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phoenixtakaramono · 11 months

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The Boys, choose violence 10, 22, 24 if you please. :D

From the 🔥Choose Violence Ask Game🔥

Thank you, @kosmochlor, for the Ask! Ahh, and I see we’re going straight for the jugular!! 🔪(⊙v⊙✿) These are just a few personal honest opinions written at 1:40AM. What I think does not apply to everyone. ♥️

10. worst part of fanon

Keyboard warriors. The morality police clutching their pearls. You know who I’m referring to; we always have them in every fandom. The ones who police who/ what you like and are obnoxiously loud about it and about how the characters or ships you find interesting are problematic and, lookie here, my [insert character they’d fixated on] never did anything wrong compared to your rancid skrunkly blorbo and I wish more fans liked my favorite character than [insert popularly liked character]. On the converse of that, I’m on two fences when it comes to Homelander stans. Thankfully most people are rational and like him because he’s an interesting villain (and, let’s be real, it’s powered by a side of fan thirst for the actor who plays him; it’s the typical parasocial relationship that fans develop with the celebs who play our favs/ or it’s just plain interest in the fictional character itself or the fun thought of that fictional fav being railed or doing the railing)—but I do have to raise an eyebrow when he is being stanned for all the wrong reasons (coughfascistallegorycough coughMAGAallegorycough coughSigmamalecough).

It’s a very interesting outlook to have as someone who isn’t as into Homelander as other people but still goes out of my way to read and write stories of him being shipped with his enemy Billy Butcher (listen, I’m your average law-abiding 28 y/o woman who works M-Sat 9AM-5:30PM and sometimes even Sundays and even overtime; sometimes on my limited free time I just wanna indulge and imagine about what it’d take to save the metaphorical world in this fictional universe—aka by having the two toxic old men f*ck each other and they can be two co-dependent psychos in love terrorizing the world together as a shameless power couple in a perpetual Ouroboros cycle of love and hate and self-punishment; obviously I do not condone this kind of relationship irl but within the safety of my imagination, we writers be playing god. It’s fairly obvious both characters are fated to have a bad ending in the show, especially if they follow in the footsteps of comic canon for a bittersweet ending, so let me have fun on my very limited free time writing my alternative Butchlander takes about these manipulative assh0les obsessing over each other and the fate of the world depending on how successful they are at gaslighting each other into playing a permanent happy couple).

22. your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores

Homelander is canonically bi in the comics. No, I’m serious.

(Spoiler alert: for those without context, in the comics, Soldier Boy was not Homelander’s father. In the comics, male Stormfront was one of the Supes whose DNA was reused by Vought to create new and stronger versions of the source material, so his DNA resulted in baby!HL’s creation no, comic HL did not f*ck male Stormfront; in a way, HL is kinda a partial clone of comic!SF. Whereas in the show, Soldier Boy was changed to be a super straight (?) alpha male granny f*cker who was later revealed in the season to be the sperm donor for Homelander. And Stormfront, as we know, was genderswapped in the show and changed to be Homelander’s girlfriend in S3. …There’s no confirmed Sweet Home Alabama vibes yet as of 2023 but there is understandably fan speculation for a reason.)

I believe the best way to put it: Homelander is generally attracted to women, but in later issues he reveals that he has a secret liking to men. Because he’s The Homelander; he can do whatever the f*ck he wants.

And let’s not forget this beautiful iconic scene the TV adaptation gifted to us:

Now some personal opinion time: I also like the idea of him being a narcissist so he only truly loves himself. And others can come close (especially if he sees aspects of himself in them) but his One True Love will always be himself. It’s the classic Narcissus looking at his mirror reflection allegory—but now you mix it in with some complicated cocktail of a God complex, inferiority complex, imposter syndrome, self-hatred, and sociopathy or psychopathy and a hidden desire of wanting to fit in with the banal societal human norms of being accepted but always feeling left out on the other side of the glass wall looking in. Now you tie it in with him never finding anyone who’s “genuinely loved him” (by his own criteria) and has not regarded him as a monster to be feared. He’s desperate for that human connection, for that elusive “perfect companion” who will understand him and cater to him and put his needs above their own—and to him, finding that proves he’s not a freak of nature. He’s not a monster. He’s not a failed product. He’s not a pathetic excuse of a man that even Soldier Boy didn’t even want as a son. Vogelbaum—and everyone else just doesn’t understand. People love him, right? Vought and Madelyn have indoctrinated him into believing he’s the people’s hero—and how they adore and worship him and want to be him or want to f*ck him. How can he, The Homelander, a superior being with his perfect genetics who’s better, stronger, smarter and more attractive than anyone else (I hope you can tell I’m being heavily sarcastic here), go out on a limb and fail at finding this one intangible thing that ordinary mudpeople or his inferiors can find but he somehow can’t?

