#Ask about Joan

[underworld-office-fan-acc]

Hi there!! I have a few questions and dares for some of the office staff if you don't mind lol

To Boss: Hello, Boss I heard you say you don't have a favorite employee, but you have a giant painting of Eugene in your office... Is that true?

To Joan: Do you visit your daughter from time to time? And can you please try to go a minute without saying "Back in my day"?

To Charlie: How's the scoliosis?

Boss:

"Of course I don't. The Eugene painting was hanged up against my will."

"I mean, if you want you can take it down?"

"..."

Boss subtly glanced at the painting, then at Eugene's desk, then back at the painting.

"I won't waste my energy on something so trivial, it's already up there anyway."

"Bro didn't even deny it."

"River."

"Andthatsmycue—!"

Joan:

"I'd surprise myself if I didn't."

"Usually whenever patrol ends, I always take a short look at how my kid is doing. She grew up finer than her own momma I'd say."

"But there are times where things get rough so I don't have the moment to check on her."

"Which then leads to someone else having to check up on her daughter since she wouldn't stop nagging about her all day!"

"I have my own reasons alright? She's frail on the sides, I need to make sure she's okay."

Joan took a good look at the second question, almost with a disapproving look.

"...Kids these days indeed. Because I don't say it all the time. Back in my days, we'd actually appreciate other things about the person you talk about."

"And there she goes..."

Charlie:

"My back hurts."

Charlie said with a dry yet somehow dramatic tone that didn't reach most ears.

"You're a ghost."

"So?"

"You're literally dead, you can't feel pain."

"Doesn't mean I can't feel the pain of regrets for always hunching over when I was alive."

"...fair."

That feeling when you rizzed up the huzz😎

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Ahhh so uh,,,,I can explain my sudden hiatus,,,,

To be honest, Author got lazy to check their phone since they were busy with hw (and is currently lazy to finish hw because lazyness), and uhhhh yeah,,,,

Sorry,,,,I am horrible at this T_T,,,

Eugene: This...

Boss: This.

River: This!!

Joan: This.

Charlie: ...This or whatever.

[motof1bfs]

joan yapping while luca dissociates

[anglerflsh]

giovanna d'arco

[sweepinguptheemeraldbar]

On June 1st?

Powerwolf really said "Happy Pride to sapphics specifically!"

[blood-choke]

Oh my God wait I have more to say on that. If you need the full scene I'm quoting: https://youtu.be/63708PykTcg?si=Bws3wyRs_TkyxPaH prepare for a lot of yapping

Hear me out. It's the "I don't like to share." Val has made it v clear she doesn't like the thought of sharing mc with Hana and clear bc of her own fears and anxiety surrounding her relationship with mc who remembers nothing about their life together.

and the "what about antionette?" "It's different I don't have feelings for her." Hana feels like the antionette to val bc, and these are just my thoughts from reading, we can see that val does care for Hana to some degree but never to the degree that she does with mc. Or maybe she does and just hides it to keep from getting attached like she was with mc and keeping Hana safe from being another one of the councils victims 🤔

And lastly the "that's bc you TOOK my life" is really getting my brain going. Especially since we see mc begin to question whether or not she wanted this life. Like, the potential behind it is putting me through the wall rn

Anyways you don't have to respond to any of this I just wanted to yap and share these thoughts bc BOY does blood choke get me thinking

hehehe yes i do think Valentina can be quite similar to Lestat in some aspects, particularly with her relationship with mc.

and you're right, she does care about Hana... in her own fucked up way. she keeps her more at a distance than she ever did mc because of that loss, which she is still mourning (even now with the mc back. she's not the mc she remembers) and she just was never able to open herself up completely to Hana. Valentina has treated both Hana and the mc terribly in the past (and the mc, at least, treated her just as bad, too, while Hana more or less just took it silently). she does care about Hana, but with the mc-shaped hole in her chest, she isn't sure how to express it, and now that the mc is back, she feels conflicted about her feelings & wants to show her devotion solely to the mc. and obviously she will get jealous of Hana (or Clear) because unless the mc brings it up, she won't share. exactly because of her anxieties (the loss of memories and how that may lead to mc choosing someone else completely) and she's actually fearful that the mc may judge her or be angry herself about Valentina's relationship with Hana (the mc was a jealous person in her past life). obviously their relationship was never Perfect, but Valentina is definitely being crueler to Hana than she ever has been before, almost like she's "showing off" for the mc, and even trying to drive Hana away. (you can potentially call her out on this in the next chapter)

and because of this Hana is realizing that even though she took the abuse and was always there for Valentina, it doesn't matter; mc is back and that's all Valentina cares about. (even if it's not necessarily 100% true-- to Hana, all she feels is that she's being discarded). that's what prompts her confrontation/conversation with the mc in ch3.

