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Masterlist Of Masterlists

Welcome to my Masterlist of Masterlists

Marvel Universe

Finished● Unfinished○ Started•

>Kate Bishop

Falling For The Archer ○•

Archer's bond ○•

>Wanda Maximoff

The Witch & Her Possession ○

Scarlet Sacrifice: The Agonizing Journey ○

>Natasha Romanoff

Shadows of Love: Natasha Romanoff and Y/N'S Destiny ○

Yelena Belova

A Dark Love ○

Dancing in the Moonlight ○

Maria Hill

Relentless Devotion ○

Peggy Carter

The Forgotten Past ○

Carol Danvers

Cosmic Connections: Carol Danvers Finds Love ○

Bucky Barnes

A Soldier's Redemption ○

Steve Rodgers

WandaNat

Threads Of Fate: Wanda, Natasha, and Y/N●

The Miraculous Trio: A Journey of Love, Power, and Parenthood

Bishova

Beneath the Veil: Love and Loyalty in the Underworld

Torn Souls: The Path To Redemption

Blackhill

Eternal Flame: A Maria Hill, Natasha Romanoff, and Y/N Love Saga

Temporal Veil: Unmasking Hydra's Schemes

WinterWidow

A Spy's Love Triangle

Innocence Lost In The Dark

Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Daisy Johnson

Jemma Simmons

Melinda May

Bobbi Morse

DC Universe

Supergirl

Kara Danvers

Lena Luther

Alex Danvers

Maggie sawyer

Lucy Lane

Arrow

Sara Lance

Thea Queen

Laurel Lance

Felicity Smoak

Nyssa AL Ghul

The Flash

Iris West

Caitlin Snow

Wonder Woman

Diana Prince

Titans

Rachel Roth

Dawn

Donna Troy

Other

Harley Quinn

Ava Sharp

Vampires Diaries Universe

The Originals

Rebekah Mikaelson

Hayley Marshall

Davina Claire

Freya Mikaelson

The Vampire Diaries

Elena Gilbert

Caroline Forbes

Bonnie Bennett

Katherine Pierce

Legacies

Hope Mikaelson

Josie Saltzman

Lizzie Saltzman

Penelope Park

Jade

Crime Shows

Criminal Minds

Emily Prentiss

Scream Universe

Tara Carpenter

Sam Carpenter

Masked Obsession: Ghostface Sam Carpenter x Y/N Love Story

Amber Freeman

Kirby Reed

Wednesday Addams

Enid Sinclair

Wednesday Addams

Wenclair

Stranger Things

Joyce

Nancy

Eleven

Robin

Max

Steve

Eddie

Teen Wolf

Allison Argent

Lydia Martin

Malia Tate

Fear The Walking Dead

Alicia

The Walking Dead

Maggie Greene

Carol Peletier

Tara Chamblers

The lOO

Octavia Blake

Clarke Griffin

Lexa

Raven Reyes

Wynonna Earp

Waverly Earp

Wynonna Earp

Nicole Haught

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My comments on the Extended Generational Sorting Algorithm:

Gosh there are some murky in-betweens here.

G-1 – JSA and teams like the All-Star Squadron and the Blackhawks. The WWII edition. This is occasionally merged with G0 as timelines shift, but includes Hippolyta, Ted Knight, Sandra Knight (as Phantom Lady), Alan Scott, Jay Garrick, etc. A lot of this cohort have aging issues and several have grandkids in G1 or G1.5. Zinda simultaneously belongs to this group and G1.5.

G0 – JSA, the gap between WWII and the first JLA. This is the younger JSA cohort who aren’t so tied to WWII and the gap after. Dinah Drake. Ted Grant. Johnny Quick. Giovanni Zatara. Walter Chase (the Acro-Bat). Bruce’s parents. The Kents. Jim Gordon. Etc.

G1 – JLA land! Bruce, Clark, Diana, Ollie, Barry, Hal, Arthur, etc. You know them. Your idea of a headlining JLA includes these folk.

G1.5 – Birds of Prey and JLI zone. Characters too old to be Titans cohort but younger/clearly different than the G1 headliners. Barbara Gordon and Dinah Lance are the stalwarts of this group, plus I’ll add Helena Bertinelli, Cameron Chase, Kate Spencer, Kendra, etc. I guess I’d probably put Harley Quinn, agewise, here too. Also would add Beatriz, Tora, Booster, Ted Kord, etc. Guy and Zatanna sort of bounce between here and G1 depending on storyline.

G2 – it’s the Titans! Dick, Donna, Wally, Roy, Garth, Victor, Gar, Kory, Raven etc. Their agebounds are probably Roy as the oldest and Gar as the youngest, though Gar’s given to them as a courtesy – he’s realistically a member of G2.5, he just hangs with G2. We also add Kyle and Connor and Jesse Quick etc to this cohort despite them not being core Titans given their strong connections to particularly Donna and Wally.

G2.5 – The JL Taskforce kids and Jason’s non-existent team. Ray Palmer’s Teen Titans. This is a group of individuals that has never properly coalesced. Overlaps in age with both the bottom of G2 and the top of G3 but distinctly don’t belong to either. Jason, Ray, Grant, Argent, Cynthia, Eddie, Snapper Carr, plus Danny Chase and arguably Gar all fall into this group. Rose Wilson overlaps with G3 but vibeswise probably also belongs to this group. I am tossing up whether Anissa and Jennifer Pierce belong here or in G2.

G3 – Young Justice. Tim, Kon, Cassie, Bart, Cissie, Greta, Anita. Cass Cain belongs here despite being the same age as several G2.5s. Steph, Charlie, Black Alice, Jaime, Zachary Zatara, even a handful of the newer folk like Jinny Hex slot in here. Several Supergirls including current Kara, Courtney Whitmore IS a member of this group and the three oldest Marvel kids (Billy, Mary and Freddy) are currently aged into this.

G4 – Damian’s Teen Titans. Damian, Jon Kent (yes even still with the age up), Emiko Queen, Ace West etc. If they are still a teen right now in DC storytelling or SHOULD be a teen, they belong here (if they’re a teen and SHOULDN’T be they’re probably a G3/G5). The Gotham Academy kids. Arguably the Titan Academy kids too? Agewise the DEO Titans kids but spiritually probably not (also the chances of us ever seeing them again is…low) The younger Marvel kids (Eugene, Pedro and Darla especially) are with this group.

G5 – so this group are either alternate G3 or G3.5s. Too new and too un-networked with G3 to be absorbed. Jace Fox, Yara Flor, Jackson Hyde, Duke Thomas and the We Are Robin cohort all belong here. Kong Kenan, Avery Ho, etc also are members.

G6 – Titans Offspring Gen. Almost everyone in this group has been artificially aged, which is a thing, hey. Lian, Irey, Jai, Cerdian, Robbie. Maxine, obviously. Otho and Osul-Ra.

G7 – Help I’m From Earth-One: Power Girl and Helena Wayne.

G8 – The Lost Children – also Help I’m From Earth-One in a lot of respects but they’re in their teens, not adults. May get folded into other groups if they get more use.

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WANTED CONNECTIONS ( mutuals only )

if you write one of the muses and are interested in interacting or plotting feel free to send some memes or hmu in the ims/on disco

these are 99% platonic, if you want shippy dynamic i have ideas on my muse's info pages

KÀRA HRAFN : i would love interactions with loki, thor, maybe sif or even odin. also i would love to write with wanda or strange, or legit any magic user in the mcu. would love some threads with the young avengers too (especially cassie, kate and wiccan)

ALEKS VASILYEV : would love to write aleks against either of her brothers anatoly & vladimir. would also love to write against any of the defenders and street level heroes in the mcu

MARINA REYES : robbie reyes. give marina her older brother. also any agents of shield muses

CLARY STARK : gimme tony, gimme pepper, gimme peter, mj, ned, flash, gwen, harley, riri, give clary friends.

KITTY CARVER : jason carver, give me sibling things and angst, also give me more interactions with adult muses in hawkins

MADELYN & VIVIAN KELLMAN : someone write gerri for the girls pls i'm begging.

VIVIAN KELLMAN : gimme friends from college, influencer girlies, gimme chaotic ships for her

OPHELIA WAMBSGANS : i would LOVE to have a tom or shiv to write with but i'm incredibly hesitant to approach someone first. i'd also love a kendall, connor or willa.

RAFAELLA FLORES & SOFIA LENNOX : gimme more members of the richmond wfc and plots with other ted lasso muses, i'd also love some interactions with people's other athlete muses

EMILY CRIMM : gimme emily interacting with the richmond team and staff, gimme her dad, give emily friends

ALEJANDRA ROJAS : would love some threads with her getting to know the richmond team/staff, and generally making friends with her older brother's friends. (would pay in cute instagram reels for a dani too)

ALICE LAHEY : more teen wolf muses come interact with her i miss this fandom

BEATRICE DE MARTEL : more interactions with legacies muses (generally begging for this love her or hate her for being a weird lil girly she needs friends and enemies), gimme mikaelson muses too! would love a klaus but i will accept anyone. also if anyone writes aurora and doesn't ship her with her fucking brother come write with me.

