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heckinconfusedparade · 1 year

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Hey, I just had an awesome idea that you haven't done yet, which is surprising but why not have movie Sonic Meet the Big Man himself, modern Sonic, and his friends, and have modern talk about his adventures, since technically speaking even classic sonic is basically modern sonics younger years I'd bet movie sonic would be just amazed by everything this version of him has done same goes for movie tails and knuckles with their counterparts. Also, for a bit less confusion, this is before the tails squad was official.

First off, Modern nickname time!

Sonic- Glitch (based off his most recent adventure!)

Second, the other two bros will be involved in a cross over some other day.

. . .

Tails has been studying a long time on universal travel. Different planets? Ok. Time travel? That’s possible. But entirely different universes is beyond what he’s accomplished before.

Tails is a little stressed since he’s behind on his work due to his.. recent adventure in cyberspace. But after he got some rest, he was back in business. He wanted to complete some stuff before going off on his own for the first time.

He is prepared to open a portal between worlds!

The portal takes on the shape of a golden ring. A figure appears through the portal. A small blue hedgehog is sent through. The portal behind him flickers away, and a whole series of weaponry points at him. The hedgehog puts his little blue arms up in surrender, taking in his surroundings.

Tails cheers “wahoo!! I did it!- oh- sorry.” He presses a few buttons and the weapons are put away “just some security measures in case my curiosity came to kill me. Anyway! You’re another Sonic! This is so neat!”

Sonic steps off the platform “another Sonic? Did I get transported to another universe again?”

“Again??”

“Yea. I’ve been like, 2 other places. Met another me who was really tall and had a scarf. He was nice! So uh.. where am I?”

Tails escorts Sonic outside “welcome to Green Hills!” Sonic looks around and his face drops a little “it reminds me of… where I’m from. Before I had to hide on Earth. I lost my guardian.”

Tails frowns “I’m sorry to hear that, Sonic.”

They go back inside and sit down on the couch. Tails provides some drinks for the two of them. “Where’s your Sonic?” Sonic asks taking a sip out of his glass. “Oh he’s getting a very much needed rest. He spent days in cyberspace battling cybercorruption. He got so caught up in saving us from limbo that he didn’t stop to rest. By the time he found me, he had already been corrupted to the point he couldn’t walk or stand very well.. it was scary. I couldn’t do anything. I was so worried about him.. we all were.”

Sonic listens carefully to Tails’ story. He makes a mental promise to himself to take care of himself at all times. Can’t worry the others! He leans back into his seat “looks like me getting into deadly situations is a universal thing. Eggman got ahold of the master emerald and nearly crushed me n my parents.”

“Y-you have parents?” Tails is shocked to hear this. “I do! After I was forced to reveal myself after 10 years of on earth, I bonded with a human I called the Donut Lord! Then he and his wife Pretzel Lady took me in and adopted me. They took in my Tails and Knuckles as well, and now we’re brothers!” Sonic smiles fondly thinking of his family back home. Tails is happy to hear that Sonic did end up finding a home.

Suddenly, Glitch appears. He yawns and heads to the fridge. He glances at the other two, then has a double take. “Uh. Tails? Who’s our.. visitor?”

Sonic waves enthusiastically. Tails grins “I’ve been working on universal travel! And it worked!” Glitch makes a “hm!” Sound and grabs himself some water. He then plonks himself down on the couch next to Tails. He looks at Sonic.. and wow this guy is tiny.

“You’re short.” He says. Sonics mouth opens a little in disbelief. Glitch chuckles a little, and Tails sighs. This is going to be a loooong day.

Sonic decides he is going to be the bigger person here and start a meaningful conversation “I hope you know that Tails messing with the multiverse is universal.”

“It is??” Glitch is not surprised really, he should have known. Nobody can stop the curiosity of a genius mind! Sonic goes “Mhm yea. One time me, Tails, and Knuckles were all minding our business having a nice friendly discussion, and then suddenly we’re in a wooden workshop with another Tails WHO WAS TALLER THAN ME BY THE WAY, who decided that he was apparently going to once again risk the destruction of the universe. THEN HE TAUGHT MY TAILS WHO DECIDED HE WANTED TO DO IT TOO, so guess what? He took it upon himself to just dip to another universe blindly, without telling anyone, leaving Knuckles and I freaking out because if we don’t find this kid soon, our parents might actually kill us.”

The more Sonic says, the more Glitch was actually surprised. Then came the parents part, and Glitch is like “you have parents??” And Sonics like “yea I got adopted by a nice human couple who also took in Tails and Knuckles.”

At some point, Glitch gets to tell Sonic the tales of his many adventures, each one bringing the little hoglet to the edge of his seat. He’s got stars in his eyes. Sonic really really wants to be a hero like that someday. Tails has got the same expression and idea. Sonic wants to bring his brothers here one day and explore!

Sonic also gets to tell his story. He tells it in a very dramatic and expressive way like he had been practicing in the mirror for months. The crowd favourite was, as usual, Tails hitting Knuckles with a car.

Sonic then goes “…I just realized how long I’ve been gone. I think I may have missed dinner.”

And with that, he is sent home to his very upset family. Sonic explains everything, and guess what? They believe him, because this has happened before and will probably happen again.

#sonic the hedgehog #sonic the hedghog movie #miles tails prower #movie sonic #sonic wachowski

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howtobecomeadragon · 1 year

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hello!! this is perexcri because tumblr is dumb and doesn't let sideblogs send asks :) anyway!! for the book asks: 32, 38, 103, 129, and also 71!! i need some good lgtbq+ book recs and am always open to suggestions :] 💜💜💜

hello hello!!!! :)

32: your favorite nonfiction novel

i don’t read much nonfiction, but of what i’ve read, Know My Name by Chanel Miller stands out from the rest. not only was it really emotionally impactful, but also really informative about the criminal justice system (and its many failures to protect victims of sa). very very heavy though, and look into trigger warnings going into it!

38: your favorite series

this is a very hard question. i can’t… i can’t narrow it down. i’ll share a few.

Inkheart: a childhood favorite that i still revisit often. characters come out of books. it’s magical :)

Six of Crows: this duology is so popular for a reason. they’re just amazing. amazing plot, characters that will stick with you forever, and every romance is perfect (there is a queer relationship in here!). there is scheming, heists, magic, found family, revenge.

In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad): i’ve only read two of these so far, but they’re detective books! they really pull you in and make you feel disoriented in the best way. they just totally transport you somewhere else.

The Foxhole Court (All for the Game): it feels insane and ridiculous to include this book on this list, but this book series was all i thought about for a week as i read them, and i still think about them all the time, three years later??? they’re ridiculous, it’s about a made up sport and the mafia, it’s so outside of what i usually read, and yet i was captivated. and i’m not alone, there’s like a very small dedicated following to the series, it’s like a little cult classic. it’s self-published so they’re not extremely polished, but it’s not too bad at all. i got them all as ebooks for like $5, but i loved them so much, i bought them all in print too. a bunch of crazy stuff happens, definitely check tw if needed! there’s also an extreeeeeemely slow burn queer romance in here, but like, it’s slooow.

103: a book that deals with heavy topics

Neverworld Wake is one of my favorites. it’s kind of like dealing with grief in a limbo time loop.

Sadie was a devastating book, about big sister’s love for her little sister, and made me sob. check out trigger warnings as needed!

also, i don’t own this one, but My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell. this book isn’t for everyone, but it’s an exploration of csa and grooming from a teacher, with flashes forward to the narrator’s experience confronting what she thought to know to be true about that relationship within a 2017 context when that teacher has been accused of abuse. check out trigger warnings as needed.

129: a book with beautiful prose

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender. beautiful but definitely check out trigger warnings!

71: your favorite LGBTQ+ fiction

i’m going to give you lots of recs bc it seems like you want a lot, and i have read a lot :)

In Other Lands: one of my favorite books of all time. silly YA fantasy, bi mc, amazing characters that stick with you.

Red, White & Royal Blue: goofy little son of the president x prince of england romance

Autoboyography: kinda insta-lovey, but explores a lot of IH and religious homophobia (love interest is mormon)

Charm Offensive: it’s like the BACHELOR, but he’s ANXIOUS, and he doesn’t fall for any of the CONTESTANTS, but rather a GUY CREW MEMBER with DEPRESSION. 5/5, amazing.

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe: a classic!!! a couple teens figuring things out.

A Dowry of Blood: not my favorite, but it’s Dracula and his brides, it’s queer and poly.

Song of Achilles: a classic!!!! the fall of troy and everything that came before that.

Wolfsong: it’s a whole series about gay werewolves. what more can you ask for??

The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue: not my favorite, but fun. an adventure!!!

Every Heart a Doorway: first in a series of novellas, so much great rep. people find doors to other worlds that they slip into, but the story picks up once they’re back and homesick.

I’ll Give You the Sun: one of those like… early queer books that i read before i knew i was queer, but it made me feel so much at the time. permanently imprinted in my brain.

Fence: there are graphic novels, and then a couple novels. it’s fencing at a boarding school, and everyone is so so so gay. the novels are hilarious too, written by the same author as In Other Lands.

some books that i don’t own and didn’t love, but were pretty good: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Only Mostly Devastated by Sophie Gonzales, Perfect on Paper by Sophie Gonzales (explores biphobia and attachment styles, which was really interesting!), History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera (oh my GOD this book made me sob, it’s so much heavy grief), She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen (fake dating), Her Name in the Sky by Kelly Quindlen (wlw but a lot of IH and religious homophobia)

i’ve read more that were just so-so, and have a ton of unread queer books, so if you want more ideas, let me know! i have a lot more i can give you, just without my personal stamp of approval :)

book rec asks here!

#ask #book rec ask game

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alto-tenure · 9 months

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okay. let's re-establish our characters:

main bat-cast:

TIM DRAKE as BATMAN

STEPHANIE BROWN as ROBIN

BARBARA GORDON as ORACLE

CASSANDRA CAIN as HERSELF

DUKE THOMAS as THE SIGNAL

other people that are in Gotham:

JASON TODD as RED HOOD

ROSE WILSON as HERSELF? (possibly Ravager. uncertain)

KATE KANE as BATWOMAN

BERNARD DOWD as HIMSELF

DARCY THOMAS as SPARROW

characters who are Not In Gotham for at least part of the story but are still fairly important somewhere:

DAMIAN WAYNE as NIGHTWING

DICK GRAYSON as ???

HELENA BERTINELLI as HUNTRESS

BRUCE WAYNE as BATMAN

TEAM SECTION

NOT-SO-YOUNG JUSTICE (less a team and more a friend group):

CASSIE SANDSMARK as SANDSTORM

KON-EL as SUPERNOVA

BART ALLEN as IMPULSE

CISSIE KING-JONES as HERSELF

ANITA FITE as EMPRESS

GRETA and SLOBO may or may not be around too

THE BIRDS OF PREY:

as mentioned earlier, HELENA and BABS

DINAH LANCE as BLACK CANARY

um. I do not know the Birds of Prey well enough to say who might be on a team with these three approximately five years after the current state of canon. Steph and/or Cass would probably go here if not for Extenuating Circumstances. Would Rose be invited to the team, given that she’s on better terms with some of the other vigilantes? No clue.

