(Spoilers) I think the canonical/fanonical explanation is that Alexandria totally didn't see it coming because she was expecting Taylor to micro-react before flipping out and murdering everything. Taylor offloads her emotions into the swarm, so from Alexandria's perspective it went from "Taylor's perfectly chill, I need to push harder" to "I'm drowning in bugs" in the amount of time it takes for bugs to deploy from the ceiling. Agree it's weird that she hasn't died from this weakness earlier (Leviathan certainly tried), but accepting that she didn't have time to react, I could totally see her ingesting enough bugs in the first instant before she closes her mouth for it to be fatal. I don't think she's got microcontrol over her body to be able to expel the bugs from her airways or anything like that so once the bugs are in she's probably screwed.
Having said that she could totally have [spoilers for later arcs] to escape but I imagine she wasn't quite thinking rationally at the time.
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(Spoilers) I think the canonical/fanonical explanation is that Alexandria totally didn't see it coming because she was expecting Taylor to micro-react before flipping out and murdering everything. Taylor offloads her emotions into the swarm, so from Alexandria's perspective it went from "Taylor's perfectly chill, I need to push harder" to "I'm drowning in bugs" in the amount of time it takes for bugs to deploy from the ceiling. Agree it's weird that she hasn't died from this weakness earlier (Leviathan certainly tried), but accepting that she didn't have time to react, I could totally see her ingesting enough bugs in the first instant before she closes her mouth for it to be fatal. I don't think she's got microcontrol over her body to be able to expel the bugs from her airways or anything like that so once the bugs are in she's probably screwed.
Having said that she could totally have [spoilers for later arcs] to escape but I imagine she wasn't quite thinking rationally at the time.
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