Quote Originally Posted by Rynjin View Post
Ward is one of the worst stories I've ever read and it's not due to any supposed retcons, it's just that the story always seemed like an act of deliberate spite. Wildbow is on record as not want to write a Worm sequel but people kept pestering him about it so he wrote a story deliberately designed to be as unpleasant and nihilistic as possible, with an ending that definitively locks off any potential future sequels. The poor writing shines even brighter in completely garbage characters like March who break standard conventions to have some of the most blatant plot armor seen in the series.
I never did get all the way through Ward. The grim dark eventually just wore me down.

For a fic that involves creative use of superpowers, I’d recommend Super Supportive, which has a heavy element of the process of finding creative applications for powers; however, it’s fairly low on fights so far, or at least, low on serious ones.