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IRL
Part 2 : of festivals and food
JAVI X F!PLUS SIZE!READER
WORD COUNT: 2200ish
SUMMARY: Set before the events of The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. Javi and Reader are friends online, and after a year of DMing, they decide to meet. (The only change is that Javi and Gabriela are just friends)
WARNINGS: Reader has insecurities about her size and appearance, Lucas continues to be a fatphobic jerk, and that's about it in this chapter. Worries about food and eating. Javi is adorable, be warned.
Part 1
Javi watches you closely after the encounter with Lucas. He got the feeling your translation was very basic, and on the surface, it might not seem rude. When you pull on an entirely unnecessary cardigan, he knows you know it was at your expense.
“Just in case the air conditioning is - um, you know too cold, or whatever,” you mumble.
He thinks you are just beautiful and not in spite of your size. Your ample curves and softness were just… all he can think about was running his hands up and down your plush arms.
Javi opens the car door for you when you reach the carport and comes around to the driver’s side.
Dropping into his seat, he fills the void-
“So along those lines, this is a 1955 Porsche 356 Pre-A Speedster, Nick-”
“Oh right Nick had one until he sold it because of his 'IRS problems',” releieved to have something else to talk about, you grab onto what feels like a lifeline, a conversation far from what you are thinking about, then your eyes widen.
“Wait-”
Javi smiles and nods animatedly, as you point just as emphatically at the car with your mouth hanging open.
“Is this his?!”
“I got it on auction! I was only too happy to help Nick with his financial difficulties.”
At the restaurant, the Materdi seats you and Javi in a ridiculously romantic alcove with an open window overlooking the beach. You carefully slide onto the semi-circle bench, and Javi slips in after you. There are faerie lights strung above you and a low candle in stained glass mosaic holder on the intimate table.
The server brings water and gives you the chef’s specials. When he returns for your order you do your best to order in Spanish.
Of course Javi knows he doesn’t know how you eat normally, but when you spoke online, you expressed a love of trying new things and experimenting with cooking, though you admitted you failed spectacularly on many occasions. But here you are in Spain for the first time and you order a salad. A side salad and some prawns.
“How would it be if I ordered for the both of us? Javi tries, “that way, you can try a just little of everything, if, you know, you are not very hungry. I would hate for you to miss out on the tapas Roberto’s is so famous for.”
He watches you nibble self-consciously at first, though Roberto’s tapas won the day. Soon, you are making yummy noises, and Javi can’t get enough of them.
“Have you tried this one?” Javi asks, getting a fork full of Patatas Bravas and guiding it toward your mouth. Your little smile just before opening your mouth gives Javi butterflies low in his stomach. Your lips close around it, followed by your eyes as you savor it. Then you give the cutest whine.
“Is that potato?”
“Mhmm,” Javi smiles, “with garlic, hot sauce, and- ”
“Smoked paprika!” You finish together.
“Oh it’s all so good, thank you Javi.”
“For what?”
“Not letting me just have a stupid salad and steamed shrimp.”
After dinner, Javi takes you for a walk along the beach. Wondering if he can take your hand again, when you try to stifle a yawn, the time difference is getting to you.
“To bed!” he declares, seizing the opportunity to take your hand under the guise of directing you toward his palatial home. “We have a big day at the festival.”
“I’m not really ready to say good night, Javi.” You give his hand a squeeze, “But you're probably right, I’d be mortified if I fell asleep during one of the movies.”
“Well, we will head back to the house slowly.”
But you find yourself in front of your bedroom door far too soon. Before you could overthink it, you give him a kiss on the cheek and a shy goodnight and disappear into your room. Javi leans on the door, his hand going slowly to his cheek. He’s brought back to reality and chuckles to himself until he realizes what or rather who pulled him out of his reverie.
“Cousin, you have a beautiful woman for an assistant, with an incredible body! How have you never-”
“Lucas, stop, will you? Gabriela and I are just friends.”
“And you prefer the heifer?”
All he wants to do is clock Lucas right across his smug and arrogant face more than he has ever wanted to before - and Lucas has a natural ability to pull this reaction from Javi- often. But that will only make things worse. He knows he needs to stand up to his cousin, for many things, but it’s frankly dangerous to do so, so he brushes past and enters his bedroom, just relieved that between the closed door and the rapid Spanish. You probably did not hear what was said.
Bzzzzt bzzzt
You look at your phone
JAVI: Good night. :)
YOU: lol Good night Javi
YOU: sweet dreams
JAVI: I have no doubt. ;)
You stare at the last text. With confused astonishment, your face heats up. But, maybe he’s joking or…
YOU: cheeky
YOU: see you in the morning
JAVI: See you.
Javi looks at his screen, not sure what to say next or if he should say anything next. After a few moments just staring at it, he puts his phone in the charging dock and his hand goes back to the place you kissed it, it was just a little kiss, but he could still feel your soft lips there. He undresses and slides between his cool, crisp sheets and clicks off the light. Laying in bed awake, he listens to the waves crashing on the beach below. Javi thinks of you listening to them, too. He’s glad he chose to put you in a guest room on the same side of the hall. His mind goes over the day, wandering to your arms again, then your hips… how he would explore you if you were to allow it. His imaginings switch over to dreams of you in his bed, tangled in his sheets, breathing heavily as he feasts on you.
You wake to the sounds of seabirds, making you smile. It makes you want to wrap yourself in the incredible sheets and snuggle down into the soft pillows, but you fully remember where you are and what today is, and you roll off the bed, with a little skip as you hop in the shower. You and Javi are spending an entire day at the film festival, you’ll get to nerd out together over favorite writers, actors, directors, and the films they’ve made before anyone else has seen them. Even though you’ve never gone to a fancy festival with film creators or anything you feel that maybe you will feel more in your element with Javi. Thinking less about what he thinks about you now that he’s seen you and just be the person he befriended because of your shared interests.
After showering and putting on the sleeveless summer dress, a light shrug of a sweater, and sandals you had picked out for the event. You put on a little lip stain, leaving your eyes make-up free (who knows how much crying you may do. It looks like there may be a tearjerker or two on the schedule). You look in the mirror a beat more, and give a sigh. Swinging your bag over your shoulder, you go to meet Javi for breakfast.
Following the delicious smell of coffee to the dining room, you find the table is ladened with a beautiful spread of fruit, toast with tomato and olive oil or jam and butter, churros, empanadas, juices, and the smell of fresh coffee, all making your stomach rumble. But it’s Javi that makes your mouth water, he is dressed simply in a white linen button-down shirt and a blue blazer, his hair a little more tamed brushed back away from his face, but still curling around his ears. How is it that the orange of yesterday's shirt looks so amazing and now the light blue too? His brows go up when he sees you, his mouth opening just a bit. Then he breaks into his wide warm smile distracting you from the desire to run your fingers through his hair, for a moment anyway.
“¡Buenos días, mi sol!” good morning, sunshine
“¡Buenos días, Javi!”