going forward there's a chance for this to change, depending on how the mc approaches the two. even if you're not romancing Hana in the poly there are still opportunities to include her (or exclude her, if you want. you can explore that route, too) and with the mc back, Valentina can potentially open herself up more to Hana than she was able to before, platonically or romantically, with mc's urging.

honestly i feel that Hana was more directly inspired by aspects of Claudia's character than Valentina with Lestat (they just happen to be similarly obsessed with mc/Louis respectively). and while i don't necessarily like to say one choice is "bad" i will say being cruel to Hana does have consequences. but i'm still writing it because i want that to be an option to explore specifically with Hana's character, and i don't necessarily want it to feel like a punishment to the player, but this game isn't exactly a feel-good game, and i do plan to make it hurt. lol

and as for your last point... yes it IS interesting. we'll probably never know if the mc was really consenting at that time (can any human really consent when eternal life is beyond their scope of understanding?) and it just adds another fuzzy layer to the messy onion that is her relationship with Valentina.

[icyfox17]

ISN'T LUCY LIU JUST THE ABSOLUTE BEST

YES YES SHE IS DUDEHEJFJD I LOVE HER SM

Also did you 👀 did you know 👀 that she's in a show with Peter Krause 👀

gifs courtesy of @jtownraindancer (who'd like to say that they're unpolished rn and theyre working on a proper gifset)

The show is Dirty Sexy Money (you can find it on Disney Plus in Canada) and while she doesn't show up until s2 SHE MAKES AN IMPRESSION ALRIGHT!!! I LOVE HER SO MUCH!! SHES SO-

ohhhmygod also her and pk?? 👀👀👀 lowkey giving 👀👀👀 i wish we had a third season, i loved their dynamic SO MUCH

also on the topic of elementary and peter krause ive been thinking of a xover where bobby and sherlock meet at an AA meeting and ARHGGRHJRGKJ i have not gotten far at all but the idea lives rent free in my mind

[mttonex]

i love it artstyle.

Idk if u can can you draw JoanFK :'3 ?

hii thank you!! here they are :D

the writers did them so dirty in s2 i miss them 😞

[roaldamundsen]

yes joan is awful and loch henry were good. overall I really enjoyed this season. but in my opinion netflix absolutely takes the piss whenever it acts all "uwu we're self aware look how creepy hegemonic, data hoarding streaming platforms and their overbearing tailored content are!! follow us on twitter for more quirky meta social commentary!!"

[une-sanz-pluis]

If Henry V were still alive in 1531, would he kill Joan Darc?

Oh, probably.

I mean, I think that had Henry V lived, the English conquest of France would've gone very differently. Henry may not have won of France but enough may have changed (e.g. he would have been the titular king of France since 1422) that Joan of Arc's life may have also been significantly different. Possibly, she might not have ever posed a threat to the Anglo-Burgundian armies or remained an obscure figure even to the Armagnacs. Possibly, she may never have been captured.

If, though, everything remained the same except Henry was still alive and on the throne when she was captured by the Burgundians and handed over to the English? Yeah, he absolutely would have had her killed.* I'm not sure if you're imagining that he was so pious that he would have been instantly convinced by Joan's claims but I doubt it. There were pious people on the Anglo-Burgundian side of the conflict who did not believe in Joan. Arguably, even people on her own side did not believe in her - as some have noted, Charles VII and the Armagnacs abandoned her to her fate once captured by the Burgundians - they made no attempt to ransom her.

