#aha pain

[river-fisher]

I hope the cramps he's having hurt more than mine <3

[fisheito]

... peace on planet bottom, then there's whatever this is

[starry-bi-sky]

Clone^2 danny headcanons and/or facts that i wanted to expand on but didn't have the motivation or inspiration to write a ficlet about. Ultimately most of these are ideas that already exist in canon clone^2 but are only now being expanded on/explored/stated specifically.

Because I'm procrasinating cfau and passively thinking about clone danny and damian again.

1 - As he's liminal, Danny generates his own ectoplasm. He generates it at a slower rate than the casual ghost but faster than the average liminal. It's what gives him an ecto-signature and results in him triggering his parents' weapons and ecto-sensors.

The ectoplasm he generates actually has a use, and he tends to burn through his supply while he's fighting because of all the physical energy he spends + the use of his scary eyes requires (albeit really minor amounts of) ectoplasm to use. It also has health benefits, as using his ectoplasm keeps his heartbeat steady and lessens the risk of his arrhythmia flaring up due to all of his physical activity and adrenaline.

It does happen occasionally that he uses up more ectoplasm than he can replace, and this has the expected negative effects on his health as all that adrenaline and stress catches up to his heart without a buffer to mitigate it. He carries a canteen full of diluted ectoplasm with him in order to give his system the boost it needs in order to stabilize itself, which he can usually tell when he needs due to excessive fatigue/chest pains/dizziness/other arrhythmia symptoms he gets that means he's low on ectoplasm.

2 - Danny's arrhythmia is a form of bradycardia (which is a slower heartbeat) -- what type? Unspecified / Unknown thanks to it being ectoplasmic in nature.

3 - In that same breath, Danny also has to burn that ectoplasm off in some form or another because if he doesn't it builds up and causes him the same issues as if he was too low. It also causes him to become more emotionally volatile, restless, irritable, overstimulated, etc, which the stress of that then makes his heart condition worsen. If too much ectoplasm builds up, it'll cause a physical electrical shock/shortage. This is rare however, and usually is the equivalent of giving someone a painful static shock. At best it makes the lights flicker or technology fritz out for a few seconds.

While it doesn't have much effect on the physical world, it does expend a good chunk of ectoplasm. Think like dumping out a heavy bucket of water that you've been carrying for a while, or getting into a hot shower after being outside in the cold for hours. It's emotionally draining but very relieving.

4 - Danny can replenish ectoplasm or generate ectoplasm faster by resting, eating, consuming other ectoplasm (fastest), fulfilling his interests / doing things that makes him happy, or by being exposed to high amounts of ectoplasm in the area. He can also rapidly generate it by being in a volatile emotional state, but that drains ectoplasm almost as quickly, and runs the risk of causing flare ups in his arrhythmia.

5 - this is actually canon to the au but I figured it wouldn't hurt to expand more on it / clarify / confirm, but Danny post-Damian has chronic pain in his hands from the nerve damage he sustained. He has daily physical therapy exercises he's supposed to do that he does in the mornings/evenings and whenever his hands hurt/feel stiff. He wears compression gloves in his day-to-day life and gets Sam and Tucker's help to brainstorm ideas about how to make compression gloves for Phantom that can include his knuckledusters. His grip and hand strength is weakened.

He has bad hand days where his hands hurt more than usual. This can happen at random, but is more common after he's overused/strained his hands either the day before or earlier in the day. His fingers stiffen up for similar reasons, and he gets tremors. It's happened before where (for example) he's braiding his hair and unbraiding it, only to need someone else to finish the braid because his fingers stiffened up and don't want to work like he wants them to.

Massages, heat, pressure, etc. helps soothe the pain, and since Danny's a fidgety person his friends and family can usually tell when he has a flare up because any hand movements he was doing prior ceased/slowed suddenly, or he starts massaging his hands / stretching out his fingers.

Damian very stubbornly insists on massaging his hands for him when this happens, he has a lot of intense guilt for being the reason for Danny's chronic pain so he wants to alleviate it in anyway he can.

6 - Danny has what I like to call "Bruce-isms", a word I came up with just now that means he has Bruce Wayne mannerisms that come from the fact that he's still Bruce's clone. A Nature vs. Nurture thing. His Bruce-isms include the Bruce Grunts Of Ambiguous Tonal Meaning ("hm", "hrm", "hn"), his workaholism, his paranoia (on a milder scale), etc. They're small, relatively non-defining things that are quirks but don't make up his personality.

He's got what Sam and Tucker like to call "Bruce Wayne Moments" which are essentially Bruce-isms but only ones that Danny and his friends are aware of considering they only know Bruce as Brucie Wayne and not Batman. "Bruce Wayne Moments" include Danny being clumsy, doing something air-headed, being oblivious, etc. It's not a common joke among the three of them since Tucker and Sam know that Danny's still pr sensitive to the whole clone thing. So they only bring it up when he's done something stupid but hilarious.

