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Just read through Worm in about four days. Have a lot of revisions here, so let's get this all out of the way.
Scion
Continent level Scion is fine. He destroys two continents in quick succession, blows up the United Kingdom in one shot, easily destroys the East Coast, etcetera. I dunno where Planet level comes from, though; I'd say base Scion is just 6-A.
Scion's Striking Strength should be Continent Class; he tore Behemoth in half, and I'll get to the Endbringers later. His speed is fine.
Durability wise, though... Scion is a mess. He's injured by Legend, Alexandria, Eidolon, and Glaistig Uaine (to varying but not severe extents), and then tanks String Theory's G-Driver, which is stronger than the F-Driver, which she states could knock the Moon out of orbit. I think this is a pretty distinct possibility, she's a good Tinker.
So, Scion should have Unknown durability given these inconsistencies (he's hurt by others, too, just not much), with it being noted that, thanks to his adaptation and Regenerationn, it's hard to cause any lasting harm. I don't know what his Regenerationn should be, though; it shouldn't be Low-Godly, since he regenerates by replacing his mass with mass from his true body.
He also needs some resistances; resistance to Precognition (Contessa and Dinah can't really see his actions clearly, partly due to his own Path of Victory) and Time Manipulation (He casually breaks out of Gray Boy's time loop), and probably others. He also oneshot Siberian, for what it's worth.
True Scion is fine at High 4-C. No complaints.
Endbringers
Leviathan should be At least Large Building level, likely far higher. Alexandria may put up a fight against him but, as stated, the Endbringers are holding back and he almost always wins the fights anyways. Behemoth is fine at Small City level, and their speed is also fine.
The issue here is their durability, and the ******* WoG statements. We've been getting pretty strict about WoG statements, so I don't think it's reasonable to accept a statement from a WhoWouldWin thread with the Endbringers fighting the Justice League. Wildbow is in the versus debating community and often participates in versus debates with his characters; I don't think his word in these threads is very reasonable, since it involves things like Behemoth being able to control all of the energy in the sun. Nothing like that is supported in the work. It shouldn't be on his page.
Their durability has a similar issue, with that being Multi-Solar System level durability because reaching their core is like digging through a galaxy. To put it bluntly, no. Scion carves through them with Continental attacks and kills them; he meets resistance, but he kills them. And Wildbow has stated that String Theory's tech is a huge threat to them and that an attack strong enough to wipe out a planetary surface would kill an Endbringer. So the durability of their inner layers should be Continental; this is also supported by Behemoth surviving Phir Se's blast, which he implied could destroy all of India. Multi-Solar System level is an outlier and also comes from the same WhoWouldWin thread. You see the issue here?
Wall levels
A lot of characters are affected by this, so I'll keep this broad.
During the Slaughterhouse Nine Thousand arc, one of the Mannequins takes a shot from one of Kid Win's guns, which just glances off of his outer shell. The same gun disintegrated a vending machine. I think it's safe to lowball this as Small Building level, which applies to basically everyone who isn't an Endbringer, comparable, or above, or not a front line fighter, given that Bastard ragdolls the original Mannequin and another one gets crushed in another dog's jaws.
Out of our pages, this applies to Armsmaster, Butcher XIV, and probably Victoria. It applies to a whole lot of others too, but they don't have pages yet.
Street levels
Taylor should probably not be Athlete level and Contessa should definitely not be. Her AP description is pretty clearly a Street level AP description at the least, and she should stay at Street level and Peak Human thanks to her abilities.
WoG in general
Wildbow's WoG is often unreasonable and unreliable, with statements such as carving through an Endbringer being like digging through a spiral galaxy, Behemoth being able to manipulate all the energy of the sun, and so on, all pulled out of his ass in versus threads so that his characters win, essentially.
Not all of his WoG is bullshit, but a lot of it is unsubstantiated; so much of it just elaborates or specifies stuff, which is kinda necessary given the complicated mechanics of the verse and how many characters there are with unusual abilities.
