#its such a specific crossover but like

[hunnicute]

I've been playing Disco Elysium lately and I couldn't get the idea of seeing BJ's thoughts in HDB style...

[starry-bi-sky]

I am loudly pushing the batdad agenda i am loudly pushing the— DPxDC Prompt

“Woah. You look like shit."

Granted, that’s probably not the first thing Danny should be saying to the guy that just bit the curb, but in his defense; he’s not running on 100% right now either.

The man -- tall, towering, and broader than Danny is tall -- whips around on his heel, black frayed cape flaring out impressively. Danny would've whistled in appreciation, but he takes the time instead to wipe the back of his hand across his mouth, smearing the blood running from his nose across his cheek.

"Sorry." He blinks widely, not even flinching as the man with the horns zeroes in on him. "That was rude of me. I have a really bad brain-to-mouth filter; Sam says its what always gets me into trouble."

And she's not wrong either, per say. His smart mouth is what landed him in this situation -- with blood blossom extract running through his veins and cannibalizing the ectoplasm in his bloodstream. Thanks Vlad.

The man grunts at him; a short, curt "hm" that shouldn't make Danny smile, but he does because he's somewhat delirious and probably concussed. The man keeps some kind of distance, sinking towards the shadows of Gotham's alleyway like he dares to melt right into it.

If it's supposed to scare Danny, it doesn't work. Danny's never been afraid of the dark; he's always been able to hide himself in it. He blinks slowly at the mass of shadows.

"You look hurt." The shadows says, blurring together around the edges. Danny squints, and licks his lips to get the blood dripping down his chin off. Ugh, he hates the taste of blood.

"I am." He says, "My godfather poisoned me. M'dying." The agony of the blood blossom eating him from the inside out looped back around to numbing a while ago, so all he feels is half-awake and dazed.

"Hey," Danny stumbles forward towards the man, a bloodied hand reaching out to him. "You-- you're a hero, right? You're not attacking me; which is more than I can say for most costumed people I've met." Maybe it's a poor bar to judge someone at, but he's already established that Danny's not in his right mind.

The man makes no change in expression, but Danny realizes blearily that it's hard to tell with the shadows on his face. He stays still long enough for Danny to latch onto the cape -- stretchy, but almost soft under his fingers.

He looks up blearily into the whites of the man's eyes. "Can you help me? I don't-- I don't wanna die." Again. He doesn't wanna die again. He blinks slow and lizard-like. "I mean- I'll probably get to see mom and dad again, but I told them I'd at least try and make it to adulthood."

There's a clatter down the street, and Danny's ghost sense chills up his spine and leaves a bitter, ashy taste in his mouth. He immediately knows who it belongs to even before the deceptively gentle; "Daniel?" echoes down the way.

"Daniel? Quit your games, badger, Gotham is dangerous for children."

Danny's mouth pulls back, and blood spills against his tongue. "Please." He rasps, and grabs onto the shadow's cape with both hands. "Please. He's going to kill me. Please--"

"Daniel? Is that you?"

His lips part, dragging in air to plead with the darkness again. He doesn't need to, the whites of his eyes narrow, and the cape whirls around him before Danny can blink. Soon swaddled in shadows, the Night lifts him up, and steals him away.

[captain-krow-drozdov]

Danny Is An Alternate Version Of Ra's Al Ghul And Flash Already Called Dibs On Adopting Him

Danny In All His Sleep Deprived Slightly Scuffed Up From A Fight Glory Is On His Way To Clockworks Tower To Hopefully Get A Nap And Maybe Some Homework Done When A Natural Portal Opens Up In Front Of Him And Proceeds To Unceremoniously Drop Him In The DC Verse Just Outside Of Central City Before Promptly Closing Leaving A Tired Danny Behind In A Run Down Abandoned Parking Lot.

It's Times Like This When Danny Regrets Putting Off Learning How To Make His Own Portals, Cause Now He Is Very Much Stuck For The Foreseeable Future And He Has No Idea Where Or When He Is. Luckily For Him However Central City Isn't Too Far Away, Unlucky For Him However Is That Once In The City He Realizes This Isn't His Dimension. He's Pretty Sure He'd Remember Something Called The Justice League.

So What Do You Do When Supernatural Bullshit Fails You? You Fall Back On Your Mad Scientist Roots And You Make A Portal Gun. So That's Exactly What Danny Plans To Do.

