History Fanfic / OutcryLD1449

* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Alsanna neutralizes Nadalia long enough for Eidolon to save Taylor.]]

* BittersweetEnding: The end of Arc 5 boils down to this for Taylor. [[spoiler:Coil's dead, but she's got a body count in the triple digits and was forced to work with the PRT even after they lied to her about Sophia. She basically sums it up as being an attack dog on what amounts to a very short leash, and then she has to be around Emma, who she learns triggered. And that's not even getting into the problems with her own powers...]]

* BrutalHonesty: Yamada points out that Taylor doesn't even trust her father since he never recovered from his wife's death.

* CastingAShadow: Darklurker.

* CoolVersusAwesome: [[spoiler:Lung in dragon form vs Surtr/Raime.]]
** [[spoiler: Legend and Eidolon vs Darklurker.]]

* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler:Raime/Surtr plowed through ''everyone'' the PRT threw at him until Nadalia decided to call him back and let them retreat in shame the first time. And, in Armsmaster's case, this was rather literal in that it cracked his skull and put him in a coma.]]

* DeadPersonImpersonation: Nadalia adopts the form of an ashen Annette Hebert, initially to deceive Taylor. Eventually, however, she... [[MamaBear sort of settles into the role]].

* DoppelgangerAttack: Darklurker.

* EldritchLocation: [[spoiler:The Abyss.]]

* HomingProjectile: Eidolon and Darklurker in [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/posts/4765610/ 8.7]].

* HorrifyingTheHorror: [[spoiler:Leviathan was freaked the hell out by the monster Taylor became and tried to flee. Keyword being ''tried''.]]

* InstantArmor: Taylor can do this with her ash.

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Aegis and Velocity are killed by Leviathan's Waves in 7.2, and Glory Girl in the next chapter.]]

* LogicalWeakness: Water for Taylor. Ash turns useless when submerged in enough of it, robbing her of most of her control of it. [[spoiler:Then again, enough ash does the same thing to Leviathan's Water Echo.]]

* NoSell: Alexandria is the only one immune to Nadalia's Black Fog. Everyone else, including Legend and Eidolon, suffered through the agonizing pain of the curse until it dissipated.

* OhCrap: Piggot when she realizes that if Coil is aware of Sophia's identity and Taylor's, he could easily set her off. That's exactly what happens.

* PhraseCatcher: Gallant gets this on 3.2 and 6.6.
-->"God damnit Gallant!"

* PowersViaPossession: Taylor's shard is being manipulated by Nadalia, hence why she's got control over ashes. In the event that she senses real danger to Taylor (like Lung going Dragon), she forcibly has Raimes take over or unleash her own power, suppressing Taylor's will in the process.
** [[spoiler:After Outcry she had a "Second Trigger" and her control over ash was further refined.]]

* ThereAreNoTherapists: There's ''supposed'' to be one in Brockton Bay PRT, which Jessica notes. Piggot had been covering the Wards by stating they went to a "Private Psychologist" because they needed to cut the budget after the last one was fired. Not to mention that [[spoiler:Emma]] needed it as well.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:Tattletale. To be fair she didn't really have much choice in the matter what with Coil holding a gun to her head when she started having second thoughts.]]

* WhamLine: [[spoiler:VEEEEEELSTAAAAAAAAAAAAAADT!]]
** From 6.6: [[spoiler:ENDBRINGER.]]
** From 7.3: [[spoiler:The Dark Soul...]]
* WhamEpisode: Chapter 4.1.

* PyrrhicVillainy: Coil got Dinah by the end of Arc 4, but his method of doing so not only burned a hole in his fortune, the collateral damage and manipulation ended up pissing off every hero and villain barring the Travelers into wanting to kill him. [[spoiler:Miss Milita included.]]

(NOTE: This story is being rewritten. Even though the rewrite is similar, this list of tropes applies to the original version, as there are a number of changes and tweaks. Read the rewritten version here at [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/39109824/chapters/97838955/ AO3]].(

* BadDreams: Emma has suffered a number of these since Outcry [[spoiler:because Nadalia is connecting to her dreams through the Dark and tormenting her for what she put Taylor through, and Alsanna was forced to use a great deal of power to push her away. Even then, she warned Emma that ItOnlyWorksOnce.]]
** Taylor has one of [[spoiler:Brume Tower, Raime and Nadalia's resting place. It freaks her out so bad her room is over 100 degrees and she was calling out to her ashes several miles away on the oil rig.]]

