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Hopfully comprehensive list about things in Zelda 2 that might be important for folks doing fan stuff for the game but donāt wanna play it for expected reasons cuz tbf, yea the game is hard!
(because if I read "8bitrule is a deadly wasteland" one more time Iāll delete my save file and go join the Yiga Clan XD /lh)
It got VERY long so I sorted into different categories for some semblance of order lmao. It goes:
Backstory
Plot
General info on Hyrule
Towns
General info on Link (+ move set)
Spells
Items
Collectibles
And other funky stuff
Hopefully this will be of help/interest to someone. And if not, oh well ĀÆ\_(ć)_/ĀÆ Not enough Zelda 2 stuff out there anyways, so more is always good!
I do like talking about this game so for extra info pls feel free to ask :3
Backstory:
2 Zeldas, the new Zelda is actually a great-great-smth aunt of Zelda 1, and the reason itās called "the Legend of Zeldaā
Long ago, her bro (and his wizard buddy) pressured her into telling them the secrets of the Triforce she got from their dead dad. Zelda didnāt tattle, wizard buddy tried to strike her down via spell in anger
Spell went out of control, put Zelda into eternal sleep and killed wizard buddy in one swoop
Prince lost sis and buddy, fell into remorse, locked her in a tower Sleeping-beauty style in hopes the spell would be reversed one day and decreed every princess shall be named Zelda from now on
Plot:
16 old Link chillin his life when a triangle starts glowing on his hand?? Asks Impa for help, she brings her to the magically sealed door where Zelda the First sleeps, cue Backstory
gives him crystals he needs to put in statues in palaces to unlock a seal on the temple that holds the Triforce of Courage (because he did not have that before)
All the bosses are guardians of the statues + Dark Link is his actual shadow that he fights against to prove his heart is pure enough to hold it
It was brought to life by some old guy hanging out there (never explained but heās probs supposed to be a sage and looks a lot like the Old Man from Zelda 1, though much like all Wise Men in this game do)
Ganon has literally nothing to do with any of that, his monsters just really want Link dead so they can sprinkle his blood on Ganonās ashes and bring him back. (Since they need him dead, it probs needs a lot of blood)
Hyrule:
different areas : fields, woods, beaches, caves, swamps, mountains, deserts, graveyards, and one Lake Hylia
2 continents divided by sea, west and east + a small island that is one big labyrinth (named maze island)
different towns, all of them have the names of Oot sages plus Harbor Town Mido and Kazuto Town
the locations/"elementsā of towns do not match their future sages in the slightest (Saria gets water. Rutoās in a valley. Nabooruās by the sea, fully green and far away from the desert sands).
towns in West Hyrule are well connected via roads
East Hyrule has broken roads (if at all) and Kazuto is even completely ransacked by monsters
thereās a new Kazuto Town hidden in some woods, while Old Kazuto is an actual Ghost town
Stonehedge is not only a thing but appears in multiple locations
Big Fairies are a thing, but they come without Water Fountains. Instead just hang out in the woods, stonehedge, wherever
streets are always safe. You will never see a monster as long as you stay on it. If you stray, monsters will spawn (though sometimes its fairies instead). If you run back on the street and a monster gets you there, the "battleā will be empty and you can just walk out. Streets are always safe.
the main graveyard got the Kingās Tomb in the middle of it; has a secret tunnel to one of the palaces
thereās a smaller graveyard near Death Mountain by Spectacle Rock thatās apparently supposed to be the Zelda 1 graveyard -> Zelda 1 played in a small part of West Hyrule
third graveyard near The Valley of Death (name is accurate gameplay wise too ._.)
Towns:
very lively communities
different styles of houses, some have bushes, fountains (with drinkable water), different sections separated by gates, etc.
you have to climb on roofs and jump through windows to get into some buildings
Link can get multiple things here: free healthcare from a lady in red, filled up magic from an old lady in orange, a side quest that usually leads to either a new sword skill or magic spell. Those can always be obtained from a knight/wizard in the basement of the main building.
