She wanted to give Amy a head start.
Amy wasn’t bleeding as much as she should have been. I knew she couldn’t use her power to affect herself, or this fight would be playing out much differently. But maybe she was using her power to affect microbes on her hands?
Oh man, that’s a clever way to get around this problem.
Changing them into something that could breed, coagulate, and staunch the wounds?
It was what I’d be doing.
Yeah, it’s a very Taylor solution. And we do know Amy can manipulate microbes (or at least sense, but there’s no reason to believe that doesn’t indicate she can manipulate them like any other living being).
This probably prompted at least one fanfic writer to think “what if Taylor had Amy’s power”. Although I’m guessing that was already a thing, since you guys have told me that alt-power Taylor is a common Worm fic trope, Amy had been around for a long part of the story, and she was almost one of the main characters.
In fact, I’ve got a good feeling that if she were, she’d absolutely be using her power in clever ways like this. It’s something Wildbow is good at writing, and I suspect he’d want his main protagonist to be doing that kind of thing regardless of who it was.
Hell, maybe Taylor was partially inspired by his practice run with Amy in Guts & Glory. They’ve got a lot of both similarities and contrasts. (If Guts & Glory didn’t have bits from both of their POVs, I’d bet it’s mainly Amy’s.)
Fuck, I’ve just talked myself into very much looking forward to the day I read Guts & Glory.
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