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gayspock · 4 years ago
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fr fr i dont kno im just sad again xoxo.. ive just spent weeks at this point with my sleep all fuckd up, and my head all fuckd up and i cant manage to do anythin at all. i just sit up and fuckn stare at the wall until i pass out again .   feel lonely feel like shit. jst wish i could fuckn manage anythin but i genuinely fuckin cant i cant even try at anyhting any more im just so fuckn broken down  . and i know , i know its not worth it bc even when i do manage to d literally anyhtign its jsut... so, so pathetically insignificant and its just drowned out instantly..... and i wish the world would just stop  turning but it fuckn wont . im just getting further away from ebverything, spending my fuckn time crying and tryin not to fucking off myself and for WHAT for WHAT man bc its not foing to spent doin anything worthwhile.... just reduced to fuckn shell and im wasting more of it away and fucking everything up bc i cant do anything!! no matter how hard i try its jsut all so fucking worthless, and im so alone, and i cant fight for any of it man i jsut want to die. i just want to fuckin die!  and i just wish it mattered do u kno wht i mean. i wish it mattered tht it all sucked, at least, but it doesnt it never does .... i fuckn cry like this every night for years and  never fuckn changes andi jsut think man. i jsut think. abt wht its paid off to try staying alive. i think abt killing myself as a miserable 12 y.o , and i think abt killing myself now as a 20 y.o old and there isnt a single lick of difference. those 8 years burnt away and meant nothing man.  nothing at all. it wouldnt have mattered if i disappeared then and it wont matter now . it really fuckn wont . i could wlk in front of a train and it wont mean anythin and it wont mean anythin tht i bothered to live .it was just as worthless as i felt it all was  and i dot know man. i dont kno. everyone alwyas says theyre sad like this and depressed btu i just feel so fucking hollow bc it just feels like ... even then they at least have friends or at they least have soemhing and im just . not anything . at all . and i just sit here. and stare at walls and cry and hit myself  . there is ntohing to comfort urself with... theres no reason to wnt to be alive bc there genuinely just is nothing there for me and i dotn know. i dotn kno. i cant do anyhting man. i cant  and whtn i say tht i cant i really mean i cant. i cant read i cant watch shit i cant do anyhing i can barely manage it without breaking down any more i cant even do the most bare basic fucking shite without fucking collapsing in on myself an di dont know wht the point is. why fight for tht. why man . and i jsut. again i feel so fucking lonely and m just fucking mad as fucking hell right now  and (cry scream noise) i dnt kno wht to do with myself . i dont kno wht to do . u kno when u sit there and try to think abt other times u’ve been sad. try to think of it and think of it getting better . but then you realise it never did. nothing ever changed. ur the same lonely and isolated as u were back then as you are now. u still feel all the same horrible feelings. you try but it doesnt change. doesnt go away. u wish u werent still bitter, but u cant move past anyhting bc ever since its just. h, and it doesnt seem to matter wht u do. it just fucking stays like tht. i  dotn know i jsut wnt to feel like im alive in some capacity but i jsut fuckn sit alone and talk to myself and cry for days  and its so pathetic and  i have to go for antoehr appointment next week bt i jsut want to skip it man. its so pointless  its jst so fuckn pointless i just fckn wnt to die i cant face any of it i cant take any of it and its so , so barren. it really is just all so fucking barren. i dont kn this is so stupid do u ever jsut sit there and stare at eveyrne else and theyre so colourful and thy have things tht mean stuff to threm and ur just sat there sobbing bc everythin just fuckn . gggod i dont know. when ppl ask wht u do. wht u like. and theres just ntohing there. i think abt all the shit and its just to distract myself and id otn care do u kno wht i mean. and i jsut.. i dont know i just. E
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The Doors - Halloween - 2018 story
***AUTHOR’S NOTE*** This story is in no way related to the Lavender Walls series.
The Doors - Halloween - 2018 story
It was 11am Halloween morning and Jim had just arrived at the recording studio. He got out of his blue Mustang and scratched his beard with anticipation. He reached down and grabbed the plastic bag off the the passenger seat. The bag was purple and had a smiling green monster on it and in orange letters said 'HAPPY HALLOWEEN'. He ran his hand through his long, brown hair and walked inside.
He first made his way over to Robby who was messing with his guitar. Jim knocked on the little table next to Robby, held out his bag and said, “Trick or Treat.” Robby just looked at him. Jim held his bag open and repeated, “Trick or Treat.” Robby rolled his eyes and reached into his pocket and and found some mints and a half eaten pack of M&M's. He dropped the candy in Jim's bag and glared at Jim. Next Jim wandered over to John who was behind his drum kit. Jim knocked on a cymbal, held out his bag and said, “Trick or Treat.” John reached down and found his unopened bottle of apple juice and a half eaten banana. He dropped them into Jim's bag. Jim then made his way over to Ray and knocked on his keyboard and said, “Trick or Treat.” Ray glanced from Jim to the bag and then dropped in a half eaten roll of Mentos and a pack of gum. Next Jim wandered out to where Bruce Botnick was and knocked on the wall next to him and said, “Trick or Treat.” Bruce looked up and rolled his eyes as he dropped a half eaten Snickers bar into Jim's bag.
Jim walked over to the couch and sat down and dumped out his bag. He looked through the candy and mumbled to himself, “This sucks. There's nothing good in here.” He then looked up and yelled, “You all suck! You didn't give me anything good. This shit is almost as bad as those nasty candies that the wrapper looks like a strawberry!” Robby put down his guitar and said, “What the hell do you expect when you just show up and start trick or treating at a recording studio. And your bag is lame as hell!” Jim stood up, “My bag is awesome! You are just jealous!” Ray shook his head, “Jim no one is jealous of you.
Robby walked over to Jim and said, “Why do you always do this shit? Every holiday you always do something stupid like this. Its ridiculous.” Jim said, “Just because you don't like holidays doesn't mean I can't celebrate them.” Ray said, “We understand that Jim, but you always take it too far and interrupt our work. I mean come on, labor day...what the hell was that. You grilled on stage. That was ridiculous.” Jim shrugged his shoulders as he left the room. He soon came back carrying a giant metal tub filled with apple sauce and and apples. Robby said, “What the hell is that? I thought we were bobbing for apples in booze.”
Jim looked at Robby and said, “Really...bobbing for apples in booze before 10pm? You're such a neanderthal!” John responded, “But won't we get drunk if we bob for apples in booze?” Robby said, “You are so dense! Bobbing for apples in booze is the only good idea Jim has ever had.” John looked at Ray. Ray responded, “Robby is right. It is Jim's only good idea.”
Jim threw a pencil and said, “Who wants to bob for apples in apple sauce with  me?” Robby said, “No. That's gross. I don't want to get apple sauce all over my head.” Jim shrugged his shoulders, “More for me.” He then  began bobbing for apples in the apple sauce. Ray shook his head, “Great, now we have to listen to him all afternoon whining about how sticky his hair is because its covered in apple sauce.” Robby nodded, “Yeah but still better than last year when we had to pick gummy worms out of his beard.” John looked at Jim's whose entire head was buried deep in apple sauce and said, “So I guess we're not recording today?” Ray looked at John, “You know I tried defending you but you really are just a dumb person who is paranoid and way too uptight. We'll record this afternoon once Jim gets his head out of the apple sauce.”
Jim raised his head from the metal tub filled with apple sauce. He had an apple in his mouth and apple sauce dripped from his wavy hair. He took the apple out of his mouth and said, “Gross I got some apple sauce down my shirt!”Robby said, “Your hair is covered in apple sauce, its dripping off of your beard and you're concerned about some apple sauce down your shirt?” Jim shook his head and apple sauce went flying. Ray ripped off his glasses and screamed, “Damn it Jim! Why do you have to do shit like that. Now I have to go clean my glasses because they have apple sauce all over them. You are so damn inconsiderate.”
Jim burped loudly and said, “Whatever. I need to go get cleaned up. Its lunch time and I need my Burger King.” Robby snickered, “Can you even fit through the door there anymore?” Jim ran his hand through his hair and threw a handful of apple sauce a Robby. Robby wiped the apple sauce off of his face and said, “That does it! I am sick of you and your antics!” He grabbed a bowl full of candy corn and flung it at Jim. Jim picked some up off the floor and threw it at Ray. Ray screamed, “What the hell did you do that for? I'm not the one throwing stuff at you. If you hadn't thrown that apple sauce from your hair at Robby none of this would be happening.” Jim glared at Ray, “You go on and on about being the leader of this group and you act like our father. And yet you let Robby throw crap at me. You suck Ray.”
Ray screamed, “You act like a damn child Jim! I mean bobbing for apples in apple sauce? What the hell is that? That's something a child would do. You have no manners, you burp loudly all the time and laugh about it. Its all ridiculous.” John chimed in, “And you're a slut. You are with like 3-4 different women. Its disgusting.” Everyone looked on in amazement at John. Robby said, “Since when do you say stuff like that. You never attack Jim like that. Usually its Ray and I who attack him.” John shrugged his shoulders, “I am just sick of him making me so uncomfortable. He doesn't care about me.”
Jim glared at John, “You're the weakest link in the band. You contribute nothing. You know what the scariest part of Halloween is this year? That you are still in this band!” Ray and Robby snickered. John stood up, “Just because I am the only one in this group that has any morals doesn't mean I should be picked on. I contribute plenty to this band.” Jim stood up, “You are so fucking jealous of me because girls like me no matter what and they won't even give you the time of day! Now if you'll excuse me I need to go back to my motel room and get cleaned up and get my costume ready for tonite.”
Robby looked at Jim, “Costume?” Jim nodded, “Yeah. I'm going trick or treating tonite, here in the studio was just practice. I'm going as a ghost but I need figure out where to cut the eye holes in the bed sheet. The sheet is kind of um...stained and I don't want people to be able to see the stains.” Ray rolled his eyes, “Jim that's disgusting. Instead of using that stained bed sheet from your motel room bed why not go buy a new one.” John looked at Robby and Ray, “I don't get it. Why is his bed sheet stained?” Robby said, “Figure it out man.”
It was 7pm and the three Doors looked out the window of the studio and saw Jim crossing the street with a white bed sheet over his head dressed as a ghost., carrying his purple tick or treat bag. Robby said, “I can't believe he's actually going trick or treating. He's 27 years old, he's too old to be that excited about Halloween.” Ray said, “The bed sheet looks clean, he must have got a new one.” John asked, “How come he got to leave here early if you're so against him trick or treating?” Ray responded, “Well he really didn't need to be here we weren't recording vocals this afternoon, its easier to just let him go. Besides maybe he'll be in a better mood tomorrow when we do have to record vocals.”
Jim hurried down the street eager to get started trick or treating. He ignored the comments made by his bandmates that he was too old to trick or treat. They were just jealous that they wouldn't be getting free candy or having fun. He also ignored their comments that he would be recognized. He knew with the bed sheet over his head he could go unrecognized. They were just jealous that he would be having fun tonite and they'd be stuck in a recording studio.
He came to a neighborhood and knocked on a door. The door opened and Jim held out his bag and said, “Trick or treat.” The old lady opened the door and dropped some candy in Jim's bag and said, “Aren't you a nice looking ghost! Happy Halloween!” Jim smiled under his costume and said, “Thank you. Happy Halloween to you too!” Jim knew tonite was going to be a good nite and for the first time in a long time he actually felt happy and excited about life.”
Jim continued going from door to door getting more and more candy. His bag was getting full and heavy. He sat down on the curb to rest. Other trick or treaters passed by and waved at him and he waved back and smiled even though they couldn't see his smile under his costume. He stood up and decided to go to a few more houses before heading back to his motel room.
As he was making his way back to his motel room after a successful nite of trick or treating Jim tripped and fell spilling much of his candy. He started crying, not only because he spilled his candy but because he'd hurt his hand when he fell. He looked up and saw someone approaching him. He was worried the person was going to steal his candy. The person bent down and said, “Jim, are you OK?” Jim said, “No, I'm not OK Ray. Are you here to make fun of me? You've been doing it all day.” Ray said, “I'm sorry about that and no I'm not here to make fun of you. I was leaving the studio and I saw you fall. I knew it was you because you're so close to your motel and I recognized your bag. Here let me help you.” Ray then began putting Jim's candy back into the bag while Jim sat there holding his wrist.” Jim said through his tears, “My right wrist really hurts. Will you take me to the doctor tomorrow?” Ray said, “I''ll take you now. We'll go to the hospital.” They gathered up Jim's candy and dropped it off in his motel room along with the ghost costume and then made their way to the hospital.
It was 3am and Jim was alone in his motel room, his broken wrist in a cast and a sling. He hated the sling. Even though he was given pain medicine at the hospital his wrist was still hurting really bad.  He hoped Ray would be by early in the morning with his pain meds. He hated that pharmacies were not open in the middle of the nite. Jim sat on his bed and dumped out his candy. It was harder than the thought it would be to unwrap a piece of candy using only one hand.
