#but there is a struggle at the core

[perplexingly]

I kinda wish they bonded over their dead man walking like behavior…

[everyonesadoptivedad]

something something height difference something?

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Kiss Kiss Fallen Tree!

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[dcxdpdabbles]

Ooh babies in cluster of cores! I can’t wait to see Jason and Roy with a baby ghost. Dani explaining ghost things like they are obvious while the boys panic at invisible baby.

They rushed to the hospital. It would have been faster as heroes, but they needed a legal claim over the baby and Dani in case the alien did not wake.

Thankfully, Babs is smart enough to send her father as a police escort. It's not as fast as Roy would have liked, but it's still faster than following the normal speeding limits. When they arrive, it takes a moment to get past the security that Waynes has set up for the aliens and even longer for them to be called back into the room holding the eggs.

It's a guess as to what works to incubate them. They tried keeping them warm and close to the alien—Danny—whose hand was always resting on his cluster. Dani makes a small noise of pain when she sees her father, but her eyes lock on a bundle of blankets that a nurse is holding.

Roy sets her down, watching her eyes glow strangely as she slowly walks towards her sibling, almost as if in a trance. The nurse kneels down so she can see the newborn infant.

The two heroes don't dare move too close, but they strain their heads as Dani starts whispering to the baby in a strange language. They can see the child is small and wrinkly, curled up with a tiny fist under their left cheek. The baby has a soft puff of black hair, but it's not enough to cover their hold head.

Roy thinks back to when Lian was born. She was bald and looked like a raisin, but she was the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen. This alien child is a close second.

"This is my baby brother. His name is Dan." Dani says after a moment, pressing glowing lips on the baby's forehead. The infant jerks his head in her direction in that newborn movement where his body is not strong enough to move correctly. His hair flashes a little into a baby flame that flickers before it settles back into hair strands.

Dani coos, "He's a fire core. Dad will be so happy when he wakes...."

Danny's heart monitor spikes as if he could hear them before it settles back into a soft beeping. Jason crosses the room, kneeling before the little girl, and softens his voice. "Dan, huh? That's a theme I'm picking up?"

Roy realizes Jason is using the voice he reserves for scared civilians, usually for children. He knows that his asking about the baby is the only thing keeping Dani from bursting into tears.

It's a sad sight. Her eyes are water, nurse is still holding her tiny arms in proper position with her comatose father not too far from her. Roy is struck by how small she is. How lost she must be.

A refugee escaping not only a country but an entire world of discrimination.

She likely thinks she needs to step up for her baby brother, but Roy won't allow her to believe she can't be a child. They are more than willing to support both children while Danny slumbers.

"It's tradition to include the parent's name in the child's," Dani says slowly, looking at her brother with a few tears rolling down her face. "Dad and I talked about baby names before the bombs....What if Dad never wakes up?"

"Oh, sweetie." Jason places a hand on her small shoulder, mindful of the tiny sleeping infant in her hold. "He will be so excited to meet Dan when he wakes. We'll wait for him, okay?"

The nurse takes the baby back, allowing Jason to wrap the girl into his arms. Roy quickly adds to the embrace and lets out a soft oof as Lian slams into his back, joining in on the hug. "Everything will be alright."

Dani bursts into sobs, shaking in place as she clings to them. There is a wave of power coming off her- ectoplasm- but nothing happens besides the soft light. The nurse backs away anyway, unsure how her abilities will affect the baby.

No one really knows how to treat Indigenous Daxamites, much less something as delicate as an infant.

"I miss home. I miss my grandparents, my aunts and uncles, and my Dad." Dani babbles through her tears. "I didn't want to leave, but Dad said the cores weren't safe."

"Oh, sweetie. You've been so brave," Roy tells her, blinking his own tears out of his eyes. He knows he should not be grateful for it, but the knowledge that Lian may not have been with them had these two not lost everything. It's a tough pill to swallow, but Roy knows himself well enough to realize he's pretty selfish.

He opens his mouth to say something else when another light pulse flashes through the room. It does not come from Dani. It comes from one of the cores under Danny's protective hand.

The nurse gasps. She rushes over to carefully put Dan in a crib and slams the call button on her lanyard. "I need support in room 209. Delivery underway."

The light is pulsing now while a hauntingly beautiful hum fills the air. Almost like a lullaby, the humming grows louder and louder as the pulsing increases, and Roy doesn't need to be told that it's Danny's voice they are hearing.

Dani once said her father liked to hum to his cluster when they visited her sleeping father, and though she attempted to, she claimed her humming wasn't working—that it wasn't leaving a mark. He understands now what she meant.

The nurses rush into the room, with Tim in a suit not far behind. The Drake Hospital was ordered to report any changes to the cores to the young CEO, meaning he was able to rush over from the conference room he recently turned into a makeshift office to stay near Danny.

He gestures for the group to leave. The core has been removed from under Danny's hand, expanding like a balloon blown up. The crew moved it to another wheeled scribe, carefully recording everything happening. "They need space. The last hatch took hours and-"

"No need. Danika is here," Dani cuts him off, rubbing at her cheeks as the core makes a loud and aggressive cracking before the outer shell shatters like glass. In the center of the scribe is a squirming newborn that scrunched up her nose before letting out a cry. The medical crew descends on her to check her up in seconds while someone rushes out to get a new scribe. One without all the frozen shards. "She's an ice core like Dad, so her birth is easier."

Tim stares at the baby and then at Dani, with apparent questions in his eyes, but he has enough tack to not voice any of them. " A baby sister this time. Are you excited?"

Dani smiles, weak and watery but genuine. "Yeah."

