#armsmaster

[dailyparahumans]

day 12

[bodegadulac]

Armsmaster is a responsible adult.

[moth-mausoleum]

// vague arc 8 and 12 spoilers for worm parahumans guess who started reading worm. and my first ever fanart is Muppet Versions of tattletale and armsmaster

[humanzyz]

Brockton Bay Heroes

[cpericardium]

[talkingaboutstuff]

Colin do just be his own worst enemy huh. My dude is such a stupid idiot, tunnel visioned guy (affectionate).

This dude created an Endbringer early warning system with Dragon which probably saved more people than anything else in his career ever did and ever will, which probably would have gained him loads of acclaim like he wanted.

Y'know. If he didn't fuck it up by setting up his own personal 1v1 with Leviathan.

Also, I bet that if he'd just asked for a chance to 1v1 Leviathan (like, with an excuse about stalling for time so the defenders can get their bearings or something), they totally would've let him. Like, ideally he'd give the halberd to Alexandria or someone who has better movement options than him (he would've still been the guy who made the weapon who killed an Endbringer), but if he wanted the acclaim of doing it himself, he totally could've just asked- he's a Protectorate member in relatively good standing, implied to be Top 7, a veteran of Endbringer fights. There's no reason why he couldn't have just asked besides not thinking of it. Maybe people would've looked at him weird, but say anything with enough confidence and they'll take it in stride.

This entire tragedy that led to his character arc could've been avoided so easily by his ass just thinking a bit more, but his Fatal Flaw TM just kicks in at the worst possible moment and it's so fucking funny.

Armsmaster, truly his own worst enemy.

[whereserpentswalk]

Taylor is essentially someone who thinks like your average Peater Parker (I could do a whole long essay on how similar she is to various Spidermen), but who lives in a world where things are way to complicated for being a hero who just wants to do the right thing to work well. If you look her actions in the fight with Lung, it's pretty clear she's making a lot of incorrect assumptions about her universe which would be correct if she was in a normal comic book universe. She thinks the ABB is attacking innocent children because that's what supervillians do in her mind. She assumes armsmaster is normal and well intentioned because he's a superhero. She assumes attacking Lung's crotch won't have effects because that's supposed to be silly and cute not something that causes real wounds. She even describes herself as packing preparations to fight 'an invisible monster' which is almost tragic in how naive the wording is, like, she doesn't prepare herself for fighting a cape with an invisibility powers, she thinks she's going to be fighting monsters (a word that's basically only used as a metaphor when used by experienced capes).

There's something deeply tragic about Taylor in the way that goes in with all these assumptions about what her universe is like (that she useally shares with the audience) and then has them torn away. Even one of her most brutal acts early on, taking out Lungs eyes on purpose, mirrors the type of brutal but exused violence that's core to a lot of hero narratives. It feels like there's the tragedy to pre Leviathan Taylor where she keeps thinking things are going to follow the tropes that they look like. She's not going to be able to just leave the undersiders and become a normal hero because there's actual consequences to temporarily being a villain. She doesn't get to have the very mentor shaped armsmaster as her mentor figure, because he's not a good person just because he's on a hero team. She's not able to have the morally simple conflicts most people expect from the genre, even taking down the ABB means playing nice with Nazis.

I think that it's after leviathan that she really switches from naively understanding the world as being more like a normal superhero setting then it is, to actually understanding what it's like to be a cape on earth Bet. And the world that she realizes she's in is one that's fundamentally like ours, one where superpowers don't change society's and humanity's problems. And it's almost tragic for her to learn that. Like, it's something she needed to learn, but it's not something she's happy to learn. Like, she's fundamentally never the same after losing that false perception of her setting.

And what adds to it is that after her disillusionment she does get to sort of do a lot of what she dreamed of but it's so warped with her worlds context that it's no longer something that she wants. When she's up agaisnt the slaughterhouse nine she gets to fight villains who are pure evil, and its way more horrifying then dealing with anyone more morally complex. After killing Alexandria she gets to be part of the Wards and work with armsmaster, but she's no longer the innocent kid who'd be excited to do that, she's a jaded cape whose gone up agaisnt multiple S class threats who sees this as a way to complete her goals.

[mosss5]

Armsmasters beef with taylor was so valid actually

Imagine this Kermit the frog looking ass bitch comes up to you and is like "can I rob a bank with my friends?" And you're like no because what the fuck? And she goes ahead and does it anyway.

She then shows up to a gala you're at and just thrashes the place for like no fucking reason whatsoever and humiliates your team.

Yeah no I'd crash out too. It's on sight.