#not knowing it was ted who they are looking for

[st4rsdoyoulikedem]

Part two of my drivers/junior drivers of a team having things in common series:

Red Bull/Racing bulls

Family picture!! Now, to be a red bull (junior) driver you must be one of two things; either you must have blonde hair or dark hair. (I know this just sounds really basic but trust me on this one)

Group 1: the blondes

From top to bottom, left to right: Max Verstappen, Tim Tramnitz (F3), Sebastian Vettel, the twins Oliver Goethe (F2) and Liam Lawson, Emely de Heus (F1academy 2024), Chloe Chambers (F1academy 2025), and Pierre Gasly.

Commonly paired with a dark-haired counterpart as their teammate, and always serving cunt these are the blonde red bull drivers. I cannot be the only one who noticed that Tim and Liam look like they could be family, right? Even matching backwards hat is giving brothers.

Two of these blondes are both Dutch icons (I might be a bit biased🧡🌊🇳🇱🦁🚲💪) always honest, slaying and staying unbothered . If you weren’t aware I’m of course talking about Max and Emely.

Idk if Chloe and Emely’s hair is naturally blonde or not but idc🤷‍♀️

Group 2: the dark-haired

From top to bottom, left to right: Pepe Martí and Isack Hadjar (F2 2024), Arvid Lindblad (F3 2024), Mark Webber, Sergio Perez, Daniel Ricciardo and Yuki Tsunoda, Nikola Tsolov (F3), Carlos Sainz, Alex Albon, Hamda and Amna Al Quibaisi (F1academy 2024).

These dark-haired icons are lightly brushed by melancholy, have a big bomboclatt and are usually drawn to a cunty blonde by an unknown force. It’s so iconic that one pairing in the foto are literal family, and that an other driver on this fotogrid looks like he could be their sibling imo; I’m obviously talking about the Al Quibaisi sisters and Arvid.

These baddies have a rep of getting the short end of the stick, some say this is because they are not blonde and white, I’ll leave that up to you to decide for yourselves.

Down here I’ll just leave some family pictures for you guys to admire:

In the next part I will share the similarities between the junior academies of the other teams. For now: thank you for listening to my Ted talk and I hope you’ll look for my next post:)

[hollowed-theory-hall]

I've been reading your posts for awhile now and I genuinely enjoy reading your takes especially with Harry's characterization. so I've been wondering what are your thoughts on the lupin family? especially with teddy? although I still kinda dislike his parents' relationship i still think he's an interesting character and i wished people talked about him more outside of shipping. What would his relationship with harry be growing up? Also Lyall's death was never really confirmed, only hope's was so do you think he and Andromeda raised teddy instead of harry? It still feels odd that remus chose a 17 year old to be his son's godfather surely there were other suitable candidates than a literal teenager.

Thank you so much 💕

So, this is like entirely in my headcanon space since I did not watch/read Cursed Child and I'm not planning to. I don't consider any of the post-book material canon at all except the Quidditch World Cup in 2014, which I accept since it's fun and doesn't go out of its way to ruin established characters. I enjoyed reading it more than the epilogue, so that's something.

That being said, I often prefer to ignore many aspects of the epilogue and the World Cup article when headcanoning post-books events. I also don't engage much with next-gen stuff since I'm more interested in Harry's generation, but I do have some thoughts about Teddy.

With all this out of the way, let's talk about the Lupins.

So, I like Remadora, I think they're alright for the little we see of them. Tonks just deserves so much better than Lupin in my mind. I mean, he wanted to leave her, after he got her pregnant, for his own sense of inadequacy, guilt, and allergy to taking responsibility. Harry was so justified in ripping Remus a new one.

Now, I mentioned here, how I think Remus didn't make Harry Teddy's godfather because he thought Harry was ready (though Harry is more mature and responsible at 17 than Remus is at 37, so...), but as a way to promise Harry that he isn't going to push him, or Tonks, or anyone who loves him away anymore. It was Remus trying to apologize in a weird way that didn't really land. Especially since he goes and dies right after. (can you tell Remus is my least favorite marauder?)

Now, I find it really hard to imagine Remus as a father for Teddy had he lived. Like, I can see Tonks being a cool mom and her and Teddy matching hair colors when walking together and messing with people (and I think she could become more responsible had she lived longer). Remus is a harder one for me to envision as a parent. I mean, I think he'd be relieved that Teddy wasn't born a werewolf, but whenever he'd look at Teddy and Nymphadora, I think Remus couldn't help but feel sorry for himself and like he doesn't deserve them. While making Harry Teddy's godfather was meant to be a sort of promise, I can't see Remus fixing his habits so quickly. I mean, he'd try. But I can also see him, trying to up and leave a few times only to be talked out of it by various characters.

