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* SelfMutilationDemonstration: Sophia's family is sceptical about her account of what's happened to her, so she opens a pair of scissors and rams the blade through her own hand, demonstrating her lack of both pain response and blood.
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* RevengeByProxy: The Merchants really hate Shadow Stalker. [[spoiler:Upon capturing Taylor and recognising that she's Shadow Stalker's partner, they track down her home and beat Danny to death.]]
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Sophia is at least more respectful to Taylor since both of them are united around the idea of revenge.
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* IdiotBall: InUniverse, Rodney is firmly convinced that everyone else at the hospital was firmly gripping the ball and it's up to him to take action. [[WrongGenreSavvy He's quite wrong about that.]]
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* AdaptationalRelationshipChange: After witnessing Emma's death and feeling guilty for failing to save her, Sophia is predisposed to think well of her best friend, Taylor (instead of Sophia's canonical brutal contempt). Taylor, in turn, doesn't know that Sophia delayed saving Emma; she only knows that Sophia took vengeance on the gang members who did it. Taylor also takes easily to Sophia's brutal "hit them hard enough that there won't be a second time" approach to vigilantism. As a result, the two of them get along quite well.
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--> He'd seen enough horror movies to know how ''not'' to react when zombies or Monsters from the Deep showed up. Smart people didn't stand around saying [='=]''how interesting''[='=] and poking at the Eldritch Horror from Beyond the Stars.
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* InsuranceFraud: [[spoiler:Danny and Officer Lagos aren't really sure whether Lagos can validly cash in his life insurance now that he's one of the walking dead. He could pass almost any medical tests to certify death -- limited or missing reflexes, no body heat, no circulation, no breathing if he doesn't want to -- but he's still walking and talking, which "tends to be a counter-indication to that sort of thing."]]
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* VampiricDraining: [[spoiler:It turns out that Taylor's ability to feed energy into her undead has a flipside, being able to drain energy from the living. And Alabaster, due to his reset power, is an absolute goldmine.]]
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* SpeakInUnison: When Sophia tries to claim that she doesn't run out of control or push boundaries, there's a simultaneous chorus of "Yes, you do," from her mother, brother, Taylor, and Danny.
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* TheNeedless: [[spoiler:Taylor's undead don't need to eat or breathe, although they still can, and they don't sleep at all. Which appears to be helpful on balance.]]
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* TheNeedless: [[spoiler:Taylor's undead don't need to eat or breathe, although they still can, and they don't sleep at all. Which appears to be helpful on balance. Plus, they have sensation, [[FeelsNoPain but not pain]].]]
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* TheNeedless: [[spoiler:Taylor's undead don't need to eat or breathe, although they still can, and they don't sleep at all. Which appears to be helpful on balance.]]
--> '''[[spoiler:Danny Hebert]]:''' I've always thought there weren't enough hours in the day, and now there are.
--> '''[[spoiler:Danny Hebert]]:''' I've always thought there weren't enough hours in the day, and now there are.
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* StunnedSilence: Sophia can't get her mother to calm down, or sit down, until she states, "[[spoiler:Mom, I'm dead.]]" At which point there is silence, apart from the sound of her mother finally sitting.
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* HealingHands: It's draining, but [[spoiler:Taylor can heal injuries to her undead with a touch, leaving her tired afterward.]]
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* SuperStrength: [[spoiler:Taylor and her undead both get a significant strength boost as long as she's in her power's active state, but she eventually has to drop back to normal(ish) to recharge.]]
--> It felt lightweight and flimsy, the type of handle the lowest bidder might put on a hospital examination room. Still, before today, she could not have done what she now did. Taking a firm grip--with her right hand, even--she twisted hard. The ''snap'' echoed oddly in her ears, and she tossed the bent metal handle on to the floor.
--> It felt lightweight and flimsy, the type of handle the lowest bidder might put on a hospital examination room. Still, before today, she could not have done what she now did. Taking a firm grip--with her right hand, even--she twisted hard. The ''snap'' echoed oddly in her ears, and she tossed the bent metal handle on to the floor.
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* DeaderThanDead: [[spoiler:For a short time after someone dies, Taylor can sense a spark inside them, suspected to be lingering cell activity, and can pull on that spark to raise them as one of her undead. If that spark fades before she pulls on it, though, or if she deliberately extinguishes it, they're beyond her reach.]]
