#aka this is what happened the day before they killed adam

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maybe I should read DNA again

[beomiracles]

HI HI! HAPPY 500!!! For this one I'm thinking about a Masochist!Soobin X Vampire!reader like reader is a bully to soobin bc she likes to see his cute reactions, who secretly likes him until reader got an idea that if she bites him what will be his reaction also reader is like a sadist for this one, when the blood moon appears thats when things get escalated aka spicy moment iykyk (congratulations for reaching 500! <33)

500 BASH SPECIAL

#serene adds ✎... I LOVE vampires. if anyone missed that vital piece of information ◟( ˃̶͈◡ ˂̶͈ )◞ and this idea was like gold? I fear the plot might be lacking a little? idk read and decide for yourself I say !

wc -> 1.6k

pairings soobin x vampire afab!reader (I can't remember if gender is stated but I wrote with a fem reader in mind) warnings elements bullying, blood drinking, masochist soobin (gets off on almost getting killed oopsies), handjob...I can't think of anything else its 2am, pls lmk if I missed any!

You liked Soobin. He smelled sweet, not like candy, no, you didn’t like candy. Soobin smelled like sweet nectar, carefully harvested from a blooming flower on a sunny spring day. His skin looked like honey and felt like gold beneath the tips of your fingers. — Soobin’s face flushed in all shades of pink and red whenever he got flustered. You liked making him like that, pushing his buttons just the right amount to get the perfect rise out of him. 

Soobin lets you push his buttons. He bows his head in shame as you empty the contents of his bag out on the floor in front of him. He bites his lip as you step on his books, crushing them under the sole of your shoe. He whines when you pull his ear, pushing him up against the nearest wall as you spit insults in his face. He never tells anyone. 

Soobin was perfect, too perfect for you to ever disregard as a quick meal. But his sweet smell remains engraved in your sharp mind, as if to torture you, and it did. 

It really was his own fault for being outside that one fateful night, the night of the blood moon. Tsk, humans never seemed to know better. You had never intended to take things that far, but under the red sky your eyes saw nothing but him, smelled nothing but him, felt nothing but him. 

The persistent beating of his heart as he walks along the sidewalk. His head hung low, the hood of his shirt shielding his pretty face from view. — It happens before you have the time to even think. He’s tall, but you’re strong; his lanky and unguarded frame was easy to yank into the nearest alleway. He doesn’t scream, and even if he did no one would’ve heard for your hand slams across his plump lips. 

His once startled and almost terrified expression wears off the second he sees your face. You frown but don’t give it much thought, his sweet nectar-like scent spreading like wildfire through your every fiber and you inhale, letting your eyes flutter closed. — “Stupid boy”, you mutter as you yank the hood of his hoodie down. “Don’t you know not to go out wandering by yourself late at night?” 

Your hand moves to his neck, giving it a firm squeeze as you watch his lips part in a soft gasp, the sound like music to your ears. “K-Knew you would come for me”, he croaks out, his cheeks flushing as his tongue darts out to swipe across his bottom lip. His statement catches you off guard and you peer up at him, red irises piercing through his honey tinted ones. It is then you realize that his heart is not beating out of fear, rather…excitement. 

Oh you’ve got to be kidding me. 

Still, he was rather cute. You could feel him swallow, adam's apple bobbing against the palm of your hand, the pumping of his rich blood flowing through his healthy veins that strained beneath your fingers. You exhale, not because your unbeating heart needed to, but rather to restrain yourself from just snapping his neck in half. 

“Why, have you been waiting, hm?” You drawl, sharp nails dragging across his jugular and he shudders as he nods. “Do you desire death?” You weren’t planning on killing him. He didn’t have to know that.  — He shakes his head as best as he can, his breath is reduced to short gasps as he fights for air, fights for life. “You.” His voice is raspy and you still as your eyes bore into him. 

“You. Is what I desire”, he gasps as your hands tighten around his neck. “Stupid boy”, you grunt. Did he not realize how hard he was making things, how dangerous he made them? Despite it all, you lean in, your nose grazing along his honey fresh skin, his blood surges beneath the surface and your eyes gleam in the eerie moonlight. 

Soobin lets out a strangled noise when your fangs sink into his skin, showing no mercy as they dig deep. Your eyes flutter closed and you groan at the taste of him, sweet nectar dancing on your tongue as you greedily let the searing hot liquid slip down your throat. — Just as you’ve gotten your first taste of him you realize that you can never let yourself do this again, that was if he even survived tonight. You were no stranger to human blood, especially not fresh from the core. But this, his blood, you felt your self control slipping between your fingers as his warm blood bloomed inside your cold body. 

His large hands are on your waist, you expect him to push you away, he doesn’t. He pulls you closer, whimpering as your thigh presses against his hard cock. It makes your eyes snap open and you rip yourself from his throat as you slam him even harder against the brick wall behind him, he groans as his mouth falls open. 

Your lips, coated in a thick layer of crimson turn into a scowl as you grip his chin harshly. “Sick human”, you sneer as you watch his already blushing cheeks practically explode in an ocean of red. “Do you get off on this shit?” You jeer as you watch him with disdain. The way his cock twitches against your thigh makes your nose turn up in disgust, “fuck, and I thought I was the bigger freak.” 

The way he writhers under you was almost endearing. A small noise deep in his throat pulls your eyes to his, only to find them full of desire. It wasn’t like you didn’t like Soobin, hell you liked him a lot, it had been centuries since you last felt something other than thirst for a lowly human like himself. It was why you hadn’t strayed far from him, not wanting his sweet nectar to attract others of your kind, creatures far more dangerous than yourself, creatures who most definitely wouldn’t hesitate to drain him dry. 

You heave a sigh, the grip on his chin unwavering as your free hand slides along his chest and down his pants. Soobin lets out a hoarse moan as your pale fingers wrap around his leaking cock, you grimace at how wet it was. Can’t believe I’m doing this. You mutter as you glance over at him. 

His face had quickly contorted into one of pure pleasure as his brows drew together, his ever pouty lips parted, his jaw slack and his gaze clouded. The sight was oddly enticing and you felt yourself tingle with arousal. — Hungry eyes travel down his neck, the punctures to his skin glinting in the moonlight as blood spills down his collarbone. Deeming your self control to be out of the picture already, you dive back in as your fangs re-pierce his throat. 

The taste was just as sweet as before, perhaps even sweeter as Soobin’s whines and moans echoed out in the alleway. Your thumb pressing down against his slit makes him squeal and you can practically feel his blood surging, his pleasure transpiring directly into your mouth as you swallow mouthfuls of his very life essence. 

His hips buck up against your hand, chasing your touch as his fingers dig into the skin of your waist. He was surprisingly strong for a human, the acknowledgment spurred you on further than you’d like to admit and you sighed against his neck. 

You could feel his tall frame grow weaker and weaker in your grasp, whether it was because of the lack of blood he suffered or his nearing orgasm, you didn’t know. “Please”, he gasps as his head falls back against the bricked wall. Humans and their persistent begging, half the time they didn’t even know what they wanted, yet they were rarely pleased. 

It takes all your willpower to finally withdraw from his throat and he hisses as you do. “Please, please, please”, he whimpers when your tongue drags across the wounds on his neck, savoring the last droplets of  sweet nectar. — Your wrists flicks over the head of his cock, pulling a cry from him as his teeth sink into his bottom lip. “What?” You groan as you tug on his weeping dick, making him shudder as he shakes his head. 

“Need more..” he pleads as his hopeful eyes meet yours. You snort as you pull his face by his chin, forcing him down eye level with you. “Take what you’re offered”, you sneer before releasing his face with a push. He whines as his back hits the wall behind him, “wanna kiss you.” — You were seriously starting to consider the option of snapping his neck after all. 

“Stupid human–” You begin but the rest of your sentence is swallowed by his lips on your own as Soobin’s large hand guides the back of your head. His blood on your lips mingles with his saliva as he pushes his eager tongue inside your mouth. With a small roll of your eyes you let them flutter closed as your lips move against his. 

The second he feels your sharp fang grace his tongue he comes undone as he whimpers into your mouth. His cock twitches in your tight grasp as he coats your pale hand in hot cum. “F-fuck”, he whines as he wraps an arm around your waist, pulling you impossibly closer. The rapid beating of his heart consumed your senses and you felt yourself go lightheaded. 

He pulls back, just enough to where his lips still hover above yours, smeared in his own blood and he pants. He swallows, hard, “I wanna taste you too”, he states and your mouth parts as you huff out a short breath of disbelief. 

Jesus fucking christ.  

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Part 14- taking these wounds to their grave

"I'm battered and broken, my spirit's been stolen, but I'm taking these wounds to their grave. Surrounded by allies with fire in their eyes, for the past I don't need to deny." -Relentless by The Nearly Deads

Masterlist Part 13

In all honesty, learning his girlfriend was a Queen Regent for a different realm wasn’t the weirdest thing to happen to him. Sure, being told that ‘hey, by the way, we forced this substance that tastes like pop-rocks and sprite down your throat to save you from dying again’ was on that list too, but Jason had fucking died. His death was brutal, no doubt, but the weirdest part was the fact that he had been a Revenant the moment he awoke in his coffin. 

A vengeful spirit unable to move on. 

Forced to wander the earth until their reason for clinging to the mortal realm is satisfied. 

It hurt his heart in a phantom reminder of what he had suffered the same day Joker had been brutally murdered, the pain off what had been his second death due to his ‘reason’ being satisfied. 

(It hurt more to realize that he had never needed Bruce to kill Joker.)

(It had all been for nothing.) 

Jazz was quiet where she was tucked up against him in the large medical bed the Yeti had treated him in, not yet asleep by her breathing but calmly existing with him in this space. 

It was everything he needed. 

Jazz was truly the other half of his soul, the one he was meant to find. 

(She avenged him.) 

(She saved him.) 

He would marry Jasmine Nightingale aka the Regent of the Realms aka Lady of the Acropolis, he would be her staunchest supporter as the world keeps turning around them. What else is he meant to do in the face of her overwhelming love for him? 

(She avenged him.) 

(She saved him.) 

They still had more to discuss and Jason would continue to swallow down the question that began with ‘Will you’ and ended with ‘Marry me’ amidst the others he needed answers for. They’d only been dating a month, so it would be a while before Jason was comfortable even allowing thoughts of matrimony to blossom from seed to full bloom. 

(He wanted everything with her.) 

(His Lady.) 

(The Lady to his Knight.) 

(Jason Nightingale had a nice ring to it.)

Jason kissed the top of Jazz’s head and pulled her further onto his chest before he fell back asleep, content with having his lady in his arms again. 

Bruce wanted to laugh and cry in equal measure as he studied the pictures of his wayward son with his girlfriend, laughing, smiling, in love. Oh, Bruce could tell how smitten Jason was by how he looked so fondly at Jasmine Nightingale, the civilian his son had chosen to build a relationship with. On paper, they shared a common love of reading (Jason was classical literature, Jasmine was psychological thrillers), and an excellence at school (Jasmine had a 4.0 gpa), but there was little else to draw them together. 

