#anyway here's my thoughts

[valhelos]

My personal Julius Root headcanon timeline.

1400s- Julius is born 1st of April 1400. At this point Turnball Root would already be a captain in Recon and starting his criminal career. Turnball would've done well in school and been well liked so I think Julius' parents would've had high expectations for him. I don't think he ever really measured up to those expectations. 1.

Julius, Briar Cudgeon, Opal Koboi, Raine Vinyáya and Foaly attend the same college. Julius' interview in Artemis Fowl Files gave me the headcanon that he's kind of a history nerd, so he might have a history degree and/or criminal justice degree.

1460s- Graduating college, Julius, Vinyáya and Briar attend police academy, graduate and join LEP. Julius and Briar join Recon in 1465.

1476- Julius is promoted to Captain. He is a good officer but still overshadowed by Turnball who is one of the LEPs golden fairies at this point. Turnball is smart, well-educated, well respected by his peers and liked by his superiors. He has been given his own task force to tackle the criminal underworld of Haven, which he himself runs.

1499- In trying to get rid of a competitor, Turnball plans to flood part of Haven City. Julius finds out about his brother's plans and goes to stop him. After the ensuing firefight and chase, Turnball manages to escape as Julius refuses to kill him.

These events cause extensive investigations on everyone involved. After his failure to catch Turnball, Julius and his family get investigated for possible ties to Turnball's criminal activities and after those investigations yield nothing Julius eventually gets an assignment as far away from the public eye as possible monitoring old abandoned tunnels. But his family's life is still torn apart by the public. His family moves away from Haven City.

The officers involved in the task force get investigated as well as the higher-ups in LEP as to how Turnball was able to get away with this. The old commander gets replaced with Lope, the Internal Affairs commander. And as the public wants answers and the Council wants this all to go away as soon as possible, there is a large scale reform of the system; the Internal Affairs department is allowed more agency and most procedures are made more transparent. Officers are more accountable and more closely monitored.

New guidelines and regulations are quickly put into place but attitudes inside LEP are slow to change. Most of the old guard resent the new commander and these new rules.

As Julius is already on thin ice, he makes an effort to do everything by the book. He keeps his head down and keeps from making waves in any way. He has to make sure any investigation or review into him comes out spotless, so he knows the rulebook by heart. 2.

1522- Julius eventually returns to his normal duties as captain. This decision is mostly made by Lope as there is still tension within LEP and Lope needs competent officers in the ranks who don't resent the new rules. And Julius at this point would be one of the best in the field.

1500s- Julius arrests Mulch multiple times. Koboi puts her father out of business and builds Koboi Labs. Foaly is hired by LEP. 3.

1600- Julius is promoted to major. As Lope was always going to be a band-aid solution, he needs someone to take over as commander and starts training Julius for the job. (The other possible candidate being Vinyaya but she would become Wing Commander in 1655). 4.

1676- Julius becomes youngest-ever full Commander of LEP. As commander he would continue enforcing and expanding on the changes made, only more measured. This would be supported by Vinyaya as Wing Commander and Lope now in the Council. Some of the older officers would object to him and insist he's not qualified enough and too young to be commander. 5.

1700s- Julius' parents die. During an arrest Mulch nearly decapitates Julius. Julius settles into his role as Commander.

1770- During a Recon mission to locate a rogue troll things go bad and Julius sees five of his squad lose their lives. One of these officers is the Kelp brother's father.

1780- Trouble Kelp join LEPrecon. He would immediately try and arrest a troll and a gang of B'wa Kell goblins. In 1795 he would get promoted to Captain.

1800s- During this time Foaly would either be brought in or climb the ranks in the tech department until he's in charge of it, and is given the task of building the LEP's security system. He would also help in rewriting the rulebook. Julius and Foaly become reluctant friends. Most of the old guard would retire and be replaced with new officers. Briar Cudgeon is promoted to Lieutenant.

1900s- Julius would start to involve Trouble more and more, seeing as he could be a good commander one day. He starts accompanying Julius on Recon initiations. They become friends.

