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Literature Worm Discussion
I was wondering if Taylor's lawyer, Calle, was a DC Comics Shout Out.
He's a lawyer scarred on one side of the face and his name reads like "Kal-El".
Genetics and trigger events (Nature versus nurture).
Okay, just got finished archive-binging.
We might have an erroneous or alternate interpretation here for:
Superpowerful Genetics: Played with — children and siblings of parahumans have trigger events more easily, but adopted children also have trigger events more easily.
Lamarck Was Right: the justification is a major part of the setting. The Superpowerful Genetics in The Verse do not actually work on genetics, but by being a Cosmic Plaything. To the point that adopted kids of supers have the same chance of developing powers that biological kids have.
The "adopted children" thing is primarily aimed at Panacea (the healer).
During my read, it's somewhat implied that first-gen heroes/villains who trigger are emotionally/psychologically screwed up in numerous ways. It's also implied, during interludes involving Panacea's, that these damaged individuals have also damaged their children (in subtle or over ways).
Brandish (Glory Girl's mother and Panacea's foster-mother) and her sister were abused as children. She didn't even particularly WANT children, but bowed to pressure from her husband. And VERY grudgingly adopted Panacea (as her sister couldn't handle another kid) after they took down Marquis (who reminded her of the person who'd abused her). So Panacea was more or less the "unwanted step-child".
While Flashbang (Brandish's husband) tried to give the girl attention and love, he (also) was dealing with psych issues (clinical depression) and would swing between full engagement and complete apathy.
It's also stated that second-gen (and possibly third-gen) parahumans who trigger tend to do so on events that aren't nearly as psyche-rending as first-gen.
On top of that, Panacea is a second-gen parahuman herself. So it's not as if she's just a "normal" who got adopted and suddenly pulled a superpower out of someplace dark and poopy-smelling.
While I was cross-wicking the B's, I noticed this:
- Book Ends: The first part of the story ends after the Endbringer attack with Taylor alone and estranged from her Dad, the Heroes, and the Undersiders, just before Taylor lays out her plan for the future.
so as of interlude 20, is parian a full-fledged member of the undersiders now or still only present as a neutral?
in which case, her char entry should be moved over and something should be mentioned about her joining in the period just after echidna's attack / portal fight? / downfall of the prt what is this time period called? |D
This might be a waste of time to ask.
Was wondering if my nice little speech about Chrysalis 20.5 might deserve to go in Heartwarming?
I'm loathe to bring it up, but some people seem to have liked it.
is there a clear contender for an Ensemble Darkhorse? i know lisa is fairly popular, but iirc i've also seen lots of love for bitch and weld too
Victor -> Power Parasite ?
He isn't. He doesn't steal powers, only knowledge/skills.
He couldn't take Taylor's ability, but he could take her running experience.
He couldn't take Grue's darkness, but he could take a measure of his fighting ability.
power classifications/ratings
i'm in the process of trawling the archives for any mention of power classes for the various chars. while i do that i'm slapping on powers that *seem* to me to be appropriate on the char page. please doublecheck my efforts and make any corrections
and while we're on the topic, where would 'telekinesis' fall under?
For the whole "villains not killing families" is't an aversion and a deconstruction of The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life IMO. (yeah, it's u used for secret identities too, not only an actual masquerade)
Thou Shalt Not Kill is way broader, but of course fits too.
A very small subset of the cast is Technical Pacifist too btw, with an ever smaller subset being Actual Pacifist (off the top of my head, I can name only Sundancer. Skitter seems too far gone down the slippery slope).
Umh... I'm trying to work out how to write something on the main page, but it always comes out as homophobic bashing. Help!
Thing is, the relationships between major characters we'be been shown "on screen" so far. (except for the TaylorxLisa and TaylorxRachel ofc)
- Skitter and Grue: works somewhat
- Dragon and Armsmaster: works somewhat, with less sex
- Gallant and Vista: since he was an empath but not a lolicon he managed to say "no" in a way tat did not hurt her. repeatedly.