Jim finally decided to give up on the candy and pushed it to one side of the bed and laid down. He put his tear stained face on his pillow and tried to sleep through the pain until he could take more pain meds in the morning when Ray came back. His wrist was hurting so bad and he couldn't get comfortable. Finally he drifted off into a restless sleep.
To be continued in The Doors Thanksgiving Story.
This is Jim annoyed at being made fun of for wanting to go trick or treating.
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sebeth · 6 years ago
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Crisis On Infinite Earths #4
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Warning, Spoilers Ahead…
 The captions inform us on the current state of the planet: “July 1985: The red skies are hardly noticed now. Instead, attention is paid to the snows and winds, to the electrical. Mayhem occurring over every part of our fragile earth. The stars, too, seem affected by whatever is out there…constellations are no longer aligned as usual. Sunspot activity has increased a thousand-fold. Weather has gone insane, and even those with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men find their every waking day filled with nightmares come true.”
The following panel is from a New Teen Titans crossover issue. It demonstrates the weirdness the universe is undergoing:
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We open with one of the great pre-Crisis friendships:  Supergirl and Batgirl.  
Supergirl notes to herself: “I’ve lived through my planet crumbling around me. I’ve experienced first-hand the terror you feel as your world dies.”
This may not be Kara’s first rodeo when it comes to a planet’s destruction but it will be her last.
Barbara is having a serious crisis of confidence: “Now I feel so useless, so helpless, so worthless, and so very, very scared.  I…I’m nothing.  I…I don’t think I was ever cut out for playing hero…She’s a hero through and through…while all I can think about is what will happen to me.  My god, what I have become?”
Bab’s self-doubt is realistic.  Remember this is pre-Crisis Batgirl:  smart, agile, throws a mean Batarang.  Hyper-competent, computer hacker genius Oracle didn’t happen until after the Killing Joke.
Post-Crisis, the authors of Barbara’s Secret Origins story and the Batgirl Special will pick up on this self-doubt and gracefully ease Bab’s into retirement. Then the Killing Joke happened. Horrible story. Thankfully, John Ostrander rescued Babs from the overly-stuffed refrigerator.
John Constantine is trying to get Steve Dayton (Mento) into the game.  Steve would rather drink (repeatedly) until the end of the world. For those unfamiliar with Steve Dayton:
1)      He has a helmet that gives him telepathic abilities.
2)      Mento served with the Doom Patrol.
3)      Steve Dayton married Rita Farr (Elasti-Girl).  They adopted Gar Logan (Beast Boy/Changeling.
4)      Rita, along with the rest of the Doom Patrol, died earlier while saving an island.
5)      Steve is mentally unbalanced at this point from his grief and the use of his helmet.
On to Earth-6:  The home of Lord Karak Volt, Lady Tashana Quark, and Liana is in its final death throes. Lady Quark witnesses the death of Volt, her husband, and Liana, their daughter.  Pariah is able to remove Lady Quark from the universe before its destruction. Lady Quark, along with Earth-6 was created for the Crisis on Infinite Earth series.
The Monitor decides it’s time to create his new warrior.  Dr. Kimiyo Yoshi, a very no-nonsense but in desperate need of tact scientist, is observing the Vega star when a burst of energy strikes the lab. Kimiyo disappears in the blast.
The Editor’s Note refers the readers to Omega Men #26.  The Omega Men battled the Spider Guild while Nimbus fought X’Hal and Auron. X’Hal and Auron both have light-based powers so that would be the cause of the light show on Vega. The 1980’s Omega Men series was highly underrated.  
Psycho-Pirate’s master kidnaps the Red Tornado.  Pirate is warned that if he keeps being lippy he will be replaced by Phobia (a Teen Titans foe).  Makes we wonder why the Monitor hasn’t recruited Phobia if the two are so interchangeable.
Earth-2, the time of King Arthur and the Round Table: Firestorm and Killer Frost are sent to this era to activate the machine. The duo encounter Sir Justin the Shining Knight while Vandal Savage observes from the distance.  Shadow Demon attack.  Firestorm is struggling to deal with the loving Killer Frost.  A change brought about by Psycho Pirate in issue 1. “Good gravy!  I’m gonna get sick!  Monitor, why didn’t you team me up with Firehawk?  Even the Black Bison would have been better ‘n this!”  
The shadow demons merge into giant forms and attack all five towers.  Starfire and Halo attempt to destroy the tower in New York City but are stopped by the new Dr. Light: “Get back and leave this vibrational fork alone! It’s all that can save our planet!”
 Katana acts as a translator for Dr. Light.  Superman, who also speaks Japanese, converses with Dr. Light.
Changeling: “The big probs kinda go poof when Ol’ Red ‘S’ is around.”
Dr Light: “I tell you, this world is populated by morons.” Well, she’s not wrong.
Superman: “Well, what can I do to save the world? Tell me and I’ll sacrifice my own life if need be.” Foreshadowing for the upcoming Kyrptonian death?
The first few issues have consistently highlighted Superman as the first, last, and best defense of Earth. It started with Ultraman’s last stand and the following issues have shown that DC’s heroes expect Superman to take charge and receive comfort in his presence. As they should. We’ve also seen quiet moments where Superman has struggled with his own fears and the expectations placed upon him. Stellar character work.
Wonder Woman is on Paradise Island trying to rally her sisters to fight.  Hippolyta has received word from Athena: “The gods cannot save us, or themselves, it seems…” Diana feels that Hippolyta has given up too quickly: “Mother…I gave you a chance, but you refused it.  Hera help me, but our feud continues…and even at the end of everything we hold sacred…daughter and mother cannot make peace.”
Pariah meets with the Monitor: “You are aboard my home…constructed quite a long time ago.  Just prior to the day you were cursed.”  Pariah discovers that the Monitor is the one who rescued/cursed him: “Indeed I was the one responsible for your survival.  You should have died for your sins – yet I was a greater good coming for them…I sacrificed much of my own life to see that you lived.”  
As the two argue, we see a 10-panel spread of various heroes battling the Crisis. We have the various teams at the towers plus Anthro, Blue Devil rescuing civilians, the Legion of Super-Heroes’ headquarters exploding, and Dolphin and Lori Lemaris overwhelmed in Atlantis.
Harbinger murders the Monitor: “He commands me now, Monitor! And his command is death!”
Earth-1 and Earth-2 disappear in a wave of anti-matter.
This issue focused on the ladies.  Supergirl, Batgirl, Wonder Woman, Lady Quark, Liana, Harbinger, Killer Frost, and Dr. Light all had prominent roles.  Katana, Halo, and Starfire were the focus of the Teen Titans/Outsiders scene.  (Okay, Superman had some prominence, too).  And it passes the Bechdel test, multiple times, decades before it existed!
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thesinglesjukebox · 6 years ago
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SIGRID - HIGH FIVE
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More like a high [6]...
Julian Axelrod: At its core, pop is just ecstasy or agony writ large, and few do maximalist misery better than Sigrid. While "Strangers" was a desperate grasp for connection in the face of isolation, "High Five" is a bleary dance atop the wreckage left in the wake of fake friends. They're two sides of the same coin, deeply felt declarations of loneliness in an era where you're never truly alone. But like its predecessor, "High Five" hitches its ennui to a humongous hook that sounds like a confetti cannon shot into the sun. It's a joyous ode to the liberating act of screaming into the void -- think "It's My Party" for the millennial age. [8]
Alfred Soto: Predictable developments and a voice that sounds unconvincingly self-regarding do not solid dance pop make. [4]
Ian Mathers: I slightly underrated her "Strangers" at the time, but between that and "High Five" it's clear that Sigrid is good enough at weaving humane yet unflinching rebukes into total bangers that she will hopefully one day write her generation's "You're So Vain" (with more synthesizers). Also, the "ooh, everybody loves a show" bit makes me think of this as the equally dark inverse of Lorde's "Liability" (Tove Styrke's version too), especially since Sigrid has described "High Five" as self-critical as much as anything else. [9]
Scott Mildenhall: It follows that Sigrid says this is somewhat self-directed, a warning to oneself of roads to not go down, because that accounts for its tough love approach. It's obscured, but there is sympathy: sick of angst-screen sycophancy, she sees the fragility it belies, quietening down temporarily to attend to it, before reaffirming belief that the plaster is best ripped off. Those in the business of doing so could easily take it as a Searing Critique Of Celebrity, but its applicability seems so much wider than that. The person being addressed doesn't sound all that powerful when the room goes quiet, and all that comes to mind is that they probably get their high fives not from apparent achievement, but through knocking others down. Perhaps for everyone touched or even bound up in the invasive and all-pervasive kind of bland judgmentalness that seems borne of a fear of being judged, this is a cue to relax. [8]
Will Adams: An admittedly familiar concept -- anti-bullying message that drifts dangerously close to piety -- elevated to glorious heights by a bracing chorus and a bridge that unexpectedly divulges a Regina Spektor influence. [8]
Katherine St Asaph: The most expensive atrium-fountain drops and inventive machine whirrs money can buy, but the defanged lyric, weirdly young for a 21-year-old, and epic-shaped but empty song that the production encloses renders it all unimpressive. The piano breakdown could be interesting if it A) weren't another "see, she can do real music" acoustic redux most pop artists employ, just this time plopped into the actual song, and B) didn't remind me of why those Lorde-Kate Bush comparisons never quite worked for me. Bush's strengths don't lie in being arch and precocious -- few female singer-songwriters' do -- and if you're making pop-pop music, arch and precocious will kill. [3]
Joshua Minsoo Kim: Several amusing and quirky ideas that are rendered meaningless by a standard stadium-ready chorus. [4]
Stephen Eisermann: When pop artists are willing to get experimental with production, singing styles, atmosphere, and song structure, it always makes for a more enjoyable listen -- even if the song doesn't always stick its landing. The piano breakdown during the bridge came out of left field, but it made an already interesting song about the yes-men in your life even better. To me, it was a metaphor for those times when you want to be honest with yourself and go against the grain and against what will get you the most attention. It's probably way simpler than that, but that's the fun of weird songs -- you can read way too much into them while you listen to them on repeat for hours before finally giving up and enjoying the song for what it is: good pop music. [7]
Juan F. Carruyo: This song is the aural equivalent of dropping Mentos in Coke: appropriately epic. [7]
Katie Gill: The way this song builds is downright beautiful -- I didn't expect it to just LAUNCH right into that chorus of sound, but man, am I glad that Sigrid chose to do it this way. This clocks in at less than three minutes, but it's so tightly edited and pieced together that it makes the most out of each beat. It's a damn good and damn fun pop song for a time when we reeeally need a few more damn fun pop songs. [7]
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kohakuhime · 7 years ago
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The Reluctant Guardian, Ch. 4
Now that the prologue is out of the way, time for a tense change! Also thank you for being patient about this update, as I’ve had debilitating headaches virtually every day this week.
This takes place post series. Kazuo and Michael are owned by @mpuzzlegirl; Rowen, the twins, and Sylvie are owned by me; and YGO and its associated characters belong to Kazuki Takahashi.
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Rowen was cooking breakfast when he heard the house phone start to ring. He reached for it, and after a quick glance at the caller ID he put the device on speaker. “Hey Michael,” he greeted, flipping another pancake.
“Hay’s for horses, Ro.”
Rowen snorted in laughter. “Hardy har,” he said wryly, placing the phone on the counter.
“I was wondering…are you busy today?”
He frowned when the pancake did not fully flip and reached for the spatula. “Not really, but I can’t leave home,” he replied slowly, scowling as the uncooperative food continued to defy him. “Sylvie’s sick.”
Rowen wasn’t about to leave home with his little sister ill. It was a given, especially considering…well. Besides, his grandparents returned to their own home for the day to check on things. They had taken turns between the two homes, since their own house was almost four hours away. There was already talk about Rowen and Sylvie moving out to their grandparent’s home, but there  was not anything definite that Rowen had heard.
He…he didn’t know how to feel about that yet.
There was a sympathetic hiss on the other end of the phone. “I didn’t know the little fey had a cold.”
“Sprang up overnight,” Rowen replied, tuning back into the conversation. He finally gave up and scooped the folded cake onto a plate. “There’s been a bug going around at her school. She must have caught it there.”
“Ahh…poor kid.”
“You can come over here if you want to, Michael,” Rowen added hastily. “No harm in that.”
“It’s okay, Rowen. I was hoping for a ride to the mall. I wanted to go to the used movie shop there ‘cause I’m trying to find this one flick…ever hear of ‘Dear Santa, I Can Explain’?”
Rowen poured the batter for another pancake into the skillet. The name was incredibly familiar, he felt, and after a moment he placed it. “Is that one of Aunt Carmon’s movies?”
“Yeah. I was hoping to find it.” A pause. “It’s supposedly the only time Dad ever appeared in one of Mama’s movies.”
Rowen’s eyes squeezed shut and his head bowed. “Ah.”
