#ballistic worm

[faultlinescrew]

*insert unfunny iseaki joke here*

[insomnimelodies]

inktober 10 - nomadic

i present: this silly little phone sketch of the travelers that i drew on the bus from work bc i have actually 0 time to sit down and draw today but i am COMITTED to seeing this inktober through (do not ask where this commitment is for actually important things like grad apps and other such serious things i have spent it all on inktober 🗿)

[taylorhebertweakestlittlebug]

The travelers:

Luke (right) stealing Cody's (left) beanie

Jessie and Mars going on a picnic, way before Madison

Krouse and Noelle

[sillydog33]

I hope trickster gets hit by a bus who agrees

[piscoto]

Trickster vs Ballistic (the full saga)

alright here's the full thing I have to cut it short because it's gonna be nagging me forever lol

[its-hai-time]

hello Nimona people

[cairavende]

Worm Arc 17 thoughts:

Travelers backstory!!!!!!!!! WOOOO!!!!!!

HOLY SHIT THEY ARE FROM EARTH ALEPH! That really explains the mysterious nature of their backstory up to now.

Would have loved to get some PoV's from some people who aren't Trickster but I'll live.

He's just such an asshole! Like I already knew he was but god DAMN did this arc remove any doubt.

Just the worst type of asshole that can be found in MOBA games (I say this as someone who played MOBA games for years). And then given superpowers. Ugh.

THE SIMURGH FUCKING HELL OH MY GOD I LOVE HER!!!!!!!!!

SHE IS MY FAVORITE ENDBRINGER AND ONE OF MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS EVEN IF SHE IS SUPER DUPER EVIL AND TERRIBLE! BUT SHE JUST SINGS IN EVERYONE'S HEADS AND THEY SEE THINGS THAT SHE WANTS THEM TO SEE AND SHE SEES THE FUTURE AND CREATES A CAUSE AND EFFECT PLAGUE BASICALLY AND I LOVE HER!!

Just the level of planning ahead she does, the number of moves ahead Simmy is playing. After the first few times she shows up they start quarantining where she attacks. Which ends up being exactly the right situation needed to push the Travelers to the choices she wanted them to make. Like, is quarantining even a counter to the Smurph or is it exactly what she wanted?

Sure precogs mess with precogs. That makes sense. But I don't know that it is as clear cut as Coil presented to Trickster. He implies two precogs just cancel each other out, but I assume it's more of a strength thing - a strong precog will cancel out a weak precog, but a weak precog will only make things a little fuzzier for a strong precog. So having Dinah would have helped against the Simurgh but I don't think it would be enough to just cancel out the Simurgh's power. Coil and Tattletale would probably also help. But I'm not convinced the last few months in Brockton Bay hasn't been more or less what Simmy wanted to happen.

Cody is the only person here that is probably more of an asshole than Krouse. Just could not get over the fact that Noelle didn't want to date him. Unbearably entitled dick. Possibly dead now, if Accord got his way. But very possibly not. Won't be surprised if he shows up again.

Cody's power is fun. I think it's the first "time travel" power I've seen. I mean Clockblocker does time freezing which is basically the same category but still, curious to see if we get any more level of time travel than this.

Marissa needs someone to make her some cookies and give her a place to hang out that isn't the house her mom lives in. I mean, I guess the current situation handles that but not how I meant.

I already liked Jess and now I like her even more. She's a cape geek! Wonderful.

Luke is interesting cause he was the only person besides Noelle who was close to Krouse at the start, but he's the first (well, aside from Cody I guess) to leave him. Really went through a character arc. Also Krouse lists Luke's "individual tragedy" as "not getting to fly" which is hysterical.

Oliver is a trans girl. Headcanon 100% established. It just fits so well. She just needs to find herself! And once she does and realizes what she actually wants to look like her power will get her there and won't need to keep adjusting! Right now Oliver's power is doing performative masculinity for them.

