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 The man immediately rushed to correct her, tripping over his words as his hands moved wildly, too fast for her to see. Dani knew this wasn't any kind of kidnapping or imprisonment. They couldn't catch her if they tried, not without ghost equipment, but it was kind of fun to mess with this giant of a man. Who clearly had super speed as his hands and words began to go so fast she couldn't understand either. Concerning, sure, but not enough to thwart her thirst for chaos or the urge to poke fun at this seemingly superpowered teddy bear.Â
âAm I gonna die here?â She asked, putting on her best scared kitten act. The man froze as he made an interesting set of noises in response to Daniâs question. She wasn't entirely sure they could be made by humans but she wasn't too worried. Her vague understanding of the superheroes around the world did mean she knew at least a few aliens existed in their ranks. She didn't know any of them by name though.
âI hope you understand that no one, no one, on this station would ever try and harm you.â The man said after taking a deep breath. A little rich since Batman had only recently tried to stick them in a lab but it was the thought that counted she supposed. He seemed to get more uncomfortable if she just stared at him silently though, so she kept silent in her scared little kitten act. Honestly it was kind of a riot seeing the man panic over things she knew were unimportant.
âLook! Iâll bring you to Batman and he can explain everything. How about that?â He said and Dani frowned. Batman likely wouldn't be as much of a help as Wonder Woman but if this guy wasn't going to bring her to the lasso lady then might as well go to Batman. Maybe she could even convince him to let her leave.Â
Dani nodded, shyly as she could muster, at the big man and he relaxed. He went to pick her up but she stepped away, not even as an act, and he fumbled with his hands before nodding briskly and turning towards a hallway. She followed him a little ways in a big meeting room, extra long dining table with too many chairs and another big, massive computer at the end of the room. It was a little scary how many way too fancy computers Dani had come across in only 24 hours.Â
Well, only two, but that was still more than the average person would in their lifetime.
Batman stood at the computer and typed at a raised keyboard. Dani had seen Jazz use a stand up desk, she said it was good for back posture and stress. She always talked about how posture was important and how it could affect you when you were older. Probably didn't mean much with ghost genetics so Dani never cared.Â
âBR-â The red caped crusader almost shouted as he walked in but was cut off by something hitting him directly in the forehead. He cried out when it exploded in his face as well. Dani would be lying if she said it didn't make her flinch, which is why she didn't say anything.
âBatman.â The man said again, rubbing his blackened forehead, âI wanted you to explain to- well, this child? That she was not in danger while on the station nor that she was kidnapped or imprisoned.âÂ
Batman looked at the man then at Dani and scowled. Now that Dani was feeling better, and a little distracted from her brother dying, she started to notice how rude Batman was. He always scowled whenever they interacted and while she wasn't the best person in the world she certainly wasn't that bad. Well, not according to her anyway. âI want to leave.â She said. The caped man, she was really struggling not to just call him Teddy, looked shocked at her sudden firmness but Batman just stared her down. She racked her brain for a way to sound regal and vague when Batman cut her off with a simple answer. âNo.â He said. âWhat?â She and Teddy said in unison. âNo. Its been established that you are not safe on earth. We had medical bays if you need them and we have yet to confirm your royal status. There are heroes on the way to help with that. You will stay here.â He said. Dani could feel her ectoplasm churn and her core thrum with anger. âYou don't have the right to refuse me passage back to earth. My allies can aid me more than you can and I will force my way to them if I need to.â She growled. Batmanâs scowl only deepend. âThere is no way we can confirm your allies are safe and until we can confirm your status you are as much of an unknown threat as they are. The Watchtower has all the facilities needed to help you. You will stay here.â Batman said before turning back to the computer. Dani was fuming, if Danny wasnt potentially withering away in another room she would have destroyed this place. âBatman, I know you feel the need to protect them but they are just kids. Can't we at least hear them out?â Teddy said and Dani felt immensely grateful for him. Maybe she would even lighten up on her bullying. Maybe.
âKids can be more dangerous.â Was all Batman said and Teddy huffed.
âYours, maybe, but we can't hold every kid to the standard of a robin, can we?â Teddy said and Batman finally looked back at him.
âNot every kid is a meta either.â He said and went back to work. Dani could feel Teddy flex as he grew more agitated.
âBatman.â He said lowly, and Dani instinctively took a step away from him. Batman didn't respond, but he did pause at where he was typing. There was a silence before the clack of keys started up again. Teddy took a deep breath before pressing something on his wrist, a light flashed red and he spoke into it. âWonder Woman? Can you please come to the main meeting room? There is a young child who wishes to be escorted home.â He said. Dani looked as shocked as Batman did but she recovered faster. âThank you!â She cried as she launched at Teddy and hugged his neck. He stiffened in shock but relaxed quickly enough to hug her back before she pulled away.
âSuperman.â Batman said, he sounded angry but not enough to concern Dani. She did spin to do a double take at Teddy though.
âWait, Superman? Youâre superman?â She asked incredulously as she looked the man up and down. His costume made sense for the name, both the S on the front and the absurdity of it. âYes?â Superman said, confused by why Dani was so surprised, âDid you not recognize me?â âWell, I guess I just expected Superman to look more⌠I don't know. Super?â She said. Someone laughed from the entryway and they turned to see Wonder Woman laughing at the doorway. âPraytell, how did you think he would look?â The woman laughed as she entered the room. Batman gave a grunt but was ignored in favor of the child now deep in thought. âI guess like, red skin? Fire hair? Maybe extra arms?â She said, âA cooler outfit?â Superman looked like a wounded puppy at her words and she felt a little bad. Wonder Woman started laughing again and quickly closed the distance between them, which Dani was surprisingly OK with.
âI suppose that truly would have been super,â She chuckled before composing herself, âNow what was this about a child wanting to go home?â Batman stepped forward this time. Dani felt the humor wash out of her as she glared down the man now officially holding her prisoner. âUntil royal status can be confirmed both the metas will be staying on the Watchtower until further notice.â He said. Wonder Woman hummed as she looked at him, hip cocked in a friendly but challenging stance.
âAnd you?â She addressed Dani and Dani fumbled to find the right words. Batman couldnt look more sour if he tried.
âMy friends are in Gotham, they can help more than you can but I need to get to them.â Dani managed as Wonder Woman watched her. It didnt feel as challenging or doubtful as it did when she was looking at Batman but it was still intimidating. âI see. And would you let us meet your friends?â She asked. Dani blinked. She hadnt thought of that. If they were in Gotham they would end up on Batmans turf regardless so the chances of him meeting the phantom gang was already pretty high. If they initiated though, maybe it would be easier when they eventually cause problems in the city? Or it would be worse because Batman would already know where to find them. âI can ask.â Dani said as she pulled out her phone from her torso, which shocked the heroes present. As Dani began typing, Wonder Woman turned to Batman. âI appreciate your desire to ensure there wasn't a dimensional war threat but there is an ill royal ambassador. Having an ambassador die under our care would have a similar effect to attacking them directly. Especially if we were denying them what could be life saving treatment.â She said. Batman grunted and stepped away from Dani, creating a small circle of just the heroes. Too far for normal hearing perhaps, but not for Daniâs enhanced hearing. âWe have a medical bay on the Watchtower.â He grumbled and Wonder woman sighed. âYes, but we cannot force them to use it. If they wish to use their own medicine that is their choice. Especially since we know nothing about them.â She scolded. Dani could have sworn Batman almost winced at her words. She sped up typing.
TravelerOfWorlds
Ok so 1) the heroes want to meet you guys
2) I think Wonder Woman is my favorite hero
3) Batman is my least favorite hero
EcoTerrorist
Why do the heroes want to meet us?
TravelerOfWorlds
Unclear. I think its just to establish you are real and not going to kill us.
EcoTerrorist
We are real. Depends on what Danny did to end up more dead.
But I am willing to meet a hero if thats what it takes to get Danny here.
TravelerOfWorlds
As in just one?
EcoTerrorist
As in just one.Â
And only if we get Danny first.
Dani squinted at the screen and sighed. She had lost where the heroes conversation was going but that just made it easier to interrupt.
âExcuse me?â Dani waited for Wonder Woman to hold a hand up to silence the arguing men as she turned to Dani and nodded for her to continue. âMy⌠allies decided that they are willing to meet one hero. Just one. And only if my ambassador gets dropped off first.â Batman grunted but it was Wonder Woman who stepped up to talk. âWould you be willing to settle for a hero helping you drop off the ambassador?â she asked and Dani nodded.
âYeah, I think that will work. They just need to get to the ambassador as soon as possible. I dont think they care about much more than that.â Dani said. Batman shifted behind Wonder Woman and Superman glared at him.
âThats fine then. Do you know where you need to be dropped off?â Wonder woman asked and Dani sent another quick text asking for the address before nodding. âSomewhere in Gotham. I have the address if that helps.â Dani said. Wonder Woman paused thoughtfully before smiling, a bit too wide. âWell, Batman knows Gotham the best. Im sure he can help you and I think it would be best if he was the one to meet your friends. If your staying in Gotham, its probably best to know the local hero you can call upon.â She said. Dani scrunched her nose and Batman scowled. There was no way Dani was going to be asking Batman for help. Not if she had anything to say about it.Â
Except she didnt, because just as she was about to argue a crackling static filled the air around them. It sounded like tv static but layered underneath was the high pitch keen of electricity and a faint scream. Dani would recognize Dannyâs ghost speech anywhere and was moving before any of the league had recovered from hearing the eerie sound.Â
Batman was first to recover, closely followed by Wonder woman and Superman as they followed the young, alleged monarch through the hallways of the watchtower. Dani didnt struggle to find her way back to the small room, Dannyâs call for her being something of a homing beacon.
She slammed her hand on the keypad and the door opened to a tangled-in-sheets Danny who was face planted half off the bed. When he saw her the keen of electricity shifted into the pops and bangs of fuses blowing and he reached a hand for her.
She was quick to grab it and help him back onto the bed, untangling him as her own ghost speech layered on his. Her static overlayed with the sound of bubbles escaping liquid and splashes of something more viscous than water.
Once Danny had her in eyesight and her hand in his he started to calm down. The static dimmed and eventually stopped but he never stopped looking at Dani. It would be disconcerting if Dani wasnt freaking out about Danny using his ghost speech so publicly.Â
Some weaker ghosts used ghost speech regularly because it took less energy than projecting feelings core to core, distinct words were even more taxing, but Danny was powerful. He was the King of the Infinite Realms. He hated broadcasting the sounds of his death and he always had the energy to project entire paragraphs into someone's core.Â
âWe need to get him to Gotham now.â Dani said and she moved to try to pick Danny up but was pulled back by Wonder Woman. She wanted to growl or hiss or something but Batman was already moving to pick up Danny, who was still carefully watching his little sister.
Dani moved quickly to stay with Batman as he made his way to the boom tubes. Behind them she caught the barest whispers between Wonder Woman and Superman.
âHe is an impressive warrior. He never let his gaze waver, even in such a state.â Wonder Woman commented.Â
âStill worrying. With all the powers she has casually shown, I have to wonder what got him in such a state in the first place.â Superman added. Dani lost the conversation as they moved away and towards the metal cones.
The journey back was moderately better than the journey there, especially now that she knew what to expect. She still made sure to grip Dannyâs hand tightly and send comforting thrums to his core as they passed through.
His eyes flashed a brighter green and he shuddered when they exited the swirling vortex but that was all and Dani was going to count that as a win.
The crazy batcar rolled up in front of them before they had even stepped off the boom tube platform and the doors popped open. Batman carefully put Danny in the back and Dani climbed in after him. The doors closed as Batman got situated in the drivers seat and they were off. Down the same path they used to enter, the crazy bat cave shrinking behind them until it was swallowed by the darkness of the tunnel.
Batman didnt pull up any directions for the address, didnt even give it a second look, he just drove in silence, which Dani was grateful for. She didnt have much choice but to go with him since Danny needed help sooner rather than later and arguing with Batman would have taken too much time. Time that Danny desperately needed. It didnt mean Dani had to be happy about it though.
They exited the tunnels into the dingy light of a clouded sky, blinding Dani. Huge gothic buildings towered around them, modern skyscrapers awkwardly built in between the historical stone. It was actually kind of endearing. The mish mosh of styles and buildings and the giant gargoyles on every building. If it was under different circumstances Dani might have loved visiting Gotham.
As it were they pulled into an alley next to a nicer skyscraper, one that was clearly trying to bridge the gap between modern and historic. Batman parked by the dumpsters and went to pick up Danny. âI can carry him.â Dani said, pulling the dazed halfa towards herself. Batman paused, a frown permanently pasted on his face, but stepped back. He moved to the nearby staff entrance and opened the door for Dani. After some cajoling and awkward shifting, she had Danny in a piggyback hold. It wasnt the most comfortable but after a few years Danny had stopped being the small teen and grown into a lanky young adult. Sure he weighed nothing to Dani but his awkward length made him unruly to carry with her smaller body. She still wasnt going to let Batman carry him though so she could suck it up.
The door was clearly a staff entrance so Dani was a little surprised it had been left unlocked but elected to not focus on that. Batman led them through the staff walkways and to the elevators, thankfully no one was around. Dani might have keeled over if someone had seen her getting into a fancy elevator with THE Batman.Â
She might keel over just having to be in the fancy elevator with the Batman. It was a long elevator ride to experience in complete silence, excluding Batmanâs breathing. Damn, Samâs parents for getting them a penthouse on the top floors of a skyscraper.
~~~ Hey gang sorry for how long this took, lots of stuff happening hopefully the next bit will be out sooner than later
thanks for waiting and for all the positive feedback this isnt beta read so sorry about the grammar
#dp x dc crossover#dpxdc#dp x dc fanfic#dani phantom#danny phantom#batfam#for fun#long post#fanfic#creative writing#not beta read#We are making progress!#I dont think Danny will be lucid for a long while now#also ik batman looks like an asshole in this#he is#but he doesnt mean to#he is just shit at saying what he really means#we will get the rest of the batfam soon i promise
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hi! i just got finished with the second chapter of persephones in hell and!! such a great dick fic and i loved getting to see the titans. but iâm feeling like iâm interpreting things wrong wrt bruce and wanted to clarify.. what are you thoughts on bruce? ik heâs obsessive and has a tendency to manipulate and shut out those close to him, but iâve never gotten the feeling heâs actually physically or emotionally abusing these kids. iâm picking up a vibe in the fic tho that some of the titans think bruce is abusive (towards dick at least) and iâm wondering if it was your intention to write bruce that way, or just that heâs perceived as such? (iâm aware also that dicks perspective is justifiably skewed)
i could just be over thinking it. sorry for bothering you. i donât mean this in a âproblematic bruce get cancelledâ kind of way. i feel bad if it comes across that way sorry iâm just genuinely curious :)
hello! i wonât go into specifics cause this is like⌠the thesis of part three, but no â i personally donât subscribe to the idea that bruce is an irredeemable abusive asshole. thereâs plenty of evidence for him being one in comics, but a lot of it is dregs of frank miller era masochismo, and i prefer batman to be fundamentally kind.
in saying that tho â the titans are right. i think u would be very hard pressed to find a comic where bruce and dick (of all his kids) donât have an unhealthy, codependent relationship. bruce inspires debilitating loyalty in many people he works with, but dick has it the absolute worst of everyone because heâs been emotionally regulating bruce since he was eight years old.
when people say dick was parentified, i think thereâs some confusion about what it means in this context. itâs not about a child raising their younger siblings (dick was out of the house and an adult by the time jason came around) but more that a child is made responsible for the emotional well-being of their parent. we see this in scarecrow year one, in teen titans year one, and sporadically all over canon. the titans, looking in, see dick still carrying bruceâs expectations well into adulthood and hate it.
i also think bruce being a maliciously abusive character is a disservice to the characterisation of everyone else â there is absolutely no way dick wouldâve let bruce adopt anyone else if that was the case. thereâs no way babs would. tim isnât an idiot, he wouldâve kept his distance. same with jason. cass has a very twisted understanding of pain, but she could literally read his body language and be able to tell if he was hurting someone on purpose. clark and diana would snap him like a twig.
i think itâs a lot more interesting if a kind person who wants to do good is so pathologically afraid of losing the people he loves that heâll hurt them in response, and was so traumatised that after twenty years his sole pillar of emotional regulation was a boy whoâd just suffered the same trauma he had.