“Yeah. I, uh…Dad was always camera shy, and Mama was the only one outside of Uncle Valon who had any videos of him, and…well, I wanted to see him in it.”
He flipped another pancake, feeling only partially pleased that this one behaved better than the first one. “Is it online anywhere?”
“I’ve tried, but I couldn’t find any clips online and the movie’s ridiculously expensive…it’s like three hundred bucks on eBay. Three hundred, Ro! Why is it that much for one movie?”
“Aunt Carmon was a quality actress, and coupled with your dad it had to be a good one. I’m not that surprised,” Rowen said. He propped himself on an elbow, a rueful smile on his face. “If you want I could see if I could—“
“No, Ro. Stay with Sylvie. It’s fine, really. I can ask Kazuo and Aunt Isabel, or I can check in with the twins and Sorta-Uncle Joey.”
Rowen actually laughed at that. The twin’s uncle had coined the term, “Sorta-Niece and Nephews” when it had come to Rowen, Sylvie, and Michael, and in turn he had gained the title of “Sorta-Uncle.” “I think they’re busy today, but it doesn’t hurt to check. I know the twins have been fairly stir crazy and might appreciate the chance to go out.”
There was another long pause, and then Michael sighed. “How have you been, Rowen?”
Rowen paused, his hands stilling. He knew there was another question hidden in the one just asked. He walked over to the fridge and pulled out the strawberries, trying to think of the best way to answer it. “I’ve been fair, mostly fine,” he tried gamely at last, when he was within earshot of the phone.
“…Freaked out, insecure, nauseous, emotional?”
Rowen shook his head. “That about sums it up,” he replied. He tried to think of what to say next—the topic was too painful to really touch on, even after nearly two months. “It’s…getting easier, y’know? I’m not…it’s the first week I’ve had where I don’t call for Mama and Papan when I come back home.”
He didn’t know how to fully express the cocktail of emotions that he’s felt since the night his parents died. He had not tried to delve into those thoughts, either—he was afraid of what would happen if he did, and there were too many people who needed him to stay strong.
“…yeah…” Michael sounded distant. There was one last long silence, and then Michael’s throat cleared. “Anyways, Rowen, I’ve gotta get going. The mall’s open, so—“
“I get you, Michael. See you ‘round.”
“Yeah. Say hi to everyone for me.”
Rowen eyed the now silent phone thoughtfully, then glanced to the plate. Sylvie’s breakfast was finished, sans syrup and cut up strawberries. He had enough time to make a quick call to the video shop in the mall. He felt guilty that he couldn’t go with Michael, but maybe he could find a way to make it up to his cousin.
He was putting the eggs back in the fridge when his eyes went to the photo hanging on the fridge and he paused.
It was from his mother’s Polaroid camera, but his father had longer arms to take a self-portrait. The picture itself was crooked, the photo slightly faded, and his parents were younger in this one. Still, his mother’s warm smile, and the subtle but genuine one his father was giving, was enough for Rowen to gain a bittersweet smile of his own.
He rested his hand on the photograph, feeling a lump rise in his throat, and for a moment his vision misted.
“Michael says hi,” he offered softly, his voice wavering.
                                      +++++++++++++++++++
“Sora, that’s not right—“
“—course it is, Claire, look, I’m hitting the square button—“
“—but you’re going the wrong—“
A dying scream from the television sounded as the hero was devoured by a four-headed dragon summoned by their opponent, followed by an obnoxiously flashing Game Over screen.
“Told you,” sighed Claire, biting into the Pop Tart. “You shouldf gone de ofver wah.”
Sora turned to look up at his twin, a lopsided grin on his face. “Sorry, don’t speak Poptart-in-Mouth, sis,” he chirped brightly.
“Claire, swallow your food!” Mai called irritably. She had one foot out the door when she had heard Sora’s comment. “I am not performing the Heimlich again this morning!”
The twins knew the exasperated again was directed at the closed master bedroom door. With the promise of a new Duel Monsters tournament coming to town and sign-ups opening today, Joey was eager to get going—even so eager as to wolf down his food and nearly choke on it. Risa had already left for the day to hang out with friends (though judging by her outfit and make-up she was likely going on a date), and Mai was on her way to teach her first self-defense class of the morning.
About five minutes after their aunt had left, the bedroom door opened and Joey stepped out in jeans and a t-shirt. “So what are you rascals up to?” he asked, strapping on his Duel Disk. “Any plans?
They both beamed up at him. “We’re staying here today!” Sora announced brightly.
“We just got Anima Virtue 5—“
“—we have a pillow, blanket, and Pop Tart fort—“
“And we won’t leave for anything,” they finished together, holding up their remotes in emphasis.
Their uncle raised his eyebrows. “Aren’t you going to try and visit friends? Blow something up? Make another failed attempt at a fork…thing-a-mah-jig?”
“Can’t,” Claire said idly, opening another package of Pop Tarts. “Sylv is sick, so Ro can’t come over. Michael’s doing stuff with his cousin ‘n’ we don’t really feel like going to the mall.”
“Risa’s meeting friends at the amusement park — ”
“ — we can’t drive anywhere, so that rules out that option. Oh, and Aunt Mai banned us from the kitchen after the Fork Frisbee Fiasco. Sooo…yeah,” Claire finished as she bites into the pastry. She swallowed and patted the sofa cushion she was sitting on. “We’re here today.”
Joey eyed them with a good degree of suspicion but shrugged on his jacket. “You’re sure you’re okay all day on your own?”
Sora clutched his heart, looking physically pained. “Why good sir,” he responded, sounding offended. “We’re never on our own.”
“Perish the thought!”
“The horror!”
“The agony!”
“The burned-bacon terror—“
“All right, monkeys, I get it!” their uncle cut over them, a bark of laughter in his voice. “Rules?”
Both of them straightened in their seats. “No one in, no one out. Don’t answer the door, don’t answer the phone, don’t order out for pizza. Don’t go to the kitchen and experiment with the vinegar, cilantro, and Mentos. No cooking. If you have fireworks at least take them outside,” they recite in near unison.
“And if you’re caught with them?”
“Deny, distract, run.”
Their uncle gained a bittersweet smile and shook his head at that last one. The twins smiles faltered as well.
Their last sentence had been something their father used to say all the time when it came to firework-related mayhem.
“All right, I’ll be back later,” Joey said gruffly. He paused, then looked back at them. “Sora? Claire?”
The twins looked over at him, near identical questioning looks on their faces. “Yeah?” Sora asked.
Joey gave them an unreadable expression, then shook his head. “Don’t spend all day cooped up in here, all right? If you wanna go out, just message me or your aunt,” he said at last. “I won’t be gone that long to register for the tournament, so when I get back we can go catch a movie or something.”
Sora and Claire saluted, then returned their attention to the game. Joey watched them a while longer before he left, and the twins didn’t turn as he stepped outside the front door.
Truth be told, they were bored to pieces and restless. The apartment was good for three people, not five, and at times it was downright stifling to be in the apartment. They had thought about meeting up with Michael at the mall when he had texted, or maybe even trying to sneak out to their workshop later. They missed their projects and their inventions, and to be fair it would do them good to get out.
But today, they simply didn’t have the energy to go anywhere. Sora was burned out emotionally, and Claire wasn’t much better herself—socializing with other people was not on their priority list today. Besides, even if they went to their workshop neither could stomach being there long. There were a couple projects at their shop that were too painful to look at. Projects they had been working on to make their dad’s job easier, things made for their mother to help her with work…and Claire didn’t want to see it. Neither did Sora.
They didn’t want to deal with it—not yet.
Sometime later, Sora got to the next stage boss. They simultaneously flinched at the sound of their cockney-accented opponent, and wordlessly Claire hit the mute button on the remote.
                                            +++++++++++++++++++
“Thanks for going with me to the mall, Kazuo,” Michael said gratefully as they moved into the building.
Kazuo grinned and flashed a thumbs up. “Well yeah, of course!” he replied warmly. “I wanted to shop around anyways and this is the perfect opportunity!”
Kazuo had been delighted to hear his cousin actually wanting to leave the house. Michael couldn’t blame him—after staying relatively cooped up, leaving was a rare but welcome change of pace. Michael had initially feared about publicity surrounding his mother’s death, but after some rather choice words from Noa, they’d largely left Michael alone. His uncle was not as prominent a Kaiba, but a Kaiba he was and his word had clout.
It had been even easier to get his aunt to drive them over to the mall, as she had errands to run. They wouldn’t be in the mall long, maybe two hours at most. His godfather was coming in later that afternoon, and Mikomi had a violin recital later that night—Kazuo never missed his sister’s recitals.
Michael made a mental note to record the recital for Sylvie, since the little girl loved listening to Mikomi play. He was certain that, if she hadn’t been sick, Rowen would have brought her over for the recital.
“So, Michael,” Kazuo asked, half jogging to catch up to his cousin. “What’s our first stop?”
“The used video shop,” he replied, already reaching the escalators. “I’m looking for a movie.”
“Oh? Which one? Is it something to watch with the family?”
“Dear Santa, I Can Explain.”
His cousin’s expression softened as he realized what the movie was. “One of Aunt Carmon’s films? Do we own that one?”
“Not that I’ve seen,” Michael responded absently, catching sight of the shop. He weaved through the crowd, Kazuo close behind. “Tio T said he had a copy of it and that he would be bringing it, but he isn’t going to be in town until this afternoon. Besides, I want to own a copy of it, not rely on borrowing it all the time.”
Kazuo nodded, his features clouded. “I can understand that,” he sighed softly.
As they entered the shop he clapped his hands, an effort of forced cheer. “So it’s a Christmas movie and it aired on Hallmark—the best one by far that they’ve shown, in my opinion. I’ll look in that part of the store.”
Michael had already started browsing shelves, starting at the front and working backwards. Although his mother had been a prominent actress, this movie had seemed to be a lesser known work. He didn’t have much hope of finding it, but he had to give it a try. He had already called all the other shops in town and no one had it. He hadn’t called the mall, though—he was too afraid of getting another dead end.
Soon enough, however, Michael became aware of eyes on him and he looked towards the counter. The employee standing there caught his eye, the taller man offering a small wave. Michael made his way over to him and caught sight of the name tag. “Can I help you, Dave?” he asked, arching an eyebrow.
“Sorry, didn’t mean to stare!” Dave stuttered. “I, uh, I was thinkin’ you might be the kid who called earlier.”
Michael offered a puzzled frown. “What? What call?”
“You called me earlier, right? You were asking about that Christmas movie starring Carmon Corazón? Dear Santa—“
“—I Can Explain,” Michael finished the same time Dave did. His voice was practically breathless and he started to grin. “Do you have it?”
“Yep! You’re in luck, because it’s the last copy. Pulled it off the shelf right after you called,” Dave said, pulling out a DVD. Michael held himself back with considerable difficulty, but it was hard not to snatch the movie out of the man’s hands. “You said to keep an eye out for you, ‘cause you had bright red hair. That’s why I was staring when you came in.”
“But I never…” Michael trailed off as he realized what had happened. He smiled as he took the video. I’m going to have to thank Rowen later.
Kazuo came back over while Michael was checking out. He waited until he was done and followed his cousin out of the store. “You found it then?” he asked. Kazuo pulled the DVD out to study it, and his eyes lit up once he saw the cover. “Michael, your dad’s on here!”
“What?” Michael asked, feeling a jolt of excitement. He leaned over to study the case for himself, and then felt himself starting to smile.
Sure enough, there were his parents. His mother was in the center, decked out in a red Santa-style dress and hat. She had a sheepish smile and was shrugging, as if to say oops. In the right corner, not as large as Carmon’s picture but still fairly prominent, was a black-haired man. His arms were crossed but relaxed, a small smirk on his face. But Michael recognized his father’s features even with the wig on—there was no mistaking the familiar gray eyes.
His heart clenched and he felt his eyes start to burn. He hadn’t looked at a picture of his parents since that night, and to see them again after nearly two months of avoiding pictures…
A hand gripped his shoulder comfortingly and Michael looked up at his cousin. “Come on,” Kazuo said gently, steering them into the heart of the mall. “We’ll watch the movie after Komi’s recital. I’ll bet everyone would want to watch it, ‘specially if Uncle Alister’s in it too.”
Michael wiped his eyes and put the movie back in the bag. “Yeah…thanks, Kazuo.”
“…Anytime.”
                                      +++++++++++++++++++
It was almost too easy to step into the house.
He didn’t have much left to him, but he had enough to get himself here and to keep himself out of sight. Getting inside the house was child’s play as well. Granted, it was because he had a fair guess of where the spare key was hidden—he’d known the man who’d hidden it.
He padded softly inside, keeping to the carpet as much as he could. It was…oddly quiet, he felt. An unnatural hush seemed to hang over the entire household. He could hear voices upstairs, but they weren’t very loud. Even with the voices he could hear, though, he still felt the heavy atmosphere and it still felt…muted.
