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Part 1 of Love, Hunger, Bloodlust and other Human Fulcrums
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2025-03-27
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2026-04-13
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This is normal (right?) or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Zizbomb

Summary:

For Taylor Hebert, aspiring independent hero, having one of the worst powers ever is honestly one of the best things to ever happen to her, aside from meeting her best friend of course.

This is because in a world where strength is punished, those who can afford to go all-out are juggernauts.

This gives her the rare privilege of being able to walk in her personal role-model's foosteps, while dealing with juggling schoolwork, relationships, nemeses who she DEFINITELY doesn't have crushes on, bullies, being a teenager with (ugh) emotions and her odd knack for being at exactly the wrong place at exactly the wrong time.

She's a perfectly normal teenage superhero!
...right?

Chapter 1: We all look at the same stars, in the end

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They say it started with Conceptus, Ach-na-Creige and Nod.

But they’re wrong.

It ended with them.

It started, for me at least, with my two best friends in the whole world at the time. Meta, and Emma Barnes.

Emma fucking Barnes.

Is it weird I still consider her a friend?

Probably.

Probably belies something deeply wrong with me, if I’m being honest, given everything she did, that I can’t even bring myself to feel betrayed.

But I’m getting ahead of myself. Because weirdly enough, starting at the beginning is getting ahead of myself.

So let’s start somewhere completely fucking random. Let’s start at…