#does that make sense? no hate to the bruce haters but i like my characters with something to chew on#dick grayson#bruce wayne#batman#nightwing#the ask and the answer#persephone tag#dc comics
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How romantic sex on a school bus. Well ig just making out but my point still stands. And Ik itâs a dream but sheâs all like ooh ok and Iâm just like girl no. Make him take you to a bed at least.Â
I love watching the way stiles opinion of Derek changes over time esp given that Derek doesnât make a great first impression(not that stiles really did either but Derekâs was worse)
âAte it?��
âRaw?â
âNo you stopped to bake in a little werewolf oven.â
Scottâs hair is sooooooooo bad đ
Also forgot how much I hate this teacher(biology or math maybe? Idk) heâs annoying
This may very well be the only time stiles tells Scott not to cancel a date.Â
Danny deserves more loveÂ
Lydiaâs thing of acting dumb is really annoying like if he doesnât want you unless youâre stupid youâre better off without him girl
Stiles reaction to Scott asking Allison about their hanging out with Jackson and Lydia
Jackson is such an asshole but Ik I end up liking him more later on
Of all things to lie about; your bowling skills???
Gotta love stiles needing to know if heâs attractive to gay guys(the answer is yes. Just ask Derek đ)
Ngl Iâve never been sure how I feel abt deaton bc heâs like kinda helpful sometimes but also super weird more often than not
I fucking adore Melissa McCallÂ
Dude I tried for literal months(tho without rewatching bc I didnât wanna do that at the time) to figure out where the pic of Derek standing behind broken glass came from and itâs from ep three when the police officer and then Scott show up the hale houseÂ
I feel like rains too much for this show being set in CaliforniaÂ
Derek is so nonchalant about Scottâs freak out I love it
âWhy is this starting to feel like youâre Batman and Iâm Robin? I donât wanna be Robin all the time.â
âNobodyâs Batman and Robin any of the time.â
âNot even some of the time?â I love this lil convo and esp this last line bc stiles sounds so sad abt itÂ
Seriously why is the lighting so damn dark all the time even when I have the brightness on my screen turned all the way up and to my recollection it only gets worse
Scott and his fucking one track mindÂ
Yikes Allisonâs closet is so bad all like boho chic and sequiny
Again a parent walking in without knockingÂ
I mean at least he acknowledged he forgot to knock but like teenage girl who couldâve been like changing or smth jeez
Love that heâs clearly getting ready to go out and they decide to sneak out before he leavesÂ
Man I wanna go bowling I havenât bowled in so long (related even if it doesnât seem like it, Jackson Lydia Allison and Scott go bowling)
Jacksonâs laugh is so obviously fake and itâs so obnoxious đ¤Ž
I can appreciate that being werewolf didnât make him good at everything(just most things)Â
I love love love Derekâs carÂ
Why does Chris argent wash Derekâs windshield for him??? Oh yes very intimidating good job ChrisÂ
I canât wait for argent to grow a beard he looks so much better with itÂ
Breaking the window on Derekâs car was so unnecessary and rudeÂ
Ofc now Scott is great at bowlingÂ
Lydia using Scott to make Jackson jealous is so annoyingÂ
Ah innuendoÂ
âHow do you cheat at bowling?â
âI donât know, but you did.â But for real Jackson how does someone cheat at bowlingÂ
And Derekâs being a creep again cmon man no wonder people donât like you when this is the impression you always giveÂ
Call a code? You have to specify which one Melissa. Iâm not even a nurse and I know thatÂ
Yay another cringey make out sceneÂ
âDo either of you even play baseball?â
I love that theyâre both super honest and just say no when she asks if they care thereâs a police enforced curfew
Scottâs angry voice is not greatÂ
Derekâs echoy voice thing wtf is that?
Love that Scottâs first thought is to try to get Derek arrested, again, for smth he didnât doÂ
Ooh jump the whole staircase heâs so cool guys you donât even knowÂ
Ooh heâs losing the jacket things are getting seriousÂ
The noise while he shifted was gross and not necessaryÂ
Also Iâm pretty sure they change his shifted makeup look later on bc he doesnât look how I rememberÂ
Love the choice of Destroya by MCR for this totally pointless fight between Scott and Derek thoÂ
I mean I say fight but itâs more like Derek beating the snot out of ScottÂ
and now we have the rational conversation after punching each otherÂ
Oh now you give him answers after you beat the crap out of him
How come we never really discuss the fact that Scott is part of Peterâs pack? At least until he becomes an alpha himself
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OK HEAR ME OUT but I think I finally cracked the code on who these wackos are, and that is none other than the WAYNE FAMILY OF GOTHAM.Â
Everyone and their mother has heard about Bruce Wayne, but a lot of people forget how lowkey fucked up his family life is! Starting from this beginning, Bruce Wayne tragically lost his parents, socialites Thomas and Martha. He was a total recluse for a while until he emerged eventually as a charming playboy. He can be a bit of an airhead, but he takes his company, Wayne Enterprises (WE) seriously and it's an old FAMILY BUSINESS. The ages are a little off, but very close to the ages Bruce was when he took in Dick Grayson after his parents died. The records are kept super private, but there was a leak a few years back and it came out that Wayne never technically adopted Grayson. He always called him his âwardâ, which is a little outdated, but just means that Wayne was granted custody of Grayson. Theyâve never spoken publicly about this. The only rub here is Graysonâs role in the company? Publicly, he took no such role aside from occasional trips to WE, press tours, and attending charity events. But WE is an incredibly vast private company with more sectors than I can count. Itâs perfectly reasonable that he might have fulfilled a role we just donât know about? Like maybe being Wayneâs assistant, or charming people into investing? All we know about the role is that it is dangerous, and doesnât have to be a child but would be slightly strange if it wasnât. Sort of stumped me, but Iâll get to it.
According to paparazzi and friendâs social media posts, Grayson moved out of Wayne Manor at 18, probably to go to college, because we know on his LinkedIn that he has several degrees. He kind of went dark during this time, which was hot gossip because he was a big teen heartthrob in Gotham and in the media and he just disappeared. Later that year, Wayne adopted Jason Todd. They kept his family history out of the papers for the most part, BUT I was able to do some digging and ask around Gotham because I know he was adopted from somewhere near the Crime Alley neighborhood (IK, it's like the most Gotham name for a neighborhood, sue us). According to some of Toddâs childhood friends and neighbors, his bio dad was out of the picture and his mom was an addict that ODâd ages ago. He abused, and everyone knew it, was functionally homeless for a time. We donât know how long the adoption process was or exactly when it happened, but it is pretty self explanatory why Wayne, seeing a dark haired kid without parents in the same area where his parents were killed would fastrack that adoption, especially after Grayson just moved out. Also OPâs comment about Jâs room situation tracks because how many people are well off enough to have several empty rooms? PLUS, Jason = J! It just makes sense. Jason later died when he was a teenager in a terrorist attack overseas on WE BUSINESS. Wayne fell out of the public eye for a while, understandably so. The only problem at this junction is that Jason Todd is still dead. Or IS HE?Â
My loyal theorists know that I talk about a lot of urban legends/events in my hometown of Gotham and this is one that I havenât been able to touch on a lot. What if Jason Todd is still alive? Hereâs some evidence: Wayne was incredibly quiet about Toddâs death. Weâre talking closed casket, no PUBLIC FUNERAL (the dad not inviting OP? Ringing any bells?). Plus, no public funeral for the young son of BRUCE WAYNE is crazy optics-wise!! Plus, there's lots of speculation about some photos that look suspiciously like Todd. This is around Gotham, and AT WAYNE FUNCTIONS. There is this guy in Gotham that has maybe vitiligo or something (which, admittedly, we donât know if Todd had, but this guy just has a white streak in his hair), but heâs built like a tank and has all these scars. Very scary looking, very RBF. Definitely could be a vengeful person that survived an accident. He has been seen at Wayne events, usually not very social, and has been seen with the Wayne boys around Gotham. A lot of people thought he was a bodyguard, but it could totally be Todd!
Iâm not sure exactly why they wouldnât have announced his return, but it could have something to do with how he got involved with crime. It is no secret that violence, drug trafficking, and just like all crime are rampant in Gotham. Itâs also well known that the Wayne family had plenty of mob connections in the past, the most recent being Thomas Wayneâs association with Carmine âThe Romanâ Falcone, the biggest mob boss in Gotham at the time. Is it so hard to believe that Todd could have utilized these connections to start and continue his life of crime? If he really wanted to get back at his dad, using these connections would be the ultimate spit in the face as Wayne has declared public disdain for the mobs in Gotham. Even if this disdain isnât true, something we have to keep in mind is that J expects OPâs dad to KILL the man that was behind his death. He believed Bruce Wayne capable of murder and EXPECTED him to do it. It's not hard to speculate how a billionaire could have someone killed, but for Bruce Wayne to kill someone is unthinkable to many. Heâs the shining star of our city, Gothamâs certified babygirl and daddy wrapped into one. His philanthropy is staggering and life changing, especially compared to other billionaires and elites. Weâre talking about a man known to pay off his baristaâs student loans and provide housing to entire homeless camps. I doubt anyone could get away with framing Wayne for murder, so what does J know that we donât? Perhaps he was expecting him to use his family mob connections to avenge his son's death? But he didn't, OP's dad is someone capable of finding and killing criminals, but refused to. Sounds like a billionaire philanthropist to me.
Hereâs where I make a couple leaps. We just donât know enough about T in the story to make too many connections, but we do know this: Tâs father was in an accident and later died. T spent a lot of time with OPâs dad. Then T was then adopted. That brings me to Tim Drake, the third adopted Wayne boy. Note the T in Tim, there. Drakeâs biological father was indeed hospitalized and confined to a wheelchair. Classmates and teachers in his high school confirm that Drake was acting out a lot in school and had a strained relationship with his dad. Drake often showed up to school with bruises that he didnât explain away very well, and it was known that he spent a lot of time with Bruce Wayne. There was actually some concern about it! After Timâs father died, he was adopted by Bruce Wayne. The problem here is that we donât have anything that corroborates Tim being T when it comes to interpersonal stuff with OP and his dad.Â
OPÂ says he had established a life in another city by the time T came around asking him to come back. At the age OP was in this post, Dick Grayson was living in Bludhaven, and joined the police force there, a city less than an hour away from Gotham. Totally feasible for a 14 year old kid. He also said that âour line of workâ was dangerous, implying that heâs still involved with the occupation he worked with his dad and with his friends after he moved out. Itâs possible that he had some sort of side hustle going, but honestly the hardest part about this theory is figuring out what the hell he actually does independent of WE. Thereâs also Wayneâs mental state to consider. Wayne has never spoken about his own mental health as an adult and OP makes some pretty serious allegations to his fathers mental state and self destructive behavior. We donât see Wayne exhibit these things. The closest thing we have is anecdotal evidence from many sources that Wayne is incredibly flaky and cancels last minute to events all the time. Could this be him neglecting himself and throwing everything he has into WE?
Moving onto the âStealing my dadâs sonâ post, this has SO MUCH INFO. D enters the scene as a young kid, after an old fling drops him off, which is so clearly DAMIAN WAYNE. Come ON people!!!! We donât know a lot about how Damian came into his father's custody, but we do know that he was 10 years old and that Bruce Wayne sleeps around. Itâs really not surprising that a surprise baby came out of that. We have next no info about Damianâs previous family situation, but he was kept out of the public eye for SO LONG and first hand interactions found him to be abrasive, violent, cocky, and note his overly formal vocabulary. Definitely the type of person to tell his adopted brother to âremember who the blood son isâ. Plus, classmates of Damian have expressed how truly odd he is to talk to because of his vocabulary, that is if you can get through a conversation without him threatening to end your bloodline. Typical kid stuff. Sounds very culty to me personally. The whole thing about reconciling his image of his grandfather who he idolized (could have been the cult leader), Wayne seemingly going NC with Damianâs mom, and how hush hush his past is matches very neatly to the cult idea. And thereâs like no records at ALL of Damian before he was 10 years old. It could also explain why the dad didnât trust D for so long, after all that cult brainwashing
Plus some little details lineup here. T being âtoo much like himâ? Tim was literally CEO for a time. OP scorning him? Dick was not seen in Gotham for like a year after he moved out. D is mouth and precocious? Damian is described as a child genius with a very sharp tongue. Around the time of the post, Drake was seen in Gotham less and less, eventually moving to Bludhaven, matching up with how he is no longer working with his father. Plus, Grayson was spotted in Gotham a lot more right before and for a while after Wayne announced Damian Wayne, which correlated with OP sticking around to help train D.
Now for the hard part: OPâs dad was presumed dead and Bruce Wayne is not. Oh, did I say hard? I meant super EASY. Iâm not going to bore you with too many corporate details, here but in short Bruce Wayne was missing and Wayne Enterprises COVERED IT UP. Oh, you want evidence?Â
March 25th. Bruce Wayne leaves the country on a BUSINESS TRIP. Thereâs no records about exactly what heâs doing overseas. Bruce Wayne does not step foot on american soil for MONTHS. The public line for the company was that he was on a work trip negotiating a deal and then decided to extend the trip for a long overdue vacation, but emails among board members speculate otherwise. There was a lot of concern about his well being and that his excuses were flimsy. They needed him to come back and he refused. If you look at WE market fluctuations, you can see that stock took a decent hit during this time. Company emails also confirm that no one had talked to Wayne outside of his general statements and very rare board meeting. So, Wayne wasnât appearing in public, no one spotted him overseas, and he wasnât running his company. So where was he?