Javi brings over a carafe of coffee to the table and pulls out a chair for you. You smile and shake your head, murmuring a thank you as you sit.
“We can have omelets made or…”
“Javi, all of this looks amazing.”
You both tuck in and chat about the schedule, what you are looking forward to, and the things you don't want to miss. Finding yourselves mostly in alignment.
“Do you,” you fall quiet, biting your lip, “Do you think I’m dressed okay, I wasn't sure how dressy-”
“You look incredible!” Javi says instantly. Then he waves his hand dismissively, “You know celebrities are going to do what they do, but for the rest of us? Perfecto!”
You look down at the patterned dress and smile, as Javi adds quietly, “Plus I like sunflowers.”
After both a boat and car ride you arrive in Barcelona-Saint Jordi, you get your passes and people watch. But it seems as though Javi is elsewhere.
"Javi? Is, um,” you worry your bottom lip, “Is everything okay?”
With a sigh, Javi looks at you next to him on a small bench, then looks down.
“I am sorry for my cousin’s behavior. I am so embarrassed. He is the literal worst."
Your laugh turns to a little cough of discomfort-
“I- well, thank you Javi, I appreciate that. But I’m used to it. It, well…”
“That does not make me feel better. You should not be used to such poor treatment. I should have said something”
“Well,” you swallow, ”thank you Jav-”
“I want you to be used to hearing how beautiful you are.” Javi’s words come out in a rush, then his eyes widen slightly at his own daring. Finally, he gives you a sidelong look to assess the damage.
At this you laugh like it's joke and a little absurd, giving his arm a little hug.
“You are the sweetest.”
Javi looks at you again, wondering if you think he's just being a supportive friend. Your tone makes him think so, and it leaves him at war with himself. He's not sure how you feel. Part of him is relieved in a way, and part of him desprately wants you to know. He wants to be courageous, to take the plunge! But maybe now isn't the time. While he's thinking about courage and plunges, you start to pull at his sleeve. When he looks at you, you give a little nod with your eyes going to the right. Javi looks, and there was Randell Cobb. Javi’s eyes go comically wide, making you giggle, and he starts flipping through his program.
“I did not even know he was still acting, “Javi hisses. “He was in-”
“Raising Arizona, I know,” you say excitedly.
“Of course you do,” he squeezes your knee, which is bare since the skirt of your dress is slightly hiked from sitting. It sends a shot of warmth up your thigh. “I mean he’s done other things but that was by far the best…”
“Is he in one of the films? He must be, right?”
Javi dives back to his program, and you keep watching everyone arrive.
After the opening remarks and the first film, you head to lunch and just walk around taking everything in. Javi has an almost permanent blush from the amount of people wondering what movie he's in, if he is an actor or model.
“It is very complimentary, of course… but all I want to do is tell them, ‘no I am a screenplay writer, read my script!!! Please!’”
"Well, you look like you belong here, no doubt. Handsome, tan, beautifully tailored clothes…"
Javi tugs you into an alcove, warm hands running up and down your arms.
"You belong here. You are a wonderful writer, and fantastic film and character analyst. Your breakdowns are one point!"
"I am a chubby (at best) woman, in a fifty dollar dress and a haircut that cost about the same, and I was splurging…"
"You got this lovely dress for fifty dollars? Wow."
You purse a tight smile and then laugh.
"Yes you can get one at TJMaxx, at a strip mall near you!"
A pair of glamorous willowy actors pass your little hiding place.
"You could fit two of these actresses in one of them."
"I like the one who is filling it right now," Javi says shyly, "and how she is filling it."
His hands traverse your hips.
Javi feels the soft plush curve of them, and his sigh carries a small, pleased hmm with it.
"Is this alright?" He whispers.
Your brain's throwing up .exe errors.
Your breathless "yeah" is almost a gasp. Javi is touching you, and liking what he feels through the gauzy fabric.
"We've got two more movies and then we go back to the hotel… but um-"
You mouths crash together. You both do your level best to be quiet, as Javi crowds you into the corner of the alcove behind a palm of some kind.
Part 3
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Porsche 356 'Pre-A' 1500 Cabriolet 1954 Coachwork by Reutter. - source Bonhams.
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I recently had an epiphany about the mannequins in Prey.
So. For the longest time I wondered where the hell did the idea for Hugo's mannequin girlfriend come from? Like what on earth made Moench put something like that in the story? How do you come up with such a random and out there headcanon like that? I think I know now.
So let's look at the time line:
Batman #356 ”The Double Life of Hugo Strange” (1983)
Gerry Conway writes a story wherein Hugo creates perfectly lifelike robots of Alfred and Dick and uses them to fuck with Bruce's head.
Batman annual #10 ”Down to Bone” (1986)
Doug Moench writes a story wherein Hugo, among other things, uses his robots to fight Bruce and Jason. He has also now made a robot version of himself. Last Pre-Crisis Hugo story.
Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #11-15 (1990-1991)
Doug Moench writes a story wherein Hugo, among other things, uses mannequins of Thomas and Martha Wayne to fuck with Bruce's head. First Post-Crisis appearance of Hugo and also an edgy reimagining
Are we noticing a pattern? It's honestly a little embarrassing how long it took me to realize that Hugo fucking with Bruce with the mannequins in Prey is all copy pasted from Double Life of Hugo Strange. Moench just re-used Conway's idea, but made it fit the Post-Crisis universe better by having the robots be mannequins with tape recorders inside, because everything had to be sooooooo realistic back then. So if the mannequins of Martha and Thomas are just the robots of Dick and Alfred, who is the mannequin girlfriend? Here's my best guess:
So, Moench used the robots himself in Down to Bone, even created a new robot type – a Hugo robot. Now, we don't see Hugo having a robot girlfriend in Down to Bone, but would you really find it out of the realm of possibility that the thought might have crossed Moench's mind while writing? I mean, look at Hugo around this time. He used to have a good amount of people around him during the 70s and earlier. He had thugs like any self-respecting supervillain, he had his monster men, he once formed a partnership with a racketeer and most importantly he had Magda in Englehart's run. Then suddenly in the 80s he has nothing but robots. Incredibly lifelike robots that talk to him and laugh at his jokes. Doesn't that sound lonely? Now, I will eventually write a post about all my headcanons for what happened to Hugo around this time, because I think about this every day, but to stick to the topic at hand – would you really find it out of the realm of possibility that Moench looked at this profoundly lonely man who could build perfectly lifelike robots and thought, why doesn't he make himself a robot girlfriend? Of course the time wasn't quite ripe yet for a story like that during Pre-Crisis, but during the edgy grimdark 90s? Oh boy, was it time! All he had to do was to turn her from a robot into a mannequin and there we go. Anyway, what do you guys think? I cannot peer inside Moench's mind, of course, but I think my theory is possible.
