#but not this picture everyone say yippeee !!!!!

[certainlyathrill]

toppermost of the poppermost

[biggie-chcese]

Ways I Would Change Rain Code Chapter 3, Everyone's Favorite Chapter

(let's join hands and frolic in the fields of missed potential together yayyy yippeee 🐬🌈🫧 <3 spoilers btw. this is another long ass rant/critique so warning for that too)

chapter 3 is pretty infamous for being rain code's weakest chapter but i love this game and want it to be better, so here's some changes i'd make to it. these overhauls are gonna be pretty big in some places but hey! if that's what it takes!

Part 1: The Beginning

gonna start off with saying that makoto's introduction is perfect. i would change nothing about it. he's intriguing, his exchanges with yuma are fantastic, and he lays down some nice lore and foreshadowing. no notes

AS FOR WHEN YUMA LEAVES THAT PENTHOUSE... HOO BOY

i take so much issue with the introduction of the resistance. as hilarious as it is that they kidnap yuma by simply picking him up like a piece of furniture, it just kinda ruins every subsequent interaction he has with them. he has no reason to believe a single word shachi is saying. that man can preach about non-violence all day but that doesn't change the fact that he and his crew kidnapped yuma. and if i were yuma, that would be on my mind the entire time. just from a narrative standpoint, it feels strange for him to put more stock into what the resistance says than makoto, who literally saved his life. meanwhile the resistance kidnaps him, threatens to kill him like three times, and foists a menial task on him. why is he giving them the time of day at all? just lie about taking their request and go look for your friends.

so how would i change this? it's simple: have the resistance give yuma a good first impression

picture this: after leaving makoto's place, yuma returns to where the submarine used to be. he's devastated to not see any trace of his allies and breaks down. this is where he can have his sulking session like he has on that couch after being kidnapped in canon. shinigami teases him while he's down but eventually lifts his spirits when she talks about the detective who left an impression on her. yknow. "i want to eradicate all unsolved mysteries and bring happiness to everyone!" yeah, that guy. you know him. determined to keep going, yuma gets up and decides to search around for his friends. the player has control now and can talk to several NPCs asking about them. the final NPC says to yuma, "All the gunk and trash of Kanai Ward's rivers flow down into Dohya DIstrict. If you're looking for a body, that place is your best bet." that NPC gives yuma directions to dohya district, and the area is unlocked on the map! the player can take yuma there next

when yuma steps into dohya district, he has his initial shocked reaction to the place being completely flooded. it's horrible here, but he presses on, looking around and asking a couple more people if they've seen any bodies. as he's asking around, he sorta forgets that he is a small, frail, vulnerable outsider that looks really easy to rob, and so a couple of thugs come along to remind him of that. they corner him with knives, egging him on to fork up any money he's got (which would be none. yuma's broke ass lmao) and with no other options, yuma cries out for help.

in comes the resistance! i think this is where shachi saves yuma by breaking up the conflict peacefully- quite literally practicing what he preaches (SHOW, DON'T TELL!!!). the thugs leave, and shachi asks yuma if he's okay, inviting him to their hideout in the process. this is where we can have shachi drop the lore about dohya district as they walk there together. the resistance gets introduced, and i would change very little about their introduction! however, i would leave out the parts where they threaten to kill yuma, because yuma needs a reason to trust them. and let's be honest: those scenes do nothing but unnecessarily raise stakes before fizzling out immediately. yuma can still refuse their offer for him to join them because, well, they just met. and it's still a reasonable decision for him to make without the death threats and kidnapping. maybe instead of death threats, the resistance leaders get all riled up and loud, then shachi quiets them down and tells yuma he wants to talk about the issue in private on the roof. yuma can still witness shachi get his gun through the crack in the door.

everything is the same after that, including fubuki's scene because that part is perfect. everything about her in this chapter is perfect. i think she could've had a little bit of her labyrinth development outside of it but oh well. she kinda gets that in ch 4? moving on.

Part 2: Lamp Oil? Rope? Bombs?!

i actually love the bomb threats as a concept- they add a lot of stakes to the game. however, the pacing completely ruins that. yuma wastes too much time in between them in a way that makes the bombs lose all of their urgency. so let's just cut that all out and make them yuma's first priority. let's say yuma has 15-20 minutes reach and disarm each bomb. this gives him no time for lollygagging, and he goes running around the city immediately, trying to dodge all of the peacekeepers. he can even be intercepted by guillaume and dominic at these times and narrowly escape via QTEs and detours. this still gives our culprit at least 45 minutes to enact his plan, which is plenty of time. after disarming the bombs, then yuma can return to the hideout to confront the resistance. there, he finds nobody is there except shachi's corpse, slumped against the couch, with his revolver nestled in his right hand.

shachi's clothes are wet, implying he just came in from outside before shooting himself. the safe that held the gun is wide open. nothing else seems to have been moved around. since there's no evidence of a struggle, perhaps it... truly is a suicide?

