History Quotes / Worm

-->-- '''Bonesaw''' describing Taylor[[labelnote:link]][[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/07/07/plague-12-4/ Plague 12.4]][[/labelnote]]

''Until the rest of the swarm dog piled him. Then he started screaming.''

-->--'''Skitter''''s response to a hero who asks her where she sees herself on the line between good and evil, heroes and villains[[labelnote:link]][[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/08/18/snare-13-7/ Snare 13.7]][[/labelnote]]

'''Flechette:''' And then she ''talks'', and she sounds so idealistic, and naive. I don't know ''how'' you sound idealistic and naive with a swarm of cockroaches and bees crawling over your face, but she does. And so you let your guard down. And then she starts making ''sense''. And that was the point where Sab- where Parian started lapping it up.

->'''Scapegoat:''' I was perfectly happy, being able to tell myself that hey, the news is blowing things out of proportion. There's no way Brockton Bay is as scary as they're making it out to be. Dragon suits get sent in and are promptly forced out, but really, the ''mayor's'' telling Washington it's safe enough. The media got something wrong, or they're making little problems sound bigger than they are. See the piles of dead bodies where this girl--\\

'''Scapegoat:''' Where Echidna spat out clones. Okay. I can live with that. An unusual power and strong parahuman. Could be an exaggeration. See the destruction, the ruined buildings and the streets that ''still'' haven't drained a hundred percent. More or less what I expected from the news. The girl with the mutant dogs? Bug girl? Still manageable. But ''she'' opens her mouth, ''[points at Tattletale]'' and pop goes my bubble of happy self-delusion.\\

''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.''

"And, more than that, it’s like, if we're talking about hope, about the future, who's more iconic for all that than kids? You know, that line about how kids are the future? Heroes too, they’re icons of hope too. And put those things together, you get Arcadia High. Winslow High's gone, and there's not quite enough students, so they're herding us all together."\\

"It's sad because you're making a fool of yourself, you're missing a key detail."\\

Sophia shrugged. “Better if you find out for yourself. I won't spoon-feed you."''

->''Emma couldn't tell herself she’d be back. To stick around and be loyal now would betray every reason she’d given herself for dropping Taylor as a friend. Taylor had been a wet blanket, a loser. Sophia was no better, now.\\

It was ironic, but Sophia had proven herself to be more prey than predator, in the very philosophy she’d espoused.''

->''As they approached, Emma could see Taylor helping her dad unload a box from what looked to be a new or newly washed car. He said something and she laughed.\\

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

-->--'''Sierra''' summing up [[HorrifyingHero the other]] [[BadPowersGoodPeople half]] in [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/interlude-14/ Interlude 14]]

'''Flechette:''' 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.\\

'''Tattletale:''' [[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong I do]].
-->--'''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Scapegoat]]''' summing up the whole FromBadToWorse angle in [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/03/02/scourge-19-4/ Scourge 19.4]][[note]]Also, when AwesomenessByAnalysis ''is'' your superpower, LethalHarmlessPowers goes on a ''whole'' different level[[/note]]

The casual display of emotion was startling. It was equally startling when, in the moment Emma’s dad slowed the car down, Taylor's head turned, her eyes falling on them, her head and upper body turning to follow them as they passed.\\

She didn't even resemble the person Emma had known way back then, not the girl who’d approached her house after coming back from camp, and not the girl who’d been drenched in juice. The lines of her cheekbones and chin were more defined, her skin baked to a light tan by the sun, her long black curls grown a touch wild by long exposure to wind. Light muscles stood out on her arms as she held a box, her dad standing back to direct.\\

It surprised Emma, all the little clues coming together to point to one fact; that Taylor had ''stayed''. She’d stayed, and she’d come out of it okay. Judging by the new car, the shoes and her clothes, the Heberts were doing better for money than they had been the last time Emma had run into either of them. Were they early beneficiaries of Brockton Bay’s upswing in fortune?\\

It didn't hit her until they’d reached their new house, a recollection of something Sophia had said.\\

''On this violent, brutish little planet of ours, it’s the survivors who wind up the strongest ones of all''.''

