#cloning for fun and profit

[psychologeek]

Whumptober #9:

OBSESSION  | Broken Window | Bruises | “Frame me up on the wall, just to keep me out of trouble.” (Fall Out Boy, Irresistible)  

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He shouldn't do that.

Young Justice The Team trusts him

(And if he and Cassie beat up the white coaters, harder than before, it's between them and their long-dead friend.)

He shouldn't do that.

But.

It's just medical equipment. It's okay. He's not gonna use it. Just a supply. And it's not like it's hard for Raven to put it in a space pocket so it would only come back to its original form when Tim uses a very specific combination of words and and gestures, all without damaging any of the delicate wiring.

In fact, he's even redeeming that equipment, in a way. It would use for ethical scientific reasons only. Just in case. 

Right?

~

T #49 makes it to the second week before failing. The little blastocyst's implantation just fails, all out of a sudden.

It doesn't make sense. 

It doesn't make any sense.

It should work - it worked with mice and lambs and even monkeys. 

Then why? Why wouldn't it work with humans?

The only non-optamised thing he can think of is using defrosted ovum. But it's not like he can just get a supply of freshly cooked human eggs out of-

Oh.

Oh, augh. Ew.

He CAN use. Well. His personal supply.

Disgusting.

Dysphoric.

But for Kon?

Worth it.

Always.

[bananonbinary]

Crab Day

okay, so here's a new info post from the top.

the problem: tumblr is extremely extremely in debt. the current model is not profitable. this is why they are trying to turn the site into a shit clone of every other social media site, so they can attract new users and their money.

solution: not a ton of people can afford a long-term subscriptions like ad-free. however, many of us CAN afford $3 to inflict crabs on another unsuspecting user. (and those that can't, can still enjoy crabs everywhere)

the idea: in the grand traditions of mishapocalypses and goncharovs and tumblr users' obsession with [random inconsequential thing] Days, we create a fund drive/holiday on July 29th, dubbed Crab Day. buy your friends crabs. buy your enemies crabs. blaze posts. post memes. change ur icon. whatever. actually put your money where your mouth is and show @staff that there actually IS profit motive to listen to the current users about what we want this site to look like. (and yes, that means accessibility features too. we currently have zero leverage to demand these features. let's change that.)

i don't know if this will actually go anywhere. worst case scenario, a few of us have fun, tumblr gets a small amount of money, and nothing changes. best case though, we actually provide incentive to keep our stupid hellsite unique.

[mutable-manifestation]

Danny retired from the whole hero thing, but Dani spent time travelling the world. Finding herself.

The first time Vlad tried to apologize she'd run, not ready to here him out. That he'd let her go is what makes up her mind about hearing him out the next time they cross paths.

Dani still explores the world, but she does it on Vlad's dime. She visits on holidays and sometimes at random.

She does heroing on her travels, just here and there in between pickpocketing and getting the necessities.

With Vlad's money meeting her survival needs she fills the extra time with more heroing, and occasionally with tailing heroes.

Some might call it stalking, but she prefers to call it job shadowing.

And okay, maybe some of it is personal curiosity.

Like when she follows Superman after a fight, eager to see if he really spends all of his spare time brooding in a frozen castle.

Finding out he daylights as just some news guy is interesting - and funny, given the 'harmless giant' persona he has going for him. So maybe she extends her...'job shadowing' just a bit.

She wants to see a day in the life. So sue her.

The Very Normal Apartment is pretty far from what she expected.

When he swaps back to Superman and leaps from his balcony again not long after, and instead of going to a fight in the city he flies up? She keeps on following, invisible and intangible all the while as an extra precaution.

She follows his to a space station that appears to have been made as a base for the JL - judging by the presence of various other members.

It doesn't take long for the last of the JL to arrive and the meeting to start; she expected it to be boring, intended to just spend the time getting a closer look at costumes and weapons.

Until Batman announces that the meeting is about 'the clone.'

Superman's clone. That Superman refers to as an it, that he speaks with hatred and vitriol in his voice.

Dani is just in time for the first debrief on the topic. The full debrief. Which means she has all the information she needs about who made him, what he looks like.

Where he is.

Who has physical versus technical custody.

Where to look for evidence.

Lex Luthor is a Known Bastard and Superman clearly has no intention to play caring parent for the kid that was wrenched into existence - through no fault of his own - with no support structure to fall back on and no real identity in the world.

Dani knew what that was like. Dani had spent years of her life as a ghost in both senses of the word.

Vlad coming around to being non-fruitloopy had tethered her. She'd rejected his offer for an official legal identity before, but he'd made her a few fakes with which to pursue an education.

She'd avoided the sciences at first just to differentiate herself from the Danny she was created to be. But eventually she fell in love with learning about different languages, different cultures. It was an extension of her obsession, in a way, and she latched on with fervor.

