Taylor Hebert (The Monsters in Her Mind)

Warnings/Explanations
Hello everyone. I am The 2nd Existential Seed. I decided to make a project for a fanfiction I adore so much, and at least attempt to make a page for it. Whether or not it suceeds.... I am unsure. If it doesn't I'll just send this to another wikia to be judged... But it's worth a shot because I would love for this fanfic not to be completely ignored. It is debatably one of the best Chulthu Mythos Fanfics. It also debatably has the strongest protagonist I've seen of any 'serious' themed fanfiction. SO yes, If you plan on reading this fanfic after reading this profile... Warning. It is a very dark themed and will guarantee you to be somewhat emotional. So I'm hoping this is a pretty fair warning for ahead. I wanted to make sure that this warning was pretty explicit before going into full detail of the enigma of a character that this blog entails. SO... with that being said, let's go into Yog-Sothoth's human side.... Taylor Herbert.

Summary
Taylor Herbert is the Main Protagonist of "The Monsters in Her Mind" .It can be read here. The Monsters in Her Mind was explicitly by a Fanfiction user that goes by "Adrian Kyrrith ". It was not made by the WIkia User The 2nd Existential Seed whatsoever. She is a incredibly timid and shy girl who genuinely wants to avoid as much attention as remotely possible. This was shown many times throughout her portrayals as a youth and even going into adulthood. It is because. she feels that something is wrong with her. It is definitely true. Something within is definitely wrong. In-fact, one of the main things wrong with her is the fact that she is actually Yog-Sothoth. She is trying to keep true to her human self, but is also trying to fight off the Eldiritch nature that is constantly trying to gain sentience.

==Mini Respect Thread (Of sorts + It's a Work in Progress because I have to go through quite a bit of work to do this... It's mainly to prove that she is indeed Yog-Sothoth from the Chulthu Mythos honestly...)== Described in the very Summary section as the equal and opposite side of a coin to  Yog-Sothoth( Meaning it's directly implied they are the same person, not a aspect of Yog-Sothoth or anything... She IS Yog-Sothoth, meaning the human form , if not equal to Yog-Sothoth AP wise, would be far superior to entities such as ) Explicitly implied/stated that the entirety of The Chulthu Mythos Universe (barring Azathoth for obvious reasons) despaired upon her awakening her persona:
 * "Taylor Hebert and Yog-Sothoth: two sides of a coin. How long will it be before the human and the nightmare begin to merge? How long can Taylor fend off the abyss?" 

Has Excellent sensing abilities of beings beyond the natural, at least beyond Earth: She can travel quite a fair distances in a Astral Form Was aware of these two thugs names, and many other things  Regular Taylor wouldn't be aware of ,  while in a trance of sorts, implying that when Her Other / Yog-Sothoth possesses her she gains Omniscience
 * "And all the while, that terrible consciousness that lurked in the dark twisted corners of that young girl's mind began once more to stir. Taylor Hebert was stuck in a locker, and something else, something that was simultaneously Taylor and yet so much more than Taylor, awoke. And the universe despaired."
 * " 'Something had transformed within her sensory awareness: walking down the street, Taylor occasionally noticed strange apparitions in the corner of her eye (vague shadows appearing in a mere instant, of which closer inspection revealed no trace), and heard strange sounds of which, likewise, only she seemed aware. At times, she could have sworn that she heard an eerie whistling in the wind, and she would stop and startle and look around her, but she would find nothing. That whistling sounded both distant and near, as if it was coming from miles and miles away yet, if she were to truly exert herself, she felt as if she should be able to reach out and grasp it. And alongside those whistles, she occasionally heard a scraping skittering which resembled the noise of countless great insects within a single all consuming swarm. These were sounds she knew could not be made by anything in Brockton Bay, or for that matter anything that dwelt upon the Earth itself, and her mind flashed back to that Nightmare-Place, back to those creatures lurking in the dark, waiting. She laughed bitterly once she put those noises to their source, and wondered for a brief moment whether she had gone mad "
 * " And in her dreams, so vivid that she was certain now they were real (as perhaps they always had been), she found herself no longer bound to that black void-space. Instead, she found herself traversing through other places, each far more fantastical than anything that could be observed on Earth, filled with great cities and vast kingdoms which treated wondrous impossibilities as mundane everyday happenstance.She saw towers of opal that reached into the heavens, and marble hewn temples vast as mountains, and so many strange creatures of bizarre shapes and proportions. She spoke with holy-men and oracles (and great bipedal cats who claimed to be both), and she watched surreal processions wind down wide streets paved with gold. She walked through vast bazaars which could have been taken from Arabian Nights, large as small towns, and filled with countless thousands of men and women (and other things besides), so crowded at times that it seemed she had barely enough space to breath. She tasted fruits sweeter than anything that could be found in the markets of Earth and heard music sweeter still. Each night felt like a lifetime, and in them she found herself immersed within that phantasmagoria of sights and sounds, and unlike is often the case of dreams she found that these ones did not fade away after waking. Quite on the contrary, every detail, down to the most insignificant, remained burned in her mind for hours afterwards ".
 * "Jay. Yan." Taylor's words came out almost as a whisper, freakishly calm despite the circumstances, and she wasn't looking at them at all. Rather she was looking through them. "Please, leave Lisa alone." 
 * Taylor's eyes widened in horror and she then spoke, though she still sounded as if she was in some trance. "You've played this game before. Many times, to many girls, out of jealousy and hatred and sadism. You did this to Emma. Made her choose. All those years, and it was you."
 * "It was all your fault. The both of you," Taylor said but Lisa could tell that something essential had shifted. She was far too calm, too composed, not at all like the girl she knew. "With help from a third party of course."
 * Taylor wasn't listening, in fact she didn't seem to take note of either Yan or Jay. She kept speaking, still so chillingly calm, but underneath that clinical tone Lisa was sure that she could discern the rage of a fifteen year old girl. "How many girls? Dozens? Hundreds? And yet you feel nothing for the trauma you've caused."

