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The Precipice
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The Precipice is a series by C. M. Atanasio, located here on Amazon.It originally began as a side-story to Bird, a Worm fanfic under the author's pseudonyms Racheakt. The project eventually grew in scope until the author decided to graduate it to the status of full original work.The story draws on another fanfic by the same author of Semtex, which was going to explore a similar topic, begun and then abandoned in 2014. The idea was revived in 2019 and repurposed into what became The Precipice. | |
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Jumping Off the Slippery Slope | |
The Precipice / int_1520ad7e | comment |
Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Grace's actions start off morally ambiguous and include stealing property from her school, eventually escalating to premeditated murder of one of her professors. However, an element of this descent comes from circumstances outside her control, such as when Felix plagiarizes her midterm, without which she never would have gone down that path, or with Hartford, who is, in fact, so aloof and stern that Grace mistakes it for antagonism. | |
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Secret Room | |
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Secret Room: Grace makes her first lair in a crawlspace in her dorm. The door was sealed up during renovations, but she locates it after she discovers a draft in the restroom. | |
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Voluntary Shapeshifting | |
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Voluntary Shapeshifting: Stitchskin can assume multiple faces, and is forced to change shape if harmed, but as long as he can change shape, he suffers no injury. Instead, the skin of the person whose face he has stollen cracks and sheds all over him in tatters. | |
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Science-Related Memetic Disorder | |
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Science-Related Memetic Disorder: While milder than most examples, Grace does dip into this from time to time. | |
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Invincible Boogeymen | |
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Invincible Boogeymen: Stitchskin quickly becomes this in Grace's brief encounter with the shapeshifter. It doesn't help that she is a very green Super with a power not particularly well suited to direct confrontation and no weapons prepared that can hurt Stichskin through his shape-swapping ability. | |
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The Precipice / int_3e74b72e | type |
The Pollyanna | |
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The Pollyanna: Wellie Burke is a fount of endless optimism, and gregarious cheer during Grace's first year. | |
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The Insomniac | |
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The Insomniac: Grace becomes infamous for her foul temper, which is brought on partially by her perpetual state of sleep deprivation. | |
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Personality Powers | |
The Precipice / int_4bf3d8d7 | comment |
Personality Powers: Grace is a geeky workaholic who gains mental powers which allow her to learn and intuit at superhuman speeds, going from a freshman student to building a zero-point power generator in just a few weeks. | |
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Bookworm | |
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Bookworm: Grace is a consummate bookworm and devoted to her studies to an unhealthy degree, to the point it impacts her health and social life. | |
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Green Thumb | |
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Green Thumb: Autumn's power is to generate short-lived plant matter and talk to plants. | |
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Unspecified Apocalypse | |
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Unspecified Apocalypse: The nature and origin of superpowers is not clear, and the most likely source is a massive meteor storm that happened in the 1960s, resulting in a massive worldwide famine and millions dead. | |
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The Precipice / int_71d1ee83 | type |
Coat, Hat, Mask | |
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Coat, Hat, Mask: Part of what sets Grace apart from the other Supers we see is the practical components of her costume. Where Autumn, Timpani, and Galaxy Gold all wear some kind of tight-fitting, purpose-made costume for the job, Grace wears a coat and ventilator she modified herself. It subtly draws a commonality between her and Stitchskin, who dosen't really wear a costume either, foreshadowing her fall to villainy. | |
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Awesomeness by Analysis | |
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Awesomeness by Analysis: Grace's mental powers allow her to learn and intuit at superhuman speeds, going from a freshman student to building a zero-point power generator in just a few weeks. | |
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Stern Teacher | |
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Stern Teacher: Hartford in spades. He is, in fact, so aloof and stern that Grace mistakes it for antagonism and starts to hold a grudge. | |
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From Bad to Worse | |
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From Bad to Worse: Over the course of her efforts to avoid losing her scholarship, Grace attempts to create a zero-point energy generator and ultimately holds her school hostage. | |
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Emotional Powers | |
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Emotional Powers: It's subtle, but Grace's power mimics her insatiable thirst for understanding and irritability, responding to moments of violent musing with ways to harm. | |
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After-Action Healing Drama | |
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After-Action Healing Drama: Grace has some nasty lacerations after her encounter with Stitchskin, and is forced to patch herself up in her dorm bathroom. | |