-->--'''Skitter''' explaining to three other groups of villains why they shouldn't mess with the Undersiders in [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/04/06/interlude-20/ Interlude 20]]

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

-->--'''Clockblocker''' being the best hero in [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/25/drone-23-1/ Drone 23.1]]

-->--'''Glenn Chambers''' explaining why they're putting restrictions on Weaver in [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/drone-23-3/ Drone 23.3]]

-->--'''[[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/17/extinction-27-2/ Extinction 27.2]]''', when Taylor finally acknowledges just how bad she had gotten

-->'''[[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/11/19/interlude-end/ Interlude - End]]'''--[[spoiler:'''Taylor''''s]] last [[BittersweetEnding line]]

-->--'''RunningGag in the comments section''', about the initial reaction of every one of Skitter's enemies ever

-->'''Jack Slash''' to Weaver, [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/03/sting-26-6/ Sting 26.6]]

->''[After The Nine have attacked the '''nursery''' of a hospital]''\\
'''[[BlackComedy [=PsychoGecko=]]]:''' 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.\\

-->--'''A sample from the comments section to [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/12/13/interlude-16-donation-bonus-2/ Interlude 16 (Donation Bonus #2)]]''' (full of normal people)[[note]]Incidentally, it's a DeadBabyComedy taken a wee bit too literally[[/note]]

-->--'''''mc2rpg''' in [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/interlude-19-donation-bonus-1/#comment-11632 the comments section to Interlude 19 (Donation Bonus #1)]]''[[note]]She does sum up quite nicely how WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief works for most people reading ''Worm''[[/note]]

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

-->---'''[[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/17/interlude-28/#comment-42066 Two comments reacting to Interlude 28]]'''

-->--'''[[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/17/speck-30-2/#comment-46762 A comment made on Speck 30.2]]'''

-->--'''roughly 1/4 of the comments on [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/26/speck-30-6/#comments Speck 30.6]]'''

-->--'''[=PsychoGecko=]''', [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/scarab-25-4/#comment-31365 Scarab 25.4]]

-->--''Worm's tagline''

!! Quotes of the work

->'''Armsmaster''': You gonna fight me?\\
'''[[DarkIsNotEvil Skitter]]''': I’m a good guy.\\
'''Armsmaster''': You don’t [[FreakyFashionMildMind look like one]].
-->--''Skitter's first meeting with Armsmaster.''[[labelnote:link]][[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/gestation-1-6/ Gestation 1.6]][[/labelnote]]

->''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.''

->''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''' explaining her own trigger event in [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/10/01/shell-4-3/ Shell 4.3]]''

-->--'''''Skitter''', right before she carves out the eyes of a villain that has fought off entire teams of heroes.''[[labelnote:link]][[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/12/03/hive-5-9/ Hive 5.9]][[/labelnote]]

->''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.''
-->--''A mook attacking one of Skitter's [[TheWormThatWalks bug clones]] in [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/infestation-11-3/ Infestation 11.3]]''

->''"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."''
-->--'''''Skitter''', responding to a villain who just murdered some of her people and is the perfect counter to her power.''[[labelnote:link]][[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/07/14/plague-12-6/ Plague 12.6]][[/labelnote]]

->''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 [[BlackAndGreyMorality 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." ''
-->--'''''Skitter's''' response to a hero who asks her where she sees herself on the line between good and evil, between heroes and villains'' [[labelnote:link]][[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/08/18/snare-13-7/ Snare 13.7]][[/labelnote]]

-->--''[[NominalHero Shadow Stalker]] on [[ClassicalAntiHero Skitter]], [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/04/21/sentinel-9-6/ Sentinel 9.6]]''

->'''[[TheAtoner Battery]]''': What’s your agenda?\\
'''Skitter''': Do I have to have one?\\
'''Battery''': Yes. Your kind always has an agenda.\\
'''Skitter''': Maybe I'm unique.\\
'''Battery''': 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.
-->--''Battery summing up half of [[HeroWithBadPublicity Skitter's]] [[DudeWheresMyRespect problems]] in [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/infestation-11-2/ Infestation 11.2]].''

->''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.''
-->--''Sierra summing up [[HorrifyingHero the other]] [[BadPowersGoodPeople half]] in [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/interlude-14/ Interlude 14]].''

