Worm: Eldritch
Thirteen-year-old Zack Z. Marton triggers after the Simurgh attacks Madison. He escapes before he becomes simurgh influenced and joins the Wisconsin protectorate as a ward. His power is to connect to one dimension and the dimension his shard chose was where the outer gods resided. He used his power to influence things, he sent them into the dimension, and they came out changed afterwards, (proportional to the size, power and time left inside the dimension). One day after getting to his foster home from his ward position as a tinker (as they don't know what his power actually does), He finds his foster parents dead and when he goes to look for the daughter, a doorway appears. A foot steps out of the doorway and following it is a fedora wearing woman. She points a gun at him, and he holds his arm out in front of him. Blam! He feels the bullet go through the heel of his palm and lodge inside of his of his forearm. He panics, he doesn't have any of his 'tinker tech' nore any way of fighting back, so he does the only thing he can think of. He uses his power on himself, dooming him to years of hell and insanity. Two years later he emerges two years later at the start of cannon, but was it just two years for him? Or many, many more.
Now choose, is he a survivor who picked up some tricks along the way, did he beat and become an elder god now (happily) restrained to a human form, does he only look human hiding his insanity within, can he be a 'breaker' hero who has a passive fear aura the larger his tentacled humanoid form grows, or… maybe some mix of them all trying to find out what is means to be human, what it means to be loved (also known as the romance option but it doesn't have to be it could also be the family fluff option with Tiamat or something).
Worm: selective evolution
This one is definitely a romance with Taylor idea, inspired by Naruto's Aburme clan where they can breed bugs rapidly to survive justu they have contact with if any one bug survives it.
He has all the fire power he could ever want with his bugs; he can mutate and breed them well beyond the size they were when they were the top dogs, not even mentioning the special abilities he can give them. Now if only he could control more than three at a time and get them to do something other than 'attack', 'defend', or 'stay/hide'.
She has all the control in the world over bugs, she can make them speak for her and form clones, she can use them to make the world strongest natural fabrics and make plates durable enough to withstand bullets while be much lighter than aluminum. Now if only she could get her hands on those long extinct giant bugs, then she might be able to do something against even an Endbringer!
Worm + Inception
Cobb is some how reborn in the world of worm after he dies before he can see his kid's faces. This causes him to trigger with the ability to link his mind with someone else (wink* long range inception plus empath *wink) which then cause him to double trigger with the ability to make illusions (kinda like Loki from marvel except his can affect brains directly) where they feel, smell, look, and (blegh) taste real to everything, even cameras. Now watch what he does when he runs into Vista who reminds him of his kids and is able to perform inception paradoxes in real life (Missy's power is stronger in this fic)
Ex 1. If he wanted to set a thug on fire he can make it where only the thug can experience and if the thug were to die from burning to death, Cobb could cancel the illusion and the thug would come back to life with memory of everything that happened and if some did a brain scan on the thug they would appear 'dead' to the technology too (but if Cobb left enough power in the illusion so went on for too long the thug would die of thirst)
So watch as a snooping Cobb unveils secrets, tricks Endbringers (and he cannot just make them 'die' their 'brains are a bit too different for that), and makes his daugh-I mean Missy the most terrifying thing in worm.
You could go serious or comedy or both in this. Maybe even Miss M style romance if get what I mean.
Also Cobb can do brains because he can incept plus illusion a coma patient awake (an identity Cobb can assume).