Unfortunately Staying Alive And Building Questionably Safe Portal Technology Requires Money And Supplies, So He Ends Up Wandering From City To City Doing Odd Jobs/Fixing Up Busted Tech For Cash Or Unwanted Electronics For His "Operation: Get Home" Needs. This Obviously Ends In A Few Superhero Encounter Shenanigans.

Though He Always Ends Up Back Near Central City, Both On The Off Chance The Natural Portal Will Open Up Again And Because Out Of All The Superheroes That Apparently Exist In This Universe The Speedsters Are His Favorite (Red Robin Is Solidly His Second Favorite Ever Since The Gotham Vigilante Gave Him A Large Coffee Filled With Enough Caffeine To Kill A Man).

Unbeknownst To Danny However Is That Every Hero/Vigilante He Has Encountered Has Come To At Least One Of The Following Conclusions; 1. Run Away Meta Who Is In Desperate Need Of A Good Meal/Adoption Bait. 2. Possibly Red Robin/Tim Drake Clone 3. A Good Kid But Could Possibly Be A Future Rouge If Left Unsupervised. 4. Did Bats Get A New Kid And Why Is He Here?

All Flash Knows Is That He Saw The Kid First And Therefore Has Dibs. Suck It Bruce.

Fast-forward A Few Months And Danny Gets Hurt During A Rogue Attack While Trying To Help Some Civilians Get To Safety (Old Hero Habits Die Hard (Ha Die Hard) And All That Jazz) And He Nopes Out Once Everyone Is Safe And When The Paramedics Are Busy With Other People Unaware He Left A Blood Sample Behind.

One DNA Test Brought To You By Paranoid Bat Concerns Of A Possible Red Robin Clone Later And They Find Out That Dannys DNA Matches One Ra's Al Ghul.

They Now Think Danny Is An Escaped Ra's Al Ghul Clone.

Memes For The Vibes:

[mugwot]

rotating this crossover in my brain. again. i am not gonna say that the kitty is unlucky Because it is a black cat But. it sure is in situations often. lower are vague end-game Ghost Trick spoilers, go play the game! (or you know, watch a lets play) its short and sweet and has a good resent remaster for pc.

my current thought is that sissel got lost on a road trip? maybe fell through a portal? and is kinda stuck in the middle of nowhere usa. Shenanigans ensue. that happens when you have an increadibly powerful energy source stuck in a kinda defenceless body (not counting the time powers. which i am sure clockwork has nothing to say about and danny specifically doesnt have any negative experience with.)

[pics-pizza-peace]

Lawrence Gordon (Saw 2004) Pony Cosplay

[ghostly-cabbage]

We need to talk about the worst thing about making AUs....

The fact that then when you inevitably think about crossovers you don't want the crossover with the canon you want it with your specific AU. Your brain worms, your circus, but THEN WHAT?

Oh, yeah, to understand this crossover you need to go read this entirely different fic/series? Girl help 😭 you can't do that

[satsuha]

pokemon stuff

[varilien]

given that i've ran this blog for as many years now i think i should get much credit for this being what, only the third dick joke i've ever made here hdfkhkj

anyways. there's this point in the story where vash and wolfwood have to go their separate ways for a while, but neither of them are dealing with it particularly well

(image id below the cut since it's a longer one)

[image ID: a rough, doodley 5 panel digital comic of vash and meryl from trigun, but from my leaden skies au where they've both been lightly redesigned to fit into the setting of monster hunter. vash is a wyverian with long pointed ears, wearing a red coat with gold trim and buttons. meryl is a human wearing a beret as seen on other guild girls, but her all-white outfit is a practical two-piece blouse and shorts set. the whole comic is comprised of warm colors, orange and yellow and dark purple

panel 1: vash sitting in the foreground at a brown desk covered in candles and books, with a book opened in front of him that he flips through with a bored expression and his cheek resting against his hand. he appears to be in a library, lit by candles on dark grey chandeliers hung from the ceiling. meryl is in the background stretching up to reach a book high on a shelf, and beside her is a table which is also covered in candles and several tall stacks of books

panel 2: a closeup of vash's face as his eyes widen and his ears prick up. something in the book has apparently caught his attention

