Huh, those were the parts that had always interested me least in Worm. They're sorta interesting as a background element but I've always preferred the smaller focus of the Warlord Arc and prior.
...That's exactly my point. Some of those things work in small doses or as background details, but whole sections of Ward, especially toward the end if I've been informed correctly, are all about fighting villains across whole dimensions, dealing with the frankly stupid shard's thing, and giant battles with monsters. Instead of, you know, being about Superheroes in the aftermath of Golden Morning. Honestly, Ward would have worked out better as a sequel of sorts. Set it 10 years after the emergence of Superheroes and be about the founding Wards team or a new branch being set up. Have it be all about the foundations of the cape culture and watch the birth of the world we see in Worm. Having it be set after the end sort of makes the story feel like it's trying too hard to top itself and fails at doing so.
I'm not disagreeing with you just stating I feel the same way. Eh, at least it'll be more fanfic fodder though I doubt it'll be the same bottle of lightning that Worm was.
Except for the-
Damn, who knew that Amelia was so kinky? If that's true wasn't Victoria a Shoggoth-lite at that point in time in terms of appearance.
Wait, it's already over? Did he ever kill off Pana-history'sgreatestmonster-cea or does she get to live?
She's still alive. She got hit by some falling rocks during the fight with the Simurgh that Victoria might or might not have pushed on her (Victoria was hallucinating and went through the same scene twice), but she survived that.
Wasn't she a rapey, attempted world conquering psycho in Ward? I wouldn't call that irrelevant. Kinda seems like letting her go isn't a very good idea.
I mean more along the lines of "I've moved on from the horrible things you did to me; I don't care about you anymore."
I mean, did they imprison her? Did someone else kill her? From what I've heard, she genuinely shouldn't be allowed to roam free because she'd become a complete monster.
She got sent to the Wardens for therapy, and the Wardens are likely to arrest her if she doesn't give it an honest try. That's why she was in the Wardens' base during the Simurgh attack.
While also ignoring the fact that he literally wrote things so fate utterly shits on her in order to get her to breakdown and said any other path in canon would have lead to her dying at the hands of the Nine (by refusing to break her rules) or having a gradual breakdown and committing suicide years into the future (If the Nine/Leviathan never attacked BB leading to the original status quo continuing) so Amy becoming an idiotic supervillain Rapist was the "best outcome" for her.........
Also Brandiah sympathising with Amy and trying to be a better mother AFTER the flesh blob incident looks pretty fucked up in hindsight now after the rape clarification.
Baaaah.
I'm only going argue the aura thing the rest I agree, bow admited that aura only paid a small part in affecting amy. Because if it was all the aura fault her whole family would want to fuck her by now fanon exaggerated the aura so I can see why he ignored it fans didn't look for any thing else but blame Victoria. It's also very obvious bow reads worm fanfics and Amy faults arecso massively downplayed. He probably grew resentful.
Yeah ward is stupid for alot of characters. Which I hate because I like Vicky and was excited at first but wildbow goes for grimderp.It just seems kinda bizarre that he made the whole thing about moving past trauma but, he made one of the characters that actually seemed to be moving past her own trauma at the end of Worm retroactively into a rapey monster. Why is that how he chose to play it? It actually makes Brandish's realization and character growth seem like a mistake. Not that you can blame her for not picking up on the subtle but totally there no really rape confession. I struggle to think of a reason why he'd do that beyond the "herpa berp it's all grimderp" explanation.
Honestly, I wish they'd both carked it and we had someone more interesting and not even Dallon family adjacent to follow as the protagonist. Mighta made it past the first four arcs then cuz Vicky's dull as dishwater and the Dallon family drama suuuuuuucks.
Except Amy was obviously in a worse headspace thanks to shitty and neglectful parenting plus the way she was adopted so the aura would logically have a much more severe/different effect on her as opposed to the other members.
I'm going by wildbow statements if he contradicts himself . That's on him but I will say her situation would make the aura worse. Brandish is shit show of a mother and ward made her more fucked up.
It's fun to remember that Amy's balking idea of 'seriously increasing her workload' that she didn't want to do during her pre-Leviathan time involved visiting the hospital a whooping... couple hours a day every day.
