Taylor Varga: Difference between revisions

When Taylor Hebert is trapped in her locker by high school bullies, what answers her call for help is ''not'' a shard that would grant her a parahuman power but an unnamed Greater Power who after interrogating her bonds her to the Varga, a sapient demon from another universe who just happens to bear a striking resemblance to [[Godzilla]]. The Varga offers Taylor power in the form of a magical symbiosis whereby she will become his "brain" -- the controlling mind in their partnership -- and in exchange she will get access to his phenomenal supernatural power. This includes, but is by no means limited to, being able to take the form of a 450-foot-tall [[Kaiju]] able "breathe" a [[Disintegrator Ray]] with a range (and area of effect) measurable in ''miles''.

 

 

When a chance encounter results in Taylor and Amy "Panacea" Dallon becoming friends, the Family gains its second member -- and Amy gets the opportunity to finally do more with her power than be the healer she'd always pretended was all she could do. Then, after Taylor rescues the Undersiders from a raging Lung and they come under the DWU's protection, Lisa "Tattletale" Wilburn finds herself drawn into the Family as well -- and when Amy creates near-indestructible reptilian bioconstructs she and Lisa can "wear", Taylor's "branch" of the family is joined by their cousins Ianthe and Metis. Meanwhile, Taylor's efforts to create a few non-Euclidean "artifacts" with which to "prove" the antiquity of the Family lead her and the Varga to stumble upon an esoteric mathematics which dovetails neatly into the Varga's magic -- and which results in a (predictable) spiral of escalation in the Family's power and abilities.