#i try to keep this one just to the facts of is wally alive or not

[theneighborhoodwatch]

All of the scratching and trying to open a door to escape something definitely is drawing to mind a fire, especially with the soot web looking things behind home. But I guess it could also just be a buried alive (in the costume?) kind of thing as well. Also, the two works of The Telltale Heart (direct) and A Cask of Amontillado (indirect) have...interesting implications.

as pointed out in this post, the cask of amontillado is a revenge story. In Particular, it's a revenge story in which the reason the narrator montresor wants revenge is never made clear to the audience - although it's worth noting that one possibility that gets brought up a lot in literary discussion is that montresor envies fortunato's wealth (something that montresor is implied to have once had, but does not possess any longer, at least not to the degree he once did) popularity, and general good nature.

as i point out in this ask, these latest incidents so far seem to come about as a result of home wanting the spotlight to be on them/wally wanting the spotlight to be on home and acting accordingly - even if the only action they need to take is simply taking advantage of the fact that poppy was likely to drop out anyway. even then, bricking her in seems like a measure that one only would have taken to make sure she Stays out of the way, by disguising it as a favor to her.

speaking of which... the solution the neighbors come up with here falls very much into an "ignorance is bliss" sort of deal, right? and ignorance is at least partially what keeps the neighbors from like, learning a lesson that lasts longer than one episode/story or forming better ways to regulate themselves emotionally, right? and this is, however indirectly, what led home to be on the spotlight at least this time, right? then, if i'm right about these incidents being a result of home wanting the spotlight on them/wally wanting the spotlight on home - is it not Also reasonable to conclude that the neighbors remaining ignorant of both each others' distress and their own/the full context of their existence/how to better regulate their emotions etc. is crucial to that plan?

[clockwayswrites]

A Broken Sort of Normal (Start)

WC: 588 CW: (updating as the fic continues), Gen but ships may be added Danny Fenton/Wally West pre-relationship, Canon-Typical Violence, Blood, Major Injury, Minor Character Death

They were going to lose.

It's a simple, unavoidable fact and it hits Danny like one of Superman’s punches. He fumbles in his attempt to triage Barry’s leg before the limb was lost.

The man standing in the middle of the ruins of Metropolis would win. He and his army of hive mind clones would sweep across the rest of the planet. Humanity would fall.

They were going to lose.

He finishes tying off the field tourniquet, not sure how he manages, not with his hand slick with Barry’s blood. Something of his thoughts must be showing on his face because Barry reaches out and grips a weak hand around Danny’s wrist.

“Kid?”

It was still a stupid nickname. Danny hadn’t been a kid since before joined up with the Justice League as a field medic four years ago. But Danny was the same age as Wally and many of the other Teen Titans— all long grown out of that name— and so he got lumped in as ‘kid’ to the more senior heroes.

And now all these wonderful, heroic, brave people that Danny had come to be friends with were going to die. The monologue happening in the middle of the street made that much clear. No hero would be left alive; any chance of a future uprising would be snuffed out this very day.

Because they were going to lose.

Danny smiles softly at Barry and pries his hand away.

“Kid, whatever you’re thinking—” Barry could have no idea what Danny was thinking. No one could.

No one could, because no one knew what Danny could do.

Danny had played to the curse perfectly for seven years. A curse set on him in a stupid moment of one last teenage angst fueled vent. He had just wanted to be normal.

Sam and Tucker were going off to college. Danny wasn’t, not with his grades. Jazz was practically waiting for her girlfriend to propose. Danny couldn’t imagine even dating with his secrets. Jack and Maddie had a new contract with the GIW. Danny had stopped trying to reason with them.

Everyone else was moving on with their lives while Danny was stuck half dead. A freak of nature. A man out of life yet still living. A walking corpse.

He just wished he was normal.

He’d forgotten that he shouldn’t wish.

A wish is only a curse waiting to happen.

Well, he got it— his wish that was a curse. As long as Danny never used his powers in any noticeable way he would just be seen as a regular kid to the rest of the world— just plain, normal Danny Fenton. If he got caught using them even once— if he got caught being not normal, his powers would be gone, taken by the curse. Without his powers keeping his core humming happily along and sustaining his half dead body, Danny would be gone.

Danny had forgotten he shouldn’t wish.

But he did.

And suddenly, just like that, to everyone else, Danny was normal— no ghost attacks to fight, no GIW hunting him, no Team Phantom.

Sam and Tucker drifted quickly away without the team to bond them. Jazz checked in less and less— no need to worry about her little brother being shot. Jack and Maddie… well, they stopped having a reason to talk with him too. They had to prove the existence of ghosts! There was no time for… well, someone as normal as Danny.

Normal turned out not to be so great.

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AN: I got sent the the field medic prompt going around, for some reason? (there was no comment sent with it). It's a cute idea with some fun responses, but not really my jam to write. I'm not much into exploring ageless immortal, dimension hopping Danny in my own work. I have more of a weakness for exploring what makes Danny still human. And, as @mokulule pointed out: "I see you mentioning no angst XD".

(Have you all caught on yet that I like my angst?)

So of course I had to ask if I were to write field medic Danny, how would I get him there? And how would I hurt him once he was there? So I threw out all of the prompt and I bounced it around with Moku, her prodding me along with great questions and thoughts, and now here we are.

Because apparently my brain didn't want to warm up on one of my current ideas. This will be a one shot so help me-

(BTW: While in the very vaguest sense this started with a prompt, the above writing is not a prompt. This will be finished, it's 99% planned out already, just needs the writing.)

[sentientfunfetti]

begging for you to do a mob au wally hcs please please please

mob boss!wally/reader hcs

(mob boss wally and his au was made by @clownsuu on tumblr! go support their work!)

REBLOGS AND FEEDBACK APPRECIATED!

CW// FOR THEMES OF POSSESSIVENESS, STALKING, MURDER, AND MUTILATION!

