Fanfic Recommendations: The Next Generation

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Desperate Times Call For Desperate Pleasures is an alt-power Worm fic where Taylor instead has Cherish's emotion sense and control, and wanting to be a hero she zeroed in on Panacea the miraculous healer being filled with bitterness, ennui, gui;ty lust, and self-loathing, and offered to help her change her habits to not feel that way, which somehow turns into them fake-daying (with increasinglly dubious levels of fake) while engaged in reciprocal emotional manipulation via superpowers.

Which sounds like a crackfic or blatant excuse for smut, but is actually treated in a serious and well thought out way, and forty chapters in the most spicy things have gotten is hickies and some mild groping. That (and some of the comments) are probably enough for a wave-off in certain jurisdictions given Taylor and Amy are both fifteen(-ish) so take it under advisememt if that is a concern you need to be aware of, but the main theme of the story is exploring the multi-train pile-up that is New Wave in general and Amy in particular. The intimacy is emotional far more than physical.

It's New Wave, so neglect and emotional abuse are a major ongoing issue. Again, consider yourself warned if that may be an issue for you. Taylor's circumstances are predictably also not good, but in different ways from canon to justify the AU.

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