Noelle has had a bad time. God damn. She was having a bad time before everything happened and now she's having a very bad time. Damn. I had some guesses about her correct. Figured she was like, monstrous bottom half and normal top half. And figured touching her was bad. But I didn't foresee "touching her creates mutated evil clones". I'm sure that won't be a major problem in the next arc or two. I'm sure there won't be evil mutated clones of a bunch of capes to deal with . . .

I had long figured Travelers had Cauldron powers. It just fit with their power levels and such. I had also figured whatever Noelle's condition was, it was related to having a Cauldron power. I had a lot of guesses. None of them were "only drinks half a vial". For some reason I thought everyone would be too smart to do THAT! (I have no idea why I thought that.)

Current guess is Noelle is sort of in a never ending "trigger" event. Her power is constantly in the "building and gathering" phase and is not reaching the "lock things down" phase that normally happens (Bonesaw talked about this). Definitely a lot of other things it could be, this is just the best fit I've found so far.

This goes for Oliver too, which is why their power keeps changing how they look. Oliver just got lucky and has much less significant troubles compared to Noelle.

Got to see lots of new Case 53's. That was fun.

I expect to see more of Accord in the future. Just cause like, he gets smarter the more complex the problem. And the world is supposedly going to end due to (I think) the actions of higher dimensional entities. That is a very complex problem. And at the same time, he seems like the kind of person that might see "billions die" as a good way to reduce chaos. To simplify the world. Not saying that is what he will do, just that it seems a shame to not bring him up again.

I knew 40 people had died due to actions of the Travelers. I did not know Noelle had eaten them all! Because she tried to starve herself. I can see why it's important to keep her well fed. And why it's going to be an issue that there is no longer someone providing her with thousands of dollars of meat a week. No waste though, she has a very efficient digestive system.

The ending, with Trickster just staring at the bloodstain left behind by Coil's body while Genesis stares out at the ocean ... very good. I mean, really sucks for them, but it was a very evocative arc ending.

I wonder who won the Ransack tournament? One team disconnected because the building they were in disappeared into a space hole. I wonder what the rules are for that?

[riverkingmarley]

Every time I try to remember ballistics name my brain provides:

Civilian name: Cody

Cape name: Blasto

[travelers-gaming]

genuinely considering re-reading the travelers interlude to do an analysis of their powers. it's just really interesting how, despite being cauldron capes, their powers absolutely say as much about then as natural triggers would.

[nerissalmao]

nimona characters as.. worms??

since blogging about the nimona characters instead of my own issues as a queer woman-aligned person in this world is fun to both me and all the crazy people who reblog my stuff (thanks to all y’all btw), to nobody’s surprise, I AM BACK AT IT AGAIN. and to all you naysayers who are all like “nerissa your last post was like a few seconds ago” YOU ALL CAN SHUT UP because here are our favorite heroes, villains, and gay idiots as WORMS, courtesy of piccrew dot com.

First up is Nimona, the chaotic shapeshifter herself! I can’t tell if she is orange or pink so uh she’s orange in this but yeahhhh. We love you, Nimona, nice new form.

On next to Ballister, with his googly-aah eyes, gay pride flag, sunglasses (bc a shark CAN dance) and a hoodie that matches his lil worm flesh lmaooo

Ambrosius has a gay pride flag too, he’s an insufferable flower child, and he is GOLD. A goofy lil guy who loves his bf, worm or not (no arms to chop off sadly)

GLORETHHH. Personally, I think we should give Gloreth some sympathy given she was a child when she knew Nimona and probably grew to believe Nimona was only pretending to be her friend, but that’s just me. She looks a lot like Ambrosius because familial genetics and crap yeahhh

Oh ho HO, the Director. She’s wearing gold to emulate Gloreth, she’s mad as crap, and she has a gay pride flag in reference to my “she’s gay for Gloreth” theory. Her name is Lilith in my mind and always will be, you foolish mortals.

No, I will not make Todd, stop asking (“nerissa nobody has ever asked you tha—“)

[cinnamonglaive]

Hi @skittersdrippygirlcock fantastic url choice! I’m basing this just on Worm since I haven’t read WB’s other stuff.