OTHER CHARACTERS THAT SHOULD MAYBE, PROBABLY AT LEAST CAMEO:

Clark, Diana, other characters that are theoretically Bruce's friends and would be sad if he died

idk a few of the Gotham rogues. Scarecrow? Selina? Ivy? Harley? The Penguin? I'm not including the Joker I don't like him enough for that

OTHER CHARACTERS I CAN'T FIGURE OUT BUT WANT TO INCLUDE:

GHOSTMAKER

yeah that's it

some explanations under the cut

there are definitely more characters operating from Gotham. I brought up some in some of my earlier posts about this AU. I just don't think Batman matters enough to them to justify their inclusion (Xanthe) or I don't know enough about them to say accurately what they would be doing (Claire Clover).

I don't think Sandstorm is a terrible name for Cassie. Yes Bart plays Darude a lot. There are some regrets. It is still too cool to give up.

Supernova!Kon is just cool. There are already two Supermen. We can chill. Kon should get a new identity to himself.

Anita is back in the vigilante business because at this point the kids are...definitely old enough to be in school full-time. It is still pretty chaotic. Greta I know has made a recent ish appearance. Slobo is still stuck in comics limbo I think? But the whole squad is here. YJ is primarily there to be Tim’s friends, so their hero selves don't matter as much, but they (esp the other core 4 members) are who Tim calls for backup first outside the Bats because it simply would not occur to him to call Bruce's friends when he needs help. He has his own friends.

I really want Khoa to be in this because the personality clashes between him and Tim would be insane. Alas I can't find a way to fit him in. I don't think Batman Inc is sustainable especially with Khoa as the leader...Khoa is not a teamup guy. This is like. The basis of his personality clashes with Tim. But I think the future of Batman Inc should be that Khoa pisses off everyone on his team to the point where he's left alone.

#dc #au: gotham needs a batman #<- please. if you're confused as to what's going on. check out the rest of this tag

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amagicdoctor · 1 year

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|In Dark X-Men Azazel seems to just be bored if he’s joining some kind of mutant/Limbo reject Suicide Squad I don’t even know what the hell to make of that| no but I had the exact same reaction because everyone on the cover is posing to look cool or fierce while azazel's like "i'm way to old for this kind of tomfoolery" < Same guy who raided Heaven 10 years ago in a pirate costume

then i stopped, thought about it and it kinda just dawned on me that the only guy azazel has at least met before in the whole lineup is Warren and they're not even on good terms. hell i could say the same about all of the villains here, they've never met before this thing and have only headbutted with one/some of the heroes in the lineup

so realistically if you had to give a thought bubble for maddie (goblin queen), kenji (zero), marius (emplate), albert and azazel on this cover it would be a unanimous "I dunno any of these people why th am I working with them"

Yeah good job for pointing this out because then this leads me to think that the GQ may have some bargaining chip to get all these personalities and egos together into one team. SOMETHING is happening in the background to drag all these guys together. She may have something they want. And I have a feeling it's partially about what's happening with her rule of Limbo..

#text response #ask for admin

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varividchicken · 3 years

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Hi, can you make the twst reaction of the Dream smp lore in every yuu perspective for example they see from Tommy!yuu perspective or see from Wilbur!yuu perspective or Ranyoo perspective

So basically learning what DSMPCharacter!Yuu's world and experience was like. It be a different tale and a different reaction from a different character. That's going to be too many but I can do a few and perhaps add new ones if I feel like it. Additional info is that they entered TWST without the bruises they had in DSMP as if they restarted but retain their experience and memories:

RanYoo's POV : TWST Cast find their tale odd yet funny (they also presented it like how Ranboo did a sh&%ty DSMP summary stream). Some parts be missing because just like Ranboo, RanYoo has short term memory. Idia would think it's not much to think after that, then Ortho finds him making an Evidence board about RanYoo like some theorist because of some complex parts in his tale and other parts of their tale that were missing be said out of nowhere, that Idia would try to connect the dots. Azul may also join, I guess want to bribe them because RanYoo has something more that he can bargain for. They really want to understand what RanYoo meant by them being also [redacted]. They don't like this Dream guy of a PEZ dispenser for wronging them.

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YuuInnit's POV : It started out as a shonen adventure type tale with a tournament arc like the beginning was child's play and then sadness put into it like going up and down. Such odd tales of creating totems of significant others. Made Kalim cry. Lilia may have experienced more battles than them, but Yuu had worst torment and it was a battle between those you deemed close and contradicting beliefs. Thought they were just loud and bold, others changed on how they view them, First Year squad gave them a hug. Riddle liked about the tale of YuuInnit's brother (the first half) is amazed and inspired to be better. The first years cheered them up and on. Leona did not expect this of the herbivore. Cool that they've taken down their enemy, for now.

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NiYuuchu's POV : A tale of someone's actions unnoticed, experienced oppression and witnessed war. Part of it then was a villain's tale. Jamil understands and pities them probably would like to bake together with Trey. Sebek praises them for being a strong warrior who is vocal. Everyone else worries them that at some point they would burn the whole college down and would like to be on their good side, but they would never left them unheard. TWST Cast got pissed that this person that NiYuuchu looked up to and believed has betrayed them. Vil and Rook would treat NiYuuchu out after that. Jack is amazed that they build an underground city by themselves, Cater would like to visit it.

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WilYuu's POV : It was like a hero becoming a villain tale with metaphors that not made a specification. So many happened they got concerned but amazed but are they okay? they said they died 3 times? Limbo sounds horrifying, they fear them a bit and think this Dream guy at first seems alright but a few would say otherwise. It was a serious tale with little happy moments. Regardless, they've been in war, had created a country and became a president! Thinking they're retired because they were making a burger van which where it ended and plans of breakout, now they worry what are their plans here? They seem to be writing songs in the meantime. Octa Trio finds this interesting ang Azul would have a secret rivalry with them. TWST Cast was amazed of their achievements.

WilYuu : My parents are the Angel of Death and a refrigerator. I also have f&*^ed a salmon and have a fox as a child

Everyone and also Idia who immediately covered Ortho's ears : What?!

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Varivid : WilYuu is pretty complex, you could hear Revived when they about to go bats$%t

#twisted wonderland #dsmp #crossover #fusion #text #dsmpcharacter!yuu #dsmp!yuu #twst #what if #headcanon #twst imagines #sorry if i got them wrong but overall the therapist is tired #their kindness differs

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loosesodamarble · 2 years

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Hi! For the 200 followers event, can I have a Henry (from Black Clover) x reader scenario where he helps the reader sneak a bunch of baby ducks into the base without anyone noticing? Like, the reader found them lost in the forest at night and would try to find them a home in the morning. Thanks and congrats on reaching 200, I know you'll reach even more!!

Gotta be real for a moment. Henry would sneak the baby ducks in himself if sweet reader wasn't with him. That's just the kind of guy he is.

But in this scenario, he's got a partner to co-parent with! And that's just lovely. I really do hope that once the whole Spade situation is dealt with, Henry will be allowed to exist outside the walls of the the Black Bulls base. Like... Please Tabata give the man just a little more freedom.

Summary: You and Henry adopt a some ducklings for the evening. It's yet another thing that brings the two of you closer, strengthening your love for each other.

Word count: ~850

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The night. Dark. Cold. Quiet. Not the ideal atmosphere for children.

“Ready for a little adventure?” you asked the armful of ducklings in your arm and wrapped in your squad robe.

The answer you got was a chorus of chirping.

“Okay, okay. I guess you are,” you said, as if answering the ducklings. “But try to be quiet. Henry’s going to help us but you’ve got a part to play too.”

The ducklings wriggled, chirps even louder. You did your best to hug them closer while not hurting them. With a gentle smile, you tucked the ducklings under your robe’s hood.

The plan was that Henry would act out a surge of creativity and “strategically reconstruct” the base while giving you a direct path to his room. You and Henry would then take care of the ducklings until morning, returning them to their parents at that time.

When you finally entered the base, the place was in chaos. Walls and pillars were askew in the most random places. Tiles shifted at random. All the other Bulls were yelling for Henry when their path was obscured or simply over the mess he was making. You had to bite your lip to stop from bursting out laughing.

“OI!” Yami stormed up to you, glaring like he was ready to kill. “Thank goodness you’re here! Now can you tell your boyfriend to stop fu—!”

“Peep!”

“The hell was that?”

“Uh… That was…”

“Peep!” You faked a shudder when a duckling chirped.

“Hiccups?”

Yami eyed you scrutinizingly. “What kind of hiccups are tho—?”

“I’ll go see Henry now!” you yelped over the growing number of peeps from the ducklings.

You quickly dash away, weaving around walls and limboing beneath shifting rafters. With the ducklings in your hold, you were careful of your pace, not too fast. You felt them squirming while they chirped repeatedly.

“Not long now, little ones,” you giggled.

Around you, the base began to shift into a clearer path. The floor evened out and a staircase built itself, leading you up towards the mastermind behind it all. You could feel that Henry felt from the way he worked. Soon, you were led to the open door of Henry’s room.

Or rather, Henry’s room combined with the bathing area.

“Welcome back, dear,” Henry greeted you from the edge of a full tub. “Bring them over here.”

You walked over then lowered the ducklings to the water, taking your robe back at the same time. You felt your mana get drained but it was slow due to a special reinforcement spell crafted to resist Henry’s condition. The wonders of magical research.

“What was that back there?” you asked, gesturing out the door. “That wasn’t ‘strategic reconstruction,’ you silly!”

Henry shrugged. “Chaotic deconstruction worked just as well though, don’t you agree?”

You let out a laugh like a snorting pig. “But Yami’s mad at you now!”

Dropping to the floor, you leaned on the edge of the tub and watched the ducklings. They floated on the water, kicking around the foreign body of water. Henry did the same and even reached out to pet one of the ducklings. He tapped the water’s surface, grabbing their attention, then kept still until one duckling was brave enough to approach.

Henry may have been cursed with a peculiar constitution, but he was blessed with the kindest heart you’d ever seen. He loved animals so gently and they, in kind, were drawn to him. That same kind heart spoke to you and now…

“They’re probably hungry,” you commented while reaching into your bag. You took out a bag of birdseed. “Wanna help me feed them?” You held out the bag to Henry.

“Of course!” Henry kept his voice soft but his enthusiasm couldn’t be diminished.

The birdseed was sprinkled into the water and poured on the tub’s edge for the ducklings. Little chirps were heard as they chowed down, completely at ease in yours and Henry’s presence. One ate from Henry’s palm, cuddling up against his hand once it had finished.

The small tenderness between human and animal. Henry’s smile. You committed those sights to memory.

Leaning against the tub, you closed your eyes. Against rogue mages and terrorists and the looming threat of devils in Spade, you sometimes forgot how to simple enjoy yourself. But then, things like this happened.

“Henry, can we stay like this?”

“Hm?” You didn’t need to see, you were sure he had raised a brow in your direction. “We can’t keep them forever.”

You shook your head. “I don’t mean the ducklings. I mean…” You took a breath then opened your eyes to stare into Henry’s. “I mean… I want to appreciate life with you. Forever.”

For a moment, you heard no response. Then, Henry’s warm body pressed against your side, his hair draping over you.

“I’d like that too,” he whispered.

You two leaned into each other.

Splashing water. Duckling chirps. The sound of breathing. Two heartbeats.

You and Henry basked in the moment. The ducklings would have to be let go of in the morning but the serenity the two of you found would never have to leave, so long as you two held onto one another.

