#but both parents wanted his dad to have full custody so like... maybe??

[unnonexistence]

an important writing question to ask yourself is "how much time and effort do i want to put into figuring out what this character's legal documents would look like"

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

AITA for asking my gf's son not to call me dad?

I (22M) have been dating my gf (24F) for 4 years now. She has a 7 year old whose dad isn't in the picture anymore - he hasn't been since the kid was born. My gf says he was abusive and I think there are some charges against him but as far as I know, nothing was proven. He has other kids too who he does have a relationship with but he doesn't have custody rights with my gf's son so they hasn't been allowed to have a relationship.

My gf and I live together and are both in college. I am going to be a surgeon and she wants to study science but she hasn't decided what to do with it yet. Because we're both busy with that, her son doesn't live with us full time. He stays with her parents during the week. This means that we have to dedicate our weekends to looking after the kid. I didn't really mind this at first but her parents are really pushing for her to look after him during the week now too, which we don't have time for. I hear how that doesn't sound great but the plan has always been that her parents will take care of the kid until she finishes with school. She has classes for 4+ hours from Mon-Thurs, plus she needs to spend a few hours studying every day, then she has labs on Friday for most of the day. I have classes all week for fewer hours each day but next semester I'll probably be doing an internship so I'll have more work to do. Then we pick up her kid on Friday evenings and spend the whole weekend with him. There's hardly any time for us to spend time alone together. I like her son and he's usually fun to have around but both of us are obviously stressed from having no down time so most weekends my gf and her son get into an argument or something and things escalate. I try not to get involved when that happens. Sometimes my gf and I are the ones who end up arguing and in that case, I usually go to my parents house.

Basically, I'm not super involved with the kid. Her parents want us to spend all of our free time on parenting despite originally agreeing that it was better if my gf focused on school. He has a dad who could probably be more involved but my gf and her family don't want him around. I've suggested that maybe it would be a better solution for her son to live with his dad full time, that way she can focus on school and then her career and still have time for herself and for us. I love her but she doesn't really have maternal instincts and she doesn't actually want kids, she has said a lot that she regrets not giving him up for adoption.

Recently, we were out for dinner with my gf's sister and kid, and the kid called me his dad. He's done this a lot and usually I just kind of ignore it, but no one else corrected him this time and I felt like the kid deserved the truth. I asked him then and there not to call me dad because he has a real dad who probably wouldn't like it. He didn't seem upset by it but my gf's sister lost it. She thinks I don't want the kid around and that I'm the reason my gf doesn't spend more time with him. She also thinks this was the first time my gf's son heard about his bio dad. Total conjecture, but she won't hear my side of it. The kid knows I havent been around since he was born so he obviously knows someone else must be his dad. I told my gf I don't think it's fair to let the kid call me dad when he has a real dad out there and she sort of agrees. She told her son not to call me dad anymore and they had a long talk about it. She still doesn't want the real dad involved but that's a whole other battle.

Here's why I think I might be the asshole: I said this to the kid in a moment of annoyance, which probably wasn't the way to bring it up. Like I said, he didn't seem upset by it but I wasn't there for the longer conversation so I don't know exactly. I think he's old enough to be allowed to know about his real dad in a more serious way. It's kind of messed up that he could run into his dad in the street (we live in a pretty small town) and wouldn't know it. I'm not his dad and for the foreseeable future, I won't be responsible for him as a parent because he still lives with his grandparents. I think it's reasonable to say that he shouldn't call me dad. So, AITA?

[sunny44]

Co-parenting (Part 1)

Pairing: Carlos Sainz x ex wife!reader

Warnings: Carlos being a bitch, fighting and maybe other things.

Summary: Co-parenting is never easy but y/n never though it would be so hard.

Next Chapter

Carlos and I got divorced 2 years ago, and currently, we share custody of our daughter, which means I have her since Carlos travels a lot due to racing, so every weekend he’s free, he comes and picks up Maeve.

But this time I had a very unpleasant surprise.

Being famous, I was always aware of what was happening with Carlos, even if I didn’t want to, and a few months ago, rumors came out that he was with some model, and when we separated, we made an agreement that any person who entered romantically into our lives, we would introduce to each other before involving that person in our daughter’s life.

But it seems Carlos had a problem when it comes to him.

I crossed my arms watching Carlos and the model girlfriend get out of the car and come towards my door, besides not notifying me about it, he simply brought her along without any prior discussion or approval.

The doorbell rang, and I walked to the front door, and there were Carlos and Rebecca, both trying to look welcoming and unconcerned.

“Hi, Y/n,” Carlos said, smiling. “How are you?”

“What is this?” I asked, pointing to the two of them.

“What do you mean?”

“You demand an agreement, and when it comes to you, you simply ignore it.” He took a deep breath.

“I know, but we’ve been dating for a while, and I thought it was time for you to meet her.”

“Meet her?” Y/n’s voice trembled with frustration. “You can’t make this decision alone, Carlos. We are her parents, and this should be a decision we make together, not something you just think is a good idea and ignore the fact that I am her mother.”

Rebecca stepped forward, with a gentle voice.

“Y/n, I really just want to get to know her. I’m not trying to replace you.”

And my frustration only intensified.

“It’s not about replacing me. It’s about us making decisions together for our daughter, and that doesn’t involve you being here.” Carlos sighed, running his hand through his hair.

“Look, it wasn’t our intention to make you uncomfortable. Let’s talk about this, okay?”

“Oh, so now you want to talk?”

“Can you stop being so difficult? She’s my daughter too.”

“Then start acting like a father instead of going around kissing models in clubs and then bringing them to my doorstep.”

“I am a father when I can be because my life is very busy, and you knew that when we had her.” He says arms crossed. “Maybe you should stop being a terrible mother making me lose the little time I have with my daughter, and then we talk about it.”

“Carlos.” Rebecca speaks as he finishes.

“You know what, if anyone here is a terrible parent, it’s you who prefers to spend your weekends in a car racing in circles and risking leaving your daughter without a father. I’m here every day doing the best I can to take care of her, but apparently, that makes me a terrible mother, so I’ll call her and you do whatever you want since it’s always been like this.”

I enter the house holding back my tears and go call her, she was so excited to see her dad that she didn’t even notice the tension between us, and I thanked god for that.

He tried to talk to me before leaving, but I just said goodbye to Maeve and closed the door, but I couldn’t help but notice that Rebecca wasn’t there anymore.

…

Hours passed and when the end of the day came, I heard the noise of his car, so I went to the door, and when I opened it, she came running.

“Mom, look.” She said showing me a bag full of things. “I’ll show you everything after I take a shower and have dinner.”

“Okay, my love, go ahead.” She smiles, says goodbye to him, and goes to her room.

“Can we talk?”

“No, I don’t want to talk to you.” I tried to close the door, but he held it. “You’ve already said what you think of me, and I’ve already said what I think of you; I don’t think we have anything else to say.”

“What I said is not what I really think.”

“In fact, it is, at least part of you thinks that way, and I’m not going to take back what I said about you because I think that way. I know it’s your career, but I won’t admit that you break our rule, tell me I’m a terrible mother, and then come back wanting to apologize.” He doesn’t say anything. “You don’t know how hard it is to see the guy you loved more than anything with someone else, but especially to see the father of your daughter say that you’re a terrible mother even though I work really hard to give her the best life I can.”

“I’m sorry.”

“That won’t fix things this time, Carlos.” I say looking into his eyes. “You don’t do anything to make my life easier; you show up, do your fatherly duty for a weekend while I stay here dealing with everything else. I don’t have the option of having only the easy parts of having a child. I have to deal with the pressure of being a single mother, having to hide from her every time I need to cry because I can’t take it anymore doing this alone, or having to leave her with my parents because I can’t even get out of bed to take care of her while you’re out there sticking your tongue down supermodels’ throats.”

“I didn’t know you felt this way.”

