#not whatever the super popular one is called that ones kinda lame lol its “guess who is back” still a banger

[the-dragon-girl-27]

u watch naruto?

nope and i have very minimal knowledge of it lol

[uiruu]

Okay so here’s a confession lmao... I kind of got into Loona because of Hunter x Hunter. 

I got caught up in the HxH manga, and there are apparently a lot of references to a jpop idol group called Keyakizaka46. There’s a nen ability called “Silent Majority”, which is like a doll thing with the exact same haircut as the main member of that group, who has a song called Silent Majority. Also Halkenburg’s bow and arrow nen ability has him make a pose from the song Fukyouwaon. So I saw that and was like “WHAT THE HELL TOGASHI”, and I checked out those songs. They’re okay. Nothing to write home about. I mean like, they’re fun I guess, I like Fukyouwaon better of those two (which are the only ones I heard), but idk. I listened to it a lot for a couple days, it was like a guilty pleasure thing haha. And then like I must have seen posts from some of my HxH mutuals (who probably aren’t mutuals anymore after... uh... the drama in late february lmao...) post about Loona, and I was like okay, if I’m listening to this idol group that I can kinda tell isn’t like the highest quality thing in the world, let’s see what a Real group is like. 

I wasn’t really attuned to the differences between jpop and kpop, though I think I have a better understanding of the prevailing trends and styles that differentiate them (not just language. theyre as different as hiphop from LA and UK grime rap. that’s pretty different). But yeah, I was interested to see what a really Quality group sounded like. I wasn’t really expecting much, I was expecting something very catchy but kinda bland, like a lot of American pop is. I was also expecting something a little exploitative because of just the nature of having a group of “idols”, and I’d heard stuff about the kpop industry that wasn’t pleasant. 

And like, I listened to Hi High (which was the top result at the time. i got into them about a week before Butterfly), and I liked it at first. I wasn’t ready to let myself love it, though. In the back of my mind there was that voice saying “lol what are you doing, you are not the target audience for this, i should keep this to myself cause it’s embarrassing. if i admit that i’m listening to kpop right now i’ll be laughed at haha”. But still, it was catchy as hell and I liked that. The video production was sooooo good too, that video looks like a movie.

I watched Egoist too cause I guess it was the top related video, and I thought that song was pretty good, but idk I guess a lot of it just didn’t like sink in or something? I don’t really know. I listened to some others but didn’t find anything that stood out, I think there was a point just before Butterfly released where I liked Hi High, Egoist, and Love Cherry Motion (though I was kinda iffy on that one). I remember talking to my friend Jaci about them cause I know Jaci’s a kpop fan, and they said that they were kinda into Loona but not especially, though Heart Attack is one of the best kpop songs ever made. After hearing that, I listened to Heart Attack, but I didn’t really like it, it was a bit too bubblegummy for me, I guess.

Then Butterfly came out, and by then I knew most of the members by name (not all), and I had watched videos from people like formoftherapy about the songs I had heard and so I felt better about liking kpop cause the illusion of it being completely shallow was shattered. Butterfly didnt wow me at first... I liked the video a lot but the song was kinda eh. The “wings, wings” in the chorus stuck out to me in a bad way lol, I didn’t like that. 

So anyway, by then I was like huh, I’m gonna check out some more stuff. So I listened to groups like Momoland and Blackpink and Red Velvet. And by listened to, I mean really just kinda one song from each of those. I listened to other Momoland songs after Bboom Bboom and they didnt really do anything for me. I listened to Red Velvet songs besides Peekaboo and they were okay, Russian Roulette was pretty good but not something that really wowed me, but I was super super super into Blackpink for about a week there haha. I don’t know, I really liked Ddu-Du Ddu-Du, and I liked the members a lot. They’re only four members, so it was really easy to get into them. I listened to more of their songs though and at first I liked them, but the more I listened, the more I realized how bad they are lol. The members themselves are fine but god, some of the other Blackpink songs besides that one are just really bad. To me, anyway. And I think that’s when I realized... oh... Loona’s really something unique, huh?

