It's crazy how even the "good" guys had to recruit every teenager with powers to fuel their army of child soldiers

It's crazy how even the "good" guys had to recruit every teenager with powers to fuel their army of child soldiers.

Oh, it's hard to think of a setting darker than Worm.

Consider this: Sveta is, by any measure, a horriffic monster.

And yet, she's one of the most sympathetic characters in the book, and I sincerely hope she and Weld live happily ever after.

...I have doubts. Although she is tough enough to attack the Golden Idiot head-on and get away.

Moord Nag.

She showed up late, but wow. What a presence.

Speaking of child soldiers: Vista

"It's like the worlds all wet clay, and I'm just smoodging it around...."

Holy shit, what a mind-boggling powerhouse. She was affected the world so much she was making the HORIZON all weird and misshapen.

What is this

>Oh, it's hard to think of a setting darker than Worm.
It's weird but because we were eased into the setting I didn't realize how bad it was until I compared the setting to one in a post-canon fanfic that was pretty nice and normal. They did a joke about having less racism and I was like, "huh, Worm world WAS pretty racist."

Worm. A capeshit serial/modern epic. I mean "epic" in the traditional sense.

I always though Parian was cool as hell, and frankly, stupidly powerful.

I mean, come on, her first battle was against an Endbringer, and then she tackled the Slaughterhouse Nine as an encore, and not only did she survive, she came out of it completely uninjured!

Well, physically, anyway.

Need context
Sinopsis in 140 characters?

Taylor Hebart goes from bullied teenager to vicious and horrifying villain into a Legend.

But there's also cute, too! Is it possible to get any cuter than these two? Which, considering what was going down around them, was a serious feat.

No wonder they're considered superhumans!

Superhero setting
BBEG crazy powerful
"Good" guys needed to resort to some shady shit to even hope to win, such as human experimentation, government infiltration, unduly influencing society, etc.

She had an army with her for the endbringer, and wasn't a main target of the nine. She is strong though.

I don't think that's what made it dark. It sure was good writing though.

> (OP)
>Need context


Search for Worm Web Serial, you'll find it.

It's a cape novel, goes from bullied teenager to beyond super-epic. Has inspired fuck-tons of fanart, thousands on Patreon despite the author not advertising or shilling in the slightest, huge fanbase, etc.

>She is strong though.


She's the hand-picked successor of the Warlord of Brockton Bay, and the heroes never did take the city back. Says plenty.

Worm.

Now completed cape webnovel series with expanded universe, "dark and gritty" but with black comedy, excellent well rounded characters who react to dark and gritty circumstances usually entirely believably and attempt to help themselves and each other rather than just moping, clearly defined but imaginative power sets where the global power source is in fact story relevant and pretty well thought out. More X-men than Justice League. Damn fine writing in general.

Kind of unimaginative but massively complex plot lines, major lack of editing, massive decompression (10 novel series).

The MC is the meme of spider-man where he convinces bank robbers to release their hostages by pretending his power is to summon and control actual spiders, except thats what her powers are for real, and for all insects.

>Has inspired fuck-tons of fanart, thousands on Patreon despite the author not advertising or shilling in the slightest, huge fanbase, etc.
Also even then non-autistic sector of the reading/writing population praise it.

I haven't finished yet but was she picked by Taylor or Grue?

This is Skitter.

She has a super power, that lets her control bugs.

It's much, much worse than it sounds.

World where extreme trauma can give you superpowers. In a road to hell paved with good intentions, bullied Highschool Girl turns High Level Supervillian.

how is this comics or cartoons

It's capeshit. Good enough.

Never have I wanted to see a fight animated as much as the battle with Leviathan.

>Sup Forums - Cartoons & Capeshit

Meet Khepri.

So far, she's conquered every version of planet Earth she's opened portals to, subsumed several thousand capes, and now she's going head-on with God Himself with the combined power of five thousand superhumans.

It's been a busy morning.

Worm is not very good and if it had real popularity people would talk about that.

Okay, I keep hearing about this series but I never really wanted to read it, all that I know is that Bug Girl here manages to defeat some real overpowered motherfuckers with her insect control.
So the one million dollars question is:
How the hell does she does it without it being a "this looks like a job for Aquaman" or "I can speak all languages, therefore I can speak the language of the universe to warp reality" kind of deal?

