I’ve seen some really interesting fan speculation that Brian’s version of the Siberian was based on his dad, and Taylor just didn’t recognize that because he resembles his dad. She did note that it looked a bit different aside from just being monochrome’d.

Ooh, that’s an interesting idea. I’m not sure why it’d go specifically for his dad, but it’s not like the power had the loss-related trigger event to work with.

I suppose it’s possible the power gives the wielder subconscious control over who it looks like and Brian’s brain wanted someone he associated with strength.

So Krixwell, before Taylor does it, what would you name the giant flying bug of doom, Nightmare of Clockblocker, murderous Cousin of Aragog? Erm, I of course mean the totally safe cuddle-bug Taylor now has 🙂

Honestly? If it were me, there’s legitimately a decent chance I’d go with Buzz Aldrin or something silly like that. Perhaps Buzter. Or Beetle Bailey (maybe just Bailey to make it a little less obvious).

Or Billy, adding a bit of bilingual punmanship into it (the Norwegian word for “beetle” is “bille”… also Billy is the Norwegian name of Beetle Bailey and I just realized why).

If I were to be metaphysically constrained by the tone of Worm, though… hm… I suppose Billy might fit in (much like the gay Lily), but other than that… maybe Cole? For Coleoptera, the order of beetles?

And then Cole can become the Source of All Evil and be all conflicted about good and evil and love and edginess and stuff. All par for the course with that name.

The best name for villain Amy I’ve heard is Pandemic.

Oh fuck yes, that’s awesome. 😀

It’s just a really cool word in its own right and it ties in very nicely with her hero name through “Pan”.

Re: the song idea, it’s something I’ve been thinking about just a little bit (only enough to come up with the details I gave you). It’s not *intended* as a shipping song, so much as a song about all her problems and hopes, and how she’s been resting them on one person who may not actually live up to Amy’s image of her.

Ah, I see. I like what you’ve got so far, so I think you might have a pretty good fansong on your hands if you keep it up. 🙂

(And yeah, Victoria’s a bit of a dick at times, and quite rash.)

You giving a shoutout to Quow was apparently just the little push they needed to restart their liveblog after some of the problem they’d been having got solved. So… thanks for that, Pact is a personnal favorite and it doesn’t get enough love.

Huh, neat! I’m glad I found them when I did, then. 🙂

Shark’s comment made me doubt myself so I went to check. “Doing the wrong things for the right reasons” appear in Wildbow’s about page on the parahuman site, and when you go on topwebfiction the mouseover text on the link of Worm says “Worm: Doing the Wrong Things for the Right Reasons”.

This is the official Worm banner on TopWebFiction, a rating of inline fiction dominated by Wildbow’s works. Vote for it if you like it! Anyway, this is where “doing wrong things for the right reasons” come from

Nice!

That’s a pretty cool piece of Taylor art, too!