Well, if he disappeared âon the jobâ like OP said, it makes a lot of sense. We know he was negotiating some sort of deal, and any Gothamite knows that if there's one thing Bruce Wayne is gonna do, heâs gonna get kidnapped. This man is kind, a little stupid, and insanely rich. He is the PERFECT candidate to hold for ransom, but the Bat couldnât save him overseas. The stock was already taking a hit from his absence, and if they announced he was missing, it would have gotten SO much worse. Thereâs also the fact that Damian and Wayneâs butler moved out of Wayne Manor and to the penthouse on Wayne Towers. Why would they move out if he was just on vacation? Dick Grayson also left Bludhaven around this time, and there are tons of paparazzi shots of him with Damian in Gotham.Â
ONTO THE FAQ. The details added on OPâs updated, answering questions, only support this case, so Iâll do them rapid fire. The dad took therapy consistently when he was young, and I know this is a stretch, but possibly Brruce Wayneâs grief counseling? The only people that live with OPs dad are 2 of the 6 kids and their grandpa. RIght now, Bruce lives with Damian, and his new adoptee Duke Thomas. Them along with OP and his two other brothers only account for 5 of the Wayne children. If only Wayne had another adopted child- OH WAIT HE DOES. Sheâs not mentioned in the posts (probably because she's an unproblematic queen), but a few years back, Wayne adopted one Cassandra Cain. The grandpa is admittedly a tough one to explain away, but I think it could mean Alfred Pennyworth, the Wayne Family butler. We all know that Wayneâs parents are dead, BUT Pennyworth was granted custody of Wayne after his parents were killed, meaning he raised him since childhood. He would totally be a grandfather figure to the Wayne kids,a dn the phrasing is sort of odd; âhe has no family and lives alone now except for 2 of us kids and our grandpaâ. No family but the kids have a grandpa? Sounds like a surrogate father to me.Â
The only difficult thing to account for in the FAQ is Bruce Wayn being a âhaven for wayward teensâ. It is no secret that Wayne picks up orphans off the street of Gotham like nobodyâs business, but the phrasing seems to imply that there are teens that he works with that arenât legally his kids. I couldnât find anything about Wayne working extensively with any youth groups, youth shelters, or nonprofits that would put him in consistent contact with young people. There are some individuals that hang around the family a lot though! Stephanie Brown dated Tim Drake and despite their breakup, still is with the family a lot . Brown is also from the streets of Gotham, went to school in Gotham Heights (so, lower tax bracket). Classmates said her father was in prison and there were rumors that her mother was an addict. She got pregnant as a teenager before giving up the baby for adoption. The point is, she definitely fits the wayward teen bill. Harper and Cullen Row also seem troubled, emancipated from their father and often appearing in public with bruises. Tons of rough looking teens are seen with the Waynes. Yeah, itâs a bit of a tough fit, and these could just be the kids' friends, but I think it's completely plausible that even if they are friends of the Wayne kids, Bruce took some responsibility to help them out.Â
The most difficult part of all of this is trying to figure out WHAT the job is that OP made. Itâs gotta be something nonessential, but helpful (because it didn't exist before him), would be weird if an adult did it, and can be fulfilled by children. I cannot at all wrap my head around what WE needs for all these teens and sometimes literal children to help with? Is it just like, intern work? My first idea was that it was to use the child card to get investors or cooperation with other entities but I honestly canât see Wayne pimping out the kids like that. Which leads to the final twist in my theory: the Waynes are still linked to the Mobs in Gotham, and BATMAN.Â
Think about it. Thomas Wayne and Carmine Falcone were close associates, and the Waynes are the oldest and wealthiest family in Gotham that we have on public record on being corrupt. Those ties go VERY deep. Thomas Wayne was a good egg, but it's a known fact that Bruce doesn't approve of his mob connections. But criminals are persistent, so I think that Bruce Wayne is trying to take down the mob from the inside. He gets insider information, funds things here and there and then gives the information to Batman, in exchange for protection. This is why he gets saved so fast by Batmans whenever he gets kidnapped, held hostage, etc. It would make sense how Dick, as a child, was able to sneak around or appear innocuous while gathering information. As he got older, he also got very charming, something that would help him get out of binds when he lost the baby factor. It makes sense why kids should take the job, even though it's dangerous, and why wayward teens, often with first hand experience with the violence and issues created by criminals, would give insight and street smarts where Wayne lacks it. It could also explain why he was hesitant to take T on; Tim Drake is from a wealthy family, so he had to prove he could do the job. How did he know about the Job? Probably from a gala or something, high society gossip. Drake was no Wayne, but he was RICH RICH. Again, these connections also explain how J was easily allowed to slip into a life of crime and why he was so mad at the dad for not avenging him.Â
These also support my working the idea that Batman is a soldier for the elites of Gotham and our shadow government! If Bruce Wayne is giving information to Batman, it makes sense that heâs also funding him. As many jokes as we make about Wayne being Batmanâs sugar daddy, I really think this idea has merit. BUT I am from Gotham, and I center a lot of my theories around my city so maybe some of this is wishful thinking? But I think a LOT of this stuff adds up objectively!!! Anyways, I stand by it, let me know what you think!
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OhâŚ. oh my god. Congrats on being my favorite reply because the fuck dude, you are insane for this one.Â
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THAT WASNâT A NOÂ
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uhhhhh hey dude. Itâs me, you know, T. my lovely boyfriend showed me this post and i IMMEDIATELY made this account to. dude, i cannot BELIEVE you made a reddit AITA thread about us đđđ. i promise u guys im not a victim lmaoooo
my brother, dear OP has neglected to share some interesting details about D, like how he LITERALLY TRIED TO MURDER ME. like pushed me off a roof and tried to stab me multiple times, he wasnât just sad he was so dangerous.
everyone here says we need boundaries (so real) but iâm gonna tell everyone and J will probably kill you <3
can't wait to hear more updates on our wackadoodle life from you đ
P.S. some of ur ideas are spot on yall should be detectives
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IN HIS DEFENSE HE FEELS BAD ABOUT THAT NOW.Â
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Heâs told you that?
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Itâs been impliedÂ
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ASHDHJDHJK OP T SHOWED ME THIS I CANT BELIEVE U FRFRâŚ. Didn't even mention me đđ. I just wanna say that we all forgive D for trying to kill T that was soooo forever ago weâre all passed it, he just liked being bitter. Anyway NTA, ur dad can be soso mean and harsh, especially back in the day. But like so can you? Idk you can do the same things when it comes to not trusting people so keep an eye on yourself đÂ
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I always knew you would find this.Â
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 U were seriously beefing with 12 yo me đgrow up
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You CANNOT make fun of me for this shit youâve fr tried to shoot me for no reason and tried to kill T at like 15 for the same thing đ you have no place to talkÂ
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And iâd do it again
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i really love dc x dp tbh but i hate how so many fics end up making the batfam dumb as shit. and i don't mean in a "loveable goof" kind of way but in a genuine "these people don't have the skills or intelligence to be heroes" kind of way. which is just antithetical to their entire thing
sometimes it's because the writer just genuinely doesn't know anything about the batfam or what they've been through so they come across as idiots. and other times it's because the writer is writing op ghost king danny or just generally op danny and they genuinely think he could outsmart or beat them. more often than not, it's a combination of the two.
it's just so sad. like not only is it disrespectul to the batfam, essentially getting rid of all the skills and experience they have just to prop up danny, but it also makes things a lot more boring imo. don't get me wrong, i don't mind the occasional "main character is super op" kind of story, but it's boring when like 70% of fics are like that and there's no real challenge or obstacle for him. part of why the show danny phantom was so fun was that it was exciting and chair gripping to see danny have to deal with his new ghost powers, figuring out how to deal with ghost attacks or vlad, and dealing with school and his parents on top of that.
but often, dc x dp fics just,, get rid of any challenge for him. sure batman is a skilled detective but danny will always be able to trick him! sure cass has been trained since birth to read people's body language but this random ghost teen knows how to conceal and control everything!! yeah damian has also been trained since birth to fight and kill but this random guy from the midwest who just started fighting in his teens is so much better!!! like, alright. it's fun every now and then but it sucks when so much of the dc x dp content is just people acting like the batfam are the worst vigilantes/detectives in the world.
and honestly i still feel this way even with the ghost king danny fics because how? he's never had to deal with people obsessively reading his body language or reading between the lines. he's had to deal with hiding stuff sure but his parents aren't the most observant people - their whole deal was being neglectful. even as a ghost king, why would he know how to outsmart, take advantage of, or beat the batfam in any capacity when he would still mostly deal with ghosts. it's a completely different skill set here - one that he likely wouldn't be prepared for. it'd be fine if they at least attempted to explain why danny would have those skills (like league danny aus) but most of them don't.
and i'm not saying danny couldn't do it at all, especially if it's a ghost king au, but i'm just tired of seeing the batfam constantly downplayed in these fics Just to make danny look better, smarter, stronger, etc. ik most people in the fandom are just danny fans but it really shows with how they treat, characterize, and shit on the dc characters just to prop danny up. it also serves to occasionally make danny look like an asshole when he intentionally messes with them and basically commits psychological torture for a goof.
#man...#i Do like this crossover but i completely understand why so many dc fans hate it#the oocness the fanon the constantly making these skilled trained characters fumble around and get outsmarted by Some Guy#ghost king danny isn't even canon to dp! which isnt a bad thing by any means ik the dp fandom goes crazy for fanon#and generally speaking the fanon Is a lot more fun and engaging than dp's canon#but as a dc fan its insane to watch#i want to engage more with dc x dp content so badly like this crossover is really interesting to me#but so much of it is just 'the bat.fam are actually fucking useless and my blorbo is so much better :)))'#it's almost like they dont even like the bat.fam!!! they keep saying they just dont know/understand them#but it fully feels like they straight up dont like the dc characters#it definitely comes across as 'hey this is a fun world to put danny in lets do that while also shitting on it and all of the characters'#'lol bruce is so stupid this random teen can outsmart him and he can lie to cass and he can beat dick in a physical fight lol'#there's a point where it stops feeling like indulgent op blorbo and more like insulting anyone who isn't danny#<thats actually exactly what it is and its insane to me like why even like crossovers if you dont want to engage with anyone but danny#how can you say you like them when you outright refuse to know them or respect them?#and obviously im using 'you' in a vague way im not specifically calling anyone out#ik there are people in the fandom who are genuinely fans of both and Do know and respect the dc characters#but so far its very few and far between which is just such a fandom culture shock for me#like in most fandoms im able to read a lot of fics and only occasionally think 'thats not right'#but with this one its the other way around - im constantly going 'they wouldnt say/do that at all why does the op think that?'#like 9 out of 10 fics im like 'oh yeah this person has never read a comic in their life'#i can immediately tell when someone has only read the webtoon its extremely obvious unfortunately#maybe i should make a dc masterlist for dp fans... like here you can write about them again After you do your homework ajdhgl
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#0 L.A. Without a Map (1998)
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A British writer pursues a young actress to Hollywood and needs all the help he can get to win her love. - Summary from IMDB
The good:
Holy Young Tennant Batman!!
Moss is a literal king, best character in the movie.
Their bromance was the 2nd best relationship in it.
Barbara is a girl's girl fr (ref the scene in the parking lot at the club thing).
Richard being truly terrible at fighting.
All the Johnny Depp hallucinations.
Barbara talking to her dead dad. Awww they both have imaginary friends.
Julie x Moss is the 1st best relationship
The bad:
Oh boy second hand embarrassment.
The plot was, um, interesting ig. Idk it was kind of lacking but that could just be me.
Richard sucking at fighting goes here too cause it was too embarrassing to watch sometimes.
So many bad vibes from like everything
This series of stuff I wrote in my notes "Jealousy is not a good look for him. Oh god he's going insane. God why is he such an asshole. I was worried about her but he's the problem. He's kind of sucking actually."
Where are the likable characters.
I had to stop a few times
Random:
The voiceover is kinda silly but I like hearing his voice
Did they really get Johnny Depp for this movie??
He's so charismatic and also such a loser
Moss stays winning
THEY DID GET JOHNNY DEPP
God his hair is stupid (1:32:00 ish)
Overall rating is a â
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. I would have given it two stars but it had enough redeeming qualities that that felt too harsh. To be honest I didn't enjoy the movie. The ending was unsatisfactory and I didn't even really want them together at that point. It becomes pretty hard to root for Richard about an hour in as he devolves into madness. Ik they sort of covered that but I didn't care enough about his character for it to be interesting. That being said it was very funny and the acting is good at least to my untrained eye. The soundtrack was pretty decent too. And of course the best part is that you get to stare at David Tennant for almost two hours.
Edit: No actually you know what after thinking about it for a day this was a fucking terrible movie. I think my detachment and utter lack of investment in the plot and characters blinded me to how awful it was. Richard and Barbara's relationship is supposed to be the main plot point except it's so dull that I didn't care about it at all. I couldn't even care enough to root against it. Richard is an asshole that you don't want to succeed but Barbara isn't likable enough either. AND THEN, when you think that maybe he might be facing some minor consequences for his repeatedly terrible behaviour SHE GOES BACK TO HIM. Who's wish fulfillment self insert is this. The only redeeming qualities are that it is consistently very funny and Moss is a king.
#i don't think i can properly emphasize how hot he is in this movie#I was gonna do this in order from his earliest to his latest#but i didn't think of that till after watching this#I'll do that moving forwards#david tennant#L.A. Without a Map#movie review
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1: no
2: dark emerald green - cuz greens the slytherin color and dark emerald green is pretty
3: scar from the lion king but less evil
4: yes bro gets no bitchesđđ
5: no
6: Russian, german, or latin (but I think he already knows a bit of Latin)
7: prof. Mcgonagal
8: slytherin?