Roy lets out a breath he didn't realize he was holding. For a second, he thought Dani would resent her cluster siblings for forcing them on the run. He's glad that's not an issue.

"Come on, Sweetheart," Jason says, picking up Dani and placing her on his hip. "Let's give the doctors space to check over Danika, and then you can meet your new sister."

"I want to see the babies too!" Lian shouts, tugging on Roy's arm. The redhead also picks her up, tapping her nose in the same motion. "Once the doctors say it's okay, you can meet the babies too."

Tim leads them out, but his eyes track Roy and Jason's every movement with an approving light, which makes Roy fluster enough to quickly turn his gaze away. He accidentally locks gazes with one glowing green eye, watching them from the corner of his eye.

He nearly drops his daughter. "He's awake!"

"Danny!" Dani yells, throwing herself out of Jason's hold to tumble her way to her father. The man's eyes shift down to her before they crinkle at the edges, and he carefully lifts his hand off his cluster to offer it to her in a hug.

She wastes no time climbing onto the bed, sobbing much harder and louder than before as Danny speaks in that strange but musical-sounding language. Dani clings to his chest, sobbing into it as the man carefully pets her hair in an attempt to calm her down.

He seems too weak to move about, but Roy is again struck by the alien's strength. This was a man who not only got his children out of a hostile environment and saved a stranger's child but also managed to find the willpower to comfort his daughter after a three-month coma.

"Everything will be alright," Jason repeats at his elbow, his voice somewhat watery. Roy believes him one hundred percent, even if they are still waiting for the Indigenous Daxamites to be approved for asylum on Earth.

He feels his daughter lean her head on his shoulder and Jason's warm hand on his other arm. The medical staff clears the two infants, and his hero is awake.

All is right with the world. They will ensure that the world is safe for the rest of the cluster. Danny will be able to raise his children in a secure environment. Roy swore on it.

[desigirldairies]

— cottage core but desi 🪷

[heymacy]

IAN GALLAGHER + his journey with bipolar disorder

╰┈➤ “At times, being bipolar can be an all-consuming challenge, requiring a lot of stamina and even more courage, so if you’re living with this illness and functioning at all, it’s something to be proud of, not ashamed of." - Carrie Fisher

[alwaysbewoke]

nah nah nah. y'all wanted to be white so bad, stay there with them and EAT THAT RACISM smfh

[nondelphic]

i just know that someday i’ll be a famous writer who still has a tumblr. like, "yes, i’m signing books at my global tour, but i still make unhinged posts here every night."

[royaltea000]

this was actually for @doomspiral ‘s mini ruspru week but I’m. very.. slow… o)-(

[professionallyunstable]

i remember everything that you forgot

[puppetmaster13u]

Halfa Jason Design

Specifically in thoughts to This but honestly might use it for other things too

[turtleblogatlast]

Something I love to think about is every iteration of Leo’s relationship with Splinter and how Splinter’s interests always define how a Leo presents himself.

I used to abide by the idea that a Leo will simply emulate his Splinter directly, and to an extent I still believe that to be the case, but moreso I think Leos have a tendency to mold themselves into what they believe is their Splinter’s ideal son - someone who embodies all the traits Splinter has explicitly shown to admire or value in a person.

Most of the time, they try to be a dutiful and honorable boy abiding by the full extent of ninjitsu teachings. Then you have Rise Splinter, who very much still has undeniable prowess in the art of fighting and being a ninja, but when it comes to how he shows his interests to his boys…one thing reigns supreme.

Acting. Shows. One liners. Flamboyance in the name of gaining an audience’s attention.

He showcases Lou Jitsu movies on repeat for the boys, passing down the morals and words from those movies to them with no small amount of pride. All while fully expecting them to respect these teachings.

So, of course, Rise Leo picks up on this. He’s a Leo, after all, as much a daddy’s boy as any other variation of him, only he clocked his father’s interests to be different than most others. He picks up on the art of showmanship, of keeping things to himself so as to be a more exciting twist later, of treating the world as a set to act in.

He’s an actor, not just because Splinter himself was one, but because Splinter likes acting and showed one particular actor (unknowingly to the boys, it was himself) as the pinnacle of all his teachings. As someone to value and admire. And even more than that - Splinter focuses on the character the actor is portraying rather than just the man himself.

And I think this is all even more interesting when taking the turtle tot short into consideration, because very, very briefly, just as with many times else throughout the series, we see how easily Rise Leo aligns with his other selves, seeming to pick up the sword easier than his brothers do their own weapons - after quoting Lou Jitsu of course. After emulating his idol - the person who his father seems to admire so much.

Point being, it’s so interesting to see how Leos tend to mold themselves in one particular way throughout every variation - that being, what their father is shown to value most in people.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Lan Wangji Goes To Lotus Pier AU: Part 1: Dread on Arrival

(Part 2)

[anbaisai]

上っ面な愛を愛と呼べんなら If this shallow love is what you call love 如何せん僕はフールみたい Unfortunately, like a fool, 『離したいワケがない』って言うけど I said “It’s not like I want to let you go” — 『紗痲/Shama』 (煮ル果実/NILFRUITS)

Jamiyuu as Shama has been on my mind for several days, so enjoy the unexpected doomed yuri. For those who don't know the reference, check out the linked music video for the full story! (Unused sketch under the cut bc I couldn't bring myself to delete it)

It fits too well, does anyone get me (please)

[desigirldairies]

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Search *your name* + core

Mine: GANGA CORE

It's so pretty istg-

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[apollos-boyfriend]

man fuck everyone who was saying this manga was a disappointment/bait-and-switch and makoto isn’t actually trans. must a non-binary/genderqueer character turn to the camera and go “actually, i’m transgender” for their identity to be valid