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  1. Avernus

    All Alone [Worm AU]

    I actually sympathize with Armsmaster; I hate having to sleep too. Unfortunately for him I'm pretty sure that whatever brain function add-on lets them stay awake indefinitely is handled by Taylor's Shard and is simply inaccessible, so studying the Awakened probably wouldn't get much more of a...
  2. Avernus

    Wyvern - Worm AU fanfic

    Outside of him leaving the Triumvirate basically no details in-story. However in (I think) the Spacebattles story thread it was stated that since he wasn't dealing with the trauma of Hero's death in this timeline he paid more attention and caught on to the darker parts of what Cauldron was...
  3. Avernus

    Wyvern - Worm AU fanfic

    Found a typo: "can't see that"
  4. Avernus

    A Darker Path [Worm Fanfic]

    Being a predator is high risk/reward, they tend to default to being cautious. And a "self described apex predator" - a being aware of their status and able to think about it - is going to be unused to facing actual threats and challenges. Heck, look at how much human fiction is about monsters...
  5. Avernus

    Earning Her Stripes (Worm AU fanfic)

    The latter likely wouldn't work, her Shard would just count that as death and transfer to some other Parahuman. The former on the other hand might work. That fits given that she was arrogant enough to court getting Butchered in the first place. If ego had gravity she'd be a black hole of self...
  6. Avernus

    Earning Her Stripes (Worm AU fanfic)

    More of March's arrogance making her act stupid (it fits her personality yes, but still...) She's ignoring that if she dies and someone else becomes Butcher she won't be in the driver's seat even as much as she is now; she'll just be one "voice" among many. But even more so she's ignoring that...
  7. Avernus

    Earning Her Stripes (Worm AU fanfic)

    Heh, screwed over by arrogance; if March!Butcher hadn't been so high on "I'm invincible!" nailing her like that would have been far harder. It's awful hard to grab somebody with a teleport power if they actually try to stay away from you after all. Kind of ironic given that her original success...
  8. Avernus

    Earning Her Stripes (Worm AU fanfic)

    Also, it was in part his own fault, not mere bad luck. As I said after that chapter it's an innate risk of his practice of using "safe" and "throwaway" timelines that at some point he'll guess wrong and disaster will strike in the supposedly safe timeline. Heck, at least it wasn't a fatal...
  9. Avernus

    Are You Afraid of the Dark? [Worm AU fanfic]

    Coil's already lost his biggest advantage, the base and his mercenaries; he's not a combat Thinker, after all. Ironically in large part due to his own melodrama, the Dark wouldn't have been able to outright blow the place up even if that had been his intention without Coil himself literally...
  10. Avernus

    Alea Iacta Est - a Worm AU Fanfic

    Hah, Gesellschaft is going to be super peeved if their play to free the E88/Gesellschaft capes just results in them losing more capes to Piggot; and their moles to boot. And losing their foothold will make it hard for them to do anything but seethe about it, too. Also, Panacea's "anything but a...
  11. Avernus

    A Darker Path [Worm Fanfic]

    Also, the felony murder rule differs from state-to-state and isn't even universal. And we aren't Earth Bet, either. So the actual status and nature of the felony murder rule in Earth Bet Boston is up to Ack (unless Wildbow already brought it up in canon). That said, from the way Fletchette was...
  12. Avernus

    A Darker Path [Worm Fanfic]

    Of course that leads straight into how the legal treatment of Parahumans tends to boil down to "might makes right" in practice. To use the obvious example the authorities no longer seriously consider trying to arrest Atropos for her many self-admitted murders. And they outright provided aid...
  13. Avernus

    A Darker Path [Worm Fanfic]

    Legally possibly true, depending on the law in that state in Earth Bet. Morally it's more questionable; Epoch can justifiably point out that it was just a recruitment attempt, not even an active crime like theft. They had no reason to think she'd just offhandedly murder someone like that...
  14. Avernus

    Earning Her Stripes (Worm AU fanfic)

    Yes, it's a canon power.
  15. Avernus

    Earning Her Stripes (Worm AU fanfic)

    The first, then the second I'd bet, given the Butcher's history. So far everyone who has killed the Butcher has ended up as another Butcher. March doesn't have any powers likely to let her resist ending up Butcherized; she's just too arrogant to even consider it could happen to her. Thus her...
  16. Avernus

    A Darker Path [Worm Fanfic]

    Heck, it wasn't one likely to make her popular with the Adepts, either. They're one of those villain groups that make a point of avoiding killing, I understand; it helps keep them low-priority I guess. Offhandedly possibly-killing a Hero isn't going to make them happy. I wonder if Epoch...
  17. Avernus

    World War Scion

    Yeah, those might as well be designed to Trigger people. At least when you just shoot people there's a good chance they'll die before they even reach the emotional state needed to Trigger*; that sort of sadism and long-term brutality would maximize the number of people Triggering. * It's been...
  18. Avernus

    World War Scion

    I suspect they broke up when their tyrannical policies produced enough "Specialists" for rebellions to overwhelm conventional forces. The setting isn't very friendly for world conquest, since the more victorious you are the stronger the opposition becomes.
  19. Avernus

    World War Scion

    So; the Endbringers are acting in their original role as "Conflict Engines"? No Eidolon in this timeline, perhaps.
  20. Avernus

    Earning Her Stripes (Worm AU fanfic)

    IMO, whether they trust someone who inherits the Butcher's power without being taken over probably depends on how long they manage to keep inheriting the Butcher's power hidden. If they find out right away they'll almost certainly assume the Butcher will take over and the person is deluding...
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