Vlad had tricked her into giving math and the sciences a go by offering her books about the evolution of numbers as a part of language and the history of the use of Greek and Latin in the sciences. She'd learned enough to graduate high school, if she wanted.

Now? She wants.

She goes to Vlad with what she has on the clone - 'Connor' - and asks him to find a way to help.

Copyright is a fascinating thing.

Once someone is proven to have broken a copyright, they must cease and desist from further breakage and either destroy the existing works that breach the copyright or give the works over to the copyright owner.

Even as a clone, Connor was a person. "Destroying' him would be entirely off the table, making it a matter of custody.

Custody that would rightfully go to Vlad.

If the courts declared Connor's personhood, Superman may try to claim custody. They would be sure to have all the evidence they needed that he was an unfit guardian - and that Vlad was a perfect one - by then.

Dani was all the evidence they needed that Vlad had the rights to that copyright - in addition to a paper copy he would have backlogged by several years. A hand from Technus and Tucker made the thing - and Danielle's own legal identity backlogged to the time of her creation - airtight.

She asks Tucker not to mention it to Danny, she wants to explain the situation in person.

Danny, being her original, needs to be on board if they're going through with this - as both a witness to the fact that she is a clone and because he will be one of the people in spotlight, since he is the original.

Vlad Masters is the most reclusive billionaire in the US, suddenly going public with an adopted daughter that he cloned himself from the DNA of his best friends' son? And then suing Lex Luthor for breaking his copyright on cloning? By cloning Superman? And then serving him a cease & desist and demanding custody of the clone??? It's gonna be a media circus.

Danny needs forewarning (they already know he'll approve, but they need to make sure all of their stories are consistent).

Vlad is the one to talk to Jack & Maddie - they've long since been brought up to speed on all of his bullshit. He's been making strides in apologizing, making it up to them. Danny's willingness to give him a second chance is the only reason they allow themselves to do the same. Dani visits sometimes.

To avoid Vlad being arrested and unable to help Connor bc of the very illegal way he made Danielle, they plan to explain her as a consensual copy - that Vlad always wanted a child but never really fell in love (maybe he was aroace but just really stuck on the life script of grow up-graduate-get married & got stuck on 'Maddie' as the perfect wife, but like, in a feng shui kinda way? Then chilled out when he realized there's actually nothing wrong with being single? idk).

Except he has Jack & Maddie as his platonic besties & asked if he could clone one of their kids. And Danny was like "oh cool a clone" and they decided his clone would be less likely to have an existential crisis about their clone-ness. And voila.

Danielle.

So yeah Jack, Maddie, Jazz, & Danny all really need to be on board with that or they need to find a better story.

Which is how she finds herself in Gotham, spilling the story to him and brainstorming public, normal, non-suspicious activities she can do while she's in the spotlight.

He tells her the Spanish teacher at his school is retiring soon. What better way to be visible and non-suspicious than to do what Danny does at his Totally Normal Job (TM).

Dani is has a shiny new high school diploma officially under her belt, and years of her life will be explained away as travel. She spent a total of a year and a half in either Mexico or Spain; she knows the language.

Gotham Academy isn't sure how to feel about a teacher that comes at Danny's recommendation, but Vlad & Technus' quickly forged teaching certificate mean she meets the qualifications.

They let her teach for a day as a test, having the old Spanish teacher shadow. Her lessons are a bit more practical, a bit more slang is included, but more than acceptable for the Academy.

She's surprisingly normal for a teacher that comes at Danny's recommendation (especially given how similar they look - siblings, perhaps?)

They hire her.

By the third lesson the students think she's normal.

The beginning of week two is when her...eccentricities start to show.

In the first week she'd learned the chronic texters - there was always one or two, no matter how prestigious the institution.

Mid-lesson one student pats himself down in a panic before raising his hand.

"Yes, Mr. Jeremiah?"

"I'm really sorry Ms. Masters, I think I left my phone in the locker room can I please run and grab it? I promise I'll be quick!"

"Nope!"

"But-!"

"No need, your phone is right here," she chirps, pulling it out of a pocket somewhere inside her jacket.

"Wh-what...?"

"I caught you texting during class three times last week, Mr. Jeremiah. I have a three strikes system; after that, I confiscate your phone until classes are over. If you want to reset your count - which I will only allow once - you can write me a three page paper, en Español - on why texting should not be happening during class. Double-space, Times New Roman, 12pt font. A few of you are at a two already, keep it in mind."

"But- you- how???"

Dani only smiles.

(She spent a fear years on her own. As a halfa she got by pretty well, after she was stabilized. But she had to learn pickpocketing before that, and she learned it well. Powers just made it all the smoother.)

She never gets caught confiscating a phone, and when she gives them back at the end of class the students are always a mix of relieved and shocked.

After a computer lab quite a few students have snacks they didn't know were missing returned to them.

Someone notices Ms Masters seems to store everything she confiscates in the same pocket, but some of the things shouldn't fit - even some single item shouldn't have. Not without at least being noticeable.

