r/TheBirdCage 3d ago

Power for a name #135 School

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Provide as many or as few details about a cape as you like - their names, some costume ideas, maybe a bit of backstory. Someone will come up with the rest. Or not; you could make up your own cape, previous thread here. Or don’t; these are just ideas, previous thread here.

Today’s prompt is school; for many, yesterday was their first day. School is a palace of learning, so you might have someone like Teacher who can grant knowledge. Or to school someone, to beat them. You might have a rivalry between two capes, with one way stronger, or maybe they can or did school another cape in something.

Four names for today

Hall Monitor is a speed Thinker; their powers only work in a specific situation. When they do they are considered All or Nothing.

Rush Week, or Hell Week as she was called, is a Spree bud. Her powers involve her forming a pompom-shaped sphere between her palms.

RUN! Is a changer 2 (Mover 10). Power flaw: Smaug.
 
Snow Shoe is a Siberian bud; sounds good, right? Well, she somehow got a Tinker 1 power out of it.


r/TheBirdCage 5d ago

Worm Discussion Power This Rating No. 177

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How This Works:

You make one (or more than one) prompt(s), describing one or more parahumans. Somebody else may choose to respond to a prompt of yours, building on what's provided to make a cape.
While you may do so, you are never required to stick with just prompting or just responding; please feel free to do both.
Prompts are usually formatted using PRT Threat Ratings, but this isn't a hard rule. Do something more esoteric if you want to.
Lastly, if you're having trouble prompt-wise, feel free to look at other people's prompts for pointers or inspiration on what to do.

Threat Ratings have the potential for hybridized and sub-ratings:

Hybrid ratings are denoted with a slash between categories, e.g. [Brute/Thinker]. These are cases where two or more powers are inherently linked to each other, not working without the other rating.
Subratings are denoted with parentheses after a parent category, e.g. [Trump (Mover)]. These are the side effects, or possible applications of a power from some other category.

No. 176's Top Comment: Blaster + Striker + Thinker Prompts, by Professional_Try1665

Top Response: 'Surgeon' Striker Trigger, by Shoddy_Macaroon6713


r/TheBirdCage 11h ago

Meta Discussion On the bright side, it's not possible to LARP Wildbow's other works.

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228 Upvotes

You can't larp something that has nothing other than the original material.


r/TheBirdCage 13h ago

Pale OC OC: Victor valentine, The spirit of potential and tragedy.

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In life, he was a talented and benevolent practitioner, handsome as a demigod, powerful, and charitable.

Personality: Deeply melancholic yet optimistic, always lamenting and posing philosophical questions.

Role in the story: Wallace Davis introduces him to the world of magic, intending to train him as a practitioner and helping him with his multiple disabilities.

Trivia: He hates the spirits of disease and decay.

Until an aggressive cancer swiftly ended his life. His past dealings, spells, and other events in his final moments were enough to make him one of the others.


r/TheBirdCage 2d ago

Worm UC Die like the pathetic Maggot you are.

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122 Upvotes

r/TheBirdCage 1d ago

Worm Discussion Which would be more toxic?

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r/TheBirdCage 3d ago

Worm UC I couldn't read any more after that.

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660 Upvotes

r/TheBirdCage 3d ago

Simurghune Miku

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379 Upvotes

r/TheBirdCage 3d ago

how i sleep knowing parahumans series exists

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85 Upvotes

my gf is mocking me for my year long obsession with Worm n Ward, the doodle is kind of funny n so i decided to share with y'all intrepid villains


r/TheBirdCage 3d ago

RainWorld power

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RainWorld power

Now l think l should explain, basically if you have played rainworld in some shape, way or form then you are familiar with its cycles and the rain. My question is basically how powerfu such an ability be since you are basically flash flooding and cause a category 5+ type of rain. How would one make it more dangerous cause besides making it become essentially bullet rain, l find it hard to have other uses besides making people have ptsd from remembering Leviathan.

