#post finding misha arc

[nothingbutspacedebris]

"They didn't used to be like this."

Misha kicks his legs, swinging them over the edge of the rooftop. Sofia, next to him, swings more jarringly, even if just to keep the two of them in time.

They're talking about Helios again. It seems they're all the two of them talk about these days.

"But they are now. Don't you think you deserve to have something more?"

"What, like you?" Misha winces as the words leave his mouth. "I didn't mean-"

"I know."

Their relationship is nothing like it used to be when they were kids, and that's probably for the best. But the line they walk now is uneasy friendship, with all the pitfalls that come from being bitter exes, then enemies, then allies, before rekindling into anything remotely friendly. They swing wildly between quiet, comfortable companionship shared on nights like tonight, and sharp comments that shine a light on the work they still need to do.

"I don't 'have' Helios, Sofia," Misha says, making air quotes around "have" in a way that suggests he's trying, very hard, to appear derisive and detached.

"They're in your life, though." Sofia turns to look at Misha, tucks one knee up under her chin. "And that's great. It's what you wanted. But I can't help but think..."

"Oh, not thinking's pretty easy."

He's aiming for lightness, for brevity, but even Misha knows the joke's fallen flat.

"I can't help but think," Sofia pushes on, "that this isn't what you wanted. Not really."

Misha says nothing.

"You said it yourself. They didn't used to be like this. You deserve better."

"You think this isn't better? You think better is when I knew, in my heart, every time they looked at me, that they resented me? You think better was living in secret because the one person I love is the one person who can never know? My relationship with Helios now is exactly what I deserve. It's what they deserve. It's not perfect, and it's going to take time, but it's not a lie. It's not seething resentment. It's..."

He trails off. Sofia doesn't reply. Standard, these days. Misha sighs.

"I'm sorry. This was supposed to be a chill night. I shouldn't have brought it up. I just... They're different. And I don't know how to... to... to be around them now."

"I don't think any of us know how to be around each other right now," Sofia says quietly. Misha knows she means it generally - that they're learning how to be friends, how to exist in the same space, but it still brings the sharp sting of rejection when she stands.

"I'll see you tomorrow, Mishka."

Writing Prompt #2867

"He didn't used to be like this."

"But he is now. Don't you think you deserve something more?"

[babyboywinchester]

i was finally able to go through nancylou’s post about misha and i’m so literally appalled at what’s he’s done, that’s there. like in what world did he think that sexually harassing jensen was okay?! that man is definitely sick. and i feel bad for jensen because it was definitely the culture of “oh it’s just misha” so people didn’t do anything about it. it’s also his weird obsession with jensen in general that is so off putting to me.

also misha’s acting is just not that great. i get that angels are suppose to be stoic and cold but a tree could act better than what misha has done and a tree doesn’t have chapped lips for me to be distracted by.

his shots at jared/sam are just like so unprofessional. like jared is your co-worker and i get not always liking someone you work with but from what i’ve seen and read, jared seems like a good person to work with in general, so just say your jealous misha 🙄.

i’m sorry, i’m just cackling at cons seemingly being his only source of income because no one wants to hire him, yet he thinks he’s better than jared who’s had steady work with Walker after SPN.

like man needs to find SOMETHING to occupy his time because destiel is never going to happen and he’s just wasting everyone’s time with his non-stop queerbating.

sorry this was also long and kind of a rant. he just gets constantly more annoying and disgusting the more i learn about him.

I’m glad you actually took the time to do that! It really opens your eyes to just how slimy of a human he really is. Once again, never fear about sending a long ask. I like getting asks!

I will say in the beginning I don’t think his acting was all that bad, because like you said Angels are very stoic and still learning how to occupy human bodies… but as the seasons drew on he just became like a… I don’t even know how to describe it, but what’s the point of having a pet angel if he isn’t even that powerful, can barely do anything, and hovers around you with a case of chapped lips so severe YOU have the urge to put chapstick on yourself.

Also his “arcs” if you can even call them that add little, nothing really, to the story so he’s just… there. Supporting characters were only given more screen time so J2 could have more time off anyway so it’s all meant to be filled with him and little to no substance.

Yet he acts like he was some trendsetter or as if he was the one to throw the first brick at Stonewall and all he is is a mediocre, middle aged, white man who panders to a group of maybe 100 people at a time about a fetishized gay ship from a cable show that ended four years ago now… he also is the only man to have to come out as straight. He’s not an “ally” he uses and abuses peoples interpretation of this so called “confession” to keep up his grifting lifestyle.

A heterosexual grifter king of you will. Wow. How could we not stan him?

[about-faces]

Hi, I want to read some DC comics about how Harvey transformed from former DA to the criminal mastermind who ruled half of Gotham's Underworld (against the Penguin). I've already read/seen: Two-Face: A Celebration of 75 Years Batman: The Long Halloween Batman: Dark Victory (1999) Batman '89 Batman: The Animated Series Batman: The Audio Adventures

Any other reading recommendations? Thanks a lot for your help. :)

So you're looking for origin stories, or at least ones that shed more light on Two-Face's origin? Well first off, I'm glad you read the 75th Anniversary collection, because that has three of my very favorites: the original Harvey Kent trilogy from 1942-43, the Grace Dent story from Secret Origins Special (1989), and "Eye of the Beholder" from Batman Annual #14 (1990).

Besides those, and the ones you've listed, here are a few others to check out. Some are great, some are mixed bags, and some are downright lousy.

First and foremost, I STRONGLY recommend the 1989 Batman newspaper comic strip, which I loved so much that I posted the whole two-year saga on its own tumblr account. You can start from the very beginning right here, but keep in mind that Harvey's storyline--which runs all the way to the very last strip--doesn't really start until the second arc.

Next, Batman: Dual to the Death by Geary Gravel is a YA novelization of the BTAS origin, seamlessly combined with the two-part Batgirl origin episodes. It improves on both the animated versions in small but crucial ways, and it's highly recommended for BTAS fans. Unfortunately, it's pretty hard to find.

On a similar note, Peter David's movie novelization of Batman Forever can be found more easily, either in used book form or on the Internet Archive, and it's absolutely worth reading. I love the movie of Batman Forever, but it's objectively a terrible take on Harvey. The novelization adds SO MUCH, including an original prequel scene with D.A. Harvey Dent, and his ending is far more satisfying.

Cartoon Network's CGI animated series Beware the Batman (2013) also features a series-long origin arc for Harvey Dent, but it's one of the worst takes I've ever seen on the character. He's a petty, selfish, ambitious little prick, an absolute scumbag, completely devoid of depth or tragedy. Thankfully, few have seen this arc, since the majority of Harvey's episodes were never aired after the series was cancelled, but they're all available to watch for those morbidly curious to see just how badly someone can screw up Harvey as a character.