(Dani was a ghost in both senses of the word for a long time. She moved around alot. She did have a bag or two she would phase into walls/the ground, but she stored a lot of things just in herself. Perks of being a halfa: free real estate storage space)

She's sneaky - she even manages to spook Tim once. Someone notices her footsteps don't make noise.

Just. Little things.

Subtle things.

Then Dash gets her to help him with a 'coordinated combat' (ie how not to do friendly fire/get in each others way when fighting one enemy) lesson and they realize exactly how unhinged she is.

30 people work together to shoot her and she doesn't take a single hit, making expert use of the dodgeshot shields (random items that people can hide behind from 'large' to 'must be small or a contortionist).

Every time she passes from one shield to the next she takes out three people. A few manage to get in close.

She isn't where they expect her to be.

She lets out a gentle 'boo.'

She's right behind them. The two shriek and whirl around, before they go down in a tangle of limbs when one trips.

She taps her faux-bayonette to either of their throats and says "you're out."

The fight is over inside of two minutes.

Dash deems their performance to be 'worse than Fenturd in freshman year' and says if they can't aim they better know how to ambush.

They have to hide throughout The Obstacle Course and try to hit her before she can see them. Bonus points if she doesn't see them.

She practically hunts them for sport.

Her evil cackling the whole time sees her moved up to 'most likely to go rogue,' with Danny a modest second.

A week later when it comes out she's Mr. Fenton's clone made by reclusive billionaire Vlad Masters they're like 'yeah that tracks.'

Short DPXDC Prompts #468

Danny is a Chemistry teacher at Gotham Academy. His favorite student is Tim. He shocks the students by teaching and creating a Fear Antitoxin for the kids to learn as part of their curriculum.

[onnahu]

Ok, so is it only me who finds Tim's rise to heroing hillarious?

Bc consider: everyone have their traumatic original story, especially in batfam (Cass's whole life, Dami's upbringing, Jay's street life, Dick's parents, Steph's father, Duke's parent. Actually everyone's parents wtv), and then there is Tim. He's rich white boy that canonically was not abused by his parents, only in fanon, that is weirdly obsessed with Dick Grayson. Not even Robin or Nightwing. Dick Grayson and his motherfucking summersault. He didn't plan on becoming Robin, it just happend bc heis sense of duty didn't let him just turn his back on Batman's villain origin storry. And then it was supposed to be Dick back as Robin, but he said 'oh fuck no' and that was it. So Tim was like 'welp, I guess it's only me' and got himself a job without any profit. And then it was just like 'it's actually fun, i'm gonna blow shit up and mess with ppl' and that was it, he was gone for heroism forever.

And then as Robin and later Red Robin he's got a shittone of trauma, but it's after. He literally don't have any deeply rooted motive for becoming a vigilante, just that he was only one that figured out who Batman was and was to nosy to just turn his back on it.

So yeh. Tim is just funny like that.

And it's all actually even funnier when you realise that he's one of the most unhinged one of Batfam. I mean they all are, but he's the one that went on crazy andventure looking for Bruce, got Ra's obsessed with him, destroyed LoA, lost his spleen and tried to clone his dead bf 99 times.

[suzukiblu]

WIP excerpt for qwertynerd97 behind the cut; "kidnapping your soulmate for fun and profit". (( chrono || non-chrono ))

Superboy grins at him again. Tim thinks he’s going to have to start just inventing new stages of grief, at this point. The current ones aren’t going to cover this situation. 

“Sorry, I didn’t mean anything by it, I just thought it might be a little harder to hang out together if you’re really never doing the civilian look,” he tries, and Superboy–stills, suddenly, and the grin vanishes all at once. Tim has a moment to be split between having an anxiety attack about having said the wrong thing or having an anxiety attack about the supervillain attack that’s about to land on his head when he still doesn’t have a mask, and then–

“You–what?” Superboy asks, looking startled. “I mean, uh–like–you wouldn’t get bored doin’ that?” 

“. . . hanging out with you?” Tim asks blankly. They’re soulmates. And also Superboy is quite possibly the literally least boring person he has ever met, douchey shades or not, and the list of “least boring” people in his life includes Bruce and Dick and more superheroes than he could shake his bo stick at. How is someone getting bored around him even a concern that would occur to Superboy? Like, literally ever? 

“No, I mean–” Superboy turns red, looking briefly embarrassed. “You wouldn’t have more fun hangin’ out with Superboy than just, uh–some guy?” 

It takes all of Tim’s Bat-training and gala-experience to not stare at him over that. That–what kind of question is that? 

“I mean, I’m just some guy,” he lies. “But I just meant it’d be way easier to hang out if we weren’t having to deal with people bugging you for selfies or autographs or whatever all the time, you know?” 

“I–uh, I guess,” Superboy says, still looking flustered. “Like–probably, I guess.” 

