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Oh, and shoutout to Cache, the NY Ward who got left behind in Brockton Bay because of his injuries from Piggot's totally safe and not at all crazy plan of firebombing her allies to get the Nine which absolutely worked and had no ill effects whatsoever so girlboss Amanda Waller of her

Triumph's interlude is weird.

If you go around asking, a lot of people will say that what Taylor did to Triumph was one of the worst things she did, and she'd probably agree just with how much it hit her afterwards. She felt so guilty she went back to her dad that night.

And while Skitter's portion made me feel like she had just crossed a line, getting to Triumph's POV made me kind of shrug and go okay. You'd think we'd finally see the aftereffects of the Undersider's fighting habits, Skitter's in particular. While Triumph was the one to have an allergic reaction, both he and Prism got bugs sent up their urinary tracks and stuff like that. Prism doesn't even have a healing factor like Triumph and his is minor.

But all Prism does is complain how Skitter accidentally hit her trauma button with her leg injury at the end and downplays it by saying how Skitter made sure it wouldn't be long lasting anyway. Triumph is barely affected by his near death and agrees with Miss Militia to not get revenge for his family being threatened.

Even that attempt at sticking to the rules of the PRT and not going vigilante is undercut immediately when Piggot brings in Defiant. Triumph shows an initial outrage, but immediately backs down to keep Dragon's mechs in the city. Heck, there was more of a reaction to Defiant being a cyborg than there was to the injuries Triumph got from Taylor.

And the thing is, not being angry at Skitter could have worked. Triumph spends the last few paragraphs sympathizing with and understanding Armsmaster. He gets why Assault and Clockblocker want to go on the attack. He tries to figure out why Vista was good to go along with it. The chapter could have very easily began with him or Prism angry or fearful of Skitter before we get to the rest of the chapter. Assault blaming the Undersiders for Battery's death, the PRT approving Defiant and everyone else going along with it, Triumph's own thoughts on how he swore he'd be a better person than the rich kid who went to dad for superpowers in a can and failing. The chapter even ends in the place where Piggot and Legend tried to kill the Undersiders with the bombing run!

Have him wonder if Skitter and the others are breaking rules because the heroes broke the rules without consequence. Armsmaster is still a hero. Piggot is still Director. Legend is still Protectorate leader. Make him wonder what the villains view is. Make him wonder what the civilians view of them is, especially given how there was just a chapter of Skitter managing things in her territory.

Or, you know. Just have Triumph be angry and fearful of Skitter. Make it so that her attacks made an active bias against her. That's fine! It's understandable. But instead he agrees with Miss Militia and nothing in his internal narration indicates any particularly strong emotions towards her or Trickster for threatening his family. It's just odd.

But nah. Instead of the heroes trying to understand the villains-something Triumph stops Clockblocker from doing with Skitter in 22.1 despite this being after his cousin is freed by her- or dealing with the aftermath of Taylor and the villains going overboard their attacks, we end it with Triumph relating towards Armsmaster and his struggles. Poor Armsy. You'd almost forget he tried to kill a 15 year old twice over.

#being in the wards fucking sucks #emily “hard woman making hard choices” piggot who has never once been successful in her career #literally if coil had been director for more than a day hed probably be remembered more fondly by the wards

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Triumph's interlude is weird.

If you go around asking, a lot of people will say that what Taylor did to Triumph was one of the worst things she did, and she'd probably agree just with how much it hit her afterwards. She felt so guilty she went back to her dad that night.

And while Skitter's portion made me feel like she had just crossed a line, getting to Triumph's POV made me kind of shrug and go okay. You'd think we'd finally see the aftereffects of the Undersider's fighting habits, Skitter's in particular. While Triumph was the one to have an allergic reaction, both he and Prism got bugs sent up their urinary tracks and stuff like that. Prism doesn't even have a healing factor like Triumph and his is minor.

But all Prism does is complain how Skitter accidentally hit her trauma button with her leg injury at the end and downplays it by saying how Skitter made sure it wouldn't be long lasting anyway. Triumph is barely affected by his near death and agrees with Miss Militia to not get revenge for his family being threatened.