He had felt this kind of silence before, when a house was in mourning.
When he had first arrived in the city, he had gotten the news about their deaths. He could hardly believe the news when he had finally heard it, but a part of him had been at least mildly hopeful that it had been exaggerated. It was why he had come here first, even before starting to investigate the real reason he had come back to the city.
But now that he was here, standing in the too silent house…it was undeniable at this point. They were gone.
He wandered into the family room, eyes going to the mantle. There were photographs here, framed either in silver or wooden frames. Here were faces he recognized and some he did not know, and his heart felt oddly heavy at the sight of the photos. They had families…he hadn’t realized he had been gone long enough for them to have families. He felt that he had blinked and missed it.
Of course, it was nothing new. Time always seemed to fly for him.
He turned away from the mantle, silently moving through the rest of the downstairs cautiously. He knew better than to be seen and he was taking a huge risk in coming here, but he had to make sure of what he was looking for. The recent deaths had not been the only reason he had returned—something else had drawn him to the city, and he had to be sure it hadn’t made it to this house.
He did not find anything out of the ordinary at the end of his search. The rest of the city was covered in a quiet but ominous aura, something that even as faint as it was he recognized instantly. Thankfully, the tainted aura had not seemed to make it to this house.
He paused as he passed a piece of scrap paper sitting nearby the empty phone cradle. Contact information was written on the scrap, with a phone number and a brief note for someone named “Sylvie.” He didn’t know who that was, but the name written beside the phone number did catch his attention—at least, the surname did. He pocketed the paper, deciding it could come in handy later.
There was the sound of creaking floorboards from upstairs, and he had enough time to step into an empty doorway before footsteps started on the stairs. Then a teenager holding an empty plate stepped briefly into view before disappearing into the family room, presumably on his way to the kitchen. He felt something odd in his chest as he watched the boy step out of view.
Even as brief a glimpse as it was, there was no denying whose child the teenager was.
He waited until the boy had passed before silently striding to the front door. For now, he decided he wouldn’t intrude or interfere with the children. They had no reason to be involved in anything he was looking into, since not one of them even knew who he was.
Not yet, anyways, he thought darkly as he stepped outside. Who knew how long that would remain, given what was possibly at stake. He pulled his cloak more firmly about his shoulders.
As he closed the door, his eyes moved to the black car parked at the entrance to the neighborhood. It had been there when he had first arrived, though the drivers in the car could not see him.
Magic, even as limited as it was to him, had its perks.
His eyes narrowed at the parked vehicle. He had to search the city, but perhaps he would stay nearby for a while longer — just to be sure that there was no threat in that car.
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legendbringerlove · 7 years ago
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In the annals of OC history, there are many losers. Ones that stick with you because of how bad they were or how rediciously overpowered they were. Some are just there because you noticed that they are basically an anthesis to EVERYTHING that the series stood for. And then you have Reisu from Sailor Titan who punched out God and sacrificed the entire world because he wanted to join his evil girlfriend (I wish I was kidding. Linkara was insane when he was 13)
And then you have...Count Logan, aka the incarnation of Beast Boy. But, rather than talk about it with you, let’s let Mykan himself discuss it.
I was hoping it wouldn't come to this as it spoils...
-The story that only 105 people have viewed, 84 have downvoted, and there is a one percent chance that one person hit the wrong button. Oh, and it’s a story that you have told at least 4 times now. Hell, I think you have told this story so much that it is outdoing the Radtiz saga as one of the most overtold things in history!
but as people are ignoring the small parts of it anyway (I may as well do this)
-Or you can wait for it to end and then explain it, but again we know the ending, we know what is going to happen.
And one last thing...
-Let me guess, it’s something that is going to make me want to laugh like a hyena?
TO HELL WITH SO-CALLED "COMMON-SENSE"
-*Laughing like a hyena pup*
(The stuff has hardly any meaning to me in this field) "Common-sense and good judgment won't save you this time... not from me."
-He does know what commen sense is, right? He does realize he basically just said, “You won’t win, because I’m a moron.”
-And now, for the hardest thing I can do on this, look at this image and try not to laugh. But it is so hard right now. I mean, look at it!!!! There is just so much wrong with it, that it isn’t even funny.
Let’s start with the color, wich is practically screaming 90s edge right now. This is all black, wich does not really stand out all that much in the grand scheme of things. Even characters like Darth Vader and Batman have some color in their athestic when they are designed. That’s because, making him pure black like this kind of just screams “Pay attention to me.” Now, a lot of the time, when the hero is meant to go rouge or turn evil, they usually will either invert their colors or wear their old costume as a cape. This is none of those thigns and is just something that makes me think of a kid trying way too hard.
Lastly, the face. Will someone please tell me where he stole it from? Because I know I saw that look before. Maybe it was done during the Titan era of Teen Titans when Dick and the others left the book or it was an unused design choice.
COUNT LOGAN: (formerly known as Beast Boy of the Teen Titans.)
-Formally known as the artist, his purpleness, and Smitty the wonder poodle.
Is an evil and very powerful interdenominational sorcerer, and is initially the primary antagonist of my fanfic,https://www.fimfiction.net/story/390095/friendship-is-failure-10--teen-titans-the-end-of-ends.
- is initially the primary antagonist of the Wii game Super Paper Mario.
Ok, with this and the “Twilight” thing back in the Lighting Dawn Page (Wich I will  get to) I am really starting to think he just grabs words from the wikipedia articles and uses them.
He was reincarnated from Beast Boy to serve as a slave to The Dark Prognosticus
-*Pulls out cell phone* Hello, Nintendo?
(A powerful and evil prophetic spellbook)
-Only Mykan can take something  from Super Mario and try to treat it seriously.
Garfield Mark Logan
-Hmmmm, better on this if this were only about the other four members of Titans. Only one thing to do...Research the hell out of it!!!!!
When he was 5, he got sick after being bitten by a green monkey. His parents saved him using an untested animal serum, which unintentionally mutated him green and gave his animal powers.
-It was a machine not a serum. If you are going to talk about a superhero, get your cannon straight! *Looks up* Oh, we are going animated. Well, as long as we stick to one of them, I should be fine
After that, Garfield's entire life was shaped by nothing but heartbreak, tragedy and misery!
-You know, except for the billions, the mansion, th fans, the love and affection, the...
Shortly after his mutation, Garfield’s parents died in a boating accident during a flood. An accident that still haunts him as he believed he could have prevented and saved his folks.
-Yep, stole this from the Titanstower site.
Then, his foster mother died in a tank explosion
-*looks it up on both the sites* Nope, it was foster father in a temple explosion and, wait a minute...
That’s from the freaking comics!!!!!!!
His legal guardian, Nicholas Galtry, despised the boy,
-Ok, we are going with the comics stories then? But, then this whole world will make even less sense. Because if this Dark Probobcious is as powerful as  you say it is then why isn’t it being watched over by Dr. Fate? Or being burnt into cinders by John Constantine?
Hell, searching for Beast Boy and getting him a new home is now even dumber because this is the DCU, and they love their heroes!
abused him daily and plotted to have him killed so he could get the inheritance money.
Garfield ran away, but was captured by two thieves, whom abused him and forced him to do their bidding.
-Hey, mr. fanboy, you got the order wrong! It’s Temple, Theives, and then  evil attorney.
That’s when the Doom Patrol came along, adopted the boy and trained him, and he because BEAST BOY.
-Well, actually it all depends on the universe. See, if you go by the cartoon, he broke into their hq and they found him worthy to be on the team. However, if you go by the ccomics, he tried to join the titans and doom patrol without telling of his guardian about his double life. However, they rejected him because they needed his guardians permission (Ok, what? So, did Dick set that up or was Roy just teasing?)
Then he was found by the titans when he was mesmerized by a ringleader to be a giant gorrila. Then he began to work with the Doom Patrol and was THen adopted by elasti-girl and steve Dayton after winning a legal battle with the lawyer. Sadly, since Doom Patrol never caught on as well as the X-men, they were cancelled in their 169th issue and were all killed with the exception of Beast Boy.
That was when he went into acting on the show Space Trek 2022 as the alien metamorph tork. However, he was the scrappy of the show and was fired. After traveling with his highschool girlfriend, Jillian (so much for Terra being the one.) he found himself back in the saddle when she was kidnapped by Arsenal (Galtry) After he kicked the bad guy’s ass, he joined Titans west along with Flamebird, Hawk and Dove,  Bumblebee, and two others even I don’t know. Meanwhile his powers continued to evolve until he could only change full into his animal forms
Due to Mento’s harshness,
-He must of hated the way he made fun of his hat.
And you wonder why the X-men are the more popular of the two.
and stubborn strict attitude,
-this was when he met the titans and...oh, is he still continuing? Sorry, comic history can be fascinating sometimes!!!!!
Beast Boy felt alienated from the team and struck out on his own.
-That is copied word-for word from the wikipedia article!!!!!
Everywhere he went he was rejected and treated harshly due to his green skin,
-Pictured, total rejection
Any comic reader know who the yellow winged guy and blue black guy are?
Wait...Ok, the girl is Lillith, the guy is Vox, and the yellow dude is golden eagle.
but eventually came the TEEN TITANS, and all that.
-Ok, I think he just mixed up at least two continuties here. Worst than I do, and I have seen more superhero crap than him.
Here, Beast Boy assumed the role of a comic relief-- telling bad jokes, being mischievous—
-Wich is his character that he loves and tends to make him liked and you are-
but all this is really a mask of laughter-- he uses it to hide the pain and sadness from his life.
-Going to make it sound as depressing as possible and OOC for your story to work.
(Much like supressing the rage, but eventually it will snap)
-Or as a way to relieve stress, but I am not a psych major.
Despite the good times he had with the Titans, there were more bad times than good.
-I have been watching the show and I can tell you right now that this bullcrap!
(Most of which came from Raven’s abuse and rudeness, and her supressing her powers is no excuse)
-Yeah and then you have all of the times she was caring towards him, but go on, I am curioous to see where you are going with this *Puts head on hands)
-They don’t include him
-Don’t include him in what? His games? Cartoon watching? What?!
-they make fun of him
-And he usually fires back.
-They insult him
-Raven smacks him (even when he’s right on Trouble in Tokyo)
-Awwwwwww, poor baby, lets back up the abulance.
-When he has a good idea (an honest one) they don’t listen to him
-Because he’s usually wrong?
Then again, that’s BB’s curse: Any friend or loved one he makes will eventually die or turn on him (It’s always the same)
-Pictured, a person turning on Beast Boy
Worse, people in the city don’t seem to appreciate him much (Preferring the other Titans to him)
-Been through 13 episodes so far and haven't seen a simgle sign of that.
Girls don’t like him, he can’t hang out with cool crowds unless the Titans are with him.
-Yeah, it’s not like he has a fan club or anything.
He’s pretty much an UNSUNG HERO (A person whose heroics go unnoticed and/or unappreciated by others)
-How horrible, he is doing this because its the right thing. Oh my god, this is simply horrifying.
(So as you can see… I already have MORE than enough to make him become Logan with or without THE GIRL)
-All based on lies, misunderstanding, and tricks of the mind.
Then, along came Terra. Finally, someone who liked him just for who he was,
-Unlike that Jillian woman or the other Titans who liked him because of his...
and they had so much in common too…
-Yeah, like she enjoyed his laughter and he thought she was pretty and...and there was...she was....Um...any titans fan care to help out?
it was like they were MADE FOR EACH OTHER, and that fate was finally rewarding BB for all his years of suffering!
-Yeah, by offering him a pretty girl! Who cares about the basic stuff like life completion, friendship, and a life goal to complete it. It’s the girl that is the most important thing in existance.
But then, there was THAT STUFF…
-Like it seems that the only reason why anybody ships them is becausse they are cute.
-Terra thinking he broke his promise about her powers
-Her involvement with Slade
-Her fighting the Titans
-Her turning into stone
-aka the adaptation of Judas Contract that was actually well done!
“You were the best friend… that I ever had!” (Her final words to him before turning to stone)
-And that scene was actually well done. And Beast Boy moved on, strong that he was.
And then, came Things Change.
-BOOOM!!!!!!!
There, had to get at least one head explosion out of me before moving on.
She pretend to have amnesia and was pushing him away because she wanted to forget her past (even all the good times they had) She wants nothing to do with Beast Boy.
-You go girl!!!! Grow up and move on through the pain, we are all rooting for you.
“You’re my friend! You’re a Teen titan!”
“You’re wrong!”
…all so she can live a normal life and forget her past!
-A perfectly reasonable reaction to a horrible trauma like almost DIEING!!!!!
That is cold, cruel, extremely selfish, and very foolish as well,
-Yeah, she’s not catering to YOUR, sorry beast boy’s, needs
but it’s not like she cares that she broke his heart… perhaps irreparably!
-Pictured, an eternal broken heart
(It’s hard to find a pic of Beast boy shipped with anyone but Raven)
He didn’t deserve that, not a bit!! The little guy’s gotta have something in this world to hope for.