It's war. And sometimes such niceties have little place in it. It sucks, but if it comes between moral compunctions or getting conquered by an implacable foe out to kill you, you can count on the latter every time

>Worm is set in a fictional universe known as 'Earth Bet'. This universe differs from reality by a point of divergence. In 1982, a golden man appeared, floating in the air over the ocean. 5 years after his appearance, a fraction of humans developed the ability to gain superpowers when placed in an incredibly traumatic and stressful situation, known as a 'trigger event'. As an example, Taylor 'triggers' when bullies lock her inside a locker stuffed with month-old used tampons. After being left there for several hours, she snaps, and gains the ability to control simple macroscopic organisms.
>As an example, Taylor 'triggers' when bullies lock her inside a locker stuffed with month-old used tampons.
lol this sounds like fucking trash

And yet nobody bats an eye when Batman does it.

It actually build's up a really interesting sci-fi world. It's hard to think of it as just capeshit really.

Hey! I've been a very open denouncer of Batman.

>How the hell does she does it without it being a "this looks like a job for Aquaman" or "I can speak all languages, therefore I can speak the language of the universe to warp reality" kind of deal?

She's very cagey in how she uses her powers. And, to be honest, there's a lot of room inside 'controlling bugs'.

She can control a single insect down to the way it twitches it's antenna and the patter of it's walking.

Or she can control a trillion insects at once...down to the twitching of every antenna, and the pattern of every step.

One bug isn't such a big deal.

A trillion bugs....

>She's very cagey in how she uses her powers.
She hams it up?

>She hams it up?

Heh, you can say a lot of things about Taylor (misguided, ruthless, well-meaning, mean as a bag of scorpions, horrifying, earnest, etc) but 'ham' is not really apt.

I thought the same thing, but I gave it a chance and happened to like it far more than anything I've seen from Marvel or DC.

Taylor's super power is not a gentle one, on herself, or on others.

Dykes.

So overdone in webcomics they've officially become boring. Besides, there no point in getting aroused by a type of person who would NEVER date or have sex with you.

how do you get aroused by anything then

Thanks for your shitty input autismo.

Best endbringer coming through.

EVERYONE OUTTA THE FUCKING WAY I GOTTA GO MURK SOME BITCH-ASS CAPES REAL QUICK

FUCK SCION HE'S A PUSSY

HAHAH FUCK U BEHEMOTH SEE U WHEN U GET HERE U SLOW CUNT

It's really her backup power that does it. Perfect multitasking with constant sensory input and situational-spacial awareness makes for a hell of an on the fly strategizer. Taylor fights smarter than a lot of her opponents, and gets fucking lucky a lot of others.

She isn't OP.

Quite easily. On a theoretical basis, any straight fictional female could have a relationship with a straight male in the real world. Granted the whole reality thing is in the way. But if said female character existed in the real world, a guy might be able to court her. Easier said than done, obviously, but within the realm of possibility

But even in the real world a lesbian would never have sex with a man. At least not willingly. Thats kind of thew whole point with homosexuals. They only have sex with their own kind.

I'd consider the gulf between fiction and reality much more of an obstacle than homo and heterosexuality.

Not shitty. Well founded in reason and logic.

Also, fact. Not opinion.


And you're welcome, even though your thanks was obviously not sincere.

i was literally just BMing you, this is so autistic it hurts

none of these characters are real you fucking sped

how many times in the last 12 hours have you jerked off to pornographic adaptions of animation for the 8-13 age group

It would appear that you did not read the part of my statement that stated in no uncertain terms:

>Granted the whole reality thing is in the way.

>"REEEEEEE LESBIANS WON'T HAVE SEX WITH ME"
>logic and reason

I just don't really see how this would help at all against someone that can't be harmed by insects, like, she probably could sent her insects to suffocate a flying brick by flying into his nose and mouth, or get into a powered armor circuits and fry it, but what if she has to fight a fire guy? Like a Human Torch type. What are insects going to do against a guy that is on fire?

You are a literal retard. No, this is not how sexuality works.

Also she gets supported by several important thinkers in the background. Coil, Dianh, tattletale, ziz, The Queen administrator and the fedora bitch are all throwing their chips into tay's side of affairs for many of the encounters.

Saying what you're saying makes both gays and straights absolutely shit themselves in rage.

I in no way stated they WERE real. Go back and read what I said. And this time why don't you try doing it with your eyes open

And SPED is for people with limited cerebral functions. I am clearly looking at this in a purely logical level. If anyone is lacking in intellect, it's you. You clearly have little in the way of reading comprehension

Twice. However to straight female characters who WOULD canonically have sex with a male if they existed in reality.

She fought a fire guy. She beat him by waiting for him to lift her up and gloat and then flew a bug covered with another superhero's superpowered poison blood onto his eyeball. The best part about the action scenes are see her thought processes for battle strategies and her on the fly (heh!) tactical thinking.

Yes, that IS logic and reason. I would not expect a lesbian to have sex with me.

