#just by dealing with other villains

[turtleblogatlast]

Thinking about how Leo says he uses his jokes to cope and y’know, thinking harder on it I think it may very well be because of what else uses one-liners and puns and that type of humor.

Specifically, 80’s action movies and campy sci-fi. Even more specifically, the protagonists of these.

So I can imagine why, exactly, Leo leans toward this brand of humor. It’s directly linked to things he loves! But even more than that is why I think it’s used as a coping mechanism.

In these genres, these quips tend to be said by the winner - or, if not a winner, then someone who will stay alive. So there’s a confidence behind them, an assurance, almost, that even if things go wrong, things aren’t ever too serious. There’s no bad endings here! It’s all good fun, even if the stakes seem high.

Leo canonically has been known to steer his brothers away from the more brutal villains and toward more fun, lighthearted activities and not-so-dangerous criminals. So for Leo, these jokes definitely make things less heavy, make the situations they find themselves in less intense.

It’s kinda not just coping, but also can be seen as a form of escapism. A safety blanket. A way for Leo to defuse the tension of knowing just how dangerous their lives are and replace that with a levity which implies that things will be okay.

Unfortunately, levity alone does not alter reality.

[tanglepelt]

I’ll be real. I blanked on the lasso of truth. Which is a shame on me. But that opens up so many more doors. Cause Bruce is going to go twice as crazy. I feel like he’d so desperately want to join them but i don’t think be would be able.

If he did join he would have to be the mature one and things would go quicker. Just clocking how Danny and billy have no self control around each other (separately they have no issues playing adult) they would be trying to out adult each other. But that leaves his children and city without any protection.

His army of children are feral enough to try and push it. Not tim tho. Tim would be in the batcave doing a deep dive on where the villain is. That man is committed to his secret identity.

Now cass just doesn’t care about hers being known. At least what I’ve read of her comics. I’ve been slowly catching up so that might have changed. So he’d need at least one babysitter for his children.

His presence could be an annoyance for billy and Danny. Cause both Danny and billy have two forms they could use. So while the villain is on the lookout for captain marvel he wouldn’t be able to tell billy is marvel. Or that Danny is phantom. Even in costume. But obviously Bruce would be Batman plus he wouldn’t reveal it to Danny and billy. So that only leaves him his hero persona. He couldn’t sneak into a mall in his civies to overhear anything. The vents don’t cover everything.

Another thought is about the other villains. Some probably don’t notice or don’t care. They may not be able handle them without a hero. Now I’m sure there are hero’s who don’t care none of the top of my head. But would he really trust anyone to defend Gotham but himself. His kids can’t.

As Batman is the only one who can remain anonymous he could be forced to handle any major threats. Leaving billy and Danny to find amorpho and Batman to handle villains.

I feel Danny would have to lead the mission. He wouldn’t let anyone else. I see the league hunting him down for answers. He is the ghost here.

Danny is stubborn enough to just not let anyone help him. The Fenton tech is there best bet to track an ecto signature. Phantom certainly isn’t going to give up anyone’s ecto signature.

Without following the signature every other ghost could set off there devices. Or they have to hunt down this villain who now is in control of disguises. He could be anything or anyone.

It would take a lot longer for them.

More then likely Danny got told off by jazz to work with them in the first place.

Dc x dp idea 18

Ghost are the embodiment of what they represent. An example skulker is the embodiment of hunting. Without skulker no one could hunt. It just doesn’t exist anymore.

In this a dc villain captures amorpho in order to find out hero’s identities. The villain has to figure out how to utilize amorpho. He’s only managed to trap him using tech from the fentons.

Danny cannot find him amorpho in time. The villain manages to take away disguise from everyone but himself. For Danny it’s not as big of a problem as it is for every other hero.

Danny has two whole separate identities not so much a disguise. (He transforms not just throws on a mask. Same would apply to captain marvel)

This leads to a pre teen and a teenager both pretending to be mature trying to find amorpho. They both have no idea what there doing.

After a bunch of nonsense they free amorpho. Disguises now exist again.

[clevercatchphrase]

As the story is going forward, asriel has been getting more on the 'Overprotective' and controlling type person. He has learned even guilt trip. How did you figure out these personality traits From canon asriel?

I took all of Flowey's worst qualities and watered them down until I felt a kid could logically embody those qualities, too. Flowey is, after all, Asriel at his absolute worst. And what are some traits about Flowey we know? He's controlling (like his save scumming in his omega flowey fight to always get the upper hand), manipulative (guiding you towards the best ending for his own plans) and obsessed with Chara (to the point of not wanting to live in a world without them). Heck, even at the end of the TP route when you fight hyper death Asriel, his monologue STILL depicts him as controlling and obsessed with Chara, even after he has souls inside of him again. (like him wanting to reset the world so that "chara" can never leave him, and they can play together for ever)

Asriel always had the potential inside of him to become Flowey with all those cruel tendencies, though probably the reason those tendencies manifested to begin with in the game's story was from him lacking a soul which then diminished his empathy after he died and was resurrected.

