Not a big fan of the ending, but don't really dislike it either, and I liked the story as a whole.
Thanks for writing and posting your stories, you made quite a few of my days ;)

Excellent story. The priest was probably my most liked character other then Taylor.
Very well done and keep up the fight many people will talk crap about a author because they don't like something they read in the story. Your stories have many fans that do enjoy them though so thanks a lot for continuing to write.

Ah I was hoping this would go on for a bit longer, but understandable if you felt that you had to end it sooner rather than later. Epilogue was excellent.

Thank you for sharing another great story.

That ending was master class, thanks for another terrific story.

Ok, it's been an interesting read so far, but I have one correction that I feel I need to make.

As a Leap Day baby myself, I can tell you that 2011 did NOT have a February 29th. 2008 and 2012 did, but not 2011. Maybe just put the day they robbed Blackwell as being the 28th instead?

amazing!

A surprisingly satisfying epilogue. Stories where characters end up as gods must be kind of tricky to resolve in a way that the readers are happy with. By destroying Brockton Bay and all of the people Taylor cared about, you nicely balanced out her omnipotence. Now that I think about it, I seem to have read a lot of stories where the main character became God-like. My first was an E.E. "Doc" Smith series story written in the 1930's. That too had an abrupt end. I guess most such stories do. Anyway, I thank you for yet another enjoyable story. May your Muse keep you going for as long as you find satisfaction from writing.

What a great story this was. A fun overpowered character ascending to divinity by the end, much your other protagonists. I do find it disappointing, like I'm sure other people do, that it ended so quick.

I wanted Taylor to initiate SO much more fuckery on Earth Bet. Really make a game out of the whole heroes vs villains thing. But then the Endbringers (read: Eidolon) just HAD to get uppity. Taylor should've blown up Contessa's head while she was at it. Useless bitch. I haven't read Ward yet, but I've never been so disappointed that a cool idea for a character failed at her intended goal so well.

Thanks for another complete story! Can't wait for the next full length project you do.

Wait so Taylor became GEoM? That's something else.

another great story noodle

Super!

The populace spend all their lives glorifying and worshipping the pavement where the "heroes" walk on like celebrities. But when the "heroes" failed, they start turning against them. Do they not realize that if they just toss away their heroes, they would be still the target of the villains?
Who Watches the Watchmen? That's what this comes down to at the end of the day. The thing is, we the viewer have an advantage over the people who live in this world. We can see everything as a meta-whole via the fourth wall which allows us to take in the majority of the bigger picture. But for them, yes, they enjoy the UA sports festival and they see All Might and Captain Celebrity stopping disasters and hugging babies. And they also see Bakugo being chained to a post on live TV because he cannot control his temper, Endeavour walking around covered in flames knocking autograph books away, and Mt. Lady who frequently ends up costing the city millions of Yen because she keeps on flattening buildings Godzilla-style. If you lived in this world, if it was your shop or house flattened by Mt. Lady, if it was you who was running when Endeavour sent a wall of flame down your street to stop someone, you too would wonder who the heroes and villains actually are. And it doesn't help that this is a world that has decided upon raising what are essentially child soldiers - which really came back to bite everyone on the ass when UA started to come under constant attack. Parents tend to take photographs of injured children seriously.
Adding to the above, human adoration is fickle and tempestuous. Look at how people react even today with celebrities. When, say, a star player is on your team, they're an idol, the greatest of the greats, etc. But then they leave your team, and people turn against them, spewing hate and vitriol, burning merchandise, wishing ills on them, and so on. Once someone is no longer benefitting you and yours (heroes no longer beating back the bad guys to keep a perceived peace), people turn on them, even if their reasons are faulty. In this case, people are lashing out on the misconception that without heroes, there wouldn't be villains, and thus now that the heroes aren't winning, they're the root of the problem.

