- Location
- Argentina
That probably tells us that this IS the timeline that Coil decided to keep, right?
Price of Blood [Worm fanfic] (Complete)
- Thread starter Ack
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- worm complete trigger warning
Cherico
Machine
he's fantastic at his job, but he's not nessarly good at one on one communication, and once you deal with his ego he's capable of being a really great guy.
CinnabarSage
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- Location
- WA, USA
When you've been kidnapped and they reveal to you their identities... it means they plan to kill you before ever handing you over. Sophias' in Coils' Crosshairs; she just doesn't realize it.
- Location
- Australia
She's not connecting Coil to Calvert. Calvert is a PRT officer. Coil is a supervillain (and she doesn't even know she'll be working for him yet). But there's no similarity between the two of them.
But yes, once she's no longer useful, her retirement package will involve a bullet to the back of the skull.
RazorSmile
ROB Used To Be A Knife Missile
Besides, Shadow Stalker is not a complete imbecile. As we saw in the actual chapter, she did insist on verifying Calvert's existence. She likely wouldn't have gone for it if the PRT name proved fake.
EDIT: And, as others theorized and Ack confirms, barring the unforeseen, this ends with a bullet in her head as far as Coilvert is concerned.
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- Location
- Australia
The hilarious aspect is that while Sophia totally believes that she's got the PRT fooled, she never thinks for an instant that a PRT officer might be conning her.
esotericist
A Weary Hand
- Location
- Lacey, WA
They're all straight-laced, boring, and slow. This one might be a little quicker than the others, since he sees how good she really is, but that just makes him the fastest sheep. No big.
- Location
- The Netherlands
"The perpetrator of the Swarm incident has been identified, he died in the attack."
They just don't tell the press that they consider it felony murder.
I'd expect him to keep a split time-line from before that call until the point where SS actually successfully defects. And then keep a split time-line every time Shadow Stalker might go up against Armsmaster.
Or, as others have said, use her for one thing and then kill her before dropping the time-line in which he never called her.
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- Yes
@Ack Great chapter, in a very annoying way. I found the character's actions in this chapter very annoying in a very believable way, i.e I have no problem believing Danny, SS, Coil and Greg would do or say that...I just find the fact that they would annoying.
I'm assuming you're picturing the PRT as basically cops who deal with superpowers, not some cross between the NSA and SEALs trained to deal with superpowers. If that's the case no reason for them to track and trace the signal, if you were planning on them being more like the later then they would have tracked the signal from the cellphone even before he turned it on.
If the PRT building was a secure facility any RF radiation, much less a cellphone call would be tracked. Of course if it was a secure facility everyone would keep their cellphones in their locker, not on them and a lot of other things would be quite different.
I'm assuming you're picturing the PRT as basically cops who deal with superpowers, not some cross between the NSA and SEALs trained to deal with superpowers. If that's the case no reason for them to track and trace the signal, if you were planning on them being more like the later then they would have tracked the signal from the cellphone even before he turned it on.
- Location
- Boston
Sure but I didn't say unmasked, I said compromised. Probably unmasked too, but there's no way Calvert wouldn't be arrested if his role in having SS do a runner got out. Hell it's actively good for the PRT because it gives them someone to blame aside from their own negligence. Even if he escaped jail time, the mere claim would throw enough shade on him to ensure that he's not getting the Directorship anytime soon.
But yeah, given how cautious Coil is, I wouldn't expect him to split the Timeline at *all* until Sophia is dead and the information is buried. Something nasty must have happened in the other timeline for this to be the one he chose, or he successfully offed/ ASSUMED DIRECT CONTROL her.
He can't let her anywhere near Tattletale either, as she would immediately sus out the ruse, and probably quickly bait Sophia until Sophia gave her enough clues to deduce it was Calvert who sent her ( Has to be a position of Authority, has to have access to PRT network, not Piggot, not Renick- Calvert.) From there it's a short leap to connecting Calvert with Coil.
Anyway, I'm assuming he's going to use SS to off Piggot (or to antagonize Taylor into Accidentally the PRT), then "Heroically" off SS. I can't think of anything else high gain enough to justify the risk. He of course doesn't step up to the Directorship yet, but whoever does is going to find a city exploding. It probably accelerates his plan a good deal.
Thief of Words
Trans lesbian librarian
- Location
- Best book girl
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Fair, but it still represents a need to shift certain of his patterns from canon to insulate SS from contact with enough info to trace it back to him. It's dangerously close to the elements being in place to connect him to Coil, and it's putting those in an environment with Tattletale.
All it'd take is one instance of a snooping Sophia catching an earful of their supervillain-funding boss and recognizing the voice for Lisa to have everything she needs to make the connection.
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Icipall
Don't worry, we can fanfix that!
- Location
- Cold snow fields of Finland
I believe it is safe to bet that Coil talks differently when in and out of costume.
Chojomeka
Behold! QUEEN MONKE!
