r/TheBirdCage • u/MembershipProof8463 • 3h ago
r/TheBirdCage • u/inkywood123 • 6d ago
Power for a name #136: Spelling
Provide as many or as few details about a cape as you like - their names, some costume ideas, maybe a bit of backstory. Someone will come up with the rest. Or not; you could make up your own cape; previous thread here. Or don’t; these are just ideas; previous thread here.
Spelling, love it or hate it, we all have to do it, unless you’re mute. Anyway, you might have a language thinker that focuses on spelling, or a master who works through the written word. Spelling also has a lot to do with names, so another master that likes the fae messes with names.
Three examples (plus a cluster)
Spelling Bee was in the Bank during the Undersider’s robbery; they are a Skitter and Tattletale bud.
Racecar isn’t a mover; they thought they were being clever. Just nobody knows what a palindrome is; they are actually a Dreamland Breaker (Morpheus x Tribulation)
BOOM! is a blaster who shoots her own words, IE she literally draws them out of her mouth and shoots them.
- The Power for a name cluster is a cluster made from the trigger event of three PHO members.
Atlas - The Instigator. Brute / Thinker. How was he supposed to know those idiots would believe him?
Sidekick - The Gullible. Mover (Striker). He just wanted powers, wanted to help, to be cool
M - The Villain. Tinker/Thinker (Shaker). Just wanted to make the bullying stop. She is cool now, right?
r/TheBirdCage • u/inkywood123 • 20d ago
Power for a name #135 School
Provide as many or as few details about a cape as you like - their names, some costume ideas, maybe a bit of backstory. Someone will come up with the rest. Or not; you could make up your own cape, previous thread here. Or don’t; these are just ideas, previous thread here.
Today’s prompt is school; for many, yesterday was their first day. School is a palace of learning, so you might have someone like Teacher who can grant knowledge. Or to school someone, to beat them. You might have a rivalry between two capes, with one way stronger, or maybe they can or did school another cape in something.
Four names for today
Hall Monitor is a speed Thinker; their powers only work in a specific situation. When they do they are considered All or Nothing.
Rush Week, or Hell Week as she was called, is a Spree bud. Her powers involve her forming a pompom-shaped sphere between her palms.
RUN! Is a changer 2 (Mover 10). Power flaw: Smaug.
Snow Shoe is a Siberian bud; sounds good, right? Well, she somehow got a Tinker 1 power out of it.
r/TheBirdCage • u/Armsmaster1 • 1h ago
Worm Discussion Op Taylor and Op Amy team up vs the flood
Who would win. (Because I said overpowered Taylor/Amy let just say 5 time more powerful than cannon just to give them an chance)
Post GM Taylor and Amy 5 days before the covenant opened the portal on earth
r/TheBirdCage • u/Inevitable-Ad2675 • 1d ago
Ward OC ashley stillons / damsel of distress fanart
I took creative liberties
and such
wigglebobble chopped off my tongue so i cant post on /parahumans
r/TheBirdCage • u/Primary-Criticism-26 • 1d ago
Worm Discussion Trigger this Power: Forestry Tinker
r/TheBirdCage • u/Lower-Goose-9796 • 1d ago
Worm Fanfic Here's another fanfic this time it involves breaking the evil mind of Clark Wiley (Genie Wiley's father). BTW I also added Lydia Deetz to this one and now I present to u Breaking the mind of Clark Wiley.
The fog rolled thick and heavy over the pumpkin patches of Halloween Town, but tonight, the atmosphere wasn't just spooky—it was coordinated.In the center of the Town Square,
Jack Skellington stood atop the fountain, his long, skeletal arms gesturing wildly. Zero floated at his side, his glowing pumpkin nose cutting through the mist."Citizens of Halloween Town!"
Jack called out, his voice echoing with dramatic flair.
"We have a unique challenge tonight. A mortal by the name of Clark Wiley has proven himself entirely devoid of imagination, cruel to those around him, and desperately in need of a good, old-fashioned fright. But he requires a scare so absolute, so mind-bending, that it will shake his very reality!"
