Taylor

Taylor
First Appearance Last Appearance First Video (I know, lame title) In Over Our Heads
Character information
Age	16
Date of Birth	("Leo")
MySpace	soccerstar_4ever
Forum Posts	soccerstar
YouTube	soccerstar4ever
Revver	soccerstar
Portrayed by	Becki Kregoski
List of Taylor's blogs Videos with Taylor

Taylor, aka soccerstar, is a Revver user that began posting replies to Bree in early April, 2007. Fans immediately suspected that she was canon since she is about the right age, and her style is similar; for instance, she used jump cuts, and fans observed that her room and Bree's looked similarly styled. It was initially believed that she could be the new girl that Alex mentioned in The Perfect Beach.

Family Background

Taylor's mother is very similar to Bree's in that she is fanatical. However, while Bree's mom is devoted to her religion, Taylor's mom is overly enthusiastic about Taylor's soccer. Taylor's father is less ardent than her mother; at one point she mentions her father being embarrassed by her mother's fanaticism. This is also similar to Bree's father.

Taylor also has a very dark sister named Sarah, who made her first appearance in Crazy Emo Chick on May 1, 2007, and they appeared together in No Trespassing on May 2. Taylor and her sister Sarah live in Zavalla, Texas, a location that was first revealed on the computer in Lucy's apartment.

Adventures with BDJ

Bree first mentioned Taylor in A Solid Lead. In OUT OF THE BUNKER!!!, Bree said that she, Daniel, and Jonas were going to see Taylor to find out more about Julia Anderson, a possible candidate for the Ceremony. This was in response to Taylor's claims that Jules once played on Taylor's soccer league.

Bree, Daniel, and Jonas soon met up with Taylor and Sarah in late spring, in hopes of finding Julia and preventing her from doing the Ceremony. After kidnapping and losing Jules, however, Bree was taken by the Order. Since then, Taylor and Sarah (though not present when Bree surrendered), have been helping Daniel and Jonas.

While her sister soon went to join Daniel and Jonas in California after graduating, Taylor remained at home in Zavalla, where she further witnessed her parents' mid-life crises. She continued to be an asset to the TAAG however, as she became a frequent poster at lonelygirl15.com, offering advice and trying to decipher clues.

Towards the end of June, Jonas, needing a bit of fresh air, came to stay with Taylor, where they both suffered the embarrassment of witnessing Taylor's mother hit on him. Soon after, Taylor had an argument with her mother, which resulted in Taylor leaving with Jonas to spend the rest of the summer in California with Daniel and Sarah.

After coming to stay with her sister and the boys, Taylor, along with the new help of Spencer Gilman, the son of Isaac Gilman, began focusing on finding Bree and rescuing her. Through much training and giving a lot of help making the serum to make Bree trait negative, Taylor and the rest of the gang, with the help of a mysterious supporter, were able to locate Bree and the Ceremony. Although, when it came down to it, Taylor and Sarah both protested that they did not want to go, they went anyway. While trying to get to Bree by 11 am TAAG ran into a Watcher who chased them, ramming into their car and forcing them to crash and run for their lives. Sarah became separated from the rest of the group, but Nikki Bower came to the rescue just in time. After their rescue, Daniel went and received information that the Ceremony was in the middle of nowhere. They also realized that their serum was broken in the crash and Sarah left to find the other vial. While still waiting for Sarah and the serum, Taylor and a severely bleeding Jonas hid alone together until Daniel found them. Finally, Sarah, made it back to them with the serum in hand and with the remaining five members of TAAG together, they pressed forward, finally finding Bree, but only in time to see her die.

After escaping from the location of the "Ceremony", Daniel, Jonas, Taylor, and Sarah, went to a Santa Monica beach, where, amid much grieving, Taylor told us she only came to help because she had fun with Jonas, saying "I know it sounds awful but, I knew that we couldn't save her. Whatever we had on our side, it was never gonna be enough - I mean, we're just a bunch of kids! So I wanted to be there when he realized that she was gone. I guess, I thought that... maybe he'd finally see me..."

After Bree's death

After Bree's death, Taylor and Sarah originally return home, trying to lead a normal life again. They get visited by Spencer and keep vlogging to the others, but that's about it. Taylor starts taking an online programming class, and is determined to go to MIT, stressing that she can't wait to leave Zavalla for Boston. Whether that goal can be achieved is questionable, though, given that, in the same vlog, Taylor finds the picture identifying Emma as the next ceremony girl, leading her to pack her stuff and tell Jonas to grab Emma and run. The guys then tell Sarah to bring the serum and Taylor replies that Sarah has lost it. She continues to tell Sarah to live a better life in a very emotional video for both Taylor and Sarah. After their talk, Taylor was not seen for 64 episodes, when she finally reappeared in the video They're Gone, speaking to Daniel on her webcam. Since then, Taylor has made more videos, and helped Jonas figure out who the doctor was in the VHS tapes he received.

Taylor's Hiatus

Taylor appeared on the forum on October 24th after an absence of over a month a posted this explanation:

 Hi Everyone!
 I know I've been sorta MIA lately and I'm sorry for that. After everything that happened this summer I just threw myself into 
 school. It's been good... I've been taking advanced computer courses and my counselor says I have a good chance of getting into 
 MIT. Of course I'm still playing soccer too. :D Sam and I aren't as close... she doesn't really understand what I've been through, 
 but that's okay. Not many people have run from The Order like us. As for Sarah, we try and keep in touch. It's hard for me to be 
 cut off from her "adventures," but I know that school is what I need to be focused on right now. I can save the world in a few 
 years. :)

Taylor then got to work helping forum members crack Emma's code and began being in videos once again, but only at various times.

Notes

• As Sarah currently does not have an active YouTube account, Taylor openly shares her account with her sister.

• Besides soccer, Taylor is very useful behind a computer, having been able to track down Julia's address through gas and phone bills online as well as hack into the County Medical Records as mentioned in Let's Play Doctor.

• Taylor has made one unreleased video, which was titled Slide Tackle.

Etymology

Taylor can be either masculine or feminine. In either case, it is derived from the Middle English taillour meaning "cutter of cloth." It originated as the surname of one who was a tailor. [1]

Theories

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