Harlivy post… gay women are real and doing lots of eco terrorizing ,, kissing other ladies and womanoids tenderly,, holding hands and crushing skulls, daintily
So in this, Amity Park got stuck in a kind of time bubble that made everyone in it feel time go by really slow while the outside world was going at normal pace. So while almost no time has passed for the Amity Parkers, about 20 years have gone by for the rest of the world. The rest of the world which includes the Manson couple, who were on a vacation (or a business trip) without their daughter.
Now, the two have no way of getting back into the time bubble and have assumed that their city has been sucked into the Ghost Zone once again only this time forever. They grieve Sam and move to another one of their estate that they own, which is in Gotham. They change their name to Pamela’s maiden name to really start with a blank slate. When they find out Pamela is pregnant, they figure this will be a new beginning with the baby. They name the baby Pamela Lilian, the first because it’s a family name and the second because that’s what they wanted to call Sam. Since they’re not over losing almost everyone they’ve ever known in a day, the two aren’t great parents and little Pamela grows up feeling very lonely. She goes on to become a botanist which seems to pain her parents but they don’t say anything about it. Anyways, we know the rest there’s an experiment with chemicals, she eventually becomes Poison Ivy.
One evening, while she’s just having supper at one of her safe house, someone knocks. At the door she finds a girl, who looks a lot like her and has her mother’s purple eyes. The girl walks in and just goes.
“Hey, I’m Sam. I’m your older sister. It’s nice to meet you.”
Fun fact. I imagine Ivy to present as very feminine, but her plant abilities allows her to switch between being a woman or a man like how some flowers have both female and male parts in them.
She uses that to her advantage in many ways, she's a seductress after all. Altho she prefers she/they she is not shy of dabbling in her other identities.
She can switch between femininity and masculinity based on the preference of the person she's trying to seduce and usually represents as something in-between with attributes from both.
It's finally the best month of the year, so here's a piece to commemorate the start of the spooky times~
This is Tim Sale's villain groupshot from The Long Halloween, but reimagined in my cartoony ROGUES style~
Hope you all like it, it was a blast to make
Arkham Asylum is a terrible and unethical place that treats its patients like sub-humans. Not only do the doctors and guards in the Asylum treat them like that but the police and the Batman most of the time do as well. Despite the fact that the city sends them to get mental health care, everyone has already given up on the idea of them ever getting better. Having said that can you imagine how lonely that must be for the Rogues, to have no one advocate for you when your treated badly, to instead have the people meant to help you hate you instead? To look so different and behave oddly, how lonely it must be to have no one on your side. No one except each other of course.
They’re kept in the same cell block together, away from all the other patients. They can hear each other all the time, see each other pacing or panicking or breaking down. It’s Riddler who watches a bruised Scarecrow get dragged back from his ‘Therapy Session’ barely concussion and he’s the one who sits next to the cell glass and shows him how to put his arm back into place. He’s also the one distracting him from the pain with an endless supply of riddles and questions about Scarecrows work. It’s the fearsome Scarecrow who sits with his back to his cell wall and spends hour quietly reciting poetry back and forth with the Mad Hatter, till he calms down from his panic attacks. His therapist makes no progress in pulling out Killer Crocs humanity but he does calm down when the Mad Hatter waste away the hours telling him stories through the pipes.
Killer Croc is the only one who can touch Ivy during her freak outs. The poison in her skin burns his scales and her thorns dig into his arms but he holds her until her rage dies down and she wilts in his arms. Ivy has a specialty cell meant to keep the light out, Mr. Freeze also has a specialty cell next to hers for his body temperature meaning they are even further isolated from the others. They keep each other sane, Ivy listening for hours as Freeze reminisces about Nora and when he gets tired she fills the silence with talk of flowers and gardening tips.
Freeze speaks loudly with his stories so his voice will carry to one of the isolation cells, Arkham has a habit of echoing. Victor Zsasz listens to the stories and calms his breathing down as he tries to imagine life outside of the four foam walls he’s been trapped in for, a while. It’s easy to loose track of time in these cells as nothing ever changes. It’s Zsasz who claws up some of the foam so he can tap the wall between his cell and the one next door. He sends messages in Morse code to the other solitary confinement cell belonging to the Clown Prince of Crime himself. Joker clings to messages sent between the wall as it’s the only contact he gets outside of the guards coming into his cell. The message is the same one they all tell each other, in their worst moments.