CECELIA DE MARTEL : same thing as above, someone find me an aurora to write with that doesn't ship her with her brother so that cece can have her older sister. also same goes above for mikaelsons. i would also love to throw cecelia at more witches

CARRIE DAVIS : gimme more interactions with the yellowjackets thanks

KAT HARRISON : literally any twd muses carl, enid, daryl, rick, alden

CARLY SIMPSON : someone write gwen (carly's co-pilot), give her more interactions with top gun muses in general

DANA CORTELL : give her more interactions with top gun muses,

JACK HARDING : if anyone writes bill, find me. also any twisters muses i would love to put jack in more situations

SABRINA TYLER : gimme brina interacting with the 118 and becoming friends with them through buck, also i will find a way for her to interact with the 126, i'm not sure how but i will

ALYSIA DIAZ : generally would love to see alysia interacting with the 118 & 126, would love a main eddie. would also love interactions with people's musician ocs

SOPHIA DIAZ : would love a main eddie, would love threads with the 118 and also threads with other people's like legal/crime based muses.

STEVIE BURTON : more threads with the 118 :)

LUCIANA SCARCELLA : give me vampire interactions, i would love to build up luciana's history with other vampires (both friendly and unfriendly dyns)

YASMIN KARA-HANANI : i would love to throw yasmin at y'all's muses who are more business and crime based. come love my nepo baby finance girlie

CALYPSO : would love some interactions with other pjo muses, the gods ect

GABRIELLE GAO : gimme bullet train characters, gimme people who know here as an heiress and not an assassin

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Luna mf stark

https://archiveofourown.org/works/60668722 by Smilla08096761 Luna, has spent her life under the careful watch of Nick Fury, trained as SHIELD’s most skilled and enigmatic young operative. Born with godlike powers that she learned to control through relentless discipline, she became Fury’s hidden weapon in the darkest missions where even the Avengers were not deployed. For Luna, duty and secrecy were life, her identity shrouded in shadows. But everything changes when SHIELD collapses and her existence is at risk of being revealed. Fury sends her to the Avengers, telling her she’ll be safer among them. She’s thrust into a world of , warmth, and complex relationships she never expected. With Tony Stark as her reluctant mentor—ever intrigued by the puzzle she represents—Luna starts to question what it means to live outside of missions. As she forms bonds with the Avengers, Luna realizes that power is more than a tool for war; it’s a means of connecting with others and discovering who she truly is. Yet, shadows from her past, rival forces seeking her abilities, and her struggle between mortal humanity and divine purpose threaten to pull her back into the dark world she left behind. Can Luna accept the part of her that is Lysira and find where she belongs before it’s too late? Words: 2387, Chapters: 2/?, Language: English Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel (Comics), Avengers (Comics), Iron Man (Movies), Captain America (Movies), Thor (Movies), Black Widow (Movie 2021) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M, Multi Characters: Morgan Stark (Marvel Cinematic Universe), Harley Keener, Peter Parker, Tony Stark, Pepper Potts, Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes, Sam Wilson (Marvel), Wanda Maximoff, Vision (Marvel), Pietro Maximoff, Bruce Banner, Thor (Marvel), Jane Foster (Marvel), Loki (Marvel), Maria Hill, Nick Fury, Stephen Strange, Kate Bishop, Yelena Belova, Shuri (Marvel), Ned Leeds, Michelle Jones (Marvel), Alpine (Marvel) Relationships: Tony Stark & Original Female Character(s), Avengers Team Members (Marvel) & Original Female Character(s), Morgan Stark (Marvel Cinematic Universe) & Tony Stark, Peter Parker & Morgan Stark (Marvel Cinematic Universe) & Tony Stark, Peter Parker & Tony Stark, Harley Keener & Peter Parker & Tony Stark, James "Bucky" Barnes & Original Female Character(s), Original Female Character & Everyone, Bruce Banner & Clint Barton & Steve Rogers & Natasha Romanov & Tony Stark & Thor Additional Tags: Parent Tony Stark, Tony Stark Has a Heart, Protective Tony Stark, Avengers Family, Protective Avengers, Protective Steve Rogers, Protective Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Protective Peter Parker, Avengers Tower, Not Canon Compliant, Not Canon Compliant with Movie: Avengers: Endgame (2019), Protective Bucky Barnes, Fluff and Angst, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse read it on AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/60668722

[heartsbreaking-migrated]

WANTED CONNECTIONS ( mutuals only )

if you write one of the muses and are interested in interacting or plotting feel free to send some memes or hmu in the ims/on disco

these are 99% platonic, if you want shippy dynamic i have ideas on my muse's carrd pages

KÀRA HRAFN : i would love interactions with loki, thor, maybe sif or even odin. also i would love to write with wanda or strange, or legit any magic user in the mcu. would love some threads with the young avengers too (especially cassie, kate and wiccan)

MARINA REYES : robbie reyes. give marina her older brother. also any agents of shield muses

CLARY STARK : gimme tony, gimme pepper, gimme peter, mj, ned, flash, gwen, harley, riri, give clary friends.

KAREN PAGE : gimme gimme gimme an exclusive frank so we can write kastle and have a damn good time about it

KITTY CARVER : jason carver, give me sibling things and angst

MADELYN & VIVIAN KELLMAN : someone write gerri for the girls pls i'm begging

VIVIAN KELLMAN : gimme friends from college, influencer girlies, gimme chaotic ships for her

OPHELIA WAMBSGANS : i would LOVE to have a shiv or tom to write with but i'm incredibly hesitant to approach someone first. i'd also love a kendall, connor or willa

RAFAELLA FLORES & SOFIA LENNOX : gimme more members of the richmond wfc and plots with other ted lasso muses

KAT HARRISON : literally any twd muses carl, enid daryl, rick, ANDREA (give the girl her mamma), amy

CARLY SIMPSON : someone write gwen (carly's co-pilot), give her more interactions with top gun muses in general

GABRIELLE GAO : gimme assassins trying to kill each other who fuck on the side

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Tattoos Masterlist 2

part one

And I Will Wend My Way With You (ao3) - mariana_oconnor bucky/clint E, 29k

Summary: After four long years, Bucky's mission is finally complete. All he needs to do is leave the Hydra Empire and make his way back to the Kingdom of Brooklyn with the information he has obtained. He definitely doesn't need the added complication of a slave, especially not one as angry and handsome as Clint Barton.

Apartment 409 (ao3) - 74days steve/bucky T, 4k

Summary: Steve Rogers meets the repairman for his building one day and now he's running out of things he can 'accidentally' break. Luckily, Bucky doesn't seem to mind the house calls.

A Tattoo of Parker Luck (ao3) - maroonweb harley/peter T, 5k

Summary: Guests started looking over at the commotion, when one of them walked over to get a better look.

Penny's eyes met Tony Stark's and she flushed when he looked over the mess they'd made. His disdainful gaze settled on her tattooed arm and he pinched the bridge of his nose in exasperation.

She knew Tony would never be able to pick her out of a crowd, but to have him think of her so negatively upon their first meeting hurt more than she ever could have imagined.

AKA Penny Parker gets a tattoo that seems to embody Parker Luck.

Drawing gold from the dark (come inside) (ao3) - viverella clint/natasha T, 21k

Summary: “Hey,” he says. He puts his most winning smile on his face and says cheerfully, “You here to make a bad decision?”

The corner of her mouth curves upwards in a hint of a smile and she says in a soft voice that makes something jolt under Clint’s skin, “I was hoping to, yeah.”

OR: that AU in which Clint runs a tattoo shop that Natasha stumbles into one day and then keeps coming back to, and Clint gets maybe a little too invested and Kate teases him relentlessly.

His For All The World (ao3) - queerlyobscure (softestpunk) steve/tony E, 1k

Summary: As a drunken 21-year-old, Tony got a tattoo. As a sober 42-year-old, he's finally in a position to show it to the person it was in honour of.

Or, how Steve discovered that Tony has a tattoo of his shield on his butt, and what he did about it.

Ink (ao3) - Caiti (Caitriona_3) darcy/brock T, 1k

Summary: Darcy has zero intention of getting a tattoo . . . though the sexy artist might one day change her mind

Ink & Flowers (ao3) - Gottoomanyships steve/tony, bucky/sam, pepper/natasha N/R, 4k

Summary: Was Tony being absolutely ridiculous? Probably, but what else was new? He wasn't going to simply stand idly by while Rogers insulted him (even if he did look like a inked up version of Michelangelo's David). Sure, sending some passive-aggressive flower arrangements might have been a waste of his time and resources, but that wasn't going to stop him.

Or

The Stony Tattoo-Flower Shop AU that no one asked for.

Ink Mark (ao3) - druswriting rhodey/tony G, 6k

Summary: Five times Tony got a tattoo for Rhodey, and one time Rhodey got a tattoo for Tony.

