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racefortheironthrone · 11 months

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Any chance you have seen and/or have thoughts on Across the Spider-Verse?

I literally just got back from Across the Spider-Verse and sat down at my computer, so this is about as fresh as a take as I can manage.

Short version: it's an astonishingly and relentlessly ambitious film that aims to outdo every other Spider-Man movie, every other multi-verse movie, and even its own first entry in the Miles Morales trilogy. And it succeeds.

Full spoilers below the cut. You have been warned.

The Visuals

Before I get into anything about the story, I want to first give full credit to the directors Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemo Powers, Justin K. Thompson, and the entire team at Sony Pictures Animation. If you saw the first Spider-Verse movie and aren't an animation nerd, you probably were impressed but didn't realize how revolutionary it was. I'll let Movies With Mikey explain the details, because it's easier if you can see what people are talking about:

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When your first entry wins an Academy Award by thumbing your nose at Pixar, the reigning king of animation, and the principles of animation set down by the Nine Old Men, you have every right to sit back on your laurels.

For Across the Spider-Verse, the Sony Pictures Animation team clearly decided: fuck that. If the first film had wowed audiences by combining a half-dozen styles of animation on the screen at the same time, the second film would drown you in dozens and dozens of Spiders-Men and -Women (and -Animals) drawn in every style imaginable: Da Vinci's yellowing parchments and sketchy penicls, harsh cell-shading, punk rock collage art, 90s-style comic panels full of impossibly rippling muscles, crappy hand-drawn animation from the 1967 tv show, and then for a tip of the hat to Who Framed Roger Rabbit and the man who should have been Spider-Man - live action.

The backgrounds show the same love: from the off-set printing of Miles' world (my favorite detail is that you know that Miles gets sent to the wrong Earth when the color scheme shifts from purple to green), to the dripping painterly pastels of the Gweniverse, to the riotous greens and yellows of Mumbattan, to the clean Pixaresque light blooms of the Spider-Society's technological utopia (which looks a hell of a lot like something out of Brad Bird's dreams).

I am thoroughly in awe of the mentality behind the animation in this film, the absolute determination to challenge one's own limits and exceed one's past accomplishments.

The Story

If there is a single world that defines Across the Spider-Verse, it's "canon." The moment Miguel O'Hara uttered that word, my spidey-senses started tingling and I realized that Lord & Miller came to this film with a sermon. See, if there's one message from the first Spider-Verse movie it's that "anyone can be Spider-Man." But if there's two messages is that "you can't save everyone" - the idea that the thing that unites all Spiders-Folk from across the multiverse, it is a common understanding of loss, a tragic origin that drives each hero to impossible efforts to never let it happen again.

Across the Spider-Verse's message is: "why?" I cannot begin to explain the absolute vibranium balls it took to question not just a core premise of your previous movie, but one of the core premises of the entire multi-media multi-corporate franchise. And yet, Lord & Miller show nothing but confidence executing this turn.

FULL SPOILERS OF THE BIG TWIST AHEAD in 3:

At the beginning of the film, which makes the brilliant move to start by telling Spider-Gwen's story since we already know Miles, we are introduced to Miguel O'Hara (the Spider-Man from 2099) as a badass who leads a secret organization dedicated to protecting the mutliverse...but who secretly is also here to protect "canon."

At the turning point of the film, when Miles is finally invited to join the Spider-Society, we are let in on a dark truth: the safety of the multiverse depends on the suffering of Spiders. Just as Uncle Ben must die, so must a gallant police captain - although almost subtextually, Spider-Gwen hints that so too must the Gwen Stacys who "fall for Spider-Man" - to keep Spider-Man emotionally isolated and solely dedicated to his mission of protecting New York. Trying to avert this lonely fate, to live a happier life, brings about the destruction of all that is.

Through an act of unabashed heroism in Mumbattan - saving the life of a gallant police captain and an innocent child - Miles has inadvertently endangered an entire universe. And unless he allows his own father, the gallant captain, to die as well - the same fate will befall his own. Miles, being a good son and a good person, refuses to accept this and takes on the entire Spider-Society to get home and save his father.

In the chase, we are let in on a second, dark truth: Miles wasn't invited to join the Spider-Society because he is one of the anomalies they hunt, because he was never supposed to be Spider-Man. (You see how this builds on both the speech from Miles' mom about not letting white society tell him he doesn't belong AND the message from the first film?) The Kingpin's collider experiments allowed an Alchemax spider to cross over from Earth-42 to Earth-1610...and as a result, Earth-42 never got a Spider-Man.

When Miles accidentally is sent to Earth-42 instead of his actual home, he learns what that meant. Without Spider-Man, Captain Jeff Davis (Brian Michael Bendis is a real mensch like 99% of the time, but man did he fuck up with that one) died instead of his brother Aaron. Because the intended Spider-Man of Earth-42 was...Miles Morales. Instead, he has become a dystopian Brooklyn's Prowler, a living reminder of the damage the accident of Earth-1610's Miles' creation has caused. This is why you don't violate "canon."