Like, listening to other groups made me like Loona more hahaha. That’s when everything started to click with me. Songs that didnt impress me at first, like Girl Front and Favorite and especially Heart Attack started REALLY clicking with me. Suddenly every song I listened to from them I liked. And I was noticing things in their songs that I didn’t notice at first. And like, that’s also when it hit me... oh, it’s not just that Grimes did a feature in the intro to one of their songs, they actually take a lot of inspiration from Grimes musically. Aaaaaand that was the nail in the coffin. See, I was one of the biggest Grimes fans alive before we all collectively realized she’s kind of a shitty person. So, to see the good aspects of her music translated and adapted and iterated on by another group is cool. It also kinda made me facepalm because like god fucking damn it, I thought I was free of Grimes, turns out even when I get into something I thought was totally separate, nope... I can’t escape haha. Then though I started noticing interesting and experimental-ish production EVERYWHERE in their songs. 

And that’s when I’m like okay... I gotta finally go through and watch all their videos in order. I knew bits and pieces about the Loonaverse already, so I was ready to sink my teeth in and see it all for myself. It takes about 2 hours to watch all their music videos but it’s really worth it, that was a cool experience haha. The next day, I watched some of formoftherapy’s reactions to doing that same marathon too, and that helped me notice and appreciate even more things, especially about the music video production, since that’s what they specialize in talking about. 

And then you know, two or so weeks later, here we are, and I’m all in, haha. It’s wild to think that I thought Egoist was pretty good and Heart Attack was not really my cup of tea at first haha. Egoist now blows me away EVERY time I watch that video... the song is sooooooo good and the video is maybe their best and most cohesive video aesthetically and thematically speaking. Heart Attack is also in my top 5 songs now.. so is Butterfly haha, that song grew on me a lot too. It helps for Butterfly that the choreo and video are so artistic and masterful. 

Oh, also, one last thing, in the part where I mention other groups... I don’t wanna knock Red Velvet at all. I love Red Velvet. I could write a separate post about my journey with their music too, and how there was a moment when their songs also started clicking for me, and I think they’re just as adventurous and eccentric as Loona. I like Loona more cause I’m more personally invested, and I think Loona covers a broader range of styles and themes and stuff, but Red Velvet are really, really good. I cannot overstate that lol. Also, there are other groups and songs I’ve gotten into since then too, I’m not just a fan of two groups lol. Though to be honest, if I had to pick the ones that I think are doing something really interesting and stand out from the crowd, I think there’s only three groups I would call myself a die hard fan of, and that’s Loona, Red Velvet, and Fromis_9 (who have sooo much potential, im excited to see where they go). 

That’s all! I don’t expect anyone will reblog this (cause its so specific to me lol) or even read this, it’s pretty long after all, but if you did, thanks <3 I just wanted to write about my journey with this. Cause like, it’s cool how this type of thing can happen. It was cool to watch myself start to allow myself to really get into it. I could feel myself getting more and more into it but I was embarrassed about that and I thought it was really lame of me haha. I don’t mean that I was sad or scared or whatever, again, I just thought it was really lame haha. But I mean, deep down I thought it was cool, and the more I got into it, the more that became the only way I thought of it. And now I just think it’s really worth checking out and like not all that lame at all. There are lame groups, yeah. It’s just cool that Loona isn’t one of those. I didn’t expect that the one I heard the most about was 1. not even close to the most popular, and 2. really deeply musically interesting and risktaking, and that’s something that’s always appealed to me about the music I like. Who knew that Loona of all groups would be like that lol. You know... Loona. From the “Stan Loona” memes. Huh. 

Go figure. 

[bigskydreaming]

Some of the X-Men novels from the 90s were actually pretty good, now that I remember it. They were original stories, not novelizations of already existing comic book arcs, which tends to be my preference when adapting characters to other media, but the downside is sometimes they come up with stuff that you’re like ugh, dammit, why can’t that be in the comics now too.

Like Smoke and Mirrors was this one novel I read in high school where Sinister was the main bad guy, and it had some pretty great stuff in it, and also probably my favorite Betsy POV stuff, though it hopped around to a bunch of characters’ POVs.

Including these five original teenage characters who were like the most adorable little nerds ever. They called themselves the Ohio Mutant Conspiracy to sound cool, but they were basically like the Breakfast Club and were these five high schoolers who nobody knew were mutants until one of them, Slapshot, set up this message board online in the hopes of trying to figure out if there were any other mutants like him in his area. And they eventually met up and started out hanging out every week in this abandoned warehouse after school and talking about how they should totally do something cool or fight crime with their powers. But mostly they were just bored lonely teenagers who were all really bad at admitting that they just wanted to hang out with other ppl like them even though they were from totally different social circles. And the main plot of the novel was this goon squad (hired by Sinister) busting into their warehouse and capturing three of them because kidnapping innocent mutants for nefarious purposes is like, his thing, and the other two got away and then were like okay we’re gonna rescue our friends! We have no idea what we’re doing! This will absolutely end badly! Ready, let’s go!

