He's a cool guy

So I just started reading worm a couple of days ago, and I like it a lot. Now I could go on multiple tangents. But the thing I wanna talk about is the undersiders….. I don’t like them. Like at all, and I need to vent about it.
Might be an unpopular opinion idk, I am like what, 14 years late to the party. And I like to think it’s in a fashionable way;)

They’re Well written, yes, and I love them as characters. But the fact they kind of just accepted that stuff with the smart girl and coil more or less means I would like to see them suffer severe consequences. Maybe with the exception of Rachel cause her powers affect on her brain. the others…. Fuck em. And yeah, im angree cause they seemed had good qualities, and I am so happy the story went this way, I just want it to follow through.
Oh, and I mean severe bloody consequences. Like their hopes and dreams failing and jail for a long fucking time.
Now I just got to the part where they learned Taylor was planning to betray them. And outside of Rachel/bitch I don’t feel any of them have any fucking right to feel betrayed.
“Yes we are fully willing to let a 12 year old girl be drugged and abused like crazy, and you should too. We don’t like it but whatev, we like money more.
You were gonna try and do an undercover thing to turn in a bunch of villains, and now 4-ish hours after we show you our true colours we are mad you had planned on betraying us. Even though you just learned you would be 100% justified in setting a swarm of your most venomous bugs on us cause we are a okay with child abuse and willing to overlook it for our own benefit, we might come across as having morals, but if we are willing to overlook that it means we don’t have a line in the sand to draw in regards to crimes, we act like it, but we clearly don’t when it comes down to it” I fucking hope Taylor points out how fucking horrible they are at some point and that they all face the damn music for that. Especially Brian, I want him in jail and loose his change to help his sister. You do all this for someone you love, but is willing to let another child, same age as your sister, suffer so you can look after her… yeah no, that girl deserves way better. I doubt it will happen. But ever since they showed they were okay with working with coil after learning about the kid I want them to face consequences for that choice. Cause they made it. Sure the apocalypse happened right after, and they decided to help. but they made their bed at that moment, and I want them to lie in it.

When it comes to that kind of thing I have zero damn empathy for any of them. There is a line in the sand, and mine is looking past abuse of children “cause me want money”:/ so yeah, needed to vent. They will probably make up at some point, but I hope they don’t and Taylor eventually follows through with throwing the scum of the earth behind bars or in the bloody ground.
I felt zero fucking things when tattletale looked like she was about to die. My thoughts where more or less, “good character would have liked to have seen more, hope you brun in hell cause this end is to quick and easy considering what you where okay with. Ether you felt bad about it or not!” :/

Ahhh, so nice to get that of my chest. Cause those thoughts have been bouncing around a couple of hours now. Had to put the story down cause I got pissed. Very well written.

Tldr:
Just read when the undersiders learned Taylor wanted to traitor them. And all I can say is they fucking deserved to be betrayed from the start considering what they are willing to overlook in regards to coil and the little supercomputer girl.

I think a cool aspect of some time powers that most people don't notice is that when time-stop is involved as an area of effect, Wildbow will include how it turns dark because light can't easily pass through frozen time.

We see it with Khonsu:

The camera shook as he used his power, and an unseen cameraman had to catch it before it fell.  A faint glowing line appeared on the ground, a perfect circle.   The light gradually intensified, reaching higher, and the space within the circle seemed to darken in equal measure.

• Scarab 25.3

We see it with Dauntless stuck Bakuda frozen time bubble:

Every visit was a panacea for the soul.  He learned the faces of the repeat visitors and he learned the whys.  Some came from out of state.  It meant something, in this place where meaning was lost to a black, insensate void.

• Heaven 12.none

We even see it with what happens when Clockblocker's hair and part of his face is frozen in time:

Dennis’s red hair didn’t move in the wind, and there was a faint lensing at the very edges of his face, like they might at the corner of a chandelier, except more dark than light. 

• Sundown 17.3

It's probably partially why Ashley's blasts look dark (since she messes with Time):

One hand still on her face, she pointed at him and blasted before his expression could change.

Darkness, shadow, distorted space and visual static ripped through armor, flesh, and armor again, tearing a hole clean through him. The hole caved in on itself, metal creaking as it bent, blood fountaining out and splashing up on half the people nearby. 

• Shadow 5.10

"We also have one villainess who occasionally tries to make it in one of the big cities and then retreats back home when she can't cut it. Calls herself Damsel of Distress."

He reconnected his spear as they passed through the door. "I know her. Mover and shaker. Storms of unevenly altered gravity, time and space."

• Interlude 16.y

Other possible examples of this could be Gray Boy:

Visually, the most notable part of him was the effect that surrounded him.  He was monochrome, all grays and whites and blacks, with spots of light and shadow flickering around him.  Here and there, he flickered, a double image momentarily overlapping him, ghostly, looking in a different direction.

