Jason had been acting strange lately, something everyone except him seemed to notice. It started with Jason bringing Tim a full home-cooked meal into his nest and insisting he needed to eat something decent and wouldn't let him get back to the case he was obsessing over until he did.
Dick got called "Big Wing" for the first time in a while and even got hugged and spun around. He nearly cried.
Bruce keeps getting called Dad. He also nearly cries. He actually does cry when Jason, half asleep, mutters a soft, "love you"
Cass took advantage of Jason's good mood to invite him to chat with her and Steph on a picnic where they both tried to figure out why he's so happy and buy time for Barbara to look through all the places Jason had been and make sure he didn't run foul of a rogue or something.
It didn't take her too long to find out all of this started soon after a party he was invited to via one of his former goons where Jason got drunk and left with an equally drunk guy.
Appearently Jason got laid but the guy disappeared soon after. Whats more mysterious is that this Daniel (Danny) Nightengale was a fake identity and they had no idea who- or what- he really was or what effect he was having on Jason.
Damian made the mistake of insulting this guy and it took Bruce, Dick, Tim and Cass working together to pull a pit raged Jason off of him.
Yeah.
They needed to find this guy.
Plot twist: Jason unknowingly fed on Dannys energy and accidentally got thralled
yall i Literally cannot stop thinking about that scene of cloud possessed by sephiroth using the buster like masamune cutting people down in one swing of the sword, smirking and tilting his head 2 degrees to dodge a bullet, skewering that guy mid air, holy fuck it was so hot
once again thinking about cloud “there’s someone in me that isn’t me,” “i have to leave, i’m afraid I won’t be able to stop him next time,” “i’m sorry i couldn’t be your cloud,” “maybe one day you’ll get to meet the ‘real cloud,’” “i was never hunting sephiroth, he was always calling me,” “please give me a number professor,” “tell him that when you see him again, it’ll mean the world to him, okay?” “back then we got by with scraped knees,” “hey, tifa” strife.
We get a look at what other characters were up to. In particular, the depot agents.
To explain a bit about what happened to them: some ran away as refugees to another region, some ran to join the resistance (led by Elesa), and some ended up joining Team Plasma out of necessity (either because they were captured or something else).
Putting the second pic here because I never got around to finishing it lmao
Also because the previous one works fine on its own, so this was scrapped, but have it anyways as a little bonus
So mean to them, nonbinary ghost is too linked to the place to be able to leave </3
I know it's more of a Zack thing, but hearing Sephiroth call Cloud "Puppy" as a nickname with voice acting in the flashback did cause my brain to short circuit
Especially with just how much more fucked up and unstable Remake Cloud is
Nearly done with a big Hellscape scene opening for chapter 10 (which like last update, will actually be split to two chapters due to the amount of images), I was gonna wait until I started drawing the scenes with skwisgaar and nathan to post updates but the fic hit 6k hits and I wanted to say Thanks for Reading Thus Far, the Next Update Is Cookin’!
Here’s a few of the hell bits without big spoiling below (contains a bunch of demons holding a gremlin murderface as if he’s a spicy-yet-treasured feral kitten, as well as a slimy tongue that holds evil tomes such as a rachel ray paperback cookbook);
I can't be the only one that finds it hilarious that the ninja spent all of fifteen minutes in the cloud kingdom years ago and that was enough for them to decide they felt nothing but dispassionate loathing for the place.
Also hc that Chay in his oversized tees and worn out shorts is the ultimate sex dream for Kim.
Like , his hand brushes Chay's naked waist for a microsecond when they were cuddling on the sofa, from where the shirt had ridden up while sleeping - and Kim immediately goes 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
Once they had spicy noodles for dinner that turned out to be too spicy and Kim had to work very hard to stop ( STOP!) looking too much at Chay's puffed up lips . How much does one stare at another person's lips while conversing normally anyway?
And once while correcting his grip from behind , the curve of Chay's neck carried that most tempting sparkle of a bead of sweat , that made him want to kiss and drink it- NO! Nononono.
Him whispering Kim's name in his sleep , slowly , almost like a moan , made Kim sure the boy was playing with his sanity. As if he NEEDED any more additions to his very overly active imagination!!
After they reunite , Kim begins to worship Chay like a madman. Chay had to beg , many times, to be gentler , go slower . That phi was his first.