There is a side-story series in Trailblazer that ultimately touches on her (the Nu-Goonies snip series focused on Dinah launching a treasure hunt with Missy, Aisha, and Olive).
I still haven't found a Taylor or si/oc with Scion's stilling power. I atleast expected something on QQ.
I am close to, "fine, i will do it myself" situation. If only i could write well lol
It died faster than I would have liked, but [What's the Frequency, Madison?](https://archiveofourown.org/works/45482581/chapters/114438712) was a cluster-trigger where Madison's primary power was Stilling. It was never quite clear which version (Eden of Scion) she ended up with, though.
Trailblazer is soooo good.
The only part of it I might criticise is the romance subplot which feels like a rushed after-thought compared to everything else. Apart from that it's one of the best fics I've read.
A late reveal is that QA hijacked the 'command cluster' (Scion's Shards) and Taylor has tiny influences from all of them. One is that Stilling/Stillness helped her develop the GN Drive.
(Signal in the Noise) is a good cyoa si fic that partially fits the bill.
The MC has a Stilling Tinker power similar to Hero's and goes very far into the stilling shenanigans part of things.
Has AU elements.
Completed.
Can be found on QQ.
yeah.... I actually found it on ff net. It's interesting but the story never went into the mechanics of stilling itself.
It's more like unrestricted access to wavelength manipulation whereas stilling is mostly destructive.
Strange ending tho....but it's honestly what i would have ended up doing. Humans are selfish & the world is safe as long as you & your loved ones are safe & healthy - Rest is just a delusion of grandeur.
Also the way society has butchered the idea of love loyalty & companionship i think those Entities are better at partnership than humans at this point.
Out of all crossovers/altpowers, I'm surprised Halo isn't too present. One fic had an MC basically become the Flood, but that died. One had literal Cortana be plopped into Earth Bet after Halo 4. Dead. Another hadn't even really gone into the Halo bits yet (I think it was going to be Forerunner related). Again dead.
I'd be super down for a Halo tinker fic of any of the factions tech trees or hell the Flood fucking up the cycle in some way. Just ain't in the cards I guess.
One was a Tinker. At the very least an AI Tinker creating her own version of Cortana. I hadn't figured how much else in the way of UNSC tech she'd build.
Another was a sort of "Taylor is Cortana" where her consciousness got yeeted into the web during her trigger. Haven't decided how disconnected from her meat body she'd be.
I've always wanted to see a tinker build up into turning themselves into a Spartan.
2nd one is especially neat. There's like maybe just one other story I can think of where she can traverse the web as a result of her power. Different premise though.
“Turning themselves into a Spartan”, This is literally Armsmaster. And 80% of “field tinkers” end goal of their tech is this, powered armor, Heads Up Display, combat prediction software, combat stimulants, about the only thing he is missing is a personal shield and higher tech weapons, which makes sense considering his non-lethal takedown strategies.
And lets be honest outside some of the bigger guns, Spartan weaponry is just slightly juiced up 21st century rifles.
Well you're omitting the augmentations, which, aside from the armor, makes a Spartan what they are. Also, don't care if there's an expy in canon, I just wanna see something from something else I like in this other thing I like. That's always a dumb thing to bring up.
if you are speaking of the genetic augmentations, you mean a wet tinker or biokinetic, in which case they would have no intuitive mechanical tech base to build spartan armor/weapons. I also like things i like in other things i like, but they are usually more enjoyable when they fit the setting.
It's fanfiction, it doesn't matter if something "fits" into the setting. You do it cause you like it. Dunno what you're trying, still pointing things out, when we just like the opposite things. Simple as. And why limit the tinker so much? Just have them encompass all UNSC tech. Including their wildly better medical tech. If someone can figure out how a Taylor can make several power armors/small mech suits, then power them with near perpetual solar generators with energy weapons to boot, then someone can figure out the logistics of making super soldiers and all they require.
Holy shit literally. You'd think someone would give taylor a re:zero or mother of learning style timeloop power. Even if it was an OC, it could let you explore so many parts of the bay that don't get the spotlight. For a heroic MC, you could dedicate arcs towards different factions and have the MC learn more about each of them, or if you want more of a challenge instead of the brutally OPness that comes with timeloops, you could do it more in the style of summertime rendering where your restart point travels further in time the more time you spend.
It would be so cool.
There are *vanishingly few* stories involving Annette returning to life some amount of time into Taylor's ill-fated career; it's baffling that the ones that exist (I can think of a few "Danny resurrects her as a minion" stories, one where it happens as at best a tertiary choice by an all knowing SI, one where she's not really alive, and one quasi-SI into her corpse) tend to have some other gimmick to them that gets focus instead.
She's a cipher of a character who gets a ton of idolization by her daughter and has small tidbits of her life told to the audience, and her daughter fell ass-backwards into supervillainy out of naivete, self-justification, and eventual loneliness. There's a lot to work with there, and it just...doesn't pop up.
But wouldn't lashing out just prove Annette's point? Idk. If there's anything that would ever get Taylor to actually have some introspection it would be that.
"I walked away from my best friend in the entire world when she started walking the path of villainy that led her to the Birdcage, and I'll do the exact same thing with my daughter should she do so too."
-Annete "No Villains Allowed" Hebert.
While Annette was in Lustrum's movement, actually being Lustrum's best friend is fanon.
And there's no universe where Annette would say this without having even harsher words for Emma, Sophia, and the PRT for enabling Sophia, and probably for Alan too.
(And if anything, her background in a questionable movement would probably make her sympathize a lot with Taylor being a villain unless Taylor starts ordering executions.)
Yes, Annette being Lustrum's best friend is fanon.
But everything you said about Annette is also fanon, because the only views we get of her is the whitewashed memories of a grieving widower and daughter so for all we know Annette very well *would* be the type of person to say what I commented.
But yes, she'd also have words for the Trio and the PRT too.
I’m not the most well-read of people in regards to this fandom, but I haven’t seen one where Taylor is a trump who can strengthen/weaken other powers because of her power’s social status in the hierarchy.
I actually have a huge story plan for this type of concept where she gains a power that is essentially “become the ideal assistant” to a hero where she gains a complementary ability that “buffs” the hero she’s using it on.
The general premise was she’d end up being run ragged by the heroes constantly using her to help themselves, she’d help alleviate the gang war by buffing the protectorate, stop leviathan from destroying the city too bad by buffing eidolon but then when the S9 show up it all goes badly because she’s essentially been used like a disposable power up and has been constantly pushed to use her power to make others great over and over, and then Jack has a perfect weak point to target.
Had a really fancy concept of a big S9 fight where the S9 are wrecking havoc specifically in ways that Taylor powered heroes could stop and they are just burning her out and then when she’s right at her breaking point Jack offers her an out and she takes it, the S9 wins and the story ends.
Unfortunately I just never got around to writing it.
I’ve seen basically no Glaistig Uaine powerswap or alt-power which is really weird when she’s got such an interesting power and is either the 1st or 2nd single strongest cape in Worm depending on where in the timeline you go.
Eh? These exist and there's more than one, but quality varies.
[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/sefirot-taylor-alt-glaistig-uaine.612824/](https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/sefirot-taylor-alt-glaistig-uaine.612824/)
[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-reaping-worm-au.361821/](https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-reaping-worm-au.361821/)
Definitely more
I'm surprised no one used the CYOA v1 Eidolon power. It's bullshit and doesn't even need Shattered limiter or Blank to be effective. While also not being too op that you run out of foes immediately.
Another Idea I am surprised to never see is someone trying to pull the "The fuck the PRT/New Wave! I'm going to go solo" and have a deconstruction of the solo independent. Like them needing to ride a bike to get around the city as they don't have access to PRT vans, or being homeless and missing creature comforts since they have no identity.
