#theo anders

[germesthegenie]

Did some doodles of the Chicago Wards spending their time out of costume! Because they are still my favs despite not only Wildbow but the fanfic writers forsaking me on more content of them! So guess I’m filling the void myself!

Jokes aside, wanted to do some practice on character designs and a bit of background/foreground and decided to take the opportunity to do some more drawings of these guys. Designs and stuff are I think like 75% canon compliant and 25% headcanon / personal intepretation of the characters

[homlvssocialmedia]

Theo Anders aka Golem is so good on retrospective. The name Golem coming from (iirc) Jewish folklore in where a giant man made of clay is made to protect the Jews and has the word "truth" printed on its forehead. this is so cool because of his familial background being born from two key members in empire 88. i like the truth thing and if you subscribe to the idea that he almost knows truths before they are true or confirmed, aster, not really being able to stop jack slash before he wreaks havoc, how to defeat scion.

i love analyzing shit so much.

[got-into-worm-by-mistake]

“I… I don’t really know.  It’s supposed to be ten times easier to get powers if you’re second generation.  But we don’t have research on third generations yet.  It’s only pretty recently that we had the first third-generation cape on record.  The baby in Toronto.”

I've heard some people really didn't like that Ward reveals that Vicky's second generation trigger wasn't just from a basketball foul. I think I mentioned it back then when it came up in Arc 4. How it basically reveals that the second gen being easier thing isn't actually true, per se.

And I do kind of like the idea that second gen capes trigger easier, because it kind of makes sense with the purpose of shards, right?

But I would say that this might be one of those times, loathe as I am to admit it, where the fandom kind of missed the point in Worm itself.

Because one, the reveal in Arc 4 is hardly from an unbiased source, and Regent is himself a 2nd Gen, so he knows it's not quite so simple as '2nd gen capes trigger easier' (though he may be so psychologically burnt out he doesn't think his trigger was that bad? I don't remember what his trigger was anymore), and,

Two, well, you have this.

Theo is third Gen one one side, 2nd gen on the other, has been surrounded by capes most of his life, and hasn't had that 'easy' trigger.

Not a ton of data points, but the Worm fandom has done more with less.

I hate to say it, but... I think the Ward Haters had it wrong this time.

(Besides, I really like the expanded details of Vicky's trigger, one of the revelations from Ward I actually like)

[snazzycrown]

Doodles! I’m feeling like a soft boiled Coca Cola can at the moment which means it’s time to draw til I feel better.

[riverkingmarley]

I made a post a long time ago called “what’s the point of Theo?” about how I thought Theo was boring and how I thought he could be replaced with Sophia.

I’d like to clarify, if you like Theo please tell me why. I really don’t understand his inclusion in the story. It feels so out of place.

His main character trait is that he’s a normal dude despite coming from a family of Nazis. His trauma is based around being uncomfortable with his body but the story didn’t make it feel super important so I don’t know why I’m supposed to care. He didn’t even feel like he had a big reaction to Taylor killing aster. Was it a problem with the timeskip? Genuinely what is his deal suppose to be. Why am I suppose to care about him? Someone please tell me I don’t get it.

[artbyblastweave]

The Worm Arcana: VIII. Strength- Golem

“ A two year wait - patience indeed.  To kill a monster, though he has no confidence - courage.  He's a character raised by the hateful who became caring regardless.  His crisis is one of an inability to find power, self-doubt (before and after he has powers) and a lack of training. “

[peppersshame]

some random Worm stuff. i grew up on Worm discord servers.

[il3x]

Peacemaker by the mechanisms is a Taylor Vs jack song (or Theo instead of Taylor maybe)

YES YESYESYES YE YES YES YESYESYEESS

also a kaladin vs moash song ;))

[ty-bayonet-betteridge]

worm is a dnd campaign and theo is a player who joined in late tier 3 so they had to rush to get his backstory hooks resolved b4 they moved to the end of the campaign

[drowntheminspiders]

Head in hands. Theo... i will give you everything i aave...

