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hollowsentinel · 5 months ago

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Fuck it.

Hebert has a Handgun: everywhere Taylor looks, she sees guns and munitions. Sometimes they are in incredibly inconvenient places. At least one time she finds a gun, it is in her backpack. At school. Where Madison can see if her gaze falls just so.

But that's not important.

What's important is how unimportant Taylor is in spite of this. The guns are a side note in her life. She is so very small in the end. She is just a speck of dust is the great cosmos of the universe. The night sky is beautiful beyond the words she loves with her mother.

Brockton Bay is bright. Boston is brighter still even in the distance. The stars? The galaxy? The universe as seen from a rooftop? It shines clearly in spite of all the reasons that would obscure it.

Clearly, Taylor is parahuman. Or she is under the effect of a parahuman power. Her vision remains sharp with or without her glasses. (She can wear sunglasses at night with no issues at all.) But what sort of cape just sees clearly? Try as she might, sharp vision is nothing so special as to challenge any of the problems in Brockton Bay.

But that is no reason not to try.

A gun on school grounds cannot stop her. It is nothing a tattoo cannot fix. It may be a pain to explain the tramp stamp, but at least it is not grounds for immediate expulsion and criminal record. Or getting gunned down by cops.

#chatter #worm #prompt #?#it's more an outline #shit what was my tag for my card carrying monsterfucker librarian? she was the original marksman branded glasses girl #one thing i don't mention above is that grue's smoke is also not fully effective #she can flashlight her way through it with some difficulty sepending on the strength of the light in question #also the tramp stamp is not permanent or fixed #it is just incredibly inconvenient like the gun #she has a few possible cape names #stargazer is the first based on her taking night walks and stargazing and calling in tips to the police #after that it's a mess #ideas vary #it would be a prt placeholder or taylor special or maybe a lisa insistence #tattoo would reflect her most obvious power #guns and related accessories can become tattoos on her body which she can later retrieve #missed mark could be be an insulting name and a riff on her initial lack of shooting skill #she doesn't get particularly good at it either #but mainly i thought it would be a play off of miss militia and a sort of dark mirror deal #the protectorate's noble hero versus the undersiders' half cocked villain #oh something i don't touch on at all is that her shots are weirdly effective #it doesn't come up often or stand out because she doesn't shoot much and hits even less but uh brutes beware #shit did i post any of this already?

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