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They’re laughing at you, Leet. You’re trying to be all dramatic, all intense for your viewers, and they’re just sitting at their computers, snorting over how much you suck.

Tattletale to Leet, Shell 4.6

Leet is a supervillain who is part of a videogame-themed duo with Über.[2]

Personality[]

Both Über and Leet are demonstrated to be despicable human beings, having no problems with beating prostitutes on the street to gain online viewers.[3] Leet himself owns several t-shirts that are deliberately shocking, examples being one mocking Endbringer victims and another depicting obscene sexual imagery.[4] He is annoying and generally unpleasant; many people do not tend to like him.[5]

Ostensibly, Leet is a fan of videogames. He and Über made it a "mission" to spread the artform of videogames.[6]

Relationships[]

Über[]

He considers Über his trusted friend, a feeling reciprocated by Über, which is likely the reason he continues to work with Leet despite continual failures.[7]

Appearance[]

Leet is described as scrawny, with a weak chin and a bad slouch.[8] His voice isn't particularly deep, causing him to sound like he's screeching when he yells.[7] In his villain persona, he's usually dressed in a costume based on a video game theme which will normally be matched with Über's costume.[3]

Abilities and Powers[]

Leet is a Free Tinker[1][9] with access to all tinker technology trees,[10] allowing him to theoretically[11] create basically anything[2] with sufficient blueprinting, resources, and time.[12] However, Wildbow commented that people out-of-universe tend to overestimate his power.[13]

Unfortunately for Leet, his inspiration method (i.e., how he manages and works with his ideas) comes with inherent[12] and heavy drawbacks:[14]

  • He is only able to create something once.[1]
  • The more similar a creation is to something he has made before, the higher the chances of a spectacular misfire or failure.[15][16]
  • The chance of a creation misfiring increases the more he worked on the idea or in that field.[17]

For any new project, he has to cross-check against everything he ever made, such as components, tinker-derived power sources, overall design and goal, mechanisms, and so on, to judge if they are all sufficiently different and if he should move forward.[18] All throughout his tinker technology trees are entire sections where using a specific technology has a X% chance to fail. If he gets further away from one design, the chance drops, but it is still there.[10] If he combines aspects from two tinker fields into a single project, the result will affect his misfire chances in both of the fields he bridges, though potentially not as much as usual.[19]

By the time Leet figured these drawbacks out, he had burned many bridges during his experimentation, limiting his options and leading him to fail very often. He explicitly burnt himself out on biotinkering, robotics, and hard light holograms fairly early on.[20] All together, this led to Leet becoming a laughingstock among other parahumans, though his technology could still be quite versatile when working correctly.[21]

Tinker Creations
  • Solid Hologram Generator - Could create fake bombs that exploded with concussive force.[22] Could also create an imitation of Link's sword.[23]
  • "Snitch" - Camera mounted in a small, golden sphere that could fly like a hummingbird. Used to record Über and Leet's activities and stream them online.[24]
  • Ray Gun - Used by Leet during Coil's attack on the town hall. Highly concussive.[25]
  • Unspecified Tracking Device or Program - Used by Leet to track the heroes during Coil's attack on the town hall.[25]
  • Metal Power Armor - Worn by Über during Coil's attack on the town hall. Was meant to lift heavy objects. Was able to sustain damage from Kid Win's electricity and concussion shots.[25]
  • Temperamental Teleportation Tech - Used to fake Coil's death and to switch Skitter out with a body double during Coil's Betrayal among other feats, had a high chance of malfunctioning.[26] Possibly made by scanning Trickster's ability.
  • Famine Engine - Overrode Skitter's powers, commanding bugs around it to swarm and attack.[27] Was used to convince the Undersiders that Skitter had betrayed them. In order to be built, first required Trickster to carry devices designed by Leet to record the particular signals Skitter used to command her bugs.[28]
  • Yeti Fister - Cryogenesis gauntlet/snowball charge blaster. Only works on the left hand.[29]
  • Warp Signal Shooter - Destroys anything/everything. Has a very limited number of shots.[30]
  • Combo Cutter - A sword that grows more effective with successive slashes.[4]
  • Combo Cutter Extender - Plugs into the Combo Cutter, letting the sword grow longer with successive slashes.[4]
  • Wire mesh shirt and pants - Meant for protection.[4]
  • Polyphemus Mask - One-eyed mask that allows for x-ray vision and "tech vision."[4]
  • Blight Powered Battery - Destroys 300 pounds of organic matter to generate 3 hours of charge for other inventions.[4]
  • Reality Hacker - Does virtually anything to physics, geometry, or physical layout within a 100’ x 300’ x 100’ space. Oneshot, not finished, and may misfire badly.[4]

