#Capabilities of children

[alberryconsulting]

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[shellshooked]

this just cements the argument i was talking about yesterday - it was never about hunter vs crosshair.

It was always about two brothers being two mirrors of each other all along. Just look at how they BOTH stall and avoid talking until absolutely necessary. They're both so extremely avoidant by nature it's genieunly hilarious. The confrontation they had in this episode is perfect because it's not pretty, it's not cute, it's filled with stowed feelings and looming resentment and it was supposed to be like this all along. This is truly the point in the story where they can move on from s1, from Kamino lost. Both Hunter and Crosshair can finally start to forgive themselves, start to change the way they were meant to, and I don't think this could have been possible if done individually. They were always supposed to confront each other, it was always going to come to this, and I love to see it.

Just look at the shot above - it's so peaceful. I could talk about for hours why picking the outpost as a metaphorical + physical place for this episode was a crucial and very calculated choice by the writers, but just seeing as they both come to terms with... everything. They can finally rest, they can stop blaming each other and most importantly, they can stop blaming themselves.

When Hunter says "maybe there's hope for US yet", and not "maybe there's hope for YOU yet", i cannot stress how crucial this is for both their characters and their growth. It's like, yes you made a mistake. I made them too. Mistakes happen when change comes. I would know. It's okay. We'll work through them together. and the way the lighting around crosshair is so warm, and the ice Vulture —the symbol of his regrets and grief, finally departs in the sunset. Crosshair can finally breathe. And so can Hunter.

It was never about Hunter vs Crosshair, it was always about Hunter and Crosshair.

[kucho04]

My gift for @takao-in-sekai <3 Kuroko and Takao spending time together, featuring some fun wings ✨

I love both characters dearly and the prompts were very interesting! I hope you like it as much as I enjoyed working on it. Thank you @knbexchange for hosting this event :)

[starry-bi-sky]

more about og tue timeline twins danny and dan/jamie

very touchy with each other. you might even say. ccclingy. its to be expected, they're two halves of a whole after all and all they've got of each other. worryingly co-dependent. do not separate. ever.

Danny was really weak and sick after the initial separation, and was for a while after. Jamie knew internally that if Danny died, he'd take the whole world with it. He was the one sole caretaker for him while he got better -- not for lack of trying on Vlad's part, but without his ghost powers he was nothing more than a feeble (albeit handsomely rich) man, and James looked ready to bite his head off if he got within ten feet of either of them.

Vlad is intimately aware that James (or Danny, if he tried) could snap his spine in half like a twig, and is uncomfortably aware of his own lack of ghost half now. It makes him feel self-conscious and exposed, so he never fully returns back to "cocky and self-assured billionaire Vlad Masters". Making deals with other brands feels a lot harder now that he can no longer possess them anymore.

Speaking of, he very quickly has to come up with a cover story as to why there's now a James Daniel Fenton to the public, when no records whatsoever of him existing existed prior. Lots of forging false government documents on his end. James and Danny do not help because it's his fault this happened in the first place.

(Regardless of whether or not Danny actually willingly chose to rip out his ghost half/humanity in canon is true, or if that was Vlad Masters speaking out of his ass, a large part of the blame still falls on Masters.)

(As his primary caretaker and guardian, it's his responsibility to ensure the health and safety of his charge, and since Danny was in clear emotional duress at the time, it can be argued that he was not in the mental state to make such a decision. And, allegedly, couldn't do it on his own which is why he asked Vlad for help.)

I chose "James" as Dan's name since it's a popular fanon middle name for Danny, and since he's half of Danny, it felt like it just made sense lol. Also because of the ensuing comedy of the two of them introducing themselves as "James Daniel Fenton" and "Daniel James Fenton". It's got the same energy as "danny with a y" and "danny with an i" and it's the exact kind of name bullshit you expect parents to give their twins.

I don't have their exact personalities down, but something I am actively writing into this au's bible is that I think Danny should be the quiet and (ig technically) meaner one. There's a lot to go into about interpretations for ghosts, halfas, and the incident itself, but TL:DW; Danny is technically soulless, or at the very least missing half of his soul (altho Jamie is too just in a different direction).

Pair that with the trauma of losing his family in front of him + having his ghost half ripped out + all the trauma he would've sustained as a hero, and he's not doing too hot mentally! i think if the twins met good timeline!Danny, Danny would've mistaken Danny for Dan and Jamie for the original half.

He comes off to others as pretty apathetic and indifferent to a borderline terrifyingly calm degree. He doesn't go out of his way to insult people, but he also doesn't care enough to consider the other party's feelings so he doesn't filter himself, which makes him come off as rude. The only times he looks truly comfortable is when he's near Jamie or talking to him.

His standoffish, ice prince demeanor makes Jamie look like a saint in comparison. When really he's not all that much better? He's more outwardly emotional than Danny, whether that be positive or negative, but at the end of the day he doesn't trust or care about anyone else any more than Danny does, and he's got a bit of a sadistic streak. Danny reigns him in when he starts becoming too destructive.

(Which I think makes sense. Danny asked Vlad to rip out his ghost half specifically so he could stop feeling his human emotions. Dan, despite his monotone voice, does exhibit emotions. He's smug when he asks Valerie if he likes his ghostly wail, sardonic when he reunites with Sam and Tucker, annoyed, shocked at Danny's ghostly wail, etc. He enjoys wreaking destruction and chaos.)

