#Crystals got her

[antichrists-plus1]

@palasakiweek day 3: rescuing

[oathkeeper-of-tarth]

Then all those years of building - were they worth anything? Yes - they're just hoping you don't realize it.

Rebecca Sugar going in for the kill with some sketches out of absolutely nowhere. Here's my best attempt at getting an okay-ish image out of a blurry vertical phone recording of a screen. Original video was posted on the official rebeccasugar account on TikTok - a big thank you to @jeejyboard for bringing it to my attention.

[tragedy-machine]

AU where Charles figures out he's in love with Edwin but he's nervous to confess to his friend, so he decides to start with telling Edwin he's bisexual

Edwin's never heard that term before and doesn't know that people can like more than one gender so he goes off the fact that he knows "bi" means "two" and deducts that Charles tells him he wants to have two romantic partners

(Edwin also thinks Charles and Crystal are dating, even though they called it quits right after Port Townsend)

"Oh, I see. Thank you for telling me, I have no qualms with that, of course. I'm merely taken aback since I wasn't aware people... did that nowadays."

"Yeah! Crystal says lots of people are bi."

"Fascinating. So i presume... Crystal is fine with it?"

"Yeah, what? Why wouldn't she be? She's bi herself."

Edwin just nods in understanding and thinks 'Ah, so they're looking for a third person, I wonder who's gonna be the lucky girl.'

Meanwhile Charles tries to hide his disappointment that his plan didn't work and Edwin doesn't seem to be picking up what he's putting down, so he has to think about other hints he might throw Edwin's way

(Does it end in Edwin thinking that Charles is asking him to be the third person in their relationship which almost causes him to have a heart attack before he shoots Charles down (rip Charles) and goes to Crystal to have a very awkward conversation with her about how he only likes men? ...maybe)

[l1-b1]

I Wonder if they ever got to properly reunite after seabound, let alone after the merge

[lichenbug]

..can you tell Cadance is my favorite princess??

[call-of-the-ocean]

with all the various demise deaths i've been thinking about scars the hermits could have to show their first deaths

[cracklewink]

redrawing my sunny starscout redesign again? its more likely than you think

[nelkcats]

Crystal Warnings

Threats to Earth are not news to the Justice League. Neither is the fact that a threat is "too powerful" for them, what is new is that the U.S. government wants to provide them with help, since when have they ever wanted that?

It is a novelty that does not sit very well with Bruce, because he feels that there is something wrong with the situation. They had faced thousands of dangers but it is only now that they are offering something? Definitely suspicious.

However Clark's curiosity was only outweighed by Barry's desperation to find a solution so he agreed to listen to what the "GIW" had to say.

Apparently their current threat was very much connected to them, which Bruce was not surprised by, what did surprise him was that the threat was less of a threat and more of a warning of sorts. As usual, people had played with things they shouldn't, causing catastrophic results.

The organization that contacted them had some sort of crystal, they flatly refused to say where it came from but explained that it was very important to beings from another dimension, and they were trying to contain the threat but found it impossible.

What Bruce got out of that conversation was that the organization had greatly disturbed a civilization full of unknown beings for the sheer joy of it. And that their current enemy was nothing more than a being desperate to retrieve whatever the crystal was.

Clark, of course, asked them for the crystal, to which they seemed very reluctant but in the end agreed. And Bruce set about contacting Diana, because he was sure they needed a diplomatic intervention rather than an actual battle.

It became clear that the crystal was extremely important when the giant eldritch menace transformed into a desperate teenage girl the moment the crystal appeared in her field of vision. That was even more evident when hundreds of portals began to form around the place, different creatures scowled at the humans.

Bruce vowed never to place his trust in organizations outside the League and its allies again. He swore doubly so when the crystal stopped being a crystal and transformed into a groggy, sleepy teenager mid-conversation.

There really was a hell of paperwork ahead. But at least the world was saved from human stupidity, again.

[alexwilltellyouthings]

Season 2, episode 1 starts. We see a party full of rich people, booze and drugs. Crystal is there, talking and laughing, her mean old self all over the place.

Something caughts her attention and she looks away, confused. Things start blurring. She's not here nor there anymore. A sound gets louder and louder-

And Crystal wakes up with her phone buzzing. A message from an old acquaintance: "happy birthday crys!! where are we going to celebrate?". She doesn't reply, instead falling into the bed again, grumbling.

Then, suddenly, Charles jumps from her bedroom mirror, startling her. "Crystal, we need you in the office like, immediately", and Edwin shows up from behind him, simply to grab him and pull him back into the mirror while saying "If you would be so kind to give us a hand, Crystal".

