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'''Guts & Glory''' was a recurring title that was taken up and dropped several times in the drafting of what would Worm.<ref name="3.11c1">[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/agitation-3-11/#comment-134 Comment by Wildbow] on [[Agitation 3.11]]</ref> Its rotating protagonists and point-of-view characters were [[Panacea]] and [[Glory Girl]].<ref>[https://wildbow.wordpress.com/2013/12/28/snippets-drafts-of-worm/ Post by Wildbow on his blog]</ref><ref name="Draft">[https://docs.google.com/document/d/18Un4HYc_jCeipS2MWh4iggVMNO5N-U4LLfRm94c1sdU/edit Partial text of Guts & Glory]</ref> | '''Guts & Glory''' was a recurring title that was taken up and dropped several times in the drafting of what would become [[Worm]].<ref name="3.11c1">[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/agitation-3-11/#comment-134 Comment by Wildbow] on [[Agitation 3.11]]</ref> Its rotating protagonists and point-of-view characters were [[Panacea]] and [[Glory Girl]].<ref>[https://wildbow.wordpress.com/2013/12/28/snippets-drafts-of-worm/ Post by Wildbow on his blog]</ref><ref name="Draft">[https://docs.google.com/document/d/18Un4HYc_jCeipS2MWh4iggVMNO5N-U4LLfRm94c1sdU/edit Partial text of Guts & Glory]</ref> | ||
<!-- Some names have changed since. I recall that Amy would have been Annie if I hadn’t changed my mind a few minutes before Interlude 2 went live, in Worm. The nature of the story would have involved a stronger relationship between Amy/Annie and Brett/Gallant, her finding her way, and ultimately led up to her incarceration. It was too dark, though, and there wasn’t anything to salvage it. All those people who talked about what would happen if Amy had gone to the wrong prison? The other drafts (which are unfortunately handwritten) went into that, and it was ugly, with her basically going full-on Class-S threat. | <!-- Some names have changed since. I recall that Amy would have been Annie if I hadn’t changed my mind a few minutes before Interlude 2 went live, in Worm. The nature of the story would have involved a stronger relationship between Amy/Annie and Brett/Gallant, her finding her way, and ultimately led up to her incarceration. It was too dark, though, and there wasn’t anything to salvage it. All those people who talked about what would happen if Amy had gone to the wrong prison? The other drafts (which are unfortunately handwritten) went into that, and it was ugly, with her basically going full-on Class-S threat. | ||
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Definitely interesting. Of course, going to assume the ending of the third draft was either Amy going to the Birdcage or Amy mindraping Glory Girl permanently until I get counter evidence. Because I am like that.<br><br>I do consider the idea of Amy dating an emotion reader quite interesting. Wouldn’t call it dating, haha. She was nervous/resentful about the forced double-date, and the empath’s first reaction on seeing her was to tell her to chill, there were no expectations, and they should hang out as friends.<br><br>In retrospect, I should have involved him more in the same way I’ve sort of involved the Undersiders here. @ Wyldcard4, who the protagonists were: | |||
<ref name="Story Arc">Guts & Glory Story Arc as it stands<br><br>Panacea - born Amelia, Marquis' daughter, he only took custody of her after her mother died of cancer.<br><br>Around the age of five or six, the Brockton Bay Brigade (later to become New Wave) attacked Marquis in his home. He protected Amelia with his body, taking a critical blow, and was later brought into custody.<br><br>Amelia was taken in by Brandish and Flashbang, because they were afraid she'd be abused/kidnapped by others who'd blame her for Marquis' actions or use the chance that she was that much more likely to trigger to get a child with powers.<br><br>A short time later, the Brockton Bay Brigade unmasked before the public, advocating capes without masks.<br><br>A short time after that, Fleur was murdered in her civilian identity, putting an end to that movement. Lightstar (brother to Carol/Brandish and Sarah/Lady Photon) quit the team.<br><br>Amelia's (Now Amy's) childhood was somewhat lonely - Carol/Brandish didn't quite want her, Flashbang was battling clinical depression. Amy grew close to her adoptive sister, Victoria, who was the same age as her.<br><br>On being informed that she was the daughter of a notorious villain, she withdrew into herself some. She became worried that she'd follow in his footsteps (quite possibly helped by Carol/Brandish's attitude).<br><br>Victoria triggered (easily) in gym class, started to go out in costume, more and more as years went on, as Glory Girl.