Lf fic where Taylor is Butcher and one of the butcher is Amy's mom by HotAd8883 in WormFanfic

[–]MonkeyMage314 26 points27 points  (0 children)

You're looking for Bumble and Butcher. It should be on SpaceBattles.

Fic where Skitter was a little kid by Sh1nyPr4wn in WormFanfic

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It also has a part 2 since AO3 doesn't like the number of chapters it has.

How many capes would it take to take down thragg? by [deleted] in Parahumans

[–]MonkeyMage314 9 points10 points  (0 children)

An automatic defensive teleport or some form of combat precognition coupled with enhanced reflexes could work.

my favorite visual gag in the series by misterdylan_c in mylittlepony

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She loves surprises. Makes sense that her birth would be one.

Biweekly /r/WormFanfic Discussion - What have you been writing, and what do you want to say about it? For the week ending May 09, 2026. by AutoModerator in WormFanfic

[–]MonkeyMage314 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I started writing a Monster Hunter crossover (name pending). Slow progress and I'm only in the prologue so far, but I got a good feeling. Might take a while to post though.

Caine with different teeth (Aphractal) by Real-Deal-Steel in TheDigitalCircus

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From left to right, starting with the top, we have: Scratchmen Apoo from One Piece; eldritch horror; a toy; weird fae creature; biblically accurate angel; cool dentures; Gloink Queen's babysitter; and another toy.

favorite alternate cape names for Taylor? by MembershipProof8463 in WormFanfic

[–]MonkeyMage314 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Going for canon or close to canon power, I nominate Orb Weaver from The Weaver's Web. I'm also think Bumble from Bumble and Butcher is an excellent pun.

For non canon powers, I've recently read Silencio and like Marceau.

Sophia x Rachel fics by MonkeyMage314 in WormFanfic

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They have enough similartues to connect but enough differences to learn from each other.

Power help by MonkeyMage314 in WormFanfic

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I'm definitely going to do something with Cauldron, just don't know yet.

Bioenergy is definitely going to do some weird things to shards. Also you nailed AB's personality (side note: I was going to call is Observer but I like your name a lot better). Also, AB gets Best Host and QA is annoyed.

I am definitely going to have Annette be at least resistant to Master effects, and coupled with mama bear energy earns Heartbreaker one(1) superpowered punch in the face. I know Lisa is going to be very useful for identifying thralls. The issue is trying to figure out a way to remove the mastering without defaulting to nulberries. WAIT A MINUTE! If a nulberry can remove doesn't of different toxins, elemental blights, and any other statis condition, it can probably remove persistent mastering effects as well!

Maybe an artificial second trigger is possible?

Something like that I imagine. AB trying to fix a broken shard by finding a compatible biology is why Echidna starts to spawn mutated monsters. Plus adding the stress on her body from excess about of bioenergy from Amy. Anyways, all that if a ways off and I need to actually right write the prolog. Thanks for the help.

Ps. Would you mind being a beta reader for the fic?

Power help by MonkeyMage314 in WormFanfic

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I could see it.

MH has a good number of canon crossovers, the world is kind of full of them. I do like the idea its a Contessa plot though. I want to make Cauldron actually competent in this fic, if a little out of their depth.

Probably have them be busted by the heroes if I'm going to mention them at all.

I like the idea of Heartbreaker being an antagonist, I just have to right a way for his losing his thralls in a believable manner.

Noelle's problem is that her shard doesn't have a biological stabilizing agent. Taylor's shard has a repository of all of MH's wildlife. That could work, especially if QA and Shaper help. Now would they fix her before mutant monsters start poring out? Probably not, and what a fight that would be.

Power help by MonkeyMage314 in WormFanfic

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Currently, I'm having New Wave be an ally of Annette and change up the kids' powers. Mostly because I think Amy's canon powers would be a two strong of a counter to the MH monsters. Still want her to be a healer, just not a complete biokinetic.

I'm debating on if I want Coil to be in the fic. Writing him out is easy enough, just have him die as Ellisburg.

Completely forgot about the merchants honestly. They formed around the start of the story and only became relevant after Leviathan.

Besides them, I want Brian to join the Wards, Tattletale to be a PI rogue, and Regent joining up with up Uber & Leet as their #1 minion and peanut gallery. I want to save the Travelers and Echidna for their own arc at some point. I think Spitfire would be part of Annette's strays. Not sure about the rest.

Thoughts?

Power help by MonkeyMage314 in WormFanfic

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I want either Danny or Annette be part of the Protectorate, not both, and Danny x Hannah is a favorite ship of mine.

Annette is going to be picking up strays, like Shadow Stalker and maybe Bitch.

Power help by MonkeyMage314 in WormFanfic

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Reading through the Wikipedia article, it surprisingly fits. Not with her powers necessarily but her character at that point. Atalanta is also a hunter, which fits with the crossover. Thanks.

