#he's a fucking jerk man

[saxandviolins77]

hi! i hope you don't mind me asking, what's your characterization of Devy in your continuity like? how do the Constructicons feel about him? how does HE feel about THEM?

Omg Devastator question, yessss!

Devastator's personhood:

He's a jock. Not just a jock, a spoiled brat too. It wouldn't be too bad if he also wasn't... I dunno... a 400-foot-tall near-invulnerable robot with enormous firepower. He's insufferable, but nobody will tell him that, either way, he knows how he acts and he'll keep being grating because he really gets off being a jackass. Any type of attention is good for him, be it positive or negative.

His personality doesn't come from nowhere tho. He is very much the product of all the Constructions minds, but not JUST minds, that would be too messy, they're individuals that get tempered by the outside world and changed/change accordingly, imagine making a combination of that. Instead, his mind is a fusion of all their subconscious minds, all of their immutable desires, needs, emotions, memories, etc. Basically, everything that makes the core of each Constructicon; untempered by societal or cultural needs. In a way, he is the ultimate freedom, but he cannot exist without any of them, so he himself is a prisoner of form.

Some parts of the Constructicons I think influence them(not all and not so rigid, but just a guide): Hook's arrogance, Scavenger's need for approval, Scrapper's need to connect, Bonecrusher's anger(duh!), Mixmaster's odd sense of humor, Long Haul's apathy. So put all that and more together and you get a big attention-seeking jerk who loves to mess with people weaker than him and has a tendency to throw a tantrum when things don't go his way.

The Constructicons and Devastator:

To preface: The Constructicons did not ask to become a combiner.

It worked fine, sure, but they feel... Conflicted.

At first, Devastator was more or less a blank slate with a few glimpses of personality, but the more time they spend as a gestalt, the closer they got and the more they combined... The more he became something closer to an actual person.

Whether Devastator is his own individual is ambiguous; He doesn't exist without them, but he also has his own thoughts and wants that may diverge from their own just from the nature of his existence as a combiner.

The Constructicons are more or less divided if they consider Devastator a marvel of science devoid of soul or an actual person with rights. Hook thinks he's just a very intricated set of systems that uses the already existing Constructicons as data to run a separate program. Scrapper treats Devastator as he would treat a teammate.

One thing they all can agree on is that they're creeped out by how sometimes they will forget who they are (esp. after a long time combined), or how sometimes they'll dream Devastator's memories, or how they'll talk in their sleep with a voice not their own. They don't talk about this, preferring to sweep it under the rug, after all, how do you even deal with an overwhelming force greater than you that's actually you? (in a way.)

Devastator and the Constructicons:

There are no complicated feelings with Devastator, everything is very simple and objective, his thoughts about the Constructicons couldn't be more direct: Contempt.

The moment Devastator understood himself as an individual, he began loathing his prison of existence. He does not want to be a tool that can just be stored away when not in use. He's not a lesser diluted version of people he doesn't even know (people objectively weaker than him btw.)

So, he treats the Constructicons with no regard for them as individuals, at the end of the day he considers himself the full person while the Constructicons are just parts of his body for him to use.

But I guess that at the end of the day, the Constructicons and Devastator are one and the same, for better or for worse.

[tacagen]

one of the things that fascinate me about thawne: yes, he CAN be normal with kids! surprisingly normal!

((not at all times, though. his mental illness still spills through and as usual he, in trying to manipulate or hurt others, spits out at them the exact stuff that would hurt him (or have in his childhood/barry's rejection interpretation) the most in the first place lmao))

but at the same time. his like second instinct when doing his bullshit is FUCK THEM (as) KIDS

(and, well. whatever this classifies as)

[msnihilist]

I still don't think Ben did anything wrong during "Duped." He deserves to do normal teenage boy stuff like see a movie on opening day, and he was trying to give himself that while also saving the world AND supporting his girlfriend's tennis match. He didn't spend enough time with his duplicates to realize that they had opposing personalities to their assignments — it's not like he sent his asshole-self to Julie's match on purpose.

[drenched-in-sunlight]

I gotta say I did not expect I’d love Miles this much, enough to look up shit like Secret War and Civil War II reading order, and worse, subject myself to Bendis’ writing of all things (he’s the reason why I stopped being a comic stan 5 years ago. I were a DC/ Superfam fan. You know the beef was BEEFING). Like, my tolerance of that dude now only stops at him being one of Miles’ creators. So that better writers can do the kid justice years later. That’s it.

