#and also he likes to build deadly robots. just because.

[youngirlfrom]

THE WICKED DIE ALONE

ɞ Someone like Y/N Kent has to find her true self, not just with the strength of a hero, but by walking the fine line between the light and darkness within. Because at the end of the day the wicked die alone. And for Y/N to die alone means all of humanity dies with her.

| Richard Grayson x Fem!Reader | chapter 1

Warnings: bl!!d, k!lling, mental health, slightly jason todd x reader, smut, english is not my first language.

Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 Chapter 3

This night was not a night with bright city lights illuminating the sky as usual. Metropolis was experiencing a night when Toyman attacked the city and chaos spread to every corner. Huge robots flying in the sky, deadly machines roaming the ground and buildings lost in the light of explosions… The screams of people, the sound of concrete collapsing and the metallic growls of machines echoed in the city. This chaos was, as always, time for Superman to take action.

He was the Man of Tomorrow.

He would move faster than a bullet, but he would touch people's hearts more than a hot chocolate.

It was the symbol of truth and justice.

Superman was the hero that all children in the world met in their dreams.

And as always, he defeated his enemy and stood tall on the damaged pavements. He was a ray of hope for people, no matter how difficult their situation was, they believed that everything would be okay when they saw him. Tonight was no different.

“Thank you, Superman!” Mothers crying, fathers hugging their children tightly, people just happy to be alive… Applause and cheers were rising from every corner of the city. The sky was no longer echoing with the sounds of bombs, but with the hopeful voices of people.

But amidst the chaos, Superman heard a faint cry coming from the debris of a collapsed building. He felt his heart tighten. The sound emanating from the rubble was a sign of life beyond the concrete piles. Superman carefully moved through the debris and saw a small light. He noticed that a baby was lying under the piles of concrete, surrounded by an energy shield. The shield was a bright purple color and gave off a calming yet powerful aura around it.

Superman didn't know what to do at first. This energy was of a type unfamiliar to him. He had never encountered such a unique power before. It was as if this force was somehow alive, responding to him. The shield slowly disappeared after a while, and Superman took the baby into his arms, the baby had calmed down. A weak smile appeared on her tiny lips, and this instantly erasing Superman's dark thoughts.

Superman decided to take the baby to safety. The chaos and dangers of Metropolis were no place for such an existence. Looking at the baby sleeping quietly in his arms, he set out towards Smallville, towards his mother, Martha Kent. The fact that she looked so delicate and defenseless strengthened his protective instinct even more. But he needed to understand what this power was. Who or what was it a product of?

When he arrived in Smallville, Martha Kent had a mixture of surprise and affection on her face when she saw the baby. Clark briefly told the story to his mother and talked about the energy shield that protected the baby.

"Look at those eyes," Martha said, admiring the baby's beautiful eyes. "I've never seen such beautiful color in my life. There's something about those eyes, Clark."

"Yes," Clark replied. "There is a secret behind these eyes. What exists within them is very powerful, but I do not know what it is. I cannot leave it. If this power falls into the hands of others, the consequences could be disastrous."

Martha looked at Clark with a loving smile. "This is a big responsibility, Clark. But caring for this child is important not only for her safety, but also to shape who she will become."

Clark took a deep breath as he looked at the baby's tiny face. "I know, mom. This baby is a mystery, but it's also a miracle. I'll keep an eye on her. I'll be with her every step of the her way."

Clark took the baby in his arms and gently rocked her.

"Did you give her a name?" she asked.

Clark thought for a while. He didn't even know about her existence a few hours ago, but now this little being had taken a big place in his life. "Y/N," he said finally. "Y/N Kent."

Martha nodded in agreement. "Y/N… A beautiful name. Strong and elegant."

His smile grew a little bigger as the baby snuggled up to him like a stuffed bear. He would protect her forever. He would be with her as she took her first steps. He would hold her hand when she started school. He would stand behind her when she went on her first date. He would proudly watch her at her graduation. When she started work, he would always keep one hand on her back so that her daughter would never feel insecure. He would make her the happiest daughter in the world.

She would be the hope the world needed after him.

When little Y/N grew up, she would be faster than a flowing river and strong enough to stop a great typhoon.

Even though she was as mysterious as the dark side of the moon with her eyes, Clark Kent would make her grow up with the light inside her.

English is not my first language! So please do not hesitate to politely point out if I make a mistake.

I won't be reporting any physical characteristics for Y/N in the story, it's just as it should be. But just decided to make the color of her power purple, which is one of my favorite colors. But you can imagine any color you want, of course.

This and the next chapter will be about Y/N and her power, and later the story will begin immediately. And I will write the story in first person.

When I was little I saw my own father as Superman, I still do. I hope this story brings some happiness to those who cannot have a father like Clark, like Superman.

I love you all, see you next chapter 🩵🩵🩵

[clanwarrior-tumbly]

I came back from the movie theaters (Fnaf Movie) My lord I FREAKING LOVED IT THE WHOLE THING IDC AHHH Ahem-

I saw that requests are open, SO a Platonic Headcanon Request if you don't mind, Fnaf (Movie) Animatronics with Gender-Neutral (17-soon to be 18) Reader as the new security guard? or maybe tags with Mike and possibly Abby? (Reader ain't tall just-idk 5'2 maybe I am projecting-)

(I know this request doesn't make sense because of the tiredness due to staying up late because of excitement. Feel free to delete this ask if its too complicated)

bonus: If you want to, You can also Include Chica's Cupcake

Have a nice day/night, From 📞 ☕ (PhoneCoffee) Anon

Oh I can definitely work with this ^^

......

When you started working at Freddy's overnight, you hoped this would be your last summer job ever before you turned 18.

"Steve" said it was all pretty straightforward: watch the cameras and make sure nobody broke in.

Easy as pizza pie, right?

Well, when you realized one of the animatronics very subtly moved from their usual spot, you wanted to check them out for yourself.

Plus, sitting in the office for six hours every night would def get boring as hell.

So you head to the main stage area, finding the whole gang mysteriously gone--Foxy included.

Then you get surprised by them emerging from different places in the pizzeria, eyes glowing a sinister yellow as they surround you, wary of your intentions.

"O-Oh hey..um..Fazgang?" You try your best not to look so terrified.

Surely someone was controlling them, right? They couldn't possibly hurt you.

Yet they stop and collectively realize "wait, isn't this a teenager? And why are they working this job??"

But since you're not wrecking anything in the pizzeria (or screaming bloody murder unlike the last guard), they spare you and are just very chill overall.

You now start to believe all the rumors of them being haunted by little children.....although not even that scares you.

On the second night, you learn that they can understand simple drawings--and that's how you pretty much communicate with them and build up trust.

While Bonnie is regarded as the "most aggressive", he was a real sweetheart who let you shine his guitar and hugged you tightly to express his thanks.

Alas you haven't found a way to stop it from constantly short-circuiting when he strums it...but you vow to figure something out.

Chica was equally as sweet, although for some reason Carl the Cupcake made you feel nervous.

The way he can be on the plate one moment and then disappear the next makes you worried that he'll sneak up on you and bite your ankles off.

But as long as Chica's around, that won't ever happen.

Although Foxy looks quite dangerous, you try your best to patch up the hole in his chest using some spare parts from backstage while being oblivious to the deadly Freddy mask saw trap in the corner, something he's grateful for.

He even sang you a little sea shanty as thanks!

Freddy was the first to be suspicious of you, but after seeing a drawing you made of him, he grows to like your presence, too. Especially after how nice you've been to his bandmates.

So you definitely survived more than five nights at this place--longer than anyone so far.

When Mike gets hired and comes in for his first shift with you, he's surprised that a teen is training him.

He suspects this was some lousy summer job you were forced to get and thinks you're gonna act miserable the entire time you work together and not actually teach him shit.

But as it turns out, you love your job!

You show him the Fazgang during their "showtime" performance and assure him that while they may look creepy, they're not bad at all.

And while you're not getting paid extra to do simple maintenance on them, you still enjoy trying to keep them in tip-top shape (especially Foxy, who needs repairs the most).

Mike seriously thinks you shouldn't be doing that as it's not in the job description AND it could be dangerous.

Even if you have expertise in robotics, he still thinks it's not worth losing a limb or finger to those complex contraptions.

Like he almost did after getting near a springlock suit.

But you just teasingly remind him who the trainer is..and he goes quiet.

Foxy overhears this, and you see him snickering from behind the Pirate's Cove curtain, amused by you basically schooling this 25-27 year old man.

Unfortunately he startled poor Mike, who looks over quickly.....only to find the fox standing in his usual position, acting completely normal.

"Was he just laughing at us...?"

"Nope." You play dumb, shrugging. "Must be his voice box malfunctioning....c'mon. Let's see if we can fix that."

Least to say, you're not gonna let him sleep on the job anytime soon.

