#ch: autumn alita

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in which julia makes gifspams for her friends ☆ﾟ ↳ fall from grace by @sinestroe​

​What matters for Autumn Alita, what will always matter to her, is this: family. And, as always, that will be her downfall.

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This isn’t the story of a monster. This is a story with missing pages, whole chapters ripped out and thrown into a darkness that Autumn can't quite see past. There are blanks in her memory, moments she's sure she's repressed, little things that will never add up. Her story is dark scrawls and angry letters, all venom and fistfights.

It's not the story of a monster, but it's not the story of a hero, either.

And each step she takes, closer and closer to yet another bad decision, proves it. Hal Jordan is not the only thing hiding in the shadows, not the only person with madness rotting away at their soul. He is not the only thing left to fear ━━ not while Autumn Alita takes in spoiled breathes, her body burning the oxygen with only pain in mind.

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GET TO KNOW: AUTUMN ALITA

“I could always go insane again?” She suggested. “That usually solves my problems.”

“I’m pretty sure it caused most of them.”

She shrugs. “Only the one I couldn’t burn.”

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🖋 autumn

Autumn is, hands down, my favourite OC. Like, ever. Can’t believe I came up with her from the dumb premise of ‘I want a fic called Fall From Grace & I want the OC to be called Autumn because puns’ but here we are, with my most popular character. That’s not even up for debate, I am genuinely in awe of how much attention FFG has gotten.

And I just love everything about Autumn. I love how she’s developing & she’s still making mistakes because she’s extremely flawed. I love all the layers to her relationships with people; the way she’s simultaneously devoted to Hal but also needing to break away if she ever wants to improve herself; how her & Dick are always gonna be haunted by the shadow of her death & her life; Kory potentially being her goddamn soulmate but Autumn being too scared to ever truly pursue that.

KoryAutumn is literally amazing, oh my god. Like, Kory could so easily be The One for Autumn. She doesn’t take her shit, but she doesn’t judge her for it either. She’s the endless support that Autumn has always needed since Coast City, because unlike Guy & John, she refuses to let her wallow in her own self pity. Kory is all about confronting things upfront, being honest to the people she loves, and the more time that Autumn spends with her, the more that rubs off on her. Genuinely, I think if Kory hadn’t been there, then Autumn never would’ve decided to tell the Titans the truth. Kory just improves her as a person.

But at the same time, DickAutumn is everything to me. I love childhood friends to lovers because, uh, it’s an amazing trope and the fact that Dick and Autumn were so close to becoming that? Literally a day away before everything went to hell? Amazing. I love it. Dick is safety, to Autumn. She’s been in love with him for so long (& vice versa) and it’s just so good. Also, every single ‘I could never hate you’ is a declaration of love, idc, idc. I’m pretty sure I’ve even set that up in the fic like... the whole what is love piece of prose was so good re: DickAutumn & KoryAutumn.

And just!!!! Hal!!!! Hal and Autumn, the mentor/protege duo of my heart. Batman and Robin who I only know Green Lantern and Aura. Like, Hal loves her so goddamn much?? That’s his kid, okay, that’s the end of the conversation. |Doesn’t matter what kind of satantic cricket is hijacking his soul, he’d never intentionally hurt Autumn. He’d literally rather die and I’m so sad right now, because we’re coming up on the Spectre being introduced and (spoiler alert) the fact that Hal actively refuses to be near Autumn, because he gets that he hurt so much as Parallax and he can’t do that again, he won’t, even when Parallax itself is encouraging him to get closer to her!!!!! He just loves her so goddamn much.

And Sinestro... he’s the worst. I can’t wait to post the next chapter because it ends on a massive cliffhanger with him & Rachel & everything’s gonna start falling into place as we move closer and closer to part three.

Autumn’s entire story is just -- I’m so proud of it? Idk how else to put it. She’s such a complex character and it would’ve been so easy to screw her up, but I don’t think I have. Like, if I’d given away too much or too little at the start, she wouldn’t be half as good a character. I know a lot of people really wanted Dick to forgive her immediately at the end of part 1 but let’s be honest, it’s so much better for both the characters and the story that he didn’t. Like, Autumn faces consequences for what she did and part of her redemption is accepting that reality and doing her very best to let them know that she regrets everything that she did, but at the same time, she does not expect their forgiveness.

In conclusion, I love the world’s biggest idiot who has never made a good decision in her life.

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[asoulofstaars]

in which julia makes gifspams for her friends ☆ﾟ↳ fall from grace by @dilfdoctordoom​

She’s sinking, falling, further and further still. She’s tumbled from the edge before, this — this is the true fall from grace. She knows that, no longer blinded by dazzling lies. She can see it. She can feel it.