#Dakota Damascus

[kaleberryshake]

It's been too long since I've Dakota brainrotted so here.

Prime defenders finale spoilers!!

I have this headcanon that Dakota becomes unable to walk anywhere for a while without holding Williams hand or maintaining some form of physical contact.

At first, looking at Will with his face intact was enough. At first, just being able to see his friend in one piece quelled the worry inside of him. He was able to collapse and fall asleep and feel safe. But once everything had settled, after a day out on the town hanging out with Ash, racing Le Frog, and eating pizza, he was unable to fall asleep that night without remembering how grotesquely William had been shredded to pieces. He woke up that night, bolting out of his bed.

Immediately, he appeared at William's side, crying and desperately grasping onto his hand, startling William awake. Will bolted upright, turning intangible. Dakota cried out at the loss of contact. When William realized he was safe and it was just Dakota, he carefully became tangible again and slipped his hand into Dakota's. Dakota settled after that, easing from loud sobs to small whimpers. Will cards a hand through Dakotas hair, helping him settle further and finally sleep.

The day after, Dakota refused to separate himself from William. He insists on holding his hand, feeling the warmth of William's sort-of living body. He squeezed his hand, tracing patterns he found. William didn't mind, of course, letting him hold his hand and gently ask him to swap which hand he was holding if he ever needed to do something. It became an easy rhythm to follow.

William never asked directly why Dakota stuck so close to him, but all was explained when they lounged around on the couch, Dakota using William's thighs as a pillow. "I'm glad I don't have to piece you together," he says. William grimaces a little, responding with a soft agreement.

[dawnlotus1]

Hi dawn im thinking about dakota cole too hard again and put on the ghostkicks playlist to cope do you have dakota thoughts to share

Hihihihihihihi M!!! Okay so I don’t always like the way tumblr formats answers especially when they get really long and I feel like they get trunkated - so I’m going to reblog this with my answer ^^ thank you for the ask I think about Dakota Cole so much pls help me.

[moxymaxing]

Almost every significant Prime Defender character

[anachronistic-falsehood]

@intertexts i spent like 2 minutes making this ily imprint

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

MAC!!!!! i hope u r havin a GOOD DAY!!! i came 2 tell u that a) i watched ep 18 of pd s2 and i feel like i lost all of my braincells. businessman vyncent you are SO fucking cringefail. “it’s time for my four o’clock piss” ????? they brought in tony from tony’s pizza as a lawyer. this was so fuckign dumb oh my lord. what even was that episode i think my brain leaked out of my ears!!!! this is a got damn sitcom!!!!!! i had to pause every few minutes because i felt like i was losing my mind. genuinely surprised i did not have an aneurysm through that whole mess it was so fucking funny and so fucking stupid <3 ALSO!! things from the episode that immediately made me think of u: the wiwi danny phantom parody at the beginning!! as soon as i heard the beginning of the theme song i was like “YOOOOO MAC GHOSTIEZONE MY FRIEND MAC GHOSTIEZONE PROBABLY WENT NUTS OVER THIS!!” also BRIEF GILLION TIDESTRIDER MENTION 🎉🎉🎉 charlie accidentally did the voice he does for gillion at some point in the episode and i was like!! that is mac’s fish guy!!!!! the he!!!

also. b) i heard. that in riptide. at some point in an episode. grizzly decided to write gay smut and have gillion read it. and i am too curious for my own good so i found the episode and the timestamp and watched it. head in hands. Grizzly What Is Wrong With You. THE THING IS IT WAS ACTUALLY LOWKEY WELL WRITTEN LIKE HE ACTUALLY CAPTURED THE FEELING OF READING EROTICA WRITTEN BACK IN LIKE THE 1800’S. I DONT FUCKING KNOW HOW HE WROTE THAT OR WHY. BUT I THINK IT ALTERED SOMETHING IN MY BRAIN CHEMISTRY IN A VERY STRANGE WAY. THAT IS NOT HIS FIRST TIME WRITING SMUT NO WAY IT IS HE HAS TO BE LYING. GRIZZLYPLAYS WHY DID YOU WRITE THIS. I DONT KNOW THE FULL CONTEXT ALL I KNOW IS THAT I LISTENED TO GILLION TIDESTRIDER READ GAY EROTICA AND THE TERM DARK PUCKERED HOLE WILL UNFORTUNATELY LIVE IN MY HEAD FOREVER

and c) THAT. ASIDE. lookit the lil guy i bought yesterday :3 he is a cat…….. BUT ALSO A SHARK!!!!

i wanna name him wiwi. not rly for william related purposes he just looks like an el wiwi. fuckin itty bitty thing!!!!!

anyway i’m gonna watch ep19 today <3 i hope ur havin a lovely day i am sending u one million hugs in the mail they’ll be there in five to ten business days

AHAAAA GOD THE HEIST EPISODE WAS SO FUCKING STUPID I LOVE THEM SO MUCH. THEYRE SUCH IDIOTS. CANNOT BELIEVE THEY GOT OUT OF THERE IN ONE PIECE. anyway . hi! u just met david how do you feel about david!!!!!! stupid idiot fell for businessman vyncent.

