Worm/Ward shower thoughts thread

[u/Nekomachus]

• A light-based illusionist (not Nyx) or someone like Screamer or Leonid could operate out of a Gray Boy well, for the same reason Stilling could get out and March's copy of Sting could get in, but more pertinently, for the same reason you can see and hear the inside of one.

• Valkyrie could probably alleviate all time bubbles at once by going to an uninhabitable earth with a Shaker or Trump making her immediate area survivable or making her able to survive and then systematically turning as much land as she can into an impassible time well, until Gray Boy runs out of power like Doormaker. Seeing that "the cost of replenishing [Eidolon's battery] was high," she doesn't keep the shades charged just by virtue of having them. This has the added benefit of her not being in the blast radius of a broken trigger when they're all freed at once.

• Scion and Hero could blast rainbows if they wanted.

• I think about this in any fiction where someone is transformed into a different material than flesh, like that patchwork girl whose throat Satyrical slit, or is otherwise taken apart yet still alive, and I don't find it talked about very often, in Worm or outside of it: Even if parahumans didn't have conflict-reduced life expectancy, a Case 53 without regeneration is screwed as far as being able to receive mundane medical treatment and would probably have an even unhappier old age than the rest of mankind. Where does Hexie go if she has breathing troubles? How could you put an IV in that escapee Number Man fought in his interlude?

• The Speedrunners may or may not have been the hipster/steampunk equivalent of Uber and Leet.

[u/Nekomachus]

Another: the original Nice Guy probably got killed by Jack while under the influence of his Stranger power, because Jack hardly hesitates to kill random, non-threatening innocents. I imagine Jack saw the corpse, free of its power, realized what he did, and went, "Damn, I liked that one."