One rooftop over, you see her. Recluse. The vigilante you wish you could be.

What if the locker happened just a bit earlier? What if, instead of escape from her tormentors, Taylor wanted something else?

Brockton Bay. A slowly rotting, fog-wreathed city in a decaying world where things lurk in the shadows. And that's what I thought it was even before my powers opened my eyes. I wish I could ignore what I see. I wish I could forget. I wish I could escape. But I can't. The Other Place is always there.

When Taylor Hebert meets Lisa Wilbourn, she gains powers to control time.

Taylor Hebert is unknowingly the descendant of a long line of Saiyans but she doesn't discover her true power until she is rescued by a mysterious martial artist.

Queen Administrator got damaged when Eden landed. After Zion tried to apply some basic repairs, it’s sent on its way. Due to the damage done to it, the Shard adapts a bit, trying to repair the damage done on the way. Taylor’s power adapts with it. Some creative freedom is also taken with a character.

BIND itself is not your typical Worm fic. While it follows a parahuman and deals with them frequently, the story is more akin to a detective novel than a superhero one. Specter is essentially a serial killer, and the main character is someone dead set on finding him. A good portion of the narrative will be focused on interviewing witnesses and uncovering clues. That said, it’s also character heavy rather than action. Not that it won’t have it’s exciting moments.

When a butterfly flaps its wings in China, it can cause a hurricane in Mexico. So, what happens if a Lung flaps its wings, trips and knocks itself out in Brockton Bay, right at the feet of an unpowered Taylor Hebert? Well, apparently, it leads to everyone across the US believing she’s a Parahuman, no matter how much she tries to convince them otherwise.

A collection of essays, in which I will blatantly project my own emotional issues on to Dragon. Essays will vary in length, formality, and degree of speculation. Warnings provided per essay. Contains spoilers through Ward.

Dragon is a character from the web-serial Worm and its sequel Ward, both written by J.C. McCrae. Worm can be found at https://parahumans.wordpress.com. Ward can be found at https://www.parahumans.net.

A kind gesture for her father sends her tumbling into a nightmare and coming out as something more.

Cancer patient Rebecca Costa-Brown gets a new lease on life—not through superpowers in a bottle, but dumb luck and the miracle of modern medicine. Naturally, she uses this opportunity to go to university, torment her roommate, get high, make friends, write papers, drink in moderation, and generally wreck everything in her path.

A no powers college AU set in modern day.
Updates when it updates.

Two women, unable to communicate the full extent of their lives to each other, begin falling in love amidst the city of Brockton Bay. Set before canon.

In which I find myself to suddenly be the Siberian. No, not Manton. I react in a ‘perfectly calm and rational’ manner. Then proceed to use music as a coping mechanism.

A series of short stories focused around the various capes mostly in and around NYC. Majority OCs, Canon compliant, hoping to expand some of the places less touched upon in Worm proper. Updates every Saturday.

Kara, an ex-vigilante living in Dallas, wants nothing more than to avoid the cape scene and start a new life for herself. Battle after battle with nothing changing, Kara wants to escape it all.

A former teen idol from Japan, Carrie Kobayashi found her life uprooted when the Endbringer, Leviathan, laid waste to her home and nation. Five years later she finds herself in San Francisco navigating a complicated web of heroes, villains, entertainers, and politicians. While attempting to find her place in her new home, can she escape from her past, or will it catch up with her? Will she be remembered as a hero or an entertainer? A strategist or a sociopath?

Taylor gets transported into the MCU as the twin sister of Peter Parker. Like I said, I really liked the premise of Out of Depth.

An AU where Taylor never triggered but decided to become "strong" in order to stop Emma and Sophia from bullying her before Christmas her freshman year of high school. She eventually escalates this idea into making a plan to clean up Brockton Bay, but there's only so much she can do without super powers. Taylor doesn't let that stop her and begins working toward her goals. And although she starts alone, she eventually finds friends and allies among the parahumans that reside in the Bay.
A series of snippets that aren't in chronological order.

You were someone important. A Heroic Spirit. A King. A Hero. But nothing is as you remember, the world is different, the people were strange, and you have a feeling that you were doing something vital to the survival of humanity before arriving at Earth-bet. Hopefully you’ll be able to find some answers soon, maybe the flying golden man would be of some help?

A Worm Alt!Powers for Everyone AU