"The Big Burn" from Batman and Robin, vol 2 #24-28 (2014), also collected in B&R volume 5. After the huge DC reboot, this was Harvey new origin, which tried some very different things with him. A VERY mixed bag, but one that ended in a hugely exciting way that makes the whole thing worth reading. Follow it up with its sequel, "Ugly Heart," from Detective Comics #1020-1024, collected in Detective Comics Vol 5: Joker War.

Finally, watch the entirety of the recently-released/cancelled CW series Gotham Knights, with Misha Collins performing a surprisingly rich, interesting, and flawed Harvey Dent origin arc. The show got a lot of shit, some of it undeserved, but Collins' Harvey was an intriguing surprise, and I fear nothing we see from Harvey in any Reevesverse media will bring half as much care and interest to Harvey as GK did, for better or worse. All 13 episodes can be watched for free on CW Seed, region permitting.

EDIT: Oh right also the Telltale Batman video game! I haven't actually played that yet because I know enough about what happens and the illusion of meaningful choice indicative of Telltale games that I just don't feel like putting myself through that. People seem to like it a lot, though! I just... don't put me in a position of choosing to save either Harvey or Selina if you're just going to cheat and have him go evil anyway.

[hexedwinchester]

Opinion on Cas girlies??

hi noni with a question that might start a fandom incident on my blog,

Cas girlies.. hmm.. I don't know if you are a cas girlie or not..but if you are, you may not like my answer. Please remember my opinion is purely mine based on my experiences/observations and nobody needs to hold it as a universal truth..

Before I get into cas girlies.. let me tell you I'm not the biggest fan of Castiel. S4-5, yes, having Cas makes sense. He had a role to play in the main arc but post S5, I don't see him pivotal to the plot. I'll even give him that extra screen time until S7 maybe, but I'd preferred it that when he walked into the water and exploded that it was the last I was going to see of him. Post S7, it seems like his character was only given side plots because of Misha's popularity within the fandom.

I have nothing against anyone who likes cas.. I mean it's a matter of preference and personal choice.. some love Dean, others like me love Sam.. and then there are people who like cas which is completely cool.

the only time I find it annoying is when some cas girls go hating (not even critical, it's like curse-somebody-to-die kinda hate) on Sam and Jared because they didn't get their Destiel moment. This constant comparison they have between Misha and Jared is kinda weird imho. Like I have seen them celebrate Walker cancellation. If you don't like the man or the show, it's fine. Scroll and move on.

It's very funny when they claim that Supernatural is about cas and/or cas and Dean.. which it ain't. If he was really that important and given his popularity within the fandom, I feel he'd have a spin off of his own by now. Which hasn't happened. He didn't even have a cameo in The Winchesters (yikes!). That says something.

Thanks for the ask! :)

[dlartistanon]

Now that the final episode of Arknights: Prelude to Dawn has aired, I just have to say, that as an existing player, I enjoyed it.

It was by no means perfect, as it still suffers from pitfalls that the vast majority of adaptations suffer, like missing out on some details in order to make the story more streamlined (trying to fit 4 chapters into 8 episodes?), but it’s also egregious in this case because AK’s usual format of storytelling is more visual novel-style narration. Which of course has been derided as being too verbose and not easily-digestible. Awkward infodumping at points. The action and fight scenes were nothing spectacular, and there were some perplexing shot choices that made the plot feel like it was slow and dragging, sometimes.

However at the same time, it also covers what is universally considered to be the weakest arc, so perhaps it was to be expected. My own expectations were tempered because I knew the early game writing was weak. I can’t say the same for those who aren’t familiar with AK or who expected it to be hype.

The things it did well, in my opinion, were character focus. Trying to integrate Doctor as an actual, tangible presence within the story as part of the world. Showing us more of Misha and Skullshatterer. How the “antagonists“ are people just doing what they can with the cards they’ve been dealt. Planting the seeds of humanizing Reunion members. Highlighting Rhodes Island’s precarious and often hypocritical actions. The art style is nice to look at and I have no complaints about the voice acting.

So would I recommend Prelude to Dawn to someone who’s never touched AK? Maybe. I’m not sure. Regardless of whether it was meant to draw in a new audience (as adaptations are largely glorified advertisements), it ends up feeling more like it was made for existing fans. Which by itself, I cannot blame them for, as early on they stated that they wanted the story to be experienced “a different way“, meaning through the means of cinematography and voice acting.

But why not give it a look? It’s only 8 episodes. Anime-onlys might find it hard to properly get into the game, but if they come out of the first season intrigued by the story and where it can go, then all the better. Knowing that Perish in Frost is coming is exciting. The rest of Reunion includes the highest highs AK can offer. And they have a lot to live up to in an anime adaptation.

With that, I’ll leave it with this one discussion I thought was interesting post-episode 7:

[lilisouless]

What I would have done on season two without changing the concepts:

I was going to make a long post but you don’t like that ones so i am making polls

1- the S&S and R&R merge stays, but discount CK vanishes , except for Pekka Rollins taking over the crow club which is let on the air by the season ends

2- The crows (sans Matthias) instead of Ketterdam , spend most season 2 on the Shu Han arc. This may mean less crow screentime but more for Alina (the main character) Mal, Tamar and Nadia , i am not saying Nikolai because he had plenty. This one would allow a deep into Alina’s feelings and motivations and some justification in Mal’s desire to find himself

3- This is very simple: you can keep the wesper changes BUT, instead of having Jesper forget about Wylan, reveal that he actually didn’t forgot but faked it out of spite, also make it more clear that their rushed actions are a result of a feeling of loneliness from both sides

4-Zoya,Tolya still go to Shu Han with the crows but Adrik goes too, some small moments with Zoya and Nina and maybe other non book combinations

5- Take out Pekka Rollins gaining power on jail, have it space for Van eck being the one that takes him out and makes a deal with Matthias that actually sticks

6- You only drop subtle clues of Jesper being grisha but it’s revealed by Jesper using his powers, or at least have it be revealed by Aditi in the hallucination or Sankta Neyar (only implying that Kaz and Wylan know)

7-David can stay with Genya and the Darkling, but don’t take away his “i create things, i don’t destroy them” line, he is doing this for more than just Genya, both are their own person

8- The king doesn’t die

9- speaking of which, there are few minor sympathetic characters shown around so the darkling’s attack on Os alta is actually seen as tragic (Misha’s mom, Paja, a non awful version of Sergei, a stand in for Fedyor) on the show only Vasily and the king died (two characters we all hate) in order to make the darkling look better

10- Nadia takes over David’s role on S&S as the main weapon engineer since he is absent

