Chances I’m going to stop calling it a “worm thingy” when I do find out what its deal is, provided I remember the spoilage: Low.
Tag: 8.6p2
So someone just forgot they were talking to a Worm liveblogger and briefly brought up a potential Homestuck-Worm parallel in Minda’s main chat.
(I’d normally have a screenshot for this kind of thing, but I had to immediately delete it because it was spoilers for Minda too.)
What I learned amounts to that there’s some kind of giant “worm thingy” that may or may not have space/time powers and be indestructible.
As usual, I’ll try to avoid speculating on too much on spoilers, but my immediate thoughts are a) that this might be Behemoth, though the space/time powers are probably not relevant to him, and/or b) that this could be relevant enough to be the real reason the story is called Worm.
I’m sorry to say that the crack was widened a bit: A well-meaning fan began to complain at me over Discord about people who are careless with spoilers, but wound up indicating things about how important this spoiler and the one about shards were and when in the story they become relevant.
Apparently the worm thingy doesn’t become relevant until late in the story, but some people had started correctly theorizing about it not that long after the point I’m at. Similarly, the shards are a late thing.
On a more humorous note: After sharing screenshots of this person’s rant with Sharks, he told me that someone had just sent him an ask reminding him to not pass on any asks about, well, that. Irony at its finest and most frustrating. 😛
So someone just forgot they were talking to a Worm liveblogger and briefly brought up a potential Homestuck-Worm parallel in Minda’s main chat.
(I’d normally have a screenshot for this kind of thing, but I had to immediately delete it because it was spoilers for Minda too.)
What I learned amounts to that there’s some kind of giant “worm thingy” that may or may not have space/time powers and be indestructible.
As usual, I’ll try to avoid speculating on too much on spoilers, but my immediate thoughts are a) that this might be Behemoth, though the space/time powers are probably not relevant to him, and/or b) that this could be relevant enough to be the real reason the story is called Worm.
End of Extermination 8.6
That’s right, we can go back to regular “End”s now. At least unless it turns out Leviathan isn’t as chased off as it seems.
So, that was an interesting chapter. Between Taylor talking to the nurse-in-training, getting healed and antagonized by Panacea (♠), learning that some of the Protectorate higher-ups want to talk to her and some unknown others, performing a daring escape and discovering that Shadow Stalker is Sophia Hess, there was plenty of action here for a chapter that mostly had the protagonist lying in a hospital bed. I quite enjoyed it.
That one of her tormentors is also a cape is a pretty big realization for Taylor. It marks the collapse of another guard post on the border between her civilian life and her cape life. One of the most important guard posts, in fact.
Also, this recontextualizes a few past events. At the mall, who stepped in-between Taylor and Emma? Sophia. And who is obsessed with being a rival to Grue, but romantically jealous over Brian? Sophia. (That last thing is almost approaching Miraculous levels of dramatic irony.)
So, next chapter, Taylor will have to deal with this discovery, which seems to have shook her so much that it’s only a matter of time before the people looking for her find her. As such, I suspect we might learn what Legend & co. have to say to Taylor as well.
See you then!
I recognized her. Sophia Hess.
Bingo! 😀
I believe I did at one point half-jokingly suggested the idea of one or more of the Harpies being a cape, though I don’t remember exactly when, or if I specified which one (if I did, it was probably Emma).
I pushed my way into the next curtained enclosure. Stopped.
Oh.
There were shouts behind me, which might have been someone noting my absence. I was at the point of not caring anymore.
…
What did you just come across.
I tried to take a step forward, to move to the bedside or around it, but my newly healed legs gave out under me. I crumpled into a kneeling position.
Did… did they take in Tattletale after all?
Or is it Danny?
Staring up at the occupant of the bed, a few things came to me. For one thing, I got to experience first hand what Brian had told me, about how he’d gone cold, still and quiet inside on that day he’d gotten his powers.
Oh shit.
For another, I realized why they’d had me chained up. Kind of stupid not to, in retrospect. A glance at the curtain showed a blue tag, the same style as the red one that had been on my curtain, plastic, unlabeled.
The presence of civilians that the villains could harm?
The bed’s occupant lay on her back, tubes running into her nose and mouth, an IV in her arm.
Guys, I have a sneaky suspicion that this is not Danny. There’s just something about this sentence…
So does that mean Taylor was right to doubt the meaning of “losses”?
An ugly cut marred her right breast and shoulder, which were bare. Smaller cuts covered the rest of her body.
Running footsteps and the sound of a curtain being heaved open in a neighboring section didn’t stir me from my daze.
Sounds like they’re looking around for Taylor.
The bed’s occupant wore Shadow Stalker’s costume, sans mask.
Oh. Alright…
…
Is it Emma? Or one of the other Harpies? Because damn if that wouldn’t be quite the twist.
Wait, no, definitely not Emma. We’ve seen her and Shadow Stalker in the same place. Twice.
Sophia, perhaps. I suppose the personalities match, to the extent we know them. Also, maybe it wasn’t just the running team Taylor got Sophia in trouble with?
There was a window past the next enclosure. I wasn’t sure if I could climb out, or if there would be somewhere to go once I had, but it gave me hope.
It’s good to have hope back. I mean, this is a minor thing, but hope is still something we haven’t seen a lot of in this Arc.
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