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So, POTENTIALLY MASSIVE WORM SPOILERS BELOW!

Read at your own risk.

Had a thought. There might be another hint that Queen Administrator was rebelling against Scion or trying to do her own thing during the cycle.

It has to do with Aiden Tate (known as Chicken Little during Ward). So, after Leviathan, the Undersiders take over Brockton Bay. Taylor helps start a small orphanage during this time because a lot of kids lost their parents. Aiden is one of these kids and is five at this time.

Aiden suffers from nearly constant nightmares. Sometime during or after the Slaughterhouse Nine go through the bay, Aiden gets a dream about some space whales which stops the nightmares.

This is implied to be when Queen Administrator creates a bud and attaches it to Aiden. Clarification; this was not Aiden's trigger event. Aiden does not trigger for years.

Right after the dream, he draws a picture of what he saw. This drawing is apparently accurate enough that it activates the automatic function in all parahumans that makes them ignore shard business. They can look at the drawing but their eyes will slide off it. They will dismiss it as unimportant unless a non-parahuman keeps pointing it out. The second it leaves their line-of-sight they will forget about it.

Again, Aiden had not triggered at this point. Aiden finally triggers a day before Scion goes on his rampage. His trigger event was an old nightmare he had. A nightmare he hasn't had since he had the dream of the space whales.

I'm viewing this as Queen Administrator being a whistle-blower or trying to draw humanity's attention to the entities. There is no other reason for this to happen unless Aiden randomly is some sort of super human separate from parahumans.

Thoughts?

madlluna

I like to think that the story of the Travelers is a cautionary tale to never ever install League of Legends

thepapercandle

art by https://x.com/MellyConfetti

dailyparahumans

day 118

strikermoment

bank scene

spaghettiandart

Noelle and Noelle except they're from very two different forms of media

sistersorrow

One thing that never stops being funny in Worm is the contrast between how Taylor Hebert (and by extension the reader due to most of the story being written from her POV) sees herself vs how the wider public sees her

She'll be here thinking she's just a little girl in way over her head, meanwhile the local government is printing and distributing PSAs which describe her as an "unpredictable young woman" prone to "bursts of sudden and extreme violence towards those she sees as her enemies" and the entire city is high key terrified of Little Miss First Horseman of the Apocalypse

sistersorrow

They're her emotional support swarm!

shortandsadandstupid

Hero fanarttt

Tried to reference @elcuervoborracho ‘s famous Hero art (the one on the wiki) you know the one

st-just

I think I might have mentioned this before, but I honestly really like Slashley’s whole…I’m not sure arc is the right word?

But, anyway, “There was an alternate version of you, born at the same time with identical genes and an identical body and circumstances, you sometimes shared her dreams. She was almost objectively a better person than you, more beloved by her friends, more helpful to strangers, more stable and in tune with her body and power. She died a hero, mourned by some of the most important heroes in the world. And now whenever you’re interacting with anyone who knew her, you just know they’d rather have her back than be forced to deal with you.”

It’s a really particular and interesting sort of angst!