[jessaerys]

brothercrush tell me about leblanc twins please please please. i just scoured their tag and feel a deep need to know more about them

oh gasp the twins have been around for so long i forger i never oc posted on main. long story short daisy and dimitri are sillywhimsygoofy chaotic neutral Noir-as-hell private detectives who like to roleplay as hardboiled because it's funny (: they can and will ruin your life if it benefits them. or if it's fun. mostly for fun. they get bored easily. they're identical twins bc daisy is trans! too smart and educated for their own good, convolutedly pretentious as a coping mechanism (only people who can pierce their Unit/read through the bullshit are Worth It but also they are a set Do Not Separate. but also being a set is suffocating Let Me Have My Own Life. but also if you fall in love with someone else i will literally kill you and then myself. you know. normal twin things)

they also have deep ties to the Elder Gods that sleep and dream deep below the City and have taught themselves to channel their unstable dark magicks through long grueling rituals that they don't fully understand and often have unforeseen consequences. they were relatively upper class until Mother was murdered when they were teenagers and fell from grace into the seedy alleyways below where they have been surviving ever since so they don't know how or why or where they come from or who their father is and have been trying to solve her murder ever since (and one day may find their way to the elder god cult family clan that orchestrated their spawning and discover there was only ever supposed to be one of them which turns them against each other in a dramatic twin breakup arc. sexy murder attempts happen)

anyway the bestie and i have been writing them forever alongside misha & moire whom are the storyline's main characters (: daisy and moire have their own girlrival thing going on that may one day turn into an ot4 if they don’t kill each other first

will they ever be available to the public. only if we can secure an HBO deal first

anyway here's some 2019-2022 art of them some published some unpublished 😳 (pleaseeee repostn't)

[no-white-dress]

Who are your OCs? Could you introduce them a little? (i am not familiar with winx)

Wanna know the best part about drawing my own OCs? I have a list of them ready anytime. I will link the posts with the corresponding drawings.

Roughly by order of appearance:

Cassandra, fairy of celestial bodies: my winxsona, despite the title she is actually both a fairy and a witch. This ability to use both magic polarities is called magic bipolarism (more on this headcanon here). Just a version of me who speaks her mind more than I do, although I was very careful with what I actually wrote down. If you wanna look for me in my fanfic, she is not the real vessel.

There's also the winxsonas of my high school friend group, though a good chunk of it fell apart way before I finished writing the story. Some hard feelings made it to the page, but not all. Sadly I wasn’t able to coherently kick one of them out of the story and had to keep her till the end.

Aire of Magix, witch of time: she is co-owned with a friend of mine, and some of her first appearances are co-written as well (hence the shift in tone in some parts). She starts off as a freshman in Cloudtower, school for witches, she's impulsive and eager to prove herself and go on cool adventures.

Laverna, witch of ghosts: she exists because I wanted a minor annoyance for Aire. Your classic mean, bossy witch, with a nod to the Roman goddess of thieves she is named after for the little trial she imposes on Aire.

Henna of Zenith, witch of maps: along with Laverna and Yami, she shares the Cloudtower apartment with Aire. She's very unserious and her moral compass is basically whatever sounds entertaining for her. Her powers are a valuable strategic asset.

Yami, witch of natural disasters: she likes to present herself as calm and innocent when she can be quite mischevious. She does have a stronger sense of limit than her roommates (she is 60% of Henna's impulse control), and generally wants to avoid trouble if it can harm her or get out of hand.

Walter of Linphea: advanced class Specialist (student of Red Fountain, school for knights and mages), he has some form of magic but he isn't interested in it and never cultivated his powers. Hopeless romantic, he thinks critically and can make solid impressions of any teacher. Absolute Darcy simp.

Vanir: captain of Walter's Specialist team, he is a background character in winx's season one and I liked his design enough. Also his wolverine gauntlets are cool. He is pretty outgoing and cares about the safety of his teammates above all.

Takeshi: computer guy of Walter's team, insecure and a bit of a scaredy cat. To say he prefers behind the scenes jobs is an understatement.

Misha: the last element of Walter's team, tall, quiet and strong. I didn't really do much with him, not much to say.

Alec of Magix: third year Specialist, nephew of Codatorta (teacher at Red Fountain), a pretty vain boy who has no problem with dating around without putting in any work. Until a first year witch tells him off and he is shocked to find out that he'd do anything to impress her, actually. (Also co-written with Aire's owner, the first part of his arc is her doing).

He also has a team but they appear once to joke around with him about his date so...

Xavier: an old mage and famous professor, expert on magical artefacts and always busy in some new research he got a sudden interest in. Not the most social person, most of his colleagues dislike him due to his absolute lack of diplomacy, but he is right more often than not. He grumbles a lot but will help if asked.

Donnie of Whisperia, mage of metals: Stormy's little brother, Xavier's apprentice. He has a very sweet personality and desperately wants to reconnect with his sister and her friends.

Andrea, fairy of alchemy: based off a dear friend of mine, also a pupil of Xavier. She wants to advance her magic but without having to enroll in a magic school, so she stays with professor Xavier and in return she helps him study fairy forms. She's pretty sassy and direct, but unlike her mentor she knows when to hold her tongue.

There's a bunch of random characters for a parallel universe the cast briefly ends up in in the fanfic, but everything relevant about them is too closely knitted to the story to make sense out of context.

Nixie of Whisperia, fairy of thought: a third year student in Alfea, she only appears in a spin-off chapter so far but I really like her design. Her middle and ring fingers are fused together on both hands.

Harkan of Whisperia: Darcy's dad, doesn't resent his daughter at all, actually he feels guilty for not intervening when she cut them off.

Elle of Domino: Darcy's mom, same as her husband, with the extra of feeling responsible for Icy's troubles too because of her friendship with her mother Sitara.

Egan of Whisperia: Stormy and Donnie's dad, absolutely identical to both children except that he's short and they are not. Owns a restaurant.

Ambra of Whisperia: Stormy and Donnie's mom, works in the restaurant as well. When Stormy cut them off she focused on Donnie, like Egan did, while still keeping the door open in case Stormy wished to return.

Icy's dad: deadbeat who literally first saw his daughter 23 years after her birth. She wants nothing to do with him.

Mocca: Icy's coworker at the Magix disco, best wingman ever, loves to joke around with Icy and tease her. He knows he can afford it because she actually likes hanging out with him and won't freeze him off. Not for long anyway.

Robin: Mocca's boyfriend, isn't around much to tell the truth. His most interesting trait is his visor, a special device that helps him see colors.

