Worm Quotes and WoG Repository

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Last update: 06/15/2017, 04:12 GMT
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Quotes from Wildbow:

On Leet's power
Multi-subject post

Contessa vs Hatchet Face or Crawler
What the Thanda are doing
How long Gray Boy's loops last
Inspiration for Gray Boy
On how Carol treats Amy
On String Theory​

Multi-subject post

GLBT issues
What would have caused Sophia to back off on the bullying
How much do shards mentally influence their hosts​

Multi-subject post

Conditions for a second trigger event
Glory Girl's powers
New Wave shards
Shard relation between Undersiders and New Wave
On the possibility of Alabaster, Night, and Fog being Cauldron capes
Rune is not related to Krieg
Effect on Noelle from messing with her Corona
P=NP
Whether similar shards work on different mechanisms
On power classifications
Siberian and gravity
Legend's different types of lasers​

Multi-subject post

On GLBT relationships and storytelling
Number of independent capes in Brockton Bay
On the sexuality of characters and its effects
Ms. Yamada, Parian, and Flechette are Asian-American
The mechanism of Coil's power
Sophia's kill count​

Noelle and the flexibility of Cauldron vials
One of the Yangban
Taylor has already second triggered by Venom
Multi-subject post

Sexual preferences of the Undersiders
What power levels actually mean
Shadow Stalker and why she's kept in the Wards
Tattletale's power​

Cape groups in Russia
Powers of Lustrum, Black Kaze, and Crane the Harmonious
More on Crane the Harmonious' power and methods
Gallant's armor and powers
Multi-subject post

Velocity's personality
More detail on Miss Militia's power
Focus of Bitch's power​

Multi-subject post

Browbeat
The type of lockers at Winslow
Taylor and Battery's heights
Pronunciation of Hebert​

More on Taylor's height
Eden!Earth and manipulating shards with hosts
Clarification on Browbeat from above
Leviathan hurt shipping because he destroyed ports
"Kaolong is wrong on just about every count."
Multi-subject post

Taylor's reasoning for not joining the Wards
Bullying was based on a true story
Possible reactions to bullying
Grue has a talent for fighting
On vague cape names
How school works for the Wards
Dates of some chapters
When Taylor triggered​

Multi-subject post

How capes fit into society
Taylor's bug sense
It's up to readers to view people as villains or non-villains
On sympathetic nazis
Brutus' tail
Territory and the status quo circa truce against the ABB
The dogs Bitch rescued during Brutus' interlude
Bitch's power takes effort to use
Tattletale has her GED, and Grue is taking online courses
What to put in text
What the Manton effect basically is, and its effect on Vista and Faultline's powers
Can Taylor affect bug capes
A bit on Taylor's bug sense​

Glory Girl's aura may have come from triggering near Gallant
Multi-subject post

The north and south ends of Brockton Bay
How PRT foam sprayers work
Miss Militia and ammunition
Skitter's armor
Cleaning Skitter's armor
Rogues
Canary's trial and why the Birdcage exists
Some information on why the Birdcage is how it is
People don't know how powers work
Taylor has a hard time distinguishing between Bitch and Rachel
Dogs can smell through Grue's darkness
Why the PRT took Purity's child
The creation process of Bakuda
The legal introduction of capes
Grue's power wipes out smell
On creation process for superpowers​

Multi-subject post

The PRT knew what Regent could do by tracking him down from when he was Hijack
Clockblocking Regent would end the effects of his power until he got out
No PRT headquarters visiting hours post-Leviathan
Sophia doesn't ghost through walls because wiring is dangerous
On eventually publishing Worm
Taylor hasn't taken physics yet
Coil kept computers with him when the Nine were in town
Panacea and Bonesaw are not related, but they did interact in previous drafts
On why the dream sequence happened
There were some intentional inconsistencies in the dream sequence and clues it wasn't real
Skitter's multitasking comes as part of her power
Taylor's stress range increases are only temporary
Taylor's range increases aren't confirmed to be linked to stress in particular
Taylor can control things inside bodies, e.g. heartworms
Taylor uses bugs on people like motion-capture
Skidmark's name may or may not be intentional double meaning, but Squealer's definitely is
Taylor can control snails and slugs, but not squids. She also has some minimum threshold size
"Wildbow" comes from a misspelling of wild boar in a 90s video game (Final Fantasy Tactics)
Charlotte and Sierra have reasons for staying in Brockton Bay
Brockton Bay has mild winters and comfortably warm summers, and arc 11 happened around early June
3D scanners work like 3D printers, but more versatile
Jack Slash's power doesn't work on nanothorn bladed - the disintegration comes from the cloud, not the blade
Guts and Glory was darker than Worm​

Multi-subject post

Taylor's power does have a minimum size limit
Manton spent some time in Cherish's pod before Bonesaw took him out, sealed Cherish in, and broke her power
Why Taylor was able to partially trap Crawler with spider silk
Narwhal can make crystalline forcefields inside of people from within fifty feet
Siberian is immune to Trickster and Panacea
Taylor can use her bugs' sight, but it's inefficient and irritating
Trickster's power and limitations
Dragon isn't a tinker in the parahuman sense
Grue the limits of Grue's darkness generation
Shatterbird can use glass to seal up injuries
Taylor's venoms worked on Lung by overloading is healing factor
Brockton Bay map​