-It doesn’t have to be love you know. IT can be friends, family, and the future. Love is just one of the many things you can find.
What’s he got to hope for now? His one and ONLY true love ditched him…
-I know this is odd, considering I am a huge shipper but...I really hate this idea. It basically says that you have no other choice but to have the ONE perfect love in the world. You are going to have multiple loves throughout your life that you will say is perfect until you discover that the best love is the great love. Sometimes you will move on, sometimes you won’t. But there is no such thing as there is only one true love.
(Just like everyone else he ever befriended or loved die)
-You know, except for EVERYPONY ELSE!!!!
(end of BB’s origin)
-As interpited by a guy who has never read a comic before in his life.
THE DARK PROGNOSTICUS
-I do not care if this is from Super Paper Mario or how awesome it is...it still makes me think of noses!!!
After the breakup, things only went from bad to Worse. He was highly disrespected in JC
-Wich is odd, considering that this is the DCU, where they make freaking museums dedicated to their superheroes.
-The newspapers only did columns on the other Titans (Not interested with him)
-PP: Um, Mr. Jamenson, why do you only want me to pick up photos of Robin, Raven, Cyborg, and Starfire.
JJJ: PArker, everyone knows that Beast Boy photos don’t sell!!!!
-There was no BB merchandise in the stores (Just that for the other Titans)
-Man the collector’s market must be a bitch over there. Either that or every store is owned by Matell. Yes, I am still bitter about the lack of Katara figures!
-More and more BB’s favorite hangout places had changed and were not replaced (Leaving him with very little ways to go)
-Ok, now this has gone from bad luck, to conspiracy, to just plain rediciously sad.Surprised that he hasn’t said that Beast Boy’s favorite show was then cancelled, and that Sega announced it’s ending Sonic games.
As if he weren’t miserable enough, Despite the Titans trying to be sympathetic, all they really did was badger him to accept change and “MOVE ON!!”
-How dare they try and get him to get a life. Those horrible people. I can see why I am on their side and not that on the whiner’s
What the hell does HE have to move on too? The other titans have moved on from their problems.
-What? No they haven’t!!!!
-Robin and starfire are dating
-Yeah, I can see how this addresses their own individual character conflicts. It was only their romance that was important.
-cyborg is cool with who he is and people love him
-Yeah, those few scenes are all that’s needed to say that he’s fine with being trapped forever in a metal shell, unable to touch anything and is an inhuman creation.
-Raven beat Trigon, he’s no longer a threat to her.
-So totally makes up for the YEARS of truma she is acculmating.
…and BB is still losing things, as well as confidence in his team (Then again… that’s his curse: They love you, and they turn on you)
-Because you do the following...
And don't you try to tell me The Titans wouldn't do that, because THEY ARE capable of doing so, and to me, they are no exceptions. they either die or turn into jerks (Just like everyone else BB ever encountered)
-Am convinced that if you do one bad thing, that will forever taint you for life. No matter who you are, you can never change yourself for the better.
After many fights with the Titans and having a super falling out, BB quit.
-shame he didn’t stay longer, he missed out on the party they had to celebrate his farewell.
Realizing he can’t stay in JC or with the Titans anymore as they are only ADDING to his pain!
-*Imagines Beast Boy dressed in goth clothing and laughs*
Then again, where would he go?
-Titans west? Bunk with Aqualad who he had built a bond with? You know, those superheroes that you say there is no room for even though you spent time putting in the additions of the Doom patrol for no appearent reason!!!!!
He tried to go to other towns and maybe start over… again he got rejected, booed and judged harshly for his green skin and prejudice people.
-This makes no sense whatseover considering his own fandom and how many people love him.
To top it all off, the nights were cold, creepy
-Oh gee, if only he could become an animal with a lot of fur or a cold-blooded reptile.
and filled with nightmares of his past!
-The one time he ripped Dick’s comics, his nightmare about being turned into a veggie burger, that one nightmare where he is stuck in a musical and he is one of the worst human beings on the planet.
All the people he had lost, all the people he thought were his friends, all the people who wronged and betrayed him!!
-That pizza he had ordered a month ago that was lost. That comic he will never read, and of course, the lost of ms. Snugglebottom
“GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!”
-Roy: *Throws a rock* Quiet out there, I am trying to sleep!!!!
Overtaken by extreme anger, hatred, pain and sadness, Beast Boy went POSITIVELY INSANE!!
-Calm down, no need to get excited
Any bit of light and love in his heart had complete diminished after so much pain and torture!
-Ok that is it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7IxliAPjAk
Just replace the rest of the blog with this charactrer!
(Just like any human being who suffered so much for so long. Sometimes they just SNAP.)
-More like is a self entitled boob who wants everyone to kow tow to him and him alone and won’t listen to reason
The Dark Prognosticus could sense this, and Teleported to him from Raven’s room.
-Yonk!!!!!
Only someone with heart filled with extreme hatred and darkness would be able to unleash the powers within.
-Ok, so let me get this straight. With all of the powerful and black hearted villians in this world. Ones that would so easily fill the job of being the dark one that this thing craves, it picks out a lonely and sad little teen who only lost his family and girl? There are probably billions of other people out there who are suffering from the same type of thing Beast Boy is, but this one time he is going to hone in on?!
The book was now fully awake, and IT
-They all float down here gar!
had chosen HIM to be THE ONE to unlock the dark magic with in and fulfill it's dark desires.
-Garflied: Really, me? Not say someone with a whole ton of power or someone who would lead better or someone who has a blacker heart than me?
DP: Yeah, look, you are the only one who would follow orders and not stab me in the back for power.
Whether or not BB wanted to do this or not (Which he didn’t) the choice was not his!
-Why does this feel like a filmaker trying to defend the actions of his character to help with his vision?
The book was choosing HIM, and that was final!
-Yeah there it is, the it was them not my character.
No amount of will or nobility or courage could defy it.
-Can’t fix it because I am the writer and what I say goes. Look this was all cliche when Homer tried it in the Illiad!
The Book shot him dead…
-Oh, bang bang, he shot him down, bang bang that aweful sound.
(That’s how the Doom Patrol found his corpse)
-Again, billions of other people out there, but he was the one he homed in on. Then again, Beast Boy was the one who broke into his room. But you should feel sorry for the sap.
Now everything was set and ready for the book to work it’s will and put its curse in motion.
-You know what I love about this? Reading this whole thing means I don’t have to read the fic.
...
Not that I was going to anyway, kind of not really interested in his non-starfleet stuff. Well, except for the stuff I’m usng for evolution but that is another fic.
Beast Boy’s spirit and personality soon began to fade away as he was cursed and corrupted by darkness and hatred beyond imagination.
-If that is beyond imagination, then boy howdy do you have a limited imagination.
Finally, he was reborn, as an adult version of himself, an embodiment of darkness and servant to the book.
-A nega pope?
He became COUNT LOGAN
-A name so important, I had to capitalize it.
: A villain who is motivated by grief and regret!
-Never heard of that one before! It’s like the third time you made this!
(It's not because of just Terra dumping him, I think we've already COVERED that. Insist that it's just because Terra dumped him... "You're are dense")
-I empthasised this, not to say “Well, he has a point,” I am empathising the just to point out that it doesn’t really matter in the eyes of the viewer or the reader. See, if you wanted us to believe that it wasn’t just Terra dumping him, then leave out the stalking and the scenes where he gets beaten by the bullies. Leave out the bits where he is pining for her every five minutes. As it stands, it seems that it was only Terra that was responsible.
Hell, by not having Beast Boy talk about his past, all of the above you have said feels like tacked on filler to try and make it seem like it wasn’t the only thing that was affecting him.
A slave to the book,
-I would make a religion joke here, but I want to think I have more aof an appreciation for my audience.
Logan had no choice but to accept his new position fate. He could never go back to the way he was. He was created by evil to SERVE evil (Nothing more)
-and yet still has the mind and body of Beast Boy why? Wouldn’t this be a hinderance to him?
“I am doing as I was created for. These are the wishes of The Dark Prognosticus. I serve it…! This is my fate. The price I had to pay for the way things were. The way I suffered!”
-You will never understand my needs Terra! You will never understand my pain!
(Logan explaining to Terra his position)
That and he may as well use this opportunity to exact VENGEANCE on people who wronged him.
-Hmmmm, died and came back. I could explain my experiences or go on a talk show and make millions. Or I could go evil. Well, evil has cookies.
Using his new powers, Logan began to kill others to understand his might and increase his abilities.
-Understanding through death, makes sense.
He eventually Met Dr. Nekard,
-Must not break down laughing at the name. I will not break down laughing at the name.
whom became his first minion, after which, Logan used the powers of the book to create his other three minions to help him in quest.
-Let’s see, what will we need? A hot sexy general, a lackey with a special power, and a big dumb tough one.
Eventually constructing a castle to serve as their base of operations, located in a realm composes entirely of darkness
-He constructed his own freaking castle...Dude, get out of the evil business and get into evil constructing! You’ll make a mint.
(Reflecting the Count’s heart… cold… miserably… painful)
-Why is it that every description you put in is like a goth kid’s first poetry section!
and his outfit,
-Is the second lamest attempt at a costume I had ever seen and I am a sonic fan.
the way it covers his entire body is because he doesn’t wish to look upon himself (Because he was shamed and ashamed)
-So he was created by the Dark Proboscis, but he still retains enough of his sanity and will to be shamed.Methinks you are trying to have some cake and eat it too.
Poor Logan was a mess; deep down all this was still not helping him, and life itself has become a prison, always reminding him of his betrayal and heartbreaks!
-
Sorry but all of this talk is making me think of pennance. Aka, someone’s bright idea. Someone thought of this, thought it was cool and an interesting take on the character. Someone thought that this was an interesting take on the character.Someone thought this design was a good idea!
He hated it that other people had it better than he did,
-*A slave on Apocolpsy* Yup, having the time of my motherfucking life down here!
and he began to see the worlds and meaningless and worthless!
-Even the planet of the malls?!
However, even death itself could not solve his problems, as even in death there is no escape from the feelings of darkness.
-Exesue?
So incredibly insane, hurt and upset
-No, please go back to how he is feeling things after death.
(As well as it being the wishes of the Dark Prognosticus as well as his own fate)
-No, sop right there! You are saying an emotional impossiblity.
he realized all he could now to end his suffering was to fulfill the Dark Prognosticus’ wishes:
-I said stop! How in the seven hells are you supposed to feel remorse, sadness, and depression while you are dead? What are we using Green Lantern logic now? Because if we are, then you just invalidated a comment you made not too long ago where you said,
“I am not using the rest of the comics because there is no room for those heroes.”
He was going to get revenge by destroying everything that wronged him, took away his happiness and everything he couldn’t stand… Existence itself!
-Thanos steps in, and frowns at him, “That’s my job Logan.”
Logan: No, I’m all power ful and-urrk *Neck snap by the mad titan.*
Thanos: And that was for trying to mooch on my girl Death.
Death of the Endless: *rolls eyes* Fine, one picinic.
Thanos: YAY!!!!! *Skips away*
Before you Thanos fanboys come at me for the previous setch, let me say this...Thanos is my favorite of the Marvel Galatic villians. I make fun of him as often as I do Doom and Dr. Doom is my favorite Comic Book villian of all time.
So he turned to the pages and unleashed the greatest and deadlist spell/prohphecy
-Will someone get this guy a Thesarus...and a dictionary, because he still has no idea what deities are.
within the book, and thus, THE VOID
-~into the void~ *Starts rocking out the kiss music.
was formed which would eventually engulf the entire universe!
-Antimonitor: Hey mack, get out of my line of work  *Wipes Logan from Exsitance* I swear, all of these yutzes standing in my way. Oy Vey, it’s enough to get a brain hemorage.
...
Don’t know why I made the Antimonitor Jewish on that joke.
“What have I done?!” (Logan regretting his actions)
-Ah, see this is classic “My character isn’t bad, really!” actions to try and make you think that he is ok. Here is the problem though...You just talked about how he wants to wipe out his pain and misery, you have put this all on him. You have spent the past few paragraphs into making him into a whiny putz that you don’t have sympathy for, at all.
With the prophecy now in motion, Logan felt content, but deep down he was greatly remorseful.
-I am really happy about this! But also I am vewy sad. Won’t you please pity me!!!!!!!
However, because he was a slave to the Dark Prognosticus, he couldn’t let his emmotions get to him,
-And so he-lets his emotions get to him and he goes off on a mass murdering rampage because he feels angry, hate, despair, loss, and so many other emotions.
so he continued on his path as a way of accepting his position and making the most of things.
-Made the castle into a bacherlor pad, got a hot tub, brought out some game systems, made a theater system, kind of homey actually.
To strengthen the void, Logan and his henchmen killed people and obliterated more worlds themselves to accelerate the void’s expansion.
