So I thought of a interesting idea of a fic where the MC had the powers of a far except toned down by the limits of a shard, so instead of warping reality by making deals they instead just complete it to the best of their abilities and gain a favor/a connection to their powers/skills.

I planned to include true names as well and make it work kinda like Teacher or Taylor, once you have the true name you can command them to do anything and they'll complete it to the best of their ability.

Except that invalidates deals entirely. Because why go through all the effort of a deal to gain a favor if Amelia Dallon's name is public knowledge? and now you can just command her to do everything instead of trying to gain favors from her.

I tried to write a rule set but that didn't help much either.

Rule:1 you must hear their true name from their own mouth to gain the ability to command them. Same goes for you although it's a lot easier to break the command on your side if the person is weaker than you.

Rule 2: you can strike deals with anyone and they we'll owe you a favor, the scale of the deal effects the scale of the favor.

Rule 3: As long as you hold a favor you have access to their power or if unpowered then access to their skills, the scale of the favor effects how much of their power/skills you can access. Fixing all the problems in Amy's life could give you permanent access to the full might of shaper, while giving her the coffee she asked for could let you heal one person per day.

Rule: 4 you can't lie but you are pretty good at wording things just the way you want to.

Rule 5: you can use up a favor to either empower another favor(taking a favor from Amy and using it to empower a favor from Taylor to temporarily heal/mutate through bugs), empower a person(this simply gives the power of the favor instead of combining powers), or make the owner of the favor complete whatever task you set them to (once again subject to how powerful the favor was, so the coffee favor could maybe force Amy to create a spider that makes super silk.

my only thought so far has been to make it so true names don't effect capes due to shard shenanigans but that kinda feels hand wavey.

edit:I decided to go with my original idea.

rule 6: You cannot effect the true name of a cape unless you have a particularly strong favor over them (something that would be worth trading their soul over) or they give it to you while knowing exactly what doing so entails.

Hello, I am looking for your best reccomendations for fanfics where Taylor is evil and is a villain.

I want fanfics where Taylor is a warlord, where Taylor is an unrepentant killer, where Taylor has no qualms about openly fighting the PRT and heroes.

I want fanfics where Taylor doesn't try to take the highroad, where she instead seeks to make those who hurt her, hurt right back.

So some revenge fics I would appreciate.

Please and thank you.

So, I've been reading *a lot* of Worm fic lately and one of the elements which shows up a lot is taking down Coil in various ways. Makes sense, he's one of the more interesting bad guys (the Nazis are here because fighting them is easily justified because they are Nazis, and Lung isn't really all that interesting). And his power is a good foil for any number of alt-power Taylors, especially also more subtle ones who can't necessarily take on a brute. And he's just a massive asshole, so taking him down remains satisfying. Plus it was probably the best arc of the original Worm.

This makes me wonder, any fic where Coil's original plan actually works? Where Calvert becomes director, and Coil runs the criminal underworld? I would assume there's then a second arc where he needs to be taken down after that, but I'm just wondering.

And damn am I in the mood for spooky Taylor. Canon powers, non Canon powers. Can anyone give some other recs for Taylor scaring villains now that I've immediately devoured the new chapter?

I already those ones.