pretty much all villagers can be talked with and either give: generic Hiās, vague hints about the next goal, the sidequest, some praise him as the hero and wish him luck
Sometimes they also turn out to be Aches (monsters that look identical to villagers until you talk to them, upon which they turn into bats and attack); pretty much exclusive to the later/Eastrule towns
Link:
16y old and left his equipment at home, only got a sword and shield
Zelda 1 was years ago for him
learned to wear pants between Zelda 1 and 2 (theyāre brown, same color as his shirt. You could make it a onesie if you want to)
hair colorās somewhere between brown and ginger
Left handed gang
certified recorder player
silly goober
given that Impa got to him so fast, good chance heās at the castle often enough
if botw Link is a parry god, heās a blocking god
shield is only small enough to cover half his body, hence him learning how to move it at hyperspeed
unnamed sword but the Magic/White Sword from Zelda 1 is on the cover so itās most likely that one
gains new equipment throughout the game via dungeons
can gain exp and level up, but unless you specifically set him up pre/during his quest, you wanna treat this lad like heās maxed out
skills: stab, crouch stab, up jab (like the one from smash), jump/down jab (also like the one from smash, this is where itās from)
Spells:
Shield (turns his tunic red and upās defense),
Jump (lets him jump high),
Life (restores 3 blocks of HP; your max possible HP is 8 with all Heart Containers. Doesnāt start out the most expensive, but unlike most other spells barely gets cheaper with higher magic levels, making it the 2nd most expensive in the log run.)
Fairy (turns him into a fairy; small, no fighting but flying, and lets you skip through locked doors! 3rd most expensive.)
Fire (shoot fire from your sword; some enemies can only be defeated this way)
Reflect (reflects magic attacks, lets you block spells that would otherwise go past your shields; basically magic defense)
Spell (turns some enemies into slime + unlocks a secret area in New Kazuto)
Thunder (rains thunder on the whole screen; needed to defeat a boss. Most expensive spell in the game, regardless of magic level.)
the other spells are all dirt cheap in higher levels
if you wanna be real detailed: one magic meter block = 16 MP, totalling for 128 with a maxed meter. A fully leveled (in mp) Link will use 60mp for Thunder, 50 for hp, 40 for fairy, 8 for Jump and 16 for all others. Otherwise, hereās a table for MP usage across levels.
Items:
Candle: equivalent of the magic lantern, infinite light source. Unlike Zelda 1, this one doesnāt let you commit property damage :(
Hammer: breaks giant boulders on the road, letting you access shortcuts. Also lets you cut down any tree tiles on the overworld, turning it into fields- Property damage is back baby!
Handy Glove: Lets Link crush blocks with his sword. Even more destruction and a good compromise for the lack of vases imo.
Raft: used to cross from West to East Hyrule.
boots: let you straight up walk on water, but only in certain places.
Whistle/Flute: is actually a recorder (flutes are held sideways, recorders forward. Thatās like. The biggest difference between these two instruments, bar the reputation.) Used to make a monster blocking the road disappear and summon a palace, similar to how you shrink a boss and drain a lake in Zelda 1. Doesnāt let you teleport though. Does play the same tune, though. Itās the one also heard in the oot intro!
magic key: the key to end all keys, lets you open all the doors in every dungeon forever (despite the name does not need MP)
Cross: regarless of what some more zealous fans of the series claim as a means to justify their unjustified bigotry, Christianity is not canon to the series. But much like other Japanese media, it sure likes borrowing from its aesthetics! Case in point, this item is just the Kirbo meme. It lets you see invisible ghosts so you can kick their ass. (you donāt need it to hit them, but theyāre a pain to dodge/ hit even with it.).
Collectibles:
magic jar: same as ever. Blue fills 1 mp block, red fills all. Doesnāt fill instantly, so if your meterās got points left you can wait till its half full, use a high mp spell, and still get the rest of the points thatād otherwise go to waste. Dungeons sometimes contain statues, which drop one jar (or start attacking you).
treasure bag: holds exp (money doesnāt exist in this game)
key
doll: weird but surprisingly cute doll that looks exactly like a miniature version of Link and gives you an extra life. (The game has lives- if you get a game over, Ganon gets resurrected on screen.)
Bowl of Hearts: Looks, acts like, is a Heart Container. Gives you 1 block of HP; you start with 4, for a max of 8. Can be found wherever Heart Containers would be.
Magic Container: Looks like a filled jar; Heart Container but for MP.
Other funky stuff:
you rescue a kid that got lost in caves
has instances of Link talking in 1st person; one appears by looking under a strangerās table in a house: "I found a mirror under the tableā.