<br><br>Amy triggered a little later on. It was more devastating than joyous, because it was one step closer to her following her father's path. There was a great deal of pressure as well (outlined in the latter half of interlude 3), with her inability to heal everyone.<br><br>Carol's attitude, one can guess, became even more distant.<br><br>Amy realized she had feelings for Victoria. She bottled them up. Readers have speculated that Glory Girl's 'awe' aura might have had long term effects on the emotionally vulnerable Amy, helping this along (or making it happen).<br><br>Bank Robbery (late chapters in arc 3) - Tattletale threatens to out Amy and/or tell her her father's identity. Amy freaks.<br><br>Post-Bank Robbery - Amy has a conversation with Gallant, she confesses the strain of having a healing power, he notes how close she is to breaking, and that she has 'strong' feelings towards him. Implied to be love, but it's (as later stated) jealousy and resentment; he's the guy who's dating the girl she loves.<br><br>Endbringer attack - Gallant dies. Flashbang (Victoria and Amy's father) receives a head injury. Amy's desperately afraid of using her powers on people's brains because she knows how easily she could cross a line, and doesn't heal dad. Grows more distant from the rest of her family. Victoria is upset that Amy won't provide emotional support after Gallant (Victoria's boyfriend) dies. Amy's struggling with her mixed feelings over his death. Gap widens.<br><br>Things come to a head when the S9 arrive. Amy finds out who her dad is, and Bonesaw forces Amy to either heal her adoptive father's brain or let him die, and Amy heals him. Convinced there's no way she can stay, she flees, striking out on her own. Victoria intercepts her, and a shaken Amy unconsciously/unwittingly uses this previously unexplored aspect of her power on her sister, altering Victoria's feelings for her. Victoria runs.<br><br>S9 continue rampage, and Amy gets swept up into it when Mannequin and Siberian attack her. She temporarily teams up with Undersiders to give a helping hand and to help her sister. Victoria gets injured by Crawler, Skitter rescues her, Amy stalls the damage and puts Victoria in a cocoon of fleshy bits, to restore the previous damage. Flees.<br><br>Jack and Bonesaw catch up with Amy, and Jack engages in head games with the already unbalanced, unstable girl. Skitter intervenes before giving chase to Jack/Bonesaw. Amy/Victoria flee.<br><br>S9 arc resolves. In the wake of it, Carol/Brandish is left wondering where her daughters are. They finally get a lead (thanks to Tattletale, in exchange for New Wave leaving Undersiders alone) and find a distraught Amy. The girl used her power on Glory Girl, and at the end of her rope, suffering a mental breakdown at at least one point, she used her power on Victoria, and forgot how to put the girl back together. Using her power only forces her to face the scale of the changes she's already made, and in panic/desperation she does more damage than she fixes.<br><br>Victoria goes to Asylum. Amy asks to go to the Birdcage, and authorities weigh the risk of her having another breakdown (and creating a plague that eats plastic/glass/stone/whatever/doing a lot of damage to a lot of people) against the risks of incarceration, put her in Birdcage. Amy reunites with her father.<br><br>In Marquis' arc, we see Amy trying to come to terms with what she did. Marquis is trying to ensure she (and he) don't face rebellion from within his cell block due to the issues her presence poses, and organizes a meeting with the other cell block leaders. He manipulates and charms his way through the worst of it. The meeting of Amy and Glaistig Uaine (a cell block leader with the ability to retain the 'spirits' of recently dead parahumans, along with their powers) clues Amy into something. She thinks she's figured out a crucial piece of the overall puzzle, and outlines it all to the surveillance systems that Dragon has in the prison, in the hopes that Dragon will pick up on it and act on the information. The Simurgh alters course and blocks/muddles the signal, and Dragon doesn't receive it.<br><br>Amy gets a tattoo so she has a reminder of Victoria and the crime Amy committed against her, without having to dwell so heavily on it. - [https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?682837-Worm-Bet-the-Alternate-Thread-The-Star-Wars-Prequel-Trilogy-Still-Sucks-Though&p=16772221#post16772221 Comment by Wildbow regarding story arc]</ref> | |||
<ref name="Story Arc"> | |||
Guts & Glory Story Arc as it stands | |||
Panacea - born Amelia, Marquis' daughter, he only took custody of her after her mother died of cancer. | |||
Around the age of five or six, the Brockton Bay Brigade (later to become New Wave) attacked Marquis in his home. He protected Amelia with his body, taking a critical blow, and was later brought into custody. | |||