#questions from the ask box #soda's 200 follower special #black clover #henry legolant #henry legolant x reader #black clover fanfic #x reader #reader insert

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cosplaydude637 · 3 years

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Chapter 10: Knowledge and new friends

Hours later the group of Parabatai returned to the institute, their heads hanging low. Izzy was running up to them as they walked in but draw up short as she sees them. Running up next to her came Xander and Ruthie. Seeing their face they all went ghost white.

“What happened?” Ruthie asked?

“We failed…” Angelique sighs. Jace and Mekyle punch the wall they were each standing next to. This made Clary jump a little. Alec walked over and placed his hand on Jace’s shoulder.

“Hurting yourself is not going to do us any good. We need to find the Prince of hell and send him back,” Alec says.

“Or kill him!” Simon snaps

“We will make this right. We are Shadowhunters,” Izzy says, offering them all a warm smile.

“Plus we got a leg up on Sinara now,” Ruthie says with a bright smile.

Jace worlds around and glares at her. This makes Ruthie cringe back, losing her smiles. “A leg up! A leg up! How the hell is letting a prince of hell free into our world a Damn leg up newbie!”

Xander steps in front of Ruthie and right into Jace’s face. “I respect that you're our institute head and I know you could most likely kill me six ways from Sunday but I won’t let any member of my squad be talked to like that!”

Jace’s face goes red and he balls up his fist and starts to swing at the young Shadowhunter when faster than anyone could blink Alec has grabbed Jace by the arms and was halling him back. Jace was fighting Alec the whole way. Xander however did not move from in front of his teammate.

Clary quickly got into Jace’s face and glared at him. “Jace knock it off. They were not there they don’t know what happened plus let’s see what this leg up Ruthie is talking about really is.”

Jace goes limp in Alec’s arms, his face Softening. Clary turns and looks at Xander and Ruthie. “Ok guys, what is this leg up you are talking about?”

Ruthie gives out a little squeak and steps out from behind Xander. “Is he going to yell at me again?”

“No honey it’s ok now,” Clary says with a soft voice.

“We have one of the gatekeeper here.” Ruthie slowly replied.

“What?” Simon spoke up and moved in front of Jace, Alec, and Clary.

“We made a trip to the Shadow Market and Learned. That an old friend of mine is one of the gatekeepers.” Izzy explained.

“You know a really old Shadowhunter?” Mekyle asks, raising an eyebrow.

“No, she is a downworlder.” She replays

“Huh,” the group of Parabatai all looked very dumbfounded.

Izzy leads them to the infirmary with Xander and Ruthie at each side of her. Cassandra was laying in one of the beds, her right arm was wrapped in bandages. She slowly set up her eyes flicking yellow like a dog.

“Guys this is Cassandra Willows she is a warlock,” Izzy says and points to Cass.

“Sup guys great place you got here,” Cass says with a cheerful voice. Ruthie walks over and looks at the bandages and shakes her head and starts unwrapping the bandages and points to Xander then to the cabinet that has the clean new bandages. “Sorry, Doc the wound started itching.”

“You're healing fast and all but I want you to keep this clean and wrapped,” Ruthie orders her as Xander hands her the new bandages. Ruthie starts wrapping Cass’s arm again.

“Push little thing ant she?” Cass says with a giggle.

“You have no idea.” Xander, Mekyle and Angelique say in unison.

Alec walks over to Cass and puts his hand out. “Hello, Cassandra, I am Alec Bane-Lightwood, Console of the Clave.” Cass blinked and shocked his hand with a look of duda I know who you are. “We understand you are one of the Gatekeepers. What gate do you look over and where is it?”

This made Cass go white and her eyes darted around the room mental mapping a way out of the room. Right as she was about to throw the blanket off and head for the exit. Xander lad a hand on her shoulder and smiles at her.

“Trust us Cass, we want to keep all the Gates safe.” He says and ameetly Cass softens and looks back at Alec.

“I guard over the gate of Gluttony.” Cass answers but was cut off by Simon before she could finish

“The Gate of what?” Simon asks

“The Gate of Gluttony you know like the sin,” Cass states coldly looking at Simon. “You do know what the 9 circles of hell are, don’t you?” Everyone turns to Simon and he just stands there looking confused.

“You mean like the Anime?” He asks.

“No you nerd the Book!” Jace snaps.

“It’s the same thing,” Simon mutters.

“The gate here in New York is Limbo. Seeing as New York was the place where other countries came to the U.S. Hersheypark of Pennsylvania sits the Gate of Gluttony.” Cass says, laying one of her hands on top of Xander’s.

“Why there?” Angelique asks

“Most sites of the gates have some ties to what gate is belt there. Gluttony is simple with a theme park.” Cass answers, trying to sit up on the side of the bad. Xander held his hand out to her and she smiled and blushed, taking his hand. “I will take you to the gate. If this Sinara wants to open my gate she has got one hell of a fight on her hands.”

“We can’t all go,” Alec says

“And why not?” Izzy asks.

“We need to keep A group of Shadowhunters here so that New York stays safe” Alec explains

“He is right, we can’t leave New York unprotected,” Clary adds.

As the group tried to decide who was going and who was staying. A ring from the Institute doorbell came. Jace, Alec, Clary, and Angelique break away to go answer the door. Standing at the door when Jace opened it was Bat the local werewolf clans secant in command. Alec gave him a very odd look. “Bat what are you doing here?”

“Is Maia here?” He barks out.

“Huh?” Jace says

“Are all you Shadowhunter stuped or death? Where is Maia” Bat snaps out his eyes glowing yellow.

“Stand down Lykin. Don’t make me put you down!” Jace yells out moving into Bat’s personal space.

“Like to see you try. No one to stop me this time blondy.” Bat growls low in his through.

Before Alec could move in between the two men Angelique was already there pushing them apart. In a very Com and even voice, she speaks to them “ok guys this is not the time and remember we are at peace here. Bat, Maia is not here, she has not been here. Jace, he is only worried about this alpha.”

Bat looks down at the small hand that was on his chest pushing him away from Jace and he starts to chuckle. “Your one brave little girl.”

“She is right though. Bat you have not heard from Maia?” Alec asks.

Bat steps away and ruffles Angelique’s hair. “No she was sent to meet with you and the other members of the Alliance and she never came back.”

“That was weeks ago,” Alec says in shock and a tinge of panic in his voice.

“I know after a few days I thought it was odd but it’s Maia and she does as she wants. After all, she is the Alpha. But after a week it’s not normal.” Bat explains.

“We need to look into this.” Angelique states.

“Ok, I want you to put together a team and look into this Angelique.” Alec orders.

“Me?!?!?” Angelique shouts.

“Yes you, I need to stay here and deal with clave business and the rest will be going with Cass,” Alec says.

“Xander should lead then,” Angelique says.

“There is no way he is not going to go with Cass,” Clay says.

“Oh, you got that too.” Jace chimes in clary smiles and nods.

“This is your mission Angelique as order by your Console.” Alec orders again. This time Angelique just nods. Bat looks at Alec and Angelique. “Bat return to the pack and Angelique will come to you with her team,” Alec adds.

“Ok see you soon Shadowhunter,” Bat says and bonds down the steers.

All the Shadowhunters and Magnus, who had portaled to the institute a few minutes ago now sit around a huge round table in the war room. Alec leads the meeting deciding who is going on what mission and agreeing with the Shadowhunters Angelique picked to take on hers.

Angelique chose Mekyle and Ruthie for her mission Simon and Izzy were picked by Alec to back them up. This leaves Jace, Clary, Xander, and Cass going to the gate.

“We have one more idam we need to deal with,” Alec announces.

“We do?” Simon asks puzzled.

“Yes the names of are Young Shadowhunters,”

“Oh yes, the last name ceremony.” Magnus snickers. Alec shouts him a living eye roll.

“Anyway Xander, Angelique and Mekyle have you chosen your Shadowhunter name?”

Xander stands up. “I have out of respect and honor for my Headmaster and her amazing Daughter. I like to become a Fairchild.” He looks over at Clary and she gives him a small nod.

Alec smiles seeing this. “So be it, welcome Xander Fairchild.” Xander smiles and sits back down. “Angelique, Mekyle, have you?”

“Yes I would like Waterheart.” Angelique says standing up. Mekyle jumps up next to her.

“This was not an easy choice for me but if you would allow. I like to be Mekyle WolfScar.”

Alec gives them a soft smile. “Welcome Angelique WaterHeart and Mekyle WolfScar.”

With the teams assigned they split up and head off to get what gear that they would need and even a little sleep if they could before heading off. This gave the couples some time to be alone leaving the Newbies and Cass to find something to pass their time with if they don’t want to sleep.

Angelique and Ruthie decided they would sleep in the same room for the night so they could talk about the mission and some boys they liked back at the academy. Mekyle was not going to sleep at all so he headed up to the Training Room to punch the bag a little and work on his dagger throws. This left Xander alone with Cass.

Xander leads Cass to the common room where the TV was playing Ghosthunters on the Discovery channel. “I know now that I am a Shadowhunter. I have been rewatching them and the Taps crow came really close a few times to finding a real ghost. I wonder if one of them is related to the Herondales?” Xander says.

“I am a bit shocked to see a TV at all in an Institute,” Cass replies.

“Ya most are still old-fashioned but Clary and Simon need their Anime, is what i got told,” Xander explained.

“Oh man, I love me some Death Note.” Cass giggled.

“You have the cutest laugh, Hold on did you say you like Death Note,” Xander says looking a little flushed. Cass just smiles and winks at him as Xander turns a bright red.

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imnotwolverine · 4 years

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Nerdflirt

Henry Cavill x reader twoshot (1/2)

Word count: 2.768

Disclaimer: tiny, tiny hint of fluff

Summary: There’s apparently a bit more involved than just paint and innocent flirting, when you meet a stranger on Instagram with a shared hobby.

Find the second part here.

This story is based on a prompt I received from @aestheticqueenb

(Link to my Masterlist)

‘Maybe, you can like…I don’t know…find some new hobby or something?’

Your friend had said it more as an after thought during your Zoom chat, but here you were. Thinking yet again if she was perhaps right. A new hobby. It’s not like you hadn’t tried to find some diversion in these strange times. Like. You had ordered some of these picture paint books for adults since they were all the rage, but you had grown bored of them again.

Heck. You had even asked your boss if you could help him out while stuck at home. But apparently the restaurant business was really on its ass and you’d just have to wait for things to settle down and regulations to become less restricting.

This whole COVID-19 thing had initially seemed like a bit of a fad. Like some sick joke that nobody stopped at the right time. It was just a fever, right? Well, apparently…it wasn’t. You could still remember the moment all too well when you were sent home, told to wait for news. Hours passed. Days passed. Weeks passed. But there was no sign of things soon to improve.

And thus you resorted to adult colouring books and sulking away on your desk chair.

Stretching out you pushed the chair away from your desk, the tiny wheels immediately halting as you bumped against your bed. Oh yes, it was also good to mention you were slowly losing your mind because your studio apartment was SOO friggin’ small you couldn’t stretch as much as a foot without bumping into a piece of furniture.

Not a problem when you have a social life. But very much a problem when you hadn’t. Usually you worked a lot, went out with friends, enjoyed to go for a run. And home? Home was just a conveniently placed bed in the middle of London.

Now, however, it was a constricting prison that seemed to strip away your sanity piece by piece.

As had become second nature by now you opened your phone, fingers automatically refreshing the front news page. Scroll, scroll, scroll. No new news. Then your e-mail. No new e-mails. Then perhaps look for some “inspiration” - whatever you needed that for - on Pinterest? Scroll, scroll, scroll. Okay, no, this is dumb. Going back to the mainscreen your thumb hovered over the Instagram button.