->'''Flechette:''' And then Skitter waltzes in and... it's like, she slithers right past your defenses.\\

-->--[[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/interlude-18-donation-bonus-3/ Interlude 18 (Donation Bonus #3)]]

->'''Scapegoat''': I was perfectly happy, Being able to tell myself that hey, the news is blowing things out of proportion. There's no way Brockton Bay is as scary as they're making it out to be. Dragon suits get sent in and are promptly forced out, but really, the ''mayor's'' telling Washington it's safe enough. The media got something wrong, or they're making little problems sound bigger than they are. See the piles of dead bodies where this girl--\\
'''Tattletale''': Echidna.\\
'''Scapegoat''': Where Echidna spat out clones. Okay. I can live with that. An unusual power and strong parahuman. Could be an exaggeration. See the destruction, the ruined buildings and the streets that ''still'' haven't drained a hundred percent. More or less what I expected from the news. The girl with the mutant dogs? Bug girl? Still manageable. But ''she'' opens her mouth, ''[points at Tattletale]'' and pop goes my bubble of happy self-delusion.\\
'''Tecton''': You want to tear a hole in reality?\\
'''Tattletale''': [[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong I do]].
-->--'''''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Scapegoat]]''' summing up the whole FromBadToWorse angle in [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/03/02/scourge-19-4/ Scourge 19.4]]''[[note]]Also, when AwesomenessByAnalysis ''is'' your superpower, LethalHarmlessPowers goes on a whole different level.[[/note]]

-> “It’s kind of neat in terms of the big picture,” Emma said, ignoring Sophia. “It’s like, the future hasn’t looked this bright in a while. There’s promise, if this rumor about an open interdimensional portal is for real. Multiple portals, if you believe the really out-there rumors. Escape routes, resources, work. And Brockton Bay is at the center of it all.”
-> Sophia snorted.
-> “And, more than that, it’s like, if we’re talking about hope, about the future, who’s more iconic for all that than kids? You know, that line about how kids are the future? Heroes too, they’re icons of hope too. And put those things together, you get Arcadia High. Winslow High’s gone, and there’s not quite enough students, so they’re herding us all together.”
-> “So?”
-> “So, it’s like, all this hope, you’ve got Brockton Bay at the center of it all. And at the center of Brockton Bay’s hope, it’s Arcadia High. And at the center of that? You’ve got the heroes and the winners. I fully intend to be the latter. In a way, it’s like being queen of the world.”
-> “The popular kid in high school?”
-> “In ''the'' high school,” Emma said. She shrugged. “It’s one way of looking at it.”
-> “It’s sad.”
-> Emma smirked. “Someone’s grumpy.”
-> “It’s sad because you’re making a fool of yourself, you’re missing a key detail.”
-> “Which?”
-> Sophia shrugged. “Better if you find out for yourself. I won’t spoon-feed you.”
-->-- ''[[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/category/stories-arcs-11/arc-19-scourge/19-z-interlude/ Interlude 19]]''


-> Emma couldn’t tell herself she’d be back. To stick around and be loyal now would betray every reason she’d given herself for dropping Taylor as a friend. Taylor had been a wet blanket, a loser. Sophia was no better, now.
-> It was ironic, but Sophia had proven herself to be more prey than predator, in the very philosophy she’d espoused.
-->-- ''[[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/category/stories-arcs-11/arc-19-scourge/19-z-interlude/ Interlude 19]]''



-> As they approached, Emma could see Taylor helping her dad unload a box from what looked to be a new or newly washed car. He said something and she laughed.
-> The casual display of emotion was startling. It was equally startling when, in the moment Emma’s dad slowed the car down, Taylor’s head turned, her eyes falling on them, her head and upper body turning to follow them as they passed.
-> She didn’t even resemble the person Emma had known way back then, not the girl who’d approached her house after coming back from camp, and not the girl who’d been drenched in juice. The lines of her cheekbones and chin were more defined, her skin baked to a light tan by the sun, her long black curls grown a touch wild by long exposure to wind. Light muscles stood out on her arms as she held a box, her dad standing back to direct.
-> Even her clothes. She wasn’t hiding under a hood and long sleeves. A trace of her stomach was exposed between the bottom of her yellow tank top and the top of her jeans. The frayed cuffs were rolled up at the bottom, around new running shoes, and neither Taylor nor her dad seemed to be paying any attention to the knife that was sheathed at her back.
-> It surprised Emma, all the little clues coming together to point to one fact; that Taylor had ''stayed''. She’d stayed, and she’d come out of it okay. Judging by the new car, the shoes and her clothes, the Heberts were doing better for money than they had been the last time Emma had run into either of them. Were they early beneficiaries of Brockton Bay’s upswing in fortune?
-> It unsettled her, and she had a hard time putting her finger on ''why.''
-> It didn’t hit her until they’d reached their new house, a recollection of something Sophia had said.
-> ''On this violent, brutish little planet of ours, it’s the survivors who wind up the strongest ones of all.''
-->--''[[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/03/19/interlude-19/ Interlude 19]]''

