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snakeredbirdbatkatana · 18 days

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The Son of Hell

Tim has a secret well he has a lot of secrets if he's being brutally honest but one that no matter what can't ever slip.

When Tim was little he made a friend he can't really remember how but one day she was just there. Cooking, cleaning, helping with homework. When he started stalking the bats she was always there in the corner of his eye. He had at first thought maybe he lost his mind but when someone tried to steal his camera she came grabbing the guy he still isn't sure exactly what she did but he was never attacked again.

Any questions he has she could always answer she confirmed Batman's identity read him stories when he was little she was what he imagined a Mother was.

Part of the reason he loves Cass so much is she reminds him of her.

When he had asked her name she had smiled looking at him with such love, before kissing his scalp.

"You can call me Lily"

Even now after a lot of research and some weird questions to Constantine he has never figured out what exactly she is he knows that it's not human.

Every step of his life she has been there guarding, he had asked her never to interfere with Robin work scared that Batman would find out and somehow take her away.

He had never see her so angry than after Titans Tower fussing and healing him enough so there would be no perment damage. Yet he once again asked for her not to fix it or else Bruce would know.

She smirked before gently cradling his face.

"I do not fear that silly bat but anything for you, My Imp."

When he faced down Ra's looking for Bruce before he could accept the offer she was there staring him down.

"You will leave Tim alone don't force my hand, do I make myself clear."

Ra's was terrified he had looked at Tim as if seeing him in a new light.

"Of course I had not been aware of the situation I meant no disrespect I will happily help Timothy."

It went smoothly only once Bruce was safely back in Gotham did Tim risk asking.

"Do you know what she is?"

Ra's stared straight at the wall clearly lost in some such memory from long before him, hesitation not something you would expect from the Demon's head.

"Older than I my dear, powerful, deadly you have no idea how interesting it is that a being like that is yours. You are untouchable my detective."

He should have been terrified but they had never been anything but kind.

Darkseid is a threat as every Hero, Vigilante, and Villain agrees they all stand before the godlike being.

He sees his family, his friend's even the likes of Ra's and Deathstroke all waiting to fight.

He knows they are backed against a wall that all of them might die.

He doesn't want to risk losing the one person who has always loved him but he looks straight at Ra's and all he does is nod.

He turns to Bruce his father before he steps forward making eye contact with a being who will always haunt his nightmares.

"Who are you to step to me boy?"

He's terrified but he feels Lily weaving whatever power it is that she possesses around him.

"I'm nobody, but she isn't. Lily now!"

Before he could blink the entire battlefield erupts in light a figure standing tall with multiple sets of giant white wings wearing a a suit that looks darker than night. A slight red tint to their skin.

Darkseid starts to step back terrified his army looking confused on why there leader is shaking.

Tim steps closer to the being they feel so safe he wants to bury himself in their wings.

"Lily is that you?"

The bring turns a kind smile slightly different then the one he has seen for years.

"Oh no sorry sweetheart that happens to be my dear wife my name is Lucifer."

#tim drake #batfamily #jason todd #dick grayson #damian wayne #bruce wayne #ra's al ghul #bamf tim drake #batfam #lucifer morningstar #Lilith #bamf batfamily

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hellfireloserclub · 4 months

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Better late than never. I got at least one in for the holiday season!

Day 31 of @steddieholidaydrabbles new-year/resolution

Rating: T warnings: fluff, post traumatic stress, apocalypse I guess?

Doomsday clock

“New year, new me.” Steve grimaced as the clock clicked closer to midnight. As far as he was concerned this party should have been over hours ago, more of a wake for the traumatic year that was 86 than a new year celebration- hold on no they were seeing out 87 now weren't they -The apocalypse really threw off the concept of time.

It wasn't even like he could drink in the new year like the others.

Both him and Eddie were stone cold sober, thanks Vecna, as if destroying their lives hadn't been bad enough. He had to go and take away the comfort of alcohol to numb the trauma. But hey he had some awesome scars, that totally made up for it, right?

The rest of the party were enjoying the party. But he saw it behind their eyes, the childhood that had been taken away, the lost time, the lost chances.

He had slipped away so Robin could finally shoot her shot with Nancy.

He knew it should feel something, regret? Lost opportunity? But he felt nothing. Just empty. His best friend deserved the world, she didn't have to get dragged into this disassociated state with him.

Let her find love.

He had felt Eddie's eyes on him as he excused himself from Joyce's front room, desperately in need of nicotine and to shake himself out of the depressing fug he had dragged himself into.

It didn't surprise him when Eddie followed.

They stood in silence leaning against the railing,watching through the glass as the others passed around drinks, laughed, and smiled as the alcohol did what it was supposed to. Even the kids had been allowed drinks under supervision.

What did it matter, Hawkins was a lawless town. Erased from maps and atlas, a mystery that would disappear in a few years never to be spoken of again.

It didn't exist.

But they did.

The ones who survived. The damned. The cursed and forgotten.

He hadn't meant to utter his words into the silence between him and Eddie, but it had happened anyway.

“New year, new you?” Eddie always made sure that Steve could see his lips when he spoke, not hiding behind the lengths of hair that had slowly begun to grow back to the lengths that Steve had grown to envy, back before.

Before the end of everything. Before and After. Everything divided straight down a burning red angry line that had ripped the world apart.

Eddie watched as Steve stubbed out his cigarette before turning his attention back fully to Steve's face. Steve's eyes traced the scar that ran across the other man's chin, it was quiet enough outside in the frosty air for him not to need to look at Eddie's mouth as he talked to follow the words. But addiction is a cruel mistress.

And, ever since Eddie army crawled back from Hell itself, Steve had been just that. Addicted.

Eddie had buried under his skin and become as much a part of his life as breathing.

Obviously, Steve hadn't told him that.

Couldn't bring himself to burden the man with the shallow empty shell of what he used to be. Scared, broken, deaf and all the other fun stuff that came with being the human shield, one concussion away from the bitter end. Human chew toy, a disfigured jumpy twitchy mess.

“Yeah, new-year resolutions, traditional shit. New year, new me” Eddie stubbed his cigarette out in the ashtray between them. Still watching Steve, as Steve watched him.

“Shame. I like, this you.” Eddie shrugged, hovering just outside of Steve’s personal bubble. Even now unsure if he should or would be let into Steve’s space. “What if you have a personality transplant and you turn back into a douchebag jock? That would never do. I have standards sweetheart. I could never…”

“You could never, what?” Steve watched as Eddie chewed on his bottom lip, his face schooled into the picture of innocence. Without the sound cues Steve was lost to read his expression, but there was something akin to mischief in the other man's eyes.

“It’s not midnight yet, my new year's resolution might change in the-” he glanced at the clock through the large glass doors. “-next seven minutes. You know me Stevie, I’m unpredictable, I zig when I should zag. Plus a New You might severely derail my immediate future plans."

Many things had changed in the After. Eddie was different, less opinionated, no need to fight for the attention of his peers, here in the ashes of a failed civilization, everyone was created equal. Yet sometimes he still spoke like he was leading a campaign or like his words needed to be deciphered with a cryptograph or a cypher. Used as a shield and a way to deflect. He talked in riddles, and tonight the topic of his enigmatic words was evidently Steve himself.

“When have you ever done anything because of me? Mr free will.” Steve found himself stepping forward, letting Eddie into his safe space. The other man seemed to be gearing up to something. So Steve waited.

Eddie tapped his lips in thought and Steve let the movement draw him in.

“Well let's start with a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away when I decided to not stab a bottle through your vocal cords. Kind of a turning point in my life that has sent me hurtling down a path towards this new years resolution if I’m honest.” Eddie stepped closer, it was getting harder for Steve to focus on his lips now, but it wasn’t for lack of trying. The way Eddie was looking at him now was almost animalistic, and Steve had never felt more like prey.

“I mean I chose to follow you out here at- “ he checked the clock again, “- five minutes to midnight and freeze my ass off- a commodity I have little to spare in the first place- to maybe, just maybe be in the right place at the right time for once. Each choice has brought me here. To you. So yeah, I’d say a lot of you, influences a lot of me. Especially your new year's resolution, if it means you’re going to go changing- ” he gestured wildly in Steve’s direction. “-Any of this.”

“Is that so?” Steve looked into the kitchen, his chosen family milling as they jostled to have a drink in their hand as the clock struck twelve. “So I have two minutes to change the world? Talk about a doomsday clock.”

“This isn’t about the world. It’s just about you and me. No doomsday clock needed.” Eddie stepped closer. “Just maybe a new watch battery, so I don’t run late for the date I was gearing up to ask you on. But you know that was the old Steve. Like I said, new Steve might be a douchebag.”

Eddie was stupidly close now.

“How about this?” Steve nudged Eddie's nose with his own, “I ask you out now? And neither of us make resolutions? They're kind of stupid anyway.”

Eddie's eyes studied his own. His pupils danced as he tried to focus on Steve who instinctively lent in.

“Hate to rush you Eds, but you have about thirty sec-” Eddie bit the end of his nose, causing Steve to jump back in shock.

“Don't you doomsday clock me Harrington.” Eddie warned a damn right dangerous look in his eye. Goddammit that shouldn’t do things to him but a blatant want was bubbling in the pit of his stomach.

“Twenty seconds.”

“I think I can just fit you into my busy schedule.”