9: I think he likes rich foods. And bitter foods. I donât think he likes too much sugar. Favored drinks consist of red wine, water, firewhisky, and coffee (he could use a pepper up but he likes the taste better lol). For foods, I hc he has rather expensive taste. Seafood, fancy salads and soups, caviar, ect. Also a ton of arugula in those salads
10: hmmm no
11: this is dumb af but when Umbitch is like âso you originally applied for the DADA position?â â..yes.â âAnd you were not accepted?(or smth like that)â â..obviously notâŚâ LMAOAOAO the sass and then him hitting Ron w a book I love it
12: Hermione, I think sheâd be most likely to try and understand him and would snitch tf out of James, Sirius, Peter, ect. Theyâd be friends i think
13: yes + I stan him (both of them) + I literally canât imagine anyone else playing him
14: muffliato. He wants to keep hearing those annoying ass kids to a minimum so he uses it whenever heâs alone and/or grading papers
15: reading. For a bonus I think his favorite genre would be horror (he thinks itâs funny. âHah- thatâs not what intestines look like.â)
16: when I was like five I didnât like him. Then I got back into HP when I was 12 and thought he was hot
17: yesđ
18: his hair (in the movies) and nose
19: summarized - heâs an asshole
20: I literally donât know
21: considering this hoe has had like 2 good memories in his lifetime probably just hanging out w Lily
22: Ehhh yeah probably but her holding back laughter when he was getting bullied + publicly humiliated is a red flag so idk
23: lingerie ..ďżźNAH NAH JKJKJKJ LMOAOAO but idk that button up shirt thing he has and just some black dress pantsđ also if this counts i hc he has a tattoo of lilies on his right shoulder
24: yeah
25: yes - in general or in HP? Iâll answer for both. Mitsuri Kanroji from kny - nođ I think sheâd like his emoness cuz sheâs at least a little bit in love with almost everyone but also be scared of himđ and Snape would hate her. For HP - no I donât think him and Ron get along
26: horror I already said that tho
27: yeah I do
28: yeah because I have daddy issues and are more (non romantically) attracted to men who are fucking mean and I have to actually work to make them like me. Man Iâm messed up
29: very plain but also fancy if that makes sense?? Like I think he would keep decorations to a minimum, have a slytherin tapestry on the wall or smth, velvet curtains, keeps his desk very clean, dark colors, green and black bed cotton bed, ect. Almost no clutter if not none
30: donât bully ur students when you become a teacher u asshole Ik ur life sucks but donât take it out on random ass 14 year olds (him staring at me like đ¤¨??? In response) also letâs kiss
31: yeah - depression đ¤Şđ¤Şđ¤Ş cuz his life is an actual dumpster fire. I think it gets rly bad in the winter and he gets more irritable. And OCD but thatâs just a lil headcanon I just think heâs very obsessive about being clean to a point itâs unhealthy
32: idk sneepyheepy??? Severus Sneepyheepy Snape lololol
33: Lady fingers, Clair de lune, ć于䝣襨ćçĺż. HE IS THE BIGGEST FUCJING TERESA TENG FAN EVER U CANT CHANGE MY MIND
34: every single snape ship I donât like any of them
35: no he has no friends (other than mcgonagal but he wonât admit sheâs his friend.)
Snape:âI donât have friends..I am the night.â
Students: âOMG SNAP IS BATMAN!â
36: I think he gets nauseous when he has a lot of stress and gets crazy painful stomachaches. Also Iâm self projecting that happens to me when my anxiety gets super bad and holy shit those stomachaches make me go violent
37: his hair. Itâs described as rly greasy but in the movie his hair is LUXURIOUS AND FLUFFY pls snape take some advice from snape
38: his hair. Itâs described as rly greasy but in the movie his hair is LUXURIOUS AND FLUFFY pls snape take some advice from snape
39: Fall. Not too cold but not too hot. Is happiest on cool mildly windy days
40: hmmm idk hanging out w Lily, reading abt magic, and crying
41: His bitchass dad
42: probably as a kid but quickly learned that he didnât want anybody to see that side of him
43: i already mentioned this but the lily tattoo
44: definitely floo
45: aroace. I have a post abt this but I actually hc that snape didnât have romantic feelings for Lily but has a hard time differing platonic and romantic feelings so he thought he did if that makes sense
46: Remus..if he didnât almost kill himđ
47: like 2..oh for slytherin too? Then like 40,000 or smth
48: yeah he was like too obviously evil to actually be evil
49: tall for sure - I donât think heâd be nearly as intimidating as heâs described if he was short
50: yeah I think so I also think he wouldâve been a bit nicer (maybe Iâm letting my hopes get the best of me tho)
Snape asks
Do you have a snOTP? What is it?
What do you think is Snape's favourite colour and why?
Which Disney character, according to you is most like Snape?
Do you think Snape remained a virgin?
Do you think Snape ever loved anyone other than Lily, romantically or platonically?
If Snape learnt another language, which would he choose?
Which staff member do you think gets along well with Snape?
If you had to assign Snape to a house, which one would it be?
What are your personal headcanons on Snape's diet and favourite foods?
Do you think Snape's character has changed the way you think/feel about others?
Your favourite scenes with book/movie!Snape?
If you had to chose a Golden trio era student to be Snape's friend, who would it be and why?
Do you think Alan Rickman contributed to your love for Snape?
What do you think is Snape's favourite potion to prepare?
If Snape had any free time, how do you think he would spend it?
Were you ever a Snater? How and when did you become a Snover?
Do you think Snape was unhappy even after joining the DEs?
Your favourite physical feature of Snape?
According to you, what is Snape's biggest flaw?
Why do you love Snape so much?
What particular memory do you think Snape used to conjure his patronus?
Do you think Lily was a good friend to Severus?
What do you think Snape wore under his robes?
Do you think Snape ever self-harmed?
Is there any other character you love as much as Snape? Do you think they'll get along?
What genre do you think Snape preferred to read?
Do you think Snape was close to his mother?
Do you think you'd like being taught by Snape?
How do you headcanon Snape's bedroom would look like?
If you could give young Snape any advice, what would it be?
Do you think Snape had any mental illnesses? Which ones and why?
If you could change Snape's middle name to be something other than Tobias what would you choose?
Top 3 songs you think will show up in Snape's most played?
Do you have any Snape NOTPs?
Snapey BROTPs?
Did Snape get sick often? Your headcanons for when he was sick?
Snape didn't pay attention to his physical appearance, but if you had to choose a part he would take care of, which would it be?
Which type of weather does Snape prefer?
How do you think Snape spent his early childhood days?
Other than Lily, who do you think impacted Snape's life the most?
Is there a side to Snape that he hasn't let anyone see? What do you headcanon this "secret personality" to be like?
Do you think Snape cried often?
What's your favourite headcanon about Snape? Is there a movie/song/book that reminds you of Snape?
What mode of magical travel would suit Snape the best?
Your opinion on Snape's sexuality?
Which of the Marauders do you think Snape could have gotten along with?
How many points do you think Snape would've awarded during his career?
Did you feel Snape was the "good guy" even before the reveal?
Do you prefer tall!Snape or short!Snape?
Had Snape lived, would he continue teaching at Hogwarts?
Reblog and let your followers ask more about how you think of Snape :3
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Just You And Me
Summary: Sam and Dean are on there second hunt to find John. They need help from the one person who hates Wendigos the most Y/n Winchester
Prequel to What's Worse Then Wednesday?
Ten years ago John had his first encounter with a wendigo a family went hiking with a full group of fifteen and no one has came down from the mountain in almost a month. Having asked a more experienced hunter John wrote down things he needed to remember as he went up the mountain a bag with Molotov ,lighters,and flare-up. It took almost a week to find the small mine shaft his brown eyes widened at the seen. Male and female limps were torn of and only some still had enough meat and clothing to be identifiable. Some bodies were on hook that resembled mountain climbing gear. None of them moved except for one. Stepping closer a six year old girl was hanging from her binder wrist her eyes look into his scared before gazing over down a tunnel a thick trail of blood went down it as tears spilled down her face. "Mommy and Daddy are gone. I next." Her voice cracked and a unhuman beastly type growl echoed. "I'm gonna get you out of here, darling." That's how John Winchester met his adoptive daughter Y/n.
Its been seven years since then and the little family the Winchester's made for themselves was falling apart. It broke John's heart that he pushed away his youngest son when he wanted a way out of this life, but when his adoptive daughter wanted to hunt more big league he almost blew a fuse. Y/n was young really fucking young to be hunting on her own,but it could have been worse she could have cut off contact with John and Dean. Now two years later John's missing and the siblings need each other.
The h/c teenager hissed as she cleaned the deep cuts on her shoulder looking into the bathroom mirror. A fucking blood suckered clawed at her shoulder taking advantage of the other two she beheaded. The burner phone on the back of the toilet rings as she grabbed it putting it between her ear and none injured shoulder. "Kinda busy Dean-o." She mumbled slipping the antibacterial cream in the cuts making the surface pink. "Dad went on a hunt and hasn't been back yet. I got a call last night and it sounds Ike somethings under it." He said the sound of baby let be know he's in the car. "Send it over to me and I'll have it back to you by the hour. You leaving New Orleans?" She ask starting to Butterfly stitch closing up the cuts. "Yeah left about two hours ago heading to California." Pausing and shacking her head. "No no no no no! You're not involving Sammy! He got out the life let him stay away and safe." Y/n finished up wrapping her shoulder as she walked out the bathroom to put on a shirt. "I need to,n/n. I won't keep him long we are just gonna check out the place dad was last at. The question is are you coming." Licking her lips she sighed. "I can't I'm in New York right now just took care of a nest in Brooklyn. I won't make it cross country for a couple of weeks." Dean let out a heavy breath. "I know,but I also know you're avoiding Sammy." Maybe the youngest wasn't the only one heart broken after one of her protectors,her best friend left in a huff and hasn't answered a single call.
The silence was drawn out as Dean's phone buzzed against his ear. "There your voice-mail put it through a gold wave. Sounds like a vengeful spirt bring rock salt for the shotgun." Dean chuckled. "Thanks baby sis...wait did you put me on mute to ignore me!?You bitâ" That's when the line went dead. The h/c girl giggled as she layed on the stiff musty motel mattress. Her eyes closed,but her mind ran ramped.
The woods they were dark and seemed to loom over her. It was so quite no sound came from anywhere not even the wind dared blow. Crying filled the the air it was that of a child. It grew closer till it disappeared all together the claw marks on the trees marked the familiar place the blood soaked leaves crunched behind her causing the teen to go stiff. She knew what was behind her it was the same thing in every dream for ten convective years even if she knew her body wouldn't allow her to act she was that same scared little girl paralyzed as the horror show continued. The creature yelled,but it echoed in all directions. "HELP US!" Dean and Sam's voices shocked her awake her body pinned in fear as she looked at the Wendigo on top of her. It successfully restricting movement if her whole upper body. Blinking hard it was gone and air filled her lungs like rushing water. It meant nothing...nothing at all.
It's been almost a two weeks since Dean's call. He often text since Sam tried to high jack his phone last time he tried calling. Sam and Y/n didn't exactly end on the best of notes. "Come with me." Sammy looked at a younger Y/n who shook her head. "No. I can't leave dad and Dean. Not like this." The dust has settled after the heated argument between father and son and the rules were clear the moment he walked out those doors he stayed gone. "Don't call him that." His mood seemed to shift back to angry,but something else was there. "Call him what? Dad?" The young girl was confused now. "He's not your dad." It wasn't a secret that Sam harbored negative feeling against his sister they were never anything serious,but he still somewhat loved her just not like a sister. "You're not apart of this family you can get away,but no you're going to stay here and become their weakness!" He points at John and Dean who were just behind her. "I'm not a weakness! I got their back like they've got mine. That's what's family's for!!!" She shouted her eyes welling with tears not letting them fall,but they slip out at his next words. "Your family is dead! Did you save them then?! Maybe if you did we wouldn't be stuck with you!!!" The room was still no one dared breathed Dean stared wide eyed at his baby brother as John grew tense grasping the neck of his beer bottle in a vise grip while same looked like a deer in headlights. A sniffle brought the three men's attention to the girl. Tears streamed down her face before she used a open palm to whip her face dry. "Just go. Cause that's what you do best you runaway from your problems and wait til Dad or Dean can fix it." The thirteen year old snapped at him as she pushed on him as he just stumbled back. "You're nothing,but a coward and a pathetic one at that. I don't want to loss the little family I got for myself you're so willing to walk away from them it shows how different we are...nothing,but two strangers." He stood in the doorways as the h/c teen grabbed his packed duffle bag and threw it into his torso making him fall to the ground.. "So just FUCKING LEAVE!!!" With that she slammed the door shut. What Sam couldn't see as he drove away from the dingy motel was the mess he left behind. A father struggling to keep his kids safe,a brother torn between hunting and normalice,and lastly a adoptive sister that can't help,but be different. Sam Winchester left his family in a worse state then imaginable.
Sitting in bed I looked at my phone hoping it rang or buzzed with a incoming message that said they were fine. Y/n jumped as the screen lit up the name Batman lighting the screen. "About fucking time you jackass!" Her words were harsh,but the relief filled her voice. "Yeah we just got out of Stanford campus heading to .... now." Dean said the sound of cars and wind slightly muffled his voice. "H-how's Sam after...after you know?" One thing that Winchesterâs hated was emotions and even if they weren't blood she grew up the same. Nature and nurture going toe to toe. "I don't know. You can always ask him yourself you know." The h/c teen laughed as she ran her hand down her face. "Dean-o he's the same shaggy haired asshole that said I wasn't family. I'll give him a chat when we're cheek to cheek in hell." And another thing Winchesterâs sure knew how to hold on to a fucking grudge. "God you sound like Bobby said if he ever saw dad again he'd be looking down his shotgun barrel." They both chuckled as the faint sound of a ding of a convince store rang out. "Well tell Samantha same goes for him." She picked her nails as she decided to get up. "What are you morons hunting anyways did dads ex-marine crap give you a clue?" The crunch a gravel on the line grew louder. "It just had coordinates,my name,and a note saying safe place with your name." Dean opened the car door and got inside as Sam approached him. "I don't know Dean I don't have a safe place in the middle of nowhere so keep me updated,Batsy." Sam looked over at Dean who switched hands to the furthest from his brother. "Copy that talk later,Robin." That's when the keep away match started.
"Dude what the hell I want to talk to Y/n." Sam huffed as his brother closed the flip phone dropping it on the floorboards next to his feet. "Your chances of talking to her are zero to none,man. Sammy she'll talk to you when she's ready." Dean sighs as he starts the car. The youngest huffed he will admit he was a shitty brother that night and everyday following he didn't like it,but he ignored her calls for a months till they just stopped.At first he was still heated,heated, he felt guilty,then he was too busy. Sam tried calling,but it disconnected immediately meaning she blocked him. He thought he'd see her when Dean broke in but finding out she's been taking her own hunts scared him shitless. And from what Dean told him she started after the first month she trained harder taking own bigger hunts with Dad before doing normal ones alone. Sam realized by leaving he took away her only need for normalice,her want to have something other then hunting. He took her slice of the apple pie for himself.
The brothers were in the fucking woods in jeans and flannels walking with a makeshift search party for a missing kid. They were in a abandoned campsite after they lost their supplies. The signal was shot and Dean's phone was useless in most areas. He sent a text as it waited for any signal to send. "' Going in the woods with unknown creature. You know the coordinates I'll call if we need you'" That was a bit of a lie. He knew what it was before nightfall,but he didn't want her to have a panic attack he wouldn't be there to help her. The guide Roy? shot blindly in the woods after something rustled and growled like no animal. The boys ran after him as he got snatched up into the treeline which made them quickly escape back to the camp. As Haley and her brother Ben slept Dean had first watch they weren't prepared and this was the last creature he wanted his sister to hunt. Not after last time.