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Leviathan is not based on Final Fantasy X's Sin
The PRT and using Bakuda bombs
Why Taylor is named Skitter
Bug cape names are hard to make heroic
Nano-Halberd was created just before Leviathan hit Brockton Bay
Wildbow doesn't want to be sensationalist, and the roles of the Endbringers
Taylor is a telepath
Panacea is limited against Leviathan and it's hard to test the limits of brute powers
Villains outnumber heroes
What PRT designations mean
The PRT scale goes higher than 10
Why Leviathan is referred to as male
9/11 didn't happen in Bet
Leviathan can't be teleported
Sophia is on the track team
Taylor worries Panacea might booby-trap her biology
Why Skitter seeing Shadow Stalker's face is bad
Not all Wards go to Arcadia
Taylor didn't look at the whole monument
Taylor can't control Leviathan
Time between first Lung fight and Leviathan
Where Weld was found
What Weld uses his food money for
Time between arcs 8 and 9
Rape is a serious issue
Brockton Bay has mild weather
Flechette doesn't know much techno-babble
Wards patrol because there aren't enough people to do so
Weld has problems because new leaders are hard to adapt to
Justin Beiber exists and is well-known on Bet
Clockblocker was going to be leader for a while before graduating
After Leviathan, Taylor uses bugs to disguise her voice around Sophia in costume
Some ambiguous information on Regent's power​

The original Gray Boy and controlling him.
Gray Boy's size limits and how his power would interact with Endbringers
On Nilbog's need for biomass
Multi-subject post

Rejoining the Undersiders and money
Cherish's nicknames for the people she found
Lung's body parts will decompose without a connection to his brain
Taylor doesn't need naturally organized bugs
Taylor's minions' masks compromise between relatability and security
How Coil's power influences the story
Fog didn't die during Leviathan and Imp is easy to miss
Siberian vs the Triumvirate
Eidolon might not be an unimaginative person
No cell phones for the Heberts
Freezing Leviathan's waves doesn't end well
The limitations of Grue's darkness production
Shatterbird can use glass to shore up but not heal injuries
Taylor has definitely cussed before 12.5
The Manton effect isn't necessarily limited to humans
Theories about the Manton effect and issues with testing it
More on the Manton effect and who in the Brockton Bay Protectorate/Wards is hit by it
Mannequin's ceramic armor is pretty durable
Why Mannequin attacked Taylor's territory
The Number Man was originally foreshadowing
Be careful about enemy tinker tech
The three O'Daly brothers join Skitter's work crew in 12.8
Scrub doesn't have consistent accuracy or control with his power as of interlude 12
Bitch is the only living person Siberian has spoken to as of interlude 12
The energy requirements of powers aren't ignored
Wildbow gave the Nine two unstoppable guys because he likes being mean to his characters
Taylor's venoms worked on Lung by overloading is healing factor
Everyone is the protagonist of their own story
A bit about Assault and Battery​

Multi-subject post

What Tattletale is doing behind the scenes while the Undersiders are warlords
What people forget about Nilbog and other dangerous capes
Cauldron's effect on the world
People are too Taylor-centric
Information about Hatchet Face
Unchained Dragon vs Scion
Government control of parahumans, with and without Cauldron
Wildbow's stance on society
Clarifying on government control of parahumans from above
The entities dealing with a space-faring species (joke)
The entities dealing with a space-faring species (serious)
Info on how budding actually works
Scion-wielded or otherwise unlimited shard capabilities
A bit on the Endbringers mentioned in Eden!Earth, and how the shard affects the mind
What the entities have as their end goal and what the hosts are adding to the cycle​

Multi-subject post

Sting is a shark of a shard
A bit on the Three Blasphemies, and what not to bring up in discussion with Wildbow
Wildbow's stance on fanfiction
Cauldron's Nemesis program
Why Cauldron brands the Case 53s
More on fanfiction and publishing
How fanfiction authors don't get Taylor right
How to worldbuild
PRT vetting process for tinker tech
Area covered by the Suits
Panacea's trigger event
When Panacea started to crumble​

Jack Slash's trigger event
There are around two dozen unaffiliated capes in Brockton Bay before Leviathan
Multi-subject post

Epoch
Rune and Rune/Othala's family
Shamrock
The Merchants
The Fallen
Licit, Edict, and Damsel of Distress​

Multi-subject post

Jack Slash, and breadth and depth
Traditional vs self-publishing
On grab-bag capes
Some villain got Sting-lite
Be polite and thoughtful when talking with Wildbow
Do the E88 capes buy into white supremacy?
On the Guild, Narwhal, Damsel of Distress, and Faultline
On what got us Worm​

Nilbog and what his taking over a town would look like
On Blasto
On the connection between Earths Aleph and Bet, and on leaving Earth
Setting ideas - Apollyon!Earth and Worm!Valhalla
Krieg's power
A bit on Battery's power
Phir Se could indeed have destroyed India
How Scion stopped the Cold War
Amy and Victoria's studies
Telepathy in the Wormverse
Some pronunciations - Marquis is still a topic of debate
Some New Wave shard relationships
What the shards are getting from humans
How Lung's power decides when to activate
On Leet
Some info on trumps and trigger events
A bit on Mannequin's mentality
Some clarification on what "case 53" means, what the PRT looks into, and Narwhal's original powers
On kill orders and on Bakuda getting one
Compilation of shard info posts
On the Custodian
Bonesaw's trump rating
The origin of Grue's name
Tinkers and inspiration, and Trainwreck confirmed as a case 53
Multi-subject post

