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artbyblastweave · 2 years

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I think a funny character for the parahumans universe would be a crackpot cape with the same kind of public profile as Glastig Uaine, except instead of ranting about powers, they come from a WLP/Literary analysis background, had the wherewithal to talk to more than six capes about the in-depth situations surrounding their trigger events, and then arrived at the (correct) conclusion that all powers are pat little metaphors for the trauma and life circumstances of their users.

From here the cape infers (less correctly but not explicitly wrong yet!) the existence of an Author designing everyone’s powers, and possibly takes this a few steps further to arrive at the conclusion that the wormverse is either a Grant-Morrison-esque meta setting in which it’s possible to track the Author down and petition them, or a Pratchett-esque setting that’s bound by the laws of narrative causality. (And this is still the rightest wrong it’s possible to be on this issue tbh)

#parahumans #worm #wildbow #worm fanfiction #worm meta #like #more seriously it's reasonable that nobody would ever notice the exact extent of this #because there's a strong culture against delving too deep into people's trigger events #a cultural belief in good trigger events #cauldron capes to muddy the waters #and a tendency for some capes to out-and-out lie about their triggers to make themselves look good #But if you talked to the right people in the right order a Lit major could very conceivably get lucky

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