Dean was on a hunt with Dad and Y/n while Sammy stayed at uncle Bobby's for exam week or some shit. John never told them what they were hunting they had to discover it themselves. The hunt that was suppose to last three days,but took almost a week the tried tracking it yet nothing came up,but more missing persons. The trio decided they'd go back into the national park when it was daylight again,but they didn't need to wait that long. That night they slept Y/n sharing the bed with Dean as dad slept in the bed to the right of them it was probably the quietest night they've every had so the fact that something breezed in under their noses scares them most. Dean rolled out of the bed to the bathroom closing the door after he turned on the light it illuminated the pale skinned beast in the corner. It creeper closely to the only adult in the room gazing at his body before turning to the smaller figure in the bed breathing evenly. It crept onto the bed leaning over her body the old motel mattress creaked as it settled onto her. The weight of the creature was crushing causing her breath to come out in a hissing wheeze as her e/c eyes opened before they filled with shock. Going to scream the crushing weight on her chest pushed all the air out along with breaking a few ribs. Her hand wiggled out from under him as she wiggled her arm to hit the lamp off the table it broke onto the ground and John shot up with his gun and Dean busted out of the bathroom both froze before jumping into action the young boy running to get a lighter while John shot at it just to get it away from Y/n. The boney supernatural creature screeched getting up allowing the girl to try and roll out of the bed it struck her back blood soaked her clothing as she fell coughing roughly knowing the fall made one of the ribs stab into her lungs. The males in the room were able to set the monster ablaze quickly getting out of the room John holding his daughter. Y/n was in shock like many victims they've seen that monster was her nightmare and it casual gazed at her having the ability to kill her at any moment. After going to the hospital she stayed at Bobby's for almost a month to recover physically and mentally. Wendigos are her yellow eyes.
The next day as the followed the tracks of the Wendigo a sigh left Dean's lips as he tried to call her it rung for awhile before dial tone at least it went through,but she must have been busy. About to hand up the girl took off running after the beast made itself know Dean ran to keep up with her Sam yelling for him to wait as he stayed with her brother. She managed to trip as he went to pick her up he was hit over the head as she screamed for help as he started fading in and out and the voice-mail ended with Cries of help.
Y/n sat in her car waiting for a update text form Dean she started driving close to where he was,but didn't involve herself yet she almost got a room at the motel when her phone buzzed with a text. It was a update to come if he ever called to head over and help with a thankful sigh she back tracked from the motel and went to the dinner as she left her 0gonw on the table to order food it vibrated with a incoming call. One missed call and a voice-mail. As she grabbed her bagged lunch she grabbed the stuff off the table going back to her car as she got in the driver's seat she opened her phone to see a missed call and a voice-mail. Dean never sends voice-mails so Y/n opened it and she almost broke her foot as she hit the pedal to get to the woods. "Dean wait up~*crackle of leaves and grunts*~Come on we gotta geâ~*Female Screams followed by a thud*~ DEAN!!! *Inhuman roar before cut off*" Y/n almost had a panic attack in the car,but the adrenaline made her move faster that was sent five minutes ago. Taking a deep breath she began calling any hunter supernatural or not that knew the area well enough. "Hello?" "Hey this is the ARIA. I'm F/n F/L/N you have been hunting in the area for forty years are there any identifying landmarks within those woods? So incase of emergency?" The old man happily spoke about clearings,cabins on the edge,river,and a abounded mineshaft and where they were. She quickly thanked the man before hanging up she pulled out a satellite gps as she got looked over were she needed to go. Grabbing a backpack she loaded it with everything she needed as she took off into the wood watch as she got closer and closer with each click.
Sam's eyes fluttered open as he grabbed his bearings. Dean was next to him which mean he got captured not long after Dean and got taken. Haley,Ben,and Tommy were to the right of him they were stuck as he tried to move or at least hit Dean and wake him up. His brothers eyes sluggishly opened as he looked around before turning back to Sam in shock. The heavy foot steps creeped closer as the half clothes supernatural being looked down at them even though they were hanging on meat hooks. It moved down the line of people about to grab Tommy when a soft cry echoed in the cave. It turned around and listened closely. The brothers strained their ears to hear what it was. The Wendigo sprinted off to investigate when something else came into the Winchesterâs view. Y/n stood infront of her brothers mud,sticks,and leaves on her body to mask her sent. Walking forward with a knife she cut Dean down before doing the same for Sam. The oldest went to cut down the siblings as Sam stopped his sister. "Y/n how did you get here? You shouldn't be here the monster is aâ" She cut him off with a anxious smile in her face. "A Wendigo I know,but you guys needed a hero so I'm here." Dean came over to them as he stood next to his taller brother. "Sammy's right though,N/n. You got to get out of here after what happened last time. This thing is different from the last one it won't sit still for us to shoot it." He had a point, but he knew that was years ago he was still scared he couldn't protect her. "I got this I can defend myself. Get these people out of her I can distract the man eater." Handing them both a flare guns She turned towards the opposite tunnel the beast went into. "That leads straight to a river follow the flow and after it stops you're only two miles from Baby." About the protest they hear a growl. Y/n quickly sprinted further into the cave making enough noise to cover them escaping.
"OH OH HERS SHE COMES WATCH OIT BOYS SHE'LL CHEW YOU UP! OH OH HERE SHE COMES SHES A MAN EATER!!!" She sung running lighting flares leaving a trail as she ventured deeper. Y/n pulled the rubber top igniting another about to drop it when a snarl came form behind her. "Well hello beastie." She didn't turn around evening her breathing before spinning. The red light illuminated the monster in a devilish glow she wasn't a scared little girl anymore she was a Winchester and Winchesterâs chase after their demons. "Just you and me now." A roar sounded throughout the damp cave. The boys turn to look back they both wanted to run back,but both of them would have pit her in more danger they were injured and a extra body to look after would put her at risk. They saw the orange hue of flames and the sound of glass breaking. Standing anxiously waiting for her to come out they were thrown back by the force of a explosion pressurized by the small space. The rock of the cave entrance was about to crumble when a head of h/c hair running out with a limp as it collapsed dust clouded the scene before them they could tell if she even got out until it settled. The youngest Winchester stumbled forward as she smiled at her brothers blood coming from her head and her split lip. "That was awesome. I did a Indian John's." Dean ran as fast as he could capturing her in a bone crushing hug. "Do some shit like that again I'll kill you then myself." She giggled as she hugged him back. "Sorry can't hear you. Explosion ya know deafening me." Y/n joked as her brother pulled away from the hug. Sam walked over slowly almost testing the waters. "Hey Y/n." He said shaky as he looked down at her. She's grown alot since last time he saw her she had more scarred and hard exterior. "Heya Sam." Her e/c orbs looked up at him they were uneasy as she smiled at him before hugging her as well. "I missed you,Jackass." Her voice was muffled by his shirt as he returned the hug. Their relationship will never be the same they both had Dean as a buffer between them,but for right now in this moment it was just the two of them Just you and me against the world.
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i just want to talk about bruce in his first few comics. because my god is he wild.
first off this is the most polite bruce wayne ive ever seen. alfred doesnt exist. but his language is so polite even to the bad guys. and then two panels later he killed one.
and then for the ones he didn't kill he'll leave them tied up for the police and its shown he has enough time to write a note and sign it with an actual bat drawing. or it might be a stamp. i dont know which is funnier, him knowing the cops are slow fucking assholes and he's doing their job for them anyways, so he might as well take the time to be extra and do the doodle, or that he just carries around a bat stamp. where he put it before the utility belt came into play i don't know but.
also. this bruce is also a peak dumbass. this motherfucker got shot in the shoulder. parkoured and swung his way out to his car. changed. went to the nearest phone booth so he could call the newspaper to tell them to put out that he had a message to the evil scientist he was going against. then remembered he got SHOT and was like "huh that hurts better go see the family doctor", because, again, he doesn't have alfred and he sure as hell does not have dr. leslie thompkins and so he goes in and he tells the doctor
that he shot himself in the shoulder on accident.
and the doc is like "huh that's super weird bc you dont have any like gunpowder residue on your hands or any of that how tf did you manage that"
and bruce
bruce thomas wayne
looks at this man
and says
"i do funny things sometimes, doctor."
also he fought vampires one time who were trying to turn his fiancee into a werewolf and then he fought a guy who thought he was napoleon and no no im not making any of this shit up the original comics are fucking WEIRD, which like ik thats normal for batman but its still a fucking trip and a half because half the time everything is so jarring and i genuinely have no clue how bruce fucking survived on his own
also please bring back him leaving the notes with his signature just being a bat that shit is still funny and so goddamn extra i need it
#ffs kenzie#batman#bruce wayne#dc#dc comics#dceu#ive told friends about this but#yeah no these are trips#ive been making it a point to go read as many batman comics as i can find that arent from t*m k*ng bc fuck his stupid shit#so i started from the beginning#i have notes ive been making#so if anyone wants me to find out any information for them i will try#bc i like these stupid facts way too much
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About Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio playing video game, I have to know what they said during the subspace emissary gameplay. May we hear about what happened? Please and thank you, you fabulous person
This took so long and Iâm so sorry but finals week happened and I had to study for apush! There are spoilers, but the game came out in 2008 so Iâm not too concerned. I still put it under the cut just in case someone didnât want it spoiled. I really hope tumblr doesnât cut this, thereâs a lot here.
Subspace Emissary is a two player story mode in Smash Bros Brawl, and since there are three of them, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio take turns. Indiana and Ohio play the first level.
Indiana: You know what? I kind of relate to Kirby.Kentucky: Please explain what the hell that means.Indiana: He inhales food and killed god.Ohio: Oh please, you havenât killed god yet.Kentucky: Yet? YET??
After the whole fight with Mario and Kirby, thereâs a part where the Halberd flies over the stadium and drops a bunch of shadow bugs.
Ohio: Those things look like the mold that was growing in my basement last year.Indiana: Glowing and purple?Kentucky: Delicious.Ohio: What the actual fuck Kentucky?Kentucky: No, you donât understand, nature is delicious.Indiana: Oh really? Iâll be right back.She comes back in five minutes later with an armful of plants from Ohioâs backyard.Kentucky: *picks up a leaf* Thereâs a spider on this one.Indiana: Eat it.Ohio: DONâT EAT IT!Kentucky: Aw, it fell.Ohio: *jumps from his chair to the table* Fucking kill it already!Indiana promptly throws it at him and he screams like a girl. The video cuts there. It comes back to Indiana and Ohio arguing over who to save in the first boss battle.
Indiana: Zeldaâs twenty times better than Peach you dumbass!Ohio: Peach is the original Nintendo princess! You respect the originals or Iâll put you in the goddamn dirt!Kentucky: You just got a game over.Indiana: No one asked for your input Bill Monroe!Kentucky: How the hell do you know who that is?The video devolves into screaming. It cuts to Kentucky and Ohio playing while Indiana eats a pot of Kraft macaroni and cheese. Theyâve saved Peach and moved on.
Kentucky: Hey, itâs Pit from Kid Icarus on the NES!Indiana: Fucking nerd!Ohio: Nice redesign.Kentucky: Yeah, well, if we arenât going to get Geno, itâs nice that an obscure Nintendo game is getting some love.Ohio: *looks directly into the camera* Localize Mother 3 you cowards.Kentucky: PLAYER TWO CAN TELEPORT HELL YES YOUâRE CARRYING THE TEAM OHIO!
Indiana: DOnkEy KoNG!Kentucky: Did Diddy Kong always have guns or is that a new thing?Ohio, drinking tea in the background: Neither of you have ever played Donkey Kong Country and it shows.Kentucky: Oh god, Danky Kang just sacrificed himself for his son!Indiana: Wish that was the relationship I had with Quebec but he just calls me his bastard daughter and I call him my asshole father.Kentucky: Oof.
Ohio: Oh shit, Indi, get your xylophone, weâve got a pokemon!Indiana: *starts playing the original pokemon battle theme on the xylophone while Kentucky fights Rayquaza but dies because heâs laughing too hard.*
Indiana: That feeling when youâre kidnapped by a small primate in a baseball cap.Ohio: No, that can happen. Have you ever been to the zoo?Kentucky: Are you okay?Ohio: *voice crack* no.
*Lucas and Porky appear*Ohio, ripping the controller out of Kentuckyâs hands: YOU LEAVE MY BABY ALONE YOU CAPITALIST FUCK!Indiana: Oh shit, heâs crying!Kentucky: And Iâm the nerd?Indiana: Shut up nerd, Mother 3 was hard on him.
*Ness appears*Indiana: SNES is just a word scramble of Ness.Kentucky: Mother 3 confirmed?Ohio: NOOO NESS JUST GOT FUCKING KILLED BY WARIO!Indiana: Weak.
*Pokemon Trainer appears*Kentucky: ASH KETCHUM???Indiana: Youâre so stupid. Itâs Red, obviously.Ohio: Red and Ash Ketchumâs secret love child.Indiana: *Gets up* I quit.
*Battlefield Fortress*Ohio: You know what this looks like?Kentucky: Oh god please no.Indiana: *pulls out Kentuckyâs xylophone* Ready when you are.Kentucky: Indiana, if you value our friendship, please donât do this.Indiana: Weâre not friends though.*Marth is introduced. Indiana starts playing Together We Ride on the xylophone. Ohio joins in on a green plastic kazoo. Kentucky slams his face into the table and gets a nosebleed.*
Indiana: Hey itâs Spanish Batman from Kirby Right Back At Ya!Ohio: Never say those words in front of me again.
*Ike appears*Kentucky: Please donât-Indiana and Ohio: *Playing the recruitment theme With Us on their instruments.*Kentucky: *looks into the camera like Jim on The Office*
Kentucky: Luigi is my spirit animal because heâs a coward with a heart of gold, like me.Indiana: Youâre a coward, but I know you had your heart surgically removed in 1847 so donât even try that bullshit with me.Ohio: He had a heart before 1847? Damn. See, I relate more to King Dedede because heâs a king and his relationship with Kirby reminds me of Michigan and I.Indiana: Yeah, that sounds about right.Ohio: I donât like the implications there.
*Link appears*Indiana, shoving Ohio and Kentucky out of the way and wearing a Legend of Zelda hoodie: Move bitches, itâs my time to shine.Ohio: Oh thank god Yoshiâs here because Iâm not playing as Link. Kentucky, doing a scarily accurate impression of Yoshi: YOSHI!Indiana: What the FUCK Kentucky???Kentucky, coughing: If I do that for too long I lose my voice.Indiana: Then donât do it!
*There are some enemies that I distinctly remember in this part that scared the hell out of me, and theyâre called Puppits.*Ohio: Oh god, oh fuck, what are these things?Indiana: Kill it!Ohio: *dies* SHIT!Kentucky, eating gummy bears out of a paper bag: Why are yâall so bad at this? Itâs just an enemy.Indiana: *throws her controller at Kentucky and hits him in the forehead.*
*The cutscene with the box*Indiana: Snake? SNAKE?? SNAAAAAAAAAAKE!!!!Kentucky: SPOILERS!
*Zero-Suit Samus*Indiana: I wish that were me.Ohio: Why? Sheâs not that much prettier than you.Indiana: Space guns.Kentucky: Of course.Indiana: Also I think a lot of girls would be into me if I had that ass.Ohio: There it is.