->''If you’re lucky, Imp slits your throat with you none the wiser, or Regent has one of your underlings stab you in the back, and you go quick. If you’re unlucky, Bitch’s dogs tear you to shreds, and it’s a long, drawn out, painful process. If you’re very unlucky, you get the worst of both worlds, and you deal with '''me.'''''
-->--'''Skitter''' explaining to three other groups of villains why they shouldn't mess with the Undersiders in [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/04/06/interlude-20/ Interlude 20]]

->''Weeks or months ago, I might have had a hard time wearing that confidence the way [[spoiler:Jack]] did. The '''history''', the long sequence of events and conflicts where we’d come out ahead in our respective teams, it could just as easily be a burden, the accumulated weight of the various precedents we’d set, but we’d made it into our armor, something to make our enemies hesitate at a critical juncture.''
-->--'''''Taylor''', commenting on [[TheDreaded using her reputation]] in [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/04/02/chrysalis-20-5/ Chrysalis 20.5]]''

->'''Clockblocker:''' You kicked their asses with butterflies.\\
'''Weaver:''' I cheated. The butterflies are superficial, decorative.\\
'''Clockblocker:''' No, no, no. If anyone asks, you kicked their asses with butterflies.
-->--'''''Clockblocker''' being the best hero in [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/25/drone-23-1/ Drone 23.1]]''

->''"We know what you're about," [[SlaveToPR Glenn]] said. He touched his keyboard, then typed out what I presumed was a password. A second passed, "Look."''

->''He spun his monitor around.''

->''It was me, entering the PRT office in Brockton Bay. A video feed from a surveillance camera.''

->''It was me, crawling through a window. That would be from the night I retaliated against Tagg. Odd, seeing how the bugs moved in coordination with me. When I turned my head in the video, the orientation of every bug in the swarm changed in the same moment.''

->''All around me, PRT employees were howling in pain, their cries silenced by the lack of an audio feed. Either the camera hadn't picked it up, or Glenn had muted it. They thrashed. One reached for me, for the '''me''' on the screen, and I could see how I moved out of the way without even glancing at him. The swarm concealed me at the same time, briefly obscuring the Skitter in the video from both the man on the ground and the security camera. When it parted, she had shifted two or three feet to the left. A simple step to one side in the half-second she couldn't be seen, but it misled the eyes.''

->''And I couldn't remember doing it. I'd never consciously added the trick to my repertoire.''

->''"If you told me that girl was a member of the [[HeroKiller Slaughterhouse Nine]]," Glenn said, "I wouldn't have batted an eyelash."''
-->--'''''Glenn Chambers''' explaining why they're putting restrictions on Weaver in [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/drone-23-3/ Drone 23.3]]''

->''One structure among several hundred thousand still stood, and our adversary was wounded, though undiminished. Our ranks had been thinned in the most violent ways possible, through fire and lightning and a roar that could render organs to mush. We weren't stronger than we'd been at the start of all of this. I couldn't even say that the weak had been thinned out, or that we’d been united through hardship or loss. Behemoth had picked off some of the strongest of us, and the trust between our factions was thin at best, with some eyeing the Yàngbǎn, others watching Satyrical's contingent. We were just '''less'''.''

->''"{{Hold the line}}," Exalt called out. Other capes translated for him, echoing his words with only a few seconds of delay, in four or five different languages. "We defend until the ones inside can be evacuated, and then we leave. There's nothing left to protect here."''

->''A thin heroism, but that was heroic, wasn't it? Protecting the wounded, defending the ones who'd put everything on the line to stop this monster.''