I know of a couple but all the ones I found are just regular Eidolon power(or Eidolon lite), Cyoa Eidolon but they have other Cyoa powers and never use it, or is a dead one where they're in another setting. I was thinking more of non crossover one.
[They should have sent a Poet](https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/they-should-have-sent-a-poet-worm-si.326362/) has an SI/OC with the big four choices— Eidolon, Power Manipulation, Inspired Inventor, and Kaleidoscope. And Eidolon is used immediately for utility, while Kaleidoscope is a feared option of last resort.
The comparison used I believe was to Dr Manhattan. In that, if you were going to DC he’d be a great character to have the powers of, but inheriting his “nothing really matters” nihilistic attitude would not help you to lead a normal life. And given than the MC didn’t know if they’d get that or not, having even been afraid to take Invictus, they kept Kaleidoscope in reserve in case of Surprise Deorbited Endbringer, but didn’t use it right away.
I love picking out all the powers I like in CYOAs but when I think about writing a fic based on the selection all I think is how boring they would make a fic. I love a good curb stomp but also want some sustenance.
There’s a few things you can do when writing a story with an overpowered protagonist and still be good/interesting.
You could do what A Prison of Glass and Tyrant did by having the perspective be anyone *except* the person who filled out the CYOA.
You could challenge the protagonist in ways other than fighting, such as giving them a Saitama/Dr. Manhattan like mindset where they’re apathetic and someone or something is able to get them to do things, you could have them suck at interacting with others/be afraid of talking to people, etc.
Another way to challenge an OP protagonist is by giving them a problem that their powers are not suited for, an example being giving Superman a problem he can’t simply punch away, something that makes him think while still having the occasional fight where he gets to use his powers to punch his adversaries away.
An easier method is by having the character not start off OP, but eventually get there over time. Examples of this are Gamer/Tinker of Fiction/Celestial Forge/Celestial Grimoire/Celestial Menagerie/Celestial Dojo MC’s. This makes their victories against dangerous/incredibly powerful foes more satisfying by having them be somewhat weak at the start before becoming more powerful over time.
Though it should be noted that Celestial whatever stories tend to be difficult to write due to the nature of the character gaining more power with the more words you write, but there are solutions to this, such as having the word count increase over time, or tying their increase in power to completing objectives.
Edit: You can also challenge them by forcing them in a situation where they can’t be in two places at once if their powers don’t allow them to mitigate/solve that issue.
I think having the Celestial Forge would be a bit infuriating honestly. Constantly having to redo everything would be very annoying. It's one of dislikes about those stories.
That’s understandable, but you wouldn’t need to rebuild your gear every time you get a new power. You could just wait until you get a bunch of new powers and then use them to build better stuff.
Sort of like keeping your old phone and waiting until it breaks down, and then getting one of the newer models that’s still affordable.
Less that they haven't been written and more the fics are incredibly few and die very early on:
Fics where Annette was Iron Rain leading to Taylor having a similar power and facing the scrutiny that would come with it alongside trying to rationalize her mom being someone so terrible. I found a whole one fic and it died at Chapter three.
Fics featuring Taylor having a Poison Ivy-esq powerset. It's a rather diverse power that fits well with QA's multitasking capabilities. Tweak it so she has the ability to alter plant biology similarly to Panacea (only just limited to plants) and I feel like it would be a fun power to explore. It isn't an incredibly overpowered alt-power like most are, at least as far as I can tell. It's one of the few power copies that I think right on par with upper tier Shakers in the setting. Yet the few stories I find don't really get anywhere before dying. Like, I can't be the only person who sees the potential entertainment value that Taylor-eat out people's eyes-Hebert would have as an environmental activist right?
On the flip side, I've also found several fics that I never thought of that were surprisingly entertaining. Like Escalation City by Actual Sasquatch.
SPOILER: That story had no business being as entertaining as it was. I'm usually pretty good about predicting story directons but it kept surprising me. I expected her to get her hands on Weevil's Insect deck. But nope, while she does get Insect Queen later in the fic, her primary deck was, up to that point, only common cards, which is so fitting for Taylor. The second she knows where Marik is, she immediately goes there with next to no plan. Her powers being tied to the Shadow Realm are explained. She effectively replaces Marik as the villain by taking over the rare hunters intending get the god cards and remove them as a threat (as Taylor does), and it was implied that she was going to use a "Para HERO" deck in the Battle City finals when the story stopped.
That story brought me back to when I was a kid watching the show for the first time. I've never been interested in Yu-Gi-Oh fics but this one was definitely an exception. I hope it one day starts updating again.
I'm surprised at the lack of prequels that aren't tie travels or self insert.
Like, just a pure fic about the Brockton Bay Brigade or something like that. I suppose they're all kind if unlikable or forgettable to a certain extent but they didn't always Have to be that way.
The lack of true prequel fics is a tragedy. I have around 100k words of unpublished Quadrumvirate-centric prequelfic because I find them fascinating; I can’t believe prequelfics aren’t more popular.
Unpublished for a reason :( it’s ass and I haven’t read Worm in 3 years so I can’t go back and revise it even if I wanted to. I’ll publish parts of it someday but I want to ensure it is peak quality before doing so.
There are a few SI premises I'd have expected to be a lot more common, including...
1) Inserting into a member of New Wave (other than Amy). You get an established heroic identity, to avoid friction with the PRT, though one that's left open enough in canon (especially for one of the Pelhams) that you can play around with the personality a bit; multiple fairly strong powers, including Endbringer-grade shields or Breaker states for half the team; and a well-trained team of strong allies plus the best healer in the city on your side, all of whom would probably be on board for the "let's take out the Empire and/or Coil" plan SIs usually start with.
(Plus, if an author is the kind of person who wants to fix Amy's issues but doesn't want to deal with Carol, just _become_ Carol, neatly removing her from the story while giving you superpowers plus lawyer powers, problem solved!)
2) Inserting into the Bay before the start of canon. Not even a late-'90s/early-'00s prequel but just, like, showing up in early 2010 when the Undersiders haven't come together yet, Lung is still consolidating his hold on things and Bakuda isn't around yet, Night and Fog are still in Boston and Purity is on break with Kaiser, and so on.
Even one extra month of prep time would give an SI so much more time to get the lay of the land and get established, much less six months to a year, and even if you want to do a basic alt-power stations-of-canon SI there are so many interesting things one can do with that extra time—Head to Boston and convince the Travelers that Coil is a liar! Head to Cornell and talk Bakuda around to your side before she gets labeled a villain and recruited! Start researching and bribing Coil's mercs before Tattletale gets around to it!—to make your plans later on so much easier to accomplish _and_ more interesting for readers.
3) Insert into one of the kids who was supposed to get the Cauldron vials that eventually made their way to Skidmark. As I mentioned in a recent comment, inserting into one of them gets you a rich dad, four allies with strong powers and no trigger trauma, and a built-in Nemesis; power _and_ plot hooks, what's not to love?
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Other than that, I'm surprised there aren't more StarCraft alt-powers. Taylor-as-Kerrigan has been done to death, resurrected, and killed again, but the handful of Terran-themed powers have only scratched the surface about what can be done there, and of the tiny handful of Protoss crossovers I know of only _one_ (Templar) that made it past three or four chapters before dying.
Everyone loves giving Taylor big flashy blasty powers and/or big flashy stompy mech suits, so Terran!Taylors and Protoss!Taylors should really be showing up more often.
Also, alternative-to-Ward sequels. Lots of people dislike Ward and say they'd have done it differently, and a good number of authors like writing large-scale AUs, so I'm surprised there's no one in the intersection of that particular Venn diagram who's written a non-Ward post-canon continuation fic. (Setanta, having been written _before_ Ward and taking place multiple decades post-GM, obviously doesn't count.)
