#how did y'all not notice

[amberjazmyn]

how did y'all not notice?

𝓲𝓶𝓪𝓰𝓲𝓷𝓮 - how did y'all not notice?

𝔀𝓪𝓻𝓷𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼 - fluff, pregnancy announcement, swear words

𝓭𝓮𝓼𝓬𝓻𝓲𝓹𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷 - based on my two prompts: "oh my gosh, eww, you peed on that... wait, are you serious?" and "you fucking peed on that and you made me touch it!", the cast of walker, husband and wives find out that gianna and her real-life texas ranger husband ollie, are pregnant with their first child.

𝓪𝓾𝓽𝓱𝓸𝓻'𝓼 𝓷𝓸𝓽𝓮 - because i just finished re-catching up with season three of walker before starting season four, i thought i'd write this. and, also because i don't really write for "walker" but because it is mainly jared, he will be gianna's brother so that's why it's jared related if that makes sense. and so this means the rest of the walker cast are included and i'm now wondering if i should start a masterlist for walker one-shots or not so, lemme know if i should start writing for walker! flashbacks are in italics and present time is written in regular font.

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gianna couldn't believe her eyes. for maybe, almost close to a month into filming for walker, she hadn't been feeling too well, causing her to have to take certain days of filming off and other times to not even be on set because it would get so bad. it scared gianna some that she couldn't figure out why she was so dizzy, lethargic, tired and nauseous but it wasn't until she caught up with odette, not her niece odette but her castmate and her sister-in-law, genevieve, and her best friends during a break in the filming that everything seemed to make sense to the younger girl. 

"...gianna, you okay?" genevieve's voice first had suddenly come through gianna's ears again and she maintained eye contact with the older brunette and odette as well 

"hmm? yeah, i...i'm fine gen and odette, just....i...i am so sorry, i'd truly love to stay longer but, i just forgot about some errands i got to run for ollie! can we raincheck lunch for a later date?" gianna seemed in a hurry, rummaging through her purse for a twenty dollar note for the coffee and genevieve and odette didn't want to prolong her lateness, nodding their heads enthusiastically 

"oh, of...of course, babe, don't even apologise! we can totally take that raincheck for a later date! stay safe and, i hope you get better soon!" odette smiled sympathetically after the girls talked about gianna's symptoms and that was how genevieve found out she was pregnant with her three kids, thomas, shep and odette, which ultimately got gianna in a sprial without the woman fully realising it or intending it 

"thanks so much, gen and odette and, i'm always safe, you know that. especially considering who my husband is!" gianna chuckled, her angelic laugh making the two older girls giggle too as they joked about ollie, gianna's husband, who was a real life texas rangerand who gave real insight for their cw show walker 

"of course, i was just making sure!" genevieve and odette called out as the three ladies walked their separate ways to their cars, gianna shook her head as her smile never once faltered 

later on, that day after genevieve, odette and gianna had parted ways, the younger blonde walked herself into a pharmacy and bought herself a handful of clearblue pregnancy tests. after her conversation with genevieve and odette about how sick she had been feeling and how worried she was. it truthfully now made so much sense that she would be pregnant when she also suddenly realised that during this entire time she had been unwell, she hadn't gotten her period like she was supposed to during the second week of filming for walker. she just hoped to some degree that she was pregnant and that ollie would be just as excited. even though this was a topic that ollie and gianna would have almost daily due to constant questions about it in interviews and things in ollie's work, it still somewhere in the blacklights of her head worried her that maybe, right now, they shouldn't be trying to settle down so soon. 

however, the moment that all ten of the pregnancy tests, yes ten, showed their results, gianna was so relieved and almost fell to her knees. all ten pregnancy tests had come back positive so, there wasn't a single doubt that ollie and gianna hadn't conjured up a junior castellano - because they did and the ten pregnancy tests proved all the evidence needed to support that claim. now, all that gianna needed to do was to tell her husband and then later on down the line, tell the rest of the walker crew and their significant others. with a small pep in her step, gianna decided to buy some infant unisex cowboy boots that were similar to the ones ollie wore to work as well as a little cowboy hat and decided that she'd announce her pregnancy to ollie with a youtube video challenge idea that she had seen her influencer sister do years ago - reminding the girl of how her elder cousin georgia announced her pregnancy to her and her family, which was done in the same way.

ollie had very clearly noticed the new pep in his wife's step as he arrived back at the hotel after his day off with his ranger coworkers. smiling with confusion at the set-up of a film camera, the couch and a box with a piece of fabric that covered a small side opening and then an open opening on the other side, he didn't question it and just followed his wife to the couch. 