Also, this is now off topic, but I wanted to talk a little more about Down to Bone and Prey. I used to think these stories, these takes on Hugo, could not be further apart despite being written by the same man, but after reading Down to Bone again for this post and having read Prey again a few months ago, I no longer think so. You can see so much of Prey in Down to Bone and so much Down to Bone in Prey. I already talked about the mannequins, but another thing that I just now noticed was the use of media. As we know, Hugo affectedly used media to fuck with Bruce and to smear Batman's name and you know what he threatened to do in Down to Bone?
Yeah! I find it interesting that Moench had this idea of Hugo using media against Batman way back here, but maybe the story just didn't have enough room for it given that it was only one issue long and most of the time was already spent on Bruce dealing with having lost all his money, home, Jason and Alfred. I'm glad that the smear campaign Hugo launched in Prey was given enough time.
Another thing I wanted to talk about was Moench's bad takes on Hugo in Down to Bone. Hugo during Golden Age was about as generic a villain as you can get. Evil genius only after money and power yadda yadda. Listen. I'm not hating on it. It's a classic, but what I'm trying to say is that when Englehart had the divine revelation of giving this character an actual personality and then when Conway topped it all off by giving him an unique goal, I personally considered that an improvement. Moench did not apparently. In Down to Bone Hugo is right back to being a very generic villain. Englehart spent so long showing how much Hugo loved and respected Bruce. How he was willing to ”die” to protect his secret. It was interesting, it was heartwarming and it was fucked up. We see none of this in Down to Bone. The relationship between Hugo and Bruce couldn't be less interesting. There's literally nothing there. No love, no loyalty. Hugo straight up willingly tells Bullock Batman's real identity (which Bullock doesn't believe, of course.) Like what happened? And then the unique new goal Conway gave him? How he got it in his head he wants to be the Batman now? Yeah, you can kiss goodbye to that one too. Nowhere in Down to Bone does Hugo say he wants to become Batman. He only puts on the outfit to frame him. His only goal in Down to Bone was to get his revenge on Bruce. Boring. And to top it all off, just like in Prey, Moench decided to ignore Hugo's well established physical abilities. He doesn't even attempt to fight Batman, but rather runs away like a coward. And don't even get me started on Moench's worst crime of all which was to try to retcon my favorite Hugo story (The Double Life of Hugo Strange) by saying that the Hugo Bruce fought was actually a robot the whole time. I've been writing this for so long I don't even have the energy to go into why I hated this so much and why it was a pointless retcon, so I'll just leave it at this: IT WASN'T A FUCKING ROBOT.
Anyway, love and light everyone!!! ^_^
#hugo strange#there was still one more thing i wanted to rant about but i don't feel like it right now#maybe later#i kinda wanna read prey again
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600+ Rare Century-Old Baseball Cards Found in Old Tobacco Tin
The collection includes a unique variety of vintage Babe Ruth cards and hundreds of rare baseball Hall of Famers.
A California man said he stumbled upon every baseball fans’ dream when he found an old tobacco tin at his father’s home.
According to a press release by Auction Monthly, a California-based company that evaluates and consigns sports memorabilia, a treasure trove of more than 600 cards “were discovered in a closet by a Northern California resident cleaning out his father's home” and are “some of the rarest vintage baseball cards from the 1920's.”
The post-World War I era cards will be available in an upcoming sale on the company’s website.
The early 1900's Pedro Cut Plug Tobacco tin was filled with "many different types of pre-war baseball cards from the 1920's era including strip baseball cards from 1919 to 1923 and rare 1924-26 Zeenuts cards that were distributed on the West Coast."
Some of the discovered cards of baseball legends include:
1919-21 W514 'Shoeless' Joe Jackson
Nearly every player from the iconic 1919 'Black Sox' team
1921 E220 National Caramel Babe Ruth
1922 American Caramel E121 Babe Ruth
1919-21 Babe Ruth W514
1920 W519 Babe Ruth
Ty Cobb 1922 American Caramel E121
1921 W516 Ty Cobb
1920 W519 George Sisler
According to the statement, the 'Shoeless' Joe Jackson card is "a very rare find." Jackson, a career .356 hitter, was part of the Black Sox scandal in 1919. He was one of eight Chicago White Sox players banned for life for allegedly throwing the 1919 World Series.
#600+ Rare Century-Old Baseball Cards Found in Old Tobacco Tin#baseball#baseball cards#collectable cards#collectables#babe ruth#ty cobb#'shoeless' joe jackson#1919 'black sox' team#history#history news#rare#antique
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Bracket F Round 1
Poll 18
Rider (@exist101) vs. Jules (@axebreaker)
355. Rider (@exist101)
She/her
Rider was adopted by the number 1 hero Tara, who if you don't know is a horrible person. She grew up surrounded by tragedies and seeing the problems of the world. She ended part of an unnamed group of heroes including Wolf, Beatrice, and Thomas, and ends up the second to last person to leave thanks to Tara. Tara does eventually go missing too, so at least there's that. Eventually Rider got her hands on Posedeon's trident and decided that with that power she was finally able to leave without being worried she'd be targeted. And she ends up becoming a villain too!
There's more I plan to detail when I make more vids for her
Also propaganda if she wins or at least makes it to the final round
She's a tall bird person based on a snowy owl, with sunset colored eyes. Pre-corruption her hair is shorter and more put together, post she's much more messy and angry. The picture I chose is post-corruption because she's a lot of fun. She also wore Tara's old crown, but not anymore.
356. Jules (@axebreaker)
he/him
Jules is a detective's apprentice and is overly cocky with a penchant of getting in trouble. He marches to the beat of his own drum, and often slacks on the job simply because he doesn't want to do it. He is annoyingly attractive and likes to get under people's skin for fun. Obviously Jules has a troubled backstory, wherein he had a shitty family and he fled to rename himself and start a new life. Because of his rough childhood, he always feels the need to put on a facade and desperately clings to the idea of living the way he wants to so he can finally have a fulfilling life.
Jules has problems with authority but respects his mentor immensely. His bestie is a lesbian so he's a feminist ally! He loves sunny weather so much it turns him into a nicer person. His favorite animal is the crocodile and his dream is to go to Gatorland. Jules ruined my life so please vote for him it'd boost his ego
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lockwood & co. the screaming staircase and the whispering skull initial thoughts
TSS: some things have not aged all that well (some comments from and about George) still have no idea if i did read this book or not way back in 2013. wish Barnes was proud of them in the show for Combe Carey Hall as well
and i would have loved to see them deliver the scene when Lucy tells Lockwood what happened back home just they have the acting chops to make [436] me yell "I trust your Talent and your judgement, and i'm very proud to have you on my team. OK?" (also lmao about Lucy running from the conversation with Lockwood and then what Lucy fell on when the skull spoke) also "Lockwood laughed again. Really laughed, I mean. He'd thrown his head back, I could tell"
TWS: didn't make official end of book thoughts for this (idk why) but here is my notes through reading it properly. i did enjoy it though
page numbers are for my copy so it might be different under a read more as i got long
the time between books got me a wee bit confused (it's easily done the moment 7 months was mentioned any semblence of understanding went out the window then my brain caught up)
uh did we need explanations of things when there is a glossary at the back of the book (and another book before hand)
19 the wraith hunting being cut out of the show (it was referenced we just don't see it) is really understandable considering the special effects involved it was a lot of ghosts
116 they get told about the mirror being stolen makes it seem less powerful
127 quite like the debrief
153 i like this reveal died of fright
159 ish "Flo Bones annoyed me" that came through pretty clearly in the show (also side note both trollop and slapper pretty much means the same thing :/)
"slow dawn of cunning realisation" what'd she realise?