Invisible Ink (ao3) - ctimene matt/foggy E, 16k

Summary: The One Where Foggy Is A Tattoo Artist And Matt Is The Worst

Lucky Seven (ao3) - BetteNoire (WeAreWolves) steve/bucky, clint/natasha E, 94k

Summary: Captain America trashes his motorcycle a lot. Tony says he'll fix it, then never gets around to it and just buys him a new one. Steve, the Depression-era kid, can't stand the waste and goes looking for somewhere near him in Brooklyn where he can get his bike fixed. That's how he finds Red Star Bike Repair, and the hot Russian-immigrant bike racer who runs it: all long hair and muscles and tattoos. And for the first time since he woke from the ice, Steve feels a connection to someone; a comfort in the other man's silences and his space, an attraction in his sheer skill at racing. But James Barnes isn't exactly who he seems...

Mine (ao3) - lilsmartass steve/tony E, 1k

Summary: Tony has a very interesting tatoo.

much tattoo about nothing (ao3) - Deisderium steve/bucky E, 14k

Summary: Steve Rogers gets a lot of email requests, but never one like this: James Barnes wants to use his healing factor to practice tattoos.

Turns out tattoos give Steve boners.

Nice For What (ao3) - grimeysociety bucky/darcy E, 3k

Summary: “Well, maybe I want to hang out with Bucky for once. We’ll wear black and roam the streets looking for victims. And then we’ll eat candy by the pool.” “Sounds like a date,” Bucky said, not quite believing she meant what she said.

Signed, Sealed, Delivered (ao3) - NeverBeenSane steve/bucky M, 172k

Summary: Steve Rogers was content with his life. He loved his shop, loved creating works of art for people to display on their bodies, had a tight knit group of friends who cared about him, and had finally paid off his student loans and the loan he'd taken out to start his business. But it still feels like there's something, or someone, missing from his life.

Everything's going to change when he decides to take Natasha's advice and sign up for a military penpal program.

stuck on me like a tattoo (ao3) - letter2thepast maria/natasha T, 967

Summary: Maria Hill and Natasha Romanov are both tattoo fiends. Just in different ways.

The Arm (ao3) - singthebeginningofmoana steve/bucky G, 688

Summary: Before the war, he’d never thought about tattoos at all. But after seeing them be so commonplace in the twenty-first century, he realized that having some of his own might bring him a great deal of comfort.

Bucky gets tattoos. Steve sees them for the first time.

Tumbling Your Way Into My Heart (ao3) - jujukittychick clint/tony T, 1k

Summary: Tony Stark knew what he wanted and was willing to pay for it. So when he decided to get a tattoo, he did his research, asked around, found the best of the best. What he wasn’t expecting was a cute deaf klutz with a caffeine addiction worse than his own.

you're stuck in my head (stuck on my heart, stuck on my body) (ao3) - notcaycepollard sam/bucky T, 5k

Summary: "You don't gotta hold my hand," Bucky says after a minute or two. "It's not like it hurts."

"Sure it does, asshole," Sam tells him, but he knows it comes out almost fond, and his hand is warm, and Bucky apparently leaves it at that.

When the artist goes over the edges of scar tissue, Bucky tightens his grip, and Sam doesn't say anything at all.

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Luna mf stark

by Smilla08096761 Luna, has spent her life under the careful watch of Nick Fury, trained as SHIELD’s most skilled and enigmatic young operative. Born with godlike powers that she learned to control through relentless discipline, she became Fury’s hidden weapon in the darkest missions where even the Avengers were not deployed. For Luna, duty and secrecy were life, her identity shrouded in shadows. But everything changes when SHIELD collapses and her existence is at risk of being revealed. Fury sends her to the Avengers, telling her she’ll be safer among them. She’s thrust into a world of , warmth, and complex relationships she never expected. With Tony Stark as her reluctant mentor—ever intrigued by the puzzle she represents—Luna starts to question what it means to live outside of missions. As she forms bonds with the Avengers, Luna realizes that power is more than a tool for war; it’s a means of connecting with others and discovering who she truly is. Yet, shadows from her past, rival forces seeking her abilities, and her struggle between mortal humanity and divine purpose threaten to pull her back into the dark world she left behind. Can Luna accept the part of her that is Lysira and find where she belongs before it’s too late? Words: 2387, Chapters: 2/?, Language: English Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel (Comics), Avengers (Comics), Iron Man (Movies), Captain America (Movies), Thor (Movies), Black Widow (Movie 2021) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M, Multi Characters: Morgan Stark (Marvel Cinematic Universe), Harley Keener, Peter Parker, Tony Stark, Pepper Potts, Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes, Sam Wilson (Marvel), Wanda Maximoff, Vision (Marvel), Pietro Maximoff, Bruce Banner, Thor (Marvel), Jane Foster (Marvel), Loki (Marvel), Maria Hill, Nick Fury, Stephen Strange, Kate Bishop, Yelena Belova, Shuri (Marvel), Ned Leeds, Michelle Jones (Marvel), Alpine (Marvel) Relationships: Tony Stark & Original Female Character(s), Avengers Team Members (Marvel) & Original Female Character(s), Morgan Stark (Marvel Cinematic Universe) & Tony Stark, James "Bucky" Barnes & Original Female Character(s), Original Female Character & Everyone, Bruce Banner & Clint Barton & Steve Rogers & Natasha Romanov & Tony Stark & Thor, Avengers Team Members & Tony Stark, Peter Parker/Original Female Character(s) Additional Tags: Parent Tony Stark, Tony Stark Has a Heart, Protective Tony Stark, Avengers Family, Protective Avengers, Protective Steve Rogers, Protective Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Protective Peter Parker, Avengers Tower, Not Canon Compliant, Not Canon Compliant with Movie: Avengers: Endgame (2019), Protective Bucky Barnes, Fluff and Angst, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse via https://ift.tt/ztNedsc

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The Magic Within

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/5l6asYE by NightwingAngeloftheMorning04 Mandrake the Magician and Amy O' Connor are enlisted by Zatanna Zatarra to get some help with a threat with a connection to seizures and supernatural forces happening worldwide, even to those close to them; Meanwhile, with help from Tori, Richie works to reestablish his friendship with Duncan. Words: 5360, Chapters: 3/?, Language: English Fandoms: Highlander: The Series, Defenders of the Earth (Cartoon), Batman - All Media Types, Batman: The Animated Series, Justice League - All Media Types, Justice League Dark (2017), Justice League Dark (Comics) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Categories: F/M, Gen Characters: Richie Ryan, Original Female Character(s), Bruce Wayne, Diana (Wonder Woman), Clark Kent, John Stewart (DCU), Victor Stone, Dick Grayson, Barbara Gordon, Kate Kane (DCU), Luke Fox, Tim Drake, Jason Todd, Cassandra Cain, Duncan MacLeod, Joe Dawson, Methos (Highlander), Flash Gordon, Kit Walker | 27th Phantom, Mandrake the Magician, Rick Gordon, Jedda Walker, Lothar Jr. | LJ (Defenders of the Earth), Lothar (Defenders of the Earth), Kshin (Defenders of the Earth), Stephanie Brown, Zatanna Zatara, John Constantine, Boston Brand, Swamp Thing (DCU), Raven (Teen Titans), Etrigan (DCU), Jason Blood, Condiment King, Harley Quinn, Harleen Quinzel, Pamela Isley Relationships: Duncan MacLeod & Richie Ryan, Richie Ryan/Original Character, John Constantine & Bruce Wayne & Zatanna Zatara, John Constantine/Zatanna Zatara, Barbara Gordon/Dick Grayson, Lothar (Defenders of the Earth) & Mandrake the Magician, Mandrake the Magician & Original Character Additional Tags: Re-write of Justice League Dark (2017), Multi Crossover, Alternate Universe read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/5l6asYE

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Acanthus, angelica, basil, bluebell, fern, heliotrope, iris, lilac, marigold, parsley, rhododendron, violet, and/or zinnia for Gia and Nikoletta? (sorry it's a lot lol)

First of all... NEVER apologize for a bunch of OC asks! This is like my dream!! Thank you so much!!

Botanical Headcanons

acanthus :   is your muse deceptive ,   or willing to lie or deceive to achieve certain means ?why or why not ?

Gia: Nope! She's a pretty open book. Deception reminds her of HYDRA, and telling lies tends to make her stomach turn (mostly with anxiety about those lies being found out)

Nikoletta: Absolutely. It comes from her time in Belle Reve, and she's trying hard to break the habit now that she's out, but she still finds herself automatically seeking to regain control of whatever situation she's in, even when she's among friends.

angelica :   where does your muse draw inspiration in life ?what motivates them ?

Gia: She finds it inspiring, given she's around so much flora, to see how life just really, desperately wants to flourish when it's given the chance. It motivates her to make something of her own life, on the days when she just wants to surrender to what HYDRA made her.

Nikoletta: She's just too hardheaded to fail. She's been fighting for control and safety her whole life, and she's not going to stop now. She's motivated by the thought that now there are people that care about her, and they'd notice and care if something happened to her.

basil :   does your muse have a love - hate relationship with anyone or anything ?

