Author: Krixwell Jace

A doofus.
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“Shit,” she swore, “Hey, listen-”

She didn’t get a chance to finish.  White smoke billowed around us.  My first thought was that our adversaries were using some sort of bug spray.

White smoke? That’s a new one.

Did the Protectorate pick up a new member or two after all?

The way today was going, it would be just my luck.

Heh.

I held my breath and hurried out of the cloud, Tattletale following, and searched for the source.  Assault was taking on Regent and Imp, while Grue and Shadow Stalker were dealing with Battery and Weld.  Bitch and her dogs, on the other hand, were facing down Triumph.  Not the matchup I would have chosen, taking on the guy with the sonic shout using dogs with sensitive hearing.

Ouch, yeah. Poor doggos.

Also, sheesh, Weld just won’t quit, huh.

I almost went after Bitch right then and there, but self-preservation won out over any desire for retribution.  As Tattletale and I made our way around the cloud, I spotted Miss Militia.

Hi! Did you smokebomb Tattle and Skitter?

A black-green energy crackled in her hand, and she lobbed a grenade my way.  I scrambled back, only for it to turn out to be another canister of smoke, billowing out between Miss Militia and me.

Yup. So she did.

Kind of a poor tactic to use against the girl who can sense her surroundings using her bugs. You’d think the PRT would’ve learned by now that Skitter does better than average in blinded combat, especially if the opponent is also blinded.

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The residual foam on my glove made my hand sticky as I reached into the compartment at my back and grabbed my baton.

Oh damn, she’s not just going for a punch, she’s getting armed.

It took me two tries to get my thumb onto the button so I could whip it out to its full length.

She’s ready to beat some sense into Bitch.

That said, this is giving the others time to react and possibly step in.

I strode towards Bitch, weapon in hand.  Tattletale hurried to catch up to me, turning to keep an uneasy eye on the ongoing fight with the Protectorate.

And that was when Tattletale knew… something was fucked up.

“Hey, Skitter!” Tattletale grabbed my shoulder.

I wonder to what extent her power has filled her in on what just happened by now.

I whirled to face her, hand clenching my baton.  I could see the change in her expression as some piece fell in place for her.

Ah, there it is.

Parasite 10.6

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Welcome back to Krixwell Liveblogs Around the World in Eighty Days!

Wait, no. No, this is Worm. My mistake.

So, last time was quite the chapter. Dragon caught Taylor, but let her go to save her from the out-of-control zappy gun, saying she’d be in touch… but more importantly for what we’re about to dive into, it very much seems like Bitch intentionally got Taylor stuck in the foam, which without Dragon’s sacrifice would’ve gotten her arrested at best and killed at worst.

Naturally, Taylor is kinda pissed right now.

In this chapter, we’ll see how she chooses to confront Bitch, and how much she’s going to care about the fact that the other Undersiders are currently in the middle of fighting the Protectorate on their way out. After that… no idea. Let’s just see where this wild ride takes me next!

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I’ve been wondering for a while (created a Tumblr account to ask this lol) if Krix would be interested in listening to the We’ve Got Worm podcast? It’s an arc by arc, spoiler-free discussion between a guy who’s read Worm and a guy who is new to it, and it gave me an entirely new appreciation for the story.

If a Steven Universe liveblog I know of that follows a similar format is any indication, that seems like something I should wait with until I’ve finished the story. When that time comes, though, you should definitely remind me of this!

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You should definitely NOT read ANY fanfics unless they’ve been screened word for word and frankly not even then. Even if they don’t spoil you, they’ll fill your head with bad fanon. And yeah whoever suggested that specific fic, they did a very bad thing, it would have MASSIVELY spoiled you.

Yeah, that’s a fair point. I should probably hold off on all sorts of fanfic until I finish Worm – and probably Ward too – like I intended from the start.

Hang on to your favorite fics, folks, it’s gonna be a while!

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Wouldn’t Imp be fear of the unknown? She is literally unknown.

Ah, yeah, that works. Every time you see her while her power’s running, she’s an unknown cape appearing out of nowhere.

And given how much knowledge is power in Worm, something like that is incredibly powerful for taking away someone’s control of a battle.

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On ratings: Glory Girl’s aura is by WoG a Shaker effect, not Stranger, and the Photon family’s shields are also Shaker.

Huh, interesting. I can see how the shields, especially Shielder’s variety, would be Shaker according to my working definition of it – putting up barriers changes the battlefield.

The intimidation aura is a little stranger – no pun intended. I’m not sure what’s different between Glory Girl and Imp other than the effect… but maybe that’s it. Besides, we don’t know for sure that Imp is a Stranger – we were told that by someone who was experiencing her power in a battle, not someone who actually knew how it functioned. I’ve suggested before that Stranger may be a sort of miscellaneous category, and Imp’s power doesn’t really fit into anything else as far as I can tell… except maybe Shaker??

I’m not quite sure how the intimidation aura fits into Shaker either, though. I guess you could argue that placing a source of fear on the battlefield changes it up because people will want to avoid that? It seems a bit tenuous, though, so I might have to review my definition of a Shaker instead. We’ll have to see.

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krixwell-liveblogs:

SkitterPan = Skitter + Panacea

Ahh, I see. I’m not inclined to ship that in the traditional sense (though I’m sure there’s plenty of Enemies (to Friends) to Lovers of them out there), but add a touch of Homestuck to it and there’s a pretty solid potential for a kismesissitude there.

For the non-Homestucks among you, that essentially means romantic rivalry, hate romance, though a healthy kismesissitude also requires an element of appreciation – even when a relationship is founded on mutual disgust, there’s gotta be something to make them enjoy it enough to pursue it. Also, if this weren’t the case, many kismeses would just end up killing each other.

Skitterpan is Skitter/Panacea, a common ship in various fics where Taylor becomes a hero. Skitter/Weld has been done, but I don’t know if it has a name.

Ah, yeah, I suppose flushed Skitterpan works a lot better in hero!Taylor AUs.

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Taylortale is clearly the superior shipname, notice how well it fits. Also I agree that your line of guesswork regarding Imp the body-snatcher was reasonable given the format of live-reading, the multistep process and how shortly you held it before realizing the possibility of Regent. The mention of only one of the undersiders masters being worth mentioning was from Weld’s interlude (you guessed the refereed to Bitch). 

Hah, yeah, Taylortale works well with the T…tale, though it also blends civilian and cape names, which is a minus in my book.

That bias probably has something to do with me being in the Miraculous Ladybug fandom, where there’s considered to be four ships between the two main characters – Marinette is Ladybug and Adrien is Chat Noir, but Adri(e)nette, Ladrien, Marichat and Ladynoir are all treated separately. Though to be fair, that’s partly because the two of them don’t know each other’s identities in canon and thus each of them treat each iteration of the other as a separate person (much like Sophia and Taylor before Extermination).