So, this one is really outside the range of what I'd usually even open a tab for, let alone stick with and then reccomend, but bear with me.
Riley, Alone opens on the S9 getting into a traffic accident on their way to Brocton Bay. Murder ARRGH gets squished before being fully named and a prompt hero response ties up most of the other members while Bonesaw is preoccupied fixing Uncle Jack after finding that he'd broken his fall with a nearby stop sign ... through the skull. It's fine, he's Jack, he's always fine, nothing and no one can really hurt him, of course he'll be fine! There's a little damage to his corona gemma and how it connects to the rest of his brain, but she fixes it right up, so he's fine!
The first arc of the story is Bonesaw slowly realizing that he is not, in fact, fine, and not invincible either, as the group falls apart and Jack gets more erratic, until, well, title drop isn't a spoiler but the how of it would be. The body horror tapers off as MC tries to reconsider what it means to be "good" and "bad" and how people know which is which, with predictably mixed results, but the spiral trends upwards and verges into the general region of sanity by the finale. It is another story that maintains a smaller scope without addressing the other setting antagonists, but it's open ended enough to accommodate a canon-ish resolution, and probably something better.
94k words in 26 threadmarks
Warning for gore and body horror due to Jack-ness / Bonesaw-ness
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It's the same author as Desperate Times Call For Desperate Pleasures and What If Catgirl Taylor Got Stuck In A Tree? if you remember those.
Riley, Alone opens on the S9 getting into a traffic accident on their way to Brocton Bay. Murder ARRGH gets squished before being fully named and a prompt hero response ties up most of the other members while Bonesaw is preoccupied fixing Uncle Jack after finding that he'd broken his fall with a nearby stop sign ... through the skull. It's fine, he's Jack, he's always fine, nothing and no one can really hurt him, of course he'll be fine! There's a little damage to his corona gemma and how it connects to the rest of his brain, but she fixes it right up, so he's fine!
The first arc of the story is Bonesaw slowly realizing that he is not, in fact, fine, and not invincible either, as the group falls apart and Jack gets more erratic, until, well, title drop isn't a spoiler but the how of it would be. The body horror tapers off as MC tries to reconsider what it means to be "good" and "bad" and how people know which is which, with predictably mixed results, but the spiral trends upwards and verges into the general region of sanity by the finale. It is another story that maintains a smaller scope without addressing the other setting antagonists, but it's open ended enough to accommodate a canon-ish resolution, and probably something better.
94k words in 26 threadmarks
Warning for gore and body horror due to Jack-ness / Bonesaw-ness
SB threadmarks
It's the same author as Desperate Times Call For Desperate Pleasures and What If Catgirl Taylor Got Stuck In A Tree? if you remember those.
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