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[imadhatt3r]

You know what? That one line from that Phantom Liberty ending where V can call Johnny a "big ol' softie"? They're right. They're absolutely right.

Johnny is a softie. He goofs off on multiple occasions in V's field of view despite knowing that nobody can see him, probably to his own and V's amusement. He screams on the rollercoaster and grins like crazy at V. He adores Nibbles. He wanted to check on Kerry when he heard that he was suicidal. He finally took Rogue on that car cinema date and can flirt with her in a goofy way straight out of his favorite "Bushido" movies. He has fun on the reunion concert and gives Kerry his DeLuze Orphean as a goodbye gift. He narrates that one quest like a noir narrator just to mess with V. He understands Barry's grief over his tortoise. He's respectful when watching Joshua's crucifiction. He's nice to Spider Murphy and calls her "Spider". He sheepishly apologizes to Alt in "The Sun" ending. He puffs up his chest when Denny says she misses him. He's fuming over the kids in "Talent Academy" being treated like products, probably because it reminds him of how he was treated in the military. He feels for Solomon Reed because he sees himself in him. He feels for Songbird because her circumstances remind him of V's.

And speaking of, he really loves V. He just loves them so much; He's always on watch for any danger and does his best to give them advice. He promises that he will do everything he can to cure them. He will encourage them to take a break if they're feeling sick. He will attempt the most dangerous stunts to get them to Mikoshi. He promises V to let them wipe him from the Relic and he keeps that promise. He will realize that they're his only loved one left and will ask for the last chance, and when he gets it he does everything he can to make them proud and happy. He accepts their decision no matter what it is, because it's their body and life. His worst fear is getting to live again, but without his friend/partner/soulmate/beloved (depending on interpretation) with him. He's proud to be able to call himself V's friend. He's proud of them. He's sad that he won't be able to see how V will change. He choses to stay calm and positive before he will be innevitably killed so that his beloved V will live to keep them calm and comfort them.

That whole hardass, asshole act? It's a ruse, it's a front, it's a persona he had to put on due to bad childhood, PTSD from being drafted as a teenager, seeing other teenagers die horribly around him, losing his limb and being branded with the Arasaka logo he did his best to scratch out and being tossed into a rockstar life of drinking, drugs and fans when he was likely not much older.

He might fight it, but he will never be the detached, emotionless action hero he wants to be, because that's not at all who he is! I think that his slight grin when V says it is one of relief, that he was able to show his most vulnerable, tender and gentle side to the one person he holds dear and not be punished for it, playfully teased but with clear sympathy on V's part. After decades of struggle with who he is being so different from who he wants to be, he can finally be seen for who he is, and who he would be if his life went oh so differently.

[imadhatt3r]

It's important to note that Johnny projects his own flaws and vices on Kerry (him saying disparagingly that Kerry went to the Philippines to fuck and get high, which is likely what he would do, while Kerry actually went there for spiritual guidance for example). I think that, other than your version, it's possible that he was the one who fucked Kerry once and then pushed him away due having the emotional skills of an apple that got severely banged up before it hit the ground. It's possible that he's projecting his guilt over how he treated Kerry and assumes that Kerry has the same intentions towards V and wants to protect him from being treated like he treated and hurt Kerry in the past.

There's a similar dynamic with his dislike towards Judy- he doesn't like her idea of CLOUDS coup because he thinks it's a similar plan to his own attack on Arasaka Tower- reckless, badly put together and will likely hurt someone Judy cares about (V) in the similar way Johnny hurt somebody close to him (Alt). Johnny feels guilt towards what he did to Alt, even if he didn't mean it, and wants to protect the person he's closest to now (V) from ending up like her. But, like we've established, he's too much emotionally constipated to say that to V, so he instead dislikes the person he sees himslef in the most, Judy, to hopefully make V dislike her and not listen to her too.

The 2.0 Update added some new interactions with Johnny [still no romancing Kerry as a female but oh well]. It happens only in your main apartment, Johnny doesn't appear in any other apartment.

Here's some particular one I want to focus on. Click on the pic for better resolution bc tumblr completely destroys it.

Which for me raises a question canonically: was it Johnny who fucked Kerry once and then Johnny wanted more but that didn't happen? Whether he wanted to manipulate Kerry or genuinely fuck him again with him is another question.

Or was it Kerry that fucked Johnny because Johnny was a desperate little bitch, but it was an one time thing? Somewhat of a hate sex maybe, 'that'll show you.' kind of thing.

Plus, does Johnny see V as one of the groupies to Kerry, despite everything Kerry asked V to do for him and everything Kerry shared with him? And does that imply that, despite some groupies following them around from gig to gig and city to city, neither Kerry or Johnny never fucked the same groupie the second time?

PLUS, does his answer mean that Johnny is incredibly jealous? V gets to spend time with Kerry, interact with him and talk about stuff. It definitely implies a lot of history between Johnny and Kerry—on top of what we've already seen, including how much Kerry wanted and waited for Johnny to get back and how much he always wanted him.

That V & Johnny interaction is a cool little addition, but now I have even more questions. SilverDyne canon, you can't stop me.

P.S.: And in the cutscene on the boat, it's V who fucks Kerry. I also find that very curious, considering this little dialogue. And while I'm at it, when you romance Judy, you can visit her apartment and talk to her. I once visited Kerry's mansion and he wasn't there. No interactions whatsoever. Which also kinda goes with a One Time Stand. I'm so intrigued.

[clockwayswrites]

Bird Brained, or something. Part 22

masterpost NGL this part might be really rough. This migraine is killing my, but I wanted to get it written.

“Just stay behind us, Mr. Wayne,” Maria Ramirez ordered.

Bruce nodded as he paced. Facts about her ran through his head without his bidding. Ex Air Force. Bruce had hired her after she left, angry and with an honorable discharge the Air Force hoped would keep her quiet while the man who assaulted her got a pension. She was a little hot headed, took shit from no one, and was impressively competent.

If she continued this way, she’d be Bruce’s choice for the next head of security.

He still didn’t want to listen to her.

His kids were at the end of that stairwell along with the Mad Hatter and several of the man’s goons. Bruce was confident in Robin and Red Robin’s abilities to protect themselves from the threat, but this was different. This was Damian and Tim.

Robin might be magic, but the child in the suit was just a child. And children could die.

