Wormverse ideas, recs, and fic discussion thread 1

that got my eye such as White Rabbit.
usually when people talk about sexualisation in comics I think they are just prudes talking out their a's or sexist... but this is a woman in a bunny kigurumi being chased by shirtless cowboys in assless chaps and the white horse has suggestive shading while her hand provides censorship to three other horses so just this once I think comics went too far.
 
sorry i mis-spoke

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First off, you're doing that thing where you ignore 90% of my post and hope I don't notice.

Second, we're back to krypton being a gas that only incapacitates people by displacing oxygen. That's what an asphyxiant is. It only works if there's enough of it to, you know, displace the oxygenated air someone's breathing. This is difficult if you're pumping the gas into a moderately-sealed room and virtually impossible if there's any ventilation to speak of. Which are all points I brought up in my very first response to your nonsense.
 
no I just don't care. your such an arrogant prick I don't even read after the first time you insult someone so 90 % of your posts.

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That's not an excuse to half-ass a response. It's a good excuse to not write a response, but half-assing a response is the worst of all worlds. Either put in some effort or ignore me.

Also, nothing I have said to you is anywhere near as cruel as this:
you have no respect for anyone else on this board or I imagine in real life.
Saying that I don't respect your argument is true. Saying I don't respect you would be a stretch. Saying I don't respect anyone, either online or in real life, is both blatantly counterfactual and cruel. You're saying that I'm a cruel egotist, and you're saying it because you don't like how I argued against xenon gas being a combat-usable knockout gas.
 
There's also the character of Whistle I want to add who is kinda like a "domesticated" version of Rachel.
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Willow Zimmerman (Prime Earth)

Whistle is an activist and hero in Down River, Gotham City. Willow Zimmerman is a high school student and activist who worked to try to bring positive change to her neighborhood of Down River. Her mother Naomi was undergoing cancer treatments which forced Willow to pick up a job at the animal...

"Sometimes Whistle's animal instincts make it hard for her to act appropriately in public as she has been known to sniff people, pant, catch balls in her mouth, or try to offer herself up for belly rubs. This can be controlled with concentration but it leaves her feeling awkward."
 
There's also the character of Whistle I want to add who is kinda like a "domesticated" version of Rachel.
dc.fandom.com

Willow Zimmerman (Prime Earth)

Whistle is an activist and hero in Down River, Gotham City. Willow Zimmerman is a high school student and activist who worked to try to bring positive change to her neighborhood of Down River. Her mother Naomi was undergoing cancer treatments which forced Willow to pick up a job at the animal...

"Sometimes Whistle's animal instincts make it hard for her to act appropriately in public as she has been known to sniff people, pant, catch balls in her mouth, or try to offer herself up for belly rubs. This can be controlled with concentration but it leaves her feeling awkward."
i wonder if her whistle would accidentally work on rachel? and her animal empathy? enemies to friends villain to hero redemption arc for bitch maybe?
 
There are also some heroes from the DC comics I want to add into the story who happen to be in Gotham at the time such as Vixen.


Vixen does have a reason of being in Gotham at the time as she currently in comics dating Batwing.
 
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I'm pretty sure Racheal shard is probably going to go:
"They are not dogs/canines so I will not be empowering them."
That's the point though; Vixen's power makes her the animal that she is emulating for all intents and purposes, and Whistle's power supposedly comes from her and her dog "having a piece of themselves in each other".
So as far as Bitch's Shard should be able to tell, Vixen-while-emulating-a-Canine is a canine.
The only one I'm not sure of is Whistle.
 
Shards limits are entirely arbitrary and not representative of what the shards can actually do (Taylor is the best example since we know that QA is fully capable of controlling any organism, with specific examples including rats, birds and, of course, people, and also its definition of a bug is mostly based on vibes). They're also capable of observing the world to some degree and making adjustments when necessary. Taylor is once again our example since she's gained her multitasking after initially being overwhelmed by the sensory input, and QA adjusting her power to be more useful.

So, when it comes to Rachel and Whisper, it's less a matter of whether her shard can empower Whisper and more whether it'd want to make an exception for this person based on thematic connection. The answer is probably no, shards do tend to stick to their self-imposed limits outside of second triggers and impromptu lobotomy. Unless you think it would lead to a cool story, in which case the answer is yes because shards' motivations are vague enough that you can justify it.

As for the reverse, well, it's not like Rachel is literally a dog, she just understands them very well and doesn't understand humans very well (a problem implied to exist before her trigger), so any form of direct control probably won't work unless it's some magic operating on thematic connections or somesuch. If it's more about clarity of communication, then Whisper could probably make herself understood very well by Rachel, better than anyone else around, which could easily foster a positive relationship.
 
Considering what Whistle's powers supposedly are?
I wonder if Bitch's power would work on her.
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Also, I'm pretty sure they would work on Vixen, if she was currently emulating a canine.
I'm pretty sure Racheal shard is probably going to go:

"They are not dogs/canines so I will not be empowering them."
I've done the bare minimum research:

Bitch's powers wouldn't work on Whistle. Unless I've missed something, she's got animal empathy but not shapeshifting or whatever.

Vixen might be able to trick Bitch's shard into making its powers work on her, but she'd need to understand how said power worked. Not in the "I read her PHO wiki article"; bare minimum, I'd require her to notice that the power works better on Bastard and know what separates him from Bitch's other dogs.
 
I wonder what Aisha powers would be if she was exposed to the Scarecrow Fear Toxin and it caused her to triggered?
Altered mindsets tend to lead to Breaker powers, while drugs often result in conditional powers. So I'd guess a breaker power that lets her hide by fusing with the environment or dispersing herself, or possibly creating illusions of terrifying things to scare people away, but the power gets stronger the more afraid she is.
 
Altered mindsets tend to lead to Breaker powers, while drugs often result in conditional powers. So I'd guess a breaker power that lets her hide by fusing with the environment or dispersing herself, or possibly creating illusions of terrifying things to scare people away, but the power gets stronger the more afraid she is.
Oh right, I forgot, Wildbow came up with a whole system for coming up with trigger events and powers.

Sometimes I forget Wildbow put ten years into Worm. And dedicated most of his time to worldbuilding and shifting perspectives. He remains an inspriation.
 
What if we just threw that system in the garbage for an AU?

Someone on Reddit asked what Earth Bet would be like if everyone, regardless of trigger event, got Eidolon's powers. Someone on Tumblr came up with three sensible starting points:
  • Lots of Endbringers. I disagree with lemurlord about how Eidolon making the Endbringers works, but that just makes this much worse than they imagined.
  • PHO or its equivalent is full of arguments over which three-power combination is best.
  • The actual Eidolon is mostly okay. No Atlas syndrome this time.
My thoughts: The extreme power and flexibility of parahumans in this world would make them an even more influential group. However, the consistency of parahumans makes it easier for institutions to make use of them. Whether they're pre-existing governments that adapt to exploit a new resource or new organizations sprouting up around influential parahumans, it would be harder for new hotshots to disrupt them. (Not exactly what the Entities wanted, which is why they gave different powers to different parahumans.)
 
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