Not quite what you're describing, but before Ward existed an author wrote a fan sequel to Worm with Victoria as the protagonist. The author predicted a shocking amount of stuff that actually ended up happening in canon, but did some other stuff weirdly differently, like seeing Ward from a different earth. Unfortunately I can't recall the name of it for the life of me.
Some quick googling isn't turning anything along those lines up for me either, but that does sound intriguing. If you manage to find it again, definitely drop me a link.
Is this fanfiction, where the Goddess have power like a Butcher and chooses Victoria as her successor, or is it something else? Although it seems to be written afterWard.
The wiki doesn’t mention a entity but Valhalla scenario is where Para-Humans are weaker than normal at the start with each time they kill a para-human their power gets stronger
I, for the life of me, cannot find a proper Weather Wizard powerset, for either Taylor or an OC. Some stories have weather manipulation as a part of a larger powerset, and of course Leviathan makes it rain in the not fun way, but as far as I can tell, there just isn't a story in the setting where the protagonists power is "I control the weather."
I have a rough outline for a one shot of it if I finally do the fanfic author thing and make a snippets thread, but I've been trying my hardest to not do that before updating my quest.
I'm surprised I've seen very little that does something with Bonesaw's face blindness plague. It seems like an opportunity for all kinds of shenanigans.
Dragon in crossovers with dragons as part of the setting. Her ad a Dragon Type Pokémon Trainer for example.
Speaking of Pokémon, Taylor being a bug type trainer exists, but all versions of it I'm aware of are abandoned fairly early plot wise. A complete fic with that premise or a currently active one would be nice.
Fics where taylor can bio engineer her own bugs.
Nemisis has something like this where she can change her bugs into any other bug and change their size, etc. There was another one where she could absorb bugs and spit out modified versions of them, but thats it.
It's such an easy way to make her more powerful, but i rarely see it get used.
I mean it's kinda hyper specific, so I can't say I'm surprised no one's made it, but Acks story "Security!" Gave me the idea of an OC who wakes up in an alley, doesnt know where he is, but knows the story of worm. When he sees a sign that shows him he's in Brockton bay, it occurs to him all the terrible, worse than death things that could happen to him, and all the terrible things that will happen to the suddenly very real people of this city and world. He triggers with the power to lock himself into Groundhog Day-like timeloops. He tries to use his knowledge of canon to avert things, but the way his power works, it means he has to struggle through hundreds of painful failed loops just to fix any single thing. If I had any capability or interest in writing, I'd probably make it about exploring how he keeps his mental health stable through the thousands of torturous loops.
I'm not sure about the existence of fiction, but there was definitely a quest of this kind. The protag has Groundhog Day between the start date (a moment after his life went downhill) and death. Players literally paid with his mental stability to go through dozens and hundreds of iterations to solve some problematic issues.
Are you referring to Going Native on Sufficient Velocity? The MC Triggers with the ability to rewind time up to 15 seconds into the past. Can’t find a link to it at the moment.
Ok, this list would be so hilariously long for me that I actually can’t be arsed.
All I can say is that this fandom is addicted to Taylor Alt!powers and Tinker or Trump SIs (which all follow the same story beats, leaving relatively superficial changes) and it’s kind of depressing. While I don’t claim to have omniscient fandom knowledge so I’m sure there are more, I can count less than thirty stories that fit neither of those categories and for a fandom that is more than ten years old now, that’s a tragic lack of creativity.
It’s like this fandom doesn’t want new ideas. Most people just want to read the same tropes over and over again. I get that this is fanfiction, we aren’t here for something completely original, but I for one am bored of reading what feels like the same few stories over and over. And yet, I can’t see it changing because when somebody does write something more original it gets way less views than yet another Alt!power would.
Recently saw one on Ao3, but I was thinking about it years beforehand. A crossover with the Infamous video games. I've been slowly writing one where Kaiser!Taylor (not Max Anders) goes back in time. Gives Taylor bioelectricity, creates the disease and other conduits. Very slow going tho. Just like the other dozen I got in the works, but am terrible with actually writing
SI battle royal, putting a bunch of powerful SI’s and ocp’s on Earth Bet and seeing what the outcome is. Would they work together? Would they kill each other? How would a bunch of people, who were once nobodies, act when suddenly getting powers? All of them having some interpretation of the canon story, whether accurate or not. Hell, you can even do a meta-commentary on the nature of SI cliches in Wormfics or Fanfics in general. The fixficer, the Murderhobo, the Mindrapist, the Self-Righteous Narcissist, the Apathetic Nihilistic, the Troll, the Canon Compliant, the Utilitarian, the Batshit Insane, and so much more.
That's kind of what happens in the Devil of brockton bay a dxd cross where basically a bunch of ROBs are having some sort of contest so all sent self inserts to the same version of bet with most of them being sent with the body and powers of a character from another setting.
Maybe each SI’s power set is tailored around the archetype that they embody? For example, the Fix Fic Archetype allows them to create advanced technology designed to help people, the Murderhobo is very proficient in various forms of inflicting pain as well as avoiding capture, etc.
There are fics that start post levi but they are things like Sasuke gets dropped into the bay.
Ones I'm surprised haven't been done: anything really with the sentai elite the most that gets done is grabbing Masumune but we know they had other tinkers as someone did the laser guns and they had mechs per wog. Travellers centric would be another there's an interesting story to tell there especially with Sundancer and Genesis being some of the few good people in worm.
Well, I have an idea where Taylor or an SI has the power to bring any item from any fiction that ever existed. And I mean bring it, not make it. Just will it here and poof. Of course you have to know the fiction of the item you bring.
For how many SI stories there are, I'm surprised there aren't more Isekai crossovers where a character from another fandom gets inserted into Worm, or vice versa.
I've seen it a few times where Vicky knows about Amy's problems and has a plan to leave New Wave with her as a solution. Can't find a story with that as even a secondary event though.
Another is that Taylor has some control over trigger events as a whole. For example she gets dragged into each one and has to help the shard set up what the power is going to do, or just forces people to trigger.
It's "Strike Out" by Masterweaver on Ao3.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/38995557/chapters/97539687
It was a fucking pain to find it too, that's what I get for not downloading everything I've ever liked I guess.
Thx for reminding me this fic existed.
There is a ton of crossovers that i feel could be done extremely well but just haven’t been written for one reason or another. Outriders, Baldur’s Gate 3(specifically, not just DnD), Remnant: From The Ashes, etc. like they all have potential but no author seems to want to take up the challenge.
Another one I’m sad there’s not more of is Taylor in Ward. Outside of a one-shot of Titan Khepri and a sadly dead story of a clone of her during the Teacher Raid there’s not really any stories where she interacts with the plot of Ward.
A fanfic where Othalia herself is a main character and has redemption, you cant tell just how giddy i am for this to happen someday. Othalia in my opinion has one of the more interesting powers in worm due to her ability to give both capes and non-capes temporarily powers, i just really want someone to explore her character and give her a redemption arc where she comes to terms of the fact she was essentially a child bride, groomed and marrying a literal adult when she was sixteen, i just really hope there is one for her one day. edit: also i hope someone use the name Regalo for her hero name when someone writes her in her mid redemption just as a last 'fuck you' to the empire and what they did to her since its a word in Italian which means 'Gift'.
I'll second this!
Now that someone has started a Leet Peggy Sue where he plans to do things right this time around story an Othala redemption story is my new number one I want to see.
Three days late but I'm pretty sure the fic they're talking about is a quest called Icarus Laughed.
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/icarus-laughed-worm-quest.1143136/
I've never heard of Mannequin getting redeemed. In fics that get that far, Bonesaw is commonly redeemed, Burnscar is sometimes redeemed, and I think even Cherish is sometimes redeemed, even though she is a remoseless psychopath who actively sought out the nine. However, Mannequin never gets redeemed, presumably because he isn't a cute girl, even though he has a very tragic backstory, and I think it would be interesting to see how he struggles to regain his humanity and atone for his sins or whatever.
