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rick-rayson · 1 year ago

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Okay so weirdly specific, but could you do imagines for Yara Flor x Reader where reader is a villain who’s not evil, they’re just a Megamind type villain: a harmless theater kid who’s a good person. Also they’re a magic-themed villain and the Circe to Yara’s Diana

DRAMATICS

A/N: I put this into the same formatting as my Jonathan Crane post because the normal storytelling format just wasn't doing it for me (Don't ask how that works it just does) Nonetheless, I hope you enjoy and sorry for the long wait ORZ THIS IS KINDA LAME- BUT ALSO YARA IS DEF THE PERSON TO HATE THE MEGAMIND TYPES LOWKEY-

"Reader is a villain who’s not evil, they’re just a Megamind type villain: a harmless theater kid who’s a good person. Also they’re a magic-themed villain and the Circe to Yara’s Diana."

➯ Despite her many clashes with society, humanity and spectacles alike, Yara is a virtuous and giving woman who prides herself in her ability to stick up for others who cannot do it for themselves. She protects the people of São Paulo and speaks where they cannot be heard, to her core that is who Yara is. A protector. A warrior.

➯ It was an uneventful day, Yara took to helping civilians with the common thief and the occasional crook, picking up debris three times her height and mass as if it was akin to lifting a lone pebble. So, not very eventful for Yara but most definitely perplexing for the average citizen. It was, all things considered, calming.

➯ That was until Yara's ears pick up the sound of familiar and loud music that hurts her ears to even listen to. And with a groan of annoyance, she stands tall, already knowing what is to come.. or more like who.

➯ "Greetings, people of São Paulo! Your greatest nightmare has arrived!" You gloat, arms raised as you conjure up what Yara can comprehend to be coloured illusions of animals and fireworks. Usually, such a sight would enlighten Yara, it reminds her of the carnivals she's attended. But right now she's over this ploy of yours.

➯ You and Yara have been doing this game for far too long. (A month) A millennium, truly. You come in with an elaborate display and an evil plan that she easily thwarts with the flick of her wrist and the painful end of her golden Bolas. you somehow disappear and she's annoyed all over again.

➯ "We're doing this again? Have you no hobbies?" She grimaces at you, in the action of whirling a Bola. ➯ "This is the hobby, actually, so-"

➯ She throws a Bola at you, forcing you to construct a forcefield. "You know you are very volatile."

➯ "And you are very annoying." She mutters before she's leaping towards you, her fist barely missing your jaw.

➯ "It's been a while since I've been villain-ing so you could-" A poor construct of a pig takes the damning punch that was meant for you. It shatters like glass. "-make this less of a bad experience for me-"

➯ "I aim to make it worse." Yara smiles before sending a hearty punch to your nose.

➯ "And you're-" you wince as you hold your nose that was now sputtering with blood, "supposed to be the good guy-" Yara ties you up using her lasso.

➯ "Speak now or I throw you off this building, why do you do this?" She grits her teeth yet all you can think about is the small gap between you two.

➯ You make an attempt to shrug, "show....biz?"

➯ There's a pause, a beat, Yara's angered expression has now gone blank at the sound of your answer. And the silence is so long that not even the nosy civilians who've arrived are confident in breaking it. "Theatrics? You use your powers for theatrics?"

➯ "Mostly, yeah."

By the police arrive Yara leaves your legs tied together, the officers are quick to expect some manner of resistance but upon arriving at the site, all they see is you writing on the floor with a Sharpie. An officer slowly treads to make sense of what you're writing: "I am dramatic and I love Wonder Woman."

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thevindicativevordan · 2 years ago

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What do you think about recent 5G leaks from Bleeding Cool?

If you've been living under a rock, never fear I shall ramble on about this whole initiative.

5G - short for "Fifth Generation" - was to be the next big DC reboot, albeit one that recanonized everything instead of erasing what came before. Now the characters which had previously operated on a sliding timeline attached to vague dates, would be allowed to actually age. Superman's rocket would land in 1938 Smallville, and Clark would be elderly and past his prime by "modern" time. Jon would have taken over his role as Superman, alongside other legacy heroes such as Yara Flor Wonder Woman and a Batman who was the son of Lucius Fox (Luke originally, but after Ridley was recruited then it was Jace). It would have been an upheaval on par with the New 52, the classic heroes all either retired, dead, or sidelined for various reasons, and their heirs would generally not have been the traditional choices, Jon aside. If you want a really in-depth analysis of 5G prior to the recent Bleeding Cool reports, I recommend checking out this which does a lot of solid guesswork with regards to what 5G work was salvaged and retooled for other projects.