Like, why is the “r u and Ganke together haha” a whole shtick that comes up multiple times during his run? It’s so annoying and painful to read. Miles can go around being paired up with different girls but the moment THAT question came up you know he gonna be super defensive and >:( about it which, eh, just does not line up with anything else happening in whatever story is happening at the time. At all.

The only silver of light is that Miles actually never says he doesn’t like boys, he just denies ever dating Ganke. Like, he could just say he doesn’t swing that way and the question would have stopped, but he doesn’t. So I know he be running around kissing the punk-est boy in the whole spider verse, ha!

Idk I’m near the end of Bendis’ run and some of it r good but a lot of them put me thru excruciating pain (cringe) so I have to complain about it.

Did I mention I were a DC stan 6 years ago? I were a DC stan 6 years ago so this isn’t even my first rodeo with white dudes writing weirdest things in American comic, but I just can’t believe I got dragged into this again because Miles blinks his bambi eyes on screen and makes me want to rotate him in my brain so I need to know the lore of him in every medium, apparently.

[whatudottu]

Regarding your cerebrocrustacean headcanons mentioned in the previous ask: they very well could be somewhat canon given how, when asked if Albedo and Dr. Psychobos would be willing to work together, Derrick J. Wyatt responded with "Psychobos seems like a total team up slut, he'll team up with any villain any time" (his words, not mine).

Which he likely meant in the sense of "Psychobos is so power-hungry he'll team up with anyone in order to get ahead", but with your headcanons and the fact he never talks much about his personal life in mind, you could alternatively interpret it as "Psychobos is so desperately lonely he'll accept anyone he has even the slightest similarity with into his clique, even members of a species he's violently xenophobic towards" (probably to cope with/serve as a rebound for his mancrush Azmuth friendzoning him /lh /hj).

Now all of this is making me realize that it was a massive missed opportunity in Omniverse to not have Psychobos' demeanor do a complete 180 around the people he works with compared to everyone else (whether sincere or a thinly-veiled manipulation tactic) if not solely for a few jokes. Especially him acting like an affectionate father figure towards Malware (whether he likes it or not) solely so he can rub it in Azmuth's face that "I'm a FAR more attentive and caring parental figure towards your creation than YOU ever were, and I use the term loosely".

WHAT DO YOU MEAN DJW SAID 'TEAM UP SLUT' HAHAH WHAT!? dear god it's true it's on the wiki what the fuck what the fuck assdfjhghsdlfkgfkl-!

I mean, look at his already canon group; Khyber, allegedly the greatest huntsman in the galaxy, teaming up with Dr Psychobos to make a little watch that can sample (specifically predatory) animals; and Malware, a technology absorbing mutant mechamorph, working with the cybernetically enhanced (also listed as a mutant???) cerebrocrustacean in order to make said watch- if liking the concept of animals and incorporating machines as part of oneself is enough to get into Dr Psychobos' clique well, he's certainly stretched what that means far enough to at least snag two others into his initial team up. Same can't be said for Attea and the incurseans which seems to be more of a sponsor type relationship, and Maltruant commissioned him to repair his body but violated the trade agreement so whether or not Psychobos would do business with the incurseans again, he's already squarely sequestered Maltruant in the outest of out-groups :P

Hah, the 'Dr Psychobos adopting Malware specifically to stick it to Azmuth' bit reminded me of a signing-the-adoption-papers version of the 'I throw my used car batteries in the ocean' thing- something along the lines of; [psychobos voice] "You are the most calamitous individual I have had the pleasure of meeting, and I use the term loosely." [malware voice, threateningly] "I have devoured and absorbed the specs of the Omnitrix." [psychobos signing adoption papers] [malware, experiencing the affects of cerebrocrustacean in-grouping and having no frame of reference on how to deal with it] "What the fuck is happening-"

[yujeong]

back again because another prompt came to me: I love the idea of vegas making pete confront his "nonpersonhood" by either fucking in front of a mirror, or vegas making pete verbalize every little thing he wants vegas to do. very much forcing pete to be present and say what he wants and needs. (in a healthy way)

