While I think the idea for this fanfic is awesome I wouldn't actually recommend anyone read it. All the characters talk with the same "voice". The MC talks and feels like a guy, and a Gary Stu at that, which makes it feel like the author just made an OC but shoved them in the MC's body so people would be interested. The MC is terrible with her powers to the point where it feels like the author was practically taunting us with what her powers could do, but then never really doing that. The difficulty/danger of encounters and the world is constantly and arbitrarily raised and lowered to facilitate the story the author wants to tell, making it very difficult to feel tension or fear about any conflict because you know that preconceived ideas about strength or danger won't affect the outcome, only the desired plot will. I could go on but I'll just finish with the story being marked complete, when its not actually finished, because of course there's more than 1 book. Not a terrible story, but there are better worm fanfics to spend your time on.

There's a lot to love here. The adaptation of classic Zerg into Worm compatible creatures that are powerful but not overly so (not to mention adorable). The transformation of the Undersiders into a valid hero group. Emily Piggot's character arc, something that is rarely done.

As always, you've done an excellent job.

Does Atika Shatterbird?

Oof forgot about shadow stalker fucking hell thats gonna be a mess ahd a half

I'm guessing the sequel is still not out?

i find it hard to believe that emma just pulled a 180 and immediately saw the error in her ways with absolutely zero resistance, if she's stubborn enough to believe that shes doing tge right thing when shes actually just torturing taylor, shes definitely too stubborn to just immediately changer her mind.
in my opinion, her therapy should last months at the least, with her slowly coming to terms with the fact that what she did only hurt taylor and most likely feeling immense guilt over what she did.
change by itself is incredibly difficult and slow going, especially when you think you're right. The human mind is very good at tricking itself and rationalising illogical behaviours. If it weren't the case racism and any other superficial discrimination wouldn't be a thing. If you want to believe something hard enough, your brain will make it the truth, and if this false truth is proven false, every other belief that relies on the "truth" will come crumbling down, and most likely cause a psychotic break or something (im not a doctor), and would probably require intense therapy to fix. another possibility is that they will just refuse to believe the truth and can not be helped.
i see this as similar to feeling an emotion even though you can see that it is illogical to feel that way, like a feeling of betrayal even though you logically know that said person did not betray you, but you cant simply stop the feeling.

Interesting…

ignoring that they're villains, why is she telling strangers about her powers?
i would expect, given her previous good intuition regarding the protectorate, that she would think better of giving villains her true identity, lt alone showing and explaining her powers to them. she literally turned down their offer to give her a ride away from lung because they were villains, among other reasons, and then the next day she just meets up with them and gives them all the info they need to take her down or blackmail her.
they now know who she is and can kidnap her father, unmask her, blackmail her, and assassinate her out of costume because she just decided on a whim that she could trust them, and theyre now probably going to report this back to coil, so now in my eyes she is absolutely f#cked.

i can not understand how she would come to the conclusion that it was a good idea.
this feels forced, unless my mental depictions of the characters are incredibly wrong, i can not see this taylor joining the undersiders. she says she wants to be a hero, knows how important pr is, then joins a villain gang, this is totally counterintuitive, and joining tge undersiders inevitably involves coil as a main antagonist which is a can of worms i dont want to be bothered with.

the decisions taylor has made in this chapter were forced by the author to forward the plot, rather than be a decision made by taylor that is congruent with her character, which is the easiest way to break the immersion and suspention of disbelief that stories such as this rely on. this really bothers me because i really want to like this story, and I am genuinely tweaking over it.

Imagine like this is a game she summons the bugs from herself or just attracts them from nearby and then can absorb them to get stat points then make more while using nothing to make them then absorb them basically making an unlimited stat system though it would probably take years or even decades to be as strong as someone like lung

thanks for the story, it makes for an interesting read :)
I'm a tad sad that I didn't catch that this is just book 1 and the story hasn't actually reached it's end, but oh well...
in any case: hope you are in a better headspace nowadays - all the best to you and yours!

Thank you very much for the excellent story, it was very well written, and highly entertaining with great emotional elements. I really hope that things are going well for you currently, that your health has fully recovered, and that any of the other mental wait you might carry have been alleviated, even if just a tad. Really appreciate all the work you put into the story, and I hope that your books have done very well.

This really was a great story, and I’m looking forward to the epilogue, I hope that one day there might be some continuation, maybe even a future crossover outside of this universe, if Taylor finds herself to be immortal.

That was certainly a confounding ending to the chapter lol not saying it’s bad or anything, just unexpected, I suppose

This chapter certainly ended on one hell of a cliffhanger

Damn, you seem to have gotten sick a lot during the course of the story, really hope your health has overall improved during the current time. Thanks for another really great chapter and I feel really bad for Taylor.