#i just think she's neat okay??

[starry-bi-sky]

finally giving fem danyal her own au and fulfilling my 'danny is an animal whisperer' agenda at the same time: mother of monsters danyal 2.0

i say "2.0" because TECHNICALLY 'mother of monsters danyal' is an au I made back in June for Dark fem!Danyal (who I promptly named Layal). However, I haven't posted much for her yet, and I like the "mother of monsters" premise too much to leave it only to Layal. Plus Danyal in that au was going to become the mother of monsters anyway, just with significantly less world domination and mass extinction.

'Animal whisperer' Danny has been something I've been thinking about since my latest DP 'wolfpack au' post and it's! So fun to think about, and who no better to assign the idea to than Danyal Al Ghul? Who comes from a family infamously known for their love of animals and nature?

Fem Danyal is just purely self-indulgent. *gestures wildly at her* i just lomvb,,, her,,,, I've only really mentioned her in context of the 'Things in Threes' au/my first Danyal al Ghul au with the facial scar, but she's!!! I love her. She deserves her own au <33

So kill three birds with one stone! Make a post about it.

Anyways, Danny has a large lair. Similar to cult leader danyal, her lair is a giant mountain region resembling nanda parbat with a big temple/palace-like area built into the mountain. It's large, it's overflowing with natural flora, with its own mini-floating islands hovering over some areas, and it's also completely empty.

Danny takes one look at her lair upon first meeting, -- noting that it looked relatively smaller from the outside -- and promptly, with the elegance of an Al Ghul, goes "What the hell??" Because yes, while she does enjoy her own solitude and privacy, this is a bit ridiculous.

For heaven's sake, there's even a massive lake in there! What's she going to do with all this space? Can she make it any smaller? Why is it so big in the first place? This looks borderline like one of the mega-islands!

She finds out later that apparently, the amount of ectoplasm a ghost has can have an effect on the size of their lair. And since she has such a large core, her lair reflects that. Wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff, it's bigger on the inside so it doesn't take up "too much space" on the outside. Don't worry about it too much.

Danyal isn't totally opposed to having such a large lair, she's just... a bit baffled by it. It feels like so much wasted space is all. All this flora and no fauna to enjoy it with. It's practically eerie.

She decorates her temple-palace area, transforming rooms to match her needs as she sees fit. In the center of the inner gardens is a massive tree that she likes to climb, with twisting, winding branches. Sam and Tucker have honorary rooms, even if they can't safely leave the specter speeder for long periods of time, even with proper safety equipment. So does Jazz. Ali (Dani) has one too, but he can actually use that one, and Danny brought him to her lair so he could decorate it himself.

She has a personal garden, but for the most part she lets the flora exist as it is. Too much space to cultivate it en masse anyways.

Skip to a few weeks later, on her next visit to Clockwork. She developed a habit of going to see him semi-regularly just because. She enjoys his wisdom, and he has a lot of stories to tell, and when he's not being the cryptic and esoteric timekeeper, he's a bit goofy.

(pushing my dadwork agenda here,,, i think Danny deserves to go 'hey, Lord Clockwork, do you want me to buy you something' while she's at walmart, only to receive a singular glowing sticky note that says 'cucumber gatorade'.)

(She insists on referring to him with his proper titles even for the most mundane of things because it's proper, but Clockwork sees a future where she eventually calls him "Cee" and by all things in existence is he determined to get there. Anyways,,,)

On her next visit to Clockwork, just as she is about to leave, Clockwork stops her and goes; "Ah, I have something for you. Hold out your hands."

Danny does as such, and Clockwork doesn't give out things often, so her curiosity has spiked to the highest levels. He turns away from her for a moment, using his staff to summon whatever it is he needs, and when he turns around.

He drops a fish into her hands. Granted, a fish in a small glass tank. But a fish nonetheless. A small one, roughly about the size of her finger, with a blue-black, eel-shaped body and four sets of glowing eyes. She can see thin, almost translucent, but spiny fins down its back and the start of bioluminescent markings. It's swimming around in circles in its small container.

"Lord Clockwork." Danyal says all too calmly.

"Yes, Danyal?"

"What is this?"

"That is an adolescent leviathan, Danyal." She’s transfixed onto the tank, but she doesn’t need to see Clockwork’s face to hear the smile he’s stifling.

