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[acircusfullofdemons]

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[megalukas]

Ragatha Sync

[sarcasticscribbles]

Speaking of Sasha the Archivist AU, I wrote down some role switches im doing and their dynamics

Rule of Thumb: No changing entities (i.e; Annabelle’s still web despite switching arc). Does it all make sense: no. But I’m not a writer, and it’s just for fun. I’m keeping dynamics but changing arcs around.

I have started editing transcripts of s1 to be Sasha the Archivist, similarly to this 001 Sasha the Archvist AU

Sasha James: Jonathan Sims

Sasha gets the Archivist promotion and Jon’s one of her assistance. 

Jon gets notthemed ep39 and follows notsashas arc, affecting Martin (leaving him all alone. This is foreshadowing.) 

Artefacts: Books

Sasha’s character is more relevant to artefacts; replacing Leitners with artefacts from Salesa

Something new with Gerard and Mary because of this? 

Mikaele Salesa: Jurgen Leitner

Web (Annabelle): Distortion (Michael/ Helen) 

Distortion play the web’s role, similar to Web in Canon 

Vice versa 

Sasha marked by the distortion as a child (contra Jon — Web) 

Distortions aims for a world without control (?) 

Jon was marked by a book, Sasha distortion door. 

Web pops in throughout the seasons Distortion style

Jurgen is alive s5 with Helen (instead of Annabelle) 

Tim: Martin 

Archivist assistance

Gertrude suggested Tim as a third assistance, despite Sasha’s uncertainty. 

Martin lonely arc s3

Jmart canon s1; however, unbeknown to the rest of the staff

Tim Stranger arc s4 

For tension between Tim and Sasha, ill-advised hookup is canon (pre s1) and they are currently in the awkward aftermath (aka, didn’t speak about it and now Sasha is Tim’s boss. Sasha ignored Tim to remain professional)   

Martin’s mother: Danny (unsure about this) 

Martin’s mother was taken by lonely and is his motivation to stay at the institute

Danny died between s 3/ 4 (?) which pushed Tim to follow Nikola and the circus, (?) perhaps even dying s4 finale.

Gertrude: Elias 

Jonah picks Gertrude Robinson as a vessel 

Gertrude is the Head of the Institute 

Gertrude is a form of mentor to Sasha 

Elias Bouchard was the former Head Archivist 

Elias “quit”, rumoured to be fired. In actuality, he’s dead under the institute. 

Gertrude - Agnes / Elias - Peter connection? (Although, Peter Lukas is the main protagonist s3, switching with Nikola. No plan for Agnes yet.) 

Peter: Nikola 

Peter haunts the staff (Martin mainly) s3. 

Martin kills Peter, and ends the lonely ritual s3, in revenge of Jon (dying alone, maybe Peter's fog was there who knows.

Nikola takes over the institute s4, and makes Tim her right-hand man. 

Melanie: Daisy

Melanie gets corrupted by Slaughter s5

Melanie in buried  

Daisy notices Not!Jon 

Daisy gets therapy 

Daisy quits the institute

Georgie: Basira 

Sasha asks Georgie for help s2. Perhaps she has information from her work (..podcast, maybe lean towards journalism or some. I don’t want to change her work though).

Georgie starts working at the institute, Basira doesn’t. 

Sasha/ Georgie ex-girlfriends?

Basira cares for Daisy after she quits 

Basira cult leader s5 

*Melanie and Georgie are still girlfriends, and Basira/ Daisy work partners. Georgie will be deeper The End aligned. 

[dumpster-dory]

My second edit took me 5 hours instead of 9 which i think is a sign of progress

Circus-P ft Megurine Luka - Lie

[journalofimprobablethings]

Writing Masterpost

Hello!

I've finally gotten around to doing some blog maintenance and making a masterpost of all of the writing I've posted on here. If you've found my blog because of a fic post and want to know if there is more where that came from, you're in the right place!

I write mainly fic for The Magnus Archives and TAZ Balance, with a few original things thrown in for spice! Most links stay on Tumblr, but I've also got some of my longer pieces on AO3 linked here as well.

List is under the cut, and thanks for being here!

MAGNUS ARCHIVES FIC

One-shots & multi-chaps (links to AO3):

present tense - Safehouse-era love confessions, the world didn't end edition.

will you remember me - Somewhere Else coffee shop au! Martin is intrigued by an attractive stranger who comes into his coffee shop, especially when they have an intense reaction to seeing him.

why can't the words I need ever come to me  - Research-era Jon finds Tim crying in the bathroom. He tries to help.

slippage (4 chapters) - Jon starts to forget while he and Martin are still in Upton House. Martin has to try to get him out before he forgets everything.

something to hold onto - Tim & Jon s2 reconciliation, with background jondanny

a promise and a prayer - alternate ending to TheOestofOC's The Kindness of Strangers; or, what if Jon & Tim had reconciled before the Unknowing

these constellations will guide you back - What if Martin had been the one to find Jon trying to get his "anchor" for the coffin instead of Melanie?

Tumblr ficlets:

Somewhere Else coffee shop AU: snippet 1 (Martin) snippet 2 (Jon)

Tim & Jon's Excellent American Adventure: 1 (at the airport) 2 (there was only one bed (platonic) aka literal sleeping together) 3 (statement dependence)

Dad!Jon: Jon has always had trouble imagining the future They name her Sasha

yet broken, still you breathe - Jon & Martin listen to The Amazing Devil

life's but a walking shadow - Martin gets Jon to recite some poetry (aka Jon is a Shakespeare nerd)

i will bring you ruin - Jon Sees Jonah's plans before he goes into the Lonely

Other snippets:

Post-Circus Jon angst

JonTim Literal Sleeping Together: China Edition

Martin & Tim say goodbye before the Unknowing

Not-Sasha visits the Trophy Room

Martin can bake?! - s1 Archive gang fluff

Somewhere Else - an explorations of possiblities

Peter Lukas is having a marvelous time.

Message from Jon to Martin, several days after his return from the Buried.

TAZ FIC

One-shots (links go to AO3)

L-U-P (multi-chap, ongoing) - What if Lucretia saw Lup's name burned into the wall and figured out where Lup was? Lup gets out of the umbrella early, and she and Lucretia team up to save the world.

take me back to the start - The Chalice makes Lucretia an offer, and she has to decide what price she is willing to pay for a second chance.

without you - Magnus and Lucretia have only been together, really together, for a couple weeks. When a routine scouting mission goes wrong, he has to face to prospect of nearly a year without her. Magnus/Lucretia fic set during Stolen Century.

a recipe for home - Taako tries to cook for the first time since Glamour Springs. When it goes wrong, Lucretia is there to lend a hand. Set during between the second Lunar Interlude and Petals.

by means of heat and time - Taako gives Angus a cooking lesson (a lifetime ago, Taako gives Lucretia a cooking lesson) - TAZ November Celebration Day 23 - Cooking

how this grace thing works - Taako helps Lucretia with post S&S nightmares, and maybe, just maybe, something starts to heal.

Eventually - Kravitz told Magnus he and Julia would eventually have to re-join the rest of the souls in the astral sea. He never thought about what he would do when “eventually” finally came.

Tumblr ficlets

hold on tight - The Birds get together for a family dinner after Story and Song, and Magnus and Lucretia have a talk about what it means to deserve a happy ending.

"Today's gonna be the best!" - The Birds have a snow day.

Barry is falling. - The moment right after Barry falls from the Starblaster, when he realizes what Lucretia has done.