->''If this was all a kind of microcosm for the world at large, that small heroism had to count for '''something'''. I wanted it to so badly I '''ached''' for it.''

->''Behemoth roared, and the last engagement opened.''
-->--''The ending of [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/20/crushed-24-5/ Crushed 24.5]]''

->''Chevalier pulled his sword from the ground, swayed, and very fell over.''

->''Defiant caught him.''

->''[==]'''Old friend''', Chevalier thought, though he didn't have the breath to speak.''

->''Anyone else might have spoken up, told him he didn't have to do this, that it was madness.''

->''Defiant was silent, supporting Chevalier, helping him right himself. Defiant understood this much. The need, the '''drive.'''''

->''Chevalier took his first step with Defiant's help. The second was only partially supported. The third was on his own.''
-->''[[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/22/interlude-24/ Interlude 24]]''

->''Slowly, the crowd took up a cheer, a cry of victory from everyone with the breath to spare.''

->''As noise returned to the landscape, the stilling effects of Scion’s light fading, Chevalier closed his eyes, listening. With the noise of the helicopters and distant fires mingling with the shouts and hollers of joy from the defending capes, he imagined he could hear the whole world cheering alongside them.''
-->''[[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/22/interlude-24/ Interlude 24]], after Behemoth's destruction''

'''Taylor:''' I know what that's like, I've walked down that road. Maybe not so ugly a road, but I've gone that route. All the way along, I told myself it sucked, but I wouldn't do it differently. I did everything I did for a reason. Except now, having reached the point I was working towards, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone I finally do regret it all. The last two years, the way I treated my teammates, leaving the Undersiders... I'd change it all in a heartbeat.]]
-->''[[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/17/extinction-27-2/ Extinction 27.2]], when Taylor finally acknowledges just how bad she had gotten.''



->''"But I've dealt with worse. If it comes down to it, if this is all I have to worry about, I can maybe deal. I could maybe learn to be okay."''
-->''[[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/11/19/interlude-end/ Interlude - End]]'' [[spoiler: Taylor's]] last [[BittersweetEnding line]].

!! Quotes about the work

->''You know, I was talking about Worm to a group of people on Sunday (just about forty-eight hours ago, in fact), and mentioned how the protagonist -- who had the power to control bugs and spiders and such -- had her first fight against a man who could produce fire out of thin air, had a healing factor, and, as he fought, got bigger, stronger, and more heavily armored, eventually to the point of becoming a dragon.''

->''One of them replied to the effect that that was a way stronger power.''

->''My reply was, [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower "So you'd think."]]''
-->'''''[[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/04/16/imago-21-3/#comment-18241 Comment by Packbat]]''' on Imago 21.3''

-> "Meh, I could take her."
--> RunningGag in the comments section, about the initial reaction of every one of Skitter's enemies. Ever.

->''[[AscendedMeme Eh, I can take you.]]''
-->'''Jack Slash''' to Weaver, [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/03/sting-26-6/ Sting 26.6]]

->(''After The Nine have attacked the '''nursery''' of an hospital.'')\\
'''[[BlackComedy [=PsychoGecko=]]]''': 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.\\
'''[[StraightMan Tieshaunn]]''': Thanks for all those wonderful pictures in my head. better be careful the next time you go to sleep...\\
'''[=PsychoGecko=]''': 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.\\
'''[=PsychoGecko=]''': Must need [the materials to build] more spiders.\\
'''Tieshaunn''': DAMMIT, WHY WON'T YOU STOP!?\\
'''[=PsychoGecko=]''': I bet [[ToServeMan Siberian]] likes veal.
-->--''A sample from the comments section to [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/12/13/interlude-16-donation-bonus-2/ Interlude 16 (Donation Bonus #2)]]: Full of normal people. [[note]]Incidentally, it's a DeadBabyComedy taken a wee bit too literally[[/note]]''

-->--'''''mc2rpg''' in [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/interlude-19-donation-bonus-1/#comment-11632 the comments section to Interlude 19 (Donation Bonus #1)]]''[[note]]She does sum up quite nicely how WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief works for most people reading Worm[[/note]]

->'''Psycho Gecko:'''\\

'''throwaawy:''' \\

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

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

->'''razorsmile:''' ... The fuck just happened?\\

-->---''[[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/17/interlude-28/#comment-42066 Two comments reacting to Interlude 28]].''