panel 3: a closeup of the page vash was looking at, an illustrated info sheet about the flying wyvern, khezu. a candle in the table brightly illuminates the colored page

panel 4: meryl has come around by vash's shoulders with a stack of books held in her arms. she quirks a brow as she looks over vash's shoulder at the book. vash has a neutral, hard to read look on his face, but his ears are still up and his eyes are still shiny and wide as he seems to consider the page for a while

panel 5: a yellow word bubble comes from vash, who huffs a long sigh and says, "maybe i should call him...". his head has tipped to the side as he rubs his neck and frowns, blushing a little with his ears drooping. meryl physically recoils from him and her face scrunches up in disgust, saying, "eww" and, "there's something wrong with you"

end ID.]

[meimeikyu]

guys please stop marking ur ao3 fics as magnus protocol and magnus archive unless it actively involves both!!! if it only involves protocol characters only tag it protocol im begging to stop tagging every other protocol fic with archive just bcs

[uncleardyn]

hi. managed to start writing something for that gravity falls/alan wake crossover. feel free to read it.

[supershot73199]

Hello I'm here with chapter 6 of Dawn's Big Daddy. Where's chapter 5 you ask? I decided to make my Danny killing Joker snippet cannon to this story so I made it chapter 5.

Here's the ao3 link to chapter 6 and the story will be below the cut

Dust and smoke hung heavy in the air as Black Bat darted around looking for more survivors. The echos and shockwaves from the clash of titans cutting over the sounds of screams and crying.

Darkseid had come for earth again and at a time when Superman and the rest of the founders of the Justice league were off world.

Supergirl, Captain Marvel and Superboy the first were doing all they could to hold line against Darkseid while other heroes either fought the parademon army or worked to evacuate civilians.

She was breathing heavy as she picked up another injured bystander when she heard a scream. Supergirl was down trying to push herself back up while the red blur that was Captain Marvel was flying into the stratosphere from a heavy blow and Superboy was unconscious, imbedded in a wall several buildings away.

Even as she was looking for a hero to hand off the injured civilian to she saw out of the corner of her eye Darkseid winding up for a punch to finish Supergirl off. But in the second between blinks Danny in his publicly named "Big Daddy" form had caught the blow.

The power coming off of the clash caused the air in the block surrounding them to clear of the dust a smoke.

Darkseid said something but Cass was to far away to hear it. Whatever it was Danny seemed to take offense to it and landed a brutal right hook to the New Gods chin sending him away from Supergirl, with her boyfriend in pursuit.

Cass turned to continue the evacuation knowing things were well in hand, and as she went she saw a silver suited woman spinning out of cover to get Supergirl and evacuate her, so that's what the fenton peeler looked like.

Kara's vision was swimming and she felt herself being lifted by metal arms, cyborg perhaps she mused as she sluggishly turned her head and blinked the spots out of her vision.

"You owe me some serious cuddle time when we get through this sunshine."

Kara felt her heart skip a beat as she recognized her psychologist girlfriend in the suit of armor. She and Jazz had been dating for a while now and Kara had been trying to figure out how to come clean on her identity as Supergirl.

"Jaz'?" She slurred her mouth having trouble forming the words from the exhaustion and pain.

"Yeah it's me I saw you fighting that bastard on the news and came as soon as I could with the peeler." Jazz responded as she jumped over a block of rubble without jarring Kara.

"Howed you knowsits me?" Kara slurred again.

"Little bro was a hero in high school, helped him out here and there which let me see the similarities in the two of your situations. Although I planned on letting you come to me when you were comfortable, didn't want you to think I had some ulterior motive."

"Hmm' brother...BROTHER! Who's fighting Darkseid?!" Kara's panic broke through the pain turning to see what was hopefully not her cousins clone or his baby brother fighting.

As she caught sight of the clash she saw the newest Meta of Gotham "Big Daddy" slugging it out with the Lord of Apokolips, though even as she watched Darkseids blows cracked the suit said Meta wore and it was looking rough.

"You've gotta let me go Darkseids almost broken that pressure suit, I've gotta-"

Jazz cut Kara off, "I know that's why we need to hurry and get out of range, once my brothers suit comes off he's really gonna let that bastard have it."