Bruce shook his arms out to try and get rid of the nerves. He could afford the motion as Bruce Wayne where he couldn’t as Batman.

As Batman he could have been at the front of pack and already through the door.

Bruce measured his breathing, forcing it to slow.

Ramirez held up a fist. The rest of the security force readied themselves.

One—

Two—

Three—

They breached the door with shouts of ‘hands in the air’ and ‘get down on the ground’.

“I work here! Doctor Daniel Fenton, R&D,” Danny’s voice called out.

“Get on the ground, hands behind your head slowly,” Ramirez ordered.

Bruce burst out of the stairwell. “I can vouch for—” Wings. Danny had wings. He was still human, human enough, but he had inky black wings that were spread wide along with his raised hands. “—Dr. Fenton.”

Ramirez glanced at Bruce, but kept her tranq gun trained on Danny. “Sir?”

“I can vouch for Dr. Fenton, he’s a friend of the family,” Bruce said more evenly as he took in the rest of the scene.

There was a remarkable lack of blood for the bodies scattered across the small space. Some were unconscious while others clutched their heads. The floor was scattered with crushed mind control devices and the occasional feather. The Mad Hatter was as far back in the elevator as possible, mumbling about ravens and writing desks. Danny stood in front of the door to the safe room. His spread wings assured no one got past him. The outside of Danny’s wings were white, Bruce realized. It was like they were inverted from the larger bird form.

“Tim and Damian are in the safe room,” Danny said quickly, breaking through Bruce’s thoughts. “They’re not hurt.”

Bruce’s shoulders slumped. “Thank you.” He ran his hands over his face and sucked in a purposefully even breath. Then he dropped his hands and looked at the security squad. “Dr. Fenton’s meta status is a personal mater not to be discussed, am I clear?”

There was a course of ‘yes sir’ from security and a soft, relieved, ‘thank you’ from Danny. Bruce nodded and strode towards the safe room. He snagged Danny by the wrist as he passed and pulled the stunned man along with him.

“Bruce?”

“Thank you,” Bruce said again as he started the biometric scans for the safe room. His thumb ran rhythmically over the back of Danny’s hand. The skin there was soft, like the down feathers of a chick. “Thank you for protecting my boys.”

“Of course, I always will,” Danny said, sounding completely serious, though Bruce could feel Danny’s hand trembling in his own.

The vault like door hissed as the air seal released and it started to open. Bruce knew that Danny said that the boys were fine, but as soon as the door was open enough, Bruce pulled Danny into the room and the semblance of privacy that it offered.

“Are you alright? Are you both alright?” Bruce asked. He rested his hand on Tim’s cheek while he looked to Damian, who was standing against the side wall, arms angrily crossed.

“No one even laid a hand on us or got close,” Tim said. “Danny, Dr. Fenton, made sure of that.”

“Which was completely stupid,” Damian bit out, his words harsh and angry and hurt.

“Damian,” Danny tried.

“No! It was stupid! You willing deprived yourself of allies! If you insisted on us being in the safe room then you should have been in it also!”

Danny’s wings drooped. “Damian, honey, this… this form of mine is still new. I didn’t want to risk—”

“You said you wouldn’t hurt us.”

“I would never, but there’s still things that could go wrong—”

“Shut up!”

Danny flinched back at the should, wings pulled tight against his body. Then he took a carefully measured breath and made himself relax. The wings opened up again a little and, with clear uncertainty, Danny opened his arms.

With all the speed of his training, Damian dashed forward. He rammed into Danny hard and wrapped his arms around Danny, clutching him tightly. Danny leaned down a little. His wings came forward to wrap protectively around Bruce’s youngest.

“You are an idiot,” Damian said harshly into Danny’s sweater.

“Some times,” Danny agreed, “but it’s alright. We’re all safe. It’s alright, little chickadee.”

[desultory-novice]

Have you ever just looked at a unimportant character no one cares about, and you just go

“They could have so much depth”

- the necrodeus anon

...I've been passively trying to come up with a compelling backstory for Brobo of all characters so yeah, I do...

Jokes aside (though I was being serious about Brobo!) I sympathize, Necrodeus fan! Some people might notice that I don't ever seem to draw the Dream Team as a whole? Or even all that much indidivually.

It's not because I don't love them. In contrast, I love them all sooooo much! But I also know that as a fan-artist (1) I don't NEED to do anything for them. They're so important to the, err, "brand" that I'm going to get my daily dosage of Kirby and others being cute by checking Twitter for merch announcements!

King Dedede, who is not as well loved by merch as the other three, gets a lot of fan-made content exploring his backstory, relationships, traumas etc, so I'm feasting on his majesty that way! (...I-is that phrasing too weird?)

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It might seem weird to position myself like I'm some champion of giving minor characters depth when I draw a lot of Magolor and Marx, characters who are also showered in love and attention. But as much as I love jester boy, I know that for a variety of reasons, Marx is still in the exact same tier of cameo character as Daroach is, regardless of the difference in merch-love and fan content for the two. Neither of them are going to top the list for "characters to make important in the next Kirby game." That's just facts.

That's why, instead of producing a whole bunch of Meta Knight content, even though I do have ideas for him, I lean towards characters who were important once and are likely never to be important again. (The exception is Magolor, who has been made so important lately, he's likely to stay a reoccurring character. My excuse there is just that I'm biased. (2) Though even I start to feel his spread too much lately? He's trended on JP Twitter twice this last month and I don't even think it was for anything special.)

I LOVE Elfy but I didn't have much for them in the wake of FL's release because Elfy was everywhere I turned. A year later the fire has died down somewhat and I'm ready to write and draw more about Elfy in a relatively collected way. It's weird but sometimes hot news characters can turn into unimportant characters?!

I wasn't here for this, but Daroach was an important figure in two games, back to back! Imagine at that point, he must have seemed like frickin' Magolor to people! Isn't that wild? And the Animal Friends too! They WERE Kirby's friends, allies, family, supporting cast! They were Kirby's everything! ...Fast forward to the years between 64 and Star Allies and it's like... who?

And even then, trying to "spread the love around" is something I have to make a conscious effort to do, and I still know I'm WAY lacking in this department! I'm sorry, my other precious blorbos! Someday I will give you all each the visual masterpiece you are deserving of!

