#ward wildbow

[sweaterregrets]

march on little sister 🫡

[gotrashh]

should I finish ward, start pact, start claw, or start twig??

[ishdaj]

She was wearing a red blouse under a black cardigan, and she wore a brooch that seemed like it was meant to mimic her tattoos in style, like stained glass in gold bands with panes of red.  Worn over the heart, vaguely heart-shaped.  Ankle-length black skirt with red trim.

— Ward, Breaking 14.6

Amy / The Red Queen is from Ward, the sequel to the Worm web serial.

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[senviva]

Breakthrough 

(+ short-haired Rain & Ashley)

[bad-pun-king]

I’ve been getting into homestuck recently and stumbled across classpects as a concept awhile ago. I got curious and went to see if any Wildbow protagonists had been given classpects in crossover speculation. I was only able to find any for Taylor, probably because fans of both like to compare her to Vriska from what I’ve seen, with arguments for Taylor being a Page of Rage, Witch of Doom, or Bard of Heart.

I’d like to go over each protagonist personally, but it’s been too long since I read Worm, Ward, or Pact and reading those I was still all in on how the narrator sees things and bad at reading into the narration instead of just reading it, so those 3 all kind of blend together in my head too much for me to try them. I might do Sy, but I haven’t thought him much yet for it.

What I want to do right now is give classpects to Verona, Lucy, and Avery, based on my understanding of the classes and aspects I’ve been able to pick up.

Verona I would say is probably a Mage of Heart. Her arc has been more less about getting her to find a good place for her Self. She couldn’t really be herself with Brett always being nearby ready to whine to her about some bullshit or another, treating her as daughter and wife at the same time despite her age, and never appreciating any of the work she actually did until she just stopped doing it all together. Now she has her demesne that allows her to have her own home as she wants it, it’s become a hangout spot for all her closest friends, and she doesn’t have to worry about invaders doing any sort of harm to her, emotionally like Brett or even physically in most cases. Not to mention she can also easily interpret and communicate with nonverbal Others like Tashlit. But that’s just why I see her as Heart. For Mage it was more or less just that loves learning about her interests so much. She’s turning her demesne into a bookstore for books that were never written, she’s easily the most well-rounded in terms of understanding practices of the 3 Kennet Witches, and she’s even experimented with different things both mundane and magical to see how she likes them, such as that friends with benefits relationship she had with Jeremy for awhile or trying out Hosting, alchemy, enchantment, among other practices. I had also considered Void for Verona on account of how easy it is for her to play around with the truth without lying outright to confuse people, but ultimately her arc is more about getting from where she hated her life and circumstances so much she wanted to give up her humanity and become virtually anything else to getting where she’s perfectly comfortable being herself and flourishing under her own power, which to me reads with the idea that Heart is about the Inner Self.

Avery was probably the easiest of the trio. Maid of Blood. It’s my understanding that Blood is supposed to be about relationships and connections, and Avery has become something of an embodiment of networking with how many friends and contacts she’s built up over the course of Pale, and that’s all starting from a point where she could go months at a time without anybody noticing she hadn’t said a thing because of how disconnected she was. My understanding of a Maid is someone that takes care of, creates, and maintains their aspect, and boy howdy if Avery doesn’t do that. She literally goes to the edges of reality itself via the Paths to find contacts who’d otherwise be unable to contact anyone in a meaningful way in the form of Lost, who would all otherwise be to conceptually close to the ideas associated with Breath to get anywhere in their continued existences. Avery’s also the one of the trio most likely to allow an antagonist to redeem themself for similar reasons.

Lucy was the hardest one for me to get. I’d definitely peg her as a Knight, but I can’t decide if she fits better as a Knight of Hope or a Knight of Rage. I could see her as Hope because Hope players are described as “driven first and foremost by their convictions. They do right for right's sake, and are quick to come to the aid of anyone they deem to be experiencing injustice.” That sounds extremely Lucy, but Hope as a concept also seems to be connected to the use of positive emotions to empower and accomplish where as Lucy is not someone I would describe as being emotionally positive. She is almost always on guard in some way or another, always prepared to be ‘bullet-proof’ in as many ways as possible because she’s anticipating some asshole coming up and challenging her on some arbitrary thing. Even her Sight allows her to see specifically negative emotions and pain in the form of watercolor-esc stains. This is where interpreting her as less Hopey and more Ragey comes in. She’s very tired of the way the world is. She fights tooth and nail in arguments, in magic, in duels, and in Law to gain just a bit of ground even if it isn’t as much ground as she had wanted. Training under Guilherme and Bubbleyum does seem to have taught her to be coolheaded enough not to suppress her anger but to channel it for all those sorts of fights I mentioned. Rage at the injustices of the world and especially those right in front of her that she can do something about, is what fuels her. As for why I’d put her as a Knight, that’s because Knight is the closest to how she normally operates. She doesn’t seek the knowledge the way a Mage or Seer does, she doesn’t really fit homestuck’s idea of an Heir or (ironically) Witch, she doesn’t generate or heal like a Maid or Sylph, and she isn’t destructive of any aspect like a Prince or Bard, she isn’t taking to deprive from others like a Thief or Rogue, and she certainly isn’t as selfish as she could be with her defense of what she cares about like a Page. The idea that she serves Hope for the future or exploits her own Rage or whatever it is Knights are supposed to one-worded to, Knight fits the best of the classes.

Bonus bit, going purely based off vibes I’d say Verona and Lucy are both derse dreamers while Avery would be prospit.