“Yeah?”

“Yeah.”

“Fuck resolutions then.”

#steddie #stranger things #eddie munson #steve harrington #steve x eddie #eddie/steve #steddie fic #steddieholidaydrabbles

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fanficimagery · 2 years

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You’re Still You (1/4)

You wake up in the Upside Down and you're not exactly human anymore.

PART ONE | PART TWO | PART THREE | PART FOUR

Words: 3.3K Author’s Note: Stranger Things AU where Eddie lives!

Eyes snapping open, you gasp for breath and scramble into a sitting position as you wildly glance all around you.

It's dark, some sort of particles drift all around you, and the sky lights up with flashes of red lightning.

You're in the Upside Down.

It takes a moment for your brain to reboot so you remember exactly why you're in this nightmarish place and then you remember the plan to sneak up on Vecna. You'd been part of the decoy team- distracting the demobats so Steve, Nancy and Robin had a fairly clear way to enter Creel House.

You remember Eddie putting on the most metal concert ever- his fingers flying over his guitar as he played Master of Puppets to draw the demobats to you. But the demobats proved to be too much for you, Eddie and Dustin, and you and Eddie made sure Dustin was in the clear before sharing a look of resignation.

In order to give the other team as much time as possible, either one or both of you weren't going to walk away from this.

And from the looks all around you, you realize you're the one who apparently didn't walk away.

Suddenly remembering the demobats taking chunk after chunk out of you, you start patting down your arms and legs and abdomen. But there are no wounds present.

Startled, you quickly stand and check yourself again. You know you'd been attacked, hell you were overwhelmed by the demobats while Eddie screamed your name, but there's not a single wound to show for it.

Kill. Feed.

The raspy words in your head send a shiver down your spine.

Lead my army and unleash hell on earth.

You reach up to rub at your temple, eyes closing as a pain pulses behind your eyes. "Get it together," you mumble to yourself.

When the only sounds you can hear are your heavy breathing and the chattering of the creatures of this hellish dimension, you open your eyes and gather your bearings. You realize you're not far from the trailer park Eddie lived in and pick up one of the abandoned bicycles to make the trek back.

The gate between the two dimensions that resides in Forest Hills Trailer Park is a lot bigger than it was the last time you'd seen it. Before it was just a hole in Eddie's trailer's ceiling and now it's practically swallowed the whole trailer park. It pulses red and angry, and there are hundreds of demobats standing guard. You hesitate upon approaching, but then the strangest thing happens.

As you near the gate, the demobats chatter as they stare at you before backing off and making room for you to pass.

"Huh."

The gate looks a lot more threatening and hostile, but something tells you that it's still a gate. So, steeling yourself, you find a point where the gate seems the most accessible and push yourself through. The nearly translucent membrane is harder to push through, but after struggling for a bit your hand is the first part of you to break through.

You do not understand the physics of crossing dimensions, so while you enter the gate standing up and exit it falling on your side, you readily pick yourself up and dust yourself off.

The trailer park is abandoned seeing as numerous trailers have fallen victim to the enormous pulsing gate. As you start walking towards the main entrance/exit of the park, you realize the area has been cordoned off with police tape and wooden barriers.

Feed. Kill.

Your head throbs and you stumble at the pain. But then it vanishes as quickly as it had come on and you let your feet carry you further and further into Hawkins.

It's eerily quiet in your hometown and you're surprised not a single vehicle is out and about. You're not sure why your first instinct is to completely bypass your home, but you do, and you eventually find yourself roaming the streets of Loch Nora.

Realizing Steve lives nearby, you urge your feet to carry you in that direction.

The only vehicle you see at the Harrington household is the one that belongs to Steve, so you feel a bit better about knocking on the door so late at night. You try to pay attention to the noises on the other side of the front door and are surprised when you can actually hear the footsteps of your friend walking around.

You flinch back as the door opens and you and Steve stare at one another in surprise.

"Y-YN?" He stammers.

"Stevie?" You question, heart pounding.

A beat passes and then Steve's throwing himself at you, arms wrapping around you in a heartwarming embrace. Your arms go around his waist as your face presses into his neck. Seconds pass and the most beautiful aroma fills your senses.

Kill. Feed.

As your eyes fall shut, your nose skims the skin of his neck. The sound of his heartbeat fills your ears, your mouth salivates, and your tongue is centimeters away from his flesh when he says, "I thought you were dead! Eddie and Dustin-"

You snap back to yourself, heart pounding at the thought of what you were about to do. "I- I think I was."

Steve tenses and then pulls back. "What?"

Your eyes fill with tears as you meet his gaze. "I don't- I think someone's wrong with me."

"Hey. It's okay. Don't cry. We'll figure this out." A sob breaks free from your throat and Steve brings you back into his arms, leading you inside his house. "I'll, uh, I'll just call a code red and the party will know what to do."

Inside, Steve wastes no time calling anyone and everyone in the know about Hawkins' dirty little secret. You sit in his living room, arms crossed over your stomach as you hunch in on yourself. But the grumblings of your stomach become unbearable, so you get up to raid the kitchen.

By the time Steve is done calling in everyone and telling some of the party to bring in the others who had no phone to reach them at, he finds you in his kitchen surrounded by various lunch meats.

"Everyone's on their way," he tells you.

"Okay." You're eating sandwich meat right out of the packaging, grimacing at the taste. It's nowhere near what you're craving.

You chug glass after glass of water and when it doesn't do anything to sate your thirst, you give up and go back to the living room.

"Do you, uh, do you maybe want to shower and change clothes?" Steve eventually asks. "No offense, but you look like shit."

Huffing a short laugh, you nod. "Please?"

"Follow me."

Steve leads you upstairs to his room, pulling out some of your clothes that had somehow migrated over to his place over the past several months. You collect the clothes and a towel, and head into the bathroom to clean yourself up.

You're not sure how long you've been showering when you finally decide to get out. You pull on your clothes and towel dry your hair as much as you can, and then make your way downstairs where several voices can be heard.

Hesitantly walking into the living room, you stand there as all eyes flick over to you.

"Holy shit," Dustin mumbles.

You clasp your hands in front of you and smile sheepishly as you stand under the archway leading into the room. "Hey, Henderson."

Eddie, Dustin, Lucas, Will, Mike, Eleven, Robin, Nancy, Jonathan, Joyce and Hopper all stare at you with trepidation etched in their every feature.

Kill.

You wince at the voice and gulp when you see Will sit a little straighter in his seat.

"YN?" Your gaze slides over to Eddie who has stepped forward ahead of the gathered group. "Is that really you?"

You nod. The group seems to exhale with relief, but then tense all over again when you utter, "Mostly."

Eddie holds himself still, but decides that he just doesn't care.

You're here.

You're alive.

And he's so fucking relieved because while the two of you were cordial with each other in school, you lost touch after you graduated and then reconnected while he was on the run. And just as something started to simmer between the two of you and there was an understanding you would explore it after you defeated Vecna, you died.

Eddie is on the move before anyone can stop him and the second his arms are around you, you start crying all over again. The two of you hold tightly onto each other before he pulls back, grasping your face in his hands as his lips press to your forehead.

"I knew they had to be wrong," Robin says as she moves next, pulling you from Eddie so she can hug you as well. "There was no way you were dead."

"But that's the thing though," you say as she steps back. "I did die."

"What does that even mean, kid?" Hopper asks.

Everyone watches you as Eddie leads you over to one of the recliners and pulls you down onto his lap. His arms wrap loosely around your waist as you settle against him and he hooks his chin over your shoulder. "Exactly as I said. I died."

"But you're here." Eleven frowns. "How?"

"I dunno." Your brow furrows as you try to recall your last moments. "One second I'm telling Eddie that it was going to be our year, and the next.. the next I'm waking up all alone in the Upside Down."

Nancy frowns as she stares between Eddie and Dustin. "Did you guys even check for a pulse? Maybe it was just really weak."

Dustin opens his mouth to defend himself, but you shake your head. "I'm pretty sure I died... and woke up different."

"Why do you say that, sweetheart?" Eddie asks, squeezing you a little.

"Because when I approached the gate to come back home, it was surrounded by demobats. The demobats were scared of me," you admit. "They backed off the closer I got."

Robin's eyes widen. "Is this- is this a side effect of rabies?"

Your lips twitch in amusement as Steve groans. "Will you shut up about rabies, Robin? YN isn't foaming at the mouth or whatever."

You clear your throat to gain their attention. "What ended up happening?" You ask. "After I.."

"Died?" Mike asks, eyebrow arched.

"Yeah." You grimace. "That."

"Max is, uh, Max is in the hospital," Lucas says. Everyone glances at him, sympathy in their eyes. "Steve, Nancy and Robin got to Vecna, but not before Vecna got to Max."

"She died and all four gates opened," Steve then says.

"But I brought her back. Just not fully," Eleven admits.

"They say she's brain dead," Lucas finishes.

Your eyes fill with tears as your bottom lip trembles. "I'm so sorry, guys."

Lucas shrugs. "Wasn't your fault. You did all you could. We just underestimated him."

"The good thing is he's gone now, so..."

"But he's not." The words leave your mouth before you can stop them and the atmosphere of the room becomes tense all over again.

"What do you mean by that?" Eddie asks.

