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Starry Eyes [Worm/Lovecraft Mythos]

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What I really like about this chapter is how Danny is clueless about what a Trigger event is, or even the different classifications of what a parahuman power does, it feels far more realistic than him knowing like I've seen in countless other fics.

Also, isn't this a violation of those unwritten rules that everyone holds up as being so important? I mean, as far as anyone can see, they've gone out of their way to discover a cape's identity, despite her cutting her own face off to hide it!
 
LupineHorror said:
What I really like about this chapter is how Danny is clueless about what a Trigger event is, or even the different classifications of what a parahuman power does, it feels far more realistic than him knowing like I've seen in countless other fics.

Also, isn't this a violation of those unwritten rules that everyone holds up as being so important? I mean, as far as anyone can see, they've gone out of their way to discover a cape's identity, despite her cutting her own face off to hide it!
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She attacked a civilian while not in costume, so...
 
LupineHorror said:
From the sound of it, they already know it was a provoked assault, and they immediately jumped from 'tentacles' to starfield, despite her only having shown tentacles through cut open holes in her body, not morphing her own biology.
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It was the eating part that made them really thing about Starfield, though. And provoked or not, it changes nothing (and I don't really see where they know it was provoked).

Also, it'd be like pulling out a gun and shooting someone's leg off because they talked shit. A bit disproportionned, no matter what.
 
FullNothingness said:
Wow, Danny is having a bad day... Fun facts he just picked up:

-His daughter was bullied for over a year.
-His daughter triggered from said bullying.
-She ran away from home.
-The law is after her too.
-Said law is apparently also involved in the aforementioned bullying too.
-Also she might want to eat people now.
-His daughter just referenced removing her face...

I think people triggered over less than this.
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Actually, there might not make the connection between 'having my face of' and cutting her face, because her 'breaker state' is a starry void, and void=lack off.
 
LupineHorror said:
Also, isn't this a violation of those unwritten rules that everyone holds up as being so important? I mean, as far as anyone can see, they've gone out of their way to discover a cape's identity, despite her cutting her own face off to hide it!
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You (and 90+% of the fandom) are making the exact same mistake that Skitter did in canon: nobody actually cares about those rules if they think they can get away with ignoring them. See: Coil unmasking E88, Dragon finding Taylor's face through surveillance footage long before Tagg first showed up, Piggot not giving a damn about any local villains that might be caught in the anti-Crawler airstrike, etc.

When Lisa first explained the concept, she called them the "unspoken rules" and qualified them as only applying to small-time people, like Circus, U+L, and the (start-of-canon) Undersiders, and not the major gangs or terrorists.
The Endbringer truce rules only applied to Endbringers, before Skitter tried (and initially failed) to apply the concept to other S-class crises.
When Weaver talked about "the rules" to a group of Wards - either BB or Chicago, I forgot - their reaction was best summarized as "What the fuck are you smoking?"
 
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Loved the latest chapter and can't wait for more. Starfield is easily the most huggable of Taylors.:oops:

The only part that seemed a bit cliched was Danny's immediate dismissal of Miss Militia. That's a common scene in fairly mediocre to bad Worm fiction, ie Danny being confronted by the authorities with a bad Taylor situation and then self rightously closing down discussion as a chapter or scene ender. When what should really be happening is him asking, Miss Militia in this case, what he can do to help their investigations into Taylor's allegations to speedily clear her name of any wrong doing.
I can understand him being too overwhelmed by these revelations to begin doing so immediately, but either he or Miss Militia herself should be making some noises in this direction otherwise it starts coming off like those bad HP stories we've all seen where preteen Harry starts lambasting his teachers for real or authorial imagined slights and then triumphantly storms out of the room.