[enavstars]

Some characters in the Cyberpunk au (part 1)

I tried to make Echo and Zane more robot-like since robots are pretty much treated like people regardless of their appereance. And Garmadon's design is from when the rgb are kids so he's younger (he's not an Oni in this au).

Characters details from within the story:

Echo

Echo is created by a younger Julien (like in his 30s) as a test run for his project to build himself an assistant to deal with his chronic disease, which, despite not being deadly per se, it could still leave him impaired in the long run and therefore he needed some sort of safe net just in case.

But sadly, the prototype's AI ends up being deficient for his purpose as he is not able to process neither human emotions nor their needs, so after much deliberation, Julien decides to set him free rather than letting him collect dust in his storage.

However, Echo could not fit into the city's human society either, as people would not accept his strange speech nor behavior. This eventually culminated in an assault by one of the problematic gangs that sprouted up after the crisis, where they thrashed the helpless robot relentlessly and even managed to damage his voice module. He then was trashed out to the Outside, and from there, mauled and hopeless, he wandered aimlessly and without a purpose in life for a long time.

But at one point through his senseless journey, he stumbled upon a couple of abandoned kids crying in the middle of the woods. Even though he did not understand what their tears meant, he was curious, so from then on he started acting as their guardian.

Thanks to them, slowly but surely he began to learn about human emotions and, as he could only do little beeps to communicate, he also figured out a way to communicate without words. Although sometimes he was still lacking as a caregiver, he worked hard to develop the necessary skills to look after their (newly discovered) basic human needs, like fishing and hunting. He even takes a third kid in after Kai and Nya find another lost boy in the woods and convince him to keep him.

As they grow, he also begins to teach them how to be self-sufficient, because he is painfully aware that he would never be capable of being a better parent due to his poor programming. It is in this context when, years later when Echo finds a potential job opportunity as the ferryman to the city, the RGB urge him to take the chance, knowing that he wants to work to feel more useful and wanting to have more solo adventures.

Even though he was reluctant to leave them behind, he is now the happiest he's ever been and still looks after his children whenever they need him (even going so far as to risk his job) out of his gratitude for granting him another chance in his doomed life.

Ronin

Currently retired, he used to be a renowned mercenary and bounty hunter in his youth. However, he gradually gained more and more enemies and got himself into more and more dangerous trouble (which is why he’s a full cyborg now), until eventually, battered and grown past the age of peak physical strength, he decided to quit to save his ass.

From then on, he started looking after the demon children around the most miserable parts of their struggling segregated neighborhood in exchange for minor treasure hunts; this is why he is now protected from his remaining enemies, as many of them grew up to become members of some of the local gangs (also as an added bonus Garmadon is a pretty ominous legend and people are kind of afraid of hurting demons because of him, but more on that later).

Although he lives rather isolated from the rest of society because of his (extensive) criminal record, he still manages to make ends meet with the treasures he got from all his exploits and the profits of the little side quests he tasks the children in exchange for his care.

No he’s not charity, he’s a wine uncle, but he is an asshole to everyone (especially humans) except the kids. In fact, even though he does not give out help for free, he always ends up rewarding them with his teachings and advice and about life on top of the food and shelter, so almost every child he's taken under his wing ends up becoming pretty competent to face the harsh society they live in.

And in particular, he grows to like the RGB a lot because he recognizes their wit and appreciates how cunning they can be, sometimes even negotiating with him and being capable enough to uno reverse his little tricks on the kids like they are equals (for example, Nya stealing her brother’s bionic eye blueprints to avoid being totally dependant on Ronin for maintenance).

In fact, later on when Nya introduces him to Jay (a human) to be his apprentice as a mechanic, she somehow convinces him despite his hate for his kind.

Bonus: when he meets Jay at first he’s irritated at him because he takes his fear and shyness as racism, but the kid is just intimidated by the sassy cyborg (don't worry, eventually he figures it out and the child grows on him, Jay is too cute).

(I will talk about Jay in my next post dw)

Zane (24NE)

He’s the successful final product of Julien’s project, a kind and refined assistance nindroid knowledgeable in human care. His role is very important to him, so when his father died he lost all purpose in life and, unable to deal with his grief on top of that existential crisis, he became depressed and stagnant, trapped in his own mind inside his creator’s abandoned home and slowly wasting away due to his mental stress and a lack of maintenance now that nobody could look after him.

And he stayed in that sorry state until the RGB found the house and, upon looting it for supplies, Nya stumbled upon the nindroid lying dormant next to Julien’s bed. When she wakes him up, his rusty voice module is damaged and he can’t speak properly (Julien is shit at making those apparently), so she repairs it as best as she can and as a result, he eventually becomes their friend.

Although they were wary at first, they understood his situation, and in the end they decided to help him by introducing him to Doctor Rashid (an oc) to learn more about biology and medicine.

Speaking of, I’ll talk more about Dr. Rashid in another future post but basically he’s an oc of mine I inserted in this au, a friend of Kai and Nya’s and sort of a parental figure.

Garmadon

He is an elusive red-eyed demon, the rarest of his kind, and a criminal brought to legendary status. Now vanished and rarely ever seen amongst the city shadows, he used to be an undefeatable wandering warrior. He would spread chaos everywhere he went and, along the way, he would mercilessly murder anyone opposed to the Demon’s Rights movement.

However, one day he disappeared suddenly from the face of the earth. But his legacy carries on to this day: he is feared universally, considered an antihero by his followers and a bloodthirsty criminal by the rest.

A few months after his disappearance, though, a human woman named Misako gave birth to a demon child with ominous red eyes. Soon, people started making the connection and his mother, who by that point had developed a deep hatred towards demons, was put under such public scrutiny that she ended up abandoning him on the Outside to leave behind the city and her trauma along with it.

Sadly for Garmadon, it was too late when he finally learned that he had a son. He’d left Misako pregnant without either of them knowing, and after he was gone she had been unable to reach him. For that reason, when he came back to the city years later and at last he found out, in the end he decided to let Lloyd be with his new family, as he he realized he had no right to take him in after being absent the entirety of his short life when he already had the two loving siblings looking after him.

After that, he turned back to his wandering, and he was barely ever seen again.

[cyb-by-lang]

Cascade (part 4)

And here we have the internship beginning.

(Kei notes some divergences from what happened in Shell Game in her narration as we go. For the most part, these can be attributed to having way less time to meet up with her teammates and get them acclimated to Japan.)

Sorry, Ingenium.

After saying goodbye to the other students at the Musutafu train station, neither Kei or Iida talked during the trip to Hosu City. 

While it wasn’t that uncommon for Kei to zone out completely on public transit, Iida would’ve said something out of politeness at the very least. There wasn’t that much of a crowd on the late morning train compared to either rush hour. They’d even both managed to find seats rather than clutching the overhead handles or the various vertical handholds. 

Instead, Kei dug a book out of her non-regulation backpack and read with her forearms leaning on her costume’s carry case. Every once in a while, she’d either shoot a deadly glare at someone trying to approach the more-recognizable Iida or look at her classmate in concern. The former scared off interlopers, while the latter had no apparent effect. 

Iida just sat there, like a super-tense robot. 

Kei wasn’t even as close to him as Midoriya and Uraraka were, so directly asking how Iida felt…didn’t quite work, in her head. She didn’t have the kind of rapport where she could just say what was on her mind. Or punch it out of him and remain friends after. That was a Gai thing. 

And we would not want that. 

Though guess being genuinely me could still go worse. With a sigh, Kei turned her attention back to her light novel. Hopefully, some fictional violence would take her mind off some of the impending actual violence for a while. 

Before she knew it, they were walking out into bright sunshine in a city Kei had patrolled once. Just not as herself.

Manual, the Normal Hero, turned out to be a plain-faced man with a generic ocean theme to his costume. His visored helmet even had a fin top, though nothing functional. Practical white boots, yellow gloves, and a skintight shirt divided evenly between blue and white rounded out the look. He greeted his case-toting interns with a smile and a wave and didn’t seem at all awkward about it. Manual didn’t seem to mind that Iida’s behavior and countenance was a little terse or that Kei tried to stay in Iida’s shadow all the way from the train station to his pro agency. 

While Kei’s counterfeit Quirk was stronger than his by orders of magnitude, Manual was really no weaker than the average Kiri-nin. Like most shinobi, he relied on water already present in his environment to do his work, but in a city, he was never that far from a fire hydrant. More importantly, operating in an urban environment usually gave him a lot of pro hero allies within shouting distance. 

For all intents and purposes, he was an ordinary pro hero with ordinary responsibilities in a city with a serious serial killer infestation. 

Kei felt kind of bad for him, because both of his interns brought ulterior motives along with their literal baggage. Not bad enough to confess to anything, of course, but the thought lingered.

“Well, now that you’ve both arrived safely, let’s get you situated.” Manual didn’t have the same kind of winning smile as, say, All Might, but he didn’t really need it. He beckoned them to follow him into the building. “To cut down on the commute somewhat, my agency will provide room and board for the week. We also have locker rooms so you can get changed quickly for our first patrol. Meal breaks may vary a little depending on what’s happening in the field, but we’ll take good care of you.” 

