Plan? What Plan? (Worm/Tinker of Fiction)

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You know who's only slightly less annoying than Greg Veder? Bryce Kiley, and only thanks to a lack of screen time. So why am I him? OC-Insert. ToF format.

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Status: Ongoing
Year: 2023
Author: Fabled Webs

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Rating: 4.7/ 5.0
Followers: 1,727
Views: 700,042

What readers say about Plan? What Plan? (Worm/Tinker of Fiction)

“Overall one of my favorite worm fanfics. To many worm fics are just soap operas were the Mc is just some emo bruding about how complicated they are and no one can understand there motives. When it is just them doing the most basic of thing. So yes pretty mu…”
whatconfusRoyal Road5.0 / 5
“I wan't to preface this by saying I have never read worm, and for the vast majority of other fiction titles that come up my knowledge is limited to what I have learned via internet osmosis. Despite that I enjoyed the story greatly and although I did find my…”
RazRoyal Road5.0 / 5

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whatconfusRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Overall one of my favorite worm fanfics. To many worm fics are just soap operas were the Mc is just some emo bruding about how complicated they are and no one can understand there motives. When it is just them doing the most basic of thing. So yes pretty much just trying bring the word count up sorry, but I like the story so far. I just hope It can have some regular update schedule.
RazRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I wan't to preface this by saying I have never read worm, and for the vast majority of other fiction titles that come up my knowledge is limited to what I have learned via internet osmosis. Despite that I enjoyed the story greatly and although I did find myself occasionally looking things up on wikis, I don't think my enjoyment would have been hampered if I hadn't.
Style: The writing style is very professional and clearly demonstrates the authors experience in writing fiction.
Story: The pacing is very well done, however I will warn prospective readers to look at the tags. Slice of life is not just there for funsies - although compared to many other slice of lives this one is actually pretty fast. If you've read "When is a sword a spoon?"(one of Fabled Webs other fictions) you can rest assure that this is a much faster pace story. The fact that there is combat balances out the slower pace of much of the other aspects of the story
Tinkering is also very well done. It is easy and pretty common to go overboard with tinkering, to the point where it gets boring. The way the MCs speciality rotates is a good way to keep things moving and stop stuff from becoming stale, while still making the character seem focused.
The story itself is very intriguing, and uses worms story as a springboard for a much lighter and more comedic experience while still acknowledged the grimdark aspects and making the world and characters feel grounded.
Grammar: Very well done as well. I've noticed a few typos over the almost 800 pages, but nothing that dragged me out of the story, and nothing more than that.
Character: The characters are all very well done. Haven't read worm so I can't really tell you wether they all feel like the original characters, but I feel pretty good saying that they do. The MC is very well done, he feels like a genuinely very complex character. He has a penchant for whimsey that despite him eventually leaning into does still feel genuine. He is a bit of an ass, especiall
TaliRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I have read a couple other fictions by FabledWebs: Legendary Tinker and When is a Sword a Spoon. As far as I am concerned, This is their best work that I've read. It really feels like the Worm universe, and I don't think that is something easy to achieve at all.
The pacing is not fast, but still feels like lots happens. The fights have been interesting.
Tinkering is well handled. The companion is great.
I'm glad I found them through WiaSaS on trending, because this fic is fantastic. I am a fan of Worm, and have at least read some of each of the fictions referenced so far, and I would say that makes my experience a bit better. But that said, things are explained well enough in the fiction that I don't need to wiki things even if I don't know anything about them.
The author is aware that they have trouble with emotional dialogue, and I would agree to an extent, but frankly I don't really feel it is much of an issue. It isn't to the extent that my immersion is harmed at all, and it's only really harmful to one character in the story really. Their writing is definitely skilled enough that I am enjoying the heck out of the story.
I don't want to spoil anything but it was definitely the first time I've seen the tech that was introduced in arc 3 used in a fanfic, and it is glorious.
ZathiousRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Genuinely loved this, one of the best fan fictions of worm. Tinker of fiction was excellently implemented as well as how his knowledge of the canon story line is handled.
Can't wait for more. Really great job. Having knowledge of worm is definitely an advantage but you can definitely enjoy this even if you haven't read it. I would myself doing the occasional reference look up and getting sucked into worm wiki even having read worm (though years ago)
NovelRabbitRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Now as a fan of Worm, and it’s fan fictions this was a nice surprise to see, a self insert replacing non-Taylor character, and a tinker power at that!
From what I can see immediately if you read, liked, and remember Wildbow’s webnovel Worm, you can probably find this pretty enjoyable, though you may need to have a wider experience with different popular IP’s as the power in this novel draws from other works of fiction.
