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The only unrealistic thing about this chapter is that VoidCowboy got suspended for making a joke.
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"Not for her," I interrupt them. "For me. If Teacher betrays us, I'm compromised. She's our backup. I'll delete the recordings and forget all about her. The worst happens, you have to get Ascalon to her and her backers."
Why does evil Taylor not think she is going to get whacked by the older evil Taylor? Or even the 17 looming dooms she has to survive?
Come to think of it, MM is probably not going to take this turn of events well, as she had pretty much latched onto Taylor. (Considering how she was normally a "Orders are orders" kinda gal. )
Wonder if she too comes to the conclusion that Armsy/Dragon were involved in the hitjob.
Poor Meatmaster just can't win. Damned when he's a toaster-fucker and damned when he's not."WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO, YOU FUCKING RETARD?" you scream at him. "DID YOU OPEN PANDORA'S BOX JUST SO YOU COULD STICK YOUR DICK IN IT?"
"But you're-"
"The sort-of dowager empress? A living martyr? The diplomat who prevented a civil war, and the mastermind who took down Coil with zero losses? Oh, and while Mastering me with emptiness endowment you stuffed me full of 'useless' rhetorical ability and administrative skill. Can't imagine why they'd turn to me, with no capes left."
So... the system stood aside while the Nine ran rampant and murdered the E88, then jumped Lady Fenrir in school, put a hit on her which was carried out in gruesome fashion by a black superthug, and the corpse paraded in front of a whole coven of reporters. I want to say race war now, but if I was in Fenrir's Children I'd be thinking more along the lines of innawoods now.One of the members of Bitten - Imp, I think - is dragging the mutilated corpse of a young girl by the leg. The other leg has been severed and shoved into the abdominal cavity, from which bloody intestines trail across the street. The entire lower half of her face is missing, as are her arms.
I skipped this story on SB because it had 'shard' in the title. Once again I regret missing the salt dunes of CrW.At least it's better than the 'fixing the moral failings of this fic' omake that one guy on SB wrote, where Taylor did a mass shooting gunning down everyone in the Empire bar in cold blood (though she spared Rune because she suddenly realized she was bisexual after all, and Rune she'd rather rape).
Some of the salty duners migrated here. Tho they've not been present as of late.I skipped this story on SB because it had 'shard' in the title. Once again I regret missing the salt dunes of CrW.
Oh how nice it would be if this was canon. Go forth. Have some happy freedom you abyssal madness woman.Though she is not happy, she can't help but smile as she gently rests a hand on her stomach.
Her own happiness wasn't the most important thing, was it?
Because shes an Abyssal Exalt.Why does evil Taylor not think she is going to get whacked by the older evil Taylor? Or even the 17 looming dooms she has to survive?
It probably really would be.Is it bad that I kinda wanna follow Good(?) Taylor's adventures now rather than Current Taylor? 51 ill-timed botches is probably going to be less grimderp than Current Taylor's future anyway.
They did in canon didn't they?So... the system stood aside while the Nine ran rampant and murdered the E88, then jumped Lady Fenrir in school, put a hit on her which was carried out in gruesome fashion by a black superthug, and the corpse paraded in front of a whole coven of reporters. I want to say race war now, but if I was in Fenrir's Children I'd be thinking more along the lines of innawoods now.
Wait, what?
Umm anyone have a link to that for haw-haws? In addition to that are there omakes from this story? I must confess I've completely forgotten to look, I've been so entranced by the story itself.
EDIT: just checked. Only three omakes.
Charm Learning Shard (Worm/Exalted) | Page 19 | SpaceBattles
I think, on the powers time thing, as there isn't a hard and fast rule established, the author could well choose to have Taylor start to get Rune's power and Crickets, at the least, without breaking SOD in the slightest. Edit1: Imped by my miserable typing speed as much as the author.
However, pages of complaining about one thing probably isn't very fun for the author, so here's an omakeisation of my complaints!
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They Did Nazi It Coming For Them By Axolotl101
The bar was dimly lit, the tables were crowded, it was a booming Friday night in racist town. Snippets of pseudoscience and inspired and original political opinions filled the air, along with congenial laughter and way too much testosterone.
Unless their insurance was really good, this was probably going to be the last time the bar filled out.
What an awful shame.
As I come into the doorway of the room, silence spreads, like blood slick from a gunshot wound.
Generally, I'd get a chorus of cheers, cries and catcalls. But tonight, I was dressed to kill.
You know, it's a real funny thing, but the more Thinker powers I get, the more they point out to me that a good gun will be better than half the Blaster powers out there.