“And how would you know? You’re never here.” He doesn’t say anything. “I don’t need anything from you, not anymore. The time when I needed you here has passed, and I hope it never comes back.”

“Is everything okay, mommy?” Maeve asks appearing on the stairs, having taken a shower and wearing pajamas.

“Yes, my love, what do you want to eat?” I say wiping my tears.

“I want nuggets with veggies.”

“Okay, so let’s make them.”

“Are you going to have dinner here, daddy?”

“No, my love, I have to go, but I’ll see you tomorrow, okay?”

“But don’t you have to go travel?”

“I do, but not now.”

“Okay.” She goes to him and then comes back to the table. “I’ll really come to pick her up tomorrow if that’s okay with you.”

“Okay.”

“Bye.” He leaves, and I lock everything.

“Mommy, where are you?” She screams from the kitchen.

“I’m coming baby.”

I’m not sure if I’ll write a part 2 but if you guys want another part, let me know.

[black-wolf066]

Random thought, and warning for feelings cause I'm apparently all up in them today.

On the topic of Billy's mom; I'm very unfamiliar with how court systems were back in the 80s, especially in California. But i'm assuming it would be mostly similar to today in regards to placing the child in the care of the parent who is more financially stable, has a residence, etc. I think courts favored moms the most back than? But I also believe they looked into the financial thing more, right?

So, I've been trying to piece together why she left but still had contact with Billy before eventually stopping contact altogether, and I've come up with this theory. (Really wish we had more to go on 😭)

I think Neil was controlling enough that I'm sure Billy's mom didn't have a job. She was more than likely a stay at home mom (which would be strike one, cause i'm sure whatever job she was able to find after the split wouldn't be as financially stable as Neil's). I also believe Neil purposefully had any home bought only in his name and not both of them. (Which would be strike 2. She doesn't have a place to live that could house her child, she could have gotten an apartment for all we know, or could be staying with family or friends, but i kinda also believe Neil probably drove wedges between her and her family, purposefully kept her away from them over the years, etc). I also think Neil more than likely used blackmail or the cheating allegations (no matter if they were true or false).

So this all being said, even if they favored Neil and awarded him full custody, there would still be visitation rights for Billy's mom. So the fact it was reduced to only phone calls (at least as far as we see in those flashbacks, there could have been outings but we will never know), makes me believe that Neil had something on her that could threaten the visitation rights too. Or maybe he already used that threat in court and now her contact is either supervised visitation or limited phone calls?

Regardless, I think the phone calls stopped due to guilt. I think Billy didn't understand that his mom lost custody or something, I think it was becoming too painful for her to keep calling and him begging each and every time for her to come home or for her to take him with her, when she legally couldn't. Doesn't make it right, but I do genuinely believe that contact stopped because of this.

Hell, maybe she was fighting in the background to try and win custody back for all we know. Maybe she was getting close to doing so, and that was part of the reason why they moved? Between Max's dad and Billy's mom, Neil probably wanted them both out of the picture or at least not so close by for the kids to run too. So he upheaved everyone to Hawkins. (This part I'm not so sure about, but it's a potential plausible explanation among other potential reasons).

I'd love to hear others thoughts on this matter, cause i'm curious if others agree or if there is potentially more to the story that I'm not seeing

(Also, p.s. send me happy thoughts too, I've been sooo stressed out the last 5 weeks with work that all my brain is coming up with is angst and feelings, and I need fluffffffffffff)

[imaginedreamwrite]

Soft dark John Price

He commands his own criminal enterprise, similar to Simon

Instead of Gaz being a hitman, I raise you: he’s Price’s second in command

Price’s reader has a little sister. Their parents died and she assumed full custody.

The little sister drops one of her hairbows and John picks it up

Or if the sister is a little older, she could have been trying to pick pocket John🤣

When reader locks eyes with price, yea he was doomed to be obsessed from the start

An alternative option for this Gaz where he’s Price’s right hand man? I like it!

“I know this is really difficult, I know you’re struggling and I’m sorry. Han, I’m so sorry-” he runs his finger along the silky hair bow in his hands while he listens to the conversation taking place only feet from him.

John was an observant man, and he was even better at reading people. Hell, that is partially why he had such a strong hold on this city, on these counties, because he was smart and observant. When he had first seen the little girl, no older than 5 years old wearing a school uniform heading toward the Tube, he was puzzled.

Until he saw a similarly looking woman trailing after the little girl carrying a backpack, keys, water bottle, jacket the girl didn’t want to wear, and an umbrella. John wondered if maybe the little girl was this woman’s daughter but no—this woman was too young.

He followed them to the Tube, streaming in through the flow of traffic, watching the girl skipping ahead. Every step she took, the woman took, only she struggled to take everything. And then, as the crowd started to dissipate, John saw them stop.

The little girl was upset, huddled by the wall because she lost on one her favourite hairbows. She needed the hairbow, it was her first day of kindergarten, she needed to look pretty for her first day.

The hairbow that John had picked up off the ground, belonged to her.

“Han, I’m trying my best, mom and dad are gone, and I’m-” John watched you both, observing you as you spoke with your sister.

“Y’alright love?” John approached the quiet corner you were both in, stopping a few feet away. “Noticed it on the ground, thought she might need it.”

You turned your head in his direction, looking up at him while crouched before your sister. She was fussing over the backpack, one that looked like it had seen better days, trying to get the straps right. You were trying to balance everything in your arms and deal with your sister, of which you clearly had guardianship over.

“My bow!” Your sister, John assumed her name was Hannah, had exclaimed with excitement as she reached for the bow and secured it back above one of her pigtails.

“Hannah that was rude.” You scolded her and sighed, slowly standing again, finding your balance while she adjusted the bow’s position. “Thank you.”

When you thanked John in your sister’s place, he smiled small and cordially. Externally he was a picture of a sophisticated and well dressed man, you’d of thought he was a business man, and he was of sorts—just not how one would imagine.

“No problem, love.” He slips a hand into his pocket, reaching for his phone while the rests on his hip. “First day of school, nervous?”

“I’m in kindergarten at St. Catherine’s!” Your sister had no concept of danger, no understanding of how telling someone that information could be harmful.

“Han, we talked about this,” but once again, you were right on top of it, “you can’t tell people where you go to school because-”

“-stranger danger. Sorry, I forget.” The little girl frowned and scuffed her shoe against the ground, kicking a small stone away.

“Lot of dangerous people out there,” John removed his phone and began typing on his phone, sending a message to his second in command to find out as much about you as possible.

“Are you a bad person, mister?” She asked innocently, a till of her head and her innocent eyes drawing a natural chuckle from John.

“Hannah! We don’t ask questions like that!” You scold her again, gently yet firmly, and take her hand once the train you’re waiting for arrives.

“Depends on who you ask, eh?” John grins and winks at your sister, making the young girl giggle regardless of the caution you feel for John Price.

“This is our train, Han. We have to go.” You gather your things once more, playing a balancing act while trying to keep track of Hannah. “Thanks for finding the bow-“

“John Price,” he flashes you one of those smiles that can disarm almost anyone, waiting for one pivotal moment in this conversation, “and you are-”

“Y/N L/N!” Your sister chirps up, giving him exactly what he needs. “By mister!”

Your sister tugs on your hand and you follow quickly, taking off after her. John waits until you’re on the train, until the doors shut, and then he finishes his message to Gaz.

Find everything you can about these two, I want all records. No one touches them, if they do it’ll be their death warrant

John always wanted a family of his own, and he knows he’d be a damn good step daddy for your sister.

And he’s sure your sister will be over the moon to have a baby brother or sister on the way.