"wait that's a pretty big change" you might be thinking. or not. im not psychic. but please consider: this game has enough locked room mysteries in it, and it can survive with one less.

my idea is that this mystery should have at least one more layer of complexity to it because the entire canon mystery hinges only on icardi's escape method... i guess there's also the "suicide or homicide?" part but anyone who has ever engaged with the mystery genre will instantly figure out that shachi is left handed the very second they bring up the gun's irregular design. so why not have a situation where the body is moved? we haven't done anything like that ever since chapter 0.

my other biggest gripe with this mystery is that icardi didn't need to kill shachi at all. he could've just done his robbery and left kanai ward (or, well, tried to) without any hiccups. why kill shachi? why does the game never touch on that? i guess we could go off of icardi hating shachi's ideals but... going out of his way to kill him during his otherwise perfect heist? idk, it seems like a super lukewarm motive for all that.

so why not have shachi get in his way? shachi directly tries to stop icardi by following him in secret and confronts him at the site where he's about to bomb the hydroelectric plant. and that is where shachi dies. i think shachi's true cause of death should be drowning, since it's the best way for icardi to kill him. and how does icardi do it? well, he threatens to drown servan first. in shachi's attempt to rescue servan, icardi gets the upper hand. icardi then transports his body back to dohya via the waterways to keep anyone off his trail. he then frames it like a suicide by shooting the corpse in the head. there, he plants the gun, cleans up a bit, and leaves.

there are a number of types of evidence for yuma to deduce this later. maybe shinigami notes that the gunshot wound seems way less bloody than it should be. maybe yuma finds something belonging to shachi near the hydroelectric plant, like his necklace (maybe stuck to a grate or buried in rubble from the explosion?) along with evidence of a huge struggle. also, yuma sees multiple safes floating outside a bank near the plant. also there should be a few more red herrings among the solution keys. yuma will still interrogate margulaw to get the lore on the others, of course

i want yuma to know that shachi was trying to save servan, but i honestly dont know how to make that clear through evidence. maybe servan leaves something behind on purpose?

(yuma can meet kurumi during all this the same way too idc. i don't really think her inclusion in this chapter is necessary but w/e i wont take what little screen time she has from her. poor girl)

in the end, yuma and co get cornered by guillaume and dominic at the hydroelectric plant's bomb ruins instead of a random office, so he can get his final batch of clues right beforehand. then just before dominic crushes him into a small purple stain, he panics and goes into the labyrinth as usual.

Part 3: Down the Rabbit Hole We Go!

just a heads up, i'm changing nothing about fubuki in this labyrinth. fubuki and her interactions with shinigami are the best damn part of it, so imagine it's still there under this new format. anyway.

now i get it- this mystery still hinges on icardi's abilities. im not a mystery writer, so just imagine a lot of this stuff is more subtle than it is presented here.

let's frame it like this: the mystery casts a lot of doubt on shachi at first. from the evidence, yuma's initial assumption is that shachi did the hydroelectric bombing to send a message to the rich, then returned to his hideout and ended his own life.

as we go through the labyrinth, we first deduce that the bombs were all a diversion to keep yuma and the peacekeepers away. after that, we learn about shachi being left handed, then we deduce that this had to be a homicide. after that, we try to figure out shachi's actions before he died, eventually coming to the conclusion that he was present at the bombing of the hydroelectric plant, but if it was a homocide, someone else maybe tried to stop him. from here, we look back at how his body was discovered and figure out that his real cause of death was drowning. yuma then points the finger at icardi due to his swimming ability, and we take down his arguments accusing the others as usual.

after this, we find out his motive through actual RDM matches with his phantom instead of just mentioning it at the end of the labyrinth. through his motive, we learn more about how shachi's body was transported through the waterways and shot post-mortem at the hideout. then we can finally go to GOD shinigami mode, where icardi tries to say "this is what shachi wanted! he started the bombings and i tried to stop him. he realized the error in his ways and asked me to kill him!" but yuma counters that with the evidence servan left behind, saying that shachi has shown to be nothing but a man of peace, even til the very end.