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A thought struck me, as I watched a longplay of Kirby's Pinball, Kirby's Blockball and Kirby's Dream Course (three games I didn't play because even as a Kirby fan, young Dess avoided anything that reminded me of "sports.") that there are more "tiers" of Kirby characters than I typically think of!

If you love even the non-Dedede and non-Magolor last bosses or if you love the Dream Friends, you're still eating good. Because in the early games, our "supporting cast" to develop were things like the Poppy Bros, Squishy, Broom Hatter, and Kabu!

And I LIKE those guys! I like the Helpers! I like Wheelie and I like Bonkers! I mean, Chilly, right?! We all love Chilly! These guys were actually treated as kinda important in the older games! (The older manga gave focus to them too.) They didn't have compelling narratives out of the box, but they were staples in Kirby's world!

Have I ever drawn something for them? Have I ever stopped to think up a story about Simirror or Gim...? I'm not trying to guilt anyone or myself. After all, they really don't have compelling narratives, and I think you'd have to do some serious stretching to come up with one. (It might be a little easier for Gigant Edge and Bonkers and Mr. Frosty since they all spent time in the Forgotten Land...)

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I think what I'm getting at is that we, who love characters who were important, if only for a single game, are kind of blessed to have that experience. Even if it's only for the length of the Milky Way Wishes sub-game or Mass Attack's main campaign. Our favorites were the shining stars with their own arc: triumphant rise and downfall.

So of course we want to plumb their depths! We got attached! And we're still better off than the Brobo fans or... dare I say it... the GRYLL FANS who dearly love a tough as nails last boss with a great design and... that's it...? We Gryll fans (because I am one of them) have pretty much had to make up their character whole cloth.

(On that note, even Gryll being non-binary is not a 100% canon thing. Gryll's just a character who we know so little about, even their gender is "unknown." There are artists all over the world who have settled on either a strictly fem or strictly masc interpretation for our onion witch. Though I prefer enby Gryll and am actually pretty confident that should they make a future appearance, the official localization will go that way themselves.)

For a long time, what informed Gryll's character was "Gryll introduces themselves with the same line that Marx does. Marx Soul and Drawcia Soul share the same attacks. All three use magic. Maybe these three who have never interacted know each other?!" That is, as far as I'm aware, the "origin" of the semi-popular HC that Marx and Gryll are friends/rivals/pseudo-siblings and both of them know/respect/fear Drawcia.

When Magolor came along and hinted he knew Marx, suddenly that lent some credence to all the magic-users knowing each other. Then Taranza came in with some weird hints of his own about knowing Magolor, and then Drawcia started to get pushed out because she was a little bit less "fun" seeming than the others...?

But I want to highlight that this is all made up!!

And I think it was made up because of people like us. People who still hold fondness for the characters that sparked their imagination and, because they were never likely to appear again, started making connections between other benchwarmers.

:cough: currently in the middle of a lengthy comic connecting Adeleine and Dark Matter Swordsman :cough:

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I'm not going to say that we "keep the fandom going" or are somehow more important than people who just draw gorgeous fanart of Kirby. Everyone please keep doing that, btw! (Although it's funny that prolific Kirby fanart master, Suyasuyabi, will often draw these bottom-tier no-personality characters alongside Kirby. We don't get to see what motivates Chip or Blipper but we do get gorgeous visuals of them just living their lives) But our weird little hyperfixations are valuable and do have a purpose!

Still, if we want depth for the non-tier 0 characters, we will need to act on it. We can be helped along by inspiration from other people via weird, off-hand ideas that will make you think "Oh my god, wait what?! Oh, that's PERFECT!"(2) but your brain is going to be the one that makes the most fulfilling connections to you. Thus, my "compelling Brobo backstory" quest.

(I'm currently thinking he could be made by King Dedede? His majesty has a way with robots, after all. Or DOES he? What if there's a person or a place or a Weapon Shop Waddle Dee or Planet Mecheye that his majesty goes to to make his golf robots, blockball robots, and rocket hammer??)

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Have I mentioned this about myself? As everyone knows by now, I'm one of the oldies. Not old as in I've been in the fandom forever. I've only been here for like, a year or two? But I am physically older than the rest of the people I know here, at least. But I only started drawing a few months before officially joining the fandom. (I did write fanfic when I was much younger but I hate all of it. Whee!)

Part of the reason I started drawing at my age was when it finally hit me that I would have these utterly brilliant ideas for cool things! "Oh my gosh, this would be SO perfect for X!" And I would patiently wait for someone to make this same connection and draw or write something for it that I could then love...!

:insert crickets chirping:

And...yeah... This could basically summarize my participation in my last fandom. Now, I actually wrote a lot of essays/answereds some ask questions. I didn't just sit quietly in the corner. But no matter how much I emphasized "This is a really cool thing more people should do something with!!" no one, outside of my one fandom friend, ever did.

I began to despair that maybe no talented artist/writer would ever come along and wave their magic brush/magic pen and fill me up with serotonin in accordance with my dreams. And it's a good thing I realized that because, oops, that's actually kind of true?!

Anyway, not to hammer on Dess's Philosopy of Fandom: that you should make the works you most want to see, regardless of how poor a job you do at the beginning but... yeah, actually. That.

Anyway, keep giving depth to characters! In whatever form you can!

I want to say once more to everyone who follows me and likes my art that I learned all this in like... two years. It just takes obsession :cough: dedication. But yeah, also obsession.

Also insomnia and sacrificing your free time to devouring every piece of beautiful art you come across and dissecting it lovingly. You can do the same with fiction, if you lean more towards writing. Not that I am recommending anyone pick up my regemin...

...Regemen? Regimin? RrrghI JUST looked up this word the other day. How could I have forgotten how to spell it so quickly?!

Aha! It's "Regimen."

...Wow. That's not how I pronounce it at all.

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(1) Note that I seemed to talk a lot about drawing fan art up above, because to me, that IS giving them depth. When you draw a character participating in a hobby, enjoying a certain food, or talking with another character, you are giving them depth! You're rounding them out and making them feel whole!

(2) Another reason I draw a lot of Magolor is that I follow a bunch of obsessive Magolor fans on twitter who seem to do almost nothing but speculate on things that could have happened to Magolor all day(?) Just the other day, someone wrote something like "What if Magolor didn't immediately threaten to take over Popstar in front of Kirby et al? What if he just calmly took over Halcandra on his own and then realized too late that he couldn't take off the crown?"

