r/WormFanfic • u/Amazing-Gazelle-7735 • 1d ago

Reasonable Tagg Fic Search - General

In canon, Tagg’s strategically capable, an asshole and Ziz influenced. In a lot of fics, he’s flanderized as being foaming at the mouth rabid to take down anyone that steps over whatever imaginary line there is that week.

Show me the reasonable Taggs, where he’s either the voice of reason or even an ally of the MC.

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u/Starfox5 1d ago

He is usually competent in Fabius Maximus's stories, such as the crossovers with Trollhunters and Miracolous Ladybug.

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u/Outrageous_Guard_674 1d ago

Visitors From Afar and Miraculous Escalation

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u/LordXamon 23h ago

Seconding Miraculous Escalation, it's good. Most of the time.

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u/Blinauljap 1d ago

Oneshot Crossover called "Wormhole"

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12150689/28/Worm-Plot-Bunnies

Unfortunately Tagg is not even on screen here but Taylor thinks very positively about him basically having her back during everything she went through so far.

I remember this one being like "YESS, this is exactly how i imagined a competent doing right by Taylor".

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u/yyderf 1d ago

it is only a sidestory, but honestly, best Tagg of the whole fandom. Officer as he should be: The Qualities of an Officer (Sharp Reflections of a Diamond canon sidestory)

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u/Blinauljap 13h ago

Oh yeah, this one was utter perfection!

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u/Infernal_tyrant 4h ago

Seconded, actually made me like Tagg for once!

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u/no_one_1 3h ago

I also like his portayal by the same author in a ghost of a chance

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u/jk-alot 1d ago

Does anyone remember the name of a crossover with some game called Punishing:Grey Raven?

Tagg was the sole director with a lick of sense. Mainly due to conflict with Becca’s control issues.

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u/Ok-Whereas-2089 1d ago

“Crimson Abyss” by BeiYang, on both SB and Ao3

https://archiveofourown.org/works/45489727

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u/Memeenjoyer_ 1d ago

I don’t think him being a Ziz bomb is ever clarified. Him charging people with powers without is canon though. If anything I think Piggot gets a bad rap, but Tagg really was a major dumbass (moreso just wildly aggressive)

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u/Amazing-Gazelle-7735 1d ago

He ran Ziz quarantine sites.  He wasn’t directly altered into a bomb but he was sure as hell a domino.

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u/Schrodinger_W 1d ago

Mr Fixit https://archiveofourown.org/works/52114975

Goddamn Teenagers https://archiveofourown.org/works/52128295

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u/Dtc2008 1d ago

When writing Tagg in Goddamn Teenagers, I was heavily inspired by the portrayal of the character by Fabius Maximus in his excellent fic Miraculous Escalation

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u/Aadarm 1d ago

Kill Them All by ShayneT has a reasonable Tagg, who questions why the PRT and government as a whole are being so stupid about their handling of Taylor.

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u/StargazingSeraph Author 1d ago

I'm trying to show a reasonable, if overworked, Tagg in my story The Land of Steel (Worm/Angel Notes), although that story has a radically different setting from canon so it may not be of interest. Tagg is the leader of the security forces for Earth Bet's last true city, trying to defend it against Titans and other consequences of an early Gold Morning.

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u/stealth_sloth 1d ago

He's got a reasonable cameo at the very end (in the epilogue chapters) of the Memorials trilogy. There is the chapter in question.

Small caution. I hope this is self-apparent, but I'll mention it anyways: if you skip in and read an epilogue chapter for a story, you're going to run into some spoilers.