You honestly didn’t like the app much. Fake people. Fake fun lives. It just wasn’t your cuppa tea. And yet you never got so far as deleting it since you did enjoy seeing baby pictures of your baby niece.

Okay, fine, maybe there were some new pictures or something. It wasn’t like you had anything better to do and so you opened the app, only to be confronted with a somewhat confusing image. What’s this? A large pair of hands painting an absolutely tiny polystyrene figurine. Why is this on your timeline? Your eyes gazed up, even more confused when you read the name “Henry Cavill” above it. Pfft. Probably some attention whoring from another bored superstar. You shook your head and scrolled on, eventually giving up again.

You groaned, feeling the abyss of utter boredom suck you in once more, your eyes wandering to the world outside. It was sunny, a spotless blue sky, not a cloud in sight. Hilarious, ain’t it? It’s nice weather out in the UK and guess what? You’re stuck inside because the whole world is in lockdown.

So…now what? You just had lunch, your apartment was pristinely clean and you already went for a run this morning. You sighed and turned your chair back so you could awaken your trusty old friend again. Your laptop. Perhaps Google something random? See what you find? The internet’s your friend, right?

Open. Google.

You bit your lip, thinking of something. Anything. But your mind was a blank.

Hmm. Oh. You know what. Maybe it’d be fun to know what kind of fake nerd Henry Cavill actually was.

You opened Instagram again and, of course, his post was back on the top of the timeline. It was almost too easy. #GamesWorkshop #ProperGeek #Custodes. Hmm, probably one of those three tags were the secret. You decided to enter “custodes”, since it sounded the least familiar and hit enter.

Before long you had dived head first into the miraculous world of Warhammer miniature strategy boardgaming and the most ludicrous, but fascinating lore. There was a medieval variant, a sci-fi variant and some ancient Rome and English civil war stuff. All including a well-thought out background story and even more figurines then you could count. Pretty cool figures too, you thought, haphazardly clicking on “order” while scrolling through one of the webshops.

Like it contained some kind of bomb, the mailman sprinted off, leaving the small package behind while you opened your door. Fuck this corona crisis. You couldn’t even..greet the fucking mailman.

Picking up the package you carefully moved it to your desk. Would they be fragile? How tiny could tiny really be? There was only one way to find out, you decided, picking up a pair of scissors and cutting open the small brown box.

Well. Okay. That’s tiny. Tiny tiny tiny. Perhaps you had been a bit too over enthusiastic about just randomly picking up a new hobby. Like..did you even need like special paint for this? Carefully you placed the kit sheets with the hundreds of tiny pieces in them on your desk and bit your lip, deciding what you’d do next. Tiny heads, guns, wings, all stuck in a meticulously thought out grid. Where to start? Perhaps look for some inspiration? Tips and tricks?

The internet is your friend.

Silly as it was you ended up scrolling through Instagram again, this time on the profile of some “SirEltharin” who posted daily updates on his miniature painting. And just like you, he had bought the Retributor Squad from the Adepta Sororitas, the all-female fighter division that were also known as “The Sisters of Battle”. Just thinking how ridiculous that sounded made you chuckle. Were you a nerd too now? Perhaps.

He just posted something new you noticed.

‘These ladies are hard to tame! Oops, painting accident..’ He posted, along with a picture of some smudged paint on one of the figurines. You chuckled, commenting without much of a second thought.

LadyGrim - ‘Well at least you started..I just can’t get myself to paint :X’ - 1 minute ago SirEltharin - ‘No need to be Grim, good Lady. What’s keeping you from starting?’ - 2 seconds ago

Hmm. He responded immediately. A smile reached the corners of your lips as you shrugged and typed again.

LadyGrim - ‘Painters limbo? No honestly it’s my first set and I’m out of my depth here.’ - 2 minutes ago

SirEltharin - ‘Well if large male hands can do it. Surely a Lady can do it too? ;)’ - 30 seconds ago

LadyGrim - ‘Size can be deceiving.’ - 2 seconds ago

Your eyes rested on the screen for a bit, hoping he’d respond, but eventually giving up. Your eyes turned towards the sheets with the figurine parts on the other side of your desk.

Welp, it’s not like anyone could judge you for trying, right?

You painted that whole day, finding it nerve wrecking and meditative all at the same time. You hadn’t even noticed that it was past dinner time, until your stomach really started to growl with hunger.

After cooking yourself a simple pasta dish you sat back on your desk chair, forking the pasta into your mouth while opening your phone to check on any news updates. No news. Mail. No mail. Pinterest? Skip. Instagram. Heck, why not.

*New message from SirEltharin* Hmm. A private message. You didn’t even know that you could send private messages in Instagram, but alas, perhaps you were just a failed millennial.

SirEltharin - ‘Hey :) Guess what? I totally screwed up that figurine and have to do it all over again. Started any painting yet?’ - 2 hours ago

LadyGrim - ‘Perhaps you gave me all your good luck? Just started and..maybe..it actually starts to look pretty cool?’ - 2 minutes ago

SirEltharin - ‘Which one did you start with?’ - 2 seconds ago

Damn, guess it wasn’t just you who was bored to bits. This guy was one fast responder.

LadyGrim - ‘The one with the book? At least, I think…. So many parts..’

SirEltharin - ‘Yea. Requires a bit of strategising hehe. Besides..holy fervour and good faith!’

LadyGrim - ‘So why did you chose the sisters? You’re a guy right?’

SirEltharin - ‘And that’s a problem? ;)’

LadyGrim - ‘No..’

SirEltharin - ‘Honestly though. They’re cool. Strong women.’

LadyGrim - ‘Who got betrayed by the man they promised to serve.’

SirEltharin - ‘Ah you read the lore? Yea..men are dicks haha ;)’

LadyGrim - ‘Can’t agree more.’

You back and forthed throughout the evening. Starting off with some Warhammer 40k related banter, but soon drifting off to talking about the Corona lockdown and the boredom that came with it. SirEltharin didn’t let off a whole lot about himself, which made your imagination run a little wild.

Perhaps it was this “milady” type of guy, that’d tip his hat at you, then grow annoyed as soon as you didn’t immediately fall in love with him. Or, maybe it was this skinny pimple-faced guy who only ever played female characters in games. Or a really, really fat guy. He did say large male hands. Large…could be fat? Or at least chubby? Ugh. What did it matter anyways. Men, you had decided, were always going to disappoint.

SirEltharin - ‘Hey, just curious by the way. Why did YOU decide to start painting?’

LadyGrim - ‘Are you asking just because I’m a girl? ;)’

SirEltharin - ‘Hardly. What do you even think of me?! ;)’

LadyGrim - ‘Okay. Don’t call me an idiot. But this movie star, Henry Cavill? He posted an image and though I absolutely think he’s one of those fake nerd celebrities who are in it for the attention, it did get me interested in the figurines..so..I just ordered and..here I am!’

He stopped responding after that. For the rest of the night. Did you say something wrong or did he just not see your message? Ah..whatever. It didn’t really matter. He was just some stranger on the internet. You started Netflix and crawled onto your bed, wasting away another evening bingewatching How I Met Your Mother.

The next morning he had responded again. Around 5 am. Damn. Nerds ARE night owls, you thought, sipping your freshly brewn cup of french pressed coffee while leaning against your tiny kitchen block.

SirEltharin - ‘Can’t really say that without knowing him, right?’ - 3 hours ago

SirEltharin - ‘Anything in particular wrong with Henry Cavill?’ - 2 hours ago

LadyGrim - ‘Woa woa. No harm meant. Sorry. Guess I just don’t trust ‘em pretty boys?’ - 3 minutes ago

SirEltharin - ‘How’s that so? And good morning, Lady ;)’ - 2 seconds ago

You bit your lip and let out a deep sigh. Oh this man didn’t know what hellfire could come his way, opening THAT topic.

LadyGrim - ‘Good morning ..and..I doubt you’d be interested.’

SirEltharin - ‘You had my curiosity, but now you have my attention.’

LadyGrim - ‘Fine. Let’s just keep it plain and simple. Lied to, cheated on and continuously disappointed. Guess I’ll just have to become a lesbian?’

SirEltharin - ‘Don’t let a few bad ones ruin it for the rest of us. Has it been long?’

LadyGrim - ‘Long?’

SirEltharin - ‘Apologies. I mean. Since you last dated?’

LadyGrim - ‘A year or so.’

SirEltharin - ‘And how old are you? Or am I being too bold asking such a thing?’

LadyGrim - ‘It’s fine. Thirty. Had my birthday two weeks ago. So yea..becoming a bit of an old spinster hehe.’

SirEltharin - ‘Belated happy birthday and..hardly a spinster, right? I mean. I’m 37 and haven’t found anyone yet. Heck. I guess I’m the old spinster here haha.’

LadyGrim - ‘I doubt the same rules apply for men.’

SirEltharin - ‘Trust me. We are all judged.’

Weeks passed and you and Sir kinda started to really get to know each other. You both lived in London - how practical -, were pretty enthused about sports, liked dogs (he had one, you wished you had one) and were close knit with your family. You with your sister, who already had a few kids. And he with his brothers. All with kids. Teasingly you donned each other the nicknames ‘Uncle and Aunty Spinster’.

You knew he had looked on your account. Seen some pictures of you. Even made a few comments on them and liked everything new you posted. But he, SirEltharin, remained mostly a mystery. You tried to talk yourself out of your curiosity, but couldn’t help but lay in bed fantasising about him. The only body part you had seen of him to this point were his hands, and they were actually quite pretty hands. Well manicured nails, strong fingers. It meant he probably wasn’t SUPER fat. So. That’s something.

Eventually the COVID-19 related regulations were becoming less restrictive and for the first time in months you could go back to work. The very news had made you both reluctant - you liked this new rhythm of painting and chatting with SirEltharin -, but also happy. Finally getting out of your tiny apartment, finally getting back to work. It may require some getting used to again, but this was just what you really needed.

In your enthusiasm you posted a picture on Instagram of your work outfit as it lay neatly spread out on your bed sheets. Your boss had made some quirky shirts to celebrate the reopening of the restaurant: “Brunello’s back” was written in fancy white lettering on the back of the shirt. You giggled as SirEltharin liked it within a split second.

SirEltharin - ‘Back to work hmm?’

LadyGrim - ‘Yep. Its all fun and games until the rat race starts again.’

SirEltharin - ‘Sounds Grim ;)’

LadyGrim - ‘You know me too well Sir. Anyways gotta go. Bye!’

SirEltharin - ‘See ya.’

See ya. You always thought it weird when strangers said that at the end of an online chat. Clients sometimes said it at the end of a phone reservation. That was understandable though; they were to come to the restaurant. But complete strangers? There was no such thing as “seeing you around”. However in the case of SirEltharin you were willing to let it slip. He probably didn’t think anything of it.

For a first night it was already quite hectic at Brunello’s. The room, although still far less bustling than usual, was filled. People were obviously eager to pick up their social lives again, the animated chatter of guests zooming around the room while you paced past the neatly spaced white clothed tables. Brunello’s was a rather luxurious restaurant and mostly businessmen and well-to-do families and friends came here to wine and dine. Tonight was special though, as a few celebrities were sitting in the far corner. Including a familiar face: Mr. Cavill, your eyes immediately falling on him as he seemingly was giving you a questioning look.

