#but it's kinda complicated ngl

[benefactordreams]

you said it was a hero x villain story right? how so?

I did, and it was kinda the second reason I was hesitant to talk abt this. I fell like ppl would assume things since I made them both guys and they're the hero x villain trope and whatnot but that won't be answering the question you asked and it'd be kinda hard to explain anyways.

But in the start of the story, it lays out that McCoy and Jackle are enemies (hence the hero and villain trope) and then later, when the scene if them fighting is over, I think I'll make it show that they're at like a Café or on some kind of date show that they've been dating for a few years or so. And I'mthroughout the story it switches between them beingyl the hero and villainsbthey are and their normal life if that makes sense?

Also McCoy is shown to have suspicions now and I want to show how even though he could've left, he didn't bc he didn't think Jackle would do that to him. And in Jackles villain disguise, he hides himself but like having a wig on or smth. Point is he doesn't look like how he does when out of his disguise. The story then ends with Jackle killing McCoy and Jackle then reflecting

Idk if that answers your question but this is essentially the plot of the story so

[alyakthedorklord]

I’m having dramatic thoughts about Damian being born to Fem!Bruce ok I’m having THOUGHTS

(TW for alluding to Damian’s conception being nonconsensual)

Okay so set the stage of our Drama- Fem!Bruce (or just AFAB idc) is out on patrol or something and League Parent (Either Talia as in canon, or Ra’s if we’re feeling the creepy old man tonight) drops Damian off with “Hey, watch our son that you birthed and then I stole and let you think was dead for ten years, there’s some infighting in the league.”

(If we’re using Ra’s as dad then Talia is absolutely trying to kill Damian for the position of heir)

Bryce is, understandably, shocked. Her other children? Even more so. Because what do you mean you had a biological child? How did we not know about this?!

Damian isn’t old enough to be pre-robin unless he was cryogenically frozen. Did Bryce really hide a whole fucking pregnancy from them?

Dick is screaming, Jason shows up because he has to see this shit for himself, Bryce is standing in silence, staring at the results of every single test she can think of to confirm that yes, this is her son, this is her Damian, all the info matches up…

Tim tries to speak up, but Jason just turns on him, asking if he’s ready to be replaced too. Bryce didn’t even have to go looking this time!

Tim looks him dead in the eye and points out the birthdate(and death date) on file for Damian Wayne.

It’s exactly eight days before Jason was taken in.

How did Dick and Jason not know about this?

Because they weren’t there.

In the short period of time when Dick was striking out on his own, and before Bryce picked up Jason, League Baby Daddy of your choosing shows up and takes advantage. A simple greeting, a spiked drink, a blurry night, and a pregnancy test later…

Bruce is, as always, in any universe, is terrible at communication. But honestly she can be excused in this case. How exactly do you tell your wayward son ward that, after chasing him off because he was “being reckless” and “putting himself in danger,” you’ve gone and gotten taken advantage of, trusted someone that you had absolutely ZERO business trusting, and now you’re pregnant with an Al Ghul baby? And you’ve decided to keep it? That this isn’t you replacing him or demanding he return, because you understand his need for space, but also you desperately want him back with you because you’re scared but you can never admit it?

How do you do that in a text? Because Dick is not answering the phone.

You don’t. Thats a conversation you have face to face. So the messages Bryce leaves are all “there are some changes and i’d like to talk to you” “there may be a new member of the family soon” “please answer me chum”

Dick doesn’t answer.

Meanwhile, Gotham crime is being weird because “hey robins gone! Dynamic duo is out!” And Bryce is being careful because of her belly and sometimes she has to take breaks and hormones are bullying her and nothing is going her way right now.

And them she goes into labor too soon.

And something goes wrong (League Baby Daddy happens) and she’s told her baby is dead, and now she’s lost two children.

She recovers, and goes back out onto the streets, taking her rage and pain out on the criminals that got a little too bold with her in a hospital bed…

And then there’s a street rat jacking the tires off the Batmobile.

