#DC Isabel

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The power of Christ

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Disventure Camp Season 4 Girls PFP'S

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Ey, Deimos

Which character from the new Disventure Camp season you think will win?

Okay, to be honest:

Either Hannah or Jade

Hannah because she gives Priya vibes to me (without the parts where she is literally a writes pet and sometimes a literal Mary sue)

Jade because she gives leshawna vibes and she looks like the character that would look at the screen with a "I'm literally the UNIC normal/good character in here" look. Like, I just know she's going to be a really chill and sweet characters that the entire cast loves/likes (just like leshawna or Gwen)

And to be honest, my final 3 would be: Hannah, Jade and either Ted or Isabel (they both gives off HUGE main villain AND joke/secondary villain vibes, especially that they seemed to want to warn the audience that "hey, we are not like those other idiots wahaha😈")

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HAPPY LOVE DAY

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Están todos los superhéroes que me gustan: Hulk, Batman, Ayuso...

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Jason Todd & Lying: An Analysis

Jason doesn't seem inclined to or particularly skilled at lying.

In BFTC Dick tells him "you're a terrible liar, Jason." Granted in that context Dick didn't want to believe what he was saying, so we can take that with a little grain of salt.

When Isabel remarks their past kiss wasn't very good, Jason says that's because last time he kissed her he was lying.

In Nightwing Annual 2021 Jason claims he didn't do something and Dick says he believes him "because you'd own up to it."

The lies Jason does in Task Force Z #8 are all meant to be very short term.

This could be because of his bad experiences of people lying to him. Bruce is notorious for being dishonest and secretive. Sheila's lies literally lead to Jason's death. One of the last things his birth mother said to him was "I lied."

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Essence x Isabel started like a way to do my insert and Jason work together and i'm starting to really like them together like a Venom and Eddie think 👀

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the season premiere vibes this has Green Arrow vol 4 #1

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Tormented by visions of Jason in a throuple with Essence and Isabel (they’re in the same body) living with Ducra’s reincarnation in a little house out in Gotham’s suburbs where they’ve set up a temporary headquarters as the All-Caste-in-exile. Obviously the Bats don’t know about that so they just see what seems to be Jason of all people being the first among them to settle down and have a totally normal, traditional-looking family.

Dick gets ribbed for not having put a ring on Babs’ finger yet, despite being older and knowing her for way longer than Jason has Isabel. Bruce nearly collapses from the joy at the thought of 1. Jason leaving vigilantism behind and 2. being a grandfather. Tim’s the only one who has suspicions about the whole thing, but he comes to the conclusion that Jason must have talked badly about them to his family because Isabel always seems a little alarmed and strained when he sees her (He pops by out of nowhere and it’s disorienting for Isa when Essence shoves her to the “front” to deal with the situation) and Ducra behaves like the most bored, unfriendly toddler he’s ever met (she’s an old woman who has no patience to play games.)

Drama ensues when Bruce finds out Jason hasn’t given up vigilantism and tries to take his granddaughter for a day out without her “parents”.

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Fake cover for an Essence & Isabel comic

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for the character ask game i would loooove to hear you go off about essence :))

[character ask game!!]

oh birdie you knew exactly what you were doing when you sent this in didn't you.

My first impression

I think I probably ran into her first in fic but I don't actually remember anything in that regard. First impression with the comic was that this was a character with a pretty design but somewhat... confusing of a storyline.

My impression now

God her canon portrayal is so annoying and inconsistent I SWEAR. Jason and her misunderstanding and misinterpretating what's going on and immediately jumping to kill each other has happened EVERY TIME and what is the point!!! Her backstory and motivations are so opaque and the flashbacks to their time together in the All-Caste keep on dangling the promise of an interesting story in front of me and then not delivering. Lobdell and Tynion IV when I GET YOU--

However I've thought about her too much and now I have brainworms. She is the side character I have adopted as my own. I understand her better than her creators ever will <3 (I have extrapolated a lot of conclusions from like 3 panels out of all her appearances. It is working out for me.)

