What if every single cape ever got their superpowers through extreme trauma, and those powers continually remind them of the traumas that caused them to get powers in the first place? And what if those same superpowers compel them to seek violence and conflict and chaos, to spread it to others and cause more people to awaken and be corrupted?
In other words, Worm thread, also discuss the sequel. Yes, this belongs on Sup Forums and not /lit/.
There was already such a comic. It was called Elementals. A religious organization created their own superteam by placing hundreds of "volunteers" in lethal and terrifying situations. Six or so survived and got powers.
Cool shit. Have you read Worm yet?
No, but if I can access it at work I may while away some time doing so.
It's a web serial. You read it on a website. Personally the main draw for me is the setting, but the first 12 or so arcs have genuine quality. Everything beyond that point, including the sequel, is really take it or leave it for me.
Also use more interesting and quality art, OP.
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Have fun. Soon, you will become one of us.
>Soon, you will become one of us.
Is this false flagging or are you really this oblivious?
What's the most traumatic event you've ever experienced, and what kind of power do you think you would wind up receiving from it?
The fact that i'm still alive.
>Power: the power to finally gather up the courage and neck myself
Getting swarmed by like 20 jellyfish and stung on every part of my body repeatedly, and living. When I was three.
Power would probably contact electrocution and being able to breathe underwater.
Failed suicide attempt that was the culmination of being depressed, socially isolated, and having a strong sense of inadequacy, and all of that building up until I couldn't take it anymore. A tinker of some sort is my best guess, due to the time and inadequacy parts, probably some talent with drones due to the "isolated" part, which is typical of Master triggers. Variations beyond that are difficult to pin down, given all the ways tinkers can be different beyond specialties. A gun was the method so maybe weaponry as well.
And by failed, I don't mean I didn't have the guts to go through with it. It was a hair trigger revolver but the firing pin was locked. I pulled the trigger and nothing happened.
Sounds like edgy shit.
I don't get it
Its really not more of a darker tone but not grimdark
You will, I'm sure.
Probably some Thinker or Master power. Realized I was being cheated on, lied to, manipulated and the girl decided to ditch me without any closure and transition to a male because her main partner was doing the same.
Worm is totally grimdark, don't lie.
It's a cosmic horror story that killed the superhero story and is wearing its skin.
i lost a match of overwatch quickplay one time
Which main girl from Worm is your favorite Sup Forums? Mines... actually who am I talking about again?
Are you okay, user?
The one and only!
Yeah well not for a WHILE at least
>Superheros are created from trauma and have trauma themed powers that remind them of their trauma
How is this not grimdark?
It doesnt try hard like most other grimdark stories
Honestly it's a bit more complicated than that. Worm's powers run with a few "rules." They're designed to feed on and reinforce their user's neuroses so as to encourage conflict and power use, usually in a violent context. Powers never actually solve the underlying issues that lead to the user's trigger event. And powers tend to get stronger when in a situation that resembles the trigger event, as a sort of Pavlovian mechanism to encourage the user to get into those situations. Or it's just feeding on the feelings of alienation, fear, and whatever that initially caused them.
Powers are also lightly ironic in how they manifest in someone based on the trauma/ “Trigger Event” the person went through
Watch the movie "SPLIT"
>contact electrocution
A jelly sting is chemical you dork.
Yeah I'm fine. It was a long time ago.
You know what they say. If at first you don't succeed, try try again! :)
To elaborate, for anyone curious, let's examine the protagonist's power.
Taylor can control bugs, and by that I mean she's basically playing an RTS where her units are all the bugs in a two block radius (bigger if she's in certain situations), and she can control these bugs simultaneously down to minute details, sharing their senses and even coordinating them such that she can speak using bug noises.
Taylor's trigger event was a heinous prank (getting shoved and trapped in her school locker that was filled with rotting tampons and garbage) by a group of bullies lead by her former best friend. This was the culmination of about two years of bullying by said best friend, in the aftermath of her mother dying in a car accident and her dad basically shutting down to the world in grief. At her lowest point, Taylor is socially isolated, grieving over the loss of her mother, has little to no control over her life, has been betrayed by her best friend, and is dealing with her father being emotionally unavailable and basically useless as a supportive figure (this also applies to most authority figures she's experienced up to this point, either being grossly negligent or simply incompetent). The last bits severely damaged her ability to trust people.
So, what powers does she get? Control over masses of disposable troops she can avoid being attached to and that will never, ever betray her and will obey all of her orders.
Then how does that work? Do I get human-sized nematocysts I can push out of my body anywhere and use as grappling hooks, ropes, shit like that?
