Wormverse ideas, recs, and fic discussion thread 1

Dwergar said:
Interesting idea.
So!
Catch that bunny, brutally murder it, grill it on a fire and serve as a story!
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I would but I don't think I'm worthy, and even if I was not sure it would be my style, hence putting up here for grabs, I'll put a series of ideas I might compleat up somewhere else later. Maby I'll do it if I practice a bit and no one else has taken it. Also I want to do something with some humor.
 
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2 ideas anyone can use.
Worm/Assassination Classroom
Taylor found a strange Vial(which was Greg's(Contessa knew that Taylor would drink it though. Not that anyone but her knew that)) at school. She accidentally drank it when the Trio gave her a jump scare. She turned into a female version of Korosensei. Though her face was somewhat the same.

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Worm/Pokemon Apocalypse AU.

A 13 year old Taylor was pushed off a Skyscraper in NYC by a random villain(Contessa did not know this happen till after the fact). Just as she was about to hit the ground (here she triggered) Arceus appeared and saved her. Also at that moment when Arceus saved her Pokemon started to appear all over the world. All of the Pokemon are Wild though and the aggressive Pokemon start attacking Parahumans and Humans alike. The Legendary Pokemon started to attacked the Endbringers at the same time. All while this happened Scoin disappeared from Earth Bet due to Arceus's presence.
 
To be honest the first idea is really really bad. From the power set to the premise for drinking the vial.

I really don't think Koro-sensei has a very good powerset for worm. The list of parahumans that can pose a threat is pretty much GU, Eidolon and Ash Beast kinda.
 
So, after recently rewatching Spaceballs, I realized their was an aspect of Worm that isn't utilized all that frequently in fanfics: Merchandising.

I mean, we know that the PRT HQ has a gift shop. There are t-shirts, lunchboxes, action figures and more. And while Weaver probably isn't going to be getting much of that for fairly obvious reasons, that's what AUs are for.

So, let's do an AU where Taylor ended up with a power that lends itself really well to merchandising. Like she's a tinker who's able to build and maintain a whole fleet of vehicles that PR can sell as toys. Maybe she's got some sort of Trump/changer ability that lets her switch between a dozen different powers, with a different costume for each, allowing PR to sell a dozen different versions of its not-Barbie. Or maybe it's something else altogether.

The end result is that Taylor ends up doing a lot more PR events than she'd like, and ends up famous far beyond the confines of Brockton Bay. She's getting pretty fantastic amounts of money for all this, but at the same time, she has to worry about her image a lot more then most Wards. Some of the other wards are jealous of her, others pity her (Clockblocker: All those extra sessions with Glenn? No thanks.) and she still has to deal with all the crazy shit in Brockton Bay that everyone has to deal with.

Also, fan mail from Emma, her self-described 'biggest fan'. Because I'm fairly certain that sort of thing is required for this sort of set-up.

I'm not really sure what the overarching plot would be, beyond Taylor dealing with the Brockton Bay Rogues Gallery while juggling all her other issues, but it shouldn't be too hard to wring some decent comedy out of it.
 
Auks said:
So, let's do an AU where Taylor ended up with a power that lends itself really well to merchandising. Like she's a tinker who's able to build and maintain a whole fleet of vehicles that PR can sell as toys. Maybe she's got some sort of Trump/changer ability that lets her switch between a dozen different powers, with a different costume for each, allowing PR to sell a dozen different versions of its not-Barbie. Or maybe it's something else altogether.
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Make Taylor the Orici - or, rather, have her inherit the title from her mother, who ducked behind the Entities' multiversal wall while Ganos Lal was distracted and later took the name Annette while setting up a new identity. It's not like anyone on Earth Bet would recognize the name Adria Mal Doran, but it's the principle of the matter.

Having an official fanclub is sorta like having a religious following, right? :V
 
SwiftRosenthal said:
Make Taylor the Orici - or, rather, have her inherit the title from her mother, who ducked behind the Entities' multiversal wall while Ganos Lal was distracted and later took the name Annette while setting up a new identity. It's not like anyone on Earth Bet would recognize the name Adria Mal Doran, but it's the principle of the matter.

Having an official fanclub is sorta like having a religious following, right? :V
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Considering how dedicated some fans can be? Yes. Yes it most definitely is.
 
