History Fanfic / AChangeOfPace

* DreamWalker: The Bone Tinker in 4.8, [[spoiler:until the Queen Administrator told him to GetOut.]]

* CanonCharacterAllAlong: [[spoiler:The Bone Carver, as it turns out, is Trevor, the character who would become Chariot in the source story.]]

-->'''Taylor:''' "If you’ve got power, then you ''should'' use it to help people..."

* DeadGuyOnDisplay: [[spoiler: Taylor and New Wave find Tattletale's body like this in one of the Bone Carver's hideouts.]]
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Tattletale is killed by the Bone Carver in this world, whereas she survived the events of both ''Worm'' and ''Ward'' in canon.]]

-->'''The Outsider:''' "Did you believe that you were the only one to bear my Mark, Taylor? Did you believe that you were the first?"

* DreamWalker: The Bone Tinker in 4.8, [[spoiler:until Q.A. told him to GetOut.]]

--> 1.) The charm activates 4-5 seconds before a fatal blow. Not an injury, not the actual death, but the hit that will kill her. That gives her a couple of seconds to shake off the experience of dying and react appropriately to avoid doing it again.\\

* FriendlyNeighborhoodGangster: Sundancer attempts to be this akin to Canon!Skitter when claiming territory (since the Undersiders are essentially gone at this point), but Crow is less than receptive given its the same territory that her father is in.

-->'''Victoria:''' "I mean, who invites someone to their place without knowing their last name?"\\
'''Taylor:''' "You. ''You'' do. You wouldn’t let me ''not'' sleep on your floor. And that was before you knew my first name."\\
'''Victoria:''' "Huh...you’re right."
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:How QA kills the Bone Tinker.]]
* InertiaIsACruelMistress: As Taylor discovers while experimenting with her [[NotQuiteFlight new ability]] in [2.2]

-->Taylor hadn’t bothered with her 'mask', so it was easy to see the dark circles under her eyes, see just how pale and scraggly she was.

* MadnessMantra: "This one would work." for the Bone Carver, as he tries to make a new rune.

* TheMinionMaster: Taylor's shard expresses "Control" by taking over rats and other vermin. She can also summon her own rats if there aren't any nearby.

** [[spoiler: Later, she seems immune to Victoria's upgraded aura. So far, she's the only one]].

-->'''The Outsider:''' "Just as you set yourself on this path, he has chosen his own. That you clash is...not unexpected, perhaps. But neither was it my design."

* PortalPicture: They don't enter it, but Taylor, Glory Girl, Gallant, and Clockblocker find a mirror leading to the void inside of the Bone Carver's lair. [[spoiler:A few chapters later the first two enter it to go after the Bone Carver.]]
* PortalSlam: The Bone Carver [[spoiler:tries to do this with the portal to the void in his workshop, but not before Taylor and Glory Girl get inside.]]
* PowerIncontinence: [[spoiler: Victoria is having trouble with her aura after Leviathan, and is surprised that Taylor can come near her without bowing.]]

* PowerTattoo: Taylor has the Outsider's Mark on her hand, which, according to Tattletale, can only be seen if you're not trying to look at it. [[spoiler: The Bone Carver had the first one by the Outsider.]]

* SkippingSchool: Between the bullying and her preference to spend time being a hero, Taylor doesn't really go to school if she can help it. [[spoiler: By the Second Arc this has caused a falling out with her father.]]

* SoulJar: [[spoiler:Tattletale is killed by the Bone Carver and the Outsider uses her heart to link to her soul (or shard connection). This makes her the fanfic's counterpart to Jessamine Kaldwin, particularly in how her analysis superpower functioning as basically limited omniscience lets her heart work in a similar vein to how Kaldwin's Heart was used by Corvo and/or Emily]].

* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: [[spoiler:The QA shard stole the Bone Carver's shard when it killed him. This gives Taylor access to its knowledge inside of the Void, but she'll forget the knowledge rather quickly.]]

* InterruptedSuicide: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted.]] Glory Girl ''thought'' Taylor was throwing herself off a building to kill herself because she wasn't in costume, but in truth she was testing her teleportation powers. They decide to team up afterwards and [[TheyFightCrime fight crime]].

** Oni Lee as well, [[TeleportSpam who]] [[ThrowDownTheBomblet plays]], [[KnifeNut for]] [[InTheBack keeps]].

--> '''Taylor:''' "I can't shrug off bullets. And I...I can't be a hero, if I'm dead. So I'm keeping this thing, and if any more turn up, I'm going to see if they’re useful, too. And if you don't like that, then...I guess we just won't be able to work together."

--> '''Taylor:''' “They seemed pretty willing to shoot at people in the middle of the street last night. To bomb the city for a week and a half.”\\
'''Outsider:''' “Is that why you fight them?”\\

'''Taylor:''' “These people could have done something good with their powers. Instead they just…” Wreck things. Steal and hurt. “They’re selfish.”\\
'''Outsider:''' “I wonder, then...are your motivations more pure?”

--> She wasn’t a little kid. She had ''super powers''. She’d fought thugs and villains without any trouble, and her mom was fine with that. She’d snuck out before, and had never gotten more than a talking to. But when her breaking the rules was so obviously helpful for once, her mom flew off the handle. Because, what, she’d had a close call with a bomb? She was ''invulnerable''.

** Taylor has to be. She's not bullet-proof and her abilities are geared towards stealth. That means [[ChokeHolds taking them]] [[TapOnTheHead down quickly]] [[InTheBack and quietly]].

