The fanfic BCF - Brocktons Celestial Forge - confounds me.
I understand the appeal of wanting to explore small characters, regardless of morality. It can be a great writing exercise and it should be done more.
What I can’t understand is why you’d have the MC be the guy who tried to harass Sabah in college for a relationship, and then downplay that defining moment, and then also have that MC groom and constantly be in flirty “jokes” with Aisha and Taylor (13 and 15 years old respectively at Worm start) and just ignore all the creepiness of that???
And power fantasy fics are fine. Guilty pleasure I get it.
But why a power fantasy with this creepy asshole?? Why include all this creepiness?? I would at least have outside perspectives of people being like, “Bruh this guy is flirting with children, maybe Parian is right to be sketched tf out”, and explore the moral ramifications of needing to rely on this OP creep for whatever reasons
It actually updated last night which I haven't read until now! Yay!
BCF Chapter 113.2 Interlude: Alan Barnes. Ah fuck. I almost wish it was filler. I'd rather eat glass. I have eaten glass and it was infinitely more pleasant than this. Its not like this b plot really matters to anything important so it's like the worst of both worlds.
For a quick recap of Emma's involvement, we haven't moved past any Winslow related plots. School was temporarily held on pause because of Joe's whole giant kaiju vs mecha fight that destroyed the city, but Taylor is still dealing with harassment. She went back to school with Emma and then decided to stand up for herself and then made a super cool awesome speech that #owned Emma so hard Emma attacked her. Joe watched this remotely from the wristwatch he gifted Taylor and then hacked into several other children's phones and leaked the video on Twitter and such. This went ultra viral and completely destroyed Emma's modeling career as basically every company made public statements about it and she was totally canceled. She missed out on modeling for the charity event his fashion summon did and he replaced her with his child robot thing Tetra who is so awesome and cool and epic that she totally overshadowed anything Emma could have done. Oh and he called the cops on her or something so she was arrested. However none of this was enough after all, Joe has returned to dunk on a child once more because he'd rather do this than save lives with his technology.
All of the fight happened largely in chapters 98 Finite Resolutions and 98.1 Interlude Taylor, Preamble Emma, Addendum Danny, and other chapters, however Joe has been aware that Emma is "bad news" for a while now because of his shard. Youd really think after establishing the fact that his shard has warped priorities he wouldn't trust it when it says some high school girl is the devil but the "fanon shard" honestly just seems like an excuse for Joe to already believe in spacebattler opinions and not have to waste time establishing then. Yawn. Oh, and the Protectorate are aware of Taylor's civilian identity, they worked it out from the video or something a while ago on 104.1 Interlude Hannah, Addendum Joe.
And oh my fucking god is 113.2 a DOOZY. BCF really just wanted to jack off about how awesome and moral Joe is, oh fucking man. Joe is one of the worst wormfic protagonists of all time already honestly and he spends all of his time sucking his own dick and letting people die unless he spontaneously develops a crush on them (Chen) i fucking guess but oh no Taylor was saaaad. She's literally fucking immortal now. Whatever. Okay.
Alan decides to head over to talk to Carol to try and manage the situation and then finds fucking Joe there in Apeiron garb just fucking hanging out. Because of course. What could possibly be more important than this. We have to spend the next 21 thousand words mauling this civilian. No other options. Emma must Suffer for her Sins. I imagine we're also gonna put them under 24/7 total surveillance.
He then talks to Alan about magazines about himself because hes cool and awesome or whatever and then goes let's read this one about Annette and then starts his ominous speech about her daughter. Joe by the way was one of Annette's students or something because I guess even Lord thought this was a little creepy without some personal connection but it really doesn't land. Alan then says "the unwritten rules" which Joe then goes ha, this is a unimportant school yard fight and not cape business. Anyway brining back from the Taylor discussion last chapter he accuses Emma of attempted murder because the locker was a biohazard and ecoterrorism and she's basically Bakuda.
Joe then tells Alan he lies to himself and he must be a very desirable lawyer for being able to believe anything basically calling him corrupt and Alan pauses for the 6th time now to think about how he could fucking die because of this conversation. And he could! I'm not gonna bother wasting breath on why this conversation is stupid but christ alive. This has already gotten an award BTW. Joe has had a bigger reaction to this than the Nine. Than to literally any other problem hes faced. It's really the most wormficy shit ever. Ugh. He brings up the flute. Joe you raging dick.
