#is this what they call an identity crisis

[batteryacidisedibleenough]

Lean wayyy harder on the idea of sight.

Now, the legally distinct Vigil Lords have 10 eyestalks with differently colored irises, sharp pupils, and deep black sclera. Each corresponds to a certain ability.

I guess the easiest way to go about this would just be to have a magic system with 5 or ten different schools or varieties of magic and divide them on the eyes evenly, but that's kinda lame. I'm just gonna call 'em as I see 'em.

Just to preface, the powers are on-command and all work off the logic of regular sight: powers work through transparent objects and catches more on obstructions the more opaque they are, you can just outright distract or harm the eyes by various means, etc. All the eyes have regular vision in addition to their normal effects, unless their effect is some form of vision. You can see the reflections of what the eyes see, though those less familiar with the concepts may find it harder to make out.

I think the distraction idea in particular is hilarious and encourages bullshit/genius tactics, which is always a good thing. And yes, their depth perception is poor if they don't have two eyes focusing on something, even if that is admittedly unlikely.

1: White-eyed stalk: see through other's eyes. No line of sight required; works unless closed or destroyed. Can be distracted with another's sight if it's more attention-grabbing, but it's easier to just close your eyes if they're being tapped. This one can bypass the whole depth perception thing because it sees through all of a given creatures' eyes.

2: Red-eyed stalk: fire jet/heat ray, your choice.

3: Gray-eyed stalk: blinds you. Just don't look at it when it's looking at you and you're fine.

4: Black-eyed stalk: see a couple seconds into the future. As in, specifically in its line of sight. Effectively just an eye that's ten seconds ahead at all times and is otherwise completely normal; still probably the most powerful. Visually indistinguishable from #8, aside from the reflection.

5: Purple-eyed stalk: see into your soul (judge your character, motive, etc.; hard to fool, better just to break its line of sight. Yes, hitting a Vigil Lord with a mirror could possibly give them an identity crisis.)

6: Green-eyed stalk: gets really long like a tentacle. Whether the eye goes along for the ride or not depends on choice, so they can both stab you and obnoxiously stare at you around a corner.

7: Blue-eyed stalk: spews a cloud that only it can see through. Let me reiterate, anything other than this one eye cannot see through it. Applicable eye effects such as the heat ray will go through, but will rely on this one's sight for guidance. Remember that the black eye gets fogged and unfogged ten seconds early.

8: Black-eyed stalk: Can see the past. Any given section of time of where it's looking, at normal speed. Like a video where you can skip to different parts, but only goes at normal speed. In other words, it can enter a town and watch it's entire history. Through one eye, at regular speed. Can be distracted by a significantly visually significant time, or just a different direction. Visually identical to #4 except for the reflection.

9: Pink-eyed stalk (is just the color pink): Can show others thoughts/memories/lies when they look at it. The most consistently effective use of this is probably jumpscares, as "don't trust the Vigil Lord" isn't a particularly hard idea to come up with.

10: "Glass"-eyed stalk: can copy the ability of any other eye and extends it, so to speak--sees to the same period as #8, shows a different person the same thought as #9, etc., but is able to focus on a different direction. Two heat rays, two tapped sets of eyes, two points of billowing mist, you name it. Glows the color of the eye it's copying. Cannot copy an eye when it's closed or destroyed, and cannot copy Eye Zero.

(Eye Zero (the big one)): No iris, white sclera, black pupil: sees really, really good. Exorbitantly high fidelity sight, and the range goes from 10¹⁰Hz (mid-frequency microwaves) to 10¹⁸Hz (mid-frequency X-rays). Can see in the dark and can't be blinded outside of damage or obstruction. Depends on the other eyes for depth perception, though. Such a big hazard that protective goggles are worn over them pretty much since birth.

Go make one of these guys a prolific detective or god-ruler of a police state or something idk

Game design exercise: You've been tasked with creating a non-trademark-infringing version of the beholder. The design brief specifies that your version should have ten creepy eyestalks with ten distinct magic powers, like the standard beholder, but these powers must not overlap with even one of the standard beholder powers.

For the purpose of this exercise, assume that the forbidden list consists of exactly the ten magic eyeball powers that are present in the Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition Monster Manual. (i.e., you don't need to research every magic eyeball power that's ever been attributed to a beholder in every iteration of D&D ever published.)

