Let's read Worm and its sequel Ward by Wildbow (One chapter/every day)

blackarrow · Jun 10, 2018

Hi, Bonesaw's experiments (and other people), time to learn about the fates of Amy and Mark during Part 2 of 11.h | Worm. My predictions: Bonesaw will threaten Amy with hurting/killing Mark so she'll be forced to heal him. This will be Amy's first test, to face her fears and be stronger than them. S9 don't need coward members, they want unafraid people who can stand for themselves and accept any challenge, no matter how twisted it is, without complaining. Besides, Bonesaw have no reasons to be afraid by a healed Mark (no matter how powerful he's, Hatchet Lee will stop him from using his powers). As long as Hatchet Lee is around them, Amy and Mark are just normal people without any superpower. You're pretty good at making strategies, Bonesaw, I hate to admit this, but its very smart of you. Alright, before we'll start, I want to say something that is completely unrelated to the actual events in this Interlude but is connected to this story. People here convinced me to give Scion the benefit of the doubt. Yes, I'll never exclude the possibility that he might end up being the ultimate villain of the story, but I will give him the benefit of the doubt until then. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm right, but I'll keep a very close eye on him anyway, more than on anyone else, so I'll pay attention to whatever he's doing everytime when he's making an appearance (even if its very rare). I'm also worried now that Eidolon might not be an entirely heroic person as he makes people believe he is. I don't want to imagine Legend, Alexandria's expressions if Eildolon will turn out to be evil. They don't deserve this shit, they trust each other, they're like family and they'll be crushed if something like this will happen. Poor Legend, poor Alexandria, I'm going to feel a lot of sorry for them.

Alright, let's start already.

"It's not a perfect mesh. I only just started doing these mash-ups. Still practicing. Hatchet's power isn't working as well anymore, and I'm worried about physical wear and tear as they teleport, but it's still one of my better works. Took me four whole hours." Bonesaw clasped her hands in front of her, shifting her weight from foot to foot, waiting expectantly.

Amy swallowed. She didn't have words.

Bonesaw smiled. "I thought you'd appreciate this more than anyone."
"Appreciate this."
"You're the only other person who works with meat. I mean, we're different in some ways, but we're also really similar, aren't we? You manipulate people's biology, and I tinker with it. The human body's only a really intricate, wet machine, isn't it?"

Hatchet Lee's immunity power doesn't work too well. GREAT to know because either Amy or a healed Mark can try a surprise attack against Bonesaw. Bonesaw seems to be very proud of her work, like an artist admiring his finished art. Maybe she considers her experiments as being her art. She seems to not realize that what she's doing is completely immoral and wicked, maybe she thinks (with her child mind) that is pretty normal for her to play with humans like they're her living dolls. Hmm, despite her super-intelligence and strategic mind, she might be emotionally immature and is unaware that she should not do what she's doing (yes, maybe I'm treating her like a child, but she's a child, I can't treat her like an adult

). So, she's an artist proud of her work, she's an emotionally immature genius and she also have mental problems. Gosh, I have a feeling that this little girl's backstory won't be exactly the happiest ones. Abusive parents, maybe? And she ended up killing them or giving them a fate worse than death and ran away, being found and recruited by Jack? Or Jack saved her from abusive parents (relatives), giving her a "better" life in his team? (maybe you'll going to say that I'm judging people without knowing them, my dear friends, but right now I'm not trying to judge Bonesaw's parents, I'm just making assumptions who may or not be true

).

Others were entering the room now. From the kitchen, a woman, the structure of her face altered into something that was more rat-like than human, conelike, ending in a squashed black nose that had staples around it. Bonesaw had added a second set of teeth, all canines, so that the woman would have enough as her jaw was stretched forward. Drool constantly leaked between her teeth in loops and tendrils. She was pale, except for her face and patches all down her body, where patches of ebon black skin were stapled in place. Her hair was long, dark, and unwashed, but most unnerving of all were her fingers, which had been replaced by what looked like machetes. The clawtips dragged on the hardwood as she stumped forward on feet that had been modified in a similar way, no longer fit for conventional walking.

The third was another Frankenstein hodgepodge of two individuals, emerging from the hallway where the amalgamation of Oni Lee and Hatchet
Face -Hack Job- had exploded. The lower half was a man who must have been built like a gorilla in life, rippling with muscles, walking forward on his knuckles. His upper body grew up from the point the other body's neck should have begun, an emaciated man with greasy brown hair and beard, grown long. He was not unlike a centaur, but the lower half was a brutish man.
Then there were the other things. They weren't alive. Spidery contraptions of scrap metal, they lacked heads, only consisting of a box half the size of a toaster and spindly legs that moved on hydraulics, each ending in a syringe or scalpel. A dozen of them, climbing onto the walls and floor.

"Murder Rat used to be a heroine, called herself the Mouse Protector. One of those capes who plays up the cheese, no pun intended. Camped it up, acted dorky, used bad puns, so her enemies would be embarrassed to lose to her. Ravager decided she'd had enough, asked the Nine to take
Mouse Protector down. So we took the job. Beat Mouse Protector, and I took her to the operating table. The other Nine tracked down Ravager and collected her, too. Just to make it clear that we don't take orders. We aren't errand boys or errand girls either. Now Ravager gets to spend the rest of her life with the woman she hated, making up."

Oh, ok....more of Bonesaw's creations, and all of them are interesting to look at. You know, I have a pretty cold blood when it comes to fictional experiments, tortures, violence so I can stomach everything (of course, if I saw one of these experiments in REAL LIFE, I'd be really freaked out, but in fiction its a different situation). Of course, if one of the tortured people is an innocent person or a favorite character then I'm starting to CARE about the whole process (I'm very biased, I know, and I'm not afraid to admit it). But right now, I don't know these guys and I don't really care about them. However, I feel pity for Mouse Protector- she seemed to be like a sympathetic heroine (I instinctively feel pity for heroes, in general, so there's nothing new here) and she surely doesn't deserve this fate, to share the same body with a villain. Ravager deserved her fate for wanting to kill Mouse Protector and for being stu....not so bright since she asked for S9's help, when its clearly for anyone that they're not mercenaries. She did the same HUGE mistake as Teeth. She paid for it. Poor Mouse Protector however.

As for the centaur composed of two different people (I didn't had an easy time to imagine it, I had to read two times to figure how they function), I'm not sure what to say. Maybe they're both villains who did some really non pretty things so...maybe they deserved it, ok? Bonesaw, please, capture Coil in such a way that he'll lose in both timelines and turn him into something even worse that these Frankenstein- centaurs, something so bad that he'll suffer from chronic pain 24/7. You'll teach him a lesson or two about how to treat a child.

And get rid of a super-villain that might come after your team.

Amy swallowed, looking at the woman.

"The other, I'm trying to figure out a name. The one on the bottom was Carnal. Healer, tough, and healed more by bathing himself in blood. Thought he had a place on our team, failed the tests. The one on the top was Prophet. Convinced he was Jesus reborn. What do you call a mix of people like that? I've got a name in mind, but I can't quite figure it out."

"I don't know."
"So you're bad at names too?" Bonesaw grinned. "I'm thinking something like shrine, temple… but one with multiple floors. Um."
"Pagoda?"
"Pagoda! Yes!" Bonesaw skipped over to her creation, wrapped her arms around one of his, "Pagoda! That's your name, now!"
None of the three monsters moved or reacted. Each stared dumbly forward, Murder Rat drooling, the others appearing to be in a daze.
"That's good!" Bonesaw smiled at Amy, "I knew we'd make a good team!"
"Team?" What could she say or do to escape? Failing that, was there anything she could use to kill herself, so Bonesaw couldn't get her hands on them, turn them into something like those things? In the worst case scenario, she could use her power on Mark before finishing herself off.
Except she wasn't sure it would matter. Amy was incapable, but there was nothing saying Bonesaw couldn't raise the recently dead.
"Yes, team! I want you to be my teammate!" Bonesaw was almost gushing.
"I don't-" Amy stopped herself, "Why?"
"Because I always wanted a big sister," Bonesaw replied, as if that was answer enough.

It looks like Tinkers can do anything they put their brilliant mind to it. Bonesaw is a medical Tinker but she was very capable to build spider robots. But they still have their own specialty- what they like the best to do (or they're better at) So, Colin can also create biological beings but his specialty is more oriented towards weapons and gadgets. In the same manner Dragon created fetuses even if she have a different specialty. Interesting, they're very similar with Sparks from Girl Genius, scientists capable to do anything they want, but they still have their own specialty where they excel better than other Sparks. I think a better name for the Centaur villain Carnal+ the crazy parahuman Prophet would be the Prophecy of Carnage, more fitting than Pagoda, but I agree with Pagoda too. And....aww, Bonesaw wants Amy as her older sister. I'm not sure how to find this: adorable or horrible? Adorrible, I think. Sorry to disappoint you, Bonesaw, but Amy already have a sister and she doesn't want another one, especially one like you. Well, you can kill her sister when she'll return home, but you'll not solve anything in this way. Amy will hate you to guts.

Amy blinked. Sister. She thought of Victoria. "I make a pretty shitty sister."

"Language!" Bonesaw admonished, with surprising fierceness.
"I'm sorry. I- I'm not a very good sister, I don't think."
"You could learn."
"I've tried, but… I've only gotten worse at it as time passed."
Bonesaw pouted a little. "But think of the stuff we could do together. I do the kludge, the big stuff, you smooth it over. Imagine how Murder Rat would look without the scars and staples."

Amy looked at the onetime heroine, tried to picture it. It wasn't any better. Worse, if anything.
"That's only the beginning. Can you even imagine the things we could make? There's no upper limit."
There was a beep from the answering machine. It began playing a message. "Amy, pick up! We're looking at dealing with Hellhound, and there's injured. Call Aunt Sarah or Uncle Neil over to look after dad and get over to the-"
The message cut off, and there was the sound of a clatter, a distant barking sound.
"I don't think I have it in me to do stuff like that," Amy said. If nothing else, I can't disappoint Victoria any further.
"Oh. Oh!" Bonesaw smiled. "That's okay. We can work through that."
"I- I don't think we really can."
"No, really," Bonesaw said. Then she snapped her fingers.