7 - while clone^2 focuses more on Danny and Damian's relationship and Danny helping Damian develop his identity beyond just "Damian Wayne's Clone", Danny still suffers from his own identity crises. He sometimes gets jealous of Ellie and Damian for being "lucky" that they always knew they were clones, rather than finding out later in life.

He's aware that this is not fair to think and that Damian and Ellie both have their own struggles as clones, but he can't help it sometimes.

He tries not to think about it too much, but when things get too quiet or when he's not busy, Danny can't help but wonder how much of himself is things he's learned on his own and come from him, and how much of it comes from being Bruce Wayne's clone. He has to stop and count how many things are unique about him specifically when he starts to emotionally spiral. It's not rational, but it's not supposed to be.

As a result Danny kinda, hm, clings to his identity as the Phantom, just a little bit? He thinks it's one of the few things that he has autonomous control over as "Danny Fenton", rather than it being a result of him being Bruce Wayne's clone. Because Bruce Wayne isn't a vigilante! Right? Right?

Consequently this becomes one of the reasons that Damian keeps mum about Bruce Wayne's identity. The original reasons were because Danny asked not to know much about the LoA beyond what Damian already told him, and Batman was technically "apart" of the LoA, and secondly because he just didn't want Danny to get involved with Batman and co and Danny knowing about Bruce Wayne's identity could potentially cause that.

But as time goes on Damian kinda notices like, just how being a clone is affecting Danny even if he hides it from Damian pretty well. He can't really comprehend what it was like for Danny to grow up thinking he was normal like everyone else only to find out he was a clone, but he does see the hurt it's causing his brother. And he does notice that Danny was holding onto being Phantom quite a bit, and figured that if he found out Bruce Wayne was also a vigilante, it would hurt him beyond belief.

8 - So Danny's creation has been kept relatively,,, mmm,,, vague? considering I've been struggling for a time how I could plausibly have his creation happen without Bruce finding out about it immediately. And my conclusion is that around the time Danny was created, Bruce met up with the Fenton parents again for some reason or another -- checking out their tech under the guise of wanting to catch up with them.

And I can imagine that, due to being close friends in college, the Fentons literally just outright told him, "Hey we wanna 'nother kid but don't want to go through the risk of pregnancy again, so we're gonna make a clone of one of us instead"

and in true Bruce fashion, he mentally went "wow i should learn Everything And Anything About This Thing Specifically. Just In Case." and outwardly went "woah cool! ahaha how does it work"

and since the Fentons consider Bruce a close friend and are also incapable of Not Talking About Science, turned and went "OH WE CAN SHOW YOU" and showed Bruce their entire cloning process up to and including how they (safely) extracted the DNA they were gonna use. of which they already had. they were gonna just extract Jack's DNA a second time as an example, but it was Bruce who said "hey you should try me instead" in order to gauge how exactly safe this was and if there were any symptoms he would need to recognize in cloning.

so with his consent they did, and then showed him how they were going to use the DNA to make a clone without actually going through the process. Without prompting from Bruce, the Fentons went "we're gonna throw your DNA away though since we don't want this lying around and because we have no use for it" and visibly showed him that they were disposing it.

Bruce came to the conclusion that the Fentons weren't planning anything nefarious, they just really wanted another kid, and (reluctantly) left afterwards. The mixup comes when Maddie, surprisingly, misplaces the cartridge with Jack's DNA in it and while they could have always gotten another sample, it was better and safer to just try and find the original before that.

Jack finds Bruce's in their disposable. In his excitement, he forgets that it was Bruce's DNA, and manages to get it out safely. Maddie wasn't looking when he found it, and in her excitement also forgot to ask where Jack found it. They used that cartridge instead.

When they found out they used the wrong DNA, Danny was already about year old and while Jack and Maddie are morally dubious, they're only morally dubious towards ghosts. Danny was their beloved human baby, they would never do anything to him.

That being said, they were still horrified when they found out, and really, they genuinely did consider reaching out to Bruce to tell him. They thought it was something he deserved to know since it was his DNA that got used instead, and they felt awfully guilty after he trusted them enough to let them draw DNA from him. The only reason they hadn't is because, at the time, Bruce had been really busy with something in his public life and they didn't want to bother him during such a stressful time.

So they were going to wait, and in Fenton-like fashion, forgot to tell him. When the subject came up again sometime later, they assumed they already told Bruce and went about their day.