For reference, these ten powers are:

Controls your mind

Paralyses you

Makes you afraid

Slows you down

Makes you weak

General purpose telekinesis

Puts you to sleep

Turns you to stone

Disintegration ray

Just fucking kills you

These are all off limits.

So:

What ten magic eyeball powers do you give your legally-not-a-beholder?

[hug-me-hard-so-i-dont-forget-you]

Can we talk about Buck's abandonment issues for a minute? You're probably thinking "Yeah his parents were neglectful and Maddie keeps running away." But there's so much more:

First and foremost we see two scenes where his parents are giving him attention but only in a negative light. All the while they're not telling him WHY they're upset/disappointed in him.

Then of course, there's the many times he's lost/had to say goodbye to Maddie. (Not pictured: when she ran away to Boston)

Then we've got any and all friends/relationships he had when travelling from Pennsylvania to LA.

Then we've got Abby leaving, without telling him beforehand, for an indeterminate amount of time. Leaving him to haunt her apartment and then forcing him to rescue her fiancé that she somehow acquired while never actually out right breaking up with Buck.

Next is Redmond 'Red' Walker. The man Buck warms up to very quickly and whom he sees as his future self: a man who's truly, completely alone in the world.

THEN his friends who only show up to ask for his sperm, make him be the go-between when they have a fight, and then make him deliver the baby and ruin his couch. And he held his biological child in his arms with tears in his eyes and just never saw him again. They never even mention it again.

GIVE THIS MAN A BABY

Then, of course we have his older brother, Daniel. Basically the only reason Buck was even born. The person his family kept from him for nearly 30 years. And no, he didn't particularly abandon him but he was given all of this information in one afternoon and that's a lot to process.

And we can't not mention Chris. He lost him once before, blaming himself the whole time. He wasn't even the one to find him in the end so he never really got that closure.

And we talk about how heartbroken Eddie was about Chris leaving but what about Buck?? He was basically a second father for him. Not only that, but he was the last one to speak to him before he walked out. Eddie threw a Hail Mary by calling Buck, asking him to do "what you always do." Only this time it didn't work and he 'failed.'

We get another instance of Buck learning way too much information in one night: not only discovering that he likes Tommy, but the fact that he likes guys AT ALL. He goes through an identity crisis and has a bit of a panic attack. And what does Tommy do in response? Leaves him outside of the restaurant on their first date. Then, 6 months in, Buck thinks he's in love and asks him to move in, complete with heart eyes and oblivion. And instead of going their date that night Tommy decides to break up with him. I understand his reasoning: knowing Buck is just a baby gay and needs to find himself a bit more before settling down. But Buck is also a 3-braincelled puppydog when he's infatuated and he needs to be handled gently or else he's gonna use up the city's flour supply, baking away his temptations.

And now he's losing his absolute best friend. The one he works with, eats dinner with, co-parents a child with, facetimes/texts/calls during the rare times they're NOT together. The one who restarted his heart after getting struck by the same bolt of lightning. The one who wasn't in his coma dream because without Buck his life went to shit. The one who immediately accepted him when he came out, encouraged him to give it a try with Tommy, and then supported him after the breakup when he was going through withdrawals. The one that he can't imagine his life without because he has become such an integral part of every aspect of his life.

I'm surprised this man has kept it together this long and hasn't shut everyone out completely. My heart hurts just thinking about it.

[very-gay-poet]

Scapegoats:

Scapegoats are a person or a group of people that are blamed for anything bad happening in a space (a country, state, town, family, etc).

In between the first and second World War, Germany had a terrible economy, so bad that parents regularly gave their children stacks of money to play with instead of toys. Soon, Jews were to blame for the economic crisis, with the help of Hitlers campaign. He pointed out a demographic for people to blame so they don’t start blaming the government.

I also want to highlight that in 2023 alone, there were almost 10,000 reports of antisemitic incidents in the US, comparing that to just the year before, 2022, with around 3,700 reports from the US, and under 2000 reports in 2008. Over the course of just a year, the oppresion of jewish people had risen at over 100% in just a year. Antisemitism beliefs are rising again, Jewish people are being met with hostility again, and it’ll just keep on getting worse if we do nothing about it. Especially with Elon Musk's little “stim” at Trump's inauguration. I’m no conspiracy theorist but It feels like him doing the Nazi Salute, Trump signing an executive order to make it legal to discriminate against people and canceling all D.E.I programs (also mentioning that the KKK were spotted recruiting people in Kentucky) seems to be a whistle to Neo-Nazis to let them know that they’ll get away with whatever they do, and give them the confidence to be more bold than they already are.