Except...as we learn, Miguel O'Hara is wrong and our Miles is right. When Gwen is sent back to her own universe, which she has been running away from because she knows that it means confronting both her father the gallant captain and the inevitability of his death, she learns that George Stacy quit the force rather than take his promotion: Captain Stacy doesn't have to die. Nor did Captain Singh. Nor does Captain Davis. (For that matter, Miles doesn't have to lie to his family and live a double life as Spider-Man, as we see from his accidentally-misdirected confession.)

We are not the prisoners of the "canon."

Ever since Amazing Fantasy #15, "with great power there must also come great responsibility" has been the indisputable truth of Spider-Man. At this point, it's become a meme: "the Parker luck." Over and over again, Peter Parker must suffer for our sins - Uncle Ben dies, Captain Stacy dies, Gwen Stacy's death ushers in a whole new era of comics and the phenomenon of "fridging," his marriage to Mary Jane has to be done away with because the Spider Office are apparently psychological eternal adolescents, Aunt May has died and almost died so many times everyone's stopped caring.

And that's the problem: we've been playing the same hit for 61 years and it's gotten old. In the process, creators and audience together have condemned Spider-Man to a Sisyphean existence of eternal backsliding, unable to move on, build a life for himself, mature, die and give way to new Spiders. Hell, the best thing that's happened to Peter Parker in the last several decades was an AU in which he has a super-powered wife and daughter and can settle into a middle age of teaching at the Xavier School.

That's the sermon that Lord & Miller came to preach: just as in 2018 it was time for a new Spider-Man, now it's time for new stories that have the courage to try something different.

A Side-Note About the Multiverse

As with the animation side of the story, Lord & Miller could have sat back on their laurels when it came to the concept of the multiverse. After all, they were the ones who made it cool and sent Marvel Studios scrambling to catch up (still haven't succeeded at that, by the way). I don't think Everything Everywhere All At Once needed the creative help, but it absolutely helped sell the movie to producers that a multiverse movie could make millions and win Oscars. (Funny how that works.) Instead, Lord & Miller took it up a notch by asking "what is the purpose of a multiverse?"

Hot take: I don't like the Spider-Verse events. For all that they've given us some amazing Spider designs - and we saw them all up on screen in Across the Spider-Verse - no one cares about the stories. That's because the naked purpose of the comics was to market test Spider designs, see which ones generated buzz, and then make spin-off comics about those Spiders.

Across the Spider-Verse uses the concept of a multiverse, the shiny Macguffin that multi-billion dollar corporate conglomerates will hope will the ticket to riches, to strip Spider-Man down to the essentials by showing every conceivable variation and asking us what they all have in common. Is it suffering, or a commitment to doing the right thing?

Conclusion:

Holy shit, is firing Lord & Miller the biggest mistake Disney has made since Walt refused to recognize the animators' union in 1941.

#marvel #marvel meta #into the spider verse #across the spider verse spoilers #across the spider verse #miles morales #peter parker #spiderman #spider-man #spider-man meta #spiderman meta

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hypexion · 11 months

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Oh wow oh wow Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse. Incredible movie. Gotta talk about it below the cut which will be filled with spoilers.

So first up, Across the Spiderverse looks amazing. It pushes the medium of animation to the limit, having presumably broken several limits along the way. Colour, texture, style, it uses all of them expertly. Each world has it's own look, from Miles' normal world and Gwen's washed out pastel reality, to the unsettingly green Earth-42. Everywhere looks different, and that's important, because it means visitors to other worlds don't fit. From the start, with the Renaissance Vulture, people who don't come from a universe look alien, their very physical existance clashing with the world around them. It's great!

There's also an incredible amount of detail. The whole Earth-42 sequence is perhaps the pinnacle of this. It's not just the world that's tinted green. Rio Morales' eyes are green, whereas on Earth-1610, they're brown. And green is an interesting colour to pick. It's associated with sickness, but also envy. Earth-42 doesn't have a Spider-Man, with its spider going to Earth-1610 Miles. Now this world is sick, and the Earth-42 Miles certain has a reason to envy our Miles.

Outside of looking great, Across the Spiderverse has great energy. It keeps moving and moving, with both action and dialogue based scenes moving things along. I honestly don't think you could actually cut anything here, since everything plays a part in the overall story or individual character arcs. Some people are actually saying the Mumbattan sequence could be cut, which is just wrong. Without it, the entire third act would fall apart. It introduces Spider-Punk, it's where The Spot transforms, and it's where Miles diverts a "canon event". All of this sets the stage for the confrontation with the Spider-Society.

