New fic from me! This is a Worm/NieR Automata crossover fic, with the crossover mainly being in NieR elements and ‘powersets’ appearing as parahuman powers, focused on Taylor Hebert. No Locker trigger, but also not starting with a trigger at all. The ship is Taylor/Parian though it’s a slow burn romance that takes a long time to get anywhere, but I like longfics so that works out.

Like, clearly it *can* work, hence the 'Sandersonian', but the circumstances surrounding things require more specificity. The best "power systems" are loose as hell and prone to changing with the next issue or novel in a series, or they're of a particularly random variety to the point its just a setting with powers, rather than a setting built to serve a power system.

I get that I'm a Worm fan so this may sound hypocritical, but my least favorite aspect of it (beyond a lot of stuff introduced in Ward and specific peculiarities in Wildbow's online behavior and fan interaction) is the unification of the power system. It's a well done system admittedly, but I couldn't care less for how shards pick hosts or the Entity cycle or any of the sci fi frosting to the story. The good part of Worm powers are in how they tie into character trauma, and the good part of Worm is in the characterization and development of relationships over time, not in the drawn out fights or cape matchups.