History Fanfic / Constellations

** Chapter 33 - [[spoiler: On Halloween, Yuuta catches Emma and her new friend Karen taking down the flyers/exorcism charms made by Taylor... and Karen turns out to be a ''[[TsuchigumoAndJorogumo Jorogumo]]'', proving that Sunny wasn't paranoid and there are {{Youkai}} now prowling about Brockton Bay.]] The next few chapters show that [[spoiler: this wasn't an isolated incident - Chapter 34 starts with the PRT dead tired from a night of weird encounters, and Oni Lee later mentions one following him on Halloween.]]

** Chapter 33 - [[spoiler: On Halloween, Yuuta catches Emma and her new friend Karen taking down the flyers/exorcism charms made by Taylor... and Karen turns out to be a ''[[TsuchigumoAndJorogumo Jorogumo]]'', proving that Sunny wasn't paranoid and there are {{Youkai}} now prowling about Brockton Bay.]]

*** There's also mention of [[spoiler:Sophia Hess/Shadow Stalker being arrested and potentially joining the Wards. Velocity mentions that Alan Barnes vouched for her personally while talking to Chessman. Oh, and did we mention that this was ''after'' the above-mentioned meeting?]] While we don't see the aftermath, [[spoiler: Sophia never appears after this chapter...]]
** Chapter 12 - [[spoiler: Lung finally confronts Taylor at the shrine, thinking that she's trying to muscle in on his territory. Taylor is understandably nervous at first, but eventually find her confidence, culminating in actually ''telling Lung off''. Lung strikes her and orders Oni Lee to dispose of her... and is immediately [[BoltOfDivineRetribution struck by lightning]] in one of the few direct demonstrations of Sunny/Amaterasu's powers, in a way that makes it perfectly clear to Lung that this was the Kami's doing]]. The fallout of this act is shown in later chapters.

** Chapter 33 - [[spoiler: On Halloween, Yuuta catches Emma and her new friend Karen taking down the flyers/exorcism charms made by Taylor... and Karen turns out to be a ''[[TsuchigumoAndJorogumo Jorogumo]]'', proving that Sunny wasn't paranoid and there are {{Youkai}} prowling about Brockton Bay.]]

** Chapter 12. [[spoiler: Lung finally confronts Taylor at the shrine, thinking that she's trying to muscle in on his territory. Taylor is understandably nervous at first, but eventually find her confidence, culminating in actually ''telling Lung off''. Lung strikes her and orders Oni Lee to dispose of her... and is immediately [[BoltOfDivineRetribution struck by lightning]] in one of the few direct demonstrations of Sunny/Amaterasu's powers, in a way that makes it perfectly clear to Lung that this was the Kami's doing]]. The fallout of this act is shown in later chapters.
** Chapter 13. [[spoiler: The Protectorate has taken notice of Sunny's stunt in the last chapter and the sheer WeatherManipulation involved, and have begun to investigate the shrine.]]

*** Chapter 12. [[spoiler: Lung finally confronts Taylor at the shrine, thinking that she's trying to muscle in on his territory. Taylor is understandably nervous at first, but eventually find her confidence, culminating in actually ''telling Lung off''. Lung strikes her and orders Oni Lee to dispose of her... and is immediately [[BoltOfDivineRetribution struck by lightning]] in one of the few direct demonstrations of Sunny/Amaterasu's powers, in a way that makes it perfectly clear to Lung that this was the Kami's doing]]. The fallout of this act is shown in later chapters.

* Chapter 12. [[spoiler: Lung finally confronts Taylor at the shrine, thinking that she's trying to muscle in on his territory. Taylor is understandably nervous at first, but eventually find her confidence, culminating in actually ''telling Lung off''. Lung strikes her and orders Oni Lee to dispose of her... and is immediately [[BoltOfDivineRetribution struck by lightning]] in one of the few direct demonstrations of Sunny/Amaterasu's powers.]] The fallout of this is shown in later chapters.

* TheReasonYouuSuckSpeech: Taylor gives a short, but effective one to Lung when they first meet.

** There's also mention of [[spoiler:Sophia Hess/Shadow Stalker being arrested and potentially joining the Wards. Velocity mentions that Alan Barnes vouched for her personally while talking to Chessman. Oh, and did we mention that this was ''after'' the above-mentioned meeting?]] While we don't see the aftermath, [[spoiler: Sophia never appears after this chapter...]]

** Chapter 9- [[spoiler: Emma bullies Taylor again, only to be confronted by the ABB members looking out for Taylor. Later on, Taylor goes out painting and is nearly caught by Armsmaster, putting her and ''especially'' Sunny on the Protectorate's radar.]]

* WhamEpisode: Chapter 1 ends with the implication that [[Taylor's father Danny had a [[TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening Trigger]] event.]]

--> '''Bagrat:''' Oh, that? Don't worry about it, just trust me on this one. The little [[GratuitousFrench pêche]] has earned it.

* WhamLine: As early as chapter 2: "Amaterasu smiled."\

* WhamLine: As early as chapter 2: "Amaterasu smiled."

* BetrayalInsurance: Victoria tries to set up some in the possible event that her mother finds out that Chekov was given to the family by Brushstroke (a cape with a Master rating) and gives the kitten away out of paranoia, so she publishes Chekov's picture online and into the public eye to forestall Carol's reaction. Carol is stunned when she hears her daughter's rationale.

** In a much more minor example, Chekov will bat at your face if he wants you to wake up. As Mark and Vicky have found out, though, if you don't, those paws contain *claws*. It's purely innocent, but it does hurt and forces them to wake up.