[germesthegenie]

I’ve never made an animatic before but my brain decided I needed to get this idea I’ve had for a while out of my head so uh have this rough little animatic thing

Spoilers for Arc 26

Song used: https://youtu.be/t0MN6Tiy3EY?si=tOUrxaRfkzk7HqG2

[reliaofdreams]

fanfic where theo’s power uses his feet so defiant makes him supernaturally sick jordans

[estavionpira]

"Ah finally, I'm all alone," I said to myself as I walked through the door into my apartment.

"No your not." said Jack Slash

r/TwoSentenceHorror stories but with Parahuman characters

[tahopo]

love interests 🌷

edit: added mahariel :)

[germesthegenie]

Brief Respite At The End Of The World

Little doodle that I imagine takes place some time either during Arc 29 or after Arc 30. Wanted to do a quick drawing of this ship that for some reason lives rent free in my brain (Does it even have, like, a ship name? If there isn’t I think either Gauntlet or Handcuff could work for if I ever need to tag it but idk)

Way Too Much Yapping about a relationship between two tertiary characters below:

Part of the reason I like this ship is because these two were surprise favorites in the latter half of Worm, and I thought the mentions of them getting together in Arc 26 and 29 were cute. Though thinking a lot on the two characters (and probably a good bit of headcanon tbh), I started to appreciate it a lot more.

For Theo’s end of things, he’s always been burdened by expectations. His father tried to mold him into the next leader of the E88 from a young age, but Theo pushed back against that, instead wanting to be a hero. And then he got that, and a lot more than he asked for, accidentally becoming essentially a hero of prophecy thanks to Jack’s promise. Suddenly he wasn’t just a hero, he had to be *the* hero, live up to impossible expectations and save the world. And he was treated based on those expectations. His friendship with Weaver was pretty much based on the fact Taylor had to train him, try to make him the guy who could defeat Jack Slash. And then he failed, just barely missing the mark, and those expectations came crashing down around him. He distances himself from his team, and is mostly sulking in the background for the opening acts of Gold Morning, though one person does make an effort to reach out to him.

Aside from maybe Purity (who has her own set of issues), Ava is one of the few people in Theo’s life who likes and cares about who he is, not who he could be. And at his lowest point, where he feels he failed everyone, she’s trying to do what she can to help him recover and see he’s not a failure. And she does succeed eventually, as we see him up to fight a couple chapters later in the arc.

(Also it’s really funny and sweet that the meek girl from Arc 24 was able to almost convince Taylor “You can’t tell me what to do” Hebert to drop everything and talk to Golem, made a doodle of it a while back)

On Ava’s side of things, there’s admittedly not nearly as much to glean from just her characterization in the text alone. Like I said, she’s one of the few who appreciates Theo for who he is, regardless of expectations put on him by others. Their stories aren’t so different, only that her nemesis of sorts (Behemoth) was killed just as she was starting out. And after that fight she’s terrified, choosing not to attend the Khonsu fight. But Theo keeps pushing himself, trains knowing he’ll have to fight things that are arguably worse than the Endbringers when it comes to pain and fates worse than death. I like to think his inspiration is what led to the much more confident Cuff we see after the timeskip (though the Taylor Hebert Bootcamp probably also helped there). The main other thing we know is she had a previous boyfriend who she broke up with due to the pressures Weaver put the Chicago Wards under (which is probably a whole separate post to get into). So maybe their relationship is something that lets them both have a sense of normalcy in the insanity that is late Worm.

Or, you know, maybe I’m reading way too much into my two blorbos whose relationship gets like 5 lines of canon mention and 1 fanfic that I know of (shoutout again to Chartic, Off the Cuff is like a third of the reason I like this ship so much) and this is the best way I could put together why short of writing a fanfic myself (I might ngl but I do not have time atm)

[skyrzeart]

(absolute destiny apocalypse bass boosted)