DC Comics: Jason's back ! He's a killing machine ! No morals ! Guns ! And we weaponized your hatred for him and-
We: YES ! CMON BABY ! SMACK THE PENGUIN ! STAB PYG FOR WHAT HE HAS DONE TO SCARLET ! YOU'RE SO HOT WHEN YOU KILL INSTEAD OF TAKING TALIA'S MONEY AND GOING TO COLLEGE ! HEY ! MOUA MOUA !
House-ad for Scarlett (1993), a creator-owned series about a high-school cheerleader who’s life is disrupted when her parents are brutally murdered and she finds she’s fated to lead a war against vampires. Despite similarities, it actually pre-dates Buffy the Vampire Slayer by three years.
Overall Feeling: Mostly good I think? I'm enjoying setting up the monster-hunting team but I need a good name for them. And I felt like I did a lot of info-dumping today
Song: Lately by Shapes and Colors is from Sebastian's playlist because this feels like a song he would write, the actual voice of the artist is similar to the tone and pitch I imagine for him but the song also does a lot to describe how he feels on the inside about romance. He hates silence and he hates being alone, so he's very...active in the romance scene, sometimes in all the wrong ways. A big thing holding him back is his fear of commitment, because of the secret that he has to hide from all his potential partners, but when he meets a beautiful monster hunter in a different dimension could this barrier be broken through? *raises eyebrow*
Snippet: (under the cut) (two for today to fit today's theme of Sebastian and Scarlett)
Everyone started standing up to leave, but the blonde woman next to me turned in her chair to face me, a beautiful smile on her face. “That was amazing, Mr. Devlin, a brilliant presentation!”
“Thanks, and call me Sebastian,” I replied, although I hadn’t really meant for it to be a presentation or brilliant, I was just bored. “I don’t think I caught your name.”
“Oh, my apologies,” she blushed. “My name is Scarlett Basil, I’m apprenticed to the Commander, he’s my great uncle, he took me in after my father passed from Icy Fever.” Once she finished she blushed even more red. “That was…more than just my name, wasn’t it?”
“I did think it was an oddly long name,” I smiled my signature charming smile. “But it’s nice to meet you, M-.” I started looking for a ring on her finger to determine if she was married but then realized that since I was in another world, they might not have the same traditions that we do.
“You can just call me Scarlett,” she quickly assured, a certain flirtatiousness to the way she started to stand up, or maybe I was reading too much into it. “And it was nice to meet you as well.”
Later...
I shivered as the carriage pulled away from the museum and headed back to the detective’s house. The commander’s apprentice was that pretty girl from the meeting. Scarlett. What a beautiful name. I wanted to test it out, see how it felt for her name to move through my lips.
“Scarlett is the commander’s apprentice, right?” I asked, giving myself an excuse, it felt good to say.