And meanwhile of course the X-Men were like oh hey, Sinister is kidnapping innocent mutants again, we need to find them and also spank him. Okay not that last part but I’m just saying, I’ve always felt like they could stand to put a little more effort into just like....plain old murdering the dude. C’mon Logan, what are you even doing, you pat yourself on the back for being the best at that like ALL the time.

Anyway, yeah, the kids the author created just for this storyline were really fun. I remember the youngest of them and most gung ho about being a mutant and wanting to be a superhero team and always trying to convince the others they should do that, she was a black girl who was a couple years younger than the rest, I think a freshman while the others were all juniors and seniors. I can’t remember her real name, because she was always insisting the others call her by the codename she’d come up with, Charade. Her power was she could convince anyone that whatever she was saying was true. Like anything from ‘you don’t want to hurt me’ to a bad guy or ‘you didn’t see me here’ to boosting one of her friend’s powers by telling them they could totally do the thing they were trying to do even though they’d never tried anything like it before. 

And she was closest with the oldest of the group whose name I also can’t remember, but who was this tall awkward white guy who she’d basically adopted as her surrogate big brother and he just kinda shrugged and went okay, and was super protective of her, it was way cute. He had some kind of basic super strength and enhanced senses power, and could never settle on a code name and tried a bunch of different ones throughout the book until finally settling on Red Rover, which one of the others called him as a joke and he was just like yeah I know, but I kinda like it.

And they were two of the three that were kidnapped, with the other one being Slapshot, the one who found the rest of them and kinda always defaulted to being the leader even though he was this shy nerd in school and always getting down on himself and the remaining two of the five were way more popular than him. I think his name was Jason, and he was this short Asian kid who was really into hockey for some reason, and that’s why he picked Slapshot for his codename. He was convinced he had a lame power, like all he did was change the trajectory of things that were already in motion. But when the three of them were locked up and didn’t know what had happened to the other two or if anyone was coming to rescue them, he figured out how to bust them out when he realized they thought his power was too small to bother making sure he couldn’t use it. So he took a quarter he had in his pocket and threw it, and started reversing its trajectory in mid air back and forth, over and over until the constant change in direction was like, building momentum, so when he finally let it go it just punched straight through the door lock like a bullet. He was very proud to discover he was secretly a dormant badass and it gave him a total self-esteem boost. Also way adorbs.

And the other two of the group, the ones who got away initially were both white seniors and one of them, Peyton, was a cheerleader and she called herself Rewind, and the other Adam was the quarterback and called himself Pipedream. His power was to just project this dream state on people so whatever they were doing, they just stopped and stood there and were stuck in some lucid daydream for a few minutes, though he couldn’t control what they saw, just initiate it. 

And everyone was always constantly looking at him to know what to do because he was supposed to be the popular football captain and have all the answers and he’d get all frustrated like ‘how does any of that make me qualified to know what to do here’ and Rewind was on the verge of a breakdown and screamed back ‘well fine if you dont want to help I’ll just save them myself’ and he was all ‘I didnt say I dont want to help, I just dont have a clue what that looks like!’ and she was like ‘FINE, I guess I’ll just figure it out myself and you just come along and do what I say” and Adam was all “Yes, finally! That’s what I’ve been saying, that is a much better idea than me being clueless and in charge, god!” And then this was where usually they’d realize they have Feelings for each other but haha no, they were actually just awkward road trip buddies and when they eventually found the others breaking out as they were breaking in and were like oh hey, we were just coming to rescue you, Slapshot was like oh yeah, sorry, you took too long so we kinda just did it ourselves. 

And Rewind was very impressed in his newfound leader-ness which Adam was more than happy to also concede to him when Jason was worried he was gonna want to be in charge now, and so she was basically like, okay, new plan. I’m still gonna be Prom Queen, because duh, but now you will be my Prom King. Everyone on board? Excellent. Let’s blow this popsicle stand. Which they did, mostly via Peyton’s power, which was to rewind time in her area, but like, nothing longer than thirty seconds back, just enough for her to correct recent mistakes. 

