#worm crossover

For the past three years and change, I've been kicking around the idea of the Gempire as the residual result of an entity that botched its own cycle so badly that the central Zion-style figurehead holding the entire operation together is a hundred-thousand-year-gone memory. The result amounts to an entity with serious brain damage; The gems retain elements of the original programming for the cycle- namely, the ability to create anthromorphized avatars reflective of the local culture, and the drive to reproduce and consume planets to perpetuate themselves- but they've completely lost the plot on other important elements, namely the importance of hybridizing with local host species, their historical record, the full extent of their dimensional manipulation capabilities, best practices for resource extraction, and, most crucially, mutation, change and innovation as a desirable outcome.

Rather than an avatar, White Diamond is an intelligence analogous to a Endbringer or Titan who slid into the vacant role as the next-most-powerful autonomous portion of the network, holding the consolidated, stretched-thin remains of the original Network together by her fingernails while also deleteriously superimposing her own residual instinct from her original role onto the entire network- namely, to pacify, homogenize and sterilize host planets if and when a cycle is beginning to get out of control. This hybridized with residual data from previous host species that caused the gempire to organize in a fascimile of imperial structures encountered back when their cycle was still functional; essentially "Playing House" at the societal level, aping the culture of a host species without really remembering why.

The result of this is a "cycle" that's bad at everything it's supposed to do but effective enough that it limps on regardless- supremely energy inefficient, stripping planets bare rather than experimenting, and utterly developmentally stagnant. In the unlikely event that an entity were to cross paths with the Gempire, they'd have an uncanny-valley reaction to it and likely attempt to euthanize it, but compared to most entities the Gempire is tiny- while Shards canonically deploy in the hundreds of millions, the gems tend to reproduce only a few tens of thousands of themselves each time they claim a planet, and they usually only strip mine the handful of "active" worlds that would feature in a normal cycle rather than obliterating all dimensional iterations of it.

Yellow, Blue and eventually Pink are similar constructs to White, brought online to assist her in the project after the "imperial" territorial holdings grew too vast to micromanage. Unfortunately (for the cycle) another one of the things that got lost in translation were the controls meant to keep individual shards from developing autonomy or attachment-to-hosts. When the Gempire hit Earth, Pink Diamond and a significant contingent of the network, after patterning themselves after humans and spending a significant amount of time on the ground, pulled a fragile-one and went native, leading to a localized civil war that ended under unclear circumstances when the other the diamonds glassed the planet from orbit and pulled back their operations to prevent whatever affected the rebels from spreading.

All of this happened about 8000 years before the events of Worm, in a universe about 43 dimensions down the line from anything seen in the Earth Bet Cluster; due to the Gempire having mutated so much as to no longer be immediately recognizable as fellow Entities, and with so few active gems left on the planet in the aftermath of the rebellion, Zion ignored the crystal gems and folded them away into the inaccessible dimensional space, where the events of the show played out much as they did in SU canon. Ironically, Steven is the first ever example of this cycle successfully empowering a host, in the most roundabout way possible.

Summary: The Justice League teases Clark that Earth Bet has its own Superman, but a single encounter with the Golden Man shows Clark that Scion is nothing like him.

I decided to write a oneshot to take a break from all my multichapter fics. It’s a Worm/DC Universe crossover focused on Superman. It’s basically just establishing a premise for Superman and Scion meeting each other, then Clark noping the fuck out.

Chapters: 10/? Fandom: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Parahumans Series - Wildbow Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Amy Dallon/Original Female Character Characters: Amy Dallon | Panacea | Red Queen, Cassandra Pentaghast, Leliana (Dragon Age), Solas (Dragon Age), Original Female Character(s), Varric Tethras, Josephine Montilyet Additional Tags: Crossover, Canon Divergence, Teenage Inquisitor (Dragon Age), Knowledge of Dragon Age Is Intended To Not Be Necessary To Follow The Story, Isekai, Amy Dallon and Her Hudson News Worth of Issues, Self-Loathing, guilt complex, Mommy Issues, Limerence, What Would Vicky Do?, Is a Question She'll be Asking Herself A Lot, Amy Dallon is the Herald of Andraste, Amy Dallon is the Inquisitor, Because putting a traumatized self-loathing teenager with superpowers in charge of a quasi-religious military organization is a great plan!, Spoiler Alert: It ends up actually working out, But It's Going To Take Time To Get There, Because Amy Dallon Is A Mess, The Amy Romance will be very slow burn, Amy Dallon Needs A Hug, Amy Dallon Will Need To Experiment With Her Powers, But Only To An Extent Because She's Still Terrified Of Them, Amy's Powers Will Play A Key Role At Various Points In The Story, Additional Character Tags to be Added Series: Part 1 of Amy Dallon, Hero of Thedas Summary:

Amy Dallon. Panacea. A self-loathing, damaged, troubled young woman who's sanity teeters on the edge of a knife. In love with her sister, feeling like an alien intruder in her own family, desperate for the approval of a mother seemingly unable to give it, and overwhelmed by the monstrous potential of a power she never wanted.

