u/Nekomachus

Is "I turned my attention to" a regularly occurring phrase in other WB works? Nothing wrong with having a favorite phrase, I just notice that it shows up in Worm a lot, to the point where even the famously deleted line after "Finally, everyone was working together" was "I turned my attention to Scion." It could just be idiosyncratic to Worm what with the protagonist being a pseudo-clairvoyant, but I haven't read anything else he wrote.

A trigger event is supposed to be Spider-Man seeing his uncle get shot and being told great power comes with great responsibility, or Batman watching his parents die in Crime Alley, or Mr. Freeze watching his wife's health fail. A traumatic event makes the character go from being a civilian to a participant in the game of cops and robbers, and this typically coincides with when they got their powers (and in Worm, Batman and Mr. Freeze would be a Thinker and Tinker respectively, not non-powered). Someone with powers that does nothing for years until something pushes them to act hardly exists outside of comedies. That's what a trigger event is a reconstruction of, zipping those two things into one thing with the same explanation.

What are vials based on? They're not the likes of Joker or Jessica Jones falling into toxic waste, and lab accidents typically give powers to the scientist, not to the experiment, though there are the likes of Bane and lab-created beings like Vision (which I supposed Dragon fills the archetype of).

• A light-based illusionist (not Nyx) or someone like Screamer or Leonid could operate out of a Gray Boy well, for the same reason Stilling could get out and March's copy of Sting could get in, but more pertinently, for the same reason you can see and hear the inside of one.

• Valkyrie could probably alleviate all time bubbles at once by going to an uninhabitable earth with a Shaker or Trump making her immediate area survivable or making her able to survive and then systematically turning as much land as she can into an impassible time well, until Gray Boy runs out of power like Doormaker. Seeing that "the cost of replenishing [Eidolon's battery] was high," she doesn't keep the shades charged just by virtue of having them. This has the added benefit of her not being in the blast radius of a broken trigger when they're all freed at once.

• Scion and Hero could blast rainbows if they wanted.

• I think about this in any fiction where someone is transformed into a different material than flesh, like that patchwork girl whose throat Satyrical slit, or is otherwise taken apart yet still alive, and I don't find it talked about very often, in Worm or outside of it: Even if parahumans didn't have conflict-reduced life expectancy, a Case 53 without regeneration is screwed as far as being able to receive mundane medical treatment and would probably have an even unhappier old age than the rest of mankind. Where does Hexie go if she has breathing troubles? How could you put an IV in that escapee Number Man fought in his interlude?

• The Speedrunners may or may not have been the hipster/steampunk equivalent of Uber and Leet.

The S9K clones. The Number Boys are kids, but Tyrant looks like Gigachad, but-but Mannequin has to be gaslit into having a version of Alan's memories where he is a kid and not a grown man. I'm not sure how old I'm supposed to picture the Manton who kept Doctor Mother safe up until he didn't. Come to think of it, I went through Sting picturing everyone who wasn't explicitly a kid as an adult, including the Mannequins, but those matter less because they're total cyborgs. Did I gloss over something in Interlude 25 about accelerated aging?

[downtime] they seem to have. The dialog about a hypothetical pimply-faced parahuman with a porn addiction in 26.2 is funny, but why are they on a porch? Why is Taylor reading?

I know they're a little hushed about what's going on, hence chasing Eidolon off and treating this like a Simurgh fight, shouldn't that impel them to rush more and not less?

Round 1: 1st trigger
Round 2: 2nd trigger