okay but elquackity did that SO CLEVERLY.
he made the festival seem harmless. told forever about the festival, but didn't describe it exactly. he floated it like it's an idea he's still coming up with, almost "disarming it." Normally when someone has a trap they have steps they want the victim to take to fall into it, and they're more likely to have it all planned out. by "not knowing" what the event will be yet, elquackity can also suggest that there is no plan, i.e no trap.
he added a distraction. he told forever he didn't want him to tell anyone about the wedding, drawing the suspicion towards quackity's sus actions (and leaving elquackity's plans unharmed if they get fussy about quackity and the wedding lmao)
i forgor. elquackity used quackity as a distraction because it wouldnt messs with his plans but. what ARE his plans? to kill the eggs? to become president? we already know that destroying the eggs won't help him. it's too risky. there's too many candidates and the players love the eggs too much. if his plan was to kill everyone so they would have to vote for him he'd be going after the players, not their eggs.
what if elquackity is, like the wedding thing, just a distraction? we know he's acting for us- he's pretending to be quackity even when other players aren't around. so why is he doing it so badly?
we know that he's smart- the interaction with forever just now proved it. but he misspelled richarlyson's name, and he ignored richarlyson almost entirely
this wouldn't be notable except after everyone pointed out that his coldness last stream was evidence that he is not, in fact, quackity, he kissed richarlyson's forehead when he met up with them earlier today. he knows that quackity cares for richarlyson, so why would this clever man not only fail to spell his name, but also avoid his signs
every player reads the egg signs
it's one of the most obvious things they do to show their love for the eggs
they pause in their conversations so they can include the eggs
they read the signs
elquackity didn't read the sign
he fake looked at it but didn't actually look at it. he wanted it to look to richas like he read it, but knew that we, the audience, would realize he didn't
why the double bluff
i think he wants us to know that he isn't quackity
i think he wants the other players to know he isn't quackity
i think he's a distraction
threatening the eggs is the most distracting thing you can do
look at how many people came together to protect pomme when she was attacked
he keeps hyping up the fact that he's going to kill the eggs
killing the eggs is the focus
just like he made the wedding the focus when he was talking to forever
so what is he hiding
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what if...
(tribute to this post by father) (major character death, there will be pain btw COMIC SPOILERS)
Hob had a dream. Or was it...? A dream? Well, it sure was, or elsewhere would he find such fantastical creatures, Gods and Legends, mourning for the death of someone?
His body was flowing down a river, in a big black swan boat. The sky was the greyest Hob ever felt. It was like a shadow was casted over the entire universe by the wings of a Titan. They mourned the death of someone they knew very personally. Hob had a feeling he knew him too. He had not seen his face, but he knew him, he had not remembered his voice, yet he heard him saying goodbye one last time to his kingdom. Leaving everything and everyone behind, never to look back. This isn't a trick, or deception, or a play. No, this was real life.
No coming back from there.
Words were spoken in countless languages, unknown manners and with various level of emotions. The little girl with insane hair said nothing more than 2 words, she was clearly upset. The crow talked fondly, if a little harshly, of his boss. They went to hell together and challenged Lucifer, he said. Someone in the crowd scoffed loudly..
When the fire rose up into the sky as a phoenix, everyone was returned home. Gods and the funny creatures walked out the gate. But Hob woke up.
((1 month later))
Inside the barn, Hob sits around a fire. He is greeted by a familiar face. Familiar yet. Distinguished. He doesn't recall who she is, all he knows that she is someone he knows, or at least used to know.
She tells him about her brother, about life, about dreams and death. Hob tells her about his life, about his aspiration.
Death tells him about her idiot brother. A hollowness digs into Hob's chest, weighing him down. The final blow, while waking, comes when Death tells him Dream is no longer, he is dead. he attended the funeral. Hob needs a drink, he needs to get away, to be alone with his thoughts. No, no, this can't be true. The man with whom he met every century, the one who hears his stories about life and the ONLY perosn he had been genuinely open with, is DEAD.
He can't. Hob had lost so much over the corse of 6 centuries. he can't-
But he seemed immortal. Dream did. He seemed infinitely bigger than life, he seemed unreal, like a wild imagination running around unrestricted. Oh, so mighty and great. Even gods dont question him
Yet, in his heart of hearts, he KNOWS its true. That's the funeral he attended, and he saw her there, for she was also mourning her brother. Even now, as she is talking to him, grief is crystal in her eyes. She doesn't want to tell this story, yet, she feels like she OWES her brother to. It's what's proper, what's right
Then, she asks him to take her hands.
Hob hesitates. He asks her, "How did it feel?"
"Like death. A part of me went with him and forever shall be with him. I have no control over such matters", Death answers, rubbing her hands together.
"I'm sorry", Hob place his hand on her shoulder, "My condolences to you, Death",
"Y'know, I was his sister before I was DEATH", she told. Her head hung low, the curls were curtaining her face but the tears were unmistakably there.
"I cannot imagine the pain. To think that who WOULD NOT go away actually do, in front of your eyes. But... to be the one to take him there. I'm so sorry, Death. If I could, I would've changed our places"
"Thank you", she wiped her glittery tears, "So?" Once again, she had extended her arms.
They looked so inviting. No more pain, no more struggling to hide his identity, no more problems of the world, no more lost loved ones, no more changing times taking a toll on him, no more finding new love, no more grieving for the past.
But... GWEN. She will be alone. Hob doesn't want her to feel what he did. She is good she doesn't deserve such pain.
"Will I be forgiven?"
"No one is condemned in my realm", assures Death, her gentle smile reminding Hob of summer in the open country, warm breeze bringing the sweet smell of fruits. Oh, how much he wanted to go.
From somewhere far, far away, his beloved mother was calling him into home. His little sister running back to him, showing him her collection. The sun kissed his skin. He could feel the soil and grass under his feet.
There it was. Such a strong nostalgia, the bittersweet feeling that leaves a foul taste when its over. He doesn't want it to be over
"Okay, I'll come with you"
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The first time Danny sees Dick Grayson he calls him Tata.
Danny, in his Ghost Zone travels, befriended the Flying Graysons. John and Mary like him so much, that it started as a joke, sort of.
"Ahhhhh, the son we never had! Welcome!"
"My little Robin's long lost little brother, come, come!"
And it morphed into him jokingly calling them Tata and Daj. Then it wasn't really a joke anymore.
Then the Observants inform him that as far as Ghost Law is concerned, they're his Ghost Guardians.
This means that Danny has two sets of parents; Jack and Maddie on the human side of things, and John and Mary on the ghost side of thing.
So when he sees Dick Grayson, who looks a lot like John, it just slips out.
This leads to a very awkward stare off in the middle of a coffee shop.
Danny has no idea how to explain himself.
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