The Spider-Society is where the main character arcs come to their conclusion. Miles, who spends the movie searching for a place where he fits, finds out that the interdimensional spider club is not that place at all. In fact, they don't even think he's a "real" Spider-Man, tying into the movie's thoughts on "canon". Gwen is also forced to confront the truth - that the Society does not have her best interests in mind, and have essentially been exploiting her. They see nothing wrong with sending her back to her original universe, where there's a good chance she'd end up being homeless.

Of course, the person out to cut the web spun by the Spider-Society is the best supporting Spider, Hobie Brown. He's got one of the most "out there" animation styles, second only to the live-action characters for how much he stands out. Hobie might seem like a generic "down with the system" punk, but he's also a strong mentor for Miles. Note that he never directly tells Miles that the Society is bad, but rather works on steering him away from them in other ways. When things finally go to hell, Hobie is there to give Miles a hint, and he promptly ejects himself from the situation, but is still working in the background to help Gwen. He's great. He's also pretty on the ball when he says what he thinks about "people who call themselves heroes".

Which brings us to Miguel. Miguel is the guy who goes on internet message boards to complain about things that aren't canon. There's a "proper" way to be Spider-Man, and if you don't follow it, Miguel is going to be unhappy. He claims it's because diverging from canon will destroy a universe, but that's simply wrong. Even without its spider, Earth-42 continues. As does Earth-1610 when a new spider is introduced. In fact, Miguel himself is a living counter-example to his own theory - he wasn't bitten by a radioactive spider, which is perhaps the most important of all the spider-events. Yet he continues to enforce "canon", up to the point of trapping Miles to prevent him from saving his father, which is frankly monstrous. In many ways, Miguel isn't just an examination of the idea of canon, but of the "time police" trope. What kind of person mandates that terrible events must happen, and what kind of justification would they need to live with themselves?

This is also another place where details are important. When the Alchemax building on Earth-50101B starts to collapse, the cause is the same kind of dark matter rot that makes up the black hole after Miles "breaks canon". The world becoming noncanon isn't the problem - the problem is The Spot.

The Spot is an interesting villain, and Across the Spiderverse makes him dangerous. He's one of those D-listers, who should be supremely dangerous, so comedy hijinks are used to weaken him. According to everyone around him, he's just a "villain of the week". An idea the movie tears open, and asks what exactly that would do to someone's psyche. The Spot isn't content with his place in the pecking order, and once he discovers the true extend of his powers, heads out to become someone who must be taken seriously. And he succeeds. The Spot is funny, up to the exact moment his colour scheme inverts, at which point he becomes Not Funny. In the same way anyone can be Spiderman, it turns out anyone can become a terrifying threat to the cosmic order. Goals!

Really I could keep going about how great Across the Spiderverse. It really gets into a lot of ideas about what it means to be Spider-Man, what it means to be a villain, and how these things all interact. If Beyond the Spiderverse is even half as good, it'll be great.

Anyway my prediction for Beyond the Spiderverse is it will begin with another "let's do this one more time", but for Earth-42 Miles' origin as the Prowler. Because that's the kind of part three shake-up you want.

#spiderman: across the spiderverse #across the spiderverse #spider man: across the spider verse

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m4gp13 · 3 years

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For those of you who made it through my laughably incoherent ethabaster think piece, here’s some hc’s, you’ve earned them:

- Ethan has sole possession of their one shared brain cell. Alabaster is not allowed to even look at it. This is because they used to have two but Al broke the good one trying to blow up something (probably Percy).

- If Al finds out Ethan left without some form of magical protection i.e. a sigil, a crystal, ground eggshells, he will be pretty much vibrating with nerves until Ethan gets back so he can give him a once-over.

- Alabaster’s from a very witchy family who all worship Hecate for many reasons that differ depending on which estranged relative you ask and they all kinda saw Al as the first coming of witch Christ so he had a lot of expectations at a very young age.

- Ethan knows this and tries to lift as much Titan army business off his shoulders as possible.

- He accidentally lifts too much off to the point where he is drowning in work and is now the one in need of saving. But does he tell anyone that if he looks at one more stack of demands from his mile long list of bosses he’s going to cry for five hours? Of course not don’t be ridiculous.

- Alabaster immediately hated Percy as soon as he heard the guys name but due to the arena stuff and telling Thalia not to k*ll him Ethan actually held a bit of respect for Percy which annoyed Al to no end.

-This was until the not-so-peaceful peace talk in tlo when Percy starts shit talking Nemesis and Ethan just internally goes “actually the witch bitch was right this guy sucks ass”

-However, under no circumstances will Ethan ever tell this to Alabaster; not because he values his pride (he has none) but because he knows the life of a demigod is short and he doesn’t want to spend the rest of his very short one hearing Al rub that one thing in his face for every single second of it.

- And I mean Every. Single. Second.