24. topic that brings up the most rancid discourse

It’s almost always political discourse particularly from extremely delusional right-wingers people who have terrible media literacy of what they’re watching versus what might be clear-cut to the rest of us—and discourse of whether or not The Boys (TV) is an objectively good show. All of these tend to go hand-in-hand together. I think what those people fail to realize is: the script is written by Eric Kripke, the showrunner behind the first five seasons of Supernatural—and then you have Stephen Fleet, lead VFX supervisor and show producer, who came out at the age of 43 (🏳️‍🌈). They’re adapting it from an edgy, dark, intentionally offensive-just-for-shock-value comic series written by Garth Ennis, the person behind Preacher and even a bit of the Punisher. The eight-volume comic series, which ran from 2006-2012, is full of racist, sexist, misogynistic, and homophobic elements (to be fair, GE wrote this as an intentionally darker satirical take on the superhero culture—and edgy shock factor is a writer’s strategy to make your work stand out). It was meant as a “dark, satirical commentary about the fictional superheroes—and, to an extent, the real life celebrities—we idolize, and how easily people with such power can abuse their responsibility” (source).

With what the TV showrunners had to work with, with the actual source material being a slog kinda to go through (the comics does have its share of good moments admittedly), as a whole I think it’s pretty impressive they’re able to update things to make modern social commentary which are relevant to us today (now, they can be admittedly a bit on the nose about it; one thing that stuck with me till now is how a writer friend I was watching the show with remarked how they’d thought BnHA did the superhero genre commentary much better) and somehow they were able to make a far superior TV adaptation just by paring down and changing a few things from the comics for the better so far (*knocks on wood 3x*). I will however always side-eye anyone who insist the comics is superior than the TV adaptation and loudly proclaim they won’t watch the show because “look how they massacred [insert comic character]” (now, to be fair, normally I would agree with this take but we’ve established The Boys (TV) is a special case; I would also understand if the comics had been the person’s first exposure and, hence, had become their fixation—but considering its intentionally offensive contents I am quietly side-eyeing them from the sidelines and keeping my mouth shut).

#the boys #the boys tv #homelander #butchlander #billy butcher x homelander #ask #kosmochlor #phoenix talks #personally I think it’s a bit of a cop out revealing Black Noir to be HL’s clone who did all the terrible things (incl. SAing Becca)#I understand why GE would do it though (the last minute reveal of BN = HL’s evil clone)#I clearly remember my friend refused to like HL until she found out the comic ending lore and then she was alright stanning HL in the show #I clearly remember it to this day bc the 1 thing she kept saying is ‘I hope they keep that comic reveal otherwise I feel guilty 4 liking HL’#he’s essentially the skrunkly terrible no good bad pathetic man who is your murderous babygirl that you want ‘to see happy’#bc said babygirl just wants to find ‘love’ (I say this both sarcastically and unironically)#the real villain is capitalism and the system that perpetuates the cycle #ty for the ask!

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strawb3rrybumbl3b33 · 2 years

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The Davensiblings / Found Family part 1

summary: my oc and marcus grow close, so when donald gets kidnapped by douglas and marcus, my oc also gets kidnapped & douglas makes them bionic.

DISCLAIMER: my writing is bad and the pacing is messy and i barely remember the episode so it’s kinda all over the place but enjoy ig?? The title won’t exactly make sense at first but it’ll make sense in later parts, I promise. And if your wondering why I use certain pronouns for certain characters, look at my other post: sexuality and pronoun headcanons

warnings: some swearing, mentions of injury, i dont think anything else.

word count: 1635

part two

Alyx was friends with the Davenport’s ever since they first came to school. The siblings were all weird - and clearly closeted in some way, at least clearly to Alyx. But that’s besides the point. When the siblings became friends with Marcs, so did Alyx.