On the PRT rating system
Breakdown of types of tinkers
Some advice for Worm tabletop gamers about the after-effects of the Simurgh
On powers in other Earths
Why Taylor responded to bullying the way she did​

Parian's power has a true use that we don't see in story
On drafts from before Worm
Dauntless' power
Some of Taylor's school schedule
Why Brian didn't become a Ward
People overestimate Über and Leet
On Leviathan when it was said he's the weakest of the Endbringers
What Leviathan would do if he wanted to win
Why Aegis isn't affected by cogenital insensitivity to pain
How Chevalier's cannonblade works
Taylor's height and weight
Info dump on the Endbringers
Confirmed-accurate calc on Endbringer toughness
Noelle's eating disorder
On Dragon's inventions
Wildbow did the math on Endbringers, and clarification on ramifications of dumping them into the sun
What would have happened to Taylor if she had never triggered
Endbringers constantly job like crazy, and throwing them into the sun is probably a bad idea
Professor Haywire and his specialty
Information from PRT Quest

The Youth Guard
Funding
Directives
The Elite
Classifications and ratings
Recruitment, transfer, termination and payment of parahumans​

Glory Girl's trigger event
How Wildbow handled the Leviathan fight and what would've happened had Taylor died
How Armsmaster could escape prison
Why the army wasn't sent to deal with Brockton Bay post-Leviathan
Wildbow on a better Worm CYOA
On tinkers and mass-production - Introducing Gearboy
On deus ex machina and Skitter vs Mannequin, and Taylor can make her bugs go 110%
How Mannequin probably found Skitter
Genesis and the limitations of her power
More on Genesis' limitations
What Taylor knew about trigger events before joining the Undersiders
How Regent's power works and what he can use it on
The law behind kill orders
On Amy and using her powers to escape the Siberian
Clarification on Worm and Pact (not) being in the same multiverse
On tinkers - Gearboy II
What the Triumvirate used to be called/post]
On Alexandria being "as fast as Legend"
Trainwreck had to build himself limbs, and how Simurgh makes tinker tech
Crawler's armor can take a small nuke as of Brockton Bay
Sifara/Orbit and Spree's powers
Mouse Protector's powers and a when Danny broke his oath to himself
On Sundancer, Ballistic, and Genesis
On Dean and the family business, Victoria's shield, and why Dean might have been interested in Victoria
The difference between aphasia and Khepri
On Armsmaster's social abilities and Wards leadership
How Clockblocker and Vista defused Bakuda's bomb
On Blue Empress
On capes using guns
Some underlying ideas driving faction formation in the Wormverse
Ravager's powers
How Amy got into the Birdcage
How fast time passes in Khonsu's fields
Nuances behind trump triggers, with Othala, Usher, Galvanate, and Grue as examples
Multi-subject post

How the entities power themselves
How early-canon Taylor responds to stress
Taylor's motivations at the start of canon​

On space travel using tinker shards
How the PRT might deal with a parent forcing their kid to join the Wards
On creating tinkers and Mantellum's power
How containment foam reacts to extreme temperatures
Nix and Nyx, and why they have similar names
How things work in South Africa and South America
Multi-subject post

On the oath Alexandria took at the founding of the Protectorate
On whether or not Contessa was bluffing against Weaver in New Dehli
What was happening in Miss Militia's trigger vision
On what some members of the Nine were like in pre-Worm drafts
On Scion's masculinity
On how often the Nine has its full complement of nine members
Shards can give full-strength powers to multiple people at once
An analogy for what Dragon lost when Saint took her suits
Crawlers evolutions extend to nanotech
What Jack's power actually does and some things that factor into it
Gray Boy can't turn off his loops
Gray Boy's defensive power can bring him back to life​

Myrddin's power
Amy may have been inspired by a trigger event
On Worm's ending
Multi-subject post

On whether Glory Girl is dating Gallant or Dean
The ages of capes in the Undersiders, as well as some of the Wards
Dauntless' classifications​

General classes of tinker specialties and restrictions
The Butcher can't teleport into water
Multi-subject post

Why the chances of success tripled
The status of the Endbringer kill order
Leet went to South America during the time skip
Panacea + Noelle = Bad
On the number of Wards in Brockton Bay
How shards decide what their "definition" is for powers
Expanding on this post, where/how a trump aspect would apply to tinkers​

About Victor's power
Multi-subject post

Glory Girl could take a hit from Scion
Taylor wasn't old enough to take online classes - 6.09
The only schools within legal range of Taylor's house were Winslow and Arcadia - 1.x
Shadow Stalker has more weaknesses than electricity - 9.6
Sophia's philosophy - 9.6​