''While in said trance... She warped herself and Lisa before Lisa can comprehend what happened. She has excellent sensing abilities, so the fact she could detect this at all implies she was moving well beyond what the eyes can track''
 * "What friend?" Taylor asked and, in that moment, Lisa felt a terrible chill, and she blinked in surprise, for she suddenly stood on the other side of the street, beside Taylor, safe from his clutches. And Lisa was holding his gun in her hand.

''It was heavily implied she was basically destroying everything in Chulhu Mythos here as a result of a Temper Tantrum ... A Temper Tantrum'' ''It was revealed she basically send them to another realm outside of all time and space, spanning the archetypal infinity. ''
 * And then her form began to warp and to stretch, like something out of a fun house mirror. Her arms and her legs grew longer, as did her torso, and soon she loomed above Yan, six feet tall. Then seven, and then eight feet in height, and her lips drew monstrously wide, as she began languidly to approach the surviving thug. And as she took each step, the world seemed to warp around her, and Lisa watched as the buildings stretched and compressed all around her, and began to curve inwards upon themselves, as if they were being sucked in by some inexplicable force of gravity. Lisa could feel her own limbs begin to extend, and she could see Yan's features stretch as well, becoming just as horrible a mockery of a human being as Taylor herself.
 * The entire world began to lose cohesion, and all around her, this part of the Docks became a vague jumble of colors, and the street and the sky and the ramshackle buildings seemed to blend together, and then to fade. She could feel herself begin to stretch further, and she could not help but feel as if the universe itself was being ripped apart, and soon she could not see anything at all, for she found she no longer had a sense of spatial awareness, and she could not still say that she had a body at all. More than anything else, she felt as if she was dreaming, as if all of her surroundings had diminished into vague impressions holding no more substance than an idle thought. There was nothing. No space, no time, no Brockton Bay, not even the universe itself. Only oblivion.

