Amelia, Worm AU [Complete]

This should probably be in italics.

 

Alexandria's a lot more likeable. How did she become such a piece of garbage in canon despite her vast thinker powers?

 

Author fiat.

 

She was intentionally acting like a douchebag in canon in an attempt to make Taylor attack her and force her to return to being Skitter. She just underestimated the response Taylor could bring against her and overestimated her break point due to Taylor using her half of the proto-Taylia bond to push her emotions into her swarm.

 

she was trying to cause Taylor to have a nervous breakdown and provoke her into attacking Alexandria .....it worked. never could figure out why on earth that was her plan.

 

I really want to see the Pantheon Christmas Dinner... Complete with Riley and Missy wearing paper hats from christmas poppers

 

Attacking Alexandria should've made joining Wards impossible. Life as Skitter or in the Birdcage would've been Taylor's only options. Since they needed Skitter to complete their experiment in Parahuman Feudal states this would've been ideal. She even gave Taylor a viable method of attack, not realizing that Taylor's control continued even while she was unconscious, died as a result. I suspect that Contessa's failure to warn Alexandria about this outcome was part of a plan to restore the public's faith in the Protectorate by giving the impression that the "rot" had been cleansed.

 

So instead of QA thinking it's Taylor, it now thinks it's Taylia.

They accidentally a daughter?

 

I think in the bit where they showed Eden's plans (the same bit that numbers the Endbringers at 20) Eden's human avatar was posing as a male hero....but my memory of that part is a bit fuzzy.

I do, but don't delete the current one, make it an add-on (that's how I refer to the #.5 chapters in my head, not sure the technical term).

Have you SEEN how fast TanaNari writes? You won't miss out on your new content.

Awesome!

DAMN you're fast, I was at work for like 5 hours and you already had a discussion, and wrote a chapter add-on and all!

Dude...sometimes things are just TOO obvious to point out.

Hmmm....Maybe the City on the Edge of Forever, or Thirdspace, Or maybe it just went to have lunch at The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

You were warned.

Yea....No. They're multi-dimensional, not omni-dimensional.

OK.... *sigh*... If an Entity in it's full, undivided form where to try to exist all in one dimension, then yes, there would be a gravitational pull added to the solar system to significantly alter the paths of the planets therein. However, this will never happen, it is in fact against the very nature of the Entities as multi-dimensional beings. Their sheer mass would cause them to collapse upon themselves.

Remember Scion consumed/became/replaced an entire planet... AFTER shedding the VAST majority of itself as shards to imprint on humans (and the occasional AI).

The impression I got from the various visions and interludes was that the main core of the Entities that would have existed in Earth-Beta as Zion and Eden was less then 5% of the full entities size, having only kept the bare minimum to make themselves small enough to land on the planet without destroying it.

Also there's the fact that Eden was trying to land, it just failed. This was NOT a full-speed collision, this was just hitting the breaks a few seconds too late.

So wait... The shard encouraged/allowed the deal, perhaps even supplying the idea to Amelia in the first place, instead of fostering conflict because it didn't want something to upset Amelia, and make her drop the Taylia bond? Or perhaps even to prevent the loss of the bond through Amelia's death?

Because we aren't Tattletale?

Shaper and Admin sitting in a tree, B-U-D-D-I-N-G~ First comes a bond;
then comes love;
then comes shardlings in a [multidimensional horror that would startle the likes of Cuthulu].

And the unable to stop thinking about it lasted like 30 seconds, lol.

 

So i was reading up on physics and i realized that Coil wasn't creating two parallel time lines he was able to get past Scion's block on close realities by taking over different Coils,it was a power that was never meant to be handed out because Eden died before she ether destroyed,keep or cripple it more.he is able to exist within his personal phase space,does that mean he can see passed taboo because his dead shard is more intacted.can it be synergism with another cap to get passed the sanction the entities put on close parallel realities.

 

Not valid since TN is using the canon explanation of Coils power, which is he precogs two paths, one is chosen, then his powers lock his body into following the selected path, while making him think that he's reacting in real time. Timeline/dimensional shenanigans are fanon theories of Coils power.

 

Well that was insightful. Learned a lot, especially about the Thanda peeps. I kinda glossed over them entirely.

Surprised to see how "honest" Cauldron is being, though I suppose that they really don't give a damn so long as Scion dies in the end. They're really operating on a Hail Mary attitude and Pantheon must be a breath of fresh air for them.