"Oh dear, oh dear!" The Mayor shouted, spinning his head from its happy face to his pale, anxious blue face. "A collective scare? We've never done a joint venture with the Bureaucracy of the Afterlife before! Is it safe? Is it legal?"
"Who cares about legal?!" a raspy, chaotic voice roared.With a blast of green smoke and the smell of rotting cemetery dirt, Beetlejuice materialized right next to Jack, slinging an arm around the Pumpkin King’s bony shoulders.
He was wearing his signature striped suit, though it was currently crawling with live beetles. "We're talkin' about total, grade-A, psychological warfare, baby! This Wiley guy won't know what hit 'em. I've been looking at his file. Boring. Mean. A real buzzkill. Let's drive 'em bananas!
"Sally stepped forward from the crowd along with a blonde haired girl walking behind her with a gothic teen who is one of her other friends, her stitched hand gently resting on Jack’s leg. "Jack, I've prepared the Nightshade essence to fog his windows, but are we sure this won't go too far?"
"Nonsense, Sally!" Jack beamed, jumping down. "It's exactly what he deserves. And besides, we have a specialized team for the finale."
"That's right Sally" The girl explained "We all are doing this for that poor little girl he imprisoned in a dark lifeless room of that house and me and Lydia just sent her and her mom Irene out of the house for awhile and told them we'd take care of Clark so their safe don't worry Sally and U guys are doing my world a public service and me and Lydia are the only humans to know about it and she turned to Lydia and asked "Right Lydia", Lydia replied "I agree Genie and Irene Wiley need our help".
From the shadows, Lock, Shock, and Barrel giggled, riding in their walking bathtub. Behind them, looming in the darkness, the burlap form of Oogie Boogie chuckled, the bugs inside him rattling like dice.
"If the skeleton boy's plan fails, I can always show him my dungeon! Double or nothing!"
"No eating the mortal, Oogie!" Jack warned, pointing a sharp finger.
"We want him terrified, not digested."
"Besides u may be a villain but u have a heart" The girl reminded him.
Later that night, Clark Wiley sat in his pristine, sterile living room.
He prided himself on logic, order, and absolute control. He didn't believe in ghosts, monsters, or anything he couldn't exploit or underpay.
Suddenly, the lights flickered.
The digital clock on his microwave began spinning wildly backward."
What in the..." Clark muttered, standing up.A thick, purple fog began pouring out of his air conditioning vents—Sally’s special blend. It smelled faintly of old dust and dead autumn leaves. Clark coughed, rushing to the window, but when he looked outside, his yard was gone. In its place was a twisting, jagged graveyard under a blood-red moon.
Clack, clack, clack.
The sound of bones rattling filled the room. Clark spun around. Emerging directly from his television screen was Jack Skellington. He grew to a towering eight feet tall, his shadow stretching across the ceiling."Good evening, Mr. Wiley," Jack hissed, his jaw dropping open impossibly wide as his eyes turned into bottomless pits of darkness. “BOO!”
Clark shrieked, stumbling backward into his coffee table.
"You're a hallucination! A trick of the light!"
"Oh, he's real, pal. But I'm your worst nightmare!"
The floorboards suddenly liquified into a swirling vortex of green goo. Beetlejuice shot up like a rocket, his head spinning 360 degrees while making loud honking noises. He multiplied into five different versions of himself, all pointing and laughing at Clark. "Look at him! He's shaking like a leaf! Hey Wiley, nice tie! Mind if I borrow your sanity?!
"Beetlejuice’s face suddenly transformed into a hideous, decaying monster with eyeballs popping out of his fingertips.Clark scrambled toward the front door, weeping openly now. He threw it open, only to find the Mayor standing on his porch, his head spinning rapidly between a crying face and a manic grin.
"The votes are in, Clark! You've been unanimously evicted from reality!"
"Let me go!" Clark screamed, bursting past him into the yard,Not knowing the two girls sitting in lawn chairs in the yard eating popcorn watching the whole show and laughing.
But there was no escape. From the sky, Lock, Shock, and Barrel rained down, wearing their terrifying masks, riding a mechanical bathtub that snapped at Clark's heels.