Everyone knows the man the myth the legend, the npc named "Errorā, but thereās actually a 2nd guy named "Baguā. As in, Bug. Game bug.
Bro has a pet Bot (this gamesā version of Chus) sleeping in his house. You can annoy it into waking up and itāll tell you where he is so youāll finally leave
the waters are NOT poisonous in the slightest (seriously, where did that come from) ā¦but they are infested with jumping Piranhas.
Saria Town only lets people use the bridge connecting the 2 sides of the river if youāre a citizen or get a permit from Bagu. Vaguely remember you could also take a long road around it tho
With 9.5 towns, a lot of greenery everywhere, and ACTUAL. FUNCTIONAL. ROADS :O This might be one of the most well-off Hyrules in the series (ironically >v<)
Aaaand *looks at length of this post^ ok yea that is enough lmao, I might genuinely hit the word limit here, oof. Iām a rare Zelda 2 enjoyer can yall tell XD
#the legend of zelda#legend of zelda#adventure of Link#loz aol#ā¦do I. Do I tag this as linkeduniverseā¦?#Because Iām 95% sure that whole wasteland thing started from there#I certainly keep seeing it the most on fics attached to it#itās weird too cuz as far as Iām aware like half the fandom never actually touched a single zelda game#and youād think thatād lead people to especially look things up more?#To be more familiar with it?#But apparently not#ehhhh#whatever#(said begrudgingly but fully aware this is a Me issue)#ā¦but seriously Wild Hyrule and itās post-apocalyptic Gloom/Miasma infested blood moon haunted Hyrule are right there XD#and Timerule literally gets haunted by thr corpses of children at night like HELLOOO#meanwhile for the wasteland aesthetic Twirule canonically had a major drought/countrywide water shortage in-game#+ the wild west look has to come from somewhere#or Skyrule with its ocean turned desert and giant mining operations#you cannot tell me that water wasnāt laced with lead and micro-time stones#ā¦thereās way more potential in the other -rules is what Iām saying XD
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hindsight
[ID: A two-panel comic with crudely drawn stick figures.
Panel 1: The lime green person is talking to the leaf green person and the moss green person.
Lime: "I... have a confession to make."
Leaf: "Go ahead."
Lime: "I want to rewatch the Wizard Child movies."
Leaf: "Didn't the wizard author get incredibly chromophobic?"
Lime: "Yeah I just... It's nostalgia you know? They meant a lot to me when I was a kid."
Panel 2: The three are on the couch.
Lime: "All right, let's go."
Leaf: "It's so weird how the wizard author just turned chromophobic though. Like I remember this series being pretty good for its time. It'll be weird seeing their work contrasting with their views now."
Moss: "I'm just glad we got the movies for free through normal and legal means. Heh."
End ID.]
[ID 2: Scenes from three Wizard Child movies.
Wizard Child and the Simplistic Morality: A slightly round child with a propeller hat is talking to a child with no hat.
Round child: "I am so fucking fat and greedy I am textually shown to be fat because I am greedy and also evil."
Hatless child: "You are to infer my moral purity from juxtaposition with this fat child. Woe is me for our shared parent has deprived me of a propeller hat."
Wizard Child and the Goodness of Wealth: An adult wizard is talking to the child, who now has a wizard hat.
Wizard Adult: "Wizard child you are secretly extremely rich."
Wizard Child: "I will form biases regarding the bankers all being triangular for some reason!"
Wizard Adult: "Your wealth is deserved because your true parent was Good and therefore you are also Good."
Wizard Child: "Now we should acquire consumer goods. Buy consumer goods!"
Wizard Child and the Dark Family History: A blue-grey horse person is talking to the wizard child.
Blue-grey: "No, wizard child. You don't understand. I am one of the good ones, because unlike the bad ones I don't try to spread my curse that makes you a blue-grey horselike creature to others!"
Wizard child: "Wow uncle blue-grey you are one of the good ones! I forgive you for being a horse because I am so good I would even forgive horses. I sure hope you don't conspicuously get killed off later in this movie!"
End ID 2.]
[ID 3: Oh hell no there are even more of these.
Wizard Youth and the Tokenistic Relationship Dynamics: A square headed wizard youth is talking to the former wizard child, now a wizard youth.