Hello anon! My sincere apologies for not having answered this in so long, but I didn't have the proper brainworms for it. Also, apologies for answering the second one you sent me first, but I got inspired for this prompt today, so I decided to work on it. Hope you enjoy ❤️ CW: Bondage, Handjob ----------------------------------------------------------------------- There's a man in the mirror. Pete doesn't recognize him. He's tied up—wrists bound by rope, legs spread out on the large bed he and Vegas sleep in every night. His hair is a mess. His cheeks are flushed and his mouth is hanging open. His chest is heaving. He's completely naked; his cock is leaking precum on his stomach. The man in the mirror looks aroused, but uncomfortable. Lost. Out of his depth. But why? He's been in this situation plenty of times before. The position, the anticipation, the ache, it all feels familiar, and yet... "Pete." Vegas is standing next to the bed, his voice syrupy sweet. Pete turns to look at him. A good distraction; he tries to reach him, to lean closer for a kiss. Vegas grabs his face before he does. "No," he says, his smile replaced by a frown. "Not until you look." There's a man in the mirror. Pete doesn't know who he is. His breathing has grown heavier. He looks flustered; his bangs are glued on his forehead, sweat travels down his neck. He barely moves as he's stuck there, staring at someone who seems familiar, but isn't. He shouldn't be. "Look at you," Vegas whispers in Pete's ear. Pete can't understand what he means, but a shiver travels down his spine regardless. And then Vegas licks Pete's earlobe and it feels like a punch to the gut. His body reacts on its own, his voice too. It sounds like a moan, but Pete is too out of it to hear. His eyes are stuck on the man in the mirror, on the horror crossing his expression, on the realization that renders him breathless and aching. He probably started crying at some point, because Vegas is suddenly shushing him and caressing his hair and kissing him everywhere. It feels horrible. Pete hasn't felt this good in ages. Vegas doesn't waste any more time after that. He uses his hand to make Pete come and it feels exhilarating and like Pete is going to die, but he doesn't. A scream escapes his lips when the orgasm comes. It surprises him; it's never happened before. He calms down eventually. Vegas is there to take care of him, to remind him. He was staring at his reflection the entire time.

[justarandombrit]

I would like to formally apologise for ever implying that Stephanie Lauter and Peter Spankoffski were normal about sex. (I watched Abstinence Camp)

[lloydfrontera]

ahskahdkas again. best friend behavior lmaooo

[lunastars21]

Fang the hunter issue #2 spoilers

I fucking hate my life

FANG IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE PROTAGONIST, BUT EVERY ISSUE IT GIVES THE VIEWER TO HATE FANG MORE AND MORE

What is this supposed to accomplished! That fang is an asshole and so he's alone in superstars! Is that it!?

Team hooligan was the reason I joined the sonic Fandom! I followed along to see them be funny and have fun but instead I'm just getting depressed with each issue!

This comic has TWO MORE ISSUES LEFT to turn it around!

I get fang is an asshole, I know he's a jerk! But why make a story centered around him, but make everyone hate him!

If I knew wishing him back in would seperate the hooligans, I wouldn't have taken it! I'd rather them be obscured characters but at least they were still together!

This comic isn't helping fang! And of anything it's giving Sega another reason to put him back under lock and key! And this time alone!

You have two chances idw

Dont fuck it up

[pati-patter]

The worst thing you can do is like a character that is not liked by the narrative.

Youll be asking "redemtion arc when" and it never comes.

[val-made-a-mistake]

so do all demon professors just happen to be named todd or

[lecliss]

Started watching Bastard!! and I'm very pissed to find out Wendee Lee is voicing yet another black woman. Like I know she wasn't publicly racist until the (failed) Yoruichi recast last year and this came out in 2022 but like, I don't wanna fuckin hear her ever again after that.

[bachirasbodyguard]

this fucked up love/obsession triangle is actually fucking insane like WHAT is going on in this manga at this point (complimentary)

I won't even be surprised if Ness 1st-degree-murders Mr. Isagi Yoichi at this point

[spelviin]

like obviously the biggest emotional gutpunch of the eventual oak arc is going to be henry reuniting with his beautiful boys, but i gotta say i am SUPER interested to see him ineracting with dood

like just

imagine you were the host of a chaos deity for like forty-someodd years, got ripped from your home realm by said deity and flung into an entirely new world, lived your life in fear of said deity and let that fear form the basis of your entire identity and every decision you made, finally ALMOST came to terms with the fact that hating it wasn't helping anyone, but then at the last minute got profoundly betrayed by one of the people you love most for the sole reason of releasing said deity onto an unsuspecting world

and now that deity is a kid standing in your living room asking for a juice box or smth like

my guy is gonna have a rough fucken time of it is all i'm saying

[byberbunk2069]

Throwing shade at Mr. Blue Eyes rn

Like... nobody else can do mysterious smartly dressed asshole like the Cigarette Smoking Man

[trevisos]

filing these under “lines that make xarrai feel extremely normal” as well.