Gia: I don't think so. She's not an especially hateful person (HYDRA is the one exception) and she doesn't really seek out new experience that she could end up having a love-hate relationship with, so it's all pretty neutral.

Nikoletta: Her powers, for sure. She hated them for a long time - what they were, where they came from, what they took from her - but lately she's grown more comfortable with them. They're not so bad without her shadow-touch getting in the way, for one, and she'd never have met the Squad or Abner (or saved him) if she didn't have those powers.

bluebell :   does your muse learn from their past ,   or are they prone to repeating the same mistakes ?

Gia: Learns, to the point of overcompensating for those mistakes. HYDRA caught her when she reached out for a medical study, so she's learned not to reach out at all.

Nikoletta: Tends to repeat the same mistakes without realizing it. She was isolated growing up, isolated in STAR Labs, isolated herself in Belle Reve, and still struggles with connecting with people once she's out (the amount of times Harley has had to remind her that yes, she's still invited to lunch on Fridays, no matter how many times they do that same routine...)

fern :   does your muse believe in magic or cosmic forces ,   or are they more likely to think their life is ultimately a matter of their own control ?

Gia: Yep! She's decently religious and does believe in a God, and attributes her surviving and making it out of HYDRA as an act of God's grace. She isn't the type to force her beliefs on others at all (she's not the type to force anything on others, she has a hard enough time just asking people to pay for their floral arrangements), but inwardly that's part of what keeps her going.

Nikoletta: Doesn't believe in that sort of thing, but she also doesn't really feel like her life is hers to control. Every situation she's in, she thinks, is the result of someone else's choice rippling out to affect her, and the only thing she can control is how she gets out of it.

heliotrope :   does your muse believe in soulmates ?

Gia: This is going to sound cheesy, but not until she met Kate. It was less that she didn't believe in soulmates at first, just that she figured she wouldn't meet her soulmate since she barely ever leaves her shop. It's completely statistically impossible that her soulmate would just, what, walk right into her shop one day, isn't it? And wouldn't be weird about literally everything that's going on with her?

Nikoletta: Nope. She loves Abner very deeply, don't get me wrong, and she considers him to be one of if not the best thing in her life, but she doesn't think he's her soulmate. For one thing she's on the aroace spectrum and always thought the idea of soulmates was a little hokey, and for another she's just too much of a loner to feel like she's at all destined to be with another person.

iris :   if your muse could convey one last message to someone they have lost or left behind ,   what would it be ?

Gia: To her sister - "I tried to make things better. I tried to make the loss mean something. And it went wrong, but I'll never blame you for it."

Nikoletta: To her father - "I know you did the best you could. I know I'm not someone you could be proud of, but... I'm still alive, and that's something, isn't it?"

lilac :   what was your muse’s childhood like ?how has their upbringing affected them as they’ve aged ? 

Gia: Actually a very nice, loving childhood up to a certain point. It fractured once her sister got sick and never really recovered, but for the most part it was good.

Nikoletta: Her father did his best to give her a normal childhood, but they were always deeply strapped for cash and that affected things. He died while she was still in high school and didn't have any money saved to get her through it, so she had to work hard to finish out high school and make enough money to survive after that

marigold :   is your muse prone to jealousy ?how might they handle envious feelings ?

Gia: Not romantic jealousy, but she does get deeply jealous at how easily most people move through their lives.

Nikoletta: Nope. She's not in touch with her feelings about other people enough to feel jealous. The closest she'll get is when she's dealing with her shadow-touch, she gets envious whenever she sees casual touches passed around between other people.

parsley :   describe a holiday your muse enjoys ,   and why they enjoy it .

Gia: Valentine's Day. It brings a lot of people into her shop, so it's always busy on the verge of unbearable, but it 1. is one of her most lucrative days of the year and can be a lifesaver when she's strapped for cash, and 2. means she gets to see a lot of really cute moments from people obviously very much in love with their partners and looking for something to make them smile. Plus, Kate gets all cheesy about it, and she finds it cute.

Nikoletta: I'm not sure she has one, to be honest. She hasn't really had the money or option to celebrate them before, so she's a little new to all of this.

rhododendron :   is your muse receptive to warnings   &   advice given by others ?

Gia: Very much so. She's hypervigilant of any perceived threat, and is more likely to heed advice that really doesn't matter than to brush off the things that do.

Nikoletta: It depends on who the warning is coming from. She's heard many, many rumors around Belle Reve, and she's learned to sift through them and choose which ones she's going to heed. She'll take advice offered by a trusted source and brush aside all the rest.

violet :   how does your muse respond to betrayal ?

Gia: Simultaneously crushed and expecting it. She's constantly on guard and expecting something to go wrong, so it wouldn't exactly surprise her, but she's so hesitant to keep in touch with other people that she'd be completely devastating to learn that one of the few people she's learned to open up to has betrayed her.

Nikoletta: Indifferent. She's seen this before, she's made a lot of enemies in Belle Reve, and she won't hesitate to keep herself safe when it comes down to it. Obviously she'll be a lot more hurt if it comes from someone she's learned to trust, but it won't incapacitate her.

zinnia :   how has the loss of fallen comrades and/or loved ones affected your muse ?has it taught them anything or given them any new perspectives ?

Gia: I mean, it's what literally spurs her into HYDRA in the first place. Her grief over her sister motivates so much of her life, it's hard to say where she'd be if that hadn't happened.

Nikoletta: She knows people die in this line of work. It's inevitable. She'd be hurt to find out that one of her Squadmates had died, but it wouldn't surprise her. She'll pick herself up and keep going every time, since what other choice does she have?

[goldshadowsarchive]

@pizzalegacy​  :  📸 Harley and Kate? say cheese  /  accepting

[themculibrary]

Fake Relationship AUs Masterlist 3

part one, part two

#HotNASAGuy (ao3) - alphabetblues peter/harley T, 3k

Summary: Peter glanced up at him from his phone. “Harley,” He said desperately. “I need you to be my boyfriend.”

“I- what?” Harley stuttered.

“People won’t leave me alone on Twitter, Harls,” Peter pleaded. “And MJ said I need to just announce that I’m not single. So I’m just going to tell everyone that you’re my boyfriend and they’ll stop harassing me.”

“You want to tell everyone you’re my boyfriend?” Harley sputtered, sounding aghast. Peter was getting even more frustrated.

“Yes. If you have a problem, speak now. I’m cashing in on my raincheck from orientation.”

all you're giving me is fiction (ao3) - sten06 kate/yelena M, 42k

Summary: Kate is Avenger-Adjacent, already taking up the new Hawkeye mantel when Yelena tracks her down for help with a mission (not before doing COPIOUS amounts of research on her, of course). When Kate realizes its Wilson Fisk they’re going after, and his connection to her mother, she has a ridiculously wild idea for how they should go undercover — as girlfriends, naturally.

(Also: Natasha is alive and giving all the sisterly advice. She’s off-world with Captain Marvel, because I say so.)

OR

The Kate/Yelena Fake Dating AU

Are You Going to (Say Yes) (ao3) - pandaluna peter/mj G, 12k

Summary: “This is… a picture taken on the street, today. Would you care to tell us who that might be?”

It was blurry and out of focus, but Peter was recognizable in it. And his hand was holding… hers. Both of their faces were exposed in this and Michelle’s heart raced faster and fasted in her chest at the sight of the picture.

“Not that I think this is any of your business,” Peter’s voice snapped her out of her thoughts and she braced herself for the inevitable. "But that's my girlfriend."

---

Michelle does't have a soulmark of any kind - which isn't rare, but it still is upsetting. And it also means that she's available to someone like Brad, who doesn't have a soulmark, either. So she does the first thing she thinks of when bumping into someone in the street and asks them to pretend to be her boyfriend. It goes as well as she expects it to go. Until it doesn't.

A Week and Forever (ao3) - Jo (jmathieson) clint/phil T, 2k

Summary: Clint and Phil pose as a married couple for a mission.

Be Gay, Do Crimes (ao3) - cyclogenesis (addictedkitten) sam/bucky E, 12k

Summary: Bucky and Sam go on an undercover mission as husbands in Palm Springs, where they attend a Pride party, make new friends, and are not great at spying, actually.

death by chocolate (ao3) - CapnWinghead pre sam/bucky G, 3k

Summary: Low on funds and desperate to get out of the New York summer heat, Bucky drags Sam into a bakery where they pretend to be a couple tasting cakes for their upcoming wedding.

FAKE (ao3) - AlyKat, roguebowtie clint/phil M, 17k

Summary: Sometimes a mission calls for you to be as married as possible. That can be a problem when you're secretly in love with your fake spouse. And you panic. And you say things you don't mean.

From A Different Point of View (ao3) - Kavi Leighanna (kleighanna) steve/maria T, 7k

Summary: Maria is a professional. Undercover doesn't bother her.

