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Taylor Hebert/Emma Barnes
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| Pairing: | Taylor Hebert/Emma Barnes |
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| Gender category: | Femslash |
| Fandom: | Worm |
| Canonical?: | no |
| Prevalence: | moderate |
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Taylor Hebert/Emma Barnes is the femslash ship of Taylor Hebert and Emma Barnes from the webserial Worm.
Canon
Emma and Taylor were best friends growing up, until Taylor's mom died, when Emma turned on her and started bullying her. The bullying escalated in high school, to the point that Emma's clique locking Taylor in a locker filled with used tampons causes her to trigger.
As Taylor gets more involved in the world of superheroes and -villains, she basically leaves Emma behind, mentally. They interact briefly when schools reopen in Arc 20, and Taylor's unmasking as the supervillain Skitter emotionally destroys Emma. She withdraws in depression and she refuses to evacuate the city and dies during Gold Morning.
Fandom
The ship is moderately popular within the fandom.[1] Although it might have a higher ratio of fics-to-discussion than other popular ships like Taylor Hebert/Rachel Lindt, which has fewer fics on AO3 but see a lot more discussion by popular wormbloggers on Tumblr.
It might also be especially especially popular among fanon-onlies -- certainly complaining on reddit about Emma's prominence in fanfic (don't remember if it was shipping or just Emma as a character) is associated with complaints about fanfic by people who haven't read canon.[citation needed]
Example Fanworks
Fanfiction
- Best Friends Forever by Dai (KouenDai) -- (also on SB and SV) -- yandere!Emma fic
Fanart
Other
Meta
Might be mostly gen/friendship instead of romantic:
- https://www.reddit.com/r/WormFanfic/comments/s4owwx/lets_talk_taylor_and_emma/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/WormFanfic/comments/if4b5t/was_emma_always_such_a_cartoonishly_petty/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/WormFanfic/comments/14u9fjz/why_does_emma_and_taylors_relationship_seem_so/
Resources and Links
References
- ^ AO3 stats over time: in November 2017 it was the 5th most popular relationship tag in the Parahumans fandom, with 6 fics. as of November 2022 it was the 6th most popular ship on AO3, with 26 works. As of February 2025 it is the 8th most popular on AO3, with 58 fics.
Of course, AO3 is merely one segment of the fandom (and a very small segment earlier on seen by the low number of fics in the 2017 snapshot -- by 2017 there were already hundreds of fics on SB and SV).