Even that attempt at sticking to the rules of the PRT and not going vigilante is undercut immediately when Piggot brings in Defiant. Triumph shows an initial outrage, but immediately backs down to keep Dragon's mechs in the city. Heck, there was more of a reaction to Defiant being a cyborg than there was to the injuries Triumph got from Taylor.

And the thing is, not being angry at Skitter could have worked. Triumph spends the last few paragraphs sympathizing with and understanding Armsmaster. He gets why Assault and Clockblocker want to go on the attack. He tries to figure out why Vista was good to go along with it. The chapter could have very easily began with him or Prism angry or fearful of Skitter before we get to the rest of the chapter. Assault blaming the Undersiders for Battery's death, the PRT approving Defiant and everyone else going along with it, Triumph's own thoughts on how he swore he'd be a better person than the rich kid who went to dad for superpowers in a can and failing. The chapter even ends in the place where Piggot and Legend tried to kill the Undersiders with the bombing run!

Have him wonder if Skitter and the others are breaking rules because the heroes broke the rules without consequence. Armsmaster is still a hero. Piggot is still Director. Legend is still Protectorate leader. Make him wonder what the villains view is. Make him wonder what the civilians view of them is, especially given how there was just a chapter of Skitter managing things in her territory.

Or, you know. Just have Triumph be angry and fearful of Skitter. Make it so that her attacks made an active bias against her. That's fine! It's understandable. But instead he agrees with Miss Militia and nothing in his internal narration indicates any particularly strong emotions towards her or Trickster for threatening his family. It's just odd.

But nah. Instead of the heroes trying to understand the villains-something Triumph stops Clockblocker from doing with Skitter in 22.1 despite this being after his cousin is freed by her- or dealing with the aftermath of Taylor and the villains going overboard their attacks, we end it with Triumph relating towards Armsmaster and his struggles. Poor Armsy. You'd almost forget he tried to kill a 15 year old twice over.

#parahumans #worm #worm spoilers #triumph #taylor hebert #basically skitter did nothing wrong #maybe this was purely for the readers since we have all the info at this point #but triumph knew most of this stuff too! #i feel worse for the bank hostages because at least they got mentioned as having lasting trauma from that #but considering that was piggot who was lying with half the shit she was saying that chapter im not even sure if thats true #so like. poor merchants who got swarmed by ants with torches and pitchforks? i think they were the most traumatized by skitter's attacks

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#undersiders #made this when my internet cut out trying to turn in an important assignment #it was surprisingly relaxing

[protectoratenova07]

Lisa and Taylor's prep and Coil's effect going after his death:

And Lisa and Taylor’s plans are referenced throughout as well. It’s admittedly really only clear in hindsight, but you can especially start to see hints of it after Leviathan. It started with Lisa stalling the team in the bank so that she can spend more time siphoning funds into her own accounts and with how she constantly defended Coil’s plans before Arc 8 despite them putting the team in danger a number of times. Then after Leviathan, we see Lisa and Taylor meeting up to discuss Dinah and Coil. We see Taylor start her plan in Arc 10. We see her leaving people to die in Arc 11 and later ordering the deaths of Slaughterhouse Nine victims in that arc. Even Brian in Arc 12 starts to pick up that Taylor is preparing herself for something she isn’t ready for yet and tries to get her to talk and the most she says is that they may have to fight if Coil doesn’t honor his deal. There’s Lisa using her mouth injury in Arc 13 to stay behind at Coil’s base, where her power could be used to pick up on things. There’s her and Taylor bringing the other Undersiders into the general plan in Arc 15. Lisa and Alec blackmailing Victor to get a quick glance at what skills Coil has just in case. Lisa in Arc 16, staying behind at Coil’s base again to gather more info and taking over the reigns with negotiating with the Dragonslayers after Coil gives her his checkbook. It had Taylor pressing the matter for a promise while Dinah was still unable to use her power after Crawler so that Coil wouldn’t have her to plan around them. It has Taylor’s built up of trust with the Undersiders being what made them listen to her after the body double shot at them. It had her efforts to recruit Ballistic play into his betrayal of the Travelers. It has Lisa and Taylor winning because they spent so long planning and fighting and surviving for that final moment where Coil doesn’t have any cards left to play.