- So yeah he takes that to the grave and doesn’t even tell anyone in the underworld in case they tell Al when he dies and he doesn’t want to spend the rest of his afterlife with Al being a dumbass. (also yes Ethan got into Elysium, fuck you)

- (Actually I have another idea about where Ethan went post-life but that’s so far from canon it’s more of an AU than a headcanon so we’re gonna leave that out for now)

- Al thought he was the one in charge of the Hecate kids because he was the most powerful and the highest ranking in the army but he was Not. That was Ethan. The Hecate kids thought Ethan was their unofficial adopted baby brother but little did they know he was the mum the whole time.

- Ethan is the only thing standing between them and starving to death. He also does the younger kids hair and gives everyone with long hair super intricate braids that stay out of their faces during “field work”. Al thinks this is more of him trying to take the weight off his shoulders but Ethan knows that if he doesn’t do this shit no one will so he kinda has to. Not that he doesn’t like doing it. being helpful is his love language.

- Because of their powers over the mist the Hecate kids of the army were notorious pranksters who were usually at war with the Hermes kids (wars usually declared by Al because he rolled a zero on self restraint) but none of them prank Ethan because “nooooo you can’t do him he babey 🥺”

- Ethan has simply decided that what the magic prank wizards don’t know can’t hurt them and just turns to his blind side whenever he sees them sneaking off the ship to get Micky D’s in the middle of the night to stay on their good sides.

- Speaking of the ship, Ethan thinks it’s the dumbest thing in the world that one of their most powerful demigod enemies is the son of a sea god and he actually has a pretty decent relationship with said sea god and their main base of operations aside from mt Othrys is a fucking BOAT. He tells Al all about his worries for the ship and while Al assures him that nothing that bad could happen he always makes sure that the ship always has the least amount of demigods on board at all times just in case.

- It takes all the strength Ethan has not to yell “TOLD YOU SO” at him when the ship blows up.

- Al probably either wears basic white boy clothes or typical witchy stuff (like moons and shit) depending his mood meanwhile Ethan found out about leather and just goes for it.

- Every grunge/punk/emo/eboy/teachwear bitch aspires to be him and because he aint about all that “gender roles” bs he definitely goes about wearing cool egirl stuff too. Not just slightly feminine shaped jumpers but all the plaid skirts, fishnets and lace trimmed dresses he can steal afford and Al, despite his more basic fashion taste is here for it. You’ve never seen someone more supportive of their pals fits, get you a hypeman like Al. You deserve it. (Ethan is also not afraid to walk around in a full pastel gamer girl fit)

- (Also Al hyping up one Ethans fits in front of a Titan is the reason they were allowed to start wearing army fatigues instead of the whole ancient Greek armour on occasion)

- Ethan appreciates Al’s enthusiasm but he also kinda doesn’t get it. And he definitely doesn't do that “yeah you’re right I DO look good” thing because he just doesn’t know how. He’d always been a little self-conscious about getting a big head but then he found out about Nemesis and hubris and all that fun stuff, looked at his meager pile of self worth and said “ yep, this has to go”

- Al almost starts crying when he finds out and pretty much makes it mission to be such a good hype man that Ethan has no choice but to think of himself as a Pretty Cool Dude via absorbing the hype through diffusion. It kinda starts working but then Ethan [REDACTED] in tlo so we’ll never know what could’ve been.

- To nick a hc from someone ( hi @chromarozee-spam) contrary to his taste in clothes Ethan does ballet (he was a punk AND did ballet, what more can I say?) and while Al tries to support his hobbies he is genuinely afraid both for and of him. “For” because “holy fuck that looks painful are you okay?”. And “of” because “are you sure those are bones inside you because I don’t think bones are supposed do that?!”.

- Ethan tries to assure him that no his spine is not made of rubber, broken bones or otherworldly materials so can he stop bothering him during practice please?

- This does not stop Al from making a million protection wards and constantly asking his deck if Ethan is indeed a Being of this Good Green Earth.

- Eventually his cards pretty much just tell him that he is friends with one bendy heck of a boi and he needs to fucking get over it so he kinda just,, ,,,,, , does.

- Again with the hc thieving (this time from @altorringtons) Al learning to use a two-handed broadsword so he can guard Ethan’s blind side and back in a fight *soft noises* just them trying so hard to keep each other alive because they love each other and they care about each other!

- They also sleep in the same bed whenever they get the chance (fully clothed ya nasties, they’re kids) and they just hug each other soooo tight because they just need to know they’re alright cos they always get pretty banged up in fights against campers or just monsters that are too much like wild animals to recruit. (What? Me? Projecting my desire to be intimately held by the closest person I have to family with their arms wrapped not tight enough to make me uncomfortable but tight enough to make me feel loved? Never! What on earth are you talking about?)

- Because Al is super stubborn and prideful whenever they have an argument Al can’t really bring himself to say he’s sorry so when he’s ready to apologise he just climbs into bed on Ethan’s blind side and cuddles him because he knows Ethan is super worried about getting attacked on his blind side so it’s like he has a guard or a shield.