190 George put the skull in the oven (and we see those recordings on the thinking cloth in the show)
222 i really don't like the jabs towards Carvers death i know he is technically a bad guy but still but i do like the quote on 225 "death is fugitive even when you're watching for it, the actual instant somehow slips through your fingers. You don't get that sudden drop of the head you see in movies. Instead you simply sit there, waiting for something to happen, and all at once you realise you've missed it. time to move along now. nothing to see. nothing to see there, ever again."
232 don't like the jabs. but I do like the reference to Portland Mews
234 hello job offer from Kipps
240 I like them settling down to talk with the skull
252 "[lockwood] grinned; it was that warm smile that made everything seem simpler; ready to click perfectly into place."
257 bring the skull without telling Lucy seem's a bad idea
292 Ned Shaw is a jackass
296 I really like the rat ghost scene it is so creepy. would have liked to see it in the show but the thought of the budget would probably not have stretched that far.
314 teamwork. i love this "the opening of Mrs Barrett's tomb saw us all set personal high- jump records"
317 the first locky
326 giving the necklace is really short and not as emotionally charged but also compliments so I really can't give it to much grief
"Lucy you look delightful," he said "George, you'll have to do. Oh, here's something for you, Luce. Might go with that excellent dress." He took my hand and placed in it a necklace of pretty silver links, with a small diamond as a pendant. It was really very beautiful "what?" I stared at it. "where'd you get this?"
"Just something i had. i suggest you close your mouth when you wear it..."
329 I love the descriptions of the relic collumns
breaking into the library is a last minute choice which is kinda funny
341 golden blade has a name Gabriel, pickled lungs on display and the Orpheus Society sounds interesting this is going to be fun
351 Breaking into Winkman's was pre planned
356 taking turns going in first causes bickering
362 the auction guests are recognisable and so when Lockwood spots Gabriel he recognises them... kind of defeats the purpose of the black market right?
369 the plan is "controlled" explosions
375 "he's shot his way through," I said. "on the upside, that's one less bullet for us.".
"How i love youre optimism, Luce..."
lmao love it
381 "we jumped out together, hand in hand"
397 i love this "they didn't stay- there was just a short discussion, then they both went off together. They took the sack. I thought Cubbins seemed uneasy. He was unsure of what he was doing. At the last moment he ran back in and left you that note. I'd say he was still fighting against my master, but the other fellow isn't. He's long gone"
and "but Cubbins has the madness too. Did you not notice? A whispered chuckle. Perhaps you never look at him."
400 figuring the connection of the missing dagger
441 George pretending to be dead
446 freeing the ghosts from the bone glass is always a favourite no matter the form and of course Lockwood is here "Anthony Lockwood stood there. He was covered in grave- dust, and there was cobwebs on his collar and in his hair. His trousers were torn at the knees, his fingers bleeding. He'd looked smarter in his time, but I can't say he'd ever looked better to me"
465 still haven't figured out the goggles
468 I love the walk up to the door and of course this quote "it was the old Lockwood smile again; the landing grew much brighter"
(you know saddest people smile the brightest thing)
basically every other chapter of both books i had the thought of "I am so glad they combined this into two" and i still have no idea why
i did have fun sharing some bits with my sister (she might read them later)
i used a lot of tabs in these books (big one with seven colours i actually finished it when i was finishing the Whispering Skull)
now back to the show and i do have thoughts (one of which will make the fight after the graveyard scene more insane stay tuned)
#lockwood and co#lockwood & co#locklyle#george cubbins#lucy carlyle#anthony lockwood#don't clown on this post#quotes#ellie reads#i really want to make an edit of lockwood and co with lyrics from edge of great from jatp#books
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BNHA Observations, speculations and assorted info: Pre-marriage Todoroki Enji (Part 1)
So, in order to write my fic, I spend much time observing canon scenes, comparing the manga and the anime version, take note of details, translations and info in them as well as finding out how are some things called.
Since what I noticed/speculated/found out can be of use for other fic authors I thought to share as well.
Resources:
Chap. 356 "Regarding the Enemy" (敵について Teki ni Tsuite)
Chap. 93 "One For All's Ember" (残り火ワンフォーオール Nokoribi One for All)
Chap. 165 "Win Those Kids' Hearts" (掴めガキ心) Tsukame Gaki Gokoro)
Chap. 189 "Why He Gets Back Up" (彼は何故立ち続けたか Kare wa Naze Tachi Tsudzuketa ka)
Chap 192 "The Todoroki Family" (轟家 Todoroki-ke)
Ep. 49 "One For All" (ワン・フォー・オール)
Ep. 79 "Win Those Kids' Hearts" (掴めガキ心 Tsukame Gaki Gokoro)
School Briefs I "Epilogue"
School Briefs III "Dramatic Makeover!"
Team-Up Missions: Mission 33
To this date the chapter that shows the youngest Todoroki Enji is 356, which include some sort of dream/hallucination in which Enji faces his past self and his 'origin' so first let's look at...
THE FULL SEQUENCE AS IT IS IN THE MANGA
There are two core scenes, one depicting Enji's father's death preceded by a speech of young Enji:
'Sara ni yowaku natta'
「更に弱くなった」
“You became beyond weak.”
'Tachiba to tsugunai to ayamachi to sekinin ga'
「立場と償いと過ちと責任が」
“Position, atonement, mistakes and responsibility.”
'Omae no seirai no yowasa wo abaki dashi miru ni taenai guzu e to hikizuri oroshita'
「おまえの生来の弱さを曝き出し見るに堪えない愚図へと引きずり下ろした」
“Your innate weaknesses was exposed and I can't bear to see how you were dragged down into an indecisive person.”
'Chōjin ni wa narenainda yo Enji (omae) wa'
「超人にはなれないんだよ炎司（おまえ）は」
“Enji, you can’t become a superhuman.”
'Genten wo omoi dase'
「原点を思い出せ」
“Remember your origin.”
While fighting the Nomu Enji said he hated U.A. School motto, Plus Ultra or, in Japanese 'Sarani mukō e' (更に向こうへ "Beyond the other side" or, better "Further beyond"). Now his past self seems to taunt him saying 'Sara ni yowaku natta' (更に弱くなった “You became beyond weak.”)