And even then he gets them from beyond the grave! He almost kills Tattletale with the trap he planted in his computers to explode the secret base. He gets Noelle to hunt them down. His position in the PRT is used as a demerit against the Undersiders despite the fact that he’s Coil and was only Director for a day. 

He haunts them. Dinah and Taylor, who are obsessed with the end of the world and ensuring the most people survive. Tattletale, who takes over his role and tries to do what he was planning without the cruelty. Dinah, who develops a method to use her power that mimics how Coil would use his. 

The fucker was a good antagonist. I literally hate the guy and he’s not real.

Coil has three main flaws that lead him to his death despite the amount of resources he has to call on. Possessiveness, cruelty, and pride.

Taylor picks up his possessiveness over Dinah quickly enough in Arc 7. She knows that he’d never give her up if he could. She also knows from her meeting with him in Arc 6 that he is a very prideful man. If he takes over a city, he wants it to be run well. If he gets what he wants, he’ll ensure his subordinates get what they want because what’s the point of being king if he can’t provide. She takes him up on his offer of anything that she wants, asking for Dinah’s freedom should she prove more useful to his take over the city plot in Arc 10. She then reaffirms this request as a promise, in Arc 16 when Dragon shows up, in front of all his subordinates. The other Undersiders, the mercs, and the Travelers all hear it so that Coil can’t back down or else he’d lose out the worth of his word, which everyone else is banking on to get what they want. 

And Taylor and Lisa know this. They know that they have to plan around either flaw of Coil’s to achieve a victory. If it’s his possessiveness, then they go with Lisa’s plan. Gather enough money, make Coil spend enough of his, so that only she can pay off his mercs and then bring Dinah home after the take over. If it’s his pride, then they go with Taylor’s plan. Get Coil what he wants, the city, and in return Dinah gets to go home.

But Coil also knows this. He reveals to them that he knows in Arc 15, showing that he can trick Tattletale’s power. He didn’t have to, but he wanted a bit of fun. A challenge against Tattletale to show that he’s better. The same as when he words his recruitment of Lisa as a choice. The same as when he guns down his assistant in his interlude because it’ll bring him some enjoyment. His cruelty. 

This is where he really fails. We find out in Arc 16 that Coil tries to kill Skitter about twelve times with a teleport trap, but because he’s using Leet as the tinker it consistently messes up if the trap is too lethal. He can’t keep trying either because he’s on the clock to fulfill the promise he made to Skitter. Coil wants Skitter dead. He needs her dead. But she won’t die. Time after time after time. It isn’t even the first time he tried to kill her but it is the time he needs it to work. 

He’s got an injured pride, is what I’m saying. If you ever played any video games, imagine trying to fight this one enemy who’s not even a boss, but no matter what you can’t manage to kill them because of some busted game mechanic and you’re also trying to beat the game under a mandatory time limit. 

That’d piss you off, right? To the point where you might take a more enjoyable route, just to finally get rid of this thing that has been bugging you right before the moment you beat the game. 

Coil has a double body of Skitter. He already planned for her to attack the Undersiders and teleport out with Dinah. Make them think she went rouge. But isn’t it better if, instead of trying so hard to kill Skitter himself in that burning building, he just focuses on weakening her to the point where when she meets up with her beloved, valued teammates, that they'll do the job for him? Won’t that be far grander? Especially because Coil already knows the Undersiders have agreed to turn against him for her. When he does take care of them as Director Calvert of the PRT, he can send them to the Birdcage with the knowledge that the teammate they killed never actually betrayed them.

Coil would keep Dinah. He’d even keep Tattletale and the body double he had with her as another false betrayal later down the line. He’d be able to say he kept his word to all appearances. Heck, he never said that he wouldn’t capture her again, so he might even think he did keep his word himself. And once he captures the Undersiders as a win for his civilian identity, he can revel in the Undersiders reactions as he tells them that he played them for fools for daring to betray him.

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And like I said, all these flaws were built up to stand against the fact that a completely emotionless Coil would have won with his resources. His cruelty is shown throughout the series with how he treats his subordinates when it benefits him. Dinah, Lisa, the Undersiders in Arc 7. His possessiveness is shown in Dinah and Lisa and explained in his and Lady's interlude. Contrary to him, they underwent a traumatic experience and gained powerful thinker abilities while he had to put himself in debt that he still hasn’t paid off in full and can’t pay off even with his many millions of dollars. Then he sees these two with their powers, not doing anything with them, so he takes them for his own. I’ve already mentioned his pride, but there is an added last one right before his death with Rachel calling him out and he loses his composure even when he has them all at gunpoint. It’s a major thing for him.

