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* TheCavalry: Taylor, Bulwark, and the PRT are the Cavalry for [[spoiler: Aisha, when she is attacked by the Empire]].
* ChildByRape: Squealer's TeenPregnancy was caused by the mayor of her small down committing [[PaedoHunt Statutory Rape]].
* ChildByRape: Squealer's TeenPregnancy was caused by the mayor of her small down committing [[PaedoHunt Statutory Rape]].
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* TheCavalry: Taylor, Bulwark, and the PRT are the Cavalry for [[spoiler: Aisha, [[spoiler:Aisha, when she is attacked by the Empire]].
* ChildByRape: Squealer's TeenPregnancy was caused by the mayor of her smalldown town committing [[PaedoHunt Statutory Rape]].statutory rape]].
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** When Orb Weaver starts questioning Squealer about her backstory, she suddenly blurts out "[[DepartmentOfChildDisservices THEY DIDN'T EVEN LET ME HOLD HER AFTER I'D HAD HER]]!" and breaks down crying. Taylor ''promptly'' has a change of plans and decides to give Squealer a HeelFaceTurn.
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** When Orb Weaver starts questioning Squealer about her backstory, she suddenly blurts out "[[DepartmentOfChildDisservices THEY DIDN'T EVEN LET ME HOLD HER AFTER I'D HAD HER]]!" HER!]]" and breaks down crying. Taylor ''promptly'' has a change of plans and decides to give Squealer a HeelFaceTurn.
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* YouHaveFailedMe: Kaiser personally executes the idiot who thought [[spoiler: attempting to murder a Ward's sister]] was a good idea.
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* YouHaveFailedMe: Kaiser personally executes the idiot who thought [[spoiler: attempting [[spoiler:attempting to murder a Ward's sister]] was a good idea.
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* GiantSpider: Taylor has thousands of bugs assemble into a giant spider-shaped mass, invoking this trope, to be Orb Weaver's "True Form" during [[spoiler: her rescue of Greg and Mr. Lake from an Empire initiation]].
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** Taylor has a minor one when Greg [[spoiler: gets kidnapped by Empire 88, to get beaten up in an initiation ritual]]. Mr. and Mrs. Veder have a much bigger reaction [[spoiler: when their son goes missing, and then when Orb Weaver shows up after Greg is safely returned home]].
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Lung would normally rather not be caught dead working with [[spoiler: Cauldron, since Contessa was responsible for his Trigger Event. However, Lung apparently considers Empire 88 enough of a threat to ''contact Doctor Mother and obtain Cauldron vials'' for his lieutenants]].
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Lung would normally rather not be caught dead working with [[spoiler: Cauldron, since Contessa was responsible for his Trigger Event. However, Lung apparently considers Empire 88 enough of a threat to ''contact Doctor Mother and obtain Cauldron vials'' for his lieutenants]].
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* ShoutOut: [[Literature/TheSilmarillion Ungoliant]] is name-dropped as the inspiration for Orb Weaver's "true form".
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* TooDumbToLive: Greg Veder apparently can't shut up with his speculations about various Parahumans in the city, even when the Unwritten Rules would suggest discretion. [[spoiler: This almost gets him beaten up as part of an Empire 88 initiation ritual, but Orb Weaver intervenes in time]].
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* TheWormThatWalks: When Orb Weaver's "True Form" is finally revealed, it's a GiantSpider made of thousands of smaller bugs.
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* AmoralAttorney: Brian and Aisha's mother is consulting a particularly bad lawyer to win custody of Aisha. Taylor decides to set Carol Dallon on the lawyer in retaliation.
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* AmoralAttorney: Brian and Aisha's mother is consulting a particularly bad lawyer to win custody of Aisha.Aisha, or at least drain as much money from everyone as possible. Taylor decides to set Carol Dallon on the lawyer in retaliation.
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** Squealer's StartOfDarkness was caused by one of these. Sherrel Bailey [[TeenPregnancy was a teen mom]] who lost custody of her own baby.
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** Squealer's StartOfDarkness was caused by one of these. Sherrel Bailey [[TeenPregnancy was a teen mom]] who lost custody of her own baby.baby because of bribed officials.
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* FrameUp: Coil frames Aisha for digging up dirt on Empire 88, in an attempt to get her killed. [[spoiler: not only does it not work, she Triggers and joins the wards]].