“Also I don’t want, like, a Gotham rogue randomly deciding you being in town is a good reason to start some shit,” Tim says wryly, because he definitely does not want that, in fact. “Feel like Batman wouldn’t like that very much.” 

“You believe in Batman, dude?” Superboy asks, raising an eyebrow at him. 

“You’re a half-alien clone and you think Batman’s hard to believe in?” Tim attempts to deflect with, because that was definitely a fuck-up on his part, and Superboy just laughs. 

“No, man, I just have literally never met a Gothamite who’d admit to believing Batman was a real dude,” he says. “I literally met Robin like a week ago and, like, pretty sure he was low-key trying to convince me he didn’t believe Batman existed.” 

It was not even a week, Tim thinks, mildly indignant for no good reason, then puts Dubious Civilian Expression #1 on his face and rolls his eyes. 

“Okay, Batman’s one thing, but no one actually thinks Robin’s real,” he snorts, and Superboy laughs again, sounding straight-up delighted about it. 

“No, he totally is!” he protests, grinning at him again too and linking his hands together behind his back as he leans towards him, which is incredibly, incredibly distracting for him. “Dude’s got the sick flips and everything and I totally saved his ass from Metallo. And, uh, then he totally saved my ass from Poison Ivy. Long story. Also he’s got a stick up his ass, like legit you would think that was where he kept that quarterstaff thing of his.” 

This is a dangerous topic, Tim recognizes while forcing down the instinct to reply it’s a bo staff, actually, they’re pretty different, and tries to figure out how to change the subject as quickly and thoroughly as possible. Robin talk is not a good idea right now, when there’s a risk of Superboy possibly noticing something about him, what with meeting Robin a reasonably fresh experience in his mind. 

Not that fresh, apparently, since he thinks it was “like a week” ago. But whatever. Not the point. Tim’s just annoyed by the inaccurate intel. 

. . . seriously. A week? 

“Batman or not, you apparently already have beef with Poison Ivy, so definitely I’d be worried about you being publicly in town without needing to pack a super-powered weed-whacker,” he says wryly instead of anything more damning or secret-identity-blowing. Superboy looks–weird, for a moment, leaning back a little bit to straighten back up. 

“You’d, like–actually be cool with me visiting you in Gotham? Like–that wouldn’t be annoying or whatever?” he asks, sounding just barely uncertain about it, and Tim again has to force himself not to stare at him. First: Superboy being any kind of uncertain whatsoever is the weirdest thing he’s ever seen, and second: they’re soulmates. People will spend a lot more time with their soulmates than occasionally visiting each other in different cities, especially five minutes after meeting them when they’re still trying to figure out who and what they are to each other. Again: Tim has investigated multiple missing persons cases that turned out to be “I found my soulmate” cases! Multiple! In Gotham, even! 

“Yes,” he says instead of any of that. “I would actually really like you to, in fact.” 

“Oh,” Superboy says, and turns red again. “I–uh–yeah, I guess that’d be cheaper than you needing to buy a plane ticket or run up your phone bill if you ever feel like shooting the shit or whatever, huh?” 

“I have unlimited minutes, actually,” Tim says, forcing down another stare. The staring would not help, at this moment. Or like–ever, probably. “And the plane ticket was only like a week’s allowance, plus my dad’s got a disgusting amount of frequent flyer miles saved up he never remembers to use anyway. I’ll buy you a plane ticket if you don’t feel like flying yourself.” 

“. . . uh,” Superboy says. Tim should stop talking, probably, but– 

“Also you’re my soulmate,” he says. “I could get, I dunno, an after-school job if I actually needed to cover anything like that. I just figured we could take turns flying over or something. I mean, if you decided to go to college in Gotham in a couple years or something I wouldn’t complain, obviously, just we’ve just met and that seems like a bit much to suggest first thing. Especially, uh, since you don’t actually have any transcripts, apparently. Um. Just, well, if you ever did want to be a civilian sometimes . . . like, eventually, I mean? Well, Gotham’d probably be a good place to hide a Super, right? Nobody’d expect to see you there, and it’s not like you can’t commute.” 

Superboy is staring at him now. Tim thinks maybe he said something wrong after all. Or maybe the lycra rando is about to jump him from behind. 

Fifty-fifty, given the way his life tends to go. 

“Um,” he says. “Like–no pressure or anything. I could also look into colleges out here, do you know if there’s any good programming–uh, programs around? Like just tech in general.” 

Superboy is still staring at him. 

. . . okay, at this point, it’s probably that Tim said something wrong, yeah.

[gl1tchy-4rt]

Piece of Towel 2 :0

Okay, so in past post I had mentioned that Pizza rebuilded the Tower out of spite to take rightful revenge on Peppino and the others.

So I decided to draw The New Tower!

Behold! The New Tower.

As you can see this Tower is taller but more scuffed and rushed than the previous one.

PizzaMan had to cut budget in order to effectuate his completely reasonable revenge but hey! It's standing and in one piece!... Most of the Time....