You nervously shift in his lap. "I, uh, I can hear someone in my head. Raspy voice. It's only happened a couple of times, but it's not- it's not a pleasant experience. And given what we know about Venca and how he controls things from the Upside Down, I'm assuming it's him."

"What does this voice say?" Joyce wonders, gaze darting to Will who shifts uncomfortably in his own seat.

"To kill. And feed. And lead an army that will unleash hell on earth."

The room goes so quiet that you can hear a pin drop- well, at least for them maybe. You're left listening to pounding hearts and smelling the fear that is slowly starting to waft off of them.

Before another word can be uttered, however, a heart stopping screech sounds from Steve's backyard.

"Oh what now?" Hopper groans.

Everyone scrambles out of their seats, staying behind Hopper and Joyce, as they rush towards the back sliding door. When you stand up from Eddie's lap, he keeps hold of your hand without a word and walks with you to see what the hell's going on now.

As everyone files onto the back patio, you and Eddie end up at the end of the line as everyone slowly spreads out. For a moment everyone kind of breathes a sigh of relief when there's nothing to be seen, and then the screech sounds again.

Your skin prickles, your heart hammers inside your ribcage, and alarm bells start to sound as you watch a gangly, seven-foot-tall creature walk out from the shadows. It looks almost humanoid, the way it stalks towards the backyard gate and pulls itself up and over it.

Kill. Lead my army. Kill!

. . . .

Another screech sounds, but the gathered group are confused because the screech has come from their side and not from the demogorgon who was across the pool.

Everyone looks to YN who's rooted to the spot and whose skin has gone a pale gray. Eddie takes a couple steps forward to get a look at her face and his eyes widen when he notices that YN's eyes have gone pitch black, the skin around her eyes having darkened as well to give them a sunken look.

"Sweetheart?"

YN's head twitches to the side, her jaw opening as she makes a chattering noise to the demogorgon on the other side of the pool still. And it's then they notice the mouth full of pointy teeth.

"Shit. What is she?" Mike asks, trying to pull Eleven behind him.

"I don't know," Eddie says.

The demogorgon shrieks again, but the group only have eyes for YN who walks forward and crouches near the edge of the pool. Her shoulders roll and then their eyes are drawn to her back where they can see something moving underneath her shirt. From one moment to the next, her shirt rips and enormous leathery wings sprout from each shoulder blade.

"Jesus Christ!" Eddie yells, stumbling backwards.

"Are those wings?!" Robin yells.

Hopper, Joyce, Nancy and Jonathan do their best to push the kids back, but the kids are stubborn as ever. The demogorgon shrieks, YN shrieks back, and then she's launching herself across the pool when the demogorgon leaps.

"Holy shit. It's a monster battle royale," Dustin exclaims as YN tackles the demogorgon mid-leap.

The group watches in shocked awe as YN rolls with the demogorgon on the ground, getting the upper hand as she straddles the shrieking monster. She manages to grasp the demogorgon's wrist in her hands, pinning them on either side of its flowered head. They shriek at one another, monster to monster, and then YN's mouth opens far wider than it should be capable of before latching onto the demogorgon's meaty shoulder.

The demogorgon snarls and tries to buck off YN, but she leans back up with black blood smeared around her mouth. Releasing one of the demogorgon's wrists, she then shoves her clawed hand into its chest cavity. As she pulls her hand free with whatever passes as a heart for the monster, she watches as the demogorgon stills before taking a bite out of its heart.

"Gross," Mike grumbles.

His voice garners YN's attention and she looks at them with eyes still black as night. She crawls off the demogorgon, chattering at them in curiosity as she perches herself on the edge of the pool once more, wings raised above her.

"Shit, shit, shit," Dustin utters.

Eleven puts herself in front of the stunned group and they watch as YN lowly growls, dipping her head low as her top lip trembles in agitation. Eleven raises her hand, but Eddie's quick to lunge and push her arm back down.

"Don't! She's still our friend."

"She's about to attack us!" Lucas exclaims. "That's not YN anymore, man."

Eddie looks pained at the words and then glances back over at YN, only to come up short as he sees her staring down at her reflection in the water. "Wait. Just.. wait."

. . . .

Staring at your reflection in horror, you scramble backwards. You can't remember anything from the last few minutes, so you're confused as to why you're on the opposite side of the pool with a now dead demogorgon and your friends staring at you in fear.

Pain shoots down your back as something scrapes the concrete ground and you yelp as you fall onto your side. Then glancing over your shoulder, your stomach drops at the sight of leathery wings attached to your back. "What the.."

"YN?" Eddie calls out.

Your head whips forward before you hesitantly climb to your feet, trying to balance with the newest additions to your back. You somehow end up looking down at your hands, only to frown when you see your right hand clawed and covered in black goo. Blood.

"Sweetheart?"

You look up, tears filling your eyes. You've never had anyone look at you the way your friends are looking at you right now and it hurts. But not only are you hurt, you're terrified as well. You don't know what the hell is going on.

Kill. Kill. Kill!

"I.. I'm sorry," you say, slightly shaking your head to rid yourself of the raspy voice. "I didn't-" Your wings start to flap, lifting you in the air just enough so your feet are inches off the ground.

"YN." Eddie's voice cracks as you look at him once more and your heart aches for the boy you had hopefully seen a future with. "It's okay. We can figure this out. Just- just come back down, sweetheart."

You shake your head with a sad smile. "He won't stop until I'm in his control for good. It's not safe. I'm not safe." Your smile wobbles as the first tear falls. "It was almost our year, Munson. Almost."

And then with one strong flap of your wings, you shoot off into the sky, your friends shouts following you into the night sky.

You fly high up in the night sky for hours, intent on getting as far away from Hawkins as you can. The raspy voice is no longer at the back of your mind, but the longing for your friends is still there. You want nothing more than to let them help you, but you know that can't happen in Hawkins or as long as Vecna is still alive.

You wind up in California of all places, breaking into an abandoned warehouse to hide from the sun.

For the next few days, you find out a few things about yourself. The sun only hurts when you've been exposed to it for too long. You learn to hide your wings and bring them out on command, and you realize that the gnawing hunger you feel is the hunger for blood.

You're not comfortable with killing, but the hunger is too much to ignore. So, you hunt, but you hunt miles outside of the town you've hunkered down in. Then taking the money from your victims, you go shopping for jeans, shorts, and backless shirts so your wings don't ruin them.

Then when you're comfortable enough, you finally decide to wander the apparent murder capital of the world- Santa Carla.

The boardwalk has drawn your attention and you're grateful that the flashing lights and whistles and smell of sugary and greasy foods mask that of the blood rushing through everyone's veins.

You're walking through the crowd, smiling at passing teens and children as they rush to and from the rides. Hands tucked in the back pocket of your jean shorts; you're not paying attention to those you've suddenly caught the attention of.

At least not until you hear, "Am I dreaming or is that you, YLN?"

You freeze and turn towards the sound of the voice, eyes subtly widening at the boy smirking right at you. Your tense shoulders drop as you chuckle, shaking your head in fond amusement. "Yeah, it's me. Don't cream your pants, Hargrove."

To be continued...

#eddie munson x reader #eddie munson imagine #eddie munson fanfiction #stranger things imagine #stranger things fanfiction #eddie munson #stranger things #steve harrington #the lost boys x reader #lost boys x reader

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madlysage · 26 days

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my stardew valley bachelor headcannons:

(basically just me creating my own characters as fodder for fic atp :,)

elliott (my darling)

- is from a wealthy family- his dad is british and a distant descendent of the royal family

- went to college for an english and philosophy double major and graduated with honors

- had an affair with a professor in college (he didn’t know she was married) and is estranged from his parents as a result

- secretly loves trashy bodice ripper romance books

- always comes in without knocking (dramatic man that he is)

- cannot garden to save his life

- an ugly crier

- yappiest yapper ever

- LOVES dancing (and was classically trained as a child- hello rich preppy parents)

-bi king

^^ like this but longer red hair (UGH)

sebastian

- bi-icon

- he’s mixed white and native american (choctaw to be specific)

- i always picture him with long ass black hair (it’s hot sorry)

- literally always picture billy wirth….

