Location from Worm by Wildbow
Taylor's school — a failing institution where gangs recruit openly, drugs circulate freely, and staff look the other way. The site of Taylor's prolonged, systematic bullying campaign.
Winslow High is everything wrong with Brockton Bay compressed into a school. The administration is overwhelmed and complicit — they tolerate gang presence because expelling affiliated students would halve enrollment and kill funding. Teachers keep their heads down. Emma Barnes, Madison Clements, and Sophia Hess — Shadow Stalker in civilian identity — run a bullying campaign against Taylor that the staff actively ignores. The locker incident, where Taylor was shoved into a locker filled with used feminine products and left for hours, is the event that triggered her powers. The school smells like industrial cleaner over something worse. Security guards exist but mostly guard the parking lot. It's the kind of place that makes you understand why someone might prefer being a supervillain.
A two-story public school building with faded brick and barred ground-floor windows. Graffiti tags the exterior walls. The hallways are scuffed linoleum under flickering fluorescent lights. Lockers are dented, some broken open. Bathrooms are missing stall doors. The parking lot is cracked asphalt with weeds pushing through.
Also known as: Winslow, Winslow High