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the way you two met is unclear, nor does it matter, really. he felt a magnet pull to you. not in a 'smitten' or 'love at first sight' way, but in an intrigued and 'i wonder how far i can bend them until they break' way. totally normal. it wasn't until barnaby pointed out his growing fascination with you that he was more than comfortable acting on it.

romancing? oh, do you mean terrorizing? his way of showing affection would be letting you know he's there. always watching, and also sending you suspicious packages and...love letters'. these letters can range from...slightly affectionate threats to being downright cryptic. all lovingly written in red ink and cursive and brought to your mailbox! how did he get your address? haha! don't worry about it! (except maybe do.)

he took the advice from barnaby, by the way. resident 'lady killer'.(he is anything but in fact he likes men.) blame that guy.

when he finally and inevitably does make the decision to start seeking you out, it's small things at first. he shows up to your job in his usual disguise accompanied by howdy, of course. if you go to church he shows up there. 'small world.', he says. on the inside he smirks when you believe him. he totally hasn't followed you, figured out your schedule, where you live-- your friends and family...who would go looking for you if you went 'missing'. it's a shame really. happens all too often in the city you live in. easily covered up too. money and blackmail do wonders when the cops are just as human as the citizens.

more than anything, he loves seeing what makes you tick. shy away. what causes you to avert your eyes. he found out pretty quickly you don't like being stared at and felt joy. he loves staring. especially at you. he also loves it when you try and brush off how uncomfortable you really are. cute.

keep in mind that when he does come to you in his disguised form, you do NOT know it's him. in fact, if anything he would make sure that you don't know what he (wally) looks like. he would send you letters from the comfort of his home, and have someone else mail them. watch you from the shadows, or just have howdy do it. he does not have to go out of his way to have access to you.

at the end of the day his goal is simple: befriend you. make you trust him. make you his. let it be by taking your eye and making you a part of the neighborhood, or by keeping you locked away...or maybe he'll just keep you living in fear for the rest of your days. who knows. either option sounds entertaining to him.

one day, you open up to him about your stalker...and he can barely contain the joy he feels at how scared you sound. he comforts you, of course. when you tell him how you feel about the letters and packages, he almost slips up in his charade, so close to letting you know how he felt making them. he resists, of course, letting you think you just confided in someone trustworthy...nope!

the closer you two get, the more sides he sees of you. the more sides he sees of you the more he begins to realize you're not just another bird to cage. his interest in you grows. it's almost maddening. he learns more and more about you from you, and other people and sources all while keeping him and his neighborhood out of sight. you don't need to know about them...not yet.

he loves how alive you are, mostly. you have free will, and you love doing things with it. you have hobbies and friends, and you keep in touch with family (even if you don't he finds that interesting too dw). he thinks you're lovely, and your eye would be lovelier if it was his. bonus points if you have some sort of eye deformity/birth defect (lazy eye, messed up pupil etc)

the stalking stops for a bit. everything seems calm. you feel like you can just live your life again, and everything feels like it's normal. you start going out again and having fun. you meet up with someone. what you didn't know, is that just because the letters and packages have stopped, doesn't mean he has.

one thing leads to another, and you receive a new letter. same cursive. same ink. same seal. you open it, to see pictures:

of you, and them. on the piece of paper nestled and folded in the envelope, written in cursive is a message: '𝓌𝒶𝓉𝒸𝒽 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓁𝒻, 𝓃𝑒𝒾𝑔��𝒷𝑜𝓇'

of course, just like he planned, you're back into his arms again. where you belonged. seeing you with someone else made him a little more sure of what kind of emotions he had for you. you were no different to howdy to him. that was clear now. you needed someone to keep you in line and in check, otherwise, you would wander off off of the face of the earth. that was not good. you wouldn't have to walk aimlessly for much longer. he would give you a purpose. you're too pathetic as you are now to be any use to him besides eye candy.

in the end, he realizes that he has to have you, by any means. you have to be his, under his wing, and make yourself useful like his other neighbors. like howdy. however you choose to do that is your choice, but what you don't have a choice in is having something to do with him. he will be in your life. either by shadow or memory. waking, or nightmare. he's content with both.

sooner or later, you and his 'other self' would become close enough for you to be invited to his house. you didn't question how big it was seeing as how you know he's a famous painter. nor did you question how many people lived with him. soon, the choice would have to be made. what will he do with you? will he keep you, or let you go free? only time will tell.

author’s note ⊹˚. ♡

thanks for the request, neighbor! first one i've had NOT using the anon thingy LOL. sorry if these are a bit too dark for your tastes, but i just had to put my two cents on how wally would handle you. i don't think he would see you any differently from how he sees howdy or barnaby. he wouldn't outright mistreat you, but i don't think this wally is really capable of love outside his obviously very warped sense of it. sorry! i was pulling from canon art to the au, this is just MY interpretation. feel free to disagree!

SIDENOTE BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE I HAVE TO SAY IT: these are supposed to be DARK. there are no romantic feelings implied here because i don't interpret this wally being able to feel that way for anyone in a healthy way. just had to get that off my chest. please do NOT interpret these as romantic or god forbid sexual. i WILL block you.

thanks for the support!

[chronicbeans]

okayokay I really wanna know some headcanons on what it would be like if puppeteer reader never got knocked out and wally never tricked them and they now just have to deal with wally being part of their daily household life in the real world 😭

Yippee! Okay, so I think this is how it would go...

Wally Darling Living Life with a Puppeteer Reader in the Real World:

🏡 You better be ready for some chaos. In this world, you probably decided not to even threaten Wally with burning. He probably managed to, somehow, convince you that he will be good from now on. He truly means it, too! The problem is... He doesn't understand what humans can and cannot take.

🏡 You see, as an example, he'll probably be confused about what you are doing with your mouth and that piece of food. Puppets don't eat. Well, Wally does, but he eats with his eyes. He just kinda... Stares the food into nonexistence. So, when he hears that humans, like Henry, Angela, and yourself, need to chew and swallow? He is amazed and wants to try so himself! This causes him to get peanut butter and jelly stuck in his felt for about a week.

🏡 When you begin working, again, you realize that Wally can't come home with you. You put him in the tote, telling him to stay put. However, when you get in your car, he is somehow already in the passenger seat and ready to go back to your place. Your boss keeps asking you where he goes, but you just tell him you don't know.

🏡 Wally's voice actor (who I actually have a draft in the works for information on my version of them), Eddie's puppeteer, and everyone else who was present at the night of the incident will avoid you because Wally is ALWAYS close to you. They're smart people, and Eddie's puppeteer saw with their own eyes that it was him. They all know that Wally is a threat that is not to be trifled with.

🏡 Angela is probably going to be tormented everyday by just the knowledge that Wally is alive. She'll never get over it. The only small thing that makes it better is that she gets to see Henry make a friend. They ended up making up for Wally breaking into her room, so now Henry and Wally are constantly hanging out whenever you aren't around. She also likes the fact that Henry has someone else to look over him if you ever get sick.

🏡 The one downside for Wally is that, because he never really gets any sleep, he is going to be getting more and more tired. He can get a little sleep whenever you are there to watch over him, though. Especially if you hold him like a stuffed animal while you sleep! He will be out like a light switch if you do that.

🏡 Wally will have some sensory issues. His neighborhood is all soft and plush. He has tried to describe it. The most he can really say is that it is like all your senses are muffled. So, when he is in your world, everything can just be too much at times. When he gets like this, you'll most likely find him in your room, rocking back and forth a bit or scribbling aggressively on a piece of paper with any writing utensils he can find, not really drawing anything and just doing so to move his arm in a soothing manner. In those cases, he likes to have you give him a tight hug to ground him. It reminds him of the ones Barnaby gives him when he is in the neighborhood, actually. Just not as fluffy.

