TLV Permissions Form (Rough Draft)

[skitter]

For other players: Taylor is a walking infestation of bugs. Please let me know if you want me to:
A) Avoid tagging you altogether.
B) Avoid mentioning bugs in tags to you. (Or specific bugs)
C) Avoid mentioning bugs on her/your character's person in tags to you.
D) Avoid using icons with bugs in them.

OOC PREFERENCES:
•CONTACT METHOD: I am TheHats on Plurk, or thehats#2119 on Discord.
•THREAD-JACKING: Please do thread-jack.
•FOURTH WALLING / CANON PUNCTURE: Anyone can recognize my character from her canon if you think it's likely your character reads semi-obscure web serials. Please check about spoiling things for her though.
•BACKTAGGING: Forever. I am slow like molasses.
•AVOIDED TOPICS: I have nothing I know I'd avoid.
•PREFERRED GENDER PRONOUN: she/her

IC CHARACTERISTICS:
•CURRENT CANON POINT: The end of Worm - Before going off with Contessa.
•PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Taylor is a tall young woman, gawky with moderate muscle. She rarely ties her curly dark hair back, preferring to leave it loose because of the way it changes the shape of her face.
•DEMEANOR: Taylor's first instinct is always suspicion, especially of anyone either in authority or professing philanthropy. She more easily trusts people who are honest (or "honest") about nefarious intentions, because she's known far too many betrayals by those who should have been trustworthy. She'd rather ally herself with someone she knows will eventually betray her than someone who seems above that, because at least then she knows what to watch out for.
Day to day, she's good at the appearance of confidence and a genuine amiability. She's a villain, but not the sort who wants to watch the world burn or thinks she's above the general crowd.
•ABILITIES: Taylor, in her canon, has an incredibly broad control of bugs, with a range that extends up to 1600 feet in radius with, so far, an unlimited number of bugs at once. She can use their senses, command their movements, and even make them do unnatural things like wasps stinging without expressing venom or spiders weaving clothing. On the Barge, her range and quantity are massive reduced (Currently: 50 feet, 300 max insects) Her power also includes a massively enhanced multi-focus - she can control and receive feedback from thousands of insects doing thousands of tasks at once, with conscious attention on each.As Khepri, Taylor's powers now include the control of most living things, from insects to humans, within a tight radius but of near-infinite power. She is not entirely able to control it. She keeps it nerfed to nothing by choice.Can fight with a glaive (extremely well) or staff (competent).Speaks fluent Mandarin.
•MEDICAL INFORMATION: Taylor wears glasses, and is relatively blind without them. She often uses insect-sight instead, however. When she was blinded in canon, no one noticed. Post-update, she no longer wears glasses. She is prone to body dysmorphia, concerning her lower body which was severed and remade from whatever was available, and her right arm, which Ulla sang back from non-existence.
•CABIN INFORMATION: (116) The door to Taylor's cabin is her childhood bedroom door, a yellow painted wooden door, well-worn. Now that she's been demoted again, her cabin is her cell from Portland Women's Correctional Facility. She mostly uses it for storage, but keeps a bed there. (412) Taylor actually lives in Kiryu Kazuma's cabin. Her bedroom there is one half of a larger room with a sliding divider. She has her bed from her home bedroom, a set of shelves, and tries to keep the bugs stored in here to a minimum. It's a comfortable room, usually tidy.
•OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS: Taylor has very strong opinions about bullying, and will not tolerate anyone defending bullies.
POTENTIALLY SENSITIVE SUBJECTS: Deceased parent, sexually active minor (no longer a minor in game), violence against and among minors, mind control, apocalypse situation, bugs, spiders, bugs on people, bugs in people, parasites.

IC PERMISSIONS:
•MENTAL: Feel free to poke into her head - she's had that happen before. She has, in her canon, used the massive multifocus ability to kick psychics out. Can your character tolerate the sensory input of a body-weight-worth of spiders?
•MIMICRY: Yes
•VIOLENCE: Yes, she's prone to hit back hard.
•MAGIC: Yes
•DEBATE: Yes, if you're patient with me getting slow to research her reactions.
•OTHER / NOTES: I'll think of something.

Familiars / Pets / Livestock:
Scraps: A ferretipede palisman, can turn into a magic staff. Enables Taylor to blend into her surroundings at will.
Jane: A large gu, or venomous supernatural centipede. Has many, many offspring. Tend towards intelligent, and she culled the ones that showed signs of aggressiveness. Taylor usually leaves her in Kiryu's cabin.
Jaws: Jane's former mate, deceased.
Angelica: A large great Dane/mastiff mix, gray with dark spots. Young, gregarious, sleeps a lot.
Click (声, shēng): A clockwork crow, animate but not especially smart. Understands only Mandarin.
Ramen: More Kiryu's than hers, a buff orpington hen.
Bugs: Notable inclusions are: Gu, magic anesthetic moths, many butterflies, fireflies, black hornets, paper wasps, honeybees, jewel crabs (in Ulla's cabin), darwin's bark spiders, black widows, a large and long-established mealworm farm.

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T's Warden Statement

[skitter]

Character Name: Taylor Hebert Kiryu
Character Journal: [personal profile] skitter
Status: Warden
Pairing Information:

Taylor is a twice-rehabilitated former teenage supervillain. She developed bug-focused superpowers at 13 during the trauma of some reprehensible bullying, made a half-hearted attempt to become a hero, but wound up on the villains' team because they offered friendship instead of just duty. She always had save-the-world aims, but definitely fell into the ends-justify-the-means trap. She was murdered by her kingpin boss and came to the Barge, where she found friends and family and graduated when she accepted that she did not have ownership of every responsibility that came her way.

When she was sent back to her world (leaving behind a paired inmate), she fell back into a similar ethical trap, this time while working for the (legally) good guys. She became a murderer during this time, and her world crashed into the apocalypse she's been trying to stop since she was 16. In the final hours of humanity, she tried to make herself into a weapon to save the few survivors. It worked, in a way she would not have accepted if she'd known in advance, making her a puppet-master of thousands. She won, but had lost the personhood needed to understand victory, and came back to the Barge still fighting. She had to be put down, and is in the late stages of recovering herself now.

Her second graduation required her to accept that she was still seeking out fights to win, places to be a weapon. She is still struggling with that even as a warden - she has a fragment of her power back, but continues to keep the majority of it nerfed because she is afraid she'll use it if it's available.

Who She Is Good For
- Anyone who needs to not be a weapon
- Anyone who has been used by higher powers
- Anyone from worlds with Major Goings On
- Anyone afraid of themselves

Who She Is Bad For
- Anyone who acted as the higher power using those beneath them.
- Anyone afraid of bugs
- Anyone triggered by her past as a puppet-master