"can we film a quick youtube video, babe?" gianna asks her husband as they pull out of a hug and peck each other's lips as he nods his head - grateful he hadn't drunk his entire body weight as some of his ranger friends had regrettably (but hilariously) had done

"course we can, no wonder why i was smart and didn't get drunk! should i be worried though?" ollie sarcastically said with a wink as gianna giggled after the memory of the last youtube challenge the husband and wife filmed went through her head (yes, ollie was drunk in that last video, hence his comment about him being glad he wasn't drunk this time)

 "not at all, i don't think..." gianna trailed off as ollie smirked before taking the seat next to his wife, a small four-legged chair sat in front of them, the box laid on top 

"...okay, babe, the first two items are in the box, are you eyes closed?" gianna smiled as ollie giggled softly as he nodded his head 

"mhm," he vocalised, letting his wife know that his eyes were closed as she continued 

"ok, the fans who are watching the video can see what's in the box except you. so, just, stick your hand in and, feel around, pick it up, and see if you can figure out what it is, okay?" gianna explains as ollie laughs at the slight innuendo before nodding his head 

"o...kay...." ollie trailed off as he placed his hand into the opened side of the box as he slightly hesitated, flinching his hand before placing it back in 

gianna had placed in the infant unisex cowboy ranger boots and cowboy hat in first because the pregnancy test would have been too obvious and easy she felt and then it wouldn't be so much of an amazing surprise, in gianna's opinion. so, starting off with the cowboy boots and cowboy hat would act as a good clue to the fact that the shoes and hat are for a baby - meaning that gianna is pregnant without telling him straight away with the pregnancy test. 

ollie chuckled, his head falling back as he felt the pair of converse, "are these like, cowboy boots and a cowboy hat for infants?" gianna sucked a breath in before a small chuckle left her mouth 

"can i pull it out to check?" ollie then queried as gianna vocalised a small "yeah", ollie then grabbed the infant cowboy boots and cowboy hat and opened his eyes 

laughing at the infant cowboy boots and cowboy hat, it seemed to gianna that it hadn't registered in his head that it was to announce the news of her being pregnant and the couple being parents. so, due to ollie's confusion she just set aside the infant cowboy/ranger boots and cowboy hat, told ollie to close his eyes again and that she'd put the next clue to her surprise announcement into the box. 

biting her lip and willing away her joyful tears, she announced to ollie that he could place his hand in the box again and guess the next clue. it obviously stumped ollie as, unlike the first time with the infant cowboy/ranger boots and cowboy hat, it seemed as if olie hesitated in guessing what the item in his hand was. i mean, surely, it wasn't the first time the man had felt or even seen a pregnancy test. but, it flew right past his mind because he didn't think he wouldn't notice if his wife was showing the symptoms of pregnancy or recognise that for the past month, they were the same ones that their best friend and sister-in-law genevieve had when she was pregnant. however, it seemed as if five minutes later, he kind of figured it out since it was obvious that he hadn't noticed his wife's symptoms like he thought he wouldn't have missed.  

"is...is this a pregnancy test?" ollie finally calls out, his eyes adorably crinkled shut as gianna giggles softly as she watches her husband open his eyes and turn to his wife, his hand still holding the test 

"wait, it's been used?! ew, you fucking peed on it and you made me touch it!" ollie freaked out as he then brought the pregnancy test out of the box properly before he decided to take a better look at it after just touching it 

thinking it didn't have an answer on the panel thingy, he looked at it before it registered in his mind what it said. "gianna, are...are you serious?" ollie's voice trembled as tears shed his eyes as gianna smiled, nodding her head with a tender look at her husband 

"are you actually serious?" ollie's chin wobbled as he tried not to cry, gianna smiled brighter and nodded her head 

"dead serious," gianna smiled as ollie chucked the box, chair and the pregnancy test all to the floor as he pulled his wife in for a hug, letting his tears stream down his cheeks onto gianna's shoulder, hoping they wouldn't get a noise complaint from the hotel manager 

"we're having a baby!" ollie quietly sobbed out as gianna giggled and nodded her head, pulling out of the hug as she ruffled her husband's hair before stroking his cheek 

"mhm, we're having a baby, ollie!" gianna confirmed again, knowing that it was going to take a lot of confirmation for ollie to really believe his dream of becoming a father was going to come true 

after another two confirmations of the pregnancy, it seems as if ollie still hadn't cried all of his tears out as he continued to cry in his wife's embrace. ollie couldn't help the smile that was tucked away, hidden by gianna's sweater as she made small, rubbing motions of comfort on his back to comfort him. finally though, thirty minutes later, it seemed as if every single tear that he could have shed, had been cried and the couple were now just coming up with ways to surprise their families, the texas rangers and then the rest of the walker family after getting the go-ahead by their ob-gyn. 