Manuel of Earth: oh look, a male Earth fairy!! Long story short Earth was magicless for centuries due to canon events that involved cutting the wings of all fairies and apparently leaving only some female fairies alive on an island where they never aged, but the winx brought magic back and that... was never talked about again. Manuel is one of the people who developed magic without any guidance and had to learn on his own, until he went to a concert...

Dave of Magix, mage of smoke and fog: MY BELOVED- ahem. I need to pretend I don't have favorites. Certified Icy simp, loves to make her flustered and joke around with her, but also very good at advice. He's easy-going, flirty, has enough self-esteem to make up for the lack of it his partners sometimes experience. Very caring, he can speak five languages and works as a translator. He may not be much of a fighter but he can stand his ground.

Nadia, Alohi, Olivia, Viveca: some of Icy's freshmen students when she starts teaching at Cloudtower. Their drawing is still a work in progress but I can tell you I love their designs very much and I am very sad I don't have stories to write for them.

Daria of Solaria, witch of gravity: another one of Icy's students and later on her colleague, @dariaslore's winxsona. We have the best time imagining this fancy witch who can't go a day without a walk in the sun confuse the entire school. Her classmates think she'd be better off as a fairy (she would not), her teachers wonder how the hell she gets good grades when she's at school only during class and is at the Lake sunbathing every single day (she studies on the Lake's shore or directly on a boat in the middle of it). Super fan of princess Stella, of course, very into fashion, puts great care in her workout routine.

Then there's a lot of second generation characters who have no drawing or story (well, most of them) yet, so I'll keep them for myself for a while more :)

[solnishkawrites]

So my boyfriend @mikk1n and I have been developing a 1920s Call of Cthulhu AU for Dishonored. This started off really small—I was mostly just desperate to get my boyfriend to play a TTRPG with me, and lured him into CoC 7th edition with the promise of having him play as his Dishonored OC, Moira O’Farrell—with the module “Paper Chase” from the Starter Set. And then, everything spiraled out of control and into this sprawling saga. Some highlights from the primary AND secondary campaigns we have planned:

PRIMARY CAMPAIGN

Havelock and Moira are bootleggers in the early 1920s in America. When they get a tip-off that the police are after them, they flee to Berlin, Germany and become smugglers trafficking archaeological artifacts through the black market.

They also run a bed and breakfast together, because why not.

Havelock and his smuggling partner, Josef, attract the attention of strange cult when a business deal goes awry. They’re captured, and it’s up to Moira (a disabled Black Irishwoman, for those who aren’t in the know) to go and find them.

Josef escapes on his own, but Havelock is transformed via a strange ritual into… something that is no longer human. Something that craves the taste of human flesh.

Even though Havelock retains his memories and capacity for reason, he is losing his sanity as he struggles to come to grips with his new, uncurable condition. Also, the cult is hellbent on recapturing him. Unfortunately for the cultists, Havelock is also hellbent on revenge.

SECONDARY CAMPAIGN

Corvo and Jessamine Attano are a young couple trying to make a new life with their infant daughter, Emily, in Berlin. Jessamine has left her wealthy family in England behind; the only thing she took with her when she left were the clothes on her back… and a small, insignificant-seeming pendant that her father gave her when she was very young.

Little does Jessamine know that the pendant is an eldritch artifact. Euhorn (and the cult he’s cozy with) want it BACK, and they’re willing to hire an assassin named Daud to kill Jessamine and retrieve what they view as theirs.

Daud accepts the job, but finds that he can’t kill Jessamine. This isn’t Miss Kaldwin, a shallow little rich bitch living off of  her daddy’s money… this is Mrs. Attano, a scared young woman trying to make ends meet while caring for her daughter and husband. Daud runs away, but is found by Corvo later on. They talk and compare notes… and then decide to go cultist-hunting together.

I can’t say much more without releasing spoilers that Misha can’t yet know about. More shall be revealed with time.

I’m really enjoying this AU. Without all of their power and influence, the characters have a chance to actually be better people. There’s still a massive initial class divide between Corvo and Jessamine (he grew up in poverty on the streets of Havana, Cuba, while Jessamine was sipping from crystal glasses in her family’s townhouse in London, England), but the fact that Jessamine was able to walk away from that life makes her a better person than she was in canon as an Empress who responded so poorly to the Plague Crisis. She, Corvo, and Emily get a chance to be a real family together.

Likewise, Daud gets a real redemption arc. I’m not a big fan of Daud in canon; I feel like he can’t ruin Corvo’s life the way he did and subject him to the trauma of being accused of Daud’s crime and allow Corvo to be TORTURED FOR MONTHS ON END for that crime and then earn any kind of forgiveness. It doesn’t resonate with me.

I’m not sure if the primary or secondary campaigns will ever intersect. Currently I don’t expect them to, but it’s impossible to say what the dice will dictate. Some more tidbits about the characters and world before the post ends:

Billie is Haitian.

Daud is Moroccan, thereby giving him that French colonial connection to Billie.

The Outsider is the figurehead and puppet of a Great Old One.

The Golden Cat has become a cabaret club.

Havelock is a veteran of World War I.

Moira’s sister, Sian, was a volunteer in Cork, Ireland during the Easter Rising of 1916.

Martin is still a shady priest.

[sio-lokistiel]

Hi!! So I'm a fairly strong chuck won believer (i have been given some Extremely convincing evidence and I think its interesting to think about so) but I saw a post you made about how that theory disregards cas and jacks arcs and I was just wondering if you could expand on that? I'm super open to interpretations lol and I'm really curious to hear the other side (i haven't seen too much anti chuck won stuff so I dont know the arguments)

Okay, oh boy. I guess part of it is what exactly you mean by “Chuck Won” because I understand it on a censorship level. Yes, Chuck was representing the network. Yes, the network meddled and cut Dean’s reciprocation and we ended up with that garbage finale with pages of [OMITTED] in the script. So, if that’s all you mean by “Chuck Won” then yeah, whatever I guess.

Idk, some people probably feel it’s a legitimate theory simply because Dean died. It seems a lot of the fandom thinks death = bad…and that’s just not the case now that Jack freed the souls. I mean, I can throw quotes from The Mummy and Lord of the Rings at you about how death is the next step in journey. So while I’m no longer upset about Dean dying in general, especially because it was foreshadowed, the way he died was so fucking dumb. That doesn’t mean I think it has anything to do with Chuck.