“Thank you, Manual-sensei,” Iida managed with a third of his usual bombast.  Still, he bowed. 

Kei clasped both hands over her costume case and mirrored him. “We’ll be sure to learn a lot from you this week, Manual-sensei.” 

“I have no doubt!” 

Kei’s borrowed room was smaller than her apartment’s bedroom, but it didn’t need to really be more than a cot and bathroom access to make her happy. Manual’s agency even had on-site laundry service, so the backpack she’d brought along would suffice for the entire week. Locking the door behind her, she quickly stripped out of her UA uniform and made the change to her “hero” costume. 

Unlike some hero students who a) thought out their requests and b) chose a company that could take criticism, Kei dreaded looking at what she’d be wearing for most of this week.  Even now, the design was a short, sleeveless kimono in dark blue wave patterns, long (unarmored) gloves that reached her biceps and only covered one finger apiece. It’d taken a round of angry revision notes to even get ultra-lightweight armor incorporated into the torso keep her vital organs covered. 

Maybe they’d only given ground because Kei destroyed the first iteration “by accident” during the USJ incident. She’d probably never know. It fell on the cot with a faint rattle, though, so at least the nano-whatever weave chainmail component was still there. 

Might as well get it over with. Kei took a deep breath and checked on the rest of the costume. 

While the boots included shinguards, the designers went with a tabi look for the actual shoe component. The pants appeared to be basically skintight swimming trunks, probably because her listed Quirk incorporated so much water manipulation. And for some fucking reason, there was an obi with a massive bow on the back, trailing behind her as she walked. Kei was going to trip and eat pavement because of that thing someday. 

Overall, what Kei pulled out of the case had barely been changed. She just got an extra belt with some pockets for stowing things like utility knives and little adhesive bandages for civilian boo-boos. 

When Kei inevitably did an about-face and started her career of villainy as Cascade, the City Drowner, she’d start with the support company and knock their building down brick by brick. Yes, a safer bet would be to go to UA’s Support Department and demand revisions from people who weren’t so obstinate, but it would be so satisfying. Vindictively. 

Still, she put it on. Including the hitai-ate that wasn’t Konoha’s. And the makeup to downplay her scar. The goal here was to appear as normal as possible—as a hero hopeful—to anyone observing her and not rock any boats. Certainly not literal ones, either. No matter how much looking at her reflection in the provided mirror felt wrong. 

“All right.” Kei clapped her hands together to shock herself awake. She closed her costume case and took a deep breath. “I can do this.” 

Kei emerged from her temporary quarters feeling as awkward as she had during the Sports Festival, but no longer concealed by her official gym uniform and a whole crowd of similarly-dressed kids. There was no more camouflage to be had. 

“Ah, Gekkō-san, right on time.” Manual got up from his desk and waved. “Once Iida-kun is ready to go, we can take on your first patrol as young hero-hopefuls.” 

“Thanks, Manual-sensei.” Kei crossed her arms as they settled in to wait for Iida in the agency’s lobby. It didn’t really help cover her discomfort, but it did make her feel slightly better. 

“Hm, that reminds me—what’s your hero name? I don’t remember seeing it on your paperwork.” 

“Oh. It’s, um, Cascade. The Mist Hero.” Ugh, I sound like such a fake. Kei managed to mutter a rather lackluster explanation involving deadlines, not really enunciating any of it. 

Manual gave her a thumbs-up likely meant to inspire confidence in the downtrodden.  “That’s all right, Gekkō-san. I’ll just be sure to use it so you can get used to how it feels. I’m sure you’ll live up to the aspirations embodied by that name!” 

More like live down to them. Heroes like Manual were so painfully earnest it made Kei’s hair want to stand on end. What did she do with that? “That’s…nice of you to say…”

“Well, here’s one more nice thing then: I think your hero costume looks good.” 

Kei winced. She felt her whole body lean into that scrap of honesty and hated it just a little. 

“I take it you don’t?” 

“…No, Manual-sensei. It doesn’t feel like me.” Because it wasn’t. Not really. 

“Maybe one of the goals you can work on for this internship can involve that, then.” Manual suggested it like it wasn’t a big deal. “Feeling comfortable with yourself.” 

To be fair, it probably wouldn’t be an important issue once Kei got into an actual fight. Most of the distractions faded away once her blood was up and there was someone who needed a beatdown. 

But in the meantime? Uuuuuugh. 

Thankfully, there was a shiny and chrome option right there. Manual also noticed, then waved, “Oh, Iida-kun! Over here.” 

Iida’s full-on Ingenium look was so much more complicated—visually and emotionally—and storied than Kei’s ongoing fight with support companies. He got to look like either a sentai villain or a turbo mecha, and his armor theoretically deflected attacks before he had to see if they’d bounce of his bones. It was one of the reasons that Iida was completely jacked, apparently. Besides, well, the whole running lifestyle. His hero outfit also came with a helmet that almost entirely concealed his face—except for his eyes—and made his voice echo in a simultaneously cool and kinda creepy way. 

Iida really should’ve taken a better internship somewhere else. Anywhere else. 

“Manual-sensei, I’m ready for duty,” Iida said firmly, despite Kei’s doubts. He was so serious about this that he didn’t even swing his arms for emphasis. “Please lead the way.” 

“Of course. Come along, you two.” 

Patrol as a concept was…fine. 

Mostly boring. 

Kei didn’t exactly mind walking all over cities. A lot of what Hosu citizens wanted out of their local heroes was a token showing. If that meant they also got help taking in their laundry or rescuing cats from trees, so much the better. She did a lot of the same things in Konoha when just starting out as an adorable little genin. There was little expectation of violence in broad daylight. Even petty criminals—those stubborn or uncreative enough to strike without any stealth consideration—were lying low for the moment. 

Basically, the point was deterrence. Though the Hero Killer had earned that title, he didn’t attack groups of heroes. No, he hunted solo operators. Or maybe just whoever separated from the pack, regardless of specifics. Now the city was crawling with potential fights and potential victims. 

Kei mostly hoped Iida didn’t plan to shove his way into the ring. When Ingenium was attacked, he’d been running ahead of his sidekicks and fought a guy specialized in close combat in a blind alleyway. Obito barely managed to get him to the hospital afterward, and if not for Kakashi’s tracking abilities, they might never have found him at all. From what Kei’s teammates said about it, there was a real chance Iida Senior would never get the full use of his left arm back. And the engine in it was probably beyond repair. 

“We’ll mostly be patrolling the local area so you can get a feel for how this works,” Manual said, living up to his name. “Later, we’ll branch out.” 

“Yes, Manual-sensei!” 

Still, Kei did miss running across rooftops with her friends. Her job today, though, was to stay firmly bound by gravity and societal expectations. And not hunt down Stain like the slippery bastard he was. 

So, Kei patrolled. Mostly, this entailed following Manual like a duckling while making sure Iida didn’t stray. Though that last part wasn’t said aloud. 

Broken up by meals, breaks, and gentle encouragement from their pro mentor, the first day passed peacefully. Almost too peacefully for Kei to sleep soundly that night. 

But the next day was similar, despite her worries. The absolute highlight of the entire eight-hour stretch was when Manual asked her to create water for him to manipulate and put out a car that had hit a light pole and caught fire. Iida managed to keep the victims calm while alerting emergency services, who then had to cut the driver out of the vehicle. Overall, it was a good deed and only ruined progress during rush hour for twenty minutes more than usual. 

And then, the third day. Honestly, Kei would’ve called it superstition if trouble had waited one more day into their internship, but it wasn’t to be.

On the third day, the patrol shift split between a morning and afternoon set. While Manual did lead Kei and Iida around until lunch, the next few hours after that involved a little bit of training and a lot of paperwork. According to Manual, almost everything pro heroes were responsible for involved forms in triplicate, and they’d be lucky if computers got involved at all. A lot of the smaller agencies loved their carbon paper. Even snagging the time for a nap amid the flurry of bureaucracy didn’t really improve Kei’s opinion of the whole thing. 

Suffice to say that when it was time to head out just before sunset, Kei was happy to see the sky again.

“We’ll be patrolling Kyoto a little later tonight,” Manual explained as they went. “Sorry this is so monotonous.” 

“No, it’s better this way,” Iida replied. 

Kei nodded along, taking a moment to yawn and stretch before a potential third night of nothing much. 

Instead of just continuing to walk until their feet all fell off, Manual drew up short and turned toward Iida. An unusually serious look was on his face. “Hey, Iida-kun. This is kind of hard to ask, but you’re after the Hero Killer, aren’t you?”

Iida startled. “How did you…?”

Manual’s expression went sheepish and self-deprecating laugh popped out of him. “I couldn’t think of any other reason you’d come to my agency.” Then his brain seemed to catch up with his mouth. “I mean, don’t get me wrong. I’m glad you did, but…you shouldn’t be pursuing personal grudges.” 

