Taylor Hebert

The world is a gritty and dark place where individuals with superhuman abilities, known as parahumans, live amongst regular humans. The story is set in a dystopian future where parahumans are a part of everyday life, and their presence has drastically changed society.

The city of Brockton Bay is a major location and it serves as a microcosm of the larger world. The city is plagued by crime, corruption, and conflict as various factions of parahumans battle for control and influence.

The government has established the PRT (Parahuman Response Team) to regulate and monitor parahuman activity, but their efforts are often hampered by internal politics and external threats. with a wide range of parahuman powers and abilities on display. From super strength and enhanced durability to telekinesis and mind control, the powers of parahumans vary widely and often come with significant drawbacks and limitations.

Parahumans gain their abilities through trigger events, traumatic experiences that unlock latent powers within them. These powers often come with limitations or drawbacks, adding complexity to the characters and their struggles.

The society impacted by the presence of parahumans. Superpowered individuals are both feared and revered, with many parahumans operating as heroes, villains, or mercenaries. The balance of power is constantly shifting, with alliances forming and dissolving, and betrayals and double-crosses common occurrences. where violence and betrayal are common, and the line between hero and villain is often blurred.

Taylor Anne Hebert was born in June 1995, arguably on the 12th (i.e., a week before the 19th) or the 11th (i.e., about a week before the 19th and the date Worm began). Growing up, Taylor's parents showed concern for her safety. They warned her to stay on the Boardwalk and avoided the bad part of town, a command she scrupulously obeyed. When she was around five or six, she saw a meth addict freak out on the bus, making enough of a ruckus that the driver had to stop and force him off. This fright permanently affected her. Her mother, Annette Rose Hebert, died in a car crash later attributed to texting while driving. As a result of the incident, Taylor becomes closed off and rigid. Her previously strong friendship with Emma Barnes became strained due to this change, but it still served as an emotional pillar. A year and a half before the story begins, just before they enter high school, Emma unexpectedly abandoned Taylor to befriend Sophia Hess and later Madison Clements. The Trio then began aggressively bullying Taylor, including one event in early January that causes Taylor to trigger. They send her vicious e-mails, upend trash over her desk, and steal her mother's flute from her locker. Others join in, ‘accidentally’ skipping her when passing out assignments and adding their own voices to the taunts and emails. Taylor begins lying low in the bathrooms during lunch and comes to view it as "refuge ... a place I could retreat to, a place where I was off their radar." In January 2011, she arrived back at school to find her locker had been filled with used pads and tampons, and then someone shoved her inside. She triggered after enough time had passed to realise no one who'd seen what happened was trying to help, and was found by a janitor almost a day later. While she recovered in hospital she was visited by the PRT in case she had triggered. She was overwhelmed by the sensory input of her power and notice. Later she then decides be a hero know as Skitter.

The city of Brockton Bay is a vividly depicted urban environment, with a detailed history and a rich tapestry of neighborhoods and communities. The city is plagued by underlying social issues such as poverty, crime, and prejudice, which are exacerbated by the presence of parahumans and their conflicts. The architecture and geography of Brockton Bay provide a vivid backdrop for the action, with key locations such as the Protectorate headquarters, the PRT building, the Undersiders, the three main gangs, Azn Bad Boyz, Empire 88, and the merchants.

Taylor possesses a form of telepathy that transmits and recieves information (Like seeing through the bugs eyes) that grants her total control over most arthropods. So although she usually controls a variety of insects, she can also control a number sea creatures such as Crabs, Lobsters, and Krill, some Mollusca like slugs and snails, and can even control certain in-body parasites such as heartworms. She uses them to make material of her costume.Taylor has come up with a multitude of creative uses of her power. For example, she can produce and manipulate large quantities of spider silk, coat her insects in petroleum jelly and capsaicin to use them like pepper spray, deploy groups of bugs to create humanoid figures,[180][181] mask her movements, and clear out rat infestations. She was able to catch containment foam on glass carried by her bugs and stick it to her attackers. She can disguise or project her voice by having her insects buzz and chirp together. she learned how to read braille so that she could read with her bugs.

Taylor in general is a very observant person, always looking and studying. then proceeds to the next, making Taylor a quiet and shy person. Due to her mother passing and her Friend, Emma rejecting her and bullying her brutally when highschool started. Taylor becomes extremely antisocial and untrusting of people. Making her extremely touch starve. It's because of her being bullied that Taylor is extremely self-conscious of herself, mainly of her femininity. regularly spending time in front of a mirror, fixating on the flaws and things she didn't like about herself to the point where she would see a stranger in her reflection. She would always stress over choosing her clothes. Making her anxious to be near people, worrying if she she smells bad or has bad breath. It also doesn't help she is poor, making her wear second-hand clothing or worrying about money. all these issues that pile on her, she doesn't enjoy living and focus on surviving life. just getting by. Though she likes reading many types of books and cooking. she does have a slight perverted side to herself.

Taylor Is tall for most girls about six-foot-two, slightly thin, young woman with long, curly black hair and glasses. She had a thin-lipped, wide, expressive mouth she inherited from her mother, and her large brown eyes (wanted her dad’s green eye color) and gawky figure that made her look a lot like her father. but she does have small curves. if you can get that personal with her. Taylor usually wears darks clothes and doesn't show much skin, she usually wears a dark sweatshirt and black baggy pants or jeans. but she will other type clothes that are comfortable to her, usually cheap ones.

As Skitter, Taylor wore various costumes made of spider silk. Initially, she wears a skin tight black-and-grey spider silk bodysuit with armor panels made out of insect shells and exoskeletons augmented with more spider silk. She dyes it black with grey paneling before she goes out.

The yellow lenses of her mask are durable, high-end swim goggles tinted to help filter out bright lights, with lenses from an old pair of her glasses sealed inside with silicon. Her mask leaves the back of her head uncovered and her hair free to fly behind her.

The costume lacks the full extent of the armor paneling she planned, including protection for the back of her head, but the armor covers her face, chest, spine, stomach and major joints (including wrists, shoulders, elbows and knees). Each had "layers" resembling a pillbug. The mask design features dull yellow lenses and sections of armor designed to imitate a bug’s mandibles. She kept her costume clean by having bugs eat and clean any waste and wiping it down with a cloth.

The spider-silk fabric is too tough to cut with an x-acto knife, although it can be slowly cut through using wire cutters. It was mostly waterproof. Prior to dying, the costume's prototype had fabric that was a dirty yellow-gray color, and the armor was naturally a dark mottled brown-gray.