Worm Arc 14 thoughts through 14.7 (there is too much for one post, I mean I could probably get four to five posts from 14.11 alone):
The team figures out Siberian's whole "is a projection" thing pretty quickly. Good for them.
I really want to know who ripped out page 325 for the "how horrible of a thing have I done that I don't want shared" check. I strongly lean Trickster but I'm not sure. I want more details on the Travelers and TiaV dammit!
Amy is having a bad day. Probably really a continuation of a bad few days. She probably didn't really need those fingers right?
Skitter criticizing Amy in her head for not being "creative" enough with her power is so on brand. Of course my daughter has already detailed out the complex ways she would use a power she doesn't even have. I love her.
I really wish the Undersiders/Travelers combo would stop splitting the fucking party. If they had just sent everyone after Siberian I bet the could have gotten the dude.
I do have have Skitter has gotten to a point where one of her "start of combat" actions is to just make a fuck ton of bug decoys. Almost without thought at this point.
Have I mentioned how much I love the "writing words in the air with bugs to communicate with people"? Cause I do. It makes sense. It would work. It lets her communicate long range. But it's also very silly to imagine. Very Silver Age in the best way.
Then it gets even better! Skitter makes a full blown animation to tell Amy that Siberian is trying to drop a building on her. Absolutely fucking perfection.
Tattletale maybe misjudged ever so slightly in what she revealed to Siberian. The combo of Siberian just flickering out of existence and everyone being like "oh fuck" was very good.
Amy trying to do her bullshit again and Tattletale having none of it, just destroying every argument before Amy even makes them until Amy agrees to come and help. More than makes up for any mistakes Tattletale made with Siberian.
The relay bugs are super neat.
Fucking high speed mutant dog/car chase. Absolutely fucking AMAZING. I loved every part of it. Ending with Sundancer just dropping a 50 foot wide sun on the road.
Tattletale trolling the shit out of Piggot and the heroes gives me life.
Also, Piggot's phone conversation with Tattletale was basically a villain monologue. For Piggot. Just all the shit about why she was doing it, why it was for the best, the coy little "sorry your teammates are gonna die, it's just an unfortunate side effect". All of it. This bitch is evil.
My daughter fucking tying up Crawler with spiderwebs. HOLY SHIT KID. God damn.
Very Mulan "Get off the roof, get off the roof, get off the roof" energy as they all run the fuck away from the bombing zone.
BUG HORSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BUG HORSE BUG HORSE BUG HORSE BUG HORSE BUG HORSE!!!!
AMY MADE MY DAUGHTER A FLYING BUG HORSE I'M DYING!
TAYLOR CAN BE THE (BUG)HORSE GIRL SHE WAS ALWAYS MEANT TO BE!
It rescues her and she has to teach it how to fly and they form a bond and she saves it and it saves her and and and she gives it a NAME! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
She's only had Atlas for a day and a half but if anything happens to him I will burn the world to the ground. Then I'll find another world and burn it to the ground too.
Firebombs don't really do shit but destroy a chunk of the city, probably kill some civilians, and make the heroes lives pretty fucking hard as they have to rely on the randomness of Clockblocker's power.
Also weren't there supposed to be a bunch of Nazis also getting hit by the bombs? One of the only somewhat maybe kinda almost decent parts of the plan Piggot and they aren't even here!
Piggot's plan is terrible and evil is what I'm saying.
The only reason nearly every hero doesn't end up permanently trapped or whatever inside Cache's bag of holding is cause Skitter was there to keep him from being crushed by a car. Well, Skitter and her bug horse (BUG HORSE!)
Skitter got to shoot Mannequin in the back. Very satisfying even if it didn't do long term damage.
Sucks to be Cache. He's . . . probably fine? I mean at least he got everyone out as he was melting.
Really sucks to be Glory Girl. She is . . . uhhh . . . hmmm . . . not dead. I can at least say that.
I mean Skitter got her to Amy. And Amy did stop her from dying. So like . . . she's probably going to be fine. Yep. Juuuuuust fine.
(Look if Amy wasn't a bitch about giving Atlas a digestive system I might be willing to forgive a lot. My daughters (bug)horse comes first. But Amy didn't so I won't. At least Grue was able to help. He gets a lot of brownie points for that.)
Anyway, Victoria needed to take some time to heal the rest of the way so she left completely under her own free will. And it will never come up again.
Bombin' 2: Electric HOLY FUCK PIGGOT YOU REALLY ARE CRAZY Bombgaloo
Kill a few more civilians and maybe Crawler and Mannequin. Destroy more of the city (including the library!) in a way that will probably never be salvageable (I mean at least some of it is stopped in time for god knows how long). Jack, Bonesaw, and Siberian escape. And because of what was done Bonesaw is going to activate her bio-weapon.
Great job Piggot. Gold star. You fucking did it. You saved the city. You motherfucking idiot.
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Love this interpretation of Mr. M. I gotta ask: How do you think an aftermath with Mr. M would look like?
After the whole fiasco, Mario's memories of his time as "Mr. M" are slow to resurface.
In the meantime, Princess Peach is thinking over what she'd seen... how the man she had always known to be bright-eyed, energetic, and eternally positive, had for a short time been robbed of his memories and reduced to something so desperate and pitiable.
Luigi is in a similar boat, but he is less startled than Peach is. He had caught tiny glimpses of that side of Mario in quiet moments after particularly stressful days, but he'd never before seen it in such extremes. Not even when they were children.
Mario is confused at first as to why Luigi and Princess Peach check on him so often, why they keep reassuring him that everyone's safe, why they offer to take turns with missions "if he ever needs a break."
Mario thinks that it has to do with whatever happened while he was under Count Bleck's control... it must've been worse than he thought. He must've gotten hut at some point. He must've really had them worried.
Then, slowly, the memories come back to him...
... Begging Luigi to switch sides, raining down blows through tears and whimpered apologies, blubbering to Peach about scared he is... how the rest of Team Bleck is counting on him... how he didn't want to "ruin everything." He remembers trembling in the presence of Bowser, desperately pleading with him not to hurt anyone.
Every emotion that he felt but sternly denied himself had been forced to the surface, stirred up, and let loose, and everyone he most wanted to keep under the impression that he was perfectly okay– be it for the preservation of their happiness or for the safety of the kingdom– had gotten a front row seat...
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hey when legend randomly gets hit hard with feeling of depression what is his immediate reaction
just an innocent ask nothing more
and by depression I just mean the sudden like big sad of i can't even do this anymore please- I just want to sleep-
anyways yeah just an innocent cute lil ask
His immediate reaction is "crap not again" quickly followed by stuffing it down and telling himself "I'll cry about that later" and then he just never does, because when later comes he is physically unable to cry. In general he can't actually cry. I speak as someone with the same affliction, it just doesn't happen even if he's not stopping himself.
I think Legend tends to muscle his way through whatever thing is overwhelming him until the end of the day, at which point he just curls up on his bedroll as tightly as possible to burrow away and just.... feel. He can't fix the things that trigger his depression, and while answers are usually there, they require burdening someone else, a big no-no, so he just stews until he falls asleep or just sits up overthinking until he's choking on sobs that won't come.
And come the next day he's just the same as any other day, because that's an issue for another day and when there's the security and safety to actually sort it out (AKA never)
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