* {{Irony}}: When Taylor first meets Oni Lee at the shrine, her first instinct is to find some way to ''keep'' the situation from escalating.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: [[TheMinionMaster Chessman]] (Danny) and his debut on the cape scene, detailed [[AllThereInTheManual in a separate post]]: In retaliation for an attack on the Docks by the E88, [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge he crashed an E88 rally]] with ''[[TankGoodness three fully-grown Sherman Tanks]]''.

* OnSecondThought: When Sunny takes Taylor on a five-minute, hi-speed wolf-back ride to the Protectorate Rig, Taylor is indignant that she could do this and yet makes Taylor ride her bike everywhere. Then Sunny [[WalkOnWater runs across the bay]] and [[WallRun up the side of the rig]] to the meeting platform.
--> '''Taylor:''' I take it back. I'm fine with the bicycle.

** Taylor's outfit is this on the first day she met Oni Lee. He first saw her as a white girl near the site of an Empire drive-by shooting, and went to attack her... until he saw she was wearing a shrine maiden's outfit. He stops immediately and that kicks off a lot of changes for the ABB.

* {{Adorkable}}: Taylor, especially when she's playing with Sunny or {{Squee}}ing over meeting Protectorate heroes like Armsmaster and Legend. When [[spoiler: she finds out her father is the Protectorate hero Chessman]], she wonders if she can get ''all'' the autographs.

** Throughout the story, characters have given Taylor and Sunny a gift of a handful of beads or some jewelry, which she has placed in a partitioned box with segments corresponding to the 13 zodiac animals. Time will tell what significance this will play.

*** ??: Kayden.
*** ??: Emma.

* TheManBehindTheMan: Sophia was this for Emma. With her reinforcing the "Hunter-Prey" line, and providing backup in the form of physical strength and numbers, Emma was able to bully Taylor with relatively little stopping her. Once Sophia is caught in her Shadow Stalker outfit, things rapidly go downhill for her. While some of this can be laid at the hands of Taylor getting a character witness and the ABB closing ranks around "Miko," she notably worsens once Sophia is permanently out of the scene, undergoing a minor mental breakdown.

* ApronMatron: The "Baachans", and their willingness to make Taylor know everything about being local Miko.

** It's noted that if you're far enough away, or Sunny isn't paying attention, several members of the Protectorate point out that Sunny is ''way'' too big and clearly not a domestic breed of dog.

* CityOfWeirdos: Yuuta receives absolutely NoSympathy for being bothered by a shrine maiden riding off on a wolf the size of a donkey.
-->'''Souta:''' ''How'' long you lived in the Bay?

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Amaterasu is incredibly friendly and affectionate, but when [[PrideBeforeAFall Lung backhands Taylor]], Amaterasu responds by [[spoiler: smiting him with a literal BoltOfDivineRetribution ...from clear skies.]]

** [[spoiler: Another occasion is when she goes after Skidmark and the Merchants for attacking the Hebert household]] Let's just say the sun that morning was less warming and more oppressive.

* ChekhovsGift: Throughout the story, characters have given Taylor and Sunny a gift of a handful of beads, which she has placed in a partitioned box with segments corresponding to the 13 zodiac animals. Time will tell what significance this will play.
** Nezumi, the rat: Oni Lee.
** Ondori, the rooster: Mrs. Henrick, her neighbour.
** Inoshishi, the boar: Baachan, Yuuta's grandmother.
** Saru, the monkey: Haru, Yuuta and Souta.
** Earlier in the story, Danny is given a beautifully painted chimera model by Taylor. When Merchants attack his house, he uses it to fend them off.

* GetOut: [[spoiler: What happens to Skidmark after he gets Sunshine on his case: she drags him to the highway, [[BulletDancing shoots some ink bullets at his feet]], and basically runs him out of town.]]

* MadnessMantra: "Tea time is courtesy time."
** After learning this from the Baachans, Taylor repeats this over and over in her head during the 4-way meeting between herself, the ABB, the PRT, and Purity at the shrine to get through it without losing herself to panic.

** Lung finds that Oni Lee has managed to defy him in one way- the tea ceremony that Taylor was taught for this particular occasion will force him to be in the Sieza position for ''four hours,'' demonstrating his displeasure with his boss' former lack of any politeness. [[TheStoic Or Oni Lee genuinely didn't see a problem with this as he has frankly inhuman levels of patience.]] Lung's not sure which.

* SurvivalMantra: Or Sanity Mantra in this case: Taylor has to repeat "Tea time is courtesy time" to herself to reassure herself that nothing will go wrong. Given the procession of insanity that is her life now, it's not surprising.

* TraumaCongaLine: Things really haven't been going Emma's way at all. She was mugged, almost killed, latched on to her rescuer Sophia as her new friend, abandoned and turned on her old friend Taylor to prove her strength, had her bullying confronted by the ABB, [[spoiler: suddenly had Sophia removed when her CharacterWitness came under scrutiny]], tried to find a new friend in Karen, [[spoiler: only to find out that Karen was a [[{{Youkai}} Jorogumo]] wanting to eat her]]. [[spoiler: Yuuta befriending her after rescuing her from said Jorogumo]] and not abandoning her was the first good thing that happened to her for a while, and it's taking some time for her to rearrange her thoughts.

* TsuchigumoAndJorogumo: A jorougumo shows up, manipulating and trying to eat Emma Barnes, and is promptly exorcised by some ofuda that Sunny/Ameratsu had had Taylor make in the lead-up to Halloween.