Good thing someone wants to talk about that. 

“We heroes don’t have the authority to arrest people or punish them. The only reason we’re allowed to use our Quirks is because of the regulations put on them,” Manual pointed out. 

…Though that part’s still bullshit. 

“That’s why, no matter what their reason might be, a hero must not use their Quirk for themselves.” Manual actually glared at Iida. “If a pro hero used their powers solely for their own ends, it would be a very serious crime.” 

Iida lowered his head just the slightest bit, as though shamed. Just a bit. 

Conscious of the awkward atmosphere, Kei coughed to remind them both that she was still present. 

With that tiny reminder, Manual’s seriousness cracked. Using the kind of choppy hand gestures that Iida normally did, he stumbled his way through his attempt to downplay how serious he’d been. “I’m not saying the Hero Killer isn’t incredibly guilty! You just seem like the really earnest type, you know? I’d hate for you to focus on one goal and ignore everything else.” 

Like Iida doesn’t have tunnel vision fit for a train. 

“Thank you,” Iida said, giving nothing away. “I appreciate your concern.” 

Yeah, that wasn’t an actual concession. That was a very careful sidestep. 

“Oh, it’s fine as long as you get what I’m saying.” Manual turned to lead them onward. “So, we good?” 

He totally missed the way Iida’s fists clenched at his sides, the tension in his shoulders, or the weight still dragging him down. Or, if he did notice, Manual didn’t have the tools necessary to deal with Iida’s bellyful of vengeance before the Hero Killer finally put in an appearance. 

Kei tapped Iida’s armor with her knuckles as she passed, since he was falling a little bit behind. 

“Gekkō-san, what is it?” 

“Let me know before you do something reckless,” Kei told him, pitching her voice carefully enough that Manual’s helmet wouldn’t let him catch it. “Don’t just run off.” 

Iida didn’t say anything in reply. It was like he couldn’t acknowledge her concern without exploding, and thus needed to keep his focus entirely on putting one foot in front of the other. If it made him rude, maybe he’d be able to apologize for it later. When he felt better. 

But Iida also didn’t notice the tracking seal she'd just pasted to his black bodysuit, which Kei figured made up for that. 

[showtoonzfan]

Hey it’s been a bit! The Mammon episode finally came out, so here’s my review!

Pros:

- The sign language scene was cute. Kinda weird that a kid was seeing a show that was clearly for adults but I love me some representation so it gets a pass.

- Despite Blitz not really needing to be in this episode, I thank god he had little screen time and more time was dedicated to Fizz.

- The fish ladies (despite having wonky color palettes that made them EXTREMELY hard to look at) were cute.

Cons:

- Mammon is so flat and uninteresting but I don’t know what I expected from a creator who always hypes her characters up that always end up being one of the three go-to personalities she picks for her male characters. In Mammon’s case he’s just a loud mouth cursing bum so way to ruin another Deadly Sin and make them boring af, moving on.

- I don’t like how Mammon and Fizz’s relationship are similar of Val and Angel’s, Viv keeps recycling stories, characters and plot lines ect, it makes Angel’s story for Hazbin really predictable/underwhelming and not exciting to look forward too especially since we already have the “mafia bad daddy” aspect to him too that they pulled for Moxxie. I guess the idea of Mammon being a controlling ruler is fine on paper but not much is done with it, Fizz just quits in the end like it was easy with zero consequences so what was all that build up for.

- Fizz himself once again feels REALLY out of character, he’s just too soft compared to how he was introduced in season 1. He’s constantly nervous in this episode and insecure, as well as walking on eggshells, and even in Oops he wasn’t THIS sensitive. I’m all for characters struggling and being kicked down but it has to make sense and not feel forced, and once again it feels like Viv is trying way to hard to make the characters she once introduced as snarky assholes to uwu innocent babies. I refuse to believe Fizz was actually INTIMIDATED by this random geeky imp who insulted him, as well as the fish ladies whom he was weirdly nice and welcoming to. It’s also weird seeing how uncomfortable/nervous he was around his fans when I thought the whole point was that he LOVED praise and loved being famous, at least that was season 1 Fizz. Now he feels retconned. Seeing him say “I just need this gig” is weird too, the explanation to why he went through all of this makes no sense, Fizz still has Ozzie and is famous in the Lust ring, and I understand Mammon is his idle but to go through all that abuse for so long for something that could have been so easily avoided feels forced to fit the plot, but it also makes Fizz look dumb.

- There’s confusing lore stuff regarding Mammon and Ozzie, and it makes me realize that Viv should have picked ONE storyline aka ONE Seven Deadly sin to go with Fizz’s story because this is getting mixed up. Fizz acts like if he looses this completion, he looses everything, which confused the heck out of me because no he wouldn’t have? First of all, Ozzie is a fucking powerful sin, how would you loose him? Second, from what we know from season 1, Fizz is a jester who performs at Ozzie’s club. It was Ozzie who built the sex robots across the rings of hell, NOT Mammon, and in season 2 we see that Fizz is under Ozzie’s care and lives in his house. Yet for some weird reason Mammon also represents Fizz and uses him for profit, but it’s not really explained in a way that makes sense, like Love’s art had said in her Fizz redesign video, Fizz’s job is really confusing on what exactly he does. Having both Ozzie and Mammon represent him overcomplicates things and the show did a poor job at explaining how this goes.

- Once again Viv dumps trauma and struggle onto her characters without building it up first. When did Fizz ever give off the impression that he was being controlled or abused, or even that he was so insecure and constantly walked on eggshells to be perfect. In Oops he was happy to be in the spotlight and happy to get the attention, he bragged to Blitz about how successful he was. He seemed happy to perform for Mammon and talked of him highly, and now you’re pulling an Angel Dust situation where he’s expected to be perfect 24/7 and it gets to him emotionally, while also being someone who’s physically and mentally abused. Yet another season 2 episode that wasn’t planned, same as how Millie wanting to feel important wasn’t planned, same as how Stolas seeing Blitz as genuine love wasn’t planned. Different episode, same issues.

- I’m so done with the Hell lore bro, this place officially has no rules and demons can just do anything without consequences. There’s no class system, there’s no rankings, there’s no power dynamics, screw anything that Viv says. There was no fucking reason why Ozzie and Fizz’s relationship needed to be a secret. There was no reason showing Ozzie threatening his workers to not tell anyone about his love life if he was just going to admit it to EVERYONE THE NEXT EPISODE IN FRONT OF ANOTHER SIN ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME— what was the POINT. What is the point of Stolas and Blitz’s conflict. What is the point of Stella being classist. What is the point of these class systems and rules if you can just announce that you technically broke a hell rule and no one gives a fuck and you get off scott free. Mammon telling Ozzie “you’ll regret that” like a cartoon villain doesn’t do anything either. What is he ganna do? Tell Lucifer, the character that canonically won’t appear in HB because the sins won’t appear in HH? If Lucifer rules over the sinners, who the fuck is in charge for the rest of Hell. Where’s the authority? And Mammon is just ganna come back for another episode to give the gang trouble cause lord knows we don’t have enough fucking villains already.

- It feels weird that Ozzie would just sit back while someone whom he knows is a piece of shit is treating his loved one badly. I get he was concerned but you’d think one of the seven deadly sins would have more power and authority.

- I was expecting some big gross bug-like thing to appear when Mammon was transforming into his final form, only for it to the exact same design but with small extra eyes and a spider lower half that isn’t even visible in most shots….GOD VIV.

Watching this episode also made me remind myself that this is supposed to be Hell. Seeing Fizz feel better and stand up for himself was sweet but these soft lessons and morals don’t belong in a show like this, and it’s extra aggravating regarding Viv’s double standard, how she can just pick and choose which characters she wants to be evil and which characters are saints. Overall not anywhere near the worst episode of season 2, but I am officially done with Helluva Boss so-

[ridiasfangirlings]

more tourabu au because tenrou and subaru are an absolute delight as well as fushimi’s army of adorable knife murder children.

fushimi is definitely being difficult as a master, mostly because he’s treating them like others without proper care, and when some of knives end up badly damaged it’s the first time he realizes that he’s high key mimicking niki parenting attitude when he looks at pretty much crumbling bodies of damaged ones, and then subaru’s terrified, oh so familiar gaze sets that final nail to this coffin. it honestly makes him try to become better for them and that’s what makes him actually notice his knives and swords having their own personalities and undying loyalty and affection for him despite everything. Tenrou to the rescue trying to mend this bridge for them all while playing matchmaker for fushimi and munakata, while fushimi plays accidental matchmaker for tenrou and subaru. munakata and knife squad are just playing together and enjoying the mess.