Square Wizard Youth: "Wizard child, as the only person with a square head in this entire series it is my duty to inform you that you are the savior of all people with square heads, too. Let us build a one-sided relationship that only furthers your character development, after which I will immediately lose all plot relevance."
Wizard Youth: "I will do this because I am a maturing wizard youth and need disposable relationships that don't threaten the endgame!"
Wizard Youth and the Escalation of Stakes: The Dark Wizard, a sort of grey-green person with a cloak, is pointing at Wizard Youth.
Dark Wizard: "Wizard Youth, I have returned!"
Wizard Youth: "Dark Wizard! Why are you green now?"
Dark Wizard: "Evil magic made me green! I am green with envy towards all who are good!"
Wizard Youth: "I will not engage with how you are clearly based on fascist ideologies and yet this narrative plays into fascist aesthetic sensibilities!"
Wizard Youth and the Post-Hoc Revelations: The Wizard Youth is leaning over their Wizard Mentor, who is laying in a pool of blood.
Wizard Youth: "Wizard Mentor no! You can't die!"
Wizard Mentor: "It is fine, wizard youth. My death will further your character development into a wizard adult. Also, I was secretly a very very dark purple this entire time. I never brought it up so I could retain narrative approval.
End ID 3.]
[ID 4: Wizard Adult and the Overdue Conclusion. Three panels. I am sorry.
Panel 1: The dark wizard is dueling the Wizard Adult with magic beams.
Dark Wizard: "Evil green beam!"
Wizard Adult: "Good red beam! Despite the enormous variety of magic in this series this is what our final battle looks like!"
Panel 2: Wizard Adult stands victorious over the dark wizard, who is dying on the ground.
Wizard Adult: "In the end, dark wizard, you were defeated because I am morally superior to you."
Dark Wizard: "I was a product of systemic failures. There will be someone like me again someday!"
Panel 3: Zoom in on wizard adult, who says:
"Not if I can help it. Because I am going to be a wizard cop now. The moral of this story is that all systemic issues can be solved by finding a bad guy to beat."
End ID 4.]
[ID 5: Four panels.
Panel 1: Return to the green trio on their couch, watching the TV say "The End." All are are silent.
Panel 2: They are sitting on the couch. Moss is looking at their phone.
Lime: "Yeah so there were maybe a few signs we missed because we were children."
Leaf: "Yeah. A few. Some."
Panel 3: Continue conversation.
Lime: "So what did you think, Moss?"
Panel 4: Zoom in on Moss, who says: "I've been zoned out on my phone since the second movie. They lost me at the magic stuff. Wizards aren't real."
End ID 5.]
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#why yes I did just make this extremely long#surely there was no more succinct way to do this joke#oh god this keeps escaping the intended audience#which is people who are already familiar with#pills that make you green#ptmyg
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sleeping arrangements (not sure tara would ever actually deign to sleep in the same 20ft radius as shovel but who can resist those big shiny insectoid black eyes š„ŗ)
plus:
#gale dekarios#shadowheart#astarion#bg3#baldur's gate 3#my art#want to promote a greater shovel presence in the fanbase. where is all the shovel content. where is my beautiful daughter#she is gale's familiar. to me.#he may not necessarily *want* shovel#but it's too late now#he's her wizard it might be more apt to say#tara is not in any way shape or form a familiar she's like. his aunt.#also i have GOT to develop a faster way of making things like i have so many dumb joke ideas i canāt be rendering shit. unsustainable! šš
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Linktober day 10: the fire temple
Ghosts cry too, you know.
(The desecration of a loved one vs the undying determination to help preserve the futureā¦ a tale as old as time memorial. The sage of fire had sealed himself in his temple, preserving his soul in preparation for the day Rauruās seals were to break with Mineruās technology. But the Malice does what it does bestā corrupt and twist, until nothing was left except a dying wish.)
Unfortunately, nobody knows ancient Goronese. So that storyās sort of going right over their heads and nailing rauruās weepy ghost in the skull.
This au is called Familiar Familiar, and is totk without the time travel! Iām basically building my own lore at this point.
Patreon!