*Pikachu*Ohio: Did you guys know that this is how we powered the first rocket to the moon?Kentucky: Electricity rat.Indiana: Thomas Edison used Pikachu to power America, your history books have been lying to you.Ohio: Weâre going to get killed by the government, arenât we?Kentucky: Yeah, but not for this.
*The battle against Subspace Peach*Indiana: Marioâs going to be so pissed.Kentucky: Yeah, but Yoshiâs Marioâs lifelong friend, so surely everything will be a-okay!*Mario battle ensues*Ohio: Love blinds all.Indiana: Stop trying to sound wise, I literally watched you burn your tongue on your coffee and throw it into a wall.Ohio: You know what Indiana? Fuck you.
Indiana: Kirby Kirby Kirby thatâs the name you should know!Kentucky: Kirby Kirby Kirby heâs the star of the show!*Both look at Ohio*Ohio, obviously disappointed in life: Heâs more than you think, heâs got maximum pink.Indiana and Kentucky: Kirby Kirby Kirbyâs the one!
Indiana: Ew itâs Ganondorf.Kentucky: Wait, I thought he was a pig?Ohio: Well Kentucky, people can be pigs without looking like them, like New York.Kentucky: No, wasnât he literally a pig?Indiana: That was Ganon.Kentucky: Theyâre�� theyâre the same thing?
*Wario battle*Ohio: IS LUCAS DOING THE ARTHUR MEME?Indiana: HOLY SHIT HE IS!Kentucky: MOTHER 3 CONFIRMED!*they all start screaming incoherently. The video cuts to them actually fighting Wario. Ohio is Lucas, Kentucky is the Pokemon Trainer.*Ohio: My boy Lucas has seen some shit.Kentucky: Your boy Kentucky has also seen some shit, how about a little love over here?Ohio: No.Kentucky: Thanks.
*Bowserâs army attacks the castle Dedede is in.*Indiana: Oh my goodness heâs Dedede-dead!Ohio: Iâm going to sew your lips together while you sleep.
*Bowser gets away with Peachâs trophy*Kentucky: This is so sad, Indiana play Ave Maria.Indiana: *plays Ave Maria on the kazoo*
Kentucky: I love how Ike, the youngest and most impulsive, jumps right off a cliff while both Marth and Meta Knight reach out to stop him.Ohio: Me with my bastard siblings.Indiana: Let me guess, Wisconsinâs Ike, Michiganâs Meta Knight, and youâre Marth?Ohio: No, because I donât join them in their bullshit.Indiana: Oh? Then what do you call the time the three of you tied Illinois to a tree and left him there for a week?Ohio: Itâs called knocking the wealthy down a few pegs.Kentucky: Guys, this was an appreciation of Fire Emblem characters and nothing more.
*Diddy Kong trophy*Indiana: PeRSonALLy I PrEFer ThE AiR!Kentucky: OH! GRAB THE FAN! *they proceed to get the giant Subspace Diddy Kong to 500% and launch him off the screen.*Ohio: The monkeyâs kidnapping a bird.Indiana: I saw that happen in Florida once.
*Ridley battle*Kentucky: HEâS TOO BIG FOR SMASH BROS!*Kentucky then plays the Ridley theme on the xylophone while Ohio attempts to crawl out a window and Indiana screams*
*Olimar and Captain Falcon*Kentucky in the background playing Pikmin music on the xylophone: Isnât this nice? Pikmin was one of the best games I ever played.*West Virginia kicks down the door and plays the F-Zero theme on an electric guitar*Kentucky: Get the hell out!West Virginia: While yâall were sitting in here playing video games I got arrested for tax fraud and broke out on my own.Indiana: Amateur. Whatâs your point kid?West Virginia: Get on my level. Get hobbies for godâs sake. Youâre going to be killed one day, you gotta live in the moment.Ohio: I die when I decide, you little rat faced bastard. Thereâs a cupcake in the fridge, take it and get out.West Virginia: Alright, Iâm going to elope with Mothman, see yâall later.
Indiana: DOnkEy KoNG!!!!Kentucky: Aw heck, I died.
*Ice Climbers*Ohio: That jumping noise definitely isnât going to get annoying in the next few minutes.Kentucky: *slowly mutes the tv*Indiana: You guys are really dumb sometimes. You know that, right?
*the two groups meet up*Indiana: The gangâs all here!Ohio: If you play as Link again Iâm going to suffocate you on camera.Indiana: With what?Kentucky: His Ohio State mascot body pillow.Indiana: What the fuck.Ohio: Youâre next, Kentucky.
*Snake*Kentucky: Sometimes I just want to hide in a box while my problems run around without me.Indiana: Shame problems are like Lucario and can see right through your hiding place.Ohio: Guys, I dropped a hot pocket into the hole in the wall and I canât get it out.
*Sheik and Peach*Indiana: Iâm getting some strong Peach loves her strong girlfriend vibes from this.Kentucky: Iâd love my strong girlfriend too if I had one.Ohio: No living organism would put up with you for more than a week.Indiana: YO PEACH IS SUCH A BADASS!Ohio: SEE???Indiana: Zeldaâs still better though.Kentucky: Fox McCloudâs going down.Indiana: Do a barrel roll!Ohio: Shit, I want tea.Kentucky: Then make some!Ohio: Okay! Jeez, donât yell at me.
Indiana: Where did Mr. Game and Watch even come from?Ohio: Hell.Kentucky: Actually, thereâs a series of handheld games-Indiana: Shut up nerd!
*Subspace bomb factory*Indiana: American weapons storage.*the entire factory blows up*Kentucky:⌠American weapons storage.Ohio: Itâs us when we try to get together for holidays.
Ohio: Kirby rides in on a fucking dragon to save the day!Indiana: Sakurai showing clear favoritism for his children.Kentucky: Virginia made West a pepperoni roll once and when I asked for one she told me that I could starve.Ohio: GUYS IT WASNâT MASTER HAND ITâS THIS ASSHOLE OLD MAN LOOKING GUY AND BOWSERâS DEAD STOP HAVING FEELINGS AND GET YOUR HEADS IN THE GAME!
*Everyone dies*Indiana: I want butterfly wings that kill people.Kentucky: Evolve and grow them.Indiana: Good idea.Ohio: LUCAS NOOOOOOO!
*Dedede, Ness, and Luigi**Ohio walks in dressed as King Dedede, Indianaâs dressed as Ness, and Kentucky is dressed as Luigi*Kentucky: I still think I should have done sexy Luigi, but whatever.Indiana: Ohio, say it.Ohio: Iâm not going to say it, fuck off.Indiana: Say it.Ohio: No!Indiana: SAY IT.Ohio: Iâm gonna clobber that there Kirby.Kentucky: Thatâs mama Luigi to you!Indiana: Fuck, Ness doesnât have any funny lines. Ohio: Can we please play the game now?Indiana, clearly excited: OKEY
*Great Maze*Indiana: Youâre going the wrong way!Ohio: Youâre hogging the remote! Let Kentucky play!Kentucky: Thatâs the wrong door!*they start screeching at each other. Minnesota walks into the room about to say something, shakes his head, and leaves.*
*Tabuu fight*Kentucky: Iâm vibing with this music.Ohio: Donât try and sound young, we all know youâre old as fuck.Indiana: Ohio if you donât stop dying Iâm going to throw you out a window.Kentucky: SONIC SPEED! *proceeds to die* GOSH DARN IT!Indiana: WHY ARE YOU USING SONIC?Kentucky: HE WAS RIGHT THERE I HAD TO!*they die about twelve more times, but only one makes the final cut. At some point they beat the game*
Indiana: This was cute. I really liked the relationships in it.Ohio: Yeah, shame weâll never get a wholesome and fulfilling story mode again, right guys?Kentucky: *plays the Smash Ultimate theme on the xylophone.*Indiana: Iâll go get my Switch.Ohio: You better.Indiana: Iâll hit you.Ohio: Youâre in my house, thatâs assault.*Indiana kicks Ohio out of his chair. The video cuts for the last time*
#i've still got another ask and i'll get to that one soon don't worry#statetalia#aph states#aph indiana#aph ohio#aph kentucky#hws states#hws indiana#hws kentucky#hws ohio#aph west virginia#hws west virginia#aph minnesota#hws minnesota#the states play video games
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Arrow Rewrite
So Iâve (finally) caught up with the latest seasons of all the DCTV shows on Netflix, and to the utter surprise of no one, including myself, Arrow has definitely not gotten any better since the first two seasons, and the only good thing thatâs come out of this train wreck of a show since killing off the Black Canary, is bringing Katie Cassidy back as the Black Siren. But still, to say that this show is a huge disappointment is a gross understatement, so much so, that the only reason I still watch is for Katie and for the annual crossovers. But, to actually make keeping up with the show tolerable, I had to pretty much mentally rewrite most of the show and headcanon the shit out of it, and make my way through with all the denial I can manage. So, this is how I like to pretend that the show actually went. And even though I doubt anyone will read this - this is more for my getting my thoughts down - Â bear in mind, this is super anti F*licity with all the nolicity feelings I have. Also, after reading a whole bunch of posts with the same feelings as me, this became a sort of mashed clusterfuck of ideas that came together from everywhere.
SO first of all, Laurel is a metahuman, you know, like she should have been. What the fuck was the idea behind not giving her actual powers? Thatâs just stupid. So yeah, either Laurel was in Central City when the particle accelerator exploded, or some other freak accident gave her the canary cry. I donât care how it happened, it doesnât matter. What does matter is that Laurel is the teamâs meta, and it caused her to want to don a mask even before Sara was killed.
Next, Iâd like to think that she got the hang of street fighting a lot faster. Like, I appreciate that it took her awhile to be able to handle herself on the streets, but this âOliver is the best fighterâ mindset is absolute bullshit. Ik weâve all been thinking of the Arrow as a bargain-bin Batman (and the horrendous bullet we dodged that was the mere suggestion that F*licity could ever be anything close to Oracle didnât help), but I am so sick of Oliverâs fighting abilities being thought of as if he was the freaking Batman. Bullshit. Iâll admit, Oliver can fight and hold his own; heâd have to to be a vigilante facing down supervillains on a constant basis, thatâs fine. But the Black Canary is one of the best fighters in the DC universe, and I will be damned if that was never acknowledged here.Â
So the way I see it, Laurel not only kept up with Oliver and Roy while on patrol, but after he came back from his new life in Ivy Town, Oliver comes to realize that sheâs actually better than him. Like, I want them to be out on the field, and sheâs literally outdoing him at every turn. And at first, heâs all, âDamn, I must be a bit rusty,â but it becomes clear after a couple more episodes, when he no longer has that excuse, that sheâs actually running circles around him, whether itâs on patrol or while theyâre sparring. In fact, I want an entire scene of them sparring in the bunker, and as distracted as everyone else is doing their own thing, everyone can clearly see that sheâs holding back, and Oliver thinks that her headâs just not in it.
Oliver: Come on, I know you can do better than that!
Laurel: Nah, itâs okay. This is a good pace.
Oliver: Come on, youâll never get better if you donât give it your all. Let me have it!
And then she brutally knocks him on his ass.
âLucky shot,â he grumbles as he gets up and gets ready for another round, and Laurel has a look on her face thatâs almost annoyed, but honestly, sheâs been waiting for forever to knock him down a peg. Diggle, Thea, and Roy are trying not to laugh in the background.
And speaking of Thea and Roy, holy shit, Roy doesnât leave! Whoever came up with that idea needs a good smack. Team Arrow comes up with literally any other plan and Roy fucking stays! Thea, is instead given the mantle Artemis with her own outfit. Yeah, ik it still wouldnât give us the Artemis Crock storyline, but itâs still better than the Evelyn Sharp bullshit that we ended up with. We currently have two tech geniuses on the team, whatâs wrong with three archers? They could continue having their relationship ups and downs as subplots as the show goes on. I would even like that at some point, they decide to get their own place together, and Thea decides to sell her old apartment (you know, the one she was brutally stabbed in) to afford a nice one with Roy. And I would like F*licity try in vain to hide how much of an asshole she is by getting all indignant about it. Like, Thea offers to sell it to F*licity first, but she tries to spin it like, âYou didnât want it anymore, so I took it, so itâs mine now?â And everyoneâs like, âWhat? No, thatâs literally her apartment, which she bought with her fatherâs money? Idk how the hell it came to be thought of as yours anyway?â And she eventually has to break down and either buy it or move out because Thea and Roy have their hearts set on getting their own place.
As far as nolicity goes, I always thought that they would at some point have a brief relationship (a ship that I originally didnât care for, but quickly became my ultimate notp) which would be doomed from the start due to having little to no romantic chemistry, and even though F*licity definitely had a strong sexual attraction to Oliver, she mostly seemed to view him as an older brother; or at least, Oliver viewed her as a slightly annoying younger sister.
But because of Guggenheimâs constant interference, the will-they-wonât-they crap just kept dragging on and on and on until holy fuck I have negative five care points to spend on these two assholes, just give me more BC! Their relationship has to be the most boring aspect of the show, something thatâs definitely not helped by the fact that F*licity is an emotionally abusive and manipulative piece of shit Mary Sue. Seriously, for the amount of times that sheâs been really vocal about how hypocritical and controlling she is, it just boggles the mind how few times anyone has called her out for it. I say few, because it has happened before, twice I believe, once by Oliver, who calmly insisted, âEnough,â and once by Ray Palmer after she threw his dead fiance in his face. Classy lady, isnât she? But the farther this show goes on, the more she gets away with and the more infuriating it is that Oliver becomes the bad guy in her place. And holy shit the fact that literally everyone needs to assure Oliver - and the audience - that they are, in Guggenheimâs world, the perfect couple. I honestly canât tell anymore if he actually believes this, and is just trying to shove his own weird obsession with EBR down everyone elseâs throats, or if heâs just trying to get those of us who donât like the ship to come to the dark side. Either way, Iâm not buying any of this shit. SO, for every time that thereâs a character to remind everyone how âgoodâ Oliver and F*licity are together, take a shot, and then block out their words and then replace them with various observances and reassurances on Oliverâs behalf. Iâd like to think that those closest to him, like Diggle, Laurel, and Thea were totally ready to call F*licity out on her shit whenever she started taking things out on Oliver, but he would subtly shake his head and calmly assure them later on that âF*licityâs right, Iâm wrong. But no really guys, weâre totally happy together, Iâd just appreciate it if you guys not confront her because sheâs the queen of right on every subject ever and Iâm just lucky to be with her.âÂ
And the rest of Team Arrow just reluctantly agrees not to say anything unless Oliver is the one to bring up that he has a problem with her, but are totally ready to throw down at momentâs notice. Even people outside of Team Arrow notice it and tend to comment, with characters like Mick and Constantine on the crass side of the spectrum with phrases like âDoes she occasionally let you take your balls out of her purse?â and more sensitive words from people like Barry and Sara, who actually try to get it through his head that, despite what F*licity says, not everything is his fault, and he does not deserve to be kicked around by her over situations that he had little to no control over (Samantha and William, anyone?)
