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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: | 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: | ||
https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?682837-Worm-Bet-the-Alternate-Thread-The-Star-Wars-Prequel-Trilogy-Still-Sucks-Though&p=16772221#post16772221 | |||
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 foosteps (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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Revision as of 03:23, August 27, 2016
Guts & Glory was a recurring title that was taken up and dropped several times in the drafting of what would Worm. Its rotating protagonists were Panacea and Glory Girl.<ref>Post by Wildbow on his blog</ref><ref name="Draft">Partial text of Guts & Glory</ref>
Synopsis
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. </ref><ref name="Draft"/>
Charecters
- Guts- named annie here, she shares many traits with taylor like black curly hair, insecurities about her figure,and social anxiety.
- Glory-still named victoria or vicky, shows her gregarious side , makes annie feel welcome when she is adopted.
- Brett- an early version of Gallent that is implied to have his aura vision. had the story been pursued a stronger relationship between him and annie would have been the focus.
- Cole-the mayor's son like
Trivia
- Guts & Glory was the draft in which the Slaughterhouse Nine first appeared.[citation needed]
- Many characters' civilian and cape names differ between Guts & Glory and the final draft of Worm.
References
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