* Historically, Joan was put on trial by French ecclesiastical authorities for her alleged heresy, where it was confirmed and she recanted. Later, she supposedly "relapsed", whereupon she was executed like any other relapsed heretic (for an English example, Margery Jourdemayne was burnt as a relapsed heretic for her supposed witchcraft). It is often believed that the English manipulated or forced Joan to "relapse" into her heresy, though some argue that this is not evidenced. AFAIK, all evidence for this is tied up with Joan's posthumous rehabilitation where her innocence and the guilt of the English were the foregone conclusions much the same as her guilt was the foregone conclusion of her original trial. Whether or not Joan was "forced" to "relapse" is something I leave to others to have firm opinions on.

[underworld-office-fan-acc]

"..."

"..."

"..."

"...."

"I...I don't know how to feel about this."

"Sociable?— is this— are these supposed to be our opposites?"

"Mentally stable? I am mentally stable!" "I doubt that."

"Trustworthy...."

"Excuse you, I am trustworthy."

"To be honest loved by parents would've been nice." "Rt,,,"

"This old grandma is already good-humored, thank you very much."

"Kids these days with their technologies..."

"So our opposites is basically just us except we had a good life."

"Well...yeah, probably."

"I love how Hayden is not here because he already has a good life :D"

"Real."

"Since when do you guys agree with each other?"

"Since she let me become the third moderater." "H— what??? She didn't even ask for my opinion!" "Well now she can, what do you think about me becoming the third mod??"

"...to be honest, I don't really care." "ExACTly."

"Why's Boss trustworthy? He's already trustworthy enough!"

"...right?"

"Of course." "My eyes are starting to burn from looking at these images..."

I know I should be grateful for everything I have in life, but sometimes I just wish to have a little more to live a much more fun life...

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Eugene: This...

Boss: This.

River: This!!

Joan: This.

Charlie: ...This or whatever.

[palukoo]

Bettejoan plsssss 👉👈

thanks!!! ehjbfhefh okay. no summary on this one lol. i don't typically write rpf not like out of judgment or anything (rpf is fine!) but bc it feels like. so much harder/so much "she would not fucking say that" and like um as i've mentioned the lack of historical consistencies for bette and joan makes me feel crazyyyyyyy. also in truth, bettejoan fic should be like predominantly insults and hate sex and the most insane public comments known to man and that just isn't really my strong suit sadly!!! all this to say an effort has been made!!

“I can’t stand you,” Bette grits out, though she makes no move to step away.

“I'm not asking you to stand me, Bette," Joan says breathily. "I'm asking if you'll fuck me." Bette places a hand, firm, on the flat of Joan’s chest, and Joan grins in something like victory, until Bette pushes her back forcefully.

“God, you're even more easy and desperate than I realized." It lacks some of it's usual bite, because she's clearly a bit flustered by the directness and trying hard not to show it. Still, Joan’s face hardens.

“Easy and desperate?” she asks, voice cold, and Bette pretends she doesn’t somehow know that that’s her response to the actual anger and hurt beneath it. “I’ve always admired your originality with your insults, darling. You sure know how to make a girl feel special.”

“Only if she is,” Bette retorts. “I’m honest. And you're as common as they come.”

“Is that why you make such a point to avoid me? Why you insult me publicly given any possible chance? Why you bring me up just to get in a dig or two when I’m completely irrelevant. Maybe I’m too obvious in my appeals, but you’re hardly subtle, and if you haven’t noticed that, you’re crazy. Honest," she says with a scoff.

Joan waits for a rebuttal that somehow doesn’t come.

“I know you don’t like me, but you sure talk about me a lot. I bet you think about me a lot.” She pauses. “I think about you a lot,” she adds, voice lower.

“That much is obvious,” Bette quips, rolling her eyes. Joan takes the lack of outright denial as some kind of progress.

“I’ve thought about it, you know, and I never could decide if I thought you would have a need to be in control in the bedroom, like you seem to have everywhere else, or if there’s where you’d want to surrender it,” Joan says, mock casually. Bette flushes. The funny thing is that Bette’s never able to figure it out either, not in any way that makes sense. And she sort of hates that Joan has come to the same conclusion. Or lack thereof. She feels horribly, shamefully vulnerable under Joan's discerning gaze.

“What’s your point?” she huffs out, reaching into a pocket for a pack of cigarettes and a lighter, but Joan beats her to the latter, quickly lighting a match and holding it up to the cigarette Bette places between her own lips. She meets Joan’s heavy gaze as she inhales, and quickly looks away.

