A young girl without a past or name wakes alone in a dirty alley within a disreputable section of New Orleans. Cold, hungry, confused and scared she tried to find someone who might be able to answer the question of who she was, unsuccessfully. Instead she is found by Jess, a relativity unknown parahuman thief. From there, Renée enters the world of capes, on her own terms.

The Master of Death is a dangerous title; many would claim to hold a position greater than Death. Harry is pulled to Middle-earth by the Witch King of Angmar in an attempt to bring Morgoth back to Arda. A year later Angmar falls and Harry is freed. What will he do with the eternity granted to him? Story begins 1000 years before LotR. Eventual major canon divergence.

The world first saw Harry Bailey in a photo kneeling on a road before the Endbringer the Simurgh. The Simurgh's psychic scream drove entire cities mad. In Harry, it woke something else entirely. He never told the heroes what happened. After all, how could a young boy explain memories he could not possibly have, of a powerful, ancient sorcerer from a universe that preceded his own?

Who needs to be a hero? Taylor gets a sniper rifle and delusions of grandeur.

Time marches forever on. Towers turn to ash and men to dust. The greatest of creations, though, weather the unstoppable wash of years. Elders teach the young and the young go on to build ever-greater works. Those who learn to stand upon the shoulders of giants can see unimagined wonders. Altpower. Fusion.

From a place of suffering, she reached out. A connection was forged by necessity. Now she Dreams of unreal things. Of being a Hero. (OR: Taylor Hebert mains Titania)

Taylor awakens, covered in blood and bereft of her memories, to a Brockton Bay rocked by Leviathan. Rendered little more than an extremely effective killing machine, she must navigate through this cesspit of a city in order to find herself - and anything she may have left behind in a previous life. Logan!Taylor, AU.