#worm headcanon

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So do you think the Grand Worm that swallows everyone in Ep 4 is specifically Zazie? I know Zazie is like, The Worms Mouthpiece or whatever, but they have to have like, an actual worm body somewhere since the one we see is just an amalgamation of bitty flying worms.

I have like, a MASSIVE headcanon idea about the Worms, that might not mesh entirely with true canon but not even canon meshes entirely with canon lol

Just wanted to toss my thoughts out somewhere so like, hm, while I think the entirety of Worms on NML being one giant hivemind is cool, I think it would make sense that there's rather like, levels of worm society or maybe hierarchy is a better term. There's a variety of different types of Worms so there's probably a variety of ways that their groups...congregate? Live? Seems they all prey on each other too..

So my headcanon is that there are groupings of 'hives' or 'burrows' (not sure what term I feel fits better) that are basically a Head Worm and their Bitty Worms. And as the Worm ages, grows, and possibly even defeats and consumes neighboring Worms they grow in power, size, and their hive/burrow grows larger, with more Bitty Worms and worms of other sizes and types as well.

I also think it would be really cool if there were Thomas Mimics, worms that from a far enough distance looked a lot like Thomases. I have a whole Worm OC who is a Thomas Mimic and while she does have a hive she also has a herd of Thomases she basically protects, raises, and eats whenever she's hungry lol

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A random Shadow Stalker Headcanon.

On top of her "Predator or Prey" outlook Sophia Hess is also fifteen and currently stuck in the deepest pit of her teenage "Not like other girls" phase (Okay this one comes from a scene in 'Mixed Feelings' where she's offended at her definitely purple crossbow being called pink)

But she also has genuinely brilliant comedic timing, I've made a post before about Oni-Lee being one of the Capes with quips and banter earlier in his career and Shadow Stalker could absolutely be that if she wanted to....The problem is she just takes herself far too seriously to ever let herself do that.

She could be a Spider-Man, but instead she wants to be the Punisher.

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Random Headcanon that came to me as I was writing.

Miss Militia has watched more TV and movies than you can believe.

She's a Noctis Cape, doesn't need to sleep and Hana canonically loves America, enough to convert to Christianity. So now I'm just imagining her as a teenager, even before she joined the original Wards and whilst she was still learning English staying up at night and absorbing as much American media and culture as she possibly could and having an awkward phase where she tried to emulate different characters.

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Sophia/Shadow Stalker's Trigger Event definitely involved her running for her life.

Having little Miss "You're either a predator or you're prey" have gotten her superpowers whilst being the prey and keeping that as a dirty little secret that she would rather die than admit to anyone just feels absolutely perfect.

It makes her just another traumatized teenager using her powers to take back some semblance of control over her life in a world that is objectively nuts. It also fits with her relationships with a few different characters.

Emma: Sophia has no friends outside of Emma, even Madison is more "Emma's other friend who's around sometimes" and they meet during what would have been Emma's Trigger event if she was a Cape....Sophia is, in a messed up way trying to be the person she never had in her own life; revealing that there's something more to her under all of that anger and cruelty.

Brian: Shadow Stalker wants Grue to be her nemesis so hard it hurts and honestly, if Brian "I'm going to lie about my Trigger Event" Laborn is going to have a nemesis then making it a Sophia who is similarly hiding her own insecurities and refusing to show weakness or vulnerability in front of anyone is just perfect, it makes them narrative foils.

Taylor: Remember the line where Sophia sees that Taylor took up running and loses her shit about it "You wanted to be strong so you copied me by running" or something to that effect....Gives it new context doesn't it?

Imagine:

You're on the track team in junior high.

The fact that all you can do is run is what saves your life.

You get superpowers designed to help you escape and still you refuse to ever be the victim or run away again.

You're forced to stay on the track team in high school just to keep up appearances.

The girl you've been bullying finally gets a bit of a spine, she's finally getting stronger.

She did it by taking inspiration from you..... By running

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When you're working on a fic and you end up using a character with very little canon personality/backstory and start coming up with headcanons for them as you go.

Anyway: We know that Oni-Lee's powers gradually chipped away at him until he was a husk, I'm headcanoning that when Lung first met him Lee was an absolute chatterbox, like he would just not shut the fuck up and he was also one of those Capes who had a real knack for witty repartee.

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So the Headcanon of Amy Dallon being a Warhammer 40k/Tabletop RPG player comes from a fic I haven't even gotten around to reading yet (Desperate times call for desperate pleasures by R3N41SS4NC3 and PiperFurbaby...My apologies for not getting around to it yet) but it has managed to Worm (Ha) it's way into every other version of Amy I read in other fics, it's just something I assume she has going on in the background.

Amy in Mom Militia by SomeoneYouWontRemember: Definitely upset about leaving her models behind when she ran away from home.

Amy in Mixed Feelings by Kithri: Absolutely spends her free time working on a conversion or painting project rather than socialising.

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I feel like in the Worm-Verse villains from New York should be the people everyone respects and is low-key a little bit terrified of when they show up anywhere else.

New York is Alexandria's Protectorate Branch....We saw what she was capable of, we saw how far she was willing to go when dealing with a surrendered villain to get answers. We heard from Taylor's brief trip and mission with the NY Wards how hard Alexandria pushed her team and expected the absolute best from them but, at the same time was also respected and liked.

..... Realistically any Cape Villains who don't get run out of NY and manage to actually make a career or carve out a turf or niche for themselves are good. That city was a crucible for producing better villains and you can't change my mind.

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I feel like the Rap scene in Brockton Bay would be absolutely ridiculous.