-This was, in hindsight, really stupid as it will attract attention. He chose to do the smart thing instead and wait it out. It was long, but it was well worth it.
Logan decided Tamaran would be the first world to go, as he was angered by Starfire and Robin, and how their relationship worked and he lost Terra.
-*Bangs head* You just said that this wasn’t just about Terra!!!!!! Look, if you want us to believe that this isn’t about Terra, then leave her out of it. Remove her from this paragraph and your argument is won. Here, I’ll help!
He wanted Starfire to see and feel what it was like ot have everything you ever loved taken away from you
-There, this is all that was neeeded, but by adding in Terra you have ruined you own bleeding argument!!!
“My pain becomes your pain!”
-Here suffer you slave girl who was trapped on a station, lived with the fear of being raped, tortured, and emotionally scarred worst than I am. Feel my pain!!!!
Logan wished the Earth not be destroyed just yet (Maybe tinkered with) mainly because he still has SOME fondness of his homeworld (and Terra was on it)
-*drinks some Romulan Ale* And another thing about your argument, it doesn’t really hold water under-hic-under-hic-srcuntny
Deep down he actually still had feelings for the girl, and his remorse continued to eat at him (Especially after all he had done)
-*drinks some more* see, right there? By saying that he feels about her and that he cares for her, you are making this more and more about Terra. You bearly touch upon anyhting else about his backstory. It’s like you only use it for more emotional baggage. Sorry kid, but that won’t fly.
He eventually captured Terra and brought her to his castle as prisoner, where he would make her watch all the worlds fall and then he would kill her too.
-Then you add this malarky into the mix, giving us more reason to believe that this is solely about Terra. You don’t want us to believe that this is only about her, then ditch her. Remove her from the equation. And *Drinks* I don’t think I can feel my eyes
Plop.
“You wanted Change, Terra? YOU GOT IT!!!”
-You know what would be an interesting twist...if Terra killed herself because of all of this. I mean, she can’t be normal, she is being forced into a superhero role now, and appearently can’t even have her own opinion without causing death. I would be looking out for her, guys.
But this was it. Logan was completely broken, a prisoner not only of his own power but his feelings as well.
-Wich, even though it isnt just about Terra, is revolving around Terra for some odd pecular reason.
After much time of being haunted and feeling extreme guilt of all he had done (Including beheading Flurry Heart as was shown earlier int he fic)
-As well as the sin of wearing that horrible outfit!!!! I mean, my god, that outfit is like one of the worst things I have ever seen in my life!!!!
He had truly seen just how evil and despicable he had become, and he fell into despair worse than anything he had ever had.
-So, let’s go over the dark Prognosticator little plan here.
Pick an emo teen who is convinced that his life is misry and sadness and we should all suffer like he has because no one else in the world has.
Put him under his control so he can destroy everything in exsitance
Instead of giving him a happy life to make control easier, he maks sure that he falls DEEPER into dispair, setting it up for an immintent downfall
Lets him kidnap the girl who is responsible for all of this
?????
Profit!
I am really thinking that this bad guy sucks as plans.
He loved Terra so much, and nothing he could do would change that.
-Wich is why, instead of controlling her, he threw her into a dungeon and made her suffer the torment of watching the world go bye. Truely he is a tragic lover in all of this
He really wished there was some way he could end all this, maybe even reverse it all (Bring back those he killed) and maybe… just maybe, things could be okay again.
-Well, there is always Mykan’s tried and true Dues Ex Machina! Why worry about consequences when there is Dues Ex Machina
However, there were problems regarding all this.
-That he was being written by a writer who thinks that this all you need to make a sympathetic villian?
-Logan could not close the void. Once he had unleashed it… it’s out of his hands. He can’t stop it no matter how much he or may not want to.
-Why?
“The prophecy cannot be stopped. Even I cannot stop it now!”
-Also he was still owned by the Dark Pronogsticus. It was the master, he was the slave. He had no choice but to continue to fulfill the book’s desires. It was what he was created for!
-And in order to do this for peak efficencay, he...kept all of the memories. Again, villian of the year.
-Plus, now that he thought about it, why should he stop? He’s come this far. It’s too late to go back, and he’s got nothing to gain by going back anyway.
-Are you feeding us information or giving us story beats, because this is all stuff we can glance over as we read this stuff. Then again, considerign your prose is usually very dull and dry.
Count Logan will never be a redeemable villain no matter how many times you claim he is/will be. (Words of a mocker)
-Gee, think its because of the whole entire baby killing; thing?
That’s how they all treated him while he just BB, the same way you’re treating him now. (My argument)
-So your argument is, since they treated hi bad once in a while that it is ok for him to go genocidal on us all?
So what’s he got to gain by stopping? Nothing but more heartache, more misery, pain, and all the things that what started all this in the first place.
-*Puts on psycological glasses*  Now, maybe we should start talking about your psycogolgical issues.
Joking aside, while this kind of thinking is ok for a villian, it’s generally more accepted if the villian had some sort of charisma or was really  symptatpetic to us readers. This allows us to understand their plight. However, the way Beast Boy is written in this, feels more like his just crying his eyes out for nothing, especially in comparison to his fellow heroes.
He can never move on, (He has nothing to move on to) There is nothing to be gained from quitting, only lost.
-Except freedom, help, and a lovely new vacation in the bahamas. But, then again, this is the weakest villian I have met.
Since the prophecy could not be stopped…
-For reason’s hereto unexplained.
He couldn’t free himself from his bond with the book…
-Even though, later on we see him break the connection by just having a new bad guy take it up.
And he felt he had come too far to quit and had nothing to gain by stopping… Logan regarded his remorse as pointless, and he continued on destroying things (But his remorse continued to eat away at him and it pained him dearly)
-So, he hated to destroy, but he kept on anyway even though it did nothing to help him...You know, there is a proper way to do this. If any of you have a favorite villian that has this persona, please write it down in the comments below.
As Logan continued with his plans he had lied to his henchmen.
-Jerk!
He told them that after all worlds were destroyed, he would build whole new worlds with peace and happiness that THEY could enjoy “With none of the icky stuff” as the minions put it.
-Define icky stuff, and if you could please do it as an adult, that would be great thanks.
When In actuality, he is planning on leaving it all in ruin and perishing along with it, feeling he has nothing left to live for and is too upset and ashamed with what he has done to go on anyway. (Though he cared deeply for his minions)
-You know, you could skip steps one through three by just letting the void do it’s job. You would win...you would succeed.
To him, the world just held no meaning, no joy, and nothing to exist for as it pained him so much. There was nothing at all that could save him now…
…Nothing!
-*Aighs*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXYiU_JCYtU
VEWING
-Viewing what? Am I supposed to see something?
Count Logan is a very unique figure to the heroes and the ponies.
-Wait, what? How? He sounds like generic villian 587 to me. Doesn’t seem all that different from any other villian who has the “Woe is me and my life, how much misery do I have suffer in order for me to have my life fufilled.”
He is the only enemy they have ever faced who is driven by sadness
-What?
What?!
WHAT???!
I...I just. I am trying my best to not use Mr. Freeze because that one is too easy! Oh god, there are just so many that are motivated by sadness it isn’t even funny. I mean, isn’t that like one of the three big motivators for villians? Insanity, rage, and sadness leading to a desire for revenge?
Dude, do not try and anyalize a comic book villian if your only connection to the universe is a freaking cartoon show!
and remorse, rather than a lust for power or control.
-Hmmm, I count Sombra as one of the ones motivated purely by control. Starlight was motivated by the sadness of losing her only friend, Tempest was by the fact everyone shunned her after getting scared, And then we have some of the DC villians. I mean, shoot, just one season of the Flash will give you plenty of villians motivated by sadness and heartbreak.
He created the void out of bitterness and heartbreak.
-But again, Terra was not a determining factor. Remember that.
All he wanted to was end his suffering (Something that only NON-EXISTANCE could make happen)
-Still don’t know how you feel anything while dead or why the book picked a winy teenager instead of any of the heartless other bad guys out there in the DC universe.
He at first seems to be a stereotypical, heartless villain, with no feelings or regard for anyone or anything!
-And he is. Thank you for agreeing with me.
Only now to be understood; Logan is in fact an emotionally tortured person which makes him less evil than he appears
-PFFFFTT!!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!
Ok class, sit around, it’s time for another lesson in writing. From an ACTUAL writer and not some chump who thinkgs that writing is something that you just do to relieve yourself og pain.
Just because you understand a person and their actions, does not make him a tragic villian. It doesn’t make him less evil, just because you know his actions. Look at Dr. Doom. He lost his mother and that is his big motivation, does this mean that we should see his desire to conqure the world as less evil? NO! It is still freaking evil.
You want to make a tragic and sympathetic villian, fine. That is perfectly fine and dandy, some of my favorite villians of all time are tragic villlians, but don’t try to force it onto us. Look, Magneto is a very tragic villian, but his past doesn’t hide the fact that he still KILLED an entire ship of people and would wipe out all homo sapiens if he had the chance.
(His actions are not justifiable but they are understandable)
-No, they are not. Doing this because your mother is held by the devil, understandable. Because you feel that the Kryptonian is misusing his power while you are incapable of understanding the basic thought of genuine kindness, understandable. Doing this because you found out that your whole freaking life was a lie and that it was all because some electric company wanted you to lead them to a promise land and that the greed of humanity is making you inot a horrible person? Understandable. KEfka...is not understandable and is just scary.
He is a tragic, sadistic and hopeless character, whose evil deeds, hatred of worlds and lust for destruction were all born from the purest of emotions… LOVE.
-If you have to tell us this, congratualtions, you failed in making a really tragic character. What’s more, by not showing us any real remorse, we don’t really feel that he is...
Wait...
LOVE!!!!!!!
You mean, you just went on a few minutes, tellin us about how this was tragedy and all of that jazz, just to break it down to love?!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSpcXtFe1Jo
All he ever wanted was to be truly loved and understood, instead he always got the exact opposite of all this. The Titans negligence and pushy ways pushed him over the edge.
-Looks at all of the times Beast Boy is paling around with the gang( Oh yeah, I can so totally see that. I mean it is so obivious that Beast Boy was negelted and was painfully pushed on.
Will you please stop pushing your own agenda onto a character?
The Titans, as well as others are responsible for creating Count Logan and bringing forth all the chaos.
-So our sympathies lie with them since they are trying to save people and stop this while he is basically letting himself be pushed around.
-THEY were harsh with him
-THEY drove him insane
-You know the problem with the above? If I wasn’t a fan of the show, I would be questioning this with the question of where is the proof.
-THEY caused him to lose faith which allowed the book to curse him
-Again, even though the book had a billion other canditates, this whiny putz was more worthy.
*At the titans and Terra* "...You did this!" (That is what I'm aiming for in the story: It's more THEIR fault all this is happening... though it doesn't excuse BB's actions either)
-And you...failed. Hard. It isn’t even funny with how hard you failed at bringing this important message to life. Why? Because we never really see him remorseful for his actions and evrrything he does in this feels more like everyoen is at fault for not bowing to him and treating him like a god because he has had a bad life. Oh boo hoo hoo. We are so saddened by something that obiviously doesn’t really affect him. This totally makes us sympathetic to his cause and think that the titans, who only wanted him to move on, are the bad guys in this.
and NOOOOOOOO... regardless of what you may pretend to think (Without hurting yourselves)
-And this also hurts your argument, because now it makes you look like a child. Well, you are one.
I was trying to justify BB's actions,
-You know, if you just read what you write once in a while, I wouldn’t have as much fun as I am now.
I'm just trying to say that his actions were UNDERSTANDIBLE. (Not that it matters, since you people are still whining about it anyway)
-I am not whining, I’m complaining. Do you want to hear whining?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csPPqdbcVwM
Thank you Rarity.
Ra: You are welcome darling.
So now it's clearer... I suggest people learn to READ and not judge.
-Translation: Let my character alone! He is pure and untouchable! Stop trying to hurt his feelins by insultin him! You are all monsters who need to learn better! WAHHHHHHHHH!
Sorry, but we read and we interpit. You don’t want that, then don’t write it.
Until next Time... I leave you vids that have Logan in them...
-Oh joy. Welll, lets see what we got here tonight!!
Mykan out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=176&v=d63QJZ1OP9E
-Ehh, the song is a little too depressing and doesn’t really match up. The lyrics are a bit dull and lifeless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=42&v=SbMlE9LEQWE
-Jared Leto, please do not give this guy a dead rat, he doesn’t deserve it.
Anyway, this song doesn’t really work. This is a whiny little brat who is striking out against the world just because he doesn’t get what he wants. The song talks about the futility of war, about it affects the soldiers beyond what we see, and how it hurts everyone. There is no favorites in war, only titles that we give ourselves anf what others tell us we are. And in the end, war will will change us all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_BbyyXBVPw
-I apologize for Les Mis fans. He probably never really watched the show at all. But if I am right, this is again talking about tragedy and the loss og friends who moved on. This is not all about you screaming out about how thee guys are wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=QMLEoJqeAeg
-*BANG!* You do not sully one of the most important days in human history with your slime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=1V01K51igO4
-Somedays I wonder if he actually watches these musicals or jut listens to the songs.
