History Quotes / Worm

-->'''Clockblocker:''' You kicked their asses with butterflies.\\

-->--'''''Clockblocker''' being the best hero.''

-->--'''''Wildbow''' responding to fans after a serious cliffhanger.''

-->--'''''Taylor''', commenting on [[TheDreaded using her reputation]] in [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/04/02/chrysalis-20-5/ Chrysalis 20.5]]''

-->--''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Scapegoat]] sums up the whole FromBadToWorse angle''[[note]]Also, when AwesomenessByAnalysis ''is'' your superpower, LethalHarmlessPowers goes on a whole different level[[/note]]

-->--''Discussion on [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/chrysalis-20-1/#comment-14162 Chrysalis 20.1]]''

-->--Discussion on [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/chrysalis-20-1/#comment-14162 Chrysalis 20.1]].

I’d really like to dispute that. I really would =/

-->--''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Scapegoat]] sums up the whole FromBadToWorse angle''[[note]]Also, when AwesomenessByAnalysis ''is'' your superpower, LethalHarmlessPowers goes on a whole different level[[/note]]

-->--'''''mc2rpg''' in the comments section''[[note]]She does sums up quite nicely how WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief works for most people reading Worm[[/note]]

-->--''Sierra sumps up [[HorrifyingHero the other]] [[BadPowersGoodPeople half]].''

-->--''A sample from the comments section: Full of normal people. [[note]]Incidentally, it's a DeadBabyComedy taken a wee bit too literally[[/note]]''

->(''After [[CompleteMonster The Nine]] have attacked the '''nursery''' of an hospital.'')

->'''[[BlackComedy [=PsychoGeko=]]]''': Now, now, let’s not jump to conclusions here. We don’t know for a fact that this wasn’t a case of self defense. Those babies might have been asking for it. One of them might have smuggled a Walther PPK in its diaper to cap an unsuspecting nurse, and then Jack Slash saw it and decided to act heroically. Or Siberian figured it was as good a time as any to try eating a baby. Hell, if you she downed the diaper too then you might as well sell that video off for another Jackass movie. Maybe they’ll put it just after the part where someone blows a horse.

->'''[=PsychoGeko=]''': Slept like a dead baby.

->'''[=PsychoGeko=]''': Must need [the materials to build] more spiders.

->'''[=PsychoGeko=]''': I bet [[ToServeMan Siberian]] likes veal.

->'''[[BlackComedy [=PsychoGeko=]]]''': "Now, now, let’s not jump to conclusions here. We don’t know for a fact that this wasn’t a case of self defense. Those babies might have been asking for it. One of them might have smuggled a Walther PPK in its diaper to cap an unsuspecting nurse, and then Jack Slash saw it and decided to act heroicly. Or Siberian figured it was as good a time as any to try eating a baby. Hell, if you she downed the diaper too then you might as well sell that video off for another Jackass movie. Maybe they’ll put it just after the part where someone blows a horse."
->'''[[StraightMan tieshaunn]]''': "thanks for all those wonderful pictures in my head. better be careful the next time you go to sleep…"
->'''[=PsychoGeko=]''': "Slept like a dead baby."
->'''[[TemptingFate [=TheAnt=]]]''': "It was implied that they took a few alive, at least to me. Knowing [[HumanResources Bonesaw]], that is not a good thing."
->'''[=PsychoGeko=]''': "Must need [the materials to build] more spiders"
->'''tieshaunn''': "DAMMIT, WHY WON’T YOU STOP!?"
->'''[=PsychoGeko=]''': "I bet [[ToServeMan Siberian]] likes veal."

-->-- One in a series of information sheets being distributed by Taylor's dad about supervillains in Brockton Bay.

-->--[[NominalHero Shadow Stalker]] on [[ClassicalAntiHero Skitter]]

-->--Battery sums up half of [[HeroWithBadPublicity Skitter's]] [[DudeWheresMyRespect problems]].

-->--Sierra sumps up [[HorrifyingHero the other]] [[BadPowersGoodPeople half]].