1923- Julius sets the air speed record. He probably had a good reason (in his mind) and he absolutely got reprimanded and fined.

1986- Holly Short joins LEPrecon. (The events of LEPrecon take place.) Turnball Root is arrested.

1987-1997- Spelltropy Pandemic kills 25% of fairy population. The city is in quarantine during this time. During this crisis Holly Short is promoted to Captain. Turnball Roots starts planning his escape.

1999-2000- The Hamburg Incident takes place.

2001- Siege of Fowl Manor on 24th of December. Briar Cudgeon is promoted to Acting Commander. After these events Holly and Julius become friends.

2002- Events of The Arctic incident take place in December. Briar Cudgeon is killed.

2003- The Events of The Opal Deception take place. Julius Root is killed.

!!Shoutout to The Artemis Fowl Timeline made by @little-mouse-adventures I did reference the timeline you made when writing this!!

Notes: Yes, I headcanon his birthday is on April Fool's day because he would hate it. It also makes him an Aries.

1. The interactions in Atlantis Complex between Turnball and others show that Turnball is good at manipulating people and hiding his true feelings. I don't think it's a stretch to say he's been doing this for most of his life and was probably very liked and respected as a captain. Turnball would've been Julius' hero. He would have adored his big brother and Turnball definitely was their parents favourite. Also Julius and Turnball are half Silver Fox Elves from their mother's side.

2. Julius would feel trapped during this time. LEP is what he wants to be but he's stuck for years just monitoring tunnels, overseeing prison transports and traffic duty. Just stewing thinking of how Turnball betrayed him, how he ruined the family name and how he's never getting his brother back. And he has absolutely no room to make mistakes. This is also why he hates journalists.

3. Koboi and Mulch timelines are so confusing.

4. The new commander could really be anyone, I'm picking Lope because in book 1 Julius mentions him by name as someone who would back him.

5. At least one person has implied Julius got his job as commander on his knees.

Misc. Yes Julius has been commander for a really long time and he's bloody good at it, he's not the smartest but even Artemis has admitted twice that he's smarter than he looks and wily. He knows the rulebook cover to cover and has a good memory for Council rulings just so he can bend the rules but never breaks them. He has a special interest in alchemy.

[mroddmod]

they are like puppies. 2 me

[anna-scribbles]

emma dupain cheng on the brain😽🎀

more:

[fluentisonus]

He added, after a pause: “Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.”

Les Misérables, Volume I / Book V / Chapter III, trans. Hapgood

[clownowo]

been replaying the Portal series I think this is where its heading

[tomwambsgays]

"harry, i'll spare you another *20 hour mind-project*"

[sadmages]

In my mind palace my tav and Astarion are playing the exact same game of 5D chess and they don't realize it yet

[radio-static666]

artist cred; wandering_nicky || IG

Distorted visions of my demons My reflection has no meaning

I whisper secrets to my mirror, And in the silence, I see you clearer

Chained to this place, stay here with me A silent plea to set you free

You see my shadow in the hallways I've been lost here in this dark haze

- Secrets // Amira Elfeky

[ctrlzxoo]

[ACTOR AU] actor ivan visits till during the recording of round 7

[xxplastic-cubexx]

alternate apocalypse ending or something who the hcrist knows anymore

[meowfountain]

hyperfixations are so crazy because you never know whether this next thing you like is going to be a short-term interest or if it's going to change your entire life forever

[mroddmod]

bro spent 30 years trying to get his brother back only to forget what it actually means to have a brother

[hailsatanacab]

Family Dinners - dpxdc

"Holy shit, you're Bruce Wayne!" Danny gaped, jabbing a finger at the man sitting at the head of the table.

The bustling dining room goes silent as everyone turns to look at him.

"Danny, who did you think was going to be here?" Tim asks, disbelief plain in his voice and Danny feels his face flush red.

"Sorry, I, uh, I guess I just never put it together. Tim Drake-Wayne. Wayne Manor. It, uh, makes sense now." He laughs sheepishly and scrubs at his neck before slumping back down into his chair.

