"Got anything to eat?"
—Lift
This page contains unmarked spoilers for both Worm and The Stormlight Archive. Proceed with caution.
Official summary: When an expedition through Shadesmar goes awry, Lift finds herself stuck on earth (sic). Fortunately, between the capes, the crime, and the local cuisine, she finds more than enough to keep her occupied.
Set shortly after the events of Oathbringer, this crossover by Slavok
features everybody's favourite Edgedancer being lost in Brockton Bay. Stolen dinners and shenanigans soon follow.
Can be found on Spacebattles.
This work contains the following tropes:
- Ambiguous Situation: Did Amy really modify Tattletale's body to make her allergic to painkillers? Tattletale thinks so, but she's not exactly in the best state of mind at the moment. On the other hand, the bank job was kind of a low moment for Amy, so she might have tried to stop the villain from spilling all her secrets at all cost.
- Ambiguously Brown: Since Lift's ethnicity (Reshi) has no Earth-equivalent, people generally peg her as "maybe vaguely Hispanic".
- An Arm and a Leg:
- Oni Lee cuts off both of Lift's legs during a fight. It doesn't actually slow her down too much, as she immediately grows them back.
- During the same fight, Lift uses her Blade to cut Lung's legs. It's later noted that PRT had to amputate his legs because they started rotting off and Panacea couldn't heal them.
- The Artful Dodger: Lift, being a homeless child thief.
- Back from the Dead: Grue and Vista, courtesy of Lift.
- Batman Cold Open: The very first chapter starts with Lift in a PRT interrogation room. She tried to burgle their rec-room fridge.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Vista wants very much to be treated more seriously by people. Oni Lee does — and decides to kill her to stop her from using her powers during the fight in the PRT building.
- Beneath the Mask: There are hints of something dark in Lift's past, connected to her tendency to keep running away and desire to never change. Of course, a well-adjusted person doesn't become a Knight Radiant.
- Lisa outright says that Lift is constantly running away from her past.
- Beware the Silly Ones: Lift is a pre-teen girl with the attention span of a squirrel and a rather wacky view on the world. She is also a Knight Radiant and a veteran of the Battle of Thaylen Field, was able to successfully break in and out of the Protectorate HQ, and knocked out Shadow Stalker when the teen was distracted with mauling Grue.
- Big Eater: Justified with Lift since she converts food into Light.
- Canon Welding: Wormverse and Cosmere mesh together surprisingly well, though the author isn't sure how far they will take it.
- Cardboard Prison: Justified. Miss Militia notes that the PRT specifically puts less dangerous villains in prisons that they can easily escape from, because this way the heroes have something safe-ish to train on.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Lift, duh. Her worldview is rather wacky.
- Cloud Cuckoo Landers Minder: Poor Wyndle is stuck managing Lift.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: After Glory Girl broke Tattletale's spine and smashed her jaw to splinters, Panacea healed her just enough that she wouldn't die, but would remain a paraplegic with a smashed jaw. Then she told paramedics that Tattletale was allergic to every kind of painkiller in existence.
- Continuity Nod:
- During her interrogation, Lift is reminded of the time the Herald Nale chased her across a continent to kill her.
- Also, she spends her time in the city breaking into pastry shops to eat the food.
- The Cognitive Realm can be used for interplanetary travel, while Ashyn and Roshar share a solar system.
- In Chapter 2, Lift is reminded about the Everstorm and the Battle of Thaylen Field.
- Lift making cracks about tax collectors.
- The time Lift met Hoid, right before he was eaten by a greatshell.
- David vs. Goliath: Lift vs. Lung. She wins, though not before Oni Lee and the other Undersiders get involved.
- Dimensional Traveler: Lift ends up on Earth Bet after a trip through Shadesmar went wrong.
- Dramatic Irony:
- Lisa says that Bakuda would have to be insane to start anything after the Undersiders just trashed Lung and Oni Lee. Please remember the bomber's canon attitude.
- Eye Scream: Shadow Stalker nails Lift with a crossbow bolt through an eye (and the brain). Not that Lift cares.
- Failed a Spot Check: Leaf somehow didn't register that the Undersiders have a boss despite being told so several times.
- For Want Of A Nail: Several so far:
- Since the Undersiders decide to tackle Lung on their own terms, they never run into Taylor and don't recruit her.
- The bank job goes differently, with Grue, Tattletale and two of the dogs being captured by the Wards.
- Godzilla Threshold: The fight with Lung gets serious enough that Lift decides to use her actual Blade on him instead of a dull staff.
- Good Is Not Soft: For a given value of good, but Lift can certainly be ruthless if a situation calls for it.
- Healing Factor: Lift, as is normal for a Knight Radiant.
- Healing Hands: Lift, as per canon. She resurrects Grue when Shadow Stalker murders him.