when it's over, icardi says he hates this city and wanted to leave, but yuma scolds him on his selfishness, in how many people he endangered and how he killed a man who wanted to do some good for this world, all for money. pissed, he finishes icardi off with a silly little comic book

Part 4: Oh Yeah What About Guillaume and Dominic

imma be real with yall i do not like these two. they're just lame ass antagonists man. and maybe it's the black in me talkin but im not a fan of the dynamic where dominic, one of two characters in the entire game that's darker than a sheet of paper, is a big dumb brute whose likes include "sleeping lazily" and dislikes include "thinking," is completely loyal to this ambiguously pale little girl. i dont think guillaume herself is racist- she treats him exactly the same as her other underlings. actually she strikes me as one of those "im not racist! i hate everyone! ^w^" kinds of people and she actually means it. it's still pretty obnoxious though. sorry guillaume likers.

i'm also not even gonna accuse kodaka and the dev team of racism or colorism (though i could say something about how nearly all of the darker skinned characters in danganronpa such as akane, aoi, and yasuhiro are all portrayed as the Stupid Ones™ or the butt of a joke like daisaku from DR3 who happens to be the ultimate... farmer... ok. ok that's fine. whatever. the sole exception is sakura, an excellent character... whose appearance is still treated like a joke. also i will not complain about servan's afro + donut lips combo. i will not. do you see how all these little things build up to leaving a bad taste in my mouth? anyway im getting sidetracked). so i'll say it could just be chalked up to ignorance. either way, i think one simple fix to this is to let dominic talk... in the mystery labyrinth

a really fun payoff to his dynamic with guillaume is to simply have them swap their roles in the labyrinth. there, dominic does all of the yapping, showing he was actually paying attention to the case the whole time in the real world, and guillaume is on the sidelines occasionally making red text appear by calling yuma a little f- er- maggot. it still retains their running joke, but gives it a more memorable punchline imo. it doesn't really get rid of the weird undertones but i think it adds something to dominic that's sorely needed by showing him as smarter than he comes off as.

Part 5: The Ending

now my biggest change i'd make to this ending is making yuma recognize that he killed icardi for no reason. he... sorta does it in canon? but he's more worried about the fact that he killed icardi at all and not his trend of having a way too eager trigger finger when it comes to the labyrinth. and he hardly even hesitated either. he was so angry with icardi for killing a good man like shachi for his own selfish reasons that he mercilessly killed him for it. and i want yuma to acknowledge that more. i want him to reflect on how his tendency to just use the labyrinth the moment he feels like he's in danger is a terrible thing. please. please i want more reflection on this.

i wont change much else. however, when makoto replaces their submarine, i want there to be some consequence: all of their notes are gone. the inside of the sub is clean. the scent of yakou's cigarettes is gone. the furniture is the same, but it's all brand new. it's unsettling, but the NDA graciously accepts their new gift.

idk how much strain that'd put on the team that modeled the sub's interior, but i think it's worth it. the game needs some concept of change and consequence to it. make chapter 3 matter.

that's really all i have to say. thanks for reading!

[artist-heart83]

SMG4 NEW GEN - HOW DO THE KIDS GET ALONG?

Suzy

“My best friends, yippe!”: Hinata, Tanker and Shion.

“Party popper (affectionate)”: Ivy.

“The nicest people I ever meet”: Bobby, Citrus and Mays.

“We are not that close”: Gemma, Kentin, Emi, Alex and Viktor.

“You’re fucking scary, how can my sister be your friend”: Inocy.

“I have enough of this dude”: Hops and Hank.

Ivy

“Panas”: Gemma, Inocy and Kentin.

“Annoying (affectionate)”: Suzy.

“Ouugh babies… must protect them”: Bobby and Agata.

“There are fun to hang out”: Hinata, Shion, Viktor, Emi, Hank, Hops and Citrus.

“Meh”: Alex, Mays, Viktor and Tanker.

Tanker

“They’re the only person that I hang out the most and they’re really nice with me”: Shion

“I kinda like their company”: Suzy, Hinata, Citrus, Emi and Viktor.

“Ehh..”: Hank, Mays, Kentin, Gemma, Ivy and Inocy.

“I don’t like you”: Hops and Alex.

Shion

“My greatest friends, of course! We always hang out”: Suzy, Hinata, Tanker, Kentin and Emi

“These people are great company too”: Citrus, Alex, Mays, Gemma and Ivy.

“I hope I could hang out with them more”: Hank, Hops, Inocy and Viktor.