Lisa, who was considered an incredibly powerful telepath and has an insanely strong mind, was rendered helpless towards this entity:
 * And then the world snapped into place, and Lisa was herself again, and so was Yan and so was Taylor, though only Taylor seemed undisturbed by that experience. She stood there, calm as ever, while the other two scampered backwards, horrified to find themselves no longer on Earth, but somewhere else.
 * There was only darkness here, a formless shadow that pulsated all around them, a noxious odorless miasma that was the ground upon which they stood, and the air from which they breathed. It was a great abyss, which stretched out towards infinity, and the only light which Lisa could discern came from a hideous crimson sun. She watched as Yan scurried backwards, babbling to herself in terror, but Lisa stopped, and tried to reign in her panic, and figure out some way to make sense of her surroundings.
 * Then she started hearing the whistling, high pitched and eerie and emanating from an eternity away, a single inhuman voice which was soon answered by a second high pitched whistle, and then a third, and then a forth, and soon there were hundreds of them filling the space all around her, a symphony which sounded from all directions, everywhere at once. Dazed and afraid, she looked all about her, trying to find any sign of the creatures, but they remained hidden, and not even with the aid of her power could she detect them. But they were there nonetheless, gathering in ever greater numbers, waiting. They were waiting for Taylor to grow tired of her prey.

Taylor would cause everything, everywhere in the Chulhu Mythos to be completely destroyed , It also describes the scale of destruction being far too big for any number to quantify , 
 * The creature said no words, gave no hint to its mood or its thoughts. It just watched her with a gaze more intense, more unnerving, than anything Lisa had ever dreamed of, and it made her shiver with discomfort. She felt as if her entire life, everything that made her who she was, had been reduced to an open book which it could read at leisure. And perhaps it could. She remembered those earlier words, what Taylor had spoken to Jan, in the moment she'd snapped. How she had seemed to know so much more than was logically possible about two strangers.
 * She watched an amused quirk of a smile cross her observer's face and she practically cursed. It was reading her thoughts wasn't it? And then, the smile disappeared and its look became colder, even more intense and frigid than before, a look of absolute and utter concentration, and Lisa could practically feel it reaching into her mind, and even beyond that, into the core of her being.
 * Errant memories and thoughts flowed to her awareness, of Rex and of her family, of her life on the streets and of her first encounter with Coil, of her first impression of Taylor and of her decision to help her. She felt her own most deeply rooted feelings of self loathing spring loose within her mind, all the people she'd failed and all the people she'd used, all the horrible things she'd seen and experienced since she'd triggered. And the hope that, perhaps just this once, she could raise herself towards a higher standard.
 * And it was responsible. It was tearing away all her secrets and observations, cutting into the core of all that she was and all that she had seen, and putting together the puzzle that was Lisa Wilbourne. Seeing if she could be trusted, just as, Lisa had to admit, she had asked it to.
 * And then after an almost endless span of time, the strength of that creature's gaze diminished and she found that she could breathe again. It nodded to her wordlessly, and she could practically sense its approval. She had passed its test.
 * "An ending," she said, her words so quiet that Coil had to strain to hear. "Pet?"
 * "Destruction. Death. Change." She said, lost in some distant place, trapped in the vision of what she'd seen. "Everything, everywhere, returned to nothing." She turned to face him, and there was something desperate and broken in her eyes.
 * "You don't understand! You can't! There are no numbers! Nothing, my God, there are no numbers! What did I saw? What have I seen?" Dinah Alcott collapsed in his arms, crying. He ran his hand through her hair, soothingly, like he was comforting a scared animal.

Appearance:
Dear little Taylor Herbert is described at many points to be portrayed as an average individual. She is a young girl that is around sixty-five inches in height and weighing about the average for a sixteen year old. She is described as a bit pale for her age, despite being caucasian. Though this is likely due to her barely going outside, and the overall stress she constantly goes through is likely the cause of her otherwise paler than average light skin.

What she wears is usually up depending on the day. For the most part, she usually wears clothes thta are darker colored, such as brown, black, or grey. She usually likes wearing hoodies of some sort, and almost is always seen with blue capri pants.

Body frame wise, she isn't exact the most attractive in the world, but she isn't the  least attractive either. She is frail and lacks almost any muscle that implies she would be athletic, making her physically appear as if she is sickly. She is basically just below average in terms of her body is concerned. The Other is a bit hard to describe in a sense that it is beyond things such as appearance and other human like qualities. However, the best way to describe it's physical appearance is it usually is something 'off' about Taylor. It's as if she is slowly but surely loosing her humanity and becoming something else entirely. Her eyes are usually shaded, and lacks any sort of expressed emotion whatsoever. It's as if a pressure unlike anything comprehended descended upon the entity that Taylor was previously

Personality:
The best way to describe Taylor is the fact that she almost fits the Shrinking Violet Tvtrope to a complete tee. She doesn't like attention in the very slightest, and will go well out of her way to avoid receiving it. She is incredibly timid and soft-spoken, but has a hidden determination and willpower, as seen with here resisting to become Yog-Sothoth completely , and all the hardships she has experienced since day one. She is a good majority of the time seen as a very quiet young girl, usually not speaking a single word unless talked to directly. And even then, socialization with anyone but those she is rather close to cna be rather awkward to her. She is hesitant to help others due to her lack of  control over her own abilities, but she'll definitely help those who need it the most.

