#please appreciate more than just the edgy parts. where is your fucking whimsy!!!

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i need more tlt fans to read worm and ward. because there are some insanely gnawable situationships here and most of the fandom flat out ignores them. the protagonist of ward was confessed to by the symbiotic alien living in her brain that gives her superpowers but can't actually talk to her in any normal way. and the confession was reciprocated. this is fucking canon. and there are exactly three (3) fics tagged with them on ao3.

like the weird smut options you get between a girl and her sapient shapeshifting forcefield aside, the dynamic is fucking excellent. her alien passenger literally represents and reflects her trauma but also protects her from it. the alien used to be part of a hivemind doing Experimence on humans but the alien gods controlling the hivemind got murdered to death so now it's just doing its own thing and looking after its human. and the human has (completely understandable) massive trust issues and can't fully accept anyone's emotional investment in her... except maybe the alien consciousness who's been part of her brain for a decade.

like. there are fics written between the release of gtn and htn exploring the fucked up situation that would be loving someone that is inextricably part of you and utterly devoted to your safety. and who you can't properly communicate with. and these were part speculation and part blatant disregard of canon. and then ward is just doing that In The Text and almost none of its audience cares