Gemma

“My friends, the gang”: Ivy, Inocy, Kentin, Hops and Mays.

“If someone hurt this kid, I would murder them”: Bobby, Citrus and Agata.

“I don’t have problem hanging out with you”: Viktor, Emi, Hinata, Suzy, Tanker and Shion.

“This is bitch is so annoying”: Hank and Alex.

Bobby

*He draws a picture of Gemma, there are some words that are hard to read but it says: “big sister, she cares about me :)”*

*He draws Suzy and Ivy and it has another note: “they’re nice with me, Suzy told me stories and Ivy play with me”*

*And lastly he draws Citrus and Mays, the message says: “Orange teach me draw and Mays made me plushies”*

Hinata

“EVERYONE IS MY FRIEND! :D” She said in a cheerful voice.

Inocy

“Evil gang evil gang hehehehe >:)”: Ivy, Gemma, Kentin and Viktor.

“THE LITTLE MAN!!”: Bobby.

“BABY SISTER!!”: Agata

“I like annoying you :)”: Hank, Hops and Tanker.

“Fun to hanging out”: Hinata, Mays, Citrus and Emi.

“Meh”: Suzy, Alex and Shion.

Stella

> I can’t leave the studio, they are afraid that something could happen to me. Yippeee, the cons of being the daughter of a villain.

> I wish my father can show to the smg4 crew that he has changed.

> I know papà Mario wants to protect us, but I wish I could have friends or at least meet my cousins :[

Kentin

“Cool people”: Ivy, Inocy, Gemma, Shion and Emi.

“BABIES!!!”: Bobby and Agata.

“These guys are so fun!”: Hinata, Suzy and Citrus.

“They don’t talk that much with me, but hey they don’t treat me bad either”: Hank, Tanker, Mays and Alex.

Emi

“Really good friends and company”: Alex, Mays, Citrus, Shion and Kentin.

“Oh! You like to hear me talking about my interests? That’s nice”: Suzy, Ivy, Hinata, Viktor and Tanker.

“What a… «interesting» personality of yours”: Hops, Hank, Gemma and Inocy.

Hops

“Besties”: Viktor, Hank and Gemma

“The purest thing in this world”: Citrus, Bobby, Agata and Hinata.

“I like hanging out with you”: Ivy, Inocy and Kentin.

“You’re cool, I guess”: Mays and Shion.

“Yeah yeah yeah, I don’t like you, fuck you”: Suzy, Alex, Tanker and Emi.

Viktor

“My friends, they cared about me”: Hops, Inocy and Hank.

“They don’t treat me bad”: Hinata, Citrus, Mays, Tanker, Emi, Kentin, Gemma and Ivy.

“I can’t hate this child, they’re the purest thing in the world”: Bobby and Agata

“We don’t talk that much but they’re not bad company”: Alex, Shion and Suzy.

Hank

“To this point of my existence I have to learn to tolerate them, because THEY LIKE TO ANNOY ME ALL THE TIME”: Inocy and Hops.

“He is the first friend I ever made and I really glad to meet you man”: Viktor.

“I will die for them, why are they so cute”: Agata and Bobby,

“I mean… they’re nice and cool”: Tanker, Ivy, Emi, Kentin, Citrus, Mays, Shion and Hinata.

“Oh god, I can’t really stand you”: Suzy, Alex and Gemma.

Mays

*They show some pictures of some people and each one have a message*

Gemma: “Thought we don’t hang out often, she is nice with me and also she really appreciates every friendly gesture, one time I gift her a plushie of her and she cried because she never received a gift before”.

Alex: “He talks a lot of crazy stuff but when he is not doing that, we play some video games, mostly cozy ones because those are my favorites”.

Emi: “She really likes to do art and crafts with me, our favorite is crochet and likes to talk with me about the books she read”.

Citrus: “She is the one that I can call best friend, I love her bubbly personality and how she always wants to include me in some things, never change Orange :)”.

Alex

“Oh yeah, those are my friends, I don’t know how they stand me”: Citrus and Mays.

“She is so nice with me, her eyes are beautiful, her soft voice and- WAIT ARE YOU RECORDING THIS?!”: Emi.

“I mean they talk to me but we are not friends”: Hinata, Shion, Kentin and Viktor.

“Can I said these are my investigations? No? Sound weird? Yeah I know”: Hank, Bobby, Tanker, Agata and Ivy.

“Hate is a strong word, so instead I will said: «WHY ARE YOU LIKE THAT?!»”: Inocy, Suzy, Gemma and Hops.