I think his behavior is going to put a lot of stress on Tonks too. Like, While I think they do love each other, I don't know how well their relationship would work in the long run if Remus doesn't bother to work on himself and get his fucking act together.

But in the books they both died, so Teddy is spared the mess his parents' relationship likely would've been and is instead stuck with a different mess of being an orphan with a 17-year-old caretaker. (This kid cannot win. Maybe because both his parents were kinda irresponsible and didn't quite get a grasp on adulthood when he was born)

So, post-DH, Remus and Tonks are dead, Ted Tonks is dead and we are left with a grieving Andromeda who lost all her family (again), a grieving Harry who just keeps losing people, and a newly orphaned barely a-year-old Teddy Lupin.

I think Teddy is an interesting mirror to baby Harry and Neville in a way. His parents died/couldn't take care of him because of Voldemort/his followers and he was left with only a godfather/grandmother. Teddy got both and his godfather isn't in Azkaban, so he has it a little better.

I like to imagine Harry makes sure to be super involved with Teddy's childhood, but I can't imagine a 17-year-old (almost 18) Harry post-war and maybe going back to Hogwarts for 8th year (depends on headcanon) being in a state to take care of a baby full time. I like to think Andy helps out in that first year a lot. I think Andy needs someone, some family to get her through loss. And I think Harry could enjoy Andy's company too. I'm sure she has plenty of stories about a young Sirius, and maybe even a young James, and in my headcanon, Andy somewhat adopts Harry as an extra son too.

Which means she ends up seeing way more Weasleys than she ever expected to. I think the Weasleys, who just lost Fred would understand a lot. I mean, both Andy and Molly lost a child and other family. I want Andromeda be more involved with all of them post-canon. That's my wish.

So Harry is Teddy's official guardian, but he spends loads of time with his grandma and the Weasleys growing up probably. Like, I don't mind him and Victoire being together, though I wouldn't necessarily have been my preferred choice, but I don't really care. They're probably childhood besties because they grew up together.

As for Teddy's relationship with Harry, I think Harry would end up treating him more like a much younger brother than a son. I mean, when Teddy would be 10, Harry would just be 27. Don't get me wrong, Harry could, technically, be his dad, but I think their dynamic is going to be different than that of Harry with his own children. Just because of how young and traumatized Harry is when he gets Teddy.

So, I think their relationship would have its tense points, but they'd also love each other. Like, you know Harry would do his best. He'd be super protective over Teddy, Andy would be, too. Like, no one messes with this kid.

But I also kinda want Teddy making a: "you're not my dad" joke/comment when Harry tries to send him to his room or something and Harry doesn't know if he wants to laugh or cry the first time it happens. But I think it would become a recurring joke Harry laughs from.

I think the first years would be the roughest. Everyone's grieving and trying to settle back into a semblance of normal life. Harry never really had a "normal life" he's gonna have no idea what to do with himself and I think Teddy could be a purpose he dedicates himself to. I think these two and Andy could all help each other figure their lives out. But as Teddy grows older and things settle down, it becomes easier.

While I think Harry and Teddy would end up really close, it's not going to be exactly the same relationship Harry and Sirius had. Teddy is going to have a happy childhood, Harry and Andy wouldn't let it be any other way, so he won't have the same grief and trauma Harry did as a child. Like, their dynamic would be less desperate, I think. Like, Harry wouldn't need to stay in a cave and eat rats for Teddy, their situation would be way chiller. Like, I think Harry would be constantly confused about how Teddy ended up being such a cool kid/teen because he doesn't think he could've raised him like that and he would joke about it with Teddy who'd be all sarcastic like: "Obviously, I raised myself here,"

Like, I imagine Teddy with his mother's punk fashion sense and goofiness (the goofiness I believe was 100% shared by Ted Tonks), Remus' voice and constant self-doubt, Andromeda's posture (he sits with his back perfectly straight, okay, Andy didn't let him slouch by the table), and Harry's sarcasm. He's like this mix of them and still his own person.

I think Teddy is likely to go through quite a lot of personal phases to try and figure out his own identity and how he portrays himself. Becouse everyone treats him as the godson of the famed boy who lived, but his dead parents were the last Metamorphmagus and a Werewolf. And he is very close to his grandma, who is a disowned daughter of House Black. Like, this is a kid rip for angst about who he is and who people see him as and him being a Metamorphmagus really leans into it.

Like, a young Teddy making sure to look like Harry in public because he's proud of the connection. Or Teddy mimicking Remus or Tonks' appearance from photos when he thinks about them and misses them or wants to remind strangers who his parents actually are becouse they seem to forget. Like, that could be super fun.

I think Harry's kids would really like Teddy. He's like a cool older cousin/brother who lives with them. Like, I can see them really looking up to him and Teddy would complain to Harry about being followed around by a 3-year-old that won't leave him alone and Harry would just find the whole thing amusing.