But then she found out it also worked if she told everyone to stand back with a scary gleam in her eye that had Adam and Jason like ‘we feel that whatever you’re about to do, you should probably....not’ and she was like, ‘are you going to stop me?’ and because they were not dumb they were both like ‘no ma’am!’ And then she hopped in one of the golf cart kinda things the security guards in the place used to drive around, revved the engine, Adam whispered ‘hold me, I’m scared’ because she drove the whole way there and they almost died like twenty times a minute. Who knew the girl with the ‘its fine, I can fix it’ power had a tendency to be reckless, right? But she just like floored the golf cart and drove straight at the big giant locked doors blocking their exit and they were all “PEYTON NO!” and she was all “PEYTON YES!” and crashed right into the doors, denting them a little and like, totaling the golf cart. Except then she rewound time but just around the golf cart and not the doors, so they were still just as dented while the golf cart was good as new and ten feet away again as she barreled into the doors all over again with “PEYTON YES” (well, whatever she was actually screaming, I forget, it was 25 years ago) playing over and over again on a loop as she kept crashing into the doors, rewinding time to fix the cart and crashing into them over and over with them getting a little more busted each time until finally she busted all the way through them.

And Slapshot was like “How did you know that would work?” and she was like “Huh? Oh, I didn’t.” and he was like “Holy shit, marry me” and Peyton was all lol slow down, you’re cute but I have a Life Plan, that’s not happening til we’re at least 25.

Anyway, yeah, the Ohio Mutant Conspiracy were adorable and honestly some of the best X-characters ever and its a shame they never made it into the pages of an actual comic as X-Men students. Oh, also, that book had a female clone of Wolverine called Mantrap who was hunting Sinister for Reasons also, but not like a clone clone, obviously, as she was also Native American, I think? But clone-ish. There was a kinship. This was pre X-23 and might have been part of the inspiration for her, who knows.

But yeah. I lost that book years ago and could never find it anywhere, lame. It was def my fave of the X-Men novels though there were a couple other good ones too. 

[bigskydreaming]

@jewneto

Okay this is too long for our asks back and forth so I’m just switching to regular posts lol. So picture this. Robbie Reyes/Sam Alexander, with guest appearances by Ms. Marvel and Amadeus Cho.

In this headcanon, Robbie and Amadeus are 17, Kamala and Sam are 16. Sam just tends to be assumed to be younger sometimes because of his personality and well, he’s really short.

And Robbie’s a solo hero, doesn’t really do the team thing, but he does do the group hang thing and its nice to have other teen heroes who can relate to the general fucked up weirdness of his life, so he’s been hanging out with Sam, Amadeus, Kamala, Miles, and assorted others like the occasional Young Avenger or X-Men student.

And Sam is crushing, like, HARD. Now normally he prides himself on being cool, suave, collected. He’s cocky and a smart-ass and he knows it. Its part of his charm. But around Robbie he trips over his words, trips over his feet, because c’mon....Robbie is just...he’s just COOL. He’s like, part demon or something, Sam’s not even sure, but having hellfire for a superpower is never not cool, and have you seen his car? Not to mention how hot he looks in his leather jacket but Sam doesn’t mention that. Like ever. Never ever ever.

He might, however, occasionally follow Robbie with long, lingering glances that are overseen by one Kamala Khan, professional meddler.

Robbie, for his part, is not entirely oblivious. I mean, he’s not usually the first to pick up on when someone’s crushing on him, but subtle is just really not in Sam’s wheelhouse. But he doesn’t say anything and figures Sam will get over it eventually, because we all know beneath his calm, collected exterior, Robbie is a giant bundle of insecurity and nerves.

So we have Sam. Crushing hopelessly, waaaaaay too embarrassed to articulate it, so instead he just mumbles one word answers and avoids eye contact when Robbie’s around. And we have Robbie. Very aware of why Sam avoids eye contact but waaaaaaaaaay too self conscious to like....point it out or bring it up because like, what would he even say? Nope. Nope. Not having that conversation. Too weird. Too lame. Not gonna happen.

But luckily for these two, we also have Kamala. Because occasionally, a world class meddler is just what the doctor ordered.

So Robbie, Sam, Amadeus and Kamala are all hanging out one Friday night after beating up some random bad guy or something. I don’t know. Plot is for losers. Anyway. Sam is playing video games, or trying to. Mostly he just keeps dying, a lot, because he is very distracted by his game partner, one Robbie Reyes. Who, unlike Sam, is crushing it at this game, even though he’s never played before, because when you’re hyper focused on a video game to avoid sidelong glances and the implications thereof, Zelda’s suddenly not so hard. At least Robbie thinks they’re playing Zelda. Whatever. His character has a sword.

