#bodyguard life

[fruityuncleskeletor]

On the topic of Pete and food, I imagine one of the reasons he wasn't too fazed or broken by Vegas feeding him slop on the floor in a dog bowl is because this is his life in the mafia anyway. He comes from a very poor background, with no opportunities and no ways out. Then he gets picked to work for a super powerful family that has more money than God but still has their employees on a daily calorie budget. Pete eats his kid-appropriate meals and then serves Kinn his luxurious breakfasts. He can't go to the kitchen and say "mhm, today I feel like binging on sticky doughnuts and drinking bubble tea until I pop". The HUMILIATION is repeated daily and normalised, but I think Pete feels it more acutely than his co-workers from less bleak backgrounds. And sure it could be argued that Thai culture and customs revolve around respect and hierarchy and people who know their place don't feel vexed by witnessing their betters thrive. But the heart sees. Pete was a child who learned early on to not ask for anything, not wanting to make his parents have to say "no, we can't". He is not a pet. A pet is someone who looks at you with big eyes and suddenly you're on your knees spoonfeeding them pheasant confit. Pete is a bodyguard, a working dog. The kind you keep in a kennel and feed no more and no less than its prescribed diet. So when Vegas calls him a pet and feeds him from a dog bowl, Pete must be thinking "well at least this one has the grace to tell it how it is." And Vegas, unlike the main family, has the decency not to eat whole feasts in front of Pete and then ask Pete to clean after him.

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 292

“Oh I am blaming all of this on you T,” one of the beings in the summoning circle groans, burying their corpse-pale head in clawed hands as their white hair flickered. 

“Me? Excuse me, I wasn’t the one to accept the summoning!” another being protested, hood hiding most of their face save for molten-gold eyes and glittering runes or code on dark blue skin. “I was trying to figure out how to convince PK to change our schedule to include more sleeping, so don’t look at me, look at S!” 

“Well I didn’t accept it,” the only girl-sounding one scoffed, her crown of thorns seeming to writhe and bloom in her black hair for a moment. She crossed her arms, narrowing green eyes just a few shades darker than the white-haired one. “Maybe talk to whoever decided to summon us?” 

All of the sudden the cultists and heroes were being peered down at by a trio of… honestly whatever they were, because they didn’t seem to be the “Infinite King” the cult had been attempting to summon. Actually, they kind-of-maybe looked like kids… Which probably meant their parents or caretakers wouldn’t be too pleased. 

[clouvu]

Offering lil doodles of them bc my eyes have been opened

[stromer]

and thirdly, i didn't want him to beat me up

[ilynpilled]

jaime turning women down constantly more bc he is very monogamous and in love with someone else right now for the first time and is also kinda scared of actually having sex with someone other than cersei is sm better to me than “i respect the kg vows of chastity so intensely rn actually because i changed into a good and serious person” or whatever lol

[arbitersart]

you're my best friend, i'll love you 'till one of us dies.

[sootsz]

i think it’s very funny that grian is dark green but insists on teaming exclusively with all the yellows and reds. grian happily setting up a trap surrounded by 3 reds and 2 yellows. bird in a snake den trying to make friends, the other greens watching knowing this is doomed to end so badly (it is). “you trust me!” said before shoving grian off a ledge. it’s like the scene in tangled where rapunzel skips merrily into the bar full of criminals and fails to notice how much she doesn’t fit in. Local Green Name thinks he’s the same as the reds and just wants to help everybody (and is maybe also full of bloodlust), and Gives Red/Yellow Teammates A Heart Attack

[damiannasworld]

Kauppakeskus Forum IG story 07.11.24

[fl0werf0rest]

its so funny how joel and etho hang around gem like her guard dogs and threaten everyone who talks to her, this whole time they were the ones obsessed with Her

[ceratedfish24]

Creaking BigB + Creaking Heart Smajor has a death grip on me. Imagine with me. Play with me in this space. BigB finding his way back to Scott for seemingly no reason over and over again. Scott instinctually trusting BigB and not knowing why. BigB showing up at GGGG’s base when the sun sets feeling like he has to protect Scott. BigB showing strange levels of aggression towards Scott’s enemies who haven’t done anything towards BigB (Joel it’ll just be Joel and maybe Jimmy). BigB sneaking up behind people trying to attack Scott. Scott giving BigB food because he’s BigB’s heart. This imaginary dynamic is reaping me of all my creativity. All my brainpower is going into this. I can’t get things done anymore. I need to think about them for 30 minutes every 3 hours.

[hermitcraftx]

The problem with a lot of traffic life interpretations in my opinion is they don't understand character foils or don't employ them in their writing. Grian-Martyn and Scar-Ren are genuinely pretty good character foils for a series that is not really scripted or planned out like a book is. I could go on and on about how they parallel each other and the similarities between them. Even the smaller details between the four usually match up

leaving the rant in the tags so I don't have a huge block of text again ueueue

[starry-bi-sky]

more about og tue timeline twins danny and dan/jamie

very touchy with each other. you might even say. ccclingy. its to be expected, they're two halves of a whole after all and all they've got of each other. worryingly co-dependent. do not separate. ever.

