#if blood magic is an option

[hollytree33]

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[racke7]

Ectoplasm and Jason Todd

Danny is wandering around Gotham (visiting, chasing a ghost, running from GIW, attending college, etc) and stumbles across Jason.

Jason who is flaring his ecto-signature like a madman (is he trying to get into trouble?).

Danny drags the guy into a nearby alley to give the guy some kind of crash-course on how not to do that.

Jason isn't sure why this guy grabbed him and dragged him into an alley, but if it's a fight he wants, Jason would be able to fight more freely in an alley, so he doesn't struggle. (Does he know that Jason is Red Hood? Does he think that Jason is a random civilian? Is it just him, or does this guy have really cold hands?)

Jason isn't sure why this guy is now trying to... ask him to meditate? The fuck is going on? But if it's not a fight, then... maybe it's fine to just listen to the weirdo? Taking a few deep breaths isn't going to hurt him.

Danny is very proud of himself for guiding the ecto-flaring guy through how to not flare his ecto-signature. He's such a good teacher.

And then Jason collapses.

Turns out, Jason has been using his anger to create a feedback-loop that artificially raises his ectoplasm-levels.

Ghosts need ectoplasm to live, but they'll also produce ectoplasm when feeling strong emotions. For most ghosts, this a bit like saying "everyone needs a good cry every now and then". For Jason, he's been basically aiming a gun at his own face for the adrenaline-rush. Constantly.

So, Danny is now holding onto a barely-conscious person who desperately needs more ectoplasm. As in, this is a medical emergency, and every second probably counts.

Danny, being that he wasn't planning on needing to carry around some kind of ectoplasm-container at all times (who the fuck does that? His parents, that's who), is now desperately trying to problem-solve this.

Danny realizes that, actually, even in his human form? Danny has a lot of ectoplasm in his body. Enough that he could probably save this guy by... feeding him his blood.

Cue intimately sexy reverse-vampire scene.

And oh boy, if Danny's blood doesn't taste fantastic to Jason's ecto-starved self.

[angeldaisies]

one thing that keeps me up at night about twp is the very real possibility that the shadowhunters might stop being shadowhunters in the last book

[ayrennaranaaldmeri]

things they fought to keep in: the fucking hall of valor and the hauntings

you didn't. it was bad.

LOL, LMAO EVEN.

[silverhalla]

alright single digit days so it’s time for last-minute baseless + unfounded veilguard theories!!!!!!! I’ll go first: the reason spite can’t take over lucanis’ body is because that body is ALREADY being possessed by lucanis, who was in fact dead and buried in the wake and rebound to a new form in the ossuary

[rederiswrites]

Really appreciate that they straight up give us a "You've gotta be fucking kidding me" option when we confront Solas in person. Like... Yeah. Fair. That option should definitely be there.

[imakemywings]

On a personal level, it was a dick move and it's not invalid of Rook to be unhappy about it, but in the practical scheme of things, its very easy to see why Solas deceived them about Varric's death. Cruel to Rook, of course, but with Elgar'nan and Ghilan'nain loose in the world, ready to blight Thedas to regain their power, and Solas trapped in the Fade where he can't effectively combat them, and this one random mortal who barely grasps the situation being the only one standing against them...I see why his calculus landed on the side of deeply hurting this one person in order to better prevent the destruction of the world and its subjugation to god-like tyrants he barely defeated last go around.

[skyheld]

remember how isseya could cure the griffon eggs of the blight by drawing it out of them with blood magic and putting it into something else, because the taint couldn't be destroyed it could only be moved? where did merrill put it

[notebooks-and-laptops]

Well. Eventually something from Dragon Age The Veilguards release stuff was gonna bum me out so at least it's happened now and I can move on

[lunian]

*sighsss*

Gale.

Gale, you should reconsider your standarts

[ask-elland-n-will]

11. What are your boys' fears?

[Elland's — death/serious injury to his loved ones; William's — being in pain/sick.

Elland's comes from how protective he is: making his family happy is a self-imposed goal of his, a reason to live. It doesn't mean he wouldn't let Cyrus make mistakes or that he will babysit William. But he is much rather be the one getting hurt instead.

William's is easier: poor lad is just horrified of physical pain. He has poor health as it is, got sick often as a child. Not to mention his legs injury that left him bedridden for a while (even with magic and potions, it was partially in his head, being in pain and depressed cause he couldn't compete, fearing he'd be in pain for the rest of his life — psychosomatic stuff.) He is fine now, none of that, it's been years, he is a sunshine and does not get stuck in the bad places for long. But he can't compete anymore because after a rigorous exercise his knees started aching again when Will tried getting back into it, and Will switched into Quidditch. Climbing stairs is not easy, and he cannot allow himself to run. But walking is fine.

He just hopes he'll never go through anything like that again. No pain, thank you! He had enough of that to last him a lifetime.]

[coffeeworldsasaki]

I was thinking that my only fear for datv is that the inquisitor goes through the same butchering that Hawke did in dai but then I remembered that the inquisitor is the most boring protagonist ever and that it would be hard to do something that would annoy me

[requiemforthestars]

Another thing about the DA devs being so anti-blood magic because they've bought into their own made up religion a little too hard.

Both in DA:I and in DA:V (DAV SPOILERS DON'T LOOK) we were/will be able to sympathize with Solas to an extent, like no, we cannot burn the world with him but what we've been shown of the game tells that, like in DA:I players are able to have a different relationship with him.

You know, with the guy whose plans will have the side effect of genociding a good chunk of the world's population. That guy.

Is that not morally grey? So why is blood magic any less morally grey, no matter how you can use it? Burning people alive is a certified Bad Thing, so is murder. Yet I don't see the devs taking away fire magic or making it so that you do not kill any enemy (because this is a game!)

[transmasc-rose]

One more AU to propose: at the end of Brotherhood, taking ac3's declaration of how the Apple works as fact, Desmond sees the satellite not working, sees Abstergo failing--and rather than kill Lucy, either manages to turn and kill no one (unlikely, given Juno's influence) or ends up stabbing Shaun and/or Rebecca instead, with the idea that maybe, if he talked to the Templars, he could make them understand, that their plan is flawed, that they need to try something else--

Because if the Templars, in all their money and planning and resources are failing, how could the Assassins succeed?

(This would royally piss off Juno.)

I don't think this would go well. I think, even if he and Lucy succeeded, made the Templars change plans, and that worked, the result would be bittersweet at best. A lot of people dead or under their control, with the Assassins being in an even worse state. Power granted to the Templars that make them rise even higher.

There's a good chance they don't succeed at all.

But he'll never know if things would go better if he'd chosen the other path.

(Maybe there's a world where he does convince the Assassins and Templars to work together on this. But that's a much kinder world than the games see fit to give him. So that is out of his grasp.)

[rhythmandstealth]

tumblr gently takes me by the hand and says "no sweetie, for once that was not a jank ass failure of engineering on our part, you just had a bit of a skill issue there"

[braddourifscareertrajectory]

is this a safe space to admit that after 14 years I still don't understand Hawke's perpetual bloody nose thing