Citrus

“Hiiii! Hello my dear friends!! :D”: Alex, Emi and Mays.

“The silly! I really love this kid”: Bobby.

“Yappers like me :D”: Hinata and Suzy.

“Friendly with me :>”: Ivy, Gemma, Inocy, Shion, Kentin, Tanker, Hank, Viktor and Hops.

Agata

“I mean I don’t hang out much with the other children, the exception are my siblings (Junior, Hank and Inocy) friends,” she said, “there is a huge age gap with all of them, but they’re super nice with me and some of them play with me too”.

[raccoon-in-a-dumpster]

FUN ask for you can you share some Mikey headcannons oh pretty please <33

YIPPEEE!!! OK!!! SO!!!

when Mikey was like. a baby. he ran around a lot so mary had to put him in jail (his crib) a lot. he was a terror. an absolute rat bastard. he BIT too.

also he would play soccer in Elementary School. Charlie DOMINATED the field tho.she threw woodchips at him once. they were BEST friends!! and sammy too.

in the later years of middle school, he joined wrestling. then in highschool he was on the wrestling team. started growing real facial hair around 7th grade. and as much as he liked ragging on his siblings, he did care. at least. enough to keep them out of William's wrath.

hmmm... what else...

he made foxy when he was like. 5! but when evan was adopted. he was drawin with him and the little guy kept eating his crayons so he drew him a picture of a bird!! THAT'S WHERE THE PARROT CAME FROM YEAH BAAAEBY!!! IT'S COMIN' FULL CIRCLE!

anyway when mikey met jermey, he looked right at jermey. scowled. and instantly thought he was a hippie FAHG!!!. he was right. but. not very nice. also it's like the pot callin' the kettle black cause he was literally dating Marcus (freddy bully) for a bit.

he got a sick foxy tat on his bicep. he got it at a party. yeah... the old man wasn't too happy about that...

hmmm hrmm...

also he got sent to juvie a lot for being an ASSHOLE!!! (usually evan's only break from him) never for more than a couple days, tho.

he got sent to prison when he was 16 after the bite for manslaughter. not juvie. full on Utah State Men's Prison. womp womp :(

jermey talked to him a lot!! they kiss!!! they fall in love!!!!

he was erm. so sad after '87. jermey was ok tho!!! they kiss they fall in love!!! YIPPEE!!!

he got his organs scooped out cause he got a concussion :( womp womp.

also he uses a cane for easier movement (s'not easy bein' a walkin' corpse)

he's always been a bit of a pyromaniac, i like to think. he liked setting the campfires when his family and the emilys would go camping together. that and shoving dirt in Sammy's face. sammy put a tarantula in his tent. needless to say, evan woke everyone up (he doesn't like spiders :(). mike thought it was sick asf

anyway. he's the secret weed smokin' boyfriend

[friedfriedchicken]

Part 2 since I hit the image limit

I love the composition of this scene- they're all perfectly spread out, teeny, and it's so funny to me

HACKER LOOKING UP SWINDLER ON THE OFFICIAL AKUDAMA LIST OML YEAH BOY GO GET YOUR CITED REFERENCES

Swindler on the verge of tears 🥺

"Oh? Is this your cute girlfriend, Courier?"

They all look so goofy I love them

"You let your girl tag along?!" Brawler just cementing Doctor's assumption in 🛐

I don't wanna go back and take a picture but the reflection in Swinder's eyes of Courier's gun is so so cool

"All right. Let's kill her, then." Gotta love Brawler supporting Courier fr

EVERYONE UNITING TO KILL SWINDLER OML 😭

"Seriously? Awesome!" Brawler being the best support in the entire anime actually

EVERYONE GOING BACK TO TRY FIGHTING SWINDLER BUT IN A FRIENDLY WAY 💀 Brawler you could kill her with the flick of your finger- she'd go flying

Black Cat 🛐 I love the little expressions omg

OH THE HUGE ROBOTS- I FORGOT ABOUT THEM

"Fun at last!" BRAWLER STARTS JUMPING AND BLUSHING AND WHOOPING WHEN HE SEES THE ROBOTS HELP

The music is so good omg

SWINDLER OMG

GET HER OUT OF THERE

Part 1 of Doctor materializing on the back of Courier's bike

HOODLUM WAS SUMMONED BY THE MENTION OF MONEY 💀 I FORGOT THAT'S HOW THEY GOT HIM

HOODLUM GOES RUNNING INTO BLACK SMOKE AFTER A ROBOT LIKE THAT'S A GOOD IDEA HELP

Oml the announcer says 'Ladies and gentlemen!' in English with a CGI crowd around him

DID THEY ACTUALLY PUT HIM IN A WOODEN GUILLOTINE?!?!?!

