it’s 3am so watch me commiserate over this clip that’s been living in my head rent free for months now and making me sad once again after recent events
that feeling of it being just dapper and q!bad against the world returns once again
“i’m the only one who can watch you”
it’s the fact that the guy that would sacrifice eveything for any of the kids to stay safe, no matter how much strife or hatred or nasty words any of the parents could throw at him, is the one who feels like he has no one watching out for his own but himself. dapper is only an afterthought to the others. someone to remember only after all the terrible things have already happened. of course the halo family has others who they trust, but over and over again it’s shown that there’s a reason why q!bad is basically dapper’s whole world and why dapper is his sunshine
this is isn’t something new. they’ve both always shared this sentiment. dapper, the sole escapee off egg island, having only his dad at his side as they ran to that boat. and more recently, no one making sure dapper could ride out on the train with the rest of the islanders and eggs into the new server when they left that library
they “left me behind” and “just forgot me”
thankfully q!etoiles started to run back, but the fact that no one checked in the first place, that it seemed like q!etoiles was really the only one to notice even though plenty of others saw that dapper was online and around. q!bad is the only one who’s ever had dapper as priority number one in anything
that poor kid said it herself, she thinks she’s not one of the favorites. he thinks the others will be prioritized first. and they’re unfortunately likely right about that unless it comes to their dad
so the mantra continues; it’s simply dapper and q!bad against the world, to have each others backs, to live and die for each other
finally got around to drawing them as the mystery gang but also i didn’t even try to keep the outfits the same as the characters they’re supposed to be. pretzel has become puppy
Can't believe Scar saw a rapidly approaching, dishevled mumbo and went "he's so cute." I need to run unorthodox experiments on them.
IKR SAME OMG
They’re literally perfect for each other <- delusional
But seriously they have so much lore together in my silly brain and the few interactions they do have (WHICH HAS BEEN INCREASING A LOT LATELY MAY I ADD) has been FUELING the fire rapidly and gods gods GODS do I have many thoughts about them
no but really imagine. you’re a dad, your kid’s in the hospital for a non fatal surgery and then you find out that the doctors actually plan on killing her, and that your kid’s doing the surgery with no knowledge of that fact. shit i’d go fucking feral too
The last living relative of the great Pinestar. As his granddaughter, and as an extremely talented young warrior, in her own right, great things are expected of Alpineknoll. Only time will tell if she will fulfill this presumed destiny, but thanks to the careful rearing and training of her grandmother, Graypelt, she shows great promise towards her destiny.
people will be so understanding of mental illnesses/ ND until they spend more time with a person who can’t get rid of the symptoms and suddenly it’s all “I think you could fix it if you just put some alarms” “have you tried doing a todo list” “have you tried simply not thinking those intrusive thoughts” gee thanks man you know who else finds living with this shit annoying? ME.
i had SUCH a good time at the concert genuinely it was such a good show the band were really good but ofc there was an annoying man when i was getting drinks he was at the bar and kept calling me honey like CONSTANTLY and borderline aggressively so i told him that’s not my name. and i was getting drinks for me and some of my girls too and this guy was like ‘no i’m paying’ to the bartender and the bartender wouldn’t take my money even when i insisted OOOOH girls when i tell you the feeling i got from this bartender guy listening to this random FUCKING man over ME (the person ordering). i looked him dead in the eye and asked “who ordered? me or him?” and he was like “ok ok sorry” and lifted his hands like in a surrender motion and took my money finally. dude it is SO fucking DIRE being a woman
i am having so much brainrot about galatea & varinia meeting in pandæmonium (i renamed her ancient again 🤡) & how that impacts both of them because, iirc, the canon never established its own rules regarding time travel and what would happen if a sundered shard encountered their unsundered self. much to think about
every day I wake up and it’s just like. gideon nav is still in love with harrowhark and she still can’t admit it out loud. but also she’s confessed it a hundred times.
Gotham has always been protected by a Dragon, even before it was ever Gotham.
There was a way about the land Gotham stood upon, that was all twisted magics and darkness and feral energy that never quite fit in man’s modern world. America had but one Guardian Dragon - except for Gotham, which was near a law and country unto itself.
Gotham was a sanctuary for the supernatural, but it was not kind. Those non-humans who risked its dark streets were the brave, or the foolish, or the terribly desperate. Gotham was a dark city, and it’s people adapted or were driven out.
(But should a threat ever come for her, all of Gotham would rise up in response.)
So Gotham had its own Guardian, but the Dragon guarded the world outside from Gotham’s brutality just as much as it shielded Gotham from those that would rend her apart.
But, of course, Dragons were only so many, and new blood must be brought in - human blood, as it often was, and so the trend of Dragon blood “skipping” a generation emerged.
And the bloodline of the Guardian Dragons of Gotham withered, bit by bit, because it is far easier to kill a human of dragon blood than it is to kill a Dragon of human descent.
(And Bruce Wayne has never hated this truth of the world more - because his parents had been Skipped, human, and if they had been dragons, they’d still be there with him.
But they weren’t.
It was just Bruce, a fledgling Dragon, and the butler left to care for him.)
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Although Gotham had only ever had one Guardian Dragon, it had at one time had a whole lineage of Dragons capable of taking up the mantle. As the Dragons intermarried, however, more and more lines broke off with human kin, occasionally producing dragons.
But the Guardian Line had been reduced to one untrained hatchling. And that hatchling didn’t much care if it was a Dragon or a dragon that was Guardian of the city, just that there was someone to Guard it.
The problem is, of course, that the hatchling needs training - but he cannot get that in Gotham.
So he leaves.
He comes back ready to pull his city back from the brink, by force if (when) necessary.
Here’s the thing - Bruce is no Dragon, because for all that he is the last of the Guardian line he doesn’t adhere to the rules of that duty.
A Guardian’s duty is to the supernatural beings they protect.
Bruce has already decided that that is not enough. Human or Magical Being, if no one else will step in, then he will.
Bruce might have been the Gotham Dragon, but that didn’t mean he was the only dragon in the city.
The thing about dragon blood is that it tended to turn up dragons unexpectedly in families that had been mostly human. A dragon ancestor could have human children, and their children have human children, and then a dragon. It was a recessive trait when introduced into human bloodlines, and especially if it was paired with yet more human lines, but it also was tellingly stubborn - a human may only have a single draconian ancestor hundreds of years back, but they could still unexpectedly turn up a dragon hatchling.
It was just sheer dumb luck that a bunch of said unexpected hatchlings turned up within the span of the same generation.
Hey! I hope this is OK to ask but you’re the only person so far I have seen who mentioned the teeth in Gideon/Kiriona’s chest, so I figured I’d ask if you know what’s up with that? I was pretty confused about that, but I might have missed something at some point
hi anon! yeah so as I understand it there are two possible interpretations:
1) teeth is meant figuratively and the “teeth” are Gideon’s ribs, which is what I initially thought it meant
2) teeth is meant literally.
Now typically when we see teeth in the wrong places it’s part of the horror, sure, but more importantly it’s a hallmark of the devouring empire and John’s power (just look at the roses!). Ergo we have even more reason to believe that John altered Gideon in some way. He didn’t just make her a revenant or make it so no one can take her blood, he literally messed with her body. She’s even more of a weapon now. It’s also very symbolic, the demands of the empire literally devoured her heart 💔