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| Taylor has a white and black speckled hardcover notebook containing notes and plans for her hero career. It contains "some two hundred pages of detailed writing " -- "testing and training I’d done with my powers, pages of crossed out name ideas, even the measurements I was using for my costume in progress." It's written in "a simple cipher", bottom to top. The notebook is soaked through when one of the Trio pours grape juice into the top of Taylor's backpack.[13]
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| She hides a gym bag filled with useful tools for her future superhero career behind a panel in the coal chute in her basement, including her partly-finished costume[13]. The stored gear consists of a set of EpiPens, a pen and notepad, a tube of pepper spray meant to hang off a key chain and a zippered pouch of chalk dust, which she takes out on her first night in costume[41]. She purchases lenses for her mask at the same time as the chalk dust[17].
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| As Skitter, Taylor wore various costumes made of spider silk.
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| Before painting, her incomplete costume's fabric was a dirty yellow-gray, and the armour was colored dark mottled brown-gray[13]. She dyes it black with grey panelling before she goes out[42]. The armored sections are made from of finely arranged and layered shells and exoskeletons cannibalized from the local insect population and then reinforced with dragline silk.
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| The spider-silk fabric is too tough to cut with an x-acto knife, although it can be slowly cut through using wire cutters[13]. The costume lacks the full extent of the armor paneling she planned, including protection for the back of her head, but the armor covers her face, chest, spine, stomach and major joints[42]. The mask design features dull yellow lenses and sections of armor designed to imitate a bug’s mandibles.
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| The lenses of her mask are actually durable, high-end swim goggles tinted to help filter out bright lights, with lenses from an old pair of her glasses sealed inside with silicon[17].
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| Taylor has a utility compartment for storing necessary items, weapons, and insects in the spade-shaped armor panel that covers her back[41].
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| In 1.4, Taylor's backpack contains "a set of EpiPens, a pen and notepad, a tube of pepper spray meant to hang off a key chain and a zippered pouch of chalk dust."[41]
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| In 18.3, Miss Militia takes a look at the contents and sees:
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| A handgun (Trickster's spare).
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| A changepurse, containing cotton swabs (to muffle the noise), needles, smelling salts, and change.
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| Taylor is an exceptionally accomplished martial artist; her enhanced senses enable her to react to events faster than she should be able to. She can easily defeat even many powered opponents hand-to-hand.
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| She is noted for being cold and ruthless by many characters.
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| She resolves not to focus overmuch on her identity as Skitter or Weaver, but to try and combine the strengths of both as Taylor.
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| At one point, Taylor is able to distract Scion underwater by forming simulated bodies out of sea creatures. Again showing her ability to control animal life with simple nervous systems.
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| She chokes Softball for an extended period, keeping him incapacitated with coughing but not killing him[43].
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| Glaistig Uaine calls Taylor "Queen Administrator"[44], queen being one of the regal titles that Glaistig Uaine uses for those with powerful and fully developed shards[45], which became a popular fan nickname for the power. In Scion's Interlude it is implied, but not explicitly stated, that Taylor's power was originally used to determine and rearrange the configuration of shards within an Entity, and it is referred to as "the administrator shard". It specializes in coordinating control over large numbers of smaller lifeforms[38].
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| As Khepri. In the losing struggle against Scion, Taylor felt like her own power was worthless. She approached Panacea and Bonesaw, asking for a power modification via her Corona Pollentia. Panacea was able to modify her power, but at the cost of Taylor's control over her own body and speech, and a gradually deteriorating mind.
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| After Panacea removed the restrictions on her power during Scion's rampage, Taylor's range and fine control are cut and her power increases to affect every animal, including humans, within sixteen feet of herself. She then gained control of the Doormaker and uses his portals to extend her range, eventually controlling about five thousand capes at once and using their powers in concert.[46] She also gains control of the Clairvoyant, which, combined with Taylor's multitasking abilities, gave effectively gave her a view over the entire battlefield, regardless of different dimensions.
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| She wears the flight pack given to her by Defiant and for long-distance transport flies a small craft she calls the Dragonfly. At times, she also carries nanothorn-enhanced knives of his design, as well as regular knives.
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| She carries dispensers at her belt filled with silk thread.[43]
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| 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.[42].
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| 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.
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| A year and a half before the story begins, just before they enter high school[3], Emma unexpectedly abandons Taylor to befriend Sophia Hess and Madison Clements. The trio then began aggressively bullying Taylor, including one event in early January[47] 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[3]. 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."[3]
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| Three months before the story begins -- once Taylor recovered from her trigger event -- she started to prepare herself to become a hero[13]. She exercised, honed her abilities, doing research and preparing her costume. Her training schedule consisted of running every morning and every other afternoon[42]. She resisted using her power in school for three months, restricting it to a faint buzzing sound at the edge of her consciousness[3]. She conducted practice sessions, "far from prying eyes", to determine the extent of her power[3].
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| 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 shute in her basement[13].
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| On April 8th, 2011[47], Taylor was discovered in the bathroom, ruining her hiding place. The Trio drenches her clothes and bag in juice. She then throws her bag against the wall in anger, her midterm project -- due that day -- is destroyed. She finally lets her defenses drop and is automatically swarmed with bugs responding to her emotional distress, but she resists killing the trio.[3]
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| At home, Taylor discovers the juice also ruined many of the contents of her bag, including notes on her eventual superhero career. This event pushes Taylor to stop putting off the start of said career[13]. That weekend Taylor completes her costume and on Sunday night goes out in costume for the first time, crossing into the "bad part of town" just after midnight[42].