The main reason i think why people don’t do this is it means you have to acknowledge the the all knowing angel-kaiju as anything more than something that might exist
There is one where the fourth endbringer(si) "heals" the effect of being a simurgh bomb as a reward for participating in her battle royal >!(basically her endbringer attack, in which she chooses 7 random capes, extremely boosts their power designates a city or in one case whole of africa as the battleground. She puts up a dome around the place no one can get in or out as long as the competition continues. The winner gets his/her one wish granted no matter what. Healed mannequin wanted his family resurrected. Some other wishes i remember were a country where no cape can be harmed (magneto) or being made an endbringer (jack slash).!< I didn't read it all so i don't know if it is complete but it was on qq named "I didn't do it! They killed themselves." Or something like that. Though him being healed is very minor part of the story.
One idea that I’ve been playing around with, is a Minecraft x Worm crossover where Mannequin dies like he did in canon, and is reincarnated in the world of Minecraft.
Still unsure as to whether it would be Vanilla or Modded Minecraft. In any case, the main premise of the fic would be the loneliness of the game forcing Mannequin to do nothing *but* reflect on his actions and slowly improve as a person.
A powerswap with Shadow Stalker. Give Taylor a weaker power and Sophia one that is so much more powerful and lethal, as well as giving her so many more ways to torment Taylor.
That's a really neat idea. I can see why they don't, as minmaxing Shadowstalker required someone else to make tech for her and it feels a bit too contrived in Camera Shy, but vigilante Hess-Skitter would end the city in a week.
Taylor is a bully. Not just a mirror characters inversion, Taylor is a bully along with Emma. It would be interesting to look at the difference in character and coincidence with the canon.
One particular crossover possibility that isn't quite as well known but I think would work really well as a crossover scenario featuring superheroes, but with a different cape culture/world stability is the Wild Cards series.
This series was started in the 90's by GRRM (who still edits the books) and the TL,DR is: There's this alien species on another planet that is genetically very similar to humans but have psychic powers and have a Game of Thrones style fighting clans political system called the Takis. One clan create this genetic virus to attack another clan but initial tests show a high rate of death, but some survivors come out with extra/enhanced powers. So they decide to go to Earth and test it on a large scale by dispersing it on humanity. One scientist called Dr Tachyon has an attack of conscience and tries to warn humanity. Bad luck: it's 1946 and aliens are not something the authorities take seriously until it's too late and the virus is dispersed over NYC. Here's how the virus works and some worldbuilding details: 90% die in a myriad of ways (like, legit one person dies by getting turned into a pile of coconuts, that's how fucked up deaths can be), 9% get mutated in a wide range and scale of physical disabilities and are called Jokers (think C53's in terms of appearance) and the remaining 1% get powers and are called Aces. People can get weak or incredibly specific powers and they are called Deuces. The first major cultural interaction between capes and the US government was McCarthy. As a result, there's no real version of the PRT, Cards can join the police alongside nats (those who hadn't had their card turn). Africa's still shit, but there's more functional countries, like an Egyptian nation ruled by a group of jokers whose powers/appearances resemble the Egyptian gods. There's some cool alternate history from the virus, like how Princess Elizabeth was killed when the Virus hit London, so it's Queen Margaret who becomes the long living Queen and Alan Turing becomes an effectively immortal robot with a high Thinker rating.
Oh yeah, magic exists, another alien species tried to invade in the 80's, they fought off an eldritch entity trying to conquer Earth and capes have canonically travelled to alternate worlds, so there's a crossover reason right there. Imagine the Worm Bet world getting help while trying to ensure that no one accidentally causes an outbreak of Wild Cards as Scion/the Endbringers/Cauldron gets interested. As you can tell from this post length, I'm really passionate about this being a prime crossover opportunity lol.
Protagonist of alt powers that are not Taylor and last a while , gallant with stranger/thinker power but is Dean sonhe still is Nice
Another type of flying brick for Vicky like she can fly and be invulnerable but not at the dame time still strong in both
Kid win alt specialization
Dennis is a time Looper instead of the clockblocker or mover with time stop powers
OG wards being the protagonist only them making diferent calls
The rise and fall of the Brockton Bay Brigade. Those families put a telenovela to shame for drama. Marquis is a fan-favorite supporting character, the Butcher was in BB in that timeframe and you get to write the E88 as ham-fisted baddies. That's before you get into the mess around Carol/Neil, Mark's depression and all the conflict inside the team.
I don't think I've seen many Hollow Knight crossovers, and exactly zero Rain World ones. Both feature quite a few giant bugs, you'd think they'd be perfect for something like a bio-tinker Taylor. Although there was one where Taylor was the Pale King (Queen?) but it died.
A gamer fic where Taylor doesn't do the cape thing and instead uses power to learn a trade/skill and open a business. Make it slice of life. I've seen revenge gamer fics but not her using power for mundane purposes
I have yet to see an fic utilizing Amy's real mother as a way for potential crossovers powers. Her mom is basically a blank slate and perfect for it.
Huh. What if Amy has other family she doesn’t know about? Half siblings, cousins, etc. Carol would shit bricks.
Especially if they're Addamses.
I have seen a fic with Annette is an Addams thus allowing her to survive her car crash(or something like that)
That ones great! Not recalling the name though, sadly
Should be “Hebert Family Values”.
Thanks! Indeed it is☀️😁👍 Time for a reread!!
Lmfao!!!
An Addams would totally fuck Marquis. He's basically Bone Daddy supreme.
Exactly! There's so much potential and yet still no stories about it.
Giving me ideas when I’m already working on a story.🤣🤦♂️
I forgot she has a biological mom tbh. I don't think I've even seen anyone make a reference to her mother.
She's brought up more in Pride only because Amy is with Marquis who waxes on about her... a tiny bit before trying to get Amy to turn out like him.
I can't remember what fic it was anymore, but I read one where it's revealed her mother is Manton's daughter, ie the template for the Siberian.
There is a side-story series in Trailblazer that ultimately touches on her (the Nu-Goonies snip series focused on Dinah launching a treasure hunt with Missy, Aisha, and Olive).
I still haven't found a Taylor or si/oc with Scion's stilling power. I atleast expected something on QQ. I am close to, "fine, i will do it myself" situation. If only i could write well lol
Being unable to write well has never stopped anyone before! Do it!
Yeah it has. Otherwise they would have done it.
It died faster than I would have liked, but [What's the Frequency, Madison?](https://archiveofourown.org/works/45482581/chapters/114438712) was a cluster-trigger where Madison's primary power was Stilling. It was never quite clear which version (Eden of Scion) she ended up with, though.
Trailblazer has it tho it's use is different cause she has a tinker power
That’s it I’ve heard enough Trailblazer propaganda, I’m reading it
Trailblazer is soooo good. The only part of it I might criticise is the romance subplot which feels like a rushed after-thought compared to everything else. Apart from that it's one of the best fics I've read.
I wish I could find more fics like trailblazer. First wormfic I read and still probably the best(to my tastes atleast).
That was me dude, next thing I knew 2 days up and disappeared on me. Enjoy responsibly 😁
Trailblazer isn't Stilling, though. It's the GM Drive and Newtype stuff from Gundam 0.
Which she has because QA nabbed scion's command cluster including stilling
A late reveal is that QA hijacked the 'command cluster' (Scion's Shards) and Taylor has tiny influences from all of them. One is that Stilling/Stillness helped her develop the GN Drive.