[alaskan-wallflower]

the people yearn for more of your angsty Steve headcanons 🙏🙏🙏🙏

DONT THINK I FORGOT ABOUT THIS

(TW//drugs, alcohol, abuse, divorce and sui attempts)

Okay so for one, I kinda have a whole bunch of lore for Steve that I’ll start off with

So Steve was completely unplanned, and he’s known that for years. He didn’t quite see the tension between his parents (well, he was like…four when it started getting really bad, he didn’t know much better) but he remembers the fighting, the screaming at him over the littlest things, everything. He was eight when his parents dropped the ball and told him they were getting divorced, and obviously that meant a lot for him. He went from being a punching bag to being a pawn in his parent’s game. Whenever they’d be with him one on one, they’d spoil him rotten, but then they’d follow it up with “I bet your mom ain’t gonna beat this, huh, kid?” or “Dad’s gonna wish he came up with this!” but all Steve knew was he was angry. He didn’t feel loved, and he knew he wasn’t loved. Not in the way he should’ve been.

Eventually his Dad got full custody. His mom was addicted to crack cocaine over the time period the custody battles began and not only was it used against her in court, but it was also used as a scare tactic for Steve.

Steve was maybe nine when it all ended and he got settled in with his dad. Last he heard his mom’s in jail, or rehab. He can’t remember. He doesn’t want to remember. His dad isn’t much better, and he starts leaving Steve alone at home so he can go drink.

Steve’s relationship is very on again off again with his dad, he wants to love his dad, he wants to have a father-son connection with him as his only kid, but he also can’t shake the fact that his dad constantly prioritizes his alcohol over their relationship

Steve was a very angry kid—he took out his anger at his home life on other kids. He was dubbed the “problem child”. Not only that but he used to get picked on a lot in school, specifically for his looks, namely his teeth. The bullying at school went away when he started getting muscles tho, but it still left imprints

He started lashing back at people, he got violent sometimes. Violence was the only way he was taught to express himself. When Mom got mad, she would hit his dad. When Dad was upset with his mom, he’d whale on her. When someone was backing Steve into a corner, he finally bit back. Literally.

Him and Soda actually became friends because they’d both gotten their recess taken away when they were in second grade—Steve for being violent and Soda for “lack of respect and attention”. Soda was the only one who was actually nice to Steve when he didn’t need to be.

Steve actually used to pick on Sodapop a lot. He saw the rest of the kids pick on Sodapop, and if bullying Sodapop was the only way he could fly under the radar, he’d join in. The reason they became friends was because Sodapop was genuinely upset and Steve had never seen him like that before, and for some reason it hit a nerve.

They became friends after they explained their situations to each other and found a common interest in catching bugs (not ladybugs tho Steve hates those)

Anyway back to the angst

As Steve gets older, his relationship with his father gets worse and worse. His father is a wild card. Some days Steve will come home from work and his dad will be grilling something, other times he’s getting beer cans chucked at his head and tobacco spat in his face as he’s told to get out and never show his face again

Steve spends a lot more time in the lot than maybe even Johnny. Johnny doesn’t wanna be a burden, Steve has too much pride to ask for help. The two of them sometimes show each other the best places to find food, or some sense of warmth in the winter.

Speaking of, Johnny and Steve are both victims of abuse, but they cope and reflect it very differently. Johnny just lost all hope in the world while Steve wakes up seeing red. If the world isn’t gonna treat him fair, why should he treat anyone else fair?

Him and Evie don’t fight often, but when they do, it’s usually a shouting war that ends with one of them storming out and the other trying to talk it out for a few days. Usually the fights are over Steve’s home life, or his pride and how it gets in the way of their relationship…but the main thing they fight about is Steve’s jealous nature

I’ve talked about this in the past, but Steve puts up a facade and acts like he’s got all this bravado and he’s cool and smart and he makes good marks, he knows cars better than he knows people sometimes, he’s got an awesome partner (whether that’s Evie, Soda or both is up to you), but deep down he sees himself as flimsy and like he needs to put up his front in order to seem like there’s nothing wrong…but he gets jealous super easily.

He gets accusative very quickly. If Evie’s talking to a guy friend, he’s gotta come over and start talking over the guy and getting overly touchy. If Soda’s making a new friend, he’s gotta be there showing he’s Soda’s best friend. Both Soda and Evie understand—Steve’s been replaced and put on the back burner way too many times, but it angers them both. Often to the point they confront him and it escalates. That’s what their worst fights are over.

Every time he fights with one of them he feels physically ill. Contrary to popular belief but Steve doesn’t like yelling. Every time he yells, all he can see is his younger self cowering from his screaming parents, but once he starts he can’t stop

Steve’s “love language” is gift giving, and not in a good way. He thinks that five bucks and a dinner date is a good apology, because that’s what his dad taught him, and that’s what he tolerated. He’s not great with being confronted post fight, with neither Evie, nor Sodapop. They both understand, but they can’t help but to feel angry with him at times. They don’t blame him, not completely, but it’s hard when your boyfriend/best friend “apologizes” by handing you five bucks and tells you to “buy yourself something nice” and then just…leaves like nothing happened.

He comes to his senses after a couple of days and offers a genuine apology. Apologies aren’t frequent from Steve, so they know he means it. They’re both trying to give him better ways to apologize and show his affection, though.

They’ve both had separate talks with him—a lot of crying, a lot of hard things came out, a lot of harsh things were said (on both sides), but afterwards, he doesn’t do it as much, and he’s learning to genuinely apologize

Steve will not admit this to a single soul but he’s scared to death of drinking or doing drugs. He knows addiction runs in his family and he’s seen what his Mom looked like, what his dad acted like…he’ll still drink with Soda, usually as a way to break his frustrations, but every time he does he’s shaking, barely able to get it down. He drank to the point of passing out one time and never drank again because he was just so scared of becoming who he hated most.

Steve actually got a letter from his mother in prison the same week Pony left, the same week Johnny and Dally died, the same week Sodapop got with letter from Sandy. He threw up after reading it. Not a single soul knows. For now, at least.

The things Pony says do affect Steve a lot more than he lets on. He hears a lot of that from his dad, or he heard that in school a lot…it was very hard for him

Steve doesn’t love the Curtis house. He feels disrespected and unwelcome because Pony obviously doesn’t like him and he feels Darry hates him. Him and Soda have spoken about it before, but he doesn’t like bringing it up. Soda has enough fights to mediate.

Speaking of Darry, Steve was never very fond of him. He felt Darry was trying to be too fatherly for him, and his “brawn no brains” comment was meant to push Darry away. It worked too well and Steve still beats himself up over it.

The hardest moment of Steve’s life was probably the week of his sixteenth birthday. His dad and him fought worse than ever, and he just felt so helpless and like he had no one there for him, and he ended up attempting to take his own life at the lot. He wasn’t sure who brought him to the Curtises, but the next thing he knows, Soda’s there, bawling his eyes out so hard he’s making himself sick as he’s simultaneously trying to communicate how worried he was and how angry he was.

They had a long conversation that night, Steve just unraveling before Soda and telling him everything that happened, everything that had happened, his mom going to jail, his dad’s on and off behavior, how he felt about his placement in the gang…everything was coming out, and that was probably the hardest he’s cried around anyone. Soda doesn’t say a word to anyone, it’s all kept inside, it’s all secret with him.

I hope that’s angst enough—

[x0stormie0x]

As requested by @lesbiancruzramirez !

Ray x Gale HCs!

☆ Starting off, I headcanon Ray to be that typical short-king boyfriend. Hes such a softie (unless someone hurts Jackson, then he's not so nice).

☆ I headcanon Gale to be pretty tall and muscular, like nobody really wants to mess with her.

☆ Things started out casual between them, they were mostly there for Storm, and never really talked for the first few months. Once they finally did? Ray fell so hard.

☆ Of course he would then tell Jackson, who laughed at him and then was told to mop the floors for mocking him. (He loves him)

☆ Once he finally got the guts to ask Gale on a date she was absolutely thrilled like she was so excited.

☆ Jackson is pretty much under custody of them, even though hes literally 27 they still wanted legal documents stating that they were his adoptive parents. Since Storms mother passed and his father is not so great.

☆ I don't see them as really being children type people, they already have Jackson and with the amount of drama he gets into on the track they have their hands full.