I found that idea so compelling that five minutes later, I was scribbling this script down...

So, yeah. I want to apologize because for all of my nattering up there, it really isn't all that fair across the board when you like an unloved, unimportant character because the popular characters ALSO get talked about more, which leads to more sparks of inspiration and opportunities to explore ideas and plumb their depths. And that does suck. It just does. It can drain the inspiration you have to work on growing your favorites and make you feel alone and unloved yourself until the love you once felt for your beloved fictional muse is more like a heart-shaped hole in your chest...

...On the bright side, sometimes you can use another character's popularity to grow the less important characters too! I saw another gorgeous and scary comic (in JP) the other day about Magolor and the Master Crown that treated Dark Nebula as a cruel, dangerous, highly intelligent and threatening rival to both of them!! How awesome was that?!

So yeah, try riding the coattails of popular characters to make your favorite blorbo more interesting! Merry Magoland as much as confirms that Magolor has interacted with a stunning amount of Kirby characters. Use the squishsy wizard egg's popularity for your own benefit! (You could argue that's what I do with Marx all the time! Use Magolor's constant appearances to loop Marx into his activities and keep Marx relevant/give him stuff to do...!)

So, what WOULD the fandom's darling think of X canon character we don't see enough of? Or King Dedede. Or Meta Knight. Make connections between the characters that everyone is devouring up content for and draw people's attention that way!

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This is a bit of a silly thing but... my Dark Matter + Adeleine comic-in-progress? The actual base comic did really CRAZY numbers! To the point that it's not even a month old and it's almost as popular as my most popular post! (That being my "moon's haunted" meme I drew when Forgotten Land came out - and oh.my.god it looks so bad?! I want to redraw it just to wipe off the shame... I feel that way about a couple of my more popular pieces tbh...)

Legitimately one of the reasons it became so popular initially was because it featured King Dedede in a sympathetic role. So it got boosted by certain Dedede fans and, not to diminish my own talent, spread way further than it would have on my art/storytelling abilities alone! (To which I'm thankful. And also, I love Dedede myself and love seeing him in serious roles, so it all worked out.)

Anyway, I hope that proved entertaining and maybe a little hopeful?

[justlookatthosesausages]

How would you interpret a Frozen/Wonderland AU?

You mean Alice In Wonderland? based on what? the book? the Disney animated movie? Tim Burton's movie? the video games? jgklfdhjfds I'm gonna take a random guess and think it's Wonderland in general. boy that's an odd world to work with.

the lore of Wonderland is nuts in general so everything just drives Frohana mad when they accidentally land in it. (I picture them to walk through in a similar way to when they discovered the Enchanted Forest). Elsa is in awe at everything but is one inch away from going crazy because nothing makes sense there, not only do gravity and physics laws go wrong, her magic also goes awry. When she sprays ice the snowflakes are liquid dust and they seem to mock her and she hates it lol. Anna loves it at every step, it's an insane world that vibes positivity but she admits that her head hurts with all the mental puzzles. Kristoff has to physically restrain her and Olaf to eat and drink everything they put their hands on because in Wonderland it has CONSEQUENCES and him and Elsa don't want to deal with a giant Olaf and a small Anna (who tripped on every tree root) like they did on day one.

Queen Anna confronting the Queen of Hearts in an amazing showdown like, both politically and in fight when the army of cards is unleashed on Anna and she insists on fighting all of them

OMG ANNA WIELDING THE VORPAL SWORD AND SLAYING THE JABBERWOCKY (she kills it within three days there. the Knave completely loses it)

Elsa being genuinely admirative of the Mad Hatter's work and dedication and creativity and she's heartbroken when she realizes what drove him mad and how it affects his talent (tons of conversations about fabric between them)

Sven and the Cheshire Cat keeps giving each other looks like they know they're in a crossover and they keep doing meta stuff like looking at a non existent camera as if they're on The Office. Kristoff keeps frantically looking around for it.

They're all mad there 🤣

Send me a Frozen AU and I'll write 5 headcanons about it!

[imadhatt3r]

Yeah, I hope that it won't come off as like, disrespectful, but I feel like Pondsmith and CDPR have very different approaches to writing characters?

Like in Pondsmith's canon they're very much supposed to be "cool" and do all these borderline silly things because they're cool- these characters are more like these super heightened figures of myth, while CDPR's writing completely rips off that tapestry and shows (relatively) realistic consequences to these actions. Rogue suffers for 50 years, Alt becomes a chilly, detached computer program and Johnny is a straight up deconstruction of this idea, where his persona of a stoic, aggressive badass who shoots first asks questions later leads to his death and plenty of pain to people close to him and his own death. Phantom liberty completely smashes it down and gives a straight-up canonical proof that Johnny is a severely traumatized man who got sucked in and grinded by gears of the military industrial complex and spent the rest of his life coping very badly.

So yeah, in Pondsmith's version, where Johnny is supposed to be this distant figure of myth this kind of origin story would kiiinda make sense, since it's supposed to be very heightened and almost read like a legend from a mythology. In CDPR's version this doesn't really make much sense both due to Johnny being more human and very close to V, so something about it would come up, even if he wouldn't tell V the whole story, especially since Nomads are potraid as very sympathetic.

I agree that the TTRPG and 2077 versions of this universe should be seen as slightly separate? Like I know that the game takes a lot of lore and is based on the TTRPG, but just the way the world and characters are potrayed in both don't really mesh together super well because they're written with a different lens and ideas on how to potray the world and the characters.

Another infamous example imo would be Kerry's attitude towards romanced V. Yall remember that well-known tweet that was like "Kerry is in a relationship with V because he reminds him of Johnny"? If you play the game and pay attention you can clearly see that it's not true, and Kerry manages to grow out of his feelings for Johnny and move on to V to love him as he is- V reminded Kerry of Johnny at the start, but his whole arc is about leaving that mindset behind, and he succeeds. So maybe this kind of "flat" view of Kerry would make sense in the TTRPG, but it completely falls apart when you play the game, with its more psychological approach to how the characters are written.