What if Barry found Lup in Wave Echo Cave? - Barry finds Lup, and has to find a way to hold himself together.

“Shh, they’ll hear us!” - Taako and Angus plan a surprise.

TAZ November Celebration Day 21 - Night - A lil quiet moment between Davenport & Lucretia during Stolen Century.

TAZ November Celebration Day 17 - Rest - The crew of the Starblaster take a much-needed pause.

TAZ November Celebration Day 3 - Warmth - Taakitz Modern AU ficlet. Fluff!

almost home - Magnus returns to Raven’s Roost. (and an answer to the question, how did Magnus get Julia’s ring back?)

Metas/snippets

The Director aways has music playing in her office.

Lucretia never met the Judges in Cycle 65.

The birds and hugs

What if Raven’s Roost never fell?

The Light of Creation isn’t sentient, exactly.

If Lucretia saw Lup’s name burned into the wall and figured out where Lup was

Lucretia doesn’t remember the first time the Bulwark Staff spoke to her.

Lucretia wakes up in a white space.

After Story and Song, Davenport leaves. Lucretia says goodbye.

ORIGINAL WORK Sometimes I post things on here that aren’t fic!

Macbeth in the living room - A short written at the beginning of quarantine, before we really understood anything about how the virus actually worked. The mechanics of distancing are So Wrong but the sentiment is there. It’s a time capsule of a moment.

The One Who Stays Behind (short story)

OTHER BITS AND BOBS

Thoughts on wonder

Babel by RF Kuang time-travel fix-it (ish)

[winterillustrates]

HEYYY

Just here to mostly draw ocs x canon. Or maybe just ocs or canon. I like hearing abt people’s ocs and you are free to rant to me abt your ocs.

I mostly do traditional art. I might post a few digital artworks, for fun or something.

@winterwriterstudios is my main, but idk, it’s mostly for reblogs.

NAVIGATION

If you wanna know my TWST Fan School OCs, then here -- Tri-Claw College

winterreblogs -- for reblogs

❄️❄️winterdraws -- for drawings

winterrocs -- for ocs (all ocs, from any fandom)

winterrants -- just me rambling

ref for my yuusona -- this

I adore/watch/tolerate:

Black Butler (manga),

Twisted Wonderland (game),

Ever After High (show),

Monster High G1 (show),

Monster High G3 (show),

Blue Lock (manga),

The Vampire Dies in No Time (anime),

Morgana and Oz (webtoon),

Descendants (movie trilogy, haven’t watched Rise of Red. (Edit: Have now watched Rise of Red. Open to discussion.))

ZOMBIES (movie trilogy),

Ninjago (show),

Ninjago (movie),

Lego Monkie Kid (show),

The Amazing World of Gumball (show),

Gravity Falls (show),

The Owl House (show),

Amphibia (show),

Epic : The Musical,

Miraculous Ladybug (show),

Phineas And Ferb (show),

Avatar the Last Airbender (show),

TMNT 2012 (show),

Regal Academy (show),

Mysticons (show),

Lolirock (show),

Disney Movies (the classic ones),

Disney Wish (the fandom. I like the fandom, don’t care abt the actual movie),

The Amazing Digital Circus (show),

Murder Drones (show),

Big Hero 6 (show),

so feel free to talk to me abt them!

Idc how ‘cringe’ you are, just be you.

PLEASE INTERACT IF:

OC X CANON

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CIEL FAN (Kuro)

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PHANTOMHIVE SERVANTS FAN (Kuro, and I mean anyone of them or all)

RUGGIE FAN (Twst)

JAMIL FAN (Twst)

NAJMA FAN (Twst)

IDIA FAN (Twst)

ORTHO FAN (Twst)

ROLLO FAN (Twst. He’s just a cutie patotee, brotherless, pathetic, built-like-a-stick, French revolutionist.)

RAVEN FAN (Eah)

PIPER FAN (Eah)

TORIEL G3 FAN (MH)

FRANKIE G3 FAN (MH)

BACHIRA FAN (Blue Lock)

NESS FAN (Blue Lock)

KURONA FAN (Blue Lock)

OLIVER FAN (Blue Lock)

JULIEN LOKI FAN (Blue Lock)

MAL FAN (Descendants)

EVIE FAN (Descendants)

CARLOS FAN (Descendants. RIP Cameron Boyce. We love you so much!! <333)

UMA FAN (Descendants)

HARRY FAN (Descendants)

ELIZA FAN (ZOMBIES)

WILLOW FAN (ZOMBIES)

WYATT FAN (ZOMBIES)

LLOYD FAN (Ninjago show + movie)

NYA FAN (Ninjago show + movie)

HARUMI FAN (Ninjago show)

NINJAGO MOVIE FAN

MEI FAN (LMK)

REDSON FAN (LMK)

PRINCESS IRON FAN FAN (LMK)

NEZHA FAN (LMK)

THE MAYOR FAN (LMK)

MACAQUE FAN (LMK)

SUN WUKONG HATER (/hjk. LMK)

TRAFFICLIGHTTRIO FAN/SHIPPER (LMK, platonic/romantic)

DRAGONFRUIT SHIPPER (LMK)

FREENOODLES SHIPPER (LMK)

THE WATTERSONS FAN (TAWOG)

PINES FAMILY FAN (Gravity Falls, including the Grunkles of the century!)

LUMITY SHIPPER (TOH)

HUNTER FAN (TOH)

EDA FAN (TOH)

KING FAN (TOH)

DARIUS FAN (TOH)

HUNTLOW SHIPPER (TOH)

CHLOE FAN (MLB)

LUKA FAN (MLB, he’s the only reason I even bother, ngl)

KAGAMI FAN (MLB)

FELIX FAN (MLB)

SOKKA FAN (ATLA)

ZUKO FAN (ATLA)

KATARA FAN (ATLA)

TOPH FAN (ATLA)

LEO 2012 FAN (TMNT)

MICKEY 2012 FAN (TMNT)

DONNIE X APRIL 2012 HATER (TMNT)

ASTORIA FAN (Regal Academy)

TRAVIS FAN (Regal Academy)

LING LING FAN (Regal Academy)

ZARIA FAN (Mysticons)

TALIA FAN (Lolirock)

MEPHISTO FAN (Lolirock)

PRAXINA FAN (Lolirock)

‘Rise of The Tangled Brave Frozen Dragons’ FAN

JELSA FAN

ELSA FAN (Frozen)

ALICE IN WONDERLAND FAN

‘DISNEY VILLIANS/PRINCESSES BASED’ FAN

NO:

NSFW

HEAVY GORE (like body horror. Blood is okay.)

PRO SHIPS (I’m not into this whole ‘argument’ so I’m not an anti-shipper OR pro-shipper. I just don’t want minor x adult, incest or anything related close to me or any other minor.)

RACISM

DISCRIMINATION AGAINST RELIGION (Not happening. Move on.)

HOMOPHOBES (Just because you’re Christian or religious, does not mean you can insult or discriminate against a certain group of people. Just try ignoring or avoiding the topic, if you have nothing good to say about it.)

TRACING (idc if it’s not my work you traced from. If you trace any artist’s work and claim it as yours, please do not interact.)