- Ethan on the other hand just calls him a Rock Boy in a derogatory way until he gets over himself and apologizes but he really does love the fact that Al knows that about him and accommodates that.

- The thing they fight about most is how “heroic” the titan army is. Kronos’ brainwashing worked on Al like a charm and he fully believes that they are the rebellion and camp is the empire. Ethan on the other hand wasn’t at camp long enough for Kronos or Luke to really do anything but it doesn’t matter because Ethan really doesn’t give a shit if he’s on the “evil side” cos he just wants respect and he’s willing to do what it takes without a second thought of how people see him. If he thinks he’s doing the right thing but on the wrong side he can live with that but Al needs to feel like all of his side is on the moral high ground because that’s what Kronos drilled into his brain.

- Ethan knows that Al delusional when it comes to the non-existent heroics of the army but eventually he just decides to let Al believe the titans lies because that’s easier for him even if it hurts Ethan to see him being manipulated like that.

- Due to Ethan not giving a shit on the humanity of his bosses he gets punished a lot more often and a lot more violently than Al because they know that Ethan already knows they don’t care about him so they don’t have to sugar coat him but Al still believes that they’re heroes and his mindset needs to stay like that to keep him obedient.

- Also because I am a Cruel Person By Nature I hc Ethan’s mortal family (which usually just consists of his dad) as meeting a not very pg13 end at the hands of a monster who wanted to nible on Ethan a tad which pretty much scarred him for life.

- SO, at the end of the battle of Man Hats Are In when Al looks around and sees that his whole family (that joined the titans) are dead! oh no! How sad! At least he knows someone whose been through the same thing so they understand each other and can help each other through this tough time together right? SIKE!

- so yeah Al learns Ethan d-worded in the worst possible way at the worst possible time and just looses it from grief. Loosing his family was bad enough but finding out he lost the one person he thought he would be able to confide in and heal with immediately after just really rubs salt in the wound.

- When the survivors start re-grouping to find someplace to hide until the gods forget about them Al just wanders off because it’s all he can do to not break down on the spot.

- He’s just wandering in a daze for a while and most people just assume he’s high but he snaps out of it and gets into anger mode when Lamia starts attacking him because he finally has something to do and occupy himself with even though it’s hard not to think about his sibling especially when Lamia keeps talking like they never would have died if she’d been in charge which is why she should totally just kill him and lead their siblings instead.

- His desire to have something to keep his mind off his family and Ethan is the first thing he thinks about when Claymore re-alives and immediately starts talking about doing research (yeah because that’s what you need after a long stressful day of fighting monsters and literally dying).

- Ethan keeps trying to cross the veil and help, even if he just sends Al a pleasant dream to help him sleep but contrary to what you might think from the name, the veil is really hard to cross so Ethan just has to bite his nails and watch his friend suffer.

- It gets easier to watch after Al and Claymore pretty much adopt each other because at least he has someone but they do still get into pretty scary situations.

- When they were both premortem they got paired up for a lot of missions for the titan army and they usually just tried to pretend they were on a fun road trip around America when they could and make fun of mortal shit together.

- At one point they were in a motel and the last people accidentally left behind one of Claymore’s books about death and they found it the funniest thing ever. Between a pair of in which one of their mum’s regularly goes to the underworld and one has been there himself they find mortal ideas of the afterlife to be very amusing.

- Alabaster has decided he would not like to share this with the class (Claymore) thank you very much.

- Also when they’re doing their road tripping Ethan knows all the best places to crash, the cheapest food places and the local gangs don’t bother them because between running away from camp and joining the army he just wandered around a lot.

- Like he’d just hop on a random train, take a nap and figure it out when he wakes up; he made a lot of friends this way too as well as his taste in clothes cos he didn’t have a lot of money so he’d just DIY some second hand punk shit. Al thinks he’s the Gandalf of the demigod world because he just knows everyone who might help them and everywhere they could spend the night. He definitely tells his siblings about Ethan being the closest thing they have to a wandering wizard and they fucking love it.

- Also because Nemesis tends to not have a lot of kids Ethan was the only one of hers in the army and Al felt really bad for him because his sibling were his favourite part about the army so he tried to include Ethan in as much as possible with his siblings.

- As an unexpected result Ethan ended up with a small army of super powered children to sick on the people who keep making jabs about him loosing in the arena battle.

- Al sometimes thinks he’s given him too much power but also he will fuck a bitch up if they make fun of his pals so he sees where his siblings are coming from and yeah those bitches had it coming. He also has a copy of bitchcraft.

- Ethan’s dad was the type to play “Stay With Me” by Miki Matsubara on repeat for hours and Ethan would probably enjoy the song but he’s heard it so often that now it makes his ears bleed and Al sometimes tortures him with for fun until Ethan starts throwing shit.

