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focus on the part that actually took work
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).
isn't there WoG about Crawler's testicles or something?
Do you think a sufficiently determined early-stage Crawler could have finagled her power into giving her bottom surgery or nah? It'd have to be a bulletproof pussy, but that's part of the fun of it.