Coil has three main flaws that lead him to his death despite the amount of resources he has to call on. Possessiveness, cruelty, and pride.

Taylor picks up his possessiveness over Dinah quickly enough in Arc 7. She knows that he’d never give her up if he could. She also knows from her meeting with him in Arc 6 that he is a very prideful man. If he takes over a city, he wants it to be run well. If he gets what he wants, he’ll ensure his subordinates get what they want because what’s the point of being king if he can’t provide. She takes him up on his offer of anything that she wants, asking for Dinah’s freedom should she prove more useful to his take over the city plot in Arc 10. She then reaffirms this request as a promise, in Arc 16 when Dragon shows up, in front of all his subordinates. The other Undersiders, the mercs, and the Travelers all hear it so that Coil can’t back down or else he’d lose out the worth of his word, which everyone else is banking on to get what they want. 

And Taylor and Lisa know this. They know that they have to plan around either flaw of Coil’s to achieve a victory. If it’s his possessiveness, then they go with Lisa’s plan. Gather enough money, make Coil spend enough of his, so that only she can pay off his mercs and then bring Dinah home after the take over. If it’s his pride, then they go with Taylor’s plan. Get Coil what he wants, the city, and in return Dinah gets to go home.

But Coil also knows this. He reveals to them that he knows in Arc 15, showing that he can trick Tattletale’s power. He didn’t have to, but he wanted a bit of fun. A challenge against Tattletale to show that he’s better. The same as when he words his recruitment of Lisa as a choice. The same as when he guns down his assistant in his interlude because it’ll bring him some enjoyment. His cruelty. 

This is where he really fails. We find out in Arc 16 that Coil tries to kill Skitter about twelve times with a teleport trap, but because he’s using Leet as the tinker it consistently messes up if the trap is too lethal. He can’t keep trying either because he’s on the clock to fulfill the promise he made to Skitter. Coil wants Skitter dead. He needs her dead. But she won’t die. Time after time after time. It isn’t even the first time he tried to kill her but it is the time he needs it to work. 

He’s got an injured pride, is what I’m saying. If you ever played any video games, imagine trying to fight this one enemy who’s not even a boss, but no matter what you can’t manage to kill them because of some busted game mechanic and you’re also trying to beat the game under a mandatory time limit. 

That’d piss you off, right? To the point where you might take a more enjoyable route, just to finally get rid of this thing that has been bugging you right before the moment you beat the game. 

Coil has a double body of Skitter. He already planned for her to attack the Undersiders and teleport out with Dinah. Make them think she went rouge. But isn’t it better if, instead of trying so hard to kill Skitter himself in that burning building, he just focuses on weakening her to the point where when she meets up with her beloved, valued teammates, that they'll do the job for him? Won’t that be far grander? Especially because Coil already knows the Undersiders have agreed to turn against him for her. When he does take care of them as Director Calvert of the PRT, he can send them to the Birdcage with the knowledge that the teammate they killed never actually betrayed them.

Coil would keep Dinah. He’d even keep Tattletale and the body double he had with her as another false betrayal later down the line. He’d be able to say he kept his word to all appearances. Heck, he never said that he wouldn’t capture her again, so he might even think he did keep his word himself. And once he captures the Undersiders as a win for his civilian identity, he can revel in the Undersiders reactions as he tells them that he played them for fools for daring to betray him.

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Coil has three main flaws that lead him to his death despite the amount of resources he has to call on. Possessiveness, cruelty, and pride.

Taylor picks up his possessiveness over Dinah quickly enough in Arc 7. She knows that he’d never give her up if he could. She also knows from her meeting with him in Arc 6 that he is a very prideful man. If he takes over a city, he wants it to be run well. If he gets what he wants, he’ll ensure his subordinates get what they want because what’s the point of being king if he can’t provide. She takes him up on his offer of anything that she wants, asking for Dinah’s freedom should she prove more useful to his take over the city plot in Arc 10. She then reaffirms this request as a promise, in Arc 16 when Dragon shows up, in front of all his subordinates. The other Undersiders, the mercs, and the Travelers all hear it so that Coil can’t back down or else he’d lose out the worth of his word, which everyone else is banking on to get what they want. 