[sadjestergirll]

⚠️ SPOILERS + THEORY FOR THE NEW WELCOME HOME UPDATE ⚠️

hello! this is my first post on tumblr, so I’m not sure how exactly to use this app very well but, just a note before I get started, I also have a YouTube channel, where I posted this theory on, i do not want to give away my channel on here though! If that’s okay!

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I’m unsure if I’m overanalysing things, but hopefully you guys understand this theory and it makes sense to you! again, I could just be overanalysing, but these are genuinely just my personal thoughts!

first off, info on where I found the 2nd, 3rd and 4th photo from, basically if you go to the website and go to the “the playfellow exhibition” section, scroll till you see the bundle of photos and keep scrolling until you find the “welcome home Worksheet” image with a picture of Wally on it, then click on the image and either if you’re on laptop it’ll come up on the right side (I think) or if you’re on phone It’ll show up at the bottom, you then click the line that looks like an answer box and then it takes you to something that looks like a vault, click one of the buttons and it’ll ask you to enter a password, the password is BSPJW, then you should be taken to the place I’ll be talking about in this post! ✨

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anyways, onto the theory I’ve made!

so, I’ve come up with a theory that wally might actually be the victim and it’s the re-searchers that are trying to uncover welcome home that are the bad people, like Amanda the adventurer and Hameln, people believe that Amanda is evil when really it was the company that was evil!

and this theory is basically going to be a bit like that, what if the re-searchers are actually the bad people? what if home and Wally are actually completely innocent and it’s just the re-searchers? as it seems to appear that welcome home was an ‘old TV show’ that nobody remembers apart from these so called ‘re-searchers’, the proof is mainly in photo 3, I believe the person who wrote that is one of the re-searchers, “maybe that’s why nobody has ever heard of WH”, this confirms that people don’t seem to remember welcome home apart from this re-searcher.

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moving onto photo 2, the highlighted words, now I cant put my finger between if this is wally saying this or if it’s the re-searcher, because I mainly believe the other highlighted words are indeed wally, as photo 5 says “- wally darling” which appears to make it sound like wally, before I explain why I think it’s Wally, if you guys cannot read what it says in photo 2, i tried to read what it says, and it says . . .

“everything is so disgusting to touch, sometimes the mail doesn’t come for weeks, I want to rip into everything I have. my head feels so muddled too. ever since I opened that envelope.” . . .

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now on quote “sometimes the mail doesn’t come for weeks” I have a feeling this is implying that something has happened to Eddie, since he is known as the “mailman”.

now anyways, back to why i believe this could be wally, basically in photo 4 it seems as if the re-searchers have found a wally puppet, now I have a feeling that the wally puppet could secretly be alive and it is actually wally but wally is playing d3@d due to the fact that the re-searchers might be dangerous people, I also think this is how wally gets onto the website and tries to contact the viewer, because if the owners of the website have the real wally, then wally must be able to sneak around and get a hold of the website, which is why it seems to appear that wally is the ONLY puppet in welcome home that seems to be able to interact with the viewer.

I also believe that wally trying to contact the viewer means he is crying for help, he is trying to hint that something awful has happened and he needs help with something, but it seems as if he has to keep it subtle, because if he gets caught, he could put himself in danger., this could also be why wally keeps repeatedly saying things like “can you see me?” “I can see you” etc, because he is trying to control the website and get possible help, and he believes the only way to get help is to try and hide secrets within the website to contact the viewer and try to speak with whoever is viewing the page.

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but the question is, what happened to the other neighbors? where are they? and simply, I don’t quite know but I do remember this one welcome home theory I had seen on YouTube a while back, where the person stated that If you go into the “neighbourhood!” page and click on all the characters, it talks about ALL the characters in the past tense apart from wally, for example, it would say “wally IS” and for the others it would say something like “barnaby WAS”, and it literally talks about everyone in the past tense apart from wally.

why I think this is happening? because I believe that they are talking in the past tense for the other characters is because they haven’t FOUND them yet, in photo 4 it appears that the re-searchers have found wally, which is why they most likely talk in the present tense for ONLY wally, so I believe that the other characters are missing, either they’re just missing or something bad has happened to them, and the re-searchers have not found them yet, meaning this could be why they are making it sound like the other neighbors ‘no-longer’ exist.

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In summery, I basically think that wally is alive and he is controlling part of the website— while the re-searchers are putting information into the website, wally is sneakily going on and hiding secrets, trying to warn the viewer and make the viewer realise that he needs help and that welcome home is not just a ‘sweet little neighbourhood’ that’s completely ‘safe’. and like I’ve also mentioned, I believe that the other neighbors are currently missing and the re-searchers are trying to hunt them down and find them, as that’s the re-searchers purpose, they’re trying to find the missing pieces of welcome home so they can ‘prove’ to people that welcome home was a ‘real’ TV show.

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anyways, this is just a theory of course and I’m not in any way trying to say that this is canon or is true, it is just my thoughts and opinions and what these things look like to me, as there are many theories already, and although I feel like wally could be a victim, there is also a lot of proof that wally could be evil too.

but anyways, I hope this post made sense to you and you guys enjoy my theory! 💗

[siltyriver]

DPxDC WIP — Conceal, Don’t Feel

(official continuation of this prompt post)

Pairings: Jason/Danny, Tim/Bernard, Dick/Wally

Idea: Frozen/Rise of the Guardians AU

Okay the brain worms won out so official new WIP here we go!

Jason is Elsa, Danny is Jack Frost

Basic premise is that Jason was abandoned as a young child and the Spirits gifted him with powers to help him stay alive after they witnessed him helping a young reindeer (no he does not adopt it lmao) and he’s eventually taken in by Bruce Wayne, King of Arendelle Gotham

His powers are a shock to Bruce, but they seem harmless enough and he mostly uses them to make little trinkets or mini snow storms/flurries when his emotions are high

He gains more control as he gets older and Dick and Tim are always asking him to make more action figures and slides and whatnot and he’s more than happy to comply, enjoying making his brothers happy

Until one night (ages are roughly: Dick 12, Jason 7, Tim 5) there’s an accident with Timmy jumping too fast on the pillars Jason was creating for him and he falls and Jason reaches out with too much power that hits his brother square in the chest

Dick runs to get Bruce as Jason cradles Tim who’s passed out and cold as ice and Jason is so, so scared

Bruce takes them all to John Constantine who is a hermit in the woods with lots of magical and arcane knowlege

He is able to heal Tim but he makes it very clear that Jason could have killed him and that if he continued to use his powers without tight control he could kill someone else

They’re all shaken enough to take this as meaning that Jason should just… never use his powers. Conceal, don’t feel, don’t let them show

So life goes on and Jason locks himself away in his room most of the time (Bruce does not shut down the castle though — they just keep Jason’s powers a secret like usual). Tim doesn’t remember the accident or the fact that Jason has powers so he’s confused and hurt and Dick is worried about Jason but follows Bruce and his lead and doesn’t talk about it and tells Tim that Jason is just sick and needs his space

Their family grows as Bruce takes in Damian (Talia died when he was about 2, Bruce didn’t even know about him until the kid showed up at the Palace doors with a letter explaining the situation), and adopts Cass and Duke.