- he has a secret belly button piercing (but he’s hiding it from robin)

- his mom and dad had him as teens and his dad abandoned them because his family didn’t approve

- wants to be closer to maru but doesn’t know how

- alternates having crushes on sam and abigail (but let’s be so real it’s gotta be sam)

- has a soft spot for classical music

- smokes weed even more than cigs- feels responsible for how much sam smokes too

sebastian fans come at me all u want this is the man in my head when i picture himmmmmmmm

sam

-another bicon (could honestly be pan)

- secretly a smoker (don’t tell jodi)

- has tons of army men in his room- he started collecting them when his dad got deployed

- loves crop tops and will cut any and all of his band tees- but his mom keeps throwing them away

- is still kinda in the closet and a little girl crazy (particularly for abigail and penny)

- is teaching jas to skateboard on school breaks ever since she asked (a bit to impress penny)

(this just works for me idk- he gives me this vibe but like grungier and spunkier maybe)

harvey

- refuses to drink anything but black coffee

- king of anxiety

- secretly a good cook

- loses his glasses at least once a week

- can name any model of plane just from the sound of the engine

- wants to get his pilot’s license

- has a phenomenal record collection

………… yes this is my harvey and I WILL TAKE 0 NOTES GO ATJ GO

shane

- leaned how to braid hair just for jas

- was on the gridball team in highschool but keeps it a secret to avoid alex begging him to join his rec team

- was also best friends with jas’ dad in highschool from the gridball team and since his death he hasn’t been able to bring himself to play again

- wanted to go to college for agriculture but the loans would have been too much

- let’s jas paint his toenails any color she wants but is too embarrassed to let her do his finger nails

- got his ears pierced one night on a bender in the city but never wears them

- has a little crush on emily but is too embarrassed by it to ever tell (he doesn’t think she would ever feel the same)

- 1/4 indian on his mom’s side but isn’t in touch with the culture

- is a vegetarian but never talks about it

likkkke COME ON

alex

- wears a specific cologne and gets very upset whenever he runs out and can’t have his “signature scent”

- gets up early and makes breakfast for his grandparents everyday

- is poly but doesn’t rlly know that’s an option- and it ruins most of his attempts at monogamous relationships

- went to college for human physiology on a gridball scholarship but got Cs the whole time (but he’s still smarter than u would think)

- does yoga with evelyn every sunday and does george’s physical therapy each day too

- is the stardew equivalent of a freaking baptist christian (he’s all into Yoba)

likeeeee is this not bro

#stardew valley #stardew #sdv #sdv headcanons #stardew fanfic #i’m too busy honing in it class as is let her be free #ik ik i have shitty opinion but who am i to corral my mind #all of these are at play in my fic :D #don’t come up with hyper specific details that convulute and complicate writing: challenge level impossible

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givemewallywestorgivemedeath · 2 years

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Something about dc glass canons just hit different.

Dc has a lot of tank characters. The heavy hitters. The overpowered pseudo gods. I'm talking your average Kryptonian, Amazonian, Atlantean or Martian. A tank character in dc usually has super strength and a very high durability, if not complete invulnerability. Starfire and Cyborg, for example, would be considered tanks because of how durable, strong and powerful they are, despite the fact that they aren't invulnerable.

There are a lot of tank characters in dc. Classic tanks for the Teen Titans are Donna, Garth, Vic and Kori. For Young Justice, the tank characters are Cassie and Kon. In the Justice League they'd be Clark, Diana, Arthur, J'onn, Kendra/Shayera, Billy, ect. I could literally list tank characters all day. There are so many of them.

I find that tanks can get a little old, fast. There isn't a whole lot you can do with a tank character, especially not with dc tanks. They're all basically gods so there aren't a whole lot of stakes in your stories. Usually these tanks have a fatal weakness to make them more interesting and to insert stakes back into the story but even with those they can get dull. Dc tanks tend to have a heart of gold and they don't tend to mess around with morality much. These are powerful characters and with that much power it becomes scary if they are anything less than a boy scout. Of course there are exceptions, like when dc wants their characters to be edgy (cough cough Arthur and Diana) but typically the tanks are fairly cut and dry morality wise and very palatable.

Then there are dc's 'just some guy's. There's a lot of these as well. These are your typical 'no powers' heroes like Batman, Green Arrow, Nightwing, Red Arrow and Robin. There are a lot of these guys. Now the 'just some guy's are allowed to be very complex characters with a wide range of morality. In fact, they're encouraged to do so because they're supposed to be relatable to the audience. The tanks are gods to be admired, bastions of peace, hope and justice, but the 'just some guy's? They are just people. For that reason they can be incredibly compelling and interesting characters but they lose a lot of points when it comes to fights. Because of the power scaling in DC, these characters are either unable to do anything above street level or they have an insane amount of plot conveniences that allow them to somehow win (Batman with his prep time or Batman with his bottomless utility belt or, well, really Batman with anything)

But where dc really hits it out of the park? Their best and most compelling characters (in my opinion)??? The glass canons. A glass canon, for those unfamiliar, is a character who can deal a massive amount of damage but who goes down with one hit. All the power of the tank and all the vulnerability of the 'just some guy'. Not a god, not a man but perpetually in-between.

Classic DC glass canons would be Wally, Raven and Gar (depending) for the Teen Titans, Bart for Young Justice, Barry/Wally, Hal/John/Guy/Kyle/Jess/Simon/Jo, Zatanna and Black Canary (depending). Basically any speedster, Green Lantern or magic user would fit the bill. Some metas as well depending on power levels. Gar and Dinah are tricky because to truly be a glass canon you have to have an insane amount of power and around normal human durability. So it really depends on their characterization.

Dc's glass canons are so much fun. They're allowed to be human! By god do they fuck up and mess around and make mistakes. They try their best to be good but it's not an inherent quality like the tanks. They're powerful enough to be cocky but mortal enough that they're extremely vulnerable at all times. Take Bart for example. That little dude could rewrite reality if he wanted to. He could take out an army before they could blink. He could hop across the multiverse in an instant. He'd also collapse if you hit him over the head with a chair.

It's just such a fun dynamic??? The stakes are real. One bullet could take your hero out and yet they still face down gunfire everyday. They have the powers of gods and yet they are extremely human and flawed. It's a fight between holding back and being human and letting loose and becoming the thing they fear.

I just find the glass canon to be such a compelling character archetype. This character could singlehandedly take down a country if they wanted to but also they just got a paper cut while trying to do their taxes.

#dc #dc comics

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datcloudboi · 4 months

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List of Films Turning 10 Years Old in 2024

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

American Sniper

Annie (the remake starring Jamie Foxx)

As Above, So Below

The Babadook (we stan a gay icon)

Batman: Assault on Arkham (a direct continuation of the Batman: Arkham games)

Big Eyes

Big Hero 6

Birdman (won the Best Picture Oscar for this year)

The Book of Life

The Boxtrolls

Boyhood (filmed over the course of 12 years)

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Chef

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead

Dear White People (the basis for the TV series on Netflix, and made by the same guy)

Dracula Untold (this was Universal’s second attempt at launching the Dark Universe)

The Drop (a crime drama starring Tom Hardy)

Edge of Tomorrow/Live Die Repeat

The Equalizer

Exodus: Gods and Kings (a biblical epic directed by Ridley Scott)

The Expendables 3

The Fault in Our Stars

Foxcatcher

Fury (the war movie with Brad Pitt and Shia LaBeouf)

Get on Up (the James Brown biopic starring Chadwick Boseman)

Godzilla (the 1st film in the MonsterVerse)

Gone Girl

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1

The Guest

Hercules (the one starring The Rock)

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (did you guys know the working title for this movie was “The Hobbit: There and Back Again”?)

How to Train Your Dragon 2

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1

If I Stay

The Imitation Game (the movie where Benedict Cumberbatch plays Alan Turing)

Inherent Vice

Interstellar

The Interview (the movie that almost caused World War 3)

Into the Woods

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

Jodorowsky's Dune (a documentary about the Dune movie that we never got)

Joe (one of Nic Cage's best movies)

John Wick (the 1st one)

Kill the Messenger

Left Behind (one of Nic Cage's worst movies)

The Lego Movie

Life After Beth

Lucy ((the “humans only use 10% of their brain” movie. Which has since been proven false. Source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-people-only-use-10-percent-of-their-brains/ )

Maleficent

The Maze Runner

A Million Ways to Die in the Weset

Mr. Peabody and Sherman

Muppets Most Wanted

Need for Speed (Aaron Paul's first project after "Breaking Bad" ended)

Neighbors

Night of the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (the third one. Also one of Robin Williams’ last movies)

Nightcrawler

Noah (a biblical epic directed by Darren Aronofsky)

Non-Stop

The Nut Job

Obvious Child

Oculus (one of the 1st projects from Mike Flanagan)

Ouija

Paddington

Penguins of Madagascar

The Purge: Anarchy

The Raid 2

RoboCop (the reboot that was actually decent)

Selma

Sharknado 2

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

Son of Batman

St. Vincent

The Taking of Deborah Logan

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the one produced by Michael Bay. It’s also the one where the Turtles look like aliens)

The Theory of Everything (the movie where Eddie Redmayne plays Stephen Hawking)

Third Person

300: Rise of an Empire

Transformers: Age of Extinction

Tusk

22 Jump Street

Veronica Mars (the film continuation of the TV show)

A Walk Among the Tombstones

What If? (a rom-com starring Daniel Radcliffe)

What We Do in the Shadows (the film that was the basis for the TV show)

When Marnie Was There

Whiplash

X-Men: Days of Future Past

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randomkposts · 11 months

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A reflection is only a variation of you that is paler.

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Chrom dies by Grima's magic.

Chrom is brought back from death by Grima's magic.

He is not brought back living, but risen. His skin is gray with the pallor of death, and his eyes are red now. He looks to Grima like he looked to Robin in life, with trust in his eyes.

"We shouldn't be going to war alone, Chrom." Grima suggests softly through the human avatar. "We should bring our friends into this."

The Shepherd's fall to Chrom's blade, and are brought back by Grima's magic. Not all of them, not right away, some escape, some die to other causes, some have their corpses successfully burned. But enough of them come back as risen to still count as the Shepherd army.

The Shepherd Army is led by Chrom, and directed by Robin. That has not changed in death, save that Robin is Grima now.

Grima places a crown upon Chrom's head. This one is different from what he wore in life, spiked and dark, belonging to Grima.

