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Gestation 1.2
Date posted 14 June 2011
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Gestation 1.2 is the second chapter of Gestation. It involves Taylor traveling home, musing about her former friend Emma, Taylor’s superhero notes, her preparations for her future career, the introduction of her costume, and her decision to go out as a superhero.

Plot[]

Taylor heads home on the bus, reflecting on her relationship with Emma Barnes, one of her bullies and a memeber of the trio. Once close enough for Annette to consider the two "so close [they] were practically sisters," the past relationship was but a memory, which Taylor has to be reminded of in the worst ways as Emma (having once been Taylor's close confident) uses the secrets, weaknesses, and vulnerabilities she learned about Taylor during the friendship as munition in the bullying campaign. Taylor recalls that the change happened a week prior to the starting high school. At first there was a period no contact, then Taylor found Emma calling Sophia Hess her best friend and exposing her secrets and weaknesses.

Investigating her belongings, Taylor discovers with dismay that the damage the bullies made extends to a notebook, which contained detailed notes of the research she had made into her own powers, name ideas for her cape identity and even measurements for the costume she's been developing. Though risky to carry it with her due to the sensitivity of the information, Taylor had a simple cipher in place while writing it in case the bullies stole it. However, it offered no protection for approximate two hundred pages of data from being destroyed by the juice.

Though upset about her notebook and nervous about skipping classes, Taylor is nonetheless relieved to be at home and away from the bullies. She showers to clean herself off and contemplates what her next steps. She then opts to head into the basement and resume the ongoing work on her costume, an activity that had become a part of her daily routine for some time, and had kept it hidden inside an old coal chute. Inspired by a Discovery Channel segment covering a synthetic spider silk suit and its considerable protective qualities (and noting the advantages of an untracable costume), Taylor began constructing her own suit out of real spider silk.

Taylor recalls the undertaking as not being an easy one, having needed to track down the right species of spiders for the job (specifically black widows) to begin with, and afterwards managing their health to insure a steady supply of the silk. Insuring that they're fed, breed in large quantities, don't compete for territory while she's not controlling them, and rotating their locations in order to access the spiders became a part of her regular commute as well.

Taylor's costume is still unfinished. The fabric being a dirty yellow-gray. The armored plating, made out of finely arranged and layered from the shells and exoskeletons cannibalized from the local insect population then reinforced with dragline silk, was a mottled brown-grey. Taylor intends to have the costume's components dyed and painted once it was fully finished, and had been pleased to witness the suit's protective qualities firsthand after struggling to cut into the silk with wire cutters, which she resorted to using after failing to do so with x-acto knife.

Taylor initially planned to finish it over the school year and go out as a hero during summer. But with the destruction of her notebook, Taylor realizes she's been procrastinating. She resolves to begin her superhero career by the following weekend.

Major Events[]

  • Background on Taylor's relationship with Emma Barnes.
  • Background on Taylor's costume. As well as design specifications and physical characteristics during its development.
  • Taylor resolves to go out as a hero by the weekend.

Characters[]

Civilians
Brockton Bay

Trivia[]

  • Spider silk's strength comes from nanothreads created by a spider's biochemistry. There is a wide degrees of different strengths based on species.[1][2]

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Chapters
Gestation 1.11.21.31.41.51.61.x
Insinuation 2.12.22.32.42.52.62.72.82.92.x
Agitation 3.13.23.33.43.53.63.73.83.93.103.113.123.x
Shell 4.14.24.34.44.54.64.x4.74.84.94.104.114.x
Hive 5.15.25.35.45.55.65.75.85.95.105.x
Tangle 6.16.26.36.46.56.66.76.86.96.x
Buzz 7.17.27.37.47.57.67.77.87.97.107.117.127.x
Extermination 8.18.28.y8.38.48.58.68.78.88.z
Sentinel 9.19.29.39.49.59.6
Parasite 10.110.210.310.410.510.610.x I10.x II
Infestation 11.111.211.311.411.511.611.711.811a11b11c11d11e11f11g11h
Plague 12.112.212.312.412.512.612.712.812.x12½
Snare 13.113.213.x13.313.413.513.613.713.813.913.1013.y
Prey 14.114.214.314.414.514.614.714.814.914.1014.1114.x14.y
Colony 15.115.x15.215.315.y15.415.515.615.715.z15.815.915.1015
Monarch 16.116.216.x16.316.416.516.616.y16.716.816.916.1016.z16.1116.1216.13
Migration 17.117.217.317.417.517.617.717.8
Queen 18.118.218.x18.318.418.y18.518.618.z18.718.818.f18
Scourge 19.119.219.319.x19.419.519.619.719.y19.z
Chrysalis 20.120.220.320.420.520.x20.y
Imago 21.121.221.321.421.521.621.721.x21.y
Cell 22.122.222.322.422.522.622.x22.y
Drone 23.123.223.323.423.523.x
Crushed 24.124.224.324.424.524.x24.y
Scarab 25.125.225.325.425.525.625
Sting 26.126.226.326.x26.426.526.626.a26.b26
Extinction 27.127.227.327.427.527.x27.y
Cockroaches 28.128.228.328.428.528.628.x
Venom 29.129.229.329.429.529.629.729.829.929.x
Speck 30.130.230.330.430.530.630.7
Teneral e.1e.2e.3e.4e.5e.x
Glow-worm P.1P.2P.3P.4P.5P.6P.7P.8P.9
Daybreak 1.11.21.31.41.51.61.71.81.x
Flare 2.12.22.32.42.52.62.72.x
Glare 3.13.23.33.43.53.63.x
Shade 4.14.24.34.a4.44.54.b4.64.74.c
Shadow 5.15.25.35.45.55.d5.65.75.85.95.105.115.125.x5.y
Pitch 6.16.26.36.46.56.66.76.86.9
Torch 7.17.27.37.47.57.67.77.87.97.107.x7.y
Eclipse x.1x.2x.3x.4x.5x.6x.7x.8
Beacon 8.18.28.34.48.58.68.78.88.98.108.118.128.x8.y
Gleaming 9.19.29.39.49.59.69.79.x9.89.99.y9.109.119.129.139.149.159.z9
Polarize 10.110.210.310.410.510.610.710.810.910.x10.1010.1110.1210.1310.y10.z
Blinding 11.111.211.311.a11.411.511.611.711.811.b11.c11.911.1011.1111.12
Heavens 12.z12.112.212.e12.312.412.all12.512.612.f12.712.812.912.none12.x
Black 13.113.213.313.413.513.613.713.813.x13.913.1013.z
Breaking 14.114.214.314.414.514.614.714.814.914.1014.1114.1214.x
Dying 15.a15.115.215.315.415.515.615.715.815.x15.y15.z
From Within 16.116.216.316.416.516.616.716.816.916.1016.1116.1216.y16.z
Sundown 17.117.217.317.417.517.617.717.817.917.1017.x17.y17.z
Radiation 18.118.218.318.418.518.618.718.818.918.10
Infrared 19.119.219.a19.319.419.b19.c19.519.619.d19.e19.719.819.919.f19.1019.g19.z
Last 20.120.220.320.420.520.620.720.820.920.a20.1020.b20.1120.e120.e220.e320.e420.e520.e620.end
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