Fanfic Recommendations: The Next Generation

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Figure It Out Yourselves (SB threadmarks link) is a Worm AU where the Leviathan and Echina incident went very, very badly, to the point that four out of five capes and nine out of ten civilians present when it began were dead before the day ended, and the city was domed as a containment zone. This is not that story. This is the story of Vista, Shielder, and nrely drafted probatiobary Ward Skitter as they try to recover and integrate with the Queens South-East team, themselves hastily promoted from the Wards program early by the same act of Congress that drafted any villain in hand who was bnot already Birdcage-bound. It sticks to its limited scope and premise to deliver a tight, character focused arc and declare itself done in just a couple RL months (and not much longer IC) without adrressing the canon endgame mega-battles, though an epilogue was promised that has yet to appear. By its nature, it involves mostly OCs and implies more than it shows of the actual facepunchy crime fighting, but the OCs are reasonably unique and only obnoxious in the IC messing around with your friends way, not the make readers scream at the screen way. It also goes far, far softer on the asspull-melodrama than some other fics (I think) by the same author, pretty much just limited to the poremise of the divergence and the off-camera responses to losing something like two hundred capes in one day.

31k words in 15 chapters, with an epilogue still due as noted.