Feb 10
claw reread predictably did nothing to help me figure out why the last two chapters are like that
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claw reread predictably did nothing to help me figure out why the last two chapters are like that
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Inchworm got to the chapter where the government tried taking Aster away from her Nazi mother. Curious how the hosts would feel about the ending of Claw.
Top 5 fictional children that Mia Hurst should steal
Obviously her adopting Taylor is a fun idea, but I'd be shocked if that wasn't the premise of the majority of Claw's fanworks. So I went with some less obvious picks:
5. The Skinamarink kids: I personally think Mia could do a better job at giving those youngsters a loving and supporting environment than the forevertorture demon.
4. Epilogue from Someone You Can Build a Nest In: Despite Shesheshen being constantly chased by monster hunters, if she raised Epilogue there'd be way too big a chance that her little flesh monster would end up respecting the cops. Also, Mia is kind of like if Shesheshen was an interesting character.
3. Kenzie Martin from Ward: We need to get her OUT of there. Also I want to see what the hell Kenzie trying to be too useful to get rid of looks like with the Hursts.
2. Maria Ushiromiya from Umineko: We need to get her OUT of there. She's already got Beatrice but she can have Mia too.
1. Laura Palmer: I think Mia would be able to help Laura, but I also think Laura would end up messing her up even more than Gio did. And that'd be exciting to see.
I was also going to add the Holy Infant of Atocha, but then I realized I was accidentally doing a "Jesus is my favorite fictional character" and would get accused of being reddit. Mia should take that kid though. She'd be a good role model for the Christ child. At the very least she'd give him shoes that don't get worn down so quickly.
remembered that Mia Claw dislocated her own hip and came in with a freezer placenta to better sell her 'pregnancy'
whose afterbirth is that and where did she get it????? people who read claw please answer
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I never finished Claw. Didn't even read a majority of Claw. Or a plurality of Claw. But I will say that Wildbow is one of very few authors from whom the basic setting conceit of Claw- a genre-world in the vein of Worm where instead of superheroes, every early-oughts war-on-terror-influenced Jack-Bauerlike airport novel primetime technothriller is happening at once, one-after-the-other, forever- sounds even remotely tolerable. In a vacuum that kind of thing sounds like an insufferable right-wing jackoff session, and a huge portion of what made Claw's implementation of that idea so great is the frog-boil reveal that that's what's going on- the dawning realization over the first arc and change that these characters are living at the margins of a society as cartoonishly dysfunctional and tumultuous as that whole fictional space implies. It was great.
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serious lack of SI CYOA fanfiction in the claw and pact and twig department it's a genuine tragedy
I've probably said before how I think Claw would've been stronger had it left out the last two chapters and just ended with Natalie waking up in the hospital. I don't think that's an uncommon opinion on here—regardless of how one feels about the ending, it does seem to take a very jarring turn away from the pacing, focus, and to a certain extent characterization.
That said, if we needed to have Mia on trial, then execution aside, having Gio be the prosecution was a pretty good move. There's some ways their relationship progresses, like the implication that we should read the Hursts as grooming Gio towards violence in the same manipulative way Davie groomed Addi, that get a bit lost here in the final instance. But the big idea that Gio eventually gets drawn to—her role as the "little shadow," the person who finds themselves echoing whoever their around and picking up their ways of thinking reflexively—allows her to be both a character that Mia has helped immensly and gotten close to, as well as a character who when removed from Mia quickly picks up the "common morality" that would brand her an uncomplicated monster.
I maintain that the best reading of the last chapter is not that Mia is finally getting a "fair trial," that wildbow is telling the audience that we should see Mia as objectively a horrible person. Instead, its an expression of Mia needing to be seen as non-monstrous by the world when her actions are laid bare, and the world refusing her. She's pushed away by Gio because she's a strange and cold person who's hard for normal people to really see as a person, and because its easier to go about your life if you just shake your head, call her a monster, and removing her from your life. Just repeat back what everyone else would say about her. Even if you have the strongest reasons out of anyone to deny that she has an uncomplicatedly evil character, its so much simpler to look past all that. Blithely repeat the standard line on parental rights, even though you've been hurt by such rights worse than anyone. Repeat a barely-thought-out comparison between the Hursts and indigenous residential schools, even though it's insulting to all parties if considered for more than five minutes—even so, others are saying it, and if you believe it the break will be cleaner.
Mia got a judgement from someone who she did an incredible amount to help, and was found wanting. But ultimately, she was just getting the same judgement of the society who shut her out after the fall. The little shadow becoming a shadow of Mia's mother, looking at her like she'd killed her daughter and stolen her skin.
How successful would Mia Hurst…
…be if they decided to become a pro-wrestler?
Yes on the microphone skills / Yes on the wrestling skills
Yes on the microphone skills / No on the wrestling skills
No on the microphone skills / Yes on the wrestling skills
No on the microphone skills / No on the wrestling skills
Propaganda for the mic skills:
Collects all pieces of information on her targets and knows how to use it to make them look weak.
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Propaganda for the wrestling skills:
Grabbed a man by the jaw and used him to bludgeon another man to death.
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