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a week or two had passed since ollie and gianna had found out about the pregnancy when it had been decided that they could tell their families and everyone else since gianna was now in her second trimester. telling both families, the castellanos and the padaleckis at the same time was so casual that it actually had such a delayed reaction that ollie and gianna thought they didn't hear them the first time. 

the way they told them was that, because georgia, gianna's cousin is a nurse, gianna decided that after being offered wine, because she always does, she'd make a joke about the fact that her cousin should know that drinking alcohol when pregnant is a big no-no. hoping that it would give the normal sometimes clueless families that gianna was pregnant. 

"wine, gianna?" georgia offers as gianna smiles, shaking her head no, confusing georgia as it was very well known how in love gianna was with alcohol

"ah, no thanks georgia," the pregnant girl responds which confuses everyone as ollie tries his hardest to not outwardly react or pull any attention onto himself in a way that could further clue everyone into the surprise 

"why? gia, you never turn down a glass..." georgia trails off as gianna decides to just tell her since no one had thought to look down at her slightly protruding stomach 

"...you're a nurse georgia, i thought...well, i'd hope you would know that pregnant women are highly advised to not drink..." gianna trailed off, hoping that both families would react but, it seems as if they weren't at all 

that was until georgia finally realised what her younger cousin had just revealed. 

"...wuh...wuh...wait, gianna! no fucking way!" she squealed, almost dropping the wine bottle and rushing over to the other end of the table, pulling her younger cousin in for a hug and almost out of her seat as the older cousin held back her joyful tears as the cousins giggled, swaying side to side 

despite georgia's dramatic and loud realisation, it seemed as if everyone else was still so clueless that ollie and gianna were pregnant. so clueless in fact that it wasn't until gianna and georgia's mom and aunty finally looked down towards her youngest daughter's tummy, noticing the slightly curved baby bump that had been forming but wasn't totally hidden when she then announced out loud in a question that gianna was pregnant. 

"gia, you're pregnant?" mrs padalecki squeaked out as tears welled up in the mother's eyes, gianna nodding her head as ollie placed his hand on the small of her back 

"yeah, i'm pregnant," gianna confirmed as finally, the rest of the padaleckis and castellanos reacted in due course making gianna and ollie chuckle at the very delayed reactions of their families 

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she couldn't hide the nervousness that was welling up inside her as gianna waited for the moment the walker girls realised what it was that violet brinson was fiddling with. exactly in the way that gianna surprised ollie, the couple were surprising the cast of walker about her pregnancy with the "what's in the box challenge" with the girls being told first. 

violet was extremely hesitant to place her hands inside the box with her eyes closed. due to her not being exempt for padalecki pranks on the set of walker, she was extremely nervous to see what her best friend could be making her touch right now. and having the rest of the walker girls and their kids watching on in anticipation was making her feel more anxious about the item that she was trying to guess. however, it shocked gianna that violet was so oblivious to the fact that she was literally fondling a positive pregnancy test that would announce gianna and ollie's first pregnancy and not be responding immediately with the answer of it being a pregnancy test. 

"--what is this?" violet chuckles after nearly fifteen minutes of fondling the pregnancy test and not guessing it, the rest of the ladies chuckling at violet's forfeit

"are you seriously giving up, vi?" gianna giggled, ollie biting his lip so he wouldn't laugh or again potentially give it away as he stood behind the camera that was filming the video

violet giggled in defeat as she nodded her head, "yes, i give up, gianna! what is it?" violet squeals out as she then furrows her eyebrows, her eyes showing a flash of recollection 

"wait, wait, i...i think i know what it is!" violet called out in excitement as her eyes widened with joy, looking at gianna if she could take the item out, gianna nodding her head 

immediately, violet yelped out, similar to ollie's initial reaction, the pregnancy test landing on the raised table in front of the group, gianna trying to keep violet quiet so it wouldn't clue the walker guys, "oh my gosh, eww you peed on that...wait, are you serious?"

the ladies laughed at violet getting grossed out by a used pregnancy test before it all clicked in their heads that it clicked in violet's head that it was gianna's used pregnancy test. violet had since let out a semi-muffled squealed sob, attacking gianna into a hug, the two girls falling onto the couch with the table that had the positive pregnancy test fall to the floor. genevieve, odette, molly and ashley's brains were slowly clicking in realisation when they noticed the way ollie was watching his wife and best friend celebrate together,the ladies jumped up to pull ollie in for a hug. 