But.. It was strange. Something about Alyx made Marcus’ programming malfunction. Any time he was around, marcus would feel all warm inside and he’d stumble a lot; over his words and over his own feet. Any time they were around they felt the need to protect Alyx and coddle them when they got hurt. Even if it was just a little papercut or a little scrape. It went against what it was programmed to do. But he came to the conclusion that it was just a glitch. After all, he’s just a machine, right?.. Right?

Alyx had known about the Davenport’s bionics since the air conditioning unit almost fell on them and Leo. He saw Bree superspeed to get the two of them out of the way and he saw Adam hold the unit as if it were nothing. They promised to keep their secret and after that they were included in pretty much every mission. They helped from the lab, just like Leo and Mr. Davenport did. He’d talk to the siblings through an ear piece. Mostly there to lighten the mood, crack jokes or be emotional support. Leo and Mr Davenport were on the technical side of things and Alyx was there to calm the siblings down when they were panicking too much.

So, it was no surprise that Alyx was there when Marcus had hacked Eddie. The entire time Marcus spoke, Alyx was in shock. They didn’t move an inch. His entire body was frozen. All this time Leo had been right.. But Alyx was too blind to see it. Adam had to physically shake Alyx in order for them to snap out of it.

“I’m going with you.” Alyx said quickly.

“We can’t let you do that.” Bree responded.

“I need to go with you.” Alyx said. They were half a second away from a breakdown.

“No. It’s too dangerous for you.” Chase responded.

“Marcus was my best friend too. I’m not gonna stand idly by.”

“We don’t want you getting hurt.” Adam responded, playing with his hands; a habit it had when it needed something to do with its hands or when it was nervous.

“Right. So, my friends can risk their lives nearly every damn day but when I want to do this one damn thing, it’s an issue? Just great.” He threw his hands up in frustration.

“Yeah, well you haven’t been trained for this. We have” Bree argued.

“Right. By a man that didn’t let you have a childhood. Hell, even now with Tasha and Leo here you barely have time to be kids. Plus Leo’s been on missions before and he doesn’t have any training.”

“Don’t bring me into this.” Leo said, putting his hands up.

“Any time he went, he was with someone. And it wasn’t as dangerous as this mission.” Chase argued.

“Y’know what? I’m over this.” Alyx stormed out.

Adam was about to follow Alyx but Chase stopped him,

“We don’t have time for this.” Chase said.

Leo typed something up on his computer. “Well, I hope you have time for a costume change because Big D had been working on new mission suits and I think this calls for an upgrade.”

Alyx walked to Marcus’ house. They’d hung out with Marcus and went to his house a few times, so they knew where it was. He’d never been inside but he’d met Marcus on their doorstep. On the walk there, they felt like someone was following them; hiding in the shadows. At first Alyx ignored it but after awhile, Alyx turned to face the noise.

“Adam, Bree, Chase if that’s you just come out. I’m sick of you following me.” They shouted into the darkness.

A deep and dark - but slightly familiar - laugh sounded from the darkness. Suddenly, a shadowed silhouette came out from behind the trees. It was Marcus.

Alyx widened their stance, starting to prepare for a fight if needed. “Marcus.” They said, their words dripping with anger. And a little bit of sadness.

“Alyx.” He said in the same tone, mocking Alyx. “Relax. I’m not here to fight.”

“Why.. Why did you kidnap Davenport?” They asked.

“It’s what i was programmed to do.” he responded.

“Programmed?” Alyx asked.

Alyx was so caught off guard by what Marcus said, they allowed him to get close.

Marcus knocked Alyx out before they knew what was happening. When alyx woke up he was handcuffed to a chair. They tried everything to get out of the handcuffs. Alyx’s head hurt and their wrists were starting to hurt too. They had started to get cuts on their wrists from trying to escape the cuffs.

“Oh good. Your awake.” An unfamiliar voice said.

Alyx’s head snapped up, looking at the voice. It came from a man with hair spiked in every direction. He had a bit of a stubble and his entire vibe was grungy.