I don’t believe that this is a coincidence, and, I really hope I’m wrong here, I don’t believe that these people (Trump, Elon) are above antisemitism, saying it’s for not promoting christian values or something stupid like that. I’ll be getting into weaponizing religion later, but I feel that this is important to mention, considering that the stats mentioned above were of 2023, God knows what that number was in 2024 and I don’t think we’ll be getting the true number anytime soon. This is all my personal speculation so take this with a bit of salt, but I find it concerning with how we’re all calling the right and Elon Nazis and Trump a Hitler reincarnate (which is justified don't get me wrong), but aren’t mentioning all the antisemitism as a result of the rise this type of bigotry. Jews were the main target of the Nazi party, don’t forget that.

So the next time you hear that the reason why people can’t get a house is because immigrants are taking them, the Chinese made COVID 19, minorities are taking jobs away because they tick a diversity box, remember who's truly to blame. The Chinese didn’t kill all the people who died during COVID, your government did, because they didn’t take COVID seriously as they should’ve, saw the consequences, and don’t want the responsibility that comes with it. They base it on preexisting stigma to magnify it, many Asian people in America were treated with more hostility than ever during COVID, because the American Government needed someone to blame, and what better than a group that aren’t white and are "commies".

It’s acceptable discrimination so that no one will turn an eye on what the government really wants to do; be discriminatory. They base it on their own prejudice so they can get away with bills and laws further normalizing the prejudice in the country, and thus get away with it. We’re already starting to see this now, with the plane crash; Trump blaming diversity and “the right people not being hired”, is the perfect cover story to take away rights of minority workers, and publish it as acceptable discrimination. Remember, not being hired because of your race (including skin colour) , religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, national origin, age, or disability, is illegal, unless they have an agenda to push and have an excuse to make it “the right thing to do”.

If you find yourself feeling hatred for a certain group– ask yourself: will anyone benefit from this anger? The answer is always no. No one benefits from prejudice or discrimination. No one, except the rich pigs at the top. America is already turning into a plutocracy and it hasn’t even been a year yet, so remember: if you’re not already a billionaire, you’re never gonna be a billionaire, so don’t act like you ever will. Division is their favorite game, don’t let them win it.

this is a snipit from an essay I'm writing that's taking longer than I thought it would. So now I'm going to post some snipits of it in hopes that it can help people.

[spectral-phases]

The Curious Case of Tim Drake's Age

Post-Crisis only. Post-Flashpoint and Rebirth pisses me off more often than not, so I ignore them for the most part. Only doing Tim Drake here, but the inconsistency is about par for the course for any comic book character, I know. And I know I'm probably missing a few things, so forgive me.

Tim Drake is introduced at the ripe age of thirteen in the middle of March or April for his Spring Break at school.

(Batman 1940 #441)

He becomes Robin at the age of 14, then, as his birthday is July 19th and he becomes Robin on Christmas.

(Batman 1940 #457)

He turns 15 or 16 later on in 2003's comic Robin #116, after 14 years since he was first introduced in 1989's comic Batman #441. After a lot of shit happens to him. What a hectic 2 years and 4 months the boy has had between Robin, Batman, Detective Comics, Young Justice, and Teen Titans. No wonder he can't remember his own birthday.

Now, it's a little confusing, of course. Ives calls out "sixteen spankings" which would be his age plus "one more for luck," so he'd be 15?

Except Jack says he'd love to have given him a car for his 16th birthday, so Tim's 16 and Ives doesn't know about the "one more for luck" rule.

(Robin 1993 #116)

And then Gotham War Games and Identity Crisis happens, everyone dies, Infinite Crisis happens, Conner dies, and then Bruce and Tim disappear for the start of the 52 arc following Infinite Crisis.

This happens near his 17th birthday, because Week 7 of 52 happens a week after Father's Day, which occurs in late June. So Infinite Crisis happens in like late April, early May when Tim is 16. He turns 17 during 52, and it should be April/May when he's 17 when OYL begins after 52 concludes.

(52 2006 Week 7)

EXCEPT

During OYL the event the "Resurrection of Ra's Al Ghul" occurs, and it's Christmas at the end. At this point, going by the above, Tim would have to have graduated highschool and turned 18 back in July.