AI (do not run my drawings into AI (idk whether traditional artists can be victims of this, but I won’t take chances))

Requests (scribbles/doodles/sketches) are: OPEN

[conhivemindcent]

So I’ve been getting into Project Sekai (well I’ve been into it for like a month now) and it’s neat. Time to do the thing the fans do and list some songs I’d like to get into there (mostly ones I think have a shot but I could be wrong idk)

Lagtrain by inabakumori (vocals: Kaai Yuki)

Mr. Music by rerulili (vocals: GUMI, Miku, Yuki, Len, Rin, Luka)

World Domination How-To by Neru (vocals: Kagamine Rin, Kagamine Len)

Eye by Kanaria (vocals: GUMI)

Dream by Circus-P (vocals: Megurine Luka)

Abnormality Dancin Girl by Guchiry (vocals: flower)

There’s probably more but I can’t think of any rn. I don’t really have any groups in mind for these songs (except Dream, I think that would be a WonderlandXShowtime song, if only because it’s called Dream and WXS Luka is often sleepy but idk)

Edit: I forgot Quixote by AHUB (vocals: KAFU), which I don’t think is as likely but I still think it’s a bop

[blackwaxidol]

here’s a folder link to download beppi, luka, pubbies, bojan n rufo. i spent way too long making them cc free and they look horrible also dont look at the puppies from the side im begging you.

[areafae]

freak show, horror story, love song

written for @tmabigbang

[ID: An edited photograph depicting Jonah Magnus as a circus ringmaster wearing a long red coat in front of a black background. Jonah stands to the left side of the image with his right arm outstretched. Two spotlights shine white beams across the background. Across the top of the image in a white cursive script are the words "freak show, horror story, love song". END ID]

Inspired by The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

To the outside perspective, Le Cirque des Peurs is a strange but wonderful Circus, open only at night, travelling and appearing without warning, filled with wonders that are as horrifying as they are astounding. But beneath the surface, The Circus is much, much more. To those who know, it is a feeding ground. To Jonathan Sims, it is his prison and his saviour.

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The Circus feeds the Fears, through Contests between pairings of the Entities. The time has come for Beholding and Forsaken to face each other. Elias and Peter Lukas submit their Contestants - Jon and Martin. But everyone has their own plans in place, and much more is at stake than the Contest.

READ IT HERE

Oh friends this fic has been such a journey but it’s finally here!

I have so many thank yous to say.

My incredible betas, Grace @iceeckos12 and Cai @bisexualoftheblade for working so hard and making this fic readable! Cai also made the gorgeous title card.

Also @elledritchorror​ who bullied me into making this fic in the first place.

[acircusfullofdemons]

I think I'm funny

[spartanxhunterx]

So I'm not sure what power you'll give the rooster since it seems like everyone wants to edit that power, but maybe rooster Luka just for the pure power of fabulousness that he'll radiate? I'm just imaging full like carnival/circus ring master with lots of swagger and flair.

Rooster!Luka would be a fabulous motherfucker.

I’m split between Alya and Luka now.

[systimming]

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- Mod Primarina.

MY MAMA??

Catwoman board w/ inclusions of Batman (Animated)

Jonathan Sims (TMA) board

Peanuts board (Charlie Brown, Linus, comics edition)

Dick Grayson / Nightwing with circus stims in black and blue

Batman, Brave and the Bold, gifs from series + writing

Jason Todd, gifs from TV shows, red + black stims

Xilonen (Genshin) w/ skating + leopard stims

Hatsune Miku w/ blue + green stims

Damian Wayne w/ inclusions of Dick Grayson + Jason

Kinich (Genshin) w/ inclusions of Mualani + Kachina + green stims

Zatanna w/ magic stims in purple and black

Tim Drake board w/ skateboard + tech stims

Sailor Moon (transformation) board w/ pink + blue stims

Nervous System (Harry Du Bois + Skills) board with rainbow + detective stims

Elias Bouchard (Magnus Archives) w/ inclusions of Peter Lukas

Gotham Knights (VG) with gifs of Red Hood + Nightwing

Muppets from Space board

Ghost Hunter Victoria (Ghost Simulator, Roblox) board

Board for Rainbow w/ rainbow + yellow smiley + numetal / punk / hardcore / metal show stims

(last updated - 11/8/24)

[lonestarfangirl2014]

LONESTARS GUIDE TO THE WAYNES AND KANES OF GOTHAM CITY PART ONE REDUX

BRUCE WAYNES UNCLES AND AUNTS(Including by marriage) EDITION

WAYNES

“Waynes never stay down. We RISE”

The Wayne's are one of the so called first families of Gotham

also known as the Founding Families of Gotham or more simply, the Five Families are the five families affiliated with the creation of Gotham as a city.

AGATHA WAYNE

First appearance: Batman issue 89 February 1955

Agatha has been discribed as Thomas Wayne frail elder sister. She occasionally visits Bruce when he’s a adult. On Earth Two where she originally debuted it’s been said that she helped out the next person on this list with young Bruce whenever she could.

It could be possible that either Agatha or the next person on our list was the one to inherit the families gotham based ancestral home based on earth two/Golden age Bruce buying a mansion to live in shortly before becoming Batman

Agatha has a counterpart on new earth/post COIE who is said to be the only sibling of Thomas Wayne(still as a older sister.).

It is unknown if she has ever had kids. On Earth Two there is evidence that Bruce has at least one possibly 1st cousin on his fathers side who I will talk about in another post I’m planning on making about Bruce’s cousins.

PHILIP WAYNE (Not to be confused with Martha’s brother of the same first name whose farther down this list)

First Earth-One appearance: Batman issue 208 February 1969

Originally introduced in the earth-one era of comics it is later revealed that a Philip Wayne did exist on the earlier earth-two in Secret Origins Vol 2 #6 (September, 1986)

On both Earth-One and Earth-Two Philip Wayne was the one who took young Bruce in after he was orphaned.

It is unknown who is older between him and Thomas but based on the appearance of Earth-One Philip(white hair and mustache) I would say that Philip was the older one at least on that earth where both he and Thomas took charge of the family business AKA Wayne Enterprise.

On Earth-Two Thomas was the one to inherit the family fortune suggesting that he was the eldest of the two Wayne sons on that Earth. Earth-Two Philip is only seen once and it’s only a silhouette of him.

It is unknown if he has ever had kids. On Both Earth-Two as well as as Earth-One there is evidence that Bruce has at least one possible paternal 1st cousin on each. Both of them I will talk about in another post I’m planning on making about Bruce’s cousins.

Vanderveer Wayne SR.

first appearance: Powerless episode 3

For the sake of this post I will say a Fourth Wayne sibling to my knowledge has never appeared in the comics HOWEVER a paternal Uncle Of Bruce was introduced in the short lived TV show Powerless as Vanderveer Wayne SR.

Vanderveer Wayne, Sr. was the original boss of Wayne Security, before passing the job to his son Vanderveer Wayne Jr and taking a position on the board of directors of Wayne Enterprise.

Patricia Wayne

First Appearance: Pennyworth episode One

The elder sister of Thomas Wayne. She has been described and shown to be a typical rich party girl who according to Thomas apparently likes to cause scandals that drag the Wayne name through the mud. The foolish sibling to Thomas responsible sibling. They bicker and she calls him names but like any typical siblings they still love eachother.

ON PRIME EARTH/NEW 52 it is said that Thomas Wayne was a only child. As of may 4 2021 none of the other Wayne siblings has so far made a appearance in Any Comics set on Prime earth. But hey screw Canon right?

KANES

“We Stand TOGETHER”

The Kane family was cited as being so rich that the only parts of Gotham that were not owned by them were those owned by the Wayne Family.