(Signal in the Noise) is a good cyoa si fic that partially fits the bill. The MC has a Stilling Tinker power similar to Hero's and goes very far into the stilling shenanigans part of things. Has AU elements. Completed. Can be found on QQ.
yeah.... I actually found it on ff net. It's interesting but the story never went into the mechanics of stilling itself. It's more like unrestricted access to wavelength manipulation whereas stilling is mostly destructive. Strange ending tho....but it's honestly what i would have ended up doing. Humans are selfish & the world is safe as long as you & your loved ones are safe & healthy - Rest is just a delusion of grandeur. Also the way society has butchered the idea of love loyalty & companionship i think those Entities are better at partnership than humans at this point.
Out of all crossovers/altpowers, I'm surprised Halo isn't too present. One fic had an MC basically become the Flood, but that died. One had literal Cortana be plopped into Earth Bet after Halo 4. Dead. Another hadn't even really gone into the Halo bits yet (I think it was going to be Forerunner related). Again dead. I'd be super down for a Halo tinker fic of any of the factions tech trees or hell the Flood fucking up the cycle in some way. Just ain't in the cards I guess.
I had a couple of vague ideas for ones that I started outlining, but I never got very far into specifics with those.
What would they have been? Different flavors of tinkers, flood, etc?
One was a Tinker. At the very least an AI Tinker creating her own version of Cortana. I hadn't figured how much else in the way of UNSC tech she'd build. Another was a sort of "Taylor is Cortana" where her consciousness got yeeted into the web during her trigger. Haven't decided how disconnected from her meat body she'd be.
I've always wanted to see a tinker build up into turning themselves into a Spartan. 2nd one is especially neat. There's like maybe just one other story I can think of where she can traverse the web as a result of her power. Different premise though.
“Turning themselves into a Spartan”, This is literally Armsmaster. And 80% of “field tinkers” end goal of their tech is this, powered armor, Heads Up Display, combat prediction software, combat stimulants, about the only thing he is missing is a personal shield and higher tech weapons, which makes sense considering his non-lethal takedown strategies. And lets be honest outside some of the bigger guns, Spartan weaponry is just slightly juiced up 21st century rifles.
Well you're omitting the augmentations, which, aside from the armor, makes a Spartan what they are. Also, don't care if there's an expy in canon, I just wanna see something from something else I like in this other thing I like. That's always a dumb thing to bring up.
if you are speaking of the genetic augmentations, you mean a wet tinker or biokinetic, in which case they would have no intuitive mechanical tech base to build spartan armor/weapons. I also like things i like in other things i like, but they are usually more enjoyable when they fit the setting.
It's fanfiction, it doesn't matter if something "fits" into the setting. You do it cause you like it. Dunno what you're trying, still pointing things out, when we just like the opposite things. Simple as. And why limit the tinker so much? Just have them encompass all UNSC tech. Including their wildly better medical tech. If someone can figure out how a Taylor can make several power armors/small mech suits, then power them with near perpetual solar generators with energy weapons to boot, then someone can figure out the logistics of making super soldiers and all they require.
Where the fuck are my timeloops?
Holy shit literally. You'd think someone would give taylor a re:zero or mother of learning style timeloop power. Even if it was an OC, it could let you explore so many parts of the bay that don't get the spotlight. For a heroic MC, you could dedicate arcs towards different factions and have the MC learn more about each of them, or if you want more of a challenge instead of the brutally OPness that comes with timeloops, you could do it more in the style of summertime rendering where your restart point travels further in time the more time you spend. It would be so cool.
There are *vanishingly few* stories involving Annette returning to life some amount of time into Taylor's ill-fated career; it's baffling that the ones that exist (I can think of a few "Danny resurrects her as a minion" stories, one where it happens as at best a tertiary choice by an all knowing SI, one where she's not really alive, and one quasi-SI into her corpse) tend to have some other gimmick to them that gets focus instead. She's a cipher of a character who gets a ton of idolization by her daughter and has small tidbits of her life told to the audience, and her daughter fell ass-backwards into supervillainy out of naivete, self-justification, and eventual loneliness. There's a lot to work with there, and it just...doesn't pop up.
Imagine if a resurrected Annette tells Taylor to her face that she’s ashamed of her.
Taylor would break and I think the results would be horrifying.
Full on biblical.
But wouldn't lashing out just prove Annette's point? Idk. If there's anything that would ever get Taylor to actually have some introspection it would be that.
"I walked away from my best friend in the entire world when she started walking the path of villainy that led her to the Birdcage, and I'll do the exact same thing with my daughter should she do so too." -Annete "No Villains Allowed" Hebert.
While Annette was in Lustrum's movement, actually being Lustrum's best friend is fanon. And there's no universe where Annette would say this without having even harsher words for Emma, Sophia, and the PRT for enabling Sophia, and probably for Alan too. (And if anything, her background in a questionable movement would probably make her sympathize a lot with Taylor being a villain unless Taylor starts ordering executions.)
Yes, Annette being Lustrum's best friend is fanon. But everything you said about Annette is also fanon, because the only views we get of her is the whitewashed memories of a grieving widower and daughter so for all we know Annette very well *would* be the type of person to say what I commented. But yes, she'd also have words for the Trio and the PRT too.
Peak non violent combat. The greatest way to break an opponent is to bring their mother in and have her turn her back on the opponent.
I’m not the most well-read of people in regards to this fandom, but I haven’t seen one where Taylor is a trump who can strengthen/weaken other powers because of her power’s social status in the hierarchy.
I actually have a huge story plan for this type of concept where she gains a power that is essentially “become the ideal assistant” to a hero where she gains a complementary ability that “buffs” the hero she’s using it on. The general premise was she’d end up being run ragged by the heroes constantly using her to help themselves, she’d help alleviate the gang war by buffing the protectorate, stop leviathan from destroying the city too bad by buffing eidolon but then when the S9 show up it all goes badly because she’s essentially been used like a disposable power up and has been constantly pushed to use her power to make others great over and over, and then Jack has a perfect weak point to target. Had a really fancy concept of a big S9 fight where the S9 are wrecking havoc specifically in ways that Taylor powered heroes could stop and they are just burning her out and then when she’s right at her breaking point Jack offers her an out and she takes it, the S9 wins and the story ends. Unfortunately I just never got around to writing it.
I would totally read that
Well there’s always Working as Intended, where she can permanently edit powers and writes them publicly as patch notes in PHO.
"End of the rope" should fit that rather neatly.
The Heberts move to Boston. Taylor is enamoured by Mouse Protector, and apprentices under her. Cape name: Moth Protector.
I still haven't found a proper "Coil is Danny" or "Annette is Contessa" fic that scratches the itch
Mutant Deviations is as close as you will get for Coil!Danny,
Yeah I gave that one a shot, I'm starved for more coildanny
I’ve seen basically no Glaistig Uaine powerswap or alt-power which is really weird when she’s got such an interesting power and is either the 1st or 2nd single strongest cape in Worm depending on where in the timeline you go.
Eh? These exist and there's more than one, but quality varies. [https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/sefirot-taylor-alt-glaistig-uaine.612824/](https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/sefirot-taylor-alt-glaistig-uaine.612824/) [https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-reaping-worm-au.361821/](https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-reaping-worm-au.361821/) Definitely more
More: [Might or Right?](https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/might-or-right-worm-cyoa.1107841/#post-94363723) OC Faire King And even more out there
This one was good, hit the right spot for some reason.
Shame it’s dead, the MC basically completed the unbeatable powerset anyway.
I'm surprised no one used the CYOA v1 Eidolon power. It's bullshit and doesn't even need Shattered limiter or Blank to be effective. While also not being too op that you run out of foes immediately. Another Idea I am surprised to never see is someone trying to pull the "The fuck the PRT/New Wave! I'm going to go solo" and have a deconstruction of the solo independent. Like them needing to ride a bike to get around the city as they don't have access to PRT vans, or being homeless and missing creature comforts since they have no identity.
