#also there's no such thing as thought crimes etc call him whatever you like

[elderscrollsconfessions]

Confession: I will in fact refer to the Daedric Prince of Madness as Uncle Sheo while having the hots for him, cancel me, I’m gross like that

[lintwriting]

I was here when mouthwashing was just a demo. here are some things I noticed.

I caught on to the fact that Curly was likely innocent and that Jimmy was an unreliable narrator based on the "Take Responsibility" word scramble and Jimmy's asshole behavior. Because of this, I also did not think there would be supernatural horror, I thought it’d be man-made and psychological, which I was right about.

What I did not expect was the subtle depiction of how workplaces fail victims of rape and misogyny.

What I did not expect was how backgrounded the late stage capitalism critique ended up being.

late stage capitalism: a red herring

From the Demo, you focus a lot on the corporation as the main antagonist, probably because Wrong Organ devs were hiding the villain protagonists.

Ominous posters, a Polle monster chasing you, those ominous TV commercials glorifying working for a corporation, the fact that all this horror was over fucking tooth-rotting mouthwash. Really paints the picture of a corporate horror or conspiracy a la “Time to Orbit: Unknown,” where every chapter unveils a new corporate conspiracy for money and power.

but instead, in mouthwashing, the capitalist aspects are merely plot devices to explore the horror surrounding mismanagement and its consequences.

A power tripping coworker and an enabling manager who got him the job. An eager-to-please kid and an established supervisor willing to take advantage. Flaws in how the hierarchy is decided, leading to the one person who shouldn’t have had power getting the power. Lack of sensitivity training (or whatever that’s called) surrounding things like Title IX concerns, such as the uneven gender dynamics or what to do in the event of a crime or the fact that the person doing the psych evals isn’t getting any evals.

Notice that none of these things are unique to capitalism, they’re issues you’d have to plan for in any workplace/organization, whether that be socialist or capitalist or whatever. The capitalism exacerbates the issues or catalyzes the consequences of them like a plot device, but the issues don’t originate from there.

For example: the lack of any woman other than Anya.

Yes, this was most likely exacerbated by late stage capitalism understaffing to cut corners, leading to skeleton crews, but that the crew we DO have is mostly male is more related to misogyny or gender roles.

Perhaps women don't want to work on these freighters because of the danger of being trapped in a confined space with men. Maybe the jobs required for these freighters, like mechanic or pilot, are male-dominated. Or maybe the hiring manager had a bias where they viewed men as more competent, etc. The fact of the matter is that the cause is the same when you dig down deep into it: misogyny.

Or the layoff. The laying off of the crew is its own form of evil, but its consequences aren’t the ones being explored within this story. Most of the crew die of the horrors within the ship before they ever have to face it. In fact, the horrors within the ship don't really even have anything to do with the layoff at all. It’s a bit of a red herring.

Rather, the actual cause of this game’s horror is the mismanaged fallout of Jimmy’s assault. Most obviously in that scene where we see Curly for the first time, wherein Curly doesn’t take Anya’s safety concerns seriously, even when Jimmy is actively threatening to make everyone disappear so neither of them have to face the consequences of the assault.

I initially misread that scene as Curly evilly conspiring to let Jimmy crash the ship so neither of them would take the fall, hence us finally seeing Curly's “true face.” Because I read what Jimmy said as inherently threatening and serious, I thought Curly had agreed to that awful plan and only got cold feet at the last minute.

It’s only from reading other comments that I realized Curly had most likely assumed Jimmy was blowing hot air and needed to cool down in that scene. Or that he was making an inappropriate joke akin to his 'sexually attracted to cartoon horses' thing and wasn't being serious. Curly didn’t realize Jimmy was actually talking about a real plan until it was too late stop it (makes me wonder if Jimmy was actually attracted to the horse, too).

Thus, it goes from a story about corner-cutting late stage capitalist megacorps to a story about cartoonishly evil, power-tripping men to a story about how we enable these men with failures in our system.

Much like how the beginning of the game, when Jimmy crashes the ship, a failure in the safety systems is what allows the crash to happen (Seriously? One pilfered key is all you need to send your ship into a crash?), a series of social safety nets had to have failed to let him into the cockpit in the first place. The true face is not Curly conspiring to crash the ship out of cowardice and greed, but his inability to face what his friend has done.

[dearweirdme]

“I also wonder at times if some people understand that attraction goes beyond the physical and sexual"

This is something I have always wondered so since you mentioned it, I thought I should ask. Apart from Jk constantly talking about how handsome Tae is, which isn’t necessarily attraction because pretty much everyone calls him handsome all the time, what else shows that Jk finds Tae attractive in any other ways? This has honestly bothered me for a while because it seems like everytime I hear or see Jk complimenting Tae it is always about his looks. I just never hear or see him say anything deeper about Tae or speak about other aspects of him other than his attractive face and it just makes the whole things seem very vein or superficial.

I know that Jk cares about Tae and vice versa, I am not saying he doesn’t but I guess my question is, outside of a physical attraction, what other evidence is there to show that Jk likes anything more than Tae’s handsome face? I have almost never seen him talk about Tae as a person and the closest thing to that was when he spoke about Tae having deeper thoughts that some would think and when he called Tae a genius. I can’t find that moment anywhere to send here but there was this one time the members were asked to say something about each other and when it got to Tae’s turn, Jk said he is very handsome and Tae asked if that was the only thing Jk could say and Jk just repeated that he was handsome. I know he might have his thoughts about who Tae is as a person or what he admires and loves about him that doesn’t include his looks but i just find it weird that after all this years, I really can’t find a single time when he really talks about something he admires of Tae which isn’t how he looks.

Hi anon!

It is asks like yours that make me question if some people actually don’t know what attraction is.. and moreover, you don’t seem to recognize it. You don’t seem like a Tkkr to me? Because I feel any Tkkr would be able to answer this easily.

You are looking for Jk using explicit wording to show his attraction. You are looking for the ‘he is the best person I know, he has the biggest heart, etc. The so called profound stuff. That’s not what attraction is. You can feel someone is the kindest person you know and not be attracted to them for instance. Attraction is someone’s specific collection of traits connecting to yourself in a way that feels special (not sure if I describe this well enough).

Something that I feel is so easy to recognize, but is often overlooked because it doesn’t seem profound enough, is that Jk thinks Tae is beyond funny. Tae makes him laugh so much and so hard. Humor is very attractive and many couples will describe that as something that attracted them to their partner.

Another thing that I feel is evident, is that Jk immensely enjoys Tae’s mischievousness. I think they bonded over that when they were younger. I think they still enjoy this. They are described as partners in crime.

Something that is also mentioned a lot, is that Tae was the one to help Jk out of his shell. Which to me says that Tae was an enormous source of comfort and acceptance for Jk. Connected to this, is Tae’s free spiritedness. Jk has that too. I think they enjoy that about each other a lot.

I cannot from the top of my head recall all things Jk has ever said about Tae (typing this while I’m at work on a short break 😂). But one thing that I do recall is Jk calling Tae his ‘commonality’. I think the korean wording is even more specific (kayla has it in her timeline somewhere). It means that a part of Jk recognizes a part of Tae as being the same. That is not an insignificant thing to say about someone.

But also, why would your baseline be that Jk doesn’t see Tae as good, kind, caring, etc? He didn’t spend as much time with him as he did just to look at his handsome face. Jk’s behavior towards Tae (traveling to Hawaii for him!!), should absolutely tell you that whatever it is between these men.. there is certainly a lot of admiration and connection there. They enjoy spending time together a lot! Your need for Jk vocalizing his feelings towards Tae will never be met. If you are a shipper (?) one of the things you kinda have to deal with is that they will never perform their relationship in a way that it will be a 100 percent clear that they are together (at least not at this time).

[pinguwrites]

Kinktober 2023 | Day Thirty-One — Jackson Rippner + ghostface!reader

Pairing -> jackson rippner x ghostface!reader

Summary -> In this college au, Halloween is nearing its corner, only for the festive mood to be cut short when your classmate is brutally killed. As the series of murders continues, Jackson Rippner finds himself the next target, oblivious to the fact that his hunter is you, his girlfriend, the ghostface.

KINKTOBER 2023 MLIST

Warnings: mention of death, jackson being a simp

Disclaimer: Red Eye characters, plots, quotes, etc. do not belong to me and belong to the rightful owner(s). This is only fanfiction and this is just for fun.

This is just an excerpt for the full-length fic that's coming out, bc I felt like this prompt deserved something much longer than just a drabble.

A/N: not me reading over this thing after it's published and seeing all the mistakes 😭

Jackson Rippner was trying to become more romantic for you, an endeavor that started about a week ago after he noticed you liked passionate men. It was a simple conversation about fictional crushes — you know, the ones you have as a kid when he realized all the men you had pointed out were terribly lovey-dovey and all sentimental-like. A few origami roses here and there, some thoughtful gifts, maybe some poetic letters, and he was sure that he could outcompete all of them. He was the only man you needed, the only man you could ever want.

He knew how it sounded—pathetic. Since when was he the type to change himself for a girl? He was no Romeo or Jack Dawson, and he certainly didn’t want to be. He wasn’t a simpering fool, chasing after a pretty girl like it was his life’s mission, but as it turned out, he was for you. And if you liked your men romantic, then Jackson would be romantic

Starting off with whatever this was: a package of your favorite stuff. For one, two books you mentioned wanting to get but couldn’t spare the money for, which Jackson painstakingly searched through the town for. He finally found them in some niche bookstore on the outskirts of Craven, overpriced for the value—or some other equally stupid bullshit—even though he knew damn well that he could get it for half the price if he drove further into the main city. He would have, but he knew his father would get pissed if he wasted that much gas money, and fearing to face his fist, he settled for the high cost. It’s for her, so it’s worth it.

For second, and last—at least for now, some bath bombs. He made them from scratch, swiping the ingredients from around the house. He used a cedar wood scent for the essential oil, as it was the closet smell he could get to his cologne, and made three bombs, wrapped them in plastic, and put them alongside the books in the bag.

It was perfect. You were going to love it. You had to love it. How could you not?

He closed the bag and placed it on his desk, ready to go to sleep, when the landline downstairs rang. It was probably telemarketers, but it could also be his parents, who were out on date night. 