Yet, despite this, the two were happy together. They were in love. His son was in love. 

And he was missing. 

(Bruce swallowed down the grief at Jason being dead…again.)

(He’d been missing before, he’ll turn up.)

It was worrying that the sub-dermal tracker stopped working while Jason was at Jasmine’s apartment, but there had been no immediate sign that they’d been caught in the explosion or remained trapped in the debris. 

Phantom had vanished almost as soon as he entered, no doubt on the trail of what had disturbed the spirit’s haunt so violently. It was concerning how competent the child ghost was at fighting, how angry Phantom became when there was a threat he had to face. Insult, demean, threaten him and the boy laughed it off with a casual grace that spoke of experience, but turn that attention to the people he claimed as his? No chance in the infinite realms that he wouldn’t find you. Constantine had been adamant to leave the spirit alone, to let him exist in his way, but the Magician often went out of his way to let others deal with his messes, so Bruce often took his advice with far more than a grain of salt. 

\B, Phantom’s back. He says Hood is fine./

Relief coursed through the big bat, untightening the knot in his chest. Jason was fine. He is fine. 

His eyes drifted back to the pictures splashed across the bat computer, the adoration in Jason’s gaze as he focused on his girlfriend was the common theme between all the candid shots Barbara had shared. Jasmine always leaned into his frame or held his hand, just sharing his space, body language comfortable and open. 

(He could have a daughter-in-law very soon.)

(Maybe even a grandchild.)

Bruce let a smile slowly stretch across his face at the idea of being a grandfather, of finally retiring from the cowl and WE to be doting on a granddaughter or grandson, spending time with his family while he was still able to in this life.

(A part of him squealed and clapped at the very thought of more family gracing these once-empty halls.)

But first, he had to talk to his son and meet his future daughter-in-law.

Bruce was about to activate his comms, to have Tim get more information about Jason, but an urgent message from Diana, demanding he’s needed in the Watch Tower. 

Constantine was summoning the Ghost King. 

Phantom had in fact left the apartment building. 

Jazz’s familiar teal-tinted portal opened for him to step through while he investigated and he didn’t waste any time crossing over to the Realms to where Jazz awaited him. 

And there she was, arms outstretched and awaiting him to embrace her. 

“Thank the Ancients!” Phantom exclaimed, diving into her waiting arms to wrap around his big sister, their different temperatures ignored in favor of communicating his relief with chirps and trills. 

Worry. Safe. Concern. RELIEF. Protect? 

Jazz clutched him tighter to her, nuzzling his soft white hair as she chirped back. 

Safe. Relief. Guilty. LOVE. 

At least Jazz would never fail to communicate her love for him, even while trying to reassure him she was okay. 

Phantom’s core purred and Jazz’s Proto-core echoed it, albeit weaker in frequency. They stayed like that, hugging each other right outside the tribe’s boundary for a while before Jazz spoke. 

“Little brother, we have to talk.” 

Those words beginning a conversation often led to him being angry or upset, but Jazz hadn’t needed him to be so serious for quite a while.  

“Hmm?” 

She shifted her weight a bit, readjusting her grip around Phantom’s form.

“It’s about Jason…I told him about me.” 

“As in,” Phantom began, pulling back from the hug, “you told him about Amity and…me?” 

Jazz puffed out a sigh, a wisp of breath in a mockery of his ghost sense hanging in the air between them. 

“I told him about us being ecto-contaminated, me being the most liminal being and all, but I told him I wouldn’t share your secrets.”

Phantom grinned, “Good because it’s about time I gave him a shovel talk.” 

“No, little brother.” Jazz got a pained look on her face for a moment as the frosty air grew tense. A summoning and a painful one at that. “Phantom-” 

“Go, I’ll talk to your boyfriend.” 

“Be nice, not bitchy nice.” 

“I’m always nice!”  

He only received a scoff before Jazz was dragged along by the summoning, a brief flash of her armor appearing signaling it was a serious situation. Phantom did not envy the idiot who tried to summon the Ghost King only to get the Regent instead. 

Speaking of idiots, Phantom had a Liminal to lecture and threaten. 

“Hurt her and I’ll shove you into a thermos, mix you into a smoothie, and drink you for breakfast.”

“Creative.” 

With that out of the way, Phantom floated over to Jason’s side and poked his stomach. 

“You doing ok?” He questioned, concern for his fellow vigilante bleeding through. Sure, he cared about Jason the human, but Red Hood was infinitely cooler. 

“Yeah, kid. I’m doing good.” Jason shuffled a bit more towards the center of the large cot, “You’re Danny Nightingale.” It was definitely not meant to be an accusation, Phantom was sure, but it sure felt like one. 

The ghost kid nodded, “I’m a Halfa, half-ghost and half-human. When in ghost form, I prefer Phantom.” 

“They/him?” 

Phantom shrugged, “Close enough.” 

Jason snorted, “How’re you doing kid?” 

“I’m currently talking to my sister’s boyfriend about to give him a crash course on the spooky and ooky.” The halfa grinned, “I couldn’t be better.” 

“Was that a reference?” 

“Was what a reference?”

“Nevermind.”

To say Jason was horrified was a gross understatement. 

He was so far past horrified he was well into confused panic at the sheer audacity of what he was currently hearing... 

“You’re the rightful Ghost King, but you’re too young in human and ghost cultures to rule in your name so your older sister is acting as your Regent. Do I have that right?” 

“Pretty much, yeah.” 

(Wow, Jazz was a badass.)

“Wait, but she goes by Regent as a vigilante?” 

“It was easier than calling her anything else, a lot of the ghosts refer to Jazz as either Regent, Your Majesty, or My Lady so she’s grown used to responding to them.” 

“Hold up- Lady?” 

Another hum, “Jazz is the Lady of the Acropolis, a former student of Pandora, the Guardian of Hope and Ancient of Peace.” 

“Wow, my girlfriend is awesome.” 

Phantom chuckled, a soft pat on Jason’s shoulder, “And don’t you forget it.” 

Whatever face Jason made as he realized he was courting a Lady, an actual Lady with a title and everything, was hilarious enough to make Phantom burst out laughing. 

Whatever, Jason could take the mockery from Phantom as long as his family never found out about him dating a Lady. His brothers would never let him live it down, that he was living out his Regency fantasies. 

(Fuckers, they’re just jealous he got a badass with a sword.) 

“Where is Jazz?” 

Phantom cringed, “She, uh, had to deal with something?” It was phrased as a question. 

“Something we should be worried about?” 

“For Jazz?” There was a hint of hero worship in his tone as the Ghost spoke of his sister, “We should be worried for the poor idiot that summoned her.” 

(Hold up.) 

“Summoned?” 

“Summoned, keep up.” 

Put a pin in that for later. “Why would anyone want to summon Jazz?” 

“Oh, I don’t know. It’s not like she’s Regent of the Realms Infinite.” Ok, yeah, Jason deserved that sass. He was still wrapping his head around the fact that Jazz, his lovely spitfire of a soulmate girlfriend had Regency over a dimension of ghosts because Holy Shit. 

(He was totally simping over her, he’s man enough to admit it.)

Somehow that seemed more of a staggering revelation than being told he had been a Revenant with corrupted Ectoplasm that had technically died for a second time when he had those severe chest pains, only to be revived by Jazz pouring pure ecto down his throat. 

(The same Ecto she needs to keep herself healthy.)

(He wondered if Jazz had felt the connection between them even then.)

An unexpected summoning was a shard of ice in her spine, twisting like a knife of betrayal in the nerves, utter agony. Jazz had little warning, little time to brace herself before she was hooked behind her navel and yanked.

Thank the Ancients she wasn’t in the shower, because whoever dared to summon the Ghost King was not going to receive an eyeful for their trouble. 

Jazz allowed her armor to materialize, a slick sensation of water down her back soothed the lingering pain of the brutal summons, but her back plate soon settled firmly in place and irritated the nerves more so. 

Just as her helmet locked into place, sealing her fully into her armor, green smoke announced her arrival with a dramatic flair she couldn’t find humor in. 

Rested on one knee, head bowed, the Regent was quite an intimidating sight for the uninitiated. 

Her helmet, full coverage with a crown of green shards embedded into its pulsing ebony metal, only allowed the green tint of her eyes to shine through. Once her head lifted, the several shivers her gaze got proved how effective it was at unnerving others. 

With a breath, the Regent stood. 

And so we continue….

A/N:

If you're confused by the ending it picks up from Part 12, my special Jason Todd/Red aesthetic entry for the series. Part 12 to 13 takes place right beforehand, so we'll be entering into the endgame of the Anti-Ecto Acts being repealed soon.

Kudos and thanks to my beta reader @meditating-cat. Apparently I over use commas, who knew?

They had one thing to say about Jason in this part: SIMPPPP

I agree, I'm a totally dork for Simp!Jason and Loving!Jazz.

As for other news, I've been making a bunch of boards for The Regent (and my Revenant!Jazz prompt) while I've been sick, so there's that. I don't like many of them anyways.

A surprise poll will be included in an upcoming part, maybe not the next one, but it will come so keep an eye out for it because the answer will be included in the series.

Happy Holidays and best wishes from me to you!

-Love, the one strong with the sarcasm

[star-boi0720]

Giant lore dump here, basically they're the seven deadly sins, in my version to become one you commit an act to break a seal that Irene made to contain the devil within and their punishment is to become the new host for said devils. so I'm gonna go person by person and explain how they became a sinner

(the concepts aren't complete, still needs work but I just want to have it written down)

Aaron-Wrath, has a similar backstory to the OG, but I added a thing I remembered from Emerald Secret of the Utltimas backstory (this was solely from my memory and might not be exact) and took Zane out of the equation, basically Aaron had a hobby of hunting and he without knowing killed this holy wolf that Irene created, and as a punishment he was combined with it and in the foggy haze of his transformation he murdered his whole village and his family.

Lucinda-Gluttony, Her hunger for knowledge killed her best friend(/ maybe girlfriend aka Sasha don't 100% know yet) and sealed away her mother to the cursed forest. Hyria used to have like a coven/school for witches she made after Irene left. Lucinda was a prodigy and wanted to just keep learning to the point she was so desperate she stole a book her mother told her never to even touch (which had sin inside and was trusted to hyria by Irene) which made Lucinda's magic go crazy and destroy the school and seal her mom away and kill Sasha.