She blinks for a moment, before jumping out of bed and getting ready to leave, a smile on her face the whole time.

She knows exactly how she'll celebrate, and with whom.

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

See, I think Charles’ annoyance and frustration with the Cat King really was just pure protectiveness and not any kind of jealousy - it’s understandable, because Edwin is not telling him what happened even though something clearly did, which is not typical for them. Edwin doesn’t usually hide things like this! Of course he’s worried!

Charles’ reaction to Monty, on the other hand, is difficult to explain in a way that isn’t jealousy. You could say he’s being protective again, but Charles shows no sign of distrust in Monty, and had no idea of who Monty was or that he might betray them - he was actually very chill with him, except in a select few specific scenes. You could say he just doesn’t like him because he got brushed off during their first meeting, but not only does that not seem like Charles at all, it also doesn’t make sense, since, again, in most instances, Charles is genuinely friendly and is happy when Monty compliments him and seems to have come around to liking him (it completely flies over his head that this is a petty jab at Edwin on Monty’s part but oh well hahaha). You could say it changes up their status quo a bit and that bothers Charles. I do think this bothers him a bit, but I think, unlike Edwin, Charles’ fear and frustration here is directed more at situations (the Cat King whisking him away for several hours, as an example) than others. He’s sociable and likes being able to talk to new people. There’s absolutely no way he’d begrudge Edwin doing the same - and he doesn’t… with Niko. Edwin and Niko hit it off and become very close and that never bothers Charles at all. He’s incredibly endeared to her, just like the rest, and for the most part, he’s chill with Monty too, and smiles pretty knowingly when Edwin confesses to him having awakened some feelings. The only exceptions, where he shows definite annoyance, are when Monty first shows up and gets really in Edwin’s personal space to show him the astrology chart he made, and when Edwin is so sucked into the book Monty gave him that he doesn’t hear that Charles is talking to him, to which he annoyedly says that they seem to have been “spending a lot of time together”.

You could say he’s unused to having anyone get in Edwin’s personal space like that, but, again, Niko. She’s very tactile with him and he doesn’t seem to mind all that much; they spend time together watching things. If it was just someone getting close with Edwin in general, not only would that be weirdly possessive for the character, but it would also mean he would show discomfort with anyone getting close, I think. Does Charles see Monty as more of a potential threat than Niko, seeing as he knows her and her personality and doesn’t know Monty? Well, maybe, but again, Charles shows no sign of distrusting Monty at all.

Monty is a boy. Okay. So something about seeing Edwin so close to a boy that is not him, getting lost in thought over something this boy gave him, really rubs Charles the wrong way. Charles appears to catch on just as quickly as anyone else that there is something (or it looks like something) between Edwin and Monty. He is not surprised when Edwin comes out to him in episode 6, and in fact, seems to have just been waiting for him to verbalize it. He smiles and is not bothered at all by Edwin showing (what he thinks is) a romantic interest in Monty - he just doesn’t like it when Monty clearly shows a romantic interest in Edwin. Um. Well. Well.

Charles is jealous. I really don’t know what else to say.

Look, when I first watched this show, I actually didn’t want them to end up together romantically - I love the idea of one having fallen in love with another who does not reciprocate and the two of them still loving each other just as much. That Edwin’s confession made them closer instead of making things awkward is such a beautiful outcome to this build up and I absolutely love it. However. On my two rewatches, I caught a lot more little details, and I think it would be very strange if the show did not follow up on this. That, plus the deliberate quality of these “jealousy” moments where the camera focuses on him, Charles’ Orpheus coding throughout the show, the fact that Edwin’s arc was far more about realizing his feelings for Charles specifically than just coming to terms with his sexuality, and that even the actors admit that Charles’ response to the confession kind of left things open, it really seems to me like the path leads to a romantic endgame for them, or at the very least, that this possibility will be explored in more depth.

**This is just my reading of it. Please do not use this post as a gotcha for anyone who loves them as a platonic duo or people who really love Crystal and Charles together (because let’s face it, they’re super cute too). I’m just doing my rambles. As per usual.

[graves-doodles]

She was a damn good horse, our Crystal Pepsi.

[blogquestionmark]

[cable-salamdr]

“I want a kids cartoon with more diverse main character body types than just skinny teen” you guys couldn’t even handle Steven Universe

(Or Dead End Paranormal Park, or She-Ra)

[jjyo--01]

get behind me crystal

[yhwcomeback]

REDRAW of a drawing I did when I was 12

pretty sure this was supposed to be movie Lloyd and his emo cousin or whatever ALSO THE NEW DRAG0N RISING TRAILER DROPPED I'M SO EXCITED

[k233-0]

who am i without my powers?