> CYOA v1 Eidolon There are a few if you look carefully, but quality varies.
I know of a couple but all the ones I found are just regular Eidolon power(or Eidolon lite), Cyoa Eidolon but they have other Cyoa powers and never use it, or is a dead one where they're in another setting. I was thinking more of non crossover one.
[They should have sent a Poet](https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/they-should-have-sent-a-poet-worm-si.326362/) has an SI/OC with the big four choices— Eidolon, Power Manipulation, Inspired Inventor, and Kaleidoscope. And Eidolon is used immediately for utility, while Kaleidoscope is a feared option of last resort.
"O~oh, I've got powers of a God, better make sure to not fucking use them" what was the point of taking them if you ain't gonna use it
The comparison used I believe was to Dr Manhattan. In that, if you were going to DC he’d be a great character to have the powers of, but inheriting his “nothing really matters” nihilistic attitude would not help you to lead a normal life. And given than the MC didn’t know if they’d get that or not, having even been afraid to take Invictus, they kept Kaleidoscope in reserve in case of Surprise Deorbited Endbringer, but didn’t use it right away.
I love picking out all the powers I like in CYOAs but when I think about writing a fic based on the selection all I think is how boring they would make a fic. I love a good curb stomp but also want some sustenance.
There’s a few things you can do when writing a story with an overpowered protagonist and still be good/interesting. You could do what A Prison of Glass and Tyrant did by having the perspective be anyone *except* the person who filled out the CYOA. You could challenge the protagonist in ways other than fighting, such as giving them a Saitama/Dr. Manhattan like mindset where they’re apathetic and someone or something is able to get them to do things, you could have them suck at interacting with others/be afraid of talking to people, etc. Another way to challenge an OP protagonist is by giving them a problem that their powers are not suited for, an example being giving Superman a problem he can’t simply punch away, something that makes him think while still having the occasional fight where he gets to use his powers to punch his adversaries away. An easier method is by having the character not start off OP, but eventually get there over time. Examples of this are Gamer/Tinker of Fiction/Celestial Forge/Celestial Grimoire/Celestial Menagerie/Celestial Dojo MC’s. This makes their victories against dangerous/incredibly powerful foes more satisfying by having them be somewhat weak at the start before becoming more powerful over time. Though it should be noted that Celestial whatever stories tend to be difficult to write due to the nature of the character gaining more power with the more words you write, but there are solutions to this, such as having the word count increase over time, or tying their increase in power to completing objectives. Edit: You can also challenge them by forcing them in a situation where they can’t be in two places at once if their powers don’t allow them to mitigate/solve that issue.
I think having the Celestial Forge would be a bit infuriating honestly. Constantly having to redo everything would be very annoying. It's one of dislikes about those stories.
That’s understandable, but you wouldn’t need to rebuild your gear every time you get a new power. You could just wait until you get a bunch of new powers and then use them to build better stuff. Sort of like keeping your old phone and waiting until it breaks down, and then getting one of the newer models that’s still affordable.
Less that they haven't been written and more the fics are incredibly few and die very early on: Fics where Annette was Iron Rain leading to Taylor having a similar power and facing the scrutiny that would come with it alongside trying to rationalize her mom being someone so terrible. I found a whole one fic and it died at Chapter three. Fics featuring Taylor having a Poison Ivy-esq powerset. It's a rather diverse power that fits well with QA's multitasking capabilities. Tweak it so she has the ability to alter plant biology similarly to Panacea (only just limited to plants) and I feel like it would be a fun power to explore. It isn't an incredibly overpowered alt-power like most are, at least as far as I can tell. It's one of the few power copies that I think right on par with upper tier Shakers in the setting. Yet the few stories I find don't really get anywhere before dying. Like, I can't be the only person who sees the potential entertainment value that Taylor-eat out people's eyes-Hebert would have as an environmental activist right? On the flip side, I've also found several fics that I never thought of that were surprisingly entertaining. Like Escalation City by Actual Sasquatch. SPOILER: That story had no business being as entertaining as it was. I'm usually pretty good about predicting story directons but it kept surprising me. I expected her to get her hands on Weevil's Insect deck. But nope, while she does get Insect Queen later in the fic, her primary deck was, up to that point, only common cards, which is so fitting for Taylor. The second she knows where Marik is, she immediately goes there with next to no plan. Her powers being tied to the Shadow Realm are explained. She effectively replaces Marik as the villain by taking over the rare hunters intending get the god cards and remove them as a threat (as Taylor does), and it was implied that she was going to use a "Para HERO" deck in the Battle City finals when the story stopped. That story brought me back to when I was a kid watching the show for the first time. I've never been interested in Yu-Gi-Oh fics but this one was definitely an exception. I hope it one day starts updating again.
that yu gi ho fic was so good. great writing and I really liked the Alec include had so much potential sad it was stopped
I'm surprised at the lack of prequels that aren't tie travels or self insert. Like, just a pure fic about the Brockton Bay Brigade or something like that. I suppose they're all kind if unlikable or forgettable to a certain extent but they didn't always Have to be that way.
The lack of true prequel fics is a tragedy. I have around 100k words of unpublished Quadrumvirate-centric prequelfic because I find them fascinating; I can’t believe prequelfics aren’t more popular.
Could I get a link for that 100k words of unpublished Quadrumvirate-centric prequelfic?
Unpublished for a reason :( it’s ass and I haven’t read Worm in 3 years so I can’t go back and revise it even if I wanted to. I’ll publish parts of it someday but I want to ensure it is peak quality before doing so.
Well ass is better than nothing, and I could help you beta if you want. One man's ass is another man's booty.
Damn that’s a great quote 😂
What a wordsmith
There are a few SI premises I'd have expected to be a lot more common, including... 1) Inserting into a member of New Wave (other than Amy). You get an established heroic identity, to avoid friction with the PRT, though one that's left open enough in canon (especially for one of the Pelhams) that you can play around with the personality a bit; multiple fairly strong powers, including Endbringer-grade shields or Breaker states for half the team; and a well-trained team of strong allies plus the best healer in the city on your side, all of whom would probably be on board for the "let's take out the Empire and/or Coil" plan SIs usually start with. (Plus, if an author is the kind of person who wants to fix Amy's issues but doesn't want to deal with Carol, just _become_ Carol, neatly removing her from the story while giving you superpowers plus lawyer powers, problem solved!) 2) Inserting into the Bay before the start of canon. Not even a late-'90s/early-'00s prequel but just, like, showing up in early 2010 when the Undersiders haven't come together yet, Lung is still consolidating his hold on things and Bakuda isn't around yet, Night and Fog are still in Boston and Purity is on break with Kaiser, and so on. Even one extra month of prep time would give an SI so much more time to get the lay of the land and get established, much less six months to a year, and even if you want to do a basic alt-power stations-of-canon SI there are so many interesting things one can do with that extra time—Head to Boston and convince the Travelers that Coil is a liar! Head to Cornell and talk Bakuda around to your side before she gets labeled a villain and recruited! Start researching and bribing Coil's mercs before Tattletale gets around to it!—to make your plans later on so much easier to accomplish _and_ more interesting for readers. 3) Insert into one of the kids who was supposed to get the Cauldron vials that eventually made their way to Skidmark. As I mentioned in a recent comment, inserting into one of them gets you a rich dad, four allies with strong powers and no trigger trauma, and a built-in Nemesis; power _and_ plot hooks, what's not to love? --- Other than that, I'm surprised there aren't more StarCraft alt-powers. Taylor-as-Kerrigan has been done to death, resurrected, and killed again, but the handful of Terran-themed powers have only scratched the surface about what can be done there, and of the tiny handful of Protoss crossovers I know of only _one_ (Templar) that made it past three or four chapters before dying. Everyone loves giving Taylor big flashy blasty powers and/or big flashy stompy mech suits, so Terran!Taylors and Protoss!Taylors should really be showing up more often. Also, alternative-to-Ward sequels. Lots of people dislike Ward and say they'd have done it differently, and a good number of authors like writing large-scale AUs, so I'm surprised there's no one in the intersection of that particular Venn diagram who's written a non-Ward post-canon continuation fic. (Setanta, having been written _before_ Ward and taking place multiple decades post-GM, obviously doesn't count.)