'Seirai no yowasa' (生来の弱さ) is translated as 'weakness that was always there' in the English version but 'seirai' (生来) actually make clear the weakness is innate, by nature. In short Enji was born weak and tried to hid it. 'Guzu' (愚図), more than a loser is a 'foolish figure', a 'dullard' or also an 'indecisive person'. Enji project an air of arrogance and security but Enji's younger self is implying he's basically not capable.
The official translation uses "Superhero" to translate 'Chōjin' (超人), but there's no 'hero' in the word, someone can be a 'Chōjin' (超人) and be a villain. Ironically we could also translate it as 'superman', and considering later Enji uses laser eyes like Superman I wonder if this was planned.
'Teki ga nan datta no ka wo'
「敵が何だったのかを」
"What was the enemy?"
'Akkan kara shoujo wo sukuou to shi kekka shoujo moro tomo nikukai to ka shita chichi wo'
「悪漢から少女を救おうとし結果少女もろとも肉塊と化した父を」
"Your father tries to save a girl from a scroundel and, as a result, he and the girl were turned into a lump of meat."
The way the sentence is put, it seems to imply that the girl and Enji's father both died because the man tried to save her.
Enji is witnessing the scene, a schoolbag on his back. His school uniform misses the shoulder insigna and the necktie which are part of U.A. summer uniform, so it's possible this took place before Enji joined U.A.
The whole implication of the sentence and the dialogue seems to be that since his father was weak, he caused his own death as well as the one of the girl, and this should have started Enji's obsession for strength.
Young Enji goes on speaking about other things Enji should remember:
’Shin no choujin he no senbou to higami wo’
「真の超人への羨望と僻みを」
“Your envy and inferiority complex toward a true superhuman…”
Again, the official translation uses plural but there's the image of All Might and in My Hero Academia Ultra Archive is made clear Enji previously viewed everyone else but All Might as weak, so the 'true superhuman' is solely All Might back in his past (then he also added Deku).
We can't see Enji's father's face but he's likely the man on the picture hung on the wall in the room with the Butsudan as in that room Enji would place the photo of his deceased family members.
Going on.
'"Doryoku (‘Endeavor’)” to nanoru hikutsu na shoune wo'
「“努力" （エンデヴァー）と名乗る卑屈な性根を」
“You called yourself ‘effort’ (read 'Endeavor’) due to your menial nature.”
This bit confirms Enji chose his Hero name while at U.A. and picked it up because (compared to All Might) he believed he lacked in skill but, probably, he thought he could compensate with effort/hard work.
From other chapters we know Enji and Recovery Girl know each other from his time at U.A.
‘OB no Yoshimi de kite ageta yo’
「OBのよしみで来てあげたよ」
“I came for you since you were an alumnus”
'Soreni ima wa mō No.1 hīrōda mono ne'
「それに今はもうNo.1ヒーローだものね」
"Besides, you're also the No. 1 hero now.'
While in the Japanese version Recovery Girl is more vague, saying she came because Enji was an alumnus, since she's in U.A. by basically forever she likely got to know him, which is confirmed in "School Briefs I Epilogue" and "School Briefs III Dramatic Makeover!".
In "School Briefs I Epilogue" is said that with her Enji manages his manners because she's someone he had known nearly all his life.
By the way the two of them call each other by their Hero names.
"School Briefs III Dramatic Makeover!" is more specific. It has Recovery Girl tell Shōto she's been in U.A. by a long time and knew his father from when he was a student at U.A. and how she was always threating him for scrapes, cuts and bruises back in those days as his father used to put himself through the wringer hoping to become Number 1 one day, implying he was impressively driven. Shōto will make clear he doesn't want to hear about his father so she'll later be more subtle, telling him every boy and girl at U.A. tend to do their darnest and that they always had, implying Enji did the same.
We also have a bit of info in "Team-Up Missions: Mission 33" about how Enji holds the U.A. record for no-quirks trash pick-up (as All Might was too busy chatting with everyone).
'Sorezore ga hirotta gomi no sōryō o kiroku!'
「それぞれが拾ったゴミの総量を記録！」
"Record the total amount of trash each person picked up!"
'Tadashi "kosei" shiyō-fuka!'
「ただし”個性”使用不可！」
"However, "Quirk" cannot be used!"
'Onore no junsuina tairyoku nomi de shin kiroku o mezasu nōsuji ibentona nda!'
「己の純粋な体力のみで新記録を目指す脳筋イベントなんだ！」
"It's a brain-muscle event where you aim for a new record using only your own physical strength!"
'Chinamini rekidai No. 1 kiroku hoji-sha Endeavor da
「ちなみに歴代No.1記録保持者エンデヴァーだ」
"By the way, Endeavor is the all-time No. 1 record holder."
There's something else in chap 356 that's interesting in the following bit.
'Kojishite inakereba tamotenu teido no minikui kokoro wo'
「誇示していなければ保てぬ程度の醜い心を」
“Unless you're putting on airs you can't sustain your ugly heart”
'Minikui' (醜い) means "ugly" in the sense of "unsightly/unattractive". 'Kokoro' (心) is a delicious word that can refer to "(emotional) heart" but also to "mind" and "soul".
So basically Young Enji is saying that to hide the fact Enji is weak and indecisive, not a real superhuman, he put on airs to hide it... but the interesting part is that the image focuses on Enji's fire beard.
This was said in his profile.
The rest we have on Enji's youth is from other chapter and it's mostly tiny info.
We've a young Enji, who's now an adult but who still feels the gap between himself and All Might is one he can't surpass.
'Kisama (All Might)..."
「貴様 （オールマイト）…」
"All Might..."
'Kisama o koeyou to kensan o kasanete kita…!'
貴様を超えようと研鑽を重ねてきた…！
"I've been repeatedly training hard to surpass you…!"
'Kasaneru hodo ni tsūkan suru.'
重ねる程に痛感する。
"I realized the more I repeatedly did it, the more I feel the pain."
'Kisama to no sa ga… kisama no senaka ga…!!'
貴様との差が… 貴様の背中が…！！
"The difference between you and me is… your back…! !"
'Zetsubō ga! ! Ore o…'
絶望が！！俺を…
"I despaired! ! I…"
'Nanda so nonnasakenai senaka wa!!'
「なんだそのっ情けない背中は！！」
“What’s with that pathetic back?!”
LOL, the sentence seems not to make sense but in Japan a large back is equated to strength. Hawks later, thinking about Endeavor will say Enji must do it because Hawks' back isn't large enough.
On another interesting bit... even if Enji says 'All Might' the kanji actually say 'kisama' (貴様) which is currently a very rude way to say 'you'.
We've another bit about Enji's past when he talks with All Might after the latter retired.
'Ore wa ase kō ni subete o takushita'
「俺は焦凍に全てを託した」
"I entrusted everything to Shoto"
'Hatachi no koro ni wa sudeni No. 2 e to noboritsumeta.'
「二十歳の頃には既にNo.2へと登りつめた」
"By the time I was 20 years old, I had already climbed to No. 2."
'Tō tte kitakara koso… rikai shite shimatta.'
「登ってきたからこそ…理解してしまった」
"Because I made that climb… I understands."