- Gallant and Glory Girl: worked somewhat
- Flechette and Parian: she is miserable because she's afraid of coming out and ruin the friendship, and it's affecting her personally and professionally
- Panacea and Glory Girl: it's a very good reason to stay in the fucking closet and throw away the key
aehm... from Promoted Fanboy page:
" ... sometimes the exact show—that they're a fan of. This can range from the minor, such as a Contest Winner Cameo, to the point where the fan has creative control and is Running The Asylum. "
Posting here first to avoid an editwar, the edit in question is:
- Promoted Fanboy: The posters in Interlude 19 (Donation Bonus #2)
(which consist mostly of a slice of an In Universe web forum), are thinly disguised versions of regular posters in the comments section of the serial. And depending on how much part of the medium itself you consider comments, and how much meta recursion you can take before your brain hurts, they could be considered Ascended Fanboys as well.
Just to throw out another headache, how well are the various trope pages linked to Worm? It's a way that helps the readership, even if it's one hell of a thing to check.
Okay, so I was just rereading 12.7, and I noticed this bit:
Mannequin turned his attention to his arm, and I set my swarm on it. A thousand threads of silk, each held by as many flying insects as I could grip it with, all carrying the arm aloft. I brought it up to the ceiling, and began fixing it in place, building a cocoon around it. My enemy turned his attention to me, his shoulders facing me square-on. As he no longer had a head, I found his body language doubly hard to read. Had I irritated him, doing that?
He stepped forward, as if to lunge, and the silk that wreathed him hampered his full range of movement. His leg didn’t move as far as he intended, and his missing arm displaced his sense of balance. He collapsed.
“Want to keep going?” I asked his fallen form, my heart in my throat. I stood ready to jump and react at a moment’s notice.
Slowly, he pulled himself to his feet again. Twice, he used the knife to slash at the silk. On the second attempt, I hit him with the formation of bugs for an eighth sweep of the silk net, hoping to throw him off-balance enough that he’d stab himself. No such luck.
Standing straight, Mannequin shifted his grip on his knife and then raised one finger. Wagged it left and right, that same gesture of disapproval, condemnation.
Then he turned to leave, striding for the door. I didn’t try to stop him. I didn’t have it in me.
So: Taylor's line. Definitely a One Liner. Bond One Liner, do you think, or something else?
He stepped forward, as if to lunge, and the silk that wreathed him hampered his full range of movement. His leg didn’t move as far as he intended, and his missing arm displaced his sense of balance. He collapsed.
“Want to keep going?” I asked his fallen form, my heart in my throat. I stood ready to jump and react at a moment’s notice.
Slowly, he pulled himself to his feet again. Twice, he used the knife to slash at the silk. On the second attempt, I hit him with the formation of bugs for an eighth sweep of the silk net, hoping to throw him off-balance enough that he’d stab himself. No such luck.
Standing straight, Mannequin shifted his grip on his knife and then raised one finger. Wagged it left and right, that same gesture of disapproval, condemnation.
Then he turned to leave, striding for the door. I didn’t try to stop him. I didn’t have it in me.
Not intending to be completely self-serving. I was just wondering if there's anything to the idea of making notes in WMG and Funny about the comments section of the website. As far as the Funny entry, I was just considering saying something about how it can also become this in contrast to the dark story.
Aside from selfish reasons, I feel the comments can build community at times.
I'm not really sure some of the tropes listed are appropriate and/or correctly defined. Anyone has any comment on those?
- Character Devleopment : only Taylor, Rachel, Brian and Colin have any meaningful Character Development that we can actually see and appreciate, and not very much at that. Out of a cast of how many major an minor figures? I always found this trope to be one of the weakest points in worm, even if it's handled so well it's not that noticeable.
- Hates Being Touched : I do not really see it, discomfort around men is different than this trope
- Knight Of Cerebus : wrong trope for the setting it's too grimdark for a real Knight Of Cerebus, From Bad To Worse fits better.
- Dark Is Not Evil : I'm not really sure about Alexandria being "evil", she looks more like an Anti Hero than the Well Intentioned Extremist implied by working for Cauldron...