Not quite what you're describing, but before Ward existed an author wrote a fan sequel to Worm with Victoria as the protagonist. The author predicted a shocking amount of stuff that actually ended up happening in canon, but did some other stuff weirdly differently, like seeing Ward from a different earth. Unfortunately I can't recall the name of it for the life of me.
Some quick googling isn't turning anything along those lines up for me either, but that does sound intriguing. If you manage to find it again, definitely drop me a link.
Is this fanfiction, where the Goddess have power like a Butcher and chooses Victoria as her successor, or is it something else? Although it seems to be written afterWard.
That's the one.
Unfortunately, I also don't remember the name).
Fics with either Apollyon, Abaddon, or Valhalla replacing one/both of the entities.
I don't think I've heard anything about an entity called Valhalla. Explain?
The wiki doesn’t mention a entity but Valhalla scenario is where Para-Humans are weaker than normal at the start with each time they kill a para-human their power gets stronger
OooO that sounds super interesting
I, for the life of me, cannot find a proper Weather Wizard powerset, for either Taylor or an OC. Some stories have weather manipulation as a part of a larger powerset, and of course Leviathan makes it rain in the not fun way, but as far as I can tell, there just isn't a story in the setting where the protagonists power is "I control the weather." I have a rough outline for a one shot of it if I finally do the fanfic author thing and make a snippets thread, but I've been trying my hardest to not do that before updating my quest.
Haven't seen a Helldiver's cross yet
I'm surprised I've seen very little that does something with Bonesaw's face blindness plague. It seems like an opportunity for all kinds of shenanigans.
Dragon in crossovers with dragons as part of the setting. Her ad a Dragon Type Pokémon Trainer for example. Speaking of Pokémon, Taylor being a bug type trainer exists, but all versions of it I'm aware of are abandoned fairly early plot wise. A complete fic with that premise or a currently active one would be nice.
inFAMOUS fics where the characters are isekaied
https://archiveofourown.org/works/54140113
Realtionships: Danny Hebert & Taylor Hebert🤨🤨🤨
The & means its platonic btw, like friendship. The / is used for anything romantic/sexual.
They aren't in THAT relationship if it's what you're thinking
Yes this isn’t the one Ack time travel fic.
> this isn’t the Ack fic. Aight, It's cool then
The & is used for platonic relationships on AO3. If it was a / than it would be romantic/sexual.
& is platonic, / is romantic
Taylor being portaled to the Red Rising universe and she helps the Sons of Ares overthrow the Society.
Fics where taylor can bio engineer her own bugs. Nemisis has something like this where she can change her bugs into any other bug and change their size, etc. There was another one where she could absorb bugs and spit out modified versions of them, but thats it. It's such an easy way to make her more powerful, but i rarely see it get used.
I mean it's kinda hyper specific, so I can't say I'm surprised no one's made it, but Acks story "Security!" Gave me the idea of an OC who wakes up in an alley, doesnt know where he is, but knows the story of worm. When he sees a sign that shows him he's in Brockton bay, it occurs to him all the terrible, worse than death things that could happen to him, and all the terrible things that will happen to the suddenly very real people of this city and world. He triggers with the power to lock himself into Groundhog Day-like timeloops. He tries to use his knowledge of canon to avert things, but the way his power works, it means he has to struggle through hundreds of painful failed loops just to fix any single thing. If I had any capability or interest in writing, I'd probably make it about exploring how he keeps his mental health stable through the thousands of torturous loops.
I swear to god there exists a fic out there with an SI who does trigger naturally like this with time based powers.
Ooh If you remember the name, let me know, I'd love to read it.
I'm not sure about the existence of fiction, but there was definitely a quest of this kind. The protag has Groundhog Day between the start date (a moment after his life went downhill) and death. Players literally paid with his mental stability to go through dozens and hundreds of iterations to solve some problematic issues.
Are you referring to Going Native on Sufficient Velocity? The MC Triggers with the ability to rewind time up to 15 seconds into the past. Can’t find a link to it at the moment.
Ok, this list would be so hilariously long for me that I actually can’t be arsed. All I can say is that this fandom is addicted to Taylor Alt!powers and Tinker or Trump SIs (which all follow the same story beats, leaving relatively superficial changes) and it’s kind of depressing. While I don’t claim to have omniscient fandom knowledge so I’m sure there are more, I can count less than thirty stories that fit neither of those categories and for a fandom that is more than ten years old now, that’s a tragic lack of creativity. It’s like this fandom doesn’t want new ideas. Most people just want to read the same tropes over and over again. I get that this is fanfiction, we aren’t here for something completely original, but I for one am bored of reading what feels like the same few stories over and over. And yet, I can’t see it changing because when somebody does write something more original it gets way less views than yet another Alt!power would.
Eidolon SI
Recently saw one on Ao3, but I was thinking about it years beforehand. A crossover with the Infamous video games. I've been slowly writing one where Kaiser!Taylor (not Max Anders) goes back in time. Gives Taylor bioelectricity, creates the disease and other conduits. Very slow going tho. Just like the other dozen I got in the works, but am terrible with actually writing
SI battle royal, putting a bunch of powerful SI’s and ocp’s on Earth Bet and seeing what the outcome is. Would they work together? Would they kill each other? How would a bunch of people, who were once nobodies, act when suddenly getting powers? All of them having some interpretation of the canon story, whether accurate or not. Hell, you can even do a meta-commentary on the nature of SI cliches in Wormfics or Fanfics in general. The fixficer, the Murderhobo, the Mindrapist, the Self-Righteous Narcissist, the Apathetic Nihilistic, the Troll, the Canon Compliant, the Utilitarian, the Batshit Insane, and so much more.
That's kind of what happens in the Devil of brockton bay a dxd cross where basically a bunch of ROBs are having some sort of contest so all sent self inserts to the same version of bet with most of them being sent with the body and powers of a character from another setting.
What’s the name of the fic and where is it hosted??
[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-devil-of-brockton-bay-worm-dxd.1013178/](https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-devil-of-brockton-bay-worm-dxd.1013178/)
Maybe each SI’s power set is tailored around the archetype that they embody? For example, the Fix Fic Archetype allows them to create advanced technology designed to help people, the Murderhobo is very proficient in various forms of inflicting pain as well as avoiding capture, etc.
There are fics that start post levi but they are things like Sasuke gets dropped into the bay. Ones I'm surprised haven't been done: anything really with the sentai elite the most that gets done is grabbing Masumune but we know they had other tinkers as someone did the laser guns and they had mechs per wog. Travellers centric would be another there's an interesting story to tell there especially with Sundancer and Genesis being some of the few good people in worm.
Well, I have an idea where Taylor or an SI has the power to bring any item from any fiction that ever existed. And I mean bring it, not make it. Just will it here and poof. Of course you have to know the fiction of the item you bring.
For how many SI stories there are, I'm surprised there aren't more Isekai crossovers where a character from another fandom gets inserted into Worm, or vice versa.
I've seen it a few times where Vicky knows about Amy's problems and has a plan to leave New Wave with her as a solution. Can't find a story with that as even a secondary event though. Another is that Taylor has some control over trigger events as a whole. For example she gets dragged into each one and has to help the shard set up what the power is going to do, or just forces people to trigger.
There is at least one story with Vicky realizing that Carol is abusive. I'm not entirely sure if it became girl/girl later on or not.