->''Battery surveyed the crowd again. “What’s your agenda?”
->“Do I have to have one?”
->“Yes. Your kind always has an agenda.”
->“Maybe I’m unique.”
->“No, knowing what you tried to pull with pretending to be a villain? Or pretending to be a hero that’s pretending to be a villain? You’re more likely to have some scheme at play than anyone else.”''

->''"A figure stood behind Yan. Her costume was barely recognizable – She wore a short cape of tattered black cloth over her body armor, a skintight black suit beneath that, and there were folds of black cloth draped around her legs like a dress or a robe. The entire fabric seemed to ripple and move. It took Sierra a second to realize it was crawling with a carpet of insects.''
->''The disconcerting part was the girl’s face, or lack thereof. Her expression was masked behind a shifting mass of bugs that moved in and out of her hairline. Sierra couldn’t even tell where the bugs ended and the scalp began, as the small black bodies crawled into and onto the black curls. There was a hint of something like glass where Skitter’s eyes were, but the bugs ventured far enough over her eyelids and around the frames that nothing was visible in the way of goggles, glasses or skin."''

->''"Whatever else Shadow Stalker might think of the bug girl, how the girl was creepy, a freak, she had to admit Skitter had demonstrated enough viciousness to date that she could almost respect the girl as a fellow predator."''

->''"Running forward, he swung the club at the swarm like he was trying to hit a home run.  The head was scattered, dashed to pieces, and he laughed again. ''
->''Until the rest of the swarm dog piled him.  Then he started screaming."''

->''"“Motherfucker.”  Even without intending to do it, I used my swarm to carry my voice.  His head craned around, as if to look at the swarming bugs who had just, for all intents and purposes, spoken.  Eventually his ‘face’ turned back to me. ''
->''“I have no idea how the fuck I’m going to do it,” my voice was a low snarl, barely recognizable as my own beneath my anger and the noises of the swarm.  ”But I’m going to make you regret that.”"''
-->--''Taylor, in response to a villain who just murdered some of her people and is the perfect counter to her power. ''

->''I almost laughed, and some of my humor must have translated in a mental direction to my bugs, because they started making a noise that wasn’t speech.  I stopped them.  It wouldn’t have sounded much like laughter anyways.  ”All of the above?  None of the above?  Does it matter?  Some of us wear the villain label with pride, because they want to rebel against the norms, because it’s a harder, more rewarding road to travel, or because being a ‘hero’ often means so very little.  But few people really want to see themselves as being bad or evil, whatever label they wear.  I’ve done things I regret, I’ve done things I’m proud of, and I’ve walked the roads in between.  The sliding scale is a fantasy.  There’s no simple answers.“ "''
-->--''Taylor's response to a hero who asks her where she sees herself in terms of the sliding scale of good and evil, heroes and villains.”''

->''"You gonna fight me?” He called out.
->“I’m a good guy,” I said.
->Stepping closer to me, he tilted his head, “You don’t look like one.”''
-->--''Taylor's first meeting with Armsmaster”''

->''"Doing the wrong things for the right reasons."''

->''" I panicked, freaked out.  My mind went someplace else, and it found the bugs there.  Not that I knew what they were, at that point.  I didn’t have a sense of proportion, and with all the info my power was giving me then, my brain didn’t know how to process it all.  As far as I knew, all around me, in the walls of the school, in the corners, and crawling around the filthy interior of the locker, there were thousands of these twitchy, alien, distorted things that were each shoving every tiny detail about their bodies and their fucked up biology into my head."''
->''I sighed, “It’s hard to explain what it’s like, having a new sense open up, but you can’t understand it all.  Every sound that they heard was bounced back to me at a hundred times the volume, with the pitch and everything else all screwed up as if they wanted to make it as unpleasant and painful to listen to as possible.  Even what they were seeing, it’s like having my eyes open after being in the dark for a long time, but the eyes weren’t attached to my body, and what they were seeing was like looking into a really dingy, grimy kaleidoscope.  Thousands of them.  And I didn’t know how to turn any of it off. "''
-->--''Taylor's trigger event''

->''"Don't underestimate me."''
-->--'''Skitter''', ''Right before she carves out the eyes of a villain that has fought off entire teams of heroes.''