Another thing would be cyberpsychos, who get a pretty good explanation in the game that manages to be sympathetic towards the people who are afflicted and shows off how calloused the society is and how systemic issues layer on top of eachother, which leads to "cyberpsychosis". I think that the game managed to explain rather elegantly and respectfully towards people who use prosthetics irl (since times have changed a lot since the TTRPG was released). I still don't buy Pondsmith's words about Johnny being a cyberpsycho and his hand influencing him negatively just because he has it. The game kinda doesn't touch on that, and good, imo. His hand is kind of a symbol of his past, of being wounded as a kid (since he was taken into the army possibly as young as 15), outfitted with a piece of tech he didn't want and that bore the logo and make of the corporation that did this to him. The hand itself doesn't cause him mental issues, it's moreso all the feelings and past traumas he can't cope with in a good way- the hand is just a symbol.

And I'm sorry, Mike Pondsmith could pay me real money but I will NEVER accept 2077 Johnny as a natural blonde. This man was born with black hair and is proud of his mane.

wait what lore drop of johnny are you talking about? :0

So, Mike Pondsmith did an interview on youtube

The relevant stuff is about 32 mins in or so, but basically he dropped that Johnny was sold to nomads by his dad for cigs. And.... yeah- no???? Like, I know it's his character, but respectfully, not my canon and at least with video game Johnny- it personally doesn't make sense to me. Like, not only does it feel like... too much, but like Johnny despite always being around nomads with V in the main story, never mentions this? Never comes up that he was with a clan of nomads who'd buy a child. I mean Johnny shows some distaste with the nomads, but he says it's because they run away from their problems- not because he literally grew up with some shitty clan or that they, y'know, buy children?

So, yeah, no offense to Mike- but I'm ignoring this lmao.

[anddreadful]

I'm curious, I really like all your dnd characters, and I was wondering how you come up with them! Do you write all your own backstory and motivations?

thank you!! I adore inflicting my blorbos on people online and i’m always thrilled to hear that they enjoy it. the short answer is yes— I like to leave gaps in my backstory for my DMs to exploit, and obviously those DMs are running the overall story, but my PCs (player characters) are all original characters of mine, and their assorted bullshit is entirely up to me. (in case it’s unclear, that only applies to my PCs, Teddy and Aster being the ones I mostly talk about On Here. Clay, Borakov, Strahd, etc are all created and run by friends who are generous enough to occasionally let me gnaw on their characters like chew toys).

"How I come up with them" varies a lot! One of my PCs, Tailor, is a repurposed side character from an old book I was writing (which was itself inspired by Alice in Wonderland -- he was the Mad Hatter character). With my storm sorcerer Marin, I knew I wanted to do an Ocean Aesthetic, so I gave her a mysterious shipwrecked-with-amnesia backstory and a pirate found family. Teddy's backstory is lightly plagiarized from Alina's in Shadow & Bone, and Aster's antiquities expert background and general archetype is inspired by Evelyn in the Mummy. Like coming up with any character, it's just a game of picking one cool thing and then scaffolding out other elements that interest you and complement the core idea.

And what's great is that character creation is just coming up with a STARTING PLACE. A PC's Whole Deal emerges over time, a combination of discovery and deliberate choice that's really fun to craft.

These days, I try to keep my backstories to a tight 2-3 paragraphs with 1-3 meaningful NPCs. I've done the long convoluted backstory thing with Tailor, and it turned out very cool -- my DM knocked it out of the park incorporating everything -- but I wouldn't do it again. Aster, my most recent character, has probably the most minimal backstory I've ever done. I wanted to do something simple and strong, do it well, and be free from the traditional backstory resolution D&D arc in favor of whatever else the campaign is going to throw at her.

I love that you mention motive! Puzzling out what my characters want and feel as the story progresses is sooooo fun for me. Inbetween sessions I try to look at what's happened in game lately and ask what it changes for my character, logistically or emotionally, and how I can incorporate that moving forward. And this has increasing returns! Over time, asking myself a lot of small questions about how I want them to react, why they might do that or feel that way, and then playing that out -- taking into account all the improv RP decisions that happen along the way!! -- builds up to a strong sense of who they are. And that becomes REALLY helpful when dramatic narrative choices have to be made in-game.

This is a big part of all the fic and meta I write -- it's an exercise in bringing into alignment what's happening in game and my conception of who these characters ARE in a detailed, specific way. Because the better I can reconcile them, the more they'll feed each other and make each other richer and more interesting, and the easier and better my realtime RP will be. Of course, this is an optional thing I do for funsies, and it doesn’t pay to overthink it -- this stuff is organic and always evolving, and we’re here to have fun at the table first and foremost. BUT it’s super rewarding for me and has become a huge part of why I enjoy the game so much.

[sunnydaleherald]

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[imadhatt3r]

Johnny can totally empathize with Reed because he sees himself in him, that much is clear, but he absolutely can sympathize with Songbird (esp if you side with her and help her) because he can see V, his V, in her, and he wants to protect her and help her get better because that's what he wants to do to V...

[mask131]

All above, and there's even more - I tried to explain before how the Alice books are, yes, part of the "nonsense" genre, but are definitively NOT that nonsensical, and that they are in fact perfectly logical when you actually HAVE the references. When you know all the nursery rhymes and figures of speech Carrol borrowed from - the whole Queen of Heart segment makes no sense if you don't know the original nursery rhyme about the theft of her tarts ; and the March Hare and Mad Hatter episode is more delightful when you know the expressions they come from. When you actually get the wordplays everything is built upon - this has always been the most difficult part of the translators, trying to convey for example the wordplays of the Looking-Glass insects which only really work in English. When you also get the general context - if you choose to ignore that "Alice Through the Looking-Glass" is a literal chess game, following the rules of chess, then you are losing a lot.

Yes, the lands Alice visits are nonsensical and absurdity and madness - but only in appearance, because meta-fictional wise, cultural reference-wise, and from a writing/worldbuilding point of view, there are actually specific recurring motifs and strong "untold rules" that do make these lands "feel" in a specific way.

Hot Take: Wonderland has some kind of internal logic and isn't complete random nonsense. And the Alice books have themes.

First, Wonderland's internal logic is based on five things:

Broken sillogisms: premises based on absolutes that lead to absurd conclusions

Extreme literal interpretations of figures of speech, songs, popular names of things, nursery rhymes, and metaphors, along with appearances of characters from said expressions, songs, and rhymes

Board or card games rules extended to the real world

Parodies of popular Victorian customs

Physical forms of logic paradoxes

So much Wonderland-inspired works just add any colorful nonsense, and end up not feeling like Carrol's Wonderland.