Not even with her boss.

it's real to me (ao3) - haveufoundwhaturlookingfor sam/bucky T, 3k

Summary: Sam's parents aren't accepting of his sexuality, and he needs someone to bring to his family Christmas gathering. Bucky is a stranger who's lonely on Christmas and decides to step in and help Sam.

Just For Now (ao3) - complicationstoo steve/tony T, 34k

Summary: Tony and Steve have never gotten along, but when Tony lies to his mom about bringing his boyfriend to his cousin's wedding, he needs someone to play the part. Lucky for him, Steve agrees, and the two might just get a little more than they anticipated out of it.

rather chase the sun (ao3) - sandyk peter/mj M, 7k

Summary: MJ proposes to Peter because she really needs his dental insurance, but it doesn't take very long for their marriage to become something real that requires work to last.

Risky Engagement (ao3) - navaan natasha/tony M, 3k

Summary: Natasha needs Tony to play along to catch a bad guy’s attentions. It involves a fake engagement, way too much flirting – and more feelings than she wants to admit.

say you'll see me again (even if it's just pretend) (ao3) - starkobession steve/tony N/R, 16k

Summary: "no matter what happens," tony said very seriously, "you're not allowed to fall in love with me."

"won't be a problem."

"what?" tony put his hands on his hips. "i'm very easy to fall in love with."

"i'd never fall in love with you."

"with that attitude, i'd never fall in love with you either."

where tony and steve are in a fake relationship, despite hating each other.

Second Time Around (ao3) - ArielT, NickiB clint/phil E, 21k

Summary: A year ago, Clint and Phil went undercover as a couple to stop a human trafficking ring and finally admitted to their feelings. Nine months ago, they broke up. Now the trafficking ring is back, and Fury wants them to reprise their roles. Will the masquerade work its magic a second time?

The Boyfriend (ao3) - FestiveFerret steve/tony T, 12k

Summary: Tony has been using The Boyfriend to get out of work obligations for a year now, but there's one fairly significant problem:

The Boyfriend doesn't exist.

The Game of Love (ao3) - broodybuck steve/bucky E, 8k

Summary: Bucky must save his career with the perfect relationship. He'll have to fake it with budding artist Steve Rogers. Bucky doesn't foresee ever falling for his fake boyfriend, but Steve shows him a side of love he didn't know he could have.

The Smile In Your Eyes (ao3) - nightside_of_siberia wanda/agatha G, 9k

Summary: It's a little hard to fake date someone when there's very real emotions involved.

We're (not) all villains here (ao3) - sir_not_appearing_in_this_archive loki/mobius, loki/sylvie, loki/mobius/sylvie, sylvie/darcy T, 53k

Summary: Alone and friendless (once again), Loki has to find a way to set things right, or at least right enough he can comfortably sneak off into the sunset, which starts with one thing: saving Mobius's lost memories.

or: the fake-dating rom-com no one asked for

you can sing me anything (ao3) - CrimsonPetrichor sam/bucky G, 4k

Summary: In this particular circumstance, Bucky spent Thanksgiving pretending to be a terrible boyfriend to the man he’s had a mildly embarrassing crush on for months. Somehow, that was enough to have escalated their antagonistic acquaintanceship into the kind of friendship where they text each other nearly every day and Bucky gets a little giddy over every message they exchange.

In this particular circumstance, Bucky’s mouth is ready with an answer before his brain has time to react.

“Sam,” he finds himself saying. “My boyfriend’s name is Sam.”

--

In which Bucky asks Sam to be his fake boyfriend. Kind of.

you ought to give me wedding rings (ao3) - Sholio bucky/zemo E, 12k

Summary: A SHIELD mission sends Bucky, Zemo, and Sam undercover in the suburbs.

[jupitermelichios]

this is some a+ meta! I'm right in the middle of reworking the nemeton mythology from the ground up for a fic, and trying to decide how/if Laura ties into that, so seeing this today was perfect timing

I'd never considered that Gerard specifically might have been the one to cut Laura's body in half, but it makes a lot of sense, and I think you're probably right that that the omega's death was in part intended to be backfill for that. But that also opens the interesting question of, if it was him, when and why does he leave Beacon Hills again? Why does he not stay to see the fruits of his labour? Does he send Kate or did she choose to visit for her own reasons?

Nurse Jennifer is so frustrating. Obviously she's a plot contrivance rather than a character, even the best stories have a few of those, but the things she contrives are so huge and story altering, and they're basically all things that involve significant risk and don't appear to benefit her.

Also the fact that Peter barely talks about her makes sense when viewed from the angle of her being a plot point not a character, but it feels significant. IDK, the reveal of her body in his car and the fact that he doesn't use her name "it belonged to my nurse" when he must know Stiles knows it because he would have heard Stiles and Derek's phone conversation feels pointed and malicious in a way Peter mostly isn't in season 1. Like you said, he's protective, or at least possessive, of people he considers 'his', and given all the shit she does for him, you'd definitely expect her to fall into that category.

And his justification for killing her, "I got better" is intended to be a zingy one-liner sure, but again it feels pointed. Especially when her death doesn't actually benefit him particularly that we know of? she knows exactly 1 thing that he wants to keep secret, but there's been no indication that she would betray him, especially given the risks she takes for him.

I think there's definitely a reasonable reading that she's somewhere between harley quinn (original flavour, anyway) and annie wilks, obsessively loyal but also wants to keep him dependant, and Peter uses that while it benefits him but also wants to get as far away from it as possible the second he can

But I'd also never considered the uniform, which definitely isn't BHM issue (honestly, the fact that he's in a hospital never made sense to me anyway, why is he not in a long-term care facility? he needs full time care but he's not getting worse) and connecting her to Eichen House would make a lot of sense, given the 50s horror movie aesthetic it has. We never actually find out who runs Eichen House or why, but given the stuff they do, it doesn't feel completely out of left field to suggest they had some reason of their own for getting involved.

...and now i've said it I just know that's going to end up working its way into a fic one of these days

laura hale: darling, dearest, dead

welcome to where i care way too much about teen wolf in the year 2023.

i have no shame.

i've been working on this meta for a few weeks now and it’s definitely grown past its original scope. at first, i just wanted to do a deep dive into the weirdness around laura’s death but of course that expanded as i sat down and hashed out my thoughts.

@renninflight 's tags on one of my posts really gave me the push for this because i've apparently just been waiting for the opportunity to talk about the mysterious murder of laura hale

shoutout also to my teen wolf buddy and tumblr mutual of forever @dear-massacre our teen wolf talks definitely helped, probably wormed their way in here and this wouldn’t have existed without you.

laura's death is the core mystery of the first season and i’ve always been intrigued by the circumstances surrounding it.

i’m definitely not the first to question the circumstances surrounding laura’s death but i’m going to put on my tinfoil conspiracy theory hat and discuss the events just prior to wolf moon and how laura hale haunts me the narrative.

buckle up buttercups this is long.

just to get this out of the way immediately, i need you to understand that teen wolf's plots and timeline were apparently written on a soggy napkin found crumbled up under the seat cushion of jeff davis's couch. season 1's story is the most cohesive but there wasn't a show bible for a long time, which explains its loose relationship with keeping consistent canon. this post on the teen wolf wiki from september 2013 says explicitly that some assistant was tasked with writing one. this would've placed it after 3a had aired but before 3b did. 

while i won’t be digging into the teen wolf timeline here, i will be working from my own understanding of it.

a lot of teen wolf is left to implication, inference and subtext as we the audience are locked into scott mccall's point of view and his knowledge of what's happening. this allows for scott to be ignorant about the world he unwittingly and unwillingly enters so that information can be doled out at a steady drip and the mysteries heightened.

that said, onwards to what has become my teen wolf magnum opus.

introduction: the dead girl

laura hale is the ultimate dead girl trope in teen wolf which is a show littered with the corpses of dead girls. it makes sense of course when you know she is the narrative sister of laura palmer of twin peaks fame. 

unlike laura palmer though, laura hale never gets to tell her story. she is dead before the show begins.her corpse is treated cavalierly by scott and stiles, desecrated by the argents and stripped of her personhood.

interestingly, david lynch’s daughter jennifer lynch not only a authored a spin off novel for twin peaks told from laura palmer’s perspective called the secret diary of laura palmer but also directed four episodes of teen wolf (silverfinger, i.e.d, perishable and codominance). 

it's a cool connection.

i like this quote from esquire about laura palmer and the creation of the dead girl trope:

“we don't see laura with any control over her circumstances. we meet her after she's been wrapped in a plastic bag and left to rot, which essentially leaves her narrative and legacy to be largely determined by those who are investigating her. we don't learn about laura through laura—we learn about laura by piecing together what she left behind.” 

laura hale’s murder also invokes a visual similarity to a real life beautiful dead girl as well.

elizabeth short.

elizabeth short is known to history as the black dahlia. her naked, posed, and bisected corpse was discovered in a vacant lot in january 1947. she was 22 years old. 

when betty bersinger discovered elizabeth that morning she thought she’d stumbled upon a mannequin. in a way, she had. the person elizabeth short was is often lost amongst the sensationalized headlines, salacious gossip and speculation surrounding her case. instead, she has become the perfect, posable victim unable to tell her own story.