Shard[]

Although Leet did not drink a Cauldron vial, his Shard is from Eden and is dead:[31] the dead Shard attached itself to an unsuitable host.[32] Behind the scenes, Leet is explicitly out of tune with it as he is both too risk-averse and methodical in his approach, with the resulting passivity irking the power granting Shard.[33][34] His habit of staying in his workspace, maintaining lists of previous projects,[18] and only going on preplanned outings means that the ideas and assistance his Shard should be granting him are consequently restricted, compared with tinkers that frequently get into fights.[35]

The accumulation of misfire chances is inherent to his power;[12] however, his Shard can tweak the actual misfires.[36] Thus, the unsatisfied Shard sabotages Leet;[37] misfires or failures are now more prone to causing chaos for him rather than setting him up to pursue it.[33] By trying to actively disrupt Leet, it aims to either:

  • Kill him so it can hopefully move on to another host.[33][38]
  • Make him inventive and creative as he tackles the problems it helped create.[38][39]

Both outcomes are acceptable to it.[38]

History[]

Background[]

Formed a criminal partnership with Über, performing various videogame-themed crimes. They streamed their activities online, gaining notoriety for being both incompetent and despicable.[3] During this period, Leet used up many of his potential options trying to figure out his tinker specialty, burning himself out on tinker trees such as biotinkering, robotics, and hard light holograms. After that, things began going downhill for Leet.[20]

Story Start[]

Über and Leet ambushed the Undersiders at the storage facility where the gang had stashed their money from the bank robbery in. Dressed up in Bomberman costumes, they revealed that they had found and stolen the money by following Bitch, capturing her in the process. At that, they engaged the Undersiders in battle, with Über taking them on while Leet threw fake bomb holograms at them. Despite their preparation, they were quickly and brutally dispatched by the Undersiders.[40][41]

After their defeat, Bakuda showed up, revealing that she had hired Über and Leet to soften the Undersiders up. She then initiated the true ambush, signaling for members of the ABB to step out of their hiding places to assist her.[41]

Post-Slaughterhouse Nine[]

Über and Leet were contracted by Coil in his operations to take over the city. During the mayoral debates, Leet participated in the attack that would lead to the faking of Coil's death. During this attack, Über used a heavy metal suit constructed by Leet. Leet's technology would later be used to facilitate Coil's betrayal of Skitter, using a form of teleportation to swap her out with a body double without the other Undersiders noticing. Leet also created the Famine Engine for this purpose, which imitated and overrode Skitter's power, commanding nearby bugs to attack everything around them.

After Coil's death, Leet was captured by Echidna along with Über and Circus during her search for independent capes. Echidna would go on to create multiple clones of all three of them. Later in the battle, the real Leet escaped in one of Echidna's vomit streams.[42]

Post-Echidna[]

After the Echidna battle, he left Brockton Bay along with Über and Circus.

Timeskip[]

Retaining their videogame theme, the newly formed trio briefly passed through Tijuana, Mexico, where they evaded authorities and caused property damage after detonating a device.[43] They eventually traveled to South America and tried to stay under the radar. However, after getting into trouble and crossing the wrong people, Leet was killed.[44][45]

Legacy[]

After his death, Über and Circus would split up. Über became rudderless, eventually getting arrested for attempted murder and put into a secure prison facility.[46]

Chapter Appearances[]