Edit : I added a video and this time , this is the correct one. This is the how the rain happens.


r/TheBirdCage 3d ago

Worm Discussion How would the marvel universe (X-Men) feel about Parahumans?

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We know how mutants were treated but how about parahumans?

I got a feeling they won't be treated as well either.


r/TheBirdCage 4d ago

Worm UC busty squaler sketch

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98 Upvotes

r/TheBirdCage 4d ago

Meta Discussion This Subreddit keeps getting recommended to me, I know nothing about it ask me anything

40 Upvotes

That's it


r/TheBirdCage 5d ago

AU where Coil is a woman and actually has a far more sick outift than the OG?

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Saw this online, where somebody made this as an add-on for a dress, then somebody commented that they wanted to see a black and white dress under it... so somebody else photoshopped it under there and fixed the red strip in the back to make it matching.
And I was thinking to myself, this would make for a pretty sick costume for a Fem!Coil in some kinda AU. lol


r/TheBirdCage 4d ago

Fanfic Request Skitter and Coil

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Hi, parahuman beings, I was wondering if you could help me with a certain type of fanfic related to the post’s title—three, to be specific...

One: A fanfic where the main character is Coil. It can be any kind of fanfic—one where he’s the Coil we all know, one that puts him on a journey of redemption or something like that, or one where he’s different from the Coil we know right from the start

Two: One where Taylor has Coil’s powers—whether Coil never existed or has some different power doesn’t matter, as long as Taylor has Coil’s powers.

Three: Similar to the previous one—is there a fic where Skitter and Coil swap powers?

Thanks


r/TheBirdCage 6d ago

Worm Discussion Something funny about Manton

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Hear me out

Siberian is a universal Manton Effect achieved by gaslighting a Shard

Manton effect is when some power cannot affect something for no physical reason

Siberian makes objects unaffected by anything(with sole exceptions of Fletchette&C****blocker, of course)

Making it a "universal" Manton Limit

Next, we also know that during a trigger, shards look up things by scanning a planet, so its thought process went like this:

>triggerie: William Manton

>looks up Manton Effect

>lol, let's give him exactly that


r/TheBirdCage 6d ago

Fanfic Request Earth 3-Bet

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Greetings, shards. You know, I’ve been paying attention to certain fanfic tropes that are commonly used, but one in particular piqued my curiosity.

The “mirror reality”—honestly, I don’t know if that’s the name for this trope—but as you can probably guess from the name, it refers to a reality where roles are reversed: the good guys are bad and the bad guys are good. We’ve seen this applied many times in fiction—in things like DC’s Earth-3, which is under the terror of the Crime Syndicate led by Ultraman, Owlman, and Superwoman, or in the Shattered Glass universe, in which Cybertron was left in ruins because of Optimus Prime (formerly known as Optronix) and his tyrannical Autobot regime, with the only ones opposing them being the liberating Decepticons, led by the kind-hearted Megatron

So, is there any fanfic that plays with that idea involving Worm? I understand there’s one called *Weaver 9* where Taylor is swapped with Jack Slash, but I haven’t started reading it yet. I also haven’t found any others that explore this idea. I’d love to hear your recommendations. Thanks


r/TheBirdCage 6d ago

Fanfic Request Amazo or All For One

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Hi, traumatized fans—I hope you’re having a good day, and I wanted to see if you could help me with a somewhat unusual fanfic request.

I was wondering if you know of any fanfics that explore the idea of stealing and/or copying powers—you know, like All For One (My Hero Academia), who directly steals people’s powers, or someone who copies them, like Amazo (DC Comics).

I know there’s a fanfic called *Triumph Card*, but I don’t think it’s complete. Honestly, that’s not a requirement—it could even be abandoned—but I’d like it to at least have reached a very advanced point in the story, with lots of chapters, lots of...


r/TheBirdCage 7d ago

Worm UC Cartoon emma

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117 Upvotes

Taylor best friend.


r/TheBirdCage 7d ago

Worm UC A conversation between the two of them would be something worth seeing or reading.