Ballistic isn't a very complex character which fits his tertiary role; he's part of the Travelers but not a key member and I think he exists mostly for WB to ask: hey wouldn't it be cool if this power existed? The power in question being his ability to shoot any object he touches (including clothes/weapons!) off like bullets.

I marked 'bad at his power' because yeah I think with a little bit of a team-up with someone like Skitter or anyone else who can make objects he could've done serious damage to the endbringers/Scion. His power is badass and he was probably benched because the plot had to have some sense of balance.

As for the "ok but were they wrong?" and "ok but they were wrong", he was forced to make a lot of difficult decisions and I agree with him... somewhat. It would've been easy for him to abandon Noelle and turn into an independent cape, but he stuck around and tried to reduce her damage (which I see as an act of loyalty and bravery). At the same time, the Travelers really should have asked for adult help before Noelle got out of hand. Cauldron certainly had sufficient containment measures.

I think Ballistic's power is awesome but personality-wise he's kind of an ass (relatable, but still an ass) and I think since he was only meant to be a minor character, canon covered him sufficiently.

[cheyisagirlkisser]

.・College Ellie Headcannons゜・

Note: This is more loser Ellie-centric, I wanna maybe do a part two with just reader and her. Some sexual content and mentions of getting zooted below so 18+ warning!

•Art major, but she’s not the typical hot artsy lesbian you dream of her to be. More like rolls a fat blunt and sketches in her journal, it’ll either turn out to be a masterpiece or look like a crackhead had a go with her paper.

•Speaking of art major, when she’s horny and frustrated because she refuses to hook-up…she draws the lewdest art known to woman-kind. Those are her real masterpieces, but she can’t exactly turn them in for credit in her art class, can she? Fuck, the things that woman can make, though. Lowkey uses her exes naked bodies as inspiration though, maybe kind of weird but who’s gonna stop her?

•Doesn’t eat the food on campus half the time. She is embarrassingly addicted to Tai Pei containers and the occasional microwavable egg-roll. “That shit’s nasty, Ellie! Goddamn, just eat the Tacos 4 Life we have on campus.” Her friends will all tell her, but no. It’s like a guilty pleasure. Maybe it’s cause she grew up lower class and is used to TV dinners, has a special trauma bond to food that should be banned and probably is outside of America.

•Wardrobe consists of band tees, honorable mentions to Gorillaz and Falling in Reverse.

•Is actually an insanely talented writer. After reading her journals I feel like nobody talks about how emotional her entries are and she keeps a journal of her own in college for sure, not only for sketching and organizing art but also to write all her feelings out.

“Fuck me, this is my last year being gay.” -After her and Cat’s break-up, probably.

•Hates coffee. Definitely game-cannon, but this is important to the college setting. It’s the classic Monster or nothing, and she will absolutely judge you for drinking coffee. She calls it “the devil’s dirt.” So dramatic.

•Used to watch bad Hallmark movies because of Dina, now watches them alone because she misses Dina. There’s nothing like crying your eyes out to Christmas Under Wraps!

•Has a collection of rubber ducks on her shelf. Doesn’t use her very small space for normal things like her wallet or books, no. It’s rubber fucking ducks.

•Also has a slipper collection in her tiny closet, from Pikachu all the way to dinosaur feet.

•Has the “two-seater” t-shirt (iykyk) but refuses to wear it in public because she’s a pussy

•Favorite fruit is grapes. I just know my girl loves grapes when she can get her hands on them steer clear bc she will NOT share. Favorite candy is gummy worms!

•Actually wears rain boots when it’s wet outside or snowing

•Likes wired earbuds over airpods, listens to Pearl Jam when she misses living with Joel

•Is oddly good at making those little paper stars and has a huge grocery bag of then in all different patterns and colors

•When she starts dating you she shows you her dinosaur cookie-cutter collection because you're really good at baking. (Also bc she wants to see you in a frilly cute apron!)

•Is a slut for hugs. Kisses are cool, sex is great but agghhh Ellie just loves wrapping her arms around you and sometimes when you two are in her dorm she'll just hug you for what feels like hours on end, she calls it her 'weekly therapy.'