Worm Chapter Appearances
Insinuation
1. Insinuation 2.1 Mentioned
2. Insinuation 2.2 Absent
3. Insinuation 2.3 Absent
4. Insinuation 2.4 Absent
5. Insinuation 2.5 Absent
6. Insinuation 2.6 Absent
7. Insinuation 2.7 Absent
8. Insinuation 2.8 Absent
9. Insinuation 2.9 Absent
x. Interlude 2 Mentioned
Shell
1. Shell 4.1 Absent
2. Shell 4.2 Absent
3. Shell 4.3 Absent
4. Shell 4.4 Absent
5. Shell 4.5 Debut
6. Shell 4.6 Appears
x. Interlude 3.5 (Bonus) Absent
7. Shell 4.7 Absent
8. Shell 4.8 Absent
9. Shell 4.9 Mentioned
10. Shell 4.10 Absent
11. Shell 4.11 Absent
x. Interlude 4 Mentioned
Tangle
1. Tangle 6.1 Absent
2. Tangle 6.2 Absent
3. Tangle 6.3 Absent
4. Tangle 6.4 Absent
5. Tangle 6.5 Absent
6. Tangle 6.6 Absent
7. Tangle 6.7 Mentioned
8. Tangle 6.8 Absent
9. Tangle 6.9 Absent
x. Interlude 6 Absent
Colony
1. Colony 15.1 Absent
x. Interlude 15.x Absent
2. Colony 15.2 Mentioned
3. Colony 15.3 Absent
y. Interlude 15.y Absent
4. Colony 15.4 Absent
5. Colony 15.5 Absent
6. Colony 15.6 Absent
7. Colony 15.7 Absent
z. Interlude 15.z Absent
8. Colony 15.8 Absent
9. Colony 15.9 Absent
10. Colony 15.10 Absent
i. Interlude 15 Absent
Monarch
1. Monarch 16.1 Absent
2. Monarch 16.2 Absent
x. Interlude 16.x Absent
3. Monarch 16.3 Absent
4. Monarch 16.4 Absent
5. Monarch 16.5 Absent
6. Monarch 16.6 Absent
y. Interlude 16.y Absent
7. Monarch 16.7 Absent
8. Monarch 16.8 Appears
9. Monarch 16.9 Mentioned
10. Monarch 16.10 Mentioned
z. Interlude 16.z Absent
11. Monarch 16.11 Absent
12. Monarch 16.12 Mentioned
13. Monarch 16.13 Appears
Queen
1. Queen 18.1 Absent
2. Queen 18.2 Absent
x. Interlude 18.x Absent
3. Queen 18.3 Absent
4. Queen 18.4 Absent
y. Interlude 18.y Absent
5. Queen 18.5 Mentioned
6. Queen 18.6 Mentioned
z. Interlude 18.z Absent
7. Queen 18.7 Appears
8. Queen 18.8 Appears
f. Interlude 18.f Absent
i. Interlude 18 Absent
Scourge
1. Scourge 19.1 Absent
2. Scourge 19.2 Absent
3. Scourge 19.3 Absent
x. Interlude 19.x Absent
4. Scourge 19.4 Absent
5. Scourge 19.5 Absent
6. Scourge 19.6 Absent
7. Scourge 19.7 Absent
y. Interlude 19.y Mentioned
z. Interlude 19.z Absent
Sting
1. Sting 26.1 Absent
2. Sting 26.2 Absent
3. Sting 26.3 Absent
x. Interlude 26.x Absent
4. Sting 26.4 Absent
5. Sting 26.5 Absent
6. Sting 26.6 Absent
a. Interlude 26a Mentioned
b. Interlude 26b Absent
y. Interlude 26 Absent
Cockroaches
1. Cockroaches 28.1 Absent
2. Cockroaches 28.2 Absent
3. Cockroaches 28.3 Absent
4. Cockroaches 28.4 Absent
5. Cockroaches 28.5 Absent
6. Cockroaches 28.6 Mentioned
x. Interlude 28 Absent

Trivia[]

  • The name Leet is a reference to leetspeak, a system of spelling and grammar commonly used in gaming communities. The word Leet in particular is an alternative spelling for "elite."
    • Clones of Leet created by Echidna are given the name Pwn. In leetspeak, the term pwn is a variation on own. It means "to utterly defeat (an opponent or rival)."
  • Though Leet is often referred to by fans as "L33t," this spelling does not occur anywhere in the text of Worm.[47]
  • Leet was one of the earliest tinkers to show up in Wildbow's drafts. He primarily appeared as an antagonist.[20]
  • Wildbow had plans to write a "Quest" centered around Leet, which would feature his adventures and eventual death in South America. It was never written, though an outline of Leet Quest can be found here.

