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*Author's note: | *Author's note: This chapter introduces Glory Girl and Panacea. They were characters I considered as protagonists for a superhero story in this same setting, which would have been titled Guts & Glory, with the perspective of each chapter alterating between each of the two girls. Their storyline is occuring in the background of Worm, with some aspects hinted at at various points in the story (including in the [[Agitation]] arc, [[Interlude 3]] and the latter chapters of the [[Extermination]] arc). I abandoned this story concept upon deciding that it didn't allow for much exploration of wider setting elements (such as the Case 53s) and that it was too dark. Yes, considerably darker than Worm. | ||
*This is the first mention of the ongoing rivalry between [[Coil]] and [[Empire Eighty-Eight]]. | *This is the first mention of the ongoing rivalry between [[Coil]] and [[Empire Eighty-Eight]]. | ||
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The second interlude, featuring Glory Girl and Panacea.
Synopsis
The interlude opens with Glory Girl giving chase to a man. She revels in the joy of flying, the benefits of her personal forcefield and the thrill of the chase. After she catches up to her quarry, the narrative reveals that the man is a member of Empire Eighty-Eight, the white supremacist supervillain group in Brockton Bay, and that he'd attacked and beaten a young black woman.
Glory Girl uses one of her secondary powers, the ability to make her enemies intimidated, to try and squeeze details on the organization from the thug, but he clams up and grows obstinate, insulting her. In a fit of anger, she seriously injures him, and winds up having to call her sister, Panacea.
Panacea turns out to be a healer, and after some argument and lecturing Glory Girl over her anger issues and the fact that this is a recurring event, she agrees to heal the criminal. The pair of heroines use the offer of further healing to leverage information from the thug, and he reveals that the capture of Lung in the first arc has created a void that other organizations and villains will be hungry to fill, with things inevitably getting more difficult for all of the city's heroes. After he begins mocking the girls, they abandon him for the authorities to pick up, with Panacea using her power to mess with his head and make him think he has erectile dysfuncton.
Characters
Trivia
- Author's note: This chapter introduces Glory Girl and Panacea. They were characters I considered as protagonists for a superhero story in this same setting, which would have been titled Guts & Glory, with the perspective of each chapter alterating between each of the two girls. Their storyline is occuring in the background of Worm, with some aspects hinted at at various points in the story (including in the Agitation arc, Interlude 3 and the latter chapters of the Extermination arc). I abandoned this story concept upon deciding that it didn't allow for much exploration of wider setting elements (such as the Case 53s) and that it was too dark. Yes, considerably darker than Worm.
- This is the first mention of the ongoing rivalry between Coil and Empire Eighty-Eight.