"you're pregnant, gia?" violet whimpered out as she and gianna stood up off the couch, violet wiping away her tears as the two girls saw the other ladies hug ollie as they celebrated 

hearing violet ask if gianna was pregnant and seeing ollie's joy that they could finally tell everyone made the entire group happy. however, that then prompted the kids, jared and genevieve's in particular, to rush over to their uncle ollie and aunty gianna to ask. 

"wait, aunty gianna, please, can you actually confirm that you and uncle ollie are pregnant?" tom had also started to cry as gianna giggled at her nephew

"yeah, i'm pregnant tommy, i'm in my second trimester," gianna smiled brightly as she pulled tom in for a hug alongside her nephew shep and niece odette as they happily cried in their aunty's embrace 

"...but wait, does that mean ollie's leaving the rangers then?" molly then spoke up, her arms crossed over as her smile stayed put on her face as the castellano's breathed out heavily

motioning for the adults to sit down and for the kids to run back to playing upstairs, that was when it was time for gianna and ollie to tell their walker family what was happening now. especially with how troublesome ollie's job with the texas rangers was, not so different to the show that his wife and brother-in-law played on the tv, it was time to address the job situation now that his wife was pregnant.

"great question molly and, to tell y'all the truth, after some thought and consideration, i did make the decision to leave the texas rangers. sure it was a hard thing to tell my captain, especially after telling them the exciting news of becoming parents but i made that choice for a reason. and that was because there was no way in the world i was going to risk anything happening to my two best angels whilst i'm ranger castellano. of course, if i ever wanted to return to the rangers when baby is not only born but many years older, cap said he'd be happy to welcome me back into the fold with open arms but, right now, ranger castellano no longer exists and i'm just...daddy..." ollie trailed off as it was obvious that hearing that made all the ladies relax, including his own wife even though it wasn't the first time gianna had heard this answer to this very question before and it wouldn't its last time either

"...well, that's amazing ollie! and, just so you know, if you ever wanna slip back into the shoes of being a ranger but not actually have it put any danger to your wife and future baby, i'm sure jared and gia could hook you up as a texas ranger extra. but, that is, only if you want it but, it's there for your consideration..." violet giggles as everyone giggles, ollie included as he pulls the young girl in for a hug

"...well, thank you for that consideration, violet. and, you bet your arse, i'm gonna take that consideration!" ollie laughed as he hugged violet tightly and pulled out as ollie couldn't help but to look at his pregnant wife with such admiration

but, now, it was time that gianna and ollie had to tell jared, keegan, coby, jeff, kale and mitch - aka, the men of walker. at least, the "main men" of walker. so, the kids went back to their spot on the couch and stayed quiet whilst the walker ladies joined the children so the guys could be told.

similar to how they told violet, gianna had kale guess what was in the box. like his on-screen sister, kale fondled the pregnancy test for a few moments with no clue about what it was. but then a couple of minutes quicker than violet did, he had the same exact freak out as his on-screen sister had before him. 

"hold up, is this...is this a pregnancy test?" kale chuckled, hanging his head low as he chuckled as neither gianna nor ollie responded at first which seemed to make kale freak out even more

"gianna, are...are you pregnant?" kale all of a sudden got emotional and teary-eyed, the other guys still unsure about what was going on that was until they heard the part where kale questioned if gianna was pregnant

perking up, jared then asked his sister, "gianna, are you pregnant with you and ollie's first baby?!" jared smiled with the possible exciting thought of having a niece or nephew again and a new walker baby

shrugging her shoulders, she nudged at kale to reveal what it was that he was holding in the cardboard box, "i dunno jared...kale, am i pregnant with me and ollie's first baby?" gianna teased with a shoulder shrug as an emotional kale reveals the pregnancy test that did indeed reveal that gianna was pregnant with her and ollie's first baby 

immediately, keegan, jared, mitch, jeff, coby and then kale, after throwing down the pregnancy test, wrapped their arms around their best friend and congratulated her on her pregnancy. ollie then joined them after it was then revealed that the kids and the girls had already been told too. 