That doesn't really tell me whether or not the story is grimdark. The key trait to being grimdark is "nihilism that portrays right action as either impossible or futile."
Like The Road isn't grimdark even though humanity is probably going extinct, the protagonist has a plan to kill himself and his son, and there's cannibals that eat a baby and keep a human farm.
(Note that Worm may or might not be grimdark, I haven't read it.)
THERE WAS A SEQUEL?!
>tfw no good worm r34
I just took all the pain killers. Woke up vomiting green fluid
I wonder what that would translate to...
>grimdark is "nihilism that portrays right action as either impossible or futile."
The theme of Worm is "doing the wrong things for the right reasons." Right actions are very possible and sometimes do in fact work out. It's just that the situations that come up and escalate to fucked-up levels make it so the right actions sometimes result in things being worse than if the wrong actions were done.
I think the best way to judge if Worm is grimdark or not, would be to read it for yourself.
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Start from Arc 0, and enjoy.
It still hurts.
The trauma you have is being an autist and ruining peoples fun. Your power is to shit all over fun threads
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I guess the time has come for a brave fellow Worm-loving user to commission some
>tfw no porn of Flechette piercing Parian with her strap-on
You just KNOW this happened in canon.
Friends make the worst bullies.
Nah start from Glow Worm, thats the hype PHO chapters Wildbow released to hype us for Ward (Parahumans 2/Worm 2) Its currently on Arc 3
Well if we're being really true to the setting, you probably wouldn't trigger at all. Triggers don't happen to everyone, even the ones who do have really traumatic things happen to them. Lots of triggers come about from people getting the potential to trigger later in life (it's not quite a biological thing). Powers also just aren't a solution to whatever triggered you. The main character got the power to control bugs, and her trigger was being trapped in a locker full of trash and used pads and tampons. She didn't get the power to teleport or phase through walls.
Since you were three, it's doubtful that you would be in the right kind of shitty circumstances to inform your nascent powers, if you even had them. However, if you were a second generation parahuman, you would probably trigger from this, and you would get powers similar to your parahuman parent, and they would be pretty strong, since it's theorized that the younger you trigger, the stronger your powers.
Need me that hot Asian on Middle Eastern action
So why is rain such a liar liar pants on fire?
>Yes, this belongs on /co
NO, IT DOESN'T.
That could work. I was more thinking contact poisoning and general physiological weirdness.
Because he wants that Erin tang
But people who engage in superhero media are best equipped to discuss it.
Why would you even engage him?
>The Road
That was one of the few assigned reading projects in high school that I enjoyed. It was so bleak and hopeless in ways that most post-apocolyptic stuff never is. fuck Catcher in the Rye
The boards are about medium, not content.
Arc 0 IS Glow-Worm, you fuck. It's right there on the table of contents.
Pic related. Also if people could post more Worm art in-thread, that would be great.
Then why are there superhero games and movies on this board? As well as twitter drama about actors, directors, and e-celebs? The only thing the movies have in common with their source material are the names.
Probably being molested as a child. Although I have no idea what sort of power would derive from that. Everything I come up with is sort of reaching.
Something else I could go with (that wasn't traumatic though) is gradually losing blood without knowing it until I was dangerously close to death.
So maybe blood control powers? a la blood blockade battlefront
I would agree with you but this thread would have 2 replies on /lit/ and 1 of them would be complaining about genre fiction.
These threads die in /lit/ because board speed and no replies because capeshit does not belong on /lit/.
You got me. I'm just a big baby man, shitting up everything I touch.
This shit looks awful.
It also looks that it isn't Sup Forums
I can only guess that he's trying to make the rest of the group feel like they need to protect him. But then he turns down the protection Victoria offers so really i have no idea. definitely has hidden motives though. But even considering that, after reading the last chapter I definitely feel like Tristan's the one we have to watch out for.
Honestly, I never managed to get past the first arc. I spoiled myself on what happens, and decided that the prose was not enjoyable enough to justify continuing to read it.
Cool thanks. Have a pic of worst girl.
Not our fault.
>worst girl
that's not taylor
>our
(You)
Worm powers don't really directly relate to the physical events that one experiences. There's a logic to the power one receives that depends mostly on that individuals state of mind and the stressors being placed upon them in a conceptual sense. Mover powers, for example generally come from trigger events in which one feels the need to escape but is not able to. Blaster powers on the other hand tend to result from trigger events in which one finds them self surrounded and overwhelmed. I can imagine a person who triggered because they knew they were bleeding to death might gain a power that allows them to place themselves in a sort of stasis, or a mover power depending on their thought process.
