if your requests are open you should draw trickster. holding the door slightly open for someone. possibly cody

even if they were closed id open them for trickster holding the door slightly open

Worm Arc 17 thoughts:

Travelers backstory!!!!!!!!! WOOOO!!!!!!

HOLY SHIT THEY ARE FROM EARTH ALEPH! That really explains the mysterious nature of their backstory up to now.

Would have loved to get some PoV's from some people who aren't Trickster but I'll live.

He's just such an asshole! Like I already knew he was but god DAMN did this arc remove any doubt.

Just the worst type of asshole that can be found in MOBA games (I say this as someone who played MOBA games for years). And then given superpowers. Ugh.

THE SIMURGH FUCKING HELL OH MY GOD I LOVE HER!!!!!!!!!

SHE IS MY FAVORITE ENDBRINGER AND ONE OF MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS EVEN IF SHE IS SUPER DUPER EVIL AND TERRIBLE! BUT SHE JUST SINGS IN EVERYONE'S HEADS AND THEY SEE THINGS THAT SHE WANTS THEM TO SEE AND SHE SEES THE FUTURE AND CREATES A CAUSE AND EFFECT PLAGUE BASICALLY AND I LOVE HER!!

Just the level of planning ahead she does, the number of moves ahead Simmy is playing. After the first few times she shows up they start quarantining where she attacks. Which ends up being exactly the right situation needed to push the Travelers to the choices she wanted them to make. Like, is quarantining even a counter to the Smurph or is it exactly what she wanted?

Sure precogs mess with precogs. That makes sense. But I don't know that it is as clear cut as Coil presented to Trickster. He implies two precogs just cancel each other out, but I assume it's more of a strength thing - a strong precog will cancel out a weak precog, but a weak precog will only make things a little fuzzier for a strong precog. So having Dinah would have helped against the Simurgh but I don't think it would be enough to just cancel out the Simurgh's power. Coil and Tattletale would probably also help. But I'm not convinced the last few months in Brockton Bay hasn't been more or less what Simmy wanted to happen.

Cody is the only person here that is probably more of an asshole than Krouse. Just could not get over the fact that Noelle didn't want to date him. Unbearably entitled dick. Possibly dead now, if Accord got his way. But very possibly not. Won't be surprised if he shows up again.

Cody's power is fun. I think it's the first "time travel" power I've seen. I mean Clockblocker does time freezing which is basically the same category but still, curious to see if we get any more level of time travel than this.

Marissa needs someone to make her some cookies and give her a place to hang out that isn't the house her mom lives in. I mean, I guess the current situation handles that but not how I meant.

I already liked Jess and now I like her even more. She's a cape geek! Wonderful.

Luke is interesting cause he was the only person besides Noelle who was close to Krouse at the start, but he's the first (well, aside from Cody I guess) to leave him. Really went through a character arc. Also Krouse lists Luke's "individual tragedy" as "not getting to fly" which is hysterical.

Oliver is a trans girl. Headcanon 100% established. It just fits so well. She just needs to find herself! And once she does and realizes what she actually wants to look like her power will get her there and won't need to keep adjusting! Right now Oliver's power is doing performative masculinity for them.

Noelle has had a bad time. God damn. She was having a bad time before everything happened and now she's having a very bad time. Damn. I had some guesses about her correct. Figured she was like, monstrous bottom half and normal top half. And figured touching her was bad. But I didn't foresee "touching her creates mutated evil clones". I'm sure that won't be a major problem in the next arc or two. I'm sure there won't be evil mutated clones of a bunch of capes to deal with . . .

I had long figured Travelers had Cauldron powers. It just fit with their power levels and such. I had also figured whatever Noelle's condition was, it was related to having a Cauldron power. I had a lot of guesses. None of them were "only drinks half a vial". For some reason I thought everyone would be too smart to do THAT! (I have no idea why I thought that.)