In the flashbacks of this comic, Asriel still has his soul (for the time being). If someone were to ask him if it was okay to control his friends, he'd say "no, that's wrong", but he also knows it's wrong for his friend to try and hurt themselves, and will do whatever it takes to prevent that. He uses his concern for their well-being as a justification to micromanage everything they do. In his mind he's "protecting" them, he's "helping" them, he's "saving" them, and that is a "good thing" so it "doesn't count" as controlling them. He doesn't even know what guilt tripping is. Let's also not forget that Asriel's a kid with little life experience and honestly doesn't even realize what he's doing is harmful in other ways. If an adult explained to him why his tactics for protecting Chara could cause more harm than good, he'd be truly horrified.

Sadly, both Chara and Asriel have each hurt the other (be it intentionally or unknowingly) which makes them both reluctant seek out help from adults. For Asriel, if he told his parents what Chara was trying to do, he fears Chara won't trust him or be his friend anymore. For Chara, if they were to tell an adult that they don't like the way Asriel is treating them, it would mean having to explain why he's treating them like that, which would also mean having to explain their plans of self-sacrifice, which they know would make the adults upset, and could potentially lead to punishment. (of course the Dreemurrs would never hurt Chara, but Chara just Will Not take that risk due to bad experiences they had in the past from their time on the surface). And tragically, their attempts to help the other in their own flawed, naive ways leads to each of their undoing.

[epickiya722]

Being someone who reads both BNHA and JJK and adore both protagonists is a wild ride because it just feels like the mangakas are taking turns as which protagonist gets to have their biggest, greatest moments of awesomeness and which one has to suffer the most gutwrenching experience of a lifetime.

[im-not-buying-it-ether]

Oh hey what about a groundhogs day event where the hero has to relive their traumatic “One Bad Day”-esque backstory but it’s another hero they either know really well and the only way to break the loop is letting that horrible event happen

Bc I’m basic my first thought was “Oh, this would absolutely tear up anyone having to walk down crime alley knowing way too well what’s about to happen”

But I’m also obsessed with my blorbo so my other thought was “Omg lol, imagine if one of the adult heroes ended up in Billy’s body just before his parents left to go die on their dig and think maybe they can save their co-worker the tragedy he faced so young only for every attempt they succeed at getting them to stay keep the loop going and they realize they have to let them go and doom this kid all over again. Haha, extra points if the loop actually lasts from that point to them actually dying so they wake up the next day thinking they failed again only for it to be tomorrow and suddenly Uncle E gets the call that his brother and sister in law are dead and then whoever is in Billy’s body is getting thrown out with a suitcase realizing maybe the nightmare is going to last longer.”

And I just had to laugh bc goddamn my brain cant stop with angst

[mettywiththenotes]

Future Tomura visiting UA one day (he has a pass with him dw, Izuku invited him for a lesson) and just hanging out in the staff room while Izuku is getting some work together before break ends. He's sat there curled up, shoes on the chair, playing on his nintendo ds

One of the kids from Izuku's class comes in like "Hi sensei I was just wondering wha- IS THAT SHIGARAKI TOMURA, THE NUMBER ONE VILLAIN FROM 8 YEARS AGO???"

Tomura just throws up a peace sign and goes "Hey" while Izuku's like "Well, he's not a villain anymore, but yeah that's him. What were you gonna ask me?"

[covertblizzard]

jaykyle au where they're theatre kids in the same school but they're not the actors jason's the scriptwriter/director and kyle is the prop manager (i don't know the official terms sorry) and they'd probably do an amazing job on the backstage setting if they could stop arguing for 5 whole seconds about their artistic visions and ideas and how "this would obviously work better this way"

[writeouswriter]

People need to start understanding the difference between actually harmful or "bad rep" vs just rough around the edges but still complex and nuanced rep that doesn't quite line up with your own personal experiences or the over-sanitized ideal of what you think "good rep" should be

[nyaskitten]

Anyways because I don't care much about the ramifications of Memory Issue Jay interacting with Djinn and how it could fuck him up mentally (Idrc about Skybound angst tbh) how about an AU where the Teapot of Tyrahn winds up in the Administration, and the workers were GONNA destroy it before they realized there's a very nice man in there (who's just as amnesiac about his whole life in both the Skybound and Skybound-less timelines) and they decide to put him to work, and him and Jay actually become best friends and there's never a shred of Skybound angst involved ever.

[scionshtola]

i’m still thinking about this sorry but the idea that the wol’s actions are the same as the garlean army’s actions just really rubs me the wrong way. like i dont think its actually a nuanced position to suggest that theres no difference between resisting imperial violence and committing it. the reason the garlemald section stands out to me is not because well it’s okay, the garleans thought what they were doing was right and we committed violence against them too so who’s to say who is right or wrong. it’s that they are demonstrably in the wrong and we help them anyway. because we can, because they need it.

[dukeofthomas]

Rewatching UTRH is so fun bc this is the only red hood i want. He's cleaning up Gotham. He's killing anyone who gets in his way. He's taking huge cuts off the streets. He's offering protection and delivering.