elizabeth short is the template for all the dead girls in modern media. 

what makes laura hale different though is how she’s a non-character within teen wolf despite her death’s significance as the unpreventable, fixed event within the show’s universe.

laura hale has the most in common with the other dead beautiful girls erica reyes and paige krasikeva. each of them killed before their full potential could be realized their ghosts left to haunt the narrative.

as i said earlier though, the circumstances surrounding her death have always intrigued me. i’ve always believed there was a sort of convergence of events happening prior to wolf moon that led to the inciting incident of laura hale's murder. 

we’re even told this throughout the show if you’re paying attention. 

one of the things i always wished we’d gotten from teen wolf was more information about not just laura herself but what exactly she knew prior to her death but we can infer quite a bit. 

let’s take a look at what we do know.

a history lesson: drinking poison from the same vine

to understand what happened to laura hale when she was killed we have to step back and look at what happened before the first scenes of the show. 

in particular we have to take a look at peter hale, the argents and the alpha pack. this means revisiting visionary among some other relevant episodes.

visionary is probably one of if not the most central lore episode within the series and it also gives us a glimpse of both talia and laura hale while they were still alive.

laura herself is more of an afterthought in this episode as she's never named on screen. 

so what does visionary tell us about laura?

it tells us that she was already in a leadership position within the hale pack by this time and is clearly put forth as talia's natural, intended successor due to her very presence at the summit. it also tells us kali, ennis and deucalion knew laura hale personally even if it was a fleeting acquaintance. 

in the finer details of the episode we learn a few other things such as talia, laura and peter were all aware of the threat of the argents. we learn one of ennis’s betas was killed in retaliation for killing two hunters. the death of the beta seems very cruel and unusual as we learn that he was shot through the throat, his claws were ripped out and he was cut in half. 

the last point in particular is notable as there’s only one hunter we know of that cuts werewolves in half. 

gerard argent.

motel california is just a few episodes prior to visionary where it’s revealed that alexander argent killed himself in 1977 at the glen capri motel after being bitten. gerard claims it was deucalion that bit his brother which is how he justifies his actions in visionary.

is it the full truth? doubtful. maybe alexander argent was bitten by deucalion and maybe he wasn’t but gerard seems to believe he was and that is what matters. 

belief in the teen wolf universe is a real, tangible concept but it’s incredibly important to the narrative conceit of this episode. gerard and peter are both unreliable narrators who purposefully minimize their roles in the stories they tell. maybe they even believe their own lies to a degree.

what we know as the audience as it’s proven multiple times throughout the series is that gerard rejects the idea of peace and is known for being brutal and cruel in his methods. 

visionary also goes a long way to illustrate that peter hale has always been, you know, Like That. he skulks around the story even in his own version of events where he’s trying to minimize his own role in paige’s death.

i believe that the non-existence of laura in his story except for a throwaway mention about how laura told derek about the packs being in town is two fold. one, peter was jealous of laura’s position in the pack and two, his guilt over killing her. 

peter’s guilt is an interesting thing because he is first and foremost all about the survival of peter hale but he does care about those he perceives as his. for him, killing laura was something he regretted but was necessary so that peter could gain the alpha power. 

laura was a sacrifice. 

another thing about visionary is the absence of peter and talia’s relationship but who else would’ve told her about derek and what happened? talia isn’t surprised when she finds derek in the cellar. 

over the course of the show we do not get a lot about talia and peter’s relationship which is a thing that keeps me up at night but i don’t think it’s too far of a leap to conclude that talia knew her brother’s nature and probably saw it as useful in it’s own way so long as she was the one holding the leash. the way peter advises derek is probably not too far off from how he advised talia. 

there’s a tiny glimpse of this in season 4’s monstrous.

meredith walker is subjected to peter’s inner ravings while he’s comatose as they somehow connected mental frequencies.

there’s parts in there about how he’ll be a vengeful god and remake the supernatural of beacon hills in his own image and blah blah blah it all tracks for peter but the parts about talia are interesting not only because it gives us a glimpse into how peter perceived talia but also because he specifically name drops the argents as the threat. 

is it the full truth? no. peter subscribes to the from-a-certain-point-of-view version of the truth and we have to remember this is peter just after the fire. he’s comatose, horrifically injured and on some level he’s aware that most of his family is now deceased.

what looking at this gives us is peter’s perspective and what he latched onto post-fire thus creating the peter we meet.

“i predicted this. i told talia this was going to happen. something like this was going to happen. i said they were going to come for us. the argents. they’re going to come for us. they’re gonna burn us to the ground. they’re going to burn us to the ground. did she listen? of course not. did anyone listen? they listened to her. yes! say that everything was going to be fine. that we were all perfectly safe. but she made us weak! she made us weak. and what happens to the weakest in the herd? they get picked off by the predators. we used to be the apex predators. until talia turned us into sheep.”     

there is another key point about talia and peter that i think cannot be overlooked. the removal of memories. she took the memory of the nemeton’s location from both him and derek after their experiences there and she also took the memory of his tryst with corrine that resulted in malia’s birth. 

i think what these things together tell us is that peter hale is vengeful and resentful but not just towards the argents but also talia but talia is beyond his reach. laura isn’t.

the last player that needs to be examined is the alpha pack. visionary gives us a version of events of why deucalion is the way he is and it ends with him killing his beta marco absorbing his power. this in itself isn’t actually all that interesting as this was the foregone conclusion. 

when you combine it with what jennifer tells derek in the overlooked though it was just a few months after this she is attacked by kali at the base of the nemeton, which means the creation of the alpha pack was already underway mere weeks after deucalion is blinded by gerard.

we know talia hale was aware of what happened to deucalion along with gerard argent’s involvement so it would also stand to reason she would then be aware of the creation of the alpha pack. i cannot imagine it would escape her notice that both ennis and kali’s packs were decimated by their alphas and then they joined with deucalion. that seems like a cataclysmic event that’d get through the supernatural grapevine quickly. 

if talia knew then so did laura as she was like i said clearly talia’s successor.

the mysterious death of laura hale part I: who cut laura in half?

let’s revisit the scene of the crime to examine the absolutely hinky circumstances surrounding laura's death and what the hell was happening in the woods the night scott was bitten by peter.

if i learned anything from gil grissom the first piece of evidence is the body. this is how we and scott meet laura hale.

i don’t think it’s speculation to say that peter hale killed laura but it was gerard argent who cut her in half. 

in the season 2 opening episode omega we meet gerard argent and learn of his propensity to use a broadsword to cut werewolves in half but it is chris that gives scott the warning.

chris: "scott do you know what a hemicorporectomy is?"

scott: "i have a feeling i don't want to."

chris: "a medical term for amputating somebody at the waist. cutting them in half. takes a tremendous amount of strength to cut through tissue and bone like that."

this foreshadows what happens to the omega at the end of the episode but it reminds the viewer that we’ve already seen a corpse like that.

it may be a drop in the bucket compared to all the trauma scott has experienced since that night but i don’t think laura’s severed corpse is a sight he’s forgotten. which is what i believe argent is counting on here.

he knows what his father did. 

he’s intimidating scott as much as he’s warning him not just about lydia but also about his father’s impending arrival and what gerard is capable of. 

by this point chris knows kate broke the code by killing the hales in such a gruesome fashion but what does kate say when chris confronts her in code breaker?

chris: “i know what you did.”

kate: “i did what i was told to do.”

gee, i wonder who gave kate the carte blanche on killing the hales? i bet he also used paige’s death as a way to manipulate her as we see him do with allison. he was in town after all when paige was attacked by ennis and subsequently died. it's not a stretch to believe that a seasoned hunter like gerard would be able to spot a supernatural death cover up via animal attack.

the argents talk a big game about their women being leaders but gerard is the puppet master tugging on kate’s strings just like he did allison’s in season 2. this doesn’t minimize kate’s own sociopathy. kate can be a victim and a perpetrator.

we know from visionary that the argents have been known to operate around the beacon hills area to hunt but they don’t live there until chris and his family move there just prior to wolf moon.

i think we can infer that gerard ordered chris to move to beacon hills in response to laura hale being back in the area for the first time since the fire and i don’t think he aimed to just keep an eye on her.

there’s another overlooked aspect as to why gerard would be very interested in laura hale. he wants to cure his cancer via the bite. in fact, i wouldn’t be surprised if he would have offered her kate in exchange for the bite. 

sure, it’s speculative, but i think there are enough pieces to support it as a working theory.

unlike peter there is never a confession from gerard about his part in the crime so why am i certain he did it?

let’s go back to the body for a moment.

while there’s a lot of gore, most of the blood is on laura herself. 

there’s a significant lack of blood either around or underneath laura. with the amount of trauma we can see on her body there should be a bloody mess but there isn’t.

also notice how her arms are splayed out. it’s like she was dropped there.

she also doesn’t appear to be all that decayed so she’s still pretty, uh, fresh.