"What? Isn't that suit to keep him alive, like Mr Freeze?" Kara asked incredulously

"Yes and no, Danny has to where that because his powers are too strong, the amount of energy he gives off without that suit would cause his daughter to destabilize with too much exposure, her core is too weak to handle that kind off pressure." As Jazz spoke the blows from Darkseid finally broke the suit and with her super senses Kara could hear what Darkseid was saying.

"You were an admirable warrior, if foolish. Your suit is shattered kneel before me and I shall permit you to serve in my armies as I conquer this rock."

Danny chuckled "You seem to be under a misconception here, that suit didn't increase my abilities it limited them."

As he said this Danny shed the remains of the pressure suit revealing a black bodysuit with white gloves and boots. And as he finished the last of his lines he thrust his hand out sending a powerful green energy blast that sent Darkseid stumbling.

Kara felt a warm emotion well up inside her though it took her a moment to place it, safety. As her girlfriend carried her further away from the battlefield somehow she knew everything was going to be alright.

Impulse was breathing heavily, his lips were dry and parched and his stomach gripped at him with pains, yet he still fought on. After evacuating Superboy from Darkseids proximity to give Big Daddy some room to fight, he rushed back into the fray against the parademons.

He had just dispatched a handful of Darkseids foot soldiers when some if the rubble beneath his feet gave way sending him to his back. Before he could scramble to his feet a parademon lunged for him.

However before he could tap into the speed force to get away a neon green blast tore right through the alien monster.

"Hah that's what happens when you mess with earth, or my names not Jack Fenton!" A bombastic voice happily declared.

Bart was trying to stumble to his feet when a pair of large but gentle hands grabbed him and helped him up.

"Easy there hero you look exhausted. Luckily me and Mads brought some of my sons friends for backup. It's why we're late to this shindig!" As Bart finally got a look at the people who saved him he couldn't help but double take. It was a pair of adults in orange and teal jumpsuits, the man who wasn't wearing a mask had wrinkles around his eyes and a bright cheerful grin on his face that sat atop a body that gave some refrigerators a run for their money.

At his side was a woman in a teal jumpsuit with a hood and goggles on. She was significantly smaller than the man at her side but Bart could tell that she was no less dangerous.

"Oh Jack look at the poor dear he looks exhausted. Here honey have a juice box and sit down for a minute. My husband wasn't kidding about the backup after all." Bart was once more baffled as the woman mother hened him, putting a juice box in his hand and guiding him to a piece of rubble to sit on.

As he sat sipping on the juice box Bart was able to watch as the couple took out bazookas of all things and started firing at the army of parademons. (where were they storing those?)

He was also able to see several glowing figures engaging in battle, and if he wasn't to exhausted he'd be stoked at what he saw.

A dragon led an army of glowing knights and medieval soldiers, there was a flying pirate ship that was raining cannonballs on the enemy lines, some sort of robot was launching missiles and other weapons, there seemed to be a legion of Greek warriors fighting alongside several famous monsters led by a really tall four armed woman who looked like an Amazonian, some guy and girl on a motorcycle were plowing through the enemy as a living shadow seemed to watch their back, hell there was even a glowing Rockstar with blue flames for hair that seemed to be able to make sonic blast, and lastly there was even a small group of yeti setting up a medical aid station.

"Who are all of these people?" Bart mumbled to himself.

"Ghosts! They are all friends with our Danno and when they saw there was a fight going on they just had to join in!" Boomed the man in orange, Jack his wife had called him.

"That's right dear, you can just sit back and relax we have this from here." The motherly woman in teal said, Mads according to her husband.

"Yep, it's a good thing we were having a get together to catch up with Danny or it would have taken a while to gather up this many allies, and Sam and Tucker wouldn't have been able to watch Dawn so we could all come fight!" Jack boomed once more between blasts of his bazooka.

"Speaking of Danny it looks like he's decided to get serious now." Mads said

Causing Bart to quickly look back over to the fight with Darkseid.

As he had been pulling Kon to safety Bart had been able to see the way Big Daddy (apparently his name is Danny?) had been able to match Darkseid on equal footing after removing that suit, flowing around his blows and using dozens of powers (what is this guy a super?) to keep Darkseid on the backfoot, but it didn't seem like much of anything had been doing much more than annoy the New God.