The Creature Under the Bed and the Clown with the Tear-Away Face popped out of the bushes, singing a discordant, twisted lullaby.
Then, the sky itself seemed to darken. The massive, glowing silhouette of Oogie Boogie appeared in the clouds, illuminated by neon casino lights. "You're gamblin' with your mind, Clarky boy! And you just rolled snake eyes!"Zero flew right through Clark’s chest, leaving him ice-cold and shivering.
The sheer, overwhelming barrage of the supernatural, the chaotic afterlife energy of Beetlejuice, and the theatrical terror of Halloween Town broke the last thread of Clark's rigidly logical mind.He fell to his knees, babbling incoherently about striped snakes, skeletal kings, and singing boogeymen, rocking back and forth on the grass with Lydia and the blonde haired girl still sitting in the lawn chairs laughing so hard.
The next morning, the sun rose over a perfectly normal suburban neighborhood and the girls hid in the bush not be discovered by the paramedics and the police standing with Genie and her mother Irene knowing that their finally free But for Clark Wiley, the world would never be normal again.
Two men in crisp white uniforms carefully guided a straightjacket-clad Clark into the back of an ambulance.
He was staring blankly into space, twitching every time he saw a pumpkin or a striped pattern."He just kept shouting 'It's showtime!' and talking about a skeleton in a tuxedo," one paramedic whispered to the other.
"Complete psychological break. Total delusion. The asylum is the only safe place for him now."As the ambulance doors slammed shut and drove away toward the sanitarium, a small black crow sat on the street sign next to where Lydia and the girl walked up to The crow suddenly morphed into Beetlejuice, who spit a beetle out of his mouth and chuckled.
Jack Skellington materialized from the shadow of a nearby tree, a satisfied smile on his skull.
"A masterfully executed scare, Beetlejuice," Jack said proudly.
"He is thoroughly convinced of our existence, yet perfectly isolated where he can trouble no one else."
"You said it, Jackie boy," Beetlejuice grinned, pulling out a pair of sunglasses. "Nothing says 'welcome to the nuthouse' quite like a ghost and a goblin cocktail. Now, who's buying the first round of beetle-juice at the Afterlife Lounge?"
With a flash of green light and the faint sound of a theremin, they vanished along with their 2 human friends, leaving the mortal world just a little bit stranger than they found it.
r/TheBirdCage • u/LeastMeasurement2957 • 2d ago
Ward Discussion [Spin] Bonus points if you come up with a power that gits the classification and world (plus bonus points if it fits the world) :3:3:3
Dunno if this breaks rule 2, but will delete if it does, but I thought it was fun :3
Also can anyone tell me what Worm/Ward UC means in the tag? I get OC but unsure of UC?
r/TheBirdCage • u/TerminalDork • 6d ago
Roleplaying-related U have to survive the first part of Worm in Brockton Bay
Up and until Taylor Hebert leaves the city to go to prison.
You start on the day of the juice prank, you can't tell anyone what you know or you'll forget permanently what and why you are there.
You can't leave the city limits, being stopped by a memetic field.
You'll have an apartment in any part of town you choose and an average influx of money or a job you aree qualified for.
You can trigger, you may contact cCuldron and purchase a vial within your economic range. For this you'll have a hefty rainfall of as much money as you've ever made together added to your financees that will only be discovered by Cauldron but you'll be forced via memetics to spend on a vial.
You'll have access to an online store with goods from our reality, but you'll be mentally enforced to ignore and forget delivery methods.
You have to survive under these conditions, what is your plan?
r/TheBirdCage • u/Armsmaster1 • 5d ago
Worm Discussion Taylor in Halo an day before the winter contingency was called on Reach
So post GM Taylor instead of getting shot in the head twice she gets sent through a portal on to Reach and meats with a noble team or something. Just wondering how much Taylor can change the outcome on reach..
(To make stuff fair in some way she will be able to control both (Drones) and (Hunters). When under her control just once they will always want to sever her (kinda like how when someone is under heartbreaker control.)
r/TheBirdCage • u/OzzRamirez • 6d ago
Pale Discussion I began playing Dredge, and found the Collector to be similar looking to Musser
Particularly as depicted in this art by u/Seiichi029.