Now on to what Bleeding Cool has shared about what were the plans for 5G:

Batman

At the end of Joker War Batman would have let the Joker go in return for the Joker promising to kill Bane for him, in retaliation for Alfred's death.

Joker does indeed honor his promise and kills Bane. This would then lead into a miniseries, Batman: Last Days where Batman would have been consumed by guilt over letting this happen. Because of the new 5G timeline, Bruce would also have been in his sixties, and forced to face the fact that he simply isn't physically cut out to be Batman anymore.

Traveling the world to dismantle Batman Inc, as well as try and salvage his relationship with the Batfamily along the way, Bruce finally retires in England. He would have asked the rest of the Batfamily to let Batman die, and most of the Batfamily would have respected his request. Tom Taylor and Andy Kubert were originally going to handle this series and their work got turned into Batman: The Knight.

Meanwhile back in Gotham, Luke Fox would have decided to take up the mantle of Batman in a New Batman series.

Damian would have felt betrayed by his father's decision to retire and would have chosen to replace his grandfather Ra's as head of the League of Assassins and his mother as head of Leviathan. This would have led to a Batman vs. Robin event where Luke and Damian would have fought each other. Jon would have been involved too, with Damian viewed Jon spending so much time with the Legion as tantamount to abandoning him, and ultimately Luke and Jon would have joined forces against Damain, but the two would not have trusted each other at first.

Tamara Fox, Luke's older sister, would have become her brother's Robin against his wishes.

In 2023 the Joker would have made his return after a long period away in The Hunt for Batman, seeking to test the new Batman Luke. Joker would have outed Bruce's identity as Batman and revealed the promise he made to kill Bane which caused Bruce to let him go. Luke would have wanted to bring Bruce in, but Bruce would have decided to surrender to the Gotham authorities and then he would be put on trial where he would have been found guilty. The Justice Alliance would have supported Luke and been opposed to Bruce, with his old villains gunning for Bruce in one last attempt at revenge.

Superman

For 5G the plan was that riding the high of revealing himself, Clark would have started pressuring the other Leaguers to ditch their secret identities too. Within the League there would be much discussion and debate over whether or not this was the smart thing to do, with Batman being adamantly opposed.

Jon would not have been happy with his dad's choice because of the greater scrutiny it would have placed him under. Only trips to the future and spending time with the LoSH would have offered Jon escape.

Same as Bruce, Clark would be in his sixties in the "present" and discovered that his powers were fading. Handing the mantle and job of protecting Metropolis to Jon, Clark and Lois would have moved to Africa where he would have become a different type of hero.

Jon and Jenny Sparks would have become a couple as part of Jon replacing his dad in a New Superman series. Learning of a terrible fate awaiting the Earth from his time with the Legion, Jon would have fought a "neverending" battle to make sure it would not come to pass.

Clark would not have been able to sit on the sidelines for long and would have been building a secret Authority team to compensate for his loss in power. Ultimately Jenny would have joined the team too.

Seeing Bruce put on trial would have pushed Clark to step into the spotlight again, with the aid of his Authority team Clark would have broken Bruce out of prison and set up a Superman vs. Superman storyline where Clark and Jon would be on opposite sides, fighting with each other over what it means to be Superman.

Justice League

There would have been a weekly JL series exploring the 5G timeline and leading up to the dissolution of the League called JL: The Last Call. Brian Bendis, KSD, Matt Fraction, and Greg Rucka would have been the writers for the series.

Come Fall 2021 there would be an event called Changing of the Guard which would have facilitated the mantle handoffs from Clark and Bruce's gen to Jon and Luke's.

Justice Alliance

This would have been the replacement for the JL, with it's origin in Jon and Luke teaming up against Damian. There would have been a World's Finest event comic that would have seen Jon learning the value of the Superman/Batman partnership and ultimately culminated in the two forming a new team composed of Jon, Luke, Yara, Jo, and a new Flash who was the child of Captain Boomerang. Tim Sheridan would have written this and he seemingly used his ideas for the new Flash to create Bolt for Titans Academy.

In 2024 there would have been a Superman/Batman Against The DC Universe event where the entire DC hero community would have had to chose between Clark and Bruce or Jon and Luke, basically DC's Civil War. Clark would have undergone a process to restore his power levels which would have worked, but his power levels would keep growing to the point he would have become a threat to Earth itself.