#art#critdraws#lonks diary#familiar familiar au#loz#zelda#link#yunobo#fire sage#the sage of fire#totk fire sage#totk sages#totk#botw#totk au#botw au#breath of the wild au#breath of the wild#tears of the kingdom#totk zelda#totk link#totk yunobo#rauru#totk rauru#king rauru#loz comic#tloz#since zelda doesnt turn into a worm in this au i had to figure out how to impliment memories in another way#and i thought. well. that arm pbbly carries SOMETHING. and i already set up the tears aspect with rauruās ghost mourning linkās destiny#what if i head cannoned zonai coming from the depths and hylians coming from the skyā¦ more thoughts are to be had!
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some pieces I've done for my exhibition! do not repost or reupload without my permission. image descriptions in alt text
#this is part of one piece!! I plan to make at least four more#as many as I can in the time I've been given really#I'm still refining these ones!!!!!#artists on tumblr#art#surrealism#my theme is surrealism as a mechanism to turn the mundane/familiar into the bizarre and beautiful#I'm still figuring out the wording#described art#accessible art#surreal art#angels
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listen there really was just something about how in the book, snowās 3-page descent from hesitant lover boy to deluded mfer happens entirely in his mind. lucy gray gives him no indication whatsoever that she suspects him, that sheās going to leave or betray him. heās just sitting quietly in the cabin waiting for her to return when that seed of calculated suspicion, which he has needed to survive the capitol, takes a hold of him and chokes the life out of any goodness left inside him. it really drives home your terror as a reader that āoh my god did he kill her? did she escape? what happened to her? why would he even think that?ā in a way that when the movie had to adjust for visualization it lost some of that holy shit this guy has lost it emphasis.
#seeing some discourse and im not saying lucy grey didnt know#im saying she never dropped the kind of hints that she knew like she did in the movie#or if she did snow isnt worried about them until he very suddenly is consumed by them#snow is not concerned about whether or not she believed him. of course she did! hes snow!#but then shes goneā¦. for a whileā¦ā¦#and its the sudden immediate drastic unravelling that comes across so clearly in the book#that i knew wouldnāt translate to screen yet still cant help but miss#the hunger games#coriolanus snow#tbosas#lucy gray baird#not a crime or anything just a note that i cannot stop thinking about#the ballad of songbirds and snakes#this is all from memory of reading it quite a while ago. so maybe 3 pages is an exaggeration#but i remember it happening VERY quickly and without much external cause#like we as the reader have no indication as to whether shes nearby or not.#snow has no idea either. he just SUSPECTS. and his suspicion breeds the hatred that has been bubbling inside him all this time#he hates how she undoes him. he hates that he WOULD run away with her if shed let him keep his secrets#and he HATES more than anything that she makes him WANT to tell his secrets#he wants to be vulnerable and reveal the ugly nasty parts about himself and still be loved#but he does not let himself and it is everyoneās downfall#he chooses cruelty bc it is easy and familiar and makes him feel more powerful than the vulnerable give and take that real love requires
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star abducted :3
#isat#in stars and time#isat spoilers#loop#siffrin#myart#fanart#pls clck on the frst picture tumblr destroyed my line quality ;v;#tfw you almost meet your parents and you are nowhere near emotionally prepared for that-- let alone being emotionally prepared-#- to meet your younger self who immediately adopts you as their best star friend#:3#helpful imaginary friend loop#littol siffrin pulls up an extra chair at the dinner table and everyone goes along with it#but Loop is actually sitting there#and watching their family eat and banter in ways that are both so painfully familiar yet alien#everyone is asking littol Siffrin about their star friend (yknow like indulging what they think is a kid making up an imaginary friend)#and littol Siffrin is 'they're just being shy right now!'#'but i'll ask them later!'#i don t think i'll be drawing more of this to make an official au out of it bc i just wanted an excuse to draw littol siffrin#but i would not mind if people built on top of it :3c
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reblog and tag ur answer so I can see please :)
#hello first ever poll how did I do#I know this is kind of a wild spread I wanted to pick things that are maybe less accessible today/have more historic precedence I guess ??#I also only picked foods I was already familiar with / was able to find firsthand historical accounts of#cause I didnāt want to fuck anything up lol#for the record Iām between Roman and tang dynasty#anyways#mike makes polls#mike speaks#I also wanted them to be like a normal/ popular meal that would be eaten by most folk regularly#other than the Abraham Lincoln one lmao
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been going a little bit insane about this sentence from Ace by Angela Chen for the past week