(I can also see a post-war Andromeda getting back in touch with Narcissa, so you could involve the Malfoys too if you felt like it. Though I feel like Teddy would just, not like Lucius much)

(Also also, I think Lyall is dead. I feel like if he was alive we would know, yk?)

[primthegreat]

In the ranking of who Id be more willing to fight to the least it goes like this;

1. Jaybin- I think he’d still kick my ass but it would be a good tussle, I’m pretty sure teeth would be involved on both ends though.

2. Timbin- Would also kick my ass, but I think he’d be nicer about it? Still absolutely wreck me but then he’d like give me a thumbs up and make suggestions on how I could improve idk. I’m still leaving in pain.

3. Damian- I don’t think we’d even fight physically he’d just look at me and clock every insecurity I have and absolutely wreck me emotionally, and I will never be in the emotional state to handle that from a 10y/o.

4. Dickbin- He would absolutely rip me apart. Kid was ruthless, and he was MEAN. I’d leave with multiple broken bones and a broken ego, Damian would have hurt but Dick? I’d be ruined for life. Scathing words come from the kid without pants.

Again I’d like to remind everyone that these kids beat up full grown men nightly. Full on kick them to the curb. My 5’6 ass cannot compete.

And if you noticed I didn’t include girls it’s because I am but a simple being and if a woman can kick my ass I’d be asking her to marry me. Which all of the batgirls can and I am in love with all of them so yeah…

It was kinda fun thinking this through, if it had to be them grown up I’d list it like this;

(More willing to least)

1. Jason- he has the most skin showing, and I am still willing to bite, he can’t bc of his stupid helmet, so I’d get the factor of surprise. We’re pretty tied when it comes to knowledge of guns and willingness to use them. I’d probably be more likely to shoot him though.

2. Tim- Kinda still the same as last time, he’d absolutely kick my ass but be a little nicer than the others about it. Probably get me a job at WE or something if I’m really down on my luck

3. Damian- Kids words would still hurt but I think he’d just knock me out, but honestly in Gotham I don’t think I’d wanna be laying on the floor anywhere. Maybe I could bribe him to leave me alone with pictures of my animals?

4. Dick- Would absolutely wreck me and ykw? I’d probably deserve it, like, sorry dude you’re right I need my head bashed into a brick wall I don’t know what I was thinking. Nightwing is terrifying, and I love him for it, however I do believe I’d rather knock myself out than fight him.

Long story short I am always gonna be 10x more willing to fight Jason over everyone bc I have the strange need to sink my teeth into his skin in a way of pure violence, thank you for coming to my ted talk this was entertaining :)

ok important question for the DC fans, which robin would you least like to fight?

because personally I’m inclined to say Damian but I feel like they’re all terrifying in their own right.

for one dick Grayson was not only the first and youngest but grew up being groomed to become the leader of the talons and to defeat Batman and reclaim Gotham. Not only does he have amazing flexibility aim and a natural ability to lie so convincingly he’s tricked some of the best detectives on earth but he’s been shown to have a planning and leadership capability to match Bruce. He also operated as deathstrokes apprentice during this time earning the respect admiration and obsession of the experienced mercenary.

secondly we have Jason Todd, who grew up in the streets of Gotham for years practically alone since his mother was an addict who was mostly checked out. He nearly managed to get away with stealing the tires off the bat mobile and he was able to relatively seamlessly transition into the role of Robin because of his physical and mental fortitude

Thirdly Tim Drake not only found out who the bats were with no outside assistance as a child but was able to covertly follow the bats without detection for several years without major injury. He is also widely regarded as an equal if not superior detective than Batman an expert hacker as well as the best hacker of the robins and similarly was able to quickly adjust to his role as robin

Fourth of all Damian Wayne son of Batman and Talia Al Ghul created to be the genetically superior assassin and future heir to the throne of Ra’s Al Ghul trained from birth as an expert assassin and performed well enough to gain the approval of Ra’s and his mother both expert assassins for several years. The only problem Bruce could find with his performance was that he was too vicious and cut throat when dealing with criminals. After Bruce’s “death” he finished off his training with Dick Grayson the first robin leader of the titans and the person who would later single handedly take down spyral a criminal organization that uncovered the identities of the entirety of the JLAs identities

Please tell me your opinions and sorry for not including some of the others(Carrie Kelly, Stephanie brown etc) I just don’t have enough info about their lives but I’d love to learn some!

[fancyfeathers]

Always Prey But Never A Bird

Based on the Yandere Batfam w/ Wife/Mother!Darling & Daughter/Sister!Darling series

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“You know the rules, Songbird.” One of the security guards spoke to you as they led you past the security checkpoints, the heavy steel doors closing tightly behind you and the security guard handed you a visitor’s pass, just something to get you in and out of Arkham Asylum, even superheroes and vigilantes have to follow the rules sometimes. “The patient will be restrained during your visit and security cameras will be in every corner of the room.”