NATHAN KANE

First mentioned in Batman Incorporated(don’t quote me on that) taking place on New Earth And is confirmed to exist on Prime Earth as well.

Not much is known about Nathan. We don’t even have a proper picture of him. What we do know is that he is the eldest son(Batman Incorporated vol 1 #4)and he was the one who inherited both the family fortune as well as the family Crest Hill Estate after family Patriarch and Matriarch Roderick and Elizabeth/Elisabeth(seen it spelt both ways) both died. He is called the golden scion of the family.

On New Earth He married the original Batwoman aka Katherine Webb-Kane the year Batman became active in Gotham. He was apparently 40 when he started dating 25 year old Kathy Webb-Kane, 43 when he finally married(the year Batman age 25 debuted in Gotham) and 47 when he died.

Kathy Webb-Kane/ Katrina “Luka” Netz.

First Earth-One appearance: Detective Comics #233 (July, 1956)

First Earth-Two Appearance: The Brave and the Bold #182 (January, 1982)

First New Earth Appearance:Batman #678 (August, 2008)

First Prime Earth Appearance:Batman Incorporated Vol 2 #10 (June, 2013

The Original Batwoman!

Strap in because this is a long one.

On Earth-One her history is as follows: Kathy Kane was a wealthy heiress who gained great acrobatic skills during her career as a circus trapeze artist and stunt cyclist. Becoming infatuated with the Batman, she fashioned herself a costume and secret hide-out and started operating as Batwoman. At first she upstaged Batman and his sidekick Robin in capturing crooks. However, Batman eventually learned her true identity and tracked her to her secret cave hide-out. Showing her how easily it was for him to learn her identity, Batman pointed out that criminals could probably do it just as easily and tried to convince her to drop out of crime fighting. Disobeying Batman's advice, she tried to capture mobster Curt Briggs. During this caper, Batman went missing and Briggs, struck with amnesia, left thinking he was Batman. Ultimately the real Batman reappeared, and Biggs was turned over to the police. Afterwards, Batwoman went back to retirement. However, Kathy Kane became tired of the dull life of a rich heiress and came out of retirement once more in order to recapture a criminal named Elton Cragg. It was during this case that Batwoman gained super-powers and after her heroic deeds, she convinced Batman to let her continue her crime-fighting career. Ironically, around this time, Kathy started dating Bruce Wayne and she started to fall in love with Batman, unaware that they were the same person.

When Bruce Wayne was framed for a crime he didn't commit, Batwoman teamed-up with Robin in order to clear Batman's name. During an undercover mission, Batwoman was captured by a criminal leader and was rescued by the Dynamic Duo. When both Batwoman and reporter Vicki Vale were nominated Gotham City's "Woman of the Year", both tried to upstage each other to get the lead in the contest. With the help of Batman and Robin, both Vicki and Batwoman captured Moose Molloy's gang and both were crowned woman of the year. When Batman and Robin were trapped in a cave in, Ace the Bat-Hound guided Batwoman to help free them and capture the criminal Dr. Midas. Batwoman next helped the Dynamic Duo capture Firefly, aided them in preventing Lex Luthor from atomizing Superman, and helped them capture the Spinner. Batwoman later met with Bat-Mite and working together, they captured some crooks to save the Dynamic Duo.After this adventure, Bat-Mite became infatuated with Batwoman and tried to become her sidekick, creating chaos for everyone until he realized his mistake and left. When trying to solve the mystery of who murdered Professor Lacy after his discovery of a living caveman, Batwoman was saved by the caveman who sacrificed himself to save her from Lacy's killer: Harbin, Lacy's assistant. When Kathy Kane purchased a mystical belt, she becames a target of the criminal Star-Man. The belt sucked Batwoman's life energy from her body and she was saved by Batman and Robin, who arrived in time to stop Star-Man.

When Kathy's niece Betty Kane came to visit her, the young girl learned of her aunt's double identity. Kathy agreed to train Betty to be her sidekick, thinking that the young girl would eventually lose interest. However, to her surprise, Betty proved capable and became Batwoman's sidekick Bat-Girl. On their first mission, the two women helped Batman and Robin defeat King Cobra and his gang.Batwoman then became a victim of Luthor's experiments, who manipulated Kathy and gave her super-powers to fight her allies. After a long struggle, Superman managed to break Lex's control over Kathy and she returned to normal.When Batman and Robin were briefly transformed into alien creatures, Batwoman was one of the few who actually believed they were the real Dynamic Duo, until they were restored to normal.She later helped Batman and Robin capture the "Rockets" Rogan Gang. Later, after Batman and Batwoman were captured by the Moth, they were rescued by Bat-Girl and Robin. Later, Kathy went on a date with Bruce Wayne to an amusement park that was previously the location where the Justice League of America recently had a battle.As Batwoman, Kathy joined Batman on a trip to Washington D.C. to testify to the Senate Committee, leaving their young sidekicks to defend Gotham City in their absence.She next aided Batman and Robin in capturing the criminal known as the Vulcan.

Kathy's romances with Bruce Wayne and Batman became rocky, first during a period where Bruce Wayne was briefly transformed into a child, he made it appear that he's seeing another woman in order to keep Kathy away,and later when Batman, while under the effect of a love potion, fell in love with a woman named Elsie.Kathys romance woes became more complicate when Alpha, the Experimental Man fell in love with her, until the artificial man sacrificed himself to save her from falling off a cliff.

When helping Batman and Robin solve a murder during Mardis Gras, she got into a feud with Vicki Vale over who is the right person for Batman, forming the first of many competitions for Batman's affections.She later helped Batman capture Catman.

When she and Batman were briefly transported to another dimension by invaders from that world, their mortality was in question unless they were freed. During this period, Batwoman managed to get Batman to warm up and admit some of his feelings toward her before they were rescued by Robin and Bat-Girl.

Batwoman's feud with Vicki Vale heat up again when both women tried to determine if Mirror Man's assertions that Bruce Wayne was really Batman were true. When Batman scolded Batwoman for getting in the way of his attempts to capture Catman, she faked her intentions to join the criminal as Cat-Woman, until Catman seemingly died in the battle.Batwoman and Bat-Girl later helped the Dynamic Duo end a feud between the Joker and Clayface,and helped Batman and Robin capture the Terrible Trio

Once more suspecting that Batman and Bruce Wayne are the same man, Kathy Kane was convinced otherwise when Superman posed as Batman. However the plan went awry when a bomb goes off seemingly killing "Batman" and necessitating Superman to pose as the ghost of Batman for a time.

When Batman was briefly transformed into a gigantic creature, Batwoman teamed-up with Robin and Ace the Bat-Hound to track down the crooks that have the cure. After this, Catman reappeared and discovered his costume had mystical properties that gave him nine-lives, allowing him to continue on his crime spree. With her Cat-Woman costume, Batwoman helped Batman and Robin capture him.

Following this adventure, Batwoman went into retirement and disappear from Batman's life almost entirely. She become the owner of a circus, but often longed to return to her former crime fighting career.

Batwoman came out of retirement to aid Batgirl(Barbara Gordon)against Killer Moth and the Cavalier, but her return was never intended to be permanent.Kathy Kane was then present at a surprise party for Bruce Wayne at Wayne Manor.When Batwoman was later disintegrated into nothingness on Barbara Gordon's doorstep, Batgirl and Robin teamed-up to find the cure and restore Batwoman to her normal form. Shortly after this, Batwoman met the Huntress from Earth-Two and aided her in capturing Catwoman, Poison Ivy and Madame Zodiac. When the Freedom Fighters of Earth-X searched for a group of criminals known as the Warmakers, their search led them to the carnival owned by Kathy Kane. Kathy, as Batwoman, aided the Freedom Fighters and Batgirl in defeating the Warmakers. In her last recorded adventure, Kathy Kane was murdered by the League of Assassins who were being manipulated by Ra's al Ghul. Her death was eventually avenged by Batman.