#replace this with any other type of significant relationship too#also! this book actually rules btw i really recommend it#i didnt read it when it first cane out bc i was like. well i am already pretty familiar with asexuality and not rly interested in 101 stuff#but it turns out it doesnt feel 101-y at all its a super awesome piece of queer theory and also chen has Good opinions#and not weird watered down ones that i am sometimes wary of in aspec communities (frankly especially ace ones)#i think maybe if more people approached asexuality the way chen does (including and maybe even especially ace people)#i would be more inclined to still ID as ace#but anyways!#aro#aromantic#<- tag selections that reflect how i personally engage with this quote#also#described in alt text#also also#j tag#:/#aro media
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The girls are back (from the grave)
[First]Ā PrevĀ <ā-> Next
#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#wei wuxian#lan wangji#Not sure there is a tag for the ghost girls...The Yiling sorority sisters. The girly greek chorus. You'll always be in our hearts.#I love how this scene echoes back to yi city (sizhui asking if it's time to play inquiry but WWX goes with empathy)#it shows how deeply enmeshed he is with spirits! He calls and they respond. They are familiar - if not old friends.#I am such a sucker for necromancer characters (it's how this series got my interest in the first place)#So I'm always thrilled when WWX gets to play the part! Let him be more comfortable with the dead than the living!#He's the guy who calls upon bloody mary in the bathroom mirror just to ask a quick history question or advice on his outfit.#He wanders into the graveyard and shouts for the girls and the girls shout back.#Grave yard? More like a RAVE yard! Let's go girls!
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"So what's the weirdest possible first (second) impression Loop could make on the party in postcanon?" "Yeah, that, probably."
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theyre just standing there in direct party order while this happens. normal tuesday.
#its not even purely aggression or a powerplay or anything i think they just fucking panicked and had to shut them up somehow#anyway . fluff reunion? angst reunion? how about just weird as fuck reunion. KEEP EM GUESSIN#in stars and time#isat#isat spoilers#in stars and time spoilers#isat fanart#in stars and time fanart#isat siffrin#isat loop#sifloop#hello again sifloop nation i bring you weird fucking takes once again#this sure is a different tone to the last thing i put in the tags huh? KEEP EM GUESSIN BABEYYYY#lucabyteart#in stars and time act 6 spoilers#anyway this is a truncated & amped up version of my headcanon reunion. which is to say loop sits on the edge of camp waiting to be noticed#& after what would be far more rambling than ive put here siffrin almost calls them that and loop stops them + makes it clear thats secret#but loop has had to travel some distance to get to them + has been stewing about it. knows they stopped existing for a while and came back#doesnt know why. blames it on siffrin. might not even have been them or a wish. but they jump to conclusions and have time to get mad#then like TWO SECONDS after they have this weird standoff reunion its RIGHT BACK to being buddy buddy and overly familiar with them.#just ultra confusing for the party. as confusing as humanly possible.
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Family Resemblance
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I had another 11pm brain worm.
Enjoy
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Daniel Wayne, the younger toddler brother of Bruce Wayne and the son of Martha and Thomas Wayne had been kidnapped the night their parents were murdered.
Daniel had been snagged the moment their killer heard people headed to the alley and Bruce in his state of shock didn't realize it until it was far to late and could only scream in horror (from everything) as his baby brother is crying his name. (If you wanna make it even more heart wrenching, make it Danny's first time being able to say Bruce's name right and/or Bruce had said some mean things to Danny earlier after he accidentally broke something of Bruce's, something like 'I wish youd go away' or 'I never wanted a brother, you're such a bother!')
Bruce is being held by Alfred as some police officers are chasing down the Wayne's parents killer while some stay behind to see if they could do something.
Minutes turn to hours and as they wait, praying the police at least found Danny, Bruce is ridden with guilt. From his parents death to allowing his brother to be kidnapped.
Eventually the police return to give Alfred and Bruce the news. And it's not good.
The killer escaped and Danny was nowhere to be found.
And it would take many years before he would be found.
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Bruce gets a call from Damian during school hours one day. When he answers he is greeted with Damian demanding him to get to the school and explain himself.
Confused Bruce asks what does he mean and Damian responds with
"The two new students in class today are the spitting images of you and I father! Either they are poorly created clones or you have more hidden blood children!"