AHA I FORGOT THAT WAS THE ONE WITH THE DP INTRO. u know whats really funny. the first post in my pd tag is a clip of that intro. i saw that when i was about halfway through riptide and my immediate reaction to it was "oh god i can never watch prime defenders now. ill be too insufferable about it if they lean into the dp angle for the ghost boy" and. well. look at me now. funny enough i think the second post in my pd tag is a piece of mark winters fanart where i was like "man idk this guy yet but he looks cool" LITTLE DID I FUCKING KNOW. points at past me. his ass is clueless!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GOD. FUCK. YOU DONT EVENFUCKING KNOW. YOU DONT EVEN KNOW. THE EXTENT. AT WHICH GRIZZLY WROTE OLD MAN SMUT. THE FUCKING VISCERAL REACTION THAT CLIP HAD ON ME. I HAD TO TAKE OFF MY HEADPHONES A FEW TIMES. I WAS ON CALL WITH JONESY AND THEY WERE LIKE. no. no. coward. put your headphones back on and listen to dark puckered hole like a man. i hate it here. and the fact that it was gillion who read it OUT LOUD who is the like. EXPLICITLY ASEXUAL CHARACTER. extremely funny to me. peepaw getting down. god i love riptide it sucks so much this podcast is so unserious. theres no way this is grizzlys first time writing fanfiction WHY IS IT SO WELL WRITTEN. fuck!!!!!!!! fuck you for making me think about dark puckered hole. this is not a single occurrence btw there are MULTIPLE readings of this book. jay cannot leave gillion and chip alone for five minutes or gill will start reading the smut book out loud again.

I LOVE WIWI THE CAT ALSO.................... OH MAN..... LITTLE SHARK KITTY........ he looks squishable. activating my cuteness aggression i think i need to bite him.

[intertexts]

ohhhh nhw dakota.... i love u....

[the0retically]

I absolutely adore my Dakota fic. Is it well written? No, not at all. Is the idea cool? I think so. Does it make me sad because of Alaska’s impact on Dakota? Absolutely

I need to rewrite it at some point but i do really love the concept and the idea of it

[bizlybebo]

like i already know it’s a common headcanon but you seriously can’t tell me dakota isn’t heavily coded, intentionally or not, as an autistic character within the source material of jrwi pd because.

-multiple examples of having sensory issues (mostly auditory)

-repetitive behaviors and routines (ex: dresses in the same outfit daily, has a very specific way he keeps his room/space)

-expresses having special interests/hyperfixations (superheroes, martial arts)

-goes through meltdowns where he lashes out and/or becomes nonverbal (ex: s2 ep36)

-uses self-stimulatory behavior often, especially during said meltdowns (ex: s2 ep1)

-consistently misses out on social cues

-has an entire aspect of his character that is literally just masking (dakota damascus vs dakota cole; his attitude at school, etc)

-deep sense of empathy towards animals (common trait in autism, though not a diagnostic one)

-very strong and rigid beliefs about order and righteousness that are very difficult to challenge for most of s1 + s2

-occasional lack of bodily awareness about danger/pain signals

[clownfire]

Okay okay okay... quick WoD Prime Defenders AU

The New Haven Defenders is a rag-tag hunter group founded by the humans Jade Ngô and Xavier Gonzales, later recruiting former wrestler Alan June. As well as... well let's call them 'controversial hires' within the hunter community; the reckless but well meaning werewolf Dakota Damascus of the Cole pack, William Wisp - the clanless vampire looking for a cure, and Vyncent Sol, a young man who hears the voices of avenging angels, who imbue him with supernatural abilities that rival those of the monsters they task him to slay.

Recently the group have taken in two victims of a Tzimitze elder, Summer Dileo and Doug Hudson, who they are in many ways stuck with, as living masquerade breeches.

[n0tfromar0undhere]

Alright! :)

(They clap, and Dakota is back. He isn't on fire. Though, his skin is still partially melted. In a moment, you see Red quickly run over and hug Dakota. Their seems to be a hint of care laced in their voice, though you can tell it's fake.)

Oh my gods! Damascus, are you alright!? I'm so sorry I couldn't protect you! Vyncent, how could you do that to him!? :)

-🔥

AND IT GOT FUCKING WORSE- WHY THE FUCK WOULDN'T IT GET WORSE!? WHY THE ACTUAL FUCK WOULDN'T YOU DO THIS, YOU FUCKING DICK.