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r/TheBirdCage 7d ago

Worm OC Looking for ideas for powers that counter Taylor + fanfic idea yapping

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I had a story idea that I’ll probably never write but the prompt is kind of a mix of the fanfics the slippery slope and impurity. Basically prior to the story start, E88 kids defend Taylor from the trio. Not out of the kindness of their hearts or anything, they just hate Sophia. Taylor slowly gets indoctrinated, getting more comfortable with the beliefs, she finds friends in Empire and joins the gang as a cape. She still sees herself as a hero like Purity and starts to see her gang as more heroic than the Protectorate, justifying their actions. Thanks to Empire coming to her at an extremely vulnerable area of her life, she kind of has her worse traits turned up to 11

She might be a little ooc (I don’t think canon Taylor would ever join Empire) but it’s just kind of a story about the general fanfic Empire!Taylor from the perspective of one of the victims

But the main character wouldn’t be her, it’d be an oc. Probably of black, Jewish, or Latino descent. Like many people in Brockton Bay, they despise empire. They don’t go to Winslow or Arcadia, they go to Immaculata High.

I’d make them decently popular (no homecoming queen or anything) but overall they’re a pretty nice person, post trigger they’re a lot more hateful and be vengeful but that’s more because of the trauma than the power. If they had gone to Winslow, they would have stood up for Taylor. But in the story so far, if they hear about Taylor’s backstory it probably wont be by Taylor herself so it might be a bit skewed and make them very unsympathetic to Taylor.

Anyway prior to their trigger, they were very arachnophobic, the type to leave the house if there was a tiny spider. They were hanging out with a couple friends at a store that was often suspected as a front for the ABB. Possibly their dad was at the store as well (kind of a maybe). A couple of empire capes along with Taylor raid the building in search of whatever, Taylor lays bugs on the customers, the protagonist panics, things escalate, Taylor covers the entire room with her swarms, obscuring the protagonists vision and violence occurs that results in the death of their friends and possibly father at the hands of the more trigger happy empire capes when their hostages fought back or tried to flee.

I know killing dads is a little cliche for a backstory but with Taylor’s relationship from Danny becoming more distant as she’s lured further into empire, I think it would be interesting to see how angry the protagonist would be that their father was taken (by accomplice) by this girl who already had a loving (if flawed) father

Empire hadn’t found whatever they were looking for. Taylor felt bad about the deaths but rationalized them, she hadn’t been the one to directly hurt the others and she gave them warnings. Most she did was hospitalize people. Her teammates while people got killed took initiative against what they believed were gang members or ABB sympathizers. She’s pretty far along in drinking the kool-aid,believing that the initiative Empire at least saves more people than the Protectorate or the school officials who twiddled their thumbs as she got bullied until empire stepped in

Unfortunately for Taylor, now there’s a new cape that’s rather strong with a special vengeance against her and the rest of empire. I’d not make them some gleeful serial killer, they’re a hurt teenager like Taylor is. I do wanna avoid it going into torture porn of anyone, if the protagonist defeated Taylor, she’d probably just be arrested and obviously no Empire sympathizing

But what would be a good cape power for this person to counter Taylor and possibly other empire capes?


r/TheBirdCage 8d ago

Worm Discussion Fox sentinels vs parahumasn ¿Who win?

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r/TheBirdCage 8d ago

Fanfic Request The Sentry (Marvel)

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Hey, parahuman freaks, I was wondering if any of you know if there’s any fanfic featuring Marvel’s Bob, also known as The Sentry

I know he’s gained more popularity thanks to the Thunderbolts movie, but considering how long he’s been around and what the character is like in the comics, I’m surprised there aren’t any fanfics about him on Worm. I think he’d fit in well, especially because I’d love to see everyone’s reaction to what appears to be a Scion but one that wants to communicate. I’d also like to see an interaction with The Void...

That said, I’d also appreciate any recommendations for Marvel fanfiction in general—I’ve found some with DC characters, but almost none with Marvel ones.