Cas’ arc was all about self-actualization. His speech in Gimme Shelter explains a good part of it with how he found purpose having a family and becoming a dad, BUT him also realizing that having himself is important, too. Then, oh goodness, we reach the culmination in Despair (The Truth) when he realizes happiness is in the saying, in accepting your truth, both the good and bad bits of yourself. The Empty comes and he reintegrates with his Shadow to become whole and saves Dean, the world, and himself in the process. Yes, that’s a whole bunch of Jungian psychology stuff and it’s a lot to process and I’m probably not doing the best job of explaining it. Most of the Chuck Won theory stuff I’ve seen ignores all that and seems to ignore the canon that Cas IS in heaven. I understand the disappointment of Cas and Dean not reuniting, YET. Corporate fuckery (and Covid) kept it from happening in the finale with the original Roadhouse ending that was planned and then scheduling conflicts and Jensen and Misha agreeing Cas needed more than a cameo kept him from being in The Winchesters.

And Jack. Jack was literally the whole goddamn point. The two big things are he’s possessed and sometimes dead because of this, or he is corrupted somehow. I have never seen a convincing damn argument for either of these things. There’s one post that tries to compare some his mannerisms to Chuck, but is filled with so much straw grasping and reaching I’m surprised the author didn’t need a doctor afterward. Another is that some people project on the poor boy so much and just they don’t like his arc, they want to think something is wrong. There is a lot more Pagan stuff about Jack and the number of mythologies where some god is brought down by being a power hungry dickhead and that comes back to bite them in the ass as a grandchild in Jack’s case removes them from power. There are better people to explain all the Pagan imagery surrounding Jack; my tag #jack is the orphic egg should get you to some really good stuff. I’m also not down to argue about how the last 3-5 seasons are meant to read with a Pagan lens. There was one group who predicted the end of the mothership months in advance and then all of The Winchesters and it wasn’t the people clinging to some white Christian reading.

Last thing, I just personally find the theory really lazy as well. I would legitimately be so disappointed in Jensen and whoever ends up writing the next chapter whether that’s Robbie or someone else if they went that route. Luckily, they are all smarter than that and I can see them seeming to lean into it, but then having the most fabulous rug pull! This is very long, oops.

[skye-huntress]

She’s so Cheeky for a Commoner Volume 2 Thoughts

I’m back, and incidentally, I’m still be doing I’m in Love with the Villainess content. For clarification, She’s so Cheeky for a Commoner is a spin-off series that follows Claire’s point of view of the many events early in the series. However, it is not a complete retelling of the series, it only retells certain key moments, while sprinkling in entirely new scenes, new characters and story arcs, as well as occasionally giving the perspectives of different characters. It does not serve as a substitute for the original light novels, and you should still read those first if you don’t want to be spoiled.

Anyway, this particular book only covers Chapters 4 through 6 from the original series, with Chapters 7 and 8 presumably being covered in Volume 3. Spoilers below.

Starting off, we have the Scales of Love arc. My first point of interest was how much more conscious Claire was of Rae’s change of behaviour, and yet so oblivious to the cause.

The first big change is the conversation with Loretta and Pepi about their doubts and suspicions about Manaria. To be fair, those two didn’t become actual characters until the manga fleshed them out. Interestingly, they actually asked Rae for her opinion and took her observation into careful consideration. Turns out, Loretta also had another more personal reason why she was weary of Manaria.

Follow that up with Rae nearly dying in Claire’s arms and her going off at her precious Manaria for it. She seemed harsher here than in the anime.

It makes sense that after the “breakup” the first person to truly get a chance to console Claire without any ulterior motive would be Catherine. They are roommates after all. Also, we finally get to see what Catherine looks like. She’s so adorably and sweet, it’s all the more unacceptable that the rest of her family (who will likely be the death of her) are all complete scumbags and criminals. So Catherine manages to convince Claire to patch things up with Rae, unfortunately, while this conversation was happening, Manaria was escalating things yet again.

Personally, I think the anime did the confession best. Actually, my last post was a reblog of that scene.

Okay, so Claire is being congratulated and teased by Misha, the Princes and the minions. First interesting thing, we’re establishing the Rod is already into Rae and intends to pursue her but is letting Claire have her turn, I guess. Second interesting thing, everyone assuming it is a given that Rod will snatch Rae from Claire. To be fair, it is assumed at this point that Rod will be King, and none of them could imagine that Rae has such a fundamentally different view on marriage than the rest of them.

So now we enter that very weird stage in Rae and Claire’s relationship. They’ve finally acknowledged that Rae’s feelings are genuine and are requited, but they’re not actually together-together, yet. In Claire’s case, the issue is that all her social conditioning is telling her it is always the guy to make all the moves.

Apparently, Claire can get anxious whenever Rae acts overly familiar with anybody of the opposite gender. She knows Rae is gay, and will never fall for a man, but she doesn’t want any of them getting the wrong idea and thinking they can hit on her Rae.

Okay, so Loretta is also in love with Claire. I’m not surprised that so many characters are in love with our protagonists, but I find it somewhat comical that the canonically bi one only has other women falling for her, and it’s the lesbian who happens to also attract men. Claire is such a girl magnet, she might give even Manaria a run for her money if she really tried.

Also, unsurprisingly, Pepi has fallen for Loretta. Looks like that ship still has a chance to sail.

Dole is a master strategist and he knows Claire well. Even if Rae didn’t tell him, he would know Claire has a growing interest in anything to do with Rae. He likely acted the way he did on the trip to Euclid to intentionally make Claire feel she couldn’t stay in their summer home, and make spending the night with the Taylor’s seem all the more appealing. An underhanded and effective way for Claire to get first-hand experience on what life as a commoner is really like.

One thing the original novels didn’t touch on was what Rae Taylor was like before she met Claire. I know the manga has been exploring what BC Rae was like. My impression is she was a lot like the Pope, Clarice. A very stark contrast to how the present Rae acts, it’s no wonder the minions were so confused. It is a wonder why Misha never questioned it sooner.

I feel like this whole chapter was more for Loretta and Pepi’s development. There wasn’t much going on on Claire’s part we weren’t already aware of.

One of the more interesting developments is Pepi being tutored by Misha on using siren magic. There is no way they are proposing the idea of using a magical instrument to boost Pepi’s magic without following through. Considering the potential consequences, Pepi is not likely to use it unless Loretta is in imminent danger, and the only major conflict left is the revolution, so that’s concerning.

There were hints of it earlier, but now it is confirmed we have a human trafficking conspiracy, and of course poor Catherine’s family is in the centre of it. It doesn’t even seem like they are trying too hard to hide it so it’s only a matter of time before their house of cards crumbles. The only problem with that is just like with what happened to the Aurousseau’s, typically in this world the whole family is punished for the same crimes regardless of their involvement. If Claire were to decide to take matters into her own hands, that a-hole, Clément wouldn’t hesitate to use Catherine as a human shield, figuratively and literally.

Enter everyone’s third favourite character, who apparently can never catch a break, Lily.