Babs is the daughter of the Captain of the Guard and Dick’s best friend so is basically part of the family and Steph (a street rat, daughter of a criminal) got attached to Tim and basically lives in the palace (but is NOT Bruce’s daughter, she reminds them all constantly). Other batfam members come in and out as they please lol

Bruce is presumed dead when Jason is 16 and Dick takes the throne at 21. Things are a bit tense but Dick has a solid support system and things go relatively smoothly, but Jason is having a harder time controlling his powers and emotions

Cut to his 18th birthday when he’s to get Crowned as Prince (I know this may be incorrect but I also Do Not care how monarchies work <3 — Maybe it could be Dick’s official Coronation or smth to make it easier, idc)

He really fucking doesn’t want to, but he also wants to act normal and make Dick proud so he suffers through it

Needless to say it goes terribly and ends with him basically turning the ballroom into ice and setting an eternal winter on all of Gotham as he flees to the mountains

Tim (who kind of set Jason off) tells Dick he’s going to track him down. (After a quick run-down explanation from Dick who is Stressed and Tim is so pissed that he didn’t remember the accident and that Jason felt the need to isolate himself — and that Bruce let him and convinced Dick it was for the best)

Dick goes with him and leaves the Kingdom in the capable hands of his Advisor (Babs) and Consort (Wally) and Alfred

They left very fast and aren’t the Most prepared and it’s a bit of a shitshow trek (cue Tim falling into a river trying to mimic Dick’s stupid gymnast moves and Dick getting a tree full of snow dumped on him for laughing) but they eventually make to to a little trading post (‘Look, Tim, they have a sauna!’) and are immediately recognized as Royalty and are getting products shoved at them left and right

Enter Bernard, local ice harvester, who is covered in snow and already annoyed at the Royal Roadshow when he needs to buy some real supplies

Tim and he immediately start bickering and when Dick overhears that Bernard knows the mountain he asks him to be their guide, much to both Tim and Bernard’s immediate refusals. But Dick offers a lot of money and Bernard caves

Meanwhile Jason has found himself collapsing in the snow and finally lets himself have the emotional release that he’s been holding in and his magic goes nuts creating things and he finds himself in a giant ice fortress, which, rad

What’s not rad is the freaky guy who shows up inside said fortress and starts poking around at both the ice and at Jason

It’s Danny, AKA Phantom Frost from the Legends

Now, Danny has been around for a century or two as a Winter Spirit and then became a Guardian when he kicked Pariah Dark’s ass back to the Eternal Darkness a couple hundred years ago. (Pariah Dark = Pitch Black/the Boogeyman)

He doesn’t remember his mortal life and no one is sure if he actually ever had a life Before or if he’s a manifestation of Magic herself. That rumor mixed with his defeat of Pariah leaves him revered among the Spirits and Guardians alike and he doesn’t love it because they often come to him with problems as if he can fix them (he does, every time)

He’s known as Phantom Frost but his closer friends call him Danny - the name he came into this world instinctively knowing as himself even when everything else was missing. (Maybe his squad can be Spirits/Guardians too? hmmm.)

Things have been quiet for a couple of decades and then one day his instinctual alarm bells start going off telling him that something is wrong and Unbalanced with Winter so he goes to investigate

He finds out that an Eternal Winter has been set on the Kingdom of Gotham and discovers a truly spectacular fortress built from ice in the mountains north of the kingdom

He goes inside and meets Jason who has clearly been Gifted by Magic herself and is so Unbalanced within his own soul that it makes Danny shiver

He knows he needs to help the guy and ends up showing off some of his own powers and gaining a bit of trust from Jason who ends up telling him the rundown of what led up to this and Danny is Pissed (and confused on how he had never known about Jason throughout the years) and vows to help him learn how to properly control his powers without trying to shut them off and harm his soul

After a bit of training and huge improvements with Jason’s abilities, Dick and Tim (and Bernard) come to find him and when Jason figures out he set off an Eternal Winter (Danny did Not inform him of that fact) he kind of spirals and ends up lashing out at Tim for the second time in his life and Danny has to calm him down so they can Fix the situation

Dick is (rightfully) freaking the fuck out and doesn’t trust Danny all the way so Danny agrees to go with them to visit their local Hermit/Arcane Expert to get a second opinion and who, from what Danny heard from Jason, deserves an ass kicking anyway (it’s John Constantine and he’d been the person Bruce took Tim to when the first accident happened and who had basically convinced them all to fear Jason’s powers and led to him trying to pretend they didn’t exist)

John Constantine is So Tired

Meeting Phantom Frost is overwhelming enough, but having to yet again deal with a Wayne level Situation… he feels like maybe he should move

But he helps, calling on Magic and finding the situation much more dire than any of them thought

He tells them the solution and they all pretty much laugh in his face (all except Phantom, who knows Magic better than John could ever even hope to and who wouldn’t dare laugh or scoff at Her power)

Only an act of True Love can thaw the ice that has set in Tim’s heart

aaaaand… to be continued ;)

[spiderceo]

WORLD SWAP AU

warnings: slight scopophobia (fear of staring)

a/n: welcome to my funky lil au inspired by @aerkame and their ‘alive au’. i really like the idea of the puppets somehow ending up in the reader’s world and making their life ten times harder than it needs to be lol

master post

🌟 you were never a morning person so you always hit the snooze button the moment your alarm went off. you reached over like you usually do to your alarm clock but instead of the usual metal, you grabbed onto something soft and squishy like…felt? hold on-

🌟 you opened one eye only to come face to face with a little yellow puppet staring at you widely with a grin. it’s blue hair in your hands and nothing but staring between you both. time seemed to pause as you waited for your brain to catch up but then it suddenly spoke:

🌟 “…good morning, neighbour.” it smiled brightly.

🌟 you let out a screech that could burst eardrums and tried to put as much distance between you and this creature. you backed into the wall against the other side of your bed and just kept screaming bloody murder. the puppet was also screaming alongside you but it wasn’t scared, it was just copying you.

🌟 cut to a few minutes after and you are standing in your living room with all of the puppets crammed on your couch. they all came in varying sizes so it made their squeeze to fit rather difficult. the puppet who almost gave you a heart attack introduced himself as wally and then told you the names of all the others. the fact you even felt sane enough to sit and listen to them all talk over each other for your attention was a miracle. most people would have either fainted or gone back to bed in hopes this was just a bad dream.

