• An addendum to Rule 3 regarding fan-translated works of things such as Web Novels has been made. Please see here for details.
  • RIP @Silver Swallow
  • We've issued a clarification on our policy on AI-generated work.
  • Due to issues with external spam filters, QQ is currently unable to send any mail to Microsoft E-mail addresses. This includes any account at live.com, hotmail.com or msn.com. Signing up to the forum with one of these addresses will result in your verification E-mail never arriving. For best results, please use a different E-mail provider for your QQ address.
  • For prospective new members, a word of warning: don't use common names like Dennis, Simon, or Kenny if you decide to create an account. Spammers have used them all before you and gotten those names flagged in the anti-spam databases. Your account registration will be rejected because of it.
  • Since it has happened MULTIPLE times now, I want to be very clear about this. You do not get to abandon an account and create a new one. You do not get to pass an account to someone else and create a new one. If you do so anyway, you will be banned for creating sockpuppets.
  • Due to the actions of particularly persistent spammers and trolls, we will be banning disposable email addresses from today onward.
  • The rules regarding NSFW links have been updated. See here for details.

Search results for query: *

  1. Avernus

    Earning Her Stripes (Worm AU fanfic)

    The latter likely wouldn't work, her Shard would just count that as death and transfer to some other Parahuman. The former on the other hand might work. That fits given that she was arrogant enough to court getting Butchered in the first place. If ego had gravity she'd be a black hole of self...
  2. Avernus

    Earning Her Stripes (Worm AU fanfic)

    More of March's arrogance making her act stupid (it fits her personality yes, but still...) She's ignoring that if she dies and someone else becomes Butcher she won't be in the driver's seat even as much as she is now; she'll just be one "voice" among many. But even more so she's ignoring that...
  3. Avernus

    Earning Her Stripes (Worm AU fanfic)

    Heh, screwed over by arrogance; if March!Butcher hadn't been so high on "I'm invincible!" nailing her like that would have been far harder. It's awful hard to grab somebody with a teleport power if they actually try to stay away from you after all. Kind of ironic given that her original success...
  4. Avernus

    Earning Her Stripes (Worm AU fanfic)

    Also, it was in part his own fault, not mere bad luck. As I said after that chapter it's an innate risk of his practice of using "safe" and "throwaway" timelines that at some point he'll guess wrong and disaster will strike in the supposedly safe timeline. Heck, at least it wasn't a fatal...
  5. Avernus

    Earning Her Stripes (Worm AU fanfic)

    Yes, it's a canon power.
  6. Avernus

    Earning Her Stripes (Worm AU fanfic)

    The first, then the second I'd bet, given the Butcher's history. So far everyone who has killed the Butcher has ended up as another Butcher. March doesn't have any powers likely to let her resist ending up Butcherized; she's just too arrogant to even consider it could happen to her. Thus her...
  7. Avernus

    Earning Her Stripes (Worm AU fanfic)

    IMO, whether they trust someone who inherits the Butcher's power without being taken over probably depends on how long they manage to keep inheriting the Butcher's power hidden. If they find out right away they'll almost certainly assume the Butcher will take over and the person is deluding...
  8. Avernus

    Earning Her Stripes (Worm AU fanfic)

    March to me is like Bakuda and Coil; a villain I thoroughly enjoy see getting stomped just because their attitude is just so smug and obnoxious I want to reach into the monitor and slap them.
  9. Avernus

    Earning Her Stripes (Worm AU fanfic)

    It seems like the opposite number of Sting. Sting uses "dimensional shenanigans" to cut through anything, Good Steel uses "dimensional shenanigans" to resist any form of change or damage, along with any dimensional tricks other than its own. I suspect it's also some kind of multidimensional...
  10. Avernus

    Earning Her Stripes (Worm AU fanfic)

    I'll vote for "critical lack of threat assessment"; the Undersiders were right there after all, and even if the E88 capes were still free the odds of an Empire cape showing up in time to do Mitch any good would have been really poor. Heck, even if one was nearby most of them would wait for...
  11. Avernus

    Earning Her Stripes (Worm AU fanfic)

    Man, that Mitch guy has no survival drive at all. It's not like "giant monster dogs" are a subtle, easy to miss danger. He's lucky he got tazed before he got turned into their chew toy.
  12. Avernus

    Earning Her Stripes (Worm AU fanfic)

    It did demonstrate the fundamental problem with the concepts of "throwaway" & "safe" timelines; nobody's ever really safe, especially in a place like Earth Bet/Brockton Bay. Heck, even if he had his base there's still the chance he might do something like choke on his food or trip and crack his...
  13. Avernus

    Earning Her Stripes (Worm AU fanfic)

    I think that Kaiser should have wanted out of the E88 but didn't, because by the time canon rolled around he'd spent decades convincing himself that associating with a violent gang and unstable murderous capes was a good idea. Cutting off ties with the E88 - even if he could do so and not get...
Back
Top