“I’ll need those cameras turned off.” You spoke to the guard and you watched the look on his face turn into one of shock and you sighed and shook your head at his reaction. “The things I will be discussing with Mr. Dent are related to a top-secret investigation, whatever we say stays in that room or else it could potentially cost innocent people their lives, I don’t want that blood on my hands and I am sure you don’t want that either, correct? Or I could make a call to Austen Industries and have them shut down all of their security camera networks-”

“F-fine… just don’t be too long.”

“I won’t be long, promise.” You replied before you turned away from the guard and began making your way down the dark halls of Arkham Asylum. Your shoes hit the ground in heavy steps against the floors of the asylum which shifted from hardwood floors to metal paneling and concrete ground, materials which are nearly impossible to break. You had to walk down that same hallway you did when you came to the asylum to deal with the Joker, or rather your father dealt with the overgrown clown. It was a high-security hallway, it held the ones who were the most dangerous without special abilities or mutations, this hallway held the sort like Dr. Jonathan Crane, Victor Zsasz, and Ted Carson, among others in the cellblock, including who you were visiting, Harvey Dent. when you walked past the former district attorney’s cell he was gone, most likely having been taken to an interrogation room closer to the end of the hallway. You sighed and shoved your hands in the pockets of your coat that you wore over your suit. Along the way down the hallway you walked past the iron bars of Ted Carson’s cell, otherwise known as Firefly, one of the few criminals in here you have a history with as Songbird, you shot him a glare which he returned. You groaned and looked ahead, trying to take your mind off of what happened when you faced against him, you remember Clove’s agonizing pain in her recovery and how Foxglove and Henbane had to carry you back to the warehouse because of the fresh burns on your skin make it too hard for you to walk, it was too painful, then the smell of burning flesh was horrible, it was something that made you gag whenever you thought about that night.

You felt even more ashamed of what happened that night when one of the guards in the hallway clicked on a lighter to light a cigarette and the slight of flames actually made you flinch, you slightly stumbled and took a step back, your eyes unwillingly fixed onto the spot where the fire was and the guard never even noticed your reaction, just continued to walk on their own route. You took a second to pause in your steps and catch your breath from the sudden scare.

“I’ve always wondered what you would be afraid of, I didn’t expect you to be afraid of fire of all things.” You sucked in a breath when you heard the voice of Dr. Jonathan Crane speak from another cell on your other side. You turned your head to look at him with an emotionless expression, without the mask and fear toxin he really was not that scary, a thinner-looking young man with brown hair and fair skin with thin glasses, honestly if he was not insane you might have found him somewhat attractive, but then again your current track record only put you with the psychopaths and the insane of the world. “I’ve met some of your friends, the short blonde one and the lady with the red hair.”

“I remember…” You could never get the images out of your mind of Nettle crying in the corner of the warehouse’s kitchen after you and Clove rescued Nettle and Foxglove after they had the unfortunate experience of breathing in fear toxin, Foxglove was not like Nettle with it, she was just silent and did not move a muscle without you helping her, she just stared at the wall until it wore out. “They certainly were not happy after your encounter with them.”

“No, they were not, but you… you’re different than all of them, you look so young but you… you have been doing this for years longer, or at least it feels that was probably from years of extreme childhood trauma and issues with obvious issues authority-”

“You’re psychoanalyzing me, Dr. Crane.”

“Am I wrong?” The silence from you after his question answered it for you. “Besides if it helps I have been analyzing your behavior for quite a while now, you act so similar to the other masked oddities in the city but so different at the same time, then the fact that you are called SOngbird when you clearly cannot stand and most likely despise the Batman and his… sidekicks, for lack of a better word.”

“The press gave me that name… I could not stand it at first, because you are right, I hate Batman for personal reasons and maybe I am doing this whole vigilante thing out of spite. The thing is I don’t hate being called Songbird anymore because someone got me to see it in a new light.” You took a step away from the former doctor and professor to continue your way down the hallway but you glanced back at him. “Also fire isn’t my worst fear, it’s syngenesophia, I am absolutely terrified of my own family, have a good evening Dr. Crane.”

You forced yourself to walk down the hallway, ignoring the rest of the patients who tried to speak to you, even the laughter from the Joker as you turned the corner and kept on walking until you reached the heavy iron door that would lead you into the small interrogation room made up of metal and concrete. There was a guard next to the door who would lock it when you were inside and take Harvey Dent back to his cell when you left. You gave the guard a smile and nod and he nodded in return before he reached out to open the door for you and you stepped inside the dark and small room which inside there was a small table which was bolted to the ground along with two chairs, one of which was not empty and where a man sat, his hands in cuffs which were connected to the bolted down table. Harvey Dent was your father’s age, he actually knew your father and mother and met you once upon a time when you were just a little girl and he was still the district attorney.

