#this is just a worm & pact comparison not very exciting.

[humanmorph]

i have a reblog of a post about Just This in my queue somewhere, so i won't repeat all those points here, but man it's a shame a lot of pact side characters are just not that explored/well drawn (since that andy & eva post just got released from my queue. there was that one intermission with andy's diary+correspondence, but still... i would've loved to see more of the intense violent siblings & what's up with them. i thought their dynamic kind of ruled). i feel it's the biggest reason for why worm in my mind is the stronger work.

i'll still say i had a better time (like just more fun) time reading pact. been having trouble pinpointing why. i think maybe taylor is a more tragic character to me than blake. also more exhausting to be in the head of. and pact is just genuinely funny at times, intentionally comedic written which helps even during tense scenes. there's one bit i wish i had taken a screencap of bc it was so funny to me at the time... some blake(mirror) shenanigans during a fight. i really loved how creative he had to get there, it's some of the best action in pact imo.

other things i liked in pact: it didn't have an entire arc that just kind of bored me. some parts near the end were it was mostly fights got a bit iffy, but it was nowhere near the whole slaughterhouse 9000 shit in worm... also the break in the story (? i guess? idk how else to put this or if these are comparable to anyone but me), the abyss, and the resulting changes were much more fun than the timeskip & taylor becoming weaver...