Amadeus meanwhile is kicking back and entertaining himself by just being a douche, mostly. Who needs video games when you have Sam playing badly to mock instead. And Kamala, well, Kamala’s on her laptop, doing something that has her looking over at Sam and Robbie every five seconds, suppressing giggles, and in general trying to ACT like she’s being secretive about what she’s doing, when in fact she’s really trying to be super obvious until someone asks. Which Robbie finally does.

“What?” He grunts at her finally, supremely annoyed. He’s not stupid. He knows exactly what she’s doing, he even has a sinking suspicion WHY she’s doing it, but she’s shown no sign of letting up in the last hour and he just wants this over with.

“Oh its nothing,” Kamala tries to say. Robbie rolls his eyes. Changes his mind about engaging.

“Okay.” He leaves it at that. Smirks the tiniest of smirks when she narrows her eyes at his refusal to take her bait. She’s just so damn bubbly all the time, its fun when he can manage to get under her skin.

Back to silence for a few minutes, until Kamala finally speaks up again.

“Well, I don’t know that its nothing nothing. I’m just not sure I should say anything.”

“Then don’t,” Robbie mutters. He kills Sam again. Accidentally. They’re supposed to be on the same team he thinks? Whatever. Video games are stupid.

Kamala hesitates. He’s really not making this easy for her, but like I said. World class meddler. She powers through.

“I guess maybe you guys have a right to know,” she muses. Pondering artfully. And artificially. Robbie remains focused on the game. Amadeus is quiet for once, though mostly just because he senses the potential for mischief and is waiting on more specifics before capitalizing on the moment. Sam is just confused. He hasn’t really been paying attention to anything but Robbie. Umm, their game, that is. Robbie because he’s his partner in the game they’re playing. Or maybe his opponent? Crap, is that why he keeps dying?

“Well I’m sure you’d tell us if it was in our best interests,” Robbie deadpans. “It’s not like you gossip or anything, so it must be really important if you think we need to know.”

“You’re right,” Kamala says, somewhat testily. Or at least as testily as she’s really ever capable of being. It’s a new look for her. But these boys are being stupid, obstinate boys, so you know what? Yes, it IS in their best interests. They’ll thank her later. "So I’m on this fanfiction site, right? That’s mostly for fic about various heroes and vigilantes. Some villains. Mostly heroes though. Anyway. So guess who one of the most popular pairings right now is?”

Robbie narrows his eyes. Amadeus sits up, sensing blood in the water. Sam is not quite so oblivious - or fixated on Robbie in his leather jacket - that he doesn’t pick up on the tension ramping up in the room. His eyes bounce back and forth between Robbie and Kamala like a ping pong ball.

“I couldn’t even begin to guess,” Robbie says flatly. “Why don’t you tell us?”

“You,” Kamala says smugly, allowing herself to arch an eyebrow in smug satisfaction. Look, if he was going to make it this hard, she was allowed to milk the moment.

“Wait, who? Robbie?” Sam blurts out, instantly insanely jealous because what the fuck? Who is Robbie in a super popular pairing with? Umm, random internet strangers shipping his crush with some rando so was so not cool. “Robbie and who?”

“You,” Kamala repeats, her smugness somehow reaching all new elevations. Robbie’s glower intensifies proportionately.

Sam stops, shapes words with his lips, forgets them, tries again. A flurry of emotions kaleidoscoping across his face.

“Wait,” he says at last. “Me? You mean like, Robbie and me? Me and him?”

“Yup. You and Robbie. Nova and Ghost Rider. They’re calling your pairing Space Ghost.”

She doesn’t mention that she coined the ship name, back when she basically single handedly launched their ship with her multichapter epic meet cute a few weeks ago. That’s like....surplus information. Totally not the point.

“Say whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?” Sam squeaks out in a high pitched voice several octaves above his usual. He tries to angle his head so he can see Robbie’s face and reactions out of the corner of his eye, without giving away that was what he was doing. It was less successful than he imagined it was. The super unconvincing laugh he accompanied it with didn’t really help sell ‘nonchalance’. “That’s....that’s so crazy. Like....who would even think that’d be a thing. I mean, that we’d be a thing. Not that like...I mean. Say whaaaaaat?”