Carrol's Wonderland is a mixture between logical paradoxes, parodies, and extreme literal interpretations of sayings, with a dash of old-school fairy tale aesthetic thrown into the mix. That's the core of the idea.

And the themes of the Alice books are pretty obvious.

They open with short poems saluting nostalgic memories of summers gonna bye and end with the bittersweet realization of childhood's end.

They are very thin themes, but both Alice books end with the realization that no matter how cruel and mean the Wonderlandians are with Alice, they still represent wonder, whimsy, and imagination, and there's this dreadful sense that as Alice grows older, this delightful and dreadful insanity will be taken away from her.

@princesssarisa @ariel-seagull-wings @mask131

[thatfoolsophie]

it was big brain hours in the shower yesterday, and I was thinking about the poem curse from Howl’s Moving Castle, and I have a harebrained and fascinating theory: the curse the Witch places on Howl applies equally to Sophie. A closer look:

Go and catch a falling star Get with child a mandrake root Line one is fulfilled pre-canon when Howl catches Calcifer. Line two is fulfilled when Sophie (accidentally) coaxes a bloom from a mandrake root. Note that: it’s not Howl that gets with child the mandrake root-- it’s a direct result of Sophie’s actions. And although Sophie chases a falling star with Michael across a marsh, she doesn’t catch it-- except, I realized, isn’t the big finale of the book her kneeling over Howl, cupping a fallen star in her hands, breaking his contract and returning his heart? INTERESTING. Let’s keep going!

Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the devil’s foot, Here we have an either/or statement, suggesting that only one of the conditions has to be fulfilled. Howl claims to know where all past years are and who cleft the devil’s foot, but Sophie only learns one-- where all his past years are, which he shows her by taking her to Wales, revealing the land of his childhood and giving her insight into his past.

Teach me to hear the mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy’s stinging Another either/or, and once again Sophie only learns one. During Howl’s fight over Porthaven with the Witch of the Waste, Sophie hears mermaids for the first time. (I think she even says that before living in the castle she had never seen the sea bc Market Chipping is landlocked-- so it’s doubly a result of her association with Howl that this line comes true). Sophie does NOT learn to “keep off envy’s stinging”-- she never recognizes her emotions towards Miss Angorian as envy, and tries with limited success to treat her fairly, but it’s pretty clear she’s jealous.

And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind Sophie quickly notices that Howl is forced to honesty as he raises a wind to get them back from the castle to confront Miss Angorian, but she too is unusually honest with him. She admits to Howl that Miss Angorian has been visiting, that she touched the guitar, and that she told Calcifer not to tell Howl about the visits, before shouting the doubt that has held her back the whole time-- “I’m the eldest! I’m a failure!” (to which Howl shouts “Garbage! You just never stop to think!”) The wind they find is a moment of honesty for both Howl and Sophie.

(Note: while technically a three-stanza poem, only the first two stanzas appear in the book, and the third stanza does not appear to be part of the curse, nor does it apply especially well to Howl or Sophie. Carrying on to stanza 2!)

If thou be’st born to strange sights Things invisible to see “Strange sights” and “things invisible to see” seem to refer to magic, and Sophie proves to have an instinctive grasp of magic that contrasts with Howl (and Michael’s) more academic approach. Additionally, unlike Howl, Sophie is from Ingary and may even have a genetic predisposition towards magic, based on the fact that both of her sisters are able to work magic. She’s undoubtedly born to magic-- and strange sights in general (yes I’m thinking about the green slime).

Ride ten thousand days and nights Till age snow white hairs on thee, !!!! this was about where I started getting really excited about the theory because it fits Sophie so well. Of all the characters, who gets thrown forward decades until she’s old and white-haired?? Sophie!

Thou, when thou return’st wilt tell me, All strange wonders that befell thee, If we’re interpreting the last line as a journey to old age rather than a journey that takes a long time, Sophie’s return would be her transformation back into her young self. Interpreting “strange wonders” to mean magic again, this would refer to Sophie returning from old age with WAY more adventures and magical experience than she had before the Witch of the Waste turned her old.

And swear, No where Lives a woman true and fair. This is where the witch’s curse breaks down, for Howl AND Sophie. Howl does find a woman “true and fair”-- Sophie is ride-or-die as well as extremely pretty, as corroborated by Howl, Abdullah, and Charmain at various points. But Sophie also finds a woman true and fair: herself. When she “returns” from old age she has an understanding and acceptance of herself that she didn’t have before. As explained in this excellent meta by @mystery-ink, Sophie’s (unknowing) perpetuation of her old age disguise is both self-defense and self-denial. She stays old to be safe from heartless Howl, but once she realizes he isn’t wicked she still clings to it to be safe from soft-hearted Howl-- the idea of him winning her heart scares her as much as the idea of him eating it! By remaining old, she’s able to avoid confronting her feelings for him, which we see in Ch. 19: “Too late!” she muttered as she marched. “What nonsense! Howl’s not only heartless, he’s impossible! Besides,” she added. “I am an old woman.” When, after the honest wind, she allows herself to return to her young self, she proves herself to be fair and simultaneously, finally, is true to herself.

Do I think Diana Wynne Jones did all this on purpose? I have no freaking idea! From a narrative perspective, Sophie needed to be involved in several of the events (mandrake root, mermaids, honest wind) just so the reader was aware they happened. But magic is a tricky and open-ended thing in Wynne Jones’ books, and it seems very much in the spirit of the story to reinterpret and reimagine the possibilities of this spell outside its original meaning. Whether it was on purpose or not, it shows how closely linked Howl and Sophie’s arcs are and has given me Many Thoughts about how she plays into the narrative foil situation Howl and the Witch of the Waste have going.

Cheers for reading this far, and feel free to reply with your thoughts!