☆ But they would literally die for Jackson, anybody would be stupid to mess with him.

☆ They kept their relationship very low-key. Really a hauler and a crew-chief wasn't as interesting to the media as two racers.

☆ They are super watchful with any boy that Storm brings over. (Tim? Lightning? Danny?) Theyre getting interrogated.

Maybe that's why they run out of the house screaming sometimes..

☆ But all in all their relationship is very simple. They like to go out on frequent dates to keep their relationship lively, especially when Jackson's off doing his own thing. They always make sure to make time for each other.

☆ They do get married, Gale proposes to Ray at restaurant they first went too.

☆ At the races they don't get to see each other very much, but when they do they always sneak little kisses, to which Jackson always goes "ew"

☆ Ray is a REALLY good baker, while Gale is a REALLY good cook. So they're both very talented when it comes to foods.

☆At the end of the day they both sigh, climb into bed, and just cuddle.

I love these two sooo much, theyre basically the parents that Jackson has always asked for, eventually he does call them Mom and Dad, but never in front of other racers.

[beah388love]

The beginning

18+ Minors DNI!!!

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Pairing: Five hargreeves x Fem!reader

Summary: The beginning, your story.

Warnings: mentions of blood,Murder,reader has powers,angst,brother dies,readers family dies,fighting,death!!! (Please tell me if I missed any!!!)

It all started about 50 Years ago, well 50 years and 2 months ago to be exact. I'll never forget that day, because the day started perfectly normal.

Nobody tells you just how loud the sound of silence is. at that moment, I felt like I could hear everything and nothing at the same time.

———

Aged Eight.

It was around 2-4 in the morning judging by the colour of the dark blue sky outside and she was woken by her dad sprinting out of his room, petrified. She'd never seen him so panicked.

Her first thought was, maybe they were being robbed? maybe someone broke in?

That was until her mum sprinted out after her dad with her brother in her arms. He was limp and blue.

She felt her body stop, she ran over to her parents and reached out to her brother and she'll never forget the feeling of touching his face.

She stood there as her parents panicked and rushed calling the ambulance and once they got there she still stood watching them leave with her brother.

She still had hope though. I mean this stuff only happens in grown up movies? It definitely won't happen to us. Right?

No. Of course not.

Right?

She was taken to her grandparents house and stayed there for a couple hours with her two other brothers.

She sat there on the sofa, watching her grandad pace up and down the kitchen.

But after awhile she sat watching out the window of the front garden. Waiting. Waiting to see her parents again with her brother.

Maybe he was sick? And needed some medicine?

Maybe he needs some cheering up?

We'll make him better. He'll be fine. This is just a really vivid dream.

Not long later she saw her parents arrive without her brother.

Maybe he had to stay at the hospital cause he still needs medicine?

No. All the optimistic thoughts are gone because

she just knew.

She could feel it through the window and across to them.

She just knew.

He's not going to be okay. She felt it.

Her parents came in crying, "he's- he's" they didn't even get the word out and we all knew.

It's not going to be okay.

He's gone.

Forever.

Because that's the thing with time, nothing can buy it or get it back not even the richest or happiest.

But things didn't get much better after that.

———

Aged eight:

Around five months after her brother passed away, all her family were still mourning.

But today her parents both went out to grab some food for her and her brothers.

And once they collected all the things they needed. They left, hopped in the car and drove back home.

But on the way, a drunk driver swerved into the side of their car, killing them both.

She was devastated and it still didn't get better after that.

It actually got worse.

None of her distant relatives wanted to take care over them so her and her two younger brothers all had to go separate ways.

She never saw her brothers again.

She gave them both massive hugs, sobbing as they went different ways.

And your probably wondering 'how does this relate to five Hargreaves?'

The little girl in this story didn't go to an orphanage or a foster home or a happy place at all.

A certain man flew over to England and somehow got the social services woman to give him custody of you.

A man you had never met.

Reginald Hargreeves.

"Come with me, come on now don't hover around." He said sternly not even batting an eye to you.

You followed him still in your nightgown, trying to hide your sobs.

———

"Y/n? Are you listening to me?" Five cut you out of your thoughts as he waved a hand in front of your face.

"Huh?"

"I was saying...If my calculations are correct we can get back all we have to do is get a briefcase." Five said grinning at you near the end of his sentence.

"Oh god, what now?"  You asked tiredly

"Well..i was hoping-"

"hoping I could use my powers?" You cut him off and he nodded with a somewhat pleading grin.

"Alright..but if this time doesn't work I'm gonna kill you myself." You sighed and he nodded behind you grinning as you walked off.

———

After Reginald took you in, he helped you understand your power to great lengths.

"Reality warping".

You can change reality and quite literally defeat the laws of science. However it does come with some cons.

You can only change things you know or can imagine.

You have to be in 'the zone' is what you call it.

And one of the biggest cons is, when you use your power it drains you.

And I mean drains you.

Your energy levels - actually no, all your levels go down.

———

"Go down the left corridor and into the wooden door. And I'll meet you" five whispered and you nodded.

You did as he said and sneakily went into the wooden door, it was a meeting room and If im five was right, it would be filled with people in around two minutes.

You hid behind the door in the corner of the room and waited.

When they began walking in, you sat there and held your feet to your head.

Once you calmed down and focused, all the men began dropping dead.

Once they were all on the floor, five blinked next to you and grabbed a briefcase.

He grabbed your hand and blinked you both back to the middle of nowhere.

"Y/n?  you okay?" He asked you and you nodded tiredly.

"Do ya think it's gonna work?" You asked him breathlessly and he didn't respond.

Your guess was he probably didn't wanna get your hopes up to much.

———

This is my first series so i know It’s probably not the best!!! 🧡💛

[sea-owl]

Because of your last question, now I want to know what kinda buddy comedy movie Lucy and Simon would star in?

Well, we know for a fact that Simon is gonna be some sort of father/big brother figure to Lucy. Because even at his worst rake lifestyle, I fully believe Simon still would have been a better role model than Lucy's uncle or brother. And from the book, we know Simon isn't bad with children. He just refuses to carry on the bloodline. We see him positively interact with both Gregory and Hyacinth, who were ages 11 and 10 at the time.

I like to think Simon somehow acquired Lucy during his traveling years. Not 100% sure how, probably some sort of tradegy for Lucy's parents, but somehow Lucy ended up in Simon's custody. Originally, Simon was just going to make sure Lucy got back to England safely and drop her off in the care of her relatives. But Lucy was so adamant about not going back. There was something in her expression that Simon recognized and empathize with.

Simon, being the young and kinda dumb 20 something year old he was, didn't think much beyond that and just took Lucy wherever he went. Was this kidnapping, maybe, but Lucy's uncle didn't care when he got that letter one less problem for him. He was happy to sign over custody to Simon. Simon, being the nerd that he is, rationalized that he was giving Lucy an advanced education. Lucy was just happy to strap in for the ride and not back to her creepy uncle.

So now we got the pre marriage girl dad Simon and his precious baby girl Lucy. Simon tries his best to give Lucy a childhood better than his own, and yes, sometimes he may spoil the girl. Simon's nerd side comes out full force when he helps Lucy with her studies, especially math. He teaches her how to follow the stars like a map.

There are some who theorize that Lucy is actually Simon's illegitimate child who takes her mother, but those rumors are ignored. Simon himself rolls his eyes at those rumors while Lucy herself follows his lead. She doesn't understand fully herself, but if Simon says to give them no mind, then she'll do just that.

Things start to get interesting when Simon starts his fake courtship with Daphne. Lucy thinks they should court for real. She likes Daphne, and Daphne has quickly taken the girl, too. Simon is lowkey side eyeing Gregory, though, because why is he standing so close to Lucy? Good sir, you both are too young to think of courtship!

