#Ward Spoilers

[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!

[dsserted]

[germesthegenie]

This is definitely how cluster personality bleed works trust me

[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.

[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

[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.

[germesthegenie]

What can I say? Give me a lady with a cool power and/or silly outfit and I’ll probably draw them

Finished the rest of Arc 5, thoughts below:

As expected, big cape fight was very cool

Neat to essentially see, again, something we saw a lot in Worm but from a different perspective (and being executed by more morally questionable people). Hollow Point and the Undersiders mobilizing against the Fallen isn’t too different from things like the Somer’s Rock alliance against the ABB, but now we’re seeing a lot more collateral, and how the heroes have to respond to situations like that where villains are fighting each other with varying regard for civilian life

Little V and Big V reunited! Nice little reunion scene before things went to hell.

Valefor’s shard deserves to be talked about alongside Broadcast when it comes to playing favorites. He got heavily nerfed and just got his power reworked to be arguably stronger (with less control). Is this technically a second trigger or did the shard just give him this as a treat? And I guess what will it figure out next? Mind control through interpretative dance?

Jokes aside, Valefor’s scenes were terrifying and brought back the fear we briefly got from his Worm Arc 21 appearance. Victoria’s flashbacks were sad to see, and I do have another drawing idea based on that scene where she instinctively releases the Wretch. I do find it funny how the temporary solution to him was malicious compliance though lol

Speaking of the Wretch, nice to see Vicky getting more used to using it and learning to cooperate with it. Wonder what she can do with it if/when she gets full control? Bigger forcefield that can fight will be a lot more useful once it’s not fighting everything that gets too close.

Chris’ forms are certainly… something. He’s like Beast Boy except the shard used eldritch horror and books like All Tomorrows as a catalog for the forms. I’d try drawing them but I’m not even that great at regular animals, much less… banana thing.

Beast of Burden when he provokes the girl who blasts holes in people and she blasts a hole in him 🤯

Nice scenes with Ashley all around, lots of complexity to that one. She’s like Goth flavor Rachel (and now I’m seeing why the ship of her and Victoria is popular)

March! Still not sure what to make of her yet. Helped Rain, sure. But also, nemesis of Foil and kidnapped Parian one time. But also also, really cool power in terms of visuals. Imagine if Foil got the anime version of Sting and Worm ended with Scion getting depression-stunned into a Judgement Cut instead of a bolt.

What’s with the trend in cape names in Ward? Like we’ve got people who sound like names/subtitles for Dark Souls bosses (“Lord of Loss”, “End of Days”, etc.). Not opposed to it, just wonder if the post-apocalypse got people to break out the dramatic names.

Quick little detour away from the Fallen to let us know Cauldron’s still kicking, though seems Teacher’s taking over while actual founding Cauldron members were on “break”. Congrats to Citrine and Number Man on the marriage and their family of a couple identical clones of himself.

“Someone’s gotta represent the fourth”. Great twist, but also poor Tohu and Bohu. Who’s gonna rep them? Would they get a shared cult or individual ones?

And so one of four in the Mall Cluster falls. It’s interesting we get a sort of afterlife scene, with Snag free from the cluster/shard influence and still able to communicate to some degree with his clustermates (though muted whenever he tried to tell them not to kill each other lmao). And an ominous ending damn

[f1rewalk3r]

i think a lot of the problems Amy Dallon has come not from her powers, but rather from being Panacea. this is a statement that could apply to pretty much every parahuman, so let me elaborate.

Amy is Shaper. she’s not Healer, she’s not Fixer, she’s Shaper. to be Panacea, the cure all, i think goes against the fundamental nature of her shard. it’s theorized in wormfic (not sure if canon or WOG) but i wonder if the horrific burnout she experiences is in part, due to being The Cure All rather than The Shaper. i mean, leet’s shard fucks with him, right? is it possible there’s something similar going on? at least by late-ward with Hunter we see that she’s Very Obviously failing to be The Cure All.

but she wants, so desperately, to be The Cure All. this is due to the structure of The Dallon-Pelham Torment Nexus being that perfect american aryan (yuck.) nuclear family. (obviously it’s fucking not. and only Carol wants it to be. but work with me here.) thing is, The Shaper doesn’t fit in with this perfect family image. The Cure All does. so all told, most of Amy’s problems originate from being Panacea, rather than being a Lavere.

Where am I going with this? Simple, of course. Observe:

amelia lavere riley davis swap au is this anything

[junebugtwin]

68 - I want to eat space just intuitively fits really well with ward-era Victoria in my mind, id love to see that

Victoria Dallon, the train crash you can't look away from

[sweaterregrets]

V IS FOR VICTORY