Doesn't matter, that reaction is now hard-coded in my genes. If I somehow had another kid, they'd probably be born with it.
The Taste of Peaches (Worm AU)
- Thread starter Grounders10
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punster lv1
Killjoy - cheerful shitposter - ignorant pedant
I was going to say driving but then realized that enough booze is none in that case.
Grounders10
Nine-Tailed Kitsune
- Location
- British Columbia, Canada, Mars
What distance did I state?
Seems a bit far for Taylor to see the color of his eyes, and far for Victor to steal skills.
I think everyone's vote is on snapped.
Either because she thinks Taylor's left her behind, or escaped, or she admit's Taylor's now strong. Depending on Grounders10's reason behind Emma's bullying of Taylor.
Heck, as nuts as Emma is acting, it may be a mix of things.
Sandy River DL
(Verified Destroyer Leader)
- Location
- Lake Michigan
- Pronouns
- Her/She
I thought of a line for Taylor's first Endbringer Battle: "I am Corentine, the Storm That Guards. This city is under my protection and I will not let you have it!"
jwolfe_beta
Semi Genre-Savvy Overlord
- Location
- Canada
Preferably in the shocked silence after either A: she throws her trident at Leviathan hard enough to blast him out of the city; or B: causing every square inch of the rolling storm that's hovering over BB to spark giant lightning bolts aimed right at the Endbringer.
You know, a nice basic "Hi, this is my home and I don't appreciate your presence."
Sandy River DL
(Verified Destroyer Leader)
- Location
- Lake Michigan
- Pronouns
- Her/She
I was actually envisioning it as a pre ass-kicking mini speech at whichever location was attacked after Madison. Or are you suggesting that Leviathan will go after Brockton Bay early?
jwolfe_beta
Semi Genre-Savvy Overlord
- Location
- Canada
She is a Ward. Last I checked, they didn't go to out-of-town Endbringer events.
- Pronouns
- Yes
You need to check again. Weld not only attended the canon Leviathan fight, he was one of the capes who'd attended at least one endbringer fight previously.
EDIT:Although this story has a very different PRT than canon so they might actually act like sane adults.
jwolfe_beta
Semi Genre-Savvy Overlord
- Location
- Canada
I'll admit it's been a long time since I read canon Worm and things start to blend over time.
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- Location
- In My Parlour like a Good Arachne
- Pronouns
- She, her
Easiest part to help remember is that the Youth Guard can not extract the Wards when they are in the region of an Endbringer battle. Mostly because of how large that region can be. So it is easier to bundle up all of the Wards close to each other for protection because of the limited numbers of Teleporters that are willing to jump to a battleground.
- Pronouns
- Yes
The main reason for that is that they don't exist in canon, in fact their existence is contradicted by most of canon.
- Location
- Neptune
And then everybody stood up and applauded.
Crazael
Rehydrated Demon King
- Location
- Lost to the vagaries of time.
And, while fighting Leviathan, "I am Corentine, Foul Usurper, and the Sea and Storm are mine to command!" *cue her trident flying to her hand, blasting away the clouds and calming the seas in the process*
Let's remember that as a deity, the trope Gods Need Prayer Badly will probably be hampering Taylor's strength for a little while.
Displays of her true power might take a little while due to a lack of people who believe in her, in other words.
Displays of her true power might take a little while due to a lack of people who believe in her, in other words.
Crazael
Rehydrated Demon King
- Location
- Lost to the vagaries of time.
Bah, cease using your logic to interfere in our harmless fun.
She's already pretty damn powerful, IMHO. She just beat the shit out of some of the Empire's heavy hitters, with neither advance notice nor backup, while taking no damage unless you count getting her costume dirty, and this was after she ripped apart Squealer's tinker tank with her bare hands.
Almech_Alfarion
(Unverified Paradox)
- Location
- Roaming the Void of the Space between Spaces
"First Gods" (as in the first of their generation of deities) are probably particularly powerful compared to deities who come later in their pantheons, regardless of the level of faith bestowed upon them. After all, most pantheons have some sort of Creation Myth, revolving around only a handful of deities, from which all the following deities are either their children or have some sort of apotheosis myth associated to them. Only the First Gods seemingly come from nothing before doing the flexiest of flexes and "make the heavens and the earth" from equally nothing before there is anyone around To worship them.
