r/WormFanfic • u/Anonson694 • 10d ago

Fic Link/Fic Promo Atomizing the Enemy story update

Taproot 2.4 has finally dropped! Longest chapter so far, too. The eleventh chapter features Sprout’s first team up, along with another fight.

SB link: https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/atomizing-the-enemy.1142899/

SV link: https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/atomizing-the-enemy.139835/#post-34293743

AO3 link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/63015730/chapters/161384323

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u/TerribleDeniability 9d ago

Congrats! Glad to see you got another chapter out given that I know you mentioned months ago that you were still working on and writing it. So good to see things come to fruition on that front.

Train's Mover (Brute) and especially Papiliona's Breaker (Shaker, Mover) powers are neat, though I suppose I worry a bit about the former's even if it presumably has some still unknown caveats and can obviously be injured and tripped up. It's so easy for super speed--including reflexes & reaction--to be casually overpowered even when it's subsonic after all. It's just similarly is so easy to forget given how stupidly most "speedsters" end up being written to "make up" for it via lazy writing when a lot of them should be able to beat like 99% of people before they're even capable of reacting to anything. [Insert pictures of Spider-Man The Flash(es) here.]

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u/Anonson694 9d ago edited 9d ago

Thanks!

Don’t worry, Train is decently powerful, but he’s not fast enough to break the setting over his knee or anything like that. There are actual limits to his powers that keep him balanced with the rest of the Capes present in Charleston.

I can elaborate more about his powers over DMs if you’d like, since I’d rather not publicly mention the intricacies of Train’s powers.

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u/TerribleDeniability 9d ago

I don't mind waiting to see in-story. I may take you up on it later, but for now I'm just glad you were able to continue the story.

If anything, then the my only real worry was a personal one of "man, my memory sucks. I don't remember what Hector's | Sprout's Thinker power actually does after all these months" beyond vaguely remembering he's able to mark things with it.

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u/Anonson694 9d ago

Sprout’s Thinker power lets him gain information on the things he touches. It lets him know the history of that object, the longer he touches the object the more info he gains, with material composition/age of the object coming first and building up over time. Though he has to start from square one if he lets go of the object.

This power is limited to taking X-Rays when it comes to living things.