(Detective Comics 1937 #839)

EXCEPT

Later on, after Final Crisis occurs and Tim is trying to prove that Bruce didn't actually die during Final Crisis, he's still a minor in need of emancipation.

(Red Robin 2009 #12)

And then, after several weeks and months pass after Bruce 'dies,' comes back, his friends are talking about their senior year as a thing that is still going on. So Tim would still have to be 17 in Red Robin.

(Red Robin 2009 #17)

And thus begins the issue of Tim being perpetually 17.

[texasdreamer01]

Anyone - particularly outside of Germany - that hasn't seen the voting results map yet would probably benefit from doing so. I pulled this from the tagesschau website (link here), and although it's in German, you can either have the site auto-translated or just click around the map for more information because it's interactive:

The black section is the CDU (Christian Democratic Union of Germany) and the dark blue is the CSU (Christian Social Union in Bavaria). These two form a coalition (Wikipedia), so they more or less act in lockstep in the federal government - the reasons for this have a lot to do with the history of Bavaria, but that's a subject for another post.

The red is the SPD (Social Democratic Party of Germany), and the green is Die Grüne (Alliance 90/The Greens).

The light blue, that you see in the upper right half of Germany, is the AfD (Alternative for Germany).

Now, for a bit of history:

That squiggly bit within the light blue? That would be Berlin (which was, post WWII, divided up among the Allies and Russia for long-winded reasons that boil down to mirroring how Germany was split up amongst foreign governments), and some surrounding areas.

The AfD was founded in 2013 (Wikipedia) by Alexander Gauland (Wikipedia), Bernd Lucke (Wikipedia), and a bunch of people from the CDU (yes, the bit of the map that's in black, that party). This was done because of opposition to some policies of the CDU. They officially started out marketing themselves as more liberal, but shortly thereafter slid into extremely conservative political stances.

Effectively speaking, the CDU, CSU, and AfD are all conservative parties, to an American understanding of political stances. This is not necessarily the metric by which German political parties judge themselves, because a significant part of German politics is their participation in the European Union.

Imagine, for a moment, if American political parties formed themselves and their stances based upon the North American Free Trade Agreement (AKA NAFTA, Wikipedia), and the identity of their political party was based upon how American they were in contrast to overall North American culture. (Now multiply the amount of member nations until a total of 27, and you might begin to understand the chaos that is defining a unified "European culture".)

If you click around on the map linked up at the top, you can see how each place voted by percentage. Not always, but typically, the CDU/CSU votes also had a significant amount of votes for the AfD.

Why does any of this matter? Well, several reasons, but something to consider is why there was a Bundestagwahl (federal election) in the first place.

The incumbent coalition, nicknamed the Ampelkoalition (Street light coalition, Wikipedia) because of the colours of the political parties, fell apart because - to put it reductively - of Christian Lindner (political party is FDP, aka Free Democratic Party of Germany). You can read more about that on its accompanying Wikipedia page (link here).

Then, the chancellor, Olaf Scholz, called for a motion of confidence (Wikipedia). For anyone unfamiliar what this is, that Star Wars: The Phantom Menace scene with Padmé should illustrate that well enough for an overview (YouTube).

The vote of confidence failed, and the election was called very early. Typically speaking, the vote for a new federal government - and all 630 of its seats - must take place no more than 48 months and no earlier than 46 months.

Between the government crisis breaking of the Ampelkoalition, and the firing of Christian Linder (all three of this occuring on 6 November 2024) and the Bundestagwahl (23 February 2025), was 109 days.

46 months would be, assuming 30 days, 1,380 days. That is the minimum between a vote of no confidence and a new federal election.

The maximum, 48 months, assuming 30 days, would be 1,440 days.

This was a snap election, with political parties scrambling to advertise themselves - and something to note, this occurred also over Christmas, which for Germans is a month-long activity (as one does), and during the gearing up for Fasching, which is another major religious holiday with a similar duration of being on the public consciousness.

Notably, the party of Christian Lindner, who is not only a member of the FDP but was also dismissed from his position as the Federal Minister of Finance (Wikipedia), achieved only 4.3% of the vote in this election, which did not meet the minimum of 5% of votes in order to maintain a minimum of one seat. In this, the Germans voted rather clearly. In the previous election, the FDP has 11.4% of the votes.