[all-0f-the-above]

DC PRIDE #1 has me living for many different reasons so let's go through it story by story

The Wrong Side of the Looking Glass

the mad hatter storyline being pretty much a retelling of kate's upbringing and the fact that her being a lesbian is one part of that but not everything thank god

wonderland parallels keep you more interested in the story bc you know it's mad hatter, you just don't know why he's doing it; just another one of those "i know the ending so the question is how they got there"

By the Victors

constantine just being like that and trying to get gregorio and his husband in bed with him - my guy this is why you constantly run into exes and one night stands i swear

the fact that m and gregorio just casually team up just gets me bc this just further confirms that m will call his friends on missions not just because they're qualified (ref: m being unsure if extraño could undo the, and i'm paraphrasing here, "time blood magic") and calls his friends to join him just cause he can

m's reference to the love story between patroclus and achilles made my heart hurt since it kind of parallels him and andrew and i almost checked the writer before realizing that it was, of course, the one and only Steve Orlando - midpollo's saving grace

also can i just mention how much i love gregorio's costumes they show in this? becuase BOY are they a fantastic, dignified kind of hot; thank you Stephen Byrne

this midpollo cover art is killing me

Try the Girl

renee being a badass is always amazing

also the fact that she was admiring the defense attorney that would sometimes be arguing against her case is such an Inconvenient Crush that i would love expansion on

i love that you can see the lipstick stain on her mask - that's the reality of kissing in costume, kids

the way they draw all the women's outfits has me so happy and i esp. love renee, valeria's hair as well as the question's coat - it's just so nice to look at (all my love to Skylar Partridge and José Villarrubia)

Another Word for a Truck to Move Your Furniture

ant harley and aunt pam being antiheroes soothes all my mortal wounds

btw i love how Amy Reeder draws them; they have such a bad history of being sexualized and it struck me when i finished reading that not once was i uncomfortable with the angles or body proportions and i got to read two antiheroes who are women and bisexuals! and being able to be comfortable with their framing and writing the whole time

harley having cartoon logic as her meta ability is so close i can taste it

the coloring is gorgeous - thank you Marissa Louise

also this format of people arguing while also beating up a villain or carrying out a complex plan is my favorite - i love the dynamic and the dialogue of relationship speak and fighting a large plant monster

i think harley's mallet is alive and honestly that's great for her

"He's the Light of My Life!"

i'm going to be impressed with myself if i don't cry at alan and todd's story

damon being impatient to meet alan is great and i love the flashbacks to when father fought son like "no duh we have issues making smalltalk"

JIMMY AND ALAN I'M GOING TO CRY HE LOST HIS LOVER IN THE TRAIN CRASH THEN BECAME A GL

alan being bad with common slang in the lgbtq+ community is such an Old Queer staple

the fact that they're still kind of awkward at the end but working on getting to know each other is such a breath of the fresh air that is real life familial relationships

Clothes, Makeup, Gift

andy's whole aesthetic is offending me with how cute it is and good lord Lisa Sterle draws us enbys really well

jesse with those suspenders

jesse with those hips! i'm glad we have a non-binary character that doesn't look like a waify cis male

getting real adhd vibes for jesse rn like repeating the same words over and over in order to remember them yes that's my life

Be Gay, Do Crime

whoever pitched the title idea has my ultimate respect - it's not often that queer culture references make it in

plus size queer antihero; dc my guy are you trying to get my money because here it is- take it

they got gen z slang right! i'm impressed; usually i say "bougie" instead of "boug" but hey do you

pied piper being responsible but also not is such a chaotic good move that i love

also drummer boy's costume kind of reminds me of those old rock star ones

Date Night

yes my girl nia's just checking in with her mom during patrol

her little dream journal is such a cute idea that she wakes up and just haphazardly scrawls it in there

"cute face" yes the most important piece of information

her full body panel with the moon in the background is just amazing - thank you Luciano Vecchio and Rex Lokus

this action is pretty hq not gonna lie

love that brainy is just like "well ok i guess we have an unconscious criminal with us; how are you liking the movie?"

tl;dr i enjoyed it

[cookinguptales]

your meta is next level good! you give this way more thought than the writers. tbh i don't think any of the writers thought things through this much. they threw a bunch of comedy tropes at the wall on their lunch break and say 'yeah that'll do. whatever' hit print and sent it to the producers. i'm also 100% behind you on your 'the wedding and freddie episodes were retconned in editing' conspiracy. neither of those episodes made SENSE with the other episodes. like... what happened??? what went on?? the scenes with the djinn where he gives extra wishes and makes a new freddie were definitely filmed later in both of those episodes.

haha, thanks!

But yeah, I'm laboring under no delusions there. I know I've probably put a lot more thought into this than the writers did, and whatever conclusions I come to are probably fabrications to some extent. But I write fic, so I have to come up with something to bring everything together lmao.

(And it's also one thing that disappointed me so much about 4.09! I know that I've always been kind of self-indulgent on the fic/meta front, but I've always believed that the writers were thinking deeply about their decisions! Until 4.09!)

And goddd, right, it makes me sound like such a tinfoil hatter but... I can't think of anything else to explain everything! If they really did extend the Djinn's role, which is a thing they've been clear about in interviews, then like... it had to have somewhere to expand, right? And the back half of the show couldn't have happened the same way without wishes to do it. I think similar things still would have happened... but I do think they had to give the Djinn things to do and they did. I'd love to know if the original plans were particularly different, or if they lined up a little more with the themes introduced earlier in the season a little more!

like I mean... who knows, I guess they could've been worse! But it scratches at me in all the worst ways, not knowing. lmao

[imadhatt3r]

I think that’s very possible, given that the game has established tarot motifs, and your interpretations fit Johnny’s character. Good eye!

Tangentially related, but I’m 99% sure that the cobra is supposed to explicitly be Arasaka (in general they have a venomous snake motif; The cobra Johnny has on his palm has letters “F. S” above it, which to me is supposed to mean “Fuck ‘Saka” or something like that. This imagery is used a few more times in context of Arasaka, but I don’t want to digress too much).

The woman being blindfolded to me just represents lady justice, but I think that you can also read it in the tarot context you gave, since symbols like these can easily have multiple meanings.

The “G20″ thing on the blindfold caught my eye, because Johnny has the exact same symbol on his arm tattoo. In general I wish someone would decode it, because it just looks like random squigglies, but I really want there to be something, like, it can be that deep :( The only thing that comes to mind is that maybe it’s the number of his unit in the military? I think it would make sense, having it on his arm serving as a reminder of his comrades, and on the “INJUSTICE (...)” tattoo as a symbol of how they were screwed by Arasaka and that they never got any justice in a world ruled by megacorps? 

