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Hello! What if for pride you drew the saddest boringest gay man ever my main man Legend. Love him
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Hello! What if for pride you drew the saddest boringest gay man ever my main man Legend. Love him
day 112
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Summary:
Danny Hebert is an angry man. He gets it from his father, and it was bad enough for him to trigger with a power that shows the world just how ugly he is inside, and he resigns himself to living on the outskirts of society where his powers can’t hurt anyone.
Legend doesn’t see him that way, though, and Danny is pulled into the world of superheroes, becoming one of the greats and falling a little bit in love in the process.
Danny/Legend slow burn where Danny has an Ash Beast-inspired version of his Master/Stranger power.
Wormverse AO3 is full of Legend/Eidolon fanfics.
Some get rather... creative with the power use.
In a version of Worm where Legend’s job in the story is actually to be “The One Good Superhero” instead of a quiet but very pointed commentary on how “nice” does not equate to “good” or “effective,” I thought that a really really funny way to do that would for it to turn out that Legend actually puts the pieces together on Cauldron roughly triannually and every time they just use the slug on him to make him forget.
And to take the joke a bit further for retroactive horror, Black Noir style, you have a couple gags earlier in the story where his apparent “bit” is that he never really leaves the 1950s lantern-jaw radio announcer Tick-like heroic register, like he delivers his pep talk at the leviathan fight in a zap-brannigan, go-ye-heroes-go-and-die register complete with a dashing smile, or he gives an inspirational speech and strikes a pose and holds it for several seconds while everyone else is just looking at each other, and then in Flashbacks to the early days of the protectorate he’s just, like, a guy, and eventually you realize, oh, he’s been getting a boatload of cumulative brain damage from the slugging.
(Kindly note that things “that would be good for the story” are deeply divergent from “things I would find incredibly funny,” and this is purely that second thing.)
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Ohhhh, you know what thought I just had? Ellisburg was in New York. Legend would have been the Triumviirate member theoretically most likely to show up to help, if any cape had shown up to help. But he didn’t. And the capes who turned tail very plausibly worked somewhere under him.Â
And then in the interlude you’ve got Piggot dealing with Legend, and she’s subtly mentally reaming him for floating outside her window like a weirdo who thinks he’s too good for the door. And she can still emphasize with the discomfort it must be causing him to watch a video of his teammates getting slaughtered. She’s like an Onion. She has layers.
It’s interesting that although Legend and his role in the story play really neatly into 2020s-era discourse about Rainbow Capitalism, Assimilationism, pinkwashing, and the use of marginalized figures as smokescreens for bad behavior by monolithic authoritarian power blocs, I’m also reasonably certain that the actual thought process behind Legend is that WB thought it would be cool if one of the most venerated, powerful, well-loved and interpersonally pleasant superheroes in the entire world was a happily married gay man. (And he was right, it was cool.)
This was also in 2011-2013, too, when Gay Marriage was a much huger wedge issue, and to my recollection, well before cape fandom in general was done litigating whether gay superheroes were “ruining the genre.” (We’re obviously still not done litigating this but it’s been a while since anyone in any of my spaces have shown their whole ass about it.) In my head there’s a pretty big overlap on the Venn Diagram of “people in 2011-2013 who’d be seriously interested in Worm” and “People in 2011-2013 who would be Big Mad about the acknowledgement of the Rich Diversity Of Human Experience.”Â
This leads me into my actual question for anyone who was in the worm fandom contemporaneously with its publication; was anyone loudly or noticeably a dick about Legend’s sexuality? Or was he exactly the kind of tertiary character whose sexuality was enough of a non-element in the plot that that whole camp just smiled tightly and whispered Kumbaya through gritted teeth? I’m perpetually curious about what it was like to be in the worm fandom back in the early days, when I gather that the sensibilities and general atmosphere of the community was very different.
Despite All My Rage is now complete at 38K words!
Summary:
Danny Hebert is an angry man. He gets it from his father, and it was bad enough for him to trigger with a power that shows the world just how ugly he is inside, and he resigns himself to living on the outskirts of society where his powers can’t hurt anyone.
Legend doesn’t see him that way, though, and Danny is pulled into the world of superheroes, becoming one of the greats and falling a little bit in love in the process.
Danny/Legend slow burn where Danny has an Ash Beast-inspired version of his Master/Stranger power.