🌟 for some reason, the shock of these living puppets in your home wore off pretty quickly. it was probably the idea of having to take care of them and the stress it would put you through that did it. no time to be in shock when your entire life needed to be rearranged.

🌟 none of the puppets could find a way to explain their situation. “one day we were playing, and the next we were here!” the one named sally exclaimed, using her arms expressively as she talked. it wasn’t like you were much help in this situation. you were just as confused as they were.

🌟 the rest of the day went by a bit chaotically. these new roommates of yours caused a lot of trouble. they didn’t know anything about the modern world apparently so you had to teach them like they were children. they asked about everything from the toaster to your toothpaste. curiosity was something they all didn’t lack.

🌟 keeping them entertained wasn’t a hard job. it meant that you could process your situation and figure out a way to send them back to where they came from.

🌟 frank was interested in your bookshelves. you found him reading pride and prejudice. the speed at which he read amused you greatly. they were practically flying through the pages.

🌟 you had to teach poppy how to use your kitchen. all she wanted to do was bake you a nice meal in thanks for welcoming them into your home — despite all the trouble it was going to cause.

🌟 you let julie try on all your clothes and have a fashion show with everyone. cleaning up after her was a haste but they offered to help clean up which was weirdly sweet.

🌟 wally had figured out how to use the tv but not entirely. you walked in on him watching static to which you asked “how long have you been staring at that?”. his response was “my eyes feel funny.”

🌟 sally has taken a liking to the random ornaments scattered around your house. she will randomly pick one up and come running to you to ask what it is. of course you’ll explain anything to her but it was strange that she didn’t know what a sea shell was…

🌟 eddie has started doing arts and crafts in bulk. frank said that he does it when he’s stressed. you’re not entirely sure how to relax him because it’s not like you can take a puppet to a spa or treat them to a nice meal-

🌟 barnaby has been following you around with perfectly timed jokes and sound effects. it’s starting to get on your nerves (especially when you’re trying to nap) but your hope that they’d soon return to whatever world they come from makes you tolerate it.

🌟 howdy hasn’t found something in your home he enjoys yet. he spends most of his time helping you with housework. his multiple arms and tall stature help when it comes to cleaning and reaching the top shelve. if you could choose any of them to stay it would definitely be him because he’s so kind and helpful — maybe you’d keep poppy around too because her meals are like heaven on a plate.

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

a lesson in being human

by azablue He came to in a pile of debris by the front door they’d so carefully evaded. “Oh fuck me.” Dick hissed, trying to sit up. He was drenched, banged up and his head was throbbing. He tried to asses the situation. Everything hurt, obviously, but a pounding in his knee started to scream louder than anything else. Dick tried to touch the leg, which was warped to one side, and flinched. It was a familiar feeling, and a bad one. After a few minutes, he heard a scuffle from above as his sibling descended on their respective grabbling hooks and wings. “Nightwing is down.” Steph said, into her comms. Dick groaned. He didn’t need more people, least of all Babs, getting into this. “I have eyes on him.” “Nightwing is not down. Nightwing is just-” Dick tried to get up, sending a sharp spike of pain through his body that forced him back down. “Fuck okay, yeah I’m down.” He muttered, lying back on the pile of trash. OR: Dick Gets Hurt On A Mission With The Sibs & Being A Hero And Human Takes A Toll OR: The body does in fact keep score Words: 6616, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: DCU, Young Justice (Cartoon), Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics), Teen Titans - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: M/M Characters: Dick Grayson, Duke Thomas, Jason Todd, Wally West, Tim Drake (DCU), Stephanie Brown, Damian Wayne, Bruce Wayne Relationships: Dick Grayson/Wally West, Dick Grayson & Bruce Wayne, Tim Drake & Jason Todd, Tim Drake & Dick Grayson, Stephanie Brown & Tim Drake & Dick Grayson & Duke Thomas, Dick Grayson & Duke Thomas, Stephanie Brown & Dick Grayson, Tim Drake & Dick Grayson & Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne & Damian Wayne, Jason Todd & Dick Grayson, Jason todd & duke thomas, Duke Thomas & Bruce Wayne Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Injury, Major Character Injury, Dick Grayson is Nightwing, Hurt Dick Grayson, Dick Grayson-centric, Duke Thomas is Signal, Duke Thomas is a Batfamily Member, Duke Thomas-centric, Jason Todd is Red Hood, Brothers, Batfamily (DCU), Batfamily (DCU) Feels, Wally West is Alive, Birdflash - Freeform, Bruce Wayne Tries to Be a Good Parent, Wally West Loves Dick Grayson, Dr. Thompkins, Gotham City - Freeform, Wally West Wears Neon Nike Shirts, Dick Grayson does gymnastics for a decade and a half and it impacts his body, the body keeps score, unfortch - Freeform via https://ift.tt/ENQoBDh

[soleminisanction]

This might seem a bit out of the blue to you, but I just wanted to say your old posts about Stephanie Brown changed my mind on her quite a bit, even if I still don't feel quite as strongly about it as you seem to haha. Overall she's a character with some interesting potential to her backstory, but she's been written awfully over the years. Your points are all really well-argued, even though for me it's hard to look past the Doylist context of the choices made with her character; from plain poor writing to mysoginy to editorial mandates and whatnot, so it's tough for me to outright *hate* her, but when I put the Watsonian glasses on... yeah, she does kinda suck, and Batgirl 2009 is pretty darn shallow. And honestly, TimSteph shippers outright baffled me--well, no they didn't, a lot of their outrage at the breakup was just pure biphobia, but if I were giving people the benefit of the doubt and assuming they genuinely liked the relationship as presented from Rebirth onwards it's like... why tho. They're such a boring couple, leaving aside the toxicity of Post-Crisis because I don't know much about it and just ick. Idk what I'm even saying here. Just expressing appreciation for the effort put into your posts even if I don't agree with absolutely every interpretation, I guess. Keep on keeping on

Thank you. I appreciate you saying all that.

It's not like I'm unaware of the Doylist reasons behind all the events that happen in-comics, I just don't agree with the idea that the way to fix that is to brush huge swaths of a character's history under a rug. That's just not how you do it if you're trying to reclaim a character who's been sexistly victimized, not if you're doing it well -- they didn't do it with Barbara after Killing Joke, or Carol Danvers after Avengers #200, or Gwen Stacy when creating Spider-Gwen, or with Harley when transitioning her into anti-hero, and those all resulted in great stories.

And male characters have to deal with the aftermath of bad shit they pulled under other writers all the time. Wally West only just put a final capstone on the events of Heroes in Crisis last month. Over in Batman, Bruce is catching the brunt of fall-out from both the Babel Protocol and the Batman of Zur-en-arrh. Hank Pym got labeled an infamous wife beater because one artist misinterpreted a script direction. Roy Harper has only just recently gotten back everything that Cry for Justice took from him.