•Loves high sex because when she's sober she hates feeling like she's awkward or all up in her head. She also has a tendency to invite you over for sex after smoking.

•Has a septum piercing. Maybe this one is self-indulgent because I would go ballistic over seeing actual Ellie with one, but I say that college Ellie got hers pierced at 16 and didn't cry over the pain but wanted to literally jump off of a bridge the entire healing process it was so bad.

•Sometimes when you kiss her, her septum will slide over and look uneven and she feels fucking NIGERIA FALLS in her boxers when you fix it for her. Also for those of you who are sluts for glasses, you can fix her glasses too and it'll make her just as weak.

[rebel-sqrrl]

I think she understands better than most that she didn't actually kill Scion, the big tinker gun did. Also, she consistently underestimates just how strong and unique her power is.

That said, hundreds of capes probably saw her/Luke shoot Scion, and then saw him die, without knowing the in-between bit, so yeah, it's kinda wild that no one ever goes "hey, isn't that the girl who killed god?!"

must be weird as fuck to be foil. you arguably landed the decisive blow on god and nobody gives a fuck

[quarterlifekitty]

More on Rodolfo being stepped on by his lover? Does he like a specific pair of shoes? Barefoot? Step anywhere on him? Raghh!! The brain worms are eating this UP

This man has me in a chokehold

You know, when I posted that thing about Rudy and shoes I was like “this is it, this is the post that’s gonna be too out there for everyone” but it just goes to show that my headcanons are actually always right forever (joke)

Anyways. He loves the classics. Pumps are his favorites. Not something crazy high, but higher than kitten heels. Something you might be able to imagine that your mom wore before she became your mom.

And he’s a sucker for classic red. I have another ask about something similar in the box— but I think he’s a slut for bright red anything. Lipstick, nail polish, high heels. Loves a loubouton. Loves for you to leave lipstick marks on his face, his neck, his collar, his cock. Loves when you suck him off while wearing lipstick and leave a ring where you held him in your mouth. Loves your red manicured nails scraping ever so gently over him when you stroke and play with his dick.

He’s definitely the dude who leaves like $200 stuck to the fridge with a magnet if he has to leave early in the morning, with a note that says “for your manicure, tesoro <3” (does he know your nail girlie charges you like $60 + a takeout meal? No, but he wouldn’t care if he did. Treat yourself.)

Uhm. Anyways. You can step on him anywhere, but he will obviously go ballistic if you use the toe of your shoe to tease his bulge. To that end, he wants a footjob from you while your stockings are still on. He wants your nylons sticky and wet with his cum.

And you know what I am going to say something so unsubstantiated and yet so brave. I think one year you guys did a couples Halloween costume. With you as Dorothy and him as Scarecrow. And you found the perfect set of glittery, rhinestone studded red heels for it, complete with bow and buckle. And I mentioned his affinity for old movies and classic romance. Judy Garland in those shoes definitely did something for him. If you offer to wear that costume for him again he will literally be your slave.

He said almost nothing the whole night you were out because he was struck dumb and unable to think of anything but the teasing brush of the tip of your shoe against his calf and what it would feel like tracing up his hard cock. When you said you’re thinking of swapping out shoes because your feet are starting to hurt, he just carries you everywhere the rest of the night.

Know that if you ever wear that costume for him again he will fall deeply and painfully in love with you. Like “I wouldn’t be able to live with myself if I fumbled you” type of down bad. Like he’s asking his mom if she knows where his great grandmother’s ring is, because he thinks he’s found the one.

I mean. Who said that.

[piscoto]

the travelerrrrs

figured your average friendly visitor might get stale so I'm spicing them up. potential part 2?

[cairavende]

Worm Arc 15 thoughts without interludes (interludes need their own post):

EVERYTHING IS FIIIIIIIINE

My daughters boss didn't actually try to assassinate her, her just planned to do it and then did it in one reality but kept the reality where he didn't! So it's ok! I'm fine. Not worried at all that Coil knows Skitter was planning on double crossing him and that he found a way to screw with Tattletales powers.

It's fiiiine (eye twitches)

I want to say I'm glad she got her full team on board, but given that there is a chance someone on her team ratted on her it might not be good.