So we all know about this tattoo representing The Tower; how it’s meant for an outside viewer to see upright, depicting a time of chaos and change, while Johnny sees it as inverted, depicting a fear of change. But you want to know another heartbreaking detail I just noticed?

While most people will immediately recognize justice as the woman in the picture, there are two different tarot cards hidden in this image (maybe three?).

The first is the three of swords (seen at the bottom of his tattoo, close to the heart-like shape just below the text).

Czytaj dalej

[verobatto]

Destiel is Canon

Then Destiel is censored

Destiel meta. 15x20 meta.

I know I said I will write the meta tomorrow, but i just had to do this because I won't sleep untill I scream what it just came out to my head.

I always said i don't like Dabb, I love Berens and Yockey, and then Yockey left earlier, and i guess now i know why.

Put the Wincest subtext to a side, and hear the desperate message from the writers.

Ordinary Life

Ordinary Life sounded like some kind of monotonous prison. They woke up each morning, and search for cases... Saving people hunting things. But not with good enthusiasm.

Dabb's pie burried on the face

Dean goes to eat a huge amount of Dabb's pie but Sam hurries one on his face, that's symbolism of a bad joke, a mocking. Just like the last ending from 15x19, this was like OKAY, ALL THE TEAM.WORK, RIGHT ON YOUR FACE. Do you follow me?

Because the whole clues and evidences about subtext we saw the writers delivered us, went right buried as that pie on our faces. And that was the writers feelings about it too.

Just Berens finished the work, as someone said in Twitter.

They killed the Destiel Mirror

The guy in blue (Cas mirror) and the wan I'm green (Dean mirror) were savagely killed by the EVIL VAMP CLOWNS (WINCEST SHIPPER) then, they kidnapped the two kids (Sam and Dean mirror, they even had the looks and the hair) THEY CUT DEAN AND CAS MIRROR TONGUES AS A SYMBOLISM OF THEY COULDN'T TALK ABOUT IT. THEY COULDN'T TALK ANOUT DESTIEL. And then they took the kids to slowly preparing them for food.

Castiel mirror even died like Cas died in 12x23.

Kill the clowns

Another symbolism and message was how all the vamp clowns were killed. That was us. They killed our hopes. And then they killed Dean, because the Carry On song says it. Because it was his destiny. Dean even said it. That was the ending that 30% old the fandom wanted. Because they will be reunited in Heaven. And be together forever. With the third lead: Baby.

Oh, don't forget Sam with random chick had a son named Dean, and dies old. He had his apple pie life with hunting addition.

Okay. This wasn't our ending neither.

Stealing Subtext

All my specs about holding hands, The ILY from Dean to Cas, were stolen and given to Wincest. There you go. The pie burried on our faces.

Bobby comes to save it

Bobby as a representation of FAMILY DOESN'T END IN BLOOD embassador is sitting on the bench, drinking a beer. He offers Dean the beer and then asks if Dean likes it. And Dean says HE DOESN'T LIKE IT.

Symbolically we can take it DEAN DOESN'T LIKE THE ENDING. JENSEN DIDN'T LIKE THE ENDING. NO OME LIKS THE ENDING.

Then, this scene we stick...

Gif set credit my dear friend @spnsmile

Look at Bobby face after Dean makes that question. Is like kind of anxious bc he is about to reveal something that is supposed not to talk about it, but he knows Dean will like to hear. Because Bobby knows Dean's feelings for Cas.

And he goes with the news of Cas is out, he is in Heaven. He went out from the Empty. And helped Jack. And immediately looks at Dean to see his reaction.

Dean and Bobby exchange silent looks, but then Bobby goes: SEE? YOU HAVE A SECOND CHANCE, YOU HAVE YOUR ANGEL HERE. and the hint of YES I KNOW IT.

Then Dean chuckles, okay, of course, he has the whole time to go get Cas, but this is another message. Because it looks like Bobby didn't know if telling or not at first.

Should I tell Cas is alive?

Is the sensation you got when you see him doubting in the first gif. He purses his lips but then he decides to say it. Because he is our embassador. Thank you Bobby.

To Conclude:

They kidnapped Sam and Dean, they obligated to feed the bad clowns. They cut the Destiel's tongue. They buried the pie on Dean's face. They mocked again the bro-only ending. They wrote something that some worst that Chuck wanted: Censoring Network.

They weren't free after all.

So we didn't carry on.

Let's fix this mess together.

I want to say I'm sorry deeply for spreading hopes, but as I said, all the analysis and subtext and evidences i put into words were real, and it was there. They just didn't decide to do it. At last not entirely. Thank you for reading me and cementing.

Love you all!

Destiel is Forever!

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[dark-nymphs-fanfiction]

List of unpostet fics

Hey :)

Just a list of ideas (fic i want to write, but haven't yet), Wips (fic I started writing, but didn't finish yet) and untranslated fics (Fanfictions I have only written in German so far).

All fanfictions are Batman or DC Comic related.

If you are interested in one or more, you can always let me know. I will informe you, when they are published.

Ideas

Under the Beige Hood

Jason teams up with an unexpected magic-user.

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WIPs

It has your name on it

Dick, Jason and tatoos.

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Under the White Hood

Jason helps a clone to flee from the lab.

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As you wish

Under the Crimson Hood

JayxRoy

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Djinn!Dick FF.

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No way out

Mad Hatter controls Dick's mind to kill the Batfamily.

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Under the Yellow Hood

Jason meets a meta, which parents where attacked by the Joker.

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Laugh and grin, grin, grin

Joker Jr. FF (claimed prompt)

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I see the house, I just don’t live (there)

Batman can’t figure out the Red Hood. He blames it on the fact that he would rather deal with his returned son Jason at the moment. What he doesn’t know is that Tim has promised Jason to do everything he can to ensure that Batman never learns the Red Hood’s true identity.

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A wedding to fall in love

Tim Drake works as a private investigator and shares his office room with Dick Grayson, a wedding planner. Somehow it works.

Tim never thought that he would fall in love with one of Dicks clients. Somehow he did.

-> Snippet

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Untranslated fics

Endless Robins

A few of the Endless learn to love the Robins.

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Last Update: 10.04.2024