Multi-subject post

Some other dangerous tinkers
On Amy's neglect
Dinah was at home when she got kidnapped
On Cherish's finding people
Clarification on the effects of Saint's shutting down Dragon
Taylor and religion
Classification for information-gathering abilities
Revel's power
AoE is unlikely to kill Contessa
Siberian and Genesis used the same formula
Heartbreaker can cause any emotion
August Prince's power works even if he's attacking you
Clockblocker always knew how dangerous his power was
Powers that have dangerous effects like lingering radiation get higher ratings
The PRT weren't assholes for story convenience
Kaiser doesn't buy into the white supremacist ideology
Outline of the Guts and Glory story arc
Dragon is allowed to kill certain threats
Superheroes tend to work out
Garrote's computer setup
Amy was 4 or 5 years old when Marquis was Birdcaged
People took the easy route for containing Panacea
Kudzu was a self-replicator
Cauldron wasn't trying to remain entirely secret
A nice description of Taylor and how she fights
On power resistance via relationships
Khepri vs Coil
It takes time for Panacea to alter material to make it viable for transplant, and canon backup
Taylor isn't really attractive
More on Panacea and the Birdcage
The asylum has excellent containment​

Bambina ages slower, and what it means for her to be trending
Multi-subject post

Why they didn't use Foil's power to the "fullest" after Behemoth
Foil's power breaks Chevalier's
Details on Black Kaze's power and how she might have been captured
More information on the "power wells" shards use
Clones are connected to the same shard - 26.x
Nobody knew if Dauntless' power had a hard cap or not​

Legend's lasers are not rainbows
What it means for the entities to group together realities
Heartbreaker and why he was so hard to catch
Powers are influenced by minor details in the trigger, not just by the base issue
On Gallant and Amy's relationship
On who some of the original Wards were
Multiple-subject post

On a "responsible" Protectorate
What a tinker 15 might look like
On the Madison quarantine​

Faultline's powers can be used on the ground
Spitfire can melt steel beams
Brian lied about his trigger
Multi-subject post

About Lab Rat's... survival?
On Hero's specialty and why he was so strong​

On Dragon's power
Some specification on Aiden's power
PRT Department Designations
Why time powers don't solve the entities problems
Multi-subject post

Scapegoat's power works on mental afflictions
Jack Slash can beat almost any cape in a one-on-one fight
On Simurgh quarantine zones
If Bitch's focus was turned from dogs to cats
A variety of odd little questions answered
As Worm evolved, the bad guy was always the bad guy
Capturing Circus
What S-Class Trickster would look like
The probable response to capes triggered by the Simurgh
What the Triumvirate were called when they had Hero, and why they split up
On S-Class threat containment, and evacuating from Endbringers
If Simurgh killed the Butcher
Capturing Jack Slash
On word of god
Why Cauldron cares about money (they don't)
Hurting Endbringers
On telepathy
On "Wormy" powers
On August Prince's power
Possible character arcs for the Undersiders​

How Emma died
Multi-subject post

Why Alexandria was immune to the Simurgh
Crawler's genitalia​

Multi-subject post

Small clarification on Striker triggers
Not all of the Nine got cloned
Shards use DNA as a marker, and warped Corona Pollentias can mean warped powers
Foil could have killed Behemoth when his core was exposed
On tinkers and shard assistance​

Multi-subject post

The powers Teacher can grant
Cauldron capes and the conflict libido
Why natural triggers sometimes get mutations
Some information on the Earth of Goddess/Blue Empress​

Multi-subject post

On Khonsu's time fields and who can walk out of them
Aegis beats Glory Girl, Oni Lee beats Trickster, and Citrine isn't as broken as people think
About Upperhand and his partner, Speaker of the House​

How Worm might have turned out if there hadn't been enough donations to expand the story
Coil can't get unlimited questions from Dinah
What capes see when they're near another cape triggering
More on how broken Jack Slash is
Implied Saitama versus Behemoth
It wasn't a coincidence that Saint's shutting down Dragon decreased the chances of Gold Morning
Multi-subject post

Accord was going to frame Blasto
How Wildbow treats transphobic characters​

Worldbuilding on PRT offices and cities without them
The PRT's initial distrust of rogues ant the reasoning behind it
On Glory Girl's trigger event
Jouster, his classification, and the New York Wards and Ward publicity
On Alexandria's aging and growing
Multi-subject post

Apocalyptic movies involving capes
Eidolon and the glow in his helmet
Which of the Endbringers is best suited to take out Gray Boy​

On "Does the Protectorate ever reject anyone?"
Panacea and Glory Girl's aura
What happened to Barker
Multi-subject post

AI and nanotech tinkers are heavily limited
On Contessa and tinker-tech​

Multi-subject post

The powers of the Red Hands
On Othala's power-granting​

What shards and entities look like
Armsmaster is on posters of the top Protectorate heroes, and how those heroes were posed
Some powers Danny could have triggered with
How shards influence people, and how being a Cauldron cape affects that
Worm if Leviathan didn't attack Brockton Bay
Multi-subject post

Contessa's PtV being more efficient than Scion's is fanon
Some details on how Vista's power works
Clockblocker's trigger conforms to Weaver Dice standards
Clockblocker's trigger​

What happens to a cape's civilian ID when they're arrested
Multi-subject post

On multi-triggers, buds, cape families, and Dauntless and Dragon's ratings
On Dauntless and his weapons
How Weaver Dice works
Clockblocker's trigger
Contessa's PtV being more efficient than Scion's is fanon
How to define tinkers, and tinkers' limited understanding of their powers​

