History Creator / Wildbow

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: ''Worm'' in particular has a lot, though ''Pact'' is no slouch either.

* ThereAreNoTherapists: His works tend to avert this; in both ''Worm'' and ''Ward'', the Protectorate employs child therapists for the children in the Ward program, while in ''Pale'', Lucy has a therapist later on to help her deal with some of her mundane issues.

** [[MetaphoricallyTrue Technically,]] ''Pact'', ''Poke'', and ''Pale'' qualify, though the "divergence point" is the existence of magic.

** In ''Twig'', Genevieve Fray, an escaped student who the Lambs need to track down.

** In ''Pact'', Ms. Lewis, of the named members of the demonic firm that Blake Thorburn is forced to interact with.

** ''Pale'' has two of them, Miss and Crooked Rook, though Miss plays a much more central role in the plot.

*** Additionally, secondary character [[spoiler:Jamie suffers a [[BlankSlate complete deletion of his personality]] about halfway through the story when the networked brains that enable his perfect memory become overloaded and reset. The loss is complete enough that "Jamie II" (and [[{{Transgender}} later Jessie]]) has to completely re-learn how to walk, talk, and function in general.]]

** In ''Worm'', Contessa
** In ''Pact'', Ms. Lewis
** In ''Twig'', Genevieve Fray

* MysteriousWoman: Most of his stories have a powerful, mysterious woman of ambiguous motives who serves as a major mover-and-shaker in the story's plot:

** Chain restaurants have names that are either weird, funny or kinda gross. Examples include "Fugly Bob's" from ''Worm'', "Roadkill" from ''Pale'', and "Yeast Inception" from ''Pale''.

* ''Weaverdice'' [-(a TabletopRPG set in the same universe as ''Worm''[[note]] and ''Ward'', though though it was created prior to ''Ward's'' release and as a setting mainly revolves around the state of the world prior to ''Worm's'' finale[[/note]])-]
* ''Pactdice'' [-(a Tabletop RPG set in the same universe as ''Pact'', ''Poke'', and ''Pale'')-]
* ''PRT Quest'' [-(a series of PlayByPostGames set in the same universe as ''Worm'' [[note]]as with Weaverdice, set before the end of ''Worm'' and start of ''Ward''[[/note]])-]

* {{Doorstopper}}: All of Wildbow's "main novels" are extremely long and could easily be used as a doorstop if printed out.''Worm'' is roughly 1.68 ''million'' words long, which would be about 7000 pages or about 20 "standard" novels in print. ''Pact'' and ''Twig'' are somewhat shorter, but still well above the million word mark, and ''Ward'' is even '''longer''' at about two million words. Interestingly, despite being longer than ''Worm'' by sheer word count, ''Ward'' actually has ten fewer arcs, significantly fewer chapters, and took less time to complete. This is because while Wildbow has kept to the same posting schedule[[note]]every Tuesday and Saturday without fail, for the past ''nine years'' as of mid 2020, with occasional ''extra'' "bonus" chapters on Thursdays as a reward for reaching donation goals, and rare exceptions such as the Eclipse arc in ''Ward'' where he posted one chapter a day for 6 days[[/note]], each chapter is substantially ''longer'' in his later works compared to his earlier ones.

** In ''Ward'', [[spoiler:Victoria went through this before the story even starts, accurately describing her experience in ''Worm'' as losing herself, body, heart and mind. Ward is the story of her recovery from this and in a first for Wildbow's writing, she winds up in a better place mentally and physically than where she started, though [[EarnYourHappyEnding she has to work her ass off to make it to where she is]].]]

* DeathOfPersonality: So far, every one of his protagonists have suffered this to some degree.

* ''Poke'' [-(a series of short stories set in the same universe as ''Pact'')-]

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* FirstPersonPerspective: His stories are usually told from a first person perspective, save for the Interludes and chapters focusing on someone who isn't the protagonist, which switch to third person.

** ''Pact'' is primarily set in Jacob's Bell, which is somewhere near Toronto in Ontario. This is actually a plot point: [[spoiler: Jacob's Bell can't be found on a map because it's been swallowed by the Abyss]].

** ''Ward'' takes this a step further, [[spoiler:being set in about the same place as Brockton Bay, but on an alternate Earth with slightly different geography]].

* ''Literature/{{Poof}}'' [-(Set in the same universe as ''Pact'')-]

** [[MetaphoricallyTrue Technically,]] ''Pact'', ''Poke'', and ''Poof'' qualify, though the "divergence point" is the existence of magic.

** ''Pact'', ''Poke'', and ''Poof:'' The world is being slowly eaten by demons and the Abyss, while an over-legalistic karma system allows horrible people to get off scot-free as long as they have enough good karma to throw at their mistakes. Those with high enough bad karma, whether actually evil or not (And sometimes by virtue [[SinsOfTheFather of their family's actions]]), get shat on by the universe, who does its damnedest to kill them.

** All of his novels so far are titled as a single word with four letters: ''Worm'', ''Pact'', ''Twig'', ''Ward'', and ''Poof.''