Below is Wikipedia's version of the Bundestagwahl election results (link here):

hey so i've read so many posts saying good for germany but like, my friends, no, no nothing's good for germany. stop saying that. stop projecting your us-americanist election view onto us. we don't have a two party system. just because you think afd "didn't win" doesn't mean they lost. they gained so so so many votes it's really concerning, and frightening. we had the highest voter turnout since unification, and 20.8% of those people voted a fascist party. nothing about this is a win.

[eatingmarkerz]

small comic of my au (still in its concept phase lol)

[chloesimaginationthings]

What’s William Afton’s problem in FNAF….

[sacredfixation]

Loki and the Deeply Valid Fear of Being a Government-Issued Android Without Knowing It

Imagine living for over a thousand years, committing intergalactic crimes, then one random underpaid TVA clerk with a monotone voice suddenly introduces the possibility that, oh, by the way, what if you were secretly a robot this whole time? And Loki, who has always carried himself with the absolute certainty of a god, pauses. Like. “Wait. What if I am?”

He hears that question and immediately does a full mental diagnostic. Have I ever glitched? Ever felt oddly mechanical? Experienced an unusual fondness for oil? Maybe he’s too good at lying. Too good at surviving. What if that’s just the programming?

The TVA worker just moves on. He doesn’t elaborate. no reassurances. theres no safety net. Just the terrifying possibility that he might get instantly vaporized for something completely outside his control.

Id like to note, his hesitation isn’t even just some random existential crisis, it’s trauma-informed. This man already lived through the experience of waking up one day and realizing he wasn’t who he thought he was.

He grew up thinking he was a prince, a god, Odin’s rightful son, only to find out he was actually a stolen relic of war. A Jotun. A creature he’d been taught to hate.

He thought he knew himself before, and he was wrong. What if he’s wrong again? What if theres something else about himself thats been hidden? If he didn’t realize he was a Frost Giant, whats stopping him from not realizing he’s actually some highly advanced synthetic being?

It’s not just a funny existential gag, it’s a callback to one of the most devastating truths of Loki’s existence:

He has never really known who he is.

It’s the muscle memory of having his entire identity ripped out from under him. It’s the learned fear of asking, What am I, actually?

Because the last time he asked that question, the answer ruined him.

[necrotic-nephilim]

what's fun about shipping Tim with Dick, Jason, or Damian is he has, at some point, hallucinated all of them to comfort himself. even when he doesn't like them or particularly get along with them, he has to imagine/hallucinate them just so he has the power to go on. Tim's concepts of the Robin mantle and what it should be is so fun, because he respects the others through the Robin mantle. Tim worships Dick because he was the first Robin. he wouldn't be Robin if Jason hadn't died in the mantle. and a lot of his frustration with Damian is he feels Damian isn't honoring the mantle correctly. when you ship Tim with the other Robins you can't divorce their identities as Robin from it because Tim will always see them as a Robin first and that's so fun and fucked up. like.

batman (1940) #456

Tim perceiving Dick as *Robin* cheering him on, not Nightwing, which is the version of Dick that Tim actually knows? that's just. wild of him. he will always view Dick as Robin first, his personal hero but also the original of the legacy. his love for Dick is shaped by that.

and then of course, even when he's hallucinating/imagining Jason cheering him on, it's *still* through the lense of being reminded how Jason failed? subconsciously believing that Jason got himself killed because of his actions, and that being a lesson for Tim to learn from? Jason isn't a person to Tim, he's a moral lesson about how to be Robin. any potential idolization he could have of Jason isn't because he loves Jason, it's because of the lessons Jason's death taught him.

and then, even though him hallucinating TIm is from the New-52, which makes characterization all kinds of questionable, i do think it makes sense for TIm to hallucinate/imagine Damian after Damian's death in an attempt to cope with it.

teen titans (2011) #18

to an extend, he sees Damian's death as in part his own fault. and even hating Damian, Tim needs the comfort from this to cope with Damian being gone. he's angry that Damian even was Robin, and has to learn something from Damian's death and how it impacts the Robin mantle, and teenage heroes as a whole. like, Tim can pretend he hates Damian all he wants, even getting taunted by the image of Damian, but there's still an underlying love to their relationship.

i think that's just the fun of shipping Tim with any of them. you will never divorce Tim's views of them from the Robin mantle and how fucking Unwell he is about anyone else who's been Robin before or after him, to the point he has to hallucinate them comforting him when he's at his lowest. it's always going to be a little unhealthy, a little toxic, and driven by Tim's relationship with being Robin as well. i need more Tim being weird about Robin in these ships.

