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And, frankly, even if you hate and detest me for whatever reason and have done or tried to do things to hurt or even kill me, there's still a thousand reasons i'd rather learn you stopped because of than your death, disappearance, or having moved on to a new target. I'm not under any illusions that it will ever happen with any kind of frequency since it requires a willingness and capacity for introspection, critical thinking, humanization, and kindness that most of you have carved out of yourselves by this point, but I sincerely hope at least some of you come to realize of depths of the pointless misery your actions have helped to spread. Fix your hearts. No "or die". Just fix them, please, or at least do one thing for me, if nothing else, and reflect on how miserable of a person you've become as you hit send on that hateful message you're about to drop in my ask box, alright?

Worm Chapter 2 pt 2

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So, apparently some of you aren't aware???

Wildbow comics is fucking old, but i might as well start easy and tell you the lore of pre Apollyon Wars Taylor.

(Actual first appareance of Taylor Hebert and the homage i did for badly drawn worm)

Around the 60s Wildbow comics finally won a whole shitshow of a lawsuit against DC comics, that at the time was suing whatever superman shaped characters they could find, and Wildbow had several superman ripoffs, so, in the meantime they tried to create new more original characters, one of them was Aegis, the human shield.

He was hip teenager that had to deal with both teenager problems and superhero problems yadda yadda, and one of those troubles was falling in love with the creepy supervillain.

Taylor Hebert was created as both a supervillain and a love interest of Aegis, as well as a clear parody of spiderman, having a similar background as bullied teens that got bug powers, but while Peter got bitten by a radioactive spider, Taylor got cursed by the Skittering Scarab medallion (wich was a blue beetle rip off instead).

This silver age Taylor didn't go by skitter (and she wouldn't be called that until the Apollyon Wars reboot) but instead she was bug girl, and she had more vaguely insect powers (stenght, agility, endurance etc)

The thing that made her different from others was that she was a sympathetic villain that never went to far. She was esentially a teenager lashing out, just in the more augmented reality of comics. And that made it very interesting to flirt with redemption, but there was one thing that prevented that from happening...

(Screenshot of 'Unbeatable Aegis' episode 8 season 2 'The Undersiders Unite')

The undersiders, led by the mysterious Coil was a group of supervillains Aegis had previously beaten, now joined together to finish him, and commits many crimes along the way. They were also surprisingly great friends.

Don't get me wrong, they betrayed each other a lot, but they always ended up forgiving each other, because they were the only people that truly got what was to be a supervillain with a gimmich that everybody laughed at. Specially Bug Girl, who finally got friends that accepted her in this sort of toxic found family.

It was a clear contrast with Charlie's (yeah, he became Carlos after the first reboot) own lonelyness, he constantly ruined relationships to keep his secret and it really made tempting for him to just... change sides.

(Aegis the human shield issue 123, the night tattletale died)

There is a reason the night tattletale died is considered one of the two things that ended the WB silver age (The other being Vikare's death), because the wiplash is fucking real.

You just had a whole arc of Aegis beating coil, about Sarah (i still find very funny how Worm made it her real name instead of the post apollyon one) trying to get out of the whole criminal lifestyle and wanting to run away with Taylor (With all the Sapphic vibes that had), so having Coil's fuckass son come back and fuck it all up is so heartbreaking man.

Because it was all so preventable. If Taylor had trusted Charlie to help her, if Leroy (Silver age Hellhound) hadn't accidentaly ratted out Tattletale, if Sarah hadn't decided to trust herself and not her powers as a show of trust... she would be alive.

(The iconic Giant-Size Wards #1 with Chariot, Flechette, Weld, Aegis, Weaver and Tecton)

You know when a story is good but your fave gets dragged through the mud in it? Because like, the All New All Different Wards are great, when it came out it was a great step forward in representation and Tecton is just so fucking cool (The Irregular Cinematic Universe shouldn't have focused on him tho).

But Taylor doesn't do anything besides being Aegis' girlfriend in it? Like, you can't tell they didn't know what to do with her, hell Peter Ness didn't bother to make her gay (and he did make everyone he could very fucking gay).

You could make a good arc out of how she doesn't really fit in the group compared with the undersiders, but whem they meet it's like they don't know each other, it's so fucking infuriating.

(The both famous and infamous conclusion to the Deluge event)

So, at one point they introduce the travellers as this foil villain group. And one of them, echidna, makes a clone of tattletale to fuck with Taylor. And holy shit, that was so good, you finally adresses the elephant in the room, i wonder what developement will it lead-

She fucking dies in the next arc. Because Aegis has to suffer. Leviathan fucking kills her with no fanfare. Yeah, that leviathan (not really, it was like a dude, more like the villain from the protectorate movies).

You know that she was one of the reason's Gail Simone made the women in refrigerators blog right? It was that bad. Jean grey, Gwen Stacy, Barbara Gordon, Kyle's girlfriend and Taylor Hebert.