Joan puts out the match. “My point, darling, is that perhaps I tried the wrong approach. Maybe instead I should ask if I can fuck you.”

Bette laughs.

“What’s funny?”

“The fact that you think that your asinine question made you sound submissive. You may play it from time to time, but you’ve never sold it, not to me. You're not good enough to."

“Do you want me to be submissive? You’re right that it’s hardly the most natural thing for me, but you’d be surprised what the right person can get from me,” she says, perching on Bette’s makeup table carefully and doing her best to look seductive. Bette may not give Joan a lot of credit for her acting, but alluring is one thing she's quite good at playing.

Bette tries very hard to be unaffected, to not let her eyes follow a path from Joan’s long legs all the way up to her almost pleading eyes, to not picture it, Joan taking orders from her. Joan completely at her mercy. She tries not to be enticed by it, tries to tell herself it would only be for some sort of revenge, some way to humiliate her, to hurt her. And yet, there's a strange sort of disappointment as the fantasy seems to solidify. Not disgust, not even really shame, though she's sure that will follow. Disappointment. And something seems, horribly, to click.

Joan picks up on it, of course. “Bette,” she starts, and Bette doesn’t let her finish. She surges forward, letting one hand press into Joan’s thigh to brace herself and keep Joan against the table, and bringing the other to Joan’s jaw to crash their lips together. Joan tenses for a beat in surprise, but then clutches at Bette’s back, kissing her back fervently. “So that is what you want?”

“No,” she says bluntly, and kisses her again working slowly towards her neck.

“I don’t—“

Bette twirls a strand of Joan’s hair around her finger and tugs, and Joan gasps, her head falling back. “Fight back,” Bette says, and even she isn’t sure if it’s a command or a plea. Either way, Joan takes it.

“Oh,” Joan says, pulling against Bette’s hold to bring her head back up and meet Bette’s gaze. “With pleasure, darling."

[wolfsbanesparks]

Cursed City - actually cursed or just looks cursed?

Actually cursed!

This is actually a fic I'm writing for FTH about Billy and Mary (along with the Bromfields and Joane Jameson) traveling to Gotham to track down a dangerous magical artifact before it can be used to wreak havoc on the city. Both the Marvels and the Bats are on the case, but are unaware of the each other.

And since Gotham is both canonically cursed and very intimidating, the twins are going to be having a rough time.

Thanks for the ask! I've been pretty excited to talk about this one!

[authorofemotion]

Joan keeps mentioning you so I had to come see what's up over here... 👀

omg Joan is talking about me 🫣🤭 hi what’s up I’m Claire it’s nice to meet you!!

[fungh0u1]

hi im so interested in your ocs btw, if you ever needed encouragement to post about them then here's some from me !! but no pressure obv

I WOULD LOVE TO TALK ABOUT THEM! I am so flattered that you're interested ^.^. I made you an illustrated compendium.

Mutagenesis Drive is a zombie apocalypse story centered around the relationship between Joan and Marnie, two college age girls who have been friends for a long time.

THE CHARACTERS:

JOAN (our perspective character) has always considered herself "emotionless". She struggles to understand her own feelings, preferences and sensations and has been going through her life before the apocalypse without caring about or wanting anything... as far as she can tell. She's very analytical and intuitive when it comes to survival, and finds herself the brain of her and Marnie's little caravan, despite not having much of a preference if they live or die (right?).

MARNIE is Joan's best (and only, really) friend. She's stoic, like Joan, but unlike Joan it's out of just a socially inept demeanor instead of some internal issue. She is freakishly obsessed with Joan and would do anything to keep Joan from leaving her behind. She doesn't express that at all outwardly, though, because she is prone to defeatism and feels that Joan could never return her feelings and that it would be best to not complicate their relationship by acting needy or affected. Their friendship is actually pretty surface level as neither of them really know how to relate to other people. Marnie is happy to leave her dysfunctional family home when the apocalypse starts so she can spend all of her time with Joan.

THE PARASITE:

The zombies (zombies-ish, demons) in MGD are highly mutated creatures with different specialized forms resembling different types of animals. The world is very sparsely populated with surviving humans as these demons are very effective hunters. (a/n Skip on to "Joan and Marnie's Developing Relationship/Story Summary" if you don't give a fuck about this, I really don;t mind.)