Something Thor and Poseidon said to Taylor after she ate The Peach has been rattling around in my head for a while now, and I think it's relevant to this.
Unless... there were civilizations before Mesopotamia, with gods of their own, and their own "Apocalypses" were so thorough that only records in the Celestial Realm remained to tell anyone of their existence. Maybe the entire face of Earth was wiped out so thoroughly once or twice that the forgotten First Gods of the long dead past really did have to remake the surface of the world and clear up the atmosphere, thus "making the heavens and the earth". Or perhaps the entire planet was destroyed like what the Entities cycles affect, and they had to remake the entire world from scratch.
Something Thor and Poseidon said to Taylor after she ate The Peach has been rattling around in my head for a while now, and I think it's relevant to this.
Multiple "Ragnarok"s, and their generation of gods "setting a record". Now... there aren't really all that many "Civilization Generations" between Mesopotamia and the eras of what we generally consider to be the "classical gods". In fact, to my knowledge, the fall of Mesopotamia more or less transitioned into the beginning of that age, making (roughly) only two prior generations of deities before Taylor, making hers the third if you don't count the rise of Judaism, Christianity and Islam in the closing days of Rome. If that is the case saying they "Set a Record" doesn't really make sense...
Unless... there were civilizations before Mesopotamia, with gods of their own, and their own "Apocalypses" were so thorough that only records in the Celestial Realm remained to tell anyone of their existence. Maybe the entire face of Earth was wiped out so thoroughly once or twice that the forgotten First Gods of the long dead past really did have to remake the surface of the world and clear up the atmosphere, thus "making the heavens and the earth". Or perhaps the entire planet was destroyed like what the Entities cycles affect, and they had to remake the entire world from scratch.
Sandy River DL
(Verified Destroyer Leader)
- Location
- Lake Michigan
- Pronouns
- Her/She
We know there were civilisations before the Mesopotamians. They were just the first we know had writing, so they're the earliest we know anything meaningful about in terms of religion.
The Indo-Europeans (~5-6,000 BC), for example, left only ceremonial items and linguistic artifacts in that field. Earlier than that? Just monuments and scattered artifacts.
- Location
- The Old Dominion
Ancient Sumer which is indeed the oldest complex civilization we know of and lasted from 4500 BC to 1900 BC after which it was replaced by other Mesopotamian civilizations but there were other cultural groups and city states across.
The middle eastern city of Bylbos was first inhabited between 8800 and 7000 BC and continuously inhabited since 5000 BC and the first settlements at Jericho(which had been abandoned or destroyed repeatedly over the millennia) date back to 9000 BC with Jericho also being the first walled city with walls apparently dating back to 6800 BC.
The middle eastern city of Bylbos was first inhabited between 8800 and 7000 BC and continuously inhabited since 5000 BC and the first settlements at Jericho(which had been abandoned or destroyed repeatedly over the millennia) date back to 9000 BC with Jericho also being the first walled city with walls apparently dating back to 6800 BC.
in addition to the various good points others have made, here's a more tongue in cheek one; maybe the Dinosaurs had Gods too.
*nods* even latter civilizations sometimes vanished from our knowledge of history. Ancient Egypt had a major trading partner called Punt, but no historians knew where it had been (other than 'somewhere south and east of Eygpt, and reacable by land or sea'), though I saw an article recently that had narrowed it's location down to the southern Red Sea region (roughly around Somalia).
Other possibilities include Ice Age civilizations that flourished in regions now covered by water such as Doggerland which is currently beneath the North Sea.
Almech_Alfarion
(Unverified Paradox)
- Location
- Roaming the Void of the Space between Spaces
You're all no fun. 
As I said, not too familiar with other ancient civilizations. It's never really been a major point of interest to me outside of idle curiosity and isn't something I've ever really pursued. So, all those ancient civilizations might have had Gods of their own, but nothing's to say that we all aren't right, and that there were other earlier civilizations that their Gods had to remake the Earth, or at least parts of it, in order to make it inhabitable again because of one catastrophe or another.
As I said, not too familiar with other ancient civilizations. It's never really been a major point of interest to me outside of idle curiosity and isn't something I've ever really pursued. So, all those ancient civilizations might have had Gods of their own, but nothing's to say that we all aren't right, and that there were other earlier civilizations that their Gods had to remake the Earth, or at least parts of it, in order to make it inhabitable again because of one catastrophe or another.