A good power fantasy. Taylor got an op power, and used it like a normal human would (mostly).
When Cauldron noticed, instead of being complete idiots or crafting inane plots they took her in, she (easily a Triumvirate-level cape) worked with Triumvirate, and then made plans to get rid of Endbringers and later Scion.
One of THE ONLY(!!1!) stories where S9 were handled well. Not a complete curbstomp, but also not a complete curbstomp in the other direction (looking at you, Ex Synthetica).
Almost too uneventful, almost to the point of being a bit bland.
But generally pretty good.
I have but a single complaint:
Rant about a single most idiotic scene ever (warning - a bit emotional, lol)
I stayed put relative to the ground and it only took a moment for everyone to be yelling in the radio to stop. Hookwolf started laughing so hard I thought he might pass out.
“What was that?” Miss Militia asked, trying to suppress her anger at what no doubt looked like me fucking about.
“I don’t know,” I responded, making sure to not sound defensive about it. “I’ve never not been in control of movement while in my armor and I think it stops outside forced from acting on me. Like the seat of the truck.”
She stared at me for a long moment as Hookwolf continued laughing. He even took huge breaths so he could keep it up.
“Is this fixable?” Her glare was strong enough that I shied away just a bit.
“I think so. I just need to be moved by the truck like everyone else. One moment.”
Since I was sitting already still I removed the armor from my waist to my feet on the back side only so I was actually resting on the seat rather than floating in the armor. It felt so wrong to be like this; uncovered, even partly, while in costume.
This is the most stupid shit I’ve read in my entire life period.
Why can’t I find a good OP story - that’s not either stretched to infinity with slice-of-life and zero action, about the same mcu mimic power, or dead after 4 chapters in 2017 - without absolutely idiotic subzero IQ manufactured drama idiot ball contrivances like this bs??..Not mentioning annoying “self-deprecating unreliable narrator misrepresents reality and thinks everyone hates her” - while this is getting old I am used to that in wormfic sadly.
So you have something close to absolute protection and you decided to just.. not cover your butt with it?????
In the situation where it is guaranteed 100% there will be fighting??
Because of some stupid effect you haven’t spent even 5 minutes trying to control??..
Or at least havent told them something along the lines of “looks like I cant drive with you, I’ll just fly above the transport, I can feel everything everywhere, so not like I have to be present there anyway”?…It smelled of author setup for her to get severely injured in the next chapter literally from another galaxy - and lo and behold, I was absolutely correct!
You cannot imagine the level of relief I felt when she did the 5th grader thing and railgunned both the detonator and the bullshit gravity blocking device (also nice chekhovs gunshot I guess lol).Like I was dreading when enemies will target actual weaknesses set up from the start of the fic - eyeholes, the need to breathe, maybe they’ll learn her identity in some hopefully-not-her-being-a-complete-moron way, but what the actual fuck was this.
The rant was adapted from a forum comment I never sent - because forums are very, very annoying for commenting on fiction, the moment it’s finished - you can’t leave a comment because that’s necroposting, also leaving a comment on what happens in the middle of the fic at the end of it is also weird..
And also most of the time it’s a negative thing I got enough of an urge to share, that I go to the forum to post, spreading negativity is meh.