so again why do i believe gerard cut her in half if peter killed her?

not only can we infer in the subtext from the conversation chris has with scott in omega but looking at the cut on laura’s body it is too clean to be from being ripped in half by an animal or a werecreature. 

however, a person with a sharp, heavy sword with the know-how that we know does this? seems a bit more plausible doesn’t it?

also kate literally tells us that hunters did it. she doesn’t name gerard but she informs derek in the tell: 

“yes, your sister was severed into pieces and used as bait to catch you. unpleasant, and frankly a little too texas chainsaw massacre for my taste, but quite true. but here’s the part that’s really going to kick you in the balls. we didn’t kill her.”

neither the audience nor derek know if kate can be believed. i don’t think she’s lying here. she’s taunting but not lying.

why lie when she knows how badly this knowledge will hurt derek?

she goes on to add:

“found bite marks on your sister’s body derek. what do you think did that? a mountain lion?”

this i believe was a fib. were there bite marks? possibly, but more likely from savangers than peter taking a bite out of laura.

also the fact that laura’s lower half was found by joggers probably means it was visible from a path which gives some credibility to the idea that the hunter's strew laura’s corpse around the preserve. they wanted it to be found.

not only would two pieces be less heavy than a whole body but it just shows how they don’t care. laura isn’t a person to them. she’s vermin, she’s subhuman, she’s not worthy of respect. 

she’s no better than bait to other werewolves to them. 

they leave laura to rot.

notice how kate never refers to laura by name instead calling her “your sister” to derek. kate lured derek out with insults towards laura but this one is the greatest of them all. kate is refusing laura hale’s personhood.

the final reason i don’t believe peter tore laura in half is we’ve seen how peter kills. claws from behind are consistent with how he goes at derek at the end of heart monitor and jackson in master plan or throat slashing which we see in the tell with the video store clerk, kate in code breaker and jennifer in lunar eclipse. 

or he mauls them viscerally like we see with the mute in the benefactor.

a creature of habit he calls himself.

in none of peter’s kills either as alpha or as a beta does he tear someone in half.

while peter hale is a dramatic king and doesn’t mind getting his hands bloody, i think he’d be offended if someone accused him of tearing laura in half. 

the mysterious death of laura hale II: why does peter kill laura?

speaking of peter, why did he kill laura?

the obvious answer is for the alpha power so he could fully heal..he says as much in wolf’s bane.

peter: “yes, becoming an alpha, taking that from laura pushed me over a plateau in the healing process.”

but with peter hale nothing is ever so simple. there’s always layers.

in alpha pact, peter gives derek this speech when he’s winding derek up about how to heal cora:

“you know, normal wolves never abandon an injured member of the pack. they care for it. they even bring it food from a kill and then regurgitate it into the mouth of the injured wolf. they even give it physical and emotional comfort by intensely grooming it. in a way they can do more than just ease pain. they can be instrumental in healing their own."

as i mentioned earlier, i think peter not only holds a lot of resentment towards talia for what he perceived as inaction but also towards laura.

after the fire, laura did what cora says in visionary they were taught to do when hunters find them.

cora: "waiting. hiding. that's what we're told to do when the hunters find us. hide and heal."

in all the trauma and grief, laura did the only thing that she could reasonably do in response to such a horrific tragedy. she packed up her little brother who she’d suddenly become the guardian of and put an entire continent between them and beacon hills.

in doing so she left behind peter. i don’t blame her for leaving beacon hills. she was reacting to the threat of the hunters by trying to protect what little was left of her family and herself.

you have to put on your own oxygen mask before you can help others.

however, in leaving peter behind he was left to not only slowly go mad but he was also left vulnerable.

peter may have felt laura not only abandoned him as a member of the pack but abdicated her right to be the alpha.

derek tells scott in riddled:

“my family didn’t just live in beacon hills.they protected it.”

laura left beacon hills unprotected and she left peter alone. 

peter killed laura for the alpha power he always saw as rightfully his so he could heal and do the job he felt talia and laura were both too weak to do. 

while peter killed laura his culpability does come into question. 

in co-captain he performs the memory sharing ritual with scott which gives us a small glimpse of peter’s memories in the moments before laura’s death.

laura enters the scene looking around as if she hears something and then laura calls out his name in question. when peter turns he doesn’t look like a man in control with his eyes rolling, mouth agape. 

his actions look autonomous. peter the man is not at the wheel. 

if we take what peter says in wolf’s bane at face value about how he was being driven by pure instinct then we can surmise that the wolf was in control and acted on impulse and peter’s deepest thoughts and desires. 

the same ones we hear peter raving and ranting at meredith in monstrous. 

vengeance. 

i think the truth seems to be somewhere in the middle. 

peter often downplays his own involvement as a manipulation tactic. so while he lacked inhibition, killing laura for the alpha power was premeditated as we know his nurse was acting on his behalf. i do wonder though if laura’s body hadn’t been severed by hunters would peter have resurrected her? 

what’s a little murder between family members, you know? 

the mysterious death of laura hale III: the conspiracy

there are two conspiracies in season 1.

the conspiracy to kill the hales and the conspiracy to lure laura hale back to beacon hills.

about three months before her death laura was sent the picture of the revenge spiral on the deer which brought her back to beacon hills. to the territory she had left unattended for six years. in pack mentality, derek says that laura came back to beacon hills looking for the alpha and that she told him she was close to figuring something out about the fire. 

luring laura back to beacon hills wasn’t just about killing her. that was the endgame, but first peter needed her to do the leg work in finding the conspirators that set the fire.

the conspiracy itself hinges on one person since peter was still unable to do all of it himself due to him still recovering and we know nothing about her.

nurse jennifer plagues me. her motivations for helping peter were never given. she’s merely a tool to help peter enact his revenge.

all we have are theories and i have found precious few in my searches through old meta.

the most popular theory and i use that word loosely is that she was jennifer blake sowing the seeds for her eventual return to take on the alpha pack. i’ve considered this one and i think a skilled writer could make it work, but within the context we’re given i don’t think so. 

i do believe jennifer blake definitely scouted out beacon hills just as the alpha pack did but i don’t think she and nurse jennifer are one in the same. besides, we do see nurse jennifer’s corpse in code breaker. 

another theory i came across was that she’s a banshee compelled in the same way lydia was by peter. again because we have such little information there’s enough room for it to be possible but i doubt it. 

the conclusion i have come to about nurse jennifer is that she’s someone like dr. fenris and brunski from eichen house. while we do not learn about eichen house until season 3b dr fenris is introduced in wolf’s bane and is in the search for a cure. 

mostly, i think she’s simply a reference to nurse ratched from one flew over the cuckoo’s nest. her nurse's uniform is even anachronistic. 

but what was nurse jennifer’s role in the conspiracy?

she is the one who sent the picture of the deer spiral to laura hale to spur her to come back to beacon hills. nurse jennifer is also the one who sent allison the text to come to the school during night school. like laura, nurse jennifer did a lot of footwork for peter to make his plans work and it’s a damn shame we’ll never know why.

the mysterious death of laura hale iv:  the fixed point

laura’s death is what i think of as a fixed point in the universe of teen wolf. the idea of which is something i shamelessly took from doctor who.

in doctor who a fixed point is considered a lynchpin of the structure of ordered history. they cannot be altered as any attempts to do so would unravel linear time. 

laura hale’s death is that fixed point. it was unavoidable, unpreventable. poor laura hale doomed by the narrative.

in the events surrounding the murder of laura hale there are two more players i haven’t really discussed. they exist on the periphery but are no less important. 

doctor alan deaton and the nemeton.

cora says this in visionary:

"they keep us connected to humanity but they're a secret even within the pack. sometimes only the alpha knows who the emissary is. derek and i had no idea about deaton."

as talia’s successor laura would’ve had to know who their pack’s emissary was.

this is confirmed in fury when deaton not only insults derek to his face but reveals that he made a promise to talia to help her children and derek recalls laura mentioning deaton indirectly as some kind of advisor. 

i say indirectly because if laura had told derek explicitly that deaton was someone who could help and advise than he wouldn’t have suspected him as the alpha in season 1. 

did laura see deaton at all during her time in beacon hills? i would say it’s probable but i get the impression laura played her cards close to her chest. deaton was very unnerved by what was happening and with laura’s death probably concerned for his own wellbeing. 

deaton doesn’t reveal himself to derek because he has no idea if derek’s the one who killed laura or not. there’s no established relationship between the two for trust to go either way. 

truly the greatest villain of teen wolf is miscommunication, but i digress.

now here comes the part where i put on my tin foil conspiracy theory hat. i believe laura was killed near or at the nemeton. 

an unintended and unacknowledged sacrifice.

peter may not have consciously remembered its location, but who's to say it didn’t draw him there. 

we know from jennifer’s speech in the overlooked that the nemeton had a small spark of power from paige’s death. it was enough power to keep her alive after kali left her for dead so it isn’t difficult to believe it could’ve drawn peter to it as well. 