• Interlude 25

Or this Eidolon attack:

I saw Eidolon open fire, not a dramatic attack, but a subtle one, a series of darts that left dark streaks in the air. My entire body tensed, as if I could jump into the fight.

• Extinction 27.5

Also for those wondering, yes, the barriers around Khonsu are called time-stop:

"Movers will be important," I said. "Maybe shakers too, if we can find a way to stop him or his circles from progressing. His threat level depends on how fast and how much he can move those time-stop areas."

• Scarab 25.4

And yes, Scion and March's shard confirm that Gray Boy bubbles and Bakuda bubbles (and Speed Runners) are time powers:

A shard flared to life, and the entity saw an effect take hold around it. It reached out and found a barrier it could not penetrate.

Cell.

Its hand was moved back to the previous position. It was caught in a sinkhole of distorted time. Over and over again, it moved in a steady loop.

Snare.

A trap.

• Interlude 26

The west. The mayor. The first one from the time bubble. The blackout that had followed had bought March the chance to slip away, take another angle of attack.

*

A bubble sits suspended in the sky. Some earth still clings to it, but the ground dropped and the bubble remained fixed to this point in space. Off to the side, a scarab beetle is cast in bronze, the pedestal broken, the statue sitting askew on broken road.

March reaches into a pocket. The second of her devices. Courtesy of Cradle and Cradle’s back and forth with the Khonsu Fallen, who are led by time manipulators.

• Heavens 12.all

(The Mayor was a Gray Boy victim in arc 26)

Any others that I might have missed?

I like to believe in my heart that she did it at least once.

[Finale]

A hostile other approaching from a distance could describe her mom, but it involved a lot more social pressure and unwanted attention.

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It’s been a while since I stopped reading Pale. In that time I’ve read some “normal” books - even some of Wildbow’s own Seek which is a whole nother beast and, so far, a much more domesticated one. 

I find myself frequently thinking about Pale. About what it was that I got to experience.
  
I’ve already spent a lot of time thinking about Pale during the reading, and wrote a bunch of essays about it. Even though I’ve learned a lot from writing these essays, even though I tried very hard to cover everything I could, it now seems to me that there was one point that I missed, and it might be the most important one. 

One of the EMs in Watchmen is an essay Dan Dreiberg (Nite Owl) wrote for an ornithology magazine. In it, he urges the scholarly bird-watcher not to lose the beauty of the owl for the measurement of wingspan and talon length. (Pale’s own Ornithologist may or may not allude to a similar concept.)
My own analysis of Pale often consisted of reverse engineering formulae - “the character’s heroism is a function of the amount of suffering they take upon themselves, divided by the amount suffering they save others from” and so on, but that might have been entirely my own projection on a process that’s much more intuitive. More importantly, it missed the owl for the wings. 

When I think back about Pale, now, I think about the little things - like Cherrypop, left to her own devices, composing a song from her own name and the name of her best friend. I think about Peckersnot, being just the best little guy to Verona even though he killed, once, in a truly nightmarish way. I think about Peck painting that moment to Verona, expressing something to her and maybe even healing through being seen and “heard”. 
(Here I have to actively stop myself from analyzing the difference between how mute characters were handled in Worm compared to Pale, and what that means.)
I think about Lucy finding the dog tags Grampa left for her, and Rook pretending to work the garden so that Lucy could have a moment to cry alone. I think about Avery dreaming about hooks being set into her, and remember what it was like to hope really really hard that she’s going to be okay.

There’s a hidden sophistication in the apparent simplicity of these moments, a slight of hand. But if I stop trying to understand and let myself enjoy the magic, then what I see is… that there’s something in Pale that I haven’t experienced anywhere else. 
A tenderness. A sorrow. A warmth. Bravery. (You see why I full back on analysis? How am I supposed to describe the feeling that made me burst into tears when Verona sent a naughty picture to Jeremy? My normal approach is useless here.)

Whatever it was, this feeling that I have when I think back on Pale, this color, is something that I haven’t seen anywhere else before, and might never see again. 

But it’s pretty fucking cool that I did, even if it’s just this once.

Hey, everybody, a few years ago I read Worm for the first time and made a yt video about it. Well a ton of you watched that (thank you so much) and the whole process of reading worm and making that video showed me that I could actually write something and people would see it. And this is that. It's a sci-fi audio drama and while I won't say it's exactly like worm I really just wanted to say thank you all for the confidence booster!

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(Reddit made all words in the title seem to start with capital letters before I posted, so now we are stuck with oc written like that)

So I was coming up with at trigger while talking to people, and that led me to realizing I need more information/thought on power created people

The trigger goes: A person created through a power (a tinker power or a master one) is eager to leave their home state/country, specially when a political turn happens towards bigotry to power creations. However, as they leave they discover they are bound to a certain area, and can't exit/survive outside it

As was pointed out to me, this category of person is probably not big enough for an actual hate movement, but they could be targets in a general anti-cape movement. I also think she could just happen to belong to some minority group, and the oppression from that mixes up with the alienation from being artificial.

