A Matter of Worth (Worm/Mighty Thor, alt-power, DEAD)

[january1may]

The story is dead but the thread hasn't been unresponsive for even a day now and you need a period of inactivity of around a week for people to consider something dead. Right now the story is on life support but it won't die until people stop pinging it.

People are still tagging the games we play over on spacebattles and that was completed a long time ago.

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I'm still active (same username) on a thread on another forum discussing a story that technically ended over three years ago (we just recently celebrated the fourth anniversary of its start).
@HotdogVendor - yes, I'm talking about the OTT.
It might not be the best comparison, however.

 

[Acairta]

If you disregard all the people who had to suffer and/or die in the process of Taylor's journey to defeat Scion, up to and including the people who were directly killed while under Khepri's control? Then yes, Odin is an irresponsible bag of dicks placing one girl's happiness over the safety of a big chunk of alternate Earths.

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But they never mention anyone else being helped or mattering, so I am unsure where you are getting that from. Didn't they just view Taylor's thread and how it plays out? He even mentions her specifically but no one else. I don't recall seeing a single sentence of how granting her such powers would help others.

Could be, sure. I mean, I think it would be a bit weird if we heard from the start of a story that our protagonist was fate-ordained to achieve a Good End, so I don't think that would be a good scene. But if it sets your mind at ease, I'm 100% sure that if Odin thought it necessary, he could just go after Scion himself if he saw that this slice of alt-Earths was suddenly worse off for his decision to give Taylor a kind of power that won't destroy her.

Look, when Odin examined the Loom of Fate, he didn't just see 'Random mortal + power = dead Sníkjur'. He saw, with the kind of certainty that seems nigh-impossible to mortal minds, that it was Taylor Hebert that killed the parasite, and it was her parasite-granted power that merely gave her the ability to operate above the level of a 'normal' mortal. It was her will and her resolve that killed the parasite, not her specific power. Queen Administrator just happened to be the specific power that required Taylor to destroy herself for the sake of victory.

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I don't think that is quite so, at least not in the story itself. I will be quoting from the first chapter so as to help show you why I think that.

Each image was a possibility, an outcome, beyond even his ability to view.

He could make any of them reality, merely by choosing to act.

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The threads before him solidified as possibility became probability.

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Those two quotes are from Odin's thoughts in the first chapter as he views the lines of fate, following that one of the Fates themselves points this out.

"My Lord, without her power, how will she oppose the beast?" Urd demanded.

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If Odin thinks of just probability, possibility and Urd as one of the three Fates asks how she will oppose them I kinda have to question how you say he simply knows. While he does think of making them reality there is nothing of certainty that is showed. I do like your version more than my own head canon, which I already mentioned previously. I also think that if it goes tits up he will go down himself before multiple Earths are destroyed to not only save the day but to get in a good fight.

Which could actually be a better story, Taylor is unable to go beyond what she is given and without the centuries of experience isn't a match for Scion. So Odin is right in that not even his son could have a certain victory from one in battle and while he greatly helps this "Mortal" he still gets his fight. He also can feel genuinely pleased how things turn out, learning messing with Fate doesn't mean a sure victory with massive loses and that still helping someone is a good thing even if he needs to literally step in to keep things from worsening.

At the very end he compliments Taylor and picks up her self esteem from not being strong enough to beat Scion, and offers her a open invitation to Asgard. Now sure this is skipping a ton of things but overall I don't see why that wouldn't work. To me it would be better than a sure thing from the get go.

 

[AncientPhoenix]

*whispers* update

 

[Zanji117]

*whispers* update

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Dude just no, let it go it's dead

 

[Higure]

*whispers* update

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[warning=Warning]Sufficient Velocity does not have any rules against Necromancy itself. That said, doing so for no other reason than to annoy the QM is Trolling (a violation of Rule 4): You're needlessly pinging every single person watching this thread in order to make an effectively contentless post. Do not do this again, and have 25 points as a reminder.[/warning]

 

[BlessedYetDamned]

@hume I'll say that I was honestly disappointed to learn that this was dropped.

After having binge read it until five in the morning.

That being said, could you add either a tag or edit the title to reflect that it was abandoned?

 

[Daishi]

Request to the Author.

Please put the story up for adoption.

I apologize for pinging everyone, but if he does do so it will bring the concept into wider discussion. Hopefully.