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Miss Militia, meet [[spoiler:Coil]]. [[spoiler:Coil]], meet shotgun.

** On the Sufficient Velocity version text is colored to symbolize certain characters. Nadalia's is grey due to ash(and black red when enraged as seen at outcry), and Alsanna's is a light blue to signify ice. Raime's speech is red to signify his anger and his thoughts ash Grey to show his connection to Nadalia. [[spoiler:Pure Black represents the Dark Soul itself]].

--> '''Taylor:''' I have memories in my head that aren't mine, knowledge of things that I'd have thought impossible. That were impossible.

-->'''Miss Militia''': [[spoiler:“I’ll make an effort not to enjoy this… but I expect you’ll scream. That’ll make it so much harder..."]]

* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler: Taylor gets sent into a big one courtesy of Coil's machinations and Lisa being the unwilling/unwitting instigator. Nadalia taking advantage of the situation to "catch" Taylor as she falls just makes the situation worse.]]

--> '''Mouse Protector (On what the Protectorate thinks):''' “That she’s scary strong. Like, Triumvirate strong. [[HeroKiller Siberian]] strong. The bend-over-kiss-your-ass-and-half-the-city-goodbye-type of strong. Other than that and how you guys got Dragon to make a custom, instant kill room to hold her, we’re not hearing much.”

-->'''Doctor Mother:'''[[spoiler: We stopped you and Eidolon from killing Manton after Hero's death because he might prove useful against Scion. We've given people powers because they might help in the final battle. We allowed the situation in the Bay to escalate because it might have given us useful data. Just as I am acting on the possibility she might be a threat, you two are making your own assumptions! She might be capable of fighting Scion. We might be able to control her. We might be able to help her, the Simurgh might not take control of her. We are all utilizing the same size of brushes to paint these might's and maybe's! So let us cease pretending that any of us are any less blind than the other party! We're all fumbling like fools in the dark.]]

** [[spoiler: And once she grabs the Dark Soul directly, the weakness goes away entirely.]]

-->'''Faultline''': “[[spoiler: Endbringer’s]] just dropped a ''notch'' on the goddamn food chain. Even if I don’t strictly play the heroes and villains game BS that a lot of other parahumans live by, even I can see that the nice, ''safe'' status quo might have just been kicked straight to shit.”

** [[spoiler: Everyone has this, including Leviathan, Alsanna, and Nadalia, after Taylor reacts to Glory Girl's death by grabbing the power of the Dark Soul.]]
** [[spoiler: Aldia, Scholar of the First Sin, is in Earth Bet, and the Simurgh is learning to take into account the Dark's actions.]]

--> "God damnit Gallant"

* PowerIncontinence: [[spoiler: Raime and Nadalia have this issue with regard to Taylor at first. Because they are both so overwhelmingly powerful compared to Taylor their thoughts and feelings start to influence Taylor even without them meaning to. Once Taylor gets stronger and figures out that they are actually there in the first place this stops happening.]] See also EnemyWithin above.

* RageBreakingPoint: [[spoiler: Glory Girl dying before Nadalia could heal her in 7.3 was the last straw for Taylor. She went out and woke up the Dark Soul, despite both Raime and Nadalia telling her not to.]]

-->'''Miss Militia''': [[spoiler:“The [[HumanoidAbomination thing]] wearing Annette Hebert’s face smiled at her.]]

-->[[spoiler:This one was… wrong… off. It was as if the thing behind it was merely mimicking what it had seen, as if it had forgotten how to even begin to make the expression and was unable to emulate what it had seen enough to overcome what it was trying to hide.”]]

--> '''Glenn Chambers:''' No, because my point is that a lot of her most infamous stunts come from that combat style of ‘front line cape’. If you don’t want to have people looking at a mini-Surtr every time they look at her then she needs to hold back on both aspects. Her aesthetic, along with her skills. Right now the story of Surtr being an entirely different cape is holding, and its very tenuous. If you want to divorce yourself from that at all then this is the only way to do it.

** Interlude: Alexandria. [[spoiler: Leviathan dies]]

--> '''Nadalia:''' '''“[=SHe=] iS miNe. [=YoU=] won’T Get to bE heR [=MotHeR=]!”'''