- Brian even notes that she can heal people much faster than even Panacea.
- Human Alien: Lift as a Roshar native. Justified, since most of humanity either originated on Yolen or was remade by Shards of Adonalsium on their respective worlds.
- I Owe You My Life:
- Grue to Lift, since she resurrected him and dealt with Shadow Stalker.
- Lisa seems to think something similar after Lift heals her injuries from the bank job.
- Invisible to Normals: Wyndle, due to being a cognitive entity.
- Kleptomaniac Hero: Lift, for a given value of a hero. She steals for the fun of it and doesn't care about money.
- Laughing Mad: Shadow Stalker laughs maniacally while stabbing Grue's corpse. She's so distracted that Lift sneaks up on her and knocks her out.
- Leave No Witnesses: Shadow Stalker's self-justification for shooting Lift in the second Chapter.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Lift has a minor one when she learns what happened during the bank job.
- Mythology Gag: A Knight Radiant gets a crossbow bolt to a head and reacts with annoyance. Only this time it's Lift, not Veil.
- Named by the Adaptation: Miss Militia's shard is named Cain.
- Never Learned to Read: Lift. Not helped by Earth Bet having completely different writing system than Azir.
- The Nicknamer: Lift gives nicknames to people if she can't be bothered to remember their names, such as calling Grue "Skullface".
- The rest of the Undersiders are called Knowitall, Fancypants, and Fluffy.
- No-Sell: Con-foam cannot hold Lift, since the girl just makes herself Slick with Light. Similarly, any cuffs would just fall apart.
- Noodle Incident: Alec was once shot by Angelica the dog. No other details are known.
- Not-So-Imaginary Friend: Regent calls Wyndle Lift's imaginary friend. Zig-zagged, since he knows that the spren actually exists but thinks it is a projection.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: Lift shifts between this and being genuily oblivious, but she's much smarter than her attitude would suggest. She figured out Coil was using the team as a distraction at the bank just from one conversation with him.
- Off with His Head!: How Oni Lee kills Vista during the jailbreak at PRT. He then carries her head to open biometric locks.
- Oh, Crap!: Several.
- Grue when he's ambushed while robbing ABB's safehouse.
- Regent when Lung ambushes him, Lift and their rescued hostages.
- Vista when Oni Lee manages to corner her.
- One Hero, Hold the Weaksauce: Most Surgebinders would be helpless away from Roshar and its ready supply of Light. Lift, on the other hand, can convert food into Light, and thus is as powerful on Earth Bet as on Roshar.
- Only Sane Man: Brian for the Undersiders. Mostly.
- Lisa can act as one but she is too much of The Gadfly to qualify.
- Power Nullifier: Aluminum blocks anything even slightly Invested, as Lift learns when she tries to open a can.
- Pragmatic Hero: Panacea refuses to heal any kind of an addict, since fixing their organs just lets them take drugs without any consequences.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: After finding his lunch stolen, Lung decides to make an example of the Undersiders, partly because they've been messing with his operations but mostly because they are on hand. His lunch was, of course, stolen by Leaf, the newest member of the gang.
- Sex Slave: The ones kept by Heartbreaker are referenced. Also, the ABB kidnaps girls to sell them to brothels. Lift and Regent rescue four girls during their raid on a safehouse.
- Shout-Out:
- Shadow Stalker compares fighting Lift to something out of Bugs Bunny.
- Lift's speech is briefly slurred into something resembling the language from The Call of Cthulhu due to suffering from brain damage.
- Skewed Priorities: Lift cares about food and her personal freedom, in that order. Everything else is secondary at best.
- Stupid Evil: Regent's opinion about the ABB goons, since they deliberately maim the girls they want to keep as sex workers.
- Tempting Fate: Lisa really should stop doing that. First, she thinks that Bakuda will sit tight and not cause trouble after Lung's capture. Then, there's the bank job.
- Underestimating Badassery: Lift is constantly underestimated, partly because she's a kid and partly because she barely uses her full powers.Armsmaster: Not the most impressive powerset.
- While Lung is plenty badass already, people tend to underestimate his intelligence.
- Willfully Weak: Lift doesn't use her Blade on people. Unless absolutely necessary.
- Wisdom from the Gutter: For a street urchin, Lift can be suprisingly deep and philosophical. For about 5 seconds.
- Would Hurt a Child: Shadow Stalker first tries to beat up Lift for stealing from her, and then kill her because she witnessed Grue's murder.
- Lung and Oni Lee, obviously.
- Wrong Context Magic: Lift and her Surgebinding is this to Earth Bet, being much more versatile than majority of parahuman powers and without as many drawbacks.
- You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Regent's reaction when Tattletale says she has a plan to deal with Lung based on Lift's suggestion.