Travis-Lust, so his mom dies to seal his dad away all that's the same but Travis is just super lonely right, but then a girl comes to visit him and he eventually falls in love with her but she actually is a member of his fathers cult to break him free and Travis is so obsessed with her he doesn't notice, and before he can stop her fully she partially freed him and travis in the struggle to stop her he kills her and breaks his mothers necklace(which had lust inside) but right after he kills her a bunch of villagers burst into the chamber the demon warlock was locked in and it looks like Travis just sacrificed some girl to his father and they try to kill him so Travis hides deep in the mountains

Katelyn-Envy, her entire life in her village of dragons she was treated as lesser compared to her brothers Kayden and Cain cause she wasn't as strong as them and she pushed herself but wasn't enough, her jealousy boiled over and in a fight with her brother Kameron she broke a statue that had the sin inside she didn't kill him but burned him beyond recovery

Garroth- Pride, He was the cocky prince troupe kinda like Hercules from the Disney movie and he liked to play hero, and vylad always went with him like Garroth's little sidekick. but one day they came against a monster they couldn't beat and Garroth refused to back down and in which the monster which was a huge lion killed vylad garroth killed it but it had the sin of pride inside it Garroth returned home and when he told his mother of what happened she hid him away knowing the world would see garroth as a threat and kill him. So Evelyn(Aka Zianna I changed a lot of the parent's names cause it seemed repetitive to me, so mom is now Evelyn and the father's name is now Adam) sent Garroth to hide in Phoenix Drop and claimed the beast killed both of them.

Zane- Greed, Zane was always a good man the whole kind young priest get up. but after the sudden deaths of his brothers, his faith was shaken, and in a desperate attempt to bring them back he began to research black magic and corrupted his mind and he opened a box deep in the catacombs of Okasis which was Pandora's box which held the sin of greed and became and the once kind prince became a true monster.

Nana-Sloth Nana is the eldest daughter of a duke of the Tula Kingdom, her mother died when Nana was young and her father was very heartless about it, like had a new wife in 2 days and all her other siblings were only her half she tried to be close to them but her father kept her away from them to the point she stopped trying after so long but on a night a raid happened she was only able to save one of her siblings her youngest Juno who was only like 7 but as she was escaping she broke a mirror that had the sin of sloth inside and possessed her and nana escaped to ruan and made her little cafe with her sister. (Nanas I don't fully like it yet but it is something ig)

So that's pretty much just some tragic mfrs sorry for any spelling mistakes

[artsyannierose]

Nene’s Dead Corpse and her ghost bf

randomly made a crap ton more sense to me

why?

fricking school (screw school I hate you (no not rly I’m just stressed))

Anyway I’m a biomed class where unit 1 is studying medical investigations forensic science style

and one of the things is like, what happens to a person after the body has been dead for a while (post mortem or sum, see im learning :D)

Things like algor mortis, livor mortis, I’ve heard of. In fact I’ve even studied the clouding of the corneas before, but it never got to me till today

maybe it’s cause I cannot for the life of me study forensics without my wild imagination giving me nightmares or just panicking when I’m alone but aNyWays

I tend to imagine characters associated with death in these scenarios so I don’t lose it in class���

*cough* Nene *cough cough*

So as I was taking notes on the slideshow, some of the images of clouded corneas reminded me strangely of something familiar, but at that point I couldn’t tell. There’s something haunting about the eyes (or maybe it’s just my over-analytical brain loving small details like this) they’re GORGEOUS

LIKE

IDK THEYRE PRETTY

Maybe it’s ‘cause the true color of the iris is completely visible in all its glory, without the pupil obscuring it

(something like this?? A little vivid tho lol)

but like

there’s no

life

no reflection, no emotion…nothing (which is so hauntingly beautiful leave me alone I’m a sucker for this now)

it’s literally just an eye with nothing but color

and then it hit me…it’s exactly the look Nene had when Mirai fast-forwarded her time

you can see in the image it’s just her plain magenta eyes with a fuzzy de-saturated blob in the center…aka clouded corneas

And that honestly made me realize that in this scene she’s not—she’s not even unconscious

No she’s literally, physiologically dead

THAT IS A CORPSE HE IS HOLDING

she is literally a dead body this hits me so hard😭😭

and I can imagine algor mortis kicked in by then, her body was probably cold to the touch

so imagine how he felt, and I’m aware people have analyzed his emotions but just think about it

he’s always seen her so full of life and hope, and now all he has left is an empty shell of her, cold and dead with no life left inside

…just like him

the more I think about it Hanako is just an animated corpse

he has no reflection in his eyes most of the time because he is ✨dead✨

I mean Mei, Mitsuba, and Hanako don’t have a little white reflection dot like Nene and Kou

Or maybe I’m overthinking it and Nene’s eyes are just super reflective

even for someone who presumably took his own life, he probably never saw tsukasa’s body start postmortem and actually feel dead bc it looked extremely bloody ngl (I’m guessing he killed himself right after 💔)

and now he’s holding someone he cares about like this for the first time and I’ll bet that scarred him

and he figured out that never, never ever did he ever want to see his sweet assistant like this again, lifeless in his arms

and so after that, cue Hanako in his villain era who basically became a yandere the entire picture perfect lmao

and he was unbelievably adamant about it too

I mean honestly if I held anybody I knew lifeless like that I’d be scarred for life and crying for days

seeing the light drained from someone’s eyes is so interestingly sad to me

Look at the difference:

Happy

vs Sad/Determined

vs Depressed (ig??)

vs Dead

She still has so much emotion in her eyes

and then d e a d

literally looks like a porcelain doll

wait she looks so pale in the last image compared to the others now that I think about it

I love aidairo’s eye for detail it’s so fun to figure out

Well anyways thanks for coming to my Ted Talk essay atp-

IT’S PAST 1 AM AND I SHOULD BE STUDYING FOR SAID BIOMED CLASS AND HERE I AN GOING ON A TANGENT ABOUT A FICTIONAL CHARACTER’S EYES

send help

anyways excuse me while I grab a box of strawberries to munch on and cry my eyes out all over my homework before I sleep-

[whatchuwaitinfor]

A Theory We Have About Adam and Lute’s Glitching Masks in Season 1; Episode 8.

None of this is technically true other than what we know of sinners can’t go to the other rings in Hell; they can most likely still only go and stay at the Pride ring.

In Hazbin Hotel s1/e8, when Lute stabbed Dazzle and left him to bleed out and Adam was strangling Charlie, almost killing her, their masks glitched for a minute.

How the theory we have goes is our favorite boy Lucifer went to Heaven either before or after the first extermination so he can settle a deal with Heaven but specifically with Sera, Adam and Lute.

Making it so they only have access to the Pride ring, aka Lucifer’s ring and they can only exterminate if they don’t kill any hellborn. We see hellborn all throughout Helluva Boss and somewhat in the actual series of Hazbin Hotel. Like all of the cast of Helluva Boss and Razzle, Dazzle, KeeKee and Fat Nuggets in Hazbin. He had to say ‘not hellborn but sinners are fine I guess’ because Heaven wouldn’t take the extermination just not happening. It’s the only option they’d listen to. They get to kill sinners to deal with what they want to deal with, they touch a spear/just try to kill a hellborn for a millisecond, the deal is broken and Lucifer can come in and slaughter them and then it’s full out war between Heaven and Hell. Since Lucifer’s power is really close to God’s, he’s the leader of Hell, no exorcist is stronger than him. Adam comes close to Lucifer’s power but nope. Dead.

Anyway, back to the glitching masks. The exorcists masks start to glitch as a warning in telling them that they’ve gone too far because they killed a hellborn or are about to kill a hellborn. Now Lucifer can come in and kill them if he wants to and they caused a full out war between Heaven and Hell.

Once Lute stabbed Dazzle and after bleeding out, Dazzle died and Adam tried to kill Charlie because she’s technically a hellborn but not because she was born in Hell between Lucifer and Lilith, they’ve caused a war.

Or the deal was, if they tried to kill Charlie and the other people of hell that aren’t sinners, they’ve caused a war. It’s one of those things, but we kind of believe the top thing more, but either way, something’s up with the glitching because it doesn’t make sense unless you really think about the possibilities.

Again, these are just theories, none of us truly know what the reasoning is, not even the VAs, just the people who made the show for us to watch. If you wish to put what you think in, you can, just be respectful, that’s all I ask.

Thank you! Have an amazing day, my girls, guys and non-binary they’s!

[reinekes-fox]

Okay i wanna try to remember everything i wanna say.

Spoilers... probably alot!! Sorry.

I'm gonna number this!:

1. I loved being able to play the game all over again because it felt new to me even tho duh it's not.

2. I liked being a dove. It was my first playthrough as a dove and i was suprised at the optional dove RO even tho we've encountered her before.

3. I still think jonah is absolutely adorable omg.

4. Chase is still a goddamn menace but again romancing him as a Dove just hits different. I still have to do my baby elronds route again and astroria is actually scary. Her and marcel gimma the creeps no lie 🤣 I'd take the yandere aka droznik over them anyday.

Getting onto the update:

1. I still think basti is hot even tho he wants to kill me. Like bruh just lemme flirt with you're dead ass 😒

2. I'm gonna murder Adam!!! Legit. Especially if you were all flirty with him before. My poor baby MC he just thought the dude liked him.

3. Our mother still sucks.

4. Can i stop like dying???!!! 7 on 1 is cowardice 😒 also love how Chase literally kisses us out of a trance.

5. I was not expecting Drozniks' revelation at all!!!! That threw me for a whole loop.

6. There is a scene at the hospital you probably can't fix tho where on his route he helps you get dressed but then all of a sudden Its Fuschia, which confused tf out of me ngl 🤣

I loveeeeeeed the update. Like I've been playing it the whole day and it's like almost 5pm now. I seriously am so obsessed with this i dont think you really get it.

Curses to your goddamn laptop tho because now i gta wait like forever to reach a conclusion to all the unfinished bits and it's torture. Yes yes i know I'm sorry 😞 it sucks for you too but i just wanna side eye your laptop once.

Never apologise! This gives me really meaningful insight as to what the players can’t reach because of my spaghetti code!

(Actually played through it today myself and man it’s bad… so much stuff is missing, tangled that characters who have no business showing up so just show up, you can do things you shouldn’t be able to do)

1. Why don’t you give raven (or beizen again) a chance? :3 they actually got something new in store!

2. every volery will have its own unique RO, most will just show up later! (Because I don’t want to add even more variables to the birthday…)

3. Jonah is a knight in shining armour.

4. Oh can I maybe interest you in giving Marcels route a chance? And poor Astoria, she just wants to put a ring on your finger :(

Update (yes let me know all you liked!)

1. in one route he will save your life actually!

2. poor Adam was just as shocked as you were! „Fuck that hot guy is talking to a vampire…“ and he will write you later, feeling really bad about it!

3. mother dearest, the sad thing is that she actually improved from when she raised MC!

4. oh you aren’t dead just yet! Kind stranger saved you! And yeah chases kiss too

5. that was my plan all along!

6. that happens everywhere it’s awful 😭

How do you think I am feeling, sitting on all this stiff in my head but I can’t write it 🥲 it’s horrible… I have so much stuff I want to put in there… but I can’t…

[ekat-fandom-blog]

Role Reversal AU

Basically, the heroes are villains and the villains are heroes or civilians.

There's a lot of information that I packed into this post.