Perhaps he just wanted to order some drinks, you thought, halting next to the table and offering them your most kind, professional smile - ignoring the curious pair of blue eyes that tracked your every move.

‘Good evening and welcome to Brunello’s. Is there anything I can help you with?’ You spoke, the sentence fluently tipping of your tongue, your eyes wandering slowly over the guests. Most of them were unfamiliar to you. And Mr. Cavill..you tried to just not give him any attention as he was still burning his eyes into you.

‘We actually could use some advice on the wine. We’d like to start white, slightly fruity, perhaps French? Though the Italian one also sounds quite nice.’ A small blonde woman spoke, peering over her menu card.

As this was not your expertise, you called for the sommelier, stepping back to make room for him. And all the while you felt those eyes, gazing at you, almost brazenly. What was up with this Mr. Cavill? Or did you maybe have something funny on your face and did nobody dare to tell you? Shyly you excused yourself, leaving the guests in the capable hands of the sommelier, and quickly made for the women’s bathroom to check your face.

There was nothing out of sort when you looked into the mirror. Strange.

Peeking quickly on your phone, a habit when you were alone, you noticed a new message popping up on your Insta-chat.

SirEltharin - ‘I think we need to talk.’ - 30 seconds ago

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The X-Perts: Gambit

The following is a repost of an article about Gambit that was posted to the Marvel site in 2011. We’re reposting it here at Gambit Gazette for two reasons; 1) it’s no longer on Marvel’s site (as far as we can tell), and 2) it exhibits insight and respect for Gambit’s character far deeper than what’s displayed on the comic book page the vast majority of the time (sadly). Gambit Gazette has taken the liberty of highlighting passages we find especially noteworthy.

The X-Perts: Gambit Kieron Gillen, Mike Carey, Marjorie Liu and Victor Gischler determine where this wild card will fall Posted Jul 12, 2011 1:31 pm Updated Aug 4, 2011 1:58 pm

By Ben Morse

This July, X-MEN: SCHISM kicks off a startling metamorphosis in the mutant corner of the Marvel Universe that will split the Children of the Atom and lead to ReGenesis in the fall along with two new ongoing series, each featuring it’s own distinctive team: UNCANNY X-MEN and WOLVERINE & THE X-MEN.

With change in the air, here on Marvel.com we’ll be regularly gathering the creators and editors responsible for guiding the X-Men’s destiny to dissect each of their charges to examine what makes them tick and perhaps lend some insight into where they will find themselves once the Schism ends and the ReGenesis gets underway.

This week, we take a look at Gambit, the thief-turned-X-Man who currently serves on the mission squad led by his on-again, off-again love, Rogue, while also mentoring the unpredictable X-23.

Marvel.com: How would you describe the core of who Gambit is and what is most important to him?

Victor Gischler (writer of X-MEN): Self-reliance.

Mike Carey (writer of X-MEN LEGACY): Gambit’s a guy with a core skill that he glories and excels in, and his sense of himself has formed around that, to some extent. He’s not just a thief, in the sense of having earned his living by stealing—he’s a Thief in a self-defining sense that’s halfway between family and ethnicity. [He was] raised by thieves, in a city where thieves were a clan with clan loyalties. So I think that’s his core, and his instincts and identity and an X-Man were grafted onto that.

Kieron Gillen (writer of UNCANNY X-MEN): Gambit's just one of those classic conflicted characters, torn between a fundamental selfishness—or, at best, self-interest—and the realization that [this] isn't right. His shows of genuine compassion are all the more striking now because of where he's come from. I mean, put aside his recent interactions with Rogue. Look at his interactions with X-23. A man of experience who is man enough to realize that not all experience is worthwhile. He'd roll his eyes at anyone who takes the Sinatra-ian "Regrets? I've had a few, etc" line.

Marjorie Liu (writer of X-23): At his heart, Gambit is a good man who believes in taking care of his friends, and his friends are what's most important to him. People are his home. He will do anything for those who matter to him.

Marvel.com: What is Gambit’s view of how the mutant race should conduct itself moving forward?

Kieron Gillen: Any future of the X-Men that involves having a future and keeps him out of long, boring meetings is probably good with him.

Mike Carey: Arising out of his childhood experiences, I think Gambit is fairly tribal in his gut instincts. Protecting his own, and keeping faith with his own, are core values for him. He’s also perfectly comfortable with a sort of under-the-radar lifestyle, and he knows first-hand that it’s possible to live invisibly among others who don’t share your values or your lifestyle. I’d say Gambit would be comfortable with a strategy that saw mutantkind dropping right out of the rifle sights of the various nut jobs out there and going underground until its numbers are up again and it can confront the world on its own terms.

Victor Gischler: I think he knows that difficult things need to be done, but he wants to see the mutant race finally push through those times so things will be better for the next generation.

Marjorie Liu: The thing about Gambit is that he's a man who knows how to adapt to survive. He plays things by ear, depending on the situation, and never feels obligated to follow the rules, because the only rules that matter are his own sense of honor. Ultimately, that sense of honor includes 'doing no harm'—at least, not to the innocent.

Because of that, however, I don't think he has a firm idea of how the mutant race should move forward. There's no overarching philosophy, no set of rules. Again, he adapts, he plays by ear. I think he would be more likely to say that the mutant race is filled with individuals, and each situation needs to be taken on an individual basis, without imposing some master plan.

Again, though, he's a survivor, and if the world turned on mutants as a whole, his approach would change, as well. He'd fight. He'd protect.

Marvel.com: Does Gambit like being a member of the X-Men? What keeps him affiliated with them?

Mike Carey: He likes the excitement. He likes the company—or some of it. He likes the sense of family. I think those would be the most important things for him. Having said that, he’s definitely someone who would be able to step into another life if the X-Men folded. He’d miss it, but he wouldn’t mourn it. He’d survive perfectly well.

Kieron Gillen: Honestly, I could spin out an enormous answer about how he sees himself in relation to mutants—though it suddenly strikes me that I see Gambit as one of the mutants who least self-identifies as "mutant"—but about 85% of it boils down to the following: One word, five letters.

Marjorie Liu: I don't know if he likes being a member of the X-Men, so much as he likes some of the people there, and feels obligated to stick by them, and guard their backs. It's a 'people' thing that has him sticking around, and not philosophical.

Victor Gischler: There is kind of a lone wolf aspect to Gambit, but I think deep down all lone wolves really want to be part of the pack. They just don't want to get burned or have their trust betrayed. Gambit has been an X-Man too long not to be a team member in his heart.

Marvel.com: What are Gambit’s most honorable qualities? His least honorable qualities?

Mike Carey: His chimerical gallantry. His insane courage. His anarchic shrewdness.

When he first joined the X-Men, Gambit served as a cynical and occasionally ruthless counterpoint to their stern virtue. They’ve met him more than halfway now—in fact, in some ways, they’ve surpassed him: the X-Men’s moral mainstream has changed so much that Gambit now seems more like a Robin Hood among them, a principled thief with a paradoxically strong code of ethics. He’s still got that ruthless streak, and he can be dishonest both in concealing information and in lying outright. And he has a weakness for going it alone when he ought to trust the people around him. That was what got him sucked into Apocalypse’s wake.

Victor Gischler: He's honest about who he is, warts and all.

Marjorie Liu: Most honorable qualities? Least honorable? Sometimes I think those are one and the same. He'll take care of his friends, no matter what. That's great. But what's not so great for everyone else is that he'll take care of his friends -- no matter what. Even if it means an act of betrayal.

Marvel.com: Do you think the rest of the X-Men really trust Gambit?

Kieron Gillen: Dark, tortured past. Propensity for playing on the other side. Will make out with your other half behind your back. A big part of me thinks they trust Gambit more than they probably should.

Or maybe they don't. The Utopia-era Cyclops-condoned Wolverine-lead X-Force—Gambit wasn't on that team.

Marjorie Liu: No, not really. I don't think they know him, that's the problem. The individuals who do—Storm, Jubilee, X-23—would trust him with their lives, without question. Everyone else? Not so much. To them, he's a wild card, so to speak. They see his reputation first, before they see the man.

Mike Carey: I think they didn’t, and then they did, and now they don’t again. He’s got a lot of lost ground to make up after the Limbo debacle. His past as a thief doesn’t count against him any more, but his past as a Horseman and his past as a Marauder during Messiah Complex do.

Victor Gischler: As long as they keep one hand on their wallets at all times.

Marvel.com: Could Gambit ever be leader of the X-Men again?

Victor Gischler: I don't see it. But that's mostly because I don't think he’d ever really want the job.

Marjorie Liu: My first instinct was to say yes, but the more I think about it, issues of trust and reliability would undermine his position. I'm not sure all the X-Men would feel secure with him in charge, or be willing to follow him to hell and back—and that's a huge component of successful leadership.

That said, I do think he can lead, just on a smaller scale, with a team that would fit his highly adaptable nature.

Mike Carey: He’d never want that job. It’s too public and too constricting. He wouldn’t be afraid of the responsibility, although he wouldn’t exactly relish it, either—he would be afraid of having his hands tied in a fight by having to co-ordinate what everybody else was doing.

Kieron Gillen: It doesn't seem a natural fit, but I'd never say never. I wouldn't say he could lead the X-Men as they are now. But a hypothetical X-Men team of the future? Yeah, I can see him pulling that off. As long as it doesn't involve all too many of the aforementioned long, boring meetings.

Marvel.com: How does Gambit’s relationship with Rogue color his place among the X-Men?

Marjorie Liu: I wish it didn't! If this was real life, that relationship would be one of those bad running jokes that people tell each other around dinner, or when there's nothing else to talk about and so you go to the one topic that's only less boring than dull silence. Don't get me wrong, I used to be a fan of Gambit and Rogue, but the relationship doesn't do either of them any favors.

Mike Carey: It’s the main reason why the X-Men feel like home to him. If she left, his attachment to them would be significantly weakened.

Kieron Gillen: What can I say? Heavily.

I know I've been laboring it, but more than almost anyone else, his ties with the X-men are personal. He's happy to exist in a world with the X-Men. He's happy to do the X-Men's work. But he's an outsider, and I think that's a real core of who he is. He needs shadows to step out of.

Mike Carey: Who among the X-Men does Gambit trust? Who does he feel should lead the team?

Victor Gischler: I think he'd trust Storm under almost any circumstances.

Kieron Gillen: Rogue. That's about it. And I don't think he has particularly strong feelings about who should lead the team—but he is interested in the institution of the X-Men. I wouldn't say he's a "Doesn't matter who you vote for, the government always gets in" cynic, but as long as there's an institution which exists to do the job the X-Men have been doing, he's happy. If a leader appeared who changed that role entirely, it's only then Gambit would raise an eyebrow.

Marjorie Liu: I'm biased, but I feel he trusts X-23 and Jubilee, along with Storm. I'm not sure he trusts Rogue, even though he loves her—and I'm sure he's comfortable with Wolverine leading.

Mike Carey: I think he trusts Cyclops and is comfortable with his leadership. Certainly there’d be more tension for him if, say, Magneto had a leadership role. But the question of who leads isn’t a compelling one for Gambit, because he doesn’t see himself as being a follower. He follows his own conscience: sometimes that takes him outside the X-Men’s big tent. When he’s there, he toes the line, but his allegiance isn’t easily given or given without provisos.

#gambit #marvel #gambit gazette articles

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Promo Breakdown 7.07: The Excellent Adventures of Mack and the D.