As he looked now the heros appearance had changed again, hair that had been simple bright white now flowed and glowed like a nebula, his jumpsuit once plain black now looked like the night sky when there is no light pollution, his eyes previously blazing green now were raging white stars too bright to focus on, he looked like an embodiment of Space.

Danny didn't like to tap in to his power over space, it always made it hard to focus, after all in the grand scheme of the universe earth was nothing more than a speck.

Unfortunately for Darkseid he had put his sister's girlfriend in danger, he put his beloved Cassiopeia (so he got his pet names from a constellation sue him) in danger, and he put countless innocent lives in danger, but most damning, he made his Starlight cry.

Spittle flew from Darkseids mouth as another blow landed in his gut.

"How can you hit that hard? Not even superman can hit with that force!" The tyrant growled.

Danny couldn't help the scoff that came out of his mouth, of course Superman couldn't hurt Darkseid like this, no matter how strong the Kryptonian is he still only has so much mass to put behind his punches.

Danny doesn't have that problem, with his power over space he could fill his fists with the mass of entire galaxies, though he's only using about the equivalent of Jupiter right now, so even if Danny can't hit throw a punch with as much strength behind it as Superman (though Danny's strength is no laughing matter) each blow had more force behind it.

Danny didn't bother to explain this to the New God though better to keep him guessing so as he couldn't try to come up with a counter measure as easily.

"Damn this. You haven't seen the last of me earthling, I will conquer this planet!" Darkseid growled out before summoning boom tunes for himself and his army. Danny decided to be a little shit as the bastard fled.

"You'll try." And with that the lord of Apokolips scowled and fled to lick his wounds.

Cass was exhausted the help from the ghosts from Danny's home dimension made the search and rescue a breeze and they save hundreds of lives that might have been lost otherwise, but she was still covered in dirt, blood and soot. All she wanted to do was rinse off and cuddle with the hero of the day.

As she stumbled into her apartment she quickly realized that she wasn't alone, thankfully she recognized the shoes by her front door as belonging to Danny.

She limped her way further into her apartment until she got to her kitchen where Danny was cooking something that smelled delicious.

"Hi love." Cass mumbled out causing Danny to turn towards her before turning the heat down on the stove and sweeping her into a warm hug.

"Hey Cassiopia, how's my hero holding up?" He said softly as he held her close.

Cass snorted "I'm not the one who singlehandedly sent Darkseid running with his tail between his legs."

"So I kicked a guys ass, you were the one digging through rubble to save lives while I had to get a new suit put on so I didn't hurt anyone."

"Let's just say we're both heros and cuddle the rest of the night." Cass said knowing that Danny probably didn't get the gravity of what he'd done. (He did he just loves Cass so much that anything she does seems more amazing to him than anything he could ever do.)

"Well that sounds great to me, I've got a warm bath made up for you while I finish dinner then we can watch movies and cuddle. Dawn's with my parents for tonight so that my ecto-energy levels can stabilize so we can watch one of those horror movies we've been waiting to see."

Cas lit up at the thoughtfulness of her boyfriend before she gave him a peck on the lips before going to get in the heavenly bath that awaited her.

"I love you so much." She said

"And I you." Danny responded as she walked into the bathroom.

[sadkachow]

Me and @theeviltwinduh were talking and we think we've come up with an idea of a Death Note au that takes place in a world with SOULs like in Undertale? It's kind of just a fun thinkpiece idea, but here's what we have so far:

SOUL TYPES:

L: determination

Light: integrity (until death note)

Matsuda: kindness

Soichiro: justice

Sayu: perseverance

Near: determination

Mello: bravery

Matt: perseverance

Watari: patience 

Misa: kindness (until Death Note)

Ryuk: monster soul (or soulless)

Rem: monster (soulless maybe)

What is unknown by Death Note users is the fact that using a Death Note means your soul slowly corrodes until it becomes nothing. Think Flowey style (but more gradually over time).

Remnants of the soul (if any) belong to the shinigami who originally owned the Death Note

Shinigami (which are one kind of monsters, although not all monsters are shinigami nor were all once Death Note users) were once humans, who, after exchanging their souls for the use of the Death Note, once they die, become shinigami.