He headed downstairs and picked up the phone, but the voice on the other end caught him off guard. “Hey,” a woman said, but it didn’t sound natural. It sounded like there was a voice modulator, the ones that criminals used in those crime shows you forced him to watch.

“Hey?” Jackson responded, confused, and a little irritated.

“I know who you are.”

Jackson tried to focus on the sound of the voice. Maybe he could pick out who it was if he listened close enough, but it was a fruitless effort. It was female, but too common to tell.

“You’re the one calling me,” he said, tone laced with amusement, “I should assume so.”

“Do you know who I am?”

“A creep? A weirdo?” Jackson laughed. “A stalker? I dunno. Take your pick.”

It was quiet. For a moment, he thought the woman hung up, but then she spoke again, “A lover. I’m a lover, Jackson.”

“Good for you.” He glanced back at the package he left on his desk. He was tired, and didn’t want to deal with this right now. “Now, how about you either stop acting mysterious and tell me what you want, or I cut the call.”

“Someone’s going to die tonight, Jackson,”  the woman said. Oddly enough, Jackson felt a twinge of excitement at her words. It was oddly thrilling, and adrenaline inducing to hear such a thing. It was at this point he realized with himself that this was a prank, because who would just admit to premeditated murder? but still—it was hot. He wished you would say those things.  

“I hope it’s that girl from my English class. What’s her name? Ah, fuck, I forgot. She’s the bitchy one —all emotion. Screams every time the lights go out. You know her?”

“Yeah, I know her.”

So, she’s been on campus, Jackson thought. Following me, maybe. I can’t believe it! 

“It’s not her, though. But who knows, maybe she’ll be next. Would you like that?”

“Doll, I really don’t care. Do me a favor, and don’t call me again.”

He put the phone down and went back upstairs. What a fucking psycho. He was too tired to deal with this shit. After freshening up, he pulled the covers over himself and turned off the lamp, drifting off into a peaceful slumber.

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[shrimp-buffet]

LARRY & LAWRIE HEADCANONS #3

(Headcanons after the cut, I ramble for a bit)

*head pops out of grave* I'M ALIVEEE

Yeah I know I say this in practically every post but I finally got something again! school and other stuff kicked my ass and honestly i wasn't sure how interested really was in making these until I missed them! So while I can't guarantee any consistent posting knowing me, I can at least say that I do plan to keep doing these and I'm hoping to branch out into other fandoms so that me making these doesn't fully depend on me having a Brawl Stars hyperfixation.

Anyways as a sort of apology for the lack of content, I bring you the follow up I know many have been waiting for: LARRY AND LAWRIE PART 3 BABY!

Hope you enjoy!

Fair warning: this one may be a small bit angsty in some spots. Nothing that would need an actual warning but didn't want to jumpscare y'all with surprise sadness.

Larry based, Lawrie based, both

•Larry's most rebellious action would be putting a soda can in the non-recycling bin... Then feeling extremely guilty and fishing it back out to put it in the correct bin when no one is looking.

•Lawrie has an apocalypse bunker hidden somewhere in the park. It's only for them, Larry, and RT.

•Lawrie likes Bob Ross! They don't like to paint all that much though. Larry does like painting but he's really bad at it.

•They've never been outside the park before. Lawrie is pretty content with that fact and doesn't want to leave, but Larry wants to see what's out there and occasionally asks parkgoers about it.

•Larry gets along well with animals (add this and the last one and Larry is a fricking Disney princess- /j)

•Lawrie is the exact opposite, all animals hate them and they hate all animals in return.

•As somewhat implied already, Lawrie is kind of leaning towards a "hate all biological life" mindset. They don't actually full-on hate lifeforms entirely, but people don't really like them so they don't like people, that kind of deal. This leads Lawrie to sometimes say stuff teetering on the "kill all humans" line but Larry calls it out and Lawrie would always agree they're going a bit too far.

•Larry as usual is the opposite. He finds life and people to be so interesting and envies their experiences. They even somewhat avoid hanging out with other robots because it reminds him that he's also just a robot, though he doesn't even realize this thought process. He would never admit it, but he kind of wishes he was human. Lawrie can sense this so it causes some arguments between the two.

•On a more light-hearted note, Larry has a bit of a crush on Melodie! She's very pretty, sings beautifully, and does whatever she wants and says anything on her mind, all of which Larry loves and admires.

•Out of all the people in the park, Lawrie gets along with Draco and Hank the best. Draco is more of a frien-emy that can get on their nerves a lot but they have a lot of similar interests like music taste. And Hank is a semi-friendly rival.

•Larry, Lawrie, and R-T were all made on the same day. When it comes to the birthday though they celebrate it as R-T's day cause they just love their "baby" sibling. (Plus in Lawrie's case they just don't like the idea of having their own birthday)

•Larry is scared of Cordelius. He just gives them the creeps and somehow always manages to accidentally sneak up on Larry. (Same goes for Lily)

•Larry has a notebook they carry around to do made up math problems in when they're bored.

•Lawrie usually never wishes they could eat food, but he does wish he could try chocolate.

•They tend to play "road trip" games when they're bored on a patrol together. Things like Eye Spy, 20 Questions, Alphabet Game, etc. They both really enjoy it!

•They also listen to true crime podcast together.

And that's all I got for now! Thank you for reading this far!! As always if you'd like more let me know!!!

[nineteenthmay]

Something that bothers me about a lot of Dair stans and is part of the reason why I don't like Dair as much (even though apart from the fandom I realized on rewatch Dan and his ships are more problematic than I thought) is how they co-otp Serena's abuse from Chuck and pretend to care about the issue and her when they generally don't care as much or are ignorant but ignore how emotionally abusive Dan was to her by verbally degrading her, especially later, and will hate on her outside of that and act like the abuser was all her and exaggerate how good he is cause he comes off better than Chuck. They also lie so much about canon that I've had to distance myself to keep brain cells. Like for instance they often claim Serena in 6x4 said Dan enjoyed being part of the sex tape even though she used present tense and was talking about him enjoying writing slanderous articles about close ones:

S: Wow, I can't believe I ever loved someone who could write such awful things about his friends and family.

D: Right, 'cause you were thinking about my feelings when you made that sex tape.

S: You know what? The worst part is you actually seem to be enjoying it.

They also ignore that Dan committed a sex crime by posting a picture of Serena's tits being visible when they were 15 and the few that do acknowledge claim he can't be blamed for it cause it's OOC for his character and "Gossip Girl reveal" was a last minute decision while blaming Serena for the sex tape which can easily be argued as OOC, which I believe to be less in character than Dan. That logic is faulty to me cause Dan slept with a girl that he knew roofied her multiple times while already drunk and tried to have an adult force himself on her and record a sex tape that she tried to blackmail her over. Yeah after Serena found out they had sex at NYU she told Dan she was ok as long as he's happy and keeping her at a distance cause Georgie had issues but he got his dick wet the first time without finding out Serena's feelings. And he was a serial cheater so cheating again was unsurprising. But because he committed a sex crime with the picture I'd say whatever sex he had with Serena before she found out about GG was dubious consent as argued for the sex tape case but I've never seen anyone call out fuckboy Dan for the questionable consent. Also Dan was said to kiss her while giving her wine in 3x22 despite the emotional state she was in because of being in a low place with her dad and family, Nate, Jenny, etc and the fact that he knew in addition to her mental health she had a history of substance abuse and poor decision making or getting taken advantage of by adults under those circumstances that she often agonized over and I feel it's worth mentioning that Serena was the first and also more in expressing guilt over what happened that Dan was quick to take personal offense and even while guilty and depressed she tried to reassure him. I don't understand how Dair fans can claim Chuck/Jenny was noncon because of her emotional state when Chuck was in a similar state (it'd be more credible if that wasn't the case) but ignore that Dan was mentally stable unlike Serena when he kissed her and immediately flirted when she showed regret. They also lie that Serena made him drink even though I doublechecked the ep and she never asked or told or handed him a drink; he was already shown drinking cause it was a party. What Serena did was bad, but unlike him who posted her picture for the world she had the decency to delete the video although Georgina unfortunately stole her phone and found it in her recently deleted and was shamed before and after the tape was released and she apologized to Blair the tape and admitted she "acted really badly" out of insecurity. She should've apologized to Dan too but then again he didn't apologize to anyone for the picture and romanticized it as getting power to move up and had the moral high ground the whole time and said Serena manipulated him as if he didn't manipulate her and he barely called out Georgina after she released the tape but tormented Serena and acted like she was the biggest attention whore. Found it weird how Dan was happy he was getting female attention from the tape while Serena wasn't happy about being hypersexualized over his GG post. I like Serena better cause she didn't act like she was morally superior to him while hiding her skeletons to him. Dan is a terrible boyfriend, terrible brother, and terrible writer and I don't like Chuck either, but I hate how fans shame others for who they like and act like Dan is a better person than he actually is.

I assume that this the same message split in two parts, so I put it together. :)

What can I say? I think those dair fans you discuss here have some alternative series going in their head, they don't understand what they watch, they don't understand the characters and they only care about their own fantasies that have little to do with the actual series. It's useless to argue with these folks and I can only recommend to ignore them and enjoy what you like.

Obviously I like Chuck better than Dan for many reasons. One reason is that Chuck had more character development than any other character and his character demonstrated uplifting trajectory. I think it's often forgotten that Gossip Girl is a coming of age story, when we first meet the main characters they are teenagers and by the end of the story they are adults in their early twenties. By the rules of the genre, they are supposed to have issues, to make mistakes, to learn along the way, to grow up, to mature, to fix their issues. And Chuck did just that. He owned his wrongs and mistakes, admitted them, learned from them, felt remorse, worked on his issues, and that all helped him to make his life better, to grow up, to become more stronger, mentally more stable and to not repeat his wrongdoings. If we compare Chuck in Season 1 and Chuck in Season 6, we can see the difference and how much he has matured, like we don't see him doing anymore desperate and crazy actions he was prone to do earlier under similar circumstances.

