WORM - a violent superheroine feeds you wasps
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 11:18 am
I've been reading an amazing piece of web-fiction for the last few weeks. It's called WORM: the story of capes. It's about superheroics in a crappy world. Meet Taylor, the protagonist:
She is in school. She is being bullied, bad. She needs to let off some steam, and as it happens she has a superpower, and she's been itching to become a superhero, to save lives and help people and stop bad guys. Unfortunately for her, she thinks of bad guys as "bullies", and she doesn't want to make the mistakes that let to her being bullied in school - you can never show weakness, you can never back down, you can never let a bully win... the gist is, she tends to go too far.
Taylor is the one doing the kicking.
The black spots? Bugs. Her bugs. They're under her control. They do whatever she wants them to. If the thought of bugs swarming over you, swarming into you, biting and stinging the insides of your ears and mouth and nose is too much, don't read this, because that's the second simplest thing her bugs do.
The simplest thing? She knows where the bugs are. There is a bug on your room, a small one, another few inside the walls, perhaps one in your window. What does that mean? She knows the walls, the window, and the small one just landed on you, and she knows where you are. The same is true for every room, every person within her range.
She's not a powerhouse. She's clever. Intelligent. That lame power of "I can sense and control bugs" becomes scary and badass.
Oh, and the world the story takes place in has been ending for a few decades. There's these monsters that appear two-three times a year, and every time they appear they've broken and destroyed things. They've broken humans, broken cities, broken some islands. Poor Japan. The regular supervillains, in comparison, are just mobsters who at most threaten one city at a time. Pity there are worse things out there than the "regular" supervillains. Like Slaughterhouse 9. You know they're in town because all the glass just exploded into shrapnel that tried to kill you, including glasses on your head, mobile phones in your pocket, your computer screen... One of the 9 likes hogging the attention like that.
Worm is dark, violent, the violence is described in a very physical way, it's well written, there's lots of text, it's AWESOME. It's a long read. It has (as of mid-May 2013) reached an excess of 1,150,000 words; roughly 9-20 typical novels in length. It's still updating, regular updates on Tuesdays and Saturdays, specials on Thursdays.
For anyone who didn't know about it, WORM starts here. You can thank me later, after you're read a bit.
If there is already someone here who knows about it - COOL! The latest chapters have been awesome, but lets keep it in spoiler boxes, because spoilers.
She is in school. She is being bullied, bad. She needs to let off some steam, and as it happens she has a superpower, and she's been itching to become a superhero, to save lives and help people and stop bad guys. Unfortunately for her, she thinks of bad guys as "bullies", and she doesn't want to make the mistakes that let to her being bullied in school - you can never show weakness, you can never back down, you can never let a bully win... the gist is, she tends to go too far.
Taylor is the one doing the kicking.
The black spots? Bugs. Her bugs. They're under her control. They do whatever she wants them to. If the thought of bugs swarming over you, swarming into you, biting and stinging the insides of your ears and mouth and nose is too much, don't read this, because that's the second simplest thing her bugs do.
The simplest thing? She knows where the bugs are. There is a bug on your room, a small one, another few inside the walls, perhaps one in your window. What does that mean? She knows the walls, the window, and the small one just landed on you, and she knows where you are. The same is true for every room, every person within her range.
She's not a powerhouse. She's clever. Intelligent. That lame power of "I can sense and control bugs" becomes scary and badass.
Oh, and the world the story takes place in has been ending for a few decades. There's these monsters that appear two-three times a year, and every time they appear they've broken and destroyed things. They've broken humans, broken cities, broken some islands. Poor Japan. The regular supervillains, in comparison, are just mobsters who at most threaten one city at a time. Pity there are worse things out there than the "regular" supervillains. Like Slaughterhouse 9. You know they're in town because all the glass just exploded into shrapnel that tried to kill you, including glasses on your head, mobile phones in your pocket, your computer screen... One of the 9 likes hogging the attention like that.
Worm is dark, violent, the violence is described in a very physical way, it's well written, there's lots of text, it's AWESOME. It's a long read. It has (as of mid-May 2013) reached an excess of 1,150,000 words; roughly 9-20 typical novels in length. It's still updating, regular updates on Tuesdays and Saturdays, specials on Thursdays.
For anyone who didn't know about it, WORM starts here. You can thank me later, after you're read a bit.
If there is already someone here who knows about it - COOL! The latest chapters have been awesome, but lets keep it in spoiler boxes, because spoilers.
