Oh God Oh Fuck She's Trying To Crawl Into My Head

oh god oh fuck she's trying to crawl into my head 😭

Another thing I like about Worm's power system is that it all powers coming from interdimensional aliens means that the character doesn't have to have a big convoluted backstory about how they got their powers. It's similar to the X men in that sense.

Also it means you can have way more weird and abstract powers like King being able to distribute the damage he takes to anyone he's touched in the last 24 hours. You couldn't really have a power like that in Marvel or DC without it feeling out of place in the setting

I think what I really love about the Parahuman power system is that, with Shards being alive and determining the “rules” of the setting, it creates a lot of neat variations of limitations and weaknesses for power use.

Taylor can’t control mites but she can control some crawfish

Grey Boy can’t loop memories, but Cody can

Victoria can only take 1 hard hit but can hold out against beams

Spitfire can ignite accelerant but isn’t fire proof

Dinah can see the future but can’t lie or control it

And on and on.

Plus, with Shard seeing alive, that means that they can adapt within these guidelines so we get Taylor getting wider range, Dinah able to ask more questions, Victoria having more forcefield control etc etc

That one Crawler clone who survived Dragon's nanothorn net nearly became as dangerous as OG Crawler in a week and I would have loved for it to have gone somewhere.

wildbow did a good job of writing fights where powers interact in unique ways, but i think he fell short in the s9k arc. i think its possible he gave himself too much to work with, and then struggled to deliver.

think about it, 281 capes, and the various combinations of smaller groups they couldve formed, and thats just one side of the fight. coming up with entertaining situations for all of them to fight against the combined efforts of the undersiders, protectorate, and wards is a tall order even for wordcount georg.

in the end, he kinda went with the easy way out for much of the s9k - seven cherishes get killed at once, eight siberians get killed at once, eight harbingers get killed or captured at once - and i cant entirely blame him. thats certainly an easier solution than writing eight different encounters with siberian and eight different encounters with harbinger, considering both of them are nearly impossible to kill.

i think ultimately, just from the sheer number of characters he wrote into the story, he set himself up to run out of interesting ideas for fights (although i will say i enjoyed the harbinger situation quite a bit, it didnt feel like a cop out the way the siberian cube did).

“I’m not getting enough details here to paint a picture.  I trust the hell out of you, but I’m not sure this is you, Taylor.”

I pocketed my phone, then reached into my belt.  I hesitated for an instant, then pressed my hand to my chest for long seconds.  I knew I didn’t have time to spare, but…  no.  I didn’t have time to spare.

I opened a portal twenty feet above Tattletale, then opened my hand.  The little tube of pepper spray dropped through the portal.  Tattletale caught it.

“You couldn’t have made it easy?”  Tattletale asked, looking down at it. 

I like Ink5oul but they are not scary as a horror villain. Like you can't tell me the idea of Gwen being chased by goth influencer with a tattoo needle isn't comedy gold

Did you know that Blasto isn't actually a tinker?

That's right! He actually has a tiny (normal size) Bonesaw living in his brain and ratatouilleing him at all times to make him build all his famous inventions like.

mushrooms. and

angel wizards.

She does this because Jack won't let her have any weed

In fact, this ratatouilleing is why Blasto was so susceptible to normal size (normal size) Bonesaw's bodyjacking after Defiant cut her in half

Her prehensile spine doesn't even have a bodyjacking function.

Blasto's just like that

The more you know!