'Ore wa itadaki ni wa tadoritsukenai to'
「俺は頂きには辿り着けないと」
"I can't reach the top"
'katagaki ga hoshī dakenara kisama no yō ni herahera to'
「肩書きが欲しいだけなら貴様のようにヘラヘラと」
"If I just wanted a title, I'll be laughing like you."
'Aiso mo furimaitadarou sa.'
「愛想も振りまいただろうさ」
"I would have showed sociability as well."
'Ore wa dare yori tsuyoku naritakatta'
「俺は誰より強くなりたかった」
"I wanted to be stronger than anyone else"
Okay so this was meant to be solely about Enji's past but I can't skip this line. The English translation decided to translate 'takushita' (託した) with 'gave' but it's not like Enji gave Shouto everything Shouto wanted... it's that Enji entrusted his dream, his everything to Shouto. So he's not really depicting himself like a doting father but as a father who planned to have his kid fulfil his dream.
The relevant part in this little dialogue is that Enji became Number 2 at 20.
Considering he started U.A. at 15 and should have finished attending it at 19, it's quite a fast climbing.
The mountain is probably Sekoto Peak (瀬古杜岳 'Sekoto take'), where Enji said he used to train in the past and where Touya will 'die'. (Chap 291).
According to Hawks, Enji was the only one trying to surpass All Might.
Technically though, considering Hawks is one year younger than Touya and got interested in Endeavor after he was saved, he only witnessed him post marriage and it's hard to say if this applied also to when Enji was pretty young. Anyway the previous generation of Heroes come out pretty lame as now the kids at U.A. wants to surpass All Might while before only Enji considered doing it.
And so we get to Enji deciding he can't surpass All Might and therefore must produce a heir who will do so for him... but as that part was transposed in the anime, for a better comparison I'll put it in a part 2.
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early Reutter Porsche 'Pre-A' Porsche 356 model.
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Looking for a steddie fic I thought I marked for later but lost
It was on ao3 but I found it through a tumblr post
It was 4 or 5 chapters
The summary was something about steve having past experiences with dubcon and or not properly consenting and Eddie talking to him about it and letting him know that thats not ok
It might have been pre relationship
Request 356! Send me an ask if you recognize this fic!
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A proposed Missouri law would allow women to be prosecuted for abortions and potentially criminalize certain types of contraceptives.
A bill pre-filed by Senator Mike Moon (R-Ash Grove) this month would change the state’s definition of “person” to begin at the moment of fertilization, opening the door for criminal charges against individuals who terminate their pregnancies or use contraceptives that prevent fertilized eggs from developing, legal experts say.
While lawyers who spoke to the RFT see this proposal as a reckless application of criminal law, Moon says his Senate Bill 356, the “Abolition of Abortion in Missouri Act,” is an acknowledgement of the sanctity of human life.
“I believe science proves that life begins when a female egg is fertilized by a male sperm,” Moon says. “And because of that, I think life should be protected from the beginning till the natural death.”
Moon’s bill has a slim chance of becoming law — thousands of bills are filed each year, and only a handful make it through committee, much less approval by both the Missouri House and Senate. And Moon acknowledges that he has tried and failed to pass similar legislation at least three times before.
Still, legal experts worry about the ramifications of his proposal in light of Missouri’s swift enactment of its so-called trigger law after the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade last June.
If enacted, Moon’s bill could allow an abortion seeker to be prosecuted with a whole host of charges — from murder, attempted murder or assault to, for example, endangering the welfare of a child if a pregnant person is found to have consumed alcohol, according to Marcia McCormick, a professor of law at Saint Louis University.
“Anytime an egg doesn’t implant, it could create an opportunity for the state to at least investigate if the failure to allow implantation was intentional,” McCormick says. “If it was intentional, then maybe there could be a murder claim because at that point, the ‘child,’ being a fertilized egg, is destroyed.”
Sidney Watson, a professor at Saint Louis University and a specialist in health law, says she fears that the bill would also affect contraceptives and IVF.
“This attempt to define life as beginning at fertilization is, I think, a way for some elected officials to outlaw some forms of contraception,” Watson says.
Certain types of birth control — such as levonorgestrel, also known as “the morning after pill,” and some forms of intrauterine devices — prevent pregnancies by blocking fertilized eggs from implanting into uterine walls.
Though pregnancy is medically considered to start after implantation, GOP legislators in Missouri and other Republican-dominated states have tried to ban morning-after pills in the past for being “abortifacients.”
Last year, the Missouri Senate voted to ban Plan B and IUDs as part of a bill to renew a tax on hospitals. The measure did not advance after female senators criticized the language. A revised version of the bill later passed and barred public dollars from being used for any “abortifacient drug or device.”
Pro-choice Missourians worried contraceptives would be at risk once again after the federal right to an abortion was taken away. Under Moon’s bill, McCormick says, “any birth control that operates after the moment of fertilization could count as the instrument of murder.”
Moon disagrees.
In a phone call Thursday, Moon said the bill “is not intended to” affect birth control. When asked how that’s possible when some forms of contraceptives prevent fertilized eggs from implantation, Moon acknowledged the bill “certainly might” affect contraceptives.
“The primary focus is on purposely ending a child’s life,” Moon continued.
Moon groups condoms and IUDs as contraceptives separate from Plan B, or the morning after pill. When asked if Plan B would still be lawful under his proposal, Moon responded: “I think there will be lots of conversation about that.”
Plan B “very well could be” causing an abortion if an egg has been fertilized, according to Moon.
Moon’s bill also sparks concern over how violators would be prosecuted, McCormick says.
The bill lists five places where persons accused could be prosecuted — from the county in which they preside to the county in which they commit their alleged crime. One especially concerns McCormick: The bill would allow prosecutors to try defendants in the county they were apprehended in.
This, to McCormick, could be interpreted as an attempt to charge Missourians who travel out of state for abortions.
“It seems like they’re trying to get at conduct that maybe isn’t illegal somewhere else or to get around prosecutors in Missouri who’ve said they’re unwilling to prosecute people for violating anti-abortion laws,” McCormick says.
Moon’s bill offers few exceptions. A person would not be prosecuted if they were coerced under physical threat to end their pregnancy. Another exception is given for when a licensed physician performs a life-saving procedure that results in the “accidental or unintentional” death of the unborn child, but only after all other options to save the child’s life are exhausted or unavailable.
This exception confused Watson and McCormick. Ectopic pregnancies (when a fertilized egg implants in a fallopian tube rather than the uterus) can kill a pregnant person if left untreated and fertilized eggs can not survive, according to the Mayo Clinic.
Ending ectopic pregnancies is not “unintentional or accidental,” Watson says. “You mean to do it.”
“It’s not entirely clear that the people who draft bills like these understand how biology works,” McCormick adds.