Bonesaw snapped her fingers, giggling. In the next moment, her robotic spiders brought her a table, chairs and a tea set. They assemble the table, chairs and tea set. Bonesaw was the first to sit down on a chair, inviting Amy, Murder Rat, Hatchet Lee and Pagoda to take a seat on the other chairs."
Amy: What the f....
Bonesaw: Language, please. We're just serving tea, nothing to worry about. Told you, I'm going to be a good sister.
Amy:.....

Aw, isn't Bonesaw cute? I seriously see her as someone cute, I almost want her to be my little sister.....NOPE "runs away to the other side of the world". Honestly, I can consider her already my favorite S9 member and the only S9 member that I LOVE to HATE. There's something appealing and absolute terrifying about someone being so innocent and adorable but at the same time so psychotic and happy to torture, maim and kill people just to play with science and turn it into her personal art. Bonesaw is a cute piece of work.

Hack Job flickered into existence just in front of Amy, and there was little she could do to escape. She cried out as the man's massive hand smashed her down onto her back, a few feet from Mark.

Mark struggled to stand, but Murder Rat darted across the room to light atop the back of the couch and press one of her three-foot long claws against his throat.
Amy was pinned. She tried to use her power on Hack Job through the contact he was making with her chest and neck, only to find it wasn't available. She couldn't sense his body, the blood flowing in his veins, or any of that. Even her own skin felt quiet, where she normally felt the pinprick sensations of innumerable, microscopic airborne lifeforms touching her. She'd barely even realized that was happening until it stopped.

"Jack's taken me on as his protegé. Teaching me the finer points of being anartist. What he's been saying is that I'm too focused on the external. Skin, bone, flesh, bodies, the stuff we see and hear. He's told me to practice with the internal, and this seems like a great time to do that."
"Internal?" Amy replied.
"It's easy to break people's bodies. Easy to scar them and hurt them that way. But the true art is what you do inside their heads. Do you have a breaking point, Amy? Maybe if we find your limits and push past them, you'll find yourself in a place where you'll want to join us." A wide smile spread across Bonesaw's face as she settled into a cross-legged position on the floor, facing Amy.
"I- no. Please."
"You're a healer, but you can do so much more. Why don't you go out in costume?"
Amy didn't respond. There was no right answer here.
"Are you afraid to hurt someone? That could be our first exercise."
Amy shook her head.
"Murder rat, come here. Hack Job, back off."

So, Hatchet Lee can still block Amy's power, even if Bonesaw said that his power doesn't work properly. That's not good, that's not good at all. Amy is basically defenseless without her power and completely at the psychotic child's mercy. And now Bonesaw is forcing her to kill Murder Rat so she can become a killer, the perfect candidate for S9. Well, I'm not going to blame Amy at all, actually she'll do a great job if she'll kill Murder Rat. She'll put Mouse Protector out of her misery, which is much better than sharing the same body with her nemesis for the rest of her life. And what a body! So, Bonesaw is officially Jack's protege. This knowledge almost confirm what I said before, during Cherish's Interlude. That maybe Jack CARES (in his own way) for Bonesaw, having probably paternal feelings for her. Or maybe he's just very proud of her work and he's using her, creating the fake impression that he might care for her. Its possible that Bonesaw might believe, with the naivety of her age, that Jack acts like a father figure towards her, and she respects him like a daughter respects her father. Its very possible that Jack had a daughter who died and that was one of the reasons why he's so crazy. He probably took Bonesaw under his wing, seeing his dead daughter in her. Gosh, it looks like I'm trying to humanize some downright execrable monster here, but even if he honestly loves Bonesaw, this doesn't make him less of a monster. But I'd really like a relationship father/daughter between two monsters

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Hack Job let go of her, and she tried to scramble away, but Murder Rat pounced on her, pressing her down against the ground. The woman smelled rank, like a homeless person.

"So here's the lesson," Bonesaw said, "Hurt her, take her apart. If you go easy on her, or if you leave her in a state where she can move, she'll cut you, and then she'll cut a body part off that man on the couch there."

Murder Rat placed a blade against her cheek, scraped it down toward her chin, as if giving Amy a close shave.
She reached up and touched the woman's chest. Without Hack Job touching her, her power was coming back quickly. She felt Murder Rat's biology snap into her consciousness, until she could see every cell, every fluid, every part of the woman. The two women. She could see
Bonesaw's work, the integration of body parts, the transfusions of bone marrow from one woman to the other, the viruses with modified DNA inside them, skewing the balances and configurations until she couldn't tell for sure where one woman started and the other began.
She could also see the metal frames inside the woman, interlacing with the largest bones of her skeletal system, the needles in her spine and brain. Bonesaw's control system. There was something around the heart, too. Metal, with lots of needles pointing inward. She was rigged to die if the control frame was ever disabled. The woman, no, the women, were awake in there. One and a half brains contained in a synthetic fluid in her skull.
She targeted the ligaments at the woman's shoulders and hips. Cutting them was easier than putting the things back together again. Dissolve the cells, break them down.
The woman collapsed onto a heap on top of her.
"Excellent! Pick her up, H.J."
Hack Job picked up the limp Murder Rat, put her down a short distance away from Amy. Bonesaw walked over to her creation and propped up Murder Rat so she had a view of the scene.
"I'm surprised you didn't kill her. The healer, letting someone suffer like that. Or are you against mercy killing?"
Again, there was no answer she could give that wouldn't worsen her situation.
"Or are you against killing in general? We can work on that."
"Please. No."
"Pagoda. Your turn."
Pagoda approached with an awkward lurch, and Amy managed to stand and run. She got halfway to the front door before Hack Job materialized in front of her, barring her way. He pushed her, and she fell. Pagoda lurched over to her and pressed her down.
"I use my creations to collect material for other work. It's a circle, using them to get material for more creations. Having the Nine was essential to get things started, and to help get things going again if a hero managed to put down a few, but now I'm in good shape. I stick around because they're mostly fans, and they're kind of family. I want you in my family, Amy Dallon."

I'm torn between going -Awwwwwww, Bonesaw likes her messy, murderous family and she really, really wants a sister to complete it- and -Heavens, this little bit....psycho Tinker actually forces Amy to kill people in order to become an "artist" like her. At least Amy didn't killed Murder Rat, she only separated them, unfortunately making their fate even worse than it was already

. Now she probably have to kill Pagoda. Try to separate them as you did with Murder Rat, Amy. Well, I'm aware that by separating they're going to suffer more but I don't want Amy to become what Bonesaw WANTS her to become, I want her to actively fight against the child in the only way she can do now, by resisting to all her tests. Bonesaw might even hurt her in a fit of rage, but at least Amy will prove her that she'll never be S9 material, neither her big sister.

"Please."

"Now, I'm willing to make sacrifices to see that happen. Same thing as with Murder Rat. You don't stop Pagoda, I'll have him hurt the man on the couch."
Amy used her power on Pagoda, felt his body, much the same as Murder Rat's in so many respects, though the metal frame with the needles in his spine was different. She reached for the ligaments at his shoulders and hips, separated them.
The first had grown back before she'd started on the third.
"He heals," Bonesaw informed her. "Two regenerators in one. There's only one good way to stop him. Try again."
Pain. She inflicted pain on Pagoda. No reaction. She'd have to reach into his brain to make it so he really felt pain again. She tried atrophying his muscles, with no luck. Anything she did was undone nearly as fast as she could inflict it.
"Five seconds," Bonesaw announced. "Four."
Sending signals to his arms to get him to move. No. The metal frame overrode anything she could do with her power to control him.
"Three."
Amy used the only option available to her. She disconnected him from the metal frame that Bonesaw used to control her subjects. She could sense it as the metal shifted into motion around his heart. Not needles, as there had been for Murder Rat, but small canisters of fluid.
"Two… one… zero point five… Ah, there we go."
Pagoda lurched backward and broke contact with Amy, her power no longer giving her an insight into what was happening with him. He sat down, using one hand to prop himself up. A moment later he slumped over, his eyes shutting. His breathing stopped.

"A chemical trigger for something I already put in his DNA, when I was patching his regeneration abilities together. Reverses the regeneration so it does the opposite, starting with the heart."
Amy looked at her hand. She'd just taken a life. A mercy, most probably, but she'd killed. Something she had promised herself she would never do.
She shivered. It had been so easy. Was this what it was like for her father? Had she just taken one more step toward being like him?
"Ready to join?" Bonesaw asked, looking for all the world like a puppy when her master had the leash out, ready for a walk. Eager, brimming with excitement.
"No," Amy said. "There's no way."
"Why? Whatever's holding you back, we can fix it. Or we can break it, depending."
"It's not- don't you understand? I don't want to hurt people."
"But we can change that! We're not so different. You know as well as I do that anything about anyone can be changed if you work hard enough."
"Then why don't you change? You could be good."
"I like the other members of the Nine. And I couldn't make anything really amazing if I was following rules. I want to make something even more amazing than Hack Job, Murder Rat or Pagoda. Something you and I could only make together. Can you imagine it? You could use your power, and then we could make one superperson out of a hundred capes, and all of the powers would be full strength because you helped and we could use it to stop one of the Endbringers, and the whole world would be like, 'Are we supposed to clap'? Can you picture it?" Bonesaw was getting so excited with her idea that she was almost breathless.

Stop blaming yourself, Amy, you're not a criminal. You just saved your stepfather and put two beings out of their misery. You're still a hero and you'll always be one. Even heroes kill people if its necessary. You can kill people who deserve to be killed or to protect your loved ones from them and still be one of the kindest persons. And stop saying that you're like your father. Your father is a more honorable man than you give him credit, despite committing murders. If only you could talk to him, you'd probably change your opinion about him (any chance for Amy and Marquis to ever MEET?) As for you, Bonesaw, it looks like you don't know that your "father" is planning the end of the world, because you're so eager to save the world from Endbringers. You seem pretty idealistic to me, despite.... everything. I'm starting to think that Bonesaw would be able to redeem herself, but only if she'll be free from Jack's influence. Jack is the one who probably made her like this -a little monster- and he's the one who keeps her from possible becoming a good person. If she'll ever find out that he's planning to end the world, maybe she'll become so disgusted because she'll see all her future plans being reduced to ashes and will turn against him, by either directly attacking him or helping his enemies. Anything is possible but a thing is sure: this little monster have potential to change in the future, the hope is not entirely dead for her. Or maybe is just me, hoping in vain that a S9 member might ever become human. Alright, no matter what, I'm ready to believe that Bonesaw can be that one member who can become human.

