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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. 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>

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Early versions of Glory Girl and Panacea were introduced here.Art by aerryi on deviantart

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.
- In Guts & Glory, 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

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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. Its rotating protagonists 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.
+(If anyone’s interested, I can give details on any of the titles above, what they were about and/or why they were relevant in the creation of Worm. Pretty crazy nostalgic for me.) If you feel like it, certainly. I’m always one to be interested in that kind of thing. Personally I am rather interested in Guts and Glory, and who the different ideas for the protagonists were at different stages. Glory Girl and Panacea always struck me as two of the most interesting side characters. I loved Gallant and really like(d) the Wards team dynamic as well. Well, I could go on for a while listing the side characters I like, so I will stop now. @ Wyldcard4, re: Guts & Glory…
+citation below
+https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/09/29/prey-14-8/#comment-4574
+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. 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.
+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.
+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:
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 [[File:Guts_&_glory.png|thumb|303px|Early versions of Glory Girl and Panacea were introduced here.[http://www.deviantart.com/art/guts-and-glory-421634287 Art by aerryi on deviantart]]]