Amelia, Worm AU [Complete]

Lisa outsmarted Contessa and got to fuck over Saint, she's going to be smug for ever.

 

Who? For some reason those names paired together return an error: 403 Not Gonna Think About It, Eww.

 

403 is actually the error FORBIDDEN.

 

That was on purpose, yes.

Edit: "The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it."

 

I figured. I was just having fun too.

 

So Taylor and Amelia died in the fight. All that's left is the Spacewhale and the daughter Talia.

Great ending, but I'm sad that they can't have more lesbian se- *cough* character building and relationship stuff.
I still want my threesome
and my kitten shower

 

Taylia is getting the Communication shard. She will get all the lesbian sex she wants.

 

Talk about living through your kids.

 

I rarely cry at sad. I always cry at epic / amazing / awe-inspiring. And when something happens that means "And the world moves to follow the pattern the characters create". Needless to say, I had to wait to get to my computer to write this, since my tablet is too soaked with tears of awe to type on. Just so amazing, and wow, a wonderful evolution of characters, story, and the world as it was and will be. A wonderfully great job of balancing length, character development and interaction, and actual plot. You wrote a ridiculous amount in an absurdly short period of time, and did an incredible job of it. I am definitely recommending this story as the definitive Worm story on the web, and definitely my favorite ending, outshining even canon. It's wonderful in that the end still comes as it does, but in a changed way that makes all the differences. In three words:

We are together.

I went to a cafe to read this last chapter, and when I walked in (read this chapter) it was playing one song that fit the chapter incredibly well. It then switched to another, almost uncanny, perfect fit.

Spoiler: Music

And now for something completely different.

FTFY. Also, amazing match-up with the story:
408 Pantheon start with their emergency measures, including enlisting parahumans from the Birdcage since they are out of time.
409 Speaks for itself
410 All their defenses crumble and Taylor and Amelia are the last ones standing. Their strongest measures have died or are lost to them
411 Length is not quite the correct dimension, but Taylia know that they need more firepower and dimensions, and so seek them out by finding Eden's corpse hidden in Cauldron's depths, while Lisa, Alexandria, and Saint each reveal parts of their hidden depths to Taylia.
412 [BETRAYAL] [DECEPTION] Zion cannot predict what Avalon will do, since Avalon has learned deception.
413 …?

 

Be honest. That's enough to make anyone smug forever. Mohandis fucking Ghandi would have spent all his days smugging it up if he had that on his resume.

 

Threesome in the kitten shower?

 

Well, probably. After all, he did more-or-less try to live his whole life as a reference to Siddhārtha Gautama, the man who made the smug contentment of knowing a religious.

Spoiler

Siddhārtha Gautama aka the Buddha

 

It's the shard entities use to talk to each other. Jack Slash used it as budget PTV vs capes. Taylia has a version edited by Avalon to be the shipping chart incarnate. She's going to roam the multi-earths in sandals and a robe teaching capes how to power-bond.

 

Nope, not crying. It's just that this buffalo chicken is really spicy and I must have gotten some in my eyes.

Tana, despite your claims to the contrary, this is the happiest worm fic. I've seen sad and depressing conclusions. I've seen just conclusions. I've seen porn-y conclusions. I've never seen someone resolve the fundamental unhappiness in the setting, and I've never seen a romance that wasn't in some way cheap or contrived. Taylor and Amelia, and Avalon, leave behind a legacy of hope and real, deep love. It's beautiful.

Spoiler: Roll credits:

 

Taylor and Amelia died long before that.

 

That's... Clotho and the elf chick?

Either time is passing at a funny rate, or those guys got their clothes off in no time flat.

Oh lord. This, and the gender identity realignment, and the 'don't freak out about Bonesaw change' are why you never let Clarice edit your mind.

Huh, my predication was wrong.

Okay:
Dragon/Defiant
Amelia/Taylor
Eden/Scion
Clotho/Atropos
Emma/Zach
Rey/Ruth
Missy/Clarice/Theo

Emma: Please tell me that we're not going to press clone on this one, and see what comes out.
Lisa: *smugness* It'll be an adventure!

