I offer you a delightfully crunchy scenario: mirror!zoemira somehow end up in the main timeline...several years after the initial swap. And by this point, Sarang's doing much better and is known to the world as Rumi's younger half-sister.
Why and how are they here? Good question. But with mirror!Celine dead at main!Celine's hands, it's anyone's guess how well the last few years have gone for them
My stance has always been that the mirror timeline must be better off for Sarang getting out of it than they would be otherwise—as I refuse to have a narrative punishment for removing a child from an abusive situation—though, like. Two Hunters are certainly not going to be as successful as three
Mirror!Zoey and Mira, in many versions of events, never learned what happened
Celine spent a week being strangely nice to them and insanely nice to the demon, despite everything she’d taught them, and then she and the demon both disappeared. And never came back
Neither of them were nineteen yet, but thankfully the contract they’d signed let them move into dorms with the company’s other trainees instead of having them sent home when they finally called the police
(Zoey still went back, for a summer, didn’t quite know how to exist around her mom and stepsiblings, how to feel anything like the girl she’d been, but. It was good for her.)
(Mira didn’t.)
They knew how to sing, and how to summon weapons, and that somewhere out there their third was waiting. So they sang, and they killed demons, and they searched
It was nasty and a steep learning curve and the company nearly dropped them for coming in beaten up so often before putting them in the next group they debuted and watching them soar
(The other girls figured it out soon enough. There was something different about Mira and Zoey—something electric, magnetic, wonderful. Something terrifying. Something incomplete
They never said anything, but Zoey was their maknae and Mira was just a baby too, and that meant it was their job to take care of them. So they did.)
They spend hiatuses back at Celine’s hanok. She left it to them, along with everything else she had, but it never feels like theirs
It’s years of searching before they find a mantra that helped another duo find their third. Probably just a focusing tool and the nature of the Honmoon, but they have to try, don’t they?
(It’s not just a focusing tool and the nature of the Honmoon.)
Of all the things they’re expecting to see on the other side of the portal, a pair of demons making breakfast is not one
As a Greek, in response to the current controversy about Matt Damon being cast as Odysseus, I'd just like to share that one of the moments that changed my brain chemistry as a kid was reading a novelized version of the Odyssey and coming across the following description of Odysseus when Circe sees him for the first time and thinks he's hot: "his hair curled like a clematis and his eyes were very brown".
So may I present my own casting choice for Odysseus:
look even if you arent into grace/rocky you just HAVE to admit they explored each others bodies on the journey to erid. just to see whats up. the scientific boundary-crossing is already canon. and you wanna tell me those two intellectually curious guys trapped in a tin can for 3-4 years didnt at least get up to some weird shit for enrichment? dont make me laugh
#i know this post is supposed to have a sexual connotation but imo they're getting weirder than that#rocky lets grace observe his entire digestive process with an adapted x-ray machine#they make some slapdash endoscopy equipment so rocky can look down grace's esophagus and stomach#grace lets rocky pull a tooth for study because he's fascinated by the human body producing something that's similarly sturdy#to himself (also he wants to have it professionally embedded into his carapace as soon as they get to erid but shhhh)#rocky chips off pieces from his own mantle (his deformed legs are already brittler than the rest of him so it's not like it's hard)#also for “study” but is internally debating himself on how to ask grace if he's ever considered subdermal piercings#grace gives himself multiple surgicial lacerations so rocky can get a better view of his sinew and muscle#and document the (from his mostly inorganic perspective) insane restorative ability of human skin#maybe grace even lets some of them get infected on purpose so he can show off his immune system#anyways that being said#rocky is not a biologist and probably doesn't know the exact chemical make-up of his internal tissue.#so they're definitely shoving a heat protected spectrometer up his cloaca
no no @ecobanshee youre right on the money. its definitely also about all of that.
A year or two ago, someone posted art of Taylor with massive tits. Like, a real set of mammary hammers. This was rightly ridiculed by the tumblr fandom. A bit later, someone found art from the same artist of Victoria with equally large breasts, and the fandom consensus was: well at least they got that right. But did they?
I have just completed a complete reread of both Worm and Ward, and it is actually surprising difficult to pin down what Victoria's breast size is supposed to be. At no point in either serial are Victoria's breasts ever described as being large.
Victoria's introduction in the Glory Girl interlude does not mention her breasts at all, and seems to imply that the "sexy" part of her body is her legs.
(The Glory Girl interlude in general is kind of weirdly written; Wildbow doesn't seem to have fully gotten the hang of the strict third person limited POV yet.)
The closest the text comes to providing any concrete information on the subject is in a chapter of Ward, where Victoria is wearing a borrowed Halloween costume sized in men's small, which she says "squashed [her] chest".
In a later chapter, Victoria is designing her new costume, and Chrystal suggests that she go for something that shows off her "assets", which Victoria rejects out of hand. This would seem to imply that Victoria's has "assets" worthy of showing.
Note that the context specifically is that Victoria's forcefield means that she can get away with wearing armor that display her cleavage not that her tits are especially big. Still, we can probably infer from this that Victoria's breasts aren't small.
However, the fact that Victoria's breasts are never described as large probably means that they aren't. In particular, given how prone early Taylor was to noticing other girls' chests, if Victoria's breasts were meant to be notably large, this likely would have been commented on during the bank fight.
The conclusion that I am forced to draw about Victoria's breasts is that they are of average size.
it would explain so much about Gotham economics if it turned out the only employers who pay a livable minimum wage are 1) Wayne Enterprises duh, but mainly 2) all of Gotham's assorted villains.
sure henching comes with shitty working conditions, but the benefits package is crazy competitive. they have dental
Gotham's villains are so engrained because supervillainy is the only thing propping up the local economy. henching requires no work experience, provides on-the-job training, and has a diversity hiring program (you're willing to commit crimes in tacky matching uniforms? great you're in, here's your gun and clownsuit)
Batman is constantly throwing money trying to compete but the fact remains that henchpeople are Gotham's largest workforce and will be until minimum wage laws catch up to reality
even educated jobs in environmental science are probably getting laundered money from poison Ivy. and a lab equipment tech might notice three different jobs are tied to pamela Isley and also happened to receive grants from "unrelated" shady shell orgs and the next one is setting up a temperature controled penguin habitat for some eccentric obvious mobster.
we need a new supervillain who gets drawn into villainy specifically to make money for funding grants. they come up with a theme and wacky outfit and loony backstory but at the end of the work day they change back into their alter ego (tired scientist with bags under their eyes and a hotpocket stuck in their labcoat). they're actually very mild mannered irl—the villain persona comes from their background in Theatre Arts
my new worm OC is the owner and CEO of a small sized glass-making company that just follows the slaughterhouse 9 around replacing all the glass that shatterbird breaks. They have their own portable glass-recycling machines on big trucks and everything, very much an agile niche.
The undersiders capturing her severely throttled his business, but when Tattletale took control of the portal after the Echidna fight he managed to get in on the ground floor, producing and installing windows for the early Gimel settlement...
... until Golden Morning. When the City announces that they're going to be using that new photo-voltaic golden window bullshit, and it's the last straw that finally pushes him over the edge. Trigger.