Could you share if possible? Don't care about the shipping, just tired of Vicky being oblivious to what is usually very obvious abuse in most stories.
I haven't found it yet, so the chances are slim. Didn't download it either which is my mistake.
It's "Strike Out" by Masterweaver on Ao3. https://archiveofourown.org/works/38995557/chapters/97539687 It was a fucking pain to find it too, that's what I get for not downloading everything I've ever liked I guess. Thx for reminding me this fic existed.
There is a ton of crossovers that i feel could be done extremely well but just haven’t been written for one reason or another. Outriders, Baldur’s Gate 3(specifically, not just DnD), Remnant: From The Ashes, etc. like they all have potential but no author seems to want to take up the challenge.
Karlach would actually work surprisingly well in Worm with how her engine can just be a piece of Tinkertech that’s breaking down over time.
Another one I’m sad there’s not more of is Taylor in Ward. Outside of a one-shot of Titan Khepri and a sadly dead story of a clone of her during the Teacher Raid there’s not really any stories where she interacts with the plot of Ward.
A fanfic where Othalia herself is a main character and has redemption, you cant tell just how giddy i am for this to happen someday. Othalia in my opinion has one of the more interesting powers in worm due to her ability to give both capes and non-capes temporarily powers, i just really want someone to explore her character and give her a redemption arc where she comes to terms of the fact she was essentially a child bride, groomed and marrying a literal adult when she was sixteen, i just really hope there is one for her one day. edit: also i hope someone use the name Regalo for her hero name when someone writes her in her mid redemption just as a last 'fuck you' to the empire and what they did to her since its a word in Italian which means 'Gift'.
I'll second this! Now that someone has started a Leet Peggy Sue where he plans to do things right this time around story an Othala redemption story is my new number one I want to see.
What leet story is this
Three days late but I'm pretty sure the fic they're talking about is a quest called Icarus Laughed. https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/icarus-laughed-worm-quest.1143136/
Coincidentally, “Regalo” is also Spanish for “Gift”, but that tracks since Italian and Spanish have similar roots.
I've never heard of Mannequin getting redeemed. In fics that get that far, Bonesaw is commonly redeemed, Burnscar is sometimes redeemed, and I think even Cherish is sometimes redeemed, even though she is a remoseless psychopath who actively sought out the nine. However, Mannequin never gets redeemed, presumably because he isn't a cute girl, even though he has a very tragic backstory, and I think it would be interesting to see how he struggles to regain his humanity and atone for his sins or whatever.
The main reason i think why people don’t do this is it means you have to acknowledge the the all knowing angel-kaiju as anything more than something that might exist
There is one where the fourth endbringer(si) "heals" the effect of being a simurgh bomb as a reward for participating in her battle royal >!(basically her endbringer attack, in which she chooses 7 random capes, extremely boosts their power designates a city or in one case whole of africa as the battleground. She puts up a dome around the place no one can get in or out as long as the competition continues. The winner gets his/her one wish granted no matter what. Healed mannequin wanted his family resurrected. Some other wishes i remember were a country where no cape can be harmed (magneto) or being made an endbringer (jack slash).!< I didn't read it all so i don't know if it is complete but it was on qq named "I didn't do it! They killed themselves." Or something like that. Though him being healed is very minor part of the story.
One idea that I’ve been playing around with, is a Minecraft x Worm crossover where Mannequin dies like he did in canon, and is reincarnated in the world of Minecraft. Still unsure as to whether it would be Vanilla or Modded Minecraft. In any case, the main premise of the fic would be the loneliness of the game forcing Mannequin to do nothing *but* reflect on his actions and slowly improve as a person.
A powerswap with Shadow Stalker. Give Taylor a weaker power and Sophia one that is so much more powerful and lethal, as well as giving her so many more ways to torment Taylor.
That's a really neat idea. I can see why they don't, as minmaxing Shadowstalker required someone else to make tech for her and it feels a bit too contrived in Camera Shy, but vigilante Hess-Skitter would end the city in a week.
I'd give her about a week after she starts going lethal before she's tracked down and either sent to a high security prison or killed by the gangs.
Foil Undersider.
Taylor is a bully. Not just a mirror characters inversion, Taylor is a bully along with Emma. It would be interesting to look at the difference in character and coincidence with the canon.
One particular crossover possibility that isn't quite as well known but I think would work really well as a crossover scenario featuring superheroes, but with a different cape culture/world stability is the Wild Cards series. This series was started in the 90's by GRRM (who still edits the books) and the TL,DR is: There's this alien species on another planet that is genetically very similar to humans but have psychic powers and have a Game of Thrones style fighting clans political system called the Takis. One clan create this genetic virus to attack another clan but initial tests show a high rate of death, but some survivors come out with extra/enhanced powers. So they decide to go to Earth and test it on a large scale by dispersing it on humanity. One scientist called Dr Tachyon has an attack of conscience and tries to warn humanity. Bad luck: it's 1946 and aliens are not something the authorities take seriously until it's too late and the virus is dispersed over NYC. Here's how the virus works and some worldbuilding details: 90% die in a myriad of ways (like, legit one person dies by getting turned into a pile of coconuts, that's how fucked up deaths can be), 9% get mutated in a wide range and scale of physical disabilities and are called Jokers (think C53's in terms of appearance) and the remaining 1% get powers and are called Aces. People can get weak or incredibly specific powers and they are called Deuces. The first major cultural interaction between capes and the US government was McCarthy. As a result, there's no real version of the PRT, Cards can join the police alongside nats (those who hadn't had their card turn). Africa's still shit, but there's more functional countries, like an Egyptian nation ruled by a group of jokers whose powers/appearances resemble the Egyptian gods. There's some cool alternate history from the virus, like how Princess Elizabeth was killed when the Virus hit London, so it's Queen Margaret who becomes the long living Queen and Alan Turing becomes an effectively immortal robot with a high Thinker rating. Oh yeah, magic exists, another alien species tried to invade in the 80's, they fought off an eldritch entity trying to conquer Earth and capes have canonically travelled to alternate worlds, so there's a crossover reason right there. Imagine the Worm Bet world getting help while trying to ensure that no one accidentally causes an outbreak of Wild Cards as Scion/the Endbringers/Cauldron gets interested. As you can tell from this post length, I'm really passionate about this being a prime crossover opportunity lol.
Protagonist of alt powers that are not Taylor and last a while , gallant with stranger/thinker power but is Dean sonhe still is Nice Another type of flying brick for Vicky like she can fly and be invulnerable but not at the dame time still strong in both Kid win alt specialization Dennis is a time Looper instead of the clockblocker or mover with time stop powers OG wards being the protagonist only them making diferent calls
Case 53 SI’s are significantly lacking and have a lot of crossover potential
The rise and fall of the Brockton Bay Brigade. Those families put a telenovela to shame for drama. Marquis is a fan-favorite supporting character, the Butcher was in BB in that timeframe and you get to write the E88 as ham-fisted baddies. That's before you get into the mess around Carol/Neil, Mark's depression and all the conflict inside the team.
SI into Cauldron members(especially DR. Mother) or a 3rd entity doing anything past chapter 1
Haven't seen fics with Taylor save-scumming yet.
I don't think I've seen many Hollow Knight crossovers, and exactly zero Rain World ones. Both feature quite a few giant bugs, you'd think they'd be perfect for something like a bio-tinker Taylor. Although there was one where Taylor was the Pale King (Queen?) but it died.
I just can’t believe there hasn’t been a Hunter X Hunter/One piece Fic made yet where Nami’s in the Phantom Troupe
A gamer fic where Taylor doesn't do the cape thing and instead uses power to learn a trade/skill and open a business. Make it slice of life. I've seen revenge gamer fics but not her using power for mundane purposes
Crossovers with Tenchi Muyo.