Amelia was taken in by Brandish and Flashbang, because they were afraid she'd be abused/kidnapped by others who'd blame her for Marquis' actions or use the chance that she was that much more likely to trigger to get a child with powers. | |||
A short time later, the Brockton Bay Brigade unmasked before the public, advocating capes without masks. | |||
A short time after that, Fleur was murdered in her civilian identity, putting an end to that movement. Lightstar (brother to Carol/Brandish and Sarah/Lady Photon) quit the team. | |||
Amelia's (Now Amy's) childhood was somewhat lonely - Carol/Brandish didn't quite want her, Flashbang was battling clinical depression. Amy grew close to her adoptive sister, Victoria, who was the same age as her. | |||
On being informed that she was the daughter of a notorious villain, she withdrew into herself some. She became worried that she'd follow in his footsteps (quite possibly helped by Carol/Brandish's attitude). | |||
Victoria triggered (easily) in gym class, started to go out in costume, more and more as years went on, as Glory Girl. | |||
Amy triggered a little later on. It was more devastating than joyous, because it was one step closer to her following her father's path. There was a great deal of pressure as well (outlined in the latter half of interlude 3), with her inability to heal everyone. | |||
Carol's attitude, one can guess, became even more distant. | |||
Amy realized she had feelings for Victoria. She bottled them up. Readers have speculated that Glory Girl's 'awe' aura might have had long term effects on the emotionally vulnerable Amy, helping this along (or making it happen). | |||
Bank Robbery (late chapters in arc 3) - Tattletale threatens to out Amy and/or tell her her father's identity. Amy freaks. | |||
Post-Bank Robbery - Amy has a conversation with Gallant, she confesses the strain of having a healing power, he notes how close she is to breaking, and that she has 'strong' feelings towards him. Implied to be love, but it's (as later stated) jealousy and resentment; he's the guy who's dating the girl she loves. | |||
Endbringer attack - Gallant dies. Flashbang (Victoria and Amy's father) receives a head injury. Amy's desperately afraid of using her powers on people's brains because she knows how easily she could cross a line, and doesn't heal dad. Grows more distant from the rest of her family. Victoria is upset that Amy won't provide emotional support after Gallant (Victoria's boyfriend) dies. Amy's struggling with her mixed feelings over his death. Gap widens. | |||
Things come to a head when the S9 arrive. Amy finds out who her dad is, and Bonesaw forces Amy to either heal her adoptive father's brain or let him die, and Amy heals him. Convinced there's no way she can stay, she flees, striking out on her own. Victoria intercepts her, and a shaken Amy unconsciously/unwittingly uses this previously unexplored aspect of her power on her sister, altering Victoria's feelings for her. Victoria runs. | |||
S9 continue rampage, and Amy gets swept up into it when Mannequin and Siberian attack her. She temporarily teams up with Undersiders to give a helping hand and to help her sister. Victoria gets injured by Crawler, Skitter rescues her, Amy stalls the damage and puts Victoria in a cocoon of fleshy bits, to restore the previous damage. Flees. | |||
Jack and Bonesaw catch up with Amy, and Jack engages in head games with the already unbalanced, unstable girl. Skitter intervenes before giving chase to Jack/Bonesaw. Amy/Victoria flee. | |||
S9 arc resolves. In the wake of it, Carol/Brandish is left wondering where her daughters are. They finally get a lead (thanks to Tattletale, in exchange for New Wave leaving Undersiders alone) and find a distraught Amy. The girl used her power on Glory Girl, and at the end of her rope, suffering a mental breakdown at at least one point, she used her power on Victoria, and forgot how to put the girl back together. Using her power only forces her to face the scale of the changes she's already made, and in panic/desperation she does more damage than she fixes. | |||
Victoria goes to Asylum. Amy asks to go to the Birdcage, and authorities weigh the risk of her having another breakdown (and creating a plague that eats plastic/glass/stone/whatever/doing a lot of damage to a lot of people) against the risks of incarceration, put her in Birdcage. Amy reunites with her father. | |||