The murder robots Do Not Perceive™ Swindler wwwwww

"Get off, wench." COURIER 😭

THAT IS NOT A FACE I EXPECTED HACKER TO MAKE

Swindler being normal r.i.p.

HOODLUM!!!!

The start of Hoodlum and Swindler's Normal People Adopted By Genuine Akudama™ arc

Courier could be Spider-Man

I'M LOSING MY MIND WHAT IS THIS SCREENSHOT

HELP I LOVE THIS I HATE THIS WHAAT IS GOING ONNNNN

The music vibes so much

WHEN SWINDLER SEES THE COIN AGAIN THE SCREEN GLITCHES AND WE SEE FLASHBACKS OML IS THAT A FORESHADOWING OR AM I OVER THINKING THISS

Swindler <3

Swindler and Hoodlum <3 They are so funny together

Swindler is savage for that

I literally can't hear Courier as Courier anymore- that's just Leona Kingscholar's voice to me

Doing it again

"Man did Cutthroat die? 🙄" Wow they aren't holding any punches

The scene where the police dude's head is cut off isn't as bad as the censor box made it seem 😔 Literally it's just red

CUTTHROAT!!!!

I wonder if his intro scene actually shows 999 people losing their heads or not

Cutthroat standing like 🧍‍♂️:) while Courier hands him the brief case oml

"Everyone gets a bomb! No clue why! Hehe 😄 Me included!" I love Cutthroat he's so silly

OML THE BLU-RAY HAS LYRICS FOR 'STEAL!!' I LITERALLY CAN'T FIND ANY LYRICS ONLINE THIS IS AWESOME YIPPEEE WAHOOO LET'S GOOOO

Omg the preview for ep 2 has Master do a little voice over YIPPEEEE

Fried live reaction to rewatching Akudama Drive ep 1 GO

YOU

His eyes are so big- even for the Rui Komatsuzaki artstyle that man's eyes are WIDE

She is so cute

3D MODEL COURIER

Gotta love Ordinary Person being so nice and throwing out Courier's garbage because she's so cool like that fr

Also there's like a convenience store opposite the Takoyaki stand- It would've been so simple for Ordinary Person to waddle in and find an ATM or a cashier willing to give her change but noooo get arrested girlie

:( She's just sitting in the car that's so sad

Man- I love the background characters in this scene. There's really nice continuity between different scenes showing the same crowd-fillers but also they're all just sitting around abnormally

Girlie :( also SNIPER SPOTTED YIPPEEE

CGI Courier spotted again

OMG THIS IS ACTUALLY THE UNCENSORED VERSION YIPPEEEEE

That guy's head wasn't as gorey as I thought it'd be- Made in Abyss did worse but I understand the precaution AD has. Maybe I'm used to it but at least I don't have the black blurs hehe

Courier's phone looks like an IPod

I love how Black Cat's messages for everyone seem specifically written for them. That's really cute in a horrific way 🥺

Doctor just sitting in the air bus like a normal person is funny to me. She seemed very nice and polite and somehow no one went "huhhhh didn't I see her on a wanted poster today?"

Man- Kansai really did just make every single screen ever tell people about Cutthroat's execution. Imagine watching Elmo then the screen turns black and red and it's telling you someone is going to die. F

Everyone standing against a dark sky with the red tower in the background looks so nice woaaa

"I'm not a Swindler!" Now you are bestie

Brawler literally moves so fast he's like a fly or something 🛐

All the people in the police station were just staring out the window to watch wwwwwwww

BLACK CAT!!!

Hacker's little drones open their mouths like :D as they turn into hover platforms 🥺

How did Doctor get in unnoticed? She's bright pink whuh??