With Dan it's opposite. His story, for me, is about moral degradation. Like, Dan, although not without his flaws, in Season 1 is more likable, than older Dan in Season 6 where he throws temper tantrums left and right and blames everybody but himself for his troubles. And don't even get me started with Dan's career as Gossip Girl. I don't accept the argument "the Gossip Girl reveal was random and ooc and we will ignore it", first, because I don't think that making Dan Gossip Girl was a random decision, second, because however poorly it was executed, Dan being Gossip Girl is the series' canon and should be taken into account discussing his character. But even without the Gossip Girl matter (for which, btw, he didn't feel any remorse or regret, but instead congratulated himself smugly in the finale like for a well-done job), Dan had plenty of flaws, wrongdoings and mistakes. But more often than not, and the series nearing its end, he refused to admit them. Like that bit of a dialogue between Serena and Dan regarding the sex tape is actually very characteristic to Dan. Did Serena wrong by filming them having sex? Yes, she did, she shouldn't have done that. Does it make ok Dan writing those articles? No, it doesn't, Dan is doing wrong as well. Furthermore, Serena didn't force him to have sex with her, it was his decision as well. Yet, Dan refuses to take any responsibility for it and admit that he did wrong regardless of what Serena did, and shifts all responsibility to Serena. He has a very similar dialogue with Blair too in 6x05 when the sex tape is revealed, making Blair to realize that he is a total hypocrite and it's better to be alone than with him (btw, it was not the first time Blair calling out Dan's hypocrisy, she did it in Season 2 finale too).

Dan envied Upper Eastsiders for their wealth, privileges, and power and wanted to be a part of their world while considering himself morally superior to them, he was self-righteous, he lacked self-reflection and tended to exploit people around him for his writing purposes without any remorse. I find it hard to sympathize with him in the end.

[onequeerhuman]

Caught up again- an emily prentiss/larissa weems fic

during an investigation that took the bau team to a Special school in Vermont, Emily runs into her one love she thought she lost forever while trying not to get wrapped up in the bs that is now her life and larissa grapples with the sudden re-appearance of the one who got away while dealing with yet another serial killer in her woods that threatened her precious school and it’s unique pupils.

pairing: Larissa weems x emily prentiss warnings: language, arguments, gruesome violence (like a typical c.m. episode), tension, angst, etc.

3.6k words

Chapter 1:

Emily sat with her team again in the round table room, waiting for penelope to introduce the latest crime that needed their attention. This was her life now, a typical tuesday, really… but maybe it’s become too much of her life.. She dosent know. Then again, with everyone telling her she needs to let off some steam, take a vacation, get laid, maybe she does know, but refuses to admit it ... oh well, who cares? It's no big deal anyway, shes lived this long she’ll be fine. she just has to get through this case and then her weekend- or whatever few days of the week it'll be- will be free to do as she pleases.. Which is mostly sleep, but that works. Emily is pulled from her thoughts when Penelope finally shows up and starts the debreif.

"Alright people, our next case is a series of murders, believed to be a serial killer in Jericho, vermont...”

Jericho? emily thinks man, I havent been there since... no, not gonna think about that now, em, dont. she disciplines herself before her focus is back on garcia and what she's saying

"..So this is their second serial killer in two years, which is part of why we’ve been called, also because the last killer was a hyde boy being controlled by a woman who groomed him."

There's a slight pause as everyone takes all this information in, before Penelope continues.

"Because of this, we'll all be having to take a quick refresher carse on outcasts with a member of our OCR(outcast crimes and relations) division, who's supposed to arrive in...5 minutes! Anyway, that's all l've got for you guys, buT I told SSA Oakley we’d be all Together in this room when she arrived, so…” pen shrugged, plopping down into her swivel chair next to where she was standing and fidgeting with her fluffy purple, sparkle pen.

There's yet another pause, a brief moment of silence while everyone processes this information and then it’s all over as soon as it began, the entire room envellopped in overlapping conversation. JJ talking about what she remembered when she worked with outcasts at the pentagon, rossi and Alvez asking a slew of questions, penelope and Tara gossiping over what they think having to work with outcasts will be like, matt babbling over them about professionalism and so on, and then there was Emily... Just... sitting there, in silence, Thinking. Contemplating, really, Because emily has more secrets than the team knows, and one of those is her status as an outcast herself, another being - no... she chastised herself again. were not thinking abat that right now,.. and so she didn’t, She thought about the case and her plan and not a moment later when JJ was asking why she was being so quiet,her answer was interrupted by a knock at the door, penelope rushing to get it...

"Ah! SSA Oakley, l'm penelope, it's awesome to meet you!" she said engulfing the woman infront of her in a hug.

"Likewise" the woman said, ner voice sounded strange, like a breeze rustling through leaves in the spring, but pleasant.

“I assume everyone already knows why i’m here?" she kindly asks the group and a chorus of yes-es and other such agreeing sentiments are returned her way.

"Wonderful! Then let's get started." she said, pulling out a laptop and hooking it up to their tech.

"So.. Number one thing I need to ask, is who nows anything about outcasts, just in general." the agent asked the group and everyone immedately has Ideas, but JJ speaks up first.

"There are many types of outcast and just like us, obviously, there's good and bad ones. I worked at the pentagon for a bit and one of my favourite coworkers was a werewolf named chelsea, she was so sweet and gave the best hugs!"

"On you know chels? shes super sweet, never met a warmer body, either!" SSA Oakly smiled, and it finally clicked for the group what made her seem odd, she was an outcast herself, seemingly a vampire at that.

“Anyways, yes, SSA Jareau, that’s actually the first thing on my list as a reminder, arcasts are people, too. Pretty much exactly the same in all aspects but their particular quirk, actually.” She smiled, closed-lipped this time before asking “Anyone have anything to add? I know this is a refresher course but if you’ll just bear with me I need to know how much of a refresher is really needed..”

And surely, as she trailed off, garcia gladly spoke up.

"ooh. I got something-although you may be enthralled with them, staring or making comments is Just weird, so try not to do that." Emily smiled at what she said though internally was a bit bored. As a siren herself she found this all quite stupid, for it was all clearly normal and obvious stuff... but she had to remember her team was all normies, albeit quirky ones, so she had to just shut up and hope this "refresher course" helped.

"Yup!" Oakley said, "Just like it'd be for anyone else.... I mean- any normies." She finished, waiting to see if anyone else weld speak un-pronted and catching eyes with their unit chief, a look of mutual understanding briefly lashing in their eyes as Oakley clocked Prentiss but knew not to say anything.

After a moment of no one speaking Oakley moved on to continue her reminder.

"Well, if no one else has anything

to add, since you’ve got down the general basics, l'd like to give you all the opportunity to ask questions about anything you want to know. Anything at all, nows the time to ask.” She said, pointing around the room.

Emily held back as her agents bombarded the OCR agent with questions upon questions upon questions about seemingly, as Oakley had said, absolutely anything. But eventually as everyone else's curiosity dwindled, they began to notice emily's lack of involvement in the whole ordeal and the gazes of her teammates began to shift towards ner more and more before Rossi finally had the courage to speak

about it.

“Prentiss? You’ve been pretty quiet this whole time.. anything you wanna ask or what?” He questioned her.

Not anything I didnt learn in school already, but thanks she thought, but didnt dare speak. instead easily lying with an “Oh, no i'm good - you all managed to cover anything I wanted to learn, and everything else l’d learnt back in university. I actually took a few classes on outcasts and i’m not that old yet." Fortunately, everyone seemed happy enough with that answer, though JJ was a little skeptical.

"Really? I didn't know that..." A sideways questioning glance was thrown her way by the blonde but emily just avoided her questioning gaze, instead locking eyes with SSA Oakley who swiftly moved the conversation- and lesson- away from her once more.

"well, since we were so thorough in that questions period " everyone looked a little guilty but Oakley reassured them

“Oh no worries, it’s honestly easier that way, it just means we’re nearly done now. The last things you all need to learn are just some simple facts about the most common species which you should mostly know of already, and some of the most common misconceptions,” Oakley explained further, “How about we start with the easiest one for me: vampires, tell me what you think you know.” She announced casually, Rossi immediately speaking up.

“You will never be able to enjoy the wonderful food of my people, for one.”

“Albeit a very common allergy among vampires, that’s actually not completely true. Being allergic to garlic is like the lactose and gluten-intolerant normies. Pretty common, sure, but honestly most just suck it up to enjoy good food, even if they’re stuck in the bathroom for three hours afterwards. What else?”

“Well, in most stories you can’t go out during the day because the sun will kill you.. but obviously that isn’t true.” Tara said.

“Yes, correct! Giant myth. We’re all naturally nocturnal, so our eyes and skin are much more sensitive to light but it can’t actually make us burst into flames or dust or whatever the current normie stories are saying.”

“What about blood?” Alvez asked, “I mean- like, you’re obviously not all murderers so…”

“Actually most of us are like… the equivalent of a human vegetarian- we don’t need human blood, it tastes much better though, and if you’re lucky you can find a blood donor, but otherwise we mostly just drink animal blood.”

“Oh, cool!” Alvez smiled, clearly fascinated.

“The next species we could talk about are sirens, what do you know?”

At the mention of her own classification, Emily became slightly anxious, worried about what their perception of her would’ve been if she was forthright about it.

“They trap sailors with their voices and seductiveness and have sex with them just to kill them.” Penelope said.

Oof. that hurt. thought Emily before she spoke up. “Actually sirens are much… more like sharks, like, they prefer fish and humans have only accidentally been eaten during siren-song a handful of times. And the sex thing is just a huge lie.” The moment she finished speaking, Prentiss realized her mistake when all eyes were on her. She backpedaled quickly “They were my favourite species to study in university” she added on a bit nervous yeah, because I am one was the thought that passed through her mind afterwards.

“Yes, actually! Chief Prentiss is absolutely right- siren-song isn’t used for sex or any personal gain normally, and is actually just traditional communication between them. Almost all sirens wear a special piece of jewelry or something of the like to keep their song from affecting others.” As Oakley said this, Emily played with the necklace hidden underneath her shirt, praying no one noticed all of her odd behaviour.

The team were impressed with this answer and the questioning continued on with a comment on werewolves from tara.

“Ah, yes! well, as JJ so kindly said…”

…

About 20 minutes later, after everyone but Emily had learned many new things Oakley was finally satisfied enough and began to pack up.

“Well, it was absolutely a pleasure to meet you all, and hopefully we can see one another again!” She smiled wide at the group, showing off her fangs once more, before turning to Emily with a knowing look in her eye, “And if you ever find you need it, you can always call me.” She slipped a business care to her on her way out the door, a chorus of ‘bye’s and ‘nice to meet you’s following her out.