[selfproclaimedunicorn]

Okay but. The Roycegaryens in a southern gothic au bc they deserve a chance to let themselves be fucked up

FUN FACT! I languished over figuring this out bc the vibe there but I'm only good at The Vibe, & then i promptly forgot this was here 😅. Better late than never, I suppose lol

Rheamon are separated, but still married "for the kids" & after a big argument post-Aemon's conception Daemon uses the fact they're still married to leverage his still having custody so that he can get Yorick sent to the prestigious (but also kinda haunted & shitty because of how it was established) boarding school that his side of the family founded & Viserys is on the board of. Why? Because hurting his "bitch wife" by taking her son away is the most important thing ever! It means he won the fight! With her brother now halfway across the state, Ella gets sent to the more local girls' school so she can latch onto her other friends & maybe not be so depressed about her brother being gone (on top of her parents being separated & barely seeing her dad).

While Yorick is Going Throught It with Laenor, Ella is spending the next 5 years getting close with Alicent/Rhaenyra/Laena/Cassana/Shireen. Very solid girl squad, very tight knit. Until Uncle Viserys kinda makes it known to Otto that he's into Alicent, & seeing the opportunity to social climb Otto gives his full legal permission for Alicent to get married to him & that sees her having to leave school & it makes the already-troubled-thanks-to-her-mom-dying-last-year Rhaenyra act out to the point of being expelled. Things are not going well for anyone in the wake of this big Mr. Targaryen And His Underage Wife And His Daughter Who Got Expelled scandal. But hey, they're rich! So Vizzy can say "this is fine" all we wants! Ella gets closer to the other girls at this point because Alicent is being isolated & Rhaenyra is shutting people out.

Yorick graduates & comes home because he cannot be away from his family anymore. Everything is great, except for the fact he's Changed™ by his time away--like, that's still Yorick, but there's a darkness & a deep-seated anger in him now. Rich & Powerful & Delusional Vizzy starts up his old routine of wishing he had a son like Yorick & is dropping hints that he thinks Yorick & Rhaenyra should be a thing, & it gets to the point where a good chunk of people within High Society think they're going to just up & get married like Vizzy did with Alicent. Yorick starts dating Shireen instead. Rhaenyra, who has not stopped acting out for both attention & a sense of control, runs away after its been announced Yorick & Shireen went to the courthouse to get married--not because she, like, actually wanted to be with him but because there went one guaranteed way to get her dad to care about her. The search for her is absolutely wild & there's not really any headway made until someone says the last person she was seen with was Daemon. She's not with him when they go to get her from his apartment, & Vizzy bars him from the family home when they argue about her. Rhaenyra shows up at home a day later because Criston (who works the security desk for Alicent’s dad's business) brings her home after being the one to finally run into her "out in the wild."

A month later, Rhaenyra is unceremoniously & rather hurriedly married to Yorick’s bestie, Laenor, & everyone gets told "oh, they just wanted a small ceremony with only immediate family & the reception will be really big. Here's the date!" But Yorick, who knows Laenor is gay, immediately knows something is up & goes to talk to him. Laenor reveals that his dad offered him up as an easy out to cover Rhaenyra having gotten pregnant, & Yorick immediately goes to confront his dad about this. Yorick comes home that night with a broken nose, & tells his mom & Ella what happened (Nyra is pregnant, he thinks the dad is Daemon, they fought & Daemon punched him in the face). Ella does not take this well & threatens to burn his house down, Rhea talks her down & then calls her lawyer (Lyonel Strong) to serve Daemon divorce papers.

A few days later, Rhea never returns from taking a horseback ride on the family property, & Aemon never returns from having gone out to see his horse. Gerold & Gunthor find Rhea’s body that night while searching for her, while Ella & Yarwyck find Aemon passed out on a nearby hill. When Aemon finally comes to he's in too much shock to speak, & he stays like that until the day of the funeral. Daemon shows up to the service & Aemon freaks out, he gets (forcibly) escorted from the room so they can calm down the screaming 2nd grader. Aemon reveals that, when he had snuck out on his own to go riding with mom, he saw their dad kill her--Daemon is not allowed back in & Yorick has to be restrained while the cops are called. However, because 1) generational wealth & 2) he is the chief of police, this does not get taken seriously. After the funeral, Ella packs up & leaves with Yarwyck to go backpacking in Europe because she cannot stay here while so much grief is choking her. Meanwhile, Yorick is fully plotting how to murder their dad & get away with it.

[weewoo911]

I read your posts about Helena Diaz and I agree so much, every time she says something I get tensed for something worse to come. Her conversation with Eddie where she told him to not drag others down with him was so brutal, I somehow felt less shocked by the Buckley parents. What hits harder is that Eddie is somehow alone in dealing with her. With Buck there was Maddie and then Chimney who understood how fucked up it is. With Eddie he's got sisters but he's expected to hold more responsibility otherwise (even if Ramon seems to be improving). It's terrifying in a way, with how it's complicated because she wasn't even an absent parent so the memories are gonna be mixed.

I would really like it if Eddie got some kind of interaction w his mother in whatever is coming up bc I think the potential conflict there is really interesting.

I think a lot of times when people have kids really young, their own parents can end up doing a lot of heavy lifting, and with the best of intentions they can still end up treating the young parent as a child. I think that’s essentially what happened with Eddie & Shannon. Wanting to help turning into treating them both as incompetent, which took a toll on them both.

“Don’t drag him down with you” is a legitimately wild thing to say to your own kid- especially when he has just been left by his wife and is working three jobs to try and build a better life for his disabled kid. I’d love for that to be explored more- why his parents were so sure he was going to fail to the point they were ready to take his kid.

(Also to be clear I don’t know that they would have ever actually tried to take custody of Christopher, I don’t think we can take the coma dream as a direct canon for what would have happened- but if Buck thinks in his subconscious that it could have happened then what has Eddie said about his parents)

I also think it’s interesting to view it in contrast to Buck’s parents, because where Buck’s parents were under invested, Eddie’s parents maybe wanted too much agency over his life. And Eddie is a character who clearly feels the weight of other people’s expectations on his shoulders.

So yeah, I don’t mind if they go redemption arc - (though I think the show went too hard with trying to redeem Buck’s parents, Eddie’s dad and Chimney’s dad- we also can send the message that bio family relationships sometimes just can’t be fixed) - or full on screamfight but I’d just like it to be explored and have a satisfying resolution

Sorry this post ended up kind of long, but I didn’t want it to be straight up dunking on the character- I like having messy characters and conflict- it’s what makes the show interesting!

[officialpenisenvy]

okay yay!! confession session. so my dad had custody of me till i was like ten—parents families are both really catholic but my parents are like kinda chill with it. but my dad less so. my mom got pregnant+ he proposed to her and she didn't want to marry him bc he was physically abusive+kinda sucks, her parents didn't take her in obviously so she stayed w a friend (she was like 30 yrs older than her and they had a weird thing going when i was younger. she should've lezzed out. sad!) before i was born then moved back in with him b4 leaving when I was like 3 months or so. he followed her then moved out w me+got almost full custody bc he was way more well off at the time

so then I lived with him and we shared a bed and he gave me baths+dressed me up. also like oblique sexual contact ig. but I think i was too small for him. I did have my own room. technically. but i do not remember ever being in there. neither of us had friends over+lived in a beautiful bubble where we read together+ate together+went on trips. he lost his job and is shit w money so he went to live with his mom+ i moved in w mine

after I moved in with my mom I lied to him about our living situation+my schooling bc neither of us wanted him getting mad. felt awful bc he was like the only person I knew and it felt weird to not live with him and to not be able to talk to him

my mom+ her dad had a thing but she doesn't want to acknowledge it neatly so she just does incestuous stuff but like separate cognitively maybe. had less oblique sexual stuff w her and a weird+unstable living situation but I was older so it felt like we were on even footing which was nice. she started sleeping around more when I was 12 and I was really jealous