So yeah, I think it's only fair to do the same with Stephanie, and that it does the character a major disservice not to. More than that, it's lazy. The least amount of effort needed to get people on the internet to stop yelling at them.

Killing her off for Bruce's manpain and having her around, alive, but presented as a flat, perfect little Princess Badass with a bland "quirky" personality and no interests outside the immediate needs of the plot are both examples of sexist writing. If you want to engage with her as a character you need to embrace the fact that she can be kind of an asshole, that she's got negative emotions and bad opinions and shitty ideas and things that she just plain sucks at. Of course she does! She's human!

That's all feminist writing really means. Treating women like they're human instead of just a plot convenience. It should not be that hard.

[0-glitch-art-0]

[𝕋𝕣𝕒𝕧𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕣!𝕎𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕪 𝔹𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪]

◇T!Wally used to live in The Neighborhood of he own AU, nothing too much happened around at least thats what the other neighbors thought.

Traveler just like Og Wally was clearly hiding something.

He used to work for Home almost like coworkers, T!Wally always made sure that the others never found about the truth that they were puppets and they were part of a show.

Even tho, one night all neighbors (less Traveler) had a big nightmare/flashback that made them remember everything, every time that T!Wally "remade them". With that information the Neighbors decided to do something about it and end with the suffering and all the plan of Traveler and Home, so they ended with the idea of burn Home alive and discuss with Traveler about everything and make he leave the neighborhood forever.

After they successfully burned Home they went to try find Traveler, but he had saw what they did with Home, without know how to react and in pure panic he ended destroying everything and so do he friends, making the whole Neighborhood abandoned he even tried to save Home but it was too late, when he realized what he did he just decided to run away the faster he could inside the forest. After some good time running he decided to stop, confused he look around, he was scared and didn't knew what to do now, he was lost in the forest until, a random shiny white spot called he attention making him go close and touch it. When he touched the white spot he got teleported inside a big white space, no one was there just him alone.

He stayed there for so much time at the point he didn't knew how long he was there, he start losing the track of time and feeling so lonely and empty, the emptiness was so big that he started to forget what is feelings, how to feel, and asking himself if he will be alone forever.After alot of time passed Traveler founded a Sketchbook and some art material in that big void, he got surprised when he see it, after all he always loved to draw and painting, he decided to keep everything and start drawing so he doesn't go insane

And he drew

And drew

And drew, he stayed drawing for hours everything he could remember about he friends, he missed them alot, he couldn't understand what mistake that he did. Even tho he totally forgot about the fact that he killed everybody there and destroyed he whole AU, so he still had hope that he could come back, start again, make things perfect again. That hope he had started to make he drawings turn into reality, colors started coming out of the paper. That made Traveler amazed, he didn't understood the feelings he where feeling but he loved, he was finally having some fun again. He stayed creating alot of stuff and interacting with it for so many time, but they weren't real in the end and he knew it, he knew that everything he created was just made of ink, people, flowers, animals, everything was simple ink nothing more.

He got tired and frustrated with it so he just splashed a bunch of ink in the floor. When he finally calmed down he tried to grab some ink so it didn't go wasting but when he touched it he hand passed through the ink like a portal. He decided to go inside the portal finding a way to finally get out of there and he met other AUs. Finally he felt like he wasn't alone so he decided to turn into a Traveler over other AUs

MAYBE i will change some stuff yet and i will update he story if i do it, but this is him concept for now♡

[goosebumpsbm]

let's hear that Slappy's Nightmare theory!

So my theory on Slappy's Nightmare, without any of my specific headcanons for the story or characters tacked onto it, is that it's just that: A nightmare. There is no "Wally", nor is 'Wally' Mr. Wood's first name, he's only a product of Slappy's mind. My reasoning for this line of thinking comes a combination of the backstory written for Slappy in the 2008 re-release of 'Night of the Living Dummy', the fact that this backstory lines up with the brief bit of exposition in 'Slappy's Nightmare', and the prologue to 'I Am Slappy's Evil Twin'.

In Nightmare, Jimmy reveals that Slappy was created by a sorcerer out of coffin wood. Jimmy makes a passing comment on the sorcerer being 'evil', and Slappy tells him 'not to call him that.' We get a more detailed version of this backstory in the 2008 re-release of NOTLD1, which is included in the back of the book. A sorcerer creates two dummies out of coffin wood, the wood is cursed and imbued with powers. When the first dummy is destroyed, it only makes the second one "twice as evil and a thousand times ruder", and also hints that he may have been kinder before the other dummy's death. We know that this is a direct reference to NOTLD1, where Wood is crushed by a steamroller and the twist is that Slappy is alive as well. In the prologue to 'Evil Twin', where we learn that 'Mr. Wood' is actually the name given to the red headed dummy by his creator, Franz Mahar. (We also learn that 'Slappy' is Slappy's given name, which opens up the question of how exactly Lindy picked up Slappy's name in NOTLD1 without ever having met him first). Franz was a ventriloquist sharing a stage in England with a magician named Kanduu. Kanduu brought Wood to life in order to intimidate Franz, and Franz instead left for America. We know Franz learned some magic from Kanduu, because he uses this magic to bring toys and dolls to life. We also know from this book that Slappy's original purpose was for a less evil reason: he was meant to be a companion to Franz, along with Snappy(though I don't really acknowledge the rest of the book because it's so tonally different from the prologue). All of this to say that 'Slappy's Nightmare', when I take all of this into account, seems more likely be a mishmash of Slappy's own thoughts and experiences than a recollection of events, as dreams often are.

Dreams are the mind's way of compartmentalizing or bringing attention to your experiences, whether in a day or over the course of one's entire life. Definitely seems like the right combination for a really funky nightmare to me. Jimmy makes a comment on Slappy's creator which is swiftly rebutted(hinting at his and Franz's origins in 'Evil Twin'), Slappy is given a task to complete three good deeds(another direct reference to his original purpose, and how he's kind of 'lost' that), but is sabotaged by "Wally" at every turn("Wally" being Wood or maybe even just a representation of the evil magic that corrupted him).

Keep in mind that this is just my interpretation of a story in a saga of books that are wildly inconsistent with one another, especially across different runs of the series itself, and I also see the irony in trying to make something consistent with it lmao. But I hope this was fun to read!

Edited 5/30 for better phrasing

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

I wanna se M'Gann snap. that sounds fun. and traumatizing (for her friends). Are the kids okay?

honestly YJTV s1e16 Failsafe really is just like "Alexa play The Kids Aren't Alright by Fall Out Boy" this is a one-shot that briefly delves into AU territory where Failsafe did, in fact, actually happen (and then, spoiler alert, fixes everything and gives a happy ending after all) so like. yeah.... it's rough for a bit

She doesn't know the names of these aliens, or even what their species is called. All she knows, ghosting through their ranks without being seen, is the names of her friends. Conner. Kaldur'ahm. Wally. Artemis Crock and Dick Grayson, who made her feel more human than anyone else has ever come close to. Artemis and Dick from Gotham, who weren't afraid of her, who believed so much in family that M'gann was almost a part of both of theirs.