WHAT THE FUCK. Joe spawns in a SOLAR FLARE from a STAR and then tells Alan he wants to fucking kill him and Emma with this. WHAT. Fuck you Joe holy shit. Hes put more effort planning ways of torturing these two than into anything else. He has endbringer tier weapons literally made for Emma. I cannot make this up. I hate this fucking guy so bad. I hate him. Whatever.
This is basically porn for a sbsver. He also implies he soma'd Alan and is running a neural counterpart of him to predict his actions. What? Whatever. What the fuck? Why are we putting Alan into a simulation. Why? Fuck you. Whatever. WHAT?
Okay, so for some time now–by that I mean the chapter before the Bakuda fight–Joe's had a crossover companion insert named Alma and I'm not familiar with her source material outside or BCF but basically shes a dead little girl that's haunting some sort of psychic plane. She's been a negative character existing in maybe four scenes of attacking Joe and then offhand mentions of giving her gifts to placate her and thats a very very generous number. Now we've fucking summoned Alan to go meet the extremely powerful unstable dead little girl because of course she's upset about the locker. Why not. Why is she even in the Forge since Lord says he removed companions other than the Palico? Fuck you shes technically not a companion.
Okay man. Whatever. Joe continues to larp. Its hard to not laugh at his rants about the perversion of justice and abuses of power considering he is Joe and literally everything about Parian happened. He continues to threaten to kill Emma. By the way Joe turned into like a thirty foot tall cybernetic dragon creature to scream at Alan. What the fuck is your problem man. I gotta laugh at the fact that he was gonna trap Alan for months in a nightmare dimension. This reads like it was posted in 2017 for fucks sake. He then only decides not to (graciously) for Alma's sake and decides Emma is going to prison. Oh and Alan is being constantly surveilled 24/7 on literally every level. Cause fuck you. Joe why are you glazing yourself for violating Alan's mind with your mind copier. That was totally fucking unnecessary and wildly unethical. You treat snails better than this. Literal snails.
It ends with some glazing introspection about how cool and awesome the Forge is. Fucking amazing. If I reread this right now I could find something even more stupid than the general events and honestly I might later. This is genuinely one of the worst wornfics ever imo. The sheer length to just then take a massive shit in your lap with the same self righteous garbage you can scrap off of the side of the average op si is really just unmatched. Throughout all of this Joe and the narration made massive ovetures to justice and grand declarations and how furious he is and it's literally comical. This is like almost parody. I wish Joe died in a horrific car crash.
This was definitely difficult to get through. The Brian chapters mightve been worse but that was literally glaze over tech we've seen before for like three chapters straight and anything BCF does with aisha should land you on a watchlist. I can't wait for the next 4 chapters to be about nothing else but this and then 5 of filler haha. I jest–previous estimates placed us at about ten to fifteen chapters until the Slaughterhouse Nine but the handling of this does inflate the count. Plus I wouldn't put it past this fic to want to relax with some more filler soon. 2026 slaughterhouse 😭
the way you know bcf is a hopeless self insert (besides literally everything else) is that he made joe off rip taller than brian. No cosmetic upgrades or anything we're just supposed to believe joe is taller than brian (and joe is like 6'2). get real
Joe Duris is an insufferable person and you know in your heart of hearts it's sus that the author picked him out of all the random side characters in Worm to be his protagonist. You should read a Celestial Forge with a REAL randomly chosen secondary Worm character, like
Obviously I despise Republicans, but I hate Black Republicans sO fucking much. Trump is making racist jokes and they’re all just sitting there laughing and applauding him.
Talk about a “yassir massa,” house negro mentality. They would eagerly sell out their parents, their children and all their loved ones for just 0.003 seconds of basking in the white gaze.
Black Republicans are the living embodiment of house slaves who snitched and warned their white masters about field slaves plotting an escape.
By the way: racist “jokes” about the lights going out and only being able to see the white eyes and white teeth of Black people isn’t anything new.
This racist trope was used repeatedly in cartoons of the early 1900s.