Favorite thing about that character

The concept for her character. Particularly as a daughter to Ducra and one of the original Untitled. The fact she's been banished from the All-Caste apparently for not being willing to give up her "dark powers" when Ducra did? That's so interesting to me. It could be such a good parallel to how Jason's moral code causes a rift between him and Bruce. Tell me more. Lobdell you will surely explore this further, won't you? Lobdell aren't you gonna-- LOBDELL

Least favorite thing

Can I complain about Lobdell again. I will not. Instead I will complain about how her little like... intro narration box? You know the thing where comics will give you a little line to tell you who a character is if you don't know them already. Hers is that she's the "last human descendant of the All-Caste" which is just WRONG? She is the DAUGHTER OF THE UNTITLED. She is like, objectively not human at this point. JASON is the last human descendant of the All-Caste, maybe. Y'know, the first human they've taken in in over a century and the first in millennia to survive a cleansing? Y'know, that guy?? Also she literally reinstated the All-Caste at this point in the timeline why are we calling her the last human descendant. She's literally they're leader right now. I'm so mad I'm so mad I'msofmkgekmreklgm

Also I really don't like that her Blood Blades draw only the blood of the guilty or whatever like it does to Artemis in RH:O #45. Or the whole capturing souls thing in #35. I hate it I hate it I hate it girl please go back to fighting people with your smoke magic.

Favorite line/scene

I overall think the scene in RH:O #35 was bad but I do particularly like her lines here.

I have never wanted to lead the All-Caste... I am a soldier. Heart and soul.

Oh girl. Girl you are never escaping the legacy of your mother. Ignore the fact that Ducra is literally still alive even though we established that she died in the first issue and her ghost vanished back in RHatO v1 #27 I'm not mad.

Favorite interaction that character has with another

Her fight with Kori in RHatO v1 #22

I think using Tamaranean tech like this is very clever!! Essence is immortal, ancient, and very powerful, but alien tech was also a weakness for her back in Issue #7 and I think that's a nice touch.

Also the fact that Kori literally summoned her to try to talk and help Jason and they end up trying to kill each other for several pages is so funny to me. Like. In the next volume Essence also fights Artemis and possesses Isabel like... girl are you jealous that he's seeing other women? Is that what this is?

I think the thing with the amnesia arc where all of Jason's friends were trying to help him from different angles and with incomplete information and in the process fucked over each other's attempts forever could have been really interesting if written well.

Close runner-up:

Right before this Essence says:

We need to talk, Mother. About the great darkness that looms over all that lives. About a mistake you must at long last rectify.

It's giving the "I think we're gonna have to kill that guy" meme to me. And that was entertaining. These are the depths I need to sink to find hope.

A character that I wish that character would interact with more

ISABEL ARDILA. Genuinely fucking impressive that Lobdell managed to write them literally sharing the same body and have them not interact at all. I don't even know how he did it. He deserves an award. How does Isabel feel about this arrangement? How does Essence feel?? Like Issy you chose on purpose to pick up the sword again and keep letting Essence use your body in RH:O #49. Let's talk about that--no we're not going to? We have to move on and do Duela's arc and Red Hood: The Hill now? Oh. Oh okay. That's fine then.

Anyway I think they could turn the bodysharing into a beautiful symbiotic relationship if they tried. Essence/Isabel as a ship is slept on I swear.

Another character from another fandom that reminds me of that character

Jerboa III/Boa from Wings of Fire. Her mother (Jerboa I) was an animus (basically a dragon that can do whatever magic except raise the dead) who created her and then basically kept editing her personality and existence for like 2,000 years so she could have the ideal daughter. Obviously this is very fucked up. Eventually Boa catches onto this, betrays Jerboa I and kills her, but not before Jerboa I curses her. We don't talk about what happened to Jerboa II. (We know that she "went wrong" and Jerboa I "disposed of" her.)

Do you see the vision. Ducra implanting "pure life" in Essence's body. Banishing her when Essence railed against what Ducra wanted for her. Essence's entire life being dedicated to this fight against the Untitled. Like we are very much getting into headcanon territory with Essence when I make this connection but Boa manages to escape her mother and also the entire fucked up legacy of animus magic and I think that is lovely for her. Manifesting that for Essence.