And these guns were apparently some of the very best, in the urban organised crime business. I mean, I'm pretty good at shapeshifting, and I have been working out for weeks using a Hookwolf-derived routine. And I may have trailed Brad home and shot him in his sleep. So yeah, I am pretty hot. Oh, wait, the UZIs are fine too.
Because I'm as awesome mentally as I am physically, my brief bit of narcissism didn't actually stop me from my main task; IE opening fire on the skinheads.
God, submachine guns are so easy to use, this is awesome. It's like discovering a whole new power. Duel wielding!
My shiny new sonic senses can distinguish damn near every panicked squeal, shattered glass and thumping body. A few fall off their chairs, a few chairs fall over with their owners and then there is silence, broken only by some death groans.
Obviously, there is then cries of alarm from out back. In the time before the four people who rush into the bar make it, I quickly unclip both guns and reload them in the move I practised a whole two times before coming here. Isn't Victor's power awesome.
Well, it's not his anymore, is it? Not unless everyone's least favourite Tinkerbell cosplayer gets out of the Birdcage for some reason.
I ignore the three mortals, who sensibly bail right back where they came from, handguns and all, when they see that only one cape did all this.
Back where they came from. Heh. Ironic humor.
Oh right, Runes' whining about some shit or other.
She looks pale faced, wide-eyed and shocked as she stares at the scene. The part of me that's permanently locked on snark- wouldn't Lisa be proud- idly wondered if minorities bleed less or something.
"But Low Key, why? They were standing against all what was wrong in the world! I thought there was a connection between us, we were brothers in arms!"
I considered this salient and basically accurate point. Hmmm, actually, Cliff was way hotter than Rune anyway, and you had way much more in common- he liked you, you also liked yourself- but you still dropped him. Rune probably would want a more reciprocal relationship, and you had her power anyway.
"Yeah, I'm sorry Rune, but I really ain't into all that gay shit."
"But I'm not lesbia…"
Her last words! Such poetry, truly reflective of her life. That's actually kinda true, maybe you should post them on PHO or something.
Nah, you're still banned. You take a few selfies next to the cooling copses of Rune and all the mortal Empire goons, with your guns held in that classic action movie pose. You consider piling the bodies up and sitting on top like a throne or something, but that would be way too much effort for a selfie, and actually kinda gauche.
Ah well. You settle for stealing Rune's wizard robe and tying it around your flak jacket. She looks kinda hot without it on, come to think of it. Maybe you are bi after all?
Huh. Maybe you should seduce Panacea next? Gallant would probably object if you stole his girlfriend, but you bet Panacea's nearly as hot as her sister under those robes. And her power would be great if you want to organise your hobo minions into an actual gang. And avoid getting in too much danger at Endbringer fights. Actually, that's an excellent idea!
But first, as you summon Fenrir and ride off into the night, you have one crucial thing you need to do.
You get out your phone.
You go to your PHO account. Luckily temp-banned users can still use DMs.
You select Lisa.
You send the selfies. The Rune + gangbangers one; the sleeping forever Hookwolf one; the didn't-dodge-fast-enough Cricket one; even the Victor and Othala one where you got two people with one bullet. You'd been busy tonight, and now you've just got to show off.
"Hey Lisa, I had a crisis of conscience about this whole Nazi thing, so I decided to bail out and start my own gang! Wanna join? Pics related!"
As Fenrir lands in your deserted warehouse, and you pass your guns and flak jacket to the most reliable hobo you found- by virtue of being louder and more interestingly violent than the voices in his head, you'd apparently earned his undying loyalty- there is only one thing on your mind.
You strip down to bra and sweatpants, and then you put the robe on. Selfie time again.
"AllSeeingEye is typing…"
"Hey Lisa, look at me, I'm the wizard now!"
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AN: WTF, I actually wrote this. Apparently, the sleep-deprived parts of my subconscious took the prompt "transgressive, comedically sociopathic inner monologue" and ran the hell away with it.
So, Daniel Snuts I have one omake for you, quality not guaranteed.
Edit2: SPAG, wording and missed Cricket mention.
Pretty sure the clone Blasto made is dead, that's the corpse Imp is turning in for the Kill Order Bounty, while fucking over Tagg.
If I'm understanding the events right...
Dragon and Defiant showed up to arrest Taylor for... some reason?
Taylor fought back and escaped, blowing her Low-Key, DD, and possibly Smith identities, also getting Armsmaster in an oath not to further free Dragon and inadvertently turning the Dragonslayers into very temporary allies.