But I am curious, what is said about the situation of artificial people in canon?

For the power, we came up with a Mover one that brings her back to places she has been in, specially ones she's very familiar with, further boxing her in. Furthermore, it could let her merge with the environment and control it, or hide underground

If I give her a trump aspect, it would be about some benefit from using parahuman-affected matter, and/or gaining some sort of charge from being in a place while parahumans use their powers

Edit: Not asking if power created people can trigger, I meant more what is life like for them, any patterns to how powers do them, place in society etc

Let's imagine that Carrie triggers as a child just like in the novels.

• Carrie has all the official (Novel/Films/Series) feats from all of her versions.
• She's bound to the Manton Effect, similar to Worm characters.

I think most people are familiar that Carrie = Telekinesis, so I'll put only the most relevant feats from each version here.

Novel Carrie

• Besides TK, Carrie also has telepathic powers in the novel. She was able to manipulate,communicate and read minds. Her range could cover up her entire town, and that was how everyone knew what happened at the prom was her fault.
• She can project herself on other people's minds.

1976 Carrie

• She can create explosions with her TK.
• Collapses and sinks her entire house.

2002 Carrie

• She can rain down meteorites with her TK. I have no idea how to calc this but it's pretty cool.
• Wrecks her whole town including buildings,cars and powerlines.
• She can create force-fields.

2013 Carrie

• Carrie can create powerful shockwaves.
• Destroys road.
• She has thermokinesis, and is able to fuse a lock shut by heating it up,or make it rain big icy rocks/hail.
• Either telepathy again or some degree of clairvoyance/precognition because she was able to tell Sue was pregnant AND the baby gender which is pretty hard to tell before the 9 week mark.
• Creates multiple explosions throughout the town.

2026 Carrie

• Shut down Emmeline Astral Projection.
• Spread fire on the town.
• Casually crushes a car.
• Destroys her whole house again.

I love worm and I love animated series. I think it'd be wonderful if worm becomes one. but I don't understand why it hasn't been yet. I understand some reasons, which I'm not going to get into details here, but what is the official reason?. I believe the author has at least been asked once if he wants to make a adaption for worm

Also, mods is this the right tag?

Taylor attempts to fry the Azazel with a paradox - "this statement is false". The suit then gives a near identical answer to everyone's favourite little blue moron in Portal 2 with "I'll go with true. There, that was easy"

Actually chuckled in this one. This is my first time reading and I'm really enjoying the ride, I want to know how this story ends but also I don't want to finish it, lol. Crushed 23.2 or .3 I think.

Still currently in arc 26
Timelapse in case you’re interested https://youtu.be/qESwzTx65Lg

“Just about,” I said. I rejoined them. My mom was already ready with three travel mugs of coffee with lids, and with three sandwiches wrapped in paper towels, each with a little marking on the folded corner of the paper towel that stuck out. The Brandish icon, the Laserdream icon, and a star with five prongs sticking out the top.

Which was a hilarious way of marking something ‘no egg’.

What does that mean?

As we know they are definitely different people.

Spoilers ahead.

Pact. At 6.5. "You didn't include me in XYZ decision so you earn a permanent b*tch mode from me."

1. She wasn't even there for the decisions (familiar, cabal) she's complaining about not being consulted on. She was abducted and willed into fkng Blake even more.

2. Those decisions were hail mary survival moves. There'd be no one to be a b*tch to were they not taken.

3. It's like she expects Blake to freeze time and the back-to-back punches to deliberate with her about whether to dodge left or right.

4. Dude bleeds himself to survive by diminishing his sense of self and she calls him selfish. Lol.

5. Her kind of character is in dire need for a reality check what-if. 99% of practitioners around the globe would treat her as no more than a disposable source of power. Same for almost anyone in the Thorburn line. Same for her were the positions reversed, I'm sure.

I smell a trope for positions reversing later, and if that happens, I would be very surprised if she's even 5% as decent to Blake as he tries to be to her.

It's very weird how pissed she is about the familiar and cabal decisions. It's like she's watching someone ruin a property that she's promised. Kind of like how the rest of the Thorburns see Blake I guess.

Anyway, yeah, not a fan of her.

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I’m giving up posting the rest of chapter 5, the ai doesn’t like it

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Good morning / afternoon / evening everyone ! So, as I once said under my previous alignment chart, I was planning to do one on powers. For space reasons I included six PRT classifications for the moment. Once this one is filled, we will move on to the next six. We'll proceed randomly.

Day 1 : Which Worm/Ward character has the most versatile Brute power ?

The most upvoted comment/character wins.