#hatter (derogatory) or that man (derogatory)

[fivekrystalpetals]

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[peabrainedraccoonlady]

DC Weirdness and Stories

Part 4: NOT MY BLORBOS

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No. No thing before the meat and potatoes. We are going into this. NOW.

I don't know what the hell DC is on but they need to stop. Especially with the comics.

"Ray, tf wrong with the comics?" I'LL TELL YOU.

DC taking really silly and fun characters and making them bad. What do I mean by that.

Well I eluded to this in my other posts.

Ready?

Plastic Man.

Mad Hatter.

EVEN BATMAN have been written once or twice as horrible beings without a reason for this.

"Ray, why is this bad? Sometimes it ties into the story." YES, THIS IS SORTA FINE. HOWEVER.

Take this for example.

Gotham. Yes the show Gotham.

I praise this show for the odd homosexual behavior between Riddler and Penguin. Fun. Great. Unexpected? Yes. Oddly well done? Yeah.

However. I hate what they did to my boy. My rotten soldier.

Mad Hatter, my second favorite Batman villain. A silly little Wonderland man. Doing weird Wonderland things. Villainy!

Gothams Jervis is so silly and interesting. His design makes me happy. Everything is fine.

Then they dropped HEAVY IMPLICATIONS that he mentally and sexually abused his sister then returned to silly Hatter like they didn't just pin a horrible thing to a normally goofy villain. Like that sh#t didn't happen???

It's almost like making Condiment King a Serial Killer (do not get any ideas please.)Ok. Fine but thats one example. There can't be more...

Righ- WRONG!!

Arkham Origins and a bit of City.

For those who know, I'm sorry, I agree that he is a bit better in Knight.

For those who don't, Well I'm also sorry.

- Alice is badly traumatized in Origin by being forced to stay with Hatter and by how badly he treated her. How bad? She cries hysterically when Batman saves her, which made me extremely uncomfortable.

- City (might be wrong, haven't collected everything in the Arkham games yet) interview tape reveals that every Alice that Strange brings to Hatter, he kills them. Yeah.

It's really bad, except for Knight. He's a bit better in Knight.

There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with making Silly Goofy Batman Villains dark, just don't pin dark subjects to villains that wouldn't do that in the first place.

But thats just Jervis. Surely- YOU ARE STILL WRONG.

My favorite DC Superhero, other than Booster Gold, is Plastic Man.

This funny lil scumbag (affectionate) is great. Until they make him a scumbag (derogatory.)

Ever want a story with Plastic Man just being a d#ckbag? Want to see him make unneeded jokes about women mainly Wonder Woman? No? Too f#cking bad, bucko!!

This is a minor case but sometimes. Only rare times it happens. I get that he's a former villain but SO IS BOOSTER GOLD. BOOSTER GOLD LITERALLY STOLE ALL HIS HERO SH#T. HE DOESN'T DO THE SH#T PLAS DOES.

"Ray, he's in it for the mon-" SO DID BOOSTER GOLD.

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I'm emotionally tired about this. If you have more to add on this garbage fire. Go ahead and tell the tale. Cause damn.

Next post of this series will dip into a more fun note. More Riddlers! Specifically cool Riddlers. (Why yes I will talk about my favorite Riddlers Jim Carrey and Frank Gorshin.)

[enigmamuse]

Scarecrow Ask (Museverse) #4-6

4. If they happen to be, which preexisting Crane are they most based off of?

My Jonathan has a lot of influence from Year One, mostly backstory. There are sprinkles of other source material like BTAS and Fear State, but he's sort of a mish mash of different things I like about Jon in general. He's grown older and is more methodical about his revenge and crimes now. 

5. Are they a lone wolf or do they have a special somebody(ies)? Could be just friends or any significant other(s).

He has heavy social anxiety based on bullying and rejection (among other things) in his past, so for the most part, he's a more solitude version of Crane.

Edward Nygma. They're dating, but that was following a period of years knowing each other as Rogues. Jon didn't like Edward initially - he was easy to read: insecure, self absorbed, a textbook case of several disorders, too similar to parts of himself (See: we are made of the same material(derogatory)). They started out liking to annoy each other. While Jon's version of "annoy" literally scares off people, Edward is very persistent and would come back, not wanting to "lose" whatever game they had going on. 