And Taylor and Lisa know this. They know that they have to plan around either flaw of Coil’s to achieve a victory. If it’s his possessiveness, then they go with Lisa’s plan. Gather enough money, make Coil spend enough of his, so that only she can pay off his mercs and then bring Dinah home after the take over. If it’s his pride, then they go with Taylor’s plan. Get Coil what he wants, the city, and in return Dinah gets to go home.

But Coil also knows this. He reveals to them that he knows in Arc 15, showing that he can trick Tattletale’s power. He didn’t have to, but he wanted a bit of fun. A challenge against Tattletale to show that he’s better. The same as when he words his recruitment of Lisa as a choice. The same as when he guns down his assistant in his interlude because it’ll bring him some enjoyment. His cruelty. 

This is where he really fails. We find out in Arc 16 that Coil tries to kill Skitter about twelve times with a teleport trap, but because he’s using Leet as the tinker it consistently messes up if the trap is too lethal. He can’t keep trying either because he’s on the clock to fulfill the promise he made to Skitter. Coil wants Skitter dead. He needs her dead. But she won’t die. Time after time after time. It isn’t even the first time he tried to kill her but it is the time he needs it to work. 

He’s got an injured pride, is what I’m saying. If you ever played any video games, imagine trying to fight this one enemy who’s not even a boss, but no matter what you can’t manage to kill them because of some busted game mechanic and you’re also trying to beat the game under a mandatory time limit. 

That’d piss you off, right? To the point where you might take a more enjoyable route, just to finally get rid of this thing that has been bugging you right before the moment you beat the game. 

Coil has a double body of Skitter. He already planned for her to attack the Undersiders and teleport out with Dinah. Make them think she went rouge. But isn’t it better if, instead of trying so hard to kill Skitter himself in that burning building, he just focuses on weakening her to the point where when she meets up with her beloved, valued teammates, that they'll do the job for him? Won’t that be far grander? Especially because Coil already knows the Undersiders have agreed to turn against him for her. When he does take care of them as Director Calvert of the PRT, he can send them to the Birdcage with the knowledge that the teammate they killed never actually betrayed them.

Coil would keep Dinah. He’d even keep Tattletale and the body double he had with her as another false betrayal later down the line. He’d be able to say he kept his word to all appearances. Heck, he never said that he wouldn’t capture her again, so he might even think he did keep his word himself. And once he captures the Undersiders as a win for his civilian identity, he can revel in the Undersiders reactions as he tells them that he played them for fools for daring to betray him.

#parahumans #worm #worm spoilers #taylor hebert #lisa wilbourn #coil

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#wait is that the actual explanation for why the wards all show up at the bank job?#i thought the undersiders were just unlucky#aw man#but i did plan ahead. that's kind of the problem#i had a plan for the rest of the story which required the undersiders to succeed in the bank job. i could maybe find a way to change it?#it's not like they HAD to succeed it was just that it'd be way harder to bring my plans along were they unsuccessful

Nope.

Wog: [Wildbow] So yeah. Why did almost the entire team show up, against Tattletale's expectations? Most of the Wards weren't even in school at the time.

Basically, all the Wards have their co-ops so that they only have half a day of classes. They use the co-op time to either patrol or the PRT actually trains them in various things to justify taking them out of school. There's no canonical reason why Sophia isn't there, but I'm assuming it's because she's a probationary ward and isn't included in it. It can't just be a schools thing because Vista shows up despite not going to Arcadia (unless Arcadia is both a middle and high school).

It can't be Armsmaster telling anyone because that would require Armsmaster giving up the chance to capture the Undersiders himself for the prestige, which he would never do. Plus, if the PRT knew they would do something like plant a bunch of officers in the bank to shoot the Undersiders, because their policy has always been fuck those kids in particular (Or just have prt people show up at the bank)

It was just the Undersiders getting unlucky. And then more unlucky with Glory Girl and Panacea.

ok so a while ago i started writing this worm fanfic, right? I haven't updated it in like 4 months because... well, to be honest i've written myself into a corner.