Akira reference heehoo

Somehow I never noticed this ref before

Not Brawler hearing Courier whisper from 50 yards away 😭

Hacker :)

I'm really amazed that Courier somehow manages to drive his thick motorcycle through the police building easily. It's his thing but the doors- dude how are you getting through the doors

Courier with pink eyes

Genuinely so hard to watch this and NOT hear Leona Kingscholar's voice whenever Courier speaks- this is so sad 😔

Somehow Doctor works as a projectile to destroy a whole floor and doesn't break her back oml

Hacker is actually just a rat that they discovered hiding in the walls during demolition

"You're not dead?!" I FORGOT THAT SHE COULD DO THAT- still no idea how she could even reach her back but she's silly like that. Horrible painful foreshadowing mayhaps. Gotta love how she's just like "I wanna join hehe" while everyone is pointing weapons at each other

Everyone is out for MURDER until Swindler comes in with Black Cat wwwwwww

[tamlins-stories-and-poems]

Just because I like timetravel a little too much

"When there's trouble you know who to call~" a voice came floating down the hall of Titan Tower. "From their tower they can see it all!" The voice certainly belonged to a young child, everyone was sure of that. Cyborg's sensors guess an eleven or twelve year old girl. "When there's evil on the attack, you can rest knowing they've got your ba- what?" The girl, she looked like she might be Tamrannian due to her glowing green eyes, froze. Robin was the only one visible from her position at the moment, and he was perched on the back of the couch, with a Birdarang out. "Who're you and how'd you get here?" He demanded. "Uncle Damian?" She asked, confused. "You look different. Your skin's too light and your face looks like the old pictures of Papa." "Who's Damian?" Robin replied, eyes narrowing. The girl looked lost. She looked so confused. "Uncle Dami, I know Grandpappy said not to use our real names while we're in our costumes, but why don't you remember me?" Pure distress was in her voice. "I'm not named Damian, who are you?" Robin growled, just as confused as she was. "But-you're Robin! The last person to wear the Robin costume was Uncle Dami! I know he's Flamebird now, and works in Blüdhaven with Papa when he's not trying to convince Grandpappy to stop fighting, but I would've heard if there were a new Robin!" She argued. "Who else could you be?" "Her emotional wave length is surprisingly similar to yours." Raven muttered. The girl paused, listening. "And, oddly, Starfire's." "I must be hearing things..." the girl shook her head. "If you're not Uncle Damian, why are you in a Robin costume. That mantle has been mostly retired for years now." "Listen, kid," Robin said-" "Mar'i." The girl interrupted. Robin blinked, "What?" "My name is Mar'i Grayson." The girl crossed her arms. "If you're going to patronize me, at least use my name." "Grayson?" Robin murmured, and shook his head. "Listen, Mar'i, I don't know where you're from, or how you got in here, but you don't belong in here, this place is for Teen Titans only. And at that, only our Western branch uses it." Mar'i paused, eyeing the boy as if she were assessing him. Then, something clicked. "Ah!" She clapped, excitedly, floating a little before falling back to the floor, feet thumping solidly. "I remember this story! I've gone back in time!" She squealed, happily. "This is so cool! Crashcrashcrashcrashcrash! Yippeee!" She flew around in a tight circle, before returning her focus to Robin. "Remember how I said your face looked like the old pictures of my papa?" "Uh..." Robin nodded, concerned. "Yeah, why?" His eyes were flicking around the room, behind his mask. "Well, you probably are! Oh my gosh, you're still Robin, that means you haven't met practically anyone! Ahhh!" She shrieked excitedly. "This is so crash!" "Why do you keep saying 'crash' like it means 'cool'?" Beastboy asked. "Gar!" He got tackle hugged. "You look so adorable when you're my age, oh my scones, I need a selfie with you!" She pulled out a weird looking computer like device, and snapped a picture with a camera facing herself and Beastboy. "Sweet!" She cheered. "And as for why I use 'crash' and 'cool' interchangeably, blame Bart! He's the one that started it." "Wait, wait, back up." Robin said, "I look like old pictures of your dad, and you're a time traveler. Are you somehow my future child?" "Probably! Your reaction to my last name was also a good clue, Papa!" She giggled. "This is so cool! Ah! Miss Rachael! Can I get a picture with you too?" "If you don't hug me, fine." Raven agreed. Mar'i had gotten pictures with all of the Titans who were there, and was now sitting around the kitchen island with them. "So, you've heard me tell you the story of your trip to the past, how do you get home?" Robin asked, sitting directly to her right. "You never told me that. I asked, and you'd lean in real close, tap my nose, and tell me that I'd have to find out for myself. Then mama would laugh, and ask for help with