#Project icarus

[camilleflyingrotten]

More about the Icarus/Helios Dirk Gently AU here

[soni-dragon]

“and what if who and what i am is going to get you killed?”

+ ramblings :)

[projectmarzannaa]

found this while stalking the dghda twitter. i’ve never seen this shot before omg 😭😭😭😭 so cutesy

[miryel89]

«Icarus is flying too close to the sun

And Icarus' life, it has only just begun

This is how it feels to take a fall

Icarus is flying towards an early grave.»

{ Bastille - Icarus }

[robynator]

yknow what i absolutely love about dghda? how socially unaware all the former blackwing subjects are. like these guys have no clue what to do in normal society and that absolutely makes sense

dirk is the most well adjusted out of all of the ones we know of and even he climbs into this random guy's apartment through the window, immediately calls him his assistant and then declares that he lives there now. he's clueless. he wants friends but he doesn't know how to talk to people, even after 16 years lived in freedom

and then there's bart and the rowdy 3

bart doesn't know how radios and tvs work, nor what hotels are. all she's known her whole life is blackwing labs and the fact that she's supposed to kill people. so that's what she does. she doesn't know how to talk to people, she just goes with the flow

and of course the rowdy 3, the absolute icons. unlike dirk, who wants to be a part of society, and bart, who really doesn't care, they actively reject social norms. they saw punk culture and ran with it. they're rude, violent and, well, rowdy. and they like that. but they're also stupid in the way that you would be if you grew up in a lab with (probably) next to no real education. none of them have any functioning braincells or social grace and that works for them

i didn't talk about mona or francis/moloch bc we don't really have a real frame of reference for either of them. mona is an inanimate object 99% of the time and francis has been in a coma for several decades

[hjbirthdaywishes]

April 25, 2024

Happy 44 Birthday to Samuel Barnett.

[limeinaltime]

Another addition to the ever-growing Nasty Man Roster™. Adam's eldest son (thankfully not related to India or any of the other women he's bound to him), and the horrible, horrible older brother of Hotel, Iota, Seven and Omega. He loves to torment them, especially Hotel.

“If the phrase ‘like father, like son’ were a person, it would be Icarus in the worst way possible. The deranged right hand man to his equally vile father and progenitor, Icarus has been under strict training from Adam since the moment he could use his abilities, and with it has come a sense of power and control that has since festered into a sick sense of entitlement. Perverse, obsessive, possessive and violent, if Icarus’s ability to form barbed wire from his energy isn’t the most fitting power for him, then his ability to make you feel like he’s crawling inside your head is.”

[gourmetpanic]

Concept: Mona and Dirk cuddling (Mona is the big spoon and Dirk is the little spoon)

[apollos-boyfriend]

something they don’t tell you about being autistic is that every character you write WILL end up autistic/autistic-coded whether you like it or not

[itsholisticyouwouldntunderstand]

This is cool!

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency screenshot redraw for December NADSR

Try to make it festive, so...Christmas bauble version, I guess?

[camilleflyingrotten]

Icarus and Helios, a Dirk Gently AU 💛

(Sorry for the poor English)

In the 80s, in Romania, a baby was born with wings, making him look like a cherub. Since he was an orphan, he was taken (abducted) by the CIA at the age of 4 to be studied as some very unique phenomenon. Turned out that there was more kids born with strange anomalies this year so they created a secret CIA division called BlackWing (in reference to that first boy dark wings) to study all those “anomalous entities” and potentially use them.

The Romanian kid was called “Project Icarus” and for decades they tried to teach him to fly. But so far he was more prone to fall than to actually fly (hence the name Icarus).

Generally, the anomalous entities were tested separately and never met, to avoid any problems (some of them having dangerous abilities). They were all locked into an underground facility where there was rooms to study, to be tested on, or train their abilities… Some areas being dedicated to some of the most dangerous entities with bigger security and surveillance.

One day around his 30s, Project Icarus heard someone trying to talk through the ventilation of his room. A person was now occupying the fire proof room which was opposite of his.

That new occupant, “project Helios”, had recently arrived in that area of the BlackWing’s facility bc his ability of creating and manipulating fire was becoming too hard to control and the division just locked him in the best fire proof room they had..

The two men started to communicate regularly through the vent line connecting their rooms and slowly built a strong relationship (they were each other’s first friend).

Ofc they were closely observed the whole time by BlackWing, which decided to have them meet in person. The only condition being that Project Icarus had to fly if he wanted to see his friend more often.

They soon realised that Project Helios could control himself better when in the presence of his friend and radiated intense warmth which was actually helping Project Icarus to hover in the air long enough to manage to fly.

So they decided to keep the duo together, their compatibility being undeniable.

After a few months of training them together, they finally let them out of the BlackWing facility to work for the CIA. So they could help the BW division find and catch other anomalous entities that were starting to be more numerous and out of control.

They gave them new names, Project Icarus became Dirk Gently (he insisted for the last name) and Project Helios became Todd Brotzman…

[inkyrainstorms]

I was a fool, Stanley

I didn't realize what I had until I lost it

I didn't know I had anything left to lose

[projectmarzannaa]

crying why he so dirk

making gifs out of dghda clips is my fav thing ever rn sorry guys

[guardianofnightmares]

Scars

This picture most likely gonna be the last work for this year and definitely - the last work for a @blitzbee-week event which took place half a year ago. Unlike with previous entries for a challenge, this time there won't be any snippets under a cut line - just a depiction of a simple little interaction)).

I suppose that these two "scenes" can be called as part of my "Icarus" project, since I headcanon that Blitzwing has multiple scars and calluses on his servos from handling artillery guns during War. Thanks to them his sensitivity is not the best in those areas, yet, in some cases it actually comes in handy.

The main goal behind this picture was to work on showing differences in portraying emotions on characters' faces: while Bee can be read as an opened book, Blitz is more subtle in this regard, barely moving "muscles" under blue plates of his.

[hellfirenacht]

I see your over dramatic and needy Eddie and raise you this; Eddie who's been hyper independent since he was a kid and never had anyone to lean in for emotional support. Eddie who's clumsy in a relationship because he can absolutely give you attention when you ask for it, but has no idea how to ask for it himself.

Eddie, who you have to have a talk about emotional needs and that sometimes you'd like some attention without asking, and Eddie has no idea how to do that. He barely knows how attention works outside of being loud and playing music and telling stories.

Eddie doesn't know how to ask for attention like this. He doesn't even know what kind of attention he WANTS in a relationship.

He starts asking if you want him to hold your hand. He asks if you want to go out to get food. He asks you if you want to cuddle, or watch TV or do anything with him.

At first, you think it's him putting emotional labor on you. But then you realize what's going on; Eddie has been so severely emotionally neglected, this is his only way of asking for attention. He's so used to being told no, to being blown off, to having his needs ignored. Asking if YOU want to him to hold your hand is easier than asking to hold your hand and getting shot down.

[hjbirthdaywishes]

April 25, 2023

Happy 43 Birthday to Samuel Barnett.