Current guess is Noelle is sort of in a never ending "trigger" event. Her power is constantly in the "building and gathering" phase and is not reaching the "lock things down" phase that normally happens (Bonesaw talked about this). Definitely a lot of other things it could be, this is just the best fit I've found so far.

This goes for Oliver too, which is why their power keeps changing how they look. Oliver just got lucky and has much less significant troubles compared to Noelle.

Got to see lots of new Case 53's. That was fun.

I expect to see more of Accord in the future. Just cause like, he gets smarter the more complex the problem. And the world is supposedly going to end due to (I think) the actions of higher dimensional entities. That is a very complex problem. And at the same time, he seems like the kind of person that might see "billions die" as a good way to reduce chaos. To simplify the world. Not saying that is what he will do, just that it seems a shame to not bring him up again.

I knew 40 people had died due to actions of the Travelers. I did not know Noelle had eaten them all! Because she tried to starve herself. I can see why it's important to keep her well fed. And why it's going to be an issue that there is no longer someone providing her with thousands of dollars of meat a week. No waste though, she has a very efficient digestive system.

The ending, with Trickster just staring at the bloodstain left behind by Coil's body while Genesis stares out at the ocean ... very good. I mean, really sucks for them, but it was a very evocative arc ending.

I wonder who won the Ransack tournament? One team disconnected because the building they were in disappeared into a space hole. I wonder what the rules are for that?

i think grey and carmine would be roommates

man. my favorite part of worm is how, in the Cody Interlude it's revealed that Simiurgh Bombs hear the screaming constantly because that retroactively implies that the rest of the Travelers, or at least Krouse and Noelle, weren't Z-Bombs. it reminds me of how in The Thing none of the people who actually start the paranoid infighting are imposters. Like it's kind of debatable whether or not the Simiurgh even *could* have made the noelle fight be as bad as it was, since iirc she can't predict Eidolon and him getting cloned was the reason cauldron was revealed.

Precognition in Worm is interesting to me for a singular reason. It can be wrong.

Glimpsing the future as a Parahuman isn't an actual vision of what is to come. It's a simulation of what can happen. Which is why Precogs can mess with each other's visions, rendering them entirely inaccurate.

As such, even the Simurgh isn't 100% accurate. Her plans work along assumptions of how people will act by viewing their entire self and twisting their thoughts with her scream. But it some deviates from their typical actions, if they grow as a person or have second thoughts then they break from her plans and stop being a Simurgh bomb.

The Travelers are a perfect example of this. Especially since the only character who actually shows this in story is Cody.

Krouse, for example, is a selfish, pragmatic person. He will do what's necessary for himself and what he cares for. And if something requires a selfless act, like giving Noelle mercy when there's no saving her, when her personality is visibly dying in the face of what she's becoming, he'll betray everyone and everything to suit his interests.

And Cody is someone driven by revenge and pettiness. Always wanting to fuck with Krouse for replacing him, even if it's a drastically stupid idea like making Noelle clone him. So when he goes against the pursuit of revenge and spares Lisa's life rather than killing her like he was going to, choosing to go on living and find the girl he likes in the Yangban, he changes his character and breaks from the Simurgh's plot.

Precogs in Worm are powerful, but they're aren't always right.

trickster and perdition are going in grim the end!

art by creator-crash

Perdition 1.10 Perdition 1.A

Table of Contents

Entre l'ombre et la lumière

Entre l'ombre et la lumière,

J'erre,

Je m'y insère volontiers,

Et je me sens alors dans une autre atmosphère,

Celle qui me confère,

Le plus de légèreté, d'insouciance à volonté...

C'est fou comme je me sens enfin libérée,

De pouvoir osciller,

Entre l'ombre où encore cette lumière tant convoitée...

J'aime les deux en vérité...

Et je n'ai plus peur de l'ombre tant redoutée...

Non, j'ose même la défier où encore l'apprivoiser...

Désormais, elle n'est plus mon ennemi juré,

Et je n'ai plus envie de l'affronter...