Beings that aren't included in the swap are: Captain Marvel/Shazam/Champion Teth/Black Adam Captain N*zi (because fuck no is any n*zi going to be anything but evil. No Marvel mistakes with this au.) The Seven Deadly Enemies of Man Literally all of the villains trapped on/in the Rock of Eternity Orange Lantern The Blue Lanterns The Indigo Lanterns White and Black Lanterns Demons maybe Constantine? what do you guys think? Darkseid (good darkseid could be interesting tho) Doomsday Hfuhruhurr (aka Word-Bringer; an alien that collects brains from all over the universe to create an immortal hive mind called "The Union") Mongul 5th dimensional beings (they just like annoying people in general) Pariah Dark probably more

Some Heroes: Amity Park - Plasmius, Technus, Skulker, GIW, Maddie & Jack Gotham - Joker, Two-Face, Bane, Killer Croc, Poison Ivy, Ra's Al Ghul (the LOA is more like a secret watcher's society but more infighting in a friendly way) Metropolis - Lex Luthor, Cyborg Superman, Metallo, Parasite London - Cheetah, Giganta, Circe(part-time) Justice League (leaders) - Talia Al Ghul, Lex, Professor Zoom, Cheetah, Star Sapphire (Carol Ferris), Black Manta, Cyborgirl Justice League (general) - Poison Ivy, Gorilla Grodd, Captain Marvel, Red Lantern(Guy Gardner), etc.

Most villains who don't commit any violent crime are simply civilians in this au. (ex: Catwoman, Box Ghost, or Kite Man) Some villains - like Sivanna - become civilians while their family members become villains.

Some background info:

Danny dies and it pisses him off that his parents don't notice. Sam and Tucker agree and they become menaces to Amity Park. Maddie and Jack notice and decide that someone needs to reign in the troublemakers, which makes things worse. Then, the ghosts start noticing and they start sending a ghost to take care of the rogue ghost. Eventually, they find that Skulker and Technus are best suited to deal with the trio. Wolf and Cujo join the trio. Plasmius joins Skulker and Technus and they start trying to clone Danny to try to create an equal to fight against him. The clones are mostly viable because of the help of Technus and the Fentons. Team Phantom kill the clones except for Dani, who joins them. Jazz, while not evil, isn't good either. She just wants to prevent her brother from killing their parents. Because all the good guys are much less concerned with keeping civilians safe, there are a few casualties, which includes Jazz. Jazz notices that Team Phantom might be right about her parents, so she leaves Amity and eventually teams up with Zatanna. TLDR; Danny's mad at his parents and makes Team Phantom to cause chaos around Amity Park. Jazz leaves after she dies and joins Zatanna.

Zatanna (and her father) were low level thieves that were performing as stage magicians before Nabu's helmet turned Giovanni into Dr Fate. Zatanna became enraged at how he wouldn't give her father back and started murdering and stealing other magic user's powers and tomes in hopes of one day returning her father to her. After she found Jazz, who offered to help remove the helmet, she stopped murdering as many people. The two often help Klarion get in the way of Nabu's plans to get rid of anything he perceives as chaotic. While they happen to befriend Klarion, they never stop stealing.

Bruce becomes Owlman and is in charge of the Court of Owls. Tim, Dick, and Jason become Talons. Alfred is known as the Executioner. Barbara is a jewel thief until she loses the ability to walk thanks to falling off a roof while being chased by Joker. After, she becomes a cyber security threat that constantly steals, releases criminals from jail, and hacks into whatever tech the heroes use. Kate becomes a mob boss. Signal starts out stealing, but accidentally turns into a small time mob boss that works on the opposite side of the city. Commissioner Gordon is a corrupt cop who is firmly in Bruce's pocket. He sometimes fills in for Bruce during CoO meetings when Lucius can't. Cass is an assassin called Orphan that inspires more fear than (canon) Deathstroke. Steph got annoyed by how often her dad (cluemaster) was out of the house and became Spoiler - a villain similar to (canon) Riddler. Selena, while she's a civilian, also happens to be Bruce's street level informant.

Clark, while still having been raised by Martha and John Kent and becoming Superman, decides that being a hero is rather boring. While ruling the world sounds intriguing, he's seen many other villains that are just as competent as he is that want to rule. So he decides that he wants to be a complete (rather dark) nuisance. He ruins buildings by tagging them with his heat vision, freezes major water sources, cloned Lex and himself (technically it's a test tube baby but whatever) once, finds ways to steal everyone's stashes of kryptonite, and sometimes murders people. Kon or Conner lives with Lex part time and has two loving parents, both of which don't understand why he enjoys randomly jumping into their battles and fighting them both (causing as much property damage as possible). Lois helps keep criminal activity out of the papers and clocks Clark as Superman right away. She regularly publishes smear campaigns against the heroes and paints Superman in good light. Kara and her clone - Powergirl - regularly fight against Parasite and Cyborg Superman who constantly thwart their plans to take over the world (they're taking Lex's route).

Green Lanterns are like corrupt cops whose mission is to exert their will over others. Hal kills his dad's previous employer while Sinestro tries to stop him. Sinestro creates the Sinestro Corps and is much more like "our and others' fears fuel us and drive us to be able to save people" rather than "fear is true power and should be used as a way to control people". When Parallax takes over Hal, they become the ultimate hero but over time Parallax starts to become corrupted by his willpower and Specter jumps in to keep Parallax from becoming the ultimate evil. After a while Parallax decides that Sinestro is a much better host and both him and Specter leave Hal, who decides to take a long break doing petty crime before breaking the Green Lanterns out of prison. Carol, in the beginning, stops Hal and other Green Lanterns from committing crimes but eventually stops and focuses mostly on taking care of her business and the Star Sapphires. The Green Lantern's main enemies are the Yellow Lanterns, Red Lanterns, and the Manhunters. Blue Lanterns tend to avoid the Green Lanterns and work with the Manhunters.

Barry is super cruel and Eobard Thawne (aka Reverse Flash or Professor Zoom) came from the future to prevent him from destroying everything. Barry's backstory is either he killed his mom and pinned it on his dad, or he ran away from home a few times and his parents died while trying to find him. Thawne is very careful about avoiding Barry while he's a civilian, but is aware that he needs to be close in order to prevent Barry from destroying the timeline or murdering everyone.

Diana has plans on taking over the world of man and eradicating the men while leaving the women in order to create a perfect world for women. Cheetah, Giganta, and (to a lesser extent) Cerce understand that men are needed just as much as women are in order for the world to continue on.

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Feel free to add your own ideas or use this for a fic!

[justaravingwritingdesk]

I love the fact that there are no real coincidences in Evillious at any point in the story—at least, as far as I know.

So far, everything that's happened in the series can be traced back to something, be it in the past or in the future. Like how the disaster that was the Reign of Evil started because of Rin getting possessed by a demon, which in turn was planned by Rin's mom's jealous friend who happens to be empress dowager of another kingdom. Or how Hänsel and Gretel murdered of their adoptive parents, which Meta—the twins' birth mother—viewed as karma on Eve for taking her children and murdering her; too bad for Meta, the latter was her karma for murdering Eve's father. There's also Banica's gluttony was the result of her abusive childhood, which was caused her parents being infected by a disease that manifests as gluttony, which happened to be a scheme by a wicked witch to cause disaster. Oh, and let's not forget how Kayo murdered an entire family because she was jealous they were alive and whole but hers wasn't, but then again she wouldn't have murdered Kai's family if he didn't kill hers first, so that one's on Kai for poor decisions made (racism is a choice, not a given, fyi).

Plus, fun fact: every single contractor isn't innocent of their Sin—they were already predisposed to it from the start.

Cherubim Venomania, aka “Sateriasis,” was hungry for love. Since “lust” in its basest form is desire, and hunger is desire for something you don't have or are lacking in, this makes Cherubim prime pickings for the Demon of Lust.

Karchess Crim is mad at Duke Venomania for kidnapping his lover. Of course he'd contract Wrath.

Banica Conchita was—and still is—a glutton. That it was a result of her childhood makes no difference. Still a glutton.

Riliane Lucifen D'Autriche was selfish, even before her possession. She was selfish, so she didn't give her food to Banica. That left her open to possession by the demon, nevermind the throwaway fact that Banica couldn't touch Alexiel. And later on, with the removal of her twin from her memory, she only grew more selfish and alone, couple that with her pride as a royal and the ideal she has of her royal mother... that's more than enough for Marie to feed on. Notably, as one of the few contractors to break their contracts, she still retains her selfishness, though she isn't as arrogant as she was during her days as a contractor.

Clarith was justifiably angry at Rin for killing her first and closest friend. Simple yet powerful enough for Seth (or was it Adam who tricked her?) to feed on.

I don't really know about Ney Phatipe (or Marlon). For one, there's her past with Banica, but there's also her identity as Gretel to consider. Banica herself stated that she needs Gretel's soul to become Master of the Graveyard. Apart from that, nada.

Kyle Marlon is kind of a sad case. For one, his “love” for Ms. Margaret and Michaela—the same love which the Demon of Lust fed on—could be attributed to their resemblance to Eve, what with Banica calling him the “Soul of Adam” of his era. The Demon of Pride on the other hand fed on his insecurities and his lack of control over his own life, blinding him to his own failings and instead making him focus on what he believed to be right. No wonder both demons called him “boring”.

Isabel Ismael, the original Seventh Magician, wanted power. She didn't have enough magic power to be Julia's apprentice, so instead she got the Venom Sword.

Lemy—same reasons as Ney.

Gumilia and Seth's contract is quite unique, in that it's a contract made out of necessity. They're also former colleagues. No more, no less.

Gallerian Marlon needed money to cure his “daughter”. To that end, he contracted with Adam—the stand-in for the true Demon of Greed, because he got absorbed by Ma.

Nemesis Sudou had the potential, since she already had malice inside her as a reincarnation of Levia. The contract was only formalized when she failed to complete her murder-suicide with Nyoze.

Eve Moonlit's incarnations, Kayo Sudou, and Prim Rogzé don't count. None of them actually contracted with demons, as far as the novels are concerned. Eve can't make contracts so she instead has her version of reincarnation. Kayo's envy magic comes from being the literal daughter of Envy. Prim manipulated the other demons' powers through Eve.

[bexfangirlforlife]

Notes of my first rewatch of Tatort Saarbrücken episode Die Kälte der Erde:

gonna pay attention to the actual case now (update I did. Still not much focus on that in my notes)

why is them sitting in the car feeling so domestic?

I still think that the doctor is too shocked over seeing beer drinking people in the ER, as if that doesn't happen more often.

the giggling/laughing when they don't get the couch through the door

oh yeah Esther and that one girl from the bar definitely had something. Also the post that said "the barkeeper knows it/something" so true

that "Hallo, Mama." is funny

it's not the first time, but that scene in the house made me think that in comparision to the little bit of young Adam we saw in the first episode, adult Adam does seem to have some unhingedness from his father (hate to say it)

I knew I recognised the doctor from somewhere, he was the ghost mentor of Jonas in Anna und die Liebe and he played the pimp in two episodes of the second Doctor's Diary season

they (Adam, Leo &Pia) pretend like being a Fußballfan is something really rare... guys we're in germany. It's not that uncommon!

