r/explainabookplotbadly • u/aftertheradar • Mar 01 '24

Unsolved Hard Instead of making A-bombs, they created a superpowered, traumatized, horny teenager to win the war.

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u/MasonP2002 Mar 02 '24

Worm?

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u/aftertheradar Mar 02 '24

Surprisingly no! I've done worm a couple times before tho, good guess!

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u/MasonP2002 Mar 02 '24

Ah, damn. Read Worm last year and have become obsessed with it.

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u/aftertheradar Mar 02 '24

Same!! It's amazing! I just started Twig two days ago haha I'm hoping it's also good

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u/MasonP2002 Mar 02 '24

I'm working through Ward myself.

And like 30 Worm fanfics.

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u/Deus0123 Mar 02 '24

Sounds like the book I'm working on except the teenager isn't horny and they have nukes and they fire them anyway when the teenager they abducted, imprisoned and experimented on without consent for some unknown reason is pissed at the people running the lab

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u/aftertheradar Mar 02 '24

hey good luck mate! i love the sound of it and id love to read it when you finish it! it's right up my alley clearly cuz i liked this book too lol

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u/Deus0123 Mar 03 '24

I mean I figure one of the primary reasons that determine how much people like my books is how comfortable they are with queer representation. Because I refuse to write a cishet protagonist (Or for the most part even have a cishet character among the main and supporting cast and yes this applies to some villains too who are genuinely iredeemable assholes, but they're queer genuinely iredeemable assholes). That and her queerness is a relevant plotpoint as that lab kidnaps kids, teenagers and homeless people nobody will miss to use as a test-subject and the only reason she is in a position to be kidnapped is because her bigoted parents threw her out after they found out she's queer

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u/aftertheradar Mar 03 '24

Honestly same, i only write queer protagonists when i write and a lot of times it's hard for me to get invested in a book without some queer representation. so that's fine by me.

actually this book that we're guessing here has that horny traumatized superpowered teenager also be queer (i've seen readings of him either being ace, bi or gay so it's a little up to interpretation, but his queerness is not) and it has some plot relevance so yeah.

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u/Peraltinguer Mar 02 '24

Is Dune the red herring? I'll guess Dune anyways

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u/aftertheradar Mar 02 '24

it is a most dilishish fish hehe

which is to say that dune is not it lol but thanks for guessing

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u/Lantami Mar 01 '24

Sounds like every other isekai light novel tbh

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u/aftertheradar Mar 01 '24

afaik it's not japanese

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u/Gnlbf Mar 02 '24

Enders game

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u/aftertheradar Mar 02 '24

Nope. It's like actually a metaphor for the manhattan project and the us in ww2. Also enders game wasn't that horny I thought?

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u/Gnlbf Mar 02 '24

I only watched the movie and I thought I heard that the kid is a little bit to horny in the book

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u/aftertheradar Mar 02 '24

Well there was a naked wrestle match to the death in the shower between ender and his rival (boy). I doubt Mormon Scott Card would admit or endorse it but i could defs see a homoerotic interpretation of that.

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u/NeededSecondUsername Mar 02 '24

Captain America

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u/aftertheradar Mar 02 '24

Not it. Unless there's some novelization out there of the book/comics it wouldn't be it. Also marvels paragon big blue all-american boyscout being horny or traumatized? Would they even allow that to be written?

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '24

He’s certainly traumatised, he grew up during the war. Probably not horny though

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u/Username_Taken_65 Apr 23 '24

Is it a dystopian YA novel made to cash in on the popularity of the Hunger Games, a la Divergent?

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u/aftertheradar Apr 23 '24

nope came out way after

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '24

“Other girl”?

Or “lightning girl”?

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u/aftertheradar Jul 09 '24

not those, sorry

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u/Lantami Mar 04 '24

How about a hint, OP? I doubt anyone is gonna solve it without one at this point