I went to vist my dad for holidays sometimes and we kept sharing a bed but he stopped giving me baths. he asked me to move in with him a few times (still unemployed+living w his mom) but only like seriously when i was 13. our relationship was really weird then bc I was. kind of trying to distance myself from him?(slept with my feet to his head which he didn't. outright object to. but yknow) and was bulimic which he thought was kinda embarrassing+ blamed himself for. didn't want to stay bc I didn't want him to find out about some of the stuff i lied about bc I knew hed be pissed+didn't want him to go after my mom so I stayed w her

he tried to get me to move back in with him again after that but then kinda gave up+mom got full custody. when she told him she was filling for custody he said that if I had been living w him he would've been able to pull himself back together. which i am not sure about but does haunt me bc he is in a bit of a state rn

she also got really upset about our relationship+ got the judge to tell him I need my own bed. which is embarrassing to have in writing. and he kinda gave up on like moving forward in life+trying to talk to me as much after that

I shared a bed with him (against the custody agreement) for the last time when I visited him at 15 but now he's moved rooms and got a twin as like. penance ig. he's still unemployed+lives w his mom

I'm still with my mom+we have an apartment now but I am scared that i will be stuck with her forever. so kind of the same boat as my dad which is sweet

apologies for grammar+structure

holy shit a lot is going on here. first and foremost teenagers should be allowed to kill their parents indiscriminately. second of all im so sorry you had to go through all this honey, it sounds like a really complex and uncomfortable situation to say the least even aside from the oblique incest, and im glad you have a modicum of stability now, even if it's not quite a good situation. third of all you seem really young to me, though i might be way off base, so i just wanna reassure you that there is a proverbial light at the end of the tunnel, you are gonna make it out of your mother's grasp eventually, and you're not going to end up repeating the same cycle your parents are trapped in 🙏🙏 when everything you've known your whole life is this oppressive uncomfortable incestuous bubble it's so hard to imagine anything beyond it, but there's a whole world out there just waiting for you to join it, and i really wish you well in your journey to healing and building your own life, whenever you're ready to start it.

[iwasforcedtomakethisbytum]

Help me ahhh i can't stop thinking about what I'd do if i were in charge of a reboot of 6teen

For starters it would be more serialized, the original already had some of that and i don't wanna it to be so serialized you can't watch episodes out of order but we have streaming now so why not just have more mentions of previous episodes or foreshadowing future episodes

I'm mainly just thinking about Jonesy and how i could to not be the most hateable character, but i still want him to be a bit of a jerk to be honest but dear Lord I'm gonna give him a little chill pill like maybe he shouldn't be a literal criminal in multiple episodes, i wanna keep him being a selfish dick but maybe instead of flirting with literally all the women it's mostly just with his friends i kinda like the idea of him being demisexual idk i just like it, i also gave him more necklaces, mostly they mean nothing and he'd be happy letting another wear them, but one of his necklaces is his cremation necklace and is just really uncomfortable with the idea of others wearing it

i made jude trans, again i don't remember why i hc it but it's fun, so my design for him shows his binder under his tank top, i feel it would be mentioned but not a lot outside of a joke or two, i give him the more girly hands the women are given as a way to hint it and maybe older photos could show him with long hair or a dress. I also gave him a scarf which one thing i did add was maybe he'd like crochet/knitting and made the scarf himself (i also like to think nikki carries an opossum around that Jude made) he rollerstates everywhere even when he bumps into everything! I don't know what to headcanon his family like, they almost seem neglectful in the series as they're usually mentioned leaving jude alone at the house i feel but does that mean they're bad

Jen i feel she'd roughly stay the same, but maybe she'd be complaining a bit more about shit, i imagine she puts up with her job and school and stuff she hates because she knows it'll help her get what she wants but she doesn't care for it in private. Her parents are divorced like the original but i feel her dad isn't really explained in the original because jen remembers him as a good dad and some lines may reference him having died (omg what if he died by suicide, no I'm sorry not today) but it's never said that he's dead explicitly so it would make me wonder why in the original jen only lives with her mom, did he flee the area, was jen an unreliable narrator and he truly did something awful that warranted him not having custody, did her parents both choose to let Jen's mom have full custody for some reason? I don't know but in my version i like the idea of it being mention that she has to move between the houses (wait would she even have too, i know 16 is a bigger deal in Canada so would that give her the right to decide to not live with one of them?) but in my version of the show jens parents would have split costody of her and that would be mentioned

Nikki is a bit more nerdy i feel i made her, i like the idea of Chinese being her home language, and maybe she can also speak other languages outside of English and Chinese, i feel she'd speak Quebec French, Spanish and ASL to varying degrees of proficiency i could see her maybe considering being an interpreter as a career, she'd still be into protesting the same stuff she has before, she now has a half shaven head, one thing i don't necessarily care for with redesigns is just making her really emo but she's not really that in the original i mean sure it's alt but i don't see it as really emo. I feel like her and Wyatt talk about anime a lot. I feel she'd be fairly distant from her friends at the beginning of the series, like she's there with them they've known her most of their lives but it's not like she opens up to them about things and might seem unemphatic to them but overtime she tries to care about them and open up more maybe starting with them saying they're bi, which one is just like "wait you hadn't told us this before?"

Wyatt is also just nerdier, he draws, he sucks at it but he does draw, he obviously in a band, and so is jude, he just gets to do everything wyatt gets really obsessed with things he likes and will be upset if you don't like them, he also wears his headphones almost all the time, usually they're no music on though, i feel the music his band makes is just stuff that stimulates the ears it's just "hehe brain go brrrr" he's really into written art as well like fanfiction and poetry, i feel it would also be mentioned he takes care of younger siblings a lot as it's mentioned he's part of a big family in the series, i see him on the younger end of the family but still, idk maybe he could also have nieces and nephews

Caitlin also is into art, i feel she'd really be into the idea of fashion design but doesn't know how to make/modify clothing, she is the best drawer of the group, you can still very easily tell she's an only child, i liked the headcanon of her being homeschooled before joining the same school as the rest of the group, you could make an argument the first episode could imply it by saying "she didn't start until grade 10" but that also could mean she just went somewhere else, but i do think it would be fun if she didn't stop being friends with trisha despit being a bitch and the others keep trying to tell her to not hang with her but she "sees the good in her" i think it would be interesting to see it play out

I feel their parents would be mentioned more in the series, they might not show up but they are teenagers/young adults living under their parents roof so i feel it would make sense for it to be brought up more, like maybe the mention of a curfew or them complaining about something they're parents are doing or complain about rules they don't understand

It would be kinda cool to have a moment where both jen and jonesy bitch about their home lives and maybe complain that the marriage shouldn't even happen

Well that's it, i could probably say more but my brain has been satisfied

[ionalottabookmarks]

Things about Birds of Prey TV 2002 that Just Don't Make Sense:

1. Selina Kyle was allegedly the love of Bruce Wayne's life, and he was so broken up by her death that he gave up Batman and abandoned Gotham, never to be seen again. However. He hadn't been in touch with Selina for so long prior to her death that he DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THEY HAD A 16 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER TOGETHER.

2. Bruce Wayne learned that he had a bio daughter, who had just WATCHED HER MOTHER GET MURDERED IN AN ALLEY, and didn't even bother to meet her.

3. There is a TON of emphasis on our protagonist being "half metahuman," which means that she has a metahuman mother, a human father, and her own metahuman powers. This implies that ALL of the other (full) meta characters come from a long line of exclusively meta-powered people on both sides of the family, which strikes me as extremely unlikely. Especially as one of them is, in addition to being a meta himself, an anti-meta bigot who thinks all metas except himself should die. Hard to imagine his parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. are all metas. Being a meta--HAVING SUPERPOWERS--isn't like being, like, Scottish, where you can be half Scottish because your dad's Scottish. It's like having brown eyes. You wouldn't be like, oh, yeah, I know my eyes look brown, but I'm actually half blue-eyed on my mom's side. You either have superpowers or you don't. You can't be half superpower-haver.

4. Dinah is somehow enrolled in the local high school under her actual name, despite being a runaway who Babs does not legally have custody of.

