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I AM SO NORMAL ABOUT THIS

Life Series Parahumans AU

So after my post earlier this week revealed numerous people who are fans of both properties, I decided to write up something that's been stewing in the back of my head for a while. To be clear, this won't be a fic or a story, it's just some thoughts on how to make the big elements of the Life Series work in the Parahumans setting. I also won't be providing powers for every member, only if I have inspiration(winners+Jimmy).

Coeur D'Vie is(was) a city on the east coast of Canada. With a warm water port(though poor roads to other cities), it was a popular location for smuggling, until most of the major gangs wiped each other out, taking out a sizable chunk of the population in the process. In the vacuum, three prominent parahumans arose as gang leaders, operating out of various abandoned warehouses etc:

Grian, AKA Phoenix, AKA the man in the chicken costume, AKA Pesky Bird. Mover/Blaster, he can point and cause an explosion(mostly concussion, no heat/shrapnel). He's partly immune to this, and is very good at launching himself into the air and using his custom wingsuit costume to glide. Likes to base in tall buildings, to the detriment of allies who can't just jump off when problems arise.

Ren, AKA King Ren the Ninth. Shaker, he can cause the laws of reality to shift for the entire city. The change is slow, and affects everyone, so he tries to pick good laws rather than exploitable ones. His first act, for example, was making guns not work in city limits, basically ending any police or external gang presence there. Originally didn't want to get into cape wars, which is why he didn't keep his civilian and cape life separate. Instead, this has led him to leaning deeper into his cape persona until it's all that's left.

Scott AKA Wedded Spouse. A master, he can make deals with people, and both parties are bound to the rules of the deal. His shard INTENDS that he make exploitable or twistable deals to force others to obey. Instead, he makes honest deals and abides by the spirit of them, which has ironically led to significantly more success for his various gangs and very little betrayal, especially by the standards of this city.

When the existing gangs collapsed, Ren tried to take over, thinking he could run the city with a minimum of violence. Grian didn't want anyone in charge of him, and the two of them clashed, with Scott drawn into the fray. The fights caused numerous trigger events among their forces and bystanders, and eventually wiped out all involved gangs. Grian "won", but afterwards Scar attacked him, blaming him for the destruction and death, Grian killed Scar and then threw himself off the top of his base in grief. Which is a good time to bring up

Jimmy AKA Tim AKA Canary Curse. Foot soldier for Spouse's gang, he got blasted into the air by Phoenix and freaked. All he wanted, really, in that moment, was not to die. His trigger came slightly too late for that. Instead, whenever he dies, anyone with powers(including him) who dies for the next few hours will come back. The duration and range seems to shift each time, and it even sometimes catches people who died right before him. There's a lot of questions about how it works, and people generally don't like to test it too much in case it suddenly doesn't.

12 hours after Jimmy died(his first time), and a few hours after Grian killed himself, every parahuman who'd been involved in those fights came back. King Ren and Wedded Spouse, both honorable, acknowledged they'd lost and ceded significant territory to Grian. But now there was a pattern. The gangs would squabble and fight, parahumans forming and breaking alliances and friendships. When things began to heat up, people were pissed, eventually someone would start killing. Jimmy, always bad at keeping himself alive, was usually the first to go, and his death would set off everyone else, desperately killing until only the strongest parahuman in the city remained(and sometimes not even one). The winner of the d'Vie Games would rule much of the city for a while, until personality conflicts kicked off the violence again. Other parahumans who joined in the early chaos include:

Michael, aka Scar. One of the Grian's first allies and friends, he was caught in a Phoenix blast and injured, giving him the scars he renamed himself after. (surprisingly, he does not mind Lion King jokes, and the scars don't hurt his abilities as a dealer). He doesn't blame Grian for the blast, and really tries to avoid grudges in general, with mixed results. Cluster Trigger with Martyn. Scar starts off just above human-baseline, but the closer he is to death, the stronger and tougher he gets, and the better his combat thinker ability to target weak points gets.

Martyn, AKA Executioner. Ren recruited him as a lieutenant/public face early on, and he triggered during a fight with Grian's gang that both sides thought they were losing after a poorly-placed blast from Phoenix. He gains strength/durability/knows-who's-near-death for a while after he kills someone, or for a shorter time if someone dies near him.

Later parahumans to arrive include:

Cleo AKA The Zombie. They were part of a small-time group of thieves with Lizzie and Terry. When the group started drawing too much heat, though, Terry decided to make a move. Stab Cleo in the back(literally) and push them off a cliff with just enough loot to make it look like Cleo was the only thief, letting him and Lizzie escape clean. Too bad that, while Cleo fell off the cliff, they didn't hit the ground. Turns out, The Zombie can teleport behind anyone who hurt them at-will until The Zombie has taken their revenge. Terry and Lizzie's home was burned down with them inside it, and when that didn't kill him, Cleo waited until he was in a fight and appeared behind him to finish him off.

Pearl AKA Full Moon AKA That Crazy Woman With An Axe. An Australian who moved to this town to get away from problems at home. Tried to ally with various groups, usually had it go poorly due to various bad decisions on everyone's part. I went back and forth, but honestly, just give her Bitch's canon powerset. Train dogs easily and turn them into Dog-Hulk, but constantly misunderstand humans and be misunderstood in turn, forcing her to solve problems with violence.