"...guys, this is fantastic news but...ollie, does that mean?" jared questioned and then the guys all looked over at ollie, all giving the same looks as ollie smiled and sighed

"yes jared. gianna and i have already told the ladies this but, obviously, we're now telling y'all. when i went to tell this news to my captain back at ranger hq, he asked me to take all the time i needed..." ollie trailed off as everyone watched expectantly as they nodded their heads as he continued

"...and i just said, about that cap...*giggles*...i just said i think it's time that whilst it's been an honour and privilege to serve as a texas ranger for as long as i have, i can't risk something happening to my two angels when i'm ranger castellano. but, he did say that, of course, if i ever wanted to return to the rangers when baby is not only just born but many years older, he'd be happy to welcome me back into the fold with open arms. however, right now, ranger castellano no longer exists and i'm just...daddy..." sure, gianna had just heard her husband say that to the walker ladies but, hearing him say it again and to the walker men just made her fall even more in love with him

and, just as well, it made the walker men fall even more in love with oliver castellano. everyone loved ollie in the cast of walker but, right now, they loved him even more. and that was because he was willingly risking his work life as a ranger to be a full-time, present husband and father to his oncoming child. and, that says a lot about who ollie is, not just as a person, but as a man. he's willing to trust that his wife's job as an actress pretending to play a texas ranger who works nine months out of the year is going to provide for not just the both of them but also for their oncoming baby. and, he didn't have anything to believe this trust wasn't real and that if he took time off work for what would possibly end up being up to at least fifteen maybe sixteen years away from being a texas ranger, he, his wife and family would still be fine and living well off.

"...wow, that...that's amazing ollie. good on you for realising that you can't be a texas ranger and a father at the same time. i mean, not saying you can't but, if you're anything like cordell walker which, you are because that is who jared picked his interpretation on, it's a good thing you decided to step back from being all "oliver castellano, texas ranger". and, i'm sure one of the ladies has already mentioned it but, just in case you need to hear it again, if you ever feel the need to be a ranger again but don't want to worry about it putting your family in any real danger, just come on the show as an extra texas ranger, it'll be practically like the real thing just, less dangerous and more fun!" kale shrugged as laughter from everyone filled the house as ollie nodded his head - thanking kale for the suggestion, the same suggestion that violet gave him when the ladies were told the surprise

butterflies fluttered throughout both ollie's and gianna's tummies that they were finally getting the blessing of being parents for the first time after it being a point of talking after their marriage. after all the happy tears and squeals and jubilation over gianna and ollie's announcement, gianna couldn't help the jokingly snide comment that fell out of her mouth as she drank a mocktail. 

"...by the way how did y'all not notice? i thought ollie and i had made it way too obvious for y'all!" 

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when i first wrote this particular one-shot for the first time, i didn't like it as much as i thought i would have. and, nor did i think i'd ever write a jared padalecki version where his fictionalised younger sister who is married to a real-life texas ranger whilst his wife and brother-in-law play texas rangers on tv would happen but, i love this version a shit tonne better. and, now, like the first time, here is some context for the title and the end as it may be a bit vague. so, pretty much, because gianna is married to oliver castellano, a real life texas ranger, not a fake one that gianna and jared portray in the tv show walker, and jared, big brother is on set for walker in the beginning part of the one-shot, i mentioned that for some of the filming days for walker that gianna had been sick. mr and mrs castellano then thought that after finding out about the pregnancy and not trying to keep it secret but not telling everyone, people would realise a lot quicker that potentially, gianna was preggers. however, it wasn't until ollie and gianna had it be spelt out for them to figure it out, hence why at the end of telling them that gianna made the "how did y'all not notice? i thought ollie and i had made it way too obvious for y'all!" comment because it was funny and something that she thought they'd figure out quickly because they weren't trying to keep it a secret like supposed to so when they didn't, they realised that ollie and gianna were going to hold that against them for years to come. but now that's out of the way, i'm glad you guys enjoyed this and i'm glad i wrote it because i did enjoy rewriting it!

ok ily bye xx

wc; 3579

[thequeenofindie]

Rick O'Connell [The Mummy (1999)]

[rottmnt-residuum]

I am INCREDIBLY late to this but I finally did my redraw yippee!!!! I haven’t drawn Rise Leo in a WHILE but I think it turned out alright!!