[tiktowafel]

do you ever think about how all you used to draw when you were 10 was ponies and that you should still know how to do that, then get an idea and proceed to draw something like these in nearly one sitting and it turns out better than any drawing you've done in the entire past month

sooo anyway does anyone have cutie mark or pony name ideas for them?? lol

[starry-bi-sky]

Hello!! Question about clone^2, what are the styles of Danny and Damian? Like day to day stuff for example. Does Danny buy Damian the traditional 8 yr old clothes (dinosaurs with sunglasses tees, stuff like that) or does Damian already have a style he likes? And Danny! I know that Sam gives Danny various punk hairstyles and that he prefers gender neutral stuff but outside of that what would Danny wear in general?

You don’t have to answer of course, but I’ll give you a thank you in advance!

- kindest regards, Gas Can

I LOVE GETTING ASKS NO WORRIES MY GUY. AS MY FAVORITE SAYING GOES 'THE QUICKEST WAY TO STARRY'S HEART IS THROUGH HER ASK BOX'.

And I love this question, this is a good one!! If damian's 8 then he's been around the fenton house for about a year or so. I can't see baby dames ever willingly wearing traditional child-like clothes, at least not in the beginning when he first arrives at the Fenton house. Which he'd be around 6-7.

Danny tells him (with the help of google translate) that he's going shopping to buy him new clothes sometime during Damian's early stay since the little man had been wearing the same clothes he arrived in for a while (which you can find here with the reblog of the colored version) and honestly he probably asks damian if he wants to come along to pick something out. he doesn't know the kid's style and it might be a bad idea because damian might make a run for it, but danny's caught him before at this point.

(plus he'll need help carrying bags - his hands are freshly injured and still smarting. they're not as bad as they will be in the future, but hand injuries hurt. consider it repayment for being the cause of it, damian)

And early Damian would choose clothes that remind him most of the league - so dark colors, more formal styles, think like how you'd imagine his original template to dress like, if you will. Danny is side-eyeing him in judgy bewilderment, but says nothing other than to complain about the price tag. Of which Damian has no idea what he's saying. He'd stick with those clothes until he has his little moment with Danny in the OPS Center where he finally tells him he's a clone (even though Danny already knows) and that he doesn't want to go back. After that he'd reluctantly and steadily start branching out.

So eight year old Damian, whose begun to chill out more and act more like a child his age would? I don't think he'd ever wear graphic t-shirts about kids shows, but I can see him wearing graphic tees of like, animal facts on it, animals, stars, etc etc, and then plain shirts in a variety of increasing color. I have this mental image that Danny buys Damian one of those joke shirts that says "bro I'm 8" / "this is what an awesome eight year old looks like" (with two thumbs pointing at itself) and Damian wears it to school a week later. Damian's variety of shirts increases the more comfortable he gets and the more he comes into his own identity.

Damian also, steadily, keeps stealing Danny's flannels even if they're almost comically large on him. They're comfy and he's embracing his role as baby brother (and also he really looks up to him because he understands, to an extent, of what danny's done for him). Danny and the Fentons start buying Damian his own after a while because, well, he can't keep taking Danny's.

And Danny! I'm so glad you mentioned Danny, my favorite GNC boy. I keep forgetting myself sometimes that I gave him long hair, even if it is my favorite thing about him. And honestly? Danny doesn't really do much with his hair if Sam isn't styling it. He usually lets it stay down on his head, and then pulls it back into a ponytail or a half-ponytail at school depending on what he's doing (gym vs a test).

He keeps it in a ponytail as phantom to keep it out of his face, and then when he's working on a Ghost Case he sometimes has it up in a (messy™) bun because the feeling of having his hair on his neck when its in a ponytail drives him nuts, especially when sleep deprived. Sam teaches him how to braid it back into a simple braid and its become a new fidget for him to braid his hair and then unbraid it. It's easier to keep off his face than a ponytail, so he sometimes braids it back when he's sneaking out as phantom. It happens more often once he gets skilled at it.