“Why is our ship name Space Ghost? That’s stupid. Neither of have Space in our codename,” is all Robbie says though.

Kamala frowns. She was pretty sure that nitpicking the name she picked just to help them stop being stupid obstinate boys was like, super rude. Where was the gratitude?

“I don’t know,” she says. “Nova’s basically a space cop though, so there’s space in like, his hero identity. And it could be an homage to that old cartoon. That’s kinda clever, don’t you think?”

“No. I think its stupid. That’s not how ship names work.” Robbie says, crossing his arms and staring at her pointedly. Sam’s jaw has unhinged slightly as he watches the play by play because like.....Robbie’s not freaking out? Or remotely weirded out by the idea of him and...him? Instead he’s just....talking about their ship name? What is his life, what is even happening right now. Is he supposed to be breathing?

“I didn’t realize you were such an expert on shipping,” Kamala says, crossing her own arms.

“I hang out with you, don’t I? Kinda hard not to be after that.”

“So I suppose you have a better idea?”

“Yeah. Obviously our ship name should be Nova Ghost. Or Ghost Nova.”

“What about Nova Rider?” Amadeus speaks up suddenly from where he’s been watching the proceedings with avid delight. He emulates a cymbal crash with his hands. “Ba dum tush.”

Robbie redirects his glower from Kamala to Amadeus in one smooth, seamless motion. Sam really has to figure out how he pulls shit like that off. It’s so....badass. Does he practice in a mirror?

“You know what?” Robbie says, still in that monotone that says ‘you are dangerously close to shredding my patience and did you forget that I have hellfire’. “Yeah. I like that. Nova Rider. I think that’s a great ship name, thanks for your contribution Amadickus. What do you think Sam? You like Nova Rider for our ship name?”

“Umm. Yes?” Sam squeaks. He clears his throat. Tries again. He’s....somewhat closer to the baritone range this time. “I mean, yeah. Yeah I like that one, its cool. It’s....”

“Porny?” Amadeus supplies with a huge grin.

“Why are you breathing the same air as me right now,” Robbie says flatly. He and Amadeus are friends. Sometimes. Sort of. Other times, not so much. It’s complicated.

Amadeus opens his mouth to speak again, but Robbie cuts him off. Standing, turning to look down at Sam.

“I wanna go see a movie. You wanna come?”

“Umm. A movie? Like...right now? You and me?”

“Yeah,” Robbie shrugs, like its no big deal, oh so casual. Oh so cool. “She’s meddling. He’s being a douche. You...you’re not so bad, and I like popcorn. You like popcorn?”

“Umm, yeah. I mean, yeah!” Sam bounces to his feet, his head bobbing up and down like an animatronic bobblehead thingie...whatever, he’s excited. Shut up. “I love popcorn! So like. I mean. Is this just like a.....are we just going to a movie to hang, or like...”

“Yes Sam, its a date,” Robbie says, striding for the door with easy, confident strides. Sam’s heart swells. Who knew monosyllables could sound so romantic? He hurries after the other boy, jogging to keep up.

“That’s cool! I mean, I knew that, I mean, I didn’t know that, you know but ummmm.....oh hey, can I drive your car?”

He didn’t really mean that last part, it was more just something to say, to shut himself up. The babbling. So not hot. So not cool. Lame, Alexander, way to be lame. Robbie stops in the doorway. Swivels. Stares at him in what can only be described as calm, cool disbelief. Sam backs up.

“Right. So that’s a no. Got it.”

They head out the door, Sam doing his best not to skip because that’s really not the way to impress the fucking GHOST RIDER who he was going on a DATE WITH holy shit how was this his life. Robbie doing his best not to let his lips turn up ever so slightly in amusement at the shorter boy’s antics, because I mean. He had a reputation to uphold. He’s the fucking Ghost Rider.

He spins around just before the door can shut behind him, points at Kamala, pins her with a glare.

“Just so we’re clear, you should in no way, shape or form take this as vindication.”

“Too late,” Kamala chirps, clapping her hands excitedly. She has so many people to call. Viv, and Miles and oh oh, Billy and Teddy for sure, ooooh maybe they can double date, that would be so adorable. She barely notices when Robbie heaves an aggravated sigh, rolls his eyes, and slams the door behind him. His voice echoes from the other side of it.

“And change our fucking ship name!”