You may be late the event itself, but I'll always take y'alls amazing art

[flying-cat]

Preparing myself to read a Persona 5 fic because it sounds super interesting but Maruki is a tagged character which means there's like a 70% chance that he's being mischaracterized

[primus-why]

I Feel TFOne Could've Handled This Better...

Hot take but I feel like folks have been really generous with the take that OP was unable to find ~the perfect words~ in the heat of the moment (and thus should be given some grace) when he told D to stand down and "not be like Sentinel"... namely cuz I don't feel that the narrative supports this?

Like-- after all is said and done, OP doesn't reflect on that part of their split. He doesn't have a moment where he seeks validation or voices his regrets over the choice of his words, it's actually cut-and-dry. The narrative (as it stands) supports that OP saw D-16 acting up, so he called him out and stood on business, down to the last scenes where he's basically like "yeah it's a shame but y'all knew I had to do it to 'em."

It didn't have to be much! I'm not saying to absolve Megs, just show OP looking at things from a different perspective/contemplating a bit on that tough choice and the morality of the moment. Some examples of what I wish we had:

B-127 straight up blurting the obvious by later chatting with Orion like, "Wait so you told your best friend that he was acting just as bad as the guy who enslaved us for our entire lives and was torturing him like an hour ago? Oof. Seems kinda harsh." Then have some of OP's regret show on his face.

OP asking Elita-1 after Megs is banished if he did the right thing. Have Elita back his choice up, saying, "You should have seen what he did after you were... gone. It was terrifying. I know it was tough, but you made the right call." OP is grateful for the support, but a conflicted look still flashes across his face before he steels himself to look out towards the horizon... and the future.

Have OP walk past other mechs/former miners who didn't go with the High Guard saying stuff like, "Wish I could've given Sentinel a piece of my mind!" "Yeah, but I'm glad he's gone for good." "Ugh I miss everything." "Oh, it was crazy! Megatron picked him up and then he rrrrriiipped-- oops, hey there, Mr. Optimus... Prime... sir?" And have OP wave hello, looking a bit sick when they leave.

Post-credits scene with Starscream going on and on, asking Megs when they'll be back to teach the upstart Prime a lesson. Megs grabs his face to shut him up. "Patience, Starscream. The Prime thinks I'm no better than Sentinel... but I'll show him. He wants Iacon? He can have it. In the meantime we'll take the rest of the planet! Then I'll come back, crush Prime under my heel, and we'll take Iacon too. Sentinel's reign will barely be a footnote, because I'm about to become Optimus Prime's worst nightmare." The vocal performance would really need to sell this-- like picture Megs saying something like that from a place of anger and hurt, not so much a place of genuine evil or malice.

Basically instead of Orion's assertion being backed up as black and white/good vs bad, I wish we had some different opinions/reactions from the characters sprinkled in there. Like you can't tell me out of allllll the miners who weren't strong enough/willing to go with the High Guard and ended up sticking around that NONE of them were like "eyyo honestly?? Kiiiiinda glad Sentinel is dead. Wish I could have helped, tbh." like come onnnnn...

And you can't even argue that he's not an active threat-- I don't think everyone would see things that way! It's not just about the threat he physically has, but the threat he represents and is very likely to act upon if given the opportunity! He has a proven track record of not only being sneaky and conniving, but also capable of dealing some serious damage/killing people bigger and stronger than him, plus he has the backing of the Quints. All he'd need to do is wriggle his way out of jail and run off to his sponsors, then he'd probably be back to hurt more people! (If the Quints didn't just kill him out of incompetence lmao). There's a lot of "ifs" here, but I think it's a valid argument that not everyone would agree on what is the right or wrong way to handle Sentinel once he was down long enough to, like, do something about him.

I feel the situation needed a bit of nuance. In some way I wish they had kicked the can and had D and Orion bicker while Sentinel escaped, then have D get frustrated enough by the loss of Sentinel to point fingers (and his fusion canon) at Orion, who then falls and becomes OP. (Megs could still show some of thar emotion/remorse right after he does it too.) Not only would this open the door for a sequel, but tbh the Quint might have just killed Sentinel anyways and sought to deal with the miners uprising themselves lol. (Maybe that could have been an after credits scenes too instead of the B-127 bit??)

Would love to see a moment in a sequel where they have a calmer moment after arguing for a bit. Have OP mention how Megs was out of line, that it hurt and even scared him to see him act that way, and Megs can quietly point out "you said I was as bad as Sentinel... is that really how you see me? After everything we went through?"