The fucking audacity. The guts. The challenge in his bright blue eyes, the sneer on his lips, the shaggy black hair. Skin just a bit darker than hers, not quite an Al Ghul’s deep olive but somewhere in the middle.

Is this what her Damian would have looked like? Is this what her son would have grown up to be?

Maybe its the hormones, maybe she’s projecting. She knows its a bad idea, but Bryce takes the kid home. Alfred gives her a knowing and slightly disapproving look, but accepts the new child with open arms, because there’s worse things. Jason fits in easily, and soon enough, Batman has a Robin again, and Bryce is smiling again, and begins to heal from the pain of losing Damian.

But Dick? Dick is PISSED.

Upon seeing news of a new Robin/Wayne, he finally looks though his messages, and comes to the wrong conclusion that Bryce was looking for a kid to replace him this whole time. She might have tried to get his input, but had eventually made a decision like this without him. And so he’s back, and he’s angry, and Bryce gets defensive because Jason is a good kid and she can’t use her dead baby to win an argument, not when the wound is so fresh.

So life continues. Jason dies, comes back, is angry because he listened in on a few arguments and now ALSO thinks Bryce actively hunted him down to be Robin, and now she’s done the same with Tim.

Bryce keeps quiet, because how is she supposed to explain after all these years? Jason is right to be angry. She let her emotions get the better of her and dragged a sweet boy into her life. The loss of all three if her children was her own fault, because she put him into the line of fire. There’s no excuse for that.

So years pass. Tempers settle somewhat, Bryce holds her grief close to her chest because she can’t do that to her children, but… then Damian is back. And it all explodes.

The story comes out in bits and pieces. Tim figures out a timeline based on the rest of the info in the file, and Bryce and Alfred slowly fill it in.

And like- they’re all still angry, and it is justified, because what the fuck, Bryce. But also…

Dick is horrified. He had been so angry, so so angry, reading those messages that he now knows, with this new information, were a cry for help. Bryce had been desperate and scared and wanted nothing more than to just talk to him after their fight, and when he had come back after something like this had happened he had immediately started another fight.

Jason isn’t sure how to feel. He hadn’t been taken in to be a replacement soldier, he had been taken in to be a replacement son. What is he supposed to do with that? Knowing that Bryce had seen him at his worst, and taken him in and shoved down her grief to help him?

Tim is wondering if every time Bryce backed away with an unreadable expression, it hadn’t been keeping herself emotionally distant, it was grief for the sons she had lost.

Steph is realizing that Bruce wasn’t lying, when Steph had to give her own baby up and Bryce had hugged her and said “I understand.”

Damian is sitting in a corner wondering what the ever-loving FUCK is going on. Why is everyone crying this is pathetic. Father take him home he prefers the threat of imminent death.

[ch4osm4ster]

Murfy doodles

[hearteyesdiaz]

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[just-sp-in-inginthevoid]

I think it's kinda interesting that Shinichiro always calls Mikey "Manjiro". It's not like Mikey seems to mind that, anyway. I have some thoughts on it but they aren't very organized...

Everybody else, including Takeomi (Shin's close friend, has known Mikey before he started using another name), calls him "Mikey" in daily life. I wonder what grandpa Sano uses, though.

I'm pretty sure Shinichiro keeps using 'Manjiro' because Mikey, as well as his official name, is what he has left of his 'normal' life - what he has left of when their parents were still there. In the same way, their mother probably never used 'Mikey' (but she isn't as affected, since she's got only Emma to call Mikey like that).

I think grandpa Sano continues to use 'Manjiro' too, if only because Mikey was named after him ('Mansaku' - same first kanji (万)). If Mikey had demanded of them to use 'Mikey', perhaps they'd have, but I just think they're too attached to the name - the same way Emma is attached to 'Mikey'. There's a reason.