Five floors of pain! Four levels each! One New henchmen protecting the key to the next floor, Fun for the whole Family!

• Floors!

(Cause a tower has floors and lots of levels :D)

• Floor One: Reception Room

The Main area for visitors, Tell your motives and get going!, since PizzaBoy's Pizz-Pizza is a busy company with busy employees you should also be busy and movin'!

Level 1: Entrance

Level 2: PizzaRuins

Level 3: Mozzarella Museum

Level 4: Olive Offices

BOSS: Michael Jones (Yup he's Dougie's brother)

Hidden Level: Old Tower = Lobby

• Floor Two: Mediapolis

Studios, cameras and totally real news that hadn't been altered to cause fear mongering! The perfect place to promote your brand and become famous in exchange of your soul and privacy!

Level 1: Hot-Sun Studios

Level 2: Withering Arizona

Level 3: Faux Vegas!

Level 4: Rootbeer Pub

BOSS: Dj Ananas (AKA: Peter C. Ananas)

Hidden Level: Old Tower = Western District

• Floor Three: PizzaLand!

"Enjoy, Buy and Consume!" That's our motto! Come to enjoy the many attractions that PizzaLand has to offer! (PizzaLand doesn't make themselves responsible for the loss of items, money, family, health, dignity or innocence)

Level 1: Cheese Resort

Level 2: PizzaLand Park

Level 3: GOLF 2 (Not affiliated with Billy C. Greaseball)

Level 4: PizzaBoy's Mega-Mall!

BOSS: The Prince (AKA: Kingsley Hamburg)

Hidden Level: Old Tower = Vacation Resort

• Floor Four: Sacrifice Zone

What? Did you seriously think that a company like this would care about some plants? Heck nah! Where lame-os see "Destruction of both emviroment and quality of life" WE SEE BIG PROFITS.

Level 1: Industrial Streets

Level 2: Ah Crap... (Chemical waste disposal area)

Level 3: Drippin' Boilin' Melterator (Climate change :D)

Level 4: War-bot Factory

BOSS: T0N1 the Task Maneger

Hidden Level: Old Tower = Slum

• Floor Five: PizzaBoy's Private Offices

The Blood of the Company, This is where the... "Magic" happens, all the deals, transactions, stock management, Tax tax evasion, invention brainstorming, unethical experimentation, Magical researching, ect, ect… Everything that's helpful and essential for PizzaBoy's Pizza-Pizza!

Level 1: Pizza Offices

Level 2: Make Sound, Lemme hear You!

Level 3: Secret Labs

BOSS: "Bulldozer" the Last Clone

Level 4: Crumbling Walls (Outside of the Tower)

TRUE BOSS (Top of the Tower): PizzaMan

Hidden Level: Old Tower = Staff Only

• Hidden Floor: PizzaMan's Private Studio:

"You six aren't supposed to be here…" Level: Private Studio -------------------------------

HOOO BOY THIS WAS A LONG ONE

This is the Layout of the New Tower, the New Levels and PizzaMan's New Henchmen!

Im going to be posting the Floors with Their Bosses

It WILL take a while but ill try my best! besides Summer is soon! so ill have a bit more time to draw

Anyhow Everyone take care and

See y'all later!

[vladdyissues]

... cheese melt fluff? cause i have cheese melt fluff. ASSORTED cheese melt fluff

-Vlad totally isolating himself gives him a warped sense of what normal childrearing actually looks like but ends up kinda working out, since he insists on actual safety measures and teaching Dani to pay attention so she can report ANYTHING that goes wrong, but being 100% supportive of any of her legitimate interests (he refuses to be less supportive than Jack Fenton on any level) since in the grand scheme of things liking clothes he would never touch with a sixty foot pole and listening to music he can't understand whatsoever is totally unimportant in the face of making sure she doesn't melt like the OTHERS

-making a game of how many times Jack looks at Dani, looks at Danny, tries to calculate, hits the gap where "clones exist and this is a clone" would be at full speed, and sends his logic careening into the air like a player in Happy Wheels. it NEVER lands where he expects, and it's honestly a fascinating insight into what's going on in Jack's head

-if he skips part or most of the rapid-aging process, teeny Dani. Teeny Dani who is still a total gremlin. Vlad is entirely charmed she has that much energy (and finds every opportunity to make it other people's problem)

-divorced parents with a custody arrangement energy seeping into his relationship with Danny, and neither of them seem to notice. Sam and Tucker sure do. Jazz is actually in active denial about it

-it is not uncommon for Danny to be 'asked' to babysit by Dani sneaking in through the lab portal with a note pinned to her. Vlad is extremely bad at wording any of those notes to sound like he's doing something Danny should let happen

-Dani met the Dairy King early in. he and the vultures make it clear they'll always happily talk with Dani. half the time she disappears it's to hang out with one of them and pry stories about Vlad out of them that she likes to bust out at random

such as:

Vlad: having trouble there, Daniel? Duplication is my easiest skill and you're still botching half of your attempts!