And now we’ve found out that Pepi’s father is part of the aforementioned conspiracy. Which means now I have to worry about her AND Catherine, AND Loretta since her fiance that her family set her up with is also in the thick of this mess. As much as Pepi is worried about her father, I say he should go to hell with the rest of them. Pepi should worry more about herself (and her future wife).

Wait, wait, wait. If even Catherine, who is viewed as less than a pawn by her family, knows about Yu, how well kept is this secret? Could Yu’s potential reign have been any more compromised? If the royal family wasn’t already screwed by Dole’s schemes, what Rae did would have been considered a huge favour to them.

As Catherine rightly points out, Claire has yet to make her own confession, which is a huge part of why her relationship with Rae is stalling.

Hold on, did we ever establish before if Lily’s alter ego had a name? Okay, I just checked and in Lambert’s part in the previous volume, he did refer to the nasked stranger as Alter. It’s been a year since I read that and the name doesn’t appear anywhere else so I’m not surprised I forgot.

I would not be surprised if Salas was using the Achard’s human trafficking operation for his supply of test subjects. Bastard was doing all sorts of human experimentation, so he had to get his victims somehow.

It took me a moment to realise where Misha’s train of thought was going, but I will grant her it makes a lot of sense for what little she knows. I actually wouldn’t have held it against her if she turned Rae in. Rae might not have either. Claire definitely would have, though.

One thing I’m glad they addressed even if it didn’t occur to me, how does Rae cast antidote magic without a wand? She’s in prison, she shouldn’t have a wand, but apparently Dole pulled some strings on the sly. Anything for his partner-in-crime/future daughter-in-law.

As for the Misaki vision, since I finished the series, I’ve actually suspected that was TAIM’s doing, since she’s pulled similar stunts before.

And as soon as Claire returns from visiting Rae, she immediately wants to declare war on Queen Riche. Which I’d be down with. That bitch got a better ending than she deserved.

Volume 3 will probably be the last. Will Pepi and Loretta get together? Will Catherine finally be freed from her family of criminals? Will the Achard’s finally get their comeuppance? And what the hell was Claire up to during the whole revolution chapter since she ditched Rae?

[eisforeidolon]

About the Cas is autistic thing..

While watching the show in real time, it was pretty clear they were writing Cas’ struggle with cultural assimilation- except on steroids as a species assimilation. That was why Cas was so interesting at first. Immensely powerful with no humanity because he wasn’t human. Watching him struggle with understanding the complexity of the human experience was a side arc I enjoyed. The writers got lazy and could find no other use for him then to parody that early arc in later seasons. Sad, really. And then Misha just ruined him with the queer baiting and it was “So long Cas!! You’re a joke now.”

The autism thing is interesting. My son is autistic, and I’ve learned so much from him as he’s gotten older about what all that entails. I think there are a lot of people who resent the autism parallel, and others who identify with it. It’s highly relatable for the autistic individual to look at a character who is struggling with social norms and boundaries, and feels uncomfortable in his own skin at times. It can also be insulting when that discomfort was exploited as a way to make him a joke, or parody. Others may feel it insensitive to insinuate an autistic person just needs to learn how to human better, and that autism is something you can overcome (for lack of a better word- I don’t believe it’s something anyone has to overcome)

I think it’s really great people can find things to relate to in characters, but it’s so bizarre when people insist it’s the ONLY way to relate to the character, and only a subset of people can understand it. Awkwardness is a pretty standard human experience. As is pain, grief, love, silliness, etc etc. I’ll never understand how groups of people can claim a human emotion as strictly their own when it’s so universally experienced- not to mention the regressive way they think everyone within a subset of people will respond the exact same way to each iteration. It’s an incredibly simplistic and boring way of viewing people

Yeah, season 4 Castiel and season 15 Castiel are entirely different characters. IMNSHO, it was far less character development and far more character decay from neglect, indifference, and just plain bad judgement. He started out as an awkward outsider, which was occasionally played situationally for laughs - but he was also knowledgeable, competent, and occasionally straight up badass. By the end, though? He was the butt of the joke, he rarely had anything useful to contribute except more bad decisions to move the latest so-called plot along, and villains even made fun of him for needing to be rescued by the Winchesters because by that point he was shown as just that incompetently pathetic in a fight. And then to turn what he still had left, an overall arc of learning about free will and trying to do the right thing while finding out how hard that could be ... into just being obsessed with Dean? Oof.

Okay, that was a bit of a sidetrack, so back to the autism issue? The thing is, even if Castiel had been written as an autistic person, that still wouldn't be some all-encompassing good representation everyone with the condition would be obliged to see themselves in. As it is, when the character was not written with that intention at all (as you say and as per last post, he's an obviously recognizable trope about alien outsiders)? It's even more questionable to state it as some definitive inherent connection to an autistic person's experiences - especially in this case, where it's effectively equating autism to not being human. Which is very obviously potentially insulting and offensive. It doesn't have to be, and there's nothing wrong with seeing it either way - which is why someone speaking for the character in a definitive direction that is not coming from authorial intent is Not Great. I think wanting to make those definitive kind of statements of interpretations of the characters are overall a complication of how much we as people tend to think in terms of ingroups and outgroups and like to label things, but, again, as you say? That's a very simplistic and inaccurate way of viewing people. Not only that, but being so focused on categorizing people can be ultimately unnecessarily divisive and easily lead into othering and dehumanizing people who you decide aren't enough like you.

[bibliophileiz]

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I'm feeling bad about my salty addition yesterday to the post about spn's terrible pregnantKelly/Jack plotline, so let me explain my feelings toward jack as a character with more context and nuance.

first of all i think Alexander Calvert's performance is great. here's a relatively young actor taking a character who as introduced is basically a talking baby in an adult man's body. Many other actors of his age and experience would have taken that in such a cringeworthy direction the character would been dead by the mid-season premiere. Jack as played by Calvert outlasts Castiel.

(as a side note to that, I just want to give AlCal a shoutout for his portrayal of Belphagor. I thought the season 15 premiere was especially weak with even Jared, Jensen and Misha seeming to lack their usual energy. Alex was the only one having any fun, and honestly one of the few things i remember liking about season 15.)

I also think Jack as a character had a lot of potential, despite his extremely stupid origins (and they were SO stupid. i mean. the pRESIDENT?) and not all that potential went unfufilled. The best example of this is his dynamic with Sam and their season 13 arc. They start out with Sam being the only one who believes Jack is good despite his powers, despite his inability to control them. He sees some of Kripke-era Sam (also known as the best Sam) in Jack and tries to lead him out of his shell and into confidence with his powers but also confidence in himself, all with a dash of "you're not evil kid, so don't act like it"

Sam's dynamic with lucifer is relevant here as well because it's season 13 that really leans into Sam's trauma around that. So when he runs into the house right after Jack is born and hears the son of lucifer call him "Father" it's pretty spine-chilling. But it comes full circle at the end of the season when, as lucifer attempts to abduct and kill Jack, Sam jumps in the middle of them and defends Jack from his biological-but-not-real father, prompting lucifer to say "Daddy Sammy to the rescue." I hope you're seeing the themes here.