Then OP can fumble the bag again lmao like "D, I... I'm sorry, that didn't come out right... but you still took things way too far..."

"Why am I not surprised-- your opinion is what matters the most! Maybe that's why you became a Prime, since you're so good at acting like the world revolves around you--!"

*gets interrupted by someone else before another yelling match ensues*

[petite-phthora]

This yours?

[DP x DC fic]

[Love at first... murder? - part 12]

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Part 1

Ao3

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Somewhere else, in a seemingly abandoned building on the outskirts of the city, a figure shrouded in darkness and wearing a dark cloak plots.

In front of them is a whiteboard. It’s covered in pictures, sticky notes, and illegible texts. Some of the notes thrown about that are legible are ‘fight…’, ‘draw blood.’, and ‘DEATH!!!’.

There’s a crude stick figure drawn in the corner of the board, it’s impaled. Other small doodles can also be found all around the board.

Most of the information and pictures are connected by red strings, like you see in movies.

In the middle is a picture of 2 people sitting on a motorcycle, the arms of the person sitting in the back are around the waist of the person sitting in the front. The picture has some arrows pointing towards it and the people in the picture are very obviously circled.

Though the face of the person driving the motorcycle is obscured by their helmet, the other person seems to be heavily blushing and grinning broadly.

“Yes… yes! That’s it! I know what to do…” They seem to be speaking to themselves.

Quickly, the person scribbles down a barely legible ‘sacrifice!!‘.

They start cackling.

“Mwuahaha!”

It’s an evil laugh they’ve been working on for quite a while now, and they’re pretty proud of it.

However, the effect is slightly ruined when a fly enters their mouth, cutting off their cackling with choking as they gasp for air, grasping at their throat.

A few good thumps against their chest, with some coughing out their lungs, helps them dislodge the fly from their throat and they spit it out on the ground. They take a few deep breaths before straightening up again.

“Curse you” the person exclaims, angrily waving their fist at the fly as it flies away.

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Bruce’s face gives off nothing as he stares at the streets down below. He’s dressed as Batman, crouched at the edge of a building with Damian by his side as Robin. Spoiler, Black Bat, Nightwing, and Red Robin are further back on the rooftop.

They watch in silence as another group of the Joker’s goons passes by. They’ve been all over the city, wandering around, not doing anything obviously illegal.

They don’t stay in one place and they don’t seem to have much of a purpose. No attacks… No stealing… No smuggling or transport of goods… No, instead they’re inspecting every single inch of the city.

They don’t seem to have any weapons on them. All they’re carrying on them are some flashlights. While most don’t give anything away with their body language or expressions, some seem to give off a bit of anxious energy.

Spoiler claimed she even saw some of them climb down into the sewers earlier and then climbing out again sometime later somewhere else, but this time ‘dejected and stinky’.

One thing seems clear to the Bats.

They’re searching for something… or someone.

“This basically confirms that not even the Joker’s henchmen know where he is. He’s missing.”

“I’m not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing”

“Good… thing?”

“It’s… something. That’s for sure.”

“We don’t know if he’s really missing. For all we know it could be a trap. What if the Joker is hiding, pretending to be missing to have us bring our guard down? Besides, how could he be missing? He’s the Joker. No one’s just gonna kidnap him”

“For all we know he could be lying dead in a ditch somewhere”

“I highly doubt that”

“Everyone, focus” Bruce speaks up, having them draw their attention to him.

“It’s unclear whether the Joker is simply hiding away or missing. Instead of focusing on the why, we need to focus on the where. Missing or not, we need to find him and get him back to Arkham. Oracle, have you managed to find out anything from the footage yet?”

“Nope, still nothing. All the files from the moment he enters Crime Alley are wiped and any attempt at recovering them only brings back corrupted files.”

 “We need Red Hood. Where is he?” Bruce asks.

“He still has his phone on silent and he has removed the trackers and cams. We haven’t placed any new ones on him yet”

“Let’s visit him on his turf then. And keep an eye out for anything suspicious in the meantime. Oracle, try recovering the missing files. If that doesn’t work, go back to the breakout footage. Perhaps he left some kind of clues about his plans or whereabouts behind there.” Bruce states.

“Roger that.”

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Red Hood has his arms by his sides as he gazes down upon the street below from the rooftop of a random apartment building in Crime Alley.

He’s lucky to have avoided the Bats so far. But he doubts his luck will last for long.

Red Hood stiffens as he suddenly feels something clamp down on his arm. As a reflex, his other hand has already drawn his gun.

