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I'm committing to finishing up my first read of Wildbow's Worm, and I am up to the point where Taylor becomes Weaver.
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Okay, I think I hit my limit of disbelief on "actually, insect control is OP" writing. You have one of the most overall indestructible Capes, who is also a tactical genius w/photographic memory on top of it, and she's somehow not able to defend against "insects jammed into your mouth" attack.
A tactic that Taylor has used ample times anyway.
I accept the premise that getting foreign matter lodged in her lungs (or drowning) would be a killing stroke, I accept that Alexandria was trying to goad this precise reaction from her... but its both hard to believe that Alexandria wouldn't think of "close your mouth and nose" as a defense, or that standard-issue bugs would actually be able to force themselves down her airway.
I was barely hanging on as Taylor is using bugs to dial telephones and manipulate the wiring in the walls to get doors opened, but "I stuffed her lungs full of roaches and spiders" was seemingly a different level entirely.
It works for the plot, and I'll keep reading, but that was the first time I groaned at Taylor being able to punch far above her nominal weight class through creative insect usage. It didn't even have the 'rule of cool' justification like when she's in a drawn out fight.
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Still beats most mainstream stories that are out these days.
Everything I read about this webnovel reminds me so much of Phenomena, I do wonder if the writer ever saw this movie? Jennifer Connolly in a Dario Argento movie, it's going to be stylised and have all kinds of twists and "going back to the first thing you thought you saw, you missed this clue" scenes!
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