[childrenofthesun77]

Assuming that the whole 'mahiru is the vessel needed to bring back the count and the 9th servamp will be the servamp of vainglory' theory will be correct, it's interesting how both mahiru and touma can be accused of this sin even if the way it applies to them is opposed.

What touma wants is to be acknowledged and to that end he was willing to become the villain who destroyed the world before mahiru and tsurugi managed to change his mind:

Mahiru's way of being vainglorious seems a lot more positive at first because he wants to be a hero who saves others, but it's self-destructive and encourages laziness in others:

But thankfully we see mahiru starting to let go of the need to make other people proud of him and to prioritize making himself proud in his conversation with tsurugi:

and later when mahiru has a meltdown because he fears his uncle might be dead and suggests sacrificing his life to save the world kuro rightfully yells at mahiru for acting hypocritical and not listening to his own advice:

(I want to mention here that I really love how horrified kuro looks as he realizes that mahiru's reckless hero behaviour comes from a very self-destructing place:

because not a lot of manga I know really acknowledge that maybe the way a lot of their protagonists try to be heroic is actually pretty unhealthy and shouldn't be encouraged? Like Sigurd pointed out at the C3 meeting, it's kind of shameful that the children have to save the day)

Which is why I love that mahiru decided to trust kuro to handle tsubaki without him going with him:

He decides to stay back with everyone else, showing that he has learned that he doesn't need to be the one to do everything and can stay back with the others to buy kuro time.

Interestingly we see touma doing something similar. Opposed to his old need to have the whole world acknowledge him he now wishes for everyone to believe he's dead and he's helping to protect the city by creating a huge barrier without making it known that's he the one doing this:

He's helping the protagonists seemingly with no intention of earning acknowledgement for it.

I think in a way it could be cool of servamp to subvert the shouned trope that for the finale battle the only one able to defeat the big bad is the protagonist while everyone else just watches on from the sidelines, not allowed to do anything because this is the protagonist's moment of glory.

What if lily's plan when he put kuro in mahiru's path was that if kuro tried to stop tsubaki at the gate surely his eve would need to be there with him, right? Because of course he needs his eve to fight and then there's also the distance limit. So why not make the vessel you need at that gate for the ritual to work kuro's eve? Then the vessel would be at the place where you need them without you even needing to do something because naturally they would be thinking they are doing the right thing by going with kuro to fight tsubaki together. And surely someone as vainglorious as mahiru would never pass up the opportunity to be the hero who stops tsubaki. It's foolproof!

Unless of course before the ritual the vessel learned to let go of their vainglorious nature, accepted that it's okay to take a step into the background and trust in others. And additionally also found a way to break through the whole forced proximity thing that the servamp and eves had going on.

I don't know, I feel like it would be a neat bow on mahiru's character arc and a unique way to thawrt the antagonists' plans if the creation of the servamp of vainglory failed because the 'it has to be me' guy they wanted to use as the vessel decided against glory and stayed back to let his partner handle things with tsubaki alone because he trusts him. Kuro on the other hand wants to make up for his past regrets and resolve the conflict through communication this time. Learning to trust in himself again by managing to talk tsubaki out of going through with the ritual on his own would be a logical conclusion to kuro's arc.

[jabberwockprince]

Hhhmmm. If you're into SDR2, it'd be neat to see your favorite in your style! No clue if you are but you reblog stuff about them from time to time and I doubt anyone else'd ask about that.

old frIENDS AND MUTUALS KNOW HOW MUCH THIS GUY MEANS TO ME, HES SO GENDER HES EVERYTHING HES THE MOMENT I WANT HIM IN A BLENDER NOW ty for the request! <3

[mikodrawnnarratives]

Recently became just a big fan, HUGE, of characters who do PLENTY awful things, they are VILLAINS, but they don't mistreat their family. They don't abuse them and do love them

From William Afton to Von Karma it's nice to reread supernova and have this from Supernova

So so SO important to me that this book makes this clarification when Ace's character changes so drastically. Clarifying that, No. This is not what Ace is usually like. This frightens Nova, this isn't normal

Just. So interesting that we KNOW that he cared for Nova, and it showed, Nova felt cared for. And I'm glad it's there so the betrayal is that much more shocking!

Anyway, haven't come across it yet on AO3 I don't think but if I find anyone arguing that Ace abused her I will be putting up fists willing to discuss and have this as a strong piece of evidence (/jjjj)

[rhapsoddity]

Are BigB and Martyn (aka, life series members who aren't in HC or ESMP) in the VSAU?

theyre not in the VSau! however i don't see why they cant be "canon" to the au!

seeing as hermitcraft, dsmp, legacy, even jacksepticeyes minecraft series(?) are in universe, life series might as well be thrown in too!

any smps other than empires and a handful of hermits arent relevant to the plot of VSau, but as long as they don't impede on my main plot I'm happy for them to be canon :3

(Emerald isles (jacksepticeye) content is made/controlled by @pixeldraws22art )

[saym0-0]

brewing up a needlessly complex joel lizzie and jimmy villain au based on their sos finales