They worked together a lot - Edward citing that Jon was "actually capable" , which is genuine praise coming from him. They were weird constants for each other, drifting in and out of Arkham, bonding over niche reading and games that others couldn’t be bothered with. Acted like a couple who're not actually a couple for a while. At some point, someone pointed out their behavior and caused both men to go into a panicked identity crisis where they practically didn't talk to each other for months. (However, Jonathan was included in a lot of Edward's riddles during that time, and it was a whole Thing for Batman.)

Harleen Quinzel. So while I think the idea of Jon having met Harley while teaching at university or where both were working at Arkham is cute, my version of Jonathan doesn’t meet Harley until after he’s become Scarecrow. He was an inmate at Arkham when Harley was first being influenced by the Joker, but was not one of her patients. I think he took a fascination in her as both someone wanting to study super criminals, and after as one who became one following some persuasion. Their relationship improved immensely after she cut ties with the Joker, as Jon began to regard her as an individual force versus a buffed henchman.

Jonathan thinks Harley is capable and intelligent, but still somewhat immature. There's a kinship there, but he wouldn't call it "fatherly" because that has never meant anything positive to him.

Jervis Tetch. Jon and Jervis share a bond that's close, but difficult to understand. They're able to tap into the same frequency that doesn't really make sense to others, so their conversations and streams of thinking, particularly when Jon is more Scarecrow than Jonathan, align well. Jonathan became a Rogue before Mad Hatter, and had known him as Dr. Jervis Tetch, esteemed neuroscientist [whose research I want to steal].

Bonus! This one is purely for me, but Jon is one of the few people who gets along with Victor Fries. Despite not being able to get a rouse out of him (which he hates), Jon likes Victor’s straightforward personality and that he generally doesn’t have to worry about the other man having ulterior motives. It’s a rare case of Jon actually being the sillier one of a dynamic. They’re just two dudes who are silent in the same room for a long period of time, but if you asked either they’d be like “yeah, my friend Jon/Victor”.

6. Do they have corvid or any other animal friends? This Jon had birds for a time as a method of exposure therapy to get over his childhood ornithophobia, but he does not currently keep any. They're more visitors to him, so he keeps specialty seed and supplies, but not crows proper.

Farmer Jonathan is something I find cute, but since he was relatively poor growing up, raising animals wasn’t something he really did. However, he does have a very rural mentality about animals: he’s respectful of them, but very blunt about their status as livestock.

[madamhatter]

"Sweetheart, being that naive will only end up hurting you in the end" - Rika

Patronizing sovereignty: was that not Rika Kim who stands before her with her crown of golden locks and scornful bright-green eyes? Tresses glistened in the sunlight that peered through the large pane windows; her form straightened and hands crossed above the table. RikaThe respected leader of the RFA, a renowned fundraising program in South Korea, unfastens her indulgent mask with only two breaths. Not wasting a second more, the woman addresses Sophie with such arid casualness and acknowledgment.

Naivety? Had its definition eluded you to cast such a word so foolishly and pointedly towards me? Do professionalism and appeasement correlate to childishness? Miss Kim, allowing that silver spoon in your mouth to wag so extensively creates quite a boorish noise. 

Benign gaze - irises of dullened earth - observe. It is a harmless action, an obligatory gesture,  to witness and listen to those who speak. Whether derogatory, complimentary, demeaning, superficial, or meaningful, all words must take weight in her mind, and she must learn from them all. After all, that was what Sophie Hatter was taught when pathetically bright-eyed and hopeful. 

Her scarred hands rest above her diaphragm, her chest rising and lowering, taking a gentle breath. Poise and silent, that was all she had to be in these seconds before giving the necessary response. Yet the growing fire under her tongue was burning, her half-afraid that the smoke would seep through her tightly-pressed smile.  

As the representative of her family's shambling company, Sophie's presence served as an obligation. An ailing man should not be forced from his bed. Why should he when there is a suitable substitute, the very tool he crafted since its birth? 

"Miss Rika Kim, I apologize for any misunderstanding," she nods. "Ignorance is not my intention, only hospitality." And a shadow grows over her face, her hold over the other hand tightening. "After all, we wouldn't need to have any misconceptions about either of us, no? To assume before knowing the truth is a great folly. And I'd rather it not occur, especially when the Funding Association has been needing to secure their contact and monetary support with my father’s company.." 

"Now, shall we resume?"