Sweet & Well natured, she has shown time and time again to see humanity first before herself. She also sees family first, whgich is one of the main reasons she is so determined to make sure she doesn't succump completely to such a horrible state of being. If she does so, she won't be able to be personally there to those she holds dear, and that is something she would hate quite a good deal. Her determination was respected even by Yog-Sothoth, so to respect a Nigh-Omniscient being isn't something an average person should be capable of doing.

She is also very sensitive. Her psyche has beeen hammered so much by the attacks from her own self and some of the other beings that it is quite difficult to maintain a constain degree of confidence in her own self. This was stated outright that she is really lacking in both self-esteem and appears like she blames herself for everything that happens (...Which for the majority of the time it is ). The Other however is essentially Yog-Sothoth. So as such, it technically has no personality whatsoever. However, the best way to describe it's "act"  is such. It usually is relatively nice towards those that Taylor likes. However, complete woe to those who seemingly are not on Taylor's side. She appears to be a complete monster, not caring abouot your existence, viewing you as a mere insect, an insignificant facet of the one that is Yog-Sothoth. It will smile in your face, while of course pretend to have emotion.

Personal Statistics
Alignment:  Neutral Good (Benefactor), her True Self is True Neutral 

Name:  Taylor Hebert

Origin:  Monsters in Her Mind

Gender: Female

Age: 16

Classification: Human Side of Yog-Sothoth

Date of Birth:  June 19,1995 


 * Zodiac/Horoscope: Unknown

Birthplace: Unknown

Weight: 95 Pounds.

Height:  65 Inches

Likes: Unknown

Dislikes: Unknown

Eye Color: Blue Eyes

Hair Color: Auburn Hair

Hobbies: Reading, Observing, Having fun with

Values:

Martial Status: Single

Status: Alive

Affiliation: Yog-Sothoth, wandering the endless Nothingness

Previous Affiliation: Herself

Themes: Starset-Demons

Powers and Stats:
Tier: 10-C .Unknown  . At the very least 1-A, likely High 1-A l High 1-A

Name: Taylor l Yog-Sothoth   epithets "The Lurker at the Threshold", "The Key and the Gate", "The Beyond One", "Opener of the Way", "The All-in-One", and "The One-in-All", though each and every race views fragmented pieces of the entity differently and ascribes it different names and titles

Origin: Monsters in Her Mind

Age :  Teen l Impossible to Define

Classification: Human, Outer God [ Due to archetyping from being the half of Yog-Sothoth ]  l  Yog-Sothoth , Ultimate Gate

Powers and Abilities: Presumably the same as her Other Self, as they are the exact same person: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Reality Warping, Spatial Manipulation, Time Manipulation, Omniscience, Omnipresence, Acausality, Non-Corporeal, Telepathy, Abstract Existence, Immortality (Type 10), Regeneration (True-Godly), Matter Manipulation, Conceptual Manipulation, Void Manipulation, Causality Manipulation, Invulnerability, Information Manipulation, Cosmic Awareness, Plot Manipulation, Higher-Dimensional Manipulation, Durability Negation, Transcends all Concepts, etc.