And in less than a year, Charlie started dating Shadow stalker because he is a SLUT and i hate him. And the worst part was that Taylor was so unpopular that she didn't get love from the writer's like for example Barbara becoming oracle.

(Taylor Hebert comes back as Kephri, Wards #411)

Most people already know it, but this whole thing was just the result of one editor insisting really hard into making an event that nobody wanted to do that pretty much ruined the Wildbow comics lore.

So, the magical amulet? Actually an artifact created by the Skittering Entity or some shit. Because actually all capes get their powers from the entities, isn't that neat? Isn't that cool? Scion is now even specialler now.

And you know, even with that, even with fucking soace magic alien resurecting Taylor... it could have been good man. You could have Taylor changed by the experience, trying to come with terms with her own death and place in the world, confront Aegis for moving on so fast... but instead we got a Madellyn Pryor level character assasination.

The omnicidal jealous ex, thats the bedt they could come up with, holy shit.

This whole retcon fucked up the lore so bad they rebooted the whole universe to run away from it.

(Fellow Fridged woman Glory Girl in Apollyon Wars #6)

So, even with the end of the world editorial needs to give Taylor Hebert one last fuck you. Do you know the amount of hatedom born from Taylor killing Glory girl? Do you know how many people, to this day, still refuse to read worm because she killed their blorbo in 1988???

And you know why? To make Scion sad, to show he had humanity unlike Apollyon and the other entities. People fucking clapped when Scion killed Taylor, nobody gave a fuck, or stopped to say "damn, so sad Taylor got possesed after death".

FLECHETTE, FUCKING FLECHETTE SAID "Take that you worm!" When i red it i was so fucking angry man. That book was just hype moments and aura wirh a side of mysoginy.

But in a cosmic sense I find hilarious that Gold morning and Worm is just reverse Apollyon Wars. You can tell McCrae also fucking hated it.

So yeah, thats how the story of Pre-Apollyon wars Taylor ends, dying alone how she was scared to.

Hetero Jessica and the Curse of the Demon Knights: The world is a primal, god-haunted place, but Hetero Jessica and her nameless bisexual boyfriend don’t know about that—at least, not until they mistook the night parade of a hundred devils for a pride parade! Now her nameless boyfriend is dead or something, and more importantly, she’s drawn the attention of some hot bishounen demon knights, her only touchstones in the newly strange world. Each has their own strange power, and they offer it to her alongside their loyalty, if she will accept their pact—but, they warn, it comes at a price. As Hetero Jessica grows increasingly entangled with her demon knights, can she find a way to master them and their power without succumbing to the curse?

Hetero Jessica and the Thousand Sinners of Stray Dog Mountain: There is a sacred mountain, a place where stray dogs roam and the wickedest sinners ever to live are punished with everlasting redemption. Hetero Jessica climbs Stray Dog Mountain, still struggling to understand this god-haunted world, and hoping to find answers at the summit. But as she speaks with dogs and sinners both, she discovers more important questions—like, “is it okay to punish the wicked with everlasting redemption in order to keep a sacred mountain stocked with enlightened sages?”

Hetero Jessica and the Castle That Walks Like a Beast: It walks, carving canyons through continents, stirring up the inchoate waters of the void. It is a monstrous, living castle, the ur-beast, wrought in stone and enfleshed in architecture, and Hetero Jessica is going to make it hers. That will make the gods and horrors of this world take her seriously. Of course, no one has ever lived who’s sat upon the throne—a devouring siege perilous, the hungry maw at the Castle’s heart. But…maybe she’s built different!

Hetero Jessica, Impaled Upon Ten Thousand Wicked Blades: Some days, you just wake up impaled upon ten thousand wicked blades. This is a thing that happens. The only sensible thing to do about it is to get back together with your demon knight ex to try and fix it. But Hetero Jessica’s got bigger things to worry about than her demon lover’s bishounen charms—after all, someone put all those swords in her. They aren’t coming back from that mistake alive!

Hetero Jessica Curses Her Maker: The world, it turns out, is a raw and gaping wound in the void. At least, that’s what he says—the pale and sickly rider, spilling blood and souls with his accursed blade. Hetero Jessica’s always thought it was okay for the world to exist, but maybe that doesn’t have to be a dealbreaker. After all she’s been through, she thinks it’d be fun to play at being the world-ending villain, to make a vain effort at apocalypse in half-jest and look good doing it. It’s bad news for the demiurge!

Hetero Jessica Escapes the Depths of Hell: God forbid a woman do anything. Literally. Imprisoned amid the lightless fires of Hell, Hetero Jessica plans her escape. But Hell is more than fire and imprisonment. She finds an unlikely and alluring ally in the fallen angel who is her gaoler. “Here, you can be at peace. Here, you are loved without judgment. Here is the fire and the torment and the damnation, but there is mercy in it.” Hetero Jessica is hellbent on getting out..but maybe she should be doing just the opposite?