Bynny and Brucy who are always getting into some sort of trouble. Especially now that they're growing out of their toddler stage, and Brucy-boy has learned to fly." Robin paled. "Say what?" "Don't worry, Bynny seems to be completely human, which is a little odd, considering that she looks the most like mama." Mar'i shrugged, calmly. "I have pictures if you want to see them." "I-um-I-okay?" Robin agreed. "Cool!" She when to her photos, and clicked on one, then made a motion over the screen, and it projected into the air, it was a gorgeous Tamrannian lady sprawled on a beanbag chair. A short man was curled into her side, he looked like he might've been an older Robin. In their arms there was a sleeping girl with her mother's auburn hair, and a little black haired boy cracking open an eye as green as Mar'i's to blink at the camera. "Whoa, how'd you do that?" Robin asked, momentarily more interested in the tech, then he did a double take at the photo. "Is that Starfire?!" "Mmhmm!" Mar'i agreed. "Aunt Babs and the Wests call us the Starlings. Grandpappy and Alfred also do, sometimes. Or the Grandbats. Although, that includes little Freddie, Aunt Bab's Jim and Gordon, and us three." "Freddie?" Robin repeated. "Who's kid is Freddie?" "You don't know that Uncle yet." Mar'i shook her head. Cyborg raised a hand, questioningly, from the other side of the island/table, drawing their attention. Robin looked rather pale. "So, you're Star and Rob's future kid, but you make it sound like you weren't the first addition to Rob's family. Who was?" "Well, we have to discount Aunt Babs, since she was both part of the family and not since before Papa, but then, I supposed the first addition after Papa would be Freddie's dad. He's not always the best person, but he tries to do good by us, and by the public. Just... not always in a way Grandpappy agrees with." "This is just weird." Robin shook his head, "I don't tend to talk about home much around here." "Friends, I am home!" Starfire called. Mar'i closed out the image, or at least pulled it out of the air. "I would appreciate help putting away groceries!" All the Teen Titans surged up to go help her, leaving Mar'i at the Island. The groceries were put away rather quickly, quickly enough to leave Mar'i floating in confusion, as her stool had been knocked over. "Oh, new friend?" Starfire asked, hopefully, upon noticing her. "Wait, are you Tamrannian?" "Only half, technically, but I seem to have gotten all of Mama's powers." Mar'i chirped. "I'm Mar'i Grayson, nice to meet you, Koriand'r!" Starfire stiffened. "How do you know that name?" She asked. "No one on Earth knows that name." "Well, I'm not from this time," Mar'i said, tacking a Tamrannian word on the end of the sentence, beaming. "I am your- you are my- how? With whom?" Starfire asked, blushing as much as Robin had paled. "With Papa, duh." Mar'i chirped. "Wait, Grayson?" Beastboy suddenly realized. "Like, the Flying Graysons?" Robin turned to blink at him, confused and still looking like volcanic ash. "Aren't you a little young to remember them?" "Yeah, but, we had a bunch of their recordings around the base of the Doom Patrol. Rita was a cousin of someone who married in, and she had no idea what happened to the survivor, her cousin's son." Beastboy shrugged. "She said that if I found him, to call him my cousin, because she adopted me." Robin stiffened, expression suddenly distant as the color slowly returned to his. "Oh." He said. "I guess Papa's your cousin then! So, does that mean I can call you my uncle, like Aunt Babs is my aunt?" Mar'i asked. "Who is your Papa? And who is this 'Aunt Babs' of which you speak?" Starfire inquired, tilting her head. "Aunt Babs is Oracle!" Mar'i flew in an excited circle at that. "Sometimes people think she's my second mom because she's so cuddly with both my parents!" "That sounds like Babs..." Robin muttered, distractedly. Then he did another double take, "Wait, Oracle? That is not the name I know her under!" "Well, the last Batgirl was Aunt Steph, who isn't really part of the family, even less than Aunt Babs, and she switched back to her first name almost a decade ago." Mar'i said. "But, Grandpappy said that Bynny could be Batgirl if Freddie took on the Thrush mantle, but they're still really little." "Wait, is Robin your Papa?" Starfire asked, still blushing. "Yup!" Mar'i chirped. "He is!" She twirled a little, excitedly. Robin and Starfire both fell over. "Ah, there you are, kiddo." A man in the Flash's uniform came out of the wall. "Come on, it's time to stop freaking out people who live in the past." "Okay, Bart." Mar'i said. "Are you my ride home?" "When am I not, miss Grayson?" He teased, bowing a little. "Come on, rumor has it my cousin is supposed to visit soon, and I don't want to confuse him too much. Let's go." Mar'i made a noise of affirmation and held up her arms. The strange Flash scooped her up. "Bye, guys, meet you in a few years!" He added, and was gone. "Well," Raven said. "Today was certainly interesting." No one could argue with that.