Are we to the point where you guys are getting mad the theories are hitting or are we still cool?

So that was A LOT to process. Clearly the fate of the team and Fitz continues to be left in limbo but I believe we are about to close out the whole time travel portion of the season here with one heck of an episode

Full Promo can be found HERE

First we pause to squee over the music choice.

As with many of the other promos this season we are only getting a fraction of the action that is going on. They are hiding what has happened to the team and it is possible that this is a bit of a bottle episode and we only see Mack, Deke, and TV Coulson. Or there is a whole other stressful plot going on.

They left us behind something must have gone wrong. So the jump was not planned much like the one from 73 to 76 something changed suddenly as a result of the teams actions interfering with the Chronicoms plans. Especially if it’s Fitz who is in control of the jumps and reacting to their changes at their base.

Just needed a minute, well you get all of 1982. Every time Mack bolts off the Zephyr on his bike nothing good happens. Last time he was possessed by Ghost Rider and now he’s stuck with Deke in the 80′s until they can catch up to the team.

This is a top secret base! Mack has gone all Endgame Thor on us and grown a nice big beard as he processes the loss of his parents and being seprated from his Girlfriend and the team in the past.

Deke on the other hand seems to have run with it and is having a great time.

Coulson was cool with it.

Deke managed to salvage some of Robo Coulson, at least enough to get him onto the TV. It will be interesting to see if the TV Cart drives itself or if he has to yell at people to push him to catch up. This means that Deke saved Coulson’s mind and the answers he got from SIBYL that the team needs. Now he has to get that back to the team and better tech to perhaps restore his body. They might have to give him a generic Hunter as I don’t think Fitzsimmons had time to whip up 2 of the super advanced Chronicoms.

Also note the HUGE red flag that SIBYL noted Coulson was different yet the same as them.

SIBYL is building new Hunters....but I don’t think those are them. I think those are either something Stoner was messing with, EARLY versions of the LMD’s, something Deke tinkered together when he was bored, or something someone built when no one was paying attention. And remember the Robots always turn.

Oh yes, bring on the 80′s Action Movies and B Movie References.

Exterminate (anyone who had Dr. Who reference on their Bingo cards Congrats) and see Mack was right the Robots always attack. Early guess is the Chronicoms have maybe tracked them down or someone on their “team” did something.

Everyone say hi to the new team, most of which will not make it through the Episode. These are likely Shield agents left by Stoner just o keep an eye on th the place as a super advanced space ship full of killer androids did blow up under it.

My guess is the team is close and needs help and that will trigger both Mack and Deke to get back into business mode. Deke looses the eyeliner Mack Shaves that massive beard and gets a nice makeover with the new jumpsuit look and we know from the other promo the return of the shotgun ax!

Someone is going to pay, yes he is talking about the robots, just not hte ones attacking the base And is Deke Squad a band or something? He really has bee living it up in the 80′s.

Whomever Shield has sent to this base to watch over it might not be top of the class kinds of agents. But Deke and Mack will get the band of misfits into shape, save the Lighthouse and reunite with the team....hopefully soon. We have from another promo Mack protecting Sousa from an advancing hoard of Chronicoms in space.

I do think we’ll see where the others are as well and a lot of the set up is going to be leading to 8 which I think is where we’ll get some more of We Had Time and perhaps the results of what has happened to the present thanks to the tidal waves sent through the Timeline.

#aos spoilers #promo breakdown #them being so limited with these makes them a lot easier to do

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NJPW titles

I rewatched the Dangerous Tekkers/Golden Ace match from Dominion, this time with the English commentary, and it still rules, but what I really wanted to discuss was Kevin Kelly and Rocky Romero talking about how the Tekkers could hold the tag belts for quite a while, since there really isn’t a credible threat on the horizon. Consider:

They basically picked Golden Ace apart. In the post-match interview, Tanahashi demanded a rematch--while lying on the floor. He then had to be helped out of the room because his knees were all tekkered up. I didn’t even see any post-match comments from Ibushi, so maybe he was still out cold from the Iron Finger. I’m looking forward to seeing Golden Ace rebuild from this loss, but it really should be a long, long recovery.

The previous champions, Guerillas of Destiny, are stuck outside of Japan because the border is closed.

Same goes for the champions before that, FinJuice. Good riddance.

Going back further in the title lineage, you end up with EVIL and SANADA, except that team is now defunct, since EVIL joined Bullet Club, leaving SANADA in LIJ. I feel like there’s a decent chance that some other LIJ guy might follow EVIL to Bullet Club. But even if SANADA was that guy, I can’t see EVIL caring about the tag titles now that he’s a triple champion.

Let me see who else we’ve got here. Young Bucks are in AEW now. Killer Elite Squad split up and left NJPW. War Machine are now the Viking Raiders in WWE. GBH and TenCozy are still around, but they’re usually in the undercard these days. Ishii and Yano had a run with the belts in 2017. Hey, the Dudley Boys held the IWGP tag team titles? That’s cool, but they probably aren’t coming back anytime soon.

The point Kevin and Rocky were driving at was that there really isn’t an established team on hand, someone you could point to and say, yeah those guys could beat the Tekkers. At best, you’d have to build up a new team from scratch. SANADA and Shingo Takagi, maybe, or Okada and Naito become the Japanese Megapowers.

I heard Dave Meltzer saying that he thought the reason they made the Tekkers look so dominant in that title match was to help re-establish the tag team division, but right now, they are the tag team division. I guess you gotta start somewhere, but I suspect that they’ll just end up holding the belts for months and months until G.O.D. comes back.

And this just makes the six-man tag belts look even worse off, because it really annoys me how the previous champions were basically three random dudes, and it seemed like they were finally putting things right by having an LIJ unit win the belts, only they never defended the titles either, and now the team is broken up. I could try to come up with cool stuff they could do with the trios belts, but honestly what’s the point? Anything worth doing there would be better used for the tag team division.

It took me a while to notice, but yeah, they have way too many titles in NJPW. It’s improved a lot, but only because of circumstances. The U.S. title is in limbo because the champion, Jon Moxley, can’t go to Japan and he can’t work for NJPW on U.S. soil. The IC title is now merged with the World title, so that’s one less to deal with. This has made the NEVER Openweight Championship into the de facto midcard singles belt. I’m pleased with it being used that way, but it just demonstrates how the IC and U.S. titles were serving the same purpose. Same goes for the REVPRO British title, but I think that went away when Zack lost it.

So the singles titles seem to be pared down to a manageable number. You’ve got a World/IC champion, an Openweight Champion, and a Jr. Heavyweight Champion. I think that’s all. But there’s two sets of tag belts and the trios titles. The trios titles are in limbo, and I guess the junior tag belts are too, since YOH is out with an injury.

Normally, I might say New Japan should deactivate these extra belts, or unify them with belts they want to keep, but I can see where that might look bad if they did it all in a short span of time. One of these days, Jon Moxley might be able to appear in Japan again, and he can drop the title, so maybe it’s just better to wait until then. The thing is, even if he could go back to Japan, it’d be kind of awkward for the reigning AEW champion to lose his other title. I don’t know how they get around that, short of just waiting for him to lose the AEW title first. I thought the whole point of the IWGP U.S. title was that they could have a (North) American win it and defend it in American tours. But Moxley doesn’t fit that bill at all because of his AEW obligations, so I feel like they just wanted to give it to someone with a lot of star power. Either way, it’d suck to vacate the title a second time.

#njpw

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this is what riverdale is about (part 5)

part 1

part 2

part 3

part 4

hey guys. im back to upset you with more information about the first season of riverdale. the next post will wrap up season one. this post will cover eps 7-9. iirc the previous episodes, even when watching it, felt like filler. i was worried i was never going to get the fire of the first three episodes back. we do. don’t worry.

images are from the riverdale wiki

SEASON 1 (PART 3):

in a lonely place: jughead is now living in the high school, living every weirdo teenager’s worst nightmare. even better, literally everyone finds out about his relationship with betty “harriet the spy” cooper, making things a little awkward in the group. while discussing polly’s bold escape, cheryl’s goon squad of mean teen girls let her know the hot goss, which she takes to her mother and the sheriff to implicate polly in the murder of jason blossom. she then, and i mean this 100% literally and honestly, goes on twitter and tries to get the following hashtags trending: #PollyCooperKilledMyBrother, #NowhereToHide, and #SharpenYourPitchforks.

jughead then tries to convince his alcoholic, gang leader dad to shape up and get his job back at andrews construction but his dad is a stupid dick. later the gang goes on a hunt for polly in the woods. when this is unsuccessful, betty’s mom reveals ALL about polly’s pregnancy on camera during her plea for her to come home. it turns out polly is just hiding in the attic of the house, where betty finds her. polly begs betty not to tell anyone where she is and that she wants to have the baby and continue with her plan to go to the farm upstate where she will raise it herself. keep that in mind.

with the knowledge about the baby out in the open, cheryl offers an olive branch to betty by offering to let polly secretly stay at their house. cheryl is truly a capricious trickster spirit who pivots from one extreme to another at the drop of a hat.

then literally the most crazy and inexplicable thing int his episode happens: veronica, kevin and josie go to a fucking club on a school night. these teenage kids go to a club in a town that primarily runs on maple syrup and they are let in for some unexplained reason and this is just portrayed as a normal thing you can do in riverdale. they are minors and end up drinking for free when hermoines mom cancels her card and they threaten the owner by exposing him for serving minors. this scene is BONKERS

jugheads dad goes back to work with fred andrews but there’s tension between him and archies dad. literally none of it ends up mattering. don’t worry about it. jughead tells his dad that his mom is getting her GED, working in a call center to support jellybean (his little sister, not like a dog or something). this is a huge spoiler from the future but i dont know if the riverdale writers forgot about this scene or don’t care but none of this turns out to be true to their situation at all. not even close.

jughead is arrested and unarrested for jason’s murder when archie’s dad inexplicably forges a time card to cut him loose. the only proof was fingerprints on the torched car, which are still there for some reason. cheryl intercepts betty yet again to warn her and polly that the blossoms also are insane weirdos who just want her for the baby so polly is shipped off to the stay with the lodge family in the 5 star hotel.

the final shot reveals jason’s varsity jacket is in jughead’s dad’s trailer...for some reason.....

the outsiders: this ep starts with polly explaining literally everything we already know except with the added information that jason was selling drugs FOR the southside serpents for money for the baby. betty worries about how escalating situation between the coopers and the blossoms and who gets control of what when it comes to polly and the baby, and veronica bizarrely suggests they hold a baby shower to unite the feuding families. if you just want to have a party just say so.

clifford blossom, professional bastard man, has purchased archie’s dad’s construction crew out from under him which leaves the project in limbo. he confesses to archie about how fucked the company is now and how everything is fucked. clifford is also making a play for the land veronica’s dad secretly bought from prison using his wife as a proxy, which makes the whole “let’s host a baby shower thing at our apartment and invite the blossoms” thing seem like a hugely bad idea now. BUT DONT WORRY TEAM!!! 4 high school boys are here to do construction for no pay to save the company. no one verbalizes what an insane plan this is. they carry on until moose, the big closeted gay lad, get his ass flipped like a pancake by two anonymous goons who bust up some equipment and moose’s face. archie the brain genius decides he’s going to solve this mystery himself, taking moose and jughead to a bar called “the whyte wyrm” (literally the worst name for anything ever in human history) to find out who did the slapping. as archie is about to get his head caved in by a gangster, jugheads dad shows up in his cool leather jacket, revealing himself to be the head of the gang.