In life they fought war after war, a perpetually never ending cycle. Warmonger Chrom, they called him, a stark contrast to his sister, Peacekeeper Emmeryn. Chrom was a man who had wanted peace, but had no means to achieve it, the legacy left by his father swallowed the world his sister had tried to make better. Robin had left his father, and ended up on the other side of a war against his country. Robin followed Chrom into it, and into the wars that followed.

Life had been a series of wars, and death was all one big war against everything else. All the war has only honed their abilities to fight better, as they follow Chrom and Grimia into the fight against the living.

In many ways, nothing has changed. Life is meaningless, death is meaningless, and yet the ties that bind them still hold true.

Death can no longer break them apart, but unites them, stronger than ever.

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In honor of summoning him

#fell exalt chrom #grima x chrom #fire emblem robin #risen king chrom #random k #chrobin #fallen chrom #chrom #fe grima

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channajen · 1 year

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BATMAN, MEET TEAM PHANTOM chapter 44 is UP!

As always, here is the link to chapter 1. This is story 5 in the "Ghosts in Gotham Series". Enjoy!

Summary of chapter 44:

It's a play day at Star Labs. The best of Team Phantom is gathering, along with Red Robin and Cyborg, and they're looking to take their mind off of their troubles by doing something Danny loves--making things the Fenton way! Is Star Labs ready for the young men? Is Cyborg??

Also, on an unnamed island in the tropics, a group of young ladies and a singular young man make landfall on a beautiful island paradise. One of them is obsessed with safety. The others just wanna have fun!

Also, DUCT TAPE!

Teaser below cut...

Victor was watching Danny intently when he noticed a blue mist escape from the boy’s mouth. “Aw, man! Not now!” The newest Ghost King groaned. “This better not be one of those asshat Observants trying to mess up my day…” He grumbled then started looking around for—something.

That something turned out to be a head and torso that popped up out of the computer console by Cyborg. “Hello, young friends, my King. Greetings! It is I, Technus! Master of all Technology! I am here to assist you in whatever manner you require of me today!” The what in the hell was that thing??? stepped fully out of the computer and looked around the room. His face lit up like Times Square on New Year’s Eve. “OH! We have so much to work with! My King! Do you have any projects in mind for today?”

The being completely ignored the other three boys in the room. Silas Stone was watching the craziness in the lab from the safety of the Observation Room. He had read what the kids were allowed to work with—or rather the very, very short list of what they weren’t—and decided that he didn’t personally need to be in the room with the four boys, and, apparently, now an ecto-being. He reached for the antacids. It was going to be a long day, unless the two newest boys had enough talent to make this interesting…

Below the observation level, Danny stood facing Technus. “Don’t make me regret making you my Royal Technological Advisor—understand?” He leveled a glare at the ghostly visage in the white luminescent lab coat.

“Technus” bowed his head. “I hope that one day I can fully earn your trust, Your Majesty.”

Tucker looked at Danny and then back at Technus. He walked over and slapped both of them on the back. “Guys, we are here to have FUN. Invent, experiment, and play with hazardous things! Let’s not waste our time on posturing, OK?”

Danny blushed…were his cheeks turning a bit green??...Victor wasn’t sure he really wanted the answer to that question. He was saved from his confusion by Danny, who looked up sporting a grin. “Yeah. I’ve got some great ideas for ghost shields—not shielding against ghosts, but shielding ghosts from human weaponry, so they’d be safe to visit Earth, should the United Nations grant us Sovereignty and possible member status. They should also work against ecto-blasts, so the weaker ghosts—and my armies—can be outfitted with a bit more protection than they have had until now. I want my people to be safe.

Cyborg was a bit taken aback. Most scientific types who were given access to Star Labs always wanted to get something marketable out of the time spent there. This kid—no, this KING—was looking out for his people, first and foremost. He was pulled out of his thoughts when Tucker started talking.

#danny phantom #dp x dc #batman #justice league #ghost king danny #silas stone/star labs #lucius fox vs star labs #DUCT TAPE!

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wolfram-but-art · 8 months

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how many birds does it take to change a lightbulb

two-can

also i love putting these scratchy thingies on shading wtf

#human!archimedes #tf2 oc #human!red army robin #oc!Pepper #my beloved rp bird boys #my silly billies #tf2 oc art #oc!Archie #i stared at it for too long now i hate it anyways i hit post now whatever happens happens ig

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bluedabadeedabadie · 1 year

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I am bored, tired as all hell and my body won't let me take a nap. I also can't get the spoons, fucks nor bones to do any of the things I wanted to get done so you get- whatever this is.

So I do an rp. And sometime ago me and my partner had the Riddler kidnap Bernie because he thought that he knew who Red Robin is, because he's the civilian Red had been seen interacting with the most. Bernie didn't, in fact, know Red Robin's identity. Until the riddles started ringing a bell on two and my favourite theorist connected some dots and was like "Oh, shit, that's my handsome idiot". My guy thought he was going to die and yet continued bullshitting Riddler and denying everything until Tim showed up.

So, yeah, sometimes I think of funny little scenarios like:

Red Robin is backed up against the wall. Then the rogue is just- hit with a heavy backpack. And some teenager is screaming at them. Then get knocked down by some other Batfamily member that took advantage of the distraction.

Bernie would later on get lectured by Tim on NOT angering Gotham's rogues and how Tim could dEfINitelY hAnDle hImSelF.

Or him getting kidnapped all the time. Because yeah. At some point he just looks at the camera like he's in the office, absolutely done with life. I wonder if at one point he'd start bullshitting the villains like:

"Let me guess, you want Red Robin's identity, right? It's me, I am Red Robin"

"This doesn't-"

*staring them down* "Try me bitch"

"You want to know who the bats are? Fine, they're bats"

"But-"

"An army of well-trained bats. Disguised as humans"

One time Bernie gets kidnapped by Harley for shits and giggles because she actually knows their identities but she wants to see if the kid will bulge. She leaves some complicated riddles for Tim to find since she knows he loves solving puzzles and doing detective work.

Bernie just sighs when waking up, figuring he'd get tortured again and continues with his quips and stuff. And because my version of Bernie spills self-deprecating jokes as a coping mechanism, mostly about the cult, well, that happens.

So Harley is satisfied the kid of her bestie from med school has someone loyal next to him and then when he starts with the jokes she just- goes all therapist mode on him.

So Tim is hyperventilating, running to solve all the riddles, thinking the Riddler is at it again and he'd probably kill his boyfriend this time, especially if he doesn't hurry tf up.

And he gets there to see Bernie having a therapy session with his crazy aunt and meanwhile Ivy is making them tea.

#red robin #tim drake #bernard dowd #timbern #the riddler #harley quinn #auntie Harley #poison ivy #idiots in love #sleep deprived posts #Tim is losing it your honour #meanwhile Bernard is just- done #rp things #I just- think up little silly scenarios in my head sometimes #it's nice

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sassydefendorflower · 1 year

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Whumptober 2022 Masterpost

(you can find warnings for each fic on ao3 - click at your own discretion)

Day 1: A Little Bit Out Of The Ordinary - Stargate SG-1 / FMAB

A typical day for Jack O’Neill - a very shitty day for Edward and Alphonse Elric.

Day 2: Confrontation - DCU / Batman

Robin!Tim finds an injured Red Hood, now he has to decide whether or not he will save the man who hurt him.

Day 3: Impaled - FMAB

Edward gets impaled in Baschool - Winry and Alphonse find him.

Day 4: Waking Up Disoriented - DCU / Batman

Damian and Dick get kidnapped, only this time Damian is the only one who can protect them both.

Day 5: Running Out Of Air - FMAB

While working under Führer King Bradley, Riza slowly suffocates on the reality of her situation.

Day 6: I’ve Got A Pulse - DCU / Batman

Damian disappearing in the middle of a stakeout brings back traumatic memories for Dick.

Day 7: Shaking Hands/Silent Panic Attack - FMAB

On a visit in Resembool, Winry confronts some of her childhood bullies - it goes worse than anticipated.

Day 8: Back From The Dead - FMAB

Roy finds out what happened to Edward up in the North - neither he nor Riza knew the boy had died.

Day 9: Caught In A Storm - DCU / Batman

Cassandra Cain is afraid of storms, but that doesn’t mean she won’t face her fears.

Day 10: Waterboarding - DCU / Batman

Jason and Dick join up on a case that forces one of them to get tortured in order to receive information.

Day 11: Makeshift Splint - DCU / New Teen Titans

Joey Wilson and Dick Grayson go on a hike. Of course, something goes wrong.

Day 12: Rusty Nail - FMAB

Ed’s injuries following the Promised Day are more severe than anyone could have anticipated.

Day 13: Alt. Prompt Touch-Starved - FMAB

Alphonse Elric forgot what it felt like to be touched. He doesn’t even remember pain.

Day 14: Die A Hero Or Live Long Enough To Become A Villain - FMAB

Heathcliff Erbe knows Roy Mustang believes the people of Ishval to be human - which is probably why it hurts so much to see him slaughter them.

Day 15: New Scars/Lies - DCU / Batman

Nine Times Dick Told A Lie And People Noticed But Didn’t Say Anything + One Time He Told The Truth And Nobody Believed Him Anyways

Day 16: No One’s Coming - FMAB

Instead of joining the army, Edward and Alphonse join the Eastern Liberation Front.