"No," Amy said. Then, just to make it clear, she added, "No, it's not going to happen. I won't join you."

"You will! You have to!"
"No."
"I have to do like Jack said. He said I won't be a true genius until I've figured out how to get inside people's heads."
"Maybe- Maybe you won't be inside my head until you realize there's no way I'm going to join the Slaughterhouse Nine."
Bonesaw frowned. "Maybe."
Amy nodded.
"Or maybe I need to figure out your breaking point. Your weak spot. Like that man there." Bonesaw pointed at Mark. "Cherish said you sleep here, and you've been around him for a while… so why haven't you healed him?"

Amy shivered.
"Who is he?"
"My dad."
"Why not fix your dad?"
"My power doesn't work on brains," Amy lied.
"You're wrong," Bonesaw said, stepping closer.
"No."
"Yes. Your power can affect people's brains. You have to understand, I've taken twenty or thirty people apart to figure out how their power works so I can put them back together again the way I want them. I've learned almost everything about powers. I've induced stress of all kinds on people until they had a trigger event, while I had them on my table and wired to computers, so I could record all the details and study their brains and bodies as the powers took hold."
Twenty or thirty people she's taken apart. However many others she's tortured to death.
Bonesaw smiled, "And I know the secrets. I know where powers come from. I know how they work. I know how your power works. You have to understand, people like you and me? Who got our powers in moments of critical stress? The powers aren't meant for us. They're accidents.
We're accidents. And I think you could see it if you were touching someone when they had their trigger event."
"I don't understand."
"You don't have to. What you need to know is that the subjects of our power, the stuff it can work on, like people? Like the fish lady in Asia? The boy who can talk to computers? Our powers weren't created to work with those things. With people or fish or computers. It's not intentional. It happens because the powers connect to us in the moments we have our trigger events, decrypt our brains and search for something in the world that they can connect to, that loosely correlate with how the powers were originally supposed to work. In those one to eight seconds it takes our powers to work, our power goes into overdrive, it picks up all the necessary details about those things, like people or fish or computers, sometimes reaching across the whole world to do it. Then it starts condensing down until there's a powerset, stripping away everything it doesn't need to make that power work."

Bonesaw is basically Tinker Tattletale. She discovered that the powers were given by aliens, but only when people have triggers. Then the powers become part of their hosts' brains, making them capable to use them how the powers are designed to work. Bonesaw is a medical Tinker, so her powers work the best on biology (even if she can build robots too), she became intelligent enough so she can interpret correctly and use the information provided by her power. Taylor can interpret the bugs's nervous system so she can control them. Amy can interpret biology so she can manipulate it. I'm 100% sure that Tinkers should become very intelligent in the first place so they can interpret all the scientific information provided to them by their power. Otherwise they won't understand and they won't be able to use their powers properly. Amy is not a Tinker that's the reason why she needed to learn about biology (she said she had a medical licence, unlike Bonesaw who's naturally a genius) so she'll have a better control of it. I'm starting to understand better how their powers work. Thank you, Bonesaw. You're precious, I want to hug you.....NOPE "runs away, without looking behind".

Amy stared.

"And then, before it can destroy us, before we can hurt ourselves with our own power, before that spark of potential burns out, it changes gears. It figures out how to function with us. It protects us from all the ways our power might hurt us, that we can anticipate, because there's no point if it kills us. It connects with our emotional state at the time the powers came together, because that's the context it builds everything else in. It's so amazingly complicated and beautiful."
Bonesaw looked down at Amy. "Your inability to affect brains? It's one of those protections. A mental block. I can help you break it."

Bonesaw seems to know more about Manton Effect than Manton himself. :lol She's putting him in a corner of shame with her knowledge (now depends if he's still alive or dead). What I'm worried the most about is not that Amy will start killing people around if she'll break her mental block, because she's not like Bonesaw and will never be, but she might hurt herself because there won't be any block left to protect her brains against her own power. But I believe that she have a great control over it and will not turn herself into a zombie. I believe in Amy, more than she believes in herself.

HATE to do that but I have to stop again. Its such a looooooooooong Interlude (maybe the longest one so far) and I think I have to split it in 3 parts. Sorry about. I promise that at the end of Part 3, I'll show you my list of favorite/least favorite S9 members, which ones are the most powerful/less powerful, and which one is the craziest/less crazy. Then I'll tell you what kind of action each candidate I think they'll take after the whole bulls....suspense they went through. Also, Bonesaw reminds me of a fictional character from a manga. Which one, you'll find out tomorrow

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Good night, Bonesaw's experiments (and other people), and TRY to sleep well, despite everything she did to you.

Prince Ire · Jun 10, 2018

Nice review.

Cannot wait for part 3, for reasons.

ExNihilo · Jun 10, 2018

blackarrow said:
Pagoda

BTW, I can't claim credit for it, but I think the best name for him/it is Sacrament.

Good luck, try not to get nightmares.

Abao · Jun 11, 2018

ExNihilo said:
BTW, I can't claim credit for it, but I think the best name for him/it is Sacrament.

Good luck, try not to get nightmares.

Deus Vult sonds soooooo much more powerful.

Birdsie · Jun 11, 2018

Prince Ire said:
I've been disgusted by a group before and only bothered to look with disgust on a single individual within a group, ignoring the others. You don't have to look at every member of a group with disgust to be disgusted by that group.

When I first read that scene, I interpreted Scion has thinking himself above humanity in general (as represented by the greatest human, Eidolon). And yes, I noticed that Scion ignored Skitter and Bitch.

That's oddly specific and draws a wrong conclusion. Even if you did that, that wasn't the purpose of the scene.

Wildbow didn't describe Scion looking at everyone and everything there and looking down upon them like scum, rather than Eidolon, because he specifically didn't want to give off this impression. He made it clear Scion directed his feelings of disgust at Eidolon. If he was disgusted by humanity in general why cure cancer, or help with natural disasters? If he was disgusted by humanity why not look down at everyone there, since everyone and not just Eidolon is garbage?

Heck, if he was so obsessed disgusted why take on a human form in the first place?

fabledFreeboota · Jun 11, 2018

Murder Rat being alive in there is still unsettling to me. Both of them to through a lot. As for her being Stu-last minute word change, I've seen some headcanons that Ravager was ok with dying if it let her get rid of Mouse Protector.

rafuki22 · Jun 11, 2018

blackarrow said:
Hi, Bonesaw's experiments (and other people), time to learn about the fates of Amy and Mark during Part 2 of 11.h | Worm. My predictions: Bonesaw will threaten Amy with hurting/killing Mark so she'll be forced to heal him. This will be Amy's first test, to face her fears and be stronger than them. S9 don't need coward members, they want unafraid people who can stand for themselves and accept any challenge, no matter how twisted it is, without complaining. Besides, Bonesaw have no reasons to be afraid by a healed Mark (no matter how powerful he's, Hatchet Lee will stop him from using his powers). As long as Hatchet Lee is around them, Amy and Mark are just normal people without any superpower. You're pretty good at making strategies, Bonesaw, I hate to admit this, but its very smart of you. Alright, before we'll start, I want to say something that is completely unrelated to the actual events in this Interlude but is connected to this story. People here convinced me to give Scion the benefit of the doubt. Yes, I'll never exclude the possibility that he might end up being the ultimate villain of the story, but I will give him the benefit of the doubt until then. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm right, but I'll keep a very close eye on him anyway, more than on anyone else, so I'll pay attention to whatever he's doing everytime when he's making an appearance (even if its very rare). I'm also worried now that Eidolon might not be an entirely heroic person as he makes people believe he is. I don't want to imagine Legend, Alexandria's expressions if Eildolon will turn out to be evil. They don't deserve this shit, they trust each other, they're like family and they'll be crushed if something like this will happen. Poor Legend, poor Alexandria, I'm going to feel a lot of sorry for them. Alright, let's start already.

Hatchet Lee's immunity power doesn't work too well. GREAT to know because either Amy or a healed Mark can try a surprise attack against Bonesaw. Bonesaw seems to be very proud of her work, like an artist admiring his finished art. Maybe she considers her experiments as being her art. She seems to not realize that what she's doing is completely immoral and wicked, maybe she thinks (with her child mind) that is pretty normal for her to play with humans like they're her living dolls. Hmm, despite her super-intelligence and strategic mind, she might be emotionally immature and is unaware that she should not do what she's doing (yes, maybe I'm treating her like a child, but she's a child, I can't treat her like an adult ). So, she's an artist proud of her work, she's an emotionally immature genius and she also have mental problems. Gosh, I have a feeling that this little girl's backstory won't be exactly the happiest ones. Abusive parents, maybe? And she ended up killing them or giving them a fate worse than death and ran away, being found and recruited by Jack? Or Jack saved her from abusive parents (relatives), giving her a "better" life in his team? (maybe you'll going to say that I'm judging people without knowing them, my dear friends, but right now I'm not trying to judge Bonesaw's parents, I'm just making assumptions who may or not be true ).