Danny was really weak and sick after the initial separation, and was for a while after. Jamie knew internally that if Danny died, he'd take the whole world with it. He was the one sole caretaker for him while he got better -- not for lack of trying on Vlad's part, but without his ghost powers he was nothing more than a feeble (albeit handsomely rich) man, and James looked ready to bite his head off if he got within ten feet of either of them.

Vlad is intimately aware that James (or Danny, if he tried) could snap his spine in half like a twig, and is uncomfortably aware of his own lack of ghost half now. It makes him feel self-conscious and exposed, so he never fully returns back to "cocky and self-assured billionaire Vlad Masters". Making deals with other brands feels a lot harder now that he can no longer possess them anymore.

Speaking of, he very quickly has to come up with a cover story as to why there's now a James Daniel Fenton to the public, when no records whatsoever of him existing existed prior. Lots of forging false government documents on his end. James and Danny do not help because it's his fault this happened in the first place.

(Regardless of whether or not Danny actually willingly chose to rip out his ghost half/humanity in canon is true, or if that was Vlad Masters speaking out of his ass, a large part of the blame still falls on Masters.)

(As his primary caretaker and guardian, it's his responsibility to ensure the health and safety of his charge, and since Danny was in clear emotional duress at the time, it can be argued that he was not in the mental state to make such a decision. And, allegedly, couldn't do it on his own which is why he asked Vlad for help.)

I chose "James" as Dan's name since it's a popular fanon middle name for Danny, and since he's half of Danny, it felt like it just made sense lol. Also because of the ensuing comedy of the two of them introducing themselves as "James Daniel Fenton" and "Daniel James Fenton". It's got the same energy as "danny with a y" and "danny with an i" and it's the exact kind of name bullshit you expect parents to give their twins.

I don't have their exact personalities down, but something I am actively writing into this au's bible is that I think Danny should be the quiet and (ig technically) meaner one. There's a lot to go into about interpretations for ghosts, halfas, and the incident itself, but TL:DW; Danny is technically soulless, or at the very least missing half of his soul (altho Jamie is too just in a different direction).

Pair that with the trauma of losing his family in front of him + having his ghost half ripped out + all the trauma he would've sustained as a hero, and he's not doing too hot mentally! i think if the twins met good timeline!Danny, Danny would've mistaken Danny for Dan and Jamie for the original half.

He comes off to others as pretty apathetic and indifferent to a borderline terrifyingly calm degree. He doesn't go out of his way to insult people, but he also doesn't care enough to consider the other party's feelings so he doesn't filter himself, which makes him come off as rude. The only times he looks truly comfortable is when he's near Jamie or talking to him.

His standoffish, ice prince demeanor makes Jamie look like a saint in comparison. When really he's not all that much better? He's more outwardly emotional than Danny, whether that be positive or negative, but at the end of the day he doesn't trust or care about anyone else any more than Danny does, and he's got a bit of a sadistic streak. Danny reigns him in when he starts becoming too destructive.

(Which I think makes sense. Danny asked Vlad to rip out his ghost half specifically so he could stop feeling his human emotions. Dan, despite his monotone voice, does exhibit emotions. He's smug when he asks Valerie if he likes his ghostly wail, sardonic when he reunites with Sam and Tucker, annoyed, shocked at Danny's ghostly wail, etc. He enjoys wreaking destruction and chaos.)

(If Danny had survived his encounter with Dan and if Vlad was successful, then I imagine he'd be rather apathetic to his other half as a whole. That'd be interesting.)

Overall though they're both hurt, bitter, and distrustful of the world around them, with abandonment issues a mile wide. They can get better and they can heal, but it takes time and patience and proper support.

On the DPxDC side of things, they do genuinely hold some kind of respect or regard for Bruce. They also don't become vigilantes for a while. Neither of them are jumping at the bit to enter heroism again, not when it was heroism that killed their family in the first place.

In fact when they find out Bruce = Batman they think he's foolish for it. They think its a fool's errand, and they've been so spurned by their time as Phantom that for a few weeks, Jamie even refused to call Bruce anything but Sisyphus. Danny called him Tantalus, and the two of them had a faux-argument about which one was more accurate.

Bruce does, though, worm his way into both of their hearts, and that's like, the main reason they become vigilantes to join him. So that they could keep him safe and not because of any desire to return to the heroic life. Relearning to care and finding satisfaction in helping others was an unintentional side effect.

(Bruce is so very smug)

Essentially:

The Twins: this is our squishy and fragile adoptive father. If anything happened to him, we're becoming mass extinction events.

Bruce: Nnno.

[haunted-xander]

tfw ur parental figures are all too busy being evil cult members to parent (or even greet you)

[kat-xox]

you know what james potter needs?

more blood.

[booasaur]

Special Ops: Lioness - 1x08

[yb-cringe]

im gonna scream. scott had like ten fucking people chasing him and he dodged them again and again and again. meanwhile martyns fucking chasing him and that one moment of “i dont tr—“ scott cutting himself off and martyn going “im not going to kill you!” and scott correcting to say “no not you! them-“ because despite everything he trusts martyn. and then he fucking asks martyn to kill him “scott come towards me!” and jimmys whaling on him and its so close and the absolute sigh of relief when its martyns kill instead-