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Riddle Tinkers (Free x Free) maximize the Free Tinker’s open access to items. With no list A, B, C, they choose anything to build and then build it at half speed and double cost. Behind the scenes, however, they have a rule, riddle, or catch about their process that defines their style or separates them from other Riddle tinkers, often inspired by a background element or ‘theme’ pulled from the trigger (e.g. ‘Only forward, never back’, ‘Three tries’, or ‘if it doesn’t end in blood it ends in ruin’). This is known to the GM but not the player. When in doubt or if the trigger is insufficient, groups can instead build around a power or life flaw.
    [...]
    Canon Free Tinkers include Leet (can make anything once) - TINKERS 2.0, document by Wildbow.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Über and Leet (Missing) – A thinker with the ability to be a master at anything he tries, and a tinker with the ability to build anything, the two only barely managed to be b-list supervillains with a video game theme. Disappeared after working with Coil. - Cast (in depth)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Leet and Über glared at him. Their entire schtick was a video game theme. With every escapade, they picked a different video game or series, designing their costumes and crimes around it. One day it would be Leet in a Mario costume throwing fireballs while Über was dressed up as Bowser, the two of them breaking into a mint to collect ‘coins’. Then a week later, they would have a Grand Theft Auto theme, and they would be driving through the city in a souped up car, ripping off the ABB and beating up hookers. - Excerpt from Shell 4.5
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Leet Quest
  5. To top it all off, yeah, he's annoying, generally unpleasant, and people don't tend to like him. Except for Über. Such is the life of Leet. - Wildbow on Spacebattles
  6. “Our mission is worth it,” Leet raised his chin – inasmuch as he had one – a notch.

    “Right,” Tattletale said, “Spreading the word about the noble and underrated art form that is video games. That's from your website, word for word. People don't watch your show because they think you're righteous. They watch because you're so lame it's funny.” - Excerpt from Shell 4.6
  7. 7.0 7.1 “Shut up!” Leet spat the words, glancing over his shoulder at his teammate, “I trust Über.”

    “Why are you even with this guy, Über?” Regent asked, “I mean, you’re kind of lame, but you could at least accomplish something if he wasn’t fucking up half your jobs.”

    “He’s my friend,” Über replied, like it was the simplest thing in the world. - Excerpt from Shell 4.6
  8. Other than their costumes, though, they couldn’t have been more different. One of the figures was scrawny, with a weak chin and a bad slouch. The other had a sculpted physique, broad shouldered and tall, the lines of his muscles clearly visible through his skintight costume. - Excerpt from Shell 4.5
  9. Methods can include things like Hyperspecialists, who are very strictly locked into one specialty (A tinker can work with heat tech and only heat tech; every device has to involve it somehow) and it can include Free Tinkers, like Leet, who can access every specialty but have other restrictions. - Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles
  10. 10.0 10.1 Defiant has the 'tinker up efficiency/hybrid/minimized technology' skill tree. Stinger has the 'missile' skill tree. Tecton has the 'Seismic and Architecture' skill trees. Leet has all of them, but all throughout those trees are entire sections with 'Use of this technology has a X% chance to fail'. You get further away from one design, that chance drops, but it's still there. - Wildbow on Spacebattles
  11. Method tinkers are unique in how they tinker. They might have manton-derived limitations or just approach tinkering from a unique approach. These tinkers tend to fall into the wide scope and narrow scope categories, in turn. Wide-scopes are like Leet. They can theoretically build anything, but ____. (Can't use own gear, have to scan those with shards/remove shard-affected brains to get readings, have to finish projects within 3 hours, require a specific, expensive material like uranium, passenger takes over yet-to-be-made decisions for mid/late stage of a given device's design, only ever have one device and continually mod it). Narrow scopes are limited in what they can make (often to variations on typical equipment, like armor, guns, melee) but might have other benefits (like Armsmaster's hyperefficient gear, super durable gear, can build stuff within a matter of minutes). - Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles
  12. 12.0 12.1 12.2 8 - World - Tinker can build anything their mind desires, but there's an inherent, massive drawback. Blueprinting, build time, cost and variable quality still pace out their power level. Requires a flexible GM, but the challenge is less with the gear and more with the management of the drawback. Think of Leet (misfire chances accumulate) and String Theory (items all activate at a set time, determined during blueprinting phase). - Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles
  13. Über and Leet are really problematic in that they're two characters that people tend to overinflate, powerwise.