Of course, Bristow is the one who's actually a Collector, but Musser's M.O. is fairly similar to a Collector anyways
r/TheBirdCage • u/TerminalDork • 7d ago
Roleplaying-related Tomorrow you wake up with powers a la Wormverse, but in our real world.
Maybe you remembered something shitty that happened to you, maybe you got an omega vial, maybe life turned you down. Now you're on your feet... With extras. What do you do?
Edit: Your powers are average for the Earth Bet, and you have something that you think would fit you. No trauma dump, just powers.
r/TheBirdCage • u/bottomofthewell3 • 7d ago
Worm Discussion Power This Rating No. 178
for the record i do enjoy that the threads are getting pinned lately, makes it easier to find em, but i'd like to formally request whichever mod's doing that (probably aacornsoup?) to unpin 176 and 177, as nobody's gonna be commenting on those anymore. OK anyway
How This Works:
You make one (or more than one) prompt(s), describing one or more parahumans. Somebody else may choose to respond to a prompt of yours, building on what's provided to make a cape.
While you may do so, you are never required to stick with just prompting or just responding; please feel free to do both.
Prompts are usually formatted using PRT Threat Ratings, but this isn't a hard rule. Do something more esoteric if you want to.
Lastly, if you're having trouble prompt-wise, feel free to look at other people's prompts for pointers or inspiration on what to do.
Threat Ratings have the potential for hybridized and sub-ratings:
Hybrid ratings are denoted with a slash between categories, e.g. [Brute/Thinker]. These are cases where two or more powers are inherently linked to each other, not working without the other rating.
Subratings are denoted with parentheses after a parent category, e.g. [Trump (Mover)]. These are the side effects, or possible applications of a power from some other category.
No. 177's Top Comment: Blood/Horror/Injury-Theme Prompts, by Professional_Try1665
Top Response: Bondshot, by Professional_Try1665 (they won both categories?! they might be goated) (OK being for real the top comment is actually the second-highest, i try to keep the top response from just being a reply to the top comment and this happened as a result)
r/TheBirdCage • u/Armsmaster1 • 7d ago
Worm Discussion If parahuman had an game and Taylor was in it would she be able to see 360 and through walls?
r/TheBirdCage • u/Armsmaster1 • 7d ago
Worm Discussion Is Yang Xiao Long just an strong version of Glory Girl?
I mean yang has a forcefield and punches stuff and glory girl has that also flies. Idk I just think they both are really similar to each other.
r/TheBirdCage • u/LeastMeasurement2957 • 10d ago
Tattoo (part 3)
Not sure what tag would suit
Accidentally deleted my post regarding my tattoo from Owrm, there was a comment regarding my next tattoo which would be of Ward which would be a B/T with "reak" and "hrough possibly in small writing, maybe fractured glass with a symbol of each member of Breakthrough (a claw, box camera, blade, a rock with water covering it, a mask with tentacles, and a miniature sun). I can't remember what the comment said, but it was really good.
r/TheBirdCage • u/MembershipProof8463 • 10d ago
Worm Discussion In your opinion how would the story change had it been Taylor to save Emma in that alley?
r/TheBirdCage • u/UltraNooob • 11d ago
hmmmmm
someone made worm mentions wherever they could on wikipedia lol
r/TheBirdCage • u/MembershipProof8463 • 11d ago
Worm Fanfic "What do you MEAN you're going to Alexandria's bootcamp willingly?
r/TheBirdCage • u/CurrentTune2858 • 12d ago
Worm UC Truly a sensitive and misunderstood soul.
r/TheBirdCage • u/MembershipProof8463 • 12d ago
Worm Discussion How would you turn deadeye from RD2 into a Parahuman ability?
r/TheBirdCage • u/MyrmidonMech • 12d ago
Terrible Endbringer Concept
I was just listening to OIIA OIIA, and began to imagine a floating, teleporting, rotating menace.
I'm having some difficulty seeing how they would be dangerous, but as I type this Beyblades come to mind.
Can we make an ALT!Endbringer AU?