I just read Vyre's interlude in RoW and this meme is all I could think about
genuinely obsessed w/ taylor hebert. like. Incredible character design. despite it all, worm is still The Best Superpowered Media. the way the bug powers are entirely integral to her identity the way she is Literally a bug girl the way she’s always putting the para in parahuman. obsessed w/ the fact that she’s a crawling worm you can’t root out and a biting swarm that blots out the sun and a cockroach that loses its head and keeps fucking going. obsessed with the bit during gold morning where she’s floating dead in the water and then lab rat’s tech lets her grow literal bug legs & mandibles so she can skitter back up the oil rig and think about how much she wants to hurt an entity which can snuff billions of people like ants beneath its heel. character who is a bug both in the sense that she’s infinitesimally small and that it is impossible to really get rid of her. you can shoot her and leave her in a burning building for dead, you can snap her spine, you can blind her, you can tear her intestines out, and she still just Keeps Fucking Crawling so she can reach your mouth and suffocate you. literally the most david vs goliath character of all time except it’s cockroach vs goliath. you can nuke the planet and she’ll hide in the nooks and crannies of the barren wasteland promising that she’s going to get back at you for what you’ve done, and she always makes good on that promise. she’s the queen of the hive she’s the monarch she’s the administrator she’s The Worm That Turns she is THEE top weirdgirl character Ever
just mispelled mental illness the worst anyones ever done it .
when i first read worm as a kid i was like damn this case worker is being pretty harsh on brian that sucks he just wants to do right by his sister
and then when reading it again as an adult that scene makes me burst out laughing every single time. HE’S SEVENTEEN
who keeps giving her these things
can you imagine being lisette worm??? you start chatting with this homeless guy who tells you that not only can he talk to god, but god listens to him. whatever, that's obviously not true, but who cares? you're chilling, hearing his life's story, when Actual Real Life God shows up and starts hanging out?? offhandedly the guy is like "yeah, i think god's autistic" then goes up to god and tells him he's dying and god should listen to you now. AND THEN, a few years later when the world is ending, the illuminati asks you about it. god never listens to you, not even once.
The thing that absolutely kills me about Ianthe being a main character is that nobody fucking invited her. She’s not involved in this shit beyond her forcing herself into it. Harrow is connected to the soul of a murdered goddess who she’s also in love with, and Gideon’s the daughter of the man who murdered a planet to become god, and Ianthe is…? Here? I guess???
Ianthe has no connection to this plot, she’s got nothing to do with any of it, she’s just so FUCKING desperate for the spotlight to finally be on her that she’ll do anything for it.
i love transgenderism