#But honestly it wasn't a bad experience??? Like starting with the plant monster and seeing Mob be so epic??? Emi????

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Fun fact about my initial Mob Psycho 100 watching experience - that was the first time I ever used Crunchyroll and I had no clue how it worked... I ended up starting the series by watching the first episode of season 2 and only realized once I finished watching season 1

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oct 30 - to understand

prompt: seance rating: m wordcount: 1,040 characters: Sans, Flowey warnings: past character death prompt from this post, read it on ao3 here

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Once a monster is dead, that's it: they're gone, and there's no coming back from that.

Hell, honestly, from the moment a monster starts Falling Down, there's no coming back. There's no bringing back a dusted monster. Plain and simple.

... Except that that's not necessarily true, is it?

Flowey came back.

Despite all his insistence that he's no longer Asriel, Flowey is definitely what's left of the prince of all monsters. All his memories, at least, and buried somewhere under his self-denial there is still Asriel's vulnerable emotional core.

Sans wasn't alive yet when Asriel and Chara died — honestly, that was way before his time —, but he knows Asgore and Tori and both of them have, at some point or another, talked about their kids. Listening to and watching people is his thing, it's what he does, even if everyone kind of assumes all he does is take naps and crack bad jokes.

That's fine, he wants people to think that.

Point is, though, that Flowey came back.

Asriel's dust getting on those stupid golden flowers, among other things, brought him back.

Sans wishes he understood how it happened, wishes he could repeat the experiment, hopefully with better results.

But even if he could, it'd all require he have the dust of the monster he'd be trying to bring back, and that's just not possible. Gaster's dust, for better or worse, got mixed in with all the other sediment in the CORE. There's nothing left of him at all.

There's a bitter sort of poetic irony in the fact that Gaster's dust didn't just get spread across his beloved creation: it became part of it.

Sans would prefer that he'd never died at all, but hey. He'll take what he can get.

Still, all the parading around of dead stuff in the autumn on the surface makes him wonder.

What's life without a little scientific curiosity?

He doesn't make a lot of trips back to the Underground, these days. Five years on the Surface mean he has increasingly less reasons to venture on down that way — pretty much everyone lives topside now, so he has nobody to visit regularly, and he's all but given up on the Machine.

But there is one monster for sure left in the Underground.

As he steps out of the Ruins and into the cavern the human children fell into to get down here, he sees precisely the plant he was thinking of. There, among the other (inanimate) flowers, sits Flowey.

Sans and Flowey, as a general rule, don't get along all that well. It has more to do with Flowey taking advantage of Papyrus than the fact that Flowey is a genocidal maniac and Sans is a Judge. Sans tries not to do too much Judging outside of the Hall, and if being occasionally genocidal exempted someone from his affection then Frisk would be screwed. Meanwhile, he imagines Flowey just doesn't like that Sans can see right through his bullshit and doesn't tend to take any of the bait he lays down.

"What do you want?" Asks the flower, giving him an annoyed look. It's considerably less acidic than the last time they talked, which was about a year and a half ago. "You don't normally bother to come visit."

That's true. Sans only saw Flowey the last time because Frisk practically dragged him here.

"Eh, don't get your roots in a twist, pal." Sans says, "Ain't exactly a social call. Just got a few uncomfortable questions for you if you can be-leaf that."

"Ugh." Flowey says, definitely in response to the word-play, "Fine. Whatever gets you to leave faster."

"Cool. I'm just gonna cut the bullshit and skip right to the most important question, then." Sans tells him, seeing a flicker of surprise on the flower's face before he asks, point blank, "How did this happen, exactly? If every monster whose dust got scattered on some plants came back, we'd have a way bigger problem than just you."

Flowey stares at him.

Stares some more.

Says, lowly, "Why the fuck do you want to know?"

There's nothing but thinly veiled anger and suspicion in his face, and Sans gets it — a guy who historically doesn't like you all that much asking how you came back to life probably does set off some alarm claxons, especially when you know that particular guy used to work for the Royal Scientist and has a little more awareness of the timeline and how to manipulate it than your average joe.

He shrugs, puts his hands up in a placating gesture. Answers, "Look, kid, I'm not gonna do anything. That's not how I operate. But... Call it scientific curiosity — I don't understand how you're possible, and I want to."

"So you can stop it from ever happening again?" Flowey guesses, taking him at his word with surprising ease.

"Again, not how I operate." He says, "Doing stuff isn't my style, Flowey, you know that."

"Then why?"

"So I can understand." He says, then, deciding to show his hand a little more, sighs. "... I've been thinkin' about somebody I lost a long time ago. Nothing anybody can do would ever bring him back. But it makes me feel better to examine every possible method to reassure myself it isn't possible."

Flowey stares at him for another long moment. Sentimentality usually isn't the way to get a proper reaction from him. Even five years out from the Barrier breaking, he insists he doesn't have emotions, that he isn't Asriel. Trying to appeal to his softer sentiments does nothing but make him double down and shut himself off emotionally from the conversation.

Only Frisk usually manages to get any measure of emotional reaction from him.

Sans isn't really trying to get anything emotional out of him.

... But the flower stares at him in silence, and something crosses his face too quickly for even the judge to catch. Then, he sighs, sort of half-wilting. Sans sees too many emotions in his face, totally open and not hiding at all, to parse them out properly. He thinks he catches some kind of mournfulness, some bitterness as well.

"Right." Flowey says, straightening, "Then listen up. I'm only gonna explain once."

Sans listens up.

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Arkham Asylum Thoughts

I can try to make requests for this part of game if people are interested.

This isn’t really a review, more of my thoughts as I went more into the game.

I don't like how they call patients 'it'. It is really dehumanizing. 

Batman hanging from a gargoyle like an actual bat is kinda funny.

Scarecrow entrance is scary but why doesn't he have a shirt?

The Revelation of Bane that Dr Young was experimenting with patients is very powerful. 

Batman saying he will break Bane this time is a nice reference. 

Batman having the Batcave in Arkham in secret is such a Batman thing.

The hallucination where Wayne manor turns into an alley and Bruce as a kid was so well done.

Scarecrow running away from Batman is so nice.

Felt bad for Jon when Croc grabbed him but it's funny how he is tossed like a rag doll.

Killer Croc is scariest out of all villains.

Gameplay is repetitive. 

Batman throwing himself in front of Gordon surprised me and him punching Joker was satisfying. 

No idea how they made more antidotes but I get it, the game had to end.

Hearing about Two Face at the end is a good way to introduce the second game.

I honestly wish we could meet Riddler in person.

Tapes :

Joker : It's cool that we see how Dr Young got tangled with him.

Killer Croc : … I stand by the fact he is scariest out of them all. While it is sad that people see him as a monster I can understand why his psychiatrist started fearing him.

Harley Quinn : It's interesting that she was this cheery even before the Joker. I wish we could take a tape of her being a patient.

Riddler : "It's not my baby." Hm, yeah, he would be a wonderful father. I like the fact that he thinks Batman gets his gadgets from stolen money from criminals instead of thinking he is someone rich. Also the fact that he doesn't believe anyone can be so selfless. He's definitely more suave in this version compared to last one.

Zsasz : He is most realistic and fucking scary. Not sure if I would even write for him but I might try.

Poison Ivy : Very seductive but dangerous,  like a meat eating plant. Perfect. 

Scarecrow : Wasn't expecting his voice, it sounds so nice. Him interviewing the doctor is very on brand, like that they choose the doctors names after the actors who played him. The ending with Batman is 🍒 on top.