* AnyoneCanDie: Leviathan kills, [[spoiler:Kaiser, Aegis, Velocity, and Glory Girl.]]

* AnArmAndALeg: When [[spoiler:Raime]] comes out, he uses his flaming sword to burn away [[spoiler:Sophia's arms and legs]].

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Coil's final gambit to get Dinah pushed him solely into this position. [[spoiler:He not only broke the unwritten rules by having Trickster unmask Sophia in front of Taylor, but combined with Tattletale's prodding, ambushing the Wards with potentially lethal force, and unleashing Raime/Surtr, you'd probably have a shorter list if you asked who DOESN'T want Coil's head on a platter by the end.]]

* FrickinLaserBeams: Legend and Darklurker are capable of this, but Legends' are capable of abstract things, like a beam to deaden pain and stop blood-loss.

Outcry, available at [[http://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/outcry-dark-souls-2-worm-crossover.10153/ Sufficient Velocity]], [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/outcry-worm-dark-souls-alt-power.324400/ SpaceBattles]], and [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11275811/1/Outcry Fanfiction.net]], is a fanfic by Zaru and [=LD1449=]. It is a crossover between ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' and ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII''.

* GetOut: Piggot, to the Wards in Legend's Interlude. Right before she starts [[IDidWhatIHadToDo tearing into Legend and Rebecca Costa-Brown about why she]] [[NecessaryEvil kept Shadow Stalker despite everything]].

* NecessaryEvil: Piggot saw Sophia as this. She was too useful not to have in the Wards or Protectorate because of her abilities.

-->'''Miss Militia''': [[spoiler:“The [[HumanoidAbomination thing]] wearing Annette Hebert’s face smiled at her.]]\\\
[[spoiler:The smile was… wrong. She’d seen many smiles in her life and could remember each with perfect clarity. She’d seen everything, from the genuine to the false, to the insane.]]\\\
[[spoiler:This one was… wrong… off. It was as if the thing behind it was merely mimicking what it had seen, as if it had forgotten how to even begin to make the expression and was unable to emulate what it had seen enough to overcome what it was trying to hide.”]]
* TheSocialDarwinist: Sophia. As Shadow Stalker, she would only help those who defended themselves first, and leave weaklings to their fate. Emma as well, [[JerkJustifications as if she allowed herself to be seen as weak then she'd be right back where she was when those gangsters cornered her in an alley, whereas if she was strong nothing could hurt her]]. Yamada slowly breaks Emma through being CruelToBeKind combined with her stint in prison.

* StoryBreakerPower: WordOfGod confirms this is why the [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/outcry-worm-dark-souls-alt-power.324400/page-83#post-19127923 Ivory King was not used in the story]].

Outcry, available at [[http://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/outcry-dark-souls-2-worm-crossover.10153/ Sufficient Velocity]], [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/outcry-worm-dark-souls-alt-power.324400/ SpaceBattles]], and [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11275811/1/Outcry Fanfiction.net]], is a fanfic by Zaru and [=LD1449=]. It is a crossover between Literature/{{Worm}} and VideoGame/DarkSoulsII.

* AnIcePerson: [[spoiler:Emma "Triggers", due to a combination of Aisha's prodding and Yamada's therapy shattering her world view of prey and predator to leave her "living in fear", she awakens Alsanna and her powers.]]

--> '''Nadalia:''' '''''“[=SHe=] iS miNe. [=YoU=] won’T Get to bE heR [=MotHeR=]!”'''

* BadDreams: Emma has suffered a number of these since Outcry [[spoiler:because Nadalia is connecting to her dreams through the Dark and tormenting her for what she put Taylor through, and Alsanna had used a great deal of power to push her away then.]]

* GetOut: Piggot, to the Wards in Legend's Interlude. Right before [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome she starts]] [[IDidWhatIHadToDo tearing into Legend and Rebecca Costa-Brown about why she]] [[NecessaryEvil kept Shadow Stalker despite everything]].

-->'''Faultline''': “[[spoiler Endbringer’s]] just dropped a ''notch'' on the goddamn food chain. Even if I don’t strictly play the heroes and villains game BS that a lot of other parahumans live by, even I can see that the nice, ''safe'' status quo might have just been kicked straight to shit.”