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Villain Protagonist | |
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Villain Protagonist: Grace eventually goes down this road. | |
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Loony Friends Improve Your Personality | |
The Precipice / int_9525c766 | comment |
Loony Friends Improve Your Personality: The core of Wellie's friendship with Grace is Wellie's perpetual good humor and gregariousness, and Grace's appreciation of it. | |
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Character Tics | |
The Precipice / int_9ae8eea9 | comment |
Character Tics: Grace has a stress ball that often makes its appearance when she is stressed or frustrated. | |
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Traumatic Superpower Awakening | |
The Precipice / int_9d61fd2c | comment |
Traumatic Superpower Awakening: Autumn mentions she got sick before she experienced Catabasis — the awakening of her powers. Grace was also sick for a prolonged period (not that it slowed her down). However, Grace also mentions that a moment of extreme stress is theorized to catalyze the event. Being sick is a symptom proceeding Catabasis, but some kind of stressor or trauma is what gives you powers. | |
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My God, What Have I Done? | |
The Precipice / int_a1b141f4 | comment |
My God, What Have I Done?: It is gradual, but Grace steadily breaks down following Autumn's death. The breakdown only accelerates after she murders Hartford. | |
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Cloudcuckoolander's Minder | |
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Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Wellie fills something like this role towards Grace, reminding her to eat and just generally looking out for her. | |
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Used to Be a Sweet Kid | |
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Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Grace starts off kind of gawky and awkward, and eventually ends up killing two people. | |
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Supernatural Sensitivity | |
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Supernatural Sensitivity: One of Grace's abilities is to sense and analyze other superpowers. | |
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Cataclysm Backstory | |
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Cataclysm Backstory: Fifty years before the story proper, a hail of meteors created a number of large craters; it is speculated that this was the source of superpowers, and it is mentioned that millions died, but in the decades since, the world has settled into a kind of normalcy. | |
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Energy Absorption | |
The Precipice / int_cf5335c | comment |
Energy Absorption: Timpani's power fills a reservoir of energy whenever she exerts herself, which she can then release in a form she chooses, including Flight and Hand Blast beams. | |
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Gas Mask, Longcoat | |
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Gas Mask, Longcoat: Grace's costume is a ventilator mask and long coat, both modified using her power — the mask has a whole suit of special abilities tied to it when she's done. | |
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The Cape | |
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The Cape: Galaxy Gold is a reference to several superheroes all wrapped into one, including Booster Gold and Superman. He is so stereotypically an ideal superhero that it's lampshaded in the story itself. | |
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The Reliable One | |
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The Reliable One: Wellie is empathic and sensible, if a little more energetic that most examples of this trope. | |
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Exhausted Eye Bags | |
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Exhausted Eye Bags: Grace is constantly sleep-deprived, to the point that several characters ask her is she's feeling well all the time, and she contemplates avoiding the conversations with makeup. She clearly understands. | |
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Gadgeteer Genius | |
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Gadgeteer Genius: Grace immediately fixates on the applications of her power in learning about and developing technology. | |
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Accidental Murder | |
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Accidental Murder: Grace kills Autumn by accident after she surprises her in the Biamonte Building during her rampage. | |
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Dark and Troubled Past | |
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Dark and Troubled Past: The concept is played with and deconstructed. Grace comes from a loving home, has a great relationship with her parents, and clearly has a bright future ahead of her. However, it is all but outright stated that the expectations placed on her by her many opportunities have left her emotionally and mentally vulnerable, and the pressure eventually produces cracks. The emotional fallout of her One Bad Day leaves two dead and her life in tatters. | |
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Cataclysm Backstory / int_ebb54f00 | |
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Coat, Hat, Mask / int_ebb54f00 | |
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Invincible Boogeymen / int_ebb54f00 | |
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Jumping Off the Slippery Slope / int_ebb54f00 | |
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Personality Powers / int_ebb54f00 | |
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Science-Related Memetic Disorder / int_ebb54f00 | |
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Secret Room / int_ebb54f00 | |
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Traumatic Superpower Awakening / int_ebb54f00 | |
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Unspecified Apocalypse / int_ebb54f00 | |
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Used to Be a Sweet Kid / int_ebb54f00 |
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