Oh, ok....more of Bonesaw's creations, and all of them are interesting to look at. You know, I have a pretty cold blood when it comes to fictional experiments, tortures, violence so I can stomach everything (of course, if I saw one of these experiments in REAL LIFE, I'd be really freaked out, but in fiction its a different situation). Of course, if one of the tortured people is an innocent person or a favorite character then I'm starting to CARE about the whole process (I'm very biased, I know, and I'm not afraid to admit it). But right now, I don't know these guys and I don't really care about them. However, I feel pity for Mouse Protector- she seemed to be like a sympathetic heroine (I instinctively feel pity for heroes, in general, so there's nothing new here) and she surely doesn't deserve this fate, to share the same body with a villain. Ravager deserved her fate for wanting to kill Mouse Protector and for being stu....not so bright since she asked for S9's help, when its clearly for anyone that they're not mercenaries. She did the same HUGE mistake as Teeth. She paid for it. Poor Mouse Protector however. As for the centaur composed of two different people (I didn't had an easy time to imagine it, I had to read two times to figure how they function), I'm not sure what to say. Maybe they're both villains who did some really non pretty things so...maybe they deserved it, ok? Bonesaw, please, capture Coil in such a way that he'll lose in both timelines and turn him into something even worse that these Frankenstein- centaurs, something so bad that he'll suffer from chronic pain 24/7. You'll teach him a lesson or two about how to treat a child. And get rid of a super-villain that might come after your team.

It looks like Tinkers can do anything they put their brilliant mind to it. Bonesaw is a medical Tinker but she was very capable to build spider robots. But they still have their own specialty- what they like the best to do (or they're better at) So, Colin can also create biological beings but his specialty is more oriented towards weapons and gadgets. In the same manner Dragon created fetuses even if she have a different specialty. Interesting, they're very similar with Sparks from Girl Genius, scientists capable to do anything they want, but they still have their own specialty where they excel better than other Sparks. I think a better name for the Centaur villain Carnal+ the crazy parahuman Prophet would be the Prophecy of Carnage, more fitting than Pagoda, but I agree with Pagoda too. And....aww, Bonesaw wants Amy as her older sister. I'm not sure how to find this: adorable or horrible? Adorrible, I think. Sorry to disappoint you, Bonesaw, but Amy already have a sister and she doesn't want another one, especially one like you. Well, you can kill her sister when she'll return home, but you'll not solve anything in this way. Amy will hate you to guts.

Bonesaw snapped her fingers, giggling. In the next moment, her robotic spiders brought her a table, chairs and a tea set. They assemble the table, chairs and tea set. Bonesaw was the first to sit down on a chair, inviting Amy, Murder Rat, Hatchet Lee and Pagoda to take a seat on the other chairs."
Amy: What the f....
Bonesaw: Language, please. We're just serving tea, nothing to worry about. Told you, I'm going to be a good sister.
Amy:.....

Aw, isn't Bonesaw cute? I seriously see her as someone cute, I almost want her to be my little sister.....NOPE "runs away to the other side of the world". Honestly, I can consider her already my favorite S9 member and the only S9 member that I LOVE to HATE. There's something appealing and absolute terrifying about someone being so innocent and adorable but at the same time so psychotic and happy to torture, maim and kill people just to play with science and turn it into her personal art. Bonesaw is a cute piece of work.

So, Hatchet Lee can still block Amy's power, even if Bonesaw said that his power doesn't work properly. That's not good, that's not good at all. Amy is basically defenseless without her power and completely at the psychotic child's mercy. And now Bonesaw is forcing her to kill Murder Rat so she can become a killer, the perfect candidate for S9. Well, I'm not going to blame Amy at all, actually she'll do a great job if she'll kill Murder Rat. She'll put Mouse Protector out of her misery, which is much better than sharing the same body with her nemesis for the rest of her life. And what a body! So, Bonesaw is officially Jack's protege. This knowledge almost confirm what I said before, during Cherish's Interlude. That maybe Jack CARES (in his own way) for Bonesaw, having probably paternal feelings for her. Or maybe he's just very proud of her work and he's using her, creating the fake impression that he might care for her. Its possible that Bonesaw might believe, with the naivety of her age, that Jack acts like a father figure towards her, and she respects him like a daughter respects her father. Its very possible that Jack had a daughter who died and that was one of the reasons why he's so crazy. He probably took Bonesaw under his wing, seeing his dead daughter in her. Gosh, it looks like I'm trying to humanize some downright execrable monster here, but even if he honestly loves Bonesaw, this doesn't make him less of a monster. But I'd really like a relationship father/daughter between two monsters .

I'm torn between going -Awwwwwww, Bonesaw likes her messy, murderous family and she really, really wants a sister to complete it- and -Heavens, this little bit....psycho Tinker actually forces Amy to kill people in order to become an "artist" like her. At least Amy didn't killed Murder Rat, she only separated them, unfortunately making their fate even worse than it was already . Now she probably have to kill Pagoda. Try to separate them as you did with Murder Rat, Amy. Well, I'm aware that by separating they're going to suffer more but I don't want Amy to become what Bonesaw WANTS her to become, I want her to actively fight against the child in the only way she can do now, by resisting to all her tests. Bonesaw might even hurt her in a fit of rage, but at least Amy will prove her that she'll never be S9 material, neither her big sister.

Stop blaming yourself, Amy, you're not a criminal. You just saved your stepfather and put two beings out of their misery. You're still a hero and you'll always be one. Even heroes kill people if its necessary. You can kill people who deserve to be killed or to protect your loved ones from them and still be one of the kindest persons. And stop saying that you're like your father. Your father is a more honorable man than you give him credit, despite committing murders. If only you could talk to him, you'd probably change your opinion about him (any chance for Amy and Marquis to ever MEET?) As for you, Bonesaw, it looks like you don't know that your "father" is planning the end of the world, because you're so eager to save the world from Endbringers. You seem pretty idealistic to me, despite.... everything. I'm starting to think that Bonesaw would be able to redeem herself, but only if she'll be free from Jack's influence. Jack is the one who probably made her like this -a little monster- and he's the one who keeps her from possible becoming a good person. If she'll ever find out that he's planning to end the world, maybe she'll become so disgusted because she'll see all her future plans being reduced to ashes and will turn against him, by either directly attacking him or helping his enemies. Anything is possible but a thing is sure: this little monster have potential to change in the future, the hope is not entirely dead for her. Or maybe is just me, hoping in vain that a S9 member might ever become human. Alright, no matter what, I'm ready to believe that Bonesaw can be that one member who can become human.

Bonesaw is basically Tinker Tattletale. She discovered that the powers were given by aliens, but only when people have triggers. Then the powers become part of their hosts' brains, making them capable to use them how the powers are designed to work. Bonesaw is a medical Tinker, so her powers work the best on biology (even if she can build robots too), she became intelligent enough so she can interpret correctly and use the information provided by her power. Taylor can interpret the bugs's nervous system so she can control them. Amy can interpret biology so she can manipulate it. I'm 100% sure that Tinkers should become very intelligent in the first place so they can interpret all the scientific information provided to them by their power. Otherwise they won't understand and they won't be able to use their powers properly. Amy is not a Tinker that's the reason why she needed to learn about biology (she said she had a medical licence, unlike Bonesaw who's naturally a genius) so she'll have a better control of it. I'm starting to understand better how their powers work. Thank you, Bonesaw. You're precious, I want to hug you.....NOPE "runs away, without looking behind".

Bonesaw seems to know more about Manton Effect than Manton himself. :lol She's putting him in a corner of shame with her knowledge (now depends if he's still alive or dead). What I'm worried the most about is not that Amy will start killing people around if she'll break her mental block, because she's not like Bonesaw and will never be, but she might hurt herself because there won't be any block left to protect her brains against her own power. But I believe that she have a great control over it and will not turn herself into a zombie. I believe in Amy, more than she believes in herself.

HATE to do that but I have to stop again. Its such a looooooooooong Interlude (maybe the longest one so far) and I think I have to split it in 3 parts. Sorry about. I promise that at the end of Part 3, I'll show you my list of favorite/least favorite S9 members, which ones are the most powerful/less powerful, and which one is the craziest/less crazy. Then I'll tell you what kind of action each candidate I think they'll take after the whole bulls....suspense they went through. Also, Bonesaw reminds me of a fictional character from a manga. Which one, you'll find out tomorrow .

Good night, Bonesaw's experiments (and other people), and TRY to sleep well, despite everything she did to you.

What makes you think that jack wants to destroy the world? In addition, the only person so complicated, and fuc ... in bad situation as amy in worm, is taylor.

blackarrow · Jun 11, 2018

ExNihilo said:
BTW, I can't claim credit for it, but I think the best name for him/it is Sacrament.

Good luck, try not to get nightmares.

Sacrement is an awesome name too. And thanks, this is kind of you.

blackarrow · Jun 11, 2018

fabledFreeboota said:
Murder Rat being alive in there is still unsettling to me. Both of them to through a lot. As for her being Stu-last minute word change, I've seen some headcanons that Ravager was ok with dying if it let her get rid of Mouse Protector.

Yes, Amy should put them both out of their misery, as she did with Pagoda. Ravager is a villain but I don't know what she did as a villain, possible she was a pretty tame villain, someone like Undersiders, but I'm still pissed on her for wanting to kill Mouse Protector, the dorky heroine. Anyway, there are people in this story who deserve more Ravager's fate than Ravager herself.

blackarrow · Jun 11, 2018

rafuki22 said:
What makes you think that jack wants to destroy the world? In addition, the only person so complicated, and fuc ... in bad situation as amy in worm, is taylor.

Dinah said clearly that he's going to destroy the world. And I highly doubt that he's going to do it pure accidentally. Jack doesn't seem like a supervillain doing everything accidentally. He have everything planned beforehand. How and why he wants to destroy the world, well, I don't know yet, I have only few assumptions. As for Taylor, she have much more self esteem compared with Amy. Amy self-esteem is something at microscopic scale.

ExNihilo · Jun 11, 2018

blackarrow said:
possible she was a pretty tame villain

Eh, if you call in the S9 to deal with your problems, you aren't exactly the best of people.

Why did Ravenger call in the S9, anyway? Faultline's Crew aren't the only mercenaries in the world, and while Faultline would turn down killing a Protectorate member, some others likely wouldn't.

If the answer is Spoiler, please PM me.

blackarrow · Jun 11, 2018

ExNihilo said:
Eh, if you call in the S9 to deal with your problems, you aren't exactly the best of people.

