"Uh, hey," Taylor greeted sheepishly as she let herself into the loft.

Willow smiled at her. "Oh hey. Um, I thought you had school."

"I changed my mind," Taylor admitted.


"The whole point of being supervillains is we can do whatever the frilly heck we want," Demesne declared, resolve face in full effect despite her mask, "and if what we want is to rescue puppies, then we're gonna rescue some dang puppies!"


(So, since I've decided to pull back from fan fiction in favor of my work of original fiction, Solace, which will begin updating at chaeral dot wordpress dot com soon, this story is very unlikely to be further updated.)

Taylor and the Soobiesiders is hereby up for adoption!

If some among you should like to take this idea and run with it yourselves, consider this blanket permission to take this premise off my hands.

Below, I'll be dropping some notes. I by no means insist, should you adopt Taylor and the Scoobiesiders, that you follow them, but I thought I'd toss them into the light of day regardless.


Things I may have had Taylor do with her power:

Store useful inactive DNA sequences in bacteria in a sand-grain-sized cyst at the back of her neck.

Once she trusts the Undersiders, she talks Xander and Cordelia into the same bionetic upgrades she has.

Lots of plant-themed biotech, like seed-blasters with hilariously varied ammo that Taylor only pretends is limited.

In a desperate-enough situation, Taylor is actually driven to melt someone for biomass, despite promising herself and the others she wouldn't ever do that.

Even further, to survive a fatal injury, Taylor could grab a random enemy thug and use his/her biomass to completely overwrite the thug with a complete copy of herself. By the same token, she can go all Agent Smith or swap minds around between bodies if she ever had a reason to. She can't store a consciousness for later unless she takes a physical brain with her - she only has normal memory even for power stuff. She can't use her powers on copies of herself should she allow multiple instances of herself to exist, because Manton Effect.

How the power swap affected the Dallons:

First and foremost, Glory Girl is in a very different situation. Without a healer sister, she was arrested for excessive force early on, and is now in the Wards in much the same situation as Shadow Stalker, who she actually gets along with much to the rest of the team's dismay. They acknowledge that GG manages to get along with SS but they're damned if they know how... etc.

Amy is, if anything, even more self-loathing, but paradoxically happier despite that. She isn't creative enough to imagine how effective her bug-control powers could be, and she doesn't want to be. Even if she sees herself as a disgusting bug-liking creepy incestuous pervert who wants nothing more than to hide as deep in her sister's shadow as she can (especially when her family forces her to dress up pretty and play with butterflies for the cameras), she also sees herself as weak and useless and therefore not a threat. Unlike canon Amy, she isn't afraid of herself.

How Insight is not Tattletale:

Xander got a different power that Lisa of the same shard, but there are some similarities. He doesn't have a "too much information" problem during sex. Instead, he has a whole different problem. His powers retroactively trigger the Westermarck Effect. For everyone. It's not insurmountable. He can overcome it, but he has to decide he wants to.

Should the bank robbery play out, I'd intended him to be much more sympathetic to Amy... but because of the above issue, he doesn't quite get on a gut level how big a deal Amy's secret attraction is to her, so he barely hesitates to lay into GG about her inadvertent mind-raping of Amy... and mostly focuses on how GG gets more attention, more support, more love. He hits GG with the fact that she not only basically mindraped her sister, but her aura's effect on her family has drawn all the focus towards her and away from Amy. Amy is unloved by anyone, Amy is miserable, and it's all GG's fault. (An overstatement, but it's a reason-you-suck speech, so yeah.)

Tara Maclay!

Yes, there was going to be Tara in this story. My plan was for her to get Imp's shard, but instead of a Stranger power, she'd get a Thinker/Master power. Tara would have the Thinker ability to see how much attention is being directed at a person or object at a glance, and the nature of that attention at a closer look, and the Master ability to make any particular object or person supernaturally attention-grabbing. I was gonna have her codename be Seelie.


The flip-side:

Meanwhile, in the Buffy universe...

Buffy moves to Sunnydale and makes a new friend named Lisa, who's actually psychic.

Instead of a vampire with a soul, there's a darkness-powered demon called a 'grue' that introduces himself to Buffy as "Brian."

Or something like that.


Taylor and the Scoobiesiders
UP FOR ADOPTION