Katherine Kane was also known as Batwoman in the Earth-Two timeline. Her history and career are said to reflect that of her Earth-One counterpart, except for that version's untimely death. When Kathy adopted the role of Batwoman, Batman wanted her to retire from the role for fear that she would be hurt in her costumed exploits. Kane would continue to operate in her costumed identity until she learned that Batman had become deeply romantically interested in someone in his unmasked identity. While Wayne never revealed his identity to her, or explicitly told her of his private life, she said she knew of his change in his attitude to her and assumed as such. She largely retired from her costumed role soon after this. Years later, she learned that Wayne was the original Batman when his costume identity was revealed to the general public after his own demise. Not long after this, Kane resumed her costumed identity when she learned of the presence of a "new" Batman. When she found him, Kathy learned that this Batman belonged in the alternate timeline of Earth-One, but the emotional shock of seeing Batman alive was still great. However, Kathy realized that he was not the love of her life reborn, but was a completely new person.

On New Earth her history is as follows

By age 25, Kathy Webb was an underground film director, a poet, and something of a wild child. But when she met Nathan Kane(who we already established as being a brother to Martha Wayne) , he bought her a circus, and she fell head-over-heels in love with him. They were together for seven years and married for four of those same years(thus making her a aunt by marriage to Bruce,Kate, Beth, And Bette) before he died of a stroke. After this, she was approached by a secret organization called Spyral to find out Batman's secret identity. Assessing the information on the Caped Crusader, she decided the best approach was to make him chase her. To that end, she brushed up on detective skills, martial arts and motor-biking, got a costume and started calling herself Batwoman. Her plan worked, and within a few months they were an item. However, Batman was careful not to give her his secret identity, and in fact worked out hers first. This, coupled with her feelings for Batman, lead her to try and break off ties with Spyral. However, her employer, the mysterious Agent-Zero, turned the tables on her, forcing her to break off on both sides, which she did. She was believed to be killed by the Bronze Tiger on behalf of the League of Assassins. The second Batwoman Kate Kane(who like Her cousins Bruce and Bette is Kathy’s relative by way of marriage) investigated the murder, but could not find anything. That was because she was never killed; after a staged death, she worked behind the scenes with Spyral to stop Leviathan. She eventually succeeded in shooting Talia al Ghul during her final standoff with Batman, before claiming that she would not be meeting Batman again, leaving to continue leading Spyral.

On Prime Earth she is Katrina "Luka" Netz one of Spyral's oldest members and the daughter of the former Director of Spyral Herr Netz. Kathy presumably being a alias that she used. Based on what I read in the comics I believe her role as Batwoman is still be canon due to nightwing recognizing her voice at one point and if not then at least her marriage to Nathan Kane is still canon.

PHILIP KANE

First appearance: Batman vol 2 issue 21 August 2013

Introduced during Zero Year(the volume he’s introduced in isn’t in the hardback version however) on Prime Earth Philip Kane ran Wayne Enterprise in Bruce’s absence. While Bruce was traveling the world training, Philip held down the business with his adviser Edward Nygma(we all know how well that turned out)

He had studied to be a geologist as a younger man, he was on a Expedition in northern Mexico when his father Roderick learned that he was dying and had came to get Philip to take him back home. Philip and his father fought because he didn’t want to go. Their fighting resulted in Philip splitting his head open which resulted in him getting a metal plate in his head.

He had given up that dream to take up the responsibility of helping to run the family business. During the Time that Bruce was abroad Philip managed to in his own words “Finally Merged the families” with both families companies(Kane Materials/Kane indrustries, Wayne Industry)seemingly merging into Wayne Enterprise.

Philip was the one who had Bruce Wayne declared legally dead which Bruce originally didn’t want to reverse. Philip Kane was also the one who was able to mostly track where Bruce was during his training. Not even Alfred knew where he was.

Philip was unfortunately blackmailed like many other citizens of Gotham by Red Hood One into joining the Red Hood gang. Being branded “Red Hood 347”, Philip did the bidding of the gang leader until Kane turned. During Batman’s assault on Red Hood One at the Ace chemical processing plant(which ironically on new earth used to belong to the Kane family as Kane Chemicals before being sold and the company Renamed Ace Chemicals )Philip gave his life to distract the Red Hood while the villain was going to kill Batman.

Trivia:Philip Kane was the one who originally own the Giant Penny whose forging he had overseen himself.

THE UNSEEN UNNAMED PARENTS OF MARY ELIZABETH(Bette) KANE

No names or appearances have ever been given for these two.

Bette’s mom was mentioned in one issue of Batwoman and that was it. Seriously it was one where it's implied she already gave up on her daughter surviving her injuries and so she was off panel implied to be talking to the doctors about donating bettes organs or something when Jacob kane was rambling besides a comatose bette. Yeah it was implied that they moved out to the west coast and lived in California because I believe that's where bette grew up in most continuities.

Next up is one every one who kept up with Bat related related comics since 2011 should be very familiar with

JACOB KANE

First New Earth Appearance: 52 #7 (August, 2006)(in a photograph alongside his second wife)/Detective Comics issue 854 August 2009

First Prime Earth Appearance: Batwoman Vol 2 #0 (November, 2012)

A lifelong soldier, Jacob had been a field officer with USSOCOM for most of his career, leading numerous tactical operations across the globe

He and his first wife Gabi are parents to twins Beth and Kate Kane

Jacob has earned the following military awards: the Army Achievement Medal, the Kosovo Campaign Medal, the Afghanistan Campaign Medal, the Iraq Campaign Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, the NATO Medal for Kosovo, the Kuwait Liberation Medal, the Presidential Unit Citation, the Meritorious Unit Commendation, and an Army Aviator Badge. Jacob has worked extensively with military intelligence services.

The Kanes often moved due to the nature of Jacob and Gabi’s work. Jacob was frequently away from home, since his duties included intervention in various international military crises.

They eventually moved to Brussels in Belgium, since the parents were now serving at NATO. However, the family was soon torn apart due to a terrorist attack. Gabi took her daughters out to celebrate their twelfth birthday, and they were kidnapped by heavily armed men. Military intelligence eventually located the hostages, and Jacob was put in charge of the tactical unit sent to rescue them. However, they were too late, as his wife had been executed and his daughter Elizabeth was believed to be dead. He rescued Kate himself, but she was traumatized by the sight of her dead mother and sister.

Colonel Kane plays an important role in his daughter’s Batwoman operations. He provides her a one-man command, control, and communications center. They stay in constant radio link, with the elder Kane being able to run searches, provide advice, and generally work in the background using his considerable knowledge, contacts and experience. Colonel Kane primarily uses his connections and his intelligence-gathering and management skills. He has access to numerous databases that are normally only accessible to military and law enforcement personnel to provide intel to his daughter.

Jacob is the next kane sibling most people would know about in part thanks to both his comic appearances In multiple bat comics as well as his appearance on the arrowverse batwoman tv show.