Why did Ravenger call in the S9, anyway? Faultline's Crew aren't the only mercenaries in the world, and while Faultline would turn down killing a Protectorate member, some others likely wouldn't.

If the answer is Spoiler, please PM me.

For the same thing Teeth asked S9 to help them by taking down some Protectorate members. One of the only two things that are infinite: HUMAN STUPIDITY (the other one is universe)

. Ok, let's make this exercise of imagination for our real world: you're a terrorist. Some zealous FBI agents are after you, they're obsessed to catch you. You heard about a team of mass murderers that everyone is afraid of. They're like the worst serial murders in the world grouped and working together. Will you ask for their help to get rid of the zealous FBI agents for you, knowing that these psychos might come after you too anytime (because they enjoy killing everyone) or you'll prefer to save your own skin by yourself, no trusting them? What would you prefer?

rafuki22 · Jun 11, 2018

blackarrow said:
Dinah said clearly that he's going to destroy the world. And I highly doubt that he's going to do it pure accidentally. Jack doesn't seem like a supervillain doing everything accidentally. He have everything planned beforehand. How and why he wants to destroy the world, well, I don't know yet, I have only few assumptions. As for Taylor, she have much more self esteem compared with Amy. Amy self-esteem is something at microscopic scale.

I assure you that Taylor does not have much self-esteem.

ExNihilo · Jun 11, 2018

blackarrow said:
For the same thing Teeth asked S9 to help them by taking down some Protectorate members. One of the only two things that are infinite: HUMAN STUPIDITY (the other one is universe) . Ok, let's make this exercise of imagination for our real world: you're a terrorist. Some zealous FBI agents are after you, they're obsessed to catch you. You heard about a team of mass murderers that everyone is afraid of. They're like the worst serial murders in the world grouped and working together. Will you ask for their help to get rid of the zealous FBI agents for you, knowing that these psychos might come after you too anytime (because they enjoy killing everyone) or you'll prefer to save your own skin by yourself, no trusting them? What would you prefer?

Ravager has seen what the S9 does to those it touches, his choices were rot in the birdcage, be subjected to the S9, or call in a real mercenary group, like the Dragonslayers or something, to break him out at the very least. That's like calling the Dark Eldar to help you against your foes, when you could call normal mercenaries. Not a good plan.

But I'll buy stupidity. It's very possible.

AmbarGriss · Jun 11, 2018

Let's not forget that the Teeth and Ravager probably believed that they could protect themselves against the S9.

ExNihilo · Jun 11, 2018

AmbarGriss said:
Let's not forget that the Teeth and Ravager probably believed that could protect themselves against the S9.

So stupidity it is.

blackarrow · Jun 11, 2018

AmbarGriss said:
Let's not forget that the Teeth and Ravager probably believed that could protect themselves against the S9.

So, they couldn't take down some Protectorate heroes by themselves and they believed they could protect themselves against a group who have Siberian, Crawler and Bonesaw as their members?

lol

lol Gosh, if stupidity would hurt, a lot of people would spend the rest of their lives in hospitals.

blackarrow · Jun 11, 2018

rafuki22 said:
I assure you that Taylor does not have much self-esteem.

Agree, but Amy is worse than her. At least Taylor trusts herself enough that she can save Dinah one day. Amy doesn't even trust her own power

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blackarrow · Jun 11, 2018

Hi, Bonesaw's experiments (and other people), time for the last part (hopefully the last one) of 11.h | Worm. Ok, before I'll start, I'd like to....but let's start already then we'll discuss. We don't have time to lose, damnit.
Bonesaw: Language, please!
Me: Oh, sorry, I'll not repeat my mistake again.
Bonesaw: You better not, otherwise.... "smiles with an adorabloodthirsty innocence".
Me: "mumbles to herself" Can't wait for her to leave. I miss saying "fuck" and....
Bonesaw: Excuse me, did you said something?
Me: Nope "cries internally"

"I don't want to break it," Amy said, her voice hushed.
"Ahhh. Well, that just makes me more excited to see how you react when you do. See, all we have to do is get you to that point of peak stress. Your power will be stronger, and you'll be able to push past that mental block. Probably."
"Please," Amy said. "Don't."
Bonesaw reached into her apron and retrieved a remote control. She pointed it at Mark, where he sat on the couch. A red dot appeared on his forehead.
"No!"
One of Bonesaw's mechanical contraptions leaped across the room, its scalpel legs impaling the suede cushions on either side of Mark. One leg, tipped with a syringe, thrust into Mark's right nostril. He hollered incoherently, tried to pull away, only for two mechanical legs to clutch his head and hold him firm.
Amy's screams joined his.
"I'm doing you a favor, really!" Bonesaw raised her voice to be heard over the screams. "You'll thank me!"

Amy, for Heavens's sake, stop being a Scaredy Cat and become and Fearless Panther instead. HEAL YOUR FATHER, RIGHT NOW. I really don't care about your st...illogical reasons for not wanting to heal someone's brains, don't make me say cussing words because Bonesaw is still here and she's not going to forgive me if I cuss again. "sighs" If you don't heal Mark right now, I'm gonna hate you, seriously, I'm gonna hate you. Because you'll be a selfish person who care only about herself and her own interests rather than her own family. Don't make me hate you, Amy, please....

Amy rushed forward, hauled on the metal leg to pull it from Mark's nostril, pulled at the other legs to tear it from him and then hurled it away. Lighter than it looked.
"Now fix him or he'll probably die or be a vegetable," Bonesaw told her. "Unless you decide you're okay with that, in which case we're making progress."
Amy tried to shut out Bonesaw's voice, straddled Mark's lap and touched his face.
She'd healed him frequently in the previous weeks, enough to know that he was remarkably alert in a body that refused to cooperate or carry out the tasks he wanted it to. Not so different from Bonesaw's creations in that respect. She'd healed everything but his brain, had altered his digestive system and linked it to his circadian rhythms so he went to the bathroom on a strict schedule, to reduce the need for diapers. Other tune-ups she'd given him had been aimed at making him more comfortable, reducing stiffness and aches and pains. It was the least she could do.
Now she had to focus on his brain. The needle had drawn ragged cuts through the arachnid layer, had injected droplets of acid into the frontal lobes. More damage, in addition to what Leviathan had inflicted with the head wound, and it was swiftly spreading.
Everything else in the world seemed to drop away. She pressed her forehead to his. Everything biological was shaped in some way by what it had grown from and what had come before. Rebuilding the damaged parts was a matter of tracing everything backwards. Some of the brain was impossible to restore to what it had once been, in the most damaged areas or places where it was the newest growths that were gone, but she could check everything in the surrounding area, use process of elimination and context to figure out what the damaged areas had tied to.

She felt tears in her eyes. She had told herself she would heal him and then leave the Dallon household. Actually doing this, fixing him, taking that plunge, she knew she would probably never have found the courage if she hadn't been pushed into it.
It wasn't that she was afraid to get something wrong. No. Even as complicated as the mind was, she'd always known she could manage it. No, it was what came after that scared her more than anything. Just like finding out about Marquis, it was the opening of a door she desperately wanted to keep shut.
She restored his motor skills, penmanship, driving a car, even the little things, the little sequences of movements he used to turn the lock on the bathroom door as he closed it or turn a pencil around in one hand to use the eraser on the end. Everything he'd lost, she returned to him.
He moved fractionally. She opened her eyes, and saw him staring into her eyes. Something about the gaze told her he was better.

"have tears in her eyes" She healed him....she indeed healed him and now Mark is normal again. See, Amy, it wasn't that hard. You didn't turned him into a zombie or a mindless creature or whatever you're afraid that is going to happen. You healed him for real. I believed this was going to happen, I wasn't afraid at all because I trusted Amy and how good she's at using her powers. It was just a stupid fear imprinted in your mind, a fear without any real base. Victoria will be proud of you, Carol will forgive you, the rest of your family will be thankfully to you.

Wow, Bonesaw, you actually did something good by forcing Amy to be BRAVE. Well, you did this because you're planning to make her become a S9 member. But I'll advice you to look after another big sister. Because this one....this one have a family and her heart is in the right place.

You failed, Bonesaw, you failed to get her, and maybe, one day, she'll come after you and use her powers on your own brain. Applying exactly what you taught her. Only not healing this time. Probably you just created your own doom (but if this will ever happen, I hope it will happen later in the story, because Bonesaw is a fascinating character and I want her to live a little longer to see with what more crazy art she might come up and maybe....maybe she can change. I still think that she might change so I'll wait and pray for it to happen. If she'll continue to be a little monster, without showing any signs that she's trying to redeem herself, then I'd be more than glad for Amy to give her a taste of her own medicine).

"I'm sorry," she murmured. "I'm so sorry." She wasn't sure what she was apologizing for. For taking so long to do it, maybe. Or for the fact that she would now have to leave.
His attention was on his hands. She could feel it through her contact with him, the power he was just barely holding back. And Bonesaw? The little lunatic was somewhere behind her.
She drew Mark's hands into his lap, between her body and his, where Bonesaw would be less likely to see.
An orb of light grew in his hands.
"It worked! Yes!" Bonesaw crowed.
Mark flicked his eyes in one direction, offered the slightest of nods, his forehead rubbing against hers. Amy flung herself to one side as Mark stood in one quick motion, flinging the glowing orb at the little girl.
Hack Job flickered into existence just in time to have to orb bounce off his chest. It exploded violently, tearing a hole into his stomach and groin.
The villain flew backward, colliding with Bonesaw.
But two more copies of Hack Job had already appeared, and the scalpel spiders were responding to some unknown directions, leaping for Mark and Amy.
Amy grappled with one spider, struggled to bend its legs the wrong way, cried out as the scalpels and needlepoints of the other legs dragged against her skin.

