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'''Parahumans''', also called the '''Worm-verse''', is the name used to refer to a continuity of stories including [[Worm]], [[Glow-worm]], [[Ward]], and various other short stories written by author John C. McCrae, aka [[Wildbow]].

==History==
The Parahumans setting was first developed using a number of [[:Category:Drafts|drafts]] featuring a number of variations on characters and ideas that would eventually feature in [[Worm]].

The website for Worm, https://parahumans.wordpress.com/, was originally intended to host five interweaving stories set in the same universe - [[Skitter]], [[Guts & Glory]], [[Aegis]], [[TELUTT|Faultline]], and [[Travelers]].<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/3btg1n/_/cspje2n/ Wildbow on Reddit]</ref> Later, Wildbow decided to only write one of these stories, Skitter, which would become Worm.<ref>Before I started Worm, I planned to write three to five chapters a week (the site url is ‘parahumans’ because I intended it to be a series of interweaving stories), but I did the backlog, decided that two chapters a week was my limit, decided to write only one of the five interweaving stories, and later expanded things the occasional third when enough donations rolled around. - [https://t4nky.wordpress.com/2015/07/02/interview-with-wildbow/ Interview with Wildbow]</ref>

A side-story set in the Worm universe, [[PRT: Department Sixty-Four]], was published on the SpaceBattles forum. This story was an interactive "quest" rather than a traditional story, with the protagonist's actions determined by reader vote and the villains' actions determined by a number of roleplayers.{{cite}} As such, it is only considered partially canon.<ref name="R2">Periastron & some of the other PRT Quest villains were player-generated via. the early Weaverdice system, and were consequently somewhat broken. I don't count PRT Quest in canon, really, or only ambiguously, for much this reason. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/22849034/ Archived on Spacebattles]</ref><ref name="SB1">PRT Quest is canon [but] the events of the PRT Quest never happened. It was all a vision that Roullette saw and [the vision] put her in a coma, though not before writing down as much as she could. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/22849034/ Archived on Spacebattles]</ref>

Following the completion of his other stories Pact and Twig, Wildbow returned to writing stories in the Worm universe. The parahumans website was finally used to post a short story in the same universe, [[Glow-worm]], a prequel to the then-upcoming [[Ward]].
==Installments==
*[[Worm]]
**[[Buzz 7.9]] (rewritten)
**[[Missing Interlude]] (removed)
**[[PRT: Department Sixty-Four]] (side-story)
*[[Glow-worm]] (interquel)
*[[Ward]] (sequel)
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