    I'm exaggerating, but man, am I tired of reading, "Why doesn't Leet just make a machine that turns him into a god!?" - Wildbow on Sufficient Velocity
  14. Inspiration determines how the tinker manages and works with their ideas. This can include...
    [...]
    Weigh the power level of the inspiration type, narrow or broaden the specialty as needed. Every tinker varies in how they manage ideas & the scope/focus of what they build. Leet has super-broad specialties and sits at an extreme in this regard, but his inspiration method comes with heavy drawbacks (failure, misfiring), while Trainwreck is fairly narrow in his scope but has advantages garnered via. his inspiration method (super durable, cheap materials, fast crafting). - Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles
  15. Leet - Partner to Über, is a tinker without limits, except that the more similar an object is to something he's created before, the more likely it is to misfire. - Cast (spoiler free)
  16. A guy who's good at everything yet still manages to fuck up half the time, and a Tinker who can only make stuff that breaks comically.”

    “I can make anything,” Leet boasted.

    “Once. You can make anything once. But the closer something you invent is to something you’ve made before, the more likely it is to blow up in your face or misfire. Real impressive.” - Excerpt from Shell 4.6
  17. Leet Tinker with no limits, except that creations have chance to misfire respective to how much he's worked on the idea/in the field. Independent - parahumanList, bolded edit by Wildbow.
  18. 18.0 18.1 Now, any time he sits down for a project, he has to cross-check against all the other things he ever made. This isn't end-product related, but works out to components. Example? Power source. He either uses something mundane, or he uses something tinker derived. But if he uses something tinker derived to power his newest project, then he has to think of all the other power sources he's used, make sure that this one is sufficiently different, gauge the risk, and then move forward. Same goes for the mechanisms, the overall design & goal, and so on. - Wildbow on Spacebattles
  19. Raviollius - Yesterday at 2:35 PM
    @WB: I've considered this for a while. Leet can access any tree, but his tech might fail based on what he has built before, which was a problem with power sources, etc. Could he make a bridge between two tinker's works into a single one? Would the entire result count in the "previously done" list, or only the ones he personally worked in?

    Wildbow - Yesterday at 2:37 PM
    @ Ravioli - it'd probably affect his misfire chance in both of the fields he was bridging.
    Maybe not as much as usual - Wildbow on Discord, archived on Spacebattles
  20. 20.0 20.1 20.2 Leet did come up when I was figuring out how tinkers worked, but I think he was an antagonist in the snippets more than a protagonist. Probably a reason why he didn't get an interlude at any point - a lot of the time I went to write interludes, I tapped snippets for details and ideas.

    Keep in mind that Leet is a video game theme tinker. Video games have lots of enemies. So he burned himself out on biotinkering, robotics, and hard light holograms fairly early on. He wanted to do them, he found it easy (and not a thing a lot of other tinkers do well) and it made sense to him, then it all started going wrong. - Wildbow on Reddit
  21. Leet's biggest problem is that it took him time to figure out the 'rule' to his power. He tried a variety of things in attempts to work out what his specialty was, and he burned a lot of bridges. That's not a 'Leet' problem so much as a trap that a lot of people (including many here) would fall into. Word of God - he caught on faster than your average geek might.
    [...]
    The video game thing was partially personal passion and partially a means of 'categorizing' what he did. On top of a wealth of notes and reference documents, he can think back through the various games he's been inspired by and use that as a mnemonic device to recall what he did for each project.

    So by the time you/he figure(s) out the 'catch' to the power, the list of options is riddled with fail chances. You know there are a few trees you've not explored yet, but you have to progress carefully. How? You weigh the odds, estimate your chances of failure, trust your one really reliable buddy/sidekick to cover your ass if something blows up, and you do lots of little jobs you can afford to fail until you have the resources to do one big job well with something you're ninety-five percent sure won't blow up in your face. - Wildbow on Spacebattles
  22. Leet stepped in as Über circled around us. Reaching behind his back, Leet retrieved what looked like an old school bomb; Round black iron casing with a lit fuse sticking out of it. The way the light bounced off it made it look wrong, though. Like it was a picture of a bomb instead of a real one.