Skitter goes a little bit far at the end with Triumph. Just a tiny itty bitty bit far. Child you almost KILLED HIM! And then you let him sit there dying when the threat isn't that he'll die now, but that you will come back if needed (mayor ain't going to say what you want him to say if you kill his son, the point is if he doesn't say it you'll come back)! I'm worried about you.

Brian I understand why you like my daughter and she seems to like you and I'm glad having someone you feel safe with is helping you process your very valid trauma (important note, you could have done the same with your sister, she was trying to help you but you wouldn't open up to her, you should open up to her). But please don't get in the way of her relationships with her girlfriends. Just understand in terms of long term stuff Chatterbug and Wolfspider 100% trump . . . Darkbug? Fuck what are you guys called?

(I've been informed Shadeswarm, Nightcrawler, Night Biter, Creepy Crawlies, or Carapace. I think Creepy Crawlies might be my preference among that.)

MOAR DOLL LESBIAN CONTENT!!!!!

Parian is one of my absolute favorite characters! Flechette is pretty cool as well. Being a hero hurts her. Stabbing my daughter also didn't build good marks with me, but I understand why she did it. Cause GAAAAAAAAAAAY. I have a hard time being too mad at a lesbian stabbing someone to protect her girlfriend.

I'm glad Parian isn't joining Coil full hog at least, she's too pure to be a villain (or a "hero"). I kinda wish she could just move to New York and be a fashion designer and live her best life, but I do enjoy the idea of getting to see her more.

And to be honest, I don't think anyone on Earth Bet is really going to be living their best life in the long run. Sorry guys.

The fucking shutdown the team gives to the Nazis is AMAZING! Like ya no Hookwolf or Purity this time, that obviously would have made it harder. But still, comparing the previous fight to this just really shows how much the team has increased in power. They didn't even bring Grue.

Skitter and Tattletale being able to work together to find all the people in a few block radius and figure out which groups are Nazis, all while just standing in the middle of the street, is so fucking cool. I fucking love watching them work.

I don't love the girlfriends fighting with the whole "Skitter wasn't told about the plan to have Regent yoink a Nazi". But they seemed to make up pretty quickly.

Skitter fucking running multiple bug clones, with cameras and microphones, all across her territory, and using them to talk to people and check in on things, WHILE getting surgery on her shoulder??! FUCKING HELL. Like ok yes, please love yourself child and let yourself take it easy sometimes. But also holy shit that is so god damn amazing. I am 100% convinced (I mean, I have been since like Arc 4 TBH) that she uses her bugs to basically offload her pain. Or offloads her mind to her bugs so she can ignore the pain in her body. Same idea. Like even if it's never confirmed it is true to me. And the multitasking! Give Taylor a Thinker classification!!

Just fucking attacking the mayor's family to intimidate him into telling people in Washington to not condemn Brockton Bay huh? I mean sure it kinda worked at the end (assuming he does what he said he would) but it really seems like a terrible plan. Like, the people in Washington are gonna hear about the attack and wonder about everything the mayor says. But fine, that's the plan.

Skitter making the bug clones complex enough that Trickster and Genesis don't even notice she's a clone at first is super cool! Also it does drive home that she is always just covered with so many bugs and using swarm speech so much that when a version of her shows up that is completely covered in bugs and speaks fully with swarm speech it doesn't throw anyone off.

Coil had to know that Triumph was the mayor's kid. The fact that he's the one who pushed to have them attack during family dinner.

I'm really proud of Skitter for figuring it out though! I pegged him as a cape pretty much right away and was able to figure out it was Triumph not long after, but she was in the heat of the moment. Also she got the girlfriend pegged as a either Prism or Ursa while I was still uncertain if she was a cape.

Holy shit that fight was so fucking cinematic! Perfectly built for Triumph to look cool by exploding bug clones with his shouts. And with Prism splitting and combining constantly. Just fuck. I'd love to see an animation of that fight. It was super cool.

And again, Skitter got dark there. And sadly I'm worried she's gonna get darker.