Auks said:
Considering how dedicated some fans can be? Yes. Yes it most definitely is.
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The last time Orici!Taylor was brought up, you pointed out the difficulty in believing that a simple car crash would take Adrianette out. I looked farther back, and the solution to that was already mentioned two times ago: she didn't die, she ascended and made it look like an accident. This idea has come up once a year, every year since SV was founded.

There was also a comparison of the Orici to evil!Kamina. Well, there's now a Kamina SI into Worm...
 
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The last time Orici!Taylor was brought up, you pointed out the difficulty in believing that a simple car crash would take Adrianette out. I looked farther back, and the solution to that was already mentioned two times ago: she didn't die, she ascended and made it look like an accident. This idea has come up once a year, every year since SV was founded.
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That could certainly work. There's some question of why exactly Adrianette hooked up with Danny, as he's not exactly the most exceptional of people, but I guess if all else fails she could have been left amnesiac after the dimensional transfer.

I suppose she's been mucking about with Scion since she ascended? Maybe planning to kill him and take his place, or maybe just suborn him somehow. Scion probably has quite the religious following, and it'd make sense for Adrianette to want some of that.

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There was also a comparison of the Orici to evil!Kamina. Well, there's now a Kamina SI into Worm...
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Heh. Sounds like fate.
 
Could someone explain what Orici!Taylor would entail? Or who Orici is for that matter? Google says they're from StarGate but the wikis are being confusing. Sorry for being a bother.

Also, would you care to hear a power idea that might fit well with your heavily-merchandised!Taylor? I'm ignorant of the etiquette surrounding such things.
 
Zusatz said:
Could someone explain what Orici!Taylor would entail? Or who Orici is for that matter? Google says they're from StarGate but the wikis are being confusing. Sorry for being a bother.

Also, would you care to hear a power idea that might fit well with your heavily-merchandised!Taylor? I'm ignorant of the etiquette surrounding such things.
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Go for it! As long as it's got actual plot points I don't think anyone will mind.

It's been a while since I watched Stargate, but I'll take a shot at explaining the Ori and Orici:
What little we know of Alteran society is a bit of a clusterfuck, but was mostly comprised of the group known as the Ori. Eventually the religious extremists of the Ori faction became genocidal, and so the survivors fled their galaxy eventually reaching what they called Avalon (The Milky Way), and would be remembered as the Ancients (or Lanteans, or the Ancestors).

Humans in SG1 are the descendants/evolution of the Alterans, and are unknowingly hidden and protected from the Ori by the Ancients who have both ascended to a higher level of reality (energy beings). Humanity doesn't know this because the Ancients have a law of non-interference, so thousands of years later they (*CoughDanielJacksonCough*) accidentally break this concealment and draw the Ori's attention to the Milky Way.

Where the Ancients are scientific and isolationist, the Ori are interventionist and religious, this has led to the belief that as ascended beings they deserve to be worshiped, and from the faith and prayer of their mortal followers they draw power and strength, which they grant a small portion of to their mortal religious leaders, the Priors.

The Priors are dispatched to the Milky Way to convert the inhabitants to the Way of Origin... and kill them if they refuse, but the Ori themselves cannnot interfere personally within the Milky Way because then the ascended Ancients will have cause to drop their Non-Interference laws and dive headfirst into an ascended fist-fight. So they find a way around that.

The Orici is the leader of the mortal Ori army, but Adria is much more than that. She is evil Jesus, concieved in Vala Mal Doran without a father, with all (?) the magic powers and knowledge of the ascended Ori, contained in a mortal body. She is to lead the Ori Army because, due to a loophole, despite her being half-ascended she is still considered mostly mortal by Ancients' laws, so they can't take her out until she "dies".

The plot of SG1 closes with the Ori utterly exterminated, and Adria ascending as the last Ori and then trapped in ascended combat with/by Ganos Lal (Morgan la Fay) for all eternity.
 
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    So, here's a thought: If the canon Leviathan attack had been one of the other Endbringers instead, how would Armsmaster's kill attempt have gone down?

    He probably would have not succeeded, of course, but would he even have tried against the Simurgh? Against Behemoth? If so, what kind of differences in method?
     
