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{{quote|''"[[Can't Get Away with Nuthin'|No, you]] ''are'' [[Can't Have Sex Ever|a fool]]. But you're my favorite one..."''|Laurie (to Candi)}}
The Ciem webcomic series
The series featured the misadventures of the titular Candice "Candi" Marie "Stevens" Flippo-Levens-McArthur / Ciem, a teenage girl in 2019 who finds out that Phaelite aliens mutated her father while he was a baby, which allows her to have centipede powers. From there, she realizes that she is supposed to help her [[Big Screwed-Up Family]] battle their archnemeses: The [[Fantastic Racism|genocidal]] Hebbleskin Gang, made up of Meethlite aliens.
[[Resigned to the Call|Willing to go along with it]], albeit on her own terms, she tries to also get into college and manage her love life. Cue [[Doom Magnet|several loved ones being killed left and right]], several [[Apocalypse How|averted apocalypses]], and even a few pseudo-governmental [[Ancient Conspiracy|conspiracies]] [[Off with His Head|to turn her and her sisters into Duke Arfaas' trophies]], and the [[Determined Widow]] becomes more determined than ever to [[Acceptable Feminine Goals|finally settle down]]. In the meantime, she struggles with doubt, compromise, fear, lack of self-confidence, guilt, [[Wangst]], [[All Women Are Lustful|lust]], her boyfriend's health problems, and [[I Just Want to Be Normal|how to help Botan the Plant-Man get his wish]].
The trilogy initially began in 2005 as an [[Affectionate Parody]] of the ''Spider-Man'' [[Spider-Man (film)|film series]], and was a [[Spin-Off]] of an obscure comic called ''The Battle for Gerosha'', before becoming an entity all unto itself.
Due to its heavy reliance on [[The Sims|''The Sims 2'']] and related [[Game Mod|game mods]] as rendering tools, several tropes from that game are played with and repurposed rather freely. In spite of coming out around the same time as Starline Hodge's much more popular ''[[Candi]]'', the two have nothing to do with each other, [[Strange Minds Think Alike|in spite of some]] [http://
Also, in spite the first story's original subtitle, it has absolutely nothing to do with the
In November of 2009, development of ''Ciem 2'' was put on hiatus [[Author Existence Failure|due to the author suffering from health problems]] while also working on a murder mystery/thriller miniseries for DozerfleetTV and the Ferris State University Bulldog Television cable channel, titled ''Blood Over Water''. Following the demands of an internship, and as further response to ''The Human Centipede'' being released, all of Classic Gerosha continuity was abandoned for Comprehensive Gerosha. ''Ciem 2'' webcomic development was replaced with plans for a novel that would have had the same plot, and been dubbed ''Ciem: Nuclear Crisis''. Likewise, ''Ciem 3'' was canceled and replaced with ''Ciem: Condemnation''.
Eventually, Comprehensive Gerosha and the concept of a Ciem Trilogy would be abandoned altogether in November of 2012 in exchange for "Cataclysmic Gerosha." The new continuity reinvented several characters from previous continuities while writing others out entirely, consolidating all remaining Gerosha continuity into a single alternate history timeline that posed the question: "What if Obama's friends in the Muslim Brotherhood had suddenly formed a pact with the Hebbleskin Gang, and the result was China taking over the west coast to secure its interests in US debt?" The Phaelite Society of Earth in this version is shown forming an organization to serve as a liaison between itself and the national guard of what is left of America [[After the End]], appropriately dubbing itself "SCALLOP" after the scallop shell that is the Gerosha Stone that is the official symbol of ''The Gerosha Chronicles.'' (SCALLOP, of course, being a hat tip to SHIELD in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.) The series in Cataclysmic Gerosha's timeline that would deal specifically with Candi and her friends (as well as the aftermath of other characters' stories) was initially dubbed ''Ciem: Cataclysmic Horizons'' in early November of 2012, before being quickly renamed ''Cataclysmic Horizons''. It was later retitled ''Sodality'' in 2013, around the Sodality of Gerosha superhero league that Ciem eventually joins. This was to emphasize the ensemble nature of cast in the series premise, as Ciem was no longer viewed as being interesting enough to carry the series as a solo main character.
▲In spite of coming out around the same time as Starline Hodge's much more popular ''[[Candi]]'', the two have nothing to do with each other, [[Strange Minds Think Alike|in spite of some]] [http://dozerfleetwiki2.wiki-site.com/index.php/Candi_Levens_vs._Starline%27s_Candi remarkable similarities].
▲Also, in spite the first story's original subtitle, it has absolutely nothing to do with the Dutch horror film series ''[[The Human Centipede]]''. In fact, the realization of them being [[Similarly Named Works]] actually resulted in [[Writer Revolt]], where the author of ''Ciem'' decided to create an [[Ultimate Universe]] in novella form to justify renaming the first story "Ciem: Vigilante Centipede." And while ''that'' is in [[Development Hell]], it has still gotten some high marks as a promotional tool for UGO.com, for the fact that nearly every character from the cast can be easily re-created with their HeroMachine software.
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