"Well," Tim says with an indulgent sigh, "at least I know you're not just friends with me for my connections."

"Yeah, I'm really sorry, I just never thought about it, I guess."

Danny sinks lower as everyone around him laughs. Come to dinner, he said, the food is the best, he said, ignore the family, he said. Danny really wishes he'd listened to Tim and just ignored them—almost as much as he's regretting accepting the offer in the first place—but... he's having dinner with Batman.

Ancients, that's so weird!

The last time he saw Batman was in the future and, suffice it to say, it was not going well. There hadn't really been time for family dinners there.

Wait. Family dinners?

He peers around the table, openly gawking at everyone as it all clicks into place.

"Everything alright, Danny? Now realising who everyone else is?" Tim asks with a roll of his eyes.

"Uh... something like that..." Danny mumbles as everyone laughs again.

From further down the table, the smallest Wayne scoffs and clicks his tongue.

"I thought you said he was smart, Drake?"

"So, you all do it, too, then?" he asks, ignoring the jibe. Danny's only a little bit jealous as he thinks of how much easier they must have it, how much easier it'd be if his family had been on his side, too. "You all work together?"

"Nah," Dick says from across the table with a brilliant grin. "Tim's the only one that works with Bruce, we all have different jobs. I'm a police officer in Bludhaven."

"Disgusting." Danny blurts out without thinking—because seriously, what kind of self-respecting vigilante would also be a police officer?—before clapping a hand over his mouth. "Sorry."

The whole table laughs again, the loudest being the blonde girl a few spaces down from Dick. Look, Danny wasn't really paying attention to names when they were all paraded in front of him. Dick only gets remembered because his name is a joke.

Come on, Danny, recover!

"That's, uh, not what I meant, though."

"Oh?" Dick asks, cocking his head slightly to the side. Is it Danny's imagination or does his smile tense slightly?

"Yeah, I mean like, you know, in costume. It must make it so much easier to have everyone together like this."

"Costume? What do you mean?"

Yeah, Danny's not imagining it, everyone tenses up at that. It's really only now that he's realising that this probably isn't how he should bring up that he knows about their... night time activities. In fact, he probably shouldn't be bringing it up at all.

"Uuhhh..." Danny looks wildly around the table as he continues making his stupid noise. Think, think, think! There must be a way out of this!

"Danny?" Tim asks, looking concerned.

"Oh, Ancients, this isn't how I wanted it to go at all," he mutters, slipping even further into his chair. He's almost on the floor now and he so, so wishes it could just swallow him up.

His real first meeting with Batman was meant to be cool! He had planned to be Phantom, maybe save them from a tight spot, prove his worth as a mysterious and powerful ally as thanks for the help Batman gave him in the future.

"Danny, what are you talking about?" Tim starts tugging on his sleeve in an attempt to pull him back up from his pit of despair.

Eventually, Danny relents and sits up straighter, hiding his face in his hands and whining all the while.

"I'm sorry, I just didn't expect him to be here and it threw me off so now I look stupid and it's so embarrassing!" he wails, flailing his arms wide. "Why wouldn't you warn me that Batman was your adopted dad, Tim? Couldn't you have let me know?"

"I'm sorry, what? Danny are you alright? There's no way Bruce can be Batman, look at him!"

"Yeah," the blonde girl laughs from the bottom of the table, "look at him! That's a wet noodle of a man! Batman can actually do things, B is incapable of pretty much everything."

"Thank you, Stephanie," Bruce sighs, massaging his forehead.

It's... Those are the first words Danny's heard Batman say since everything went down and it's enough to knock him out of his embarrassment.

It's really good to hear his voice again. Especially now, when it's strong and healthy and full of personality—even if that personality is little more than a tired father right now—far better than how it had been, at the end.

Danny sits up, back straight, and grins. He's got this. He remembers it perfectly. Some people count sheep to fall asleep, Danny repeats his mantra to be certain that he'll never forget it.

"Gamma alpha upsilon tau iota mu epsilon, 42, 63, 28, 1 colon 65 dash 9."

Once again, the whole table falls into silence.