I can imagine Fushimi not really realizing that the knives and Subaru are their own ‘people,’ like to him they’re just tools and if he admits they have personalities that will just be too much of a pain to deal with. Imagine in this AU that this is like part of the Blue power, that it makes sword boys (and the occasional knife children) basically. Fushimi doesn’t care for the fact that all his knives are suddenly loud and annoying and he didn’t ask for the sword in the first place so he treats Subaru very perfunctorily, as if he’s talking to a robot. When he’s fighting he doesn’t think about the condition of their bodies but that’s also because Fushimi doesn’t think about the condition of his own — now that he’s left Homra Fushimi has convinced himself that he can do everything by himself and he sees his weapons as just extensions of himself, tools the way he is, and there’s no need to be concerned about their injuries when he isn’t concerned about his own. Imagine it all comes to a head one day during a fight with a really strong Strain, Fushimi gets badly hurt himself but imagine all his knives and Subaru are terribly injured too and maybe even one knife breaks saving Fushimi from a deadly attack. Fushimi finds himself just staring at this little knife as it asks if it did good before breaking into pieces and its body changes from human to a shattered knife. Fushimi hears someone suck in a breath and looks up to see Subaru staring at him with wide haunted eyes and suddenly Fushimi sees what he hasn’t allowed himself to notice before, how injured and pale all his weapons have become. 

That’s when Munakata steps in, imagine him taking Fushimi to the infirmary while Tenrou tends to Subaru and the knives. Fushimi is initially all defensive, claiming he didn’t ask to have to take care of anyone and Munakata didn’t tell him about this when he first lured Fushimi away. Munakata admits he was remiss in not letting Fushimi know but he trusted — and still trusts — that Fushimi can handle it. Fushimi mutters that he’s not cut out for dealing with other people, how is he supposed to fight freely if he has to worry about his own weapons. Munakata says that is something Fushimi will have to discover the answer for himself — but he is not the only one with worries, nodding towards the door. Fushimi looks up and imagine Tenrou standing there a bit sheepishly, looking like a substitute kindergarten teacher as he ushers in a few bandaged knives. The knives all swarm Fushimi, crying and worrying, and Tenrou says they wouldn’t relax until they saw for themselves that he’s okay.

After this Fushimi starts tentatively mending fences with his weapons, imagine the knives pretty much forgive him instantly but Subaru is still standoffish. Munakata is very supportive though, imagine he spends more time with Fushimi discussing ways to build trust and how to balance his duty battling with care for his weapons. Tenrou is very active in helping as well, imagine he is totally trying to play matchmaker with Fushimi and Munakata too because he knows how Munakata feels about Fushimi and isn’t this a good chance for them to have lots of close conversations (with Tenrou conveniently showing up to babysit the knives to get them out of the way). 

Meanwhile Tenrou is also having a lot of one on one time with Subaru too, to talk about how to learn to trust your master again. On Munakata’s advice Fushimi reluctantly goes to Tenrou for help on how to work in tandem with Subaru and when the three of them are together he definitely notices that Tenrou is just like his master, doting on Subaru like Munakata dotes on Fushimi. When Fushimi and Subaru are finally able to fight properly together again Munakata and Tenrou are both so pleased, Subaru running to Tenrou to tell Tenrou all about how well he did. Munakata walks up to Fushimi smiling and hoping for Fushimi to have the same enthusiasm for him, Fushimi clicks his tongue and is like too bad but he does mumble that maybe Munakata’s advice helped a little. The knives are all very excited though and swarming around Munakata and Fushimi, Munakata has to admit that their children are certainly adorable (and Fushimi is like what are you calling ‘our children’). 

[moon-buggg]

Which of your aus would win in a fight against the others

hmmm...

The alien boys are just like. Some dudes who are kinda tall. They didn't sign up for this, they have no place here! Along with having basically no defensive or offensive abilities, they lack the violent streaks of my other aus. You've taken some dudes off the street and have put them in a death match against giant robots and giant monsters that can light on fire.

The mad scientist boys are fairing only mildly better than the aliens. Their clockwork nature makes them less sturdy than the other robots, if still sturdier than the aliens. Depending on when we're at in the au they will be more willing to attack to try and survive than the aliens too. But they're still falling very fast.

The haunted house boys have size and power, and have canonically gotten pretty violent (to say the least) against humans. However, I think they would struggle to find motivation to be truly ruthless against other versions of themselves, leaving them at a disadvantage. They would be able to defend themselves and might even take a few competitors out in the process, but they hesitate and it's their downfall.

The scp boys obviously have the advantage being that they're a giant cat monster with magic powers. They are also carnivores and very adept at taking down prey. If their claws and teeth don't work (doubtful), then Sun's fire powers or Moon's freezing powers would be more than enough to finish the job.

Mad scientist eclipse is an interesting one. Because if we're just talking his more humanoid body, he's extremely easy to beat in a fight. It's a very fragile puppet. If we're talking about the building itself, eclipse is equipped with a very deadly security system and he has absolutely no problem using it.

[coirinthyurilo]

Leo Valdez is the love child of HIGUEL. (Hiro Hamada x Miguel Rivera.)

This is a rant, and why I have had not realized this sooner. But it WORKS??? 😦😦

(GUYS THIS IS TO BE 'NOT' TAKEN SERIOUSLY. THIS IS JUST MY OPINION AND HEADCANON! BUT IF YOU AGREE WITH ME. THANK YOU.)

LEO VALDEZ IS THE LOVE CHILD OF HIRO HAMADA (FROM BIG HERO SIX.) AND MIGUEL RIVERA. (FROM COCO.)

Miguel is literally Spanish, Leo is Spanish. Leo creates things. (Got an entire bronze dragon to move.) And Hiro makes creates things too. (Made an entire robot balloon into a deadly fighter bot.)

Leo ALSO looks like a mix of Miguel and Hiro.

THE BOARD IS INSANE, AND I'M SORRY BUT HERE IS AN EXPLANATION.

Leo obviously has their hair color. (Black.) People like to headcanon him with brown. (Sometimes.)

He has their eyes, and their skin color. (Which is mixed in my opinion.

He has their mixed smile. I WILL go down with that.

He is also confirmed to have a scrawny build. They also tend to have a scrawny build‼️

And I'm pretty sure Hiro would definitely be in cabin 7, I'm not changing that fact.

He definitely is more like Miguel in a way. (Very mischievous and can get themselves in dumb situations.) And definitely acts a lot like him. Smth.

But he HAS Hiro's mindset and intelligence‼️These two bond over forging or creating things.

And I'm pretty sure Leo would go to Miguel when it comes to love or "how to ask out a girl." Or smth.

Miguel and Leo will bond over their culture. And then the three will trauma bond or talk over about their experiences. (All of them has either experienced something insane or supernatural, or all of the above.)

Leo has Miguel's skin color. And he does have Spanish roots. (That's canon.) But imagine he also has Japanese-american at the same time? (That's Hiro's nationality.)

I like to think Leo wears red. (It's more of orange actually.. Orangey-red?) Because Higuel actually have red features in their looks.

And yes. I made another board. What about it.

BUT THAT'S ALL. THIS IS JUST A RANT AND SOME PROOF LEO IS THEIR LOVECHILD.

I am sorely convinced he is a mix of them two.

You cannot convince me otherwise.

[runtwithwolves]

OH NO quirk ideas are my weaknesses HECK. Here goes!

Kenny - Undying, but he plays it off as luck/regeneration/anything but his actual power

Cartman - either quirkless and masking it, or possibly an animal hybrid, giving him his agility, keen senses, and sharp teeth/claws despite his bulky build

Butters - Technomancy, especially using electronics to channel electricity. He wears metal to augment his abilities, but shocks himself instead half the time

Clyde - Blood-fueled agility and strength. This could easily typecast him as a villain, but his friends convinced him that he didn't have to be a Dark Lord of anything

Scott - Exponential strength from sugar, with no real limits! Except he'll get extremely sick from consuming too much

Jimmy - Commanding/distracting voice; the better his songs and jokes, the more his opponents just can't help but listen. And no one expects the kid on crutches to zoom up and kick their ass while they're laughing

Craig - command over rodents, especially those from the cavy family. But he loves them too much, so he trained in martial arts instead. By martial arts, I mean he punches people as hard as he can

Tweak - Weather control, but such a vast power is hard to hand it's too much PRESSURE. His hair is in constant disarray from lightning and wind, and he's addicted caffeine to keep his energy up, otherwise he'll be a tired wreck. His gloves keep his powers in check

Tolkien - Plastics conversion/kinesis. Anything made of plastic can be used as a shield, projectiles, robot, armor, etc. He adores his quirk on a secondary level because he can help clean up any area he's in!