“Alyx!” Donald shouted.

“Ow- jesus. Would it kill you guys to get me some painkillers.” Alyx grumbled.

“Oh relax. You’ll be fine. But. Lets talk about your new powers.” The grunge guy said.

“Powers?” Alyx asked, temporarily forgetting about their splitting headache.

“While you were knocked out I gave you a bionic chip!” They said proudly.

“What?!” Alyx shouted, wincing at the feeling of their head. They turned their attention to Donald.

Donald nodded a little, confirming that the man was telling the truth.

“Your core abilities are super durability and super jump. But there are plenty of other powers. Those are just the basics.” The grunge said.

Alyx didn’t know what to do. They had powers now..? He couldn’t think with His pounding headache.

“Oh you don’t even know my name do you? How rude of me. The names Douglas Davenport. Uh- he/they pronouns.. Is that how the kids introduce themselves now adays..?”

“Okay cool. Do you have painkillers or something.” Alyx groaned.

Douglas sighed and walked over to the nearby doorway. “Marcus! Bring down some painkillers and water!” He screamed up the stairs.

“There. You happy?” Douglas asked, turning back to Alyx.

“Just peachy.” Alyx said sarcastically.

When Marcus came downstairs, he was empty handed.

“Marcus, did you not hear me? I told you to bring down some painkillers and water.” Douglas groaned.

“Well clearly I didn’t hear you, dad. I don’t even know where the painkillers are.” Marcus said, rolling his eyes.

“Fine. I’ll go get it myself. Keep an eye on these two and watch out for the kids.” Douglas disappeared up the stairs.

Marcus’ entire persona changed. Their shoulders slumped a little more and they actually looked a little worried about Alyx. He took out some painkillers from his pocket and grabbed a can of soda from the mini fridge down there; a new installment. Marcus had gotten tired of Douglas yelling at it to bring down drinks anytime he was thirsty.

“It’s probably better if you have water but it’ll have to do. I needed to make sure he was out so I could talk to you.” Marcus opened up the bottle.

“Talk to me about what? You being a backstabbing bitch?” Alyx asked, still pissed at Marcus.

“I wanted to apologize. I didn’t want to do this but I was programmed to do it.” Marcus tried to explain. He poured the amount necessary of pills into his hand, opened the soda can and looked at Alyx.

Alyx was hesitant but at this point their headache was so bad they didn’t even care. He let Marcus put the pills in his mouth. Marcus brought the can to Alyx’s lips and slowly tipped it so he could drink. They swallowed the pills as quickly as they could, glad when the pain washed over.

“Just because I let you give me pain killers doesn’t mean I trust you.” Alyx added, just to make sure they were clear.

“I don’t expect you to.” Marcus dumped the rest of the can in one of the fake plants Douglas insisted on having to spruce the place up a bit. He threw the can and the empty pill tabs away.

Douglas came downstairs with more painkillers and some water. Marcus went back to his evil persona.

“Yknow. I don’t need those. My head feels better. Oopsie daisy.” Alyx said, shrugging.

“Seriously! I went all the way upstairs for nothing!?” They groaned.

Before Alyx could respond, Douglas got distracted.

He pointed to the security camera facing the door to get into this creepy ass place. “It’s the children. Marcus go greet them.”

Marcus nodded and went back up the stairs.

“Oh this is gonna be good.” Douglas cheered.

“You know its pretty damn weird for you, a grown man in your.. What? Thirties? To be wishing on the downfall of some teenagers.” Alyx pointed out.

“Oh hush.” Douglas said, waving a dismissive hand as they kept their eyes on the screen in front of him, an evil smile on their face.

Alyx couldn’t really see the sceen. It was all blurry. He seriously needed glasses. But after a few minutes, he heard three pairs of feet on coming down the stairs. He snapped his head over to the doorway as the Davenport siblings came through the doorway.

“Alyx!” The three shouted in surprise.

Another pair of footsteps and Marcus popped out of the doorway.

“So nice to finally meet my children.” Douglas said.

“Your children?” Bree asked, insanely confused.

“Oh c’mon Donny. You didn’t tell them?” Douglas asked, turning to look at Donald.

“Tell us what?” Chase asked, snapping a little.

“I’m your father.” Douglas said.