He slowly raises the arm he felt something clamp down on and looks at it, only to make eye contact with a girl with black hair and blue eyes who has sunk her teeth into his arm and is now hanging off of it.

The teeth are sharp, as the girl seems to have some small fangs. They’ve gone through his jacket and sunken into his skin.

It doesn’t really hurt all that badly though, probably hasn’t even drawn much blood, and that’s one of the only reasons Jason hasn’t flung the kid off of him yet. Another reason is the fact that it’s a kid.

They both stare at each other for several seconds.

As Jason takes her appearance in, he notices that she seems rather familiar. In fact, she looks like a more feminine version of Danny, or if Danny had a twin.

The person hanging off of his arm looks younger than Danny though, probably a teenager around 13 or 14, if he had to make a guess.

Slowly, he puts his gun away and takes out his phone with his other hand, watching the random girl’s eyes follow his movements. He raises it level with her face and snaps a picture, quickly sending it to Danny and ignoring the girl’s curious gaze while she’s still hanging onto his arm by her fucking teeth.

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Meanwhile, Danny checks his phone to see Red Hood sent him a message. He opens it and is greeted by a picture of Ellie in human form biting down on Red Hood’s arm with the caption ‘this yours???’

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@i-always-say-yea   @uraniumwizard    @why-must-i-be-like-this   @griffinthing

[breakbeatbun]

y'all have gotta learn to act normal about other people's characters

just bc you think they're hot doesn't mean the person who made them wants to know if, or how, you'd fuck them. i feel like that's common sense. it doesn't make it OK now just because it's not a real person you're sexualizing. you don't know what they mean to the person who made them, and if you do, well what the fuck, then.

[faith-thee-slayer]

Buffy's intervention in Revelations vs. Faith's intervention in Consequences

[lilliemadoka]

mfw im about to make a little goth girl fatherless

[dont-open-dead-inside-25]

*voice of boy who just experienced romantic/sexual attraction for the first time* did you guys see that. that was insane. wdym you live like this

[terresdebrume]

Outlook no so good, says the magic eight ball again. Niko has excellent reading comprehension skills and with life, as with literature, denial only gets you so far. Niko breathes. She doesn't cry. It's a surprise. She thinks most people would.

"Aaaaw," says Litty in a mocking tone, "you don't like what the ball has to tell you?"

"Awe you gonna cwy?" Kingham adds, pretending to wipe his eyes.

Niko looks at them. She doesn't think they ever seemed so small before. She thinks she feels sad for them.

"I don't think I'm going to do that," Niko tells them.

She puts them under the sweater. Walks to her closet. Outlook not so good. Well. The message was clear, and Niko has excellent reading comprehension skills.

She didn't bring any full kimono, when she came here, but she has a silvery ensemble that will do the job nicely. She changes into the pants first. Then the top, left panel over right. She puts on the belt that looks like an obi.

She thinks: at least my hair is ready. She goes through her jewelry box like it's something sacred, and pulls on all her white rings and her white pearls. She finds the white nail polish she wore for her father's funeral, and brought to America because she felt bad about throwing the mostly full bottle away.

She paints her nails with more care than she's needed in years. She breathes. She prepares. She does not cry. The bright pink glitter on her eyes fails to make her smile. When she lifts the sweater from the jar again, Litty and Kingham stare at her, open mouthed.

"What the fuck?" Says Kingham first.

"Is that supposed to be a sexy snowman cosplay?" Says Litty. "You gonna go out there and seduce the bigfoot?"

Niko crouches to put her eyes level with them. She does not shiver. She does not cry. When she speaks, there is no tremor in her voice.

"You know, if you had been nicer to me, I'd let you out now."

"What?"

"What?"

She goes to the roof. When Edwin joins her, he says:

"Niko. You do not want to catch your death."

"I won't," Niko says.

After all, Niko has excellent reading comprehension skills.

She knows who'll catch up first.

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[pitske]

I think you need a Software Upgrade!

[maximura]

Taebin: Total Opposites

[angelfacemjj]

Man, I might be wrong for having this sensation, but this usanerican election results might not be entirely the population's fault.

Considering that y'all's voting is on paper and it ain't even the voters who decide the president, but the delegates of each state....

[5crookedfingers]

They made a 'Her private life's' cameo in 'No Gain no Love', the owner of the art gallery. The one the 2nd male lead met at the orphanage volunteerinh. She is the same person, name name, same actor, same designation.