Wendy - Social manipulation. She has to be incredibly careful, but her input on any social group or platform can easily sway a group's opinion with barely any effort. She plays this off as hacking to keep people from digging too deep into a potentially hazardous quirk

Timmy - Extreme telekinesis. While he can move objects and even people with his mind, it comes with a heavy cost of a weakened body and very limited speech. He can read minds/project, but uses sign language more often so that he doesn't violate his friends' privacy

Bradley - Control over...carbohydrates? No one is really sure why he can convert any food into cereal and then use it to help his friends or pelt foes with tiny cereal pellets. Or why he picked such a weird flavor. He's a weird kid

Henrietta - Smoke manipulation. Any form of smoke that her breath touches follows her command, with sometimes deadly results. She isn't a villain, but the whole hero thing is so...lame. Like she would rather DIE

AAAA I LOVE THESE

I need to watch BNHA to understand the social stuff, I especially love wendys manipulation quirk and it's funny to imagine Kenny playing off him actually dying as "haha, don't worry! It missed all my vital organs! How lucky right?"

I'm also trying with the idea of Cartman having a genuinely good quirk but he's such a lazy asshole he never practices so he's out paced, OR hes a late bloomer with a shit quirk so everyone assumed he was quirkless

(Maybe he could have like wolverine claws or something to do with his bones ((cause he's always saying he's big boned lol)) Or something to do with getting away almost everything he does like a cherub face manipulation thing)

Also Henrietta smoke dragon what? Drawing that! Love these!

[a-trying-writer]

(original short for a wip story.)

The weather was terrible tonight. The heavy rain isn’t going to let up anytime soon, which forced me to power through it as I ran down the alleyways. I see that some unfortunate folks have their laundry hanging outside their windows on ropes high above me. Ah well.

Once I had finally reached my destination, I pressed my thumb against the button next to the door. It fortunately didn’t take long for the buzzer to sound so I could get inside immediately. “Good evening, Sophia,” Doc spoke as he walked away from the front desk. “Business as usual?”

I sighed as I took off my hood, letting down my medium length grey hair that got a bit wet towards the bottom. “Just dropping off some info of your next shipment,” I said as I slid my dark grey jacket off, letting my torso finally breathe.

“Good!” He let out a short hearty laugh. “I appreciate your help in getting it for me. I might try to hire mercenaries soon to get some of the supplies then... Might cost a bit, but you know how it is.”

“All too well,” I replied as I looked around this dingy old waiting room. It’s a bit aged, given the dirt towards the bottom of the walls, but Doc hasn’t been able to get the robots working lately to clean them. No normal patient would visit this clinic, unless they really have to. Like me. I looked down at my arms, taking notice of the parts underneath the metal, where all the joints are connected. They are made from the finest material that water wouldn’t be able to rust them. Slim, but strong. Reliable as hell, but not deadly. Just like I requested.

But there are other reasons why I visit.

Doc walked out from behind the front desk into the waiting room to approach me. “You’re in tip top form,” he said, as he took my cybernetic hands into his own. “As I had expected. But you are wet, so come in, Sophia, and let yourself dry off.”

“Thanks Doc... I’m sorry for the floor.”

“It’s quite all right, since there are no patients coming in tonight. It gives me enough time to sort out my inventory and documents.” Doc escorted me from the waiting room to the back, and off to the side of the clinic where a sealed door is. With a swipe of his keycard it opened, and inside it is his little room where he sleeps in.

Medical books, tools, supplies are kept on one side, while his bed is placed against the wall on the other. He keeps his clean clothes on a rack, next to his desk. The door to the bathroom is right behind the entrance, and in there isn’t just a shower, toilet, and sink, but a washing machine and dryer too.

And it seems that he also keeps some of my clothes here too, as he made his way to the rack to pull out one of my shirts and pants. “I kept your underwear in the bathroom, right next to mine. Feel free to shower if you need to. The towels are at their usual place.”

“Much appreciated,” I said as I took my clothes and walked inside the bathroom. It’s surprisingly somewhat more spacious despite how small the room seemed, and well kept. I guess it’s somewhat understandable that Doc prefers to keep his private space cleaned compared to the rest of the clinic.

As soon as I changed, I hung up the jacket to let it dry, while I placed the soaked clothes into the washing machine. While I let them to clean, I stepped out and caught the scent of tea brewing. “Chamomile?”

“Yes. Would you like some?”

“Please.”

He nodded his head as he took out two cups from a small box. Thinking about it, I don’t recall seeing a kitchen in this building. “Hey, Doc? Where do you cook?”

“Oh, I keep a portable stove for that. I usually buy rice and other ingredients to eat.” His kettle is a self-heating device he bought for a hefty price. That I knew because I was with him when he bought it.

“I see...”

He poured the chamomile tea in two mugs, and handed me one with a flower design on one side. I love this mug. It’s cute. I don’t always travel outside the city to find authentic, live flowers, so this tends to bring a smile to my face. “Thank you.”

“You’re welcome. Now, if I may ask, have you got in touch with Mr. Henriksen?”

“What do you mean?”

“I mean that, have you updated him yet?”

“Ah, right. Yeah, he knows, don’t worry. Whatever happens next, he can handle it, or so he tells me. All the time.”

Doc chuckled briefly, before taking a sip. “I trust that he could. But you don’t often update us on your status sometimes, Sophia, so I would be worried if I was him.”

I sighed heavily as I frowned. “I get that you’re worried, but I promised that I will always keep both of you updated, so you know. Don’t worry so much about me.” I lifted my left cybernetic arm and let my hand twist into a complete turn. “I know the risks of my work, and I know what to expect if I get caught, which won’t happen again.”

“I know you know, but if you happen to need to disappear for a while, just... let us know in advance, please. You tend to scare both of us whenever you go quiet for a few days.”

“Right, right.” I simply nodded my head in agreement. I don’t need another lecture, but I get where Doc is coming from. But, honestly, I don’t think David is as worried about me as much as Doc is. David often keeps tabs on people who work for him, outside of his more legitimate business. “I will make sure to let you know if anything bad happens. But otherwise, I believe I will be fine.”

“You have been taking jobs that are... much more ‘low down’ so to speak, haven’t you?”

“Anything that involves taking information from David’s rival company, or some other less risky odd jobs. And if I feel like it, I spend time doing part time work making deliveries. It helps get extra money on the side.”

“How’s that going?”

“Slow, but not so bad. Sure I deal with some people with horrible manners, but it’s nothing compared to the people I used to deal with in my old line of work. How about you, Doc? Have you been dealing with nasty clients?”

“I want to say it’s patient-doctor confidentiality, but I am not a ‘traditional’ doctor.” He shrugged with a smirk. “I had a particularly picky client a few days ago, wanting a set of new cybernetics, but kept changing his mind much to my frustration. While I am a professional, I really wanted to strangle him right there in that front desk. But thankfully, with my infinite patience, I was able to at least convince him to think it over, even if it did cost me some thousands of dollars.”

I chuckled as I nodded in understanding. “At least he didn’t try to blow you up, like one of your previous patients.”

“Thanks to you, Sophia.” Doc had finished his drink and set aside the mug to lay down on his bed. Given our height difference, it’s easy for me to do the same once I drank all the tea as well, and held him close. He smelled like antiseptic, as usual.

Despite how strong it was, I was able to sleep comfortably too long after.

[superexplosive]

Hey, weird question! I may be reading Atomic Robo wrong, but to me it seems that in the later issues with Alan, but also earlier with the relation between Robo and Tesla, parenthood and family becomes one of the themes of the comic.

It's pretty obvious that Robo at least kind of sees Tesla as his dad (and Tesla propably also saw their relationship a bit like that, as we can see with his protectiveness in The Deadly Art of Science), and Robo himself absolutely fills a father figure role to Alan (Lang even called him out for building a robot son). And Alan (both good Alan and evil ALAN) seemed to also Alan Turing as a distant biological parent, sort of.

Yet, we never see either Robo or Alan call their respective father figure... "dad" or something like that I guess. For Robo it's usually a quite formal "Mr. Tesla", and for Alan it's simply Robo (and a quite formal Dr. Turing for what is in a way his bio father)

Is there any particular reason for that? For Alan especially, I feel like at this point it's something the rest of Tesladyne could have picked up on. And for Robo... Foley's right I guess, he needs therapy.

Or maybe I'm just failing to apply a very human point of view to robots that have no reason to mimic ._.

Not a weird question at all.

There are a couple things we're doing with Alan you're meant to notice almost subconsciously. It might need a couple re-readings for someone to ask themselves about it. This is one of those things.

It is strange that Robo and Alan are kinda formal with one another despite the fact that it's contextually clear they consider one another to be father/son.

Part of this is stems from Robo's model of parenthood. There's an emotional distance to our Tesla. Not because he's uncaring or disinterested, quite the opposite, he cares about and is deeply interested in about ten thousand things. So he comes off as a bit aloof.

Like in Deadly Art of Science, Robo is excited about this once in a lifetime (Oh, Robo) adventure that he's stumbled into. But by the end of the volume we have the sense that Tesla was aware of Edison's machinations for quite a while. Possibly the whole time and maybe even before the volume began but who's to say. He spent his evenings quietly tinkering away on a side project like it was a mild curiosity — build a new Telluric Suit to stop Edison before his work threatens all life on Earth. Yet it never occurred to him to mention any of this to his lab partner, assistant, and son whom he quite literally knew for a fact thirsted for exactly this sort of adventure, because For Tesla It Was Tuesday.