I am not expecting people to reach a perfect system, and considering superheroes are busy fighting villains, just because the system is flawed it doesn't make villany acceptable after all. But there are so many instances of people turning into villains because of the system and rightfully pointing the flaws out. Did any of the superheroes try anything to change the system because of that and stayed heroes? Maybe ask for help or ask someone else to take care of it entirely. As stated, I am not expecting anyone to achieve a perfect system, I am just unsure if any hero who didn't turn into a villain is still trying to change the system and isn't just fighting villains.
Reforming the very basis of society is far more difficult than fighting villains. Remember, most heroes are just as ignorant of the shadier side of the Hero Commission as any random civilian. Most are brought up to see heroism as either just a career path or honestly believe in the idealistic image it presents. This is a world where superheroes and supervillains battle in public on a daily basis. Many people either have been saved or at least know someone who has been saved by a hero at least once. For the most part, the heroes are genuinely benevolent, if flawed, and are looked up to because of that. Out of the people who do know of the darker side of hero work, they see how depraved villains can be and can rationalize the idea of being used as hired guns to a point to counter it. Let's not pretend that the government of any given real world country doesn't engage in a dozen atrocities before breakfast in the name of "peacekeeping". Heroes pushed too far in the business of doing HC wetwork can easily be relabeled villains at any time and will be taken down before they can give up the dirty little secrets they know.
Even ignoring the general ignorance and societal programming, bringing reforms is never simple and always opposed by those who benefit from the current system. A hero can't just punch out offending actors in government both because there are far too many and because their only legal protections come from the very hero system itself. Any violence (don't kid yourself, hero work is mostly violence) against a government official will result in immediate reclassification as a villain and incarceration. Possibly even assassination. Heroes aren't politicians. They deal with problems directly and this is a problem that just doesn't have a direct solution. To reform a system, the hero would have to start up a full political movement and slowly gain a following that can win enough elections to rise to a point where the laws can be rewritten. This is a long, complicated, and usually very boring process with no guarantee to show any results even over decades. Especially since there are so many monied interests (heroism has always had a very profitable corporate element in this series) in preventing change to hero society. This is complicated even more by the fact that villains are very much active and making city-destroying plays all the time. Even All Might in his prime could barely keep up with them and have time to sleep. This means that there is no chance of doing anything meaningful politically and keeping up a hero career, so they would basically have to become full time politicians in flashy costumes. All of this political drama could make an interesting story, but it wouldn't be the sort of one fitting here. Unless Deku unlocks some hidden legal argument Quirk in One For All, we are unlikely to see this process in any meaningful detail in this shonen battle manga. At least not until All For One is dealt with permanently.
Well, they might not manage to change the system for the reasons mentioned above, but I really think Deku might be unsatisfied with it. Maybe they will manage a few small changes or raise awareness somehow. Better than nothing. Plus, as All Might himself stated, even if they get rid of All For One another Big Bad might arise.
Do you remember that scene in The Matrix with the lady in the red dress? It is honestly one of the most important lessons that anyone can ever learn: there are those who are so beholden to the system, so hopelessly dependent on it, that they will fight and die to protect it. It doesn't matter what the flaws with that system are, or even if those flaws are ultimately just as harmful to them in the long run as they are to everyone else, they will resist change. Its just a sad fact of life. Many social issues that we pat ourselves on the back for making progress in today have actually been battles that go back generations, it's just that those heroes were not written into the history books.

How many homeless people begging have you passed by in life? The sad truth is Bystander Syndrome is very real. If people can rationalize that "someone else" will take care of a problem, they will ignore it with hardly any regret. In a world where superpowered battles are the norm, the temptation is only greater. That is Shigaraki's point: he is what happens when a society becomes unwilling to solve its problems and labels them villains when they grow too great to ignore. He's out to show people what sort of monsters can result from their apathy.

Excessive force is wrong torturing prisoners is wrong

Prisoners are to be treated as humanely as if not possible than feasible