On the PRT-Protectorate power structure/hierarchy
Some insights on Shadow Stalker's mindset
Some clarifications on how Tattletale's power and personality work together
Some details on the Guild
On cape naming conventions
On Breed’s power
Some info on Greg’s personality[post]
More on Greg’s personality
Foil is not accidentally killing people in other realities
Alexandria’s plan during Skitter’s interrogation
On Cauldron, Eden, and Contessa’s world
Multi subject post

Public knowledge of trigger events
Hero’s personality​

On Wards schooling
Information from the Playtest Capes doc
Estimate on the number of Protectorate capes. Not to be taken as definitive word of god.
How much of a tinker’s work is behind-the-scenes
On Breaker triggers
Lustrum was not from Brockton Bay
The Pastor Incident
On Crawler, Endbringer fights and Armsmaster’s prediction software
Multi-subject post

The difference between Cherish and Heartbreaker
Why precogs sometimes can’t predict dangers
Where Endbringer shelters are located
There’s precedent for Taylor’s power bypassing mental blocks
Bakuda started her bombing campaign when fighting the Undersiders​

Multi-subject post

Why Winslow students avoided Taylor
Charlotte is Jewish​

On the cape scene in Los Angelas
On buds, pings, and second triggers
Multi-subject post

Other solutions to Taylor’s school issues
Details on the Birdcage layout and Canary’s power
On telepathy in Worm
How Panacea interacts with Endbringers
The Endbringer memorial in Brockton Bay
Alec, and why he was hiding his powers
Rachel worked at volunteer dog shelters​

PRT Think Tank ‘Watchdog’
Coil’s contingency to release Noelle
Information on Moord Nag’s territory, power, and how much influence Teacher had over her
On Glory Girl’s forcefield
Multi-subject post

How Lung acts and behaves
How Bitch’s power effects growth and weight
On Thinker/Precog interactions
On the Sentai Elite’s costumes and tools
Dispatch carries around oxygen
Chevalier was knew quite a few secrets
On Accord and Citrine
There are a huge amount of Entities​

On Mouse Protector
How Protectorate heroes spend their days
On the Elite, and their role in Brockton Bay
Multi-subject post

Hypothetical Empire 88 vs the Elite
Some canon tinkers described using the Cape Document
Why snipers are not widely used
Sphere’s moon base, Mannequin, and power use in space​

Multi-subject post: Contessa

Hypothetical Contessa vs Batman
Many quick answers on Path to Victory interacting with other powers/settings
Clarifying Path to Victory’s “Autopilot” function
Entity use for Path to Victory
How Path to Victory interacts with metaphysics/conceptual effects
On the use of Path to Victory without active paths​

The differences between Kaiser, Adamant and Cuff
Multi-subject post

What makes Accord so dangerous?
On the tinkering process​

On Armsmaster when first starting as a hero
Multi-subject post

On Imp’s intelligence
On Dragon’s suit design
Accord’s predilections
On Cherish post-arc 14
On Skitter tagging people with bugs​

Multi-subject post

Whether Dragon is a thinker or a tinker
How good Taylor is with kids
How the Undersiders fought off Oni Lee
On Circus’s gender identity, and why Tattletale couldn’t deduce Circus’s gender​

On Purity’s trigger and classification, Scrub’s classification
Hypothetical Worm capes vs Superman
Multi-subject post

How broad tinker specialties can be
On arresting and containing capes
PHO user Answer Key is not Tattletale
What stops Master class capes from running for office
Oni Lee needs line of sight​

Multi-subject post

The Teeth
Wildbow’s favorite line in Worm, and what it says about Taylor
What the PRT is like in a mid-sized city
Why villain gangs tend to cluster in big cities​

Morgan Keene’s inclusion in the story
How to kill Alabaster
How Nilbog controls his minions
On Rune’s power[post]
Marquis was lying when he took the credit for killing Iron Rain
Multi-subject post

Aleph’s cape scene
Villain and gang awareness
Cinereal’s power and role​

Multi-subject post

Rogue life
Making money as an independent hero​

Multi-subject post

“Kaolong is terribly, terribly wrong on just about every account.”
Doormaker and the Clairvoyant were not in the first ten capes Cauldron created​

Multi-subject post

On how perceptions effect trigger events, and second trigger events
On Krieg
On writing interesting characters
Hypothetical Rachel joining the Wards, and other potential Undersiders members
Hypothetical Rachel at Hogwarts, and Rachel being Ravenclaw
On author-reader connection
On religion
Legend’s civilian name is stated twice
On whether people believe capes are magic
Taylor double triggered in the locker
Depicting Taylor’s power on screen
How hosts effect shards
On the unfairness of superhero settings
The problems with Leet’s power
On damage from resisting Khepri
Weaver’s role model
Dragon’s backup timing
On Marquis in E.5
What it means for realities to be left dead
Gray Boy never actually hit Foil
Foil’s stunts
Hookwolf always knew he could turn into a snake
How Theo pulled through the pain to face Jack
On the threats the Thanda faced
Wildbow’s favorite arcs
On publishing
Bonesaw’s moral status as of her interlude
On answering question
On the game the Travelers play
On Lisa’s sexuality with and without her power
On capes comparing ratings
On moving Wards​

How trigger events and powers interact
Hookwolf’s civilian identity was not hidden by the PRT
On Labyrinth’s power
Multi-subject post

On the San Francisco/bay area cape scene
How things might have gone if Armsmaster was not the hero Taylor met on her first night out​