So it's an alt-power (yes I know altpowers suck, i'm a talentless hack), and i wanted to make it so the last thing that lines up with canon is that the undersiders successfully rob the bank, even without taylor there, and then after that things would actually start to seriously derail.

Problem: how the fuck do the undersiders get out of that situation without taylor being a member. It's hard to overstate how fucked they are without taylor there. Even if you remove panacea & glory girl from the situation, they're still outnumbered almost 2-1, and they have no escape route.

#you can also just say the wards prioritized the hostages instead of capturing them bc they were afraid of the undersiders hurting them #or have less show up because [reasons]. maybe clockblocker has a test he needs to study for or something #edit: sorry if this hasn't been very helpful by the way. i do get the worry of figuring out how to follow your plan despite the logic not #seeming to work out. i hope it all works out so you can keep writing what you want to write

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Grue.

Tattletale was kinda lying about the Wards having ways to avoid his darkness. They really don't. Of the group, only Gallant can "see" in the dark and that's just emotions. Vista can stop it from going out too far, but Grue takes her out quickly enough in canon. If it was a standard fight, Vista might be able to win the shaker battle or the Wards might be able to chance blindly firing their powers, but with hostages in the mix they hopefully shouldn't. And the hostages are going to stay in the mix because Panacea isn't going to be able to mess with any of their powers like Skitter's.

Tattletale needed more time to skim additional funds for her kill Coil plan so she stalled the team, but she also doesn't want to get captured so you can have her cut her losses. It's not like her plan was all that quick-paced anyway, she can wait. Grue can use his darkness over multiple city blocks. Hop on the dogs and they get out of there with Gallant trying to communicate while the dark deafens everyone. They can even abandon the money as a distraction because Coil's going to pay them anyway.

ok so a while ago i started writing this worm fanfic, right? I haven't updated it in like 4 months because... well, to be honest i've written myself into a corner.

So it's an alt-power (yes I know altpowers suck, i'm a talentless hack), and i wanted to make it so the last thing that lines up with canon is that the undersiders successfully rob the bank, even without taylor there, and then after that things would actually start to seriously derail.

Problem: how the fuck do the undersiders get out of that situation without taylor being a member. It's hard to overstate how fucked they are without taylor there. Even if you remove panacea & glory girl from the situation, they're still outnumbered almost 2-1, and they have no escape route.

#you can also have them do a different job. tattletale suggested the bank not coil #he just wanted a distraction to nab dinah and tattletale wanted to take adavantge of it and with the extra muscle taylor provided #it was feesible for them #most capes are typically fucked in grue's darkness unless they have an enhanced sense. grue just gets unlucky a lot of the time

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I'm writing it out arc by arc (kill me) and I will now adjust it to three flaws. Possessiveness, cruelty, and pride. Specifically him wanting to own Tattletale and Dinah, him enjoying hurting people and his power letting him do that, and wanting people to respect him at his word.

Maybe also jealousy. Though that more so funnels into his possessiveness.

I will defend Coil as a great villain for a lot of reasons and that includes his death. He fell to two established character flaws hitting their max and it made sense it happened when it did and and Tattletale was planning for it since at least arc2 and even then the Undersiders nearly lost because he had that many resources to call on. Wildbow did wonders with the guy. I cheer every time I reread and he dies

#bedtime now im at arc 15 tho and its become a side by side analysis of lisa and taylor so thats fun

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It also ends with Lisa stealing all his shit when he dies which is peak. She deserves it all

I will defend Coil as a great villain for a lot of reasons and that includes his death. He fell to two established character flaws hitting their max and it made sense it happened when it did and and Tattletale was planning for it since at least arc2 and even then the Undersiders nearly lost because he had that many resources to call on. Wildbow did wonders with the guy. I cheer every time I reread and he dies

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I will defend Coil as a great villain for a lot of reasons and that includes his death. He fell to two established character flaws hitting their max and it made sense it happened when it did and and Tattletale was planning for it since at least arc2 and even then the Undersiders nearly lost because he had that many resources to call on. Wildbow did wonders with the guy. I cheer every time I reread and he dies