Now then, unlike the Bio I made for him (Because I spied on people and saw they're getting ready to riff him... like fish to the hook)
-Hey, sorry I was late to the party but work was literally zapping the comedy out of my body.
Now I'm going to give my own insights on what I made The End of Ends like it was.
-HAHAHA!!! Buddy, once it is out there, any and all interpitations belong to us the readers. We do not care about you.
And remember... It's NOT just because BB was dumped by Terra, but that plus an and entire life of hardship, tragedy, heartbreak, misery and shameful people treating him wrong.
-Sadly, since you use the “Greatest emotion of all, love” line, you made it more about Terra than what you were going for, sorry, but them’s the breaks kid.
Firstly, people like to tell me how wrong I am about how the Titans treat Beast Boy,
-You kind of are. Big Time. It’s like saying Misty is a bitch while forgetting the rest of her character traits. That is called, ‘flanderization.’ not that you would know anything about that, right?
perhaps they are wrong, but it makes no difference to me.
-I love how this is never about you and how you are wrong. No, it’s all on us.
Remember, my RULE OF ONE SIDE
-Ah yes, that stupid rule.
It's all ONE or all THE OTHER, not both-
-Because that is how humanity works! Remember, there is only one type of person and a person acts only like one way all of the time. He never changes or has his moments of kindness.
Sometimes the Titans are nice to him, sometimes they are mean to him.
-It’s like humanity has different emotions and feelings throughout their lifetimes and it takes more than just a few days to get to know a person.
  Not anymore, it's either all one or all the other.
-Aren’t you glad I am not making a politcal joke right now? I so could but I refuse!
 They are either all bad or all good.
-Yeah, its not like I know of good people back where I used to work and I can tell you about them, but they were all bad. Yep, no good at all. Or I would say that if I were a jerk.
  (And if they are all bad, then anything good that's ever happened is now null and void to me "It means nothing")
- That’s right. Even if you do good oout there people, according to Mykan logic, you are already bad and must be punished. Don’t try and redeem yourself or make yourself better, just bask in the glow of your own villany, or better yet...
Like I also told you before, Beast Boy respected Terra's wishes and let her go (Be it I wrote it that way or not) and for that... I'm going to beat him up.
-And people wonder if the scene on Fall was a paraelle to how the characters feel about Mykan abandoning them and treating them like garbage
 You know the rules in my world- If a guy loses a girl and it really steams me, then the guy will not only be denied having any happiness in his life BY ME,
-Because you are the high allmighty master of the realm and we must all obey you, or else. Yadda yadda. We know, and that they must follow your evil whims or be punished because they can’t have lives or do what you lack the courage to do you mangy coward.
 the following must go into effect.
-And here we go, you might want to get some hot chocolate. Most likely, you heard this one before
-He lives a long and pointless life, with nothing but scorn from others, unappreciated, and loses more than he gains all the time (This way, he'll have nothing to gain by moving on)
-Even if it makes no sense, it’s completely OOC, and really just ends up demeaning the character in the end. Hey as long as my sense of worth is built back up.
-Have a super falling out with those who were once his friends. Again, I don't care if people say his friends never treated him that way, MY RULES ARE MY RULES.
 -I would like to imagine when he says these things that he has his fingers in his ear and screaming “Can’t hear you!!!”
You break them, and I'll break you
-Heh, these characters are stronger than you think. They won’t break so easily.
 (The cartoon character) and Common Sense and good judgment won't save you this time.
-You know, when you say this, you are just saying that you have no common sense or good judgement. Wich kind of says a lot by your standards.
-He must become an Anti-Hero by choice, or become the primary antagonist (Usually NOT by choice) There was no "Yes or No" when it came to that book. It chose him, and that was it. "The choice is not yours"
-Deconstructed that out the window. Although, I do want to go for another round on that one.
 -Do not reconcile with former friends. The friendship is shattered... FOREVER,
-Yes, because that’s how it works. That is so how life works for those of you who are usually insane in the membraine.
end of story. Even if I wrote it so BB agreed to help the others face Draken in the final battle, in the end,
-It doesn’t even matter!
Sorry, in a Linkin Park mood
he would still wish NEVER to makeup and reconcile with them, balk at their desires to want to make up with him, and just leave,
-Only to cry about it a little later on his blog about how much they suck and are cruel and he wants his momma.
so they'll all feel dejected, hurt, and Terra can be heart-broken (Hopefully irreparably like how she did to him.)
-Either that or they all party like crazy while he is gone and get Kid Flash as a replacement.
-If reconciliation looks hopeful, the dude must die.
-Wow, you are a giant monster aren’t you? I mean, there is evil, there is cruel, and then there is you.
  That way he STILL can't reconcile with his friends, and they can still be hurt (That's why I killed BB on Friendship is Failure #3, so the potential will never be.)
-And yet it still felt like it did in the end. See, this is what happens when you try to do something that you just aren’t  good at.
Yeah, I know (I can tell without reading) a lot of you are insulting me right now
-Actually, I am making a soundtrack for Fall arc 1. Trying my best to think of a good Dislestia theme that I have.
and saying how much my rules suck. Well it sucks to be you then. "When you read in my world, you'll read by my rules."
-And the problem with that is, the moment we came here, it became our world too.
And the rule stands for BB or any guy in a couple I deeply supported: "Get the Girl... or Get punished!"
-Even if they don’t really have that much in common or are really all thatgood together, they must get together.
But remember, Terra is not the only factor.
Now, as for Logan himself, people also complain "He's too stuish and overpowered"
-I’m not complaining. I like OP bad guys. It makes me excited to kick thier asses. It feels so good that there are strong bad guys for me to kick. Because to me, a god is just another face for me to kick. If there is a dinosaur in the ice, then I want to teach it to balance atop a ball and-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh8ii9AFdSQ
Well, he kinda HAS to be, and for several reasons.
-Because I am an unoriginal hack who has no idea how tension works.
1: He is supposed to have the tittle
-I am going to be mature and not laugh at that mistake. I will not laugh and move on.
of "An Evil that is beyond ALL imagination"
-Its a shame that he isn’t, not really. Shishio, Kefka, Sephiroth, hell even Garland are more badass and evil beyond all imagination than this guy. At worst, he’s Kylo Ren.
  (Regaurdless of whatever wangasty, bitchiness, or emo slurrs people wish to mock him with)
-Oh please, as if I resort to slurs. I let the other people and my betters do that for me. I prefer to deconstruct.
 With a title like that, he SHOULDN'T be that easy to beat or even scratch,
-Ah, but with everything, there has to be a balance. Go too far one way and he’ll seem too invinvable and not very believable that the heroes can win. And when you go too far where you are taking out power houses from the cannon verse. Well, then it goes way to far and makes it look less like the villian is powerful and just an over bearing boss.
For example, Freiza was just the right mix of super powered while making it believable that he could be taken down. Dio is the same way.
 otherwise he's just another MOTW. (Monster of the Week)
-We know how Acronyms work.
  He has to be really strong, fierce, and deadly, to hold up a reputation like that
-Or just be poweful and intimating.
(Something that NO MLP villian ever did with me... not even Sombra or the Storm king)
-Wait, so the tops for you are Storm King and Sombra? SOMBRA AND STORM KING! Look I love Storm King and all, he’s a fun and silly villina, but tops on the mlp roster he is not. Hell, Tempest stole the show from him! And you put the dreaded Even on him as if he was some sort of powerhouse of MLP villians?
I'm just doing this now to mock the Storm King (Practically all MLP villains...)
-Oh this is going to be fun. Allow me to start with some Storm King questions.
*Picture Logan talking to the Storm King*
*The storm king wishes to help Logan, feeling he become more powerful if they teamed up*
Storm King: Wait, why would I want to work with this guy. He’s kind of...emo and depressing. He’ll cramp my style! Besides, he just isn’t that marketable. I mean, look at that armor, my stocks will plummet from the idea alone!
Logan: "In your world, they call you "A King?"
S.K: Well, acutally they call me the boss. I am trying to get King Trademarked but the lawyers say I don’t have a case. No good snakes.
Logan: "In mine... we would call you "a child"
Storm King: Me, a child? Oh that’s funny coming from mr. Livejournal. I have something you don’t, emo boy. Personality. Yeah, Tempest may outshine me in the movie, but lets face it...at least I’m fun. You just cry every five minutes and say how we all need to bow to you.
"An arrogant, demanding, blinded child!
Storm King: Are...are you ignoring me? I just insulted you and you are just going off on your tagent?
Do you really think that you can come to me with a proposition, assumed that I even WANT or NEED your help? Storm King...!
Storm King: Hey, you came to me, appearently to mock me. You must not have much to do.
  *Chuckles* Oh, forgive me... "Your highness." You said we understood each other... You COULD NOT be more wrong!"
Storm King: You’re right, we don’t understand each other. Give me a moment. *Snaps fingers* Tempest?
Tempest: *rolls eyes* Yes, master.
Storm King: Write me a sob story.
Tempest: *Frowns, and uses her magic to type up a story* Here ya go boss. I’m going to go get hosed.
Storm King: Ahem...My mother abused me until I was 10, leaving me to fend for myself. All the while I craved the kind touch of someone, anyone out there. It was soon that I realized that by letting others follow me, I could make the world care for me and love me like I always wanted. This also helped to fill in the loss of my father and friends, who always seemed to dissappear whenever I got close to anyone. I decided to become king in order to make the world love me.
There, now I have a sad sack story, now we understand each other.
Logan: "I understand you; your petty quest for bits of power... your need to conquer... your desires! But you... don't see me."
Storm King: *Blinks* I see you, right there. You are standing there, in front of me.
Logan: "Oh, but I am, especially in one particular way: I've EARNED my title and my position. You've been GIVEN yours, Storm King.
Storm King: Weren’t you given your power because a book saw you and thought that you were perfect for the host. Then it GAVE you the power to wipe out existance? That sounds like you were given the power to me. Right Tempest?
Tempest: *slurred* Too drunk to care!!!!!
Storm King: See? You were also given the power to make all of this by that book.Were it not for the book you would be just little Beast Boy!
I... am a true embodiment of darkness... and you're just a little boy."
Storm King: If the embodiment of darkness is a whiny 17 year-old...I need a new line of work.
Logan *Cuts in&: "You are excused... *Taps his Cane for his minions to come* Take him away, and dispose of him."
Storm King: Don’t bother, I’m out! Have fun with your destruction or whatever. By the way, my assasstant emptied your booze storage.
Tempest: ~HEre we are, the princessess of the universe~
Whoo! That felt good... now moving on...
-Awww, but I was having fun putting in the actual Storm King personality and ignoring your horribly adapted piece of material. Yeah, I know he stole it. Don’t know where, but I know he stole the dialouge.
2: He's so overpowered: Well... um, in case you didn't notice
-Yeah, I kind of been skimming the original...kind of boring if you ask me.
"He's trying to LITERALLY obliterate the universe" and in a short time as well (A matter of weeks)
-Do not get me started on your little timeline shennigans!
Don't you think you need an awful lot of power for that--
-The empire did it with only a small planetoid.
to destroy planets whole, shatter multiple stars with one strike, wipe out a million races just like that. You need LOTS of power for that.
-Eh, just a planet sized planet buster and you’re good.
And remember... It's NOT just because BB was dumped by Terra,
-But it is, I’m just trying to lie my pants off.
but that plus an and entire life of hardship, tragedy, heartbreak, misery and shameful people treating him wrong.
-i.e nobody kissing his ass and treating him like a king.
  He's angry, insane, and hurt, and he wishes to stop the pain and get revenge at the same time... Killing himself simply, will not do it (As spirits can feel pain as well, and eventually the spirits of others would join him in death...
-WHAT?!
 but through NON-EXISTENCE, that won't happen)
-Antimoniter: Ok, now I am gonna sue somebody.
Also, getting back to the Titans, and my STILL being wrong about the way they treated
-Oh joy, more “They hurt my cinnamon roll!!!!”
 Beast Boy, I still don't care. The goal of the story was to make it more THEIR FAULT all that destruction happened
 -So to prove your point, you had to lie, falsifie evidence, make faulty excuses, and trick the audience.
(They drove BB off the edge... which made the book curse him... which brought forth the destruction)
-It was all their fault and not the whiny crybaby in the corner who wants everyone to kow tow to his needs!!!!
"You did it, Titans"
-You know, this would be the point where ever one gives him a bitch slap.
And being nice to BB won't drive him off the edge, will it? and it also won't make it look more like their faults like I want it to be.
-Again, so you have to lie in order to make your story work. Have you not seen the problem with this?
That's pretty much the basic idealism I have and want to see in fiction.