Dani: it's your easiest? what about that time you kept growing arms and legs and you botched a mass duplicate so hard you made a kinda circle of--

Vlad: DANIELLE THIS IS NOT THE TIME

(The correct time is never, according to Vlad. According to Dani, the correct time is every ghost holiday party she crashes.)

-Cujo becomes her pet almost immediately of she stays with Vlad long-term and neither of them comment on it to anyone nor do they think to. just. dog is there sometimes, sometimes dog is not there, roll with it

-father-daughter bonding activities are many and varied, but their mutual favorites are exploring random areas of the Ghost Zone for fun and profit.

-piggyback rides. that is all

[kmesons]

the sheer amount of power charles coven holds is absolutely terrifying, now that I think about it, and it really re-contextualises the ending of yellow jacket. charles isn't just some relatively unknown but incredibly rich guy who runs the hatchetfield roller-rama for "fun" (profit). he is literally the owner of an international corporation that is known to possess the power of cloning and time manipulation. in the future, ccrp is shown to have taken over at least half of the planet. there is no way lex and hannah can evade him for longer than a few weeks without supernatural aid. and ethan? he probably walks past the ccrp building on his way to the auto repair shop every day. when it's found out he doesn't know where lex and hannah are, it'll be his end, since ethan probably knows more about the operation than charles would like. it's possible, even, that charles will find lex and hannah and use their connection to webby for his own gain, just as he has with the lords in black in ccrp. with the added context of what he's been doing to the technical department, it's hard to imagine things going well for lex, ethan, and hannah once charles coven finds them.

[weefers-x2]

I think that the Ken, Wato and Wifies little video series project was never meant to take off the way it did, they were there for extra credit and just got really close after that. So when Wifies checked the video and saw that there were like 30k views he was like "Hey guys we could make profit" and because it was so well recieved Wifies chose to bring the clone thing back for Unstable Universe when he got invited. When the other 2 asked him about it he was just like "it's kinda fun :D"

[coline7373]

The Many Lives Of Marshal Commander Cody After The War (No O66 AU)

Freedom Fighter

After the treaty between the Separatists and the Republic is signed (vastly in favor of the Republic), many worlds are damaged, the economy in shambles and their defences a pile of rubbles.

Which is where profiters come in! Pirates praying on ships sent with relief goods, slavers praying on refugees, regular galactic corporations arranging for an "accident" for their marchandises so those desperate worlds will have to buy twice...

Too bad for them, Cody didn't made Marshal Commander because of his pretty face.

Part of the Amavika trail, he establishes an entire fleet with most of Ghost Compagny survivors and other clones (Wolffe and Fox included) that patrol the poorest parts of the galaxy. They are Protection and Transport for Hire (and very little pay, but much fight & fun & justice).

******

Other Cody's lives AU:

Pantoran mountain farmer

Guardian of the Wheels

Reconstruction Corpsman

[nightfall-1409]

A Sunny Day On Kamino

Squad 16 reporting in for the @clonebang !

Team 16, myself @nightfall-1409, (AO3) my lovely artists @marbled-polecat (AO3) and @clownbloody , and my amazing beta, @cowbaehawyee (AO3)

I've once again done a combination of disney canon and legends fun for fun & profit. Tech (with memories of his past life) having to navigate a second go around and stepping into quite a lot of things. Emerie. the hunt for Ko Sai. Omega Squad. Clan Skirata. Their trainer Fordo. And of course, that wound of never getting his own closure from Crosshair. And missing Echo horribly.

Main pairings are polybatch, with highlights on crosstech & techo. side pairings are echo5, corr/mereel

Summary: Having shot the cords that connected him to the gondola wires on Eriadu, Tech had known the end was coming. But then it doesn't come. It doesn't come and he wakes up on Kamino, a place he'd witnessed the end of, during a battle that had been pivotal to his entire service during the Clone Wars— the Battle of Kamino. Navigating a past with only knowledge he lived through or studied, Tech is going to try his best to adapt all over again, and there are a lot of things he'd known that are no longer true, and a lot of thing's he'd not known that he now, somehow, has the chance to learn. Time Travel fic

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[psychologeek]

12.08.2023 prompt - Love Among the Shelves

Barbara was at the children's section's front desk when he approached.

It was her day shift, but every instinct she developed during her over-a-decade time as a vigilant, screamed inside of her that this man was DANGEROUS.

"Excuse me, sir!" She called him, as she took a quick look at the population.

(fifteen children, ten mothers, and a teen- probably a babysitter, or an older sister).

"How can I help you?" She asked as he stood in front of her, almost 2 ft over her. She quietly unlocked her wheels, and reach for the emergency taser.

"I want to get a library card." He says.

"This is the children section, mr...?"

"Dan. Just Dan. And that not for me, that's for the hellion". He gesture to his left, only seem to notice no one's there.

"ELLIE!"