You know if the PRT/Protectorate really want to make people not associate Taylor with the Swarm they could easily set up a great lie, the Swarm was the result of a insane tinker's device calling and commanding all insects within it's range, Taylor triggered during the end of this and forced the swarming insects to stop.
- Location
- The Netherlands
Why go through the trouble? Just say that one guy that tried to rape her is responsible, the culprit is dead and his identity is not being publicly released (which is probably SOP for dead villains anyway), records are sealed, so no one will know that he didn't actually directly cause the deaths. Taylor Hebert was arrested as a suspect in the investigation, but released after exonerating evidence was found, only a footnote in the story really. Best thing is, it's not even technically a cover-up, so if people found out, the PRT was just protecting an innocent, albeit dangerous, girl.
So are all male criminals rapist murderers everywhere you go Ack or just in your fics.
Also, I never understood this idea that some non-powered Mook is gonna "get one on a cape" trope comes from. That, like, doesn't happen. Ever. the 1 time we see it in Worm we see the mooks get fucking punished hard by Taylor & Bitch.
Also, I never understood this idea that some non-powered Mook is gonna "get one on a cape" trope comes from. That, like, doesn't happen. Ever. the 1 time we see it in Worm we see the mooks get fucking punished hard by Taylor & Bitch.
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CinnabarSage
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- Location
- WA, USA
Shots Fired.
Interception: I can believe that certain criminal behavior would be acceptable with an amount of leniency.. Theft would be one of those. In order to proclaim a person with no backstory to be criminal would itself be criminal, but if the crime is that of dehumanizing his fellows to nothing but a Sex Object then we have a criminal without explanation.
I haven't read the OW in some time so please forgive me, is this when Taylor is suited up, or perhaps maybe after the Arcadia incident? If not then I'm flat wrong with my point to you, but if this is thtrue then taylor and bitch wouldn't need to worry about there identities to mooks on the street
Lenimentus
Ignorant but learning.
You do realize that you say, "That, like, doesn't happen. Ever." and then contradict yourself by saying it happened in Worm, literally in the next sentence.
Also I'm pretty sure the mooks here got punished worse than the ones in worm. The ones here were eaten alive.
- Location
- Australia
Taylor canonically carried pepper spray on her morning runs. Later she also carried a knife. This ain't to deal with the guy on the street corner asking for five bucks.
The boys who were goaded into attacking her were jocks. Jocks have, sadly, a long-standing culture that promotes exactly that sort of behaviour, and the mindset that sometimes lets them go too far. Were they guaranteed to try to sexually assault her? No. Was it possible? Unfortunately, yes.
I've already been over the reasons why I consider their actions to be believable, in detail, over and over again, in this thread. I'm not going to do it again. If you want to know, go back and read it yourself.
If the cape is down and helpless, then sometimes mooks get brave. And sometimes they even succeed. Cape =/= invincible.
Hotdog Vendor
Author of 'Sisters of Rail'
- Location
- (5 + 3 * sqrt(5)) / 8
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Clever setup.
Reminds me a lot of the show Alias. SD-6 and all that. But more individual.
Actually, that gives me a plotbunny...
Also, because people seem to like pointlessly pointing out fanon, Sophia liking MLP is fanon. *shrug*
That's not the Scooby Gang.
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- Location
- Freedom-Land
Ironically one of the themes in Worm. Being a 'Hero' doesn't make you good, being a 'Villain' doesn't make you a monster, having powers doesn't solve your problems, and plans don't always go according to- *Endbringer Sirens*
Ellf
Apprentice Wizard
- Location
- Virginia
True. It's Mystery, Inc. or "Scooby and the Gang."
The Scooby Gang are Buffy Summers, Willow Rosenberg, Xander Harris and Rupert Giles.
Now, Daphne Blake and Buffy Summers were both played by the same person in the live action, so I could see how they could get confused.
- Location
- Australia
I had forgotten the other mention of it. It'll never come up as a plot point (unless it does), but it's actually Terry who's the brony, and he hides the comics under Sophia's mattress so he doesn't get caught with them. She doesn't know, and would be livid if she found out
- Pronouns
- Yes
Only if they could actually prove SS talked to him at his desk in that easily subverted test he set up. It would not be too difficult to divert Sophia's phone call to someother place where the supervillain Coil, or some Minion of his was pretending to be Thomas Calvert. It would be even easier to simply delete/damage the records of that phone call so no one has any evidence it occurred...and that's assuming Sophia gets a chance to testify about that phone call and Clavert doesn't have a cover story ready to explain the phone call.
I'm quite sure by this point in time Tt. already knew Coil's identity, even if she didn't yet Coil had to assume she'd find it out sooner or later so there isn't anything SS can tell Tt. which he believes she can use against him.
CV12Hornet
Riter.
- Location
- Tacoma, Washington
Wait, what?! When did that become established fanon?!