->''“Call it off or I shoot!”''
->''“Shoot and you die,” Skitter’s voice was distorted, not really resembling a sound from human lips. The beetle seemed to offer a deep buzz to accompany the ‘oo’ sounds. ”It won’t be pretty. Brown recluse venom makes your muscles necrotize. That means it decays while you’re still alive. It takes days, but the only real cure is taking a knife to the area around the bite. That might be okay if you have one bite, carve out a half-pound of flesh, let the wound drain, stitch it up. But what if you have three or four bites? Or ten?”''
->''“You’re bullshitting me,” Yan spat the words.''
->''Skitter ignored her. ”It’s excruciatingly painful. Nothing you experienced during your initiation into the ABB even compares, I can guarantee it. You’re rotting alive, your flesh turning black as it liquefies. So maybe you shoot me. Maybe you even kill me, though I doubt it. Either way, whether I walk away from here alive or not, you get bitten. They’re already on you. All three of you.”''

->''“Lung underestimated her, too,” she told him, looking at me.
->Armsmaster turned to look, as well.''

->''“And then Skitter waltzes in and… it’s like, she slithers right past your defenses.”
->“How’s that?”
->“I can’t even put it into words. You run into her, and you can’t even look straight at her without feeling your skin crawl. Like when someone’s got something wrong with their eye and your own eye starts watering… only with her it’s because of the bugs.”''

-->-- One in a series of information sheets being distributed by Taylor's dad about supervillains in Brockton Bay.

->'Know where you are:

The area extending west of the ferry station north, including the factories and the remains of the Boardwalk, is believed to be under claim by the supervillain Skitter. Skitter is a member of the Undersiders, who are allied with the Travelers in an as-of-yet unnamed alliance. Skitter is an unpredictable young woman tending towards acts of apparent kindness to those she deems her subjects and bursts of sudden and extreme violence towards those she sees as her enemies. The city is not funding work in her territory, as Skitter is handling matters there.

Skitter controls insects and senses what they do. Anyone with allergies to stings or insect bites would be advised to leave this area. She offers food, shelter and care to anyone who agrees to work under her, but the Dockworkers Association cannot suggest that anyone accept her offers, as her ulterior motives are unknown.

-->--''Taylor, in response to a villain who just murdered some of her people and is the perfect counter to her power. ''

->''" I panicked, freaked out.  My mind went someplace else, and it found the bugs there.  Not that I knew what they were, at that point.  I didn’t have a sense of proportion, and with all the info my power was giving me then, my brain didn’t know how to process it all.  As far as I knew, all around me, in the walls of the school, in the corners, and crawling around the filthy interior of the locker, there were thousands of these twitchy, alien, distorted things that were each shoving every tiny detail about their bodies and their fucked up biology into my head. I sighed, “It’s hard to explain what it’s like, having a new sense open up, but you can’t understand it all.  Every sound that they heard was bounced back to me at a hundred times the volume, with the pitch and everything else all screwed up as if they wanted to make it as unpleasant and painful to listen to as possible.  Even what they were seeing, it’s like having my eyes open after being in the dark for a long time, but the eyes weren’t attached to my body, and what they were seeing was like looking into a really dingy, grimy kaleidoscope.  Thousands of them.  And I didn’t know how to turn any of it off. "''

->''"Running forward, he swung the club at the swarm like he was trying to hit a home run.  The head was scattered, dashed to pieces, and he laughed again. Until the rest of the swarm dog piled him.  Then he started screaming.'"

->''"“Motherfucker.”  Even without intending to do it, I used my swarm to carry my voice.  His head craned around, as if to look at the swarming bugs who had just, for all intents and purposes, spoken.  Eventually his ‘face’ turned back to me. “I have no idea how the fuck I’m going to do it,” my voice was a low snarl, barely recognizable as my own beneath my anger and the noises of the swarm.  ”But I’m going to make you regret that.”"''
-->--''Taylor in response to a villain who just murdered some of her people and is the perfect counter to her power. ''