5. Dinah is a teenager, and she has telepathy and telekinesis instead of a sonic scream. Like, why not just make up your own character?

6. Helena is out here fighting crime in her everyday clothes with no mask, and yet is extremely protective of her secret identity. What secret identity? You don't have one.

7. The average Gotham citizen has no idea that metas exist. The average Gotham cop has no idea metas exist, and our cop's coworkers all think he's crazy. But somehow Arkham is full of people like Clayface, and this guy who has multiple personalities and shapeshifts into a different form depending on who's fronting? Like, who is making these arrests? Who's doing patient intake? How is everyone shocked by superpowers, again and again and again?

8. Everyone keeps talking about how we don't kill. And yet, we have killed so many people? And most of them are metahumans, and there's this whole thing where we have to deal with people thinking metahumans are less than, or at least other than, baseline humans, but we keep killing so many metas, and I don't think we ever kill a standard human? Except for maybe that guy who was running a nonconsensual metahuman fighting ring, but in that case we left him to the mercy of the metahumans in question, all of whom were under the influence of an aggression-enhancing drug he'd given them. Which means they might not have chosen to kill him if they hadn't been under the influence, and are potentially now grappling with horrible guilt and possibly all sorts of other complicated feelings about how he considered them less than human, he drugged and manipulated them in order to make them act in the allegedly "less than human" ways he wanted, and then they turned around and did something they never would have if it wasn't for his influence, and does that mean he's right? Does that mean he's won? Like, why would you put those women in that position, where they weren't in full control of their actions and you KNEW they were going to make an incredibly violent choice that they may not have otherwise made, and can absolutely never take back? After all that talk about how murder is never the answer?

9. Lady Shiva was a petty crook who fought Batgirl, back before she was Oracle. Their fight ended in an explosion that Batgirl thought killed Shiva, but we later learn that the explosion actually killed her 15 year old sister, and she's back for revenge. The problem: Lady Shiva is also Helena's high school best friend, who left Gotham when Helena was 16 at the oldest. If they were in school together, Shiva should also have been 15-17 years old at this time. Why was this 15 year old sister not at the same high school as Shiva and Helena? Why did Helena, Shiva's best friend, not even know her similar-aged sister existed? Why was Barbara horrified to learn she had inadvertently caused the death of an innocent 15 year old, but not at all concerned when she thought she'd caused the death of a maybe-17 year old who was guilty only of some stealing?

10. If Helena didn't know her dad was Bruce Wayne, and Bruce didn't know Helena existed, until after her mom's death, how and why did Helena have a close relationship with Barbara Gordon well before her mother's death? They knew each other well enough that Helena's best friend Shiva also knew Barbara pretty well, and apparently Barbara was the best choice to take custody of Helena after her mother's death, despite having suffered a severe and permanent spinal cord injury on the same day Helena's mother died, and still being in recovery. Barbara knew Helena, knew Helena was Selina's daughter, and likely knew Helena was Bruce's daughter. And yet Bruce had no idea. And this version of Barbara clearly admires Bruce greatly even after he abandoned her and Helena, and doesn't really seem like someone inclined to keep secrets from him.

11. Harley Quinn had a baby genetically engineered to be aggressive, kill on command, and live out an entire human lifespan in three days. All of these features were deliberate. The aggression and kill on command bits make sense for her alleged goal: that this baby would be the first in an ultimate army of assassins. But how did she think a drastically shortened lifespan would help with this? Wouldn't a three day lifespan mean she had to constantly pay for more babies to be genetically engineered? Wouldn't this dramatically increase the costs of maintaining an army of assassins?

12. Barbara is apparently using Helena's trust fund to pay for all of her Oracle equipment? I'm not sure why she has a trust fund in the first place, since Bruce didn’t know about her, and didn't seem to be in the right frame of mind for thinking about things like setting up trust funds when he left. But she has it. And taking in a foster kid and then using their trust fund for your own thing is, like, super sketchy, especially since your thing is a secret thing, so you can't exactly tell anyone who asks exactly how you spent the money. I guess this has the potential to work if Barbara and Alfred are the trustees and no one else is involved enough to need to know the specifics? It seems like there should be, like, a lawyer or a banker or someone somewhere in this process. This seems like a very bad system. Helena is also a crimefighter, who benefits from the Oracle equipment, and her trust fund is presumably large enough that the equipment doesn't make a huge difference, and she's said several times that she doesn't want Bruce's money. So this probably isn't negatively impacting her at all. And it's possible Barbara didn't start doing this until Helena was a legal adult and could legally consent to the money being used this way. But, like, regardless of the specifics of this situation, Foster Parent Using Your Money For Her Own Purposes is a Bad Thing, and it's weird that the show doesn't seem to see a problem with it.

13. Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, and Tim Drake all exist in this world. They are mentioned once each. We have no idea where they are, what happened to them, why none of them are in Gotham, or why none of them have maintained contact with Alfred and Barbara.

14. At one point a man attempts to kill himself and Helena with a poison gas in a high school classroom. Helena solves this problem by exiting the room and closing the door behind her. Like, I'm supposed to believe that this random classroom is airtight? No gas is going to leak out under the door?

15. Where is the Joker? Apparently he went to prison after shooting Barbara, and that’s the last he’s seen? Harley is clearly still hung up on him. She also clearly has access to Arkham, and is a very successful secret criminal mastermind. She’s genetically engineering assassin babies. She’s making meta transference machines so she can steal other people’s superpowers. She’s robbing armored trucks. She’s convincing her patients to murder their wives. But she’s not breaking the Joker out of prison, or Arkham, or wherever he is? Like, this makes sense for the purposes of the story; Harley is the main villain, and if she freed Joker that role would probably go to him instead. And frankly this version of Harley is a lot more interesting than the joker as a main antagonist. There’s not much you can do with the joker that hasn’t already been done a thousand times. But it doesn’t make sense that she wouldn’t try to break him out. The sensible thing to do here would be to say he was killed after paralyzing Barbara. It wouldn’t have to be a whole big thing, just a quick little backstory detail. He’s armed and dangerous; it wouldn’t be at all surprising for the cops to struggle with bringing him in alive, or even for them to not bother trying.

[dumbass-tumbler-cryptid]

Hi do you have any thoughts on Spider (modern au) with cystic fibrosis?

Interesting question! I saw that you also asked @lost-girl-2021  this question so I'll do my best to not repeat anything she said and focus more on how this would play out in my modern au Cabin in the Woods.

Disclaimer though, I actually didn't know a thing about cystic fibrosis until I watched a hand full of videos on it last night. I watched a video from the mayo clinic just talking about what it is, how its diagnosed and how its treated then I watched videos from kids with cystic fibrosis talking about how they manage there symptoms so that is the extent of my knowledge on the subject.

So my thoughts:

Quaritch and Paz weren't close with either of there families so they had no idea cystic fibrosis even ran in there families. From the videos I watched both parents have to have the gene for a child to get CF so maybe they both had a great grandparent that had it giving Spider a 1/8 chance of getting it.

They were shocked to say the least when only six weeks after his birth there baby was screened and diagnosed with CF

I imagine on the outside they would seem to just roll with it but on the inside they're both devastated.

They learn everything they can to help there son cope, studying different therapies, all the different medications, and any life adjustments they could make to make Spider's life as easy and comfortable as possible.

They have the best of everything too, the best nebulizer, the best setup for vest therapy, the best emergency supplies.

They are so well educated and well supplied that by the time Spider is one both his parents could step in as emergency services at the drop of hat.

Of course life gets flipped on its head after Paz is killed, and Quaritch is sent to jail for trying to kill her killer.

Quaritch would be freaking out every moment he's away from his son.

Because he's so determined to get Spider back as quickly as possible he wouldn't even bother to try to legally regain custody. That takes too much time and his son needs him now.

So from prison Quaritch is instructing team Deja Blue, having them set up a get away home with all the supplies they could possibly need.

In the Cabin in the Woods prologue Quaritch gets out of jail when Spider in four, and he goes just to look at his son in the group home.