Stage 1: The host is infected via blood to blood or saliva to blood contamination. Thousands of larva attack the host's immune system. There is an average 85% chance that the immune system will be overloaded and allow the parasite to progress. Symptoms begin ≈ 6 hours after initial infection. Fatigue. Fever.

Stage 2: The parasite implants in the host's frontal lobe and begins to spread its tendrils throughout the brain. The parasite can be removed surgically, but surgery is less viable the further it's progressed. Stage 2 is entered within 1-6 days. Confusion. Fatigue. Vertigo. Loss of motor control. Loss of higher thinking.

Stage 3: The host becomes aggressive, losing the ability to communicate. The host will instinctively begin to eat anything with nutritional value. The cells of the digestive system begin to be affected, causing the host's metabolism to increase and become more efficient. Within 8-12 days after the start of stage 2.

Stage 4: The structure of the host's body begins to mutate. Depending on the strain of parasite, it will begin to resemble different forms, some being adapted to swimming, flying, running, etc. After spending time hoarding and ingesting huge amounts of food and briefly hibernating, it retains its incredibly fast metabolism and begins to hunt, needing a lot of food to survive. Since it can reproduce by infecting others, it tries to infect any suitable hosts and return them to its nest until the parasitization reaches stage 4.

(^ Joan and Marnie fight a Harpy.)

JOAN AND MARNIE'S DEVELOPING RELATIONSHIP/STORY SUMMARY:

Joan and Marnie travel together in Marnie's van (Joan does not know how to drive). Joan is the "brains" of the operation, directing Marnie and herself as a tight unit to scavenge supplies. There's little room for error if they want to survive. Marnie is terrified of being left behind by Joan, knowing that she wouldn't be able to survive on her own but more than that just wanting to be around Joan (and to be her little dog).

Marnie often falls into maladaptive fantasies about Joan, though she's unable to convey her feelings in real life Marnie imagines Joan being a better person and having normal emotions. She has conflicting perceptions of Joan both as herself and as who Marnie wants her to be. However, these perceptions shift as time goes on.

Marnie grows increasingly resentful of Joan for making her do things she thinks are wrong. Marnie is wracked with guilt over these actions while Joan seems completely unaffected. It culminates with Joan telling Marnie to do something that will almost definitely cause the deaths of another group of survivors. Marnie does it but resolves to break things off with Joan. They come across a bustling research hospital that is willing to take them in. Their relationship is tense. They are quarantined together, then separately. Joan hasn't seen Marnie in days.

Joan is let out but finds that Marnie had tested positive for the parasite and is being treated. Through some series of events Joan realizes that Marnie, and many patients in the hospital, had been injected with the parasite to study its progression and treatment (Joan was overlooked because of her bad health).

Joan realizes that she wants to survive with Marnie and breaks them both out of the hospital, shooting and stabbing a good number of people to death. Upon leaving the building, the two of them see that the world outside of the hospital has been overrun by sprawling, terrifying, fleshy structures. It seems like their chances of survival are even worse than when they first entered the hospital. Still, they have each other. They find a vehicle and drive off into the sunset with hopeful dreams of the future.

CLOSING THOUGHTS:

MGD is not, like, totally fleshed out in my mind but this is my best estimation of how I want it to be. I originally conceptualized it as a comic, I would love it as a point-and-click adventure... or maybe a visual novel or an rpg... but I'm not fully sure what medium I'd want it to be in... I don't know! I would like to do something with it eventually and flesh it out more. What I wrote here may be a little contradictory or disorganized.

Well, I tried to give the best overview I could concisely but I maybe wrote a little too much!! I hope it's what you wanted, June, seriously THANKSS for asking me about them. Clearly I love to talk. Please feel free to make any comments about it or ask any followup questions anyone out there I do love to hear it.

[wulfhalls]

mind you it was just revealed netflix wanted to buy emerald fennell's wuthering heights movie and you know who's currently working with netflix? zack snyder...you joke and yet zack snyder's moby dick had never been more possible

[garciapimienta]

if we sign joan garcia and woj renews, I really would not understand if mats still decided to stay