Merely a minute or two later, after Emily had announced wheels up in 30 and sent everyone to collect their go-bags and prepRe had she been sat back in her desk, grabbing for that business card.

The front was simply a standard issue FBI card with a name, title and number on it, but when she flipped it over it read

“Really, if you ever need any support, there’s an FBI outcasts group. Give them a ring. xxx-xxx-xxxx

-Oakley of Antipaxtos.”

There was a knock at her office door and she quickly shoved the card into her blazer pocket “come in!” she called, turning towards the door to see which it was.

…

About 25 minutes later and everyone was set and ready on the jet. They’d have to fly out to Burlington and then make the hour drive to Jericho to meet with the sheriff before heading another half-hour out to the school for outcasts - nevermore - where they’d be conducting most of their investigation as well as staying at.

With penelope paged-in on one of the many tablets, light conversation rolled for the first hour or so of their plane ride and Emily joined in here or there, but remained mostly in her head as she thought about returning to nevermore for, well, the first time ever. She wondered who the current headmaster was.

Less than a second after what thought crossed her mind she was pulled down, out of the clouds from which her head was floating in.

“I’m sorry, what?” She asked and JJ frowned at her for a second time that day.

“Are you alright?”

“Yes, yes i’m fine, what is it?”

JJ seemed skeptical but continued on, “Pen asked if you’d lived out in Jericho when you were younger for a bit.”

“Oh. Yes, actually I did. My mom thought it best I spend some time with other ou-my father. It was only a couple years when I was 18 and 19 but it was quite nice. To my memory Jericho is quite quaint ..and has a lovely hot-chocolate spot.” Emily added, reminiscing on a time long since past when her and a delightful blinde would spend hours in that cafe together after school…

She coughed, bringing herself back to reality “..Although i’m pretty sure theres high tension between the outcasts and normies, if it’s anything like when i graduated..”

“Really?” Tara butted in “I mean, I know theres still a big gap in knowledge on our side, but i assumed its just like in any of the cities, where were civil and kind at minimum…?”

Emily laughed, a sarcastic sound “yeah… no, Jericho was originally filled with pilgrims, and most are still pretty nutty, so they think outcasts are less worthy than them, or something.” She sighted, everyone feeling a twinge of sadness for the outcasts in the area at that.

“Well, to brighten up the mood a bit, guess what i’ve just gotten?!” Penelope squealed, “Your sleeping arrangements at nevermoreee!! Ooh, i never thought i’d get to be this excited about dorms after college… so! who wants to hear who their roomie is?!” she clapped excitedly, waiting expectantly for someone to speak up.

“All right, I’ll bite,” Alvez told her, “where am I staying?”

“So lovely for you to ask, newbie, you’ll be staying in the empty teachers apartment at the end of the Dickinson boys hall with our de Rossi and Matt. Don’t worry, it’s quite spacious, and there’s three separate beds for you all.” she told them with a smile.

“ and what about us?” JJ asked.

“ yeah! what are we, chopped liver?” tara joked.

Emily smiled along, though she still felt like a fish out of water as they got mirror and mirror to her former school and the secrets she left buried there.

“ of course!” she heard Penelope say, but her mind had drifted as she listened to what Penelope was saying, only catching onto the last bit…

“… and you, my dear Emily, get the room right next to the headmistresses, all to your lonesome, which I’m sure you won’t mind” she informs her.

Oh great thought Emily, how fitting for the former student.

“ yes,” she ended up saying instead with up or smile on her lips that she looked real enough. Emily digited with her hidden necklace.

…

Later, when everyone was loaded up into what was basically a limousine and getting driven to Jericho 13 was once again feeling quite chatty… Too chatty for Emily’s scatterbrain at the moment. And unfortunately, for her, Tara could tell.

“Hey, you,” Tara said sitting down beside her and bumping their knees, “Whatch’a thinking about? You’ve been pretty weird this whole time, is there anything that we should know about?” She spoke softly, almost in a whisper, to the other woman and when Emily dosent answer at first she adds, “or that you want to get off your chest? I promise i won’t judge.”

After a bit of internal deliberation on Emily’s end, she decided to leg at least a little bit of whats bothering her off her chest.

With a sigh she spoke “I just.. I never thought i’d ever be back here to be honest.. A lot of shit went down when i was here, a lot of bad shit.. and of course i expected to come back to Vermont for work but.. not here, you know? its just a lot of memories and emotions and events to get thrown back in..” It’s a bit vague, what shes saying, she knows.. but to give much more detail she’d have to tell tara- and by consequence, most likely the who team- a secret she’d been keeping from them since before she even joined the FBI.

“Wow.” Said tara, “Yeah, that cant be fun.. but i’m sure whatever happened back then is long over now- it was practically 30 years ago was utterly not? I-I cant promise you’ll be fine, but i’m sure it’s just nerves and that everything will work itself out in the end.”

Emily really doubted that, especially id all the memories in the form of photos and trophies of hers were still there, she was actually just screwed.. but she wouldn’t tell tara that, she was just glad tara didn’t seem to want to push the topic and just said something along the lines of “yeah, thanks” before leaning on her shoulder and staring out the window, waiting out the rest of the drive in silence.

…

When the team finally reached jericho the charter that had previously infected the group had developed into nerves. This was the first ever case they’d had that included outcasts and none of them had any real experience with them.. or so they thought. because of this, emily found it in their best interest to go meet the sheridf as a collective before splitting off to begin their investigating and profiling.

“Hello, sherifff galpin. Cheif prentiss, i assume?” a scruffy mean about emily’s afe asked, and out for a shake.

“Yea, thank you for bringinv us on. These are SSA Alvez, Rossi, Lewis, Simmons and Jareau. Out tech js patching in through your computer, if needed.”

“thank you all for comjng, if you’d just follow me, i’d like to discuss a few things..”

once they’d arrived in the small station’s one boardroom and gotten settled, sheriff Galpin, shitty coffee in hand, immediately began to blab.

 “ oh boy am I glad to have you and your team here!” the sheriff said, voice laced with exhaustion. “I really was getting worried here- ‘specially since I cant be working this case…” he trailed off woefully.

Emily had to hold in her surprise at this development, taking a sip out of the styrofoam cup she calmly asked “well, what exactly do you mean you cant be in this case? I assumed we’d be working closely together..” her expression turned to show a look of professional concern.

“Well..” there’s a long and awkward pause between them, with the sheriff seemingly fighting an internal battle before speaking up again with a sigh, “unfortunately i’m unable because i’m considered to have a conflict of interest.. you see- my son Tyler, and his mother my late wife, are hydes. Actually, he’s the hyde that caused the deaths of so many last year. though he was under the control of laurel gates.. it’s quite sad, really. she was a damn good woman in many ways with agreeable values. Felt her opinions should be more valued and represented in the community, with the whole segregation and all that. too bad she went crazy.. Anyway, considering my son, Tyler, was part if the whole situation last year and just recently escaped his centre for troubled youth, he’s one of the prime suspects, and as it turns out i’m not allowed to work a case that he’s a suspect in..” the man says solemnly.

Emily has to take a few moments to process these bombs that have just been dropped on her when before she can even speak up, he continues his scary speech.

“But don’t worry,” he says, “it’s no big deal. we all know it’s those.. fucking FREAKS up in their special school that did it. This time i’m sure of it. Man, those guys are fucking creepy and weird as shit. Hell, their headmistress didn’t even die from poison. Big ass bug in my opinion..” he finally stops, seeming to be internally fuming over his one-sided hatred of outcasts, and to this headmistress in particular it seems.

Emily just sits there, stunned at how open he was and vocal of his opinions… I mean, she knew the people still thought like this, but she really thought it would’ve gotten marginally better since when she attended there.. She toyed with her necklace, trying to compose herself and the inner turmoil she was having with her life at the moment.

When she managed to gain enough control over her emotions -specifically towards this sheriff she was now glad to not have to work with- Emily found her voice once more, making her first comment since this little.. rant debacle began.

She cleared her throat, “ahem, so, speaking of this.. headmistress, i’m assuming i’ll have to be working with her as opposed to you?”

“Yes, yes.. as you’ve probably gathered we’re not exactly a big town, and as much as i hate to admit it, she does have grounds and different levels of authority over her school per the outcast laws anyways, damn outcasts, always taking more than they deserve- she’s not even American you know?!” Sheriff Galpin spoke on as Emily began to get a gut feeling about this no, it couldn’t possibly be- right?! i’m crazy, snap out of it prentiss! you’re better than this, she was in her head as the sheriff was still speaking.

“…And I swear the guts on that woman, fucking english giant! That weems woman will be the death of me and all that I stand for, I swear.” He said, anger in his tone like he still had more to say, and he did, but it was at this moment where it all ended for Emily as she was mentally transported back to a time lived and long since passed of her youth.

Fuck. Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck. Weems?!

…

over the course of that …’meeting’- if you could even call it that- emily learned several unfortunate things.. among them were thag the sheriff had called them in to help because he himself could not work the cae- considering his son was the last killer out here ans one of the main suspects. The second thing she learned was, although his late wife and son are outcasts, he seems to have an irrational hate for all things not 100% normie.. and worst if all, the main thing she was running from out here was the headmistress of the schol she had to work with. Her ex.

Larissa Weems.

Apparently, without realising it herself until later, she managed to black out everything that happened after that last discovery. about the lo-her ex. Larissa. That woman always managed to do that to emily. make her forget about everything else in the world but her, that is.. Seems like she still can, though its not nearly as pleasant as ut waa when they were together. Granted, emily probably deserved tgat after what she did.

Unfortunately, though, she really needed to pull herself out of her head. she could hear someone saying something to her.

“Hmmn?” She muttered, turning her head. Oh good, it’s just JJ.

“I asked if youre ready to head to the school now? everyone else is in the car, we were just waiting to see if you were out of your meeting with sheriff Galpin yet?

“Oh, yeah. Great timing actually, we just finished.” She said with a smile trying yo seem like her normal self.

Larissa. Larissa. Larissa.

“Okay, cool.” JJ said grabbing her hand and dragging her up and outside to the car.

“Everyone’s ready? Feeling prepared?” Emily asked her.