But seriously, who's going to raise Taylia? Did Avalon give any thought to that?

...and her name, will be "Mary Sue."

But I really like this. It sounds like a great premise.

So, I guess Dragon isn't coming back?

I guess Defiant can always get it on with her daughter.

 

It just occured to me but why couldn't Taylia make copies of the Administrator and Shaper shards to attach to the backup clones? She is clearly capable of making replacement shards.

 

peeked

either fled or what?

Missing a word

Missing a word

Whoa. I can't believe that the story is over. Congratulations, this is easily one of the top 10 Worm fanfics. Hard to believe so much as happened since you started posting less then a year ago.

 

It takes a village. ...or a planet. ...or several planets.

("Raise" isn't a perfect term, since, as a clone, she'd likely pop out already mostly grown. But I'm pretty sure she'd be Pantheon's collective child.)

 

Isn't this a happier nding than Hope Come to BB?


So is the Original Fiction you are planning to work on a spiritual sequel that looks similar to the first planet that humanity colonizes after civilization has reached a stabilization point?

 

It's certainly a bigger ending.

And far more dramatic.

Well, I did.

 

Aunty Clarice?

 

No one likes a braggart Ack.

 

Look, when someone goes, "Wow, this story did this, it's so original!" and I'm thinking, "Well, it was when I did it", am I supposed to just not say anything?

I'm taking nothing away from Amelia when I say this. It's an awesome story, and I love it, a lot. It went in a totally different direction to HCtBB, reached a much wider scope, did things that I never would have thought of, and totally smashed the ending.

But when people praise a particular thing that happened, that I already did, is it really bragging to say, "Yeah ... I actually did that already"?

Consider the Taylor/Amy sex thing. "Take charge, overwhelm her until she asks for it."

It's more or less exactly what I did with Andrea/Taylor in Recoil, only in that one, Andrea never pushed Taylor to the point of initiating it herself. But the number of people I got screaming about how I 'made Taylor gay' was astonishing. I had to explain many times that no, Taylor isn't gay. In this one, TanaNari somehow managed to get that point across without needing explanation.


Anyway, story's about done, so I won't be doing that any more.

 

That is an option.

Amusingly, there are people dropped Amelia before they even got together and cite turning Taylor gay as one of the reasons.

 

Good news! That's a possibility!

Zach would be a distinct character in Price. Not necessarily *the* main, but certainly *a* main.

*bows* Hey, if you want to, go for it. It took me several hours just to copy the first couple hundred chapters off of SB and bring them here.

I think you mean Avalon.

CinemaSins: Teenaged Girls are dicks to omnicidal space whales.

It freaks me the fuck out, honestly. This has been an average of four or more hours of my life every fucking day for the better part of a year.

I worked a few in. Including a tribute to Silencio. I don't know if DeviantD is still reading this story. But if not, hopefully she'll come by and take a look some day and see it.

Or one of you assholes will annoy her into reading it. Either/or.

There aren't many. Except Ack's porn. Include that and it goes up to around 80ish.

No benefit except that Taylor can't be happy unless she's killing the unkillable.

But, hey, I like to leave my endings up to reader interpretation.

Not in the Wildbow fashion of "magical coma or reality, you decide!" or Sopranos "black screen!"... what happens in the story, happens in the story, a good- or at least confident- author doesn't hide behind "you decide the ending". But in the sense of "what message should I take from this... is this a happy ending, a sad one, what?"- that, I feel, is only hurt when an author tries to force an opinion.

Not only that, but CLEARLY the plan is to harvest humans by drawing them into the same bonds (which have been called psychic rape by a lot of the haters of this story) and produce a ready supply of new volunteers (re: human sacrifices) consciousnesses to power MORE space sharks.

The death of the individual, the evolution of the species. Space whale murder!

Yup.