"heyyy Saarbrücken" - german tumblr once a year

Adam's "same", love it

still lowkey wish they would have danced together at the party ngl

the bridge scene aka divorce part 1

Leo: "sprich mit mir!" I've been often frustrated with Adam not really talking to Leo. Though with the info we get later in the episode, that Adam tried to tell people that he was abused by his father, it does make even more sense that he wouldn't talk to anyone, because nobody believed him back then, why would anyone listen now? (Obviously it's different, but the man never got proper therapy, so how would he know?)

so we have Leo/Notizbuch, Adam/Sporttasche and Pia/sleep deprivation. So what is it for Esther? It's not alloud to be people, so is it Esther/Fußball? Or is it something else?

"Ich kann aber besser schlafen, wenn ich weiß, dass dir nichts passiert." would make me insane in itself, but the tone of voice Vladi is delivering it in makes this line another level. (I swear I've heard that exact tone in conversations between Boris and Tobias aka canon couple Toris from sdl)

"Tiger"-"Miau" I'll never get over it

Personal Funfact: the standard radio station my dad and I would listen to, when he drove me to school had a singing competion with this one song every morning for weeks back in the day. We still nod to each other whenever the song comes up somewhere.

"Ist das dein Partner? Ihr passt gut zusammen" still insane insane insane insane insane

Ok yeah I really need Adam going crazy worrying about Leo because Boris uses him as Adam's pressure point to be a big plot point in the next one now please.

What is Adam's plan with the money though? Like what is he planning to do with it?

"Dann leg das Gartenwerkzeug weg du Vogel" it's the pause before Vogel that makes this truly hilarious

Alina's attitude and look constantly remind me of the kid in Systemsprenger

"Wir stecken da jetzt auch mit drin" ... Foreshadowing?

The hospital scene aka divorce part 2

Adam's face after Leo says "Du weißt ich würde mit dir bis ans Ende der Welt gehen, aber nicht auf diesem Weg." still kills me

"Ich bin da. Ich war immer da." fbrjfjdhsbs

"Adam Schürk, der Mittelpunkt der Welt." - "Deiner Welt vielleicht." Enter Leo's teary eyed look killing me. And the yes nod. Pleeaassee...

"Leo, pass auf dich auf. Wenn ihr ein Paar wärt, dann würde man sagen ihr habt ne toxische Beziehung." Love Leo's reaction to this

Why did you keep the knife?

The cliffhanger aka divorce part 3

The guilty look on Adam's face. He knows he fucked up, he knows and he didn't wanna. Please I can't.

THE END

I have to rewatch all the episodes close to each other (it's been a year/over a year), but I right now I'd say this is my fave out of the four, just because of the amount of insane stuff (and I don't mean in the sense like we had in hds, with the whole frosh and stick thingy) and the amount of Adam/Leo scenes we got.

[dailycass-cain]

Cassandra Cain Reading Guide Part 5: The Search for a Well-Written Character.

So you want to be brave and read more Cass? To read the journey in “full.” The bad along with the good. To know THE FULL STORY. But with it comes pain. Horribly badly written pain. Well-- I warned you.

Part I reading guide you can find here.

Part II reading guide (Modern) you can find here.

Part III reading guide (Random) you can find here.

Part IV reading guide (Alternate versions) you can find here.

Batman: City of Light #1-8

So you want to read the worst tale of Cass as Batgirl during her prime years not found in her ongoing (1999-2006)? This is the story for you! You have Cass drawn in an oversexualized manner when as Batgirl. You have covers where looking at the poses they put Cass thru make you question things.

You have a subplot with Cass that has her dating a namely boy but goes thru PTD due to the abuse David Cain inflicted upon her.

It's surprising (or maybe not for good reason) how many don't truly remember the existence of this mini-series at times.  Sadly, maybe it's best to not fully dig up this one unless you're truly brave in reading what lies within it.

Robin #148-151 aka Robin OYL. 

So you read all of Cassandra's Vol. 1 ongoing and wonder what was she up too after it ended? Well, here's your answer. I must warn you even with the gorgeous art you will find only anger and pain when reading these issues. 

More if you decide to randomly read #152 as well.  This arc begins Cassandra's "supervillain"/dragon lady phase. That lasted from 2006-2007. It will truly tick you off watching DC chuck Cass to some truly awful characterization. The problems here are all over the place. A newly minted comic book writer being thrown to the wolves of fans that some still haven’t forgiven him to this day (to which writer Adam Beechen has teased).

Supergirl #14

The issue probably has the best written evil Cass among all you'll find here. She's menacing, a threat, and-- obviously had just watched the Empire Strikes Back. Because she uses basically lightsabers to fight Kara.

So why is it here? Well, um.. the way Kara defeats Cass in this is-- a thing.  A thing you never knew Kryptonians could do until this issue. Also, the way it happens is kind hilariously in a-- why did Cass have to be in that position on Kara? Instead, you know keep her distance? Likewise the revelation that Bruce/Tim know where Cass is hiding out and do-- NOTHING.

    Teen Titans #42-47 (Titans East)

- Due to the backlash toward Robin OYL, DC answered with this story. Geoff Johns attempts to “fix” the evil Cass mess with her own "fearbug retcon" aka Slade drugged her up with his supersoldier serum. That’s why she’s evil and acting like a stereotype. 

The problem is, yeah besides the panel above the story is a mess. The creative team (Johns and artist Tony Daniels) book it by #44 leaving an entirely new creative team to finish this story (poor Adam Beechen’s first rehab of the character)-- and it shows.

By stories’ end you’ll be pulling  your hair at what was the entire point of this story?

World War III #2, 4

-  This 52 event comic fills the gaps created in "Titans East" by further retconning OYL (this time Batman: Face to Face), saying it was actually Cass who was defending Gotham (with Alfred's assistance) not Harvey Dent only did some things (but took the glory). While Slade plays devil on Cassandra's shoulder.

The next issue shows Cass for a few panels before we see Slade sniping Cass and incapacitating her. Given what we know “Titans East” we know what will follow: him drugging her and-- causing the whole evil phase to begin. 

Yeah. -_-

Robin #160-162 (Cassandra shows up in #161-162)

-  The arc concludes her supervillain phase by also setting up the final arc for the Robin writer Adam Beechen at that time (she funds the young meta Dodge to steal a steroid that her “employer” wants (we later find out to be both Deathstroke and David Cain).. 

In the final part to the story, she kills the corrupt CEO who originally created the drug (and tested it on a Gotham Street Gang) in front of Tim after he fails to bring crook to justice. 

Given the proximity of release. Many readers at the time thought this story took place prior to “Titans East”. In actuality, it takes place after. The act of killing the CEO snaps Cass back. 

Black Canary #1 (2007)

- Remember in Part III when talking about B&O, Green Arrow’s beef with Cass? This is that comic. Cassandra only appears in this panel above as it is clearly stated she has abandoned her faction of the League of Assassins and being EVIL. The villains of this series are some of her League remnants targeting Sin the child Dinah adopted to be the next “One Who is All”.

To make sure Sin never has such a target ever on her back. Dinah gives her a new life away. There is the journey that will lead you into Batman & the Outsiders. 

There are BAD stories that involve Cass (Batman #81, Future State: Gotham #15-18, Batgirls #7-8). But I dare you to only search for them if you will is truly strong. But I suggest to simply ignore them. You’re better off mentally. However there is ONE painful tale I do wish to add to this list:

Detective Comics #1029-1032

- If your a fan of the Bat-Family and not Bruce/Damian this story is absolute garbage. After a LONG career of writing Batman or Bat-Family books (namely Nightwing and Robin) writer Pete Tomasi churns out an awful tale. 

This is the ONLY tale, Tomasi ever wrote Cass in (and she jobs throughout it). The writing is just NOT GOOD as Cass acts OOC thru the whole arc. Ironically, this arc rehabs Damian from prior heelish turn in Teen Titans (oh irony).

The only other reason to even read this story? Artist Bilquis Evely. Her art is exceptional and she draws an amazing Cass in just two issues (#1030-1031). But that’s just it. If you’re a fan of Cass (or anyone above) you’ll just grit your teeth at the boneheaded moves they all do in this arc just so Bruce/Damian look good. 

Future State Gotham #15-18

- You’d think a “Battle for the Cowl II” (Jace Fox, Jason Todd, Hush, Damian Wayne, Dick Grayson, and Bruce Wayne) would make for a “good” story. No. No it is not. 

Whatever “good will” this series had ends on the most batshit insane story that’ll be forgotten by most save those who read it. Dick is fully a villain in this arc (even if he’s painted a tragic hero) who abuses a drug (so he can see the future), and beats up who’re trying to pull him out of this rut. 

Damian is possessed by a demon (Joe Chill, I’m not kidding) and because of it Hush (posing as Bruce) tries to use him to kill Bruce, Jace, and Jason by tricking the son of Batman into thinking they’re the Batmen from the Grant Morrison run that “doomed” Gotham.  

Cass’s only reason in this story is to job. Somehow her, Duke (at the height of his powers in this universe), an older Harper Row (introduced in this arc to job), Babs, Stephanie, Tim, and Kate Kane all are defeated because Dick knows everything. 

Again, the story is just--- a thing to behold. The ending is crazy. Dick getting a redemption feels like complete ass (after all he did in the prior issues). Just when you’re thinking maybe we’ll get a Bat-Family assist when Hush unleashes an army of Talons (he leads the Court of Owls) on Damian, Dick, Jace, Talia, Babs, Bruce, and two others. Nope Dick sacrifices himself to “save” the day. 

Ugh.

- Batman/Catwoman: Gotham War Event -

Batman/Catwoman: Battle Lines #1 (appears)

Batman #137 (appears)

Catwoman #67 (doesn't appear)

Batman #138 (doesn't appear)

Catwoman #68 (doesn't appear)

Batman/Catwoman: The Gotham War – Scorched Earth #1 (appears)

-  One of the worst Batman events in decades, Gotham War you have to read to believe in how awful the writing is within it. The main characters' motivations are sketchy if best. No character comes away clean or of sound mind in the story.

The only redeeming qualities of the event are the art and the Gotham War Red Hood #1-2 mini-series that tie into the event. 

Other than that? 

AVOID THIS COMIC unless you wish to wrack your brain with PAIN.

Cass within the event is no different.  The character is given 0 motivation or agency within the event. She's basically a cardboard standee for Bruce to showcase his increasing mental issues (pertaining to that Batman run).

Cass within the event is no different.  The character is given 0 motivation or agency within the event. She's basically a cardboard standee and serves only to prop Zur's influence overtaking Bruce (pertaining to that Batman run).

Nothing more.

[melishade]

Attack on Prime Hizuru OVA Commentary Part 1

Main Story

Welcome one and all to the Hizuru OVA Commentary, aka Chapter 57, of Attack on Prime. I said I’d do this, so I’m doing this because I really want to talk about my writing process because I fucking loved writing this chapter. And on top of this, I’m writing while having 150 followers! Hooray! Now let’s do this!

Also spoilers:

So recap, Mikasa made a deal with Kiyomi to go to Hizuru in exchange for getting an extra week for Optimus to contact Cybertron. She’s allowed to go because Megatron decides to be her escort. It’s very tense. The Survey Corps are very adamant about it, but Mikasa is persistent.