We just have to apply the same critical reasoning to his WoG as we would any other.
Scion
Continent level Scion is fine. He destroys two continents in quick succession, blows up the United Kingdom in one shot, easily destroys the East Coast, etcetera. I dunno where Planet level comes from, though; I'd say base Scion is just 6-A.
Scion's Striking Strength should be Continent Class; he tore Behemoth in half, and I'll get to the Endbringers later. His speed is fine.
Durability wise, though... Scion is a mess. He's injured by Legend, Alexandria, Eidolon, and Glaistig Uaine (to varying but not severe extents), and then tanks String Theory's G-Driver, which is stronger than the F-Driver, which she states could knock the Moon out of orbit. I think this is a pretty distinct possibility, she's a good Tinker.
So, Scion should have Unknown durability given these inconsistencies (he's hurt by others, too, just not much), with it being noted that, thanks to his adaptation and Regenerationn, it's hard to cause any lasting harm. I don't know what his Regenerationn should be, though; it shouldn't be Low-Godly, since he regenerates by replacing his mass with mass from his true body.
He also needs some resistances; resistance to Precognition (Contessa and Dinah can't really see his actions clearly, partly due to his own Path of Victory) and Time Manipulation (He casually breaks out of Gray Boy's time loop), and probably others. He also oneshot Siberian, for what it's worth.
True Scion is fine at High 4-C. No complaints.
Endbringers
Leviathan should be At least Large Building level, likely far higher. Alexandria may put up a fight against him but, as stated, the Endbringers are holding back and he almost always wins the fights anyways. Behemoth is fine at Small City level, and their speed is also fine.
The issue here is their durability, and the ******* WoG statements. We've been getting pretty strict about WoG statements, so I don't think it's reasonable to accept a statement from a WhoWouldWin thread with the Endbringers fighting the Justice League. Wildbow is in the versus debating community and often participates in versus debates with his characters; I don't think his word in these threads is very reasonable, since it involves things like Behemoth being able to control all of the energy in the sun. Nothing like that is supported in the work. It shouldn't be on his page.
Their durability has a similar issue, with that being Multi-Solar System level durability because reaching their core is like digging through a galaxy. To put it bluntly, no. Scion carves through them with Continental attacks and kills them; he meets resistance, but he kills them. And Wildbow has stated that String Theory's tech is a huge threat to them and that an attack strong enough to wipe out a planetary surface would kill an Endbringer. So the durability of their inner layers should be Continental; this is also supported by Behemoth surviving Phir Se's blast, which he implied could destroy all of India. Multi-Solar System level is an outlier and also comes from the same WhoWouldWin thread. You see the issue here?
Wall levels
A lot of characters are affected by this, so I'll keep this broad.
During the Slaughterhouse Nine Thousand arc, one of the Mannequins takes a shot from one of Kid Win's guns, which just glances off of his outer shell. The same gun disintegrated a vending machine. I think it's safe to lowball this as Small Building level, which applies to basically everyone who isn't an Endbringer, comparable, or above, or not a front line fighter, given that Bastard ragdolls the original Mannequin and another one gets crushed in another dog's jaws.
Out of our pages, this applies to Armsmaster, Butcher XIV, and probably Victoria. It applies to a whole lot of others too, but they don't have pages yet.
Street levels
Taylor should probably not be Athlete level and Contessa should definitely not be. Her AP description is pretty clearly a Street level AP description at the least, and she should stay at Street level and Peak Human thanks to her abilities.
WoG in general
Wildbow's WoG is often unreasonable and unreliable, with statements such as carving through an Endbringer being like digging through a spiral galaxy, Behemoth being able to manipulate all the energy of the sun, and so on, all pulled out of his ass in versus threads so that his characters win, essentially.
Not all of his WoG is bullshit, but a lot of it is unsubstantiated; so much of it just elaborates or specifies stuff, which is kinda necessary given the complicated mechanics of the verse and how many characters there are with unusual abilities.
We just have to apply the same critical reasoning to his WoG as we would any other.