We see this sort of thing with Robo and Tesla throughout Deadly Art. When Tesla sends Robo into the vampire dimension it's not out of negligence for Robo's safety. He knows it's dangerous. But so is literally everything they do in the lab! Robo is the first person to ever travel to another universe and he treats it like an annoying trip to the corner store in the rain. The joke here, of course, is that Robo's life with Tesla is already full of incredible adventures, but since it's the only life he knows and since it doesn't look like the adventures he sees in the pulps, he assumes anything Tesla is getting up to must be dumb old boring dad stuff.

What I'm getting at is that I don't think Robo knows how or when to reach out. I feel like he's waiting for Alan to signal that he views their relationship as explicitly father-and-son as opposed to the informal father-and-son-like arrangement/rhythm they've got. Meanwhile Alan, the dope, is waiting for Robo to signal that he wants a signal from Alan to acknowledge this.

[thefoxlady]

I want to talk about a Don't Starve x Skyrim thing because I've been playing Skyrim and I had fun with my Dwarven Warrior build.

(I am going to anger both the DST and Skyrim fandoms am I?)

Here's a few Don't Starve characters, their builds, races, what type of armor they would wear and what type of weapons they would use (one handed, two handed, one handed + shield, etc.)

Wilson: Wilson would most likely be a mage, he would enchant his armor and weapons and make his own potions. He would wear light armor and have a sword, he would use some destruction magic if needed and uses alteration magic. As for his race, he would either be a Nord, Breton, or a High Elf (maybe even a Dark Elf).

Willow: Willow would obviously be a fire mage. Willow specializes in destruction magic, specifically fire magic, she would also conjure a flame atronach. The enchantments she would use is fire damage on her sword, fortify one handed, and fortify destruction and magicka regeneration. Willow would wear light armor and is one handed, she would use a sword. Her race would either be a Nord, Dark Elf, Redguard or a Imperial. And to make things interesting, she would be a werebear.

Winona: Winona would be a blacksmith, she would make her own weapons and armor (nothing like some hard work), she would also enchant her own armor and weapons. The enchantments she'll use is fortify block, fortify one handed, fortify smithing, and health/stamina absorb on her mace. Winona would wear heavy armor and use a mace and shield. Her race would either be a Redguard, Imperial, or a Orc.

Wes: Wes would be an assassin, he would make poisons to make killing targets easier, he would be sneaky (silent but deadly). Wes would wear light armor, use a dagger and bow and arrows, the enchantments he'll use would be fortify archery, fortify sneak/muffled, and frost resistance due to his race. His race would be a Argonian.

Wolfgang: Wolfgang is a strongman so he would wear heavy armor and use two handed weapons, most likely a warhammer, he would also use a bow for far away enemies. The enchantments he'll use are fortify two handed, fortify archery, stamina regeneration, and health regeneration. His race would be a Orc.

Wigfrid: Wigfrid would be a warrior, she would wear light armor and use a war axe and shield, she would also have a bow for far away enemies. The enchantments she'll use is fortify block, fortify one handed, fortify archery, stamina regeneration, and health absorb on her war axe. Her race would either be a Nord, Redguard, or a Orc.

Wendy: Wendy would be a necromancer mage because of Abigail and her fascination with death. She would use restoration, conjuration, alteration, and destruction magic. She would carry around a dagger just in case, her enchantments would centered be around magic. She would wear light armor for some protection. Her race with either be a Dark Elf or a High Elf.

WX-78 would be a Dwemer robot, he would use destruction magic that's focused around shock magic. I really don't know what else to say other than that.

Wickerbottom: Wickerbottom would be a conjuration mage. Wickerbottom would specialize in conjuration, alteration, and restoration magic. She would carry around a dagger just in case. Her enchantments would focus around conjuration, alteration, and restoration with magicka regeneration. Wickerbottom would wear light armor. Her race would be a High Elf.

(I realized most of the characters I talked about here are mages, lol.)

What do you guys think about the other Don't Starve characters' builds and races? Do you agree on what I thought up here?

[callmeajorallie]

Looks like I'm doing this again, first I introduced tumbler sexyman Eggman, then Sonic & his super form, now we got Tails & his super form!

Once again, imma explain my choices, for starters; why super Tails looks the way he is. It's pretty simple actually, we need more Super form variety than just oh now they're piss yellow or baby girl pink. I made him orange because ya know, that's what color foxes usually are colored where I'm from.

However, I didn't make Tails normal form orange because it's Tails, his primary color is yellow, however I did try to use the Fennec Fox for reference

As for the purple & the weird tech aesthetic, it's pretty simple.

(Sonic Lost World Spoiler Warning I guess?)

Okay in Sonic Lost World, Tails got "robotized", but not really, with the boy genius having tricked the deadly six into thinking the robotizer worked. With bro appearing normal in like the next cutscene like it was just a costume, which is kinda boring but I understand why (Gotta keep up the status quo)

So in this theorical au I am slowly building, I thought it would be silly & pretty cool if Tails did still hijack the robotizer, ensuring his free will, but he wasn't able to get out of the whole robotization thingy. Now stuck with some cybernetic parts that he's pretty good at hiding.

Also Sonic definately doesn't blame himself what no who does that- (Yes mentally unstable Sonic who believes he's responsible for everything that happens because he feels like he has to carry the weight of the world on his back constantly saving it)

[egg-emperor]

R.E. Eggman is cool: you're right and you should say it. If Eggman wasn't cool, it would feel less fun when Sonic is cool. The times when Eggman isn't cool and heinous, Sonic is so much less cool and heroic. He has to be cool in the Amazing, Terrible, Full-Commitment way, or the stakes simply aren't high enough.

Exactly! Eggman has always been cool just like Sonic. Neither were designed to just be cute and Eggman was always far from innocent. Even when his design was cuter in the classic days, he had his awesome creations with the cruelty of capturing and trapping animals inside, his intricate complex bases that showed he meant business with his evil schemes, and he was a severe threat with the immense environmental damage that he stil causes to this day.

The Adventure games emphasized even more the lengths he'll go to on globally catastrophic scales and how he'll threaten lives and will try to kill to get what he wants. And he hasn't lost his coolness as even in the Pontaff written games, his actions and plans made him a serious threat from creating more powerful death machines, kidnapping and enslaving Wisps and Zeti, building a deadly Interstellar theme park, attempting to brainwash the entire planet, releasing more eldritch horrors on the world, taking over 99% of the planet with a devastating war, to attempting to drop the sun on his enemies and tons more!

And in Frontiers the only reason he didn't get to be cool is because he didn't get the chance, he tried but was then trapped in Cyberspace wishing he could get out there and do cool stuff. XD But he certainly wasn't any less of a bad guy there as he still has the very clear desire to be and he is greatly amused and celebratory at Sonic's cyber corruption death. The morally gray Eggman that's gone soft that people have been misinterpreting him as doesn't exist.

Sonic is cool because Eggman is cool. Sonic's feats would be far less impressive if Eggman wasn't so strong and dangerous of a threat in these many ways with his deadly robots, machines, weapons fleets, destructive evil plots and dark intentions in taking over the world, stealing everyone's freedom and having all the power and control. He's the one that raises the stakes and puts the entire planet in danger for Sonic to save and be the cool guy he is too.

If Eggman didn't want to be the bad guy and have those dark intentions, Sonic would just be fighting a sweet soft old man who didn't really want to fight or do anything diabolical and that'd be way less cool. I guess people who don't see Eggman as cool just want eldritch horror monsters to be the villains instead but who makes the plans and attempts to release them in the first place? Eggman! So many cool things in the series were thanks to him in one way or other.

Eggman's full commitment, confidence, passion, and determination for what he does makes him extremely dangerous and is also what makes him so cool and charismatic. He would lose so much of what makes him fun and interesting and just what makes him who he is without it and so many of the thrilling entertaining badass moments in the series wouldn't exist. Tons of the stories wouldn't have even happened at all without him being a bad guy!

Diabolical villainous Eggman is very important and helps make Sonic whole. If Eggman didn't match Sonic in coolness, power, passion and didn't have full commitment to his villainous role, Sonic wouldn't be the cool hero he is with his impressive world saving feats! He'd just be beating up a poor old innocent man who actually wanted to help the world or something and he comes along like meanie and bullies him. Which would be lame and obviously isn't what Sega/Sonic Team are going for lol

[moonlitcomet]

What is it like living in Blackwatch?

It sucks! You're either in a rich snobby neighborhood or you're in the slums. Blackwatch is so heavily militarized that they put most of their government budget into defense and weaponry, and it's primarily controlled by the wealthy 1%. Most people who live there don't want to, but they really can't afford to leave.

It's like urban USA if it was worse. They tout freedom and industrial power, but the truth is Blackwatch has the worst quality of life of all countries in SRC. Which sucks, because it's one of the best places to get dragonsteel and go to college for industry! Piquet was trained there, and he really did not like the people, but he did learn an insane amount about modern machinery.