M'gann is finished holding herself back. She is not frightened anymore. There's no reason left to be afraid. She walks into a command center and lets herself be seen, green skin and red hair and eyes that she lets glow because she doesn't care if she's normal anymore. She stares into the empty eyes of the creatures who killed her friends and she becomes something worse. The eyes, after all, are windows to the soul. For a Martian, someone like her, they're only the beginning.

If these aliens didn't know what she is before, the recognition becomes clear not only in their minds when she changes. M'gann has never been normal, but got good at looking that way. There's no one left to scare away with the body she was born in, except for those who should rightfully be terrified, and who she won't let run away.

It isn't like having feet, like she's used to, or like hooves, either. There's no Earthly word for what it is to walk forward on stilted, pearlescent legs and let her mind pierce through that of every monster on this ship except herself. But she doesn't need Earthly words, does she? Not for this. Not for the desperate pain and the charge she's carrying in her heart or the terror she feels from the creatures around her. The only thing she needs human words for are her friends' names.

The aliens were all but unstoppable before, to humans and Kryptonians and Martians trapped in humanoid bodies. Not so much to a white Martian with nearly no borders on potential she doesn't even understand. She hisses her hurt around her. The first words she speaks in six hours are said to the commander of the armies that invaded Earth, a planet she wouldn't care about if it weren't for her friends.

"This," she says, voice shaking, a small voice inside her trying to shake her awake, "Is for Artemis. And for Conner, and for Kaldur, and for Wally. For Dick Grayson and the pain you caused them." She holds the commander in her mind, cuts off the things that keep it alive. "This is for my friends." And her voice becomes very small and low. "This is for my best friend." Something snaps, inside the alien, something that she came here to break like she's broken.

She drops the alien, lifeless like the rest of them here because piercing their minds was meant very, very literally, a thought like a sword stabbed through what some might call their hearts. No part of her shakes because there's no part of her that can shake, anymore, and she's not afraid anyway. She doesn't mind the fear that radiated from each creature around her, the terror she felt that wasn't her own when they saw her as she is. That's what she wanted; the same thing her Team, her friends and her best friend felt before they died. It's only right and she doesn't care.

M'gann turns away and doesn't turn back into herself

[patheticlilinsect]

I like to think Wally is just the thoughts and ideas of the creator that somehow came to life(maybe some sort of cult revolved around the show, and those thoughts became animate because of some sort of event relating to cult, which is basically batim) and he has no idea how exactly he got there but only existed within inanimate objects, unable to move or talk, but able to think. You know that one drawing of him where like a hand is coming out of his mouth? Maybe it represents the fact that Wally is a puppet, and like any puppet is forced to move and talk. Thinking about it now I kind of feel bad for him because he was probably left on a shelf with all his friends for so long collecting dust, being trapped in an empty shell, being his puppet. After the website was built, either someone put Wall in the website(I don’t know why yeah) or Wally somehow jumped from his puppet body to the website(on accident probably). That darkness inside his house is what it was like to be trapped within his puppet body, dark and scary. And that one little gif of Wally looking up at House’s window eye thingy could represent the fact that he knows he’s being watched, or he is thanking the people who put him in the website, which not only granted him freedom but also gave him hope, or it could be Wally reaching out from his puppet body, from the darkness(maybe some sort of paranormal activity he caused?), to the people watching him, to the people looking for him. Or it could be a mix of those things. Maybe Wally keeps saying “Open” because he wants to open up to the world, like a cry for help or something. Wally likely responds to the comments by doodling on them, but also putting in some sort of hidden information to try and get others to find him. I also feel like Wally draws on the comments because they’re the only people that actually talk/interact with the website, and because all of Wally’s friends to our knowledge not alive in the way Wally is. To put it simpler Wally has no one to talk to. I also think Wally’s abilities are indeed limited and he can only “wander” so far away from the website for so long. Maybe that’s why the error screens appear, because Wally’s power is limited and he can’t exactly keep the small bits and pieces up for so long before the original creators begin to notice. That also makes me think that Wally will follow around anyone who’s on the website(kind of obvious though). I also think the bits of audio are his memories. I also feel like the audio clips were likely Wally’s memories, maybe some sort of event happened that he wants to tell everyone about. And maybe it’s all audio because he can’t exactly see through his felt eyes, but somehow can hear? It’s also likely that he was able to draw out those memories because he is now (likely)code and can easily just “copy and paste” or something. It would make sense if Wally could alter his memories if he can alter the appearance of the website and also add secret links to the website. I also just remembered while typing this that Wally still can’t see the viewer from the website at all, so he still probably feels trapped or in a way alone in the dark. I mean since his powers are limited and he probably wouldn’t be able to see through the camera or something. So it does support my theory on how he can only(barely) talk to others by doodling on their art, and that also being how he knows someone is there(Idk if I mentioned that I don’t feel like re reading. I also do not know if Wally directly causes the error screens(as a way to cover up the secrets so the website creators wouldn’t find it) , or if the creators of the website noticed the anomaly and was like “Oh No! You’re not supposed to be there!” And put up that error screen to try to get the player to return to the home page, “You wandered to far away from home”. Anyway that’s enough of my silly rant.

[psycho-bitch-here]

Here's my new au called " call of the wild au "

The new au name is "call of the wild au"

Name: William ( wally )

Age: 24,0000

Height: 15ft

Gender: male

Species:

Wendigo \skinwalker and human

Here's one of the sounds that his jaw makes sometimes it comes out so he has to put it back in place it also means he's about to kill yo ass

( Audio: 1# )

https://youtu.be/fSCAm9A-3Ko

( Audio: 2# ) https://youtu.be/cpk5UyA2mSE run... immediately don't turn back....JUST KEEP RUNNING FOR YOU LIFE IF YOU FALL GET BACK UP DON'T SIT THERE UNTIL ITS TO LATE and if you can't run keep eye contact and slowly back away from the creature.....don't lose eye contact or... you'll never make it out alive....

( Audio clips of his growls )

1) https://youtu.be/pLR14T8InMo

2) https://youtu.be/AcSuffBy5Ls

(Audio clips coming soon

VOICE CLAIM: ( I don't have one yet )

He has different skulls for different purposes for example:

His bird call aka the bird skull means that if you hear like this sound:

I would run as fast and as far this call means that you have stepped away to far into his territory and you must get out while you can...