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* BackFromTheDead: Taylor's power turns the recently departed into a form of undead. They have no pulse or body heat, they don't sleep or eat, but they can think and act.
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* BackFromTheDead: Taylor's [[spoiler:Taylor's power turns the recently departed into a form of undead. They have no pulse or body heat, they don't sleep or eat, but they can think and act.]]
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* GlowingEyes: After she triggers, Taylor's eyes are never normal again. She can shift them between glowing a brilliant white, or pits of blackness -- and she can see through them either way -- but they're never just eyes.
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* GlowingEyes: After [[spoiler:After she triggers, Taylor's eyes are never normal again. She can shift them between glowing a brilliant white, or pits of blackness -- and she can see through them either way -- but they're never just eyes.]]
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* WrongGenreSavvy: Rodney's first reaction to Taylor's raising of the dead is to assume that she's the start of a zombie apocalypse. [[spoiler:And he tells the internet, attracting Coil's attention.]]
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* WrongGenreSavvy: Rodney's first reaction to Taylor's [[spoiler:Taylor's raising of the dead is to assume that she's the start of a zombie apocalypse. [[spoiler:And And he tells the internet, attracting Coil's attention.]]
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* GlowingEyes: After she triggers, Taylor's eyes are never normal again. She can shift them between glowing a brilliant white, or pits of blackness -- and she can see through them either way -- but they're never just eyes.
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* DynamicEntry: Lampshaded when Sophia comes in through a window ''without'' splintering boards or shattering glass, because she's in her Breaker state. She does start shooting, though.
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* LeeroyJenkins: As soon as Sophia confirms that they're going to stop a group of five muggers, Taylor runs forward with a baseball bat before Sophia can keep talking and devise a plan. [[spoiler:Which leads to her being overpowered and abducted, and gets Sophia killed rescuing her.]]
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* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: When Sophia wants to track down [[spoiler:the mugger who just abducted Taylor]], she conveniently has ''two'' Merchants to question, so she's able to alternate asking questions and beating one with a baseball bat when she doesn't like the answers, until he's unconscious, then turn to the (very pale) other one.
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* MistakenDeathConfirmation: Inverted; the first time that Taylor beats down a would-be mugger with a baseball bat, Sophia checks the body and reassures Taylor that he still has a pulse -- but actually, she couldn't find one.
--> ''If she realises that she's killed someone on her first go-around, she might panic. Give her time to get a little more used to the idea first.''
--> ''If she realises that she's killed someone on her first go-around, she might panic. Give her time to get a little more used to the idea first.''
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* DramaticIrony: When Taylor is struggling with her emotions at Emma's funeral and wake, but doesn't want to give up and just go home, her mantra is "Emma would do it for me." In canon, the attack in the alleyway was the start of Emma throwing away Taylor's friendship and grinding her into the dirt.
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** When Taylor is struggling with her emotions at Emma's funeral and wake, but doesn't want to give up and just go home, her mantra is "Emma would do it for me." In canon, the attack in the alleyway was the start of Emma throwing away Taylor's friendship and grinding her into thedirt.dirt.
** Shadow Stalker observes the Heberts and decides that "that family is definitely not made up of wimps."
** When Taylor is struggling with her emotions at Emma's funeral and wake, but doesn't want to give up and just go home, her mantra is "Emma would do it for me." In canon, the attack in the alleyway was the start of Emma throwing away Taylor's friendship and grinding her into the
** Shadow Stalker observes the Heberts and decides that "that family is definitely not made up of wimps."
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* ExcessiveMourning: Taylor falls apart after Emma's death, staying in bed for days at a time, not eating, barely talking, just crying and trying not to remember, for weeks. Her dad eventually forces her to get up and moving again.
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* ExcessiveMourning: Taylor falls apart after Emma's death, staying in bed for days at a time, not eating, barely talking, just crying and trying not to remember, for weeks. Her dad eventually forces her to get up and moving again.again, but admits to having responded similarly when Annette died.
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--> But now he wasn't taking that for an answer. He had forced her to respond to him, with almost insulting ease. Perhaps some part of her -\\
''No!''\\
- wanted to end this self-imposed exile -\\
''I don't!''\\
- and rejoin her family -\\
''Don't make me!''\\
- and the human race again.\\
''Please. Don't make me.''\\
''Don't make me remember.''
