#aster anders

[entropyfanatic]

Bonus Fun Fact: they were using real guns for realism

[germesthegenie]

Jack was still grinning. “What would you do to people like me, then? Let’s say you got powers. Would you right wrongs, lecture schoolchildren on doing what’s right, and see bad guys like me carted off to the Birdcage?”

“People like you? I’d kill. Sir.”

Fun fact: Theo is crying in both of these scenes, it’s just covered by the mask.

I feel like Golem is one of the more underrated characters of Worm (at least if fanfics are anything to go by), probably because his part in it comes pretty late in the story. Kid with no powers managed to work up the courage to say he’d kill Jack to his face, and in doing so accidentally tied himself to Dinah’s end of the world prophecy. And through 2 years of hard work and grueling training, he got pretty close to being the hero he wanted and needed to be. He may have failed to defeat Jack on his own, but that was never in the cards from both an in universe and meta perspective. One of the few outright good guys in the series, coming pretty far from his upbringing.

[fucking-tinkers]

My favourite 3-beat in Worm is Taylor saving children.

The first beat. Taylor thinks Lung is going to kill children, so she saves them by attacking Lung. It turns out the children are actually teenaged super villains.

The second beat. Taylor thinks Sierra's kid brother has been kidnapped by the merchants, so she goes to save him. It turns out that he is there by choice.

In the first two beats Taylor is saving "children". The definition of children ends up getting warped.

The third beat. Taylor believes Aster is about to suffer unimaginable pain and potentially end the world. She "saves" her by shooting her in the face.

In the third beat she "saves" a child.

The third beat subverts it by having an actual child in danger involved, but by warping the meaning of "save".