the baby shower is a miserable affair. alice cooper shows up, penelope blossom shows up, for some reason they bring the senile grandmother. the tension is so thick you can cut it with a knife. then archie BUSTS in flipping his ass about jughead’s dad being a gangster. the just immediately throw him out which kind of rules because no one has time for him right now. the baby shower ends horrible when the blossoms make the lightest suggestion that polly might visit them and betty’s mom loses her fucking mind. everyone shuffles out except for polly, betty and alice. POLLY NOW DECIDES TO REVEAL THAT HER DAD HAD SCHEDULED AN APPOINTMENT FOR AN ABORTION APROPOS OF NOTHING. COME ONNN. anyway alice focuses her insane rage on hal who she boots out of the fucking house for his insane choice.

jughead and betty ask jugheads dad if he killed jason, he denies it and then they share a smooch outside the trailer. “they” being jughead and betty, not his dad. that would be a little too weird. well, not as weird as the reveal that jugheads dad has been instructing kevin’s serpent boyfriend to date him and pretend to like him for information.that’s pretty fucking weird. jughead’s dad refers to jason’s jacket as “insurance”.

jughead’s dad then shows up with his gang to take over the construction from the 4 high school boys, but hermoine reveals that the goons that were sent were sent by her husband, who might have caught wind of her affair with fred.

polly wisely decides to take her change with a different insane family instead of the one that tried to force an abortion on her and heads to thornhill manor with cheryl and the rest of the blossoms.

la grande illusion: i really need to thank whoever transcribed this entire narrative buttnugget from jughead because it truly is a spectacular example of the level of writing quality you get from the fine people at the cw. please enjoy this screencap of the opening monologue from the riverdale wiki:

today in riverdale is the annual meeting of the board of trustees, where the blossom family meets to discuss the state of the business and slurp syrup in redheaded harmony. the wigs on this show are outstanding and never more noticeable than when they’re all lined up in a row for you to appraise. cheryl invites archie to the tree-tapping ceremony and he, for reasons i cannot understand given everything we know and love about cheryl, accepts, albeit after some prodding on her mom’s behalf. she knows people at a very prestigious music academy you know, nudge nudge. betty thinks its also a good idea for him to go so he can check up on polly, who is ignoring betty’s calls now.

ethel, who you probably remember from the “sticky maple” episode, reads a fucked up poem to the class and veronica reaches out to ask her what the FUCK that was all about. things at home aren’t good for ethel: her family is fighting over money and they’re going to have to sell the house. so veronica invites her over for a play date with kevin so they can do whatever rich people do.

archie attends the tree tapping with cheryl where he holds a bucket and cheryl taps the tree. everyone claps. great job cheryl. archie comes to her defense when her family shit talks her ability to hit a tree or lead a company, but i guess they somehow don’t know that she is the most wild bitch on the planet and can not be dissuaded from doing anything. in fact, she insists that archie join her for a banquet later and he CANNOT say no.

betty is told polly is fine, and passes on this and the news from the blossom shareholder meeting to her mother who plans to use this information to destroy the blossoms using her newspaper. betty’s mother is truly a needlessly perpetually horrible woman for literally no reason almost 100% of the time. if its not to betty its to her sister and if not to her then to any random stranger she can sink her fangs into. however, her husband is still fucking pissed about the whole “getting thrown out” thing and is enacting a one man coupe on the newspaper. alice trashes her own office in retaliation. these people are the worst.

meanwhile veronica realizes that ethel’s dad used to work for her father, until hiram lodge’s incredibly illegal deeds financially ruined them all. ethel’s father tries to commit suicide and veronica shows up with flowers explaining how her family is the one responsible for all this. as you can expect ethel is not really pumped about this turn of events and tells her to tell the truth at her dad’s trial.

at the banquet, archie is HIGHLY encouraged by the blossoms to keep seeing cheryl. perhaps...in a romantic way? i wonder what reason this family of redheads could have for trying to indoctrinate yet another ginger into their fold. they share a weird kiss and archie flees, but not before securing two bits of information: polly warns him that the blossoms are involved in jason’s death and the blossoms themselves are close to securing the drive-in plot and part of their plan was to send veronica’s father to jail to eliminate the competition.

betty FOR SOME REASON invites her mother to write her expose at the school newspaper. why? i don’t know. her mom accepts. why? i don’t know. archie’s girlfriend, valerie, dumps him because he’s been spending so much time for cheryl, which i don’t know what he was expecting. in the final scene, cheryl, spurned by archie, scratches out his and polly’s face from a photo of the tree tapping. like a normal person would

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First YJ Friday appreciation

I will talk here of the episode 1 to 3. If you didn’t see them yet, do not read the text following as it’s full of heavy spoilers but have my theories and comments too :)

1-3 ; 4-6 ; 7-9 ; 10-13 ; 14-16 ; 17 ; 18 ; 19 ; 20 ; 21 ; 22 ; 23 ; 24-26

Princes all

- the big bald bad guy with Ana is the same one from S1 who works with Count Vertigo to kill Perdita.

- So here the collar 2.0 who can control people in addition of shoking them... Do you think they have a bomb in them like in Suicide Squad?

- The girl scream voice when Ana dies :( But BL that wasn’t your fault :( Don’t bet yourself up. The Light are the true responsible ones for her death!

- The music from the generic looks like a scary movie one!

- So Gamma Squad are the 8 heros from the ad picture? And who is on Alpha and Beta Squads?

- I love M’gann new look! After 50 years, she finally accepted herself as a white Martian <3 That’s a character development!

- Steel: new hero in the superfamily?

- From Virgil’s vince, we can figure he knows already that BL is about to quit the JL :/ He shoud have tell him before and off screen.

- Bart, I missed your comments and that smile of yours! <3

- As announced Kaldur is Aquaman, the Leader of the JL by democratic vote and his coach is Wonder Woman. Such a development! And I love the symbol of Atlantis and Amazon heros working together! (Do you remember Flashpoint where they’re at war?) Arthur is now king of Atlantis full time (according to Greg), with his wife and his child.

- Batman, don’t talk about the mission above the symbol when you dress like a bat as a symbol of fear... --’ But Olly has a little moment of silent before saying “So do I.” Hesitation?

- Batman Incorp! With Katana, PlasticMan, Batwoman and Hardware (is he Luke Thomas or someone else?)

- Tim holding Cassie’s hand, like he wants to say he wants to stay, is so cute (and so short!) I think Batman and GA ordered their mentees to not say anything to their teammates :(

- So Barbara/Batgirl is now Oracle.

- Tara Markov/Terra was abducted the 28th July in Team year 8

- Bialya has invaded Qurac, teasing form S1.

- Artemis has move to Star City to leave with Will (clone Roy) and her niece Lian (maybe Jade as well?) I think Artemis and Will are roommates. “Who are you to recruit this time?” says Will. So it’s not the first time Dick asks for help on a mission one of these two. So the second one has to babysitt Lian (assuming Jade could work for herself)

- Halo works in Markovian palace and looks like a Quraci refugiee. Maybe she was stealing that silver plate to make some money? But she ends to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

- A speester assassin is really frightening! And “LIMBO TIME”! And he looks like he was betrayed when he get shocked.

- Did you notice the twins both cry when they see their parents but not their uncle? And their parents holding hands in death TT.TT

- M’gann and SB leaves with Wolf in Happy Harbo, the island where Mount Justice was.

- And Trump... I mean Gordon is here again. Can the Team can find out quickly he works for the Light so he can receive a deserved punch please? I hate that character but I love the work of the actor!

- So the twin brothers are only 17? Why not 20 with a majority at 21?

- I fear so much for Anissa and Jenifer with that children trafficking... And Anissa looks to young to be Traci’s girlfriend :( (but we don’t know their age yet!)

- Lynn has a GL for brother and BL as ex-husband. Do not mess with her of her family!

- BL has a power block due to his guilt...

- YJ! How dare you! Bruce Lee’s picture is so cute and heartbreaking in the same time! TT.TT

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- So now Gar has is own TV show just like he wanted in S2. Is he still leaving with SB and M’gann? Is that thanks to him they could buy this huge house?

- Catherine Cobert, the JL liason, is back! Wait, is Hardware blind? Donna Troy/Troia and Garth/Tempest are now ambassadors in UN for Atlantis and Themyscira! :o And Donna is another queen of sass! Rhelasia is finally reunited since S1 and I’m sure it’s a rogue nation like Bialya and works for/with the Light too. So does Zviad Baazovi, ambassador of Markovia, or for the person who ordered the murder of the royal couple.

- 2 days after this murder, Gregor’s pre-coronation! Some traught shippers here? They fake it but still :) And Artemis is so beautiful in this dress.

- So no one except Dick knows Barbara is now Orale?

- “Do you want to hold my hand” Is there a dirty joke or it’s just me?

- poor mother box! :(

- Plasmus looks like Ana, instead we see his brain instead of his heart. Otto? And how Count Vertigo manages to get out of jail?

- Halo :’( Wait! Did they experiment of those kids? Because there was just Halo who get caught no one else :/ And Halo talks to Sphere? or at least understands what she says.

- And SB looses his shit shirt. Again.

- It’s a tiny beetle? Wait, can Blue do the same thing? Is it from Blue? Was there where Dick got the inspiration? Is that a hint for the flawless shippers? (That’s the name of this ship right?)

- Wait! Was she the justice liaison in the pod? She has a mole in the same place! :o

- Brion is shirtless too! Like his mentor! ^^ (What? they train together in the trailer.) Believe Helga! She knows what she is doing! She seems to have played all of you :)

- “One of the girls” So they did experiment on all of those dead girl :( So the attack was run by Vertigo? Does he want to annexe Markovia? Or to have a political/royal power to take back his own kingdom? “the Superboy and his escaped companion”. Does he think Lightning is an escaped metaslave?

- “My child”? I don’t know if it’s creepy or if it implies that Helga is on the prince’s side.

- Now Sphere for the generic. Are these pictures clues for the future episodes? Knowing Greg and Brandon, I think it is!

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- Star Girl! So Gar is also a teen actor in Space Trek 3036. Does he start his career thanks to his mission in the last comic since he met an actress who worked with his mom on Hello Megan! ? He’s dating Perdita (who sould be around 17 yo). They met at Wally’s funeral (I read few fanfic where Perdita comes to his funeral and they were right!) I think he’s still a hero since we saw him in costume in the trailer and the picture with the whole team (well the ones who was revealed to be in this season).

- “Kill” Halo, sweetie, are you okay? What do you mean? That the place where you were killed?

- Dick who was tricked by his bug xD And Barb’s comment xD

- Helga used to work for Bedlam but now she’s on the prince’s side! :D So Vertigo does want to make a coup d’Etat to Vlatava?

- Maneuver 7!

- Bedlam = Delamb. It was under our nose from the beginning!

- “Cost you more-” than what? career? life? than you think? Helga has no time for your consideration, Dick :( She said “my child” Could she be the prince true mother? They’re both brown hair and Brion and Gregor aren’t homozygote twins.

- The children was boom tube away to be sold off planet or to other countries :( Sounds like the Runaways in the episode in Bialya right?

- Perdita’s talking with Gregor!

- Helga knows exactly was Brion’s powers are in seconds. Was she also there when they activated Tara’s ones?

- Vertigo’s minions have a lot of New Genesis technology. Is it thanks to the deal between Salvage and Darkseid?