Day 17: Breaking Point/Stress Position - DCU / Batman

Luthor captures Nightwing and decides to (sexually) torture him in order to hurt Superman.

Day 18: Treading Water - FMAB

Roy and Ed go overboard while on a diplomatic mission to Xing - the only problem? Ed can’t swim.

Day 19: Enough is Enough - DCU / Batman

Fed up with Bruce’s easy dismissal of Damian, Dick tries to work through his own guilt by confronting him - using his fists, of course.

Day 20: Prisoner Exchange - FMAB

Edward gets kidnapped. The condition for his safe return? Riza Hawkeye.

Day 21: Take Me Instead - FMAB

Ed and Al return to the Tucker residence late at night to check up on Nina - they find Scar instead.

Day 22: Drug Withdrawal - Teen Wolf

Three months after the Nogitsune, Stiles wakes up on the other side of town with no idea how he got there.

Day 23: Hold Him Down - DCU / Batman

After being hit with an unknown toxin, Bruce and Jason try their best to restrain Dick without hurting him.

Day 24: Blood Covered Hands - FMAB

Winry and Paninya volunteer as first responders after a train accident - it’s not just strangers waiting for them in the destruction.

Day 25: Lost Voice - FMAB

Riza loses her voice. How is she supposed to be Roy’s eyes when she can’t tell him about the world around him?

Day 26: Why Did You Safe Me? - DCU / Batman

The Red Hood reveals himself just to save Batman’s life - neither of them quite sure why he did it.

Day 27: Magical Exhaustion - DCU / Batman

Dick Grayson is very tired - he doesn’t quite understand why his family just won’t let him rest.

Day 28: Anger Born Out Of Worry - FMAB

The assassination attempt was expected, the fact that Edward Elric was the last one standing was not.

Day 29: Sleep Deprivation - DCU / Batman

Nine-year-old Dick Grayson can’t sleep - Bruce is learning how to be responsible for someone else.

Day 30: Please Don’t Touch Me/ Alt. Prompt Crutches - FMAB

The first time Ed loses his automail leg, he is suddenly forced to confront a world which views him differently because of his disability.

Day 31: You Can Rest Now - DCU / Batman

Mortally wounded, with no one but Bruce for company, Dick and his dad take a walk down memory lane.

✨31 Days of fics later and we finally did it! Whumptober is finished and completed! Thank you all for reading and enjoying the whump I could share with you this year! ✨

Some extra stats:

Word Count Total: 166,003

Longest Fic: The People’s Alchemist - 14,964

Shortest Fic: a queen’s anguish - 1,312

Average Word Count: 5,355

And of course my Ao3 Account and the Collection I put it all in ❤❤❤

#whumptober2022 #masterpost #completionist #batman #fma brotherhood #fmab #fma #teen wolf #dick grayson #fic rec #my writing

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stoptellinglieslois · 7 months

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Love fair act 5

Vampire Fiction

Clark Kent human x Dick Grayson vampire no capes just fangs and might

"We can't back out now we are too close to nightfall as it is we cannot afford any mistakes with the undead." Princess Diana spoke to my father in the tunnels we spoke publicly and with no more secrets with the people of the town vampires are real and we would have to face them soon.

I wanted to do what I always did sneak off and find Joseph but that wouldn't be good and grandfather and father would notice I was gone I didn't want that.

I listened to them counsel on how to destroy the vampires but my eyes wandered to the crowd as farmers and hard working folk gather around the royals, And watches us scramble around to take down vampires.

I looked to where Joseph is he stood there silently as he watched us talk. As Robin I guided him to the tunnels and went back to the castle and changed my garments and came here.

I hope he didn't know what I just pulled because he is looking straight at me, Even if I want to I can't let him know I can't wave nor smile or give him any attention I had to be neutral when my insides screamed to be by his side.

"Belladonna is the best poisonous herb that could cripple a vampire without fail." Princess Diana said. "Princess I ..." The princess cut off my grandfather. "Because of you butting in on your own son life we are in this war with Raz and the vampires you chose your words wrong against a powerful wizard and witch and now I have to find away for us not to die tonight he will bring his army and if don't do this spell properly we could die to if not the vampire won't kill us the belladonna will." She said to king Thomas face is red like a beet anger bubbled up at the surface in Thomas.

But my father intervened. "We need to cool our tempers and focus on the incantation Diana please do your best at this spell." Father asked politely.

As she is preparing for what I feel will be our doom I walked towards the far end of the area, And slowly made my way towards Joseph. "I hoped this would end soon and we could go back to our normal lives." I whisper close to him. "Yes my Lord." He replied simply. "I need a drink come have one with me then." I asked him and he gave me an odd look but made the move first I joined him as we walked towards barrels of ale.

I poured us a drink and handed him a mug of ale. "If it all goes to shit I want us to stick together." Joseph stared at me in total shock he was surprised to my truth I wonder if he knew if I was Robin.

"I...I want us to live my Lord."

"Then do what I say and obey and stay close."

"You should... yes my Lord."

"Drink."

"Yes your highness."

"Stop calling me that my name is Richard to you."

"Yes you.. Richard."

"Good I don't want to wait for us to take off as quickly as possible and with no delay do you hear me."

"What about your family your duty you.."

"If we run and survive this land will have a chance."

"We are not cowards."

"No but we do not have experience fighting vampires."

"Rob....are you Robin." And right there my mask is very reluctant to come off I would not let him figure me out so fast. "Robin who ? is there another you know of this name." I demanded of him to answer me I needed to be hard on him I had no time for this right now.

"I am sorry you are right I am mistaken my Lord you are not this Robin he is a fraud I will never speak of this name again." He said and drank his ale quickly. "It's fine no need to shy away from me. Let's change the subject I want us not to have friction with one another." I took his mug and filled it again we were gonna need as much courage as possible tonight.

"Thank you my prince." He took the replenished ale mug from me. "I kept everything you ever gave me all of it every gold silver ruby sapphire marvel you ever gifted me, If I am to die tonight I would want you to know I kept all every note." He whispered to me no one was even remotely paying attention to us at all.

I was defeated he knows who I am I've been found out after all these years, I kept myself away from him and yet made him the centre of my world without him ever knowing who I am.

And all came down just by me showing up as a stranger one day being in his presence and he knew. "Do..do you like what I've given you." I whispered denying it now would be pointless he talked about his last moments and I had know choice but to be honest.

"Loved all of it....my Lord no one has ever thought of me in this way. I am just a fisherman and an orphan." He walked away from the crowd and leaned on the wall I joined him. "We... this is the first time I ever had a chance to speak to you this drove me mad every day." He said cautiously wording each word as if not to sound angry or frustrated.

"I had to keep it a secret." I told him.

"How where and when did you... We've never met before so where did you see me it makes no sense to me." He looked at me like he knew me forever. "I first saw you when I was nine you were with your parents but what I saw made me sad, I was by the forest and my carriage stopped in front of your home your father hit you hard across the face a few times, I never saw such malice in a person before I realised I wanted to talk to you be your friend I had no one who would be my friend because they would only be my friend with one goal in mind getting a head in life being friends with the prince." He wanted an answer I would give it to him.

I continued. "So I would head to the forest and try to find you, You were always alone I would spy on you I thought maybe we would talk but I knew that would be wouldn't be wise, You were covered in bruises and scars every were, So I left you balms and bandages things to ease your pain." He said nothing but his expression is more shamed but I didn't know why.

I continued on. "I thought I would have outgrown you but it got more clearer as I got older, I left you things that are more important you never discovered me doing any of this I continued giving gifts and living you food and water some times gold coins." The more I confess it just flows from me the confession was like a wave in the ocean. "Sometimes I wanted to get caught by you catching me doing this. Your parents dying made me do it more like I had no choice but to help you to be around you to protect you every time your father mistreated you I was there I saw it all." I said. There was no where for me to run and hide I was out.

A long silence between us as we both process what is going on between us. "What did your notes say." He asked me we both had to process our lives intertwining together and it's in the middle of a battle with vampires. "That I was a friend that I would help you some of the notes confess my feelings for you, I didn't keep them long I know you couldn't read them so I hoped you would be able to figure out what they said one day." I said it was so dark here everything is poorly lit.

I heard a hiss and a woman voice echoed the tunnels Thalia entered the tunnel as father predicted she would. And there was my cue. My only shot was the bow and arrow laced with devil's cherry and struck the witch right through the heart.

She made no noise when she went down this is the first time I've taken a life. I felt numb this went all so fast in one moment me and Joseph are together talking and the next I killed someone.

Timothy ran towards a torch in his grip. "I hear them there coming not many not as much as us." Timothy is are look out he looked down by the entrance and saw Thalia dead body on the ground her eyes and mouth opened blood seeping out of both ends.

She didn't have time to block or counter my attack this was our plan to kill them unsuspectedly. "Father Raz a gul is among the vampires he is not here yet we need to keep her out of sight." Timothy said Diana agreed as some town folk went to her lifeless body Timothy had his torch and set her corps on fire.

"Timothy." Father said alarmed he wasn't prepared for what Timothy has done to Thalia corps.

"It' s better this way." Diana said.

I felt compelled to share this memory with Clark as he started his classroom the students came into his science class, I knew he was not my fisherman but I wanted him to know why I was so drawn to him.