    I don't think he can even reach Behemoth without incinerating, so it's probably off there. (Maybe he'd settle for being the man who made the weapon that killed Behemoth and hand it to Alexandria or Legend? I mean, if it was the weapon, not the wo/man, that had obviously changed, he'd still be due a fair bit of glory. It won't work of course, but I'm trying to approximate his thinking.)

    Ironically against the Simurgh there is a slim chance he could succeed in killing it accidentally due to the weird position of its core. Mainly if it let him. Or suddenly came down with a precog sneezing fit. His odds are actually far better on a purely "can he physically strike the target" basis here, even if far worse in most other respects.

    EDIT: Actually this is kind of a fun idea. The Simurgh lets someone succeed in destroying it, in exchange for turning that person into a massively respected, super-influential lunatic.
     
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    Ironically against the Simurgh there is a slim chance he could succeed in killing it accidentally due to the weird position of its core. Mainly if it let him. Or suddenly came down with a precog sneezing fit. His odds are actually far better on a purely "can he physically strike the target" basis here, even if far worse in most other respects.
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    I am now imagining the Simurgh faking it's death against him as part of some long game involving giving him prestige and using that to make everything worse, somehow.
     
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    So, here's a thought: If the canon Leviathan attack had been one of the other Endbringers instead, how would Armsmaster's kill attempt have gone down?

    He probably would have not succeeded, of course, but would he even have tried against the Simurgh? Against Behemoth? If so, what kind of differences in method?
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    Nanothorns would be useless against Behemoth cuz they burn, assuming Armsmaster could even get near him. Ziz'd dance around, making Armsmaster look like a chump... until she made her own nanothorns and then it's a bad time for everybody.

    Huh, do they even let Tinkers fight the Simurgh? Seems like it'd be a nono.
     
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    Huh, do they even let Tinkers fight the Simurgh? Seems like it'd be a nono.
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    Armsmaster was part of the Endbringer fight in Madison Wisconsin, palling around with Myrddin.

    Also, it was in that same fight that she showed that ability for the first time ever, so...I dunno?

    Given the narrative laws that are under Worm's metaphorical skin, I'd say they put a tinfoil hat or something on the Tinkers, which the Simurgh pretends is effective until the reveal it isn't creates maximum drama.
     
    TheDivineDemon said:
    Would I be wrong to assume that Taylor's house is closer to ABB and Merchant territory than E88?
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    We really don't know anything about the physical layout of Brockton Bay well enough to make definitive statements about the location of stuff, thus the truth is whatever you want it to be. On the other hand, you don't sound wrong since Taylor was able to walk to the casino for her first night out.
     
    After watching the trailers for the Amazon Prime reboot of the series, has anybody done or is thinking of doing a snippet crossover with The Tick (doesn't have to be a specific incarnation of the series)? If you don't know who the walking brick spoof of comic book heroes is, here's a video for context:



    I mean, if there isn't anything, I really hope it could be made because I think it would be fun to see how the Tick would (not) fit in the more serious and dark atmosphere of Worm seeing as how both he and the titular series were made to satirize traditional comic book superheroes and would be doing a similar thing here with the typical conventions and cliches seen in Worm fics, like poking fun at the "Sophia's Predator vs Prey mindset" fanon or the ever prevalent Alt-power stories where you end up with TINOs galore. Of course, such a thing would most likely be around the lines of a crack fic and feature Taylor heavily (well, how else are you going to make fun of Worm fanfic clichés without the character many of them are based around?), like maybe having the story take place before Taylor's trigger event (for making fun of alt-power fic potential) and the Tick himself appearing out of nowhere on the Heberts' front step.

    However, it probably wouldn't make to do a Tick crossover that subverts and satirizes Worm fanfic clichés where Taylor ends up in Arthur's place like she has done with many other characters' powers/personalities, so what about having Danny being pulled (against his will) into the mess that surrounds the Tick (and will come from the Tick's introduction to Brockton Bay)? I mean, Danny almost always gets the shaft in most Worm fics, and it would definitely subvert the expectations for a The Tick/Worm crossover from the get go, so it could be pretty interesting to see how things would play out with Danny as the Arthur substitute (especially with the differences in their temperaments). And just imagine how Taylor's life (and everybody else's) would be affected by her dad being the sidekick to an extremely oblivious and loony walking brick who keeps no secret whatsoever, including what her relationship is to him.