“Hello, Mr. Dent.” You spoke calmly as you sat down across from the scarred man, you glanced up at the four corners of the room, all of the security cameras were off, and the red light not showing up at all, you were safe to talk freely in here. “I asked them to turn off the cameras so we would be able to talk without anyone watching.”

“I have been in here for two months, whatever happened-”

“It’s not related to any sort of that thing, what I need to talk about is personal, something I need your help with since a vigilante can’t really be going around asking for legal advice.” There was a pause in your words as you watched him reach into his pocket and pull out a coin, a coin with two heads, the only difference being is one was all scratched up. You watched him flip the coin and it landed in his palm before he looked up at you.

“You must have done something pretty serious to be this desperate to come to me for help.”

“Actually, I didn’t do anything wrong… my family is more than a bit messed up and then I have a psychopathic fiance- but one thing at a time.” You sigh and cross your arms, leaning back into your chair. “I need to figure out a way for my mother be able to divorce my father when she has no money without him and without him getting arrested for why she needs to divorce him.”

“Well, how good of lawyers can your father get?”

“The best money can buy.” You reach a hand up to grab a side of your mask and you peeled it off your face, you made the choice to reveal your identity to him. “Or the best Wayne Industries already has in their employment.”

“My god…” He stared at you as if he was seeing himself in the mirror for the first time, but really you could not blame him, this was his first time seeing you since you were a little girl, the little girl who wore frilly dresses and who her father carried everywhere in his arms, but then there was something else in his eye, a look that confirmed there was still good in him. “What did Bruce do?”

“A lot.” You reached into your utility belt and out of one of the pockets you pulled out a folded-up piece of paper, it was a list. You handed it to him and you never thought you would see Two-Face be horrified by something, but this seemed to do it. “Blackmailed my mother into marriage among other things which include, but are not limited to-”

“No, I understand… at least now I know why you came to me of all people first.”

“Ya, not exactly the sort of thing either of my identities could be seen doing without some sort of attention.”

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You swung through the city streets of Gotham, and your meeting with Two-Face, or rather it was Harvey Dent who showed through, went surprisingly well even with the revelation of what he had done. The sun had just set over the city so the skyline was a very pretty shade of gold with slight hints of pink. You still had one more visit to make as Songbird to visit that girl you told Damain about, but not having your bike just made it more difficult to get from place to place, especially when you had to cross half of the city to get there. By the time you made it near Gotham City Hall your arms burned like hell and you had to stop and take a seat for a moment on a building’s ledge to catch your breath and give your arms a quick rest.

You sat yourself on top of the Novick building, your legs dangling over the edge. Honestly, it was nice, a moment of peace being able to look over Gotham with a bit of hope in your heart, Harvey Dent had even given you the name of a divorce lawyer he had known when he was the district attorney. Even if you spent every night or mostly every night as a vigilante in Gotham, you only got to see the ugly bits of the city, not how beautiful it could be like right at the end of the sunset and everything was quiet or almost quiet. There were a few children playing on the sidewalk and when they looked up and saw you sitting on the edge of the rooftop you could hear the excitement in their voices, pointing up and calling over to their parents that Songbird was here and you could not help but smile and wave down at them and you could hear them giggle in joy.

They were not afraid of you.

They never were.

You quietly laughed as you stood up from the ledge and waved goodbye to the children and you turned on your heel to walk on the roof of the building and vanish from their sight, but as you turned around, looking away from the sunset into the darkness you were greeted by an unexpected sight, well no one expects to see a man, or what you assume to be a man, standing on a rooftop dressed in black with no disenable features besides the mask they wore with golden owl features and golden circular eyes…

Beware The Court of Owls,

that watches all the time,

ruling Gotham from a shadowed perch,

behind granite and lime.

They watch you at your hearth,

they watch you in your bed,

speak not a whispered word of them,

or they’ll send the Talon for your head.

You knew the rhyme that was told to children like a silent way for their parents to get them to behave and you certainly knew they were real now, the man on the bridge and now this, they were after you, most likely because of Gabriel. You pressed a button on your wrist, an emergency signal to your friends in case anything went wrong which would send out your last known location. You had no one like your brother to save you now, you were on your own.