Attack Potency: Below Average Human Normally ( She is a frail sixteen year old without accessing Yog-Sothoth's powers directly ). At the very least Outerversal ( Due to being the direct half and not an aspect of Yog-Sothoth, should be incomprehnsibly superior to  Umr at-Tawil, Yog-Sothoth's direct avatar . Effortlessly can comprehend and resist the Ultimate Gate from consuming herself since she was created , with Yog-Sothoth even complimenting on how strong she is and how much she's resisting it , which in this story  is portrayed as incomprehensibly above everything else , including it's father The Nameless Mist , in-verse sans Azathoth  , which means power-wise she is about comparable to Yog-Sothoth's True Form . Albeit, due to her human qualities, giving her a direct High 1-A rating based on this sorely is unlikely .  Keep in mind that the most knowledgable of Chulthu Mythos debators implied that even Nyarathoep and most of the fodder Ultimate Gods , who is incomprehensibly below  Umr at-Tawil  , was compared directly to Featherine Augustus Aurora in terms of power , not position of the tier in comparison to the requirements of a High Outerversal Being. So technically speaking, if such a tier was given, even this tier " At least Outerversal  " would be " At least High Outerversal " if the requirements for High Outerversal were not escalated   ), likely  High Outerverse Level ( Is stated to be the other side of  Yog-Sothoth in the fanfic, referring to it as " Her Other Self " , heavily implying AP wise the two are completely equal in every aspect. Even the Author refers to them as " Two Sides of the same coin ". Keep in mind that Yog-Sothoth's True Self was compared to the likes of a Tier 0/True Infinity Being by knowledgable readers of the Mythos ,  based on pure Attack Potency , however it is Unknown how. Is stated to be capable of destroying everything   and the potential to cause the end of everything in Existence just by having a simple  temper tantrum. However, it is uncertain if Azathoth was includeed in this statement, as the statements were rather vague. However, it did make an implication that the entire Mythos would be destroyed. )  l High Outerversal Level + ( Is equal to Yog-Sothoth from the Chulhu Mythos. Embodies everything and anything, and transcneds all things that he embodies  in creation sans Azathoth .)

Speed: Below Average Human normally. Irrevelant when possessed/influenced by Her Other Self / Using the powers to their fullest extent  ( Should be incomprehsnibly above the Ultimate Gods & The Great Old Ones . Would transverse the boundless nothing after Creation ended . Can easily access the Void and should be comparable to it at the very least, as she IS the Void/Ultimate Gate ) l Omnipresent ( Is one with everything in Azathoth's Dream )

Lifting Strength: Below Average Human normally. Irrevelant when possessed/influenced by Her Other Self / Using the powers to their fullest extent  ( Should be incomprehsnibly above the Ultimate Gods & The Great Old Ones . Would transverse the boundless nothing after Creation ended . Can easily access the Void and should be comparable to it at the very least, as she IS the Void/Ultimate Gate ) l

Striking Strength: Below Average Human normally. Irrevelant when possessed/influenced by Her Other Self / Using the powers to their fullest extent  ( Should be incomprehsnibly above the Ultimate Gods & The Great Old Ones . Would transverse the boundless nothing after Creation ended . Can easily access the Void and should be comparable to it at the very least, as she IS the Void/Ultimate Gate )

Stamina: Below Average Human normally. Irrevelant/Limitless when possessed/influenced by Her Other Self / Using the powers to their fullest extent  ( Should be incomprehsnibly above the Ultimate Gods & The Great Old Ones . Would transverse the boundless nothing after Creation ended . Can easily access the Void and should be comparable to it at the very least, as she IS the Void/Ultimate Gate )

Intelligence : At least Gifted   normally ( Was implied as incredibly intelligent. Impled to keep up an consistent A- Average throughout her entire school career . ). Omniscient with when possessed/influenced by Her Other Self ( Can comprehend and is the very Ultimate Gate that embodies all things, which includes the concept of Knowledge )

Weaknesses: Holds back her true nature to try to be as Human as remotely possible. Due to this, she is pretty much a pacifist in terms of combat scenarios and doesn't usually use her powers for offensive reasons unless provoked or convinced it's the only option ( Majority of these weaknesses get nulled once The Other takes her over )

Keys: Regular Taylor l The Other / Yog-Sothoth

Other
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Notes:


 * 1)  The reason I didn't straight up put her at just High 1-A instead of lowballing her to 1-A at bare minimum is while the feat of resisting Yog-Sothoth for years and years on end is technically a feat in and of itself, plus being implied as far stronger than the Nameless Mist, I am uncertain of whether she qualifies comfortably for High 1-A. No matter how many times I read Prom's Tier 1 Blog ... I am still uncertain of this fact, even after reading it many times over.


 * 1) Some vague statements of destroying everything in the Mythos implies that Azathoth would be affected in some way, shape or form. I am uncertain of this fact, which is why I noted it in the AP section... But for the most part, for debating purposes it will be ignored.