Of course I didn't reveal my face only a couple of clues but it didn't matter what matter was that I gave him a reason to believe.

End of act 5 on to Act 6

Thank you for reading

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paladin-of-nerd-fandom65 · 2 years

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What are your favorite moments from the og Teen titans series?

In no particular order;

“Go” (the story of the Titans and how they came to be), “Sisters” (debut of Blackfire), The Apprentice Arc (basically the Slade vs Robin episodes of Season 1 but especially the season finale where as the name implies, Robin becomes Slade/Deathstroke’s apprentice), “How Long is Forever?” (The one when Starfire got teleported to a bleak future that makes mainstream canon Titans comics look like comedy acts), “Only Human” (the one where Cyborg is challenged by another more jerkish cyborg, serves as character development in which he must learn to accept his robotic parts), “X” (the return of Red X), “Betrothed” (Blackfire’s second appearance and the first proper appearance of Planet Tamaran), “Transformation” (Starfire develops bodily changes that might be a subtle stand in for puberty), “The Beast Within” (Beast Boy, after being doused in experimental chemicals, undergoes something….animalistic within his DNA but with some twists throughout), “Bunny Raven” (the time Mumbo Jumbo traps our heroes in his magic hat that leaves them at his mercy), “Don’t Touch That Dial” (Super nerd Control Freak created a remote control that zaps him and the Titans into the world of the television set and a grand chase with tv based hijinks ensue), “The Quest” (To defeat a martial artist thief when apparently his skills, those he learned from the Batman himself, aren’t enough, Robin travels to seek a True Master who can help with that), “Troq” (the Titans aid an alien warrior on a mission to stop a conquering robotic army…but he might have some views about Starfire that are…not very flattering at all), “Snowblind” (The debut of misunderstood hero with a great power and a greater heart of gold, Red Star, in the comics the ORIGINAL Starfire), “Lightspeed” (the debut of Kid Flash), “Revved Up” (the appearance of Silver Age Titan villain Ding Dong Daddy in a loving homage to Wacky Races), The Terra Storyline aka the Judas Contract, and Raven’s arc in Season 4 aka the Terror of Trigon

Plus many more but I don’t think I can list every single one of them lol

Thanks for the ask, @spider-jaysart XD

#tt animated #dick grayson #koriand'r #garfield logan #rachel roth #victor stone #slade wilson #tara markov #trigon the terrible #sfw

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Chaos of Wants [Story]

With Anubis and company busy, Seth was left to his own devices to sow the seeds of chaos and he knew exactly who to do it on.

Jenny had finally decided to meet Father John, the two not saying much until Jenny broke down and explained to him what happened to his son. John growled once Jenny explained what she saw and what happened.

“He is no son of mine, he is now a monster like those beasts that call Asheville home, mark my word I will kill them all.” Jenny cried into his shouldered as the air got heavy.

John pulled the pistol from his coat as the laugh sent shivers down both spines. “Monsters? Beasts? You humans really don’t know do you?”

“Go away Anubis!” Jenny yelled out as the world around them seem to freeze. John flicked the pistol around, stopping on the shadowy figure of Seth, red demonic eyes digging into his soul.

“I can save your son and fix your little werewolf problem, don’t you know Anubis is gathering an army to invade Earth and kill all humans.” He stepped into the moon light, fangs glimmering in said light. The two humans shook in fear.

“For a small price, like I said I can fix everything and stop Anubis.” He held his pawhand out. John shaking his head.

“You tricked me!”

“But was I wrong?” Seth had a Chester-cat grin on his face. “I was trying to protect you, save you, give you powers humans can only dream of, I offer it again, refuse and I won’t save you.”

Jenny shook her head as John looked at the pawhand. “God wouldn’t al-”

“Oh shut the fuck up about that, if he WAS real don’t you think he would’ve stepped in and killed all these beasts? Open your heart and see what Chaos can fix.”

Thunder and Lightning filled the air, the pact sealed. Robin should be worried.

#Thunder and Chaos [Seth; the forgotten brother]#Myths and Truths [Jenny]#God can't forgive a beast [Father John]#A howling tale [Story]

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Nightwing 83 Review

guess who isn't weeks late this time. my opinion of the series is going up a little bit. it's still not great, but i'm not actively put off by it anymore the way i was after 81. not going to tag as spoilers, but be warned that they are under the cut

i’m sure you all are well aware of this but now, but dear god i love bruno redondo’s art. like, an unhealthy amount. the pink and blue is getting to be a theme with either him or just this run, but i am definitely enjoying it. the movement in this cover is clearly obvious, but well done. you recoznize right off the bat that the cover was drawn to drag your eyes down the page until you get to the bottom, but you enjoy the whole ride there.

also, redondo’s way of drawing a character in stages of action so we can see just how much they’re doing in a split second of movement is quickly becoming something i like to see drawn with dick, and any other character that has that sort of ease of movement and body sense, like cass or sin or maybe a super.

and he’s in action the entire time! there’s shot drawn just to show off a shirtless comic book character, the way nightwing is so often subjected to. he’s shirtless because he’s changing his clothes, and that’s all we see, no more and no less. very practical, very well done. i like it.

he looks so cute right here oh my god. the little squint, the hair curls. it’s adorable.

but also like. unless melinda has specifically outfitted the door spyhole so that the person on the other side can’t see dick looking through it (and in all honesty she might have) then everyone on the other side can see dick looking through that door.

bringing your attention back to the “i can’t see melinda’s fbi file oh no!! it’s redacted!! whatever can we do!!” stupidity. redacted files are child’s play for oracle, and definitely doable for both dick and bruce. so that’s bullshit.

now, melinda apparently grew up with the maroni family, then took down part of the family from the inside. the maroni family is a large and notable presence in gotham, one that bruce pays a respectable amount of attention to. he definitely would have grown suspicious when two members of the maroni family were taken down, and with some investigation, he would have discovered melinda’s plan. and it should go without saying that the majority of things you see batman doing? dick can do it too.

it’s not so much that i don’t like how clever the villains/antiheroes are getting. i don’t like how dc heroes are increasingly written as less intelligent. they seem to be relying on pure fighting skills or luck, which may be the case for a couple heroes, but has never been the case for most of dc’s big name heroes, the bat family included. it’s irritating to me to see this sort of stuff pop up as a major plot point when i know that, if dick or bruce had been written with the amount of skill and power that they canonically possess, this entire mess would have been sorted out years ago.

unrelated but dick and melinda have the same hair

this may just be me, but i was always under the impression that dick doesn’t really have a “double life???”

yes, he’s talented enough to create enough differences between robin/nightwing and dick grayson’s mannerisms, way of movement, voices, and speech patterns so that it’s very difficult to put the two together.

but nightwing has never been separate from dick grayson, not the way bruce and batman is. he’s always leaned more towards clark in that aspect: his hero persona is an exaggerated, stately, larger-than-life version of who he really is. there’s no second persona, no real “dick grayson identity” and “nightwing identity.” they’re the same person with the same goals, ideas, and skills. one just pretends to abide by the law, and one gives up pretense of that.

oh good thank god. if he’d trusted her right off the bat (hehe. bat.) i would have slapped him upside the head. at least he’s still got instincts.

gosh the colouring on this is cool. the red has enough purple and pink tones to it that it doesn’t abruptly ruin the tone of the artwork. but it’s definitely glaring enough to take the reader outside of this personal moment they had slipped into between dick and melinda, to put them back in the present where they’re reminded that oh yea there are people hunting dick down.

the next panel keeps this up too, in a less severe way. melinda’s bodyguard shows up (i forgot her name sorry :[ ) and subtly places us in the middle of an action scene rather than a private, personal scene.

laughing so fucking hard have our little vigilantes grown so accustomed to breaking into places that it doesn’t even register as a crime anymore??? tim coming in through the fire escape to pick bernard up for their date and being very much confused as to why bernard is freaking out.

i really like melinda’s shirt and now despite all the work i have to do and the fucking conference i have to host on monday i want to spend hours scrolling through clothing shops online trying to find this shirt. the mock neck/neckline is so cool i want it

so roland just assumes that a very dangerous vigilante who is highly talented in combat and a very dangerous bodyguard who is also highly talented in combat had a fight that ended with this very dangerous bodyguard being tied up and she looks completely fine? roland just assumes that her having no visible wounds or bruises means that they got into a fight and she lost that easily? uh. aight then

dick what are you doing. legitimately what the fuck are you doing. why are you posing oh my god. you are injured and tired and in absolutely no position to go hand to hand with one of main enemies. jesus christ run away or head to lower ground or something. don’t just stand around letting the floodlights show exactly where you are.

i don’t understand what he’s trying to do here??? blockbuster fully bought the story that dick fought them both, won, tried to get info out of them and failed, then hightailed it out of there. he didn’t have to draw roland out for a fight.

but it does look cool. the way the light just highlights his silhouette and the blue parts of his costume does look badass. he does get style points in my book for this.

w h a t d i d i f u c k i n g t e l l y o u , d i c k ?

very classic superhero line and it does sound like something dick would say in a fit of righteous rage but also it makes me laugh so hard because all vigilantes think they’re so powerful that the law doesn’t apply to them. dick vigilantism is illegal. you’re acting above the law and pretending it doesn’t apply to you. hypocritical much?

it happens so often in superhero movies, tv shows, comics, whatever and it makes me giggle every damn time.