In this the time line would be the same but instead of just going to see him, Quaritch would just sneak in in the middle of the night and take his sleeping child straight from his bed.

No one would even notice that Spider was gone until about noon the next day.

By that point Quaritch would be long gone.

That morning the four year old would wake up in the backseat of a truck, incredibly confused, but once his Papa explains to him what's happening he easily excepts it, thinking there just on a fun adventure.

So I still haven't found a way to write in locations of things in Cabin in the Woods but in my head Spider originally lived in or around Washington D.C before his dad kidnapped him. The cabin is all the way in Colorado. In this though I feel like Quaritch would want to get out the country but he wouldn't want to not live in America so as a happy medium he runs to Alaska where there's a cabin in the woods in the remote wilderness waiting for him.

In case of emergency this cabin is only about an hour away from the nearest hospital and town, and isn't nearly as hard to get to as the cabin in my actual story.

I already write Quaritch as being insanely controlling and over protective and that would just increase by 100 here.

When Spider is little he has no issue with his dads constant hovering, but as he gets older it starts to get anoying.

Because he really has no freedom. They stick to an incredibly strict schedule, vest therapy for twenty minutes twice a day, a regimen of medication and supplements always taken at the exact same time, extremally large healthy meals (that boy has never had a piece of candy or a drop of soda in his entire life) daily exercise to keep his lungs strong. All with his dad monitoring him the entire time.

It gets even worse when Quaritch learns about health tracking watches. He's never bought something so fast in his entire life and he practically locks it onto his son's wrist.

Spider is homeschooled too of course, mainly because he's a kidnapping victim (but he doesn't know that. He was way to young to remember everything that happened after his mama's death and Quaritch just told him his mama died in an accident and that they've always lived in there home) but also because his dad doesn't want him around anything or anyone that could potentially get him sick.

Spiders CF is so well managed though that you wouldn't even be able to tell that he has it. Sometimes he even forgets that he has it.

As he gets older he'll start to push for more freedoms and that will only make Quaritch hold on harder.

Anyway those are my thoughts. Hope you enjoyed! 💙

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part 2 of my shared custody au

here's part 1 if anyone is interested but hasn't seen it yet:

okay anyway it's gavin/freelancer time >:D

gavin and freelancer are fighting for their lives trying to keep their relationship strictly professional

they are failing

caelum tries his best to wingman ("did you know that my dad gives the best hugs ever?? and he has cool hair and it's really soft!!")

pet just wants a moment of peace without freelancer talking about gavin (and ofc for their bestie to be happy)

"he's so hot and considerate and dedicated and-" "so date him" "nO i can't do that do you know how inappropriate that would be omg"

they have this conversation thrice a week

at some point freelancer decides it's best for them to avoid gavin so they don't end up crossing any lines

but it doesn't work because they keep being stuck together to prepare for one school event or another

they do their best to only talk about school related things, no more banter, minimal small talk

gavin thinks he did something wrong, that maybe they found out about his feelings for them and this is their way of letting him down easy

then caelum's grade goes on a field trip to a history museum so a few of the parents are needed as additional chaperones

originally, gavin plans on not going since things with freelancer have been so awkward lately (god they're both such idiots)

but he's lowkey a hellicopter dad so he goes out of worry for caelum lol

freelancer and gavin kind of avoid each other like the plague for the bigger chunk of the trip

after the museum guide is done giving the tour, the kids get some time to roam around on their own, the chaperones and teachers walk around the museum as well to keep an eye on them

that's when freelancer and gavin run into each other in a small, empty side room that's on the more boring side of the exhibit

freelancer is almost out of the door when gavin just BLURTS out that he's SOOO SORRY for making things weird and that he hopes they can just go back to normal and-

freelancer is like "huh???" because THEY should be the sorry one for PROJECTING their own feelings onto a a student's parent and oh gOD they're so unprofessional-

so then GAVIN is confused because wtf are they even talking about?? what feelings?? HELLO?????

they stare at each other for a while until freelancer FINALLY mumbles that they fell in love with gavin and just wanted to maintain a professional relationship with him

gavin is just kinda like "oh thank god, i thought i made you uncomfortable and you hate me now-" and he explains that he feels the same way

they get interrupted by some of the children entering the room but they agree on talking some more when they can be alone

you'd think this would make things even more awkward but it actually helps disperse most of the tension between them!!

they meet the following week during one of freelancer's lunch breaks and agree to secretly date even though they're both a bit hesitant to do so

(they're really bad at hiding it though because anyone with eyes can tell how much they love each other)

but it's the end of the school year and after that caelum won't be in freelancer's class anymore anyway

when they finally tell caelum he's so excited

he was kinda sad because he wouldn't be in freelancer's class anymore but now he can spend as much time with them as he wants!!!!

he immediately demands the three of them go out and do something together so they go to the park together

some more miscellaneous stuff

even though gavin originally only showed so much interest in school events because of freelancer, he turned into a full-on pta mom along the way

he found out he had a genuine talent for organizing events and he enjoys it and takes pride in it now

he's very popular with the other parents (yes, some try to flirt with him) and especially after the bake sale he starts trading recipes with a few of them

damien and huxely have a daughter named millie who goes to the same school as caelum, though she's only in first grade while caelum is in the 3rd grade

both damien and huxely are very involved with the school and pta as well

damien stays more behind the scenes organizing; he's the one who knows which permits they need from the city, how to maximize profit from fund raisers, etc

huxely is better at making things fun for the kids

he's very passionate about sports days and such because he knows how easy it is for p.e. classes to ruin the relationship children have with fitness early on

the children really love him because he's so supportive of any effort, no matter how small, and because he doesn't really talk down to them the way a lot of adults do

gavin and huxely become fast friends, damien takes a while to warm up to gavin

vega also gets unwillingly roped into the group because huxely is just relentless in being friendly

damien and vega don't get along that well at first but they bond over lovingly bullying gavin and over their shared taste in books (thriller and fantasy 100% + secret romance lovers (this is canon erik told me so))

millie and caelum have playdates :)

lasko is a history and english teacher at the local middle/high school

he gets a lot of his supplies at the store pet works at

freelancer actually spends a lot of time there on the weekends to hang out with pet

those two become friends with lasko almost immediately

lasko and pet play dnd together (nobody ask me any more about this idk shit about dnd)

they also try to teach lasko how to crochet but he's pitifully bad at it

surprisingly though he is pretty good at knitting

him and freelancer share a lot of their knowledge when it comes to teaching with each other and they have froyo together every friday

the first time vega asked pet to have coffee with him they said no simply because no matter what vega does, he always seems smug and they wanted to spite him

after freelancer and gavin get together, freelancer and pet convince gavin and vega to go on a double date

gavin knew of pet because freelancer is the type of person to brag about how great their friends are but he didn't know freelancer's pet was the same one vega was dating

likewise vega didn't know that pet's bestie and their bf where freelancer and gavin

so when they got to the restraunt gavin and vega where like the spiderman meme

pet and freelancer 100% knew and just wanted to mess with them

after that first double date vega and gavin are very adamant about never doing it again but they both can't say no to their partners

so double dates become a very regular occurence for them and pet and freelancer enjoy every minute of it (they're menaces)

for the first one lasko babysat caelum but he really can't keep up with caelum's energy levels

now huxely and damien mostly do the babysitting allthough "uncle lasky" also helps out when he can

after lasko and his listener get together they also babysit a lot

gavin, vega, freelancer, pet and caelum try to do a family movie night once a month

gavin and pet bake something and freelancer and vega build a pillow fort in the living room

caelum runs back and forth between both because he just can't decide what would be more fun so he tries to do both

he ends up falling asleep really early on because all the excitement wears him out

they do these movie nights at vega's place since his is the biggest but it's still kind of cramped

vega also prays nobody finds any glitter inbetween the couch cushons from before he got with pet because no matter how many times he vacuums, there's always more glitter