Cauldron was not using the Slaughterhouse Nine to cause trigger events
On the PRT in small cities, and the Fallen
Multi-subject post

On the meaning of the gold bands
On the “I’m sorry” statement
On Oliver’s power
Khepri’s ability to understand language was degrading by the time she encountered Teacher
On Shatterbird
There might be an Aegis interlude in the rewrite
Defusing Bakuda’s EMP-nuke
On the Triumvirate’s sense of presence
On comics and criticism
On permissive attitudes towards negativity
Wildbow’s own experience with bullying and inspiration on Taylor’s
Why Taylor didn’t use her powers against the bullies
Why Alexandria didn’t interfere with the Undersiders
The Merchants didn’t rape Charlotte
On Taylor’s pop-culture preferences
Skitter was given a cavity search after she surrendered
Jack and Harbinger were no older than 12 when they killed King
Engineers are stumped by tinkertech
Leviathan’s speed is unrelated to his hydrokinesis
On Quests
The two ex-ABB members with Yan post-Leviathan were not part of the group that attacked Emma
Wildbow based the PHO usernames on commenters
On the Alexandria/Rebecca Costa-Brown reveal
Superhero comics aren’t dead on Earth Bet
More on Ransack
The Wards are not sidekicks to the Protectorate
On Yamada
On some of the Echidna clones’ names
On how some groups in Worm were formed
Wildbow has never seen accurate Simurgh fanart
Coil’s thoughts during the final confrontation with the Undersiders
On Coil torturing the Undersiders, and how Tattletale would react
More on interacting with fans
Wildbow likes Damsel of Distress despite her small amount of pagetime
On constant negative criticism losing its impact
On Taylor’s thought process during the attack on the mayor’s house
On Triumph folding on the Armsmaster/Defiant issue
How Wildbow usually pitches Worm
On the Triumvirate
Why Flechette didn’t escalate against Skitter
Hookwolf, Stormtiger and Cricket had deeper meanings to their names
The Merchants were small time pre-Leviathan
On Taylor meeting Wildbow
Amy being Birdcaged was a better outcome than Guts & Glory
Dennis’ last name is not Dynamite
On how Crawler’s power works
Contessa was in early drafts of Worm, Cauldron only wanted Manton alive, Siberian attacking the Undersiders would have ended badly for Manton
Jack dying in Brockton Bay would have shattered the Nine
On Taylor rejoining the Undersiders
Mannequin’s headpiece is sealed
On the S9 and Regent in early drafts
Coil had a spy in the Chosen​

More on why Alexandria is immune to the Simurgh
How Scapegoat’s power interacts with certain capes
On the CUI and other Asian regions
Multi-subject post

More on how Scapegoat’s power works
(Implied) Dragon runs PHO
More on Coil’s power​

Multi-subject post

How Wildbow would frame a show of Worm
Changer vs Shifter
On Alexandria’s weakness, and the multiple individuals named March
Blackwell was pushed by the PRT to go soft on Sophia
On Charlotte’s religion
Tattletale’s grudge with Faultline, and she had a grip on Coil’s power pre-Leviathan
On Scion’s clothing
Lung and Armsmaster in Overwatch format, and how they might compare to Overwatch characters
On the handling of the timeskip
Wildbow’s guesstimate on Protectorate numbers. Not definitive Word of God.
On Cauldron and Eden
On a previous copyright debate
On the Thanda’s names
On Ballistic’s power
On triggers involving pregnancy
Taylor won’t be the protagonist of Worm 2
On Bonesaw’s trigger
On the Nuclear Vista clone
Bitch as a Magic: The Gathering card
On Flechette vs Clockblocker
Genoscythe is still not canon
Wildbow’s publishing name
On characters deserving or not deserving hatred
On the Asylum Burnscar and Labyrinth were in
Madison did not die during Leviathan
On mental illness
On Endbringers taking damage
On the dice rolls during the Leviathan battle
On the political climate surrounding Miss Militia’s trigger
More on Scapegoat’s power
Cherish survived Gold Morning
On Bastard Son of the Elite
Emeryville, CA is gone
Wildbow messed up on the PRT colors
On powers solving problems in trigger events
On characters being based off Wildbow’s experiences
On Scion’s appearance
On designing powers to not be overpowered
Oliver drank balance only
On the trumpiness of Scrub
On Parian’s power
On YunYunHakusho’s artwork
Earth Bet chose to be Earth Bet as a gesture to Earth Aleph
Some WeaverDice plot hooks
On hybrid powers vs grab-bags
On elements of powers
On public knowledge of trigger events
Why Coil and Skitter didn’t use more “rationality”
Taylor and Aegis did not have a higher chance to survive Leviathan because of protagonist status​

On Taylor’s appearance
Multi-subject post

The Slaughterhouse Nine members as of 2005
On the timeline of Dragon and containment foam
On Taylor’s status in the epilogue
Being labelled an S-Class threat, and the unwritten rules
Sydney on Earth Bet
Sleeper is not a Stranger 12​

Multi-subject post

On Alec’s childhood
Who the people Cherish described in her interlude were, and why Jack targeted Purity
Some info on the PRT/Protectorate in Denver, Colorado
On the PRT’s ineffectiveness​

On the events of Arc 8
Multi-subject post

Gallant is a Cauldron cape
Night is a breaker, Fog is a changer​

What the Protectorate does with capes whose power inherently violates the code
Multi-subject post

