#jack slash

[timeloopbuddy]

It entertains me to no end that Shards literally give their hosts little treats whenever they make conflict for them. Like training a dog to do tricks for treats.

- Last 20.5

Honestly, this is a great line for showing how fucking creepy Shard Instinct is.

For those of you unaware, Shard Instinct is when your power lends you heightened awareness of potential dangers, weaknesses, and understanding of things around you (mostly powers but not always).

We see characters like Taylor, March, Grey Boy, and Glastig Uaine, have it in some scenes and Jack Slash would be the biggest example as his Shard is basically built entirely around that function (hence it being called Broadcast)

Victoria, currently, is riding high on Shard Instinct after bonding with her Shard, the Fragile One. It has let her have Tattletale tier guesses into dangerous capes, forewarned her about the dangers of anti-Parahumans, and even given her hints that Titan Fumehood and Dauntless were still human on the inside.

It’s arguably the most in depth look we’ve seen barring Jack himself as to how it works in depth.

She’s also been using it a lot during the Ziz fight, mostly to avoid the more fatal traps and tricks, and to slightly resist her machinations (to varying degrees of success).

Here, it borders nearly on the precognitive, with Victoria warning Roman not to act even before Roman do anything, getting Roman to not use his power. Note that Victoria had only found Roman in a pile of bodies a few minutes ago and is currently reeling from blood loss/burns on her body, yet she’s hyper aware of what he would do.

Which is fucking badass… but now imagine it from the perspective someone who isn’t Victoria.

She basically either read your mind or could somehow see the future as to what you’ll do, which is a surprise because neither of those are her power. She just immediately stopped whatever you had planned in your tracks.

That’s fucking creepy as hell

[artbyblastweave]

Jack Slash works as well as he does basically entirely on the basis of how visibly the author Does Not Like Him. There's a version of Jack Slash written by some other guy who actually unironically thinks his character archetype is hot shit, and that version sucks and the version of the story that he's in also probably sucks. This version also sucks but you can feel everyone else in the story rolling their eyes in unison at the fact that they've gotta put up with his bullshit, everyone going, "alright, can we please stop with the Dark Knight pastiche and go back to playing realpolitik with well-realized individuals who aren't homicidal cartoon characters that we're forced to take seriously purely by virtue of their inexplicable six-digit grimdark looneytunes bodycount"

[dw-flagler]

there's something about how lame jack is that he can't even read taylor right. Not only is this a supremely ineffective tack, he didn't even get her trigger event right. and her identity is public to boot.

[estavionpira]

Imp trying to stab Jack Slash and he keeps dodging on instinct. No idea she's there, just decided to do some cardio today. Getting a really good feeling about picking up a steel chair and swinging it right in front of him. Can't for the life of him figure out why.

[sillydog33]

14.8... when i catch you wildbow

[travelers-gaming]

ok new funniest earth aleph situation. niche video essayist Jacob Black finds out with horror about the fact that his alternate universe self is Jack Fucking Slash.

Imagine watching a 2 hour video where a man grapples with the fact that in a very slightly different universe he became The Fucking Joker.

[germesthegenie]

Jack was still grinning. “What would you do to people like me, then? Let’s say you got powers. Would you right wrongs, lecture schoolchildren on doing what’s right, and see bad guys like me carted off to the Birdcage?”

“People like you? I’d kill. Sir.”

Fun fact: Theo is crying in both of these scenes, it’s just covered by the mask.

I feel like Golem is one of the more underrated characters of Worm (at least if fanfics are anything to go by), probably because his part in it comes pretty late in the story. Kid with no powers managed to work up the courage to say he’d kill Jack to his face, and in doing so accidentally tied himself to Dinah’s end of the world prophecy. And through 2 years of hard work and grueling training, he got pretty close to being the hero he wanted and needed to be. He may have failed to defeat Jack on his own, but that was never in the cards from both an in universe and meta perspective. One of the few outright good guys in the series, coming pretty far from his upbringing.

[innominaterifter]

Ah, hello! Late at work? I'm looking at your family photos: they look great, so soulful!

[bodegadulac]

[cpericardium]

Kind of shady that Jack Slash hugged a 15 year old and pretended to be her boyfriend... he's a grown adult why isn't anyone talking about this

[zizbombs]

yes jack we see the fit

[lemurlord]

Outstanding, Mister Slash, truly outstanding. Cloning every member of the Slaughterhouse Nine, past and present, including myself. However, you've made a crucial mistake.

Nothing ever happens.

*timeloop noises*

[ganurath]

It's kind of funny the ways that Grue and Jack Slash mirror one another. One's a designated love interest overshadowed by half his team, the other's a designated nemesis overshadowed by half of the preceeding adversaries. One's a teenager who tries to be a middle aged man, the other's a middle aged man clinging desperately to his teenage years. There's probably something to be said about the power dynamics between their "leadership" and the fucked-up girls that carry their teams, too.

[whereserpentswalk]

Thinking about a Worm AU where Jack dies in Brockton Bay (either gets killed by the prt, or becomes a horrifying bonesaw creation that his shard still considers 'alive'). It makes things entirely different but probably equally interesting. Amy is likely a member of the Undersiders. Victoria isn't a flesh monster but still got brain raped. Gold Morning won't happen for decades, which means Taylor is likely going to remain a warlord for the rest of her life. Arms Master is doing something else (no idea what). I literally just thought of this and it has some really interesting butterfly effects.

[estavionpira]

The two twelve-year-olds HARBINGER and the freshly-dubbed JACK SLASH stand over the cooling body of KING

HARBINGER: With KING dead, there's only five of us left now. JACK SLASH: They'll start calling us the Slaughterhouse-Five if we don't recruit soon. HARBINGER: I suppose? JACK SLASH: One could say that this whole endeavour was a bit of a Children's Crusade, wouldn't you? HARBINGER: JACK SLASH: HARBINGER: JACK SLASH: Get it. KING named the group after the hit novel by Kurt Vonnegut. So I said- HARBINGER: Why would I know that. I joined the SLAUGHTERHOUSE at age 9 specifically so I didn't have to go to middle school. JACK SLASH: You really ought to get more educated on this sort of stuff. It can add such a delightful pizzazz to killings. HARBINGER: JACK SLASH: HARBINGER: JACK SLASH: HARBINGER: JACK SLASH: HARBINGER: I don't think the SLAUGHTERHOUSE is for me anymore.

[bagelboihijinks]

Jack Slash: Hey gang! Let’s split up and search for new members!

Shatterbird: Like, zoinks, Jack! We’d better get going!

Nightmarish Horror Beast Bonesaw Made From 3 Apples And A Two By Four: I am the ultimate evil. Complete with hot and cold running water.

Mannequin: Oh my god. This is my life now. What wrathful god did I offend to deserve this. Every second I spend alive on this godforsaken planet is a second wasted in agony. Every time I think that my hatred cannot possibly surpass itself, that it cannot possibly grow to a new extreme, I am proven wrong. Burn. Burn, all of you.

Crawler: It’s Crawling time!