re: Yours and Taylor’s movie preferences: I think it’s safe to say that most of our films were butterflied away with the advent of parahumans, so they have an entirely different set of media after a time. We saw that even the Star Wars Prequels were already different on earth Aleph. DC and Marvel are probably not as popular if they still exist and Godzilla movies probably have to be imported from Aleph because of the Endbringers. With Leviathan they would certainly be offensive for Taylor

That’s fair, though I don’t see much reason for that to cause tips on how to fire a gun to be more common in Wormverse movies. Though I suppose maybe the genre of movies you’d see such tips in (action movies) would be even more popular than it already is here.

(Honestly, I feel like superheroes being real would have the opposite effect on that genre.)

Also it’s worth noting that Godzilla as a franchise started long before the parahumans and Endbringers arrived, so a bunch of the older ones would still exist, though they might be hard to track down. Although maybe they’re studied by amateur historians (and maybe even professional ones) as a relic of how the world saw kaiju before they became a real threat. Same goes for superheroes – how pre-80′s comics shaped the understanding and reception of the real capes when they did show up sounds like a very interesting project for a history class.

If Agitation!Taylor could see herself … talk about character development. How do you think she would feel about “Skitter”, and how do you think she would react to Sophia being a hero shortly after her trigger event?

“What the fuck are you doing, future me?!”

And yeah, if Taylor found out then, it’d probably ruin her perception of heroes pretty harshly. Like it did when she found out later, but worse, because she hadn’t had the Undersiders and Armsmaster to prepare her for that kind of shaking of her worldview. At that time, Taylor had some pretty rigid ideas of black and white morality between villains and heroes, which had already been largely torn down before she discovered Sophia’s identity in Extermination.

I’m not sure which extreme she would end up swinging towards – either she’d drop her idea of becoming a hero entirely, or she’d lean into it much harder and set her aim towards making things better, like she did at the end of Extermination, from the start. She might also be more willing to accept her position in the Undersiders as a genuine thing, making the Decision earlier.