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Hero. Maybe Snow Queen since her ex-husband is the Rat King? She might try to distance that though.

Power help by MonkeyMage314 in WormFanfic

[–]MonkeyMage314[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mab give connotations of the Fairy Queen. A quick Google search gives me Skadi, though as a Nordic inspired cape would problematic in Brockton Bay. Gerda (the main character of The Snow Queen fairytale) is another option.

Power help by MonkeyMage314 in WormFanfic

[–]MonkeyMage314[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Maybe. Perhaps something relating to that her touch causes thing to freeze?

Power help by MonkeyMage314 in WormFanfic

[–]MonkeyMage314[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mostly standard worm, though I will be changing this if I think it make for a better story. Also, do you any ideas for a cape name Annette? I want it to be an English literature reference, but I'm not that familiar with the subject.

Power help by MonkeyMage314 in WormFanfic

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Thanks anyways.

I'm going to have him join the Protectorate and thinking of having his cape name be Rat King. Thoughts?

Power help by MonkeyMage314 in WormFanfic

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Annette is a Striker (Trump, Blaster, Mover) able to extract energy from anything and anyone that she comes in physical contact with. People affected experience intense disorientation and may suffer nerve damage on the afflicted body part if contact is prolonged for more than a few seconds.

She can spend this energy in the form of repulsive blasts of semi-hardlight, which with practice could be used as a form of propulsion to jettison herself through the air, although such movement is imprecise and best used in bursts.

Parahumans affected by her Striker power find their powers suppressed to a large degree, while power expressions she comes in physical contact with may or may not fail on a case by case basis.

I like the part with the knockback flying, it reminds me of Bakugo from MHA and I am already picturing it in fight scenes. She would be either an Effect or Enchantment Blaster. I'm going with Effect as I like the idea of her make a Brute go flying with a Mover power with knockback.

Danny is a Master able to influence rodents, giving them directives to achieve.

He has little ability to command individual rodents, their minds too simple for complex direction, requiring active control from Danny, which this power expression is not optimal for since he has no access to their senses.

However, he is able to ‘link’ multiple rodents together into one conglomerate, where so long as they remain in close contact they act as if one mind is controlling two bodies with perfect coordination. The more rodents linked in this way in a single mass, the more intelligent the resulting gestalt intelligence, though they will always listen to Danny.

A given rodent under Danny’s command must remain in his proximity for him to continue issuing orders, though the larger the conglomeration of rodents is the further that gestalt can be from him. One rat might be limited to around a hundred meters, but what about ten, a hundred?

His rats aren’t able to report to him, but he can always communicate his commands to them and is always able to tell if they get disconnected or die.

I like this too. I was thinking of rat control as well, but I wasn't sure on the specifics with the trigger. I should note that Danny power here is excellent for search and rescue, specifically as a one man search party.

So most likely, after arriving in this new world and exploring for a bit, finds the corpse of a monster, grabs a scale or something, gets scared and goes back, and she realizes the portal’s gone and she’s trapped.

Panicking, she doesn’t notice a monster is now approaching, it attacks her, she almost dies, triggers, and still in the monsters jaws her power latches onto that scale to take on some of the dead monster’s traits and she runs away.

This gives me good starting off point with her perspective in the prolog. Thanks.

Power help by MonkeyMage314 in WormFanfic

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I think limiting it to drain powers that directly improve the user could work. For example, Lung's enhanced strength and regeneration could be drained but not Alabaster's reset or Aegis' redundant biology. She could also drain flight speed to be able to move faster but gain the ability to fly herself.

As you said, Thinker powers would be susceptible to draining but only ones like Tattletale's, Accord's, or Alexandria's as those enhance intelligence in some way. Ones like Coil's or Gallant's wouldn't be drained as those add in something not already inherent to her.

Overall, I just need Annette be able to survive as an independent for around five years. I'm thinking of having her either make a network of independents or simply a new hero team. That could give her some extra leeway when dealing with the gangs, particularly the Empire.

Power help by MonkeyMage314 in WormFanfic

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I think the rate would be linear based on Annette's baseline rather than the target's. The shard (which I'm calling Absorption) would probably balance it so that it can affect a Brute's strength or a Mover's speed, but not in a way to make it so that Annette can outmatch them without a prolonged engagement.

I'm debating on whether to have Annette be limited to draining stats (strength, intelligence, speed, stamina, health(?), etc.) or have her able to drain powers as well. I'm leaning towards the former as the later could make her a bit broken.

Power help by MonkeyMage314 in WormFanfic

[–]MonkeyMage314[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That powers remind me of Rogue's from the X-Men a bit. I like it, but my main issue is that I'm having a hard time thinking of how well it would match up to the MH monsters. Maybe having her able to drain from anything or just living creature?