    Regent waved his hand, and the bomb slipped from Leet’s grip, rolling a few feet. Leet’s mouth opened into a round ‘o’, and he bolted. Über wasn’t far behind.

    As he joined the rest of us in running for cover, Regent half turned to thrust out one hand. Über stumbled and fell just ten feet from the armed explosive.

    The blast radius was thankfully small. The shockwave that rippled past us didn’t even make me lose my footing. Über, though, went flying.
    [...]
    As I scrambled for cover, I directed my bugs to attack Leet. He’d done something different this time, because the bomb didn’t take half the time the first bomb had before it detonated. It caught me off guard, and I didn’t get a chance throw myself to the ground as a result. The blast caught me full in the back.

    The air and the fire that rolled over me wasn’t hot. That was the most surprising thing. That wasn’t to say it didn’t hurt, but it felt more like getting punched by a really big hand than what I would have thought an explosion would feel like. I could remember Lung’s blasts of fire, Kid Win shattering the wall with his cannon. This felt… false.

    “The bombs are fake?” I asked aloud, as I picked myself off the ground. I ached, but I wasn’t burned.

    “They’re solid holograms,” Tattletale said, “Actually pretty neat, if you ignore how ineffective they are. I guess he couldn’t make real bombs without fucking up.”
    [...]
    He whipped out two more bombs and Regent was quicker this time, snapping his hands out. Leet recovered before he dropped the bombs, and pulled his arms back to throw them. Regent was ready, though, and one of Leet’s legs jerked out from under him. He fell to the ground, the bombs rolling only a few feet from him before going off.

    He slammed into a door hard enough I thought he might have managed to kill himself. Before I could approach and check his pulse, though, he began struggling to get to his feet. - Excerpt from Shell 4.6
  23. Glaring at us, he reached behind his back again and withdrew a sword.

    “Link’s sword?” Regent taunted him, “That’s not even from the right game. You’re breaking theme.”

    “I think I speak for everyone when I say we just lost what little respect we had for you,” Tattletale quipped.

    Leet lunged for the two of them. He didn’t get three steps before Regent made him stumble and fall to his hands and knees. The sword slipped from his grasp and slid over the pavement before flickering out of existence. - Excerpt from Shell 4.6
  24. I looked around for what I thought of as the snitch. I finally spotted it as a small round shadow against the backdrop of the sunset-red sky, just above the glaring sliver of sun. It was a camera, mounted in a golden sphere the size of a tennis ball. It was capable of moving like a hummingbird, staying safe, always recording. Über and Leet streamed all of their costumed activity online, so people could tune in whenever to see what they were up to. I was pretty sure they had a time delay, so events that the camera recorded would play out online in a half hour to an hour.
    [...]
    After spotting the camera, which was no doubt positioned to catch a view of us looking up at the two villains, our shadows long behind us, I turned my gaze back to the pair. With my power, though, I sent a collection of flies to congregate around the camera. It didn’t take long for the camera to start going spastic in the periphery of my vision, as if it were trying to shake them off. I smiled behind my mask.

    Leet frowned and turned to the camera, “Is that really necessary?”

    “You fucked with us,” I replied, “I fuck with your subscriber base.” - Excerpt from Shell 4.5
  25. 25.0 25.1 25.2 The doors banged open. Coil, Circus and… Über was with him, in a heavy metal suit, Leet stood off to one side, holding what looked like a ray gun.
    [...]
    Someone contacted the heroes,” Leet spoke. “My U.I. says they’re on the way.
    [...]
    Über led the way, followed by Coil, Leet, Circus and a squadron of soldiers. His metal frame took the brunt of the incoming fire, and he used his arms to shield his exposed upper body from the blasts of electricity and the concussion shots from Kid Win’s guns and turrets.
    [...]
    A small handful [of bugs] on Coil served to let me follow his movements. He’d dropped to one knee behind Über, and Leet handed him a small remote control. He wasted no time in pressing the button.

    The noise of gunfire changed. My head wasn’t the only one that turned to see what had happened.