And danny's style! I know you probably only meant his hairstyle, but I also wanna talk about his aesthetic! He doesn't really put much into his appearance. Very teenager-y boy 'threw on the first thing i saw on a hanger/floor' type, but he kinda has a bit more of a casual, soft grungy-like look as an older teen. Just some hints of Sam's influence - and you know what, some of Tucker's as well because that's his best friend too.

(Off topic but 19yo Danny from my Childhood Friends Dead On Main au has a similar style that's a bit soft punk as well, and that is somewhat more intentional on CFAU Danny's part. Why make an au if I can't play dress up with my favorite character? :))

Mostly because I read a Spider-Man x DP fic that described Danny (from an outsider's pov) as looking kinda like a skater boy who listens to alt rock music and it's been my personal interpretation of him ever since. So he has band tees, flannels, graphic tees with jokes on them, shirts with astronomy facts on them, and idk if he'd ever buy ripped jeans but Sam has certainly bought him some and they fit so *shrugs* he wears them. And he has one or two of those denim jackets with the hoodie sewn inside it. And from Tucker he has a few turtlenecks because Tucker reads as a turtleneck-kinda guy, geek chic-ish.

[mango-mya]

Yes that's Shakespeare please leave me alone

[battyskorpyionn]

i drew kenny with oil pastels :3

I call it identity crisis

[madkuroi]

Hiii! I'm curious about this but if it's spoiler territory, feel free to be vague or say you can't reveal it yet! But: what was Veronna's childhood like and how did it affect who she grew up to be?

Hi Nimo! Thanks for another ask!

(TW: Blood and some points of extreme violence)

I don't mind sharing lore stuff! The only thing I didn't do yet is some art about it, but I'll gladly reveal some things!

Resuming that, Veronna's chilhdood was turbulent. She's born thanks to a pact/ritual made by the Stregheria, since her mother was unable to conceive children. So, her mother had fraternal twins. Veronna's real name is Loretta (which also explains her shorthand, 67), and Veronna was the name given to the first child that was born. During this ask I'll refer to her as Loretta so I hope it aint confusing!

Veronna and Loretta were born by some kind of "miracle", however the curse brought a terrible side effect: Loretta was the child who was born with more "feral" traits, such as the fangs, and most importantly, the Blood Riot. At first, childhood was going completely normal, but her family had to prepare themselves for an eventual rampage made by the youngest twin.

Veronna and Loretta were a duality: While the first was a symbol of beauty and elegance, Loretta was the complete opposite - Wild and unstable. But even with that, both sisters were pretty much close to each other, like normal siblings would be... Until Loretta succumbed to the Blood Riot for the first time. This event, of course, ended with the demise of her whole family, including the sister she loved the most. Seeing the blood of her kind in her hands, her mind started to collapse. And seeing the dead corpses of her family, along with Veronna's blood in her hands, caused a painful trauma for the young twin. Unable to believe the fate of her family, Loretta took the identity of her sister, never accepting the fact that she was the one who ended their lives - With that, she also "killed" Loretta in the process when assuming the identity of Veronna, thinking she got rid of the monster who slaughtered the people she loved.

Now assuming the identity of the sister who represented the beauty of the Fellin, Veronna gradually learned how to deal with her own ability, and turned her curse into a powerful skill, who made her take control of Venice and turn into one of the most feared assassins of that place. As time passed, she completely adopted this identity and forgot that Loretta ever existed, but if someone ever refers to her with this name... Her mind starts collapsing, and she goes completely insane, telling that who said this name would completely regret it.

Thank goodness no one knows about this secret of hers (yet), but all these events were legit necessary to mold Veronna into the woman she grew up to be, and turn into the Devil of Venice ~

[6point5crows]

Gender crisis hours:

So… for a few years now I’ve been going by they/them. Though not particularly to out about it behind social media and friends, I’ve felt comfortable in being they/them, non-binary.

However recently, my partners have been calling me “boyfriend” which has made me ever so extra happy… so now I’m having my own gender crisis. Because that term makes me feel so happy.

But I still know I’m non-binary, right? But do I like he/him pronouns as well as they/them? I’m not sure. Maybe I like they/them but being called a boy?? Is that it?!? What if some days I feel more they/them than he/him? Or more he/him than they/them?

I’ve never given myself an opportunity to explore any other pronouns beyond those, either. What if another set fits me better? What then? What does any of this mean??? WHAT AM I???

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

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