by Pen Dragoon
Taylor is left broken following the Locker only for the Protectorate to hold healing and justice as an incentive to join the Wards. Taylor instead seeks a different path and reaches out to Toybox. Ghost in the Shell Tinker alt power. This is a completed story of mine now being brought over to Royal Road for a new audience! Expect extremely frequent updates as I get it imported! 82 chapters, almost 200k words. Over 2400 kudos and 150k hits on AO3 and 400k hits on Spacebattles. What to expect: This fic starts fairly tame and fluffy, but gets progressively darker the further in you get, not every reader liked the shift. Plurality is explored fairly heavily in the back half of the story. Queer themes are present and have a fairly heavy focus to the overall plot. Lots of violence and character death, along with body horror, again in the second half. Don't expect for the main cast to escape cleanly, characters do suffer in this story. This is a Worm fic, some knowledge of the setting will help and is expected for some of the AU twists to land home fully.