On containment foam solvent
On Citrine’s limits​

Potential names for Wards!Rachel
Eden capes are more likely to have thinker or master powers
Multi-subject post

Noelle and Oliver’s classifications
The chain of causality for Brockton Bay
On the brute rating scale
Shadow Stalker and Brandish’s 1 ratings
It is unlikely that anybody triggered from the news broadcast in Cell​

Multi-subject post

PRT classifications are based on end result, not mechanics
Why Valefor is a stranger
Gully’s appearance​

Multi-subject post

The ABB members in 5.6 weren’t sex slaves
On the Suits​

Information on brutes that resurrect from death
Multi-subject post

Aegis’s survivability
Why Contessa’s words effected Bonesaw so much
Copacetic
Scion would have snapped even if left alone
On Taylor's jetpack, and Dragon's suits
On Scion’s four words
On whether Taylor could trigger with a trump power
On Armsmaster’s restaurant preferences
On powers simulating human behavior
On the Suits
Any shard with the restrictions stripped away could be an S-Class threat
On Tattletale's view of Taylor's mental state
On Shadow Stalker when fighting in urban environments
Exponential growth is not the only definition for an S-Class threat
Sleeper is not a stranger 12
On multi-triggers
Skidmark can throw Leviathan and Behemoth on their asses
Rollo wasn’t a dog
Endbringer cores do not nullify powers
On permanent breaker states
Third generation parahumans are not necessarily stronger
On the age difference between Assault and Battery
On inter-world travel
On Contessa’s silence around Cauldron members
Bitch has killed people before​

Jack Slash’s appearance
Multi-subject post

On Armsmaster's actions in the Leviathan fight, and his EMP projector
How much influence the PR department has over Wards’ names
Tattletale knew the specifics of Coil’s power​

Multi-subject post

When Coil hired Uber, Leet, Circus, and Chariot - 16.10
Uber and Leet’s crimes, and descriptions - 4.5
The ratio of unpowered to parahumans - 13.x
The size of Brockton Bay before Leviathan - 8.4
Canary was arrested in mid-2010 - 28.1
Canary was a Cauldron cape - 28.1
Sophia’s mindset - 9.6
Arcadia has a Faraday cage - 20.2
Purity is racist - 3.x
Armsmaster directly joined the Protectorate in 1996 - 24.y
It was raining during the bank robbery, and Vista can bend space - 3.10
Miss Militia does not have perfect memory when awake - 7.x
Bakuda’s toe rings were on her left foot - 4.11
Grue’s real trigger - WoG
Iron Rain was likely 17 when she died - 10.x
Emma’s mindset during the bullying - 19.x and 20.3​

Not all shards can give powers of every classification


____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Quotes from Worm:

How Newter feels about his powers - 5.x
Some PRT precog methods - 18.4
Time stop grenade vs Leviathan - 8.3
What Nice Guy's power looks like in use - 26.1
Limitations of Dinah's power - 11.f
Miss Militia making the bomb - 29.2
The origin of the Boat Graveyard - 14.11
Gallant's powers - 3.3 and 3.10
Crane the Harmonious' description and power in use - 27.3 and 29.2
Faultline's power in use - 5.x and 18 bonus 4
Vista's scar collection and badassitude - 9.5
Imp's shard and trigger from Scion's point of view - 26.x
List of the Butcher's powers - 20.y and 21.6
Taylor has a computer and internet at home - 2.2
Cauldron's memory eraser cape - 29.5
The Manton effect - 4.10, 5.x, and 9.1
Squealer's appearance - all over the place
Imp can be seen through cameras - 16.13
The damage Behemoth took from Phir Se's bomb - 24.4
Glaistig Uaine's various shades - all over the place
Haywire was from Bet, and some info on Eden!verse Endbringers - 15.z and 29.x
There are actual time-manipulation powers in Worm - 28.x
More on there being actual time-manipulation powers - 26.x
When we first meet Gray Boy - 25.x
List of seen trigger events - all over the place
Two more seen trigger events - 15.x and 22.y
Some of Defiant's offense-oriented toys - 17.4
Noelle's trigger event - 17.7
Allfather's power and successive triggers - 18.y
The device Number Man uses to detect second triggers - 29.8
The original members of the Slaughterhouse Nine and how long most members lasted - 25.x
Shadow Stalker was heavily influenced by her shard - 28.4
Approximate parahuman-to-human ratios - 13.x
How long Panacea has had her powers and how much healing she does - 3.x
What the Undersiders' base is like - 2.7
Multi-subject post

The exact nature of Flechette's powers - 9.2
A bit on Fenja and Menja's powers - 9.6​

Imp's powers seem to have a stronger effect if you're attempting to directly think about her - 10.3
Amy isn't worried about screwing up when working on brains - 11.h
The event the Protectorate was at during the bank robbery – 3.11
Multi-subject post

There were under a hundred Case 53s released on Earth Bet – 28.x
Panacea was called in to heal Lung – 10.x​

Some info on how Endbringer regeneration works with their durability – 24.x
Whether Bitch has killed anyone pre-Undersiders – 2.02 and 4.01
Taylor’s opinion on the Empire and racism – 7.4
Whether Jack knew the Siberian was a projections - 12.x, 14.1, and 26.5
On Marquis’s time in the “bad old days” - 11.h, 14.10, 16.z, and 27.3

Spoiler: Old request to turn this into the OP

Okay, I went ahead and updated it. What now?