(i know all anyone remembers about that episode is the truly horrendous direction of the michael-lucifer fight scene, and it's so frustrating because the writing and themes are actually really good. robert singer, why must you and eugenie fuck up literally everything?)

Jack's relationship with other characters can be well-written at times too. Some of the writers tried to give him good consistent dynamics with people like Mary and Bobby and tried to write him learning hunting and his powers as a basic coming of age, sometimes heroe's journey story. robert berens, who despite being a little overrated as a writer was def the best of the pre-dabb-era writers in the final seasons, seemed to be the only one writing jack's powers in a consistent and thematically conscious way. (Without going into too many details, if you pay attention to berens' episodes you can see a lot of consistency in how jack's powers and the visions they grant other characters affect those characters' actions. there's a conscious effort to make them relevant to the show's faith and free will themes.)

But overall I find Jack frustrating. Because no matter how hard writers like Steve Yockey and Robert Berens tried to write Jack's character and relationships with other characters like Mary and Sam in a consistent, interesting, and thematically relevant way, at the end of the day, the showrunners seemed most interested in using Jack as Whatever The Plot Needed Him To Be To Make Dean (and sometimes Cas) Make A Sad Face. Even if that means he's out of character, even if it means the logic of an episode makes no sense, even if it means a multi-episode arc has events that don't logically follow one another.

Take for example the end of season 14 when Jack loses his soul. (And in fairness, I'll point out that soulless Sam was written a little inconsistently as well.) The first episode after that when they're trying to figure out how that affects Jack is actually done pretty well (which checks out bc i think it's written by Steve Yockey). Jack figures out he doesn't really have a morality instinct anymore and decides that in order to be Good, he should try to emulate Sam, Dean, and Cas/make people happy. The first sign that this could go horribly wrong is that he assumes his new snake pet is sad because its old owner died so he decides to make it "happy" by reuniting them ... in heaven ... by killing his pet. Leaving out for a second why he thinks that's a thing Sam and Dean would ever do, it at least makes a kind of twisted logic that is pretty in keeping with early seasons jack who was conciously trying to follow very basic rules of right and wrong.

My memory of late season 14/15 is hazy because I hate them so much, but from what I do remember the next big Something's Wrong With Jack plot is in the episode where he's hanging out with the teenagers and he starts using his powers in front of them, making an angel blade twist and spin in midair and accidentally stabbing one of the other kids when she's scared and tries to run away. Also known as The Episode That Made Me Hate Jack.

This episode has soulless Jack being the equivalent of a kid who backs his friends into a corner and points his dad's gun at them, taunting "It's not loaded!" But a bigger problem from a story telling standpoint is it doesn't logically follow the snake thing. Jack killed the snake because he was trying to be morally good without understanding morals. But the conflict in this episode is framed as Jack wanting to fit in with and impress his new friends. One, it has nothing to do with morality. Two, it suggests that despite being soulless Jack stills cares about things.

Then there's Mary. We've got to have a way to make Dean so distraught and put him in such a dark place that he's willing to consider killing jack at the end of the season, so the obvious way to do that is to have Jack kill Mary. (Or Sam or Cas, but as previously stated this show thrives on the tears of angsty white men, so they were always safe.) But again, it doesn't follow logically any of the Bad Things Jack has done since becoming soulless. Far from either a misguided attempt at morality or a teenager being stupid trying to impress his friends, Jack kills Mary accidentally when he loses control of his powers during a little kid meltdown after Mary decides to tell Sam and Dean that Jack's powers are becoming violent and out of control.

When he can't bring Mary back, he goes to Duma for ... bucklemming logic reasons. And she tells him Sam and Dean will be happy if he does Good Things like make new angels for heaven and torture nonbelievers. So that's at least an attempt to go back to the snake logic, but it still doesn't make any sense because in two whole seasons of spending time with them and their loved ones, Jack has never seen Sam, Dean, or Cas do or say anything to suggest that they are ok with 1) more angels and 2) people being killed or tortured for nonbelief in God or the supernatural. (also chilling is the fact that the minister who jack curses with boils or whatever they were actually DOES believe in God and angels, he's just skeptical of jack, making this an ego thing for jack.)

The season finale has Jack doing the most interesting thing he does while soulless which is make it so that no one in the world can lie. I ... feel like this was the kind of thing they should have done more of with Jack.

Anyway, there's a big argument between our three mains over whether to kill Jack, with Dean being on the Kill Jack side and Cas being on the Don't Kill Jack side and Sam being Resolutely Silent on the matter either because he's trying to take his time coming up with a solution because he's learned his lesson from half his people getting killed by Michael earlier this season, or because Dabb forgot he was there, it's honestly a toss up. When Cas catches up with Jack, Jack tells him, "I know you love me, I just don't care." Uh ... if being soulless means Jack doesn't care that Castiel, the person he considers his father and who he instictively awoke in the Empty when he was two weeks old, loves him, then why the fuck would he care what three random ass teenagers thought of him???? Why would he care that Mary was about to tell Sam, Dean and Cas she thought something was wrong with him???

But character consistency and logical plotlines are not the point. The point is to make Jack screw up so many times that it drives Dean to the point of almost killing him, but couching it all under the "excuse" of Jack being soulless so that ultimately, the problem is actually Dean and his Anger Issues.

And this is why I have problems with Jack.

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[In "take a fucking sip babes" cadence] It's the fucking fifth babes

12 notes - Posted November 6, 2022

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New AU idea:

Cas is the half-Vulcan Captain of a Federation starship. Dean is his First Officer, who was assigned to him on his first mission as Captain and annoys the shit out of Cas cause he’s just as stubborn as Cas and is way better at socialising. They have the same kind of love/hate relationship as Spock and Bones, which makes being on the Bridge insufferable for the rest of the crew, especially Sam, whose low-grade psychic abilities mean he was perfect for the role of Ship’s Counselor but also means he has to feel their emotions all the goddamn time. He is suffering so much.

14 notes - Posted November 2, 2022

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My fics!

Supernatural

Who are you? 500 words

Written for Whumptober 2021 prompt #9: "RUMORS OF MY DEATH HAVE BEEN GREATLY EXAGGERATED"

Dean, Jack, and Sam get Cas back from the Empty, but there's a hitch.

Going Under 500 words

Written for Whumptober 2021 prompt #11: Drowning.

Dean's been under for so long. Set during Dean’s possession in s14.

