Damian: *sees a rat*
Damian: *lightbulb moment*
[later]
Bruce: Damian? You've been in the kitchen for half an hour.
Damian: I can explain.
Damian: *points to the rat in a chef's hat*
Damian: Ratatouille.
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I wonder what else Benjamin inherited from Mordecai LOLOL
Not his sociopathy, that’s for sure. Boys got a lot of feelings…maybe a bit too many.
His personality takes after his Aunt Rose more so than Mordecai. Unfortunately he does inherit his myopia, though not to the extent Mordecai suffers from it and he refuses to wear glasses when he gets older (something Mordecai takes mild offense to).
FYI he don’t know that rat lol he just found it. And it took him two hours to convince Mord to honor the rat’s life with him.
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Okay y'all, it's time for another Barbatos headcanon.
The theme this evening? Angst.
The topic? Barb's fear of rats.
Join me on this (small) journey, but beware it's not pleasant by any means (character death, post-war destruction, etc.).
So canonically (based on one of his devilgrams) we know that at some point in the distant (?) past, Barb did some reckless shit that had seriously impacted the lives of Diavolo and Solomon, which is why he's committed himself to serve Diavolo and right past wrongs.
So I imagined that at some point he ventured into the future. And what he found there was desolation and destruction; the Devildom (and possibly the other realms) in ruin, likely the result of war with each other; the castle abandoned and falling apart, overrun with rats and other vermin.
Diavolo is still alive, but he's beaten down, worn, a shell of his former self. His clothes are tattered and filthy, and his mind is nearly lost to quiet mutterings of broken dreams as the rats scurry around his dirty, bare feet...
There is a lot of dead bodies, as always comes in the aftermath of battle (perhaps Solomon is one of them? He had opposed the Devildom before; maybe this time he wasn't so lucky?). The rats are there too.
They're a sign of death and failure. It's what makes Barbatos finally understand the gravity of his carelessness, makes him go back to a time where he can prevent that future from happening.
And now each time he sees a rat, he remembers that future, and it's like a warning, a harbringer of what may come. And he'll do anything - anything - to keep it from happening.
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Anyone remember Gregor the overlander? Good book series, at least as far as rose-colored glasses go. Suzanne Collins wrote it.
Anyway I was at work and one of the final scenes of the final book wormed its way into my brain
The whole premise of the series is that there is a Secret World underground but specifically under nyc with Big Animals including rats and bats and bugs and all that
Relevant to this is that bats and underground people keep forming warrior's bonds with each other. As does our mc, Gregor, with the bat Ares.
Anyway fast forward a lot (but still not enough that Gregor is anywhere near 18) the rats and the humans are fighting a war against each other. The bats are allies of the humans.
Gregor and Ares get into a fight with the big boss rat because Prophecy, the final moments of which include ares and Gregor holding hand and claw, Gregor plunging his sword into the rat, and the rat clawing at both Gregor and Ares.
Gregor wakes up in the hospital after this to discover the war was won by the humans. The rats were defeated including the big bad Gregor fought, but Ares died. On his bedside is ares' claw, stained red with dried blood. When the medics recovered Gregor, they found that in Ares' death, his blood had clotted their hands together. They had to cut his claw off just to get Gregor to the infirmary, then soak his hand in warm water, all to finally separate the two.
Idk maybe it's the haze of childhood memory but I find that beautiful. That even in death, even beyond rigor mortis, the two were so sure of their bond that they could only be truly separated (relatively) long after the death of one. Maybe I'm a sentimental.
Ares had a former bond with a prince of the land, Henry. He let Henry die to save Gregor, which would have meant banishment, had Gregor not [done something i forget what exactly]. Ares, as far as memory serves, strove to nothing else than to keep Gregor alive, to keep his bond. Ares died making sure he wouldn't lose another bond, and in his death strengthened their bond even further.
Does that many any sense? Ignore this if it doesn't.
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