Larissa. Larissa. Larissa.

“As much as we can, i think., and were all a bit nervous but…”

“Oh, no thats totally understandable I wou- i am too.” She smiled again.

Larissa. Larissa. Larissa.

“Okay, everyone’s in and buckled. Off we go!” The driver said to the team when Emily and JJ were settled.

Larissa. I miss you.

—————— end of chapter one ——————

A/n: Hello everyone! so sorry for this long ass wait, and apologies in advance for the VERY slow updates I will continue to have. I promise I’m still very much in love with writing and I won’t give up finishing my fics but I have some family obligations along with classes that have to take precedence over my writing. Updates might be more like once a month, but hopefully they can be longer! Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this, remember to drink water and go outside today! xx -bug💜

[meltsyoutodeath]

Friday night funkin' x bnha crossover au where the fnf people were like born there and everything and. ok this post works better as a bullet list hang on:

(NOTE: anything I get fundamentally wrong is because I didn't actually get past, like, the training camp arc thing in bnha. I'm just going off the copious amounts of bnha crossovers I've been reading)

Bf's quirk is that he can pull anyone into a rap/singing battle that deals real physical damage if the opponent can't keep up. of course, the harder the song, the hardest it is for Bf himself to keep it up

Bf's quirk doesn't make a battle stop just because a rap battle began. you have to imagine a guy simultaneously fighting for their life and trying to hit the right notes to a song that started playing out of nowhere

Gf's main thing is that she starts looking like a demon whenever she feels something too strongly. That emotion can be happiness, anger, hate, love, whatever. BUT Gf can also enhance other people's quirks just by touching them

(more under the cut because it gets long)

Gf and Bf both go to UA! this is not because either of them want to be a hero. neither of them are interested whatsoever in all that. but Daddy Dearest insisted that Gf could ONLY go there because it's a prestigious school and he wants the best education for his daughter etc etc (it was totally not because it's hard getting in UA and DD thought Bf wouldn't be able to follow her there so they'd FINALLY break up)

Bf, of course, is THE boyfriend of all time, so he sweats his way through UA's entrance exams just to prove he'd do anything to be with Gf. and also as a fuck you to Daddy Dearest

They join the hero course because someone said Gf could never be a hero with such a villanous quirk and they took that as a challenge

moving on to OTHER characters: Pico is the quirkiest quirkless guy on earth. man was wanted for a school shooting at age 14 (yes I know canonically he was older during Pico's School but let me cook ok). he wasn't even responsible for the school shooting in question, but everybody just kinda decided he was because he was the one of the only survivors, so.

these days Pico works as a mercenary, but he's done enough to be seen as a villain. some even consider him a Big villain (because, you know. massive school shooting)

there are conspiracy sites that discuss what Pico's quirk is, btw. one day he made a burner account and said "I think he's quirkless" in one of those and he got banned from the website

Darnell's quirk lets him enhance pre-existing flames. So while he can't shoot fire out of his hands or anything, giving him a lighter is the same thing as giving him a flamethrower

Nene's quirk lets her copy any object she's holding, as long as she knows its composition. It's basically Yaoyorozu's but nerfed

That's how she gets her endless knives supply, and also how Pico never runs out of ammo. she makes, like, 20 magazines for him per fight

Darnell, Nene and Pico are a group who are mostly seen working together. they only try to kill each other sometimes

Fun fact abt them is that they have a combo attack where Darnell uses a spray can that's actually a bomb to distract enemies and then Nene launches a bucnh of knives that Pico redurects with gunshots as needed. this isn't easy or effective but they find it fun AND it looks really cool

One day Darnell is watching the news and something about some place being burnt down because of a villain comes up and he goes "something big burnt down,,, and not because of ME???" and at the same time Nene walks in all sad and goes "there's this new girl with some evil league or something who's stealing my knives brand :((("

so naturally they decide they HAVE to bring down the leauge of villains now. not because of the crimes or whatever but because they're stealing their brands

Pico joins them because why not. they become the team rocket of bnha

during the... training camp arc? is that what that's called? those 3 trail the League because a big open area sounds like a perfect opportunity to catch one of them alone and, thus, very killable

Pico ends up running into Bf and Gf locked in a battle against an unspecified villain and he looks like he's having trouble so Pico's like.... omg is that my ex?? I forgor he goes here. he's still kinda hot... who said that. I should totally help him out

so Pico gravely injures his enemy but gets so caught up in the friendly rap battle Bf pulls him into that he forgets to finish him off

and then Weekend 1 happens as normal except avoiding Nene and Darnell is a lot harder because they're, you know, roommates

anyway after that he starts hanging out with Bf again more. eventually Gf starts coming too and then I reveal this was SECRETLY GF X BF X PICO PROPAGANDA ALL ALONG

one day Midoryia sees them hanging out and near instantly clocks who Pico is so he runs away very comically (after Bf tells him he can't kill his classmates)

later on Midoryia can't help but ask wyat Pico's quirk is and promptly stops working when they tell him he doesn't have one

and that's all I have for now but you get my point right

[arsene-fixates]

Misc. SN character rambling (Gordon Byron)

I very few screenshots for whatever I’m going to ramble about on another character in seekers notes so you’re going to have to take my word for it. This is not an analysis btw i just want to talk about this guy for a bit

There’s this character, Gordon Byron, or Hyperion <- name he picked for himself I will elaborate later.

His family (made up of him, his mother, and his cousin) is a descendant of one of the founders of Darkwood (the city) and though I didn’t read too much into him, I thought his character development was quite interesting

going to be a bit long since i'm running through him as a character, spoilers under the cut

Backstory was that he had run away from home with his beloved that went missing when the curse fell upon the city but returned after realizing that he had responsibilities being the family's heir and such.

He's very quiet as a character, kept to books and nature and is a pretty big romantic but when he came back, and through the story he started getting invested in his family's history, aka. one of the founders named nostromo and his powers etc etc and also taking more initiative to help the city via. paying funds for damages and suggesting new things to keep the townspeople safe

okay to be honest theres some collecting crystal infinity stone level thing going on in the story and there's this section in the plot where gordon and i had to dive underwater to look for a stone tablet depicting one of the missing steps to getting one of the crystals

and some explosion happens and i get shot out of the water, leaving him underwater and the other characters and i are all panicking because the water breathing potion we took had some timing to it and he was about to die or something

but he emerges soon enough, with the gauntlet belonging to the founder equipped in his hand, and you can tell that this power was getting to his head

at this point, i was filling philiah in on the lore and i told her 'i think it would be really profound if he let the power get to him and influence him negatively' and lo and behold.

anyways carrying on, he started really embracing the name hyperion (a pseudonym he made up himself because if i can remember right, all the other founders also had one themselves) and having his own group of specialised guards.

then some attack happened on the city again where ghostly creatures appeared (summoned by the antagonist), and after gordon fought them off, he decided to set a curfew & interrogate all the townspeople because they could be people from a crime organisation (called the shadows) in disguise

cough cough side note, informant was telling me about how his guard kept going trying to capture him and he was frustrated that not only did he have to run from the crime organisation but he also had to run from the guard too lol.

and holy shit theres this section that especially got me where he was asking me for an update on the crystals and i told him it was going alright, letting on a little more detail than i liked and he then asks me to find more of this truth potion for him and then he says this

he slipped a truth potion !!! !! !! !!!! unknowingly!!!!!! to me!! HOLAY MOLAY!!!. and when i went to talk to charlotte, she tells me about how some of the people who took the potion were down with pretty bad illnesses and fevers. THAT IS SO WILD.

he had to be suspended of his role and his guard operations after he nearly endangered the lives of the members of the crime organisation

THERES A LOT OF STUFF THAT HAPPENS INBETWEEN BUT ITS PRETTY BIZZARE BECAUSE HIS ANGER GETS THE BETTER OF HIM (and they really did show that he gets angry easily)

holay molay this guy.

i like what they're doing here, it's really interesting ^_^ LOVE THAT THEY DID ACTUAL BUILD UP INSTEAD OF WHATEVER THEY DID WITH INFORMANT!!!!! love to see what happens to him later because currently the city is going through YET another world ending disaster and i (the seeker) have to save them.

[brokenorbornthatway]

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[jade-of-mourning]

hey! it’s your hopefully favorite anon again. genuinely thank you so much for responding to my asks and stuff. it’s so eloquently written and it feels like it’s actually mako’s grief in text form. that doesn’t really make sense but. reading that little cat blurb actually made me feel better. I cried. like. heavily. 😭

im glad you liked my goofy insane mentor-that-needs-a-mentor korra idea, even if you’re not going to use it. I actually had the thought while watching a video comparing korra and zuko. it’s not exactly a niche thought that ‘korra is aang’s successor and Zuko’s spiritual successor’ but then it struck me. zuko was the oldest member of the gaang (just a bit older than sokka, the former eldest) but he is still absolutely batshit reckless and insane so,,, what if i Korra’d it.

also,, triple threats,,, since I’ve already revealed that I like to fuck around with canon in every possible aspect. consider: au where bolin dies (this one came to me after seeing a video saying mako would probably… yk, himself, if Bo died) but instead of giving up or chasing whatever criminals got him/dedicating his life to helping other orphans/etc. he just. replaces zolt. and maybe he would have a zuko style redemption arc?? I’ve been listening to Brutus by The Buttress on loop too which has not been helping me escape. yk what would make the takeover even better? zolt has bolin killed to try and get a more firm grip on his chosen protégé (maybe even around the end of the events of republic city hustle) and mako finds out and just,,, absolutely bodies him. like some scraggly 15 y/o just fucking cold blood murders a crime syndicate boss and takes over and?? everyone’s like well ig he was bound to get there eventually. and there would be attempted takeovers obviously but this little fucker is like. nuh uh. you can have this as soon as I get bro back (never)

sorry I’ll stop going insane now. I think you should really listen to Brutus btw it is SO fire

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hi snailon! (i'm going to call you that. snail + anon mashed together!) you're my only anon so you're my favorite by default,,, but you'd be my favorite even if you weren't! and it's lovely to hear that my writing has helped you <33 also sorry this took a day to respond to whoops

(cont)

okay on the mentor!korra part — it is such a big brain idea that i might have to one day write an au on my au just for that alone LOL okay but korra is so zuko the same way mako is so katara!!! one day i'll talk about it i swear. the classic comparison of mako = zuko is just so Off and it bugs me haha it's really korra and it always has been. bryke is out there spreading false propaganda about their own show like wtf man

second, on the triple threats! see i was reading this and i was reminded of deerstalkerdeathfrisbee's the only thing we've ever organized is crime! (which is a BRILLIANT fic even if i don't really like wuko), except then your train of thought veered divergent so promptly that i was like. woah. woahhhh. i've always been partial for terrifying mobster boss!mako since reading this one a few years back and i wholeheartedly believe that if it weren't for bolin, mako could have very quickly devolved down a really bad path. i've seen it float around a lot of older posts, but to sum it up most succintly, mako made sure bolin survived and bolin made sure mako lived. and if bolin is gone? mako would not give two shits about trying to be a better person, and if bolin's death was of a tangible human person's doing… well. it would not end well for that person, let's say. that person being zolt would abolutely lead to mako promptly desecrating the man, and even if it wasn't a grab for power, i can totally see it proceeding to him actually becoming the teenage mob boss of the triple threats.

