TLDR EDIT: Awesome story, stayed up til 5am THE NEXT YEAR to finish it (new years day)! TYSM for your hard work on this story. _
Now for the in-depth wordwall vomit of someone who is reviewing at 5am the next morning without sleep:
Okay, a lot of OOC, but then I don't read these for in-character. I LOVED the whole scarab bit with making Taylor into a "tinker", and THAT was actually both believable and in-character af for the actual tinkers in the room. Idk why Wildblow didn't make Taylor into a sham-tinker at some point. Sophia became more and more a caricature of herself, but I did enjoy the sort of "logical conclusion" of her whole twisted mindset. Piggot was a bit TOO NICE, even as she was. Wished there was more Taylia (TaylorAmelia) content, Taylor and Amelia just go well together in any fanfic they're in (romantic or otherwise). Carol/Brandish was almost but not quite a caricature of herself, staying JUST in-character, I don't think she'd go quite that nuts on spilling Taylor's ID, but then being confronted with Tay as The Swarmbringer might very well change that. Carol wasn't exactly a paragon of mental stability. Armsmaster wasn't nearly enough of an asshole, but I kind of liked an actual Nice!master this time, was kind of refreshing!

An intriguing start to what promises to be a interesting story. I have read quite a number of "FanFiction" stories, and many have been enjoyable. It looks like it will likely take a few chapters to get all your main characters and store line fleshed out, but with the hints provided I like where I see this going.

Thanks for sharing!

Heh, Armsmaster likely knows Amy is lying about brains, thanks to that lie detector of his…

Given where his base is located, setting off the self-destruct likely killed more people than the Swarm did. That’s not such a heroic act by the PRT, with that virus of theirs.

Uh oh... My favorite character Dragon just did a murder? Oh no! What ever shall we do?

*Crab Raves*

you think piggot can't use the word rape without stuttering?

What a great story - and what a great little ending there! I really enjoyed reading this.

Poor Sophia... She got into a bad scheme and she didn't know it... She deserves it though...

And that's why I call Coil as bullshit.. He only able to branch out timeline and that makes him like hidden boss! If its Tattletale or Contessa, I will say its appropriate... But damn, coil really good in using his power..

Man... They send the wrong person to ask Sophia...

pretty sure dragon's programming would stop her from doing what you implied, but still an interesting read overall. any chance of a sequel?

now why did you have to go and kill bitch and tattletale? I actually like them. mostly indifferent to grue and rege6.

curious as to why you stuck hess with the undersiders rather than the travellers.

...you have to be a soldier to be court martialed, so that's bullshit, but requiring a security clearance is at least somewhat plausible. though I thought you were going with a terrorism angle rather than espionage.

also completely in character for brandish. and the rest of the adult members of new wave. case in point, marquis.

...interrogating her without a lawyer or her dad there? any semi competent attorney would have a field day with rhat.