#parahumans #worm #worm spoilers #coil #never forget coil has two superpowers: splitting timelines and money. A shitton of it #don't fall for fanfics that want to give their not!taylor an easy victory or to make the heroes look more effective than they are by taking #him out early(tbf this may be because they don't want to spend so much time on him but it has also warped people's perspectives) #especially don't fall for bad reddit comments that would make cinemasins jealous for their nitpicking and bad reading ability

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Re: cape names where you go “ahh of course” I just found out the actual definition of the word vista and was like oh, yeah, okay she sure does do vistas

new worm ask game to answer in tags or rbs. were there any cape names that make you go [crouching down head in hands] "AHH OF COURSE" when you realize the meaning. reiterating that mine was realizing regent means "temporary ruler while the rightful ruler is incapacitated" as a reference to, y'know,

#eidolon being something idealized and also a ghost #dragon hoarding other tinkers work to expand her abilities #pretty much any power name and how it relates to the wielder #perdition being stuck in his own personal hell #custodian being someone whos presense is felt in the place of their work and who keeps things in working order #oh. i forgot what faultline meant when reading and i went back in like arc 19 to check something saw her power and smacked my head so hard #worm spoilers #sorry for if thats pertinent to this post

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I do love how before the bank robbery, Taylor mentions how excited Lisa was to talk about her cops and robbers theory, because we find out later that for her it never really applied in Brockton Bay. But, she's still happy to go through her thought process on it because she wants it to exist. If it did, then she could have found help when Coil pushed those limits. It doesn't though.

“But the real evidence to my ‘cops and robbers’ theory,” Lisa continued, “Is the reaction you see when someone crosses the line. You’ve heard about it happening. Someone finds out another cape’s secret identity, goes after the cape’s family. Or a cape wins a fight and decides his downed opponent isn’t in a state to say no if he’s feeling lusty? Word gets around, and the cape community goes after the fucker. Protecting the status quo, keeping the game afloat. Bitter enemies call a truce, everyone bands together, favors get called in and everyone does their damndest to put the asshole down.”

This only happens when it's helpful for everyone else. With the ABB, it's because the increased attention was making it bad for the other villain's businesses. Even when the Slaughterhouse 9 show up, no one could come to an agreement because villains wanted to gain something from it at the cost of other villain's business.

But! Something does change. Lisa gets power. She gains everything Coil had and decides to make her theory a reality.

"...our pseudo-truce with the Undersiders... The city’s pretty peaceful, pretty safe, and nobody even hints about why, but people know. My bosses know why, and that means my career might never recover. The only thing keeping things remotely interesting is the challenge of trying to get to any new bad guys before the Undersiders do, to enforce real justice instead of vigilante scare tactics-...-Except we barely even get to do that, because Tattletale’s always a few steps ahead..."

She goes so much into it that her and the Undersiders end up doing the heroes' job for them. Lisa wrangles the villains in the Bay, either kicking them out or making them her subordinates. The Ambassadors are managed, Heartbreaker is kicked out, the Red Hand are made allies.

For two years, Lisa managed to get her cops and robbers game.

#parahumans #worm #worm spoilers #lisa wilbourn

[protectoratenova07]

hi :-) which undersider are u

#rachel. dunno how but im happy

[protectoratenova07]

Alrighty *pops knuckles* here's the undersiders all together. Tell me in ccomments/tags if I should do Sabah and lily

IF you enjoy plz reblog

#parahumans #worm #art #aisha laborn #lisa wilbourn #taylor hebert #rachel lindt #brian laborn #alec vasil #undersiders

[protectoratenova07]

hi, this is different from my usual posts, but recently i have been in contact with zinh, a student of dentistry from gaza, and she has asked me to share her gofundme on other platforms.

zinh’s house and university were demolished, she and her family have been displaced to rafah, and she has fallen incredibly ill. in her own words, she is slowly dying. she can barely hold the phone, and she is begging for help from the outside world.

please help zinh - if you cannot donate, at the very least share.

#boost #signal boost

[protectoratenova07]

Taylor:

Lisa:

#taylor getting put in the locker and lisa getting dragged out on the boardwalk #not exact but still. ignored by a crowd of people club #lisa was hearing this in the same general location too. fun times! #parahumans #worm #taylor hebert #lisa wilbourn #meant to post this earlier but school hasnt been good