''No!''\\
- wanted to end this self-imposed exile -\\
''I don't!''\\
- and rejoin her family -\\
''Don't make me!''\\
- and the human race again.\\
''Please. Don't make me.''\\
''Don't make me remember.''
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* ExcessiveMourning: Taylor falls apart after Emma's death, staying in bed for days at a time, not eating, barely talking, just crying and trying not to remember, for weeks. Her dad eventually forces her to get up and moving again.
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--> It was a part of everything that Emma had meant to me, the basis of a thousand happy memories. It was worth more than gold to me.\\
I even knew where I was going to put it when I got home.\\
Right next to Mom's flute.
I even knew where I was going to put it when I got home.\\
Right next to Mom's flute.
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* TragicKeepsake: Taylor finds Emma's bedroom mostly untouched after the funeral, but a few things have been taken, including her prized Alexandria action figure, which Taylor figures has been placed in the coffin. It turns out instead that Emma's older sister saved it for Taylor, knowing that they both loved it and Emma would want her to have it.
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* DramaticIrony: When Taylor is struggling with her emotions at Emma's funeral and wake, but doesn't want to give up and just go home, her mantra is "Emma would do it for me." In canon, the attack in the alleyway was the start of Emma throwing away Taylor's friendship and grinding her into the dirt.
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* TheAtoner: Sophia isn't accustomed to feeling guilty about anything, but she does feel responsible for Emma's death, and wants to track down Taylor to learn what she can, because she owes Emma that much.
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-> ''I'm sorry. I should have done something sooner. I'm sorry.''
''All Alone'' is a ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' fanfiction by Tropers/{{ack1308}}, where Emma dies in the alleyway before Shadow Stalker can rescue her. This puts both Taylor and Sophia on different paths, but perhaps ones no less filled with sadness.
It is published on Website/FanFictionDotNet ([[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11311519/ here]]), Website/SpaceBattlesDotCom ([[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/all-alone-worm-au.343995/ here]]), Sandbox/SufficientVelocityDotCom ([[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/all-alone-worm-au.19119/ here]]), and Questionable Questing ([[https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/all-alone-worm-au.1755/ here]]).
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* BackFromTheDead: Taylor's power turns the recently departed into a form of undead. They have no pulse or body heat, they don't sleep or eat, but they can think and act.
* DeathByAdaptation:
** The starting point of the fic is that instead of Shadow Stalker successfully fighting off the ABB members and rescuing Emma and her father, Emma's throat was cut as Shadow Stalker arrived. The gangers still go down, but Emma quickly bleeds out.
** [[spoiler:Sophia and Danny later die in the hospital at the same time, after the Merchants retaliate against Sophia and Taylor for getting in their way -- until Taylor triggers and sort of brings them back.]]
* WrongGenreSavvy: Rodney's first reaction to Taylor's raising of the dead is to assume that she's the start of a zombie apocalypse. [[spoiler:And he tells the internet, attracting Coil's attention.]]
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''All Alone'' is a ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' fanfiction by Tropers/{{ack1308}}, where Emma dies in the alleyway before Shadow Stalker can rescue her. This puts both Taylor and Sophia on different paths, but perhaps ones no less filled with sadness.
It is published on Website/FanFictionDotNet ([[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11311519/ here]]), Website/SpaceBattlesDotCom ([[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/all-alone-worm-au.343995/ here]]), Sandbox/SufficientVelocityDotCom ([[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/all-alone-worm-au.19119/ here]]), and Questionable Questing ([[https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/all-alone-worm-au.1755/ here]]).
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* BackFromTheDead: Taylor's power turns the recently departed into a form of undead. They have no pulse or body heat, they don't sleep or eat, but they can think and act.
* DeathByAdaptation:
** The starting point of the fic is that instead of Shadow Stalker successfully fighting off the ABB members and rescuing Emma and her father, Emma's throat was cut as Shadow Stalker arrived. The gangers still go down, but Emma quickly bleeds out.
** [[spoiler:Sophia and Danny later die in the hospital at the same time, after the Merchants retaliate against Sophia and Taylor for getting in their way -- until Taylor triggers and sort of brings them back.]]
* WrongGenreSavvy: Rodney's first reaction to Taylor's raising of the dead is to assume that she's the start of a zombie apocalypse. [[spoiler:And he tells the internet, attracting Coil's attention.]]
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