The myriad of emotions that runs through her all at once threatens to overwhelm her, and she can’t tell if the feelings are negative or positive. So she carefully closes her eyes to breathe in through her nose.

“Clockwork.”

“Ah, I see you’ve dropped formalities.”

She ignores that.

“Why have you given me an adolescent leviathan?”

She's expecting the trickster to look amused when she opens her eyes. Instead, he just looks endeared. "I know you're fond of animals," he says, "and you always look amazed when you come across an animal of the realms. So I thought you might enjoy taking care of the young beast, it's mother is dead so it has no one to care for it."

Oh.

"But, if you don't like it," Clockwork's hands reach out for the tank, "I can simply take it back--"

Danyal shifts the tank out from his reach and hugs it possessively. "I never said that. How do I care for it?"

And so clockwork gives her a list, and when Danyal returns to her lair, she sets up a large tank in her room for the leviathan to swim in -- it's much too small for the lake right now, she thinks. She'll feel better if it's somewhere she can find it. She names him Suhā.

Suhā grows quickly, and by the end of the mortal month she transforms one of the rooms into a large pond for him to swim around in. He's a very loyal beast, recognizing her as it's mother of some kind. Danyal takes great care ensuring that her beastie gets quality care, and Suhā swims to the surface to see her when he senses her in the room.

It spirals from there. Somehow, Pandora catches wind that Clockwork gave her a leviathan, and so the next time Danyal visits the Greater Athens, she gives her a baby chimera. It's eyes are still sealed shut, Danyal can't bring herself to say no. She names the little beastie Firas.

Frostbite hears about it too, and not to be outdone, gives her an animal she's never even heard of. Infinite-realms born, apparently. A fox-like creature with two small horns like an impala, four eyes, and tall legs. The name isn't something she's quite sure how to write down, and she's positive that her friends won't be able to comprehend it. She names her Eira.

Getting the three of them used to each other was... interesting. Suhā tried to eat Firas when Danyal first introduced the two, and they've hated each other ever since. Firas and Eira are seemingly getting along. Her island already feels full enough with the three of them on it.

Of course, that's not the end of it. With her luck, she begins stumbling across other monsters. Realms-borne or otherwise. An injured hydra in the Grecian islands that, through lots of trial and error, Danyal is able to rehabilitate and heal. It routinely comes to visit her afterwards.

A griffin with a broken wing that she moves permanently to the island that likes to keep to itself, but tends to come down when she's near. It gets along best with Firas.

A panther-like monster from the Shades Woods that had six legs and three tails, with ends that reminded her of a venus flytrap. It stuck around the heavy foliage and she can only make out where it was when she saw its golden eyes reflect.

She befriends a young indrik with its leg injured, and much like the hydra it follows her back to her island, and stays there in the mountains. It comes out when she's alone, much like her other beasts.

She receives two more leviathan -- one from clockwork, and one she finds herself while exploring the deeper and darker recesses of the Ghost Zone. It was huddled against the carcass of its mother, and she managed to befriend and get close enough to it to bring it back to her island. Suhā is fully grown by then, with a head bigger than Danyal herself and he still likes to stick her head out of the water for nuzzles when she's near.

He's not very happy with his new siblings, but he's not trying to eat them when she's not looking. So she calls it a win in her book.

And it's not just large beasts either; smaller animals begin popping up when she's not looking. Bird-like creatures and small mammals, and she swears she saw a doe (or something resembling a doe) grazing in the forest while she was walking by.

She takes back with her a lone snake egg once, and it grows so big it wraps around her island and sleeps with its massive head on the mountain beside the temple, like some smaller breed of Jörmungandr.

And on and on it goes. Some of the beasts she comes across never step foot onto her island, some of them follow her back, while others she has to carry back. Not all of the ones that follow her stay, and Danny rehabilitates the injured and releases them when they're fully healed.

It's hectic, and busy, and frankly she loves it. Some of her rehabilitated beasts return to visit her, or to have their children somewhere on the island, or whatever it is they need to do.

She becomes a bit infamous for it. She goes to visit Dorathea once, and as she's walking through the streets she can hear some of the denizens whispering while she walks past.

"Is that her?"

"Her highness' friend? Yes--"

"--that's the one--"

"--Mother of monsters--"

Danny's not sure how to feel about that.

Although, she can't say she's opposed.

Danyal Al Ghul, Mother of monsters, raiser of beasts. It has a nice ring to it.

