Circus and the Elite
Circus and the Elite is an early draft of Worm featuring Circus, a version written in 2008 can be found and read here.
Synopsis
Circus is approached out in the open by Harmon Rex. before he can finish introducing himself she has bolted and chaged into her costume trying to get away as fast as she can.
Later meets up with a group of other independent villains that have been approached by the Elite.
Circus and Doll are ambushed by twisted speedster but are able to escape.
A group of rogues and solo villains try to hold out against recruitment by a much larger cape group. The Elite in this story resembles a cross between the Slaughterhouse Nine, the canon Elite and Cauldron.
Groups
- The Elite
- This Elite is much more spread out, composing of both illegal cartels and the legal businesses.
- It also contains several prominent Slaughterhouse Nine characters.
- The Daemon family
- An early version of the New Wave, given their description as a family of prolific super-powered hicksters.
- Interestingly, neither Glory Girl nor Guts are members, instead being Wards.
- Unaffiliated Capes of the city
- Composed of several miscellaneous capes, such as Bitch and Circus
- Allied with Faultline's Crew
- Faultline’s Crew
- Though a bit thinner than canon, Faultline's Crew still has several of the same capes as canon.
- Coil's Organization
- Apparently only made up of Coil, though it could be a similair situation as canon, where Coil has several groups of capes secretly in his control.
- Coil himself is described as a "right bastard", though he somehow has enough power to fight the Elite
Characters
Elite
- Harmon Rex - A tall man with crisscrossing scars across his face, Rex is an early character that combines traits that would later be broken up between the Siberian and Gavel.
- Has the Siberians ability to violate physics
- Gavels ability to take a minimum amount of damage Excaliburs sheath is specifically mentioned.
- Number Man - ability to manipulate and understand numbers
- Mother - Early version of Bonesaw
- Unnamed warped speedster - Early version of Chuckles
- Murder Rat - refrenced as an early creation
- Cherish-mentioned as Heartbreaker's daughter in early draft
- Winter
Wards
- Guts - Early version of Panacea
- Glory - Early version of Glory Girl
- Aegis - female here, same color scheme
- Clockblocker
- Runechild - Is not an early version of Rune, they did share a few aspects of their powers. Runechild was effectively supposed to be a kind of young Doctor Strange.
Unaffiliated group
- Circus - view point character and protagonist
- Doll - Early version of Parian, same costume and abilities wears a red curly wig
- Bitch - had family but lost her mother, father and her dogs from a visit from the Elite.
- Felix Swoop
Faultline’s Crew
Mentioned only
- Dragon (in charge of Dragon Corp)
- Heartbreaker - specifically mentioned to need line of sight when using his abilities
- Coil
References
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