The slight hurt more than she’d expected. It wasn’t like it was something new. It had been going on for weeks. And it was fully deserved.
Perhaps. I’m not gonna lie, I’m somewhat leaning towards their side, for now. I know Amy doesn’t like messing with brains, for fear of messing something up, but it might be worth at least trying. On the other hand, I completely understand that she doesn’t want to risk making it even worse.
Amy is the Spiderman of Worm. Not in terms of power, not in terms of personality, but in terms of that ancient wisdom that is oh so familiar:
With great power comes great responsibility.
The origin story of Spiderman, in every iteration I’m familiar with and probably most iterations I’m not, has always been all about Peter learning that if you’ve got the power to help, it is your duty to use it. In Interlude 3, we learned how Panacea feels bound by this – she has an amazing power that can help so many people, and with it came a sense of duty to do that as much as she possibly could, even at the expense of her own health, and the power/responsibility to make decisions on whom she should prioritize helping.
The other characters with strong connections to this theme are Taylor and Charlotte. Taylor is vocally against bystanderism, because so many people at her school, including Charlotte, had the power to open the locker and set her free, or fetch a teacher to do so, but nobody followed through on their responsibility to do so.
I think Taylor and Amy could, given circumstances forcing them to get to know each other better, relate to each other over letting this sense of duty to help someone out take over their lives and run them ragged. Amy is just a little further down this path, and more trapped by societal expectation than altruism at this point (though I don’t believe altruism has nothing to do with it). Taylor might not like Amy’s desire to quit, and Amy might not like Taylor for putting more pressure on her.
Amy: With great power comes great responsibility, which people around her expect her to fulfill regardless of what she herself wants.
Taylor: With great power comes great responsibility, which she wants to fulfill regardless of what people around her expect from her.
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