pretty decent comeback but before i start seeing people writing blockbuster as a thug i’m going to remind you that he made a deal with a demon for genius level intellect. if this turns into another bane situation i’m going to be a little miffed. he’s a smart man, which makes him a dangerous and infinitely more interesting enemy for nightwing.

this is so horribly in character i want to scream. (or. at least. it lines up with one of the versions of nightwing i have in my head.) he’s running right towards the bullets, miraculously doesn’t get shot, while making a sort-of pun. i hate this so much. i love him.

this is cool. this art is really really cool.

he leaped from a building right towards a helicopter that’s actively shooting at him, but none of the bullets are touching him. none of the corruption of the city can touch him no matter how hard it tries, because he’s too good to be corrupted. Comic Book Logic Can Be Good Sometimes Actually.

batman’s belt what??? swiss army knife who?? sorry, i only know nightwing’s bright blue escrima.

this is one of my favourite things about heroes with exceptional abilities, even more so if the hero is human. the things they can do are so far beyond the realm of normal human abilities that it’s equal parts terrifying and awe-inspiring every time they act.

he just used modified grappling wires to hook to the door of a moving helicopter, swung around the helicopter safely without hitting the blades, gained exactly the right momentum to swing upward again right through the opening of helicopter, then fought and tied up the men before they had any idea what was happening. that’s near impossible to do.

it’s stuff like this where i just sort of sigh in contentment. no matter how many times they leave out dick’s detective skills or conveniently forget that he’s actually a master planner and team leader and make him out to be this forgetful dude who makes everything up on the fly because of his “circus roots,” at least they won’t ever take away dick’s sheer physical ability honed to perfection.

the art, too! in a few panels, dick’s drawn a little lightened or blurred. he’s moving so quickly and fighting so efficiently that he can barely be seen by the enemy. he’s got perfect form all the way through.

and THIS!

there was a helicopter that had five men shooting at him with what looks like machine guns. most people would be dead. some would run away, and be nimble enough to survive without fatal hits. there are very few people, even in fucking comic books, who can look at that hopeless situation and turn it around so quickly and thoroughly that he benefits from it instead.

i just. love nightwing.

it was funny the first time as a comic reader aware of the meme. it’s really not anymore. why the hell would you, in universe, be wearing a shirt that has a picture of your boyfriend being hit in the face by his father.

okay that was funny.

look at lil bitewing, so concerned for her human!!! love her sm.

also a question as to the timeline of things. is nightwing happening before or after urban legends?

i was so distracted by dick wearing a robe and briefs and nothing else that i didn’t register the second part until later. he slept for two days?? babs, baby, he recently had a very traumatic brain injury. why do you sound so nonchalant?

@TIM X COFFEE SHIPPERS GET FUCCCCKKKKEEDDDDD

ngl i totally forgot about that dude oops

this comic is giving so many reaction pictures. you know how you always use the worst possible picture of your friend for your friend’s contact picture? i’m just getting so many of these.

leslie!!! the titans!!! lucius!!! dick going to go see old friends!!!! the titans!!! this part made me so irrationally happy it really did. gar being the one to just. offer dick solutions with open arms. this was the best

i wish i could just copy and paste this entire scene, but that would take up way too much space, so i’m just going to talk about it instead.

you gave me my name, nightwing, and you gave me some of the best advice i’ve received in my life: beautiful little throwback to nightwing’s origin. you’d be surprised at the amount of people who don’t know where the name came from, or who don’t know how much clark means to dick. and the fact that dick still looks up to clark as a hero, recognizes that clark isn’t always perfect and yet continues to hold him in such high esteem, and still looks back on advice that clark gave him fondly just warmed my heart so much.

for a man who has fearlessly stood up to darkseid, bruce will do a lot to avoid a conversation: “grrr. i’m the BATMAN. i’m so DARK and MYSTERIOUS. nobody knows the true me. no one ever will. i will be LONELY for the rest of my CURSED LIFE. such is the price of a hero. ignore my farmer himbo husband in the background”

but i don’t think there’s anything heroic about being a billionaire: another nod to how much dick follows clark’s example rather than bruce. yes, this was a very poignant and important criticism, and i think it’s wonderful that this was published in a pretty popular comic book. but the thing is, there is a way to be a heroic billionaire, but only in fictional universes. the way bruce, ollie, t’challa only ever use their wealth to help people. they donate massive amounts of money to charities that they themselves create so they know exactly how the money is being used. they hire people who aren’t likely to get jobs anywhere else and pay them much more than what a base living wage is. they use their power to help push progressive laws and social change. they are helping.

dick doesn’t fully see it that way. he spent more than half his childhood the son of a billionaire, but still believes that one could be more heroic when one doesn’t have obscene amounts of wealth. whose example do you think he followed to come to that conclusion?

superman looked up to alfred pennyworth?: i mean yea alfred may have been a wildly irresponsible guardian and one hell of an enabler but goddamn if he didn’t love his kid.

you don’t need my input. you’ve thought it all through: ooooooh this line made me grin. for so long, dick’s treated clark as a mentor and a guiding figure. he’s still seen as a kid, an up and coming, snot-nosed titan with dreams of a better world. clark still thinks of him as a kid, despite watching him grow up. but this little line was something i think dick needed sorely to hear. he doesn’t need anyone’s guiding hand on his shoulder, he doesn’t need to ask for permission. he doesn’t need clark to support him the way he did when he was a teenager. he’s all grown up now, and he doesn’t need clark’s help. i imagine it was a bit of a surprise for dick to hear that.

honestly, i couldn’t think of a better role model: ohhh but it doesn’t stop there. clark just straight up turns the tables on dick. imagine you’re dick, and you’ve looked up to this one hero your entire life, and then one day he turns to you and says that he thinks you’re so kind and smart and worthy of a person that he wants you to mentor his son!? goes to show just how much clark trusts dick.

i swear to god dick probably cries every time he hears clark compliment him because bruce is so rare and sparing with his praise that clark giving him the slightest hint of approval is just a dopamine rush.

also, now deathstroke and superman have both asked nightwing to mentor their kids. the juxtaposition is fuckin hysterical. imagine either of their reactions when they realize what kind of company they’re with

lets talk colours for a second, because i absolutely adore how classic colour tropes have been subverted in this comic, and in this general run really.

warm tones have usually (usually, not always) been associated with light and comfort and friendship and,,,,,well,,,warmth. whereas cool tones are usually used to unsettle, or make a scene seem colder and put the reader on edge. this varies if a comic only uses cool tones, or only uses warm tones, but if a comic uses both, this is generally well-used.

that isn’t the case in this run.

dark red, orange, and other warm tones have been used to symbolize danger, action, attacks. hot pink isn’t usually included in this colour group, but it’s definitely part of it in this case. in contrast, scenes that have cool colours give us the impression of slipping into a comfortable, calm scene with babs, tim, the titans, and other allies. even the beginning scene with superman has this blue, but then it transitions into something more golden coloured. dawn broke over dick, as his new idea came to light, and that was reflected in the art (and the sunrise setting.)

have there ever been times when dick’s longed for the comfort of his mask because he didn’t feel confident as dick grayson? i can’t think of any. i may be wrong, but this struck me as pretty ooc.

am i just??? gay and reading this all wrong??

cause i was under the impression that when someone says they are grateful for your friendship you don’t immediately kiss them.

or is this like. normal straight mating rituals.

i mean he’s smiling afterward but still babs aren’t you supposed to at least make sure it’s okay first? you guys broke up a while back after you said something along the lines of “i want to be coworkers with you and nothing more because i don’t trust you or feel comfortable around you as a civilian anymore.” like lmao after you say something like that to someone i would assume that you don’t have the permission to just kiss them whenever you want.

show of hands who else got real sad when they realized dick was talking about himself in this.

sure, he could be referencing the things he’s seen blockbuster pull, and the children on the streets. but “i’ve seen money used for enforcement,” sounds a little too close to dick’s entire life being destroyed by one man threatening the circus to pay protection money for me to completely ignore. and “i’ve seen the poorest and most vulnerable blamed and punished rather than assisted” becomes a lot worse when you remember dick was thrown in juvie for a couple months until bruce was able to obtain legal guardianship, and in there, not a authority figure believed him when he told them his parents were murdered.

he’s lived this before.

a. mother. fucking. typo.

fucking why

i mean i’ve stated my distaste for the batfamily groupchat before but like. this is reaching new levels of ridiculousness. jason sounds like he was written by a fanfic writer. tim sounds like he was written by a fanfic writer. steph sounds like she was written by someone who doesn’t know the first thing about steph and wanted to include her for “family points!!!!!” damian’s supposed to be completely off the grid, and everyone’s searching for him. i do love the way cass texts tho.

well god fuck now i’m crying

dick got a phone call, a sorry, and a thank you out of bruce. i feel so much secondhand happiness for him, if that’s a thing. we’ll just ignore the way bruce looks ugly af and focus on the good parts okay?

and again with the colour symbolism here!

i’m either going to love this or hate this. who knows, we’ll see.

something something hearts something something pink is an evil colour something something. i need to know more about this guy but there’s definitely symbolism there.

is it just me or does this dude look like the backstabbing traitorous absolutely motherfucking piece of shit villain that killed tadashi hamada in big hero 6?

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