"Sheesh, Old Mold." A kid show up. "No leed to yell. MY ears are still new and working."

"You can't just disappear without telling anyone!"

"What, am I in prison now? Oh, wait, I'm not the one who's been locked up!"

"You little hazard. What did we say about telling OUTSIDERS private information?"

"Do it for fun and profit?-"

And the man just grab by the back of her hoodie, and pick her up in one hand.

"That's the Hellion. She needs a library card."

The kid move a little, trying to escape, before giving up and just looking at Barbara.

"Hi! I'm Ellie - WOW ARE YOU JAZZ'S CLONE?".

-OR-

After learning that Danielle just travel around the world on her own, Dan's core re-develope his old obsession.

(protect her)

They travel across the world as Dan& Ellie - father and daughter.

Ellie wants to go to Gotham, (They have WEIRD THINGS) and they try getting a life there.

On an attempt to get something like normal (halfa?) life, Dan take Ellie to get her first library card.

Enter Barbara Gordon, a librarian extraordinary by day, and a vigilant named "Oracle" by night.

Somehow, she keep meeting that single dad (ex-prisoner) and his daughter.

(she CAN'T be introduced to Damian. The world may not survive it).

Or: I started thinking Dan/Barbara and now I can't unsee it.

Tag some I think would like this:

@stealingyourbones @im-only-here-for-the-fandom @hdgnj

[drunkenskunk]

I'm hoping to play in a game of Shadow of the Wolf soon, with the absolutely wonderful @butlerkobold as GM. And I already know who my character is going to be.

I am going to have SO MUCH FUN with this. She's gonna be a complete 180 from my other character, in every aspect, from personality, to backstory, to her battlefield doctrine and mech choices.

To the few of you who follow this blog and actually know of my favorite OC, this will probably come as no surprise. What is surprising - at least to me - is that the backstory of this particular variant (unlike many of the others) is going to be surprisingly close to the original.

BEHOLD:

Lady Tuera Ashama, Mailed Fist of the Raven Guard, Scion and Heir Apparent to the Ashen Throne within the House of Smoke.

Tuera was originally created as a facsimile clone of Venthrax Ashama, Duke of the Ashen Throne, as part of his "research." She was meant to act as both the "enforcer of his will" and leader of the Raven Guard, his private army. To this end, she's been the subject of countless experimental procedures, and fitted with extensive combat mods - both genetically engineered and cybernetic - to turn her into a living weapon. The results of her many years of hardship have been extremely successful - and highly profitable - for the Ashen Duke.

However, since her gender transition, she has seemingly fallen out of favor with her "father," if only behind closed doors. In public, the Ashen Duke has sent his progeny to the Karrakin Cavalry College on merit because of her many achievements and victories on the battlefield; the truth, however, is that Venthrax simply wants these "foolish delusions" beaten out of her by authority figures she cannot best through strength of arms, all so that his "son" can return to him.

Tuera was originally livid at this news; this was the last straw, and she was dead set on abandoning everything. She planned to leave Karrakin space entirely, and forge her own destiny outside the iron grip of Venthrax. However, she has given her situation much thought, and agreed to attend the college... for her own reasons.

She has already died a thousand times before. She will die a thousand times still. And it will not be enough to stop her.

She will not be beaten.

She will not be broken.

One way or another, she's going to find a means to kill that old bastard, once and for all.

[wizardofrozz]

I'm so excited to be part of Batched: A Clone Zine! I had so much fun writing and drawing for this project and I can't wait for everyone to see the finished product 🥰 preorders close on November 7th! @batchedzine

[wanderersrest]

A Spoilery Rant About Iron-Blooded Orphans

I came across a take on Reddit today pertaining to one of my favorite Gundam series in the franchise, Iron-Blooded Orphans. It's a fairly common take, and one that is, in my mind, just flat out wrong.

Spoilers below, and also content warning for pedophilia, genocide, and media literacy.

Also, fun fact: Tumblr's gif keyboard has a lot of Ein Dalton gifs. So that's cool.

ORGA AND McGILLIS ARE NOT THE BAD GUYS

If you can somehow look at Orga Itsuka, a character who leads a group of child soldiers that are struggling to make a living for themselves, and McGillis Fareed, a character who fights to change the world due to being a victim of child sexual assault by his own adopted father, I can't. I can kind of understand saying that about McGillis, especially since he's a classic Char Clone (backstabbing for self-gain included), but to be fair, McGillis really needs therapy. And IBO wouldn't be interesting if he solved his issues by being rational.

Orga's only crime, on the other hand, is being a dumbass. And this isn't an issue that only arises in season 2. It's present in season 1 as well, it's just that for the majority of season 1 he has Biscuit to play the voice of reason. Even then, Orga's goals are pretty noble if misguided, as all he really wants to do is guide the other kids of Tekkadan to a future where they have a place they belong. Because, you know, they're all expendable child soldiers. The first episode of the series has a moment where their previous employers use them as fodder while they escape with all of their money and capital.