-->---''[[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/17/speck-30-2/#comment-46762 A comment made on Speck 30.2]].''

->"Taylor [[spoiler:bullied]] the apocalypse to death."
-->---''roughly 1/4 of the comments as of [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/26/speck-30-6/#comments 30.6]]''

->"''[[InsistentTerminology IT'S NOT]] [[spoiler:[[InsistentTerminology BULLYING!]]]]''"
-->---''roughly another 1/4 of the comments on that same update.''

-->---'''Psycho Gecko''', ''[[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/scarab-25-4/#comment-31365 Scarab 25.4]]''

-->---''roughly another 1/4 of the comments on that same update.

-->-- ''[[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/03/19/interlude-19/ Interlude 19]]''

->'''Scapegoat''': I was perfectly happy, Being able to tell myself that hey, the news is blowing things out of proportion. There's no way Brockton Bay is as scary as they're making it out to me. Dragon suits get sent in and are promptly forced out, but really, the mayor's telling Washington it's safe enough. The media got something wrong, or they're making little problems sound bigger than they are. See the piles of dead bodies where this girl spat out clones. Okay. I can live with that. An unusual power and strong parahuman. Could be an exaggeration. See the destruction, the ruined buildings and the streets that still haven't drained a hundred percent. More or less what I expected from the news. The girl with the mutant dogs? Bug girl? Still manageable. But she opens her mouth, ''[points at Tattletale]'' and pop goes my bubble of happy self-delusion.\\

->''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." ''

---->'''Psycho Gecko''', ''[[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/scarab-25-4/#comment-31365 Scarab 25.4]]''

-->---''roughly another 1/4 of the comments on that same update.

-->''[[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/11/19/interlude-end/ Interlude - End]]'' [[spoiler: Taylor's]] last [[BitersweetEnding line]].

->''“But I’ve dealt with worse. If it comes down to it, if this is all I have to worry about, I can maybe deal. I could maybe learn to be okay.”''

->“But I’ve dealt with worse. If it comes down to it, if this is all I have to worry about, I can maybe deal. I could maybe learn to be okay.”

[[hardline]]

[[hardline

->'''Scapegoat''': I was perfectly happy, Being able to tell myself that hey, the news is blowing things out of proportion. There's no way Brockton Bay is as scary as they're making it out to me. Dragon suits get sent in and are promptly forced out, but really, the mayor's telling Washington it's safe enough. The media got something wrong, or they're making little problems sound bigger than they are. See the piles of dead bodies where this girl spat out clones. Okay. I can live with that. An unusual power and strong parahuman. Could be an exaggeration. See the destruction, the ruined buildings and the streets that still haven't drained a hundred percent. More or less what I expected from the news. The girl with the mutant dogs? Bug girl? Still manageable. But she opens her mouth, [points at Tattletale] and pop goes my bubble of happy self-delusion.\\

-->--'''''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Scapegoat]]''' summing up the whole FromBadToWorse angle in [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/03/02/scourge-19-4/ Scourge 19.4]]''[[note]]Also, when AwesomenessByAnalysis ''is'' your superpower, LethalHarmlessPowers goes on a whole different level[[/note]]

-->--'''''Skitter''' explaining to three other groups of villians why they shouldn't mess with the Undersiders in [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/04/06/interlude-20/ Interlude 20]]''

->"''[[InsistentTerminology IT's NOT]] [[spoiler:[[InsistentTerminology BULLYING!]]]]''"

->"''[[InsistentTerminology IT's NOT ]][[spoiler: [[InsistentTerminology BULLYING!]]]]''"

-->---''roughly 1/4 of the comments as of [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/26/speck-30-6/#comments 30.6]]''

-->--''Skitter's first meeting with Armsmaster''[[labelnote:link]][[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/gestation-1-6/ Gestation 1.6]][[/labelnote]]

-->--''Skitter's first meeting with Armsmaster''

->'''keyonte0:''' Our little Taylor's [[FromNobodyToNightmare becoming a god]]. *sniffle* They grow up so fast!\\
-->---''[[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/17/speck-30-2/#comment-46762 A comment made on Speck 30.2]].''