- To steal another hc from @chromarozee-spam Ethan has a thing for cats and one time Al accidentally gave himself mistform cat-ears and Ethan could not stop touching them. Ethan was just craning his head back uncontrollably grinning so much his face hurt. Al can’t bring himself to be upset because Ethan rarely ever smiles since he joined the army.

- Al saw Ethan crying over one of those video’s where people put their hoodies on backwards and put their cat in the hood so he made a mist cat and bought him a hoodie. Ethan of course started crying again but it was happy tears instead.

- Ethan is fucking tiny while Al is almost a foot taller than him. He wouldn’t mind so much if Al didn’t exhaust every opportunity to rub it in his face so he just starts climbing all over shit (especially tall buildings) half to give Al heart attacks and half so he can be like “Sorry? What was that? I’m so high up I can’t hear you. Can you speak up a little? Maybe get a ladder? Or taller?”

- Also I don’t know why but I hc Al as Texan. Ethan gets told about this “Alabaster C. Torrington” guy who knows latin, incantations and other magical knowledge and expects some fancy British guy so when they meet and Al speaks Ethan gets whiplash so hard he fuckin chokes.

- Al is also very casual and Ethan is pretty professional so when he meets this magic general with a straight back and the first thing that comes out of this assholes mouth is some “Howdy y’all!!” bullshit he just dies on the spot.

- Also because Al is texan he is very sensitive to the cold (I’m about 80% sure that Texas is one of the Warm states) so when he has to do stuff in cold places like the labyrinth or new york (idk about that one to but in every film I’ve seen that’s set in NY it’s raining for about 90% of the time) he complains about being freezing all the time until Ethan helpfully reminds him that he can literally make fire out of nothing, surely he can find a way to warm himself up.

- Ethan is also sensitive to the cold because he’s basically malnourished but he’s been like that for a while and thinks it’s normal so he sucks it up until Al notices he’s always cold. Ethan tells him it’s fine but Al is basically a walking electric blanket so whenever Al cuddles him to keep him warm Ethan can’t help but melt because he’s so fucking warm and soft and have you noticed I crave intimacy?

- Ethan started studying Greek myths vigorously since he found out he was a demigod and when he died he kept an eye and an ear out for Al because even though he wouldn’t be able to do anything it still reassures him to know what’s going on, HOWEVER, he was almost filled with enough malice to rip through the barrier between the living and the dead purely to beat an ass when he hears Al’s little “I don’t bother reading about worthless monsters like you!” jab.

- Ethan is very jumpy and fidgety to the point where Al is genuinely concerned and while Ethan assures Al that nothing’s wrong Al is still suspicious. Ethan probably would have told Al about it if it was because of anything but Kronos but seeing that it mostly is, he doesn’t because Ethan feels like Al will just take Kronos’ word over his and he’ll loose the only person he trusts in the army.

- Al doesn’t find out about it until way after the war when Kronos’ brainwashing starts to come undone because by then his mindset is a lot less biased in the titans favour so he can see things that he just unconsciously ignored before and is able to put two and two together. When he does boy is it a trip.

- Ethan is really bad at talking about feelings and stuff so whenever Al gets upset over something and Ethan has no idea how to talk to him he’ll just get him some rocks. One time Ethan found out about those heart shaped valentine boxes that are normally filled with chocolates but people put crystals in them and that just became his go-to for when Al was especially upset.

- Al is only slightly better at talking about stuff but he can still get Ethan to open up to him which is good because Ethan isn’t very materialistic so it’s hard to make him feel better by buying him things and because someone needs to get Ethan to express himself in an emotionally healthy way.

- Also because of this they just can’t tell each other they love each other. Like they’ll barely whisper it when the other is asleep because they’re just so bad at talking about feelings. It wasn’t that much of an issue until after the war and Ethan gets k-worded and Al is left alone and sobbing over all the times he never told his loved ones how much they meant to him.

- But because this is a headcanon list; fuck that, Al saved Ethan with some sort of magic bullshit and they talk about how much they love each other all the time now because they can’t stand the thought of one of them dying having never been told how much they are loved.

#me going around nicking hcs: thank you for your sacrifices #this will help tremendously in the war effort #also max i am extremely pleased to tell you that auto correct thinks Harrington is a lovely name for you #and you stan the magic messiah #autocorrect didn't say that one #but it's true #pjo #percy jackson #ethan nakamura #alabaster torrington #alabaster c torrington #ethan x alabaster #ethabaster

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( ARIANA GRANDE, 26, CIS FEMALE) I just bumped into [ EDEN ROSE ] the other day while walking down [ NORTH ] Kingsboro, where [ SHE/HER ] live. I hear they can be [ HARD WORKING ] and [ CONCEITED ], but when I think of them I immediately think about [ PIZZA, CHICAGO, AND THE GYM ] (maci, 25, she/her, est )