As for everyone else using it as well, for Baji and the Akashi I think it was Mikey pushing them to use it + kids finding foreigner names and aliases to be cool, and Emma using it too. At some point since they got used to hear it, they got used to use it. And for the ones Mikey met later on (starting Draken), he had been introducing himself as 'Mikey' for quite a while - to the point highschoolers call him like that. That's just how he introduces himself, the name he goes by on a regular basis.

For Takeomi, although he's known Mikey since he was a baby, he's still not as close to him as Shinichiro is - he's a family friend but not as close as family, albeit Akashi and Sano are very close (or were at this point in time anyway). And same things as his siblings or Baji, he probably heard it so often his brain started using 'Mikey' automatically. I do think he can still use 'Manjiro' at times, but for him there's no real difference between using one or the other.

[wia-tia]

LIVE 162 reaction:

Mengo's art is so good!!! That is the only good thing I have to say at the moment. I feel so disappointed. What is this? They can't end Hikaru's arc like this, right? Hikaru isn't going to die, right? RIGHT?

There is still so much to uncover imo (πーπ).

What is kamiki doing here though? Choking? Trying to embrace? I mean I'm trying to see it non-murderous but I don't know anymore at this point. ( ._. )""

[n7viper]

queue’s still running but I may not be as active as I thought

[the-maddened-hatter]

My personal headcanon regarding the mob chasing Allicent & Helana is that they just wanted to throw fish and stuff at the ruling queen Allicent.

Like to me, personally, there was someone who yelled "our bad!" when a fish meant for Allicent clipped Helana

[ananke-xiii]

Metatron is both s6 Crowley with Cas AND s10 Crowley with Dean, he wants to rebuild heaven AND he wants Cas to sit next to him there, he wants to turn Cas into the villain AND he wants him to choose a side, he wants to be Cas AND he wants him to be with him in his little fantasy so bad it makes him look stupid...

He was the moment to me. He's a loser and a nerd and he uses quotes incorrectly but I love him.

[keeps-ache]

[staring out the window but it's just a sticker on the wall] i actually need to make something right now or i'll espode

[lastoneout]

I don't think there's anything wrong with making a series for middle class home chefs with nice kitchens and disposable income who want to cook better...but I do think it's a little shitty to pretend that's not what you're doing.

Like I'm sorry if your "basic" meatloaf recipe calls for ground beef, pork, AND veal I think you've gone beyond what can reasonably be called basic.

[martianbugsbunny]

I've seen the first six or so episodes of Discovery now. The best moment for me was when Stamets called Culber "my dear doctor."

It made me really sad, though. I feel so happy for any fans who got that experience without jadedness, but I couldn't help thinking that it could've been Garashir to have that. They should've had it. It was unfair that they didn't. And it makes me incredibly sad that instead of that "dear doctor" moment being just normal for me, like it was for the characters, it was something that I qualify as the best moment in six episodes. It was a thing where I looked back at years of disappointment and regret for other Star Trek characters who didn't get to be queer, where I wanted to cry because it took so damn long, where it healed a little part of me that had been hurt by all that because it finally happened.

I wish I'd been able to see that scene without all the baggage. It wouldn't have been incredible. I would've loved that.

[binders-and-beanies]

Pondering bottom surgery in the tags I mf guess

[coriander-candlesticks]

Not my grandpa pulling the "your Heavenly Parents love you" card right after we talked about...so many things not related to theology.

To be fair, he'd been talking about the struggles a couple relatives had had with their faith before then, but. Not appreciated. I wasn't expecting it (though I should have) so I wasn't prepared to give a "well I'm going my own, private path" response (I am NOT ready to tell family members about exploring polytheism and I don't have a way to leave if it goes poorly until my flight Sunday morning.

I was able to stop the conversation eventually but. Oh boy.

[deus-ex-mona]

man.

something midosena never prepared me for was just how comfortable the train seats are

[magical-regical]

This song is Xavier coded. It's so Xavier coded. Turn on cc and tell me I'm wrong.