If you HAVEN’T read Worm this probably isn’t the story for you. It’s a fanfiction that relies a lot on prior knowledge of source material, name dropping events and characters, and not going out of its way to explain concepts or details except in passing. This will leave you with a lots of gaps in your knowledge base.
tl;dr: Fanfiction that needs you to read the original, pretty good if you’re into that.
Novlist-ReaperRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
It's perfect; all it needs is more chapters. I love this so much. The growth from zero to hero was so perfect; I was having the time of my life. This will reach true goat status when it hits a million words the only bad thing is that canon has yet to even start after almost 400k words
PaleWaffleRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
excellent fic. i binged this over 2 days. have never read WORM myself, but a couple of fics provided enough context to enjoy this story without needing to know every character detail straight from the original. (fabled webs' legendary tinker being the one to introduce me to the WORMiverse). as far as the ToF fictions that Bryce pulls from, I am familiar with only the games from #1 (plus a few fics), have not read or watched #2, and have never heard of #3. you do not need familiarity with these series to enjoy this fic, due to the nature of his power translating the tech between WORM and his brain, but you may gain more enjoyment out of seeing Bryce interact with the IP's technology if it is one you are familiar with.
near-flawless grammar, there are a few letters flips and small typos but overall one of the best written stories I've seen on the site. reading immersion was excellent.
the main character is not perfect. this is a good thing. there is observable character growth, and emotional struggles. he might not have picked the exact perfect thing he could be tinkering on at any given moment, but he's not omniscient, he's a teenager. he also has other school and family responsibilities keeping him from tinkering 24/7, this dramatically slows down his growth, but I sure wouldn't want to read a novel about Bryce locking himself away from the world and only tinkering until he is untouchable. the slice of life aspect gives life to the story, and the moments where he is intentionally acting obtuse make me laugh the most.
please keep in mind that despite the 60+ chaps, the actual passage of time has been very minimal.
the date goes from August 2010 at ch1 to November 2010 at most recent posting, ch 4.13.5.
Bryce has simply not had enough time to properly make himself overpowered. he's one of the strongest capes in Brockton bay in only 2 months, really quite impressive considering his civilian identity is intact to nearly everyone; he lives at home with his mom and sister
FauxpasRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
It's a guilty pleasure right? It's the reading equivalent of day-time tv or the food equivalent of junk food.
No insult but it's fan-fiction crossed with fan-fiction.
But this is fucking s-tier trash my friends.
Just genuinely a very very good story with developed characters, believable dynamics, and a great plot.
100% recommend, binged in like, 3 days. Am gutted I have caught up.
EphemeralDustRoyal Road
★★★ 2.5
The story is written well, I could honestly say in many of the technical aspects of the story it's great. The pacing, the characters, the dialogue, etc.
The issue is the author just can't help but add nonsense that just boils down to they think it's cool. For one, why the fuck does everyone in this universe know what a Sentai is. Like bro, not even people who grew up on Power Rangers would know that unless they became a weeb later.
Back to my major issue, In worm tinkers are a very specific thing. I understand and acknowledge that the MC is outside of that, and operates differently so I gave some leeway but he is so outside of it calling him a tinker is just incorrect.
The first example is him getting the Pokemon universe. For some reason not only does he some how use TMs on himself, but he also is able to use the moves because he for some reason has "aura". Sure that's the explanation for why ESP and such exist in the Pokemon universe but it pushes the limits on what makes sense, but I let it slide.
But a future "specialization" is Fullmetal Alchemist. The MC is literally just given an entire magic system. No tech, nothing that can act as a reason why can do it, just now he knows if he draws these two circles he can make fire. It just goes against the entire premise.
To me this is like if he got Star Wars and instead of being content to make lightsabers which are just advanced tech in the universe he also just starts to use the Force because the author thinks it would be cool.
To me the issue simply becomes what is even the point of the story if he can't even stick to the premise we started at. This isn't a story about a inventor using his creations to rise up, but a guy who gets random shonen power ups every month with almost no work required. I get the concept of tinker of fiction meaning that yes he is OP, broken and completely out scales everyone. But this should be through the things they make not simply waking up stronger than the day before with no reason be
CruxioRoyal Road
★★ 2.0
Sad disappointment. Although the choice of tech is cool this story lacks Worm's brand of escalation.
The author chose to give mc the mental weakness debuff, he got that monologue and shit about choices and moral dilemma.
Occasionally dumb for plot reasons but sadly the said plot also doesnt escalate.
All in all it could have done better if it was an mcu fic instead of worm. Heck the canon mc didnt even have screen time.