“Eren-,”

“You shouldn’t go,” Eren interrupted her.

“I’m going,” Mikasa told him.

“You shouldn’t,”

“I will,”

“Mikasa the outside world is dangerous and chaotic,” Eren hissed, “Once they find out you’re an Eldian, hell comes to the island and they will kill you.”

“I’ll be safe,” Mikasa insisted, “Megatron won’t let that happen.”

“Megatron is a piece of shit,” Eren retorted.

“Who stopped you from ending your life,” Mikasa reminded.

“I don’t care; it’s not safe,” Eren declared as he put his hands on her shoulders.

“Please don’t go,” Eren pleaded with her, “Stay.”

Mikasa was touched. She genuinely was. Eren doesn’t usually show this kind of concern for her or for Armin. She almost didn’t want to go, but…

“I’m going,” Mikasa declared, “I want to protect the island and I don’t want anyone else to die. I’m sorry.”

I wanted to write a more concerned Eren about this situation because Mikasa is going by herself with Megatron. And because Eren, supposedly, had feelings for Mikasa but just didn’t know how to convey them, based on the manga, I wanted to actually show more of that. Which leads to:

“Hey!” a voice shouted.

Megatron didn’t respond to the voice, not wanting to bother, but he was thrown off-guard when he saw blue lightning appeared. Megatron saw a punch being thrown his way, but the former warlord moved slightly and the fist hit the large wall. Megatron stared in surprise as Eren glared at him in his titan form. Eren growled and opened his mouth, releasing some steam.

“Eren, what are you doing?!” Armin shouted at him.

Megatron didn’t respond to either of them as Armin got on Eren’s shoulder with his 3D gear. The boy was yanking on the titan’s hair, trying to do whatever he could to convince him not to do this. But…Megatron knew the message. Loud and clear.

Eren making a threat to the ex-con who can literally wipe the floor with him ten times over. To show that “hey, he still gives a shit”. And then Megatron warns him about being prepared for a full on battle if he tries something that stupid again. Which is definitely not foreshadowing-

Anyway, next day, Hanji confronts Megatron, which was something that I alluded to in chapter 56. And then she says this:

“Another thing,” Hanji continued, “I know how little our world means to you, and why going to Hizuru will just be another boring human mission. But not for Mikasa. This is a really big deal for her. She’s going into an entirely different world from the one she is used to. She’s going to find out more about herself, her heritage, and her culture. I know you see her as an effective soldier, but at the end of the day, she is still a kid. A lot of them are. You don’t have to be interested in Hizuru. I’m certain you’ve seen wondrous things in your life that would pale in comparison to our world. All I’m asking, is for you to be considerate of Mikasa’s feelings and not to be so callous to her.”

Hanji chuckled a little bit before she patted Megatron’s shoulder. “Who am I kidding? That’s like asking Levi to smile. That would be impossible for you.”

Hanji wants to understand Megatron. It is a driving force for her. And she also knows that Mikasa is the only human that he respects. Advising him to treat her kindly would benefit him long term into his ultimately goal into amends with Optimus. But maybe, just maybe, Megatron will take her words to heart and care about Mikasa’s experience and even feel an kinship with her. 

So Mikasa and Megatron go together, and I capture the essence of Mikasa just being nervous about this whole trip, not really knowing what to expect. Having the two of them ultimately walk through the forest. Which brings Mikasa comfort since she’s grown up away from the city. The forest is different from what it usually is on Paradis, but it’s beautiful. I had to look up different pictures of Japanese landscape to try and capture what it would feel like.

The thought of her childhood, caused her to grip her bandaged wrist to her chest, the one that hid the mark of the clan. Her mother…she passed down this symbol to her, but she knew nothing of what it was. There was no one else like her in the walls besides her own mother, and herself. She knew nothing of where she came from. Not even Eren and Armin could understand what she was feeling. She was...alone. Mikasa truly wished that her mother saw this nation. It really did look beautiful.

There was no way that Mikasa did not feel like an outsider in her own nation a few times. She’s the only Oriental on the island and her and her mother were targeted for it. There had to have been a different sense of loneliness on top of her trauma, compared to Armin and Eren. And to share this experience with someone who was like her would have been nice. It should’ve been nice.

“Welcome to the capital of Hizuru: Kyoto,” Megatron said. I used Japan’s former capitol. It would’ve been weird to use Tokyo.

Now there is a lot that goes on once Megatron and Mikasa slowly integrate into the city. First of all, Mikasa is happy at the fact that there are more people like her, with the added addition of guilt of everyone looking at Megatron cautiously. Again, I looked up pictures of what I thought Hizuru would look like during this time period. This one being one of the inspirations:

But being in a different nation, by herself, is going to create a culture shock for her. It’s overstimulating for her and it terrifies her. To the point where:

Mikasa felt her arm being yanked backwards as a car passed them by. The driver honked their horn at them in anger as they continued on their way. Mikasa took a deep breath and looked up to see Megatron staring at her with a raised brow.

“You’re not usually like this,” Megatron commented as he let go of her arm, “You’re usually far more composed.”

“I…I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to,” Mikasa felt tears brimming in her eyes and felt her throat begin to swell, causing her to quickly duck her head from view. This was so much.

“You can’t be serious,” Megatron groaned, “This is what you wanted.”

“I know,” Mikasa muttered.

“What do you want me to do?” Megatron demanded, “Hold your hand like a little child?”

Megatron didn’t get a response, but was surprised when Mikasa slowly moved her hand towards him and held it out. Megatron felt angry and irritated. This could not actually be happening. He was actually angry with the Ackerman. He wanted to chew her out right then and there, but stopped himself.

Mikasa is now in this vulnerable state and she feels like a child. And she feels stupid for wanting to seek comfort, but is so desperate to have it that she’s willing to seek it out through Megatron. And Megatron doesn’t want to do this! He didn’t expect this shit from the most qualified soldier out of the Survey Corps! But~!

“This is a really big deal for her. She’s going into an entirely different world from the one she is used to. She’s going to find out more about herself, her heritage, and her culture. I know you see her as an effective soldier, but at the end of the day, she is still a kid. A lot of them are. You don’t have to be interested in Hizuru. I’m certain you’ve seen wondrous things in your life that would pale in comparison to our world. All I’m asking, is for you to be considerate of Mikasa’s feelings and not to be so callous to her.”

Megatron shut his eyes and kept his anger in check. He…had to think about this from Mikasa’s perspective. This was the very first time she’s been off the island. This is the first time she’s been exposed to another culture. The first time she’s actually seen other humans that look like her. She was overwhelmed, and scared. And she had no one she could actually…trust. Megatron’s mouth formed a thin line. He wasn’t qualified for this. He wasn’t qualified for babysitting, or even emotional support. That wasn’t why he was here. Megatron noticed Mikasa’s hand slowly recoiling back, and he saw the Ackerman trying with all her might to contain her shame and embarrassment at asking for help from someone who would never give it. Megatron took a deep breath. This was only for one week. One measly week; that was all.

Mikasa felt stupid and just felt like crying some more. What was she thinking? Asking Megatron of all beings for help? Someone who's hated humanity? Who was here for selfish reasons? She should've known better. She should just stop acting like a child and suck it up. But something unexpected happened. Megatron reached out and gently took Mikasa’s hand into his own. Mikasa snapped her head to look at him, but Megatron didn't pay attention to her. The ex-con pulled her along and the two walked across the street together. Megatron could feel Mikasa grow rigid in his hand, but decided to pay no mind. He was a little startled when Mikasa drew in closer to him for protection and tightened her grip on his hand. He saw a bench under a tree and pulled her over there. He sat down and pulled Mikasa to sit next to him.

I think this scene is pretty self-explanatory. And hopefully, I captured it well. I definitely had to add to it. I liked writing Mikasa leaning into Megatron because it’s her innate desire to feel comfort and safety because she’s so overwhelmed in an unfamiliar world. So fast forward a little, Megatron takes Mikasa to the market and she tries her first Hizuru dish: Origini:

It’s simple, but effective. Food is a necessity for humans. But it can also be a comfort or even a simple pleasure. It can bring up certain memories.

Mikasa tried to grab it from the top, but she found the rice rather sticky. Mikasa then grabbed it by the seaweed wrap and picked up the treat. She took a small bite out of the rice and found…it was delicious. Mikasa took larger bites and savored the food, noting how it somehow tasted a little bit sweet yet salty. When she got to the seaweed, she was surprised by how crunchy it was, but it wasn’t unwelcomed. She was a little disappointed by how sudden she finished the first one, and decided to take her time in finishing the second one.

Mikasa is eased into the Hizuru culture through food. It’s something so simple, and it brings her comfort in this moment. As she’s eating, she and Megatron have a rather civil and polite conversation. There’s a reference to who’s ruling Hizuru: distant cousins who were placed on the throne after the Eldian Empire fell. Megatron even shares stuff about Cybertron.

They go to Kiyomi’s home, Mikasa is taken to her temporary room, and Kiyomi and Megatron have a stern conversation about Megatron’s own impulsive, irrational behavior. 

“I never lied about my intentions,” Kiyomi declared, “You know that I am after money, and that is something I’m not going to deny. If this doesn’t go well, all of us suffer. I know that I can count on Mikasa. I’ve heard good things about her on the island and how fast she can adapt to a new situation, but I need to know if I can trust you to do your job and not act out and be aggressive to the most powerful people in the nation. Can I trust you not to act out?”

Again, there is this theme about trust. Because no one trusts Megatron, Megatron doesn’t trust the royal family or Kiyomi, and there is a lot hinging on this plan to work, and it requires gaining just a small amount of trust on both parties. Hanji is putting her trust in Megatron, Mikasa is putting her trust in Megatron. And Megatron is annoyed at this fact! He’s competent! (No he’s not.) But, this is for Optimus, so he complies.

So the outfit Mikasa wears the next day is this:

Worn by Japanese Actress: Kinuyo Tanaka. 

These are the pictures I took inspiration for the palace: 

Megatron’s trying to be helpful:

“Ackerman,” Megatron whispered as he leaned by her ear, “When they get here, do not show that you are nervous. They will take it as a sign that you are weak. Be confident.”

“I don’t know if I can,” Mikasa admitted.

“I’ve seen your confidence shine as a soldier,” Megatron told her, “I know that it can shine here.”

Mikasa was surprised by Megatron’s proclamation as the titan straightened himself off. Did…did he really mean that?

And we are introduced to the Royal Family: Emperor Taisho (who was an actual Emperor during 1930s Japan), Empress Katsuko, and Prince Kenshin. Taisho and Katsuko are based on this picture:

With a few tweeks here and there. And the son is based off of a mix of both of them with some of the medals worn in other pics.

So I always pictured Katsuko as the friendlier royal compared to Kenshin and Taisho, which is why Katsuko has a more happy demeanor when talking to Mikasa and Kiyomi. Taisho is more professional, hiding his emotions behind a smile, which is why Megatron notices such a strained and forced smile when talking to him in the first place. while Kenshin is willing to be interactive but also wait until he gets the bigger picture. But when Kenshin is passionate and adamant about something he will speak his mind. For now, he’ll play the role.