And this is really what gets my goat with this take. People will talk about how Orga and McGillis are the real bad guys, but it's almost as if one person is kind of a well-meaning if hotheaded kid who only knows how to solve problems by using brute force and luck, and the other is an insane man who believes that having the original Gundam (this being the ASW-G-01 Bael, not the RX-78-2 Gundam) will be the key to solving all of the world's problems. This isn't even touching on the fact that this take whitewashes the actions of the actual antagonists of the show, Rustal Elion and Nobliss Gordon. Reminder that Rustal is a war criminal who commits multiple false flag operations to incriminate Tekkadan, and Nobliss is a war profiteer who benefits from all of this conflict no matter what.

I get not liking the ending of this series. It's bleak as all spark, and it's the culmination of a series of episodes that's basically the viewer getting kicked in the crotch repeatedly like they're Aki from Chainsaw Man. I get that people are probably sick of the whole "media literacy is dead" discourse. I am too. I especially hate when people use media literacy as a cudgel to bash people for making takes that others don't agree with. But I'm *this* close to turning into Ein Dalton and screaming "KUDELIA AINA BURNSTEIN" Isao Ota because of this take. Because the idea that "Orga and McGillis are the bad guys, ackshually" ignores both character's backstories while absolving actual evil characters like Rustal, Nobliss, and everyone's favorite failson Iok Kujan of their wrongdoing. One day, I'll talk about Iron-Blooded Orphans in earnest. I just needed to get this off of my chest because of how often this take turns up in online discussion. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going finish my transformation into Isao Ota post about Patlabor.

[suzukiblu]

Fic concept! AKA another soulmate AU. Working title: "kidnapping your soulmate for fun and profit".

Tim meets Superboy--Robin meets Superboy--and it goes, like . . . fine, he guesses. It's fine. They fight Metallo and Poison Ivy and don't die, though Superboy kinda looked like he wanted to when the kryptonite ring was happening to him.

Tim is a thorough little Bat-bastard, of course, so the day after all that goes down, he breaks into Cadmus. Well--breaks into their system, anyway. He figures knowing more about Superboy for the inevitable next time they meet up won't hurt, considering. Fully understanding potential allies' capabilities is--

There's photos in Superboy's file.

This would be completely irrelevant to everything, if those photos weren't specifically of Superboy's soulmark, which is so invasive and offensive that Tim feels kind of sick.

And also if that soulmark weren't the exact same one that showed up on him a few months back.

Well . . . okay, that's a . . . thing.

Tim has several sexuality crisises at once, then remembers platonic soulmates exist. But also he immediately had the sexuality crisises instead of ever thinking of platonic soulmates as being an option, which does not bode well for the "platonic"-ness of this particular soulmark.

Well, that's a whole thing now, he guesses.

Then he remembers that Poison Ivy kissed and mind-controlled Superboy. And also that Superboy, like, lives with his manager. His creepy, not very responsible, easily-blackmail-able manager. And also just . . . everything else he knows about the guy's life. Everything. All at once.

Tim has several more crisises and then calls Dick Grayson to freak out on him.

Tim: Is it ethical to kidnap your own soulmate and does that even matter if they're not legally a person and so you couldn't actually be charged for anything anyway? I mean, B can't get mad at me for doing it if the courts can't get me for doing it, right?

Dick: I'm sorry, Superboy's not legally a person?

Tim: Nope! Which neither Cadmus nor the sleazebag selling his likeness for a living has in any way tried to correct, for the record. Technically he's classified as intellectual property, but Cadmus forfeited legal possession when Superman turned up alive again, presumably to avoid Superman ever finding out that they'd had said legal possession, so technically if I went and kidnapped him it'd be more like . . . salvage, maybe? Like, in the eyes of the law, I mean.

Dick: Yeah, okay, in that case kidnapping your own soulmate might be less an ethics question and more a moral obligation.

Anyway, Nightwing-assured Tim immediately grabs his go-bag and goes to Hawaii to make his kidnapping plans. Like, he's just gonna start soft-planning something, nothing concrete yet. Obviously it's going to take a lot of work to get a cocky half-Kryptonian teenage clone with authority issues and an inflated ego kidnapped by a lone Robin, and--

Five minutes later "normal civilian" Tim Drake meets Superboy on the street after a supervillain attack and Superboy's soulmark is just on full display where his suit's ripped.

And a Bat knows when to take a perfectly-presented opportunity, obviously. He still can't actually kidnap Superboy yet, but he can tell him they're soulmates as a "civilian" and then--

Five minutes after that, Tim's on a plane back to Gotham with a perfectly agreeable and actually much more chill than he was when they were fighting supervillains together Superboy, and just does not understand his life at all.

Also maybe he should've, like . . . called Bruce about the apparently very ride-or-die Kryptonian that he's currently moving into his city? Just . . . at some point . . . ? Possibly?

Whoops.