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Meanwhile the very students being discussed are calling up someone too
"Ellie? Dan? What's wrong? You better not have made too much chaos already, I just paid for the uniforms for that place."
"DAD! I THINK ANOTHER ONE OF THE FRUITLOOPS FAILED CLONES SOMEHOW SURVIVED!"
"What?"
#danny phantom#danny fenton#crossover#dp x dc#blue rambles#danny phantom dc#writing ideas#random idea#dpxdc#bruce and danny are siblings#danny was a toddler when he was kidnapped#somehow someway he escaped or was dumped out of Gotham#due to how young Danny was and how traumatized he was about that night he forgot everything but his first name#no one really connected the dots that Danny was the missing Wayne child#mostly due to no public photographs of Danny#he had been born very early and no one was sure he was going to make it#and going to the theater had been his first time being finally allowed out of the manor#only for it to end in tragedy#years later though#Danny moves to Gotham with his kids#a deaged and raised from infanthood Danielle 'Ellie' Fenton and Dante 'Dan' Fenton#Damian was not ready to see them#he thinks theyre poorly made clones since one looks more like his father than him and the other is a girl#or more secret children his father didnt know about#Ellie and Dan think Damian is an escaped clone of Vlads#Bruce and Danny meet at the school and Bruce nearly has a heart attack at the young man who looks so much like his parents#Danny is a bit weirded out because Bruce looks very familiar somehow
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Once, Babylon seemed an invincible threat. Babylon is gone now; only archaeologists remember it.
We're still here.
Once, Rome seemed an invincible threat. Rome is gone now, only tourists remember it.
We're still here.
Once, the Crusaders seemed an invincible threat. The Crusaders are gone now, only historical dramas remember them.
We're still here.
Once, scapegoating for plague seemed an invincible threat. Those who scapegoated us are gone, long forgotten, the plague slain by antibiotics.
We're still here.
Once, the Inquisition seemed an invincible threat. The Inquisition is gone now, only comedians remember them.
We're still here.
Once, the rise of exclusionary nationalism seemed an invincible threat. Those nations have risen and fallen, the political movements that forged them remembered only by historians.
We're still here.
Once, the rise of Eugenics rendering us inferior vermin seemed an invincible threat. Eugenics has fallen, only historians and the scorned remember it.
We're still here.
Once, the Tsars both White and Red seemed invincible. The Tsars of both colors are gone now, and only a pale and thinly stretched shadow remembers them.
We're still here.
Once, the third Reich of Germany seemed an invincible threat. The Third Reich is gone now, and only desperate fools remember them.
We're still here.
Now, old new dangers have risen, those same desperate fools and former friends seeking scapegoats, who together seem invincible and inescapable.
But they, as with all things, will pass, in time.
And we will still be here.
#European cultural sphere diasporic traumas#Sepharadim and Mizrahim I appologize for not adding more bits for your own particular diasporic traumas#I'm not as familiar as I'd like and didn't want to get something wrong which I probably would if I relied on Google and wikis#diaspora#jumblr#jewish
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#the locked tomb#gideon the ninth#my art#gideon nav#harrowhark nonagesimus#IF THIS PIECE LOOKS FAMILIAR YOU ARE NOT TRIPPING#THIS IS THE THIRD TIME I HAVE POSTED THIS IMAGE#BECAUSE TUMBLR KEPT SENDING THIS POST TO THE SHADOW REALM#SO LETS TRY THIS ONE MORE TIME
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massages forehead So Ambessa hid Mel away because she was a weapon in the literal sense, a mage. But Ambessa came to Piltover for Hextech? And Ambessa had nothing to say to Mel about her powers having visibly awakened? Even when Mel offered to go with Ambessa, giving her the ultimate opportunity to make Mel a weapon for real? And Ambessa made no attempt to find or retrieve Mel - not just her daughter and the remnants of the family Ambessa professes to love, but also her ultimate weapon - when she disappeared? And Ambessa trusted Singed and Viktor on their home turf - neither of them hiding how insane and self-serving they are with every reason to take over Ambessa's soldiers or just blatantly turn on her as soon as it benefits them - more than she trusted Mel? While Caitlyn (and by extension Piltover) was visibly and clearly falling away from Ambessa's teachings before Ambessa's eyes? (as if getting rid of certain people allows piltover to get rid of fascism but we won't get into All That)