( ARON PIPER, 23, CISMALE ) I just bumped into [ SANTIAGO KRUSCHKE ] the other day while walking down [ WEST ] Kingsboro, where [ HE/HIM ] live. I hear they can be [ DEXTEROUS ] and [ INTROVERTED ], but when I think of them I immediately think about [ FLANNELS, VANS SHOES, & CALVIN KLEIN ] (peyton, 21+, he/him/they/them, est )

( CAMILA MENDES , 23, FEMALE) I just bumped into [ ALEXIS DIAZ ] the other day while walking down [ NORTH ] Kingsboro, where [ SHE/HER ] live. I hear they can be [ HARDWORKING ] and [ SECRETIVE ], but when I think of them I immediately think about [ BLACK OUTFITS, NOTEBOOKS AND PENS, LAVISH THINGS ] (Megan, 27, she/her, cst )

( DACRE MONTGOMERY, TWENTY THREE, CIS MALE ) I just bumped into [ HORACE CLEMENTE ‘HC’ BARROW ] the other day while walking down [ EAST ] Kingsboro, where [ HE/HIM ] live. I hear they can be [ CLEVER ] and [ SOCIALLY UNAWARE ], but when I think of them I immediately think about [ BACK ALLEYS, THE SMELL OF PINE SMOKE, MYSTERIOUS PROMISES ] (siege, 24, she/her, est )

( GIGI HADID, TWENTY FIVE, CIS FEMALE ) I just bumped into [ ELLA NAZARI ] the other day while walking down [ NORTH ] Kingsboro, where [ SHE/HER ] live. I hear they can be [ CHARISMATIC ] and [ SASSY ], but when I think of them I immediately think about [ WORN OUT POINTE SHOES, MESSY BUNS & LOTS OF JEWELRY ] (steph, 21+, she/her, est )

( GREGG SULKIN, 25, MALE ) I just bumped into [ MASON DAWSON] the other day while walking down [ NORTH ] Kingsboro, where [ HE/HIM ] live. I hear they can be [ LOYAL ] and [ NERVOUS ], but when I think of them I immediately think about [ SPORTS JERSEYS, DUMBELLS, PLANES, FOOTBALL UNDER THE BRIGHT LIGHTS ] (Megan, 27, she/her, cst )

( HAILEE STEINFELD , TWENTY-FIVE, FEMALE ) I just bumped into [ DELILAH "LILA" OLIVER ] the other day while walking down [ NORTH ] Kingsboro, where [ SHE ] lives. I hear they can be [ FRIENDLY ] and [ NAIIVE ], but when I think of them I immediately think about [ RED STAINED LIP MARKS ON A STARBUCKS CUP, CRUMPLED UP MUSIC SHEETS SCATTERED AROUND THE FLOOR, A STRING OF APOLOGY TEXTS ] (kris, 24, she/her, mst )

( HERMAN TØMMERAAS, 21, CISMALE) I just bumped into [ ALEXEI LANCASTER ] the other day while walking down [ SOUTH ] Kingsboro, where [ HE/HIM ] lives. I hear they can be [ COMPASSIONATE ] and [ SUSPICIOUS ], but when I think of them I immediately think about [ LONG DRIVES WITHOUT A SPECIFIC DESTINATION, VARIOUS RINGS, DARK PURPLE NAILPOLISH ] ( ari, 21, she/her, est )

( jeon jungkook, twenty three, cis male ) I just bumped into [ KYUNHGO CHOI ] the other day while walking down [ SOUTH ] Kingsboro, where [ HE/HIM ] live. I hear they can be [ VIVACIOUS ] and [ IRRATIONAL ], but when I think of them I immediately think about [ EVER CHANGING HAIR STYLES, DANGLY EARRINGS, TIGHT CLOTHING ] (aly, 24, she/her, est )

( JESSE RUTHERFORD, 29, CISMALE) I just bumped into [ DORIAN TAYLOR] the other day while walking down [ SOUTH ] Kingsboro, where [ HE/HIM ] lives. I hear they can be [ EMPATHETIC ] and [ DEFENSIVE ], but when I think of them I immediately think about [ PUNK, BAD BOY, AND B&W. ] ( nix, 25, she/her, est )

( JESSICA CORNISH/JESSIE J, 27, CIS FEMALE ) I just bumped into [ CHARLIE PARKER ] the other day while walking down [ SOUTH ] Kingsboro, where [ SHE/HER ] live. I hear they can be [ UNDERSTANDING ] and [ CAUTIOUS ], but when I think of them I immediately think about [ MISS HONEY FROM MATILDA, BLOOMCORE, ANYTHING PASTEL OR BAGGY ]. (Riley, 23, they/them, GMT)

( JOE KEERY, 24, CISMALE ) I just bumped into [ CILLIAN KELLY ] the other day while walking down [ EAST ] Kingsboro, where [ HE/HIM ] live. I hear they can be [ CHARMING ] and [ APATHETIC ], but when I think of them I immediately think about [ SKATE SHOES, 7/11 SLURPEES, SKINNED KNEES ] (sam)