Raccoon skull aka I'm always watching see raccoons have night vision so it can see you but you can't see it William wears this skull to blend in at night to stalk his pray and if you hear this sound: https://youtu.be/yJ_aX7haNIQ you better get your ass outta there

Ram skull aka You can't run so dont try: so rams can run at about 20 miles per hour and william calan rub up to 200 per hour and imagine him headbuting into you the normal ram impact for headbuting is 800 pounds but willams is 2,200 pounds so if you hear a loud grunting sound and thes foot steps like this: https://youtu.be/higpkSe2tjc

Or this: https://youtube.com/shorts/OuCbvNk7MOA?feature=share DO NOT TRY TO RUN ... YOU WON'T MAKE IT- instead try to find a hiding place as quickly and quitly as you can-

Also heres what his Aztec death whistle sounds like: https://youtu.be/pIAoWAtdtac

( More info coming soon )

Name: rosey julie

Age: 22

Height: 14ft

Gender: female

Species: fox and deer

Julie has a death whistle to let you know you have no escape Julie is death https://youtu.be/AmLzaVX4T1c

Actually her whole personality is based on death from puss in boots

Julie is a cunning and sinister individual whose sole purpose is to take the souls of the deceased. Although she waits in the shadows for people to die naturally, if someone angers or offends her enough, she will physically manifest in order to attempt to take their life by force.

Death is sadistic and thrill-seeking, as she takes a degree of pride and pleasure in her job, and openly admits that he enjoys striking fear into her victims. This is shown by the pleasure she took in scaring and provoking y/n with her taunts, eerie whistling, and her very presence, and how she got especially excited when she managed to draw blood on y/n julie also admits to having a dislike of cats and dogs and the fact that they all have nine lives, finding the very idea to be "absurd".

Despite Julies sadistic and sinister nature, she does have a sense of honor and nobility, as her main reason for pursuing in the first place was to punish the cat for arrogantly squandering their eight lives with reckless abandon, concluding from this that it would be best to kill y/n before they wasted their final life. Not to mention y/n often declared that they "laughed in the face of death", therefore Death was insulted and disrespected by y/n by her words as well as her deeds in wasting their lives. This indicates that despite representing the end of mortal life, Julie holds life sacred and is disgusted by those who don't treat their own lives with true appreciation or care. She also has a sense of fair play, as she always gives y/n the chance to fight back whenever they encountered each other, even giving y/n old sword back to them for their final duel in the nowhere . This suggests Julie prefers to give fair fights for those who challenge her, but her comments about how much he would enjoy taking y/n out from the realm of the living seems to indicate that she may have brought them their sword back just for sport, finding it more entertaining to seek a fight rather than just surrender.

When y/n finally stops running from her and instead fights her while promising to respect their final life with their friends, Julie, although initially enraged that y/n has changed and thus "ruined her hunt", quickly calms down and recognizes that killing them now would be pointless and unethical. Thus, Julie honorably decides to let y/n live out their final life, respectfully biding the cat/dog to live their last life well. However, she does warn y/n that they will meet again eventually when y/n life finally comes to a permanent end. This all but proves that Julie isn't unbeatable, even if he is unavoidable in the long run.

Overall, Julie is best described as a harsh, but fair and reasonable individual who takes her job seriously and enjoys a thrilling challenge, but doesn't kill just for the sake of doing so and is able to respect and spare those who prove her wrong.

Powers: Superhuman Speed/Superhuman Reflexes

Superhuman Durability Sickle Proficiency Omnipresence Immortality Soul Reading Fire Manipulation Intimidation Weapon's Transmutation

Julies quotes: "I do love the smell of fear. [sniffs] It’s intoxicating."

What’s the matter? Lives flashing before your eyes-

Go ahead, run for it. Makes it more fun for me.

[elleenvs3000f23]

Week 7: Music and Nature - Nature and Music

Where is music in nature? Where is nature in music?

Nature in music

When I think of how nature exists in music, I remember how I feel when I dance and figure skate. Dancers are taught to use our breath in our movements, to give them strength , flow, and power. Musicians do the same when they sing or play, using the breath to power notes, find pause, and build rhythm. I think that at the core of music and dance, the fact that I find a life process crucial to mammals is very indicative of how innate music is to nature. To me, the breath in music connects us to the environmental cycles that keep us alive and proves that we aren’t separate from nature, we are part of it, and dependent on it. When I need to calm down, I breathe. When you step outside on a fall day you take a deep breath to take in the earthy smell of the season. We connect to nature and are part of nature because we breathe. 

I also think there is nature in music because we use metaphors and imagery in lyrics. Singers talk about weather like rain or sun as a proxy for emotions they are feeling, flowers represent beauty and mountains represent challenges. Because we have emotional ties to nature we lean on it when we self-express through music. 

Music in Nature

I’d like to think that other animals appreciate music as well. My dog Wally will often join me when I play guitar, he likes to rest his head on the instrument (he also used to try and put his head in the bell of my clarinet, I think he likes how the vibrations feel). There are also videos online of dogs singing along to music such as this duo on Britain’s Got Talent Meet Aaron and Buddy: the amazing SINGING DOG! | Auditions | BGT: Unseen - YouTube. However, I have no idea if he hears and experiences music the same way I do. Reading in Gray et al. (2001) that whales and birds naturally tend to structure their songs while writing similar rules and patterns to us gives me some hope that Wally appreciates and experiences music the same way I do. 

Gray et al. (2001) explains that whales and birds structure and compose music in the same way we do, but I had always thought whales and birds make music for a different purpose. My baseline assumption was that humans use music to entertain and animals use music to communicate and find mates. This week’s material made me reconsider this assumption, because communication and entertainment are not actually separate things. As interpreters we make our communication entertaining in order to gain attention, focus and interest and we make entertainment communication in order to cause social and behavior changes (ei inspiring conservation actions). 

Assuming that animals only communicate information with music might also be incorrect. Whales have a high capacity for emotional intelligence so it is reasonable to assume they don’t just share information, but also feelings in their songs. And what could be more romantic than birds singing to find partners just like we do when we share love songs. I am having a lot of fun considering how animals might share more than objective facts with music. 

Bonus: A song that reminds me of a natural landscape

Is He’s a Pirate from the Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack. I am a runner and one of my regular routes takes me in and out of a cedar forest along a river. The second last kilometer is a rocky, up-and-down straight shot along the edge of the forest and the river bank and I have developed a habit of putting this song on and seeing how fast I can run the stretch. It makes me feel adventurous and strong which is always something I have loved about outdoor sports and spending time in nature.  I get to pretend to be a daring explorer like I did when I was little (a dream that I think spiraled into my current career in environmental science). Every time I hear it I can feel myself flying around trees and over rocks.

I am aware that it is considered rude online to talk about pets without sharing a photo so here is Wally :)

Gray, P. M., Krause, B., Atema, J., Payne, R., Krumhansl, C., & Baptista, L. (2001). The Music of Nature and the Nature of Music. Science, 291(5501), 52. https://link-gale-com.subzero.lib.uoguelph.ca/apps/doc/A69270354/AONE?u=guel77241&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=fb9366a8