can i amypost for real or will i be killed
getting mixed signals
*coughing blood and covered in wounds, on one knee, gripping my sword planted on the ground… And yet, smiling* Heh… And yet, despite everything… *I start glowing with mysterious power* I stay silly!
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hi *blasts you with the Yuri beam*
thanks doc
i wanna post but alas i am a lurker at heart
what did i just say
"I am the riot, I am the swarm..."
Taylor's warlord arc was what got me back into drawing after IB. Figure I might as well reveal that drawing, my first ever worm fanart.
Fortuna my beloved... she's such a compelling character I wish we had more of her. She was like 8 when she killed a god and learned the world was going to end. 8 years old when she got the power to do anything she wants, except it's never enough to solve the one problem she cares about. 8 years old when she left behind everything she knew for a battle that seemed completely hopeless, and in the end she hardly mattered despite all the parts of herself she threw away for the cause. Some (bad) fics portray her as a complete dumbass, someone who can't even walk without her power, and frankly I want to throw rocks at them because no! That's not her! She's still a person without her power, but I don't think she knows who that person is. It's something we see so often through worm, a character spends so much time with the mask on that they hardly exist when it's off, and using her power is the mask for her. She doesn't know what she would enjoy for recreation, what music she'd like, she doesn't know what it's like to have a friend that she talks to with the mask off because the mask is glued to her face by this point, and it's heartbreaking. After Scion dies, she's left to realize that she doesn't need her mask anymore, but there's barely anything left underneath. She's done so much horrible shit and stopped caring about herself or others in the name of the goal she set to save the world, and now when she tries to figure out who she is there's nothing of Fortuna left, only Contessa.
And all of this lines up with Taylor, they're so so similar in every way, which is what makes the final conversation in 30.7 so heartbreaking. Fortuna wants to know if it was worth it, if there's anything left of Taylor in there, because she's wondering the same questions about herself and desperately wants answers. Because what do you do when all your life was for nothing? When you've thrown away your humanity to be a speck in the grand scheme of things? How do you move on and find yourself without letting the guilt tear you apart once you let yourself feel something again?
its sooo particularly Augh Ouch that at the end. taylor believes there is nothing left for her and no way to live. and contessa still chooses hope for herself And taylor even though the person she's looking to for answers has none. she gives taylor a chance taylor doesn't believe she can have. like the first choice she makes without using her power after all these years is to believe that something better Is possible. even after all these years she still decides to believe in the same thing fortuna did long ago: that maybe, just maybe, they can all do the impossible and keep on living. clenches fist. Contessa.....
Now that I’m on the mental subject of thinking about “Uquiz bait” categorization systems, I’ve got to gush about how Worm is probably one of the best ones for two reasons-
- One, the twelve power categories have no exclusivity because they’re theme-based, so any given cape can dip into multiple categories based on the specific fucked-up thing that happened to them, with no pigeonholing. Taylor’s got Master elements (betrayal and abandonment) AND shaker elements (whole school turned against her) AND thinker elements (Doesn’t know why everyone is turning against her or what they’re planning to do next) and she gets a power that falls into all three categories. Grue gets Shaker (mother’s abusive boyfriend) AND stranger (focus on concealing himself and his allies.) Lung gets Brute (head caved in with brick of cocaine) AND changer (longstanding identity issues from mixed heritage and low status) AND Trump (combat thinker caved in his head.)
- Two, the system is contentious in-universe, with the twelve categories having been pared down over the years from thirty. There are characters who think the terminology in use ( =e.g. “brute,”) is demeaning and outdated, there are characters who mistakenly use “shifter” instead of the more up-to-date “changer,” or they use outdated-but-still-useful terms like “nuker” that got dropped from the official classification chart for the sake of having an even twelve categories. Only about 40 percent of the superhero population actually understands what the difference between changer and breaker is, and pinning down what makes a power a “breaker” power is something that leads to fistfights at academic conferences. At these same conferences, there have been parking-lot duels over whether Master should be two separate categories, one for Masters that control human behavior and one for Minion summoners. The fact that “Thinker” sounds indistinguishable from “Tinker” when screamed in a panic has gotten at least three PRT squads killed and you can’t change my mind. This is, in-universe, something that got kludged together because they needed something to categorize these bastards but it’s super messy!
It’s just- it is so, so good as a diagnostic system instead of a hard-and-fast ATLA-style categorization system, and it really leans into how the map isn’t and shouldn’t be the territory when it comes to these things!
"thinker" is a generous name for capes with powers that more or less just shortcut the thinking for them
"shaker" is a generous name for capes with powers that more orbless just shortcut the shaking for them
the thinkers aren’t gonna fuck you
bet
gimel
Taylors power would be so useful in daily life. for example, if i had her power, i wouldn't have been terrorized by a roach being on my door for three hours like i was just now
Boomers in the Parahumans universe would wear t-shirts that say " My superpower? Being a father of three, My trigger event? The wife 🤣🤣"
in honor of my having finished worm, here's that one scene in speck that gut-punched me (jk that was every scene in speck)