You did not even have time to run before it was standing right in front of you. Clearly, its orders were not to be hostile unless need be because it just held its hand out for you to take which felt like more of an insult than it trying to fight you. You scowled beneath your own mask and instead, you spun around on your foot to try to kick whatever this thing was in the ribs which was completely useless by the way he caught your left ankle and tossed you with his grip on your leg. Your body skidded across the gravel and you could already feel your left ankle swelling up probably twisted or sprained, you would have heard a crack if it was broken. You tried to push yourself up and failed miserably when you felt the man shoot a kick into your ribcage, sending you tumbling over the gravel rooftop even further. You winced in pain as you tried to stand up again, sharp pain in your side and in your left leg. You could only watch as the man walked over to where you lay, you being too hurt and caught off guard to fight back when he covered your mouth and nose with a cloth which had clearly been soaked in some sort of chemical mixture of sedatives, extremely heavy sedatives at that. At least the League of Assassins were more gentle when kidnapping you and even when returning you to where you were kidnapped, Ra’s Al Ghul gave you tea to knock you out for fuck’s sake.

You tossed and turned against your kidnapper, looking for a way out, your eyes landed on a security camera on the side of another building and you silently prayed for the first time that Oracle, Barbara Gordon would be able to find you.

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When you woke up you immediately felt like you were going to vomit, but you suppose that is what happens when you have been drugged and kidnapped. For some reason, you expected to be cold when you woke up, but everything was surprisingly warm and comfortable. You were lying down in a bed with satin sheets over your body and what you felt to be maybe a weighted blanket or a comforter. Everything was burly when you opened your eyes and it took a minute to focus your vision so you could see the unfamiliar room around you, you were, in fact, laying in a four-poster dark wood bed and the sheets and blankets were the purest shade of white, the other furniture in the room matched the shade of wood the bed was, the dresser, the wardrobe, the side tables, even the hardwood floor beneath the light blue carpet and even the legs of the armchair in the corner of the room. You actually felt like you were going to throw up when you sat up in bed and while you did, a hand from your other side guided you to lean over the edge of the bed to where there was a bowl already lying on the ground in case you did throw up what little you had in your stomach. The hand ran its leather-covered fingers through your hair as you lurched and you gripped your stomach in pain and discomfort.

“Feel better, my dove?” A gentle voice spoke to you as your stomach finished emptying itself and suddenly you felt sick again as you looked over your shoulder to see the one who was sitting on the bed beside you was your ex-fiance, except he was wearing a white dress shirt with a tan vest, a blue tie, and white pants and on his lap lay a mask, a white owl mask, just like the one you saw in the photos and just like the one you saw the man on the bridge wear. It was as if he could read your mind with the next words he spoke to you. “I do apologize for the Court’s actions a few weeks ago on the bridge, that was my mother’s choice and she just is a slightly bit less patient than me, so when she saw that you were back she did send that person to kidnap you if wasn’t for NIghtwing and how they messed up by knocking you off of the bridge, don’t worry that part wasn’t your fault and they were killed for almost killing you.”

“W-what…”

“Oh I suppose this all is quite shocking to you, isn’t it?” He smiled for a moment before it faded away like it never existed and instead, you were left with a cold and blank stair that bled right into your soul. “That is what I would say if I didn’t already know that you knew the truth and you left me without a second thought, and you crawled back home like a little baby bird who realized the nest is so much more safer than the real world.”

“I-I…”

“Don’t worry I forgive you, because I know you were just scared, right?” You could not even get out a response before his smile came back to his face. “You’re safe with me, after all, I would never let anyone hurt you. My own mother suggested that when you left that we should kill you so you wouldn’t tell anyone, such a shame she can’t see our wedding now because she is dead.”

[nocturnaldancers]

I made a nocturnals oc :D her name is stella (provisional). I head canon that she was the one who taught ted how to drive lol

Extra doodles I made for the discord

[yourlocalabomination]

This is Hatchetfield, People go missing everyday!

[eightspringdays]

People who infantilize autistic coded characters are the weakest link in society's chain.

How are you gonna look at this mf

And then tell me he's too uwu to do anything. Open your eyes, expand your brain; he thinks of the MCnasty too. Let him say fuck !!!!

[jerrythebug]

This is how my first try at drawing Booster and Beetle went. I was redrawing comic panels and such, it was great fun!

[gizzymoes]

allied mastercomputer being tsundere

What in the anime tropes

[dr-mothman]

I think not a lot of people talk about AM's self-esteem issues and self-destructive tendencies and it makes me sad.