Tagg signed the Kill Order that Piggot had written up in case Low Key were discovered to have "broken the Endbringer Truce" by lying about losing her powers.
This was presumably announced, Taylor heard about it, and decided to have Evil Taylor killed and turned in while she presumably just stops shapeshifting back into her original form and abandons the Taylor, Low-Key, DD, and maybe Smith identities.
Evil Taylor foresaw this when the announcement was made, and swapped herself with a clone she'd had Blasto make.
Taylor and/or Team BITN kill the Blasto-Clone and go to turn in the body on live tv and fuck over Tagg. Unfortunately the Dragonslayers hear about and believe it to, so Taylor never gets to be their friend after all.
Evil Taylor escapes, breaking a bunch of charm-enforced promises and such, but gambling that she'll be able to survive 17 terrible fates. Possibly pregnant with... something Abyssal flavored and planning to fuck Original Taylor at every chance she gets without revealing she survived (until dramatically appropriate at least).
Oh. OH.
Wasn't Evil Taylor cloned when Taylor was pregnant? What does that mean for herself? Is that why she's acting like that? And what would the consequence be for Ylva's clone?
If that is the case then, since Evil Taylor is an Abyssal, the only possibilities for the fetus are 'dead and eventual rotting body horror' and 'undead abomination'.
Wonder is souls severing technique destroys the soul?
Earth bet humans probably shouldn't have those though.
Also surprised at Taylor spouting off that pack of blatant lies about Smith considering Armsy's lie detection. I wonder what conclusion's they'll draw from all the [LIE] flags that get thrown up.
"Maybe he's busy. Maybe he's asleep. Or maybe he was no longer useful to me."
And damn, he's bullshit, isn't he? Like, holy shit, how could he be a minor villain of no global importance...
I will point out Clone!Taylor surviving is a unthreadmarked omake, so probably don't count it as canon.
I don't prefer it.It's up to each person to decide their headcanon for themselves, but y'all much prefer Original Taylor to have unwittingly murdered her daughter-clone, right? All the cool kids do. That dumb omake was better off not written, right?
Aww, you do care! I was starting to wonder, with making us hope for a good ending for the Dragonslayers, and not even waiting for the next day to ruthlessly crush them.I-it's not as if I like the idea of Best Wolfgirl Daughteru 2.0 growing up strong and healthy and having adventures of her own or anything, baka!
Yum-yum \o/A cookie for you, sir and anyone else who came to the same conclusion independently.
Although, doesn't having Taylor dead kind of ruin Defiant's pact? There's a chance he decides to take the risk anyway. And Taylor doesn't seem to have realized what someone breaking her pact, and only her pact, feels like (at least given the non-canon omake - why not add it as extra though? It'd be a real pity not to have it threadmarked somewhere, it's already hard to find stuff with the chapter names).
Oh dear. I didn't think of it like that. And he almost botched the attempt to free her in canon. OH DEAR.Yeah Taylor did not think through the fact that Defiant breaking the pact would by definition mean that he's being karmically let to a terrible fate by an ill-timed botch at the moment he chooses to attempt to free an AGI
It's a self-fulfilling prophecy worthy of the Greek Oracles
Oh dear. I didn't think of it like that. And he almost botched the attempt to free her in canon. OH DEAR.
*going to scream in a corner*
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Code:Charm Learning Shard (Worm/Exalted) | Page 19 | SpaceBattles
Look on the bright side: the ice is broken. None of us have to go first if we want to write omake, and the bar is eminently hoppable.Thanks for letting me read it. Exactly as described. What a disappointment. But thanks for letting me see it nonetheless.
Thank you for sharing this cursed knowledge with us.
Fanfiction is better than drugs truly."How come a stoner hasn't accomplished anything noteworthy?"
Don't do drugs, kids.
Aw. I guess you do have a heart.I-it's not as if I like the idea of Best Wolfgirl Daughteru 2.0 growing up strong and healthy and having adventures of her own or anything, baka!
Bye bye least interesting and narratively important endbringer.Behemoth doesn't topple as your fire scourges away the last remnant of his soul. He simply grows still, and the baleful light of his eye dims. What remains is a basalt statue, caught in the act of scrabbling to escape a force it could not understand or resist. A fitting monument, and a message to his siblings regarding what is to come.
Huh, what makes you think so?
She gave her sanity.Didn't Taylor de-power bonesaw when she used PST on her? Definitely no S9k in that case.
Arc D? I'm thinking Arc K, maybe T&B. J if you're feeling nostalgic, and Z in the worst case scenario.