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    Mostly canon power, with a twist.

    After patrolling with Shadow Stalker, Skitter loses control and is brought into the Wards as a probationary member. It goes exactly as well as you might think. Character-centric.

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    17 Sep 2026

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    When you see Taylor, she sees through you. When you hear her, she hears through you. Everything you do, everything you say - Taylor is watching. Her one-woman crusade against the Empire Eighty-Eight threatens to burn the city to the ground. If only Victoria Dallon would leave her alone.

    (Mama Mathers Alt-Power with extraordinarily slow burn Taylor/Victoria)

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    17 Sep 2026

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    Taylor Hebert is dead.

    Probably.

    She woke after the locker in a version of Brockton Bay Central Library that does not exist, surrounded by books made of data and a city built from networks. As far as Taylor can tell, she is haunting the internet.

    It could be worse, the Library is quiet, and the books are endless. If she ignores the loneliness, she can almost pretend this is peace.

    Then curiosity leads her through a door she was never meant to open, and something vast turns its head.

    Taylor thinks a dragon is hunting her.

    Dragon thinks she has discovered a newborn artificial intelligence—frightened, alone, and running for its life.

    Neither of them understands what Taylor has become. But Dragon has never been very good at leaving frightened children alone.

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    12 Aug 2026

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    It's difficult to imagine how often we appear in the background of other people's lives. How many memories we feature in; how many stories told where we barely rate a mention. Just that girl who tripped over the curb and spilled her coffee. That guy dozing off in the corner of the restaurant. That car that cut that turn closer than they should've.

    Everyone's the hero of their own story, but we're all just extras in everyone else's.

    Everyone, except for me.

    Memory is such a fickle thing, to be so important. Change it, edit it, rearrange it, and who's to say what's real, at all?

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    23 Jul 2026

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    Taylor Hebert's no Shadowrunner, just a talented technomancer who spends her days doing petty Matrix jobs. Then a crew of runners in need of a tech expert reaches out to her with an offer too profitable to refuse, and she discovers that for someone with her gifts, there are much better - and riskier - ways to pay the rent.

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    04 Jul 2026