-So, you are bringing out ideals and making things seem brighter?
 You tell me, "The Titans are his friends... Never treated him like that... ect, ect" I don't care.
-And I know you don’t care. Hell, this hasn’t been about making you mad, fixing you, or anything else. This has beenn purely for the enjoyment of somepeople who want a good laugh.
You tell me "He's overpowered, a stu, an unredeemable villain." Still not caring...
-Not caring, yadda yadda. How much you want to bet he is going to say that this isn’t a version of him.
I like him just how he is. and NOOOOO... he isn't a version of me,
-*Claps* Thank you for proving my faith in you.
because I do not wish to destroy ACTUAL REAL worlds or kill people in real life.
-Nope, but let’s look at the facts. He represents your ideals (No redemption, no forgiveness), he represents your hate (Terra doesn’t get together with him, he despises the Titans), he is a force of your creation that is to provide release for your own pain (Wich you admit as such), and is a whiny little brat who has to deal with the fact that no one is treating him right and he wants to be held.
Yep, that is you. It doesn’t even need to be the killing world or powers to be you. But it’s the real important thing. If you didn’t want it to be you, then you need to ditch the persona.
Killing fictional people is just part of the story (The story is no good without it) doesn't Count.
-Points to the above statement*
"Yes it does, and a it makes you a sick little freak that should be locked up"
-Hey, when you make all of the insults for me...
Again, I say... No it doesn't.
-You should actually pay attention to what you write you  know. People can so easily use it against you.
This is my world, and what I say goes... and I say, if you don't like it, then take a hike and take your so-called "Common Sense" with you!
-Very well idoit!!!!
Until next time, Mykan out!
 -Waves by.
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gayspock · 4 years ago
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anyways forever late... bake off ep 5
- anyways idk ive been deprssed as FUCK again i havent been able to watch bakeoff . fucking mento illness. but anwyays here we go
- also . this is so premature. i saw ppl gushing abt peter again and idk im jsut filled with rage. idk wht it is abt him tht i hate SO much....... i think its just all the praise hes getting when tbh. i havent been wowed by anything hes done. no offence peter. u have a smug little face. sick of it all.
- wait.... was i mad bc he stole sb from sura in ep 1. i think so.
- probabyl that.
- god i miss sura im so mad shes gone im so SAD shes gone . fuck it all and i think i know who leaves this ep sick of how i get spoilt so easily i like the bakeoff page on fb and i rarely check fb just for my unifessions page and they always jsut post spoilers. tired of it.
-OHW AIT. I FORGOT. HERMINE IS STILL HERE. I THINK. I HAVENT HEARD WHISPER OF HER BEING BOOTED. i hope she stays omg i lvoe her so much
- ok so cornish pasties first off??? thts weird like. I GET IT but also u kno... how much variation cn they do on those??? other than pastry designs?? and even thn like.... the kinda pastry u use for cornish pasties puff up and lose shape easily like hmm and huhhh?
- oh
- wAIT YOU JSUT MAN... PASTIES IN GENERAL . LIKE WHY DIDNT U SAY THT. FUCKIN LAURA OUT HERE WITH A CHEESE AND ONION. am i stupid i thought cornish pasty specifically meant,.... well cornish pasty and i thoguth it did come with some slight variations but tht it wa smostly same y hence the confusion like
-  hermine it looks very delicious i believe in you
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- im literally so sorry lottie i like u and ur cute but this is the most rancid british bullshit i have ever seen
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- mashed potato in a fucking pasty im going to die with the SAGE an all and the gravy. i cna just FEEL it coagulating and clogging up in my mouth bc u KNO bitish mash is just. rancid. and all of that with fucking pastry encompassing it yuck . its like tht fucking pie bap from the wigan place where ur just fighting layers of stodge and shit .
- this truly is hole less. nobody who serves me this is getting any hole ever
- of course you’d think it would sound nice paul i swear to FUCK you’d eat fucking mud from the ground and  cry abt it being spicy u rancid little worm of a man
- nevermind i hate peter’s too
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- literally FISH AND RICE it’d be so dry   . is this ONLY ME. IS IT ONLYme tht can imagine just biting into it and it jsut being......... flavourless and dry. am i insane. maybe i literally just have had bad experiences with haddock or whatever idk i dont remmeber wht tht shit taste like. rice is lush but idk abt it in a pasty like i really think u need sth else in there to help it or else its just so... idk man im just not sure if am a fan
- 4 MINUTE AD BREAKS. ARE YOU CLOWNS.... AM I AC CLOWNS. THIS IS SICK AND TWISTED, BAKE OFF.
- also fucking. there is something SO evil abt amazon releasing the corona flavoured adverts holllly shitttt<3
- cactulaly i like. get 0 exposure to adverts nowadays. i dont have a tv & i wouldnnt watch it if i did. and obvs mst of the time i have adblock on. so like.... so like.... i was PROTECTED but now i have 2 see all the rona based ads... oh  my GOD i hate it
- also what did i tell u peter. its DRY . ofc IT WOULD BE DRY. youve just got rice in a fucking pastry with FISH . IT’S BONE DRY. UGH
- LITERALLY WHY IS EVERYONE .... BC I SAW IT EVERYWHERE ELSE TOO. PPL ARE GOING ON ABT HOW PETER IS SO GOOD AT EVERYTHING WHEN LITERALLY. SINCE WEEK 1 WHEN HAS HE BEEN THAT GOOD? LIKE THEY ALWAYS HYPE HIM UP BUT THN DURING JUDGEMENT THEYRE LIKE “awh well its actually not tht good :(” BUT DONT MAKE A FUSS ABT IT
- (meanwhile not 2 call racism again but is aw a load of ppl blasting hermine and saying she was terrible... when literally shes been doin so well. she knocked it out the park again here. ofc she did<3)
  - OMG
- FOGGY
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- also literally hwy are u all putting RICE in ur pasties like. tht might be a thing but surely you would need to compensate with a load of sauce and flavour like.............. another dude. the dude i keep forgetting . dave. is it dave. idk he is literally the one tht WILL NOT stick in my mind the most forgettable shaped man. sorry dave. angyways like i dont think itd be terrible but like i said doesnt i need... sauce   and a LOT of it
- HOLY SHIT THIS TECHNICAL IS A DISASTER
- IM EVERYONE JUST EATING HSIT
- GOD LINDA IM SO SORRY
- IM SO SO SORRY LINDA
- “NOT BAD EFFORT” HEY PRUE? THESE WERE THE FIRST ECLAIRS THAT WEREN’T
 -i i really hope hermine does well in showstopper she’s really on road to starbake
- CAGED TARTS. ME IN LOCKDOWN.
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H.. HOW ARE OU PLANNIGN ION DOING THIS LOTTIE
literally i wish rowan was here JUST for this challenge  . he wouldnt be able to do it but, like, dave’s “louvre inspired tart” ......... we’re getting big rowan vibes from it all. he’d do something stupid and extra (or try to)
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PASTRY SNAIL1 PASTRY SNAIL!
okay travis marcelroy (cant believe it took me this long to think of tht one) thats kinda funny
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- UH HEY BAKE OFF ARE WE JUST GONNA KEEP SAYING THW WORD G*PSY? OKAY. I FUCKING GUESS
- “UPMARKERT TART” MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE<3
- oh no
- TRAVIS MARCELROY YOU R BOTTLE
- hey
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bDONT SHOW ME AD S LIEK THIS I DONT LIKE IT I DONT LIKE IT SCARY
-  NMARC ITS SO PRETTY......
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 - come on HERMINE PU;L IT HOME LETS GET YUO STARBAKER GIRL ITS WHAT YOU DESERVE
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(starts to see red)
- linda im so so sorry. man. this sucks
- BUT LOTTIE POP OFF I GUESS
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- they just RIPPED into travis marcelroy huh
- .
- L... LAURA?
- UOU GAVE S GTABRBAKER OTO ALRUAU?
- IM SEEING RED. IM ACTUALLUY SEEING FUCKING RED
- HERMINE...
LAURA CAME SO LOW DOWN IN THE FUKCING TECHNICAL
- HERMINE CAME SECOND AND SHE DID AMAZING IN THE SIGNATURE AND SHE DID SO WELL IN THE FUCKING SHOWSTOPPER HER BASE WAS JSUR A LITTLE THICK ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME ARE YOU ALL FOR FUCKING REAL WHAT EVEN WAS LAURA’S FUCKING SIGNATURE AGAIN ID ONT REMEMBER DO YOU KNOW WHY BCAUSE IT WAS FORGETTABLE, WORTHLESS, I SIMPLY DO NOT CARE IM LIVID WHO WHY WHAT AND WHEN THIS IS
- THIS IS JUST
- IM AT MY FUCKING WITS END
- YOU..........................................................
- HERMINE ROBBED. FUCKING R O B B E D. THIS IS FOUL THIS IS VILE IM LITERALLY ENRAGED IM SO MAD IM NOT FINISHINGT HIS EP I KNO LINDA EATS IT OF SHE DOES IM SO MAD IM SO MAD
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sebeth · 8 years ago
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Crisis on Infinite Earths #4
Warning, Spoilers Ahead…
 We open with one of the great pre-Crisis friendships:  Supergirl and Batgirl.  Barbara is having a serious crisis of confidence: “Now I feel so useless, so helpless, so worthless, and so very, very scared.  I…I’m nothing.  I…I don’t think I was ever cut out for playing hero…She’s a hero through and through…while all I can think about is what will happen to me.  My god, what I have become?”  I find Bab’s self-doubt realistic.  Remember this is pre-Crisis Batgirl:  smart, agile, throws a mean Batarang.  Hyper-competent, computer hacker genius Oracle didn’t happen until after the Killing Joke.
John Constantine is trying to get Steve Dayton (Mento) into the game.  Steve would rather drink (repeatedly) until the end of the world. For those unfamiliar with Steve Dayton:
1)      He has a helmet that gives him mental abilities.
2)      Mento served with the Doom Patrol.
3)      Steve Dayton married Rita Farr (Elasti-Girl).  They adopted Gar Logan (Beast Boy/Changeling.
4)      Rita, along with the rest of the Doom Patrol, died earlier while saving an island.
5)      Steve is mentally unbalanced at this point from his grief and the use of his helmet.
On to Earth-6:  The home of Lord Karak Volt, Lady Tashana Quark, and Liana is in its final death throes. Lady Quark witnesses the death of Volt, her husband, and Liana, their daughter.  Pariah is able to remove Lady Quark from the universe before its destruction. Lady Quark, along with Earth-6 was created for the Crisis on Infinite Earth series.
 The Monitor decides it’s time to create his new warrior.  Dr. Kimiyo Yoshi, a very no-nonsense scientist, is observing the Vega star when a burst of energy strikes the lab.  Kimiyo disappears in the blast.
 Psycho-Pirate’s master kidnaps the Red Tornado.  Pirate is warned that if he keeps being lippy he will be replaced by Phobia (a Teen Titans foe).  Makes we wonder why the Monitor hasn’t recruited Phobia if the two are so interchangeable.
 Earth-2, the time of King Arthur and the Round Table:  Firestorm and Killer Frost are sent to this era to activate the machine. The duo encounter Sir Justin the Shining Knight while Vandal Savage observes from the distance.  Shadow Demon attack.  Firestorm is struggling to deal with the loving Killer Frost.  A change brought about by Psycho Pirate in issue 1.  “Good gravy!  I’m gonna get sick!  Monitor, why didn’t you team me up with Firehawk?  Even the Black Bison would have been better ‘n this!”  
 The shadow demons merge into giant forms and attack all five towers.  Starfire and Halo attempt to destroy the tower in New York City but are stopped by the new Dr. Light.  Katana acts as a translator for Dr. Light.  Superman, who also speaks Japanese, converses with Dr. Light.
 Wonder Woman is on Paradise Island trying to rally her sisters to fight.  Hippolyta has received word from Athena: “The gods cannot save us, or themselves, it seems…”  Diana feels that Hippolyta has given up too quickly: “Mother…I gave you a chance, but you refused it.  Hera help me, but our feud continues…and even at the end of everything we hold sacred…daughter and mother cannot make peace.”
 Pariah meets with the Monitor: “You are aboard my home…constructed quite a long time ago.  Just prior to the day you were cursed.”  Pariah discovers that the Monitor is the one who rescued/cursed him: “Indeed I was the one responsible for your survival.  You should have died for your sins – yet I was a greater good coming for them…I sacrificed much of my own life to see that you lived.”  
 Harbinger murders the Monitor.
 Earth-1 and Earth-2 disappear in a wave of anti-matter.
 This issue was the ladies issue.  Supergirl, Batgirl, Wonder Woman, Lady Quark, Liana,  Harbinger, and Dr. Light all had prominent roles.  Katana, Halo, and Starfire were the focus of the Teen Titans/Outsiders scene.  (Okay, Superman had some prominence, too).  And it passes the Bechdel test, multiple times, decades before it existed!
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