    But that's just one suggestion on who could be the Arthur substitute after all, and likely not the only one.

    What do you guys think? Would the Tick be capable of stopping evil's mail truck of villainy in Brockton Bay, or would he make a potato salad of justice with the help of his trusty sidekick Danny instead?
     
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    *starts writing Annette back to life*
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    *messes it up*

    Dear Taylor

    I don't know how to write this, and I've been trying for three years. Don't blame your dad, and don't blame yourself. I'd ask you not to blame me, but I doubt that's something you could accept, and it's not an argument I can bring myself to make.

    I want to tell you that you'll understand what I did one day, when you have dangerous secrets, when you have someone to protect. I want to, but I don't know if it's true. What will you do when it's your turn? I don't know. Maybe you'll do what I did, or maybe you'll see a better choice.

    I wasn't driving the car that night. You have to understand, Taylor, that we've always had enemies. Dangerous people, playing a dangerous game. Your dad knows something about it, how things were when we were in college. He might tell you if you ask. He thought I'd left it behind, that it all ended when things started getting violent, but really, that's when it all began.

    Again, don't blame him. He only knows what I told him, and I put on a good performance. There were a couple of times he almost caught me, but he let it slide. At the time I thought he'd just silently passed it off as an affair, or something just as stupid. The big idiot. The reality was that I was working.

    You've heard of Lustrum? Of course you have, I must have mentioned her enough times. You might even have heard that I was part of the movement. It was feminism back then. Gods, that seemed like the most important thing in the world. It was a struggle, a war, and we were the underdogs.

    There was nothing we could do that wasn't righteous. No sin that couldn't be forgiven. No act that couldn't be justified. That was an intoxicating feeling, Taylor -- being powerful, and being right. Be wary of it.

    The struggle, the cause, that's how it started. Lustrum was caught not long after the violence started, locked up in that living abomination of a prison. Not for her crimes, but for ours. That shamed us, and many of us left, but some stayed. I stayed.

    Time passed. While we'd been fighting our pitched battles, a quieter kind of victory had happened without us even noticing. We'd shed blood, but it was our ideas which had triumphed. Our ideas, which had been fighting their own quiet, bloodless war the whole time. We'd fought with knives, guns, even bombs. We never realized how sharp a blade our ideas could have been.

    After Lustrum was convicted the world started to change, and The Luminous changed with it. Feminism was no longer the battle. There were other outrages, other enemies, and my war never ended. Our anger didn't seem to have limits, and there was always someone new to hate. I know you have a temper, Taylor, and you didn't get it from your father.

    Of course, you can't fight in the way I fought without making enemies, and they caught up with me one night three years ago. Someone else was driving my car that night, a good friend, covering for me while I was elsewhere.

    They ran her off the road.

    They didn't live long enough to celebrate their victory. I promise you that, Taylor.

    I'd survived, but it was clear Annette Hebert was no longer safe. The people who'd tried to kill me had found my name, where I lived. I'd sealed that leak, but what one person could find another might as well. I had to disappear.

    I'm so sorry Taylor. To protect you, and Danny, Annette Hebert had to die. I moved in the shadows for three years, a candle in the dark, but it was only a matter of time before they caught up with me.

    That brings me to the hardest part of this to write. I've imagined you happy. Not at first maybe, but later. I've imagined you with friends. I've imagined you and your dad finding strength in each other. Maybe you even have a boyfriend?

    That all has to end. The worst has happened. They know who I am now, and the information has spread beyond my ability to control.

    If I've timed this right you're reading this on Friday afternoon. I want you to pack a bag. Essentials only. We have a little time, a few days, but after that you won't be safe. I know you must feel like your world is upending, that you must be distraught over leaving your dad, your friends. It can't be helped.

    Gather your things. Tell no one. I'll come for you at midnight.

    - Mom
     
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    Night said:
    We really don't know anything about the physical layout of Brockton Bay well enough to make definitive statements about the location of stuff, thus the truth is whatever you want it to be. On the other hand, you don't sound wrong since Taylor was able to walk to the casino for her first night out.
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    Not up to quote searching atm, but we know the E88 territory is centralized around the downtown area, as I recall. I believe that she is relatively close to ABB territory but I dunno for sure.
     
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