(If Danny had survived his encounter with Dan and if Vlad was successful, then I imagine he'd be rather apathetic to his other half as a whole. That'd be interesting.)

Overall though they're both hurt, bitter, and distrustful of the world around them, with abandonment issues a mile wide. They can get better and they can heal, but it takes time and patience and proper support.

On the DPxDC side of things, they do genuinely hold some kind of respect or regard for Bruce. They also don't become vigilantes for a while. Neither of them are jumping at the bit to enter heroism again, not when it was heroism that killed their family in the first place.

In fact when they find out Bruce = Batman they think he's foolish for it. They think its a fool's errand, and they've been so spurned by their time as Phantom that for a few weeks, Jamie even refused to call Bruce anything but Sisyphus. Danny called him Tantalus, and the two of them had a faux-argument about which one was more accurate.

Bruce does, though, worm his way into both of their hearts, and that's like, the main reason they become vigilantes to join him. So that they could keep him safe and not because of any desire to return to the heroic life. Relearning to care and finding satisfaction in helping others was an unintentional side effect.

(Bruce is so very smug)

Essentially:

The Twins: this is our squishy and fragile adoptive father. If anything happened to him, we're becoming mass extinction events.

Bruce: Nnno.

[countess-of-edessa]

weird how people think nowadays there’s like…a very specific personality type you have to be to be a mother instead of capacity for motherhood being a default trait almost all of the female population possesses. should having a child just be a thing that someone does by default without considering it? no. but also having children is not something your personality makes you fundamentally unsuited for 9/10 times, mothers have all types of personalities, the most important traits for childraising are unselfishness and kindness and everyone should cultivate those in themselves no matter what anyway regardless of whether or not they have children.

this also applies to men but ive never seen anyone say "it’s okay for men not to be fathers because it wouldn’t make any sense to their personality".

[thelonelybrilliance]

She really got promised marriage and children at 20 and then nobody ever had the heart and courage to carry through

[layzeal]

actually i think we don't talk enough about how insane it is that xue yang was controlling song lan's undead body while his spirit was entirely aware of it but unable to stop it

[arabella-strange]

Something about the Everlight being the last to relinquish her mortal form

Something about her choosing a full mortal life where she allowed herself not just to live among mortals or to be worshiped by them but to experience their lives as one of them (almost)

Did she hold out last to give up her form, with the vivid sense-memory of everything she had felt with her briefly mortal body? Was she thinking of her skin and hair that had been touched by her husband? Was she so reluctant because she didn't want to destroy the arms and lips and hips that had hugged and kissed and been there to support her children?

Did she choose to let Death embrace that form, rather than divinely ascending, because it was the closest to what her mortal self might otherwise have had?

Idk Ashley I cried and the slingshot wrecked me and here we are 💫

[izuizzy]

I’m always drawing him in pain so have an AU where he’s actually good and his smile is actually PRECIOUS

[suja-janee]

Sareena: you’re so lucky you have a normal boyfriend.

Ashrah: Normal? What do you mean by that?

Sareena (opens up a love letter from bi-Han written in his own blood)

[irishmammonagenda]

Headcannon that Solomon was the Pied Piper, and learnt how to control rats with a flute purely to piss off Barbatos.

[a-small-writer-in-a-big-world]

I almost always see headcanons that anyone in the 141 is going to have kids when they retire/before they retire so I am proud to say that there will be none of that in any of my stories

[the-gom-jabbar]

Paul: Muad'dib, Usul, Kwisatz Haderach, Mahdi, Lisan al Gaib, destroyer of 10,000 worlds resulting in the death of 61 billion people

Also Paul:

[maggie44paint]

Gave Gabriel a student AND an adopted daughter! Meet Eve, my first ever Ultrakill OC.

I feel like the Council would have a habit of getting rid of newborn angels that aren't 'perfect', Eve being one of them. Luckily Gabriel managed to save her and take her under his wing as her mentor.

He's her biggest inspiration too! :)

[sharoscylla]

Repo is literally walking away he is done with interacting with his niece and his niece’s criminally neglected little friend they can go play in his scrapyard and get tetanus to their hearts’ content

[skippersthecat]

I wonder how Kusuke felt about never being visited or even contacted by his family for 4 whole years. Then the first time they do its not even because they want to see him. It's because he's the only one who can fix Kusuo's limiters. His family hasnt seen him in 4 years and when they finally do its for Kusuo.

That must've hurt so bad. He already felt worthless compared to his brother, and now probably thinks he can't even win his parents' love. I wonder if that's part of the reason he ran away in the first place.

It's probably a big reason why he resents Kusuo so much. Kusuke clearly loves his brother and doesn't want to seriously harm him, but I think he part of him does want to hurt Kusuo a little out of anger and envy. He wants to win so badly because then maybe he will receive the same amount of affection Kusuo gets.

It's tragic because this is how Kusuke views his brother, when it's not the truth. Kusuo is also used by his parents to fix their problems and has his feelings ignored time and time again. He isn't being adored the way Kusuke thinks, but Kusuke doesn't see this and resents his brother for the perceived favoritism.