[toxooz]

Finally got to coloring and once I master packing color imma be all over this like a squirrel on a cheeto 🐿

[apiratefellinlovewithastar]

nooo don’t think about Marco unknowingly flying Izou up closer to his deathbed and internalizing it as being his fault yet another one of his siblings is dead youre so sexy aha

[lucky-fydraws]

Dungeon Meshi x Beastars AU, panel redraws.

Chilchuck as a red fox.

Reasoning: small species (compared to the rest of the main cast, at the very least), but among the tallest fox species (Chilchuck is a tall half-foot), fairly big ears, fur coloration similar to his hair (+ small joke with the “silver fox” expression, as he’s the oldest in the party. Even if he isn’t an actual silver fox here). Red foxes tend to have a reputation of being thieves, while also being incredibly smart, cunning and agile. Real foxes know how to break into hen pens, after all. Unlocking chests and disarming traps is only a short leap from there. Some old texts depicted them as smooth talkers too. I guess that doesn’t fit Chilchuck completely, but hey! He tends to drip with sarcasm whenever he opens his mouth, so I’d say it’s close enough.

I think most half-foots would fit as different fox species or mustelids. I can see Mickbell as a fennec fox, and Dandan as an bat-eared fox, or an American mink for a little bit of diversity (+ it draws a parallel between fur-farms and half-foots being considered as expendable by adventuring parties).

[velvetwyrme]

@idkthylocinesareprettydope Trust me, the alternative was worse.

He could have been Moe.

[meownotgood]

don't even know what I'm doing anymore

[yutamayo]

[lesbionia]

Do any of you gyns have experience with medically stopping your period through continuous birth control (or some other method)? My doctor keeps offering because I get insanely bad periods and I'm thinking of taking her up on it.

[rosakaebedo]

oops! ive become attached to another fictional throuple with no content! tehe

[forebodes]

i see you. you just… you just keep going. @ladyintree

ㅤthere's a flicker of a sharp smile — that same boyishly handsome smile that so many in the student body had fallen for — yanked on an even sharper exhale, like he's put his feelings on standby while he shuffles through the entire mess of it.

ㅤhe spends more time than he should wondering if things will ever be normal again. or as normal as things can be after your team's devoured their former captain. his mind frequently trips and stumbles on whether he'd ever be truly well - adjusted again, whether he'd find a man who could deal with this baggage that'd hang from him like an inoperable tumor, whether he'd simply forget for a split second and try and stand normally, only to stare in some far removed numbness at where his lower leg should've been, where there was now just a curve of skin and bone and think — normal? you had normal. and you threw it away.

ㅤ" at this point, tai? " and there's that little bit of hesitation, the second flash of a smile, more pain and confusion than anything malleable, as he all but sags against the wall. he knows what happens if he dies out here. he's seen it firsthand. " i don't really have much of a choice. "

ㅤit's there that the spontaneous, uncharacteristic well of bitterness dries up, curling such clipped words into something sour on his tongue, something that pulls him to tear his gaze down towards the makeshift bandages on his leg, run his tongue between his teeth and close his fingers over the jut of his half - empty limb.

ㅤ" i think . . . you of all people understand that. "

[floorpancakes]

smth so genius abt doumeki basically being the lore personification of not just being super fucking gay but the most stubbornly obvious example of watanuki being gently held up by a whole circle of people who love him unconditionally and that resistance towards unconditional love and being needed, something he sorely and visibly needs to function, fundamentally being the source of the fake beef. and like. meki is such a straightforward person it's impossible to look away. so there's several occasions of watanuki just fucking staring up at the ceiling post near death experience either with him or with yuuko and just. having quiet emotional outbursts where he processes it in chunks before taking pocketfuls of that love with him into the next try while packing the difficult stuff back into his head. and it's not even just this but in the back half we get to see the kind of fucking pain unconditional love puts them both through in ways I genuinely struggle to articulate but constantly try to. unconditional love of multiple kinds runs through watanuki's heart like a river but he hates it cause its a series of ropes tying him to the earth keeping him alive, but he loves it cause of that same reason. it's all so visceral. god

[vyrsm-txt]

Does anyone have recs for dark fiction / eroguro / gore / edgeplay blogs to follow perchance? 👉👈 Erotic and chaste are both OK

Art, writing, aes posting, and fanart focus are all OK!  I’m not squeamish when it comes to IRL injury, gory practical effects, and most BDSM/RACK, but would prefer not to see IRL sex (or follow blogs primarily focused on IRL/self-insert fantasy posting).  I also prefer angst to whump if that means anything to you!

[birdyverdie]

Some days i forget I'm a fic writer and then get hit with a really nice, well thought out comment in my email notification and I just have to spin around in a circle <3

[jils-things]

wish i got hubby telling me how im doin my best rn waaa