What would you change if you wrote Worm?

Worm is an amazing story. But given the rather large amount of fanfiction, there are various ideas on how it could have happened. Not that they are necessarily better than the story line of Worm,^oranygoodatallmostofthetime but they can certainly be interesting.

This thread isn't for 'editing' per se, but more of the ideas of roads that WildeBeest could have gone down, but didn't. Most of us agree that the time skip is jarring, but perhaps that could be solved via editing without changing the story much (although I'm no writing/editing expert - perhaps it would need more of an overhaul than I would think).

My idea is below, but what would you change?

I have a simple idea which changes the tone of the story a fair amount - a simple change of perspectives. It's sort of in-line with Skitter dying in the Leviathan fight - writing the story from a Ward's perspective (Clockblocker?), only not because of her death. The story continues pretty much as normal, but we see Skitter become more and more 'villainous' without seeing her justification behind each step.

What does Skitter look like to them? A villain with one hell of a scary power, in a team of villains with scary powers. One that doesn't seem to have much of a conscience - think about how the bank robbery looks from outside of Taylor's head. She seemingly gets off with breaking the Endbringer truce without a scratch (if you are a Ward, you don't know the full details of Armsmaster being outed), and uses it to screw with your teammate (your least favorite teammate, but still...).

But then you hear about her territory. She's handing out food, helping people recover. Of course, she must have a ploy - villains don't just do good without a selfish motive, after all! Perhaps you visit as a civilian, to try to divine her motives. But then you run across a family friend or similar, and they're involved in the work and happy about it (perhaps the family friend could be Char or Sierra, to get a better picture of Skitter's story/character?). In fact, on top of praising Skitter, they blame the heroes who don't seem to be doing anything.

And you know why the heroes aren't doing anything - rules, regulations, the Ward program prioritizing school to actually helping, etc. But still, at least they don't hurt people right?

Then the Cauldron bomb drops. Turns out the Protectorate weren't so spotless after all. And shortly after you find out Skitter's backstory when she gets outed by Dragon and Defiant. Maybe she's not so bad after all? At least by comparison?

...Maybe...

...

...Maybe you should join her team?

But what's this? She's turning herself in? Why on earth is she doing that? Because she wants peace between 'heroes' and 'villains', so they can fight the true threats? It wasn't so long ago that the terms 'hero' and 'villain' could be said without quotation marks, but now, you think she might be right.

Here things could go a couple of different ways. One is staying pretty true to the text, with Taylor becoming Weaver, with the Ward's involvement being backing her up despite their reservations (which is part of why I suggest maybe Clockblocker, since he kinda does this in the text anyway).

The other way I thought it could go is that Tagg plays hardball, and gets away with it - Weaver is being set up to go to the Birdcage. But Dragon refuses to accept her, thanks to Defiant's recent changes. So Tagg calls in Saint to deal with Dragon, and things escalate from there. The PRT/Protectorate/Wards are divided between those who follow orders from higher up (but is that higher up Cauldron?), and those who support the Undersiders (they call themselves villains, but they seem like the good guys now?). Perhaps it escalates into a battle between the new factions - the 'old' Protectorate, with the PRT, out of town capes (including Alexandria?), and some Undersider haters (Assault? Triumph? Assault kinda blames the Undersiders for Battery, and perhaps Triumph can't forgive Skitter so easily. Perhaps Triumph and Battery being Cauldron capes plays some role here?), vs a now somewhat disabled Dragon (due to Saint), a now very angry Defiant, the Undersiders & co, and defectors from the Protectorate/Wards.

Dealing with that aftermath would certainly be interesting!

TLDR - Protagonist from Leviathan onwards is one of the Wards, seeing Taylor's villainy without her justification, at least at first. Ends up seeing Taylor's side, even fighting for her (figuratively or even literally) when she turns herself in.

EDIT: Oh gosh sorry for the wall of text. I didn't expect to write that much :S. Better put in a TLDR.