    Kid Win had stopped shooting, and a shrill whine was filling the air. He turned to Weld, who began tearing at his armor.

    Leet stepped out from behind Über and shot Vista. She was thrown down the length of the aisle, slamming against the base of the stage. He took another shot at Clockblocker, who froze himself. Kid Win drew another gun from a side holster and shot Leet.
    [...]
    I could barely make out the words, but someone in the crowd did. A woman screamed the words, “He said it’s a bomb! Sabotage! Run!” - Excerpt from Monarch 16.8
  26. “Why didn’t you drop me on top of a bomb?”

    “An unfortunate side effect of Leet’s power. Leet believes it was the proximity to the bomb or the particular signature of the vat of acid that made it so likely to occur, but with my power I observed that it wasn’t merely a chance that the teleportation would fail and your well-trained body double would be caught instead, but a surety. No less than twelve tries with the variables changed slightly. Leet’s power sabotages him, it seems.”

    “Is that Leet’s passenger at work?”

    “Passenger? Ah, that’s what Bonesaw calls the agents. Yes, I suppose that might be the case. In any event, we nearly ran out of time before verifying that guns, fire and alcohol wouldn’t skew his power. Whatever the cause of the errors was.” - Excerpt from Monarch 16.13
  27. Did he clone me?

    No. I could sense the movements of the bugs throughout my range, even if I couldn’t control them. They were moving in a massive, slow spiral, drifting counterclockwise and attacking anyone they came in contact with, and the center of the effect, where they were settling and gathering in piles? A box in the center of one building. - Excerpt from Monarch 16.12
  28. "When you went to convince the Mayor of our way of thinking, Trickster carried the devices Leet designed to record the particular signals you use to command your bugs.”

    “Which is how you built the swarm box.”

    “The Famine Engine,” Leet said.

    “Whatever.” - Excerpt from Monarch 16.13
  29. YETI FISTER. Left hand only. Cryogenesis gauntlet/snowball charge blaster. - Leet Quest
  30. WARP SIGNAL SHOOTER. 2 shots remaining. Destroys anything/everything. - Leet Quest
  31. Some shards are damaged. Or 'dead'. Which isn't saying he's Cauldron.

    But I've digressed/derailed enough. Bob's thread. No more on that subject. - Wildbow on Spacebattles
  32. Fen: Shards only choose those that will be engaged with conflict, correct?

    Lyova: Ordinarily, yes. Some shards are broken, or made for some specific purpose, and those might create capes like Leet (who's too cautious) or Nilbog (who just sits somewhere, being gross)

    Wildbow: It'd be easier to say they steer clear of (or try to jump ship from) those who are adverse to conflict.

    Dead shards will always bend the rules, mind, but I wouldn't lean too heavily on that for a WD game or fic.

    Lyova: Can I ask in what ways they bend the rules, WB? (And is that the case even if they're otherwise undamaged?)

    Wildbow: They just care less for usual rules or stipulations and cleave closer to original programming, Lyov
    They won't adapt to new circumstances or change up to do something more special.
    A dead shard that hasn't yet found a host could theoretically attach to a suicidal, older, and/or overly stable individual. - Conversation with Wildbow on Discord, archived on Spacebattles
  33. 33.0 33.1 33.2 Except he can't really seem to catch a break. He doesn't know it, but he's basically doing the opposite of Jack Slash and Taylor. He's explicitly out of tune with his power, he doesn't nurture it the way others do, even by general conflict - he's a little too cowardly, a little too safe, in large part, because he's hedging bets as often as not, and it's an unsatisfied shard, more prone to cause chaos for him rather than set him up to pursue it. It's trying to actively disrupt or kill its host so it can move on to greener pastures. - Wildbow on Spacebattles
  34. Keep in mind, also, that the shards aren't inclined to let people sit around and spend months of time working on side projects without getting any dose of conflict. What happens is you get Spheres and Professor Haywires and Leets. - Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles
  35. What really drives tinkers, in a lot of cases, is the inspiration aspect. We don't really see this, because we mostly see tinkers who are doing their thing with what they've already built.