Not only do I struggle to be hyped for Mel's powers beyond how amazing and beautiful she looks, but I can't help but feel like Mel is somehow less powerful in season 2 than she was in season 1, and not in an interesting way. As if Mel's ability to bend all of Piltover politics and economics to her will in season 1 now means nothing in season 2? You can argue that Jinx's attack led directly to Mel losing ground in Piltover - because I expected Mel to have to claw back that power without being able to rely on people who are too easily seduced by Ambessa and authoritarianism, and she would have to get creative to go toe to toe with her mother. I expected pushback to her mage identity that she would have to navigate. But instead this went either unwritten, or was ignored or discarded. Instead Mel is removed from the main plot, cutting her off from what made her the most interesting - only for all of Mel's very real talents, her very real powers and abilities, to be not only translated but REPLACED with magical powers she doesn't know how to control, and by the finale, those magic powers are the only powers that are considered real. Mel takes a backseat to Piltover's governing and decisions, a backseat to Jayce of all people who was not only new to politics mere months ago but made poor governing, strategic, and diplomatic decisions when he had that power. In season 1 Mel stayed off the "throne" but she did pull its strings one way or the other, and she makes no attempt at this in season 2
In my least generous suspicions, Mel was gentled and quieted to capitulate to an agenda for other characters who had to be correct and heroic - or wrong and villainous - no matter what the leadup narrative said, given her powers to help sell the game and set up future shows, and was effectively ejected from the Arcane story with faceless soldiers and a role she doesn't want because she was inconvenient there
#arcane#spoilers#arcane spoilers#arcane s2#arcane critical#mel medarda#mel arcane#ambessa medarda#this is not helped by having watched Shogun recently with Toranaga in all his horrible glory#Toranaga and Mariko are FRESH in my mind Riot do not PLAY with me#MARIKO WAS TORANAGA'S ULTIMATE HUMAN WEAPON AND SHE DID IT WITH NO SUPERNATURAL POWERS OR REAL MARTIAL PROWESS#SHE DID IT BY BEING GOOD AT BEING A NOBLE IN HER SPECIFIC CULTURE AND GARNERING TRUST AND SYMPATHY IN HER FRIENDS AND PEERS#IN SPITE OF BEING A CHILD OF A CURSED AND SHUNNED BLOODLINE#NOW DOESN'T THAT SOUND FAMILIAR#cough cough anyway I like Mel being a mage but I don't like how they did it and I don't like how separating Mel from Piltover wasn't MORE#sidenote i cannot better express my BAFFLEMENT that viktor and mel were in the same room and mel made no attempt to speak to him#when he was INTERESTED IN HER WHOLE DEAL. he literally REACHES OUT and mel did not use talk no jutsu#season 1 viktor was never in her influence bc 1) he was not just her employee but her SECONDARY employee socially and politically and#2) he's implied to be aware and resistant to her. but in season 2 her mage abilities make him VULNERABLE TO HER physically AND mentally#and she doesn't exploit that???? not even to protect jayce???? let alone piltover?????#also making ambessa less cunning less scary and more predictable than season 1 silco ought to be a criminal offense somewhere
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completely innocuous vash sheet :) fr practice
#my art#trigun stampede#trigun#vash the stampede#trigun vash#trigun stampede fanart#trigun fanart#vash fanart#STILL dont know the tags gomen ill do research one of these days#anyway . 4 gd days later hes finally done#here is what i am learning . i love his design sm. but jesus CHRIST#all the individual elements r so time consuming i want to tear my face off. im slowly getting more familiar w the arm but God.#im so peeved at how long this took but i am trying to cut myself some slack. remembering tht his design is a 24 hour endeavour#and i drew 4 of him#3 of which being fullbody 2 of which being foreshortened 1 of which being a Maid Dress#the price i pay fr self-indulgence.....the price i pay fr [redacted]#this started out as a treat fr me n it became my purgatory#but it is DONE and now i can look at vash in a maid outfit and tied up and jacket off turtleneck Out and shirtless and- *is shot dead*#anyway huge shoutout to mey rin black butler fr being the og Maid With Gun#stole the thigh bustle from a panel of her it was just too good#anyway take it enjoy the fruits of my labour enjoy him i am . exhausted.
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