( KRISTINE FROSETH, 22, FEMALE ) I just bumped into [ AURORA LANCASTER ] the other day while walking down [ SOUTH ] Kingsboro, where [ SHE ] lives. I hear they can be [ ECCENTRIC ] and [ INSECURE ], but when I think of them I immediately think about [ MISMATCHED SOCKS, THE SMELL OF OLD BOOKS, CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES ] (Sarah, 24, she/her, EST )

( LORENZO ZURZOLO, 20, CISMALE ) I just bumped into [ FIORE GATTUSO ] the other day while walking down [ NORTH ] Kingsboro, where [ HE/HIM ] lives. I hear they can be [ CHARMING ] and [ NARCISSISTIC ], but when I think of them I immediately think about [ BLOODSHOT BABY BLUE EYES, LUXURY BRANDS, AN ENCHANTING SMILE ] (ari, 21, she/her, est )

( LOUIS TOMLINSON, 28, CIS MAN ) I just bumped into [ LANDON DAVIES ] the other day while walking down [ NORTH ] Kingsboro, where [ HE/HIM ] live. I hear they can be [ CARING ] and [ SARCASTIC ], but when I think of them I immediately think about [ FAMILY, FRIENDS, DONCASTER ACCENT ]. ( Kristina, 23, she/her, GMT +1 )

( MEGAN FOX, 30, CIS FEMALE ) I just bumped into [ MAGGIE FOWLER ] the other day while walking down [ EAST ] Kingsboro, where [ SHE/ HER ] live. I hear they can be [ OUTGOING ] and [ AWKWARD ], but when I think of them I immediately think about [ COMIC BOOKS, COFFEE, PUSH-UP BRAS ] (shayla, 29, she/ her, pst )

( MILES HEIZER, 24, CIS MAN ) I just bumped into [ TIMOTHY ‘TEE’ HILL ] the other day while walking down [ NORTH ] Kingsboro, where [ HE/HIM ] live. I hear they can be [ HONEST ] and [ STUBBORN ], but when I think of them I immediately think about [ COFFEE, MONEY, THERAPY ]. ( Kristina, 23, she/her, GMT +1 )

( OLIVIA HOLT, 22, FEMALE) I just bumped into [ STELLA MONTGOMERY ] the other day while walking down [ EAST ] Kingsboro, where [ SHE] lives. I hear they can be [ ALLURING ] and [ RECKLESS ], but when I think of them I immediately think about [ GLOSSY LIPS, HIGH HEELS, and EXPOSED HICKIES ON YOUR NECK ] (Sarah, 24, she/her, EST )

( PERRIE EDWARDS, 27, CIS FEMALE ) I just bumped into [ JESSAMINE "JESS" KIPPLEY ] the other day while walking down [ SOUTH ] Kingsboro, where [ SHE/HER ] live. I hear they can be [ KIND ] and [ OBSTINATE ], but when I think of them I immediately think about [ WHITE BEACHES, BLUE SKIES, CHERRY BLOSSOMS ] ( Bex, 24, she/her, pst )

( ROBERT PATTINSON, 25, CISMALE ) I just bumped into [ SAMUEL “SAM” BURTON ] the other day while walking down [ WEST ] Kingsboro, where [ HE/HIM ] live. I hear they can be [ GOOFY ] and [ JEALOUS ], but when I think of them I immediately think about [ DRUMS, RECORDS, CIGARETTE SMOKE ] ( sam, 24, she/her, central )

( TAYLOR SWIFT, 26, CIS FEMALE ) I just bumped into [ ALISON HAYNES] the other day while walking down [ NORTH ] Kingsboro, where [ SHE/HER ] live. I hear they can be [ SWEET ] and [ CLINGY ], but when I think of them I immediately think about [ MUSIC, MONEY, FAME ] (Maci, 25, she/her, EST )

( TOM ELLIS, 38, CISMALE ) I just bumped into [ RIVER HOLLOWAY ] the other day while walking down [ NORTH ] Kingsboro, where [ HE/HIM ] lives. I hear they can be [ ALLURING ] and [ SECRETIVE ], but when I think of them I immediately think about [ DARK ACADEMIA, THE BACHELOR, AND COFFEE-STAINED JOURNALS. ] ( nix, 25, she/her, est )

( TYLER POSEY, TWENTY SIX, DEMI-BOY ) I just bumped into [ NEMO MORALES ] the other day while walking down [ WEST ] Kingsboro, where [ HE/THEY ] live. I hear they can be [ RESPONSIBLE ] and [ JEALOUS ], but when I think of them I immediately think about [ FLICKERING NEON LIGHTS, THE STRAIN OF A FAMILIAR SONG, A BORROWED LEATHER JACKET ] (siege, 24, she/her, est )

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