Joel AKA Homewrecker. His house was collapsed by a parahuman fight. Then he moved in with a friend and that house was burned down. Then he was sleeping in his car when it was ripped in half. Now he can destroy structures by touching them for a few seconds(what qualifies as a structure is questionable. Couches, cars, and semis don't, but a RV or outhouse does). In some cases he seems to have control over how the building falls, but it's not precise other than "down".

And maybe now that I've posted this much, I can stop thinking about this when I should be writing. Anyone who has thoughts or wants to steal any part, please feel free.

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OMG ANOTHER LIFE SERIES / PARAHUMANS FAN!?!?

I really like seeing how everyone used that power in WildLife. Joel's trolling people by narrowly escaping was great. To be fair the power in the life series also had just a plain teleport aspect to it as well but I still was seeing it as an unintentional Worm reference lol

It fr made Impulse more of a troll than he normally is

Why was Trickster like that

So there’s a thing called the Life Series(yes I meant to put this in the Parahumans tag trust me). It’s basically a lighthearted Minecraft Hunger Games. And the most recent season had a different random mod installed each episode. Which is relevant because one of the Wild Cards was everyone got superpowers.

Specifically, a few people got a “teleport and/or swap yourself with another player” power at various points. Which is similar to what Krouse could do. And everyone who got that power immediately turned into the biggest troll in existence with it. Not just killing people by swapping them into danger, but swapping people into a conversation you’re done with, swapping people so they fall off a bridge just because, regularly antagonizing others instead of killing them, etc.

Yes, I know Krouse was always a jerk. But these players included some who aren’t normally the trolls and jerks of the server, and this power instantly changed them into acting exactly like he does.

IDK, I just think we as a fandom talk about triggers affecting behavior, and shards affecting behavior, but I think we may underestimate just how much the powers themselves encourage certain behaviors.

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Real

I have a deal with my brother that he’ll read up through the Leviathan arc if I finish reading Mortal Engines

3 years ago i made a bet with a friend, with a written contract and all.

If she finished Worm in 3 months i would buy her a cur-out from Kaworu evangelion, if she didn't then her sould was mine.

After 3 years she finally finished the first arc, all in one sitting.

I still have that cartoony ass contract with her soul on my desk.

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The wormies have been eating good this week

shes got this guys

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I’ve been working a bit on the Worm Zombie AU comic but have been busy with school and each page takes me a while. So…

Either way there would be a pinned guide if u want to read it in order

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I did a painting party for my birthday and here’s what I made

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My fav scene of them

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A wolfspider doodle for propaganda

From the scene where Rachel gives Taylor her jacket after they leave a fight

If I feel up to it I might do more throughout the week, wolfspider drawathon or something

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I miss badly drawing worm.

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Ok so, DnD has been canceled for me for awhile due to conflicting schedules (band season for one, one didn’t want to wake up early when sick, I think the other player had a college trip at some point) so I’d been slacking on planning the next bit of my worm ttrpg.

As a group we have 3 campaigns going at the same time and switch off each week. One person last minute asked to be skipped that week and move onto mine

Guess I’m speed running planning tomorrow lol

Also I’ll update what happened last time eventually, I just want to illustrate some of it and haven’t had time.

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I love Wolfspider so much. It’s such a unique ship.

Nobody made an effort with Rachel,marking her a lost cause socially, except for Taylor. Taylor went out of her way to make friends with Rachel and understand her.

Even after Taylor’s almost betrayal of the team Rachel was eventually able to forgive her (which is a lot for Rachel). Rachel even saved Taylor from Leviathan at the expense of her dogs (which is A LOT from Rachel)

Also their kiss literally saved the town

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Propaganda

Lumity: The cutest relationship ever! The story so smoothly goes through so many phases! From Amity working through her abusive family relationship and looking for redemption, from Luz and Amity learning to be date (for the first time of their life), learning to communicate to resolve their issues, and growing intimate.

All of their interactions feel so natural, when it's tense, awkward or warm. They have so much chemistry.

VOTE LUMITY

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It was a big reason why I got into Worm as well. My friend would play through it during boring school events and pause explaining what was happening throughout. This animation also got me to love the song.

Kiss Me, Son of God Worm AMV (Not Mine)

this amv is so fucking good and i want all of you to watch it NOW

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Trickster vs Ballistic (the full saga)

alright here's the full thing I have to cut it short because it's gonna be nagging me forever lol

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a new worm edit. heard this audio and knew exactly what I had to do. artwork by (in no particular order): @cpericardium @ieatedanimation @noctilla @junebugtwin @worms-in-my-head @il3x NeoWorm on DeviantArt sandara on DeviantArt wolfofragnarok on DeviantArt Mikezzzzz on DeviantArt ArtofLariz on DeviantArt chroma-imp on reddit aidanclearyart on Reddit

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With election season happening, I propose we vote for a Wormblr president

(This is mostly a joke)

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Share! Practice makes progress!

You're like the cpericardium of wormblrblr

this one might be true

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Tattletale cosplay!

(Yapping under cut)

Didn’t end up going to the get together with friends since I wasn’t feeling well but I’ll dress up with friend another time. Probably a good thing I didn’t go since my friends said they got ID’d (no kids 16 or younger without adult) and had to drive the 30 mins back home to get their IDs.

Also fun fact: I put this costume together before summer and only had the left knee brace then. Start of summer I got injured on my right knee so now it’s symmetrical lol