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* FrameUp: Coil frames Aisha for digging up dirt on Empire 88, in an attempt to get her killed. [[spoiler: not Not only does it not work, she Triggers and joins the wards]].Wards]].
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** The one time Taylor ever got physically into a fight in the entire fic was when [[spoiler: Empire 88 attempted to murder Aisha]].
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* OffscreenKarma: Sherrel Bailey's baby-daddy was later arrested and thrown in prison for [[PaedoHunt "playing hide the cabbage with a 14-year-old intern"]].
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* OffscreenKarma: Sherrel Bailey's baby-daddy was later arrested and thrown in prison for [[PaedoHunt "playing hide the cabbage with a 14-year-old intern"]].intern."]]
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* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: Taylor has two separate Cape personas- Orb Weaver and the Investigator.
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* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: Taylor has two three separate Cape personas- personas: Orb Weaver Weaver, the Investigator, and the Investigator.Exterminator.
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*** And her third, the never-seen Exterminator, an unofficial rogue that cleans a location of vermin for donations.
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** Following their HeelFaceTurns, Mush and Squealer rebrand as Bulwark and [=FireTruck=], respectively.
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** Following their HeelFaceTurns, [[HeelFaceTurn Heel-Face Turns]], Mush and Squealer rebrand as Bulwark and [=FireTruck=], respectively.
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* NoSecretIdentity: [[spoiler: Aisha deliberately decides to be an Open Cape after she Triggers]].
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* CoolBigSis/CoolTeacher: Taylor becomes both Aisha's personal tutor and a surrogate older sister.
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''[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-weavers-web.1081935/#post-91319151 The Weaver's Web]]'' is a ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' fanfic by FabiusMaximus, author of ''Fanfic/MiraculousEscalation''.
One day, after coming home from school, Taylor goes down to the basement to work on her costume, when she comes across her mom's ''ComicBook/TheShadow'' comics. Taylor starts to get ideas on [[TerrorHero how exactly to be a hero]]...
This fic is currently ongoing.
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!!This fanfic contains examples of the following:
* AdaptationalHeroism:
** After Taylor takes down the Merchants, Mush and Squealer [[HeelFaceTurn rebrand as]] the independent Heroes Bulwark and [=FireTruck=].
** Grue is made a Probationary Ward [[spoiler: and Aisha later joins the Wards of her own volition]].
* AdaptationalJerkass:
* AdaptationalNameChange:
** Taylor has [[TwoAliasesOneCharacter two Cape personas]]- the dominant disembodied voice of Orb Weaver, and the submissive in-person presence of The Investigator.
** Following their HeelFaceTurns, Mush and Squealer rebrand as Bulwark and [=FireTruck=], respectively.
** When Grue [[HeelFaceTurn is drafted into the Wards]], he rebrands as Tenebrae.
* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: [[spoiler: Instead of being Imp, Aisha has the ability to create multiple shadowy projections that she can swap places with, like a combination of Crusader and Oni Lee]].
* AgeLift: Sherrel Bailey (AKA Squealer, later rebranding as [=FireTruck=]) is of unspecified age in canon. In this fic she's only 18 years old.
* AmoralAttorney: Brian and Aisha's mother is consulting a particularly bad lawyer to win custody of Aisha. Taylor decides to set Carol Dallon on the lawyer in retaliation.
* BoringButPractical: Rather than big flashy Cape Fights that risk injury and collateral damage, Taylor uses espionage (such as having informants dig up dirt on villains), intimidation, and alerting the authorities to defeat villains.
* TheCavalry: Taylor, Bulwark, and the PRT are the Cavalry for [[spoiler: Aisha, when she is attacked by the Empire]].
* ChildByRape: Squealer's TeenPregnancy was caused by the mayor of her small down committing [[PaedoHunt Statutory Rape]].
* CoolBigSis/CoolTeacher: Taylor becomes both Aisha's personal tutor and a surrogate older sister.
* DepartmentOfChildDisservices:
** Squealer's StartOfDarkness was caused by one of these. Sherrel Bailey [[TeenPregnancy was a teen mom]] who lost custody of her own baby.