[gracklecracklepop]

DAKOTA DAMASCUS COLE TRANSGENDER ALLEGORY SEND POST

[kaleberryshake]

He has been the subject of many of my college assignments...

[lericekrispie]

Back on that Native Dakota Cole propaganda grind

Dakota Cole being Native is so important to me. This silly little headcannon brings me so much joy, to see the character do so many things that are so so Native coded and to have a story that feels inherently Native. I don't get a lot of representation in mainstream media. A lot of the time you have to search for it yourself. In this essay I will-

Native Coding Evidence in Cannon-

Dakota, the name by itself is a fairly Native name.

Alaska (Dakota's aunt) is also a very Native name.

Dakota's real name, Damascus, originally sounded very French to me. French would point to Native, because Native people often traded with French fur traders up north (of the united states) and into Canada. With the French, sometimes there was intermarriage, whether in violence or in peace. However, with some research into the name it comes from the Bible, and the direct meaning from google is "A sack full of blood, the similitude of burning."

Alaska's struggle with addiction (a common symptom of generational trauma from the Native genocide)

Playing a drum to calm down! Drums are a very Native thing.

He has that weird thing with bears? Native ways teach more by doing then showing so learning from wildlife seems to be a way his Grandma mentor would try to teach him, and Bears is a very Native associated animal.

How Dakota fits a Native Narrative-

Having a warrior spirit. Dakota Cole has very strong morals, and undoubtedly a fighting spirit. From the way he fights, from his strength, to his honor and respect for life.

He's disconnected from his family, yet makes strong connections with others. A lot of natives separated from their culture because of assimilation and genocide often yearn for families they know love them but cannot reach, for a culture they know should be there but cannot access. Being away from that but knowing something is missing is extremely painful. You yearn for a community, and a need for a strong community is in Native blood. Dakota makes strong meaningful connections, mimicking what he is missing.

Dakota Native Headcannons-

The first time he sees a powwow he cries (he's just like me fr fr)

His mentor is Native, and lives on his Rez. That's how he found him the first time around, he was on the road, and the only place he knew of that could possibly take him in was an obscure town Aunt Alaska had mentioned once or twice of growing up in. He goes there hoping to find more family, instead he finds his Teacher (Mentor).

(Teacher is from the Eagle clan if you care)

He wakes up in the morning, and sit in the sunrise, and smudges like he was taught by his Mentor.

During the ten-month break he got really close with the community on the Rez, he would often help however he could with his superpowers.

He listens to Native Rap when he works out and Native flute music to calm down.

He connects to Vyncent a lot about tribes and traditons bc that's what Vyncent had in Fauna.

During the ten-month break he learns to powwow dance.

He spouts off old Native teachings like a parrot of what his mentor has told him, sounds really mature, and Vyncent and Will are like... "that was really smart Dakota." And he's like. Idk what it means my Mentor just told me that lmao then he keeps being silly

He get's his hair cut during the ten-month break into a mowhawk :)

(when he wants to grow it out he just buzz cuts it to even it out and he looks slay af with a buzzed head)

When he gets older he's going to get almost full body Native tattoos.

He incorporates beading into his superhero fit

Dakota's Native name is Miskomin-Makoons (Raspberry- Cub)

The Damascus' are from the Bear clan.

"The Bear Clan members were the strong and steady police and legal guardians. Bear Clan members spent a lot of time patrolling the land surrounding the village, and in so doing, they learned which roots, bark, and plants could be used for medicines to treat the ailments of their people."

Dakota's Warrior title is 'Bleeding Heart Warrior'

I'm sure I'll remember more stuff later and I'll kick myself but for now this is what I have. any JRWI Natives want to add feel free to give ur headcannons :)

[a-cat-in-toffee]

OKAY IN EDITION TO THE AU SUMMARY MASTERPOST have a. nickname for the aus post for ease of reference because im fluent in these shennanigans and y'all may not be. only characters written are the ones with solid nicknames/different names

au - nickname (character)

civilian dakota au - damascus (dakota), civ (william)

prime destroyers - kota (dakota), wight (william), virion (vyncent), w2/wavelength (ashe)

space au - ghost (william)

belltech - smokescreen (william)

racing - mechanic (william)

additionally, wardens williams that get brought out a lot: seer (stagecrew), and phoenix (cant fly when you're burning)

[tentacion3099]

80CRV2 core coppermai with alternating copper and Damascus cladding by Dakota Wilson Knives.

[anachronistic-falsehood]

ohhhh i understand why roswell my friend roswell intertexts made dakota's last name damascus in nhw. his real last name is damascus. ok i get it now. also im gonan fucking cry oh my god he was just a kid and so so so many things happened to him and his parents are dead im going to start eating the floorboards