Probably everyone lol, I definitely did.

 

She's supposed to be, which is why Spacebattles loves 'fixing' her so much. Hilariously powerful character crippled by emotional problems.

 

I have never quite understood SB's fascination with Amy. Through most of the S9 arc, I remember wanting her to either die a painful death or be broken mentally to join the Slaughterhouse nine and kill the entire New Wave family. Easily the most infuriating character in Worm.

 

I was always more interested in Glory Girl as a character. It's been a little disturbing how some authors figure the best thing to do is somehow warp her into loving Amy romantically. Right now my favorite stories that have her feature heavily are Up in the Air, which hasn't updated in awhile, and a Worm/Red Alert 2 cross that has her trigger as a Tinker that makes C&C Russian tech.

 

Yes.

It's just that the majority of the fanbase is on spacebattles, and spacebattles likes Panacea.

You know, an offhand comment on DM of the rings said that a good amount of tension in a story comes when the characters don't do what the readers want them too. Panacea is a really good example of that.

Recs:
Memories of a Simurgh victim: http://forums.spacebattles.com/thre...im-diabolus-ex-machina-worm-fanfic-au.323109/

By the same author as Weaver Nine. Instead of Leviathan, the Simurgh hits Brockton Bay. Perspective switchs between Glory Girl and Skitter. Still in it's starting shoes, but it's glorious in a tragic way.

 

It's got the same quality work as Weaver 9 but, again, the mind thing just makes me lose all interest.

 

If they want to fix her, they should write a fic where Marquis wasn't arrested.

 

That's one of the few things that, to my knowledge at least, hasn't been tried.

 

That was one of my first thoughts after reading Amelia's character arc too. It has been discussed a few times on the SB boards, but surprisingly, no one has made it a story yet.

Maybe someone on DLP could finish Worm and write the story instead.......

 

And put off TPWWP even longer? Nah. But one day? Maybe.

 

Boo Boo

Joke doesn't make sense anymore, misinterpreted the post.

 

I actually like Amy as she is. Her arc was well done in canon, even if her story wasn't as uplifting as some fans would have liked it to be.

Was she annoying at times? Yep. But she was a teenager, so that's to be expected. I didn't find her any more annoying then Taylor, Lisa, or Aisha were at times.

Would I like to see a well-done Amy-centric fic? Hell yes. The character still has potential in the realm of fan fiction. It would sure be better than all of the 'Taylor triggers with an alternate power' fics that have been done to death.

 

I've been annoyed with Taylor since chapter 1. The annoyance has lessened somewhat since then , but it's still there in the back of my mind, skittering around in the recesses of my thoughts.

 

I didn't like Amy as a person, but I agree that she had a good character arc. I may be in the minority that finds her uninteresting. Her powers so binary. Her characters so ... for lack of a better word, slow.

She struggles with her moral choices and her family situation and even her physical enemies and her duty and her bitchyness. But none of that makes her do anything.

I think she works best as a side character. And if Marquis never got arrested, Amy (Amelia) would be an Amy In Name Only (and not even that, since Amelia). She was really young back then and getting adopted by the Brockton Bay Brigade was really character defining. You could make a case for her keeping her powers, but I don't like her powers anyway and I don't think you can make a cool story just with powers, so...

 

I think Worm is a hell of a lot better going in blind. It lets you be sucked into Wildbow's somewhat stream of consciousness styled writing and allows the reader to become the character. Going in knowing what to expect kind of takes the edge off a lot of his writing tricks

 

I can honestly say that I wouldn't be reading Worm if I didn't have some inkling of its plot and characters. When I first tried to read Worm, I stopped after the first chapter. I couldn't understand Taylor. Her "weakness" repulsed me. I started again years later, but this time I pushed through the slough up until Leviathan. The story was decent, but nothing to keep me reading into the wee hours of the morning. Then I saw this thread, and I read a shit ton of fan fiction. Got a better picture of what Worm was all about.

I started reading again. Now, I love it.

I tried Pact too, but I couldn't tell if Blake was a guy or a girl.

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That's the point. I don't want to read about Amy Dallon. I want to read about Amelia
Lavere and all the little ripples that could come from that one change.

 

Worm, for me, suffers from the same thing that Death Note did. The protagonist, or in both cases less protagonists and more just the character the story focuses on, are so unlikable to me and so divorced from my perception of reality that I can not connect to them in any way what so ever, it makes it hard to get interested. Luckily Worm had a lot of interesting side characters, which made me dislike Taylor more when she inevitably shat all over them for one reason or another.

 

Talk about differences in opinion. Taylor's character and her slow, but sure descent into darkness and madness was the best part of Worm for me.

 

It probably wouldn't have been so bad if Taylor hadn't spent the majority, if not the entire story, seemingly having her strings pulled like a puppet from whichever Thinker happened to be around at the time.

 

I'd gladly sacrifice Taylor being manipulated now and then instead of having a Mary Sue protagonist in order to stand up to Contessa and Cauldron.