And then thereâs Damien Darhk. Hoo boy, my hate towards him killing Laurel burns with the fury of a thousand suns. There was literally no reason for it, you know, besides eliminating her as a threat to Nolicity. Except, she wasnât even a threat?? It was pretty clear that Laurel and Oliver werenât even considering a romantic relationship, and even I, as a hardcore GA/BC shipper, didnât even want them to get back together at this point. Despite the unintentional victimization of Oliver, Laurel absolutely did not deserve any of his shit. So, as much as I wished that F*licity was the one who died, Laurel was still targeted by Darhk in order to get back at Lance, but she doesnât just die and thatâs it! She gets to be critically injured - getting intentionally stabbed by a former member of the League of Assassins tends to be pretty life-threatening - but she does get to heal while in the hospital and make it back out onto the field to continue as BC.
Hell, Iâd even be okay with her actually dying that night if, and only if, they brought her back. For a universe based on superhero comic books, Guggenheim and company seemed to have totally forgotten (or just outright ignored) how often characters get brought back from the dead, at times in pretty nonsensical ways. But here, there was a way to conceivably bring her back; there were three in fact: In Arrow, the Lazarus pits would have been available; Flash could have brought her back with the introduction of Flashpoint, or you know, Sara, who happens to captain a fucking timeship could have brought her back, either by manipulating the timeline, or by pulling a Kingsmen II and had just shown up right after Darhk stabbed Laurel to revive her. I wouldâve happily gone along with Team Arrow believing that Laurel was dead if the plot twist was that the Legends brought her aboard the Waverider so that Gideon could heal her.
Sidenote: ik that this would have never have happened simply because all of the Arrowverse shows have to check in with each other to some degree so that theyâre all on the same page, but wouldnât it have been absolutely fan-fucking-tastic if, after Arrow had confirmed that BC was for sure dead and wasnât coming back, that Flash and LoT just totally undermined it. Like, if Laurel was brought back with either Flashpoint or the Waverider, and KCâs just hanging out on a different set while Arrow just tries its damnedest to discredit them?
Arrow: Sheâs dead.
Flash/LoT: Well she was, but she got better.
Arrow: Sheâs def not coming back.
Flash/LoT: Not until you learn to be nice to her anyway.
Arrow: Sheâs not the real Laurel. Our Laurel is D E A D
Flash/LoT: Nope, this is definitely her, and sheâs going on cool adventures with us because SHEâS A DAMN GOOD CHARACTER AND YOU DICKBAGS NEVER DESERVED HER
All the while more of Arrowâs fans flock to every show except Arrow until the assholes in charge of the decision to kill Laurel finally have to (publicly) beg to have her back because literally no one will watch their shitty show anymore without BC, and then theyâre forced to respect her character and give her a fair amount of screen time. That would just be poetic justice in my book.
So as season 5 kicks off, Oliver, Roy, AND Laurel take in and train the new recruits to join Team Arrow. I donât have much to change about this season except that since Laurel isnât dead, and as much as I like Juliana Harkavy, thereâs literally no reason to bring in Dinah Drake. Also the shared hallucination in the Invasion! crossover partially rekindles the romance between Laurel and Oliver, which actually feels pretty heartfelt and like it could possibly lead to them getting back together for real.Â
And then F*licity ruins it because thatâs what she does.
F*licity and Oliver get back together and things progress normally, with the rest of Team Arrow quietly building up a resentment towards the abusiveness of their relationship. Iâd also like to think that since Curtis had progressed as a team member, that thereâs a slight undertone of âwhat is she even here for anymore?â among them. Like, whenever she butts in with her hypocritical opinions, someone else will actually step in like, âHey, youâve had a long day, so why donât you go ahead and go home. Donât worry, Curtis knows what heâs doing, so weâve got this. Yes, weâll call you if we need something, but donât worry. Youâve worked hard today! You deserve a break!â Meanwhile, the rest of the team is literally patching themselves back together with bandages and whatnot, blood and sweat everywhere, all giving each other The Look⢠when she nods like, âYeah, youâre right, I could use a hot meal and a shower. Plus, this tracking system is so simple an idiot could use it, just try not to fuck it up while Iâm gone.â Still, no one says anything because Oliver is back to trying to make it work between them, and she occasionally helps William with his homework, so he canât complain.
William btw, while appreciating the fact that F*licity brings intelligent conversation with her, has not forgotten how much of a bitch she was when trying to save him. Sure, he wasnât present while all the shit-talking was going down, but there was no way that Samantha didnât mention it at least in passing later on. âIâm amazed at how much Oliver has grown as a person. He was a real jackass when I knew him before, but he was genuinely worried about you and how weâd get you back. I just wish that the blonde chick he was working with wasnât being such a pain about it. Like she had any right to any of our business, or any right to be a bitch about the rescue mission.â At this point, nolicityâs domestic life is pretty much out of some crappy fanfiction, and I will be damned if William doesnât get to bring up F*licityâs pettiness at least once.
And since F*licity apparently feels threatened when Oliverâs past love life gets brought up, William tends to go to his Aunt Thea whenever he feels the need to talk about his mom without having to feel as if heâs the one bringing up a touchy subject. Sheâs also the one to get him out of the house whenever Nolicity gets especially nauseating at home, and he ends up growing a bond with the rest of Team Arrow in the process. While he still doesnât want Oliver to be the Arrow anymore, he grows to respect the rest of the team, and ends up with all of their numbers in case he needs any of them to kidnap him for the day. He gets to spend some time in the bunker while theyâre out on missions (with Diggle under the hood, of course). Funnily enough, after one mission without F*licity or Oliver, he asks Thea, âSo what exactly do you need F*licity for anyway?â And Thea explains that sheâs usually down in the bunker handling all the tech stuff while theyâre all out in the field, but then he says, âYeah, but Curtis was handling all that and working in the field??â And Thea and Roy exchange The Look⢠again and change the subject.
Things finally come to a head during the Crisis on Earth-X crossover. Oliver, totally taken by the magic that is WestAllen still proposes during the rehearsal dinner, and F*licity, still very publicly says no. Classy. Naz*s invade and everything goes to shit, and Oliver and F*licity still try to make things about them while shit is literally falling apart around them, and to the people whose wedding actually got ruined for some reason. To her credit, Iris doesnât outright tell F*licity that sheâs being a self-obsessed drama queen at what is literally the worst possible time, but she does put out a few comments that both remind F*licity that it was in fact Irisâs day that was ruined, and gets her to shut the fuck up.
F*licity: Oh, wah! Oliver and I had a fight and then naz*s ruined any chance of makeup sex! Wah!
Iris: They literally ruined my wedding and abducted my groom.
F*licity: *internally* oh fuck I forgot about that
Meanwhile on Earth-X:
Oliver: Oh, wah! F*licity said she wouldnât marry me after I proposed at your rehearsal dinner! Wah!
Barry: Yeah, what the fuck was that about anyway?
Oliver: Ikr? She wouldnât say yes even after all the beautiful things that were said during the speech! If that doesnât scream romance, idk what will!
Barry: I actually meant, why the fuck would you propose at the rehearsal when you can do it at literally any other time that isnât supposed to be about Iris and I getting married?
Oliver: There was magic in the air!
Barry: *facepalm*
No, but the conversation between Barry and Oliver would go on to a touching, if not repetitive explanation about how Oliver was so taken, not just with Barry and Irisâs union, but the idea that Barry has been able to balance his life as a hero and his personal life. Oliver had once told him, âGuys like us donât get the girl,â but Barry actually did it. And Oliver was envious, because his own life was one clusterfuck after another, with an on-again-off-again relationship that heâs only sort of making it work, and after the Dominatorâs simulator, he realized how much he wanted his life as Oliver Queen to be fulfilling and filled with love, and how much he wants a partner in both halves of his life, like Barry and what he has with Iris. And throughout all this, Barry listens and quickly notices that throughout his whole explanation, Oliver never once uses F*licityâs name; he doesnât even bring her up specifically. Barry probably means to point this out, but Oliver brushes him off thinking that heâs just going to tell him off some more, because thatâs what heâs come to expect from having F*licity around all the time, and thatâs what people who love you do, right?
Itâs actually Snartâs doppelganger who points this out (after eavesdropping on their entire conversation) and suggests that maybe Oliver just hasnât found the right person to be his partner the way he wants. âJust look at Barry and Iris, or me and Ray.â Oliver shrugs him off too, and just resigns himself to the loneliness of either being without F*licity, or being with her in all the wrong ways.
They get back to Earth-1, Supergirl is saved, yadda yadda yadda. I would like to change Steinâs death into him also making a miraculous recovery and leaving the show still intact. Just, using naz*s to kill off a Jewish character? REALLY?? Fuck all of that. Anyway, Barry and Iris still decide on an impromptu wedding right after *insert literally any event that doesnât involve killing off Martin so disrespectfully* and Barry still brings Diggle to perform the ceremony, and Joe, Cecile and Wally are present because of course they fucking are. You could even argue for Cisco and Caitlin, but it doesnât matter to me as much if theyâre there. So Barry and Iris exchange vows, say their I doâs, and-
Fucking F*licity interrupts. Because of course she fucking does. âWould you marry us, too? Would you marry me?â A moment of silence and then everyone just explodes.
Barry: Seriously, though? After waiting my entire life for this, two more seconds is literally all I could have asked for
Wally: Iâm a speedster, and I could have waited a couple more seconds
Iris: Really? Can I not just have one (1) wedding go uninterrupted?
Joe: In retrospect, we probably should have waited until these assholes left and done this at STAR Labs or something
And F*licity just gets overwhelmed because sheâs literally never had so many people tell her she was wrong in her entire fucking life and Diggle tries to mediate (no matter how much he agrees with the rest of Team Flash).
Diggle: F*licity, you donât even have a marriage license.
F*licity: Oh, no, itâs okay, John! We could just share the moment with Barry and Iris, and then go get a marriage license when we get back to Star City and have our own wedding there.
And then everyone explodes again because, seriously what the FUCK? âSo I have to share my second interrupted wedding, and youâre just going home to have another one of your own?â And literally everyone is so fucking frustrated and angry, even more so because they all knew they should have been celebrating at that very moment but F*licity seems to think her awkwardness is still cute when it might just be the most infuriating thing ever. Finally she turns back to Oliver, who hasnât said anything since she proposed like, âHey?! A little help here?!â And Oliver is busy with finally seeing her without the rose-colored glasses and seeing her as the selfish and problematic person she is and itâs fucking glorious because heâs just so calm but everyone hears him when he just says, âNo.â
F*licity: What? NO? What do you mean, NO?
Oliver: No, F*licity, as in, no, Iâm not gonna help you ruin their second wedding, no Iâm not going to defend you after fucking this up, and NO I wonât marry you. Not here and definitely not now.
Everyone else is pretty taken aback because up until now, no oneâs ever told Queen Fefe off and theyâre all doing an internal happy dance at how, for once, Oliver isnât backing her up. Oliver and F*licity have a staring contest, F*licity waiting for him to back down, and Oliver holding his ground, until F*licity, finally realizing that sheâs been unanimously outvoted, just storms off without saying anything, probably expecting Oliver to come running after her to apologize. But he doesnât. He actually just quietly apologizes to Barry and Iris, and stays in his place as a groomsman (best man, my ass) and stands and waits for Cecile to take up her new place as matron of honor (how the fuck Fefe got that position is beyond me) all the while having this look on his face that says âIt had to be done, but Iâm gonna catch serious hell when I get home.â Diggle repeats himself in pronouncing Barry and Iris as husband and wife, they kiss, and the crossover ends with an UNBLOCKED shot of them two while their remaining wedding party claps it out.
I would keep everything in the gift scene in next episode of The Flash exactly the same except for Irisâs line is changed to, âOkay, not on the registry, but I guess trying to get married during our wedding wasnât on the registry either. Iâm not bitter.â
The whole wedding reception scene in Arrow is also completely done away with, and replaced with a long-awaited breakup scene, the one to end all breakup scenes (between nolicity anyway). Down in the bunker, it starts off with (what else?) F*licity trying to blame everything on Oliver. âShit like this is why I didnât wanna marry you. And then I put MYSELF out there and what do I get? Rejected, thatâs what! I get rejected and humiliated in front of everyone!â And then she rambles on and throws in a couple references of the island and how he hasnât changed since his frat boy days for good measure. Some guilt tripping and a few hypocritical statements later, and then she ends it. Or, at least, thatâs what itâs supposed to be, but it really comes off as more of a threat to end it. Her closing statement sounds a lot like âYou better straighten up because youâre damn lucky to have me.â
And Oliver just kind of silently stews until she finishes and he immediately jumps into how far heâd obviously come since his five years on the island, and how unfair it was for her to throw that in his face, and even worse how she tried so hard to justify butting her way into Barry and Irisâs special moment to further put herself in the spotlight. She tries to butt in a couple times (like she does) but gets immediately shut down because hell to the fucking no that was not okay. It ends with them trying to yell over each other, and F*licity yelling, âWell maybe I shouldnât even be on this team anymore since youâve made it pretty clear that you donât need me!â right as the rest of the team walk in. They immediately try to backtrack, but F*licity, being her usual dramatic self yells, âNo! No, you stay! Iâll go! He obviously doesnât need me anyway!â and just leaves.
The rest of the team is just so shell shocked and embarrassed at having walked in at that exact moment (theyâd all secretly been hoping to be there at that exact moment because thatâd mean theyâd officially have permission to drag F*licity the way she should have been several seasons ago) but the moment turned out to be more awkward than anyone could have hoped, so no one really knows what to do. âYou alright, Hoss?â Oliver pretends that the past minute never happened and redirects everyoneâs attention to the latest update on Cayden James. Meanwhile, Laurel, recognizing that Oliver is going to opt out of dealing with the problem, quietly excuses herself and leaves the bunker after F*licity. And Laurel finds her just outside the bunker, pacing because was she was actually expecting Oliver to run up after her after causing that big scene.
Laurel: That was some fight you guys just had.
F*licity: What, oh that? Nah, Oliverâs just being a jerk. Donât worry about me, weâll be-
Laurel: Where the hell do you get off talking to him like that?
F*licity: Wait, what?
Laurel then unleashes the mother of all lectures, bringing up every single problematic thing F*licity has ever said or done, which is pretty much anything and everything anyone has ever had to complain about the Mary Sue-ish nature of her character, every time sheâs been an asshole, every time that she and the rest of the team has wanted nothing more than to tell her to shut the fuck up but how Oliver had asked them not to because of how much he wanted their shitty relationship to work, whether they were together or broken up at the time. F*licity tries to keep a stoic facial expression, but itâs pretty clear that sheâs embarrassed and angry and incredibly surprised because damn, first Oliver and Team Flash, and now Laurel is calling her out on her shit and she was so far from expecting it. Laurel, to her credit, never even raises her voice, because she doesnât want the rest of the team to hear and get involved, and she makes it clear that no one is kicking her off the team (if she wanted to leave, then that was her own prerogative) but sheâs just so glad that she finally gets to unload everything sheâd been holding back since Oliver and F*licity had gotten together and the bitch was not going to worm her way out of it this time. Her rant ends with the sentence, âDonât think for even a second that youâre in the right about any of this,â and she turns on her heel and heads back down to the bunker while F*licity stays frozen where she stands, still trying to absorb that sheâd just been told off, and how no one was going to apologize for it.