Gabrielle Kane(knee Goldstein in the arrowverse)

First New Earth Appearance: Detective Comics 855 September 2009

First Prime Earth Appearance: Batwoman volume 2 issue 27 March 2014

Captain Gabi Kane is the mother of Kate Kane (who later became Batwoman) and her identical twin Beth Kane. A member of the US Army’s 525th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade, she married another soldier, Jacob Kane. Both Kanes worked extensively with military intelligence services, and often moved as a result, even after their children were born. On Prime Earth When her sister-in-law Martha died she went to the funeral with both her husband and Kids. She reminded her husband that not all of Martha was dead(referring to Bruce) Eventually, the Kanes moved to Brussels, Belgium, since the parents were now serving at NATO. The family, however, was torn apart due to a terrorist attack. As Gabi was taking her daughters for their 12th birthday, they were kidnapped by heavily armed men. Military intelligence eventually located the hostages, and Jacob was put in charge of the tactical unit sent to rescue them. However, they were too late, as Gabi had been executed. Jacob rescued Kate himself, but she was traumatized by the sight of her dead mother and her supposedly dead sister.

TRIVIA: Gabi had a tattoo of the Special Forces arrowhead insignia on her right bicep; her daughter Kate later copied this.

Catherine Hamilton-Kane

First New Earth appearance: 52 #7 (August, 2006)(in a photograph alongside her husband)/Detective Comics Vol 1 #856 October, 2009

First Prime Earth Appearance: Batwoman Vol 2 #0 (November, 2012)

Heiress to the Hamilton arms fortune(called Hamilton dynamics in the batwoman tv show), and second wife of Jacob Kane.

Cathy is a jet-setter and socialite involved in politics.The Hamilton fortune was built upon guns. Catherine family owned the enormously successful Hamilton company, which apparently became a household name during the days of the Old West Firearms. Appears to care greatly for her niece by marriage(one can assume she might feel the same for Bruce if and when she finds out he’s Batman) if the way she reacted to finding out about Bette being a vilgilante in the comics is any indication.

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REQUEST ARE CLOSED! IF YOU SUBMINT A REQUEST I WILL GET TO IT WHEN I RE-OPEN

        I never thought I would have to do this but I’m closing requests. My list has gotten even more out of control since I’ve open more opportunities for myself. I’m so glad and grateful that so many of you enjoy my writing and want more I just don’t have a lot of time on my hands anymore. I just want to show you everything that I have planned out so far this year. I hope to get back on schedule very soon. 

Fanfics are mine 14(122)/54(164)| 40(40)/54(164) are request (my ideas are in bold)

Some of my ideas are multi parts so what’s in the () is how many post will be made

Total count is for all my accounts each has it’s own tasks to accomplish this year.

My Current list of insanity tasks- Total Count 237

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Ikemen Name Games x 52 (I want to release one every week! I plan to use some time to make a bunch here soon. I could also use some so if you see on you want me to use I’ll take it! You can remain anonymous if you’d prefer.)

Ikemen Notes (Make notes on suitors routes)

20 Day Challenge (I want to see if my answers change from year to year.)

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#Valentine’s Day With Ikemen  MidCin Edition 2021 (Rayvis)

#Valentine’s Day With Ikemen  DtL Edition 2021 (Keiki)

#Valentine’s Day With Ikemen  LLH Edition 2021 (Logan)

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Ayato x Reader Himedere

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Something’s Different About You Lately - Chapter 3: Crawling and Many-Legged

Martin gets a song stuck in his head.

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It galled Jon how at home he was in the institute. How right he felt among the stacks of folders and files, the detritus of academia. He should have taken more pleasure in returning to his flat each evening, a comfort he hadn’t had since the coma. But it always felt like retreating, an unfortunate if necessary pause. Put a simple meal together, do the dishes, shower, sleep a few hours, anxiously kill time until he could return. The archive was where he belonged, and he hated it.

It wasn’t safe there. But it wasn’t safe anywhere - this world had no sanctuary from the forces that gathered at the edges of Jon’s nightmares. In the archive he could still find the people he cared about most, and if he could see them, he could keep them safe.

He was in what Tim called the ‘bullpen,’ where the others had their desks. The ceilings were high there, filled with nooks and crannies where shadows pooled and made you wonder, idly, if something could be hidden up there and spying on you. Sasha was at her desk, posed like an ancient statue, leaning forward on her elbows and reading from a file. Her long black hair was pulled into a messy bun and stuck through with pencils, which seemed unnecessary given she had two at her desk already, and another behind her ear. She seemed intently focused and Jon didn't wish to disturb her, but he had a question to ask.

"Have you seen Martin?"

"Nnnm-nnuh." Sasha muttered. It was either a no, or a meaningless sound she made while hoping he'd stop talking and leave her to read.

"I haven't seen him all day," Jon continued. "I'd wonder if he even came in, except he lives here now."

"Wouldn't know." Sasha looked up, meeting his eyes. She ran a hand through her close-cropped, auburn hair. "The archive is a big place, Jon. Maybe he got lost."

Jon frowned, unhappy at the thought, and turned back towards the stairs.

He found Tim at the bottom of the stairway, leaning against the wall and shuffling papers between his hands. Jon saw glimpses as he moved - lurid reds, yellows and pinks advertising circus acts, the writing all in Russian.

"Have you seen Martin, Tim?" Jon asked. "I need to talk to him about something. It's important."

"Can't help you, boss." Tim shrugged. "You can't keep an eye on everyone, you know?"

Jon might have replied to that, but he heard footsteps coming from further up the stairs, and all the thoughts went out of his head. The footfalls had a cadence that he recognized - the shy, careful tread of a heavy man used to stepping lightly, afraid he might make too much noise. Jon ran towards the stairs, but in his hurry he knocked Tim's hands and all the papers went scattering.

Several steps up already, Jon turned and winced. "Sorry."

Tim smiled, but his eyes were burning and there was smoke in his hair. Blood dripped from where his jaw was broken.

"I don't forgive you," he said.

Jon nodded. He understood. But he still had to find Martin, so he turned and went up the stairs, taking them two at a time.

Martin's footsteps were distant and mist-muffled, and Jon had to strain to hear them. As he reached the top of the landing he was certain he saw him - just a silhouetted, but there was no mistaking it. The silhouette vanished around the corner and Jon broke into a run again, following with the relentlessness of gravity. He ran through the hallways, taking turns and looking through doorways, but the fog kept collecting between them. Every time he caught a hint of direction - a shape in the distance, a shadow, a breath - it dissolved just as soon as he came closer.

At one point Jon was certain he could see Martin clearly, sharp and certain as he ducked into a room. Jon reached the door just as it was closing, but when he pulled it open Martin wasn't there. Instead, Jon saw two other figures, quietly speaking to one another.

"Basira? Melanie . . ." Jon looked around the room. "Did Martin come through here? I . . . I thought I just saw him."

Melanie turned, blood trailing down from where her eyes used to be. Her expression was solemn and composed.

"I need to speak to him." Jon continued. "I have something to tell him. There are so many things I have to tell him . . . ."

Melanie shook her head. "He doesn't want to see you."

"You shouldn't be here." Basira came to stand beside Melanie. Her voice was the temperature of white hospital linen, of ice water brought begrudgingly. "You shouldn't have come back."

"I . . . I had to." Jon said quietly.

Basira shrugged, as if it wasn't worth arguing. "We can deal with it later."