[crush-like-that]

Nico and Drew get along. Some may say that they're even friends

[toxictoad]

[roitaminnah]

tfw for some reason you find an immense amount of comfort in simply being near someone

[keeps-ache]

happy pride !! <3

[technicallyblakebelladonna]

not me rereading the stormlight archive to prepare for the release of Stormlight 5 and getting to the start of words of radiance and falling back into my shasnah bullshit all over again

[dontvap0rdawave]

"We were always friends..."

~

Little sequel/continuation of this Yes, I am still feeling sensible about a girl and her giant octahedron, what else can I say?

[imjustavenuxwithaboomerang]

no yeah i really love how every core 4 member got a real happy ending....except for ej

nini is happily pursuing music in la with her moms' full support

ricky is dating gina, a girl he calls "home". he's finally becoming more at peace with love and how to show it. he's learned how to not run from his problems. his parents are getting back together (???) and his drama teacher wrote such a good letter of recommendation that he was accepted into a community college

gina becomes a literal movie star and was able to change the filming location of her second movie, without any consequences, to salt lake so she can physically be with ricky, the boy she finally got to date after crushing on him since the day they met. she has a permanent home to call her own now. her mom finally showed up to an opening night and she was finally able to portray gabriella

and then ej...is alone (in a wildcat sense) at college, financially cut off from his family, working multiple jobs to afford it. he spends most of his season 4 screentime guiding and helping others (ricky, gina, miss jenn, madlyn) instead of an actual storyline and a lot of his lines were about how he's made mistakes and has to live with them

[maureen-corpse]

[dootznbootz]

With how I'm planning my fics, since Menelaus and Agamemnon spend some years at Tyndarius' palace, I kind of have them all be childhood friends in a way before Agamemnon and Menelaus take back their kingdom (Aga is around 19, Menelaus 15 when they leave. 5-6 years later they get married.) With how their marriages work out when talking about "Old times", Odysseus is the "odd one out" as he was the only one who didn't grow up alongside them. The poor guy is left out.

Odysseus: "Wait, why is everyone laughing? What does that mean? I don't get it." Penelope: "Well you see-" Goes on about a silly story but the inside joke is dumb. "...You probably would've had to have been there to get it" Odysseus:

[saturnaous]

hi I want to show off my trans becket + klara headcanon. they are so neat 2 me

[anonymous-tals]

We don’t know much about Marta Estrella. She’s only in seven episodes of Arrested Development, and it’s purely centered around her relationship with Gob and Michael. She’s Gob’s girlfriend, that’s pretty much it, and after her episodes, she poofs out of existence like most of Gob’s other girlfriends. And yet she still sticks out of the deck, not just as Gob’s girlfriend, but as a character on her own.

(further elaborated upon under the cut)

Marta and Gob’s relationship was on again-off again, which is pretty unique given most of Gob’s flings don’t even get to the ‘on’ stage, let alone ‘again’. But even with this constant dissonance and flip-flopping, every time he came running back to her, lamenting that he’d made a huge mistake, she believed him. She truly, wholeheartedly did. And that’s far from the only instances of this. Gob constantly cheats and lies. She even worries he might be cheating at one point, and yet that fear doesn’t seem to raise any red flags. One day, she comes to the Bluth Company office to see Gob, as he’d told her he was working there…He wasn’t. But even though he’s not there, she suspects absolutely nothing. I mean, he’d turned a new leaf! He told her she was a treasure and a once in a lifetime woman! Why would she even consider he’s lied to her about this?

She’s practically incapable of assuming the worst of people. It’s a part of the code she adamantly holds herself to. Michael mentions, among other things like her hair, face, and breasts, that her sense of right and wrong is what attracted him to her. And what a sense of right and wrong that is. When it comes to herself, she holds herself to a very high standard. She’s unabatedly insistent on doing the right thing, and she’s willing to face the consequences if she doesn’t, regardless of what position that puts her in. But I think the most blatant example of this is how she views family.