A blast sent her tumbling, throwing her into the couch and dislodging the spider. Mark could make his orbs concussive or explosive. He'd hit the spider with the former, nothing that could seriously hurt Amy. She climbed to her feet, picked up the oak side-table from beside the couch and bludgeoned the spider with it.
More explosions ripped through their living room as Mark continued to open fire, hurling the orbs with a ferocity that surprised Amy. When Hack
Job tried to block the shots with his bodies, Mark bounced them between Hack Job's legs, off walls and off the ceiling. Almost as if he could predict what his enemy would do, he lobbed one orb onto the couch. It exploded a half-second after one of Hack Job's duplicates appeared there.
More duplicates charged from either direction, and Mark dropped a concussive orb at his feet, blasting himself and one of the duplicates in opposite directions. He quickly got his footing and resumed the attack, fending off one duplicate that turned his attention to Amy, then going after Bonesaw.
Bonesaw had retreated into the hallway that led into the bedrooms at the back of the house, the basement and the kitchen at the side. Mark threw an orb after her, obliterating the hallway, but Amy couldn't see if he'd struck home, not with the clouds of dust that were exploding from
Hack Job's expired duplicates. Between the time it had taken to create the orb, throwing it and the lack of a scream after it had gone off, Amy knew Bonesaw would have gotten away.

Wow, Mark is a BEAST. He destroys his apartment, finishes off some of robo -spiders, kills few of Hatchet Lee's clones (it looks like Hatchet Lee have to touch someone in order to block their powers and since they can't touch Mark, the hero is free to use his power without any obstacles), all in all he's a badass full of anger and hate for the little psycho who tried to kill him, who forced his daughter to do awful (except for healing him) things and who just ran away, unfortunately. Ok, now that Bonesaw left, guess what I'm free to do...."EXHALES DEEPLY"...to swear without restrictions. Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelllll, yeaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh. I don't really feel like myself when I'm not doing this shit.

But since Bonesaw is my favorite S9 member, I'm doing her two favors (favors only for her, not other S9 members, to be clear). I'm giving her a second chance to redeem herself and I'll never swear everytime when she'll make her apparition. That's it.

There was an extended silence. Bonesaw and Hack Job were gone, leaving only Pagoda's body and the limp Murder Rat. Long seconds passed as the dust settled.
"That woman. Can you help her?" Mark's voice sounded rough-edged. It hadn't been used in its full capacity for a long few weeks.
"Her mind is gone, and not in a way I think I could fix," her voice was hushed.
"Okay." Mark walked over to Murder Rat and adjusted her position against the wall until she was more horizontal, almost lying down. He crossed her claws over her chest, and then formed an orb of light the size of a tennis ball.
"Rest in peace, Mouse Protector," he said. He placed the orb of light in the gap where two claws crossed one another, just over her heart, then stepped away.
There was a small explosion and a spray of blood.
"I'm sorry," Amy said, "So sorry I didn't help you sooner, that-"
Mark stopped her with a raised hand. "Thank you."

Awesome, Mark can kill people so easy with his explosive orbs. He's so damn strong. Thanks God that he missed Bonesaw.

Carol will have a HARD time to clean up the apartment after this whole mess. Well, since its mostly destroyed, they have to fix it first. Mark, thanks for mercy killing Murder Rat, especially Mouse Protector. She deserved her rest. RIP Mouse Protector. Ok, before continuing, I want to talk about a certain Manga character pretty similar with Bonesaw.

Fran Madaraki, a being created by a scientist; she's extremely intelligent and skillful and very capable to do experiments/surgeries on her own, but 99% of her experiments/surgeries end up disastrously (and this is a nice word) for people involved. Well, Fran and Bonesaw are pretty similar but with some big differences: Bonesaw's victims are mostly innocent people while Fran's victims are people who usually deserved what they got at the end: arrogant, power hungry people, jerks, criminals, rapists, abusers (only very few were actually nice people). Another difference: Fran is a genuinely nice and compassionate "person": she only wants the best for people, she's very emotional and sensible, she doesn't kill, and during the few times when she purposely hurt people, she only defended herself/or her "father' work. Yet, 99% of her surgeries created monsters at the end but this happened because she can't understand that humans can't live like monsters or her patients demanded really ridiculous/stupid things from her. On the other side, Bonesaw have no morals, no concern for people's lives, she's just cruel, insane and all she wants is to improve her art and to make Jack proud of her. Yet, she still have the innocence and frankness of Fran. So, if Siberian is Gavrill, one of Fran's sisters and Bonesaw is Fran, then who is Veronica, the super assassin who only wants to have friends (who is also my favorite one of the 3 sisters)? Wildbow, you forgot Veronica, you can't do that to me. :anger:

She didn't deserve thanks.
"Are you okay?" He asked.
She looked away. Tears were welling out. "No."
"Listen. Sit yourself down. I'm going to call your mother and sister, make sure they're all right after dealing with Hellhound, let them know what happened. Then I'll call the Protectorate. Maybe they can help guard us, in case Bonesaw comes after you again."
"She will. But I- I can't sit. I'm going to my room. I'll pack so we leave sooner."
"You sure?"
She nodded.
"Shout if anything happens."
She nodded and turned to go, picking her way through the destroyed hallway. The floorboards that looked like a giant-sized version of pick-up-
sticks. She was only halfway when she heard Mark on the phone.
"Carol? It's me."
Her face burned with shame. She made her way to her room and began packing her things into a gym bag. Clothes, toiletries, and other things, mementos. A small scrapbook, a memory card filled with pictures of her, her cousins and her sister. She found a pad of post-it notes and scribbled out a few words.
I'm sorry it took me so long to help Mark.
Good bye. I love you all,

Amy.
She wouldn't be coming back.
Amy opened her bedroom window and climbed out, pulling the bag out behind her.
It would be better this way. Maybe, after weeks or months, she could stop worrying, stop waiting for the other shoe to drop, for everything to fall apart in the worst way. She'd already had to face finding out about Marquis. She'd taken a life. She'd broken one of her cardinal rules. She wasn't sure she could take any more.
She just had to get away.

Running away from your problems, running away from yourself, Amy.

This is NOT a solution, Amy, running away is never a solution. You're a good person, Amy, no matter what you may still believe about yourself, you're Victoria's awesome, sweet, carrying sister. You should not leave your sister like this, you both love each other so much...Amy's running from home reminds me of Taylor's running from her own home. Yep, these two girls are pretty similar when it comes to confronting and solving the problems they have with their families. They instead prefer to run than to try to do something (maybe I judge Amy pretty harsh but I personally never ran away from my problems, no matter how difficult they're. I always stay and confront them even when I'm sure I can't win). So, deep down I want Amy to be like me in this case, to be someone who instead of leaving the only persons she cares for, to talk to them and both sides to try to understand each other and to find solutions at their problems. Its difficult but the most correct thing to do. Instead, Amy choose the easiest but the wrong way to solve everything. By fucking running away.

Amy cursed the curfew as she saw the figure in the air above her. When people weren't allowed out on the streets after dark, it made those few who did venture out that much more visible. Not what she'd wanted, not when she was trying to avoid this exact conversation.
It was even more problematic when she walked at maybe three or four miles an hour, limited to following the paths the roads and alleys allowed her, when her sister could fly at fifty miles an hour. She should have hid, instead of trying to make some distance.
Victoria stopped midflight and hovered in the air, five feet above the ground and five or six paces in front of her.
"I was just at the house. I don't even know what to say," Victoria spoke.
"Pretty self-explanatory. One of the Nine came, house got trashed, I healed Mark."
"Why? Why heal dad now, when you couldn't before?"
"I only did it because I had to."
"That's what I don't get. Why couldn't you? You've never explained."
"I can't tell you."
"So that's it? No explanations? You just up and leave?" Victoria asked.
"Yeah."
"Why?"
Amy looked away.

"We could get you a therapist. I mean, Mom was setting aside money for Dad's care, we could use that to give you someone to talk to."
"I… a therapist wouldn't be able to help."
"Geez, what's going on? Amy, we've been together for a decade. I've stood by you. I'd like to think we were best friends, not just sisters. And you can't tell me?"
"I can't. Just let me leave. Trust me when I say it's better."
"Fuck that! I'm not about to let you walk away!" Victoria floated closer, reaching out.
"Don't touch me," Amy warned her sister.
Looking lost, Victoria stopped and spread her arms. "Who are you, Amy? I don't even recognize this person I'm looking at. You go berserk at the bank robbery over some secret I've totally not gotten on your case about. You apparently say something to Skitter that causes this huge commotion in the hospital after the Endbringer attack. You… I don't even know what to say about your reaction to Gallant's death, the way you distanced yourself from me at a time when I was hurting the most."

Victoria, you better listen your sister and don't touch her. She's in a very delicate state of mind and she might hurt you accidentally. Oh, Gosh, I have a feeling that Victoria will hug Amy, Amy will touch her forehead and she'll do something to her brain, either turning her into a monster, wiping away her powers or her entire mind. Then she'll feel extremely guilty about what she did and run away, letting Victoria like this without healing her. Fuck, Amy is going to do something bad, right? But I'm not going to blame her, no matter what she'll do to Victoria. Its going to be an accident, Amy is in a very fragile position, besides there are a lot of other healers who can help Victoria, unless her mind would be completely deleted, of course. This is the only thing I'm afraid of: for Amy to let Victoria in a persistent vegetative state.

Amy looked down at her feet.
"And most of all, you just leave dad to suffer, when you could have healedhim? You lash out at me, here, when I'm trying to mend fences and be your sister?"
"You want to know who I am?" Amy asked. Her voice sounded hollow. "I'mMarquis's daughter. Daughter of a supervillain."
"Marquis?"
Amy nodded.
"How did you find out?"
"Carol left some paper out. I think it's under my pillow, if you want to look for it."
"You have his genes, but you're Carol and Mark's daughter," Victoria replied, her voice firm. "And they're going to be worried. Come home."
"They don't care. They don't love me, not really. Trust me, this is better for everyone."
"I love you," Victoria said, stressing the 'I'. She dropped to the ground and stepped closer.
"Don't touch me!"
"Idiot," Victoria grabbed her sister by the shirt collar and pulled her into a painfully tight hug.
"Don't," Amy moaned into her sister's shoulder.
"All of this? We'll work it out. As a family. And if your idea of family means it's just you and me, then we'll work it out together, just the two of us."