"Holy shit..." breathes the other D name (Duke? Danny's pretty sure he's Signal) from opposite Stephanie. "Isn't that...?"

"The time travelling code." The littlest Wayne says stiffly. "We have met in the future?"

"That's not just the time travelling code, Dami." Dick says, looking between Danny and Bruce. "That's the family time travelling code."

Danny's grin freezes in place.

"I'm sorry, what?"

"1 colon 65 dash 9." Dick explains, still flicking between him and Bruce. "It means you've been adopted into the family and we should all treat you as such, no questions asked."

"Tell you what, I'm about to ask a question." Danny says, dumbstruck. "You just told me it was a code to identify time travellers, not anything about being adopted! What the hell, B?"

Bruce looks about as shellshocked as Danny feels.

"We must have been close," he says finally, after opening and closing his mouth like a fish out of water a few times.

"No! Not that close!" Danny reels back, taking a deep breath ready to refute it all, but... "Well, I mean, you found me when I first got stuck, and you helped me get better despite being... And then we fought together against the, uh, bad guy, before he, um, he... before you couldn't."

An uncomfortable beat passes while they all pick up on what Danny tried so hard not to say.

"So, you're not from the future, then, you travelled there and came back?" Tim asks, breaking the tension and leaning forward with a glint in his eye.

"Yeah, it was a whole end of the world thing, but don't worry about it," Danny says with a hand wave, "It's all kosher now, won't ever happen."

"What did happen?"

"Seriously, don't worry about it, we cool."

"How long in the future was it?"

"About ten years? You were pretty spry for an old man, B," Danny laughs, wishing they'd get off the topic of what happened and get back to the adoption bit.

Everyone shares degrees of a cautious smile as they relax out of the shock, and Dick—whose grin is the biggest—says, "No wonder you got the family code, you're already riffing on him like one of us. How long were you there for?"

"A week, before I managed to get back to my present and stop him then."

"A week? Jeez, B, that has to set some kind of record, seriously."

"Oh!" Danny says, sitting bolt upright and blinking in surprise before pointing at Dick and bouncing in his seat. "You're Nightwing!"

"What?"

"That's exactly what Nightwing said when Batman told me the code! Makes so much more sense now."

Dick laughs and claps his hands, delighted.

"You were not formally adopted?" The grumpy small one—Dami?—asks, his face pinched.

"I didn't even know I was informally adopted."

"And your parents? Are they alive or dead?"

"Damian, stop—"

"They were dead in the future, but they're alive now." Danny says, looking down. He fiddles with the tablecloth, twisting the fabric around his fingers as he fights down the pang of sadness that he always feels when he thinks of them now. He forces a bright smile on his face and hopes it doesn’t look too strained. "I just, uh, can't talk to them much, anymore."

"Damian," Dick warns, "1 colon 65 dash 9. Treat them as family, no questions asked."

"This is Damian treating him as family, the little turd has no manners." Tim scoffs, rolling his eyes, but he gently bumps shoulders with Danny to knock him out of his funk. Danny can't help but send him a watery smile.

"I have the most exemplary manners, Drake, unlike some people." Damian spits, crossing his arms with a pout. "I was merely ascertaining his status to see how he could possibly fit into the family."

"I know this is all a bit sudden, Danny," Bruce smiles, ignoring Damian and reaching out to lay a warm hand on his arm, "for all of us. But if I felt strongly enough to give you that code after spending a week with you in the future, then you are more than welcome in this family, if you so choose it. I think I can speak for all of us when I say we'd like to get to know you a bit more."

"I know a threat when I hear it, Bruce." Danny snorts. "But, yeah, I get it. I'm sorry this is all so weird, it really wasn't how I wanted to find you again, but... I'm glad I did."

"So are we, Danny." Dick says, with a warm smile. "And formally or not, 1 colon 65 dash 9 means you're family. Welcome to the fun house! No take backs or refunds, sorry. You're stuck with us."

[lotus-pear]

mourning black and the death of ideals

[kurocrow]

Any of yall hear about that one yuri manga

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