** Aisha Laborn is in custody limbo between Brian (who became a Ward after his HeelFaceTurn) and her mother (who is consulting [[AmoralAttorney shady lawyers]]). Taylor decides to tip the scales in Brian's favor by bringing in Carol Dallon.
* EntertaininglyWrong: Tattletale assumes that Orb Weaver is a middle-aged man with decades of experience... which is the persona that Taylor had deliberately crafted.
* {{Expy}}: Taylor deliberately crafts Orb Weaver to be an expy of ''ComicBook/TheShadow''.
* FrameUp: Coil frames Aisha for digging up dirt on Empire 88, in an attempt to get her killed. [[spoiler: not only does it not work, she Triggers and joins the wards]].
* GodzillaThreshold:
** Taylor created the persona of the Investigator so that she had a backup in case things went so bad that she had to personally intervene, such as when she had to contact Carrol Dallon to investigate an AmoralAttorney.
** The one time Taylor ever got physically into a fight in the entire fic was when [[spoiler: Empire 88 attempted to murder Aisha]].
* HeelFaceTurn: Squealer and Mush are prompted to do this as a result of meeting Orb Weaver. Grue also has one when he's drafted into the Wards.
* IronicNurseryRhyme: Orb Weaver recites one when interrogating Squealer:
--> ''Sherrel Bailey, Sherrel Bailey,''
--> ''Found a man [[TeenPregnancy and made a baby]],''
--> ''Nobody believed, everone lied,''
--> ''[[DepartmentOfChildDisservices Took her baby and then she died]]...''
--> ''Sherrel Bailey died, didn't she, Squealer?''
** This rhyme ends up prompting the WhamLine that in turn caused Squealer's HeelFaceTurn.
* NoSecretIdentity: [[spoiler: Aisha deliberately decides to be an Open Cape after she Triggers]].
* OffscreenKarma: Sherrel Bailey's baby-daddy was later arrested and thrown in prison for [[PaedoHunt "playing hide the cabbage with a 14-year-old intern"]].
* OhCrap:
** Villains who get a visit from [[TerrorHero Orb Weaver]] tend to have a VillainousBreakdown before they get defeated and arrested.
** Madison Clements has one over the prospect of going to Prison.
** Taylor herself has one when Squealer breaks down crying over [[DepartmentOfChildDisservices losing her baby]].
** Brian has one when Tattletale starts hanging out with Aisha.
** Taylor also has one when [[spoiler: the Empire attempts to murder Aisha, and Aisha Triggers as a result]].
** Brian also has one when he finds out about [[spoiler: Aisha's Trigger Event]].
* PaedoHunt: Sherrel Bailey [[TeenPregnancy got pregnant as a teenager]] after being coerced into sex with the mayor of her town. Said mayor was later arrested for having sex with a 14-year-old intern.
* PetTheDog: Orb Weaver ''immediately'' changes plans from arresting Squealer to prompting her HeelFaceTurn after Sherrel breaks down crying over [[DepartmentOfChildDisservices her baby having been taken away]].
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Sherrel Bailey moves to New York City after her HeelFaceTurn.
* StartOfDarkness: Squealer's was when [[TeenPregnancy she had a baby as a teenager]] [[DepartmentOfChildDisservices and was denied custody of her child]].
--> Orb Weaver's informant: ''"And Sherrel Bailey got knocked up and'' claimed ''it was the local mayor. Community closes ranks, bad seed, she delivers the child, parents disown her.. and next week she's in the Bay driving a truckosaurus, right before she runs into Skidmark."''
* SweetPollyOliver: Orb Weaver is presumed by everyone as male. Even Taylor refers to Orb Weaver with masculine pronouns.
* TalkingToThemself: Taylor stages convesations between herself as the Investigator and herself as Orb Weaver, to prevent anyone from realizing she is both.
* TeenPregnancy: Squealer's [[StartOfDarkness backstory]] involves her being a teen mom as a result of sexual coersion by [[PaedoHunt her hometown's mayor]].
* TerrorHero: Taylor deliberately crafts Orb Weaver to be this.
* TheVoice: Taylor uses her ability to speak through bugs to make Orb Weaver a disembodied voice.
* TraumaButton: Taylor deliberately mashes Squealer's- her TeenPregnancy and loss of custody over the baby- in order to get her to submit. Sherrel's breaking down crying prompts Taylor to give her a HeelFaceTurn instead.
