Inmate Ledger: Round 2

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Name: Taylor Hebert Kiryu
Warden: na
Job posting: na

 

A solid example of how far good intentions can take you down the wrong road.

Again.

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Happy childhood, best friend Emma.
Mother's death, car accident, was trying to call Taylor at the time.
Dad withdrew.
Emma turned bully, with new friend Sophia.
Locker incident, and trigger. Taylor first learns control of bugs during an in-patient mental health care stay.
Bullying gets worse, Taylor begins to plan leaving school to become a hero, but has to launch early because she's afraid if she doesn't make an outlet, she'll hurt people.
First fight. Meets the Undersiders, and they mistake her for a fellow villain. Meets hero Armsmaster, who takes credit for her win.
'Joins' the Undersiders, intending to get information on them/their boss and pass it to the heroes, but more encounters with the heroes disillusion her, and she further justifies staying with the Undersiders.
Meets Coil, and his child precog prisoner Dinah, who Taylor accidentally helped him kidnap by being a distraction.
Leviathan fight – every parahuman in the city fighting a 30' sea monster and they can't win until Scion comes to blast him back into the sea. Taylor leaves a man for dead because she can't carry him, and almost lets Leviathan kill a few dozen people because one of them is a teacher who let the bullying continue. Armsmaster almost gets Taylor and Tattletale killed in trying to arrange a one-on-one with Leviathan, which he loses. Taylor gets her spine broken and then healed, and learns that Sophia is one of the heroes. Almost gets arrested for knowing that.
After Leviathan, city is in turmoil, and Coil demands the Undersiders take advantage. Taylor begins carving out territory, recruiting and hiring people, scaring away other criminals. Builds reputation as absolutely terrifying, and vicious to enemies, but doesn't kill. She's working on becoming invaluable to Coil, hoping to negotiate that for Dinah's freedom.
Lets Regent use Sophia/Shadowstalker as a puppet, and wouldn't have stopped him if he killed her.
The Slaughterhouse Nine, a serial killer cult led by Jack Slash, show up to also take advantage of the turmoil, and to recruit new members. They run a massive game across the city with many, many casualties. Dinah predicts that if Jack leaves the city alive, the world will end in 2-8 years, and if he dies, it will end in 15 years.
Taylor makes a personal enemy of Mannequin, one of the Nine. He kills many of her people, she helps trap him while the heroes firebomb him. Arguably her first kill.
Sees her boyfriend tortured by Bonesaw, nearly gets lobotomized herself. Suffers Bonesaw's agnosia plague before the Nine (well, the surviving three of them) are driven from the city. Takes the team away from Brian in the wake of his torture.
Holds the mayor's family hostage to get something Coil wants, and nearly kills his son when he turns out to be allergic to bees.
Doesn't fall for Coil faking his death, and seeks him out to make him honor his deal and give her Dinah. Tricked, shot, trapped in a burning house and killed.

Barge!
Does a whole lot of fake-it-til-you-make it. Blind and with limited powers, she leans instantly into forming as many bonds as she can. Jon's an early one, as was Rags, and through him Kiryu and Shen Wei.
Takes out her prejudice against bombers on Jacobi when he blows up Blanky a little bit.
Stands in front of a bullet for Tim, when they both could have run.
Doesn't take it personally when Jon and Loki stab her in a port.
Does take it personally when people smoke in the greenhouse. Makes that her territory.
Gets very clingy on Rags, and after they both move in with Kiryu, they share a bed the rest of their time together.
In Flotilla, tries to keep an eye on everyone she regards as hers and becomes an exterminator. Resigns herself to staying there, upset but feeling lighter without the fate of her world (in her eyes) resting on her graduation.
A big part of her gradation came from talking to Misty about ownership of people/problems/solutions.
Loves Ulla, but has planned an end to this relationship from day one. Will not become her dad.
Had plans to get Hilbert working in the infirmary, to give him a chance to be trusted/become trustworthy. She also wants him to complete his virus.

Home again!
Escapes the burning house, tracks Coil down, and shoots him in the face before he can use his power to undo her escape or anything else they've done.
Killing him triggers Echidna's berserk rampage, which levels multiple city blocks. Taylor gets eaten and several evil clones happen – they control rats, for some reason, not bugs. Taylor tricks Clockblocker into combining his power with her and slices Echidna in half with a spider-web. Then they tear open reality and toss her into the gap between.
Taylor's identity was exposed by the evil clones, and she knows she can't fight the heroes AND Jack AND the oncoming end of the world, and she doesn't have to, so she turns herself in to get the heroes' attention. It doesn't go as planned, and she winds up killing mega-hero Alexandria (on purpose) and Director Tagg (on accident) after they trick her into thinking they've killed Rachel and Brian. But negotiations happen, and she winds up with a light sentence, the public thinking Alexandria was evil (she was, in a different way), and a probationary membership in the heroes.
Next two years, she spends living a medium security women's prison for regular people, and being let out regularly to fight Endbringers, do things with her new team, and hunt for the Nine with Dragon (super AI/new mom) and Defiant (formerly Armsmaster).
When they find Jack Slash, Bonesaw has made hundreds of clones of all the Nine, living and dead. She and her team fight through them, but things get really bad, and Taylor has to kill the first third-generation parahuman, a 2-year-old girl, to save her from being eternally tortured by a pain-powered time-manipulator. While that's going on, they accidentally let Jack Slash speak to Scion, and that's what triggers the end of the world.
Taylor and the Undersiders and her hero team work together, running from reality to reality to fight Scion wherever he appears. They go to Cauldron, to see if they can use the remains of Thinker to fight him, but that just makes him more angry (and Taylor loses her arm to an uncontrolled ally). They manage to recruit the surviving Endbringers, but as humanity's numbers dwindle, more and more people flee, trying to seal themselves off into various realities and hide from Scion. The fighting force is shrinking too fast, splintering. One disastrous battle costs them half the remaining force, and Taylor's killed (torn in half), but revived.
The decision to unlimit herself is made in despair. She hoped it would give her greater tactical strength, something to rally armies back together or maybe something to use against Scion himself. She did not expect it would make her a puppetmaster, or that her mind would begin to dissolve.
Once it happens, though, she knows what she has to do (because the dead Passenger knows), and works fast. She tears open realities where people are hiding, kills those who could stop her, and takes control of thousands of people from hundreds of worlds. She uses them as weapons and cannon fodder, whittling down at Scion until he -can- be defeated.
When they've won, she's not human enough to know. She thinks the celebration is panic, and reaches out to the Barge for the last weapons she can think of.

Barge!
She wanted Jon and the Admiral most, and Shen Wei/Jiye, Iris, anyone else who her Passenger registered as a deep well of power. She has no ill will against anyone who helped kill her.
Since waking up, she did attempt to kill Quill.