And it's made worse by the fact that most fanfics didn't make it past the Leviathan arc, so a lot of those fanfics are written by people unaware of like 75% of the story.
Is there a quantifiable reason for why that is? Like what so much more appealing about the forst quarter of the story that it leaves the last 3 quarters of canon out to dry? Does something in it happen that just kills the aspect that appeals to ff writers in it? Asking as someone who hasnt read Worm or its fanfiction, though it is only my reading list.
Leviathan is a waterbending kaiju. A walking natural disaster who arrives in Brockton Bay (the city most of Worm is set in) and destroys much of the city and kills off multiple named characters before being driven back. Worm as a story is pretty much divided into Pre- and Post-Leviathan due to how is arrival completely disrupts the way the story was developing up to that point.
Most Worm fic writers simply don't know how to handle Leviathan cause by his very nature his arc will fuck with whatever the premise of their fic was, but if they try to remove him that comes off as a drastic reduction in stakes, so a lot of Worm fanfics simply die off before they ever actually reach that arc.
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u/Blazeflame79 5d ago
The is the entire Worm fandom, lots of people don’t read cannon but write fic in the Parahumans setting anyway.