Dawn – Timothy Wren

Worm (the setting) terminology:

Triggers: People in this universe ‘trigger’ with a super power on the worst day of their life, also called a trigger event or crisis event.

Capes/Parahumans: people with powers. Split into rogues (unaffiliated), heroes, and villains of various teams or independent status.

PRT: parahuman response team. A government body in charge of parahuman crimes and law enforcement. Handles hero and villain things bureaucratically. Branches in every major city.

Protectorate: A hierarchy of adult heroes overseen by the PRT/working along the PRT. Think ‘Justice League/Avengers’ but lowkey government stooges. Has branches in every major city.

Wards: Junior team for the Protectorate, superpowered persons under 18. Nominally kept out of the big villain fights, practically that depends.

PHO: ParaHumans Online, the penultimate forum for the setting. It’s the main use of the internet for talking about cape stuff.

Endbringers: Three large Kaiju-type horrors that attack from the land, sky or sea every couple of months– Leviathan, Behemoth and the Simurgh. Heroes and villains band together to fend them off, incurring massive losses of life and rendering entire cities across the globe inoperative/sunk/radioactive/quarantined. Think: Pacific Rim. Responsible for the slow apocalypse and decline of society.

Power categories: The PRT makes power categories based on effect. Every parahuman usually has ONE power/set of powers/thematic power, no matter how versatile it may be. Depending on what the power is, it can have multiple classifications.

Master (mind control or controls minions),
Blaster (shooty power),
Shaker (Aura-ish area of effect power),
Changer (shapeshifting),
Breaker (has an powered ‘transformation’; power effectively turns off/on),
Stranger (can conceal presence in some way),
Brute (super durability or strength),
Mover (speed or mobility/maneuverability),
Trump (affects powers of or other capes directly),
Thinker (mental powers/information gathering),
Tinker (builds technology, think: Iron Man),
Striker: (touch-based effect. think: Rouge from X-men).

Power ratings: The PRT also assigns threat levels specifically in conjunction with how many operatives/agents it would take to contain a parahuman. i.e. Master 1, Master 5, Stranger 7. The scale goes up to 10, and rarely above 10 for things that “break the scale.”

Helpful mnemonic: A cute little rhyme for the power classifications is: Mover, Shaker, Brute, Breaker, Master, Tinker, Blaster, Thinker, Striker, Changer, Trump, Stranger.

Brockton Bay: The city Taylor lives in. It’s not a real city in our Earth but is placed in New Jersey by me, roughly where Gotham is in DC comics.

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Taylor’s Powers: In this AU, she has the powers of Orihime from the anime “Bleach”, which you can look into if you want. It manifests like so:

Six Fairies: Hinagiku, Lily, Baigon, Tsubaki, Shun’o, and Ayame.

Sōten Kisshun (双天帰盾, Twin Sacred Return Shield): is Taylor’s “healing” technique. It surrounds something to return it to its former, complete state. It rejects, reverses, and reconstructs phenomena that have occurred, even phenomena that she hasn’t witnessed. The incantation summons Ayame and Shun’ō to form a half-oval barrier around whatever or whomever Taylor wishes.

Santen Kesshun (三天結盾, Three Sacred Links Shield): is Taylor’s defensive technique. It repels attacks by placing a shield between the enemy and target, among other things The incantation arranges Hinagiku, Lily, and Baigon into a triangle or other shape.

French:

Je vais poutain de coucher avec ta femme- I’m going to fucking sleep with your wife.

ma chérie- my darling/sweetheart. Can be romantic or platonic.

tu me mets du baume au cœur- you warm my heart.

ma acharné- my relentless (person)

les petits noms d’amour- petnames, diminutives

mon chéri- my darling/sweetheart, masculine

mon prince- my prince

notre prince- our prince

mon cœur- my heart

ma coéquipière intrépide- my fearless teammate

ma reine- my queen

ma petit– my small/little one

ma luciole- my firefly

Mon mignon- my cutie

Va te faire foutre- fuck you

baise-moi – fuck me

Je ne peut m’empècher de caresser ton corps.- I can’t stop myself from caressing your body

Tu peux bouger ta main droite, mon amour- you can move your right hand, my love

Tu pourrais tenter un saint.- you would tempt a saint

têtue- stubborn/ma tetue- my stubborn one

Intrépide- fearless

Tu es littéralement impossible- you are literally impossible

trésor- treasure/my treasure

Dieu me préserve- god save me/god help me

ma patronne– my bosslady

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Japanese:

Soten Kisshun: Twin Sacred Return Shield. Forcefield, that Taylor refers to as her shield.

Santen Kesshun: Three Sacred Links Shield. A dome-shaped barrier that Taylor refers to as a healing shroud.

Kotodama (言霊) is a Japanese belief system that posits that words and names hold mystical power or spiritual energy. In this case, it’s the phrases Taylor uses to summon her power. Also called ‘spellchant’ in narration.