She's not really that OP its just that most of her enemies either go full retard when fighting her like Coil or the plot bullshits her a win it long ago should have been impossible. Somehow she became worse than batgod.

As a matter of fact it does. Your irrationality notwithstanding of course,

You've been off topic from the get-go. Please just leave.

>like Coil


Whaaat?!

Taylor didn't fight Coil, Tattletale fought Coil, by faking him into thinking he'd won and waiting until he used up his 'fail safe' reality.

Once he used his power in the presence of all of Tattletale's traitors, Coil had no way out. Up until that moment, he was invincible.

True fact: Taylor was the muscle, but Tattletale was the brains.

>like Coil
How did Coil go full retard exactly? The completely backed him into a corner at the end.

>True fact: Taylor was the muscle, but Tattletale was the brains.
She had said as much. Taylor was only boss on the battlefield.

Honestly I meant to put them getting out of his killbox thing as bullshit, also him showing off his pet oricle to minions that he knew where of supremely questionable loyalty was pretty dumb.

No I did. I'm just surprised your hangup is the lesbian part rather than the fictional part.

The real secret is that you're not supposed to masturbate to anyone in Worm though.

And the bedroom. WOG was Tattletale is effectively asexual since she got her powers, since 30 seconds after meeting somebody she already knows their deal-breakers.

I'd agree if Dinah hadn't been sabotaging Coil as much as possible. She guided him to the path with the lowest chance of success.

This is the series where the AI is the only person who could be considered truly good.

>Honestly I meant to put them getting out of his killbox thing as bullshit
Precog told her what to do.

Yes. Dragon.

I would sabotage him too if he called me pet and made me addicted to drugs.
And she pairs herself with efficiency.

It would look something like Homura's battle with Walpurgisnacht except with a lot more death.

lol Fuck.

She's better off than the one who turned her sister into a blob of flesh.

IMO, at the end of the day it wasn't just the fact that she could control bugs that gave Taylor such a massive tactical advantage, it was the Thinker aspect of her shard that gave her a nigh-infinite ability to multitask.

How do you think the transition to Khepri would have gone if it had happened through a regular secondary trigger, and not Panacea's power? Would Taylor have kept more of herself or been even further gone?

Also, did she lose an arm at some point or am I imagining that?

>Weld
>Miss Milita
>Dr.Yamada

Sveta crushed it and Taylor got Lung to burn it off for her.

Pretty sure she lost an arm around the oil tanker part of the Scion battle.

And Grue.
But we don't mention him.

>30 seconds after meeting somebody she already knows their deal-breakers.
psh that might be a good enough reason not to marry them, but why would casual sex be off the table?

Wouldn't her having a secondary trigger event at the end be better than the Panacea thing?

Anything is better when Amy isn't touching it.

Bye bye, Taylor's only chance at romance

Don't be mean. Amy's a good girl. She didn't know no better.

I dunno, it's kind of a cliche. I like that Taylor removing her limiters was a premeditated thing rather than an act of desperation at a climactic moment.

So, would she never have had her actual second trigger?

Um tell that to Vicky. Oh you can't because she's been turned into a giant blob of flesh that can only communicate through blinking.

I don't know it just feels a little convenient that Panacea could do that shit the whole time.

I thought that was a joke to excuse her from an end of the world orgy.

Didn't the characters hint at one point that Taylor already had her second trigger, almost immediately after the first?

She got better.

It just took two years.

And Legend.

It's been around two years since I finished this. I remember enjoying it but the end seemed a bit of a mess.

Despite generally being douchebags, the Dragonslayers made some pretty good points.

What happened to Imp?

She's raising Regent's fucked up siblings.

I really enjoyed the ending, at least everything after Golden Morning. The stuff between the timeskip and Golden Morning was pretty awkward.

Who?

But I mean, panacea's stuff couldn't have come from a secondary trigger, since she had already had one. So in the case that Taylor triggered a second time and became khepri, would she not have her magical multitasking or something?

I hadn't heard of this before. Looks pretty damn good so far.

You did good today, OP.

The Star Wars prequels sucked on both Earth Aleph and Earth Bet.

The way I understood it, a parahuman's passenger wants to keep its host alive, so there's limits imposed on the the power to prevent the parahuman from destroying himself. The passenger uses the host's experiences to try to figure out what is safe and optimal, so in the case of a second trigger event, it's the passenger re-assessing what powers to give to its host. Since Khepri was such a danger to herself and lost a lot of her higher brain functions, I think she would be pretty useless for what a passenger wants, so she could only exist by removing those limits manually, not through a trigger.

Thousands because he's written more than Brandon Sanderson and at comparable speed (although I'm not sure if McCrae is able to do 3000 words a day).

Amy confirmed for lesbian waifu.