And they, like so many others, shall become space sharks some day.

I might have went with a "nicer" ending. But fuck Scion.

Me, too!

Woo! Screeching girls! I'm a rockstar now! Except without the drugs. Or the fame. Or any musical talent to speak of. Or... what were we talking about again?

How do you think *I* feel. I probably could have learned a language on the time dedicated to this story.

Really?

Or have been murdered and replaced with toddler aged dopplegangers with their faces and memories that everyone just pretends is them.

In order to produce space sharks.

Well, yeah. If it was all horrible, it wouldn't be a legitimate fix fic.

Amelia and Taylor died long, long ago.

Also mind manipulation, death of individuality, and a plan to genocide all the space whales.

Exactly!

Umm... it was precognition, bro. Time isn't a factor. But they weren't wearing clothes at any point in that scene.

That's the reason?

Heir apparent to a multiplanetary empire... She'll be raised by the temporary regents. Not THAT Regent. Taylor and Amelia were still human enough to want their child to keep her virginity past age eight.

No, sorry. And No. Just no.

Nope. Their daughter's getting a more or less normal life.

Umm... wouldn't know. No offense to Ack, but I don't really read his stuff. But if you consider all the stuff stated above *still* a happy ending. Then.... maybe?

I DO actually have a biopunk scifi setting I might do some day, some of its elements are seen in Amelia.

 

I was trying to be playful, but yes, it is.

It comes across like you are trying to steal the spotlight when you burst onto the scene every time someone says that Amelia was the first time they saw [X], just to make sure that everyone knows that you actually thought of it first.

 

So only other people are allowed to cite my works as having happened?

Personally, I considered Taylor getting the If it's You, It's Okay brainmod to be a perfectly reasonable solution to the situation. Just having her turn around one day and saying, "You know, I think I'll be gay now, for fanservice," would have screwed with SoD (except when it's a porn. Because porn). But the Rapture solution worked well also.

Also, regarding finished Worm fics:

I haven't done that many porn fics. And in fact, I've completed a few SFW fics. These are all on fanfiction.net:

Spoiler: If you really want to see

Alternate Beginnings: 6 chapters, 22,500 words
Don't Worry Be Happy: one-shot, 2,300 words
HCtBB: 127 chapters, 527,000 words (plus more if NSFW is counted)
I, Scion 3 chapters, pure crack: 9400 words
Shadow Stalker: Advent of a Hero: 14 chapters, 53,000 words
Unfavourable Outcome: one-shot, 1,400 words

So yeah, not all porny

 

A suitably epic ending and in a method I have theorized but hadn't thought of doing this way. My version was always another Entity going the Avalon route just because it's more efficient, my usual suspect being Abbadon with the whole of Worm being his PtV'd method of disposing of both of them for almost no effort.

One amusing thought comes to mind, exactly how many 'Save the Space Whales!' organizations are going to pop up to save this gentle and majestic species from over-predation by the horribly unnatural Space Sharks threatening them with extinction?

 

Hey now! I like the story and I call it psychic rape!

Besides, this is a horror story, in a horror story human sacrifice is a valid method of reproduction. Plus, you can also make porn of it, for certain values of the word "porn".

I'm too much of a transhuman fan to place too much value on continuity of consciousness without a quantifiable reason. Nevertheless in at least Taylor and Amelia's cases this may not have been entirely accurate depending on how much they'd been swallowed by their shards by the time they died for the first time.

Ah! But did "they" die before the first organic death? By the time Taylia had become a thing, how much of their consciousness was really all that human anymore anyway?

Well, it would be okay except that Amy had a specific aversion to that kind of brainmodding due to what happened with Vicky.

What amazes me is that Taylor was able to maintain heterosexuality while being constantly exposed to Amy's love and desire beaming directly to her neurotransmitters and hormones.

Until Amelia managed to break through on their wedding night that was hardest 0 on the Kinsey scale, ever.

EDIT:

Maybe they bought into the whole continuity of consciousness thing too?