I'm hoping for a least a later scene of Danny going through Taylor's room to look for anything she may have left behind on her bullying and frantically calling the PRT because he just found a small glass container with two floating eyeballs in it. Queue an even bigger freak out if they can verify they actually belong to Taylor.:V
 
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helnae said:
"Miss Hebert, there's something we've discovered about the fights you've been in. Namely, everyone you've been in conflict with, barring the mugger whose hand you bit off," What, "have displayed similar injuries, wherein small bits of flesh have apparently been nibbled off. We're concerned that your powers are leading you to develop, ah… cannibalistic tendencies."
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Taylor: "Aria, is this true?"

Aria (petulant): "I can nibble a little if I want to..."
 
So is there a general lovecraft fic thread somewhere here? Because I just woke up from a nap with the thought 'Hagrid is Wilbur Whateley' stuck in my head.
 
Not gonna lie, I found this disappointing.

These were highly emotional moments and yet I felt not a trace or emotion from any participant until the very end. Until then everyone is just reasonably talking things out in the most boring manner possible.

Of course there's also issues like it being ridiculous for anyone to get so worked up about a bully being a superpowered cop, I mean the actual president just recently gave a speech to cops encouraging violence and (regardless of agreement with that) King or whatever his name is likely to be far more authoritarian than any real president could be. Realistically the heroes aren't going to be brought down over something like that.
 
Oh I can already see the conversation she's going to have with Aria.

Also, have to love how she says "with my face still on" so casually while her father is listening. "The fuck she cuts her face off?!?"
 
Anzer'ke said:
Of course there's also issues like it being ridiculous for anyone to get so worked up about a bully being a superpowered cop, I mean the actual president just recently gave a speech to cops encouraging violence and (regardless of agreement with that) King or whatever his name is likely to be far more authoritarian than any real president could be. Realistically the heroes aren't going to be brought down over something like that.
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Oh hey there, events that haven't happened in the world this fic is based on. And even then, I would imagine that Bet's culture places heroes on a higher pedestal than ordinary policemen and so people would have even higher expectations of them. And even if they're just seen like the regular police, have you seen the outrage at police abusing their authority here?
I mean, I agree with you that the first part felt a bit flat, but this? Ehhh.
 
azoicennead said:
It's ridiculous to be upset by someone who is supposed to enforce the law breaking it? o_O
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It's ridiculous that law enforcement would care. They don't care about far worse IRL and Earth Bet has every reason for the population to be far more accepting of police brutality.

Can you imagine anyone caring this much about a cop bullying someone? Really?
 
Anzer'ke said:
It's ridiculous that law enforcement would care. They don't care about far worse IRL and Earth Bet has every reason for the population to be far more accepting of police brutality.

Can you imagine anyone caring this much about a cop bullying someone? Really?
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I do, but then I'm one of those apparently rare people who think the police should be held to a higher standard instead of no fucking standard at all. *Seethes quietly*
 
Anzer'ke said:
It's ridiculous that law enforcement would care. They don't care about far worse IRL and Earth Bet has every reason for the population to be far more accepting of police brutality.

Can you imagine anyone caring this much about a cop bullying someone? Really?
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Given what said bullying entailed, yes.
Look, there's cynicism, and then there's deliberate ignorance of how reality works.
 
Vox De Harlequin said:
Given what said bullying entailed, yes.
Look, there's cynicism, and then there's deliberate ignorance of how reality works.
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I feel you have that the wrong way around.

aplusbex said:
You can't extrapolate from IRL cops. Heroes in Earth Bet are first and foremost celebrities bigger then Hollywood actors. A 'few bad apples' would have a huge negative impact on the public's perception of the entire Protectorate.
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Pure fanon garbage. The canon heroes were full of bad apples, Bastion was yelling slurs on camera and it was just a minor scandal. You think that kind of PR machine couldn't swallow a few childish indiscretions from a Ward?

And yes that is exactly what it would be getting called, so often that the voices pointing out what actually happened would shrink and shrink and fade entirely beneath cries to 'Support our Heroes!'.

Hell, the comparison to actors might be a good one given the shit they often get away with.
 
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