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| On that first night out, Taylor notices a group of ABB members, including Lung (who she recognizes immediately from the news and online). She hears them discussing killing "children"[42]. She fights Lung alongside the Undersiders.
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| Taylor spends the timeskip as a member of the Chicago Wards, training Golem, and participating in many Endbringer fights.
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| (To Lung): "Don't underestimate me."
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| (To Triumph): "Sorry. I didn't want this to go this far."
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| (To Doctor Mother): "I know what that's like, I've walked down that road. Maybe not so ugly a road, but I've gone that route. All the way along, I told myself it sucked, but I wouldn't do it differently. I did everything I did for a reason. Except now, having reached the point I was working towards, I finally do regret it all. The last two years, the way I treated my teammates, leaving the Undersiders... I'd change it all in a heartbeat."[48]
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| (To Tecton): “Being good or bad was never a thing for me. Not really. It was all about the actions I was taking and why."
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| Taylor likely triggered Monday the third of January 2011 as it was described as the first day of school in the new year.
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| "Khepri" is a god in ancient Egyptian religion connected with the scarab beetle, because the scarab rolls balls of dung across the ground, an act that the Egyptians saw as a symbol of the forces that move the sun across the sky.-->
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leader
when and if i ever have think of playing weaver dice
Funny Guy-Dr.Mindbubble/prof.Dumbledore as grandparent, to get the joke look through the kingdoms that science classifies life.
grandparent develops prosopagnosia due to his thinker/tinker Accord-like powers
psilocybin "magic" mushrooms "psilocybe cubensis"
Improve eyesight temporarily, but what if your body can be thought to replicate the effect?
Talk about how the entities chose a world that did not focus on looking inward, on brain development. New studies point to modified placebo effect replicating some medications
Mycelium Running: How mushrooms can help save the world by Paul Stamets
Food of the gods? A lecture
able to make people remember trigger events if he gets to them quick enough
https://m.mic.com/articles/14276/magic-mushrooms-how-they-played-a-crucial-role-in-the-evolution-of-human-consciousness#.K6UeQ18Sy
http://www.vox.com/2016/6/27/11544250/psychedelic-drugs-lsd-psilocybin-effects
https://drugs-forum.com/forum/showwiki.php?title=Stoned_Ape_Hypothesis&redirect=no
http://brainblogger.com/2016/06/22/magic-mushrooms-for-mental-health/
Last of us
Highly re-engineered version of Cordyceps or similar, fast acting enough to overcome the human immune system, you know the game I reference. Cordyceps actually
has its own parasite
Cordyceps also seen in medicine but so far I am just seeing stuff that looks like scams.
the voice in the night inspiration for Motango and others.
Aspergillus niger and various species of genus Stachybotrys A damaging house mold
anti-rejection drug Neoral.
Early worm drafts mention something called the Rhizome, i am that a mushroom tinker could make such a thing
the muscle
Entelechy the Dividual
Ellis's midnighter/Morrison's Fantomax/Cassandra Cain/Marvel's Echo, taskmaster, and Finesse
Myostatin-Related Muscle Hypertrophy
dense bones
healing
secondary/combat nervous system the tertiary for emergencies
a Trumps Trump
scary lady
Questions that guided creation of this character:
Why are there some people in worm who think
stuff capes can do is magic? Are they able to point to specific examples?
&
What type of charecter would people like Sarah, Taylor, and maybe even Jacob, legitimately fear meeting?
Now after that fun mission statement let's see how badly I can fail! Cape with peterecognition (past sight) that can reconstruct a dead persons personality well enough to use them for advice and insight. No secret is safe.
First some interesting ideas on Tulpa's, likly has an upward limit (three pops up a lot in religion) that this women can construct before resources are strained. Likely able to do more with a second trigger.
Exclusively focused on people? Could it be used to see what happened over and area over a given time, or is that to powerful.
Mechanism: cloudy indistinct "force-fields" nothing straight and neat but able to use it for sensory input, unrestricted by sight. Thus could stand over grave use this field to enclose necessary amount of corpse and start the modeling
the transport
How twisted can humans become
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Carrier
Authority Carrier]/Neth/the girl who was a building seen in Franken Fran
Roughly the size of a highschool gym, ever seen the statistics of how far your digestive track circulatory system and nervous system can stretch?
probably can absorb and digest lifeforms and use abilities parahumans it has 'eaten'
other stuff
minimalism is alive and well
look up Olympian Erin Aldrich and why weaver looks like her.
Look up the Bogatyri they were used for story by [http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Bogatyri_(Earth-616)
marvel] so there may be complications.
combine or do something with these two
http://worm.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Case_53s
http://worm.wikia.com/wiki/Case_53
villain ideas
wildbow apparently brought up these guys before. Sovereign Citizens taking the names from old patriotic superheroes, I wonder if they know anything about the flag code
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===Taylor Anne Hebert===
[1], is the main character of Worm. Her surname is pronounced "Hee-bert"[2
work out somethin