- So Dr Ekcs is also a meta.

- Does Delamb wants to take this occasion to murder Gregor too? And this prince is clever! :)

- BL has recovered his powers thanks to another child’s death. The irony. It’s me or Sphere shows Halo how to heal?

- Gregor is indeed clever and sees right into Delamb’s game! I like him :) I’m even more sure the markovian ambassador works for the Light and he’s going to manipulate Gregor instead of Delamb. His decision for Brion was the only way to protect him from jail and maybe he hopes he will find their sister like Brion does.

- And now BL knows the metaslaves are controlled! “Not again. Again” I love this scene! ^^ And the farmer takes Otto’s victory scream for a threat to the heroes :( I knew Otto was going to die since his powers is too close to Brion’s ones.

- The picture from the generic of the third episode could be the Kent’s farm? (Or SB’s house, I’m not sure) However i’m sure this is the place we saw in the trailer (The one where Brion ends naked).

One week to wait now! And I thought 3 episodes per week were going to be enough ><

#Young Justice #YJ reviews #watch young justice outsiders #watch young justice

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thedenfantasyleague · 5 years

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The Den Fantasy League Recap: Week 9

Gentlemen,

We’re really starting to get into the belly of the beast here. Playoffs are the least of our concerns as the league is more fixated on the race to Cabana Boy. Can you blame us? It’s going to come down the wire and we’re at the edge of our seats waiting to see who will solidify their spot. On to the recap.

Inglorious Staffords v. Wilmore Cinderella

JP has had a rough couple of weeks. Heartbreak, followed by embarrassment, and now his third consecutive loss. I was in high spirits after JP’s D got -4 and his starting RB got only 4.7 points. He did surge back with great games from his Chargers, Latavius, Calvin, and both Gregs. Unfortunately for him, my team stuck around too long. With only three players in double figures, I fought and clawed my way to a victory. Disappointing games from Stafford and Lamar couldn’t derail monster games from Cooks and Kelce. Also, Kalabar’s Kurse has nothing on me. Finally, two fumbles in the first quarter sealed the victory. Can JP bounce back? Will I survive Thielen on bye next week? Who can pull away?

Kream in my Uggs v. 2-2-1 (0.500) PVO

Yuck. I mean yuck. We thought last week’s win was bad but this one was even worse for Dylan (PVO). You really couldn’t contain Jake this week after hitting almost 136 points. Jake had two players in the 20s (Matty Ice, Michael Thomas) and one in the 30s (Kreamy). Combine that with big games from Chubb and Kittle, Jake was unstoppable. Dylan had a complete letdown this week, barely amassing 50 points. Take away Goff’s monster game and AB’s tuddy, Dylan struggled all around, including only two players (other than AB and Goff) reaching 5 points. A rough day from Dylan, who earlier expressed that he will become Cabana Boy. Only time will tell for both teams.

Hank Mardukas v. VP

Two teams needing a win in the worst way were matched up against each other. Both are in contention for CB and the loser of this matchup was likely to fall into last place with E’s win. That’s exactly what happened. Vinny had one of his better weeks and was led by Mahomes and the surprising Josh Gordon, along with the recently shipped off Devante Adams. Scott’s limping his way back to last place after his fourth straight loss. Hank had good games from Fitz and Keenan and that’s really it. In fact, only two of his players reached 6 points and the rest fell short. Can Scott claw his way out of the whole? I’m not sure. Scott’s point production hasn’t been there the past few weeks and I think he’s definitely feeling the pressure of the Cabana.

The Perfect Ten v. Team Timshel

Speaking of Cabana, E has to be breathing a deep sigh of relief. Ian is officially no longer in last place after a big win this week taking down Mike. E was led by huge games from Deshaun, Julio, DeAndre, Chargers D, and J Tuck. All of that and he’s getting Leonard back. Mike has fluctuated between winning and losing and finds himself on the losing end this week. Mike had a poor week this week and only had three guys in double figures: Smith, Conner, and Graham; plus a lot of points on his bench. MIke’s record sits at 6-3 and he’s still looking to find the identity of his team.

Mr. Magorium v. Kalabar’s Revenge

“November is October 2″ - G. G handed Gabe his second loss of the season in a dominating fashion. Luckily for Gabe, Dylan was the only reason that Gabe wasn’t the Biggest Loser this week. Gabe had a decent showing, specifically Gurley and a monster Bears D game but really was left short by the rest of his team as he was the victim of the bye-blues. G has now won his third straight and looks to be a team fighting for contention. For the week, G had big games from his squad, specifically his twenty-point scorers: Tevin, McCaffrey, and Vikings D. Gabe has relinquished his spot at the top and G is trying to make some noise down the stretch.

Mixon It Up v. Virginia Reel Rockets

Rob has now won seven in a row and finds himself in the #1 overall playoff spot at this point in time. Al is looking to stay alive as he’s lost his last two. A few weeks ago, Rob put Kamara on the trade block. This week, he scored almost 30 points. Rob has also taken advantage of Sony being out and plugging in White who also put up 20+ points. Al’s team is in a limbo right now. Al can’t figure out which QB to play, leaving tons of points on his bench, and barely putting up 70+ points. Al’s finding himself in the middle of the road and, barring a collapse, seems to have locked up his playoff spot. He’ll look to build momentum down the stretch. Rob’s name change could signal a changing of the guard, or messing up his mojo in a crucial point of the season.

Week 10 Matchups

Virginia Reel Rockets (5-4) v. Inglorious Staffords (4-5)

Wilmore Cinderella (3-6) v. Kream In My Uggs (5-4)

2-2-1 (0.500) PVO (3-6) v. The Perfect Ten (2-7)

VP (3-6) v. Mr. Magorium (7-2)

Team Timshel (6-3) v. Hank Mardukas (2-7)

Kalabar’s Revenge (6-3) v. Mixon It Up (8-1)

The Biggest Loser (PVO)

It’s currently 6:55pm EST and I have yet to hear from Dylan. This is truly sad. When you build a league, you want to create one for everyone to buy in, regardless of their success, or in this case, failure.

Update: I’m sorry. You deserve better than this. Dylan didn’t want to show and is officially the biggest biggest loser. We can give Dylan the benefit of the doubt as this might be a downward spiral.

Cabana Boy Clinch:

MIU: CLINCHED MM: CLINCHED KR: 1 TT: 1 KIMU: 2 VRR: 2 IS: 3 VP: 4 WC: 4 PVO: 4 TPT: 2-7 HM: 2-7

We’re in the heat of the season and playoff seeding is still up in the air. More importantly, we’re in a heated battle for Cabana Boy. Good luck and, as always, set your lineups accordingly.

Your beloved Commissioner, Jared R. Mosqueda

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the science squad + 13, 20 (heh) & 22 :)

thank you! i wanted somebody to send me them. and lets just assume, this means dan, char & miles unless said otherwise (sad violin for frank and naomi) because they’re the ones, i like, care about

Grudges and vendettas

every moment i find of daniel being bitter about his upbringing gives me life. like, yes, he loves his mum but he’s perfectly aware she’s terrible

miles’ longing for a father in his youth eventually got replaced with huge resentment for him not being there, so there was a time when miles straight up hated his dad that he never met. and when he did meet him, those feelings were still in play (layered over his sad feelings)

char just gets annoyed, she’s got no grudges. in limbo, dan thinks char’s gonna blame him for her death, because he always did blame himself but of course she doesn’t, it wasn’t his fault. she’s not even mad about the hydrogen bomb thing (she fucking laughs), char’s just happy they have time together now and they’ve been given a second chance

but i digress

What-ifs/Alternate Timelines

whats that “heh” for, you expectin’ something, lisa? :}

man, you could sum up my sci trio shipping as “WHAT IF THEY KISSED AND BANGED AND LIVED TOGETHER AND ALSO OWNED PETS TOGETHER?” tho it’s not exactly an AU since i put all this in the limboverse. but it is all a bunch a what ifs. what if these people all had a closer relationship. expanding on what if daniel faraday was allowed to be happy gosh damn it. what if LOST had a concept of polyamory. etc

my No Incident AU affects everybody but i have it focus on dan, char and miles. specifically, miles n char are still in dharma, and dan is an other. because i’m loving that concept. this AU is, a lot because i’m very into details so i’ll probs make a post about it but that is about the gist of it

the science team…. but they’re the ghostbusters (i don’t think i need to say but they’re filling these roles but with their personalities: miles = peter, dan = egon, char = ray and frank = winston. and yes. they look 80s)

i also got this lost high school au which i kinda like and in that the science team = the science club. miles is just there for easy credit

People who’ve influenced them greatly

daniel:

[insert really great scientists and classical musicians here]. i’m mostly thinking isaac newton and frederic chopin. dan is a physicist (as in that’s his field, he’s clearly an expert on other sciences too) so i’m assuming newton is considered the champ of that field? (personally i think he was an asshole but that’s neither here nor there. he was important)

and that music piece associated with dan’s story - fantaisie-impromptu in c-sharp minor - is a chopin song. so i like to think chopin is his fave classical composer. also that song is a great pick because not only is it notoriously hard to do (i notice we only see daniel play the slower, easier parts for the sake of the child actor and jeremy) but if you listen to that piece, which i did, it’s the music version of daniel faraday

also. his mother. especially his mother. holy fucko did she drill her philosophies into daniel. he just wanted her to be proud of him :( …well, FUCK YOU, MOM, WE’RE THE VARIABLES

also desmond kinda changed his life. like having proof (or daniel’s idea of proof) of time travel walk up to him one day would be like, huge. and it’s clear to me that daniel loves how wrong and special desmond is. and i hc that dan’s short but meaningful afternoon with des in 1996 was dan’s bi awakening. so in just an hour and half, des had a big impact

charlotte

[insert influential cultural anthropologist(s) here] i know very little about cultural anthropology so this def applies here even more so

her mother also, char said she only became an anthropologist because she wanted to find the island and that was because her mum was so cage-y and secretive about the existence and events of the island (repeatedly telling char it doesn’t exist and she imagined it!!) so it seems like char’s mum had a huge influence on her life and psyche

(wow there’s something dan & char have in common. nerd scientists with emotionally abusive mums and are secretly island babies)

daniel’s convo with bb char was kind of a Big Deal on char’s psyche too

miles:

his mum also but, combo breaker, i imagine her as an actual good mum (besides the refusing to give any info on miles’ father but like, i get it) who was just doing her best. and i imagine her death hit miles really hard. most of my headcanons regarding miles cynicism and emotional walls and issues with love all hinge on the idea that his mum’s death fucked him up

yeah, his powers and missing dad are also a huge part of why miles is the way he is, but i imagine his mum (his Ma) and her death is a part of it too

i hc that miles is a ghostbuster fan and that peter is his fave ghostbuster, because that’s the most obvious thing in the world. i like to think that miles sense of humour, his attitude, his sense of snark is influenced by peter venkman (and bill murray characters in general) because he seems like the kinda guy who’d like peter the best. and also he’s got that whole “i hide the fact that i care about stuff behind snark and one-liners” schtick

miles’ friendships with hurley and sawyer made him a better person. and i like to think his post-finale friendships with richard, kate & claire will continue that (miles isn’t good at opening up. he needs random people to cling to him first)

#lost headcanons #as usual i used every question as a way to meta and hc the fuck outta these people #i like that the science trio were all raised by their mums #and are all secretly island babies #agardenintheshire

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