[pinazee]

Paul protec

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[glittter-skeleton]

Ted and Jenny, I personally prefer thinking they were generally insufferable

[alongtidesoflight]

so here's my honest thoughts on dragon age: the veilguard, after ~40 hours of playing. i finished the main quest after having finished all companion quests and major faction quests. just to clear up what content i saw, i played as an elven transmasc rook who is a member of the lords of fortune. he romanced lucanis (although after finishing the game i'm now leaning towards taash). i don't know what's happening in playthroughs that have a different race, gender identity, romance or faction going on.

full spoilers ahead, i mean it. don't read further if you want to avoid them. i don't want complaining about it in my asks.

oh and also, if you're worried because of a few negative reviews online i can comfort you by saying don't give a fuck about a certain big name youtuber who is very much tied to bethesda franchises giving this a negative review. i'll explain why.

i'm starting off with the things i liked

the game looks really pretty. i was worried it wouldn't feel like thedas anymore (with them trying to "focus on northern thedas only" i thought they'd make a clear cut in environmental design. they do and they don't. it's complicated. i'll elaborate on it when talking about the negative stuff). anyway it does. minrathous feels like kirkwall. treviso enchanted me like the winter palace did. the hossberg wetlands reminded me of the hinterlands and a couple other inquisition maps. arlathan looked like... arlathan. the crossroads were different, but familiar. overall i like the way it looks and feels. it's thedas, with a twist. it's a good one, and gives everything a solid but unique feel.

combat is top tier. if you're a hardcore dragon age player you WILL miss the tactical aspect of it for a bit, but i promise you, once you're used to the way the combat works, you will be lapping that shit up. and once you get to ability combos you'll mourn the control you used to have over your companions in battle a bit less

the MAIN quest and its story. i expected worse, way worse. and for a while the game even had me tricked (harr harr you'll get it in a second) it is Really That Much Worse. but holy shit was it good. i walked away satisfied ngl.

your choices have SOLID weight. there's consequences, good AND bad. i got minrathous blighted, ruled over by venatori, and the leader of the shadow dragons ultimately died because of my decisions. i made those at the beginning and throughout the game. he died at the end. DAVRIN died because i didn't expect what i was saying to have that much weight. i thought i was in the clear. he had hero status. well turns out, your choices can still get your companions killed even if you do everything right. i fucking love him. he shouldn't have made that sacrifice just because i told him to do everything it takes once.

the inquisitor, morrigan and dorian being there, surprisingly. there's also negatives to this though, see below.

speaking of companions dying and the inquisitor playing a bigger role: the final quest feels like me2's suicide mission. i was blown away by it and the fact that i got to see the results of all my efforts playing out in front of me.

bioware are NOT trying to redeem solas. they love him as a character yes, but i wasn't forced to see any good in him. he betrays you. he fucked my rook over twice. he fucked him over right back, for good this time (the veil wasn't torn down, i anchored it by binding him to it, he's doomed to uphold it). but solas really lives up to his name as the trickster elven god. rip to all the people who grew really attached to him over the years.

varric died. if you like him that's probably as hard reading it as it was watching it. varric died and the game lies about it until the very end. when the realisation hits, it hurts. but in the very best way.

the amount of care they put into gender expression and trans identities this time around. (i'll add onto this with negative points as well too).

rook feels very much ingrained in the world of thedas. he doesn't ask questions that expose the player to lore through dialogue as if he's stepped foot into thedas for the first time. those conversations feel very solid and good. i hope other faction players got as much joy out of this as i did.

and the things i didn't like and boy there's a lot unfortunately

the music. let's just get that out of the way holy shit. it doesn't feel like it belongs in this universe. it gets so incredibly sci-fi-y at times you'd think it's taken straight from mass effect andromeda. there's not a single song unique to veilguard that i really enjoyed. it broke my immersion, real bad. hearing a busker play the tavern songs from inquisition on a lute right after i killed some venatori with wobbly bass songs playing in the background is just odd. weird tonal shift. don't like it. it's made for people who like flashy light-weight cinema.

tevinter nights is required reading. the podcasts are required listening exercises. the game is so fast paced, especially at the start, that there's no time to introduce you to characters and how much weight their names carry in-game. i would not have known who half these people are if i hadn't skimmed over tevinter nights. i'd care even less about them than i already did. there is no time to get properly attached to them. people will act as if you're talking to a legend personified and you'll be thinking man goddamn which chapter of tevinter night were they in again and what did they do???

there's a weird mismatch with the animations. you'll have beautifully fluid ones, like emmrich casting spells. and then you'll have rook's face animating in the most unnatural manner that's sorta reminiscent of mass effect andromeda's "my face is tired" addison, when their emotions SHOULD be landing with the player rn instead.

i'm not vibing with the art style. sometimes it works. most of the time it doesn't. at points i felt like i was watching tangled.

that also brings me to some of the dialogue. same issue. i am watching frozen. i am watching tangled. someone on the writer's team really likes the adorkable trope. bellara is its victim.

for all the talk about identity, bioware sure doesn't like theirs. the grey warden armor got a redesign again and it just makes them look like a generic army. i hate it lol

in general, i don't like the armor design. the wardrobe/appearances system is fine, but it's just not helping if all the armors are just... kinda bland or downight bad looking? and don't get me started on the lords of fortune armor. that is orientalism personified.