--> '''Taylor:''' “If you’ve got power, then you ''should'' use it to help people…”

** [[spoiler:Same goes for her attempt to trail one of the Bone Carver's minion while wearing the 'Cold Breath' Bone Charm, leading to a trap.]]
* DidYouActuallyBelieve: The Outsider does a slight variant of this when Taylor questions him on giving the Bone Carver his mark.
--> '''Outsider:''' “Did you believe that you were the only one to bear my Mark, Taylor? Did you believe that you were the first?”

* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler:Taylor tells Vicky that this is the source of every parahuman's power in 5.3.]]

* FightsLikeANormal: While she’s not above siccing rats and bugs on the bad guys, Taylor’s main strategy is to get in close and beat the bad guys with a bat.
** And, eventually, a collapsible baton.

*** [[spoiler:The Bone Carver]], after getting Taylor's [[blood on a charm he made]], can do this too.

* HellIsThatNoise: In chapter [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/18064210/ 1.2]], Taylor is bombarded with a noise from a Bone Charm giving her a headache. She describes it as sounding like "creaking wood" and can't make it go away until she finds the shrine.

--> '''Outsider:''' “''Once, there was a village by the sea. There were helpless people there. They were afraid of the world...and fear became their tool. They succumbed to it, and thought that it was strength. There is no village there anymore. It was worn away by time, and forgotten. And that’s the way of things. They... end.''”

* HumanSacrifice: [[spoiler:The Bone Tinker kills Victor to create a portal into the void.]]
* HumbleHero: According to the the the Outsider, Legend struggles with this, wondering if he's doing good because it needs to be done, or if there's the an ulterior motive he doesn't want to admit.

-->'''Victoria:''' “I mean, who invites someone to their place without knowing their last name?”
-->'''Taylor:''' “You. ''You'' do. You wouldn’t let me ''not'' sleep on your floor. And that was before you knew my first name.”
-->'''Victoria:''' "Huh...you’re right."

--> Taylor hadn’t bothered with her ‘mask’, so it was easy to see the dark circles under her eyes, see just how pale and scraggly she was.

* TheManbehindTheMan: [[spoiler: Coil was behind the Bone Carver. What he did to Tattletale was at Coil's request]].

* MobWar: Gang War: Between the ABB and the other factions of Brockton Bay, and things have gotten so bad off-screen that they have to call in the National Guard.

--> '''Victoria:''' “It’s like somebody saw one of those plague-doctor masks and decided it needed to look more like a demented parakeet.”
* PlayingBothSides: Taylor accuses the Outsider of doing this in 4.3, pitting her (a hero) against the Bone Carver (a villian). He states that was not his intention.
--> '''Outsider:''' "Just as you set yourself on this path, he has chosen his own. That you clash is...not unexpected, perhaps. But neither was it my design."

* RoomFullOfCrazy: Slightly downplayed with the Bonecarver's workshop. It's only one wall, and more a mural than anything else.

* SoulJar: [[spoiler:Tattletale is killed by the Bone Carver and the Outsider uses her heart to link to her soul (or shard connection)]].

--> Broken boards, lashed together with electrical wiring and tape and draped with what looks like a bed-sheet.
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: Vicky's [[spoiler:second-trigger]] stops her from getting close to people, so she hasn't talked to her sister or aunt. Taylor hands her a cell-phone, leaving her to lampshade this. Though, in her defense she was grieving and didn't have time to really think on it.

* ToxicFriendInfluence: Glory Girl's violent tendencies when it comes to dealing with crime (See TeethFlying and VigilanteMan) are starting to rub off on Taylor, only she doesn't have any fighting experience to pull her punches or a healer like Amy. [[ManipulativeBastard Tattletale]] points out that this is the sort of thing that Shadow Stalker got drafted into the Wards for, and she's not wrong.
--> '''Tattletale:''' “Five concussions. ''Numerous'' broken bones. Not to mention all the complaints the police-department is having to field. There are also a ton of groups that would ''love'' to add you to their lists of examples why the [[MutantDraftBoard government needs to crack down on independent capes]].”

* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:The Bone Tinker has henchmen go after Danny to do this to Taylor. He manages to gun them down but takes a wound.]]

* [[MobWar Gang War]]: Between the ABB and the other factions of Brockton Bay, and things have gotten so bad off-screen that they have to call in the National Guard.

* TeleportersAndTransporters:
** Taylor has [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Teleportation]] ranging a block in any direction with a minor cooldown time and leaves ashes in her wake.
** Oni Lee favors TeleportSpam with a side of SelfDuplication... and [[EvilCounterpart also leaves ashes in his wake]].
** [[spoiler:The Bone Carver, after getting Taylor's blood on a charm he made, can do this too.]]

* IAintGotTimeToBleed: Taylor ends up being shot in her fight with Oni Lee in [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/18064280/ 1.3]] and doesn't even realize it until after the fight is over and she collapses.
** She pays little mind when it turns out she gets stabbed by a giant needle by the Bone Carver later on.

--> '''Taylor:''' “I can’t shrug off bullets. And I...I can’t be a hero, if I’m dead. So I’m keeping this thing, and if any more turn up, I’m going to see if they’re useful, too. And if you don’t like that, then...I guess we just won’t be able to work together.”

* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:Danny loses his leg due to the Bone Tinker's henchmen.]]

*** [[spoiler:WordOfGod is that QA's expression through the Outsider's mark basically causes it to interfere with any debilitating effects.]]

* LateToTheTragedy: Taylor and her group attempt to get to Ballistic to question him about Coil in 5.6 only to find his location raided and him missing.