    But tinkers vary a great deal in how they get their ideas. How fast, how many, how varied. In many cases, tinkers can find their way to new ideas by studying powers or studying the work of other tinkers.
    [...]
    From the shard's perspective, this drives competition and puts one tinker against another. Stealing another tinker's stuff to study both hurts the tinker and is a fast route to upping the quality of your own stuff. On a similar level, a tinker that's getting in fights is going to find ideas coming hard and fast (Bakuda), compared to a tinker that just hangs out in their workshop and actively avoids confrontation (Leet). - Wildbow on Spacebattles
  36. Infinitron200: What the fuck do you mean by "half your lifespan is all your lifespan". Shards are not that fucking dumb. They are literal organic supercomputers with more processing power than we will ever have, and you are telling me that it can interpret half of something as ALL OF IT? Ok, so in your universe, if I cut a cake in half, and give half to someone else, I actually still have all the cake. If someone would normally live 100 years, taking half their lifespan is 50 years gone. So, your Shards can calculate the ending of the universe and generate numerous possible solutions, but they can't do simple math?

    Wildbow: If you have 4 minutes left before a theoretical stroke and the shard cuts your time down to 2 minutes, and you die before you can get around to reading Jack Slash's details and writing Jack Slash's terms of death, who's going to argue the point or argue that stroke wasn't going to happen? You're dead and shards can move on. The mechanism is there for shards to use. Your drawbacks, whatever else, can be tweaked or liberally interpreted. Leet's misfires, Rachel's dog-minded thinking, Damsel's dangerously light trigger on her power. Eden as the thinker would have been doing this a lot more, fogging perception and drawing on/manipulating drawbacks. - Conversation with Wildbow on Reddit
  37. Some people have very little connection to their shards. Look at Leet - his shard actively sabotages him. - Wildbow on Spacebattles
  38. 38.0 38.1 38.2 Leet's a case of, well, either they kill him, which is fine, or they make him be inventive & creative as he tackles the problems they've helped create.
    Both are ok - Wildbow on Discord, archived on Spacebattles
  39. shadowmist321: If the person is bad at using the database, doesn't try to use all that they have access to, such as only making spaghetti (the metaphor is breaking down somewhat) then database will force them to do new things (Garrot, echidna, panacea?, leet) even if they don't want to

    Wildbow: I wouldn't put most of those specific names on the list. Garotte and Echidna are C53s/Deviations and the C53s in this analogy get the database & kitchen setup stuff dropped on them and emerge from the wreckage as a part human, part kitchen hybrid. Panacea wasn't sabotaged to the degree some paint it. Leet is a good example. - Conversation with Wildbow on Reddit
  40. Shell 4.5
  41. 41.0 41.1 Shell 4.6
  42. A dozen bodies began climbing free of the vomit. Ten or so clones had been deposited on the street, along with a real Leet in civilian clothes. One of the clones was a Circus, folding herself into her pocket dimension. - Excerpt from Queen 18.8
  43. Since the opening of the Tijuana PRT, there have been three incidents involving capes; the forcefield labyrinth, a raid by an American gang, and a trio of capes with a video game theme evading authorities and causing some property damage with the detonation of a device. - Tijuana PRT Struggles, Announces Split, PHO Sunday
  44. Quest Premise: In South America, Über, Circus and Leet are making their way through the city after having left Brockton Bay. It’s a situation as simple as flying under the radar, playing nice, and being cool, calm and efficient, so as not to stir up trouble with the locals.

    Spoiler: Leet is bad at this.

    Spoiler: Things get worse when his luggage is looted, and his laptop with notes on what inventions are mostly okay for him to make is taken, along with the reality hacker.

    Spoiler: Leet dies. - Leet Quest
  45. “Something happened to Leet,” I concluded. “Only way he’d be that… rudderless.”
    “Crossed the wrong people, got offed,” Glenn told me. - Excerpt from Cockroaches 28.6
  46. Mr. Calle answered for Glenn. “Attempted murder. Bit of a loose cannon, but not so loose they’d stick him in the Birdcage. Shacked up with Circus for a while, but it didn’t take. Relationship-wise or as a partnership. They stood to lose more than they could ever gain if he got loose again, so they made it a secure facility. He hasn’t escaped.” - Excerpt from Cockroaches 28.6
  47. Proof that 'L33t' does not appear in Worm

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