 

Spoiler: Old OP (hidden for convenience)

Welcome! This thread is to collect, index, and archive various quotes from Worm and all WoG posts by wildbow here on SB all in one place.

Other resources are:
Worm Resources Thread
Worm Chapter Synopsis
Weaver Dice Rulebook


I will add Quotes as I see them but posting is open to anyone.

Please skim either the index or the thread to see if the quote you have has already been posted. I fully expect this thread to fill up rapidly enough even without chatter, we won't need duplicate posts to speed it up.

Please do not chat in this thread! This Thread is for the quotes themselves, not discussing the quotes!


Please provide a few words describing the contents of the quote, ie. "Taylor's sexuality, Leet's shard details, ect." This will make it easier and faster for me to index.

If you are Quoting from the Web Serial itself, the format is (quote="chapter name and number") replacing the parenthesis with brackets, ie. [ ]

Please use discretion when quoting from Worm itself, we do not need to make this a complete copy of the novel. A few sentences or a paragraph with the relevant information bolded will suffice.


Wildbow Quotes:
Wildbow, on Leet's power
Multiple Subject Post

Covered Topics:
How long Gray Boy's loops last
In response to what the Thanda are doing
Contessa vs Hatchet face or Crawler
Inspiration for Gray Boy
On how Carol treats Amy
On String Theory​

Wildblow answers Shard's and GLBT issues
Wildbow answering questions from WyldCard4, Gore17 and Nervaqus987

Covered Topics:
Abstract Second Trigger Events
Glory Girl's Powers
New Wave Shards
Empire 88
Undersiders
Noelle
P=NP
Shards
Power Classifications​

Mutiple Subject Post

Covered Topics:
On relationships
On the sexuality of characters, how it affects the audience and the characters
Mrs. Yamada, Parian and Flechette are Asian-American
On Coil's power and Sophia's kill count​

Noelle and Cauldron Vials
On One of the Yang Ban
Possible confirmation on Taylor's second trigger
Multiple Subject Post

Covered Topics:
Sexual Preferences
What Power Levels mean
Explanation for Shadow Stalker being in the Wards
Tattletale's Power​

Parahumans groups in Russia
Lustrum, Black Kaze, and Crane power mechanics
Expanded details about Crane's power

Worm Quotes:
How Newter Feels about his powers
PRT Precog Methods
Timestop Grenade vs Leviathan
Nice Guy's power in use
Dinah's Limitations
Miss Militia creating a Nuclear Bomb
Origin of the Boat Graveyard
Gallant's Power effect
Harmonious Crane's Description and power use.
Faultline's power in use
Vista's scar collection and badassitude
Imp's Shard and Trigger from Scion's POV
List of powers for Butcher, Leader of The Teeth
Taylor's Home Internet Access
Cauldron's Memory Eraser Cape
The Manton Effect

 

*post reserved just in case*

 

Wildbow, on Leet's power:

 

Contessa vs Hatchet face or Crawler. The thread is locked so there's some problems with quoting it.

Link to the post: http://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/13647613


In response to what the Thanda are doing (Again, a locked thread).

Link to the post: http://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/13648119


How long Gray Boy's loops last (yes, locked thread again)

Link to the post: http://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/13653258


Inspiration for Gray Boy (same thread, same lock)

Link to the post: http://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/13653718


On how Carol treats Amy:

Link to the post: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?707142-Where-I-Read-Worm&p=17388925#post17388925


On String Theory:

And I think that was all I had.

 

Wildblow answers Shard's and GLBT issues

 

Wildbow answering questions from WyldCard4, Gore17 and Nervaqus987:

 

On relationships:

On the sexuality of characters, how it affects the audience and the characters:

Mrs. Yamada, Parian and Flechette are Asian-American:

On Coil's power and Sophia's kill count:

 

Pandemonious Ivy asked Wildbow about Noelle and Cauldron Vials:

 

I'll leave this here as well: it's a google doc in a throwaway account. Anyone can edit it, if they have the link. Made it awhile ago, and linked it a couple times.

Comments on Worm

 

On One of the Yang Ban.

 

Ok, gonna work on this. Been lazy and I know I skipped a bunch of general Worm quotes, but whatever.

How Newter Feels about his powers

 

PRT Precog Methods

 

Timestop Grenade vs Leviathan

 

So she had a second trigger after all? Or maybe he is saying that she believes that she had one...

http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/08/venom-29-9/#comment-45410

 

She did have a second trigger. It was when Aiden (bird-boy) had a trigger-vision, but didn't get any powers.

 

Nice Guy's power in use

 

Dinah's Limitations

 

Here's the quote of Miss Militia using her power to create a nuke-like bomb:

 

Origin of the Boat Graveyard

 

Gallant's powers

 

From a conversation with someone else.

 

Nah, WoG thread has the quote. What happens when somebody second triggers is that the shard realizes that the host is in massive danger, and cannibalizes it's bud to change around restrictions.

When Aiden got his Pollentia that should have been his trigger, but the QA decided it needed the bud so it never got to him.

Edit:

OH, didn't realize what thread I was in.

Here, first paragraph.

 

Harmonious Crane's Description and power use.