Earth Bets That Weren't (Kylia Quilor's Worm Oneshot/Snippet Thread)

[Kylia Quilor]

Before you read anything I write ficwise for Worm, a few things to bear in mind:

While I don't intend to (and won't) write stories where everything is nice and easy and simple, nothing I write will be as prone to bleakness or 'things getting regularly worse' as Worm. Things will, in the long run, tend to be better though of course bad things will happen. I am neither capable of nor interested in matching Wildbow's penchant for (well written) bleak and 'it gets worse'-ness in his stories. It is not fair to say that's all Worm is, but it is a large part of it.

For the purposes of my fics, the text of Ward, and Wildbow's many WoGs are only as canon as I want them to be (and I will be picking and choosing from both as I desire). I will be treating the full text of Worm as canon - allowing for differences as appropriate if the fic is an AU. That said, my interpretation of the canon and the characters therein (including personality, motivations, how they'd react in situations they didn't face in canon, etc) may not line up with yours. If you are someone who has a very rigid 'this is the only single acceptable interpretation of <character>' view, and my interpretation doesn't line up with yours, you may end up having a bad time with my stuff. Back button is right there.

Likewise, some people have very narrow views of what is acceptable expansions to canon (i.e. information that isn't in the text, but the text doesn't contradict either). I don't tend to have such a view, so again if you have such a rigid view, you may not enjoy my fic. Back button remains there.

All that said, no one is perfect, and I may get things wrong, or fail to adequately develop my points, etc, so polite critique or the like, even if your critique rooted in details from the WoGs or Ward, will always be listened to, though I may not ultimately agree with you. It's not as if I'm aware of every WoG Wildbow ever spun.

People who try to give me grief over writing choices rooted in the points above, decide to act as the 'Fanfic Police' over my interpretations, or who just declare that I'm just 'writing TINO' or 'Woobie Amy' or the like, without consideration that maybe my interpretation just isn't the same as yours shall be ruthlessly mocked or ignored, per my discretion and mood.

If you want to discuss my views re: Ward and the WoGs as related to my fic-writing, etc, feel free to DM me here on this site, or hit me up on my tumblr(s): Here or Here. I don't want to excessively clutter this thread with those discussions.

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Summaries of The Oneshots​

The Consequences of Forced Honesty -
What do you do when your deepest, darkest secret has been revealed, laid bare? To the most important person in your life, the one person you wanted most to never know? Amy hoped she'd never have to find out. Unfortunately, Tattletale took that choice away from her.

Fortunately, Amy's worst fears and nightmares turn out to have ignored one very important thing: Victoria Dallon loves her sister.

Her Words Burned Into My Skin -
-What the Fuck did you do?

-You don't need to know that.

As far as first words to say to your soulmate, neither are particularly good, but when a trip to the bank goes wrong for Amy Dallon, she finds out that fate doesn't really care about that sort of thing.

Ties of Blood, Ties of Family -
Celia Quiston cut her sister out of her life when Siobhan took up with Marquis. She was out of the country when Siobhan died, and only found out years later Siobhan tried to reconcile when she was near death, tried to ask her to take her daughter Amelia in. Eventually, she tracked her niece down, finding her in Amy Dallon, daughter of Brandish and Flashbang of New Wave.

Carol Dallon didn't think she'd ever grow to love Amelia when she took her in. But when the prospect of losing her adopted daughter hits her head on, she realizes that whatever else, she does indeed love and care about that little girl.

Bloody Bliss -
"Do I have permission to heal you?" Wash, rinse, repeat. Even after moving out of Carol's house, that's still Amy's life. Built up over years, the numbness was broken only by her crush on her sister. Until one day, Amy met someone - until Amy had her blood drunk by Taylor Hebert, a vampire. The blissful feeling of her blood being drained cut through the numbness of her life, letting her feel contentment, real contentment, for the first time in years. But after six months, Amy doesn't want to just be Taylor's blood bag. She wants to be more.

If only she could bring herself to admit it.

A Mile In My Sister's Shoes -
An encounter with an overdramatic Trump sees Amy and Victoria's powers swapped for a week. Predictably, Victoria finds the whole thing fascinating, and Amy just finds it annoying. But the very next day is one of those godawful double dates, and Amy needs to go to the bank to withdraw money for it...

Bloody Bliss II -
Victoria Dallon knows her sister, and knows her many quirks and foibles. So when she finds out Amy has been cutting her hours at the hospital, she immediately worries something is wrong with her sister. She should have been less worried, though she definitely isn't sure how she feels about this Taylor girl her sister is dating now.

The Girl Who Could Be God-Queen -
Victoria meets a new cape one night. The new cape - Illyria - seems to be performing a bit of an affected persona, but Glory Girl can understand that, and the girl's power is interesting, and she likes her attitude... maybe a little too violent though.

Taylor didn't expect to get powers from being stuffed into a locker by her bullies. But she made bug mastery work. Then an encounter with a strange stone sarcoughagus changes everything - now she has a demon literally older than humanity in her head, and a whole new suite of powers to get used to. But she's going to be a hero, even if Illyria keeps suggesting she rip people's spines out and take over the city - and then the world.