In Marquis' arc, we see Amy trying to come to terms with what she did. Marquis is trying to ensure she (and he) don't face rebellion from within his cell block due to the issues her presence poses, and organizes a meeting with the other cell block leaders. He manipulates and charms his way through the worst of it. The meeting of Amy and Glaistig Uaine (a cell block leader with the ability to retain the 'spirits' of recently dead parahumans, along with their powers) clues Amy into something. She thinks she's figured out a crucial piece of the overall puzzle, and outlines it all to the surveillance systems that Dragon has in the prison, in the hopes that Dragon will pick up on it and act on the information. The Simurgh alters course and blocks/muddles the signal, and Dragon doesn't receive it. | |||
Amy gets a tattoo so she has a reminder of Victoria and the crime Amy committed against her, without having to dwell so heavily on it. | |||
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==Synopsis== | ==Synopsis== | ||
The first draft of Guts & Glory extends from [[New Wave|the Brockton Bay Brigade]]'s adoption of Amy Dallon to her [[trigger event]]. The second draft of Guts & Glory starts when Amy discovers the identity of [[Marquis|her father]] and begins to break down. The third draft was an attempt to tie these first two drafts together, while Wildbow also attempted a fourth and final draft.<ref name="Draft"/><ref name="14. | The first draft of Guts & Glory extends from [[New Wave|the Brockton Bay Brigade]]'s adoption of Amy Dallon to her [[trigger event]]. The second draft of Guts & Glory starts when Amy discovers the identity of [[Marquis|her father]] and begins to break down. The third draft was an attempt to tie these first two drafts together, while Wildbow also attempted a fourth and final draft.<ref name="Draft"/><ref name="14.8 c1">The first draft extended from the day that The Brockton Bay Brigade found Amy to the day she got her powers. Kind of unique among those early stories because it remained relatively unscathed through multiple drafts & the worldbuilding that followed. Almost to the point that I could point to it and call it all canon. This was where I first introduced the Nine. Jack (Jack Knife), Crawler (‘Skitter’) and Shatterbird (‘Breaker’) and Mannequin were all in the group, more or less as they are here, along with others that included Nice Guy and Murder Rat. Glory Girl got sliced up by Jack, Amy had her trigger event, healed her sister and the tide was turned enough that the Nine retreated for another day.<br><br>The second draft took place much later. Amy discovers who her dad is, and much as she does in Worm, she begins breaking down, the facade she had up begins to crack. Marquis was introduced here, and the family was fleshed out.<br><br>The third draft was pretty much an attempt to join the previous drafts together, with material to flesh them out and fill in the gap. Victoria’s relationship with Gallant was built here, but he was different. He had a friend who had the emotion reading ability (who was set up with Amy) while his own abilities were a little more offensive, and he played up the gentleman angle more. I tried my hand at the ending, decided it was too dark, and basically gave up on Guts and Glory at that point. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/09/29/prey-14-8/#comment-4574 Comment by] Wildbow on [[Prey 14.8]]</ref> | ||
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==Characters== | |||
=== Appearing in available draft=== | === Appearing in available draft=== | ||
*Guts: An early version of Panacea named Annie here. She shares many traits with [[Taylor]] like black curly hair, insecurities about her figure, and social anxiety. | *Guts: An early version of Panacea named Annie here. She shares many traits with [[Taylor]] like black curly hair, insecurities about her figure, and social anxiety. | ||
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=== Not appearing in Available Draft<ref name="I13.5c1"/>=== | === Not appearing in Available Draft<ref name="I13.5c1"/>=== | ||
==== [[The Nine]] ==== | ==== [[The Nine]] ==== | ||
*[[Ned|Troll]] | * [[Jacob|Jack Knife]]<ref name="14.8 c1" /> | ||
*[[Shatterbird|Breaker]] | * [[Ned|Troll]]<ref name="13.5 c1">[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/08/02/interlude-13%c2%bd-donation-bonus/#comment-3340 Comment by Wildbow on Interlude 13.5 (Donation Bonus)]</ref> & [[Ned|Skitter]]<ref name="14.8 c1" /> | ||
*[[Riley|The Maiden]] | * [[Shatterbird|Breaker]]<ref name="13.5 c1" /><ref name="14.8 c1" /> | ||
*[[Nice Guy]] | * [[Riley|The Maiden]]<ref name="13.5 c1" /> | ||
* [[Nice Guy]] | |||
==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
*Guts & Glory was the draft in which the [[Slaughterhouse Nine]] and [[Bonesaw]] were first conceptualized.<ref name="comment">[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/05/17/interlude-10-5-bonus/#comment-2121 wildbow comment] on [[Interlude 10.5 | *Guts & Glory was the draft in which the [[Slaughterhouse Nine]] and [[Bonesaw]] were first conceptualized.<ref name="comment">[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/05/17/interlude-10-5-bonus/#comment-2121 wildbow comment] on [[Interlude 10.5]]</ref> <ref name="I13.5c1">[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/08/02/interlude-13%C2%BD-donation-bonus/#comment-3340 Comment by Wildbow] on [[Interlude 13.5 (Donation Bonus)]]</ref> They would gain their final names later. | ||
