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Andante (Worm OC)

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Genuinely one of the best Worm fics to ever grace the Fandom. Seriously all my friends shout in joy when a update hits and you have created one of the most unique and interesting OC and characterization.
 
You know, when Cherie rolled up, I thought: 'Oh wow, they left the day Leviathan came to town?'

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Vista deceased, CD-5. Challenger down, CD-5. Night deceased, CD-5. Stormtiger down, CD-5. Uglymug deceased, CD-5...
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Oh no, not Uglymug
"It's dark," Giselle murmurs, plaintive. "James, why is it always dark?" She doesn't like the dark, she hates the dark, she hates the smell of blood, hates being locked in with the monsters, hates being locked out.

"It's just staging," James says. "They'll brighten it soon, so Undine can dance with her shadow."

He makes a leap, covering more ground, but when he lands Giselle's feet are back in the water.

"You have to listen to me," Giselle says. "I've never had anyone who has to listen to me before."

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"Faerie gold," James says, and he laughs and laughs.
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The amount of trauma crashing into trauma here is really incredible. I don't even know if James is referring to Brockton or Giselle herself as faerie gold - the thing that's only real when it disappears.
 
Guile said:
The amount of trauma crashing into trauma here is really incredible. I don't even know if James is referring to Brockton or Giselle herself as faerie gold - the thing that's only real when it disappears.
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I thought it was the fact that he's so afraid of her, then for a moment there was a chance he could kill her and be free, only for Eidolon to show up and steal the chance.
 
Another phenomenal chapter. Too many great things going on to pick just one. From Cherie being Cherie to the absolute powder keg that is Brockton right now. Can't wait to see more.

Also, tiny note, the canon cape who dies to Leviathan isn't actually Capacitor, but Carapacitator.
 
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Goddamn, the Nine are here already? And I was very curious as to how the Leviathan fight would play out and how Giselle's power would interact with it. Now I know, and Giselle has become a major piece on the chessboard.

The dialogues are awesome, as ever. I don't know how every chapter keeps being a 10/10.

(I wonder if Giselle will be a natural counter to Bonesaw. Bonesaw creations might be super complex biological machines, but the more complex they are, the more stress points, potential weaknesses, and opportunities for explosive disruption. Giselle might be able to influence them more easily than any natural body).
 
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There's a hundred tiny interesting tidbits sprinkled about.

Lung, /shows up.
Giselle: "Doing the thing!"
Entire local cape population, /collectively shits itself.
Lung, /too late, is a dragon

Alexandria, /minding her own business:
Giselle, /apropros of nothing: "Let me tell you about Ondine. So Ondine is a three-part ballet about a water nymph who-"
Alexandria: "What did you say you little shit"
Giselle, /physically incapable of stopping talking about ballet once starting.
 
ShozanM said:
Goddamn, the Nine are here already? And I was very curious as to how the Leviathan fight would play out and how Giselle's power would interact with it. Now I know, and Giselle has become a major piece on the chessboard.

The dialogues are awesome, as ever. I don't know how every chapter keeps being a 10/10.

(I wonder if Giselle will be a natural counter to Bonesaw. Bonesaw creations might be super complex biological machines, but the more complex they are, the more stress points, potential weaknesses, and opportunities for explosive disruption. Giselle might be able to influence them more easily than any natural body).
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Bonesaw having the same issues has Nilbog wrt to Giselles power makes sense to me. If she can unravel Levi, probably whatever combined cape creations she makes are less stable than that. Similarly, I imagine Giselle could do a lot with Crawler as she does Lung. If she ever cares/figures out that the S9 all have the mesh, she could also track them pretty effectively and slowly degrade them and their powers from a distance. Hell she could probably turn off some of Bonesaws Cherie specific augments like she did the bombs given enough time. She's not really the "find and exploit the most effective strategy" type though, and I think she deserves to take down Cherie if she does get into direct fights like that.
 
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