#overthrowing

[starcrossedandstupid]

Guys the only way to get ao3 back up is to overthrow the government, ao3 told me themselves trust

[skruveksptizkwarken]

We take no "L's" and give no "F's"

[skruveksptizkwarken]

yeah like we took over italy once and overthrew the pope from the vatican it was so easy

It's honestly so easy to claim territory. Once you figure it out you can start claiming territory anywhere. I claimed territory in a walmart once. No one was allowed near the milks for hours.

[bet-on-me-13]

Danny commits to the Bit a bit too hard...

So! For the first few weeks after his accident, whenever Danny would try to help the people of Amity Park, he would be treated as a Villain.

No matter if he had just defeated the Big Bad of the Week or saved a Cat from a tree, everybody in town only saw him as a Monster or Villain to he feared and hunted down. Danny was really getting sick of trying to get them on his side, until Sam made a suggestion.

"Why not just...play into it?" She said, barely looking up from painting her nails.

It was just an offhand suggestion, but it stuck with Danny. Why shouldn't he lean into it? The people of Amity Park already saw Ghosts as Evil, and they already assumed he was in cahoots with the Ghosts attacking the town. Why shouldn't he just...play into it?

So he does just that.

From that day on, whenever Phantom was spotted he would dramatically monologue about his Evil Plans, or claim that another Rogues attack on the City was his own act of terror.

Box Ghost destroys the towns Warehouses? It was on his orders.

Ember mind controls masses of Teenagers? All part of his Plans somehow.

Every Adult in Town is kidnapped by Young Blood? Danny gave them over to a friend as a Gift.

He crafts an identity for himself as the most Vile and Horrible Ghost that has ever attacked the City, using his own infamy to cement his legend even more firmly. The town only sees a Monsterous Villain, who has eveded capture near effortlessly for months on end, who constantly attacks their City and gets away with it.

Of course he still needs an excuse for how his plans keep getting stopped, and he gets it when his girlfriend Valerie becomes the Red Huntress. Before that, he just claimed infighting or the Fentons getting lucky, but Valerie becoming the Town's Hero meant he had a plausible excuse for how he kept getting "Foiled".

Val was suspicious, because she was not as involved as Phantom painted her to be, but in the end she had no proof of him faking his defeats. And she couldn't come up with any explanations for why he would do that in the first place. I mean, who would fake being a Supervillain? It had to he something else.

This did come back to bite him a while later, when the Justice League decided that enough was enough, and dispatched Justice League Dark to recruit Red Huntress and help Deal with him.

Coincidentally, that was the same day Pariah Dark attacked the Mortal Realm and sucked Amity Park into the Ghost Zone.

And honestly? Danny had spent over a Year proclaiming himself as a Villain who commanded Ghosts to attack the Human Realm, and he had heard about the Right of Conquest being Absolute in the Ghost Zone, so why not make it official? Why not overthrow the Ghost King, become the Ghost King, and cement his identity as a Villain while also forbidding Ghosts from entering the Human Realm without his permission?

He may have gotten a bit carried away and forgotten that the Villain thing was a disguise...but hey! He was still preventing Ghost Attacks! ...mostly. That's got to count for something right?

He may have let the Bit run a bit too far...

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Check the tags for more context!

[starcurtain]

I think one of the funniest things about the Sabzeruz event is that the devs choose to go with Candace, Traveler, and Paimon having a whole "Ooh, two mysterious men are going into an alley to have a 'private' conversation; they must be bad guys!" only to then go "Oh just kidding, it was only Alhaitham and Kaveh doing typical Alhaitham and Kaveh things."

Except the "Alhaitham and Kaveh" thing in question this time was talking about Mehrak, a sentient robot that Kaveh built using absolutely forbidden technology, and which he then whole-heartedly willed would develop a consciousness of its own, violating one of the central taboos of his nation's governing agency, committing what amounts to an inherent and extreme felony punishable by law.

Alhaitham and Kaveh: Listen, we're not bad guys discussing illegal activity here. We're just two men having a private, personal conversation. Happens all the time.

Paimon, Candace, and Traveler: Oh cool, they're not doing a crime; they're just gay.

But they were, in fact, doing a crime.

[theblueeyedfirebender]

“I hope she plays Hot To Go.”

This is a military coup and you’re in the back of Colonel Mustang’s armored ice cream truck. He’s definitely going to play Hot To Go.

[lime-bucket]

🗣YOU'RE LISTENING TO-🗣

*jet engines powering up*

💥DECEPTICON RADIO💥

*💢CH-CH-CH-CLICK-WHIRR-CLANK-KSHH💢*

ITS TIME TO TRANSFORM🔥& RISE UP!!✈

*screams & explosions noises*

This aint your standard autoboobs station😈

*radioactive by imagine dragons starts playing*

[why-is-it-always-autumn]

It's good and cool to give your characters a single simple, straightforward, non-urgent, super-achievable goal that shouldn't really cost anything or hurt anyone, make that the driving factor for most of their decisions, and then have the Plot do everything in its power to stop them.

[ninthriven]

Micah-10 & Mihaylova

[dykealloy]

[thoodleoo]

going to the roman senator shelter to pick out a nice consul to keep my tribune of the plebs company but all of consuls they have available can't cohabit with a tribune because they'll invoke a senatus consultum and start executing other senators without trial

[skruveksptizkwarken]

Hot Takes Straight from Skruvekspitzkwarken

[thehecklingmouse]

alhaitham is one of the best characters genshin has ever created solely because he's just some guy. the laziest man you will ever meet in your life overthrew the government because he didn't want to do more work. a+ writing

[monofazz]

Now he gets to deal with what Megatron had to

[quiddie]

Someone warn Lily Du - there’s a coupe d’état (pun absolutely intended) coming 😈

[urfavcrime]

fanart of pogtopia era ctommy with braces and him having it off nov 16 going forward is so funny to me. like where and what is ctommy orthodontist doing. funnier option is that tommys orthodontist lives in manberg and despite being banished for dental appointments tommy gets a free pass. cschlatt just being i can excuse banishing a child from their homeland that they died for but i draw the line at not allowing them access to dental care and honestly word!