[starry-bi-sky]

don't you want to be a cult leader? - danyal al ghul au

this is mostly a joke post but i thought it was funny and had to share so--

his first mistake was, obviously, inheriting his father's inability to see an injustice and stand still. -- actually, danyal's first mistake was his lair being so big. a mountainous island with a large temple in the center resembling his old home in Nanda Parbat? With sprawling foliage and rivers and streams and waterfalls galore? What was he going to do with all that space? Let it go to waste? He had plants there! Native trees of the ghost zone growing from the soil! He couldn't let it all be left unchecked!

So naturally after helping a fellow teenage assassin ghost -- who he later learns is named Akihiko, -- from Walker of all people, he sent them over to hang low at his lair until it was safe enough for them to wander around the Zone. Walker couldn't get through Danyal's astrofield if his life depended on it, and trust him -- he's tried. Danny was clearing out debris from his stupid transport vans for weeks.

Honestly it wasn't so bad, he and Aki really quickly became fast friends and Danny loves having a sparring partner close to his level again -- he hasn't had this much fun fighting since he left the League. Aki was very dedicated and levelheaded, the both of them clicked really well because of it.

Nonono, the real trouble began after Danyal met some long-passed League members and allowed them to come join his island as well. Apparently they had made a few enemies of the zone, and maybe Danyal still felt some loyalty to the League. He couldn't just let them be left to rot. Their zealotry could be overlooked so long as they kept it contained and helped him take care of his island.

And it.. snowballs from there? He meets a teen squire aptly calling himself Ambroise -- whether that was his living name or not is yet to be seen -- who died during feudal france, who is just about as dramatic and passionate as every french stereotype makes them out to be. He calls Danyal "my moon and great muse" -- which is both flattering and little uncomfortable, but Danyal's grown up in the League as the Grandson of the Demon Head, he is used to mild worship. he passes it off as nothing more, nothing less. -- and while his energy is overwhelming on the worst of days, he helps Danny draw out of his shell more in ways that Sam and Tucker still struggle with.

Him and Aki butt heads a lot, but the two seem to hold the other in at least some positive regard, so Danny doesn't worry too much about them fighting while he's gone. It only becomes a mild issue when Aki also begins calling Danny "my moon". It's a little sweet, so Danyal brushes it off.

Then he takes in a troupe of ghosts some time after he defeats Pariah Dark and they begin calling him "great one" just as the yetis do in the far frozen. This is where he meets the twins -- a pair of sibling ghosts who call themselves Trixie and Missy (short for Trick and Mislead) -- who aren't quite as passionate as Ambroise but more energetic than Aki. Eventually they also start calling Danyal "my moon" and attach themselves to his hip, even within the living. They like to hide in his shadow and cause trouble for the rest of the students. He makes sure they don't hurt anyone.

He's pretty sure Aki is jealous, same with Ambroise, but he can't be too certain other than the fact that they become much more lingering (re: clingy) whenever he visits the island.. Something he's trying to do much more often these days due to the increasing amount of people living there now. Since when did he become so popular?

Then there's Pēnelópeia from the Greater Athens, who ran away from home and joined his Island after he ran into her while she was being chased by Skulker -- and he's pretty sure the reason was because of her chimeric appearance. Her strange eyes and mismatched wings and lion's tail and talons. She assimilates into his friend group very easily, she gets along well with Ambroise and Trixie and Danny usually finds the three of them climbing the trees to pluck the most fruit from the top. They can fly and he knows it, but they prefer to climb.

Then finally there's silent poet Akkara who comes from ancient mesopotamia, who gets along most with Aki -- which is no surprise there considering their similar personality dispositions. he watches Aki and Danyal fight each other and leaves comments on this or that that he notices. He writes Danyal poems on clay tablets and leaves them by his room.

They're one big mismatched group of outcasts, and Danny's got the other ghosts on his island to tend to, because they're living on his island and he wants to be hospitable even if he struggles with that. But he spends the most of his time with them.

Sam and Tucker are making fun of him. Tucker jokingly tells him 'careful Danny, at this rate you're gonna start a cult'. Danny really wishes he had taken that joke more seriously.

He just. keeps. collecting people. Wayward souls lost in the zone, looking for shelter or refuge from something or other -- whether that be another hostile ghost, or a past afterlife, or just a purpose. Danyal finds them, he takes them in, offers them a place on his island until they are ready to leave. Many seldom do. He's not complaining -- he has the space, and it feels like it's only ever growing.