A hand fell heavy on Jon's shoulder, and when he turned Georgie was there. Her eyes were just as he remembered them from a hundred terrible dreams, quiet, gray, and disappointed. The woman who wrapped her possessive arms around Georgie was quiet and gray as well, her head was shaved and a section of skull had been removed to expose the brain. She stared at him with eyes like a coroner's report.

"It was never a second chance." Georgie said with finality. "This isn't either."

Jon backed away, uncomfortable with the dead woman's eyes but even more so with Georgie's. Daisy said nothing from the corner where she crouched, jaw dripping, claws kneading the floor. Her gaze spoke clearly without any words, it fell on Jon and shouted, run.

He did run, back into the hallway and as fast as he could. The floor twisted under him, the fog gathered, his scars bled. He ran in any and every direction until he'd lost all sense of where he was or what he was fleeing.

Only then did he finally stop. The hall ahead of him was a dead end - no doors, turns or exits, nowhere to leave to, and at the end of it was Martin. Jon could have wept. He hurried to the end of the hall.

"Martin . . . I have so much I need to tell you," he exhaled, dizzy with adrenaline, with running and relief. "Terrible things are going to happen here . . . ."

"I know, Jon." Martin said.

"No, you don't. You can't possibly." Jon stammered, breathless. "There - - there are people out there, trying to change the world in horrible ways. The Unknowing, and Elias, and - - and Peter Lukas, he's going to hurt you . . . ."

"I know, Jon." Martin's voice was patient, weary. As if he'd explained all this so many times. "I know it all. The Lonely, and the coma, and what you did to the world."

That . . . that was impossible. Martin couldn't know about any of that, could he? It didn't matter. None of it mattered, because none of it was asa important as what he still had to say.

"I love you, Martin," he reached to touch the side of his face. "You mean the world to me. You were the reason I kept fighting, even after all was lost . . . ."

"Yes, Jon." Martin sighed heavily, removing Jon's hand from his cheek. "I know about everything. I lived through it all with you, remember?"

Jon couldn't see properly, and Martin's form kept shifting. His hair was longer, and there were dark circles under his eyes. His clothes were dirty, torn, and stained with blood that wasn't his. He carried a backpack that Jon recognized.

"But . . . you can't." Jon frowned. "None of that has happened yet."

Martin shook his head, a humorless smile on his face. The look he gave Jon lay somewhere between pity and contempt.

"Come on, Jon." He placed a hand against the wall, his fingers curled like knives. "Did you think any of this was real?"

Like a cheap backdrop, the wall came away in Martin's hand, and with it came the rest of the world. Jon saw the awful truth that had been hidden behind the theatrics. Of course . . . of course. How could he have forgotten? He and Martin had never left the tower.

From where he stood Jon saw himself in the center of the Panopticon, right where he belonged. The Archive of the Ceaseless Watcher, forever witnessing, forever recording, a mindless and infinite repository of terror. Beside him was Martin, curled against the warped shell of Jon's body, knees tucked under his chin. Unwilling to leave, unable to die, eyes dim and without any hope.

With despair he beheld the only fate there could ever be for the two of them, and he saw his own mouth forming words. And the words his mouth formed were, "with despair he beheld the only fate there could ever be for the two of them, and he saw his own mouth forming - - "

Jon bolted upright, blinking in the dark of his bedroom. His phone was ringing.

* * *

Cross-legged, Martin sat on middle of the camp bed and checked the time again. He really needed to sleep. Each minute that passed just added to how tired he'd be in the morning. For a while now he'd been relying on black tea and nerves to keep him awake during the day, occasionally supplemented by a sneaky nap when there were still other people in the building. It got him through each week, but he knew he couldn't keep it up forever. What he needed was a solid eight hours. But that chance was gone for the night, so he ought to have been making the most of what time there was.

Instead he set his phone on the stack of boxes that served as a bedside table and picked up a well-worn pocket notebook. There was a writing exercise he'd been working on, one he'd seen online somewhere. You were supposed to put down whatever words popped into your head - not thinking or editing at all. Then, after filling a page, you picked out a dozen or so and tried to make a poem out of them. Martin didn't really expect to produce anything worth looking at even by his own standards. All he wanted was to occupy his mind, focus on something that might settle his thoughts to the point where he could sleep. He looked back over the page he'd been writing on:

walls. door. closed. stuck. trapped. trap. pit. pitted. eaten. perforate. pick. dig. bore. burrow. squirm. scream. wring. writhe. anxious. panic. escape. run. hate. hate this. i hate this so much. so much so much so much.

Lovely. All it needed was an artful splatter of blood and it would be the perfect prop to leave behind after he mysteriously disappeared one of these nights. He flipped the notebook closed.

Laying down was out of the question. Every time he tried, he'd feel something crawling over every inch of his body. No matter how firmly he told himself there would be nothing there, that there was never anything there, it was no use. He'd last maybe a minute or so before leaping up, flipping on the lights and checking himself over for invaders.

No. He would just have to sit up and occupy himself until he dropped off from sheer exhaustion. It would happen eventually, hopefully soon. Meanwhile, he just had to turn his mind towards something calming. Something other than how tired he'd be in the morning. Or how vulnerable he was while he slept. Or how something might stand over him while his eyes were closed without him ever knowing. He just had to stop thinking about the sounds coming through the walls, or what had been in the hollows of Jane Prentiss's eyes. About how that basement had smelled, or how quickly those things had moved, or about wet, writhing segmented bodies crawling over one another, pressing up against this room from the outside until - -

Martin gripped his chest and counted in his head, trying to slow his breathing. This was a really bad night.

He checked the time again to find that less than fifteen minutes had passed, and a frustrated whine slipped out of him. He stared at the phone in his hand and thought about what Jon had said a few weeks ago.

This place is unsettling at night. A second perspective can be a breath of fresh air.

He had told Martin to call him. Jon couldn't get mad at him for calling if he'd told him to, could he? Or, well, he could, but it wouldn't be very fair of him. Really, the way the past month had gone, Martin found he was less concerned about sparking Jon's ire than he used to be. Mostly he was embarrassed at the thought of phoning him up to explain that he couldn't sleep because of phantom worms. What exactly did Martin expect him to do about that, anyway? Check under the bed for Jane Prentiss? Read him a bedtime story?

The image of himself curled up in bed while Jon read Tolkien to him was both ridiculous and embarrassingly appealing. He'd heard Jon do recordings before, once even overheard him singing to himself, and he did have a good voice. In fact, having Jon read something out loud to him, even just over the phone, would probably be really, really nice, whether it helped him sleep or not. Martin would definitely rather be eaten by worms than suggest it.

If Martin did call, Jon would probably say he was being irrational. And maybe he was?

Well. Not too irrational. Everyone had spotted worms chewing and crawling around the institute's baseboards. They probably followed him here, which was great, just a wonderful possibility to consider. What was it that people said about infestations? For every one you see, there's a hundred more you don't see? So actually, yes, he was being extremely rational in general and if anything he should be more concerned that --

something was crawling on the back of his neck down his back crawling squirming wriggling

Martin bolted away from the bed, yanked off his nightshirt and reached frantically around himself. His hands couldn't cover the full expanse of his back, so he grabbed a metal-edged ruler from nearby, swiping between his shoulder blades where he could still feel the slow, slick, trailing something . . . .

By the time he made it to the bathroom, the sensation had faded. He still took the time to examine his back in the mirror, craning his neck to see. No worms. No holes. A few long, red scratches he'd given himself with the corner of the ruler, trailing wide over his shoulders. The florescent light shone off a sheen of sweat between his shoulder blades, and as he watched a drop of it creep down his spine that crawling feeling zipped through him again. That was it. That was all. Just his own sweat and nerves.

