#parahuman headcanons

[faultlinescrew]

Might as well put a few of my hcs here: mostly just members of faultines crew (labyrinth, newter, spitfire), bc they rlly do live in my head rent free

[wormblr-polls]

From ones I’ve seen most talked about

[thepariahcontinuum]

Sophia/Shadow Stalker's Trigger Event definitely involved her running for her life.

Having little Miss "You're either a predator or you're prey" have gotten her superpowers whilst being the prey and keeping that as a dirty little secret that she would rather die than admit to anyone just feels absolutely perfect.

It makes her just another traumatized teenager using her powers to take back some semblance of control over her life in a world that is objectively nuts. It also fits with her relationships with a few different characters.

Emma: Sophia has no friends outside of Emma, even Madison is more "Emma's other friend who's around sometimes" and they meet during what would have been Emma's Trigger event if she was a Cape....Sophia is, in a messed up way trying to be the person she never had in her own life; revealing that there's something more to her under all of that anger and cruelty.

Brian: Shadow Stalker wants Grue to be her nemesis so hard it hurts and honestly, if Brian "I'm going to lie about my Trigger Event" Laborn is going to have a nemesis then making it a Sophia who is similarly hiding her own insecurities and refusing to show weakness or vulnerability in front of anyone is just perfect, it makes them narrative foils.

Taylor: Remember the line where Sophia sees that Taylor took up running and loses her shit about it "You wanted to be strong so you copied me by running" or something to that effect....Gives it new context doesn't it?

Imagine:

You're on the track team in junior high.

The fact that all you can do is run is what saves your life.

You get superpowers designed to help you escape and still you refuse to ever be the victim or run away again.

You're forced to stay on the track team in high school just to keep up appearances.

The girl you've been bullying finally gets a bit of a spine, she's finally getting stronger.

She did it by taking inspiration from you..... By running

[cpericardium]

[oriandcate]

I refuse to believe Etho is not our universe's version of Dragon from the Worm series.

[bug4932]

my hottest worm take is that basically all the fans badly badly badly underrate Taylor/Brian. like that relationship had Problems but it is still more than a bit tragic that it didn't work out; I think Taylor pretty clearly never got over Brian or vice versa

taylors focus and need to take the helm gives brian the chance to take a breather rather than feeling like he needs to constantly be stepping up to the plate. brians chiseled jawline and boyish smile gives taylor the chance to have straightie moments in the middle of committing war crimes

theyre compelling!! and hilarious!! what more could you want

[shadowjimbo4]

headcanon that armsmaster is autistic and his shard only made it worse so hes absolutely shit at social interactions and is secretly an introvert, meaning dragon is armsmaster's adoptive extrovert

[skitter-queen]

personal headcanon that alec was flashbang's weed dealer and it was this single point of connection between two otherwise entirely unrelated characters

[jennifer-hamilton-wb]

Everyone in Worm (except the nazis) Are trans and you can’t stop me.

Trans Amelia Trans Alec Trans Vicky Trans Piggot Trans Clockblocker Trans Taylor Trans Scion Name any character, i’ll headcannon them as trans

[wormbraind]

regent and imp are friend goals ngl

right one is painted over because i’m lazy

[george-oswald-dannyson]

I just spent an INCREDIBLY confusing few seconds thinking that the 'I love Amy' posts were very strange worm fanart

Oh noo!

The worst thing is it kinda fits, if you squint at it a certain way

Bibi is even Amelia's type(strong dominating blonde woman)

[ty-bayonet-betteridge]

so many of the S9 members are just nothing which is deeply upsetting. i want to fangirl for the whole group but i regret to inform everybody that i have ZERO opinions on people like Crimson and Screamer. absolutely meaningless empty husks.

[thepariahcontinuum]

When you're working on a fic and you end up using a character with very little canon personality/backstory and start coming up with headcanons for them as you go.

Anyway: We know that Oni-Lee's powers gradually chipped away at him until he was a husk, I'm headcanoning that when Lung first met him Lee was an absolute chatterbox, like he would just not shut the fuck up and he was also one of those Capes who had a real knack for witty repartee.

[cpericardium]

strange ward thing

It's weird that everyone in Cauldron, a conspiracy kept secret for decades, has such loose lips about Contessa's birth name. Like sure maybe Contessa told Number Man at some point (and Custo overheard). But then he goes blabbing it to Citrine??? And Legend somehow knows even though he didn't know about the alien in the basement??? The gossip at the interdimensional watercooler gets wild, man.

[theaudientvoid]

I've written before about how I subscribe to a specific form of the Death of the Author theory that I call the Primacy of the Text; that is, when evaluating a work of fiction, the most important things to consider is the text of the work itself. All else, including the pronouncements of the author, are of at best secondary importance.

So, this is why I don't really pay much mind when authors try to use "word of god" to establish facts about their stories. If it was really important, it should have been in story. Wildbow, for example can say all he likes that Taylor is 100% straight, but that's not the text he wrote. He wrote her acting like an in denial bisexual, and it's the text that should carry the most weight.

I don't get particularly annoyed when he does this, though. I don't really pay much import to it at all. Everyone has a right to their headcanons, after all. But that's not how most of the fandom seems to view it. Most of the fandom seems downright offended when Wildbow says stuff about the stories that he wrote.

I've also written before about how the bulk of the Wildbow fandom doesn't seem to have much interest in engaging in the text of the work. This is true of many fandoms, but seems especially true of of the Parahumans fandom, where a sizable minority hasn't even read the text, and even those who have seem more interested in shipping and memes than in seriously engaging with the themes of the story.

And I suspect this is why the fandom gets so mad whenever Wildbow ties to use Word of God on them. Since they don't engage with the text directly, headcanons are the only thing they have left, and so of course they'll be outraged when Wildbow tries to act like his headcanons are more valid then theirs.

[shakertwelve]

guy who thinks calling worm heroes cops is tastelessly interjecting real life issues into fiction: here’s my headcanons on how many japanese people different parahumans characters would’ve killed to end wwii