His close friends, his "inner circle" as he's heard the others call them, keep insistently calling him "my moon". He starts calling them his stars, because then it only feels fair. They're his stars, this is his constellation. It becomes a thing; little star halos begin forming behind their heads, picking them out from the rest. He loves them so much, it's hard to place. Sam and Tucker are also his stars, but they reside in the living realm, they're his tie to Life. Meanwhile, his friends here know what it's like to be dead, and sometimes its nice to relate.

Those living on his island keep calling him "Great One" and he's beginning to notice zealotry in their care for his island. He really, deeply appreciates it. His close friends gain nicknames -- as his stars, it's only natural for him to pick them out from the cluster in the skies. Akihiko, his Sirius and bright star. Trix and Missy, Castor and Pollux, the twins and troublemakers. Ambroise, his zealous Antares and close friend. Penelopeia, chimeric and loyal Vega. And Akkara, his Arcturus and strength.

It's ridiculous how long it takes for him to notice; he is, of course, a deadly trained assassin. He is meant to be observant -- and normally he is! But somehow this becomes a blind spot. One that becomes too big to be dealt with by the time he realizes it.

He should've noticed when Aki, his Sirius, stood beside him one day while Danyal looked over his island and saw the sprawling spirits carrying on about their afterlife and bowing to him as they saw him, and said: "I looked down into the depths when I met you; I couldn't measure it." They aren't one for flowing prose, it took him so off guard he was silent for over a minute before he finally spoke.

Danyal should've recognized devotion for what it is, and yet he didn't. He should've recognized it when Antares began spouting praises about him, crowing about his radiance and resplendence to the heavens. He just brushed it off as Ambroise being Ambroise. He should've recognized it when Trix and Missy nearly broke Dash's leg after he knocked Danyal's books out of his hands, he excused it as them being protective. Of them coming from times where such violence may have been customary -- after all, that's what he used to be like. What he was still like, sometimes, when his emotions nearly got the better of him.

He should've noticed it when the people living on his island followed his word like gospel, looked at him like he hung the stars in the sky. When his friends gifted him a shawl with the moon phases delicately embroidered into it, with silver, shimmering thread and moving stars lovingly stitched into it. Their constellations seen clear as day in the dark fabric. When he found small shrines dedicated to him -- but they lacked any image of him beyond stones carved to look like moons, so he ignored it. When the religious imagery began popping up.

He really, really should've noticed it when a bunch of cultists accidentally summoned Antares, and Antares had turned to him when he arrived and called them heretics. But he was so centered on the fact that they had kidnapped one of his stars, that he hadn't paid much attention to what Ambroise had said.

Sages say that faith is blind, they should also say faith in you is even blinder.

It really only hits him one afternoon while he's sitting in Sam's room studying with Tucker, Missy and Trixie lounging at his feet, Aki sat on his right, Penelopeia braiding his hair, Ambroise draped against him, and Akkara lurking over him. Its one of the rare few times they're all in one room together.

It hits him like a bolt of lightning. He looks up from his textbook. "Oh Ancients," he says in no amounting shock. Everyone looks up to him.

"I've become my grandfather."

[why-is-it-always-autumn]

The problem with big fandoms (using "problem" in a very loose sense here) is that it's really hard to stumble across the weird niche undertagged stuff when its being buried in five million coffee shop/royalty/high school/soulmate aus. If there are 150 works in the tag total you can look through very quickly and find anything that appeals to you. When there are over a million it is much harder to do that.

[t4tails]

Are you watching through specifically batman stuff or just any DC related show/movie? Cause Happy Halloween Scooby-Doo lacks batman but has Scarecrow, so I don't know if that is on your radar

batman relates specifically but happy halloween is still on my list! ive clarified this before but its been a while. basically, i will watch if:

1. batmans in it (obvious)

2. batman is not in it, but a closely related character is (teen titans due to robin, happy halloween due to scarecrow, etc)

3. no batman characters are in it, but its in the same universe as something that does have batman in it (superman: the animated series, static shock, i watched all the dcau & dceu due to this)

due to his prominence in most of... everything, it can feel like a dc watchlist in general sometimes, but theres still stuff that gets left out (legion of superheroes, the 20th century superman movies, etc)

[skitskatdacat63]

This is my personal crossover event of the century