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[sigmaleph]

here's a fanfic idea that's been sorta kicking around my head for a bit: A Practical Guide to Capes

worm/PGtE crossover where superpowers work closer to Names. If you dress up in a costume and go around beating up criminals, then at some point you find out you are getting faster, and stronger, and your lucky escapes more improbable, and if you last long enough and live your Role enough some point you can shoot lasers or bench-press cars or teleport and so on

(and of course the same happens if you commit crimes rather than prevent them)

Cape identities work more like legacies. If the person who was Alexandria dies, well, the next person can wear her costume and maybe get her powers and might be nobody even notices someone else is Alexandria now.

I have no idea if 'crossover fanfiction' is the best way to work with this idea and really if i had any energy for writing i have other stuff i'd want to spend it on but it could be fun

Comments

[contrarianarchon]

That would be interesting and compelling but also I'm not sure if it'd work with worm specifically - worm's whole thing is that the powers are well-defined and this makes that much more fuzzy? It might make more sense to simply write an original work drawing on both stories for inspiration?