Moon claims ectopic pregnancies could be an exception if a woman’s life is in danger. However, he points to a procedure he read about where, in early 1900s Europe, a part of a woman’s fallopian tube was excised and an embryo was successfully moved to her womb. (Moon was presumably referencing a 1917 medical journal article in which an American woman was reported to have undergone a similar procedure — though transplanting an ectopic pregnancy is widely considered to be medically impossible.)
McCormick hopes the bill will never pass — not only for its criminal law implications but also for possibly unforeseen consequences. If a fertilized egg is considered a person under law, it could be covered by any state benefit program, she says.
Moon himself has little confidence his bill will advance.
“I don’t think the majority of either chamber have a desire to take on an issue of this magnitude,” Moon says, adding that a vote for the bill may not be the most politically expedient move for his colleagues. “Unfortunately, it’s going to take a monumental effort to get this passed.”
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Fred P. Graham, The Self-Inflicted Wound (Macmillan, 1970):
The result [of pre-incorporation Due Process doctrine] was also a Federal standard of constitutionality that in light of today’s values seems to have tolerated too much. Volumes 356, 357 and 358 of the United States Reports contain the Supreme Court decisions for 1958—a typical year when the fundamental fairness doctrine was in full flower. They include such rulings as these:
—In Illinois a man was accused of killing his wife and three children. The state tried him for killing the wife, but introduced evidence of all four deaths, and the jury gave him a twenty-year sentence. The state went for the death penalty again, prosecuting him for killing one of the children. This time he got forty-five years. At the third trial, for killing another of the children, the jury finally sentenced him to death. The Supreme Court held that his double jeopardy argument was irrelevant, since the Fifth Amendment did not apply to the states. Otherwise, the procedure did not seem fundamentally unfair, so the death sentence was affirmed. [Ciucci v. Illinois, 356 U.S. 571 (1958)]
—A New York businessman was subpoenaed to testify before a state grand jury investigation into labor racketeering. He was given a grant of immunity from prosecution on state corruption charges, but he still refused to testify, pointing out that he might incriminate himself under similar Federal labor racketeering statutes. The state judge nonetheless gave him a thirty-day jail sentence for contempt of court, and the Supreme Court affirmed on the ground that the Fifth Amendment does not apply to the states. [Knapp v. Schweitzer, 357 U.S. 371 (1958)]
—A New Jersey man was tried for the robbery of three persons in the course of a tavern stick-up. None of the three could identify him, and although a fourth patron did, he was acquitted by the jury. The state then tried the defendant again for the robbery of the patron who said he could identify him, and this time the defendant was convicted. The Supreme Court let the conviction stand on the ground that the double-jeopardy clause does not bind the states. [Hoag v. New Jersey, 356 U.S. 464 (1958)]
—On the advice of his attorney, a New Jersey murder suspect turned himself in to the police. They isolated him in an interrogation room and questioned him for seven hours, refusing to let the lawyer see or advise him until after he confessed. The Supreme Court upheld the confession, finding it voluntary. [Cicenia v. Lagay, 357 U.S. 504 (1958)]
—A Los Angeles man was arrested on charges of having murdered his mistress. During the fourteen hours between his arrest and his confession he asked repeatedly to be allowed to call his lawyer, but was refused until after he confessed. His death sentence was affirmed by the Supreme Court. [Crooker v. California, 357 U.S. 433 (1958)]
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In the three decades between Brown v. Mississippi and Miranda v. Arizona, the Court delivered thirty-six opinions on the voluntariness of state court confessions. They covered a wide variety of circumstances; some confessions were upheld and others were thrown out. The result was that state courts could examine the case-by-case authorities of the Supreme Court and could find authority for affirming or rejecting almost any type of confession.
In 1963 H. Frank Way, Jr., a political scientist at the University of California, studied the 126 state appellate court rulings on allegedly coerced confessions that had been reported in a previous seventeen-month period. He found that the Supreme Court’s subjective test “provides no substantial yardstick for the states,” and that only a handful of the opinions even referred to Supreme Court confessions decisions. As an example, he noted that all six of the confessions reviewed and upheld by the Texas courts during this period included elements of heavy-handed justice. He described one appellant’s case as follows:
"Here then is an accused who made a confession after being twice arrested without a warrant, after being illegally arraigned on a false charge under a fictitious name, and after being illegally held and questioned intermittently during a two-day period, with the final interrogation continuing throughout the night. Of course, he had no legal counsel during this period. Collins was described by medical experts as being of low intelligence, with an abnormally low tolerance for stress—a man who had the character of a three to six year old child. With the use of this confession, Collins was convicted of murder and sentenced to ninety-nine years of imprisonment."
The other five cases included: (a) a defendant who was illegally arrested and, according to undisputed evidence, beaten until he confessed; (b) a Mexican-American who was arrested without a warrant and questioned intermittently for three days before he confessed and was arraigned; (c) a Negro who was sentenced to death on the strength of a confession given after intermittent all-night questioning, including, he claimed, beatings; (d) a robbery suspect who was questioned for fifty minutes and confessed because, he claimed, he was sick and the police refused to take him to a hospital until he talked; (e) a twenty-two-year-old man with a sixth-grade education who was never arraigned, and who was denied counsel during his interrogation and also at his trial, which resulted in a five- to thirty-five-year prison sentence.
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[In Ohio,] the State Supreme Court had given its blessing to warrantless searches, even in situations when search warrants could have been easily obtained. A victim of one such search, a Cleveland woman named Dolree Mapp, appealed her case to the U.S. Supreme Court. The summary of her case in the Supreme Court’s opinion [Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643, 644–45 (1961)] showed how much police abuse some state courts would excuse:
On May 23, 1957, three Cleveland police officers arrived at appellant’s residence in that city pursuant to information that “a person [was] hiding out in the home, who was wanted for questioning in connection with a recent bombing, and that there was a large amount of policy paraphernalia being hidden in the home.” Miss Mapp and her daughter by a former marriage lived on the top floor of the two-family dwelling. Upon their arrival at that house, the officers knocked on the door and demanded entrance but appellant, after telephoning her attorney, refused to admit them without a search warrant. They advised their headquarters of the situation and undertook a surveillance of the house.
The officers again sought entrance some three hours later when four or more additional officers arrived on the scene. When Miss Mapp did not come to the door immediately, at least one of the several doors to the house was forcibly opened and the policemen gained admittance. Meanwhile Miss Mapp’s attorney arrived, but the officers, having secured their own entry, and continuing in their defiance of the law, would permit him neither to see Miss Mapp nor to enter the house. It appears that Miss Mapp was halfway down the stairs from the upper floor to the front door when the officers, in this high-handed manner, broke into the hall. She demanded to see the search warrant. A paper, claimed to be a warrant, was held up by one of the officers. She grabbed the “warrant” and placed it in her bosom. A struggle ensued in which the officers recovered the piece of paper and as a result of which they handcuffed appellant because she had been “belligerent” in resisting their official rescue of the “warrant” from her person. Running roughshod over appellant, a policeman “grabbed” her, “twisted [her] hand,” and she “yelled [and] pleaded with him” because “it was hurting.” Appellant, in handcuffs, was then forcibly taken upstairs to her bedroom where the officers searched a dresser, a chest of drawers, a closet and some suitcases. They also looked into a photo album and through personal papers belonging to the appellant. The search spread to the rest of the second floor including the child’s bedroom, the living room, the kitchen and a dinette. The basement of the building and a trunk found therein were also searched. The obscene materials for possession of which she was ultimately convicted were discovered in the course of that widespread search.