the world states should have been carried over, full stop. i know they said they didn't because they want to separate what happens in the north from what happens in the south, which... i could have lived with that. but the inquisitor sends you letters that keep you up to date on... the south of thedas. you learn that there's a blight again, that people are standing strong but it's difficult, denerim's fallen, the rulers are taking care of it, orlais is fighting and they're successful for a while, etc etc. what's good bioware. i thought we don't care about the south this time around. why are you feeding me so much boring generic information. if you're not gonna show any of it and just write letters, then carrying the world state over should not have been an issue. i have a game dev background. those few lines of code would not have broken your budget or pushed your engine's limits. fuck right off.

this gripe of mine carries over to all the cameos. as a lord of fortune you have to deal with isabela a lot. it's fun. i missed her. you get to go drinking with her and taash and bellara! also my hawke romanced her. she's not mentioned once. they had the opportunity to put a sentence or two about her in there with not a lot of effort, trust me.

when varric dies, all she has is a single line about it. for gold, for fortune, for varric. she only says it if you interact with her on your way to the final push. that's not mandatory.

morrigan is there. kieran isn't. the old god soul that mythal and then solas absorbed? who cares at this point, the gods are dead now and solas is locked away for eternity. i suppose? why is morrigan there. she feels unneeded. i wish they'd just left her down south, at least that way i wouldn't have had to witness her god awful redesign.

dorian at least feels as if he belongs in this story. the shadow dragons are a crucial part to protecting minrathous. he's also weirdly underutilised. isabela and morrigan had more lines than him in my playthrough.

on the topic of romance: bro that was underwhelming. no, genuinely. you know when romance picked up a bit? after the point of no return. i heard maybe two lines of companion banter about it before that. maybe i missed something which i honestly doubt, but romance did not play much of a role in lucanis's storyline. i saved his grandmother as he wished me to (and if you read tevinter nights you know she was rather abusive and their relationship not the healthiest) and told him to focus on his family. a reunified family my rook wasn't even introduced to as a partner at the end of all that.

really, do not buy this game if you're only in it for the romances. others might be better, lucanis's basically gave me nothing. except for an outing (the second coffee date i had with him, it was getting repetitive) all of it played out once i committed to the final quest. the sex scene was a fade to black. annoyingly right after davrin died. if you're looking for well paced and good spice, pick up something else. the sweet talk and the final goodbye were nice though.

for all the good the ever-presence of gender identity does, it is brought up in such a disruptive manner too. it doesn't even play out naturally if you CHOOSE the lines that are meant to be said. hearing the words trans and non-binary in this setting doesn't feel right, and i'm saying this as a trans guy. i think it could have been handled more gracefully. the amount of times my rook went "i'm a MAN" as if he's about to start drumming on his chest and roaring any second now got super nerve-grating. "i'm so glad you're into me... the me who is trans. remember?" just. tell me one trans person who'd talk like that to a person they've grown close with and are trying to romance. this game doesn't handle sexuality well, so all this hey my body might not look like the way you're expecting it to look talk amounts to nothing anyway. i feel about this the way i feel about krem: this is partial exposition to trans experiences... packaged up for cis consumption. the ONLY exception to that is interacting with taash. holy shit was all of that heartwarming and bro did it feel good and natural to talk to them about theirs and rook's gender.

rivain and nevarra are new locations added by veilguard. they're also incredibly underwhelming, small and constricted maps. rivain is a coastline with a few ruins. the hall of valor is a partial ruin nestled into a cave on a beach, with a fighting pit. isabela is there in her skimpy outfit commentating your pit fights. that's it. i'm sorry if you were looking for a bustling pirate cove or whatever. you're not gonna get it. the nevarran crypts btw are a long ass dungeon crawl. that's it.

speaking of maps. i thought people were being dramatic when they said you're gonna be fighting the same enemies on them again and again. i thought they were figure of speeching it. they're not. you WILL fight the same amount of enemies. in the same spot. every time you reload the map. best to stay on a map and clear out the enemies and do as much questing on that map as you can before leaving, because you WILL have to do it all over again once you return.

the three choices i made for my inquisitor didn't matter lol she didn't have to face solas and therefore couldn't stop him at any cost as she had sworn (maybe because my rook tricked solas into binding himself to the veil, there was also an option to fight him. would she have stepped in? who knows). blackwall wasn't mentioned. and either her using a small amount of her forces in the final fight was the reason the civilians of minrathous fared so well..... or it just didn't matter. ultimately i think she had very little impact on anything

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[chasedeys]

trials and tribulations of being a sports team's social media admin

[jamietwat]

Roy actively having a stress reaction and being noticeably weird about his phone after sending a risky text (he literally just sent Jamie something that was too nice to not be embarrassing, but now Jamie has evidence that he said it)