(ALSO STOP "this little fucker is like. nuh uh. you can have this as soon as I get bro back (never)" WHY ARE YOU SO FUNNY this is so sad i'm laughing so hard)

but really; mako is just such a guy of asinine stubborness to survive, with the single-minded goal to protect bolin. if there's no one left to protect, and if bolin didn't just succumb to the horrors of their circumstance but was rather brutally murdered as an attempt to control mako himself, that asinine stubborness to survive could very easily translate into cold-blooded violence, and would come with an unnerving facade of quiet apathy while he's really simmering on the edge of a really bad breakdown at any given moment. the guilt would also be endless, and mako would probably project the personal villain so hard on every single member of the triple threats in his general vicinity. working under this angry/guilty/repressed/violent teenager would actually be the most terrifying thing ever.

continuing your ask from last time because i realized i never addresssed this part —

I just had another brain worm sorry. so remember how I was talking about korra potentially being a guiding adult-ish figure in the avatar mako au. what if baby bending brothers. and either lin/tenzin/whoever or them and the other 2 krew members,, taking care of little gang monster and his brother,, and addressing some of the insane trauma and helping him heal and build a stable life,,,

i do love child acquisition, but for tiny feral children! mako and bolin really could've been the most unhinged trauma children of all time and i don't think that any adult on the show would actually be able to handle them as they were except probably pema. tenzin would try his best but i think that he would very easily get overwhelmed and a certain phase of mako would probably incessantly insult him with the deliberate intention to rile him up — and admittedly, tenzin has more of a temper than he'd like to admit, so i just think they'd be at odds a lot to an almost dangerous amount. (but ig i'm exploring that in the actual fic lol) i think mako as a kid would be considerably more abrasive than his is now and far more distrusting and paranoid, to an extent that i don't think that there are a lot of adults in lok that would be well equipped to handle that. (maybe kya? i could see both of them taking to kya actually. that would be funny. maybe i'll write kya into this au.) i do think that bolin could easily get all of them wrapped around his finger, lin grudgingly (and i think she'd be the sort to hold a reluctant affection for prickly loser boy mako).

also idk how i missed it initially but throwing teenaged korrasami into the mix makes it funny though. they would manage the pair of them so badly. (i'm sorry it is cute but i personally don't believe in babysitter!korra and definitely not babysitter!asami.) korra would be in a physical brawling session with mako the little punk ass bitch if asami looks away for one minute because bolin will not stop crying and mako is now trying to bite her head off because that's his little brother. bolin just thinks these two cool older girls are super neat and not at all demanding of his respect so he just incessantly says the most batshit insane things at them while mako is just like. hmm wealthy girl. i am full of anger at life i think i will project that onto you because to me you represent everything i hate about society, i've decided. meanwhile asami is just so confused because she's literally just being her sweet self and this random mobster street kid pema found won't stop giving her a look like he wants to fillet her

sorry none of this post makes any sense at all my head is OVERFLOWING i am UNHINGED thank you for enabling me once again <333 you'll never be a bother also yes i will go listen!

[punkrogue]

I always feel so frustrated with how unimaginative Marvel is with Remy, the only interesting things he's had is New Sun and X-Factor. Idk if this is true, but I read there was some rumor that Remy was gonna be an alter ego of Sinister, which would've given the writers more to work with imo. I think why some writers like Rogue and Erik more since they're much easier to work with outside of shipping. Same with Kurt, whom I sometimes think Remy is a pale imitation of (Catholic, martial artist, looks demonic, ladies man, even his powers suit a thief more than Remy's). If Kurt and Rogue weren't siblings, I'd sooner ship Rogue with him than Remy. Also, since Remy can only charge non-living things, it just makes him look weak and limited compared to other characters. I don't say all this shit to be mean, but I do get frustrated with how little material he's given, and can understand why his character is constantly put on the back burner in various media compared to other X-Men characters.

Yeah I remember reading somewhere they'd thought about doing something like that with Remy and Sinister and I think instead went with New Sun? Something like that. Also considered having him be ANOTHER Secret Summers Brother and I'm glad we didn't go this route lol we need to stop the Summers-Grey family tree from taking over the whole X-verse while we can.

I'll say that I don't feel that Remy is a pale imitation of Kurt mainly because I feel Remy deals with a lotta things that Kurt really doesn't on a personal level (true parental abandonment like no margali in SIGHT kinda shit, street life, crime, child soldier gangland shit, the greys and blacks of morality etc). You see more of those things in his solos which can even get a bit of a noir vibe to them which is nice but people just rarely wanna put in the time and effort with Remy. They rarely get him so they knock him down into say, the TAS 90s Gambit mold and call it a day. Which is just ....... no one wants that. Not Gambit Haters, not Gambit Stans.

And I get what you're saying about his powers but I think if he could charge living matter constantly like he can as New Sun homie would be so comically OP. I think the real issue here is just again, fuckers don't know how to write him so they go for whatever's easiest. So it's all lame, dumb and boring. If they let him get funky with his powers a bit more it'd could be super cool.

The pro of Rogue and Magneto when made scene partners is that they do have much more solid pre-existing characterizations, vibes and "story packs". As a writer you can walk in and already there's a couple of things you can do which are kinda like Rogue or Magneto Classics. Remy not so much so he ends up being like, Rogue's loser sidekick which sucks.

I feel you tho on the shitshow that is comic Rogue-Kurt dynamics. I too can see the appeal and charm of them as a romantic ship just as much as I can see them working wonderfully as a sibling pair. My beef around them has been for years that we get this Big Reveal that Mystique is Kurt's Bio-Mom but after he has his initial freak out for a couple issues in Excalibur or Uncanny or w/e he was in at the time I forget I just remember Amanda is there this whole thing-- IT NEVER REALLY COMES UP AGAIN BETWEEN HIM AND ROGUE AND THEY JUST ACT LIKE NORMAL AND OCCASIONALLY MENTION THEY'RE SORT-OF RELATED IN A WAY THAT'S MORE OF A REMINDER TO THE AUDIENCE????? LIKE IT'S FUN TRIVIA INSTEAD OF A PLOT POINT OR IMPORTANT RELATIONSHIP????

their first serious non-combat interaction was basically Kurt telling her to drop dead when she comes to Xavier for help when she's 17 and he's 21. He finally cuts her some slack after she ALMOST DIES IN A SUICIDE BY VILLAIN ATTEMPT to save Wolverine's fiance which makes Wolverine go "yeah okay fine your not total dogshit ig" so NOW Kurt'll stop being a raging asshole to the mentally ill teen lol (I'm shit talking Kurt rn but this is genuinely part of why I love him). Then there's MAYBE a couple of scenes that are outside of Action Stuff before the X-Men "die" in the late 80s and we get Excalibur where the two of them interact, the biggest of them is him FLIRTING WITH HER.

Uncanny X-Men (1963) #192

Now-- it's Kurt so this isn't anything really all that crazy. He jokingly flirts with like 90% of the X-Men. It's just the kinda silly funny quirky guy he is. But when I'm trying to think of say, Rogue-Kurt moments POST the Mystique Reveal that really feel like People Connecting or them Actually Being Siblings I draw a blank. This flirting scene is more iconic and stand out than basically all of their 00s and on interactions because it feels like a natural and very emotional conflict they WOULD have. He goofs around like he always does, her feelings get hurt, he realizes what he's done and feels like an ass and wants to fix it. EMOTIONS HAPPENED HERE, CHARACTERIZATION AND CONFLICTED OCCURRED. THIS CONFLICT AND LATER RECONCILIATION WILL LEAD TO A BETTER FRIENDSHIP AS WE GO! THANKS CLAREMONT!

Even at her wedding he's basically just like "well I AM her brother (remember? did you see that watchmojo listicle? have you read my wiki recently) and I AM blue so I should ALSO be in the wedding."

There's really not a lot of content of them like, hanging out, post 2004 or so. Some of that is just them being in different books but a lot of it just no one putting in the time or effort. X-Treme X-Men (2001) was all about Rogue looking into shit related to Destiny's writings and grappling with some Family and Personal Grief at the start there. Kurt shoulda been around for at least the first arc. Not thunderbird that absolutely nothing of a dude. It was the perfect setting to work on this issue that the 6 degrees of Mystique™ has made. One of the only other encounters between them I can think of that's post-90s is this:

Rogue (2001) #4

And this interaction is set like VERY SOON after she joined the X-Men!!!! So it's not even a truly modern scene of them just vibing!!!!

To me, they're NOT siblings. Not in the way Kurt is with Amanda who's his ACTUAL adoptive sister or even in the way that Rogue is with Bobby, Sam or Scott who she just has Massive Broship Energies with and it's entirely because their 6 Degrees of Mystique™ is tenuous at best for how much it would really matter to them. Kurt HAS a family! He HAS siblings! Mystique abandoned/lost him and never looked for him or intended to tell him about their connection until forced to. He was raised by Margali and sees HER FAMILY as HIS family and they think the same! Like that's a standard ass adoptive family vibe.

