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From 30.7:

A red haired girl in another world, shouting to people as she ordered them through a building project

When Taylor passed by the Barnes family at their refugee camp during Golden Morning, Emma was missing and the family seemed angry at Taylor. I know people had speculated that perhaps Emma had committed suicide. I myself had wondered if one of the Undersiders, or Skitter's followers in Brockton had either killed her or taken some other form of revenge. The last we see of her is in her interlude where she cuts ties with Sophia, and in Winslow where she's petrified to learn that Taylor is Skitter.

Seeing this makes me think. How many other red haired girls does Taylor kno

we have a space for ourselves now!

Everyone was acting like he was insanely dangerous to deal with, that his good karma made it impossible to take him on. Even he seems to think he's invincible. And then Blake just Hyena's him in the chest. What gives?

The best explanation I can think of is that his good karma makes people not want to fight him. Blake, however, is resistant. He's got the Abyss acting through him, strengthening him. Molly's tolling bell spurs him on. He's finally playing his part as a monster, accepting what he is. Add in the accumulated bad karma of the Duchamps, from all the bad marriages and whatever else they've done, and it outweighs Mason.

But this feels weird. Unsatisfying and incomplete. Is there som

In 29.7, Doctor Mother describes one vial that "allows one to take over a nearby parahuman’s mind, body and powers automatically on death." The only way they have of knowing a vial's results is by testing it on someone, but even then vials have different expressions of a power depending on the person. Did they create Butcher?

Was Butcher another Gray Boy, someone they created and then couldn't control? Or was she a stabilizing villain, since she couldn't be killed and seemed compelled to form a gang (brainwashed by Caudron, perhaps?) no matter what. Or a nemesis that backfired? We know that the third Butcher was a hero.

What do you guys think?

I know Worm fics don't really have a lot of shipping, but I was wondering if there were any that focus on either character, or their relationship, or even just have them as prominent characters. I always thought they were great characters that were fantastically explored for how little screen time they got.

In his index, Notes has already listed next arc's interlude as 'R.' The only 'R' characters I can think of who are still alive are Bitch(Rachel) and Bonesaw(Riley), but both of them have left Brockton Bay. I think Bitch is mentioned by TT as 'camping', and Bonesaw was last seen meeting her Uncle Harbinger.

What are your thoughts? Will Bitch return to Brockton? Will Bonesaw? Will this interlude take us outside of the city? (Maybe Bonesaw is working for Cauldron now...) Or something else entirely?

And where do you think the plot is going in general? In canon, post-S9, many different villainous groups descen

In a conversation in r/history on contact between Han China and Rome, the Xiongnu came up, and many people wanted to know who they were, where they came from, and whether the Turks or the Mongols or the Huns or whoever were their descendants. Wikipedia gives me a host of cited theories on their origin, but is otherwise pretty bare bones.

What are the current leading theories, and how much support do they have? Is there evidence for a connection to any later peoples, such as the Turks or the Mongols?

Taylor's range and control get stronger when she's feeling trapped, desperate, or betrayed. What are some other examples we have of how a cape's powers get stronger or weaker, and under what circumstances?

For example, although there isn't strong evidence for it, my personal theory is that Taylor doesn't learn to see and hear through her bugs, but that her passenger rewards her for fighting other parahumans by interpreting the bug senses for her. The first time she is able to hear through her bugs is right after the bank job and the Bakuda fight, where she fought ten capes is 24 hours. And then she goes over a week without a cape fight while she recovers from her concussion, and her p

Somebody posted this awesome fanart over in r/parahumans, and it made me wonder if there were MetroidxWorm fics out there.

Taylor is a brute empowered by the fear of others, but her powers have seriously messed with her mind.

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Update

So I'm probably not the only one who had to reach for their dictionary when they came across one of Wildbow's favorite words. I always thought that copacetic was a strange word that they only used in Canadaland, or wherever Wildbow grew up. Imagine my surprise when I found another superhero series that used it! I was watching Young Justice (for those unfamiliar, it basically follows a Wards team in the DC universe), and in episode 11 during a jailbreak Icicle Sr. asks if everything is copacetic. At first I thought it was a shoutout to Worm, but then I looked up the dates and realized that episode aired in September 2011, which means it was made months earlier, and the first chapter of Worm w

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