She said herself that she “[lives] by a code: to honor family.” Family and commitment are “the only things that matter in life”. She’s always commenting about how much she admires acts of what she believes are familial kindness. Family is so important to her, in fact, that when she sees Michael and Gob in a fight, she calls off any sort of relationship with either of them for good, which I find very interesting. Obviously, we know that the Bluth family is very toxic, but she doesn’t know that. She doesn’t know the context of this fight, but it’s this, not any of the other bullshit she had to deal with when dating Gob, that makes her draw the line. Even more interesting was her immediate nope of Michael, who up until that point, she’d had overwhelmingly positive experiences with and as far as she knew, he valued family very much. Again, she doesn’t know the context of the fight, he could’ve been defending himself, and arguably, that’s true since I’m pretty sure it was Gob who started it. But nope, no questions, no second chances, he clearly doesn’t value family. That also is lacking the nuance of…why should someone have to respect and honor their family if their family isn't worth respect or honor? She made a good choice to not get herself involved in this family, but it was a very odd line to draw given everything else.

She has a very naive, idealistic view of the world, and we see that can impair how she navigates it, ending up in relationships like the one with Gob, where her kindness and blind trust is taken advantage of by men who do not care about her. And this is where we step into her world outside the Bluths, made compelling by the little snippet of her life we see. On the topic of family, Marta is a single mom with two young kids, the oldest maybe five at most. But something left unaddressed is what happened to the father. Where is he?

Okay, like-...I guess he technically could've died but with how dedicated Marta is to honoring family, I feel like she’d, like, mention him. So I’m gonna just…move on to the other stuff.

Where is he? He stuck around long enough to have two kids with her.

Okay, stepping aside again, I guess the kids could have different dads but, like…I can’t cover everything, okay, imaginary audience member???

Where is he? He stuck around long enough to have two kids with her. Clearly it was a pretty substantial relationship. But there isn’t a word about him. He doesn’t appear to be in their lives, and with how important family is to Marta, I doubt going no contact would be a decision made lightly, especially since they have kids. I mean, look at how Gob treated her, and none of that disrespectful, inconsiderate, unfaithful behavior was enough to make her call it off for good or believe he wasn’t being honest. And through it all, she was incredibly supportive of Gob. In my opinion, she was one of the few people that actually understood Gob. Most of all, she took his magic career seriously, which couldn’t even be said of other magicians, let alone people who weren’t into magic. There was something about them(autism) that just made Marta able to empathize on a level others couldn’t. But Gob couldn’t manage to do as little as to come to the award show Marta was nominated in. So if she’ll tolerate that, what would make her decide to break a serious relationship like that off?

Of course, we don’t know the answer to that question. From here on out, it would be purely speculation, so I don’t have much more to say in that regard. But yah, I just find her so compelling. She’s an actress, a single mom, an optimist, an idealist. She’s faithful, considerate, caring. She sees the good in everyone. She’s forgiving and nonjudgmental. She’s rigid and unwavering.

She’s a bitch, she’s a lover, she’s a child, she’s a mother; you get the picture.

Her character has real potential for a larger story. And I dunno, I just like thinkin’ about it.

[youngdutchishot]

is there any information about Annabelle? yeah, strange question maybe, but i'm genuinely curious!! I want to write a post canon fluffy fic about Dutch and Annabelle, but don't exactly know much about her.

is she even spoken about? or is the only crumb of information during that scene between Colm and Dutch where they're arguing about "oh but you killed my brother wah wah" "yeah well i liked annabelle" ( im obv kidding its much more complex than that yes ik ). I also know of it just being sprinkled into the story here, and there(?), but other than that it doesn't seem to be brought up into the game as much??

like i wana know about her more :(( i just recently wrote down her design since i cant art, but im itching for smth. what is that smth, man, idk, but im itching for it

[mx-legend-of-faye]

Which Zelda is most likely to get banned from Texas Roadhouse

And if you feel like it, tell me who you picked and why!! (And what they did to get banned)

If you’d like to do something similar for the Links, here you go:

[supermarine-silvally]

Yara, would you recommend eating a devil fruit or would you say it has too many drawbacks?

“As for me, I wasn’t much of a swimmer prior to eating the Tōka Tōka no Mi so I can’t say I miss it, though it can be rather annoying to have to be so mindful about not falling in the water. I ate mine in a moment of desperation, but if I were to do it all over again, I would make that same decision. Even if my fruit is basically offensively useless, I have an almost impenetrable defence, which suits me just fine as a swordswoman.”

Ask Yara (or any of my OCs) anything!

[stargayzingidiot]

Me: I don’t think it’s that obvious who my favorite character is

Also me: *only posts about toph beifong*