* {{Troll}}: Aisha has this as her personality, as usual. [[spoiler: Exploits this after her Trigger Event when she uses her powers to annoy the PRT]].
* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: Taylor has two separate Cape personas- Orb Weaver and the Investigator.
* WhamLine: Two in consecutive chapters, both involving Squealer.
** When Orb Weaver's informant provides dirt on Squealer:
--> ''Okay, first of all, I got her DOB. She's 18.''
** When Orb Weaver starts questioning Squealer about her backstory, she suddenly blurts out "[[DepartmentOfChildDisservices THEY DIDN'T EVEN LET ME HOLD HER AFTER I'D HAD HER]]!" and breaks down crying. Taylor ''promptly'' has a change of plans and decides to give Squealer a HeelFaceTurn.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Kaiser personally executes the idiot who thought [[spoiler: attempting to murder a Ward's sister]] was a good idea.
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One day, after coming home from school, Taylor goes down to the basement to work on her costume, when she comes across her mom's ''ComicBook/TheShadow'' comics. Taylor starts to get ideas on [[TerrorHero how exactly to be a hero]]...
This fic is currently ongoing.
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!!This fanfic contains examples of the following:
* AdaptationalHeroism:
** After Taylor takes down the Merchants, Mush and Squealer [[HeelFaceTurn rebrand as]] the independent Heroes Bulwark and [=FireTruck=].
** Grue is made a Probationary Ward [[spoiler: and Aisha later joins the Wards of her own volition]].
* AdaptationalJerkass:
* AdaptationalNameChange:
** Taylor has [[TwoAliasesOneCharacter two Cape personas]]- the dominant disembodied voice of Orb Weaver, and the submissive in-person presence of The Investigator.
** Following their HeelFaceTurns, Mush and Squealer rebrand as Bulwark and [=FireTruck=], respectively.
** When Grue [[HeelFaceTurn is drafted into the Wards]], he rebrands as Tenebrae.
* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: [[spoiler: Instead of being Imp, Aisha has the ability to create multiple shadowy projections that she can swap places with, like a combination of Crusader and Oni Lee]].
* AgeLift: Sherrel Bailey (AKA Squealer, later rebranding as [=FireTruck=]) is of unspecified age in canon. In this fic she's only 18 years old.
* AmoralAttorney: Brian and Aisha's mother is consulting a particularly bad lawyer to win custody of Aisha. Taylor decides to set Carol Dallon on the lawyer in retaliation.
* BoringButPractical: Rather than big flashy Cape Fights that risk injury and collateral damage, Taylor uses espionage (such as having informants dig up dirt on villains), intimidation, and alerting the authorities to defeat villains.
* TheCavalry: Taylor, Bulwark, and the PRT are the Cavalry for [[spoiler: Aisha, when she is attacked by the Empire]].
* ChildByRape: Squealer's TeenPregnancy was caused by the mayor of her small down committing [[PaedoHunt Statutory Rape]].
* CoolBigSis/CoolTeacher: Taylor becomes both Aisha's personal tutor and a surrogate older sister.
* DepartmentOfChildDisservices:
** Squealer's StartOfDarkness was caused by one of these. Sherrel Bailey [[TeenPregnancy was a teen mom]] who lost custody of her own baby.
** Aisha Laborn is in custody limbo between Brian (who became a Ward after his HeelFaceTurn) and her mother (who is consulting [[AmoralAttorney shady lawyers]]). Taylor decides to tip the scales in Brian's favor by bringing in Carol Dallon.
* EntertaininglyWrong: Tattletale assumes that Orb Weaver is a middle-aged man with decades of experience... which is the persona that Taylor had deliberately crafted.
* {{Expy}}: Taylor deliberately crafts Orb Weaver to be an expy of ''ComicBook/TheShadow''.
* FrameUp: Coil frames Aisha for digging up dirt on Empire 88, in an attempt to get her killed. [[spoiler: not only does it not work, she Triggers and joins the wards]].
* GodzillaThreshold:
** Taylor created the persona of the Investigator so that she had a backup in case things went so bad that she had to personally intervene, such as when she had to contact Carrol Dallon to investigate an AmoralAttorney.
** The one time Taylor ever got physically into a fight in the entire fic was when [[spoiler: Empire 88 attempted to murder Aisha]].