Alors oui entre l'ombre et la lumière,

Je sais celle que je choisirai mais ce n'est pas pour autant que je rejeterai l'autre qui aimera me tourmenter de temps à autre lorsque je serai en train de trop penser...

Car j'ai appris à l'accepter et à ne plus l'ignorer...

Et puis je dois bien l'avouer,

J'aime aussi sa part d'ombre en toute sincérité...

Alors ? Ombre où Lumière ?

Et je vous répondrai alors que j'ai besoin des deux en toute honnêteté pour pouvoir mieux avancer...

Carmine’s officially my spirit animal-/hj

But seriously, I actually love him, there’s even a new ship between him and Grey called Darkrose/Ghostrule and I love it

I might do more with him and the others, who knows? Just depends if I feel like posting stuff

Anyways, here’s my first drawing of him! I didn’t do much but ehh

Celestin Francois Nanteuil - Perdition. Salon 1859.

hi. i felt like i had to tell you that i discovered perdition for the first time and am completely fucked up by how beautifully it’s written and how emotional the story was. it must’ve been hard writing two characters making such poor choices, yet i felt such empathy for chloe and beca because of the way you humanized them without justifying their behavior. one of the best things i’ve ever read fanfic or otherwise. thank you for writing this story, i don’t even know how to function rn after reading it😭

<3

Writing 2 characters making terrible decisions in perpetual turmoil was actually easier than you might think! Except for the emotional turmoil it put me through at the time lmao

I am really glad you found and liked the story! These words are wonderfully kind and sweet :)

If I've said it once I've said it 1000 times: people finding that story so many years after I wrote it and having such a strong reaction to it continues to blow me away. We really do live in perpetuity through our writing, don't we?

SON OF PERDITION, PERDITION, DESTRUCTION -- KJV (King James Version) Bible Verse List Visit https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/ to see more. "While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled." John 17:12, KJV "Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel; And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God." Philippians 1:27-28, KJV "Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day [day of Christ] shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God." 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4, KJV "But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." 1 Timothy 6:9-10, KJV "Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul." Hebrews 10:38-39, KJV "But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men." 2 Peter 3:7, KJV "And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon [Destruction], but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon [Destroyer]." Revelation 9:11, KJV "The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is . . . And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition." Revelation 17:8, 11, KJV In the previous verses, the following Koine Greek words are used: ἀπώλεια‭ apoleia (ap-o'-li-a) : perdition, destruction, destroying, utter destruction‭, perishing, ruin ὄλεθρος‭ olethros (ol'-eth-ros) : ‭ destruction, ruin, destroy, death Ἀπολλύων‭ Apolluon (ap-ol-loo'-ohn) : destroyer ‭ Ἀβαδδών‭ Abaddon (ab-ad-dohn') : destruction If you would like more info regarding the origin of these KJV Bible verse lists, go to https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/. Thank-you! https://www.billkochman.com/Blog/index.php/son-of-perdition-perdition-destruction-kjv-king-james-version-bible-verse-list/?feed_id=119407&SON%20OF%20PERDITION%2C%20PERDITION%2C%20DESTRUCTION%20--%20KJV%20%28King%20James%20Version%29%20Bible%20Verse%20List

Repostober 19 - 2018

A scene from a TTRPG campaign called Perdition. Was a homebrew wild west setting using the Genesys system. My character Rem getting a magic shotgun from the literal Devil and being commanded to kill one of the other players.

Some complicated feelings, cause it was supposed to be a podcast, but... buncha dumb stuff happened. beh. Was a really good story... Wanna be proud of it, and this piece, but just. Sad. :C

genuinely considering re-reading the travelers interlude to do an analysis of their powers. it's just really interesting how, despite being cauldron capes, their powers absolutely say as much about then as natural triggers would.

From year to year, this soul had progressively withered, slowly but inevitably. A dry eye goes with a dead soul. When he left prison, he had not shed a tear for nineteen years.

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables (1862) | FANTINE, Book Two, VII. “Profoundest Despair.”