*Many characters' civilian and cape names differ between Guts & Glory and the final draft of Worm. | * Many characters' civilian and cape names differ between Guts & Glory and the final draft of Worm. | ||
**Panacea is named Annie rather than Amy, [[Triumph]] is named Cole rather than Rory, [[Gallant]] is named Brett rather than Dean, and [[Flashbang]] is named Nick rather than Mark, while [[Brandish]]'s cape name is Arc, and [[Manpower]]'s cape name is Mantower.<ref name="Draft"/ | ** Panacea is named Annie rather than Amy, [[Triumph]] is named Cole rather than Rory, [[Gallant]] is named Brett rather than Dean, and [[Flashbang]] is named Nick rather than Mark, while [[Brandish]]'s cape name is Arc, and [[Manpower]]'s cape name is Mantower.<ref name="Draft"/> | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
Latest revision as of 16:57, October 17, 2024
Guts & Glory was a recurring title that was taken up and dropped several times in the drafting of what would become Worm.<ref name="3.11c1">Comment by Wildbow on Agitation 3.11</ref> Its rotating protagonists and point-of-view characters were Panacea and Glory Girl.<ref>Post by Wildbow on his blog</ref><ref name="Draft">Partial text of Guts & Glory</ref>
Synopsis[edit]
The first draft of Guts & Glory extends from the Brockton Bay Brigade's adoption of Amy Dallon to her trigger event. The second draft of Guts & Glory starts when Amy discovers the identity of her father and begins to break down. The third draft was an attempt to tie these first two drafts together, while Wildbow also attempted a fourth and final draft.<ref name="Draft"/><ref name="14.8 c1">The first draft extended from the day that The Brockton Bay Brigade found Amy to the day she got her powers. Kind of unique among those early stories because it remained relatively unscathed through multiple drafts & the worldbuilding that followed. Almost to the point that I could point to it and call it all canon. This was where I first introduced the Nine. Jack (Jack Knife), Crawler (‘Skitter’) and Shatterbird (‘Breaker’) and Mannequin were all in the group, more or less as they are here, along with others that included Nice Guy and Murder Rat. Glory Girl got sliced up by Jack, Amy had her trigger event, healed her sister and the tide was turned enough that the Nine retreated for another day.
The second draft took place much later. Amy discovers who her dad is, and much as she does in Worm, she begins breaking down, the facade she had up begins to crack. Marquis was introduced here, and the family was fleshed out.
The third draft was pretty much an attempt to join the previous drafts together, with material to flesh them out and fill in the gap. Victoria’s relationship with Gallant was built here, but he was different. He had a friend who had the emotion reading ability (who was set up with Amy) while his own abilities were a little more offensive, and he played up the gentleman angle more. I tried my hand at the ending, decided it was too dark, and basically gave up on Guts and Glory at that point. - Comment by Wildbow on Prey 14.8</ref>
Characters[edit]
Appearing in available draft[edit]
- Guts: An early version of Panacea named Annie here. She shares many traits with Taylor like black curly hair, insecurities about her figure, and social anxiety.
- Glory: An early version of Glory Girl, still named Victoria. Gregarious, she makes Annie feel welcome when she is adopted.
- Brett: An early version of Gallant, implied to have his aura vision. Had the story been pursued, a stronger relationship between him and Annie would have been the focus.
- Cole: Like Triumph, the mayor's son.
Not appearing in Available Draft<ref name="I13.5c1"/>[edit]
The Nine[edit]
- Jack Knife<ref name="14.8 c1" />
- Troll<ref name="13.5 c1">Comment by Wildbow on Interlude 13.5 (Donation Bonus)</ref> & Skitter<ref name="14.8 c1" />
- Breaker<ref name="13.5 c1" /><ref name="14.8 c1" />
- The Maiden<ref name="13.5 c1" />
- Nice Guy
Trivia[edit]
- Guts & Glory was the draft in which the Slaughterhouse Nine and Bonesaw were first conceptualized.<ref name="comment">wildbow comment on Interlude 10.5</ref> <ref name="I13.5c1">Comment by Wildbow on Interlude 13.5 (Donation Bonus)</ref> They would gain their final names later.
- Many characters' civilian and cape names differ between Guts & Glory and the final draft of Worm.
References[edit]
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