He splashed some water on his face before pulling his shirt back on and trudging morosely to the cot, face burning, glad that at least there had been no one around to see. He picked his phone up from where he had dropped it, relieved that the screen wasn't cracked. Looked at the time again. 1:43.

Just someone to talk to, he thought as he opened his contacts. Just a few minutes of another human voice, even if it only told him to stop imagining things and go to sleep. He pressed the call button and the phone rang.

"Yes? Hello?" Jon's voice was groggy, with a sharp edge of irritation to it. "What is it?"

Martin winced. Of course he'd woken him up. He'd said that he kept odd hours, that meant it was all right to call him after ten, not after one. He briefly considered hanging up and pretending that this hadn't happened.

"Hello? Is anyone there?" The edge in Jon's voice increased, dipping into anger. Martin heard him mutter something about automated calls.

"Hi. Sorry." Martin said. "I know it's late . . ."

"Oh. No, no, it's fine." Jon's voice changed immediately, dropping to a gentler tone. "What is it? Is everything all right?"

"I'm not sure." Martin swallowed, mouth dry. "It's probably all in my head, but, well, what you said about another perspective . . . ."

"Of course. What - -" Jon stifled a yawn. "What's troubling you?"

Martin was hit then by just how little had actually happened. A few odd noises and his mind conjuring danger from sweat. Trying to explain the last few hours in a way that didn't sound completely stupid felt impossible.

There was silence on the line for much too long, and then, "Martin? Are you still there?"

"Yeah, sorry. Just hit me how underwhelming this is going to sound," he said apologetically. "Probably wasn't worth waking you over."

Again there was silence. Martin found himself thinking if the worms had been waiting for a particular moment to fall on him, bore through his flesh and eat whatever part of his brain thought phoning Jon at two am was a good idea, he'd be up for it right about then.

"It's fine, Martin. Really." Jon said. "I'm glad you called. I . . . appreciate that you would reach out to me. Obviously I asked you to, but, still."

Martin blinked, surprised at the sincerity in Jon's tone. It was reassuring, and it tied itself up around a handful of other things he'd been feeling lately, enough that he felt able to talk.

"All right, well . . . I think there might be something in the walls."

There was a heavy pause before Jon spoke. "In the walls."

"Yes, in the walls!" The tension that had been winding in Martin for hours hadn't left, and something in Jon's tone made him defensive. "Is that really hard to believe? Infestations usually start in walls, don't they? If those things are, making, I don't know, nests. . . ."

Against his will, Martin found himself imagining what those things would make nests out of. The visual of half a dozen hole-shot bodies entered his mind, curled like mummies between the rooms, mouths writing with larvae and opened as if to scream. He shuddered.

"No, no, it's - - it's a logical concern." Jon said. "But you're not thinking of - - that is, you're not cutting holes in them, are you?"

"Oh." Martin flushed. "No, no. I'm not going to start knocking down walls or anything, if that's what you're worried about. I just hear things through them sometimes. Especially at night."

"What sort of things?" Jon asked. "Er . . . worm noises?"

"Sort of. Well, no. I mean. Maybe?" Martin sighed, "okay, the thing is . . . there's the usual old building sounds. And I know that probably most of what I'm hearing is the pipes, right? But there's other sounds underneath that and - - yeah," he started to pick up speed, talking faster and thinking less about it "- - sometimes it does sound a lot like something's crawling around in there, and that's not even getting into the voices - -"

"Wait, voices?" Jon cut in sharply.

Martin winced. He hadn't meant to mention that part, but he was tired and anxious and couldn't keep a lid on things. It had just slipped out.

"Um. Yes. Sort of," he said quietly. "Sometimes."

"Are they saying anything specific?"

"Not really? Just sort of indistinct, maybe not even words. It's more like. There's a melody to it? Not something you could hum, but . . . it sort of sticks in your head. Sometimes I get it running through my mind during the day, you know, but I only actually hear it at night, so . . . ." Martin trailed off, keenly aware of how insane he sounded.

There was a very long pause on the other end. When Jon spoke again, his voice was slow and careful. "You haven't been sitting up and listening to it , have you?"

Internally, Martin groaned. "Look, I know how it sounds, Jon, I just- -"

"Martin. Martin." Jon raised his voice, covering Martin's protest. "I believe you."

"I - what?"

"I promise, I believe you." Jon said. "Please, just . . . have you been listening to it? The . . . the singing."

It was the fear in Jon's voice more than his actual words that made Martin pause and consider his answer.

"Not on purpose, I guess. I still hear it of course. Sometimes I try to cover it with music or, uh, forest noises, but that never really works. But it's not as if I'm trying to listen."

"Does it . . . ." Jon laughed weakly, "this is probably going to sound like an absolutely deranged question but, does it sound like it's for you?"

Martin couldn't explain the sudden lunge of fear in his gut when Jon asked him that.

"Wh-what?"

"Does it sound like something is singing to you? You specifically?"

The question was strange, but it resonated. There was a feeling he got sometimes sitting up in bed, half-dazed with exhaustion. It was hard to put a name to, but it felt familiar.

Come to think of it, he knew what that feeling reminded him of. It was a boy named Colin from his first year of secondary school. That was back before the growth spurts had turned Martin into the too-big, too-obvious teen he'd eventually become, when he was still a high-voiced fat little boy. Colin had been bigger and older, and he would insert himself into Martin's life at random, meeting him at the corner on his walk to school or sidling up to him in the lunchroom. Hitting him up for any money he might have, which was never very much, or making jokes that Martin felt obliged to laugh along with even though they were at his expense. Sometimes he'd muss Martin's hair in a manner that felt almost friendly, or pinch and poke at his chubby sides in a way that decidedly wasn't.

Martin was fairly sure Colin hadn't had any friends either, and maybe in some other world they could have bonded over that, but Colin didn't want a friend in Martin. He'd marked him as a pushover who would put up with him for the poor excuse for companionship that he sometimes provided. And he'd been right. Colin had been better than nothing.

"It sounds . . . friendly." Martin said after a pause. "But . . . not a nice sort of friendly. More cruel. If that makes sense."

Jon muttered something to himself that Martin couldn't hear, then spoke again into the phone.

"Are you dressed?" He asked.

"I - - What?"

"Are you dressed?" Jon repeated. "Have you got shoes on? Are you wearing clothes that you can go outside in?"

"Um." Martin glanced towards the suitcase where he kept most of his clothing. "I could be in a moment?"

"Good. Get on what you need, then get outdoors as quickly as possible. Take anything essential that you can easily grab. Wallet, phone, keys, that sort of thing. Wait for me just outside the Institute." There was more shifting and dragging, the sounds of him moving things around. "I can get there in about half an hour, depending on the trains."

"Why? What's this about?"

"Just wait for me there." Jon's voice was sharp, but there was an audible current of fear running through it. "And - and don't listen to any singing. I'll be there as quickly as I can."

Before Martin could ask anything further, the call ended.

[timelessmulder]

my list of fics to write for tma are as follows

-jon gets shadowplayed by the circus

-jon has nightmares about being shadowplayed by elias

-desolation gerry that is also like a character study

-statement fic that works in warrior cats bc i think i’m funny

edit: lmao forgot about the idea that’s just “gerry has a bad time with the hunters” as well as a longer fic idea that involves a lukas oc and gerry :3c

(shadowplay is just brainwashing)