#grue undersider

[sweaterregrets]

Well I might be bitter and twisted and broken and petty and lying

/im trying (not friends)- maisie peters)/

[junebugtwin]

Undersiders but Teen Titans!! Idea from this post :D

[silberzunge]

Stickies

[travelers-gaming]

Rachel isn't included because there's no universe in which she posts online enough to get cancelled

[dagda-the-doodler]

More Worm fanart! This is Grue! He's such an interesting and well written character, I love reading about him SO MUCH, dude

[incorrect-wormquotes]

Tattletale: What's your blood type?  Skitter, bleeding out: How would I know?  Grue: How would you not!?  Skitter: Who am I, Karl Landsteiner, discoverer of blood groups?  Imp, confused: You don't know your own blood type, but you know who discovered them?! 

[fran-valz]

Jumping on the teen titans worm redraw/edit thingy.

[dw-flagler]

something that always bothered me about the worm fanfic scene is that they always try to cram everyone together. There's always the scene where taylor meets lisa in a coffee shop or whatever. I get it, it's a fanfic, you can't just make up a character for her to meet.

But one of the things i always liked about worm was that it stayed away from the comic trope of making everyone connected. Like, if Worm was a comic book, Armsmaster would be her teacher, She'd end up being friends with Kid Win, Cherie would attend Winslow, Annette would end up being still alive and a secret agent for Cauldron but with amnesia or something, over-the-top soap opera shit, right?

What I always liked was that in Worm, Taylor's just some girl. She only knows one hero out of costume, and it's the girl who ruined her life. Her dad's just the head of hiring for the union. Her mom was just a college professor. If you asked the mayor about Danny Hebert, he'd say "who?" A lot of fanfics have him be like seinfeldian rivals with the mayor, but like he just writes petitions. If you asked Lustrum about Annette Hebert, she'd have no clue who you're talking about, because Annette was just like a member of her organization.

What I'm trying to stress, is that in superhero comics, everything's connected. Everyone knows everyone. Everyone's a super genius, or met at The Science Expo, or their dad was a famous crime fighter. Comics have all these sorts of big dramatic irony reveals. In comic books, there is never a character who's just some guy.

This sort of thing is great for making everything feel connected, and it's good for keeping out extraneous exposition.

But Worm doesn't do that. It's all just like. They're just regular ass people. Of course they don't know each other. They live in a city with 300 thousand people, none of them would have ever met each other if it weren't for capeshit.

And, I mean, it does remove a lot of the potential for shenanigans but it really does a lot to make everything feel more real.

There's also something there about capeshit being a metaphor for shared trauma where like these people would not know each-other were it not for shared trauma.

The undersiders, the great team, the bestest friend team, they don't meet if not for capeshit. They have no connection to eachother outside this. These are kids who would have never met, they would never have come within 20 degrees of separation were it not for the fact they have powers. This is integral to worm's worldbuilding. It's maybe the closest you ever get to a positive aspect of gaining powers, and yet for so many capes there is no undersiders, just the fighting and loneliness and eventual violent death.

[cpericardium]

[junebugtwin]

:/ my hand slipped

[victoriadallonfan]

Tristan 🤝 Brian

Repressing their vulnerabilities with toxic machismo and their power expressing that in ways overlooked by characters in story.

[lizardinkart]

For some reason I have polls so vote for your faves and put your thoughts wherever. We need more creative solutions to GM lol

[incorrect-wormquotes]

Hey guys, when you say something is for the girls and the gays, can you include me in that as well? The girls, the gays, and Brian. If it's not too much trouble. Thanks guys.  

Grue, to the Undersiders

[artbyblastweave]

One of the things I enjoy about the Undersiders is that, sans Taylor, the story that they’re supposed to be the protagonists of is clearly something in the orbit of It’s Always Sunny, a story about a pack of unhinged, dysfunctional assholes who are constantly having whacky hijinks that they barely slip away from the horrible consequences of. More than any other faction in the city, the personalities on the team lend themselves to a sitcom dynamic- Grue as the “why-me” protagonistic straight man, Lisa as the high-energy-low-common-sense co-lead, Alec as himself, and Rachel as the unhinged weirdo, with all four thinking they’re the only sane person and taking turns being right about that. 

Taylor comes in and alters the genre of the story they’re in by sheer force of compartmentalizing, goal-oriented, consequentialist protagonistic will, and it’s really interesting to picture a version of the timeline where they never picked her up and proceeded to just stew in their own Undersiderishness until the bottom fell out in one direction or another. Alternatively, it’s interesting to picture a dynamic where Taylor stays with the team long haul, because she really was the lynchpin catalyzing their character development; it’s a lot less that they were a friend group who added Taylor and more that they were four coworkers who each individually formed strong bonds with Taylor.

[commonmage]

If Grue/Brian's power wipes away his scent does that mean he can't use perfumes/oils?

On the other hand does it mean he'll never smell bad regardless of whatever??