krixwell-liveblogs:

It’s true that Earth Bet has a little less homophobia than our world (a lot thanks to Legend himself) but there are states where gay marriage was legal even in our world at the time the story is set. Remember that the US does a lot on the state level so looking at national level policies can be misleading.

WoG is that Legend being openly gay as a top hero helped a lot with these issues, which would probably include gay marriage being made legal sooner, though things still aren’t perfect and homophobia still exist.

Huh, that’s pretty neat!

And yeah, of course it’s not going to be perfect. This is still Worm, after all. 😛

Krix please consider what the psychological impact of having your organs and nerves methodically torn out and draped across a room would be.

Throughout your read I was having my doubts but now I am a little bit more sure. I think you are underplaying just HOW MUCH trauma Brian went through. Its not just the hours of literally impossible inhuman torture, but being made to watch as your whole team/family member you consider highly get caught, then starting surgery on one, and proceeding to decide to just torch them as you can’t do anything to stop it. Going on an emotional tirade is the least to be expected

Yeeah, fucking hell, he needs all the hugs. Honestly, he’s handling it surprisingly well.

I do have a tendency to underplay this kind of thing, that’s true, though I think some of what probably came across as underplaying was more me trying to consider all the possibilities. I repeatedly mentioned how his change could be a result of his new power and didn’t make it clear enough that I thought that this and way more would be justified as simply a result of the trauma.

In fact, I don’t think I would’ve liked it as much if it had turned out it was his new power doing it. It would diminish the impact of his trauma in much the same way it seemed like I was doing by suggesting that could be the case. I just felt the need to acknowledge the possibility.

>I drew some bugs around my lower face and eyes as a makeshift mask. -> Remember that not long ago Taylor did not want put bugs on her skin. Now she does it casually.

Huh, yeah! I guess she’s grown used to it.

General fan speculation suggests that Hero is named after Hero of Alexandria, a prominent first-century scientist; this is in large part responsible for Hero/Alexandria being a popular Worm ship.

Huh. I suppose that makes sense given that he was a tinker.

“ it seems like there may have been a tendency for stronger capes early on.” It’s an interesting theory, but beware sampling bias. People probably remember the strongest capes longer. And weaker ones also die easier. I won’t say it’s impossible given Scion and Eidolon but it’s a risky guess.

Yeah, like I mentioned in the post, the statistics are iffy.

I think the main reason I still suggested it was that Eidolon is still one of the strongest capes, almost thirty years later.

Scion is a bit of a thing for himself, maybe. It’s unclear if he was ever human, and he’s way stronger than most.

Using a Bakuda bomb to open a portal into a parallel dimension (usually around Arc 4) is actually a trope I’ve seen in Worm crossover fanfiction. So you’re not the first here ;D

Hah, nice! 😀

Honestly, one of the main reasons I did it that way was so I could get on the Protectorate’s case about using them again, just for fun. 😛

Seriously, though, I can’t believe I wrote a story where unforeseen consequences happen because the Protectorate used Bakuda’s bombs while butting in on a fight between the Undertravelers and the Nine right before Piggot’s plan to do pretty much that exact thing was revealed.