She's also Hornet from Hollow Knight just a little bit. To me.

A headcanon about that character

She is more headcanon than actual canon substance to me at this point. Um. She has mommy issues re: Ducra. Her banishment from the All-Caste was because Essence refused to purge the "dark magic" (The essence of the Well of Sins she carried in her, the bond that tied her to the other Untitled that Ducra had long cleansed from herself.) They'd been having disagreements since the beginning of time that just happened to be what finally made it boil over. I'm still a little vague on this but I think Ducra setting up the All-Caste and the truce with the Untitled had some long term negative consequences for the world (like how in RHatO #5 the Untitled in Middleton, Colorado had the townspeople under its thrall). Essence doesn't want to spend the rest of eternity waiting for the day the Untitled inevitably decide to take over the world, but Ducra is all 'this is your duty' about it. Also remember that the Untitled are Ducra's siblings and Essence's aunts/uncles.

Anyway Jason's admittance into the All-Caste was the trigger for Essence acting out against Ducra properly for the first time. Him being this fresh new perspective so hellbent on vengeance really helped her realize that she wanted more from her life than to be another soldier in Ducra's war against her siblings.

Do you see the parallels I'm shoving in here between her and Jason. I am just saying.

A song that reminds of that character

Alas I must expose myself as a non-music listener. I'm sorry. Random Gods from the Rain World soundtrack that's the best I can do.

An unpopular opinion about that character

Honestly I don't think anyone cares about her enough for there to be popular opinions but uhh. I think this panel is incorrect about her and Jason's relationship.

Boy and girl are always there for each other.

Are they? Are they??? God I wish they were. Goddammit.

Anyway. I think Essence building the All-Caste was actually the most boring fucking direction to take her character but I can't even be that mad because she was barely a coherent character to begin with. However, her recruiting for the All-Caste... where the fuck is she gonna get these recruits for this secret old as time warrior monk sect?? Why exist at all when all the Untitled are allegedly wiped out (i.e. the entire reason the All-Caste existed in the first place)?? Escape from the shadow of your family's legacy come onnn Essence you can do it I believe in you!!! AUGH.

Favorite picture

Shoutout to RH:O #35 for having some really pretty panels of her.

ANYWAY THAT'S IT FOLKS. If you actually read all of my inane ramblings, um. Thanks! I'm normal about Essence.

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𝓢𝓣𝓐𝓦𝓐𝓚𝓘 𝓘𝓓𝓞𝓛

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ik they're sharing a body but Isabel and Essense should date.

[deimosbreakfrost]

Girlie will be either this season's villain or a secondary villain that we'll have until the merge

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Walk him like a dog 😜😜

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Buckle in, boys, I've got a lot of old Oswald sketches and comics to share,

Starting off with some young Ozzie; he's not well adjusted to being a human at this point, so he's very much still a penguin at heart. He never did like to be spotlit in such a way, though.

Isabel's original concept! Forgot I gave her the nickname Izzie. It's very cute, though!

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Oz and Iz have been through a lot for a long time. Isabel knows how to calm the storm that is Oz's anger, but not ringmaster Cross'.

The siblings (in bond, not by blood) do their best to protect one another, but as children, it was understandably a lot harder.

Comfort is more easily given, at least, and something that Oz doesn't shy away from when it's about Iz or his penguins.

Mid life Oz and Izzie. These were my first sketches of the two interacting, so I hadn't actually thought of their ages during this interaction, nor is Oz's speech really fitting anymore. Our Oz isn't very talkative, and when he is, he's not as eloquent. (I know he's not speaking that eloquently here either, I just couldn't think of a better word)

Featuring Isabel's poodle companion, Bon Bon! She's just cute,

This covers Oz and Izzie as their ages that'll be featured in the main comics. Oz is finally able to take his rightful place as the Cobblepot heir, per his parents passing, but it ends up not being quite as grandiose as he and Izzie were expecting.

Rather, it's a bit disappointing. But at least he has more capital and social standing to take care of his remaining circus family members.

- Sarsee

full sketch pages under cut:

A couple of these sketches may look familiar if you've seen these two posts from me,