I’d like to do the other protagonists too but like I mentioned above it’s been too long since I read Worm, Pact, or Ward for me to do Taylor, Blake, or Victoria. I still can and might do Sy, I only recently finished Twig so he’s still fresh enough on my mind I think I could, just not now. In the meantime I’d like seeing some other people try at any or all of them. Get some speculation going for wildbow protags other than Taylor.

[blogishdaj]

it is very funny to me that rain is like a spinoff of blake with less drip.

both these scruffy blonde cosmic punching bags are ex-cult members, have a dark-haired female friend that they cherish/have a crush on, and have a bird-kid friend who looks up to them.

[jdrkjek]

i named myself victoria shortly before starting worm. it makes me feel giddy seeing my name represented in media, only ever happened once before with my rare deadname. HOWEVER

i used to get estrogen from a woman named taylor who looked a whole lot like taylor. that led to:

my shitty controlling mom finding out, and in the chaos directly after i was browsing the wiki to calm down and it turns out she shares a name with mama mathers

almost a year later now i've uhauled and am living happily with my lovely non-worming girlfriend...ashley. oh my. well, i hope WE get a canon ending together.

and then there was that time ash briefly considered changing her name to amy and it took everything i had not to recoil in panic.

Basically, what I'm saying is, god is canadian and he's picking me apart like a bug

[dagda-the-doodler]

Surprise! It's Weaver!!

Designing her was really fun! I hope you enjoy my last entry into the trading cards series! I'm gonna take a small break, but don't worry, I have lots of fun art planned >:)

[lizardinkart]

A Lisa I’ve had swimming around in my wips since I read Ward 10.x

There’s something about her sitting alone in the dark with a computer being semi-comfortable but also just being the absolute worst to herself and her migraines that gets me 🙃

[victoriadallonfan]

I'm never going to starbucks again I go there and ask for my decafmochocaraspicelatte and when they ask my name I tell them to just draw a little picture of victoria dallon so I can post on my tumblr and the barista is like "what" and I say again to draw a picture of victoria dallon and she keeps saying "i don't know who that is" and I'm like are from under a rock its victoria dallon, and then the manager finally arrives and asks me what the issue is, i say again victoria dallon I need a victoria dallon drawn on the cup, he smiles and nods, "sorry she doesn't keep up with the trends" and whips my order up super quick. I get my order and it's fucking Starlight from the Boys drawn on the cup smh i cant how

[unbeknownsttomen]

here they are, since we are going to hav some time before the next serial lets do a look back at how far we've come.

one thing i noticed out of all the fanart that grabs the protags and makes them pose as a team because shit just got real is that they never really interact with each other. each one is doing their own thing, so i wanted to explore how would they look like if they actually DID have to interact with each other. who would get along with who, who couldnt be able to stand the other. lots of fun.

[sweaterregrets]

ur honour theyre divorced

[gotrashh]

aS iN GAnGsTeR?!?!

omfg Vicky... anyway started Ward

[ishdaj]

Rain and Chris commission by @toastedicarus for this post.

My $9 promo still has a few slots open, so if you've been considering getting a custom piece of art (or fanart) hit me up!

[sadisticcaustic]

Supervicky

and Lisa Lane

I commissioned this piece a while back from sethkiel on Twitter. Rarely do more than lurk on tumblr, but I figured I may as well post it here for the smugpunch believers

[bad-pun-king]

UNMARKED SPOILERS FOR WARD AND ALSO A THING IN POKE THAT LEADS TO A PACT SPOILER

It always felt so far away, but as of today I've finally caught up to Wildbow's serials. All 5 of the main ones.

Found Worm in a crossover fanfic in 2017. Read it over the course of 2018.

Discovered Ward a few months later. Started reading that around the time Chad Kronos Titan vs Virgin Gibborim Knight memes were going around if what I remember from r/WormMemes is anything to go by. Caught up to the latest chapters...memory is hazy of the exact point. I know it was before anyone delved into shardspace. The Firmament. I think it may've been around when Victoria was getting framed.

Whenever it was, I was hungry for more Wildbow and wasn't satisfied with the 2 chapters a week we got. I had learned over the course of catching up with r/parahumans about the existence of Pact and Twig. I decided to read Pact on days between Ward updates.

Ward ended before I finished Pact. I originally thought I'd focus on Pact on its own when Ward ended but found myself unable to resist remaining up to date in more recent Wildbow writing, and thus I've followed Pale from its very inception. I've never been more than a day late to a chapter to this day.

When I did finally finish Pact I took a small break from Wildbow's main stories to read his Do the Write Thing short stories. It was fun seeing a younger Toadswallow in Poke. I especially loved Sign & Cold and hope Wildbow will eventually expand those or something like them like he did Boil into Twig. Speaking of, that's another thing I read during this period. The, for lack of a better term, pilots of Face, Peer, and Boil. I hope he can revisit Face too like he did with Boil. It's generally classified as thriller but it had elements of cyberpunk in it too that were interesting, not to mention it reminded me a bit of Danganronpa but with a more Wildbowian tone.

Then came actually reading Twig. I've gone through Twig and kept up with Pale at the same time up until about an hour ago when I finished the last epilog in Twig. I can definitely see why people say it was the best of the original 3. Only Pale really compares to the character writing. Was a bit slow but it worked for what it was.

It really has been a journey learning about these worlds and characters, watching their best and worst moments. Maybe it's because I didn't like reading before I found Wildbow but reaching this point felt significant to me, so I wanted to make a post commemorating it.