Ultimately Bruce would have done something that would kill both himself and Clark as a way of ending the threat Clark posed, saving Earth, and preventing the future Jon learned about from coming to pass. Jon and Luke would therefore have continued as the only Superman and Batman. Unless...

The whole thing flopped saleswise in which case Didio was building an escape hatch to undo 5G and restore Clark and Bruce back to their spots as Superman and Batman in 2025, when DC and WB would have stepped back and judged whether 5G was a success or a failure.

Other 5G Tidbits

Ram V's The Swamp Thing was basically him taking his 5G Swamp Thing pitch and just doing it without 5G.

Jeff Lemire was going to write the Tangent Green Lantern hand off her Lantern to someone in the main universe, which would have placed that successor at the center of a 5G horror line.

A Lost Green Lantern Corps series was planned of seven depowered GLs hired to protect a planet.

Reading all of it, my main takeaways is that all of the Jon solo stuff sounds awesome and all of the Clark stuff sounds awful. If 5G had gone ahead I think Jon might have actually been accepted as a worthy successor to Clark. Fraction likely would have given us some of the best Superman content we've ever gotten and it would have been with Jon as the protagonist. Jon dating Jenny Sparks in a series potentially written by Matt Fraction sounds exponentially better than the utterly bland and lifeless series we've gotten under Tom Taylor. Probably still would have gotten a bisexual Jon too, and maybe he would have even had a boyfriend with a personality as opposed to the drab Jay with whom there is no chemistry or sparks (I'm sorry I couldn't resist).

Everything about Clark is a mix of hilarious and infuriating. He's the one who causes the JL to dissolve, he retires to Africa - just like he did in Future's End which makes me think Didio was really enamored with that idea for some reason - and builds a super powered hit squad in secret which totally is at odds with him previously being all about being open. Safe bet he did that behind Lois' back, which feasibly could have led to the two divorcing and Lois siding with Jon. Bruce has to kill both Clark and himself to prevent Clark from destroying the Earth, and it doesn't seem like Clark and Jon would have reconciled before the end. Which means -

- this is basically the 5G final fate of the Earth 0 Superman! Dying a failure at the end of a battle with his son, whom he constantly undermined and never let take charge. Even if Fraction's Jon book absolutely kicked ass, there would have been a backlash from the Clark diehards regardless. Speaking as someone who is quite fond of Clark and was excited at Jon's potential, in case that wasn't obvious, I would have been pissed at this being his "permanent" exit from the spotlight.

Batman's side of 5G sounds doomed to failure. The whole concept of Bruce being put on trial for Joker killing Bane sounds idiotic, Luke being determined to bring him in for that was not going to endear him to Bruce's fanbase. Pitting the new Batman - who was already going to be controversial by nature of being black and "cutting in line" ahead of the other choices regardless of how that was facilitated - against Bruce is insane. Bruce is the most popular DC hero and the general consumer base was NEVER going to side with Luke/Jace against him. Luke/Jace's sales would have absolutely tanked in the wake of Bruce's death, which I'm sure people would have blamed Luke/Jace for. Batman's fanbase would have been outright radicalized against the new guy, and if DC can't rely on Batman selling well, then they would have been screwed. For that reason alone I doubt 5G would have lasted beyond the 5 years Johns predicted it would last in Doomsday Clock. Sales would have forced DC to end the experiment and bring Bruce and Clark back to life.

Furthermore, the Justice Alliance book was going to be written by Tim Sheridan? That's who Didio picked to write what would have been the flagship book? No offense to the guy but a new Justice team meant to replace the JL needs an A-List writer. His Titans Academy book was dull in the extreme, none of his other comic work has been better than "ok". Puts the lie to claims that Didio was going to make sure that the 5G books had great creative teams because they "needed to put their best foot forward". Telling that there's no real info on what the plans were for WW, or Aquaman, or Flash beyond Yara, Jackson, and initially Bolt being their planned replacements.

If 5G had gone ahead it would have been the New 52 2.0. Some great books would have been put out, likely the side books which would have been sadly overlooked, but the main core would have been trash. Fraction's Jon book might have been the equivalent to Scott Snyder's Batman run, an oasis of stability amidst constant implosions, but it alone could not make up for what seems like Didio running the line straight into the wall with his micromanaging. We ended up getting the good Clark books we would have gotten in 5G anyway with Morrison doing Superman & The Authority and Russell doing Space Age. Jon drew the short straw but the current era has simply been better overall for Superman than what we would have gotten, and there's still a chance that someone can salvage Jon. 5G being cancelled was a good thing after all.

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