Rogue is found by Mystique and Irene and raised by them in near isolation ON ANOTHER CONTINENT and is never informed about Kurt even in a past "i had a baby and lost him" tense kinda way or Graydon either. To her knowledge growing up she HAS NO SIBLINGS OF ANY KIND. She meets and fights against and then beside Kurt with no idea there's literally anything connecting them but that they're both mutants and x-men for like, YEARS even IN canon. Their whole relationship is rocky as shit for a WHILE there and then she gets YEETED SECRETLY TO AUSTRALIA AND HE THINKS SHE DIED. And let's be clear-- sure he's upset about her "death" too but he is MUCH more upset over the "deaths" of Logan, Ororo and Peter who he ACTUALLY NAMES WHILE TALKING ABOUT THIS GRIEF. Because you know... THESE RELATIONSHIPS ACTUALLY HAD FUCKING SCREENTIME.

Excalibur (1988) #1

He's not a monster, he does give a shit about her, but realistically over the years VERY little time has been put into building ANY relationship between Rogue and Kurt of ANY kind and it's frustrating when they really wanna act like they've got one. They don't. And it pisses me off because realistically Rogue/Kurt is less fucked up than Amanda/Kurt and guess which one is canon. Because of the 6 Degrees of Mystique™ people don't really ship them even tho there's an even more Yikes Kurt ship that's canon and Does Not Seem To Fucking Die, there's been no real development of ANY kind of relationship between him and Rogue, they've lived their ENTIRE lives not knowing each other or not really being more than coworkers and Kurt has NO INTEREST in truly claiming Mystique as his mother which is valid-- she fucking sucks.

I think Rogue/Kurt has legs and it's aggravating to me because I also really like Rogue & Kurt siblingship! I grew up watching Evolution! The sibling vibes and friendship that grow naturally up between them even BEFORE the Mystique Reveal in that show are just CHEF'S KISS. But in comics they IMPLY a familial connection that really.... doesn't mean much... and then they don't show these two deciding it to make it mean something or organically falling into a good sibling relationship... so they cut off the dynamic at the knees. You'll be shit on if you try to go off script and explore a more romantic angle because "ew they're rElAtEd" (ignoring all the previously stated flaws in that argument), there's nothing in canon that helps you figure out how friendly they even truly are so good luck building something canon compliant and they just generally don't seem to even give a shit about this dynamic at all so without dipping into other adaptations/AUs it can be hard to find something to even SAY about them.

Like I'd love to see Rogue and Kurt engage like, finding out what the Mystique Reveal means to them and how they see each other. I'd love to see them becoming friends and then family. I'd love to see them making that CHOICE. Because really in this context it's a CHOICE. She's not his adoptive sister, Amanda is. She's not his bio sister either in 616, that idea got shot down early on. She's a girl his bio mom who is a stranger to him raised an ocean away while he was raised in a loving home with siblings he adores. They met when she was a villain, he vehemently disliked her until she almost died saving someone's life then he tried to at least be civil and friendly. He finds out Mystique is his bio mother and asks Rogue about her but at the end of the day feels no real connection to Mystique or her life. His mother is Margali. The circus was his family. He cares about Mystique, Irene and Rogue because he's a decent human being but like, not in the same amount or extent as his adoptive family.

You can't have a scene of him flirting, even jokingly, with her in the 80s then think a 1993 mom reveal some how totally erases that vibe. Especially when you then put like no effort into exploring that GOLDMINE OF A PLOT THREAD. They've got so few non-combat just hanging out and engaging in character development interactions in 616 canon I can count them on my hands. At this point you could spin a wheel and decide to give them any relationship dynamic and it could genuinely work because there's no real content of them in comics to use contest it.

Like at her wedding they bring up that he's her brother again. That shouldn't be something we have a "turn to the camera and remind the audience" moment about. That should be as "well duh" to me as Bobby being her best man or Scott and Alex being brothers. It's not. It's just not. Their connection is just a factoid at this point and I hate it. You can't close off all these other potential dynamics for them (romantic/enemies/rivals/shitty roommates/etc whatever) by making them connected via Mystique, having an line every like, 10 years that reminds us they're "siblings" (are they tho? are they really? is that how this works?) and kinda vaguely imply they don't hate each other which is really just riding on the fact that pretty much ALL the X-Men like Kurt and we the audience like both of them and then GIVE US NOTHING WITH THAT STATED DYNAMIC!

MORE TIME AND EFFORT WAS PUT INTO MAKING NATE GREY SEE MADYLENE PRYOR AS HIS MOTHER OVER JEAN THAN HAS EVER BEEN PUT INTO MAKING ROGUE AND KURT FEEL LIKE THEY'RE EVEN FRIENDS LET ALONE SIBLINGS AND I'M VERY MAD ABOUT IT!!!! EITHER GIVE ME WHAT I WANT OR CUT THE REINS AT LET ME DO WHATEVER!!!

fsdkjghksdl so i just get VERY heated about this it's a pet peeve of mine.

[thesungod]

but will isn’t scared of nico how did tsats show that? he was scared and weary of nico���s realm/home, but he’s never been scared of nico himself. yeah you can say the underworld is part of nico and it is, but will clearly didn’t see it as that. if that was true will never would have been drawn to nico in the first place or even be with him. and just because will has seen a lot of death doesn’t mean he has to be comfortable with it? and why does he have to be comfortable with it anyway? it’s DEATH! like you think medics and doctors in the real world are all comfortable with death? they aren’t!! it’s a terrible terrible thing to watch and experience again and again and that’s people with YEARS of experience meanwhile Will is 15 😩

no i agree that normally it would make sense for someone like Will to hate death (i did say i wanted him to be resentful of it)

but again, call me an idiot but i thought “will is someone who’s seen a lot of death so he’s not as scared of it, and therefore of nico, as other people” was their thing? i thought “normal dude who for some reason is the only bitch in the world that completely understand and support Nico and his crimes” was their thing? but will in this book is so… what does he even do, you get me😭

every fictional couple that an author wants to be liked needs to have something that appeals to the readers, and i don’t get what solangelo’s appeal is if it’s not that

and considering this + the fact that Will begged and pleaded to go to Tartarus with Nico + the way he was being built up in the preview as a character who would surprise us with his resourcefulness/versatility (“bring me nico i got this i can do this i’ll surprise you let’s go”), it was crazy to see him be literally useless and scared shitless the entire book. not the first half. not the first three quarters. the entire book😭

(yeah okay he made Nyx sneeze but c’mon)

and what you say about “they wouldn’t even be together if Will thought of Nico as part of the Underworld”… exactly

this book left me with the question “why are they even together?”, because their conflict wasn’t one that made sense for a relationship that has been going on for a year, if anything it’s the conflict i would expect from two people who are getting together. ya feel me? how does Will not know the Underworld is a silly crazy place. how does he not know darkness is in nico’s heart and whatever. what did he fall in love with? nico’s star wars jokes?

also if death is such a big part of his trauma (which i do believe) then isn’t Nico at the very least kinda insensitive for being like “um sorry baby but death isn’t bad open your mind <3” like ? ? ? but that’s not addressed on Nico’s part as something bad he said (correct me if i’m wrong)

i personally didn’t like any of this about tsats but i’m not saying it was completely wrong to write Will like that or that he’s out of character, because we knew so little about him i can’t possibly claim that. at the end of the day, he belongs to rick riordan. buttt. idk. considering how much people love the trope of the normal ken who’s crazy in love with the powerful, deadly barbie (she’s everything he’s just ken etc etc), i think they wasted an opportunity for will to be slightly cooler about this stuff.

not that he couldn’t be panicky and anxious (he is shown to be like that, even in ToA) but a scene like “omg nico you’re so cool when you raise the dead and commit crimes uwu uwu <3” wouldn’t have hurt my personal enjoyment.

*insert the THIS IS MY OPINION banner*

edit: i did like that Will was realistically super scared of stuff and absolutely did not want to go to Tartarus! that was cool to see bc we’re so used to fantasy heroes like percy and nico. i just wished it had led somewhere a bit more interesting (eg Lester in ToA who’s also scared shitless of everything but wins his fear every time)

[poor-ciceros-voring-again]

🔥 for nerevar, 🌇 for val, 🎇 for bismuth, 📙 for blade, and/or 🦺 for rosephayne! feel free to pick n choose if ya dont wanna do em all :>

🔥 (fire) - What drives your character in life? Is it a belief? A person? A goal? Whatever it is, what do they want from it and what are they willing to do to get it?

Nerevar is a Dunmer who uses any pronouns, also the Dragonborn.

Knowledge drives them, I think. They have a lot of trauma that their brain has blocked out and they really can't remember much of anything before Teldryn finds her wandering in a place she shouldn't be. (He 100% low-key adopts them and takes them everywhere with him, but if you asked he wouldn't talk about how he feels about them.) They really want to know where they came from, who they are, who their family is... Etc.

Their name, Nerevar, comes from the stories Teldryn has told her about all of that while telling her about Morrowind and Dunmeri history. They thought it was a fitting strong name they aspired to be like one day. (Also, fun fact. In my lore, Teldryn was the Nerevarine instead of an OC of mine, so he's fond of how this kid views all of that).

The history they're trying to find is sad, unfortunately. Nerevar's family have all been Blades going back all the way to my HoK Bismuth, who was the first Blades member of this family. Because of this, all of Nerevar's family have been slowly killed off by the Aldmeri Dominion since the war broke out. They do eventually find this stuff out as a late teen via Miraak and HermaMora.

🌇 (sunset) - What does it take for your character to trust someone? Do they have to prove themselves? Or does your character not trust anyone no matter what? What made them this way?

Val is an Ohmes Raht Khajiit who uses they/them only.

They're an alchemist who deals in illegal and hard to obtain potions, poisons, and alchemical ingredients. It takes a LOT for them to be able to trust someone, they didn't make it this far and become successful at doing their trade by trusting people. There's only 1 person they will ever fully trust and that is their bodyguard, Astraea, who is a Twilight with an attachment to Val. They also kinda to a degree trust Alyx because she's the Master of the thieves guild, and works in tangent with Val to ensure their safety to a degree, and Niveria because she's the Listener of the Dark Brotherhood and a very popular customer of Val's wares.

🎇 (sparkler) - If your oc had the chance to start their life over again, what would they change, if anything? How would this change them and the people around them? Would their lives be better or worse? Would they change anything in the first place?

Bismuth is a Dunmer who uses she/her (but doesn't mind being called Sir/masc terms/pronouns etc), she's the Hero of Kvatch and Champion of Cyrodiil.