* HeelFaceTurn: Squealer and Mush are prompted to do this as a result of meeting Orb Weaver. Grue also has one when he's drafted into the Wards.
* IronicNurseryRhyme: Orb Weaver recites one when interrogating Squealer:
--> ''Sherrel Bailey, Sherrel Bailey,''
--> ''Found a man [[TeenPregnancy and made a baby]],''
--> ''Nobody believed, everone lied,''
--> ''[[DepartmentOfChildDisservices Took her baby and then she died]]...''
--> ''Sherrel Bailey died, didn't she, Squealer?''
** This rhyme ends up prompting the WhamLine that in turn caused Squealer's HeelFaceTurn.
* NoSecretIdentity: [[spoiler: Aisha deliberately decides to be an Open Cape after she Triggers]].
* OffscreenKarma: Sherrel Bailey's baby-daddy was later arrested and thrown in prison for [[PaedoHunt "playing hide the cabbage with a 14-year-old intern"]].
* OhCrap:
** Villains who get a visit from [[TerrorHero Orb Weaver]] tend to have a VillainousBreakdown before they get defeated and arrested.
** Madison Clements has one over the prospect of going to Prison.
** Taylor herself has one when Squealer breaks down crying over [[DepartmentOfChildDisservices losing her baby]].
** Brian has one when Tattletale starts hanging out with Aisha.
** Taylor also has one when [[spoiler: the Empire attempts to murder Aisha, and Aisha Triggers as a result]].
** Brian also has one when he finds out about [[spoiler: Aisha's Trigger Event]].
* PaedoHunt: Sherrel Bailey [[TeenPregnancy got pregnant as a teenager]] after being coerced into sex with the mayor of her town. Said mayor was later arrested for having sex with a 14-year-old intern.
* PetTheDog: Orb Weaver ''immediately'' changes plans from arresting Squealer to prompting her HeelFaceTurn after Sherrel breaks down crying over [[DepartmentOfChildDisservices her baby having been taken away]].
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Sherrel Bailey moves to New York City after her HeelFaceTurn.
* StartOfDarkness: Squealer's was when [[TeenPregnancy she had a baby as a teenager]] [[DepartmentOfChildDisservices and was denied custody of her child]].
--> Orb Weaver's informant: ''"And Sherrel Bailey got knocked up and'' claimed ''it was the local mayor. Community closes ranks, bad seed, she delivers the child, parents disown her.. and next week she's in the Bay driving a truckosaurus, right before she runs into Skidmark."''
* SweetPollyOliver: Orb Weaver is presumed by everyone as male. Even Taylor refers to Orb Weaver with masculine pronouns.
* TalkingToThemself: Taylor stages convesations between herself as the Investigator and herself as Orb Weaver, to prevent anyone from realizing she is both.
* TeenPregnancy: Squealer's [[StartOfDarkness backstory]] involves her being a teen mom as a result of sexual coersion by [[PaedoHunt her hometown's mayor]].
* TerrorHero: Taylor deliberately crafts Orb Weaver to be this.
* TheVoice: Taylor uses her ability to speak through bugs to make Orb Weaver a disembodied voice.
* TraumaButton: Taylor deliberately mashes Squealer's- her TeenPregnancy and loss of custody over the baby- in order to get her to submit. Sherrel's breaking down crying prompts Taylor to give her a HeelFaceTurn instead.
* {{Troll}}: Aisha has this as her personality, as usual. [[spoiler: Exploits this after her Trigger Event when she uses her powers to annoy the PRT]].
* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: Taylor has two separate Cape personas- Orb Weaver and the Investigator.
* WhamLine: Two in consecutive chapters, both involving Squealer.
** When Orb Weaver's informant provides dirt on Squealer:
--> ''Okay, first of all, I got her DOB. She's 18.''
** When Orb Weaver starts questioning Squealer about her backstory, she suddenly blurts out "[[DepartmentOfChildDisservices THEY DIDN'T EVEN LET ME HOLD HER AFTER I'D HAD HER]]!" and breaks down crying. Taylor ''promptly'' has a change of plans and decides to give Squealer a HeelFaceTurn.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Kaiser personally executes the idiot who thought [[spoiler: attempting to murder a Ward's sister]] was a good idea.
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