All it took was one moment of weakness, and she was weak. At the end of her rope, desperately lonely, haunted by her father's shadow, her shame at being unwilling and unable to help Mark until now, the idea that one of the Slaughterhouse Nine thought she belonged with them?
She was losing everything so quickly. Victoria was all she had, and it was the choice between abandoning that for everyone's good and keeping Victoria close.
She felt Victoria's body more acutely than she felt her own. Every heartbeat, every cell brimming with life.
Like a flame at the end of a long fuse, leading to a stick of dynamite, her power traveled from the side of Victoria's neck to her brain. It was barely a conscious action on Amy's part.
Victoria let go of her, pushed her away. "What did you just do?"

"slaps her forehead" Exactly what I was afraid that is going to happen. Amy did something to her stupid sister because her stupid sister ignored her when she begged her to not touch her and now Amy will seriously start to believe that she's a villain, not realizing that whatever she did was just a pure accident+ Victoria's fault for not listening.

Amy could see the revulsion slowly spreading across Victoria's face.
The magnitude of what she'd just done hit her with a suddenness and pain she likened to a bullet to the chest. "Oh god. Please, let me undo it."
She reached out, but Victoria stepped back.
"What the hell did you do?" Victoria asked, her eyes wide, "I felt something. Ifeel something. You've used your power on me before, but not like this. I- You changed the way I think.More than that."

Tears welled at the corners of Amy's eyes. "Please. This is what I was afraid of. Let me undo it. Let me fix it and leave, and you can go back to Mark and Carol and you three can be a family, and-"
"What did you do!?"
"I'm sorry. I… knew this would happen. I was okay so long as I kept following my own rules, didn't open that door. Bonesaw forced me to open it."
"Amy!"
"You have to understand, for so long, you were all I had. I was so desperately lonely, and that was at the same time I was starting to worry about my dad. I got fucked up, my feelings got muddled somewhere along the line, and it's like… maybe because you were safe, because you were always there."
"You have feelings for me," Victoria answered.

"RIDICULOUS HUGE FACEPALM WITH BOTH PALMS" I need even more palms, two are not enough. I'm trying here to facefoot too but it doesn't really works. Ok, Amy is in love with Victoria. Amy is a lesbian. She's not incestuous (they're not blood related sister) which is acceptable. I honestly never imagined this twist, of all twists this is the BEST one. Or the WORST one, I don't know what to say. I'd like them as a couple, but NOT in these conditions. Its clear that Victoria doesn't love Amy in the way Amy loves her, her feelings for her are sisterly love and nothing more. "shakes her head' Its pretty disturbing if Amy did to Victoria what I'm thinking she did. I think she kind of mind controlled Victoria to make her fall in love with her. Or better said, she changed her feelings from sisterly love to romantic love. She basically MIND RAPED Victoria. But I don't blame Amy, I don't blame her at all. I don't blame not even Victoria's stupidity (she was honestly worried for her sister and was blind to the consequences from touching a very powerful and temporary unstable person like her sister). I don't blame anyone, not even Bonesaw. Not Bonesaw was the one who ordered Amy to do this indescribable shit, she did it by herself and it was just an unfortunate accident. So, now I know that Amy never loved Dean as I believed. When he felt her emotions for him, these emotions were only of jealousy and frustration for not being able to have Victoria as her lover (unlike Dean). Dean understood this but he never judged Amy or never told anything to Victoria. Because he loved Victoria so freaking much and he respected Amy and didn't wanted to break their hearts. What a GREAT MAN Dean was.

She couldn't keep the disgust out of her voice, she didn't even try. "That's what Tattletale was using as leverage, wasn't it?"
Amy couldn't meet Victoria's eyes. She looked at her hands, appalled at what she had just done.
"And Gallant? I was thinking you secretly liked him, but-"
Amy shook her head. "I hated him. I felt jealous because he had you and I never could… but I never acted on those feelings. I never acted on any of my feelings, until just now, and all I want to do is to take that back."
"When I was at the lowest point in my life, when the boy I thought I might marry someday was dead, were you secretly elated? Were you happy Gallant died?"
"No! Vic- Victoria, I love you. I wanted you to be happy with him. I just… it hurt at the same time."
"Oh my god," Victoria whispered, the revulsion giving way to something worse. Realization.

"I- I tried to keep things normal between us. To act like your sister, keep it all bottled in. It's just tonight was such a nightmare, and I'm so scared, and so tired, and so desperate. Bonesaw forced me to ignore all the rules I was imposing on myself. All the rules I was using and following so I wouldn't do anything stupid or impulsive."
"Anything stupid. Like what? What did you do?"
Amy's voice was a croak as she replied, "…make it so you would reciprocate my feelings."
She chanced a look at Victoria's face, and she knew that the horror she saw in her sister's expression didn't even compare to what she felt.
"Please. Let me fix it. Then I'll leave. You'll never have to see me again."
"What in the world makes you think I'd let you use your power on me again!?" Victoria shouted, taking to the air, out of reach. "Who knows what you're going to do to me!?"
"Please?" Amy begged.
"I can find someone else to fix it. Or maybe, at the very least, I can show some fucking self-control and realize it's my sister I'm having those feelings about."
"You can't. I- Oh fuck. You're underestimating what I did. Please. If you never ever give me anything else, if you never talk to me or look at me again, just let me fix this."
Victoria shook her head slowly, then scoffed. "Good job, Amy. You just did an excellent job of taking every instance of me defending you, every instance of my giving you the benefit of a doubt, and proving me fucking wrong. You were worried about being as fucked up as your dad? Congratulations, I'm pretty goddamn sure you just surpassed the man."
With that said, Victoria was gone, flying into the distance.
Amy sank to her knees on the flooded street.

I was right about Dean. I was right about what Amy did to Victoria. I HATE to be right about things, especially when they're so fucking tragic. I feel very sad for both sisters and I still hope that Victoria will forgive Amy (now she kind of romantically love/hate Amy, something like this) and return to her (wherever Amy is going now) and accept to be healed by her. Nothing is irreparable. At least Victoria is not in a vegetative state which is the best thing someone can expect at from this fucked up (in a good sense) story.

I'm positive that they'll get together again on peaceful terms (even if a healed Victoria might never love Amy back, but I don't care as long as she'll be normal again). I honestly expected something worse than this. Well, this Interlude was my FAVORITE one. Pretty fucked up but it gave me my favorite S9 member, a lot of tense and dramatic moments, the BEST/WORST TWIST of this story, Amy is now one of the 3 characters that I feel pity the most for (the other two being Dinah and Noelle- even if I don't know her real condition yet, the fact that Noelle craves for human meat and have to be permanently locked makes her be like an intelligent zombie who's aware that should not feed herself with humans, feels bad for what she's doing , yet she can't stop the permanent hunger. The saddest kind of zombie. That's the reason why I already feel so bad for Noelle), I don't judge Victoria for her harsh words (she was too terrified about her new feelings, about what Amy said, about what happened during that day, everything accumulated in her mind and fucked up with her) at the end and I hope that she'll forgive Amy one day and accept the cure.
Since its late, tomorrow I'll show you my lists. All of them.

Good night and sleep well, my friends.

Prince Ire · Jun 11, 2018

Initially, almost everyone thinks that Amy's secret is having a crush on Gallant. But the actual secret makes a lot more sense. Amy is horrified at the idea of Tattletale telling Vicky and thinks it would destroy their relationship, which would be a hilarious overeaction on Vicky's part to "My sister has a secret crush on my boyfriend that she's never acted on." Vicky probably wouldn't care about Amy having a crush on Dean if Amy didn't try to steal him or anything. But Amy having a crush on Vicky? While I don't think the revelation would destroy their relationship like it did here without the mind rape being involved, it would permanently, irrevocably alter their relationship.

blackarrow · Jun 12, 2018

Prince Ire said:
Initially, almost everyone thinks that Amy's secret is having a crush on Gallant. But the actual secret makes a lot more sense. Amy is horrified at the idea of Tattletale telling Vicky and thinks it would destroy their relationship, which would be a hilarious overeaction on Vicky's part to "My sister has a secret crush on my boyfriend that she's never acted on." Vicky probably wouldn't care about Amy having a crush on Dean if Amy didn't try to steal him or anything. But Amy having a crush on Vicky? While I don't think the revelation would destroy their relationship like it did here without the mind rape being involved, it would permanently, irrevocably alter their relationship.

Honestly? I like more how Victoria found out about Amy's real feelings for her (without the mind rape part) than if Lisa would have told her. Because I didn't wanted to see their relation being affected by my favorite character. I still think that Victoria will understand why Amy did what she did and will forgive her. Maybe I overestimate Victoria more than she deserves but Worm taught me something: people are full of surprises.

rafuki22 · Jun 12, 2018

blackarrow said:
Hi, Bonesaw's experiments (and other people), time for the last part (hopefully the last one) of 11.h | Worm. Ok, before I'll start, I'd like to....but let's start already then we'll discuss. We don't have time to lose, damnit.
Bonesaw: Language, please!
Me: Oh, sorry, I'll not repeat my mistake again.
Bonesaw: You better not, otherwise.... "smiles with an adorabloodthirsty innocence".
Me: "mumbles to herself" Can't wait for her to leave. I miss saying "fuck" and....
Bonesaw: Excuse me, did you said something?
Me: Nope "cries internally"

Amy, for Heavens's sake, stop being a Scaredy Cat and become and Fearless Panther instead. HEAL YOUR FATHER, RIGHT NOW. I really don't care about your st...illogical reasons for not wanting to heal someone's brains, don't make me say cussing words because Bonesaw is still here and she's not going to forgive me if I cuss again. "sighs" If you don't heal Mark right now, I'm gonna hate you, seriously, I'm gonna hate you. Because you'll be a selfish person who care only about herself and her own interests rather than her own family. Don't make me hate you, Amy, please....

