#Ward Spoilers

[goldenmotive]

[elcuervoborracho]

So, was asked to draw New Wave as they were during their Brockton Bay Brigade Days by Polar Potato and I thought it was a good time to make some of my own designs for them!

[germesthegenie]

This is definitely how cluster personality bleed works trust me

[dsserted]

[thewizardofrhetkhonn]

Reareading bits of Ward and Worm for my Weaverdice project. While the actual host-side mechanics are (obviously) largely a mystery, I had some thoughts about Sleeper's power from the Shard end of things.

I'm 99% sure that the reason Sleeper beats everyone else (including the Simurgh) is that his power is what draws all the shards together for the energy/data/genetic recombination at the end of the cycle and preps them for the big kaboom.

[heyitschartic]

I would have really loved to see what would happen if String Theory had survived Gold Morning. What do the Wardens even do with her running around except appeasement? There are a lot of countries getting close to war with Gimel, and she is essentially a nuclear detterant all on her own. No one wants to kick the country with a woman who can boil your seas. Permanently moaning, complaining, and insulting Dragon, except this time, she can't just ignore her since they're working together. More importantly, the second she got out of lockup, she'd go hunting down what happened with the egg Lab Rat had, and I'm sure she'd manage to find Chris.

Cannot imagine how horrible she would be as a bitchy aunt, there to permanently rub it in Lab Rat's face that she survived and all he has left is this teenage sorta-clone. They would absolutely despise each other. Would be a much more interesting conversation when Vicky goes to investigate his living situation though.

[riverkingmarley]

I can’t believe there are trolley problems in Ward. Taylor’s not even there. What’s the point?

I bet Victoria doesn’t kill a single baby and if that’s not proof she’s a worse person than Taylor I don’t know what is.

[worm-fanon-polls]

this refers to the Eclipse Arc of Ward (specifically chapter 7).

I was going to add an option that said "whether or not he actually was is irrelevant to the point the story was making" but that's irrelevant to this poll and the point my fist is making when I punch you with it

Tell me what you think and why you think it. i'm not excited. i'm mad now. grr. (<-that's my angry noise)

[sweaterregrets]

march on little sister 🫡

[comradegoblin]

Shout-out to Theo in Ward who was like "nah though Victoria it was based as hell when you beat the shit out of those Nazis, it made me realize that we sucked and everyone hated us. You should not feel conflicted about those actions in particular."

[tactilescream]

Not tagging besides spoiler warnings bc they're not done yet but I wanna post bc you know what! These fuck

Will finish later

(the amount of unfinished fanart hidden on my iPad is frankly terrifying)

[felonytaxevasion]

TERRIBLY UNHEALTHY

WWORSE THAN SMOKING EVEN

[germesthegenie]

Only a couple chapters into Ward Arc 9 but quick doodle of how their dynamic feels to me

[lemurlord]

Victoria, reading Chris's interlude, scraping her teeth in anger, adding "Stranger 1" to Amy's character sheet.

[hpetrr]

i haven't seen this take yet, but i think cradle is a poor little meow meow. he got delt a awful hand, there was already so much wrong with him and rain went and gave him all that was messed up with him and gave it to cradle. his plate was already full before, that was salt to injury. yeah, rain did it by accident, craddle kinda did it to himself by accepting (he could have given it to the others so they tested it). like, i understand that cradle didn't feel emotions (at least not conventional), so imagine someone gave just one emotion and it was fucking rain's?? that's miserable dude. i think cradle was extremely unlucky and as unfair as everything is in this book that was pretty low hanging fruit. i bet he'd be labeled a dark empath or something. let craddle be happy!! his villain origin story is justified! lets remember rain locked the fricking door! god i hate rain. craddle deseeves a little rain torture as a treat.

to be frank, how exactly did he change the dreams? is it stated? was it just the blurring of the voices? or did he change rains as well? were all the dreams innacurate because they were emphasizing aspects that they were focused on more, so they erased details that didn't fit their narrative unconsciously? like mama mathers in rains dream?

I'm in first read, stopped before heavens 12.none, please no spoilersss.

what the fuck is the fifth member of their cluster?? i don't remember if they have a fifth power, I'm stupid

[spindle-girl]

Some fun Heartbroken trivia:

There is an older Nicholas and a younger Nicholas and they may have the same or similar powers

“He did.  Guillaume and Nicholas... Nicholas just wallops you with pants-shitting waves of terror...” ... “...I would’ve done it even if my big brothers weren’t coming for me, but I joined the Nine.”

Worm 11.g

...the younger Heartbroken in line.  Flor, Nicholas, Amias, Candy, and Darlene. ... ...the young ones, but Nicholas and Amias weren’t that into this particular game.

Ward 10.x

“You guys were busy helping Nathan after Nicholas got mad and terror-waved him.”

Ward 10.z

Older Nicholas and Guillaume aren't mentioned again after Cherie's interlude in Worm and Guillaume is only mentioned once in Ward

By the time he had her, he was bored enough with children that he didn’t pay her much mind.  You broke that ground, he got bored because he paid that attention to you.  You, Cherie, Jean-Paul, Valentina, Guillaume.  Trying to break you, trying to make you trigger.  Trying to make you soldiers.  Or just the days he was an asshole who wanted to hurt someone and you were the first person he saw after the impulse crossed his mind.

Ward 20.e2

There may have been a fifth sibling with powers who, by the time Cherie escapes, are (most likely) dead and Alec doesn't know

“...I was his fourth kid to show powers...”

Worm 7.1

Alec knows that Nicholas and Cherie have powers, so it goes: Unknown, Cherie, Nicholas, and then Alec. In Cherie's interlude...

“But it didn’t happen.  Time passed, he never made a push for it.  Guillaume got his power, you know.  Ten or so of us kids, and three of us could control people one way or another.  Four if we count you...”

Cherie mentions Guillaume having a power like it's news to Alec. Taking both Alec and Cherish's words together the order should be: Unknown, Cherie, Nicholas (these three can be shuffled around), then Alec, and lastly Guillaume.

Cherie doesn't seem to count Unknown among the active kids, keeping the count to four same as Alec, implying that Unknown died in between Alec running away and his encounter with Cherish in Brockton Bay.

Also, just for fun, the ages of the five seem to be: Nicholas and Guillaume as the oldest (20+ in 2011), Cherie as the next (20 in 2011), and then Alec (15 in 2011). Unknown is unknown so throw them anywhere. Maybe between Alec and Cherie to explain the five year gap between them.