Blackwatch has the lowest amount of ambient mana in all of SRC and this has been proven to have adverse health effects on the people who spend a large amount of time in there. It's so low that it's nearly considered a dead zone, an area with absolutely zero ambient mana, which is known to be draining on those within them.

It also smells terrible. Like rotten eggs, all the time, everywhere. Most people who live there have become pretty nose blind to it, but the smell is so bad that many people visiting Blackwatch might gag or even vomit upon first getting a whiff of it. Not to mention the heat- Blackwatch has the highest ambient temperature in all of Cier, even higher than the literal desert north of them, due to all the heat-containing pavement and metal buildings. Summer days can get worse than Death Valley [over 140°F!], which would be deadly to a human; thankfully, stickfigures are much more resilient to hot temperatures.

TLDR, the motto for for visiting Blackwatch is that you just don't, unless you're willing to push through all the bad shit about it.

But hey, at least it has the most competitive combat robotics scene in all of Cier, if you're into that sort of thing.

[mozart-the-meerkitten]

Okay everything about a Wingfeather Saga/Phineas and Ferb crossover would be hilarious. And by Wingfeather Saga I mean Wingfeather Falls because it’s even funnier.

Idk even where to start. The Wingfeather kiddos walk through a portal into Phineas and Ferb’s backyard and end up helping with whatever they’re building. Kalmar is in his element with the chaos. Janner is trying desperately to keep track of Perry so he can sketch whatever this new creature is. Leeli’s just chilling, probably hanging out with the Fireside girls and staring at Candace in concern.

Across town Artham and Fiddleford end up at Doofenshmirtz’s evil inc. where Artham discovers that Fidds and Doof know each other because Fiddleford accidentally hacked into an evil villain meeting skype call once and they just... let him keep doing it because I mean he does build giant robots that terrorize a town, has a tragic backstory and an evil laugh so I mean he’s basically one of them, he’s causing chaos it counts. Artham’s just pleased to know that Fiddleford talked to people back in the day.

Perry shows up and Artham and Fidds just fly up into the rafters to watch whatever’s going on. Artham mentions that Janner would love to see a platypus and then when the fight starts he’s like “ah. so this is how Ollister Pembrick did it”

99.9% sure Kalmar has convinced Phineas and Ferb to help him build Shacktron 2.0 which he has always wanted to do ever since Dipper showed him the picture but he never had a house he could do it with. Phineas and Ferb are more than happy to turn their house into a giant robot to help this kid fulfill his dreams. Janner’s questioning Candace over why she keeps trying to bust her brothers and when it basically just comes down to it being a compulsion for her he’s like “wow okay I mean if it was safety I’d get it but, jeeze, Kalmar thinks I’m against fun but you my friend are on another level.” Leeli is composing the episode’s musical number and then promptly directing/performing in it.

Artham flies down in the middle of Perry and Doof’s daily smackdown to give hand-to-hand combat tips. They stop and listen to him and Perry starts taking notes. Artham tells Perry to attack him to demonstrate something and Perry doesn’t land a hit once. No one’s sure why Artham’s good at defending himself from animals except Fiddleford who’s cackling up in the rafters with the knowledge that Artham lived in his world’s most deadly forests for 7ish years.

Cue giant robot walking through town with a gang of kids in it including one overexcited young king. Artham and Fiddleford get to see it right before Doof’s invention inevitably destroys/cancels it out somehow. Kal is very disappointed that he didn’t get to show his uncles this wacky invention but is thrilled when they find out they saw it anyway.

rest is under the cut because this got long

PART TWO is somehow so much more unhinged. It’s literally just Artham deciding to bring his niece and nephews along with him and Fiddleford to visit Doofenshmirtz and absolute chaos descending. Kalmar won’t stop running around pushing buttons and inadvertently setting off lasers and traps which never hit him or any of the kids. Janner is wondering how concerned he should be about safety. Doof is running around trying to stop Kalmar and probably the only one getting hit by lasers and traps. Vanessa is there and so Leeli goes over to chat with her and sees her listening to music and explains her whistleharp, “I once held back an army with this!” “an army?” “yeah! during the siege of Ban Rona. also I can summon dogs with it.” “.... what.” “I can summon dogs!” “what kind of dogs?” “all dogs! do you wanna see?” “...yes”

Leeli and Vanessa go out on the balcony and Leeli starts alternating between playing her whistleharp and dogspeak and soon every dog in the tri-state area is there. This sets off Phineas and Ferb’s adventure of the day when Isabella comes and tells them her dog is missing. At first they try and build a dog summoning device but Leeli keeps also summoning the dogs so I’m just imagining a Bohemian Rhapsody song sequence going “galileo GALILEO galileo GALILEO FIGARO MAGNIFICOOOOOOOOOO” “oh let me gooooooo NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!” that part where the dogs are turning back and forth in a street obviously torn between directions. Phineas and Ferb give up because it’s obviously not working and go to plan B which is follow the sounds the dogs are hearing and see where it leads.

Meanwhile Perry has shown up because there are lasers going off everywhere and all the dogs have been pied-pipered there. He just lands on the balcony next to the girls and stares wide eyed at the chaos. Leeli looks at him like, “ooooh look, I summoned a platypus too!” “oh that’s just Perry, he’s my dad’s nemesis.” “hi Perry! you should go find my brother Janner he’ll love that.”

I think Artham and Fiddleford are just sitting off to the side observing the chaos. Artham is cheerfully petting dogs. Fiddleford is fixing all the inators as they break just for funsies. At least sixteen things are on fire. Janner has discovered Perry’s here and is happily sketching him again, with a hat this time and the clarification “platypus (secret agent)”. Doofenshmirtz is still in the background trying and failing to catch Kalmar who is having the time of his life.

There is a knock on the door and it is the boys and Isabella. Leeli answered and when they ask about Isabella’s dog she happily summons it with dogspeak. This is also when they go “oh there you are Perry” and he’s just chilling in a sea of dogs for no reason.

PART THREE is just Perry’s secret agency freaking out about how Leeli can straight up summon dogs and talking about how great that would be for them if they could get her to work for them so Perry has to find her. Luckily Leeli and her brothers are visiting again so he gets her and brings her down to his secret hideout. What follows is Major Monogram trying to convince this 10-11 year old to join a secret agency to train dogs and Leeli just like “you had me at ‘train dogs’” but then being the granddaughter of a pirate kicks in and she’s like “what’s in it for me?” and while Monogram and Carl try (and fail) to figure out what preteen girls like, Leeli mentally puts together a list of demands.

“Okay, first, I want a hat like Perry’s.” “Done.” “Second I want to go with Perry on one of his missions so I can ask Dr. Doofenshmirtz for one of his inventions and take it home for Kalmar.” “... W H Y.” “because he didn’t get to ask last time! he was too excited and hyped up on sugar!” “.... alright, fine.” *Leeli squees*

What follows is just a montage of Leeli training dogs while wearing a little secret agent hat. Then Perry has to chaperone her on one of his missions (he tries to open the door for her but Leeli’s like “I got it” and bangs it down with her crutch “they don’t call me lizardkicker and batwhacker for nothing!” Perry has no idea what that means but he’s a little afraid of her now).

Leeli walks in somehow avoiding any traps but Perry doesn’t even though he directly follows her, and she just trots up to Doof like, “Hi Dr. Doofenshmirtz Perry brought me here so I could ask if I could get one of your inventions for Kalmar.” and Doof’s just staring at her like “why are you using a little girl to confuse me Perry the platypus” Leeli looks back and forth between them a couple times and then is like, “oh right you have to do your fighting thing, okay, go ahead I’ll wait.” and sits politely off to the side waiting for them to have their daily confrontation. And they’re both just like “.....”

They stare at her for long enough that she’s just like, “well okay Perry if you won’t stop him I guess I will” and just. whacks Doofenshmirtz with her crutch. he starts yelling at her like “oh that’s no fair, what am I supposed to do, beat up a little girl?!”

And Leeli, who has recently read The Hobbit, continues whacking him while yelling, “I’m not a little girl! I am the lizardkicker of Glipwood, batwhacker of Ban Rona! I am the Song Maiden of the Shining Isle of Anniera and granddaughter of Podo Helmer! And now I’m a secret agent!”

She then manages to whack his inator in just the right spot so that it collapses into a pile of rubble and then looks up at him all wide-eyed innocence like, “okay can I have something for Kalmar now? :)” and he’s like “.... okay sure, why not.”

Perry’s just projecting this back to HQ with his watch and they’re like “:O”

It ends with Leeli loading up whatever contraption she’s acquired for her brother onto a wagon pulled by dogs while she declines the agency’s offer of a full time job with a winning smile “sorry, I’m already the Song Maiden, defender of the Shining Isle, and a little kid. My schedule’s full.” and she heads cheerfully through a portal with her brothers, dogs and wagon in tow.