I honestly feel like she wouldn't change anything except telling Martin how she feels sooner so they have more time together. She might even try to change the course of history and save him from sacrificing himself. Letting him die like that is the only regret she ever had in life.

📙 (book) - Does your oc keep a journal of some kind? Is it just a diary or does it hold a secondary purpose like a dream journal? What’s in it that they would never want anyone to see? If they don’t have a journal, what would they write in it if they did have one?

Blade(not his real name) is a mixed race Nord/Orc who uses he/him. He is married to Ma (she/her, also not her real name) and they run a bar/inn in Whiterun together.

He defs doesn't keep a journal, but if he did he'd probs only write about patrons he's banned and also all the street kids they help out. He'd also be the type to talk about little things his wife does that he adores every day.

Blade and Ma look the other way when it comes to nonviolent crimes committed/discussed in their establishment and are commonly known as running a "shady" business, however most of the citizens refuse to report them due to all the positives their inn provides to the less fortunate populations of Whiterun.

🦺 (safety vest) - Is your character a cautious person or are they more reckless? Do they think before they act or do they act according to their heart’s desires? Why?

Rosephayne aka Rosie is a mixed race Bosmer/Breton who uses she/her pronouns. She's been Meridia's Champion since the 3rd era.

This is SUCH a good question for her specifically. It's kind of a mixed answer honestly. Her father was a Vigilant of Stendarr and she was raised to follow Stendarr and his teachings because of this. When she was old enough she joined the Vigilants herself because of how strongly she agreed with their beliefs. She's always been very cautious and suspicious of people, and used to REALLY think about her actions before doing anything. Over time she got more and more aggressive about Stendarr's beliefs that Daedra and the undead etc are BAD and picked up more violent and careless methods of dealing with those she suspected to be involved in those things. She eventually fell in with Meridia who encouraged her violent behaviour towards these individuals. Shortly after gaining enough of Meridia's favour, she became her Champion and enforced her will upon wherever she was led. She blindly followed her and agreed to become one of her Purified, which I've decided is a long and painful process to endure. She lives this way, doing as she's told until one day she's sent to take out a powerful necromancer, another OC named Karasu. Karasu gets her to question things and encourages her to break free from Meridia's grasps. Rosie does end up indulging in her emotions and jumps in without thinking, abandoning everything she's ever thought and worked for just to be with Karasu.

Too bad they're tragic, and it will never work. Oh well, at least she gets to be a little happy for a short period of time.

[therealslimshakespeare]

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Oh, I personally worship Gale Cleven, he's my religion, especially the way you've written him so far - and ngl, some of your hints I feel like have me thinking is Marina going there and shaking a bit in my boots. But I also just said, I love the choices you have made with his character thus far, so I am just gonna sit here and take it, whatever you have in store for us.

But also, what do you have in store for us?????? *peeks through fingers

I’m so scared right now like, I wonder which of us is most scared.

Ok, very 18* themes below guys, take care for yourself. Mentions of real Nazi crimes, mentions of sexual assault and coercion.

First off, don’t know how much I’ll show verses hint for evermore. But here’s some thoughts behind it and I’ll have a more moderate fic of the beginnings of the dilemma coming soon. Not that angsty, mostly medical horror but not really even horrifying just a “oh shit nooo” vibe

Thoughts. I’m taking most of my inspo for the Integrated 100ths treatment from other sources besides the treatment at the stalags. Yes there were war crimes there, yes men didn’t report certain crimes due to stigma, etc, but generally it was more tame and well run. I have changed that because the presence of women would change things and once the SS took over there was a noted spike in all these abuses.

So that’s I’m drawing from is Resistance Fighter’s (of all countries) treatment and those of the Soviet prisoners by the SS. And that’s a markedly different treatment, it’s applying, it makes the stalags look like the ritz, applying even a modicum of it over the the 100th’s oversight, means there’s a few notable tactics they used that I wish to protest.

1. Hurting a loved one until the stringer of a duo caves to spare them. This was given to Ida and Lu. The SA regularly beat or raped women in front of their male family members to make the men break. It was brutal

2. Medical experiments in which forcing others or volunteering for yourself got your special privileges. Same with prostituting yourself

3. The forced abuse of an inferior by a superior to save a third party. It was a direct attempt to subvert the chain of authority and was horrifying effective on many. Sometimes it was down simply for recreation in the concentration camps. Sometimes the resistance fighters would technically agree to this together, so it was between them “consensual” even as the entire thing was not and was abusive. You can imagine the muddle this left men in afterwards, having offered and yet only doing so under the worst duress and to save another more innocent party.

These were all common tactics. Sexual assault is a weapon, 100%, and has little to nothing to do with pleasure for plenty of these sick fucks. The most worrisome, harrowing and important books I’ve read on this subject is called Ordinary Men. I recommend it with the caution of having chocolates and a romcom on hand to not sink into an absolute depression after

Hope this wasn’t too intense. Xo

[dearyallfrommatt]

DC produced a comic adaptation of the TV show which featured a lot of characters that for this reason or that couldn't be included in the show. Blue Beetle was one of them, along with Firestorm and Power Girl just off the top of my head. I remember reading some folks thought he was barred from the cartoon because of the Blue Beetle character on The Electric Company from PBS, but that's not so. Worse luck, he was free and clear to use.

Anyhow, Ted was featured in a couple of issues. One, he went up solo against the Gen. Eling version of the Hairy Man (this was after the Patriot Act episode that brought together the Seven Soldiers of Victory), and another featuring him and Booster Gold. It was classic Blue & Gold "Bwah-hah-hah" written by the late Kieth Giffen, author of those classic Justice League International stories.

You probably know this, but allow me to nerd out. The Ted Kord Beetle's adventures - along with, among others, the Question and Captain Atom - were published in the '60s & '70s by Charlton Comics, one of the many Number Threes that have come and gone. They went out of business and DC bought up the properties, introducing them to the universe (and readers) during the Crisis On Infinite Earths. Later, they provided readers with some of the best comics of the late '80s/early '90s. Seriously, check out Dennis O'Neil's Question run. Top notch.

Anyhow. Charlton didn't invent the character of the Blue Beetle, though, and he wasn't originally techno-wizard Ted Kord. The original Blue Beetle was one of the earliest costumed do-gooders, first appearing in 1939's Mystery Men Comics by Fox Publications. They were an interesting company, known for pushing the boundaries when it came to horror and sleaze.

As far as memorable characters go, they're best known for two of the silliest: The Bouncer and Stardust the Super Wizard. They also published Matt Baker, one of the few pre-WW2 African-American comic artists, and his "good girl" work with Phantom Girl acquired from Quality Comics (Plastic Man, The Blackhawks, etc.) and a take on Thor I know nothing about, but the rest was pretty much "rip off something popular and see what we can get away with."

Initially, Dan Garret was the son of a police officer slain in the line of duty. So he pulls a Bruce Wayne, runs around in a bulletproof costume, and takes a vitamin that makes him faster and stronger. Typical Golden Age stuff. He sort of did a Green Hornet/Phantom thing by marking his folks with a scarab-shaped whatzit and had the normal supporting cast (blonde reporter in love with the hero but scornful of the secret identity, comic sidekick, old guy, etc.).

He became a U.S. agent during World War 2 and his super vitamin started giving him real superpowers like flight and X-ray vision. Later, when superhero comics fell out of vogue, he became the host of a horror/crime anthology, not unlike Captain America did in the '50s. Still, Dan Garret was pretty popular. He had a radio serial produced by CBS that made him out more like the Shadow and a daily comic strip drawn by, among others, Jack Kirby (under a pseudonym).

After briefly being published by Holyoke Comics (no one of note apart from a Batman rip-off, Cat-Man & Kitten (yes, she's a she)), the character was picked up by then-young Charlton Comics in the '60s. They made some changes. This time around, Dan Garrett (they added an extra "t") was an archeologist who found a blue scarab on a dig. When saying the magic words "Kaji Dha!" Garrett was transformed into the Blue Beetle, with super strength, flight, X-ray vision, the ability to shoot energy beams, and whatever the story called for.

The stories were actually pretty camp, even for '60s comics, but Dan was replaced in 1966 by Ted Kord. I don't know how the story's been changed, but Ted was a favorite student of Dan (even though Ted's an engineer and, well, comic books, I guess), and answers a call for help. He finds his teacher mortally wounded and vows to take up his mantle. However, he can never make the scarab work, so he turns his engineering genius into a weapon against crime. He was created by Steve Ditko, so bonus points there.

Dan's made a couple of background appearances in the DCU and was once brought back to life by the scarab to fight his successor. Ted Kord's been a favorite since I was a kid and I fell in love with Jaime Reyes from the get-go, though I didn't care as much for the Blue Beetle series where Ted tries to play the mentor role for Jaime. I don't like it when comics portray Ted as considered a loser among the rest of the heroes, though I know continuity's been flip-flopped a couple of times since he went down in the most badass way possible.

In a world where gods clash and men can run faster than the speed of light, a guy who dresses like a bug and uses a gun that's expressly meant not to kill has the biggest balls in the DC universe. Plus, he's probably the only billionaire superhero who isn't carrying a boatload of baggage.

Kaji Dha!

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Elseworlds Addendum

Blue Beetle / Ted Kord

A brilliant industrialist and designer, Ted Kord decided to use his acumen for mechanical engineering to fight crime as the masked vigilante known as The Blue Beetle.  Along with a levitating hover-car aptly named ‘The Bug,’ Kord devised numerous non-lethal crime-fighting weapons.  This ranged from an incapacitating strobe-light gun to bug-shaped flying surveillance drones. 

Although Ted had inherited the extraterrestrial scarab from the original Blue Beetle, the scarab never bonded with him and he remained unaware of the awesome powers this item could bestow.  The scarab ultimately ended up bonding with young Jaime Reyes who was able to unlock the full potential of the alien weapon and operated as the third Blue Beetle.  

The Blue Beetle was not included in the original DCAU due to licensing issues.  The production company was unaware of whether or not they owned the intellectual property rights to produce cartoons and toys based on the character and hence he was left out.  Which is a true shame in that an episode dedicated to the madcap high-jinks of Blue Beetle partnering up with his best buddy, Booster Gold, could have been a highlight of the series.