A fun little note: I liked writing how Megatron just flat out threatened the royal family and Taisho just kept a cool demeanor. Also the change in voice was a shock to everyone there.

So Mikasa gets the tour of the castle, her ancestor, and then she is treated to the royal family’s banquet of food. Again, she’s learns more about Hizuru through food. And note that Kenshin hasn’t said a word yet. I did this on purpose. I didn’t want Kenshin to be introduced in such a traditional manner. 

Mikasa talks about her military background because Taisho is genuinely interested in that. He wasn’t expecting to learn about it.

“What are your credentials? What regiment are you apart of?” Taisho asked, interested in Mikasa’s military background.

“I was ranked first among the 104th trainee corps, and after I joined the Survey Corps,” Mikasa explained, “That branch of the military is the most skilled in fighting the titans.”

“This implies that you’ve killed titans,” Taisho assumed.

“I have,” Mikasa confirmed his suspicion.

Katsuko was shocked by Mikasa’s confirmation. There was little hesitation to her answer.

“How many have you killed?” Taisho asked her.

Mikasa thought it over as counted it in her head. The prince stopped eating and stared at Mikasa while Katsuko looked over at her husband.

“Sixteen, I believe,” Mikasa replied.

The prince contained his cough as he choked on the food in his mouth.

“By yourself?” Taisho asked, slightly shaken by the response.

“Yes,” Mikasa replied.

“That is…impressive,” Taisho said with hesitance.

“Mikasa,…do you think that your parents would approve of this?” Katsuko asked her, “The titans are dangerous.”

Mikasa kept her bitterness and sadness in as she put the chopsticks down. “My parents passed away when I was nine.”

I could’ve added a little more, maybe Mikasa trying to remember her mother in that moment. But the fact that Mikasa dropped the fact that she killed sixteen titans (that we know of before season 4) by herself already establishes herself as a threat. And Taisho doesn’t know how to feel about that.

Kenshin; however, isn’t fazed and manages to pull Mikasa and Megatron away to the library. And we see more of Kenshin’s personality. I didn’t want to write the prince or the royal family being assholes and mean. That just seemed overdone. And I don’t think the Hizuru royal family would be that condescending considering what they have to do in order to keep the Hizuru nation alive. They would be more humble. At least, I’d like to believe that. 

Few notes of dialogue:

“Away from the politics,” the prince declared with a smirk, “My parents were about to delve into your personal life, and Aunt Kiyomi made it clear to not do that.”

“’Aunt’?” Megatron questioned.

“She’s not my actual aunt,” the prince explained, “But she has been a major presence in my life, so I just call her that.” (I thought it would be fun to give Kiyomi a more personal connection to the royal family. And this happens a lot with immigrant families. I have a few aunts and uncles who aren’t related to me by blood, but I’ve known them my whole life.)

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Mikasa was startled when Tadeo walked up to her, but the Ackerman couldn’t resist as she kneeled down and hesitantly held her hand out. The dog sniffed it briefly before it began to lick her hand. Mikasa began to pet the dog, and she began to feel her stress leave her body. Mikasa was startled when Kenzo began to growl at Megatron, but the titan was not amused at the situation.

“Kenzo,” the prince scolded.

“Sit,” Megatron ordered the dog in an ominous tone.

Kenzo whined as it lowered its head in submission and backed away before sitting down. (Dominance thing. Megatron’s childish that way.)

“Well, that was just mean,” the prince remarked as he petted Kenzo to comfort it.

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“So, Lady Mikasa,” the prince began, “Do you have any questions for me?”

“Why do you keep calling me ‘Lady’?” Mikasa asked, “You are the heir to the throne.”

“But the title properly belongs to you,” the prince insisted.

“You don’t seem threatened by Ackerman,” Megatron commented as he picked up a book from the shelf.

“Despite all appearances, I’m not exactly the upright spitting example of the heir to the empire,” the prince proclaimed, “Not to mention that the people don’t necessarily respect our bloodline. We’re not the main bloodline.” (Kenshin’s respect for Mikasa and his desire to have her here is partially reveal through dialogue. Kenshin just doesn’t feel worthy of the title because of past history.)

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“This is what I mean by not being an example as a prince,” he explained, “We’ve been talking all this time, and I haven’t even introduced myself. My name is Kenshin.”

“It’s nice to meet you, Kenshin,” Mikasa smiled. (And now we’re introduced to Kenshin by name.)

(Mikasa forgetting the scarf. Megatron returning it.)

“I came to check on you,” Megatron answered, “And to give you this.”

Megatron showed Mikasa her scarf and handed it over to her. “You left it at the Fox’s house. I’m surprised. You never part with it.”

“Thank you,” Mikasa told him as she took the scarf from him.

It’s a simple exchange, but this shows Megatron’s ability to be observant. Since Megatron is aware of Mikasa’s feelings for Eren and how close she holds that scarf so he puts two and two together.

(Ceremony: Day 3)

“Do you remember you fake name?” Kiyomi asked.

“Yui Ishikawa,” Mikasa answered. (Which is Mikasa’s Japanese VA)

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Mikasa saw a waiter bring some green tea to her and she took one of the small cups. She drank out of it and found it quite nice. Surprisingly, it wasn’t as bitter compared to the tea within the walls. She continued drinking it as she looked around for Megatron. She was hoping to see at least one familiar face in this large sea of unfamiliar ones. Mikasa was finally able to find him, and was surprised to see the titan on the far end of the ball room, wearing a traditional black kimono with his arms crossed. Mikasa excused herself from the conversation and made her way over to him.

“Um…,” Mikasa trailed off.

“Shut up,” Megatron hissed.

“But-,”

“This is formal wear. I would stand out in the holoform’s default clothing,” Megatron insisted. (Megatron’s really trying his best here. It’s great.)

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“Seems the prince is busy,” Megatron commented as he looked over at him. Kenshin appeared to be talking with some over nobleman, but when they closed their eyes and began laughing, Kenshin made a face that clearly showed his disdain. He really needed to determine the prince’s intentions. (Again, we see more of how Kenshin reacts to the life he’s been living and how he doesn’t like it.)

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Megatron didn’t reply to that as the waiter came by to offer some food on a dish. Megatron declined it while Mikasa took a sakura mochi. She took a small bite and was delighted by how sweet it was. It tasted so nice. Megatron took note of Mikasa’s delighted expression and…was a little relieved. He thought that she would be nervous the entire time, but she’s finding comfort in the small things.

(Two things. One: I found out that Mikasa’s favorite food is strawberries, but there aren’t any strawberries on the island, so this is technically the first time she’s introduced to it in the form of mochi. Second: Mikasa’s reaction to being happy brings Megatron relief because...she’s happy. This wasn’t falling apart and he was doing his job.)

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“Do you play the guitar?” Mikasa asked him.

“No, the shamisen,” Kenshin answered.

“Shamisen?” Mikasa questioned. 

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The song Kenshin plays in honor of the festival is this:

And I liked gaging the reactions of all the key players including Megatron. 

The song itself made her feel like she was on air, or in a beautiful garden. It was light, melodic, soft. Somehow, the music matched the environment outside. It matched the beauty of the flowers and the beginning of spring. Mikasa looked over to see Katsuko’s expression of pride, while Taisho was still rather neutral. Mikasa looked over at Kiyomi and noted how the woman seemed to be reminiscing. Meanwhile, Kenshin was completely focused as he continued playing. With both his eyes and ears, he anticipated the notes that he needed to play. His fingers moved with utmost precision, and he seemed to actually be lost in the music.

Mikasa looked back to Megatron, and was surprised by his expression. His arms were crossed, but his face didn’t show any malice, or apathy. He actually seemed…slightly invested, almost as if he liked what he was hearing. 

Megatron being around humans is part of his character development. Learning about their culture, music, all that stuff. I also referenced in a short story that music was something more for the upper class citizens of Cybertron, so Megatron would have more appreciation for the material compared to the others.

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“I was bored out of my mind,” Kenshin whispered to her.

Kiyomi snickered. “Don’t say that around your father. Go take a break. I’ll stall for you.”

Kenshin thanked her before turning and grabbing Mikasa’s hand.

“Let’s go,” he smiled.

“To where?” Mikasa asked as Kenshin pulled her away from the crowd.

“The garden,” Kenshin answered.

Megatron quickly followed the two, but caught something out of the corner of his eye. It was Taisho, looking at the two of them with disdain. Megatron didn’t say anything about it as he exited the ballroom.

Kiyomi is the fun aunt that sneaks Kenshin shit. Also wanted to convey Taisho’s disdain about Kenshin being friendly with Mikasa.

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I also wanted to expand on Mikasa’s capabilities and talents, and learning about her Japanese VA, I realized that she could sing, and in turn, so could Mikasa. She has a song on the AOT season 1 album:

So I had Mikasa sing:

Mikasa thought about a song sung by some military men and lower class citizens of the wall, and began to play it out in her mind.

“Chairs so close and room so small,” Mikasa began, “You and I talk all the night long."

Mikasa remembered reading the book about the outside world with Eren and Armin in the night, hiding away under a blanket with an oil lamp next to them.

"Meager this space but serves us so well. We comrades have stories to tell."

The 104th all sat together, talking about how brutal training was with the 3D gear that day.

"And it's always like that in the evening time. We drink and we sing when our fighting is done."

The Survey Corps watched with interest as Optimus explained some of his war stories in a rather animated manner for someone so reserved.

"And it's always so we live under the burnt clouds. Ease our burden, long is the night. Just as no stars can be seen. We are stars and we'll beam on our town. We must all gather as one. Sing with hope and the fear will be gone.”

So ist est immer. The song of the underground during ‘A Choice with No Regrets’. Levi’s backstory of how he got into the Survey Corps. It also seemed like a good military song to sing. But I think this is a part of herself that Mikasa hasn’t really shared with anyone. Maybe because she doesn’t have anything happy to sing about.

“I wouldn’t mind staying here, just a little bit longer,” Mikasa admitted as she admired the cherry blossoms.

Kenshin nodded his head as he looked up at the blooming tree. The prince looked over at the titan, and noticed…his hand was out, and…that he was observing a lone petal that fell into his hand. Kenshin thought that it was odd. The titan seemed repulsed by anything human-related, but he decided not to ask about it.

I thought about writing Megatron’s reaction to Mikasa singing, but I figured it would be better to let Mikasa sing so we could make her a little more interesting. This was Mikasa’s moment. But Megatron was intrigued, despite his denial of it. And just like Megatron is trying to figure out Kenshin, Kenshin is also trying to understand Megatron and what he wants. This moment is also an indication of Megatron not being so repulsed by all of humanity. Megatron almost seemed intrigued. Almost admiring what was happening.

(Looks like I’m splitting this into two parts. Maybe three. This chapter was super long for me to write and I still have a lot to talk about.)