I wish we got more characterization of late-Worm Alexandria. Her interlude showed her to be an intelligent, moral individual who wanted to be a hero and protect people. But the weight of Scion and the Endbringers, coupled with the necessity of tolerating crime, eroded her morality until she went full "Greater Good." Like Contessa, I suspect she lost all respect for herself. Her interest in befriending Lisa (a person who can keep up with her that isn't Contessa) is a fun way to examine her character some more. Shipping jokes aside, I hope you do a good job handling that.

 

Fixed for accuracy regarding theory origin trivia.

I suspect Contessa can't "keep up" with Alexandria, and Contessa only responds in ways that tend to result in the right outcome rather than in ways which are novel or interesting to Alexandria.

But it's even worse than that: I bet Alexandria can tell when Contessa is on-script and when she's off it by her body language, so she can monitor her reactions moment by moment. If Alexandria isn't part of her current Paths, then I bet Contessa's reactions are just ... not there.

I wonder if Number Man can keep up with her. I doubt it, given his domain limitation.

So my new OT3 is the Smugly Snugly Three: Lisa x Alexandria x Vicky.

 

he's still able to get to pass the Sanction on close realities.but only in his personal phase space.it's less precoging and more multi-dimensional bullshit and time travel is still multi-dimensional bullshit with a better paint job.

 

There is no such thing as parallel realities, as far as Coil's power is concerned.

Coils shard has perfect clairvoyance of the present. it knows where EVERYTHING is and what it's doing.

At the time of a "split" Coil's shard creates a simulation of the future of both paths of actions until the point that Coil "collapses" the alternate path. This is where the precog part of his powers lie, it's not truly seeing the future, it's perfectly simulating it. Not like Diana, whose power truly does see the future.

The shard then has Coil follow the path he was in when he collapsed the other, and slowly feeds the data from the simulation to Coil in real-time. This is why his power is "precognition of the present," or "horizontal precognition;" because he only learns the data from the simulation when it would have happened.

 

Was coil's power ever meant to fall in a humans hands if Eden had not been a bad driver and died.does it work on Endbringers as this is a thinker shard of Edens. And would it take in to account Scion. Okay everyone here's a thought exercise if his shard was alive and the host second triggered what would change.

 

With all the time around Diana....probably the ability to see the simulated futures BEFORE they happen.

 

What, no flashbacks of her having conversations with the face she painted on a coconut?

You must clearly watch Castaway again.

And also... wasn't she going to ask for a toothbrush first?

 

Wow... not gonna lie, that comment makes me feel like this chapter utterly failed at what it was suppose to do and should be taken down.

 

Was it supposed to do anything other than make us feel very sorry for Lily, on top of very much respecting her dedication?

 

Well, there's also exposition on the whole royalty thing, exploring some of her relationship with Sabah, and various bits of setting up for future scenes and/or foreshadowing.

But yeah, that was basically the goal.

 

I felt bad for clicking the like button.

Poor Lily.

 

The royalty stuff was interesting. I found myself agreeing with Sabah. What are they gonna do? Refuse a shiny new Japan just because things would have to be... basically exactly the same as they were before a water demon and a rage dragon tap danced an island into oblivion? Arguably better (not that I'd blame them for seeing it different - still, free new Japan!).

 

Sorry, operating on 56 hours without sleep atm. Was trying to insert a bit of humor after the heavy, serious stuff.

Well, that and I had just seen the last few episodes of Sword Art Online season 2 an hour or two before reading the chapter; So yea... kinda desensitized me to the emotional impact a bit. (There BETTER be a season 3, ending the series like that would SUCK, I know there's at least 1 more story in the graphical novels/mangas, so holding out hope...)

Though if there's nothing in the room that her power can affect, why exactly isn't it safe for Sabah to be in there with her?

 

Given that the royal family are such because they're descended from the gods, doesn't declaring Lily a Japanese goddes basically solve the problem? It seems like citizenship should sort this out sort of automatically. Heck, they could even declare her the goddess of lesbians. She's got the right name for it.

Coil's spare timelines are fake as shit. You'd need some kind of power to make fake things real to get any kind of meaningful interaction out of his timelines.

 

I believe the correct wording is "by accident".

 

Either can be correct, depending on regional drift.

 

A simple solution would be to find a native Japanese cape suitable to being a part of Pantheon.

Or have Amelia turn the guy into a girl. Then marry her to Eric. Heh.