"have tears in her eyes" She healed him....she indeed healed him and now Mark is normal again. See, Amy, it wasn't that hard. You didn't turned him into a zombie or a mindless creature or whatever you're afraid that is going to happen. You healed him for real. I believed this was going to happen, I wasn't afraid at all because I trusted Amy and how good she's at using her powers. It was just a stupid fear imprinted in your mind, a fear without any real base. Victoria will be proud of you, Carol will forgive you, the rest of your family will be thankfully to you. Wow, Bonesaw, you actually did something good by forcing Amy to be BRAVE. Well, you did this because you're planning to make her become a S9 member. But I'll advice you to look after another big sister. Because this one....this one have a family and her heart is in the right place. You failed, Bonesaw, you failed to get her, and maybe, one day, she'll come after you and use her powers on your own brain. Applying exactly what you taught her. Only not healing this time. Probably you just created your own doom (but if this will ever happen, I hope it will happen later in the story, because Bonesaw is a fascinating character and I want her to live a little longer to see with what more crazy art she might come up and maybe....maybe she can change. I still think that she might change so I'll wait and pray for it to happen. If she'll continue to be a little monster, without showing any signs that she's trying to redeem herself, then I'd be more than glad for Amy to give her a taste of her own medicine).

Wow, Mark is a BEAST. He destroys his apartment, finishes off some of robo -spiders, kills few of Hatchet Lee's clones (it looks like Hatchet Lee have to touch someone in order to block their powers and since they can't touch Mark, the hero is free to use his power without any obstacles), all in all he's a badass full of anger and hate for the little psycho who tried to kill him, who forced his daughter to do awful (except for healing him) things and who just ran away, unfortunately. Ok, now that Bonesaw left, guess what I'm free to do...."EXHALES DEEPLY"...to swear without restrictions. Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelllll, yeaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh. I don't really feel like myself when I'm not doing this shit. But since Bonesaw is my favorite S9 member, I'm doing her two favors (favors only for her, not other S9 members, to be clear). I'm giving her a second chance to redeem herself and I'll never swear everytime when she'll make her apparition. That's it.

Awesome, Mark can kill people so easy with his explosive orbs. He's so damn strong. Thanks God that he missed Bonesaw. Carol will have a HARD time to clean up the apartment after this whole mess. Well, since its mostly destroyed, they have to fix it first. Mark, thanks for mercy killing Murder Rat, especially Mouse Protector. She deserved her rest. RIP Mouse Protector. Ok, before continuing, I want to talk about a certain Manga character pretty similar with Bonesaw.

Fran Madaraki, a being created by a scientist; she's extremely intelligent and skillful and very capable to do experiments/surgeries on her own, but 99% of her experiments/surgeries end up disastrously (and this is a nice word) for people involved. Well, Fran and Bonesaw are pretty similar but with some big differences: Bonesaw's victims are mostly innocent people while Fran's victims are people who usually deserved what they got at the end: arrogant, power hungry people, jerks, criminals, rapists, abusers (only very few were actually nice people). Another difference: Fran is a genuinely nice and compassionate "person": she only wants the best for people, she's very emotional and sensible, she doesn't kill, and during the few times when she purposely hurt people, she only defended herself/or her "father' work. Yet, 99% of her surgeries created monsters at the end but this happened because she can't understand that humans can't live like monsters or her patients demanded really ridiculous/stupid things from her. On the other side, Bonesaw have no morals, no concern for people's lives, she's just cruel, insane and all she wants is to improve her art and to make Jack proud of her. Yet, she still have the innocence and frankness of Fran. So, if Siberian is Gavrill, one of Fran's sisters and Bonesaw is Fran, then who is Veronica, the super assassin who only wants to have friends (who is also my favorite one of the 3 sisters)? Wildbow, you forgot Veronica, you can't do that to me.

Running away from your problems, running away from yourself, Amy. This is NOT a solution, Amy, running away is never a solution. You're a good person, Amy, no matter what you may still believe about yourself, you're Victoria's awesome, sweet, carrying sister. You should not leave your sister like this, you both love each other so much...Amy's running from home reminds me of Taylor's running from her own home. Yep, these two girls are pretty similar when it comes to confronting and solving the problems they have with their families. They instead prefer to run than to try to do something (maybe I judge Amy pretty harsh but I personally never ran away from my problems, no matter how difficult they're. I always stay and confront them even when I'm sure I can't win). So, deep down I want Amy to be like me in this case, to be someone who instead of leaving the only persons she cares for, to talk to them and both sides to try to understand each other and to find solutions at their problems. Its difficult but the most correct thing to do. Instead, Amy choose the easiest but the wrong way to solve everything. By fucking running away.

Victoria, you better listen your sister and don't touch her. She's in a very delicate state of mind and she might hurt you accidentally. Oh, Gosh, I have a feeling that Victoria will hug Amy, Amy will touch her forehead and she'll do something to her brain, either turning her into a monster, wiping away her powers or her entire mind. Then she'll feel extremely guilty about what she did and run away, letting Victoria like this without healing her. Fuck, Amy is going to do something bad, right? But I'm not going to blame her, no matter what she'll do to Victoria. Its going to be an accident, Amy is in a very fragile position, besides there are a lot of other healers who can help Victoria, unless her mind would be completely deleted, of course. This is the only thing I'm afraid of: for Amy to let Victoria in a persistent vegetative state.

"slaps her forehead" Exactly what I was afraid that is going to happen. Amy did something to her stupid sister because her stupid sister ignored her when she begged her to not touch her and now Amy will seriously start to believe that she's a villain, not realizing that whatever she did was just a pure accident+ Victoria's fault for not listening.

"RIDICULOUS HUGE FACEPALM WITH BOTH PALMS" I need even more palms, two are not enough. I'm trying here to facefoot too but it doesn't really works. Ok, Amy is in love with Victoria. Amy is a lesbian. She's not incestuous (they're not blood related sister) which is acceptable. I honestly never imagined this twist, of all twists this is the BEST one. Or the WORST one, I don't know what to say. I'd like them as a couple, but NOT in these conditions. Its clear that Victoria doesn't love Amy in the way Amy loves her, her feelings for her are sisterly love and nothing more. "shakes her head' Its pretty disturbing if Amy did to Victoria what I'm thinking she did. I think she kind of mind controlled Victoria to make her fall in love with her. Or better said, she changed her feelings from sisterly love to romantic love. She basically MIND RAPED Victoria. But I don't blame Amy, I don't blame her at all. I don't blame not even Victoria's stupidity (she was honestly worried for her sister and was blind to the consequences from touching a very powerful and temporary unstable person like her sister). I don't blame anyone, not even Bonesaw. Not Bonesaw was the one who ordered Amy to do this indescribable shit, she did it by herself and it was just an unfortunate accident. So, now I know that Amy never loved Dean as I believed. When he felt her emotions for him, these emotions were only of jealousy and frustration for not being able to have Victoria as her lover (unlike Dean). Dean understood this but he never judged Amy or never told anything to Victoria. Because he loved Victoria so freaking much and he respected Amy and didn't wanted to break their hearts. What a GREAT MAN Dean was.

I was right about Dean. I was right about what Amy did to Victoria. I HATE to be right about things, especially when they're so fucking tragic. I feel very sad for both sisters and I still hope that Victoria will forgive Amy (now she kind of romantically love/hate Amy, something like this) and return to her (wherever Amy is going now) and accept to be healed by her. Nothing is irreparable. At least Victoria is not in a vegetative state which is the best thing someone can expect at from this fucked up (in a good sense) story. I'm positive that they'll get together again on peaceful terms (even if a healed Victoria might never love Amy back, but I don't care as long as she'll be normal again). I honestly expected something worse than this. Well, this Interlude was my FAVORITE one. Pretty fucked up but it gave me my favorite S9 member, a lot of tense and dramatic moments, the BEST/WORST TWIST of this story, Amy is now one of the 3 characters that I feel pity the most for (the other two being Dinah and Noelle- even if I don't know her real condition yet, the fact that Noelle craves for human meat and have to be permanently locked makes her be like an intelligent zombie who's aware that should not feed herself with humans, feels bad for what she's doing , yet she can't stop the permanent hunger. The saddest kind of zombie. That's the reason why I already feel so bad for Noelle), I don't judge Victoria for her harsh words (she was too terrified about her new feelings, about what Amy said, about what happened during that day, everything accumulated in her mind and fucked up with her) at the end and I hope that she'll forgive Amy one day and accept the cure.
Since its late, tomorrow I'll show you my lists. All of them.

Good night and sleep well, my friends.

I can tell you the reason why amy is in love with glory girl, but it would be spoiler.

Aris Katsaris · Jun 12, 2018

rafuki22 said:
I can tell you the reason why amy is in love with glory girl, but it would be spoiler.

No, you can't. I know what you're thinking of, but you'd be confusing fanon with canon.

I want to very much warn people that Worm has LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS of fanon, and half the time people don't remember that it's just fanon, that things have NOT been verified by Word of God or in the text itself.

So everyone, be highly mistrustful of what explanations of events you *think* you remember as canonical, when they're not. Yes, that includes you, random person who's reading this and who thinks the thing that *you* remember is actually canon.

rafuki22 · Jun 12, 2018

Aris Katsaris said:
No, you can't. I know what you're thinking of, but you'd be confusing fanon with canon.

I want to very much warn people that Worm has LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS of fanon, and half the time people don't remember that it's just fanon, that things have NOT been verified by Word of God or in the text itself.

So everyone, be highly mistrustful of what explanations of events you *think* you remember as canonical, when they're not. Yes, that includes you, random person who's reading this and who thinks the thing that *you* remember is actually canon.

Ok, ok, partner.

AmbarGriss · Jun 12, 2018

rafuki22 said:
Ok, ok, partner.

Some people are kind peeved about what's canon and what's not. Its pretty unfortunate sometimes.

Let's read Worm and its sequel Ward by Wildbow (One chapter/every day)

Section XIII

SPACE!

Le Halpful One

Sharp Talons Cleave The Worthy

Sometimes frustrated.

Anti-nihilist(maybe).

SPACE!

Anti-nihilist(maybe).

SPACE!

Totally not four rats in a trench coat

SPACE!

Section XIII

Anti-nihilist(maybe).

Banned Forever

Anti-nihilist(maybe).

Totally not four rats in a trench coat