The writing's pretty rough at the beginning of worm ya. The writer was an amateur at that point.
>I have a crush on my adopted sister and a warped messiah complex
>serial killing asshole talks to me for five minutes after I accidentally turn my sister into a lesbian
>better turn her into nightmare garden of flesh
Can you give any more context? Context matters more than the event itself.
Yes, the rest of the board is an "us".
>This belongs on Sup Forums
It's neither a comic nor a cartoon.
>serial killing asshole talks to me for five minutes
he's talks really good though
>Yes, the rest of the board is an "us".
You jam people's weapons. Even magical ones.
I'd personally say you might get a thinker power. Your cause of death and distress happened as a result of you not knowing or being aware, so that's why. Thinker powers have drawbacks though, obtaining one form of second sight while losing awareness or senses in another way. Maybe you could be able to tell people's biological states, but not be able to feel pain yourself, causing you to not be aware that you're injured, resulting in the very same shitty situation that gave you your power in the first place.
Fuck that, keep going. This is a story worth going through.
>Byron was the one that was in control during the time Capricorn contacts the shady dude over PHO about the assassinations
>Byron might be really telling the truth about "saving his strength" and "not needing help"
>Moonsong might just be a spiteful bitch who is the type to save people when they don't need it
You never know
> there's no way my admitedly off topic trash bothers more than one person
Congratulations, you're the new jojofags.
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I was making fun of your group mentality. The whole "Us vs Them" rhetoric you have, which is actually what lead you to classify me as being a wormfag when honestly I find it to be mediocre at best.
>I'd personally say you might get a thinker power. Your cause of death and distress happened as a result of you not knowing or being aware, so that's why. Thinker powers have drawbacks though, obtaining one form of second sight while losing awareness or senses in another way. Maybe you could be able to tell people's biological states, but not be able to feel pain yourself, causing you to not be aware that you're injured, resulting in the very same shitty situation that gave you your power in the first place.
Sounds cool desu.
Context to which?
>I can imagine a person who triggered because they knew they were bleeding to death might gain a power that allows them to place themselves in a sort of stasis, or a mover power depending on their thought process.
hmm okay
I'm also pretty surprised that there weren't any major repercussions for Moonsong attacking (or in the very least using her power in an offensive manor against) a team of prospective hero in the home base of the largest hero organisation on their world. Maybe thats just a sign of how much people at this point in the story are willing to accept in order to limit needless conflict. Kind of reminds me of new york right after 9/11.
Co stands for capeshit and orfices
Like, really REALLY good
If you're telling me to read through it to watch the shit the main character goes through, stop. Because I know what happens, and how all the shit turns out. And the prose didn't grab me.
He really should have taken his own advice.
Then why is so much Sup Forums shit allowed here?
Which characters have that sort of power?
People don't want that shit around either. And Twitter threads have actually been getting deleted recently.
That doesn't give you a free pass to also make off topic threads.
Goddanm, you beat me to it
Reminds me of that green text Millar parody where people get powers by being sexual abused or raped, the more violent and depraved the act(s) the stronger the abilities you eventually manifest are.
Un(fortunately?) the vast majority of victim's in worm don't get powers.
Ideally according to the rules and your logic, Worm threads should be on /lit/. The reality is that /lit/ cannot, does not, and will not sustain any sort of effort to keep a Worm thread alive. Have you even been there to see the threads?
we discuss that a long time ago, material related to comics and cartoons are welcome as long as the source material is either one of thodr, we can talk about movies based on comics or games based on cartoons, but worm has never been related to either comics or cartoons and thus dont belong here and if this thread is still alive is because the mods are a bunch of faggots that doesnt even know how to do their damn job properly, im sorry no one on /lit/ like this shit but it doesnt belong here just because it has capes
we do read other kinds of comics here you know
>Main character is covered in garbage and bugs
>Gets the power to control bugs
That's the Plot of Happy Hour Season 2 by that I'm a DC/I'm a Marvel guy.
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Jesus I haven't seen this since high school... ten years ago fucking hell
That reflects taylor's self image though
Okay and?
The reality is the it's not Sup Forums related and it doesn't belong on this board. That /lit/ isn't interested in talking about it isn't an excuse to make threads about it here.
>This is a story worth going through
Don't tell him lies.
There were no bugs in the locker. The "bug" part came from how she was treated.
>Im so needy in my life that the only enjoyment I get is trying my bestest to regulate an underwater basket weaving board to the T