In theory, the last person you would want to rest the entire fate of the world on.

But when a Bakuda bomb plucks her from Earth-Bet and drops her in Thedas, leaving her with a glowing green mark on her hand, and a hole in the sky that only she can close, Amy will have no choice to rise to the occassion - or die trying.

I'm probably going to die trying - Amy Dallon, 9:41 Dragon.

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The scenario in question is Worm-centric, and (as is oh-so-often done by the Worm fandom) involves an altpower Taylor. The catch? This iteration of Taylor triggered with a connection to the Sanzu River, which gave her the ability to summon the Gedoshu from “Samurai Sentai Shinkenger”. Summoning higher-level Ayakashi like Shitari and Manpuku, however, takes a lot of power, so she primarily uses both low-level ones and Nanashi Renjuu support.

Take care

viri is my name irl and viri is me irl :3 (so is emma obviously, but viri is what people call me)

viri is also roxy lalonde in a trenchcoat irl ...

i haven't made much progress on chapter 6 (which will be a viroxy chapter) yet, but i have a rough outline... in the meantime, i wrote some very silly crossover shitposts between a few of my fics!

here's A Bed of Roses x Bro-Coded:

Rose stared at the two girls in front of her. Both of them stared back, blinking eerily in-sync. The girl on the left - that was familiar ground. That was her mother, displaced in time (well, really, she was the one displaced), wearing a gaudy pink cat t-shirt underneath an unbuttoned coat. She stared at Rose with something like wry, knowing amusement, even though Rose was sure her mother knew about as much as she did. The other girl was the unknown factor. Sure, she'd known that the Quad-Wizard Tournament would require participants from four schools, and one of them was from America. And sure, she knew that the odds of strangers looking like familiar people wasn't nothing, all things considered. She'd seen the front page of Imgur once or twice -- "this stranger could be my secret twin" posts weren't unheard of. But the other girl blinked at Rose with delicate bright pink eyes, and some part of her wanted to stab the impostor dead on the spot. "You look like you wanna stab me," said the other girl lightly, thick Texan accent reminding Rose of the Striders. "An' I'm not sure what I did to deserve that." Was there another paradox clone John had just lost track of? Did it make any sense at all for there to somehow be two Roxies? ...Come to think of it, it didn't make sense for there to be two Roses, either, assuming she was going to be born later this year, but -- "I love your robes, bee tee dubs," said Roxy to the other girl. "I'm, like. So fucking jealous. I fucking LOVE wizards." The other girl smiled. "Same," she said. "Was pretty goddamn happy about the letter, lawl." God, they even talked similar, accent or no. Rose cleared her throat. This madness had to end. "What's your name, anyway?" she asked the second Roxy. "R--" said the other girl, before stopping herself, sending Rose's eyebrows sky-high. After a moment, she opened her mouth again. "My name's Viri." "I'm Roxy," said Rose's mom, and oh goddammit, was she making FRIENDS with the impostor?!

and here's ABOR x Bro-Coded x Worm!

"I'm Seer, from the Brockton Bay Wards," said Rose, blandly. "Rogue, from New York," said a very familiar voice. Rose's breath caught. Without even thinking, she had grabbed the other girl, running over to a corner. "Mom?" she asked, shakily, pulling down her mask. "It's me, Rose." She was sure. She had to be right. The other girl's expression was unreadable, but Rose's breath caught in her throat when she saw the pink eyes. It had to be her. "My name is Viri," said Rogue, and Rose felt her whole world start to shatter apart. "But..." She bit her lip, and Rose just stared. "I used to try the name Roxy for myself, when I first started transitioning. Does that... mean anything to you?" "It does," said Rose, breathless. "It is you." A hand on her shoulder. She turned around. Dean. "Not that I want to interrupt whatever is happening here," her fellow Ward said, voice muffled by his helmet. "But we are in the middle of an event, Seer." He gestured at something, and Rose numbly followed the motion to find her mask still in her hands. "Oh," she said. With one last look at Roxy-- no. Viri-- no, they were on the clock, call her Rogue-- She took a deep breath, put her mask back on, and walked back over to join her team. We'll be talking more went unspoken, as she glanced back at Rogue. Rogue nodded, as if she'd gotten the message. God. This was like finding Dave all over again.

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