In the upcoming days, it seems like F*licity is gone for good; she hasnât come back down to the bunker or contacted anyone on the team, and the team slowly adjusts to not having her around (and encouraging Oliver in that he did the right thing by breaking it off). Curtis pretty much takes over her role on the team (heâs the third smartest person in the DC universe, dammit! Why in the fuck has he been reduced to Fefeâs sidekick?!) and makes time to go out on patrol with the others and besides not having anyone back in the bunker, the team dynamic really doesnât change. But just as things escalate with Cayden James, F*licity comes back; she shows up unannounced at the bunker after the team comes back from the field, and insists that sheâs ready to resume her role as Overwatch. The rest of the team is pretty iffy considering all the drama that sheâd left in her wake, but they agree to take her back because theyâd probably need all the help they could get against Cayden. So the show goes on, with some tension still between Oliver and F*licity, but Laurel quickly shuts her up with a look every time it looks like sheâs about to start some shit.
Team Arrow obtains the list of people on Diazâs payroll, and after some celebrating on taking down the bad guy, F*licity announces that she was officially leaving the team. Thereâs a lot of confusion, since she made such a big deal about wanting to come back, but she explains how she only wanted to finish what she started with Cayden James, and now that the mission is over, sheâs ready to go back to a normal life, like what she had originally planned when joining the team back in the first season. This scene is actually a bittersweet one; no matter any of our opinions on how badly this character was fucked up, she was a part of the original team, and her departure from it should be treated like the end of an era. She leaves, but not before assuring them that she would help out if they ever need it.
Idk what the future holds for the plot, but as far as GA/BC being endgame (because they were, dammit) I actually wouldnât want it to happen in the next season. Now with F*licity gone, Oliver got bumped up from the second to the biggest asshole in the Arrowverse, and like I said before, Laurel absolutely does not deserve his shit. So I donât want there to be any romantic relationship between them at all, for at least one whole season. Hell, I want them to date other people during this season. At this point, Iâd just really like to see their friendship to become more solid. I want them both to come to terms with what happened between them in the past, and decide to extend their partnership. I want Oliver (and the rest of the team) to see Laurel as his equal, not as his potential love interest, and definitely not his sidekick. I want Oliver to start resembling his comic book counterpart at this point. I want him to more frequently crack jokes and become less like a Batman wannabe. It felt like thatâs the Oliver we were supposed to get when this show started, after heâd had a chance to deal with some of his trauma.
The eighth season is when Oliver and Laurel start showing romantic interest in each other again. They maybe start flirting while on the field, and eventually they go out on dates without the masks. And at first itâs weird, because of all the history they share, and a running gag where every time they sit down, theyâre immediately summoned on a mission (original, ik). But they not only find the time to be together, but they actually realize that the life actually works for them, because there are no more secrets between them anymore. I want them to start calling each other Pretty Bird and Robin Hood and pretty much all the fluffy (and probably smutty) scenes that it would take for their relationship to better resemble their comic book counterparts. And their chemistry is just as good as it was in the first season, when you could just look at Oliver and see just how in love he was with Laurel, only better now that they both share the vigilante lifestyle.
This all eventually leads to them getting married; it doesnât matter if it happens in the eighth season or the ninth, but the proposal is similar to the 2010 Green Arrow short, where he proposes while in full costume after completing a mission together.
Their wedding could be the premise for the annual crossover, but I wouldnât mind if it was purely an episode of Arrow. If itâs not a crossover, then I would at least like a brief cameo of Barry and Iris, probably calling or video chatting them before the wedding, wishing them luck because they sadly canât make it due to having to deal with this seasonâs villain. But Sara has to be there, for sure; with or without the rest of her team, she needs to be present as the maid of honor.
And their wedding gets interrupted, because of course it does (probs by Orm leading the Atlanteans or some shit) so they break up the wedding party to suit up and join the fight. This is actually the first time we see F*licity since she left. They need her tech skills yet again because Curtis was either incapacitated during the fight, or heâs off on a trip somewhere with the hot police officer from this past season. Anyway, theyâre at whatever office/genius bar sheâs working at, hovering while she does her thing, and sheâs rambling on as per usual until she says something like, âI expected to hear from you like everyday, tbh. Iâm honestly surprised everything didnât fall apart the moment I left.â And everyone just kinda rolls their eyes like, damn, what a bitch. And then she makes it more awkward when it comes out that Oliver and Laurelâs wedding was supposed to take place earlier that day, and itâs like, âOh, so I guess you are willing to get married, just not to me!â And Oliver has to physically hold Laurel back from cussing her out because, âWe need her, okay?â
The episode/crossover ends with the team (and William and F*licity because reasons) back in whatever location theyâre using as the Arrow Cave at this point, everyone in full costume, patching up their injuries, and it overall looking like the shawarma scene from the first Avengers movie. And despite having just won the day, everyoneâs still sorry that they couldnât finish the wedding. So, just like how Barry and Iris shouldâve had their second wedding in STAR Labs, they decide to hold their wedding in the Arrow Cave. So, everyone still tired and dirty from their recent fight, but it still makes for an interesting ceremony. But itâs mostly because I want Oliver to lift Laurelâs mask the way he wouldâve lifted her veil. And not only do they actually have vows, theyâre actually pretty fucking beautiful. Like, Oliverâs are about how heâs loved her for most of his life, but how this is the first time where he feels like heâs finally worthy of her, and how he sees her as an equal, and as his partner in both halves of his life. Laurelâs reflect on how they went from friends to lovers, to strained acquaintances, back to friends, to actual partners, and eventually back to lovers. And no matter how many times their paths lead away from each other, they were forever intertwined. And then Diggle pronounces them husband and wife and everyone cheers.
F*licity hangs back from the rest of the crowd thatâs hugging and kissing and congratulating, because she really canât stop herself from thinking âThat should have been me,â but she manages to keep it (mostly) classy and only hints towards the thought twice in her rambling congratulations. In the end, she hugs the both of them, and makes her exit right after Oliver and Laurel stroll out to catch their plane to their honeymoon.
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Film: Ready Player One
Never, ever underestimate Steven Spielberg. Thatâs the biggest takeaway from âReady Player One,â an immersive sci-fi spectacle about a future overrun by virtual reality gaming, and the worldâs most famous commercial director has transformed it into a mesmerizing blockbuster steeped in callbacks to the best of them. It runs too long and drags a bunch in its final third, but make no mistake: This is Spielbergâs biggest crowdpleaser in years, a CGI ride that wields the technology with an eye for payoff. Itâs also his most stylized movie since âA.I.: Artificial Intelligence,â though a lot more fun, with a cavalcade of visuals leaving the impression that he watched a bunch of Luc Besson movies and decided he could outdo them all. The result is an astonishing sci-fi spectacle and a relentless nostalgia trip at once.
Ernest Clineâs 2011 novel compensated for its literary shortcomings with a phenomenal premise, a precise futuristic vision just familiar enough to seem viable. In the year 2045, while much of the world lies in poor shape and the bulk of humanity wastes its days in the Oasis, a massive virtual reality designed by the late billionaire tech genius James Halliday (Mark Rylance, seen in flashbacks under an unkempt wig and a strange American accent) and his business partner (Simon Pegg). Diehard players wear avatars of their choosing as they roam through the Oasisâ sprawling galaxies, engaging with a plethora of pop-culture reference points (Batman! Transformers! âBack to the Futureâ!) that inspired geeky Hallidan, an â80s kid who probably grew up on Spielberg movies, too. The premise is ideally suited for a pricey studio production: The bulk of its scenes unfold in a digital world, opening the floodgates for an overwhelming CGI pileup that steals from revered big-budget movies because thatâs what the players do, too.
Spielberg and screenwriter Zak Penn are faithful to the bookâs protagonist, disgruntled Ohio orphan Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) who escapes a drab routine with his aunt and her abusive boyfriend by living in a trailer nearby. Most of the time, heâs buried in his VR headset and wandering the Oasis as Parzival, who looks like a cheap Final Fantasy knockoff, and hangs with his best pal Aech (Lena Waithe). The friends have never met in real life, but they donât really need to â their entire social lives exist within the confines of the Oasis, where they join an endless stream of players in following the breadcrumbs Halliday left when he died: Find all the clues leading to a series of hidden keys in his world, and his companyâs stock belongs to you.
This futuristic Willy Wonka setup leads players to engage in a trepidatious online racetrack populated by a hilarious range of threats, from King Kong to a T.rex straight out of âJurassic Parkâ (one of the few times Spielberg references one of his own credits). Wadeâs an expert gamer, but nobody gets past Kong â not even Ar3mis (Olivia Cook), the pink-haired speed demon with whom Wadeâs utterly smitten. Thereâs nothing particularly unique about Wade, but the movieâs throwbacks extend to its live-action scenes as well: Heâs the typical white kid ready to rule the world, a Spielberg staple since  âE.T.â, and through perseverance he finally cracks the code to get to the first key. Intrigued (and possibly a little smitten herself), Ar3mis joins forces with Wade/Parzival and Aech in a quest to find the other keys.
This prolonged setup inevitably leads to some major complications courtesy of the movieâs central villain, corporate overlord Nolan (Ben Mendelsohn), who employs an entire army to find the keys before Wade and his pals. Aided by a gothic monster henchman named i-R0k (who talks like Skeletor and sounds, hilariously, like T.J. Miller), Nolan concocts an evil scheme to take control of the Oasis before those annoying kids nab the prize. From there, âReady Player Oneâ trips over its exciting momentum, tumbling into a series of flashy battle sequences and rapid-fire strategy sessions until it finally winds back to a satisfying conclusion.
Nevertheless, the first hour marks some of the most viscerally engaging filmmaking Spielberg has ever done, starting with the moment Wade speeds through a virtual racetrack in a DeLorean time machine (Robert Zemeckis gets more than one nod) and continuing into a holographic showdown that pitches into the real world.
In Clineâs book, a lethal twist leads the character into a bleak, solitary chapter of his life that Spielbergâs too earnest to touch; instead, the movie becomes a triumphant tale of gamers taking charge on the battlefield. âReady Player Oneâ wants to make people who love its references celebrate them all over again. While it lacks edge, subtlety, or the genuine dread to explore life in a complete technocracy, it does find the Iron Giant battling Mechagodzilla while a rock-heavy soundtrack featuring everything from Blondie to the Bee Gees underscores the mayhem.
Pennâs screenplay (co-credited to Kline) lands on a few enticing moments outside the Oasis, most of which revolve around Mendolsohnâs character, a wonderful caricature of an executive eager to exploit his product even as he knows nothing about it. (When Wade challenges Nolan with trivia about John Hughes movies, Nolan shoots back with help from a lackey whispering the answers in his ear.)
âYou think Iâm just a corporate asshole,â Nolan says, and Spielberg may as well be saying the same thing to a skeptical audience: On paper, âReady Player Oneâ certainly looks like another ill-conceived Hollywood product, but this 71-year-old Hollywood veteran is determined to make something better than that. The movieâs greatest sequence is a prolonged homage to Stanley Kubrickâs âThe Shiningâ too rich with details to spoil here, but needless to say, this is not a brainless blockbuster so much as an attempt to elevate the blockbuster form in its own language.
Once âReady Player Oneâ winds down, it canât match the ecstatic contact high of encountering the movieâs trickery from the outset. The bulk of the live-action scenes lack the crisp energy of the Oasis, and Spielberg canât match the forward momentum with character depth to spare. Wade and his pals have backstories, but they mostly just dangle in the background. This should come as no surprise in a movie that fetishizes its technological polish. As one savvy player puts it, âReality is a bummer.â
Eventually, âReady Player Oneâ becomes the very thing its characters admire, a preponderance of commercial entertainment smashed together into singular blockbuster chaos. Spielbergâs roving digital camera (for the first time, this celluloid fetishist has reason to abandon ship) is aided by effective motion-capture performances and ever-changing landscapes. None of that changes the retrograde gender politics: This is a typical boyâs movie that will strike younger audiences as being out of sync with the current moment (just imagine what might happen if Waithe and Sheridan traded places), but then, soâs the nostalgia-laden Oasis.
âReady Player Oneâ is one of the more clever excuses to run wild with special effects. Of course, that outcome makes sense from a filmmaker whose entire legacy has been steeped in showmanship. As it cycles through dozens of references to past achievements, âReady Player Oneâ amounts to a frenetic attempt at remaking the past 30-odd years of popular culture by one of its greatest architects. Without seeing the movie, itâs hard to imagine anyone could turn it into a satisfying product; by the end, itâs clear that only Steven Spielberg can.
Eric Kohn
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Als eerste wil ik meegeven dat deze film mij vanaf het moment dat ik erover wist aansprak. Steven Spielberg is met deze film dan ook gericht op een specifieke doelgroep.Â
Vooral het eerste uur zit de film vol met CGI. Ik ben akkoord met het feit dat dit Spielbergs meest aantrekkelijke film is om te kijken. Je fantasie slaat op hol bij het kijken van al de mogelijkheden die âThe Oasisâ te bieden heeft. Steven laat duidelijk zien hoe creatief hij kan zijn en trekt hiermee veel mensen van mijn leeftijd aan.Â
Trouwe gamers zullen veel van de ontelbare referenties in de film zonder enige twijfel hebben opgemerkt. Ik persoonlijk heb redelijk wat personages gezien van games die ik zelf speel of ken. Dit was een groot pluspunt voor mij en waarschijnlijk ook voor vele anderen. Mensen die niet gekend zijn met de gamewereld zullen zich niet thuis voelen in deze film. Zoals Eric Kohn zegt: Het is een echte jongensfilm.
Jammer genoeg ben ik ook akkoord met het tekort aan diepgang van de personages. Het eerste uur vol CGI laat je met teleurstelling wachten in het tweede uur. Het hoofdpersonage en zijn vrienden net als de slechteriken hebben amper tot geen achtergrondverhaal. Het contrast van actie in âThe Oasisâ en van in de echte wereld is te groot waardoor alles wat er in werkelijkheid gebeurd ronduit saai is.Â
De humor in het verhaal is zwak en vaak zelfs misplaatst wat de scène en de identiteit of het karakter van het personage in kwestie verpest. Het plot is ook wat teveel zwart wit naar mijn mening. Het clichĂŠÂ âHet goede verliest altijd van het kwadeâ komt teveel tot uiting.
Al bij al was de film aangenaam om te kijken. Steven Spielberg is de geknipte persoon om een evenwicht tussen inhoud en beeld te zoeken. Ook al was het alles behalve perfect, niemand had het beter gekund. Het acteren was zeker meer dan ok. Tye Sheridan paste perfect bij zijn personage als Wade. Ik had hoge verwachtingen die niet volledig werden voldaan maar het is niet je alledaagse blockbuster.
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