At the trial no search warrant was produced by the prosecution, nor was the failure to produce one explained or accounted for. At best, “There is, in the record, considerable doubt as to whether there ever was any warrant for the search of defendant’s home.” The Ohio Supreme Court believed a “reasonable argument” could be made that the conviction should be reversed “because the ‘methods’ employed to obtain the [evidence] . . . were such as to ‘offend “a sense of justice,” ’ ” but the court found determinative the fact that the evidence had not been taken “from defendant’s person by the use of brutal or offensive physical force against defendant.”
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Porsche 356 Pre-A Speedster By Reutter 1955. - source Amazing Classic Cars.
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Oh! I forgot to respond! Anything would be cool for you to share. I love your headcanons for Scarecrow so anything like that?
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. I'm more shy about sharing Hugo headcanons, because we get very little canon information about pre-crisis Hugo (the Hugo I base my version on). With characters like Jonathan, who got an actual backstory, hobbies outside their gimmicks and what not, you have something to build your own headcanons around. You can come up with something, that wasn't in the original text, but that makes sense given what we know about the character. The headcanons are plausible and connected to canon, even if by a very, very thin thread. No such luck with Hugo. Because we know nothing about him, nearly every headcanon feels like it was pulled out of nowhere. It's not based on anything, because there's nothing to base it on. Coming up with headcanons for Hugo doesn't feel like expanding on an existing character, it feels like coming up with an OC.
So I'm a little shy to share the headcanons that are ”out there” to me (i.e. things with no canon basis), but I guess I can scrap together something lol xDDD
I'm sure we all remember the iconic quote ”I am a model of mental health!” from Gotham Knights #8-11 ”Transference.” Even if you haven't read the story, you have surely seen this panel floating around:
And I like it. It's a funny line, but then there's also this exchange from Batman #356 ”The Double Life of Hugo Strange”:
Of course these are two different continuities, one pre- and one post-crisis, but it's still interesting how differently two people can write, what is supposed to be, the same character. The attitudes the different versions hold toward their mental health are like night and day. Usually in moments like this, I would simply pick one of them for my own verse, but this time I loved them both so much, that I just couldn't choose and so for a while I wondered how I could somehow have them both. I solved it by deciding that over time, Hugo's attitude toward the subject would change. It goes from ”I am a model of mental health!” to ”Does it matter?”
In my verse, he begins to struggle with his mental health around his twenties. Back in the day, I used to headcanon he didn't start having symptoms until in his fifties, around the time we meet him in my verse, but I figured it works much better, if it started at a younger age.
So, he has manic episodes. In his twenties, they weren't very severe yet. He did have a couple short hospital stays a few times when it all started, but symptoms really cleared up after finding the right medication. The hospital stays, however short they were, were not easy for him, though.
At first, he would try to deny there was anything wrong and that bringing him to the hospital was a mistake. The doctors would disagree, though, and after a week or two on medication, Hugo too would start to see that the way he had been acting wasn't normal.
This is all very difficult for him, because he's a high achiever, a perfectionist. He needs to be the smartest, the strongest, the most powerful. He needs to be in peak psychical and mental condition at all times. He had a lot of great goals in life that he wanted to accomplish and ending up at a psychiatric ward most certainly wasn't one of them. It was a huge blow to his self-esteem. It really shook the mental imagine he had of himself. I'm sure he thought that mental illness is something that happens other people, people below him and so this was a bit of an identity crisis. I don't think he ever even thought about the pain the actual symptoms had cost him, all he ever thought about, was the pain to his ego brought on by the stigma of mental illness.
I think another element that made his stays difficult, was that he was in med school at the time. It felt wrong to be the patient. This is not the position he had been studying for years to reach. I can just imagine young Hugo screaming at his psychiatrist: ”I am a model of mental health!”
Over time, however, especially after the medication proves so effective that Hugo can almost forget that he ever had episodes in his life, he would begin to accept the diagnosis, but only as a thing of the past. Something that he beat. He would still not be open about the diagnosis. If anybody ever asked him where he had been during those hospital stays, he would think of some convenient lie. Regardless, I think it is his own experience with mental illness combined with his general interest in the human mind that inspires him to specialize in psychiatry. I also think that he's stance on mental illness and mentally ill people would also soften. It has to, really. If he thinks mental illness only happens to those below him, does that mean he himself has now sunken somehow? Become less because of this? No, that can not be, he has to be the best, so clearly mental illness can in fact happen to anyone. Even the best of us.
(I am now going to talk about how his illness developed and affected him later in life and for this, you need to keep in mind, that my verse is build upon pre-crisis continuity, so before deciding he wants to be Batman, he was a ”regular” criminal mastermind, only after money and power. He is sent to jail once Batman caught him and it is only years later, that he ends up in Arkham.)
In his late forties, when Bruce has become Batman and Hugo is arrested for the first time, his symptoms would start breaking through his medication. In these stressful situations his episodes would become more severe and start lasting longer. Since Batman was the first person to expose him and bring him down, he makes it his next goal to destroy him. It's really the only thing he can do. There simply cannot exist a person better than him, because he has to be the best. Also, he cannot let someone who humiliated him so live to tell the tale. And on a more practical level, he simply can no longer pull any larger jobs in Gotham City with Batman around, so getting rid of him becomes a necessity. It's during these fruitless struggles to beat Batman, that he starts experiencing psychotic symptoms for the first time. Around this time he also discovers Batman's identity and dons on the cape and cowl.
At this point, he is about 50 and is admitted to Arkham for the first time. Ending up in prison was bad enough. His license to practice medicine was taken away, he was exposed to the world as a criminal and a heinous person, but it was still only prison. Prison couldn't take a way his believability among other criminals. Arkham is different, though. Ending up in the city worst ”nuthouse” not only made him lose respect and status among criminals, but also in his own eyes. It was an incredibly hard blow to his ego. Twice as hard as ending up at a psychiatric ward in his twenties.
At this point, he had been a psychiatrist for many years. If it was difficult for him to be the patient in med school, imagine how difficult it is for him now, especially when he now finds himself the patient in the exact field he specialized in.
And just as in his twenties, he would have to re-think his opinions on mental illness, and once again, the re-thinking comes from necessity. After the new medication helps him see things clearly again, there is no denying the fact he had been experiencing psychotic symptoms. What kind of a psychiatrist would he be, if he still tried to deny it when it was all so clear? He really came up against a wall here. His only options were to lie down and die or accept it and move on, to ask the world, to ask himself: ”Does it matter?”
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