we know gerard knows its location despite what he tells allison about him not remembering. i don’t believe that geriatric bastard anymore than i believe peter as peter is able to find the nemeton easy enough because he shows up to kill jennifer there.

now, i have zero proof of this. it’s all speculation from vibes and what we see in lunar eclipse but considering laura’s body was moved from wherever she originally died and was severed it’s possible. 

it’s easy to imagine a scenario where laura finds peter at the nemeton where he kills her and leaves her body where it fell. later, gerard and his hunters discover her corpse and in frustration and anger at his plan falling through, gerard decides to use laura as bait for either the werewolf that killed her, derek or whatever other werewolves come along. waste not, want not after all. 

either way an alpha’s blood is spilled there giving the nemeton just a little bit more power. 

in lunar eclipse allison, scott and stiles perform a proxy ritual sacrifice to find out the location of the nemeton so they can rescue their parents. it’s successful, but only because the nemeton allows them to know its location. 

in revealing itself to them it chooses them as its champions and.it’s magic takes them back to the night scott was bitten, to the fixed point in the teen wolf universe. 

laura hale’s death.

haunting the narrative: laura hale’s uneasy ghost

“and so, the woman dies. the woman dies so the man can be sad about it. the woman dies so the man can suffer. she dies to give him a destiny. dies so he can fall to the dark side. dies so he can lament her death. as he stands there, brimming with grief, brimming with life, the woman lies there in silence.”

by aoko matsuda, translated by polly barton

once the first season comes to a close and laura hale’s murder is solved she is no longer mentioned save a few precious times, but the ghost of laura lingers. 

laura haunts the narrative.

derek has forgiven many transgressions against himself and his person but he will never forgive peter for laura’s murder. her death underscores every single one of their interactions.

laura’s the specter that hangs between cora and derek. cora loses her sister twice and derek’s words “sorry to disappoint you” only speak to how he feels he cannot live up to the ghost of not only his mother but also laura.

this, however, is not the only way laura remains in the narrative. they allude to her in other ways. 

in anchors scott reprises the scene from wolf moon where he tells stiles they’re going to go out into the woods to find a dead body but in a reverse uno of wolf moon though, scott is able to save the naked hale girl in the woods and bring her back to her family.

at the beginning of party guessed, lydia has one of her banshee visions. if you pay attention you can catch a girl in the bleachers that doesn’t quite belong. in fact, she’s crying out distressed and frightened.

that girl is laura hale. 

while uncredited the actress looks a lot like haley roe murphy who played laura in the first season and the necklace around her neck has a red pendant that alludes to her alpha status.

lydia sees an echo of laura hale as a warning.

i like this shot in second chance at first line when scott is at the morgue. he pulls out the drawer containing laura's lower half and the pov for the shot is almost like laura is watching despite her upper half not being there.

the very last time we see laura’s body is after stiles and scott dig it up. 

from this new perspective, laura’s stare has gone from vacant to accusatory.

it’s a jump scare, the transition from laura as a wolf to laura as human. it’s meant to freak stiles and scott out and confuse them. 

what it’s always said to me though is how dare you.

whether or not it was intentional (and let’s be real this is teen wolf so it’s probably half and half if we’re being generous)  the murder of laura remains one of the most intriguing incidents on teen wolf and her being one of the most untapped characters.

i said earlier i wanted to know what laura knew before her death. what had she uncovered about the fire? had she learned about cora being alive? did she know about kate and derek?

the answer is that it doesn’t matter. It no longer matters because laura died. we can never know what she knew. 

in teen wolf it doesn’t matter because laura is a non-character while being the most important character of them all.

laura hale is the beautiful dead girl.

she is the inciting incident, the fixed point, the name unsaid and the spirit unexercised.

“an anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young-- a dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.”  lenore by edgar allen poe

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Luna mf stark

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/ztNedsc by Smilla08096761 Luna, has spent her life under the careful watch of Nick Fury, trained as SHIELD’s most skilled and enigmatic young operative. Born with godlike powers that she learned to control through relentless discipline, she became Fury’s hidden weapon in the darkest missions where even the Avengers were not deployed. For Luna, duty and secrecy were life, her identity shrouded in shadows. But everything changes when SHIELD collapses and her existence is at risk of being revealed. Fury sends her to the Avengers, telling her she’ll be safer among them. She’s thrust into a world of , warmth, and complex relationships she never expected. With Tony Stark as her reluctant mentor—ever intrigued by the puzzle she represents—Luna starts to question what it means to live outside of missions. As she forms bonds with the Avengers, Luna realizes that power is more than a tool for war; it’s a means of connecting with others and discovering who she truly is. Yet, shadows from her past, rival forces seeking her abilities, and her struggle between mortal humanity and divine purpose threaten to pull her back into the dark world she left behind. Can Luna accept the part of her that is Lysira and find where she belongs before it’s too late? Words: 2387, Chapters: 2/?, Language: English Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel (Comics), Avengers (Comics), Iron Man (Movies), Captain America (Movies), Thor (Movies), Black Widow (Movie 2021) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M, Multi Characters: Morgan Stark (Marvel Cinematic Universe), Harley Keener, Peter Parker, Tony Stark, Pepper Potts, Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes, Sam Wilson (Marvel), Wanda Maximoff, Vision (Marvel), Pietro Maximoff, Bruce Banner, Thor (Marvel), Jane Foster (Marvel), Loki (Marvel), Maria Hill, Nick Fury, Stephen Strange, Kate Bishop, Yelena Belova, Shuri (Marvel), Ned Leeds, Michelle Jones (Marvel), Alpine (Marvel) Relationships: Tony Stark & Original Female Character(s), Avengers Team Members (Marvel) & Original Female Character(s), Morgan Stark (Marvel Cinematic Universe) & Tony Stark, James "Bucky" Barnes & Original Female Character(s), Original Female Character & Everyone, Bruce Banner & Clint Barton & Steve Rogers & Natasha Romanov & Tony Stark & Thor, Avengers Team Members & Tony Stark, Peter Parker/Original Female Character(s) Additional Tags: Parent Tony Stark, Tony Stark Has a Heart, Protective Tony Stark, Avengers Family, Protective Avengers, Protective Steve Rogers, Protective Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Protective Peter Parker, Avengers Tower, Not Canon Compliant, Not Canon Compliant with Movie: Avengers: Endgame (2019), Protective Bucky Barnes, Fluff and Angst, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/ztNedsc

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The Magic Within

by NightwingAngeloftheMorning04 Mandrake the Magician and Amy O' Connor are enlisted by Zatanna Zatarra to get some help with a threat with a connection to seizures and supernatural forces happening worldwide, even to those close to them; Meanwhile, with help from Tori, Richie works to reestablish his friendship with Duncan. Words: 5360, Chapters: 3/?, Language: English Fandoms: Highlander: The Series, Defenders of the Earth (Cartoon), Batman - All Media Types, Batman: The Animated Series, Justice League - All Media Types, Justice League Dark (2017), Justice League Dark (Comics) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Categories: F/M, Gen Characters: Richie Ryan, Original Female Character(s), Bruce Wayne, Diana (Wonder Woman), Clark Kent, John Stewart (DCU), Victor Stone, Dick Grayson, Barbara Gordon, Kate Kane (DCU), Luke Fox, Tim Drake, Jason Todd, Cassandra Cain, Duncan MacLeod, Joe Dawson, Methos (Highlander), Flash Gordon, Kit Walker | 27th Phantom, Mandrake the Magician, Rick Gordon, Jedda Walker, Lothar Jr. | LJ (Defenders of the Earth), Lothar (Defenders of the Earth), Kshin (Defenders of the Earth), Stephanie Brown, Zatanna Zatara, John Constantine, Boston Brand, Swamp Thing (DCU), Raven (Teen Titans), Etrigan (DCU), Jason Blood, Condiment King, Harley Quinn, Harleen Quinzel, Pamela Isley Relationships: Duncan MacLeod & Richie Ryan, Richie Ryan/Original Character, John Constantine & Bruce Wayne & Zatanna Zatara, John Constantine/Zatanna Zatara, Barbara Gordon/Dick Grayson, Lothar (Defenders of the Earth) & Mandrake the Magician, Mandrake the Magician & Original Character Additional Tags: Re-write of Justice League Dark (2017), Multi Crossover, Alternate Universe via https://ift.tt/5l6asYE

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@vihilum asked:  👶 give harlate a baby babies  /  accepting

name suggestions: alex, short for alexandra 

physical features they took from my muse: those green eyes babey

physical features they took from your muse: that full head of hair. long, dark and wavy

which parent do they act more like?: they’re both pretty extroverted so they’re gonna have one hell of a toddler / kid on their hands. interest-wise she’ll be taking more after kate.

my muse’s favourite memory with their child: first day of kindergarten, not the bringing but the picking up. he was so so nervous leaving her there for basically a whole day. he spent the whole day overthinking and being anxious because he remembers not liking it very much himself but when he went to pick her up, she was as joyous and happy as ever. jumping right into her arms and going on for hours and hours about the friends she made and everything she did.