[bonnielunkas]

okay so i had an au idea

so like. there's the final epilogue, right?? where it's implied jake ends up giving all the kids that died good memories?? alright well as i interpret it he's trying his best to help them move on

but what if,,, something wasn't right.

during his little peek into millie's life he shows up before she gets into funtime freddy's stomach hatch, aka during her walk, where he interrupts. and that got me thinking.

since millie and devon hang out because b-team, devon would be aware of millie's death. very aware. so when she starts showing up in his memories that have something to do with his friends, he gets confused. he doesn't remember EVERYTHING, but he knows that something is off regarding millie

and then once he realizes that jake's showed up in both of their lives ( jake probably appears during the boys' trip to freddy's ) he gets kinda,,,, upset, to say the least, and tries to escape with millie.

and while this is going on, jake is trying to help kelsey by showing him memories of his old life, the first one, before anything bad happened to kelsey ( or if you wanna get technical, adam. ) . but kelsey doesn't remember any of it, and kinda starts panicking because he was just at his new school, but now he's in the 80's with people he doesn't know calling him by the wrong name.

and then jake tries to rewrite the day kelsey died

and that REALLY sets kelsey off. but not at jake, no. at the people who had gotten him killed, because finally, he remembers them. and he now has names of his old friends.

so then kelsey makes an escape from the ballpit, and gets right back to his typical shenanigans, but now with faces and names of his killers.

so yeah uhhh there you go, devon and millie probably try hopping memories by visiting different places or something while kelsey is out for revenge.

[gallavich-headcanon]

Birthday sex on the roof definitely happens! And since you like bartender AUs, I’ll bother you with a ramble-y mess of a headcanon! I like to think that Carl buys The Alibi but doesn’t make it a cop bar and winds up not being a cop himself (it’s just never made sense to me). After a while, I think Ian and Mickey wind up as sort of silent partners with him.

Ian has the customer service mindset and the ‘tell me your troubles’ face, Carl deals with drunks and regulars and “gives the place a non-felon name on the paperwork” and Mickey handles all the numbers, from accounting to inventory although he makes Carl do the computer work bc he’s adamant that the whole thing is temporary, “just til Carl gets it under control” even though it’s been over a year.

They still run Gallavich Security but now it’s out of the back of the bar, in a little office with the name on the door and everything. They’ve hired a few other almost cops that Carl recommended, and Mickey and Ian do less runs nowadays, have cleaned up things to nearly legit or as legit as they need to be to avoid any issues.

I think maybe Sandy comes back and bartends as well, constantly jokes about it being a gay bar to which Mickey replies “a gay bar named The Alibi? Why not just call it The Closet and get it over with?” but between the armed guards eating lunch at the tables and a couple of Milkoviches working the taps, no one starts shit when it actually does become a bit of a gay bar, at least in the sense that you can hit on anyone you’d like save the redheaded bartender and not get punched for it. And when Ian’s having a low day, he can crash on Carl’s couch in the apartment upstairs, watching daytime tv on mute, listening to the sounds of the South Side and knowing Mickey will be up after the lunch rush to poke and prod him into eating a sandwich.

Maybe the rest of the Milkoviches are known to drop by from time to time? Mandy at the holidays, Iggy on even more random days, maybe Jamie-the one who helped with keeping Terry from the wedding-winds up one of their guards. I’d like to think Molly pops up at some point and Ian gets to help her figure out some things, like he used to do with Gay Jesus kids. And every year, the bar closes for a private party to celebrate Mickey and Ian’s anniversary where all the Gallaghers, Milkoviches, etc. get together and hang out. 🦖

Hey 🦖 anon! Sorry it took me so long to get to you!

Yes! I don’t think Carl should be a cop. Also the alibi? A cop bar? OVER MINE AND MICKEY’S DEAD BODY. “Carl, you are not turning the bar I came out in into a pigs bar! What’s next? You’ll make it a pussy lover only bar? No fucking way”

sorry about that.

Mickey being his business savvy self? Hell yes! Also I have a feeling Ian would love to give people relationship advice but would suck at it so bad. Like “oh really? This reminds me the time that my husband and I…” and would just end up talking about his and Mickey’s relationship.

I’ve seen it before in a couple of fics (some bartender AUs, some not) that Mickey is the surprisingly the best guy to get relationship advice from. He’s romantic, doesn’t beat around the bush, will tell you the truth and genuinely has good tips.

a few other almost cops that Carl recommended -> hahaha why is that so funny to me? Also Ian and Mickey running their security business like bosses? Yes, please! Do they share a desk? Do they share a chair? (Aka Ian sitting down with Mickey on his lap?) do they still fight about who is the boss boss?

THE CLOSET hahahahahah this is pure gold 🦖 Anon!

Oh my god this is such a sweet AU! The milkovich’s joining the bar and coming to visit! It’s like Ian and Mickey’s relationship just blended those two families together 💗 this is making me feel things.

Not the annual anniversary party! You’re killing me with fondness! This is so fucking cute! I want this to be real!

[lavendaers]

i've finally gotten to a point in my life where i'm not afraid to speak. where my shadow no longer haunts me. and i don't want to lose that freedom--not again.

was that alva bratt? oh no no, that was just juliette ferrars, a canon character from shatter me. they are nineteen years old, use she/her, and are not aware that they are not actually from Washington DC. too bad they can’t stray from this city for long.

how long has your character been here: at least a year

what is your character's job: college student

where has your character been pulled from in their fandom: going right after the last book

has any magic affected your character: yes, no memories

and any other information you might find useful for us and the other members to know: ok going to go through a couple of things. some bullet points on things jullette has gone though. her touch is lethal, but she's gotten to a point where she can control it and can actually touch people without hurting them. she's also super strong and can punch the earth and cause an earthquake. badass short girl. but here is her wiki page.

she's had this kind of lethal touch for as long as she could remember. the people that raised her would mistreat her, her classmates wouldn't go near her because everyone knew that she was dangerous.

she only knew her touch could hurt someone, she never knew if she touched another person long enough, it could kill them.

not until she was 14 years old. there was a little boy. he had tripped and fell and his mother was ignoring him so juliette attempted to help him and didn't realize what was happening until it was too late.

she's then locked up until the age of 17. she's completely alone and only has a notebook that she stole to write her thoughts in.

she then gets a roommate and she realizes later, she knows him. i can't remember how long he's there for before some soldiers come one day and she thinks she's going to be killed. turns out adam was a soldier and she's introduced to warner, who wants to use her as a weapon.

she finds out that adam can touch her and through everything going on around her, it feels nice. especially since she hasn't felt another person's touch in such a long time. she and adam escape after a couple of weeks, but when it happens, she realizes that adam isn't the only one that can touch her. warner can too.

gonna ghost over what happens, but they end up with a bunch of people who also have powers. turns out, adam has powers and that's why he can touch her, but they're starting not work and her touch is starting to hurt him. he even ends up needing medical attention because of it.

they end up taking warner aka aaron now, hostage after juliette shoots his father in the legs. shit goes down at this moment okay. turns out aaron and adam are actually half brothers. yeah.

everyone finds out that aaron can touch her too. adam and juliette broke up before this but he's refusing to let go. even though her touch is hurting him now. juliette gets a lot closer to aaron and figures out why he is the way he is. they have moments, even make out before he leaves. but aaron has powers too. adam can disable others powers and aaron can take them and use them.

there ends up being this big fight and julliette is taken by aaron and adam's dad's soldiers and bombs the place all there people are at, killing hundreds before he shoots julliette in the chest.

she almost dies but there are these two healer's and though they can't touch her, they can touch aaron and he can use their power to save her and he did.

she's back in the compound when she wakes up and freaks out a little bit. but aaron helps a lot. when she decides that she wants to kill his father, he's ready for it. he hates his father a lot, but he can't kill the man. he explains a lot of what happened while juliette was there before and why he was so interested in her cause while she can't touch people, his mother has an issue where she can't be touched. she can't even move because of the pain it causes her. she's both the source of the power and victim.

i'll stop here because this is just where i stopped in the third book but please read these books. i need to scream.

[hadescrow333]

Ok so today is Friday the 13, and I absolutely adore this day. And because of this I am gonna make this post dedicated to the conspiracyingly (I don’t care if that’s not a word it’s my word ha ha) history origin of Friday the 13.

Yes yes I knoooow I’m supposed to be Greek mythology and stuff, but like come ooooon this is interesting stuff I’m actually considering making this blog dedicated to Greek myths, Norse myths, folklore, etc etc I just really think that would be super cool (maybe I’ll do like each month a different mythology)

Anyways let’s get arolling

Norse mythology might have something to do withe it.

So fun fact the name of Friday derives from frigga, who was the allmother of gods wife to Odin.

So we all know the tale of baldir and the mistle toe? (Well if you don’t that tale is definitely coming in December because it’s sorta Christmasy)

In viking myth, 12 gods were having a banquet in Valhalla. Unbeknownst to them though, there was a 13th uninvited guest. This uninvited guest was…LOKI!!

I love Loki so much I could dedicate a whole blog about just him. I love him just as much as I love hades they be my favourite gods.

So Loki (who is the god of mischief for anyone who doesn’t know) arrived and was all like blergh it’s me, then deceived Hodr (who is the blind god of darkness) into shooting Baldir withe a mistletoe tip arrow, thus killing him.

And yes yes I know it’s a very vague description of the myth but this post isn’t dedicated to the myth only the context.

And frigga was heartbroken from the death of her beloved favourate son.

And since Friday was named after frigga, and the 13th person killed who she loved dearly, Friday the 13 is said to bring bad luck and sorrow.

Another story that could have contributed in Friday the 13 being ya know, bad luck, is in the Christian era.

So again a dinner party, the last supper, which if you don’t know what it is it’s basically the last supper Jesus had before his arrest and it was when he showed his followers he would be the Passover lamb of god (aka what he was about to do for the behalf of mankind). If you want more information just look it up, google probably explains it better.

So Jesus and his crew of the 12 disciples were seated at the table. And the 13th person to sit down was Judas, who is the disciple who betrayed Jesus, and a big contributor to the crucification. It is also believed that the crucification happened on Friday the 13, but it isn’t stated specifically, it only states that his crucification was on “Good Friday”

Oh and still staying in biblical terms, even further back was withe Adam and Eve. It is believed that they ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge (not to be confused withe the tree of life) and were kicked out of the garden of Eden on Friday the 13, ANDDD even moreso was supposedly the day Cain murdered his brother Abel.

Now that we sorta understood why Friday is unlucky, we can now go onto specifically the number 13. So one of the reasons why 13 might be seen as unlucky is due to it coming after 12

12 is considered a complete number, withe there being 12 months in a year, 12 hours on a clock, 12 signs of the zodiac, 12 Olympians, 12 tasks of Hurcles, 12 stations of the sun and moon, etc etc.

So 13 is considered erratic and unlucky.

And obviously modern culture hasn’t really helped either, withe the movies and books about how unlucky and horrory Friday the 13 is.

So yeah, there’s probably a lot more reasons for this, but in all honesty, there is no reason but moreso reasonS. Seriously, lots of reasons why Friday the 13 could be considered unlucky.