Beaten 500 words

Written for Whumptober 2021 prompt #14: Beaten.

Dean's unhealthy coping mechanisms strike again. Set during the s13 Widower Arc.

Watch 100 words

Set in S5. Cas learns to cope with life on Earth.

Fill for the PB100 prompt "Watch".

One Year 100 words

Just past midnight, Dean and Cas celebrate their anniversary.

(100 words of fluff to celebrate Dean and Cas' one-year wedding anniversary. You go you funky little husbands!)

Hold Me Tight 699 words

Set during S9 E6 Heaven Can't Wait, the morning after Cas and Dean have defeated the Rit Zien.

Of course, they decided to share a bed, but things look different in the morning light.

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BBC Merlin

Autumn Brings A Change 1002 words

“Get away from me, Merlin!” “Arthur, please! Just trust me! Please!”  

Arthur crawled backward, dragging his leg over the ground, sword raised to point at Merlin. “How can I trust you? You lied to me, for years, about everything!”

Arthur finds out about Merlin's magic in the middle of a battle, but once it's over, he can't threaten or get away from Merlin due to a broken leg...

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Good Omens

Three Things Crowley Can Do With His Tongue 1048 words

A Nice and Accurate Account of the three ways the demon Crowley – a wily old Serpent – uses his tongue.

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19 notes - Posted November 16, 2022

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It’s like a behind the scenes pic? Not sure where it’s from

ohhhh that's so cute!!! I hadn't seen it before, I thought you'd edited it!! so weird to see misha in non-cas clothes on set :0 Thanks for telling me!!

21 notes - Posted July 20, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

It's a quiet night. More than a year later, and Dean's still getting used to it. The silver band on his finger glints in the moonlight as he drums his fingers on his sternum. He shifts underneath the blanket, listens for the water lapping gently at the lake outside. It must be past midnight now.

Cas stirs next to him, arm tightening where it's wrapped around Dean's waist, sleep-mussed head rising from the pillow to squint at him. He's frowning. Dean smiles back, heart thumping in his chest.

'Dean?'

Dean presses a kiss to his husband's lips. 'Happy anniversary, Cas.'

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[clockdreams]

so i think, based on the fact that the watchmaker's wikia page has this to say about how misha came into existence:

that misha is exactly what he seems to be, a living memory. when we hear misha calling out in the dreamscape, he's lost, scared, & confused, calling out for mikhail, which we later learn was the name of the watchmaker himself. now, the name misha is also a nickname or diminutive of the name mikhail, a more childish version of it, which makes sense, since misha is representative of mikhail's own childish wonder & innocence.

point being, misha is a manifestation of the trailblaze, of the spirit of wonder & adventure, & as such, can only be seen by those affiliated with the trailblaze & the astral express, & those directly affiliated with penacony & the dreamscape. others can perceive him or sense him, but they cannot see him, & this is reinforced several times throughout the penacony arc, most notably when acheron herself says she can sense a presence nearby & turns in misha's direction, but cannot see him, & neither can firefly.

as for post-penacony, there are several in-game instances of people who are dead being found in the dreamscape. misha is classified as a memetic entity, a being that cannot leave the dreamscape. the only reason he was seen at the start of the penacony arc was because the dreamscape and reality had already begun blending, & misha's very presence proved that true, since he cannot exist in reality.

how i intend to write misha post-penacony and moving forward, while also reconciling with canon to some degree, is that misha can still be found in the dreamscape, though he would still only be visible to the astral express crew & to black swan, so much remains the same. however, members of the astral express & those affiliated with penacony may sometimes find him as a visitor in their dreams, or in the case of the astral express, they may find him on-board every now & then due to his connection to the trailblaze & the astral express. & should they choose to enter the dreamscape once more, they'll be greeted by the reverie's very own lovable bellboy.

[fandonnavyce]

You realise that this means that Hiruma and the Devilbats will be like tumblr famous. That this random team of high school amefuto players from Japan are like tumblr blorbos (not quite misha collins famous because they're not an actor from a culturally famous decade long-running tv show but you know that's the vibe) except it's a couple of blogs/corner of tumblr who are religiously following the Japanese HS amefuto scene and all their memes and posts are just trickling into common tumblr conscious.

A lot of people aren't even like fully aware that the Devil Bats are a real high school school team. Especially by the time most are getting introduced to the Devil Bats via their collabs with established businesses/gacha games or w/e. They either fully think it's some kind of unreality meta joke like goncharov OR that the Devil Bats are like an official mascot figure like Tony the Tiger but scaled-up to a whole football team.

Then the Christmas Bowl approaches or it's that Japan vs US match in that World Cup Arc (or whatever it was called) and suddenly the Devil Bats is trending on tumblr and people are like what's going on, is this a new TV show or something (are we shipping the Demon Captain with the Lightspeed Ace?). And it's no, one tumblr-user has to explain to another, it's just this one chaos child, the Demon Captain, who is a real person from Japan (DEMON CAPTAIN IS A WHOLE-ASS REALASS TEEN???!!!!/so was anyone going to tell me that Demon Captain was a real boy or was I supposed to find that out in a tumblr post/Demon Captain is a real boy? he always was) who decided to make his hobby everyone's fucking problem and is running on demon time to drum up support, money, and commit psychological warfare against his rivals.

Hiruma really looked at S1 Sakuraba and went:

@nullified-king @nonbayanary

Honestly as someone who makes ads at work to make humanity suffer in few-minute-doses, I can truly applaud Hiruma's creativity in marketing the Devilbats even before the boom of social media.

He makes use of everything: flyers, the school PA system, banners (on the famed statue of ANOTHER FUCKING COUNTRY), skywriting, news on the television, and even fax machines!!!

Do you UNDERSTAND how even more of a hell-raiser he would be if he had fucking BLUETOOTH and AIRDROP??? If he had his claws on Adobe and Canva and Google Ads??? BRO WOULD BE UNSTOPPABLE!!!

Everyone in all of Japan would get texts that say, "JOIN THE DEVILBATS!!! YA-HA!!!" every single fucking day. Coffee shops and public areas with wifi are common hunting grounds for Hiruma, practically open season for him and his accursed advertising. People looking for wifi are his quarry, and he is the predator attacking with Devilbat recruitment advertisements that CANNOT BE SKIPPED.

He would tamper with products from around the globe. You wanted an engraved Apple product? Instead of whatever phrase or word you wanted engraved, it says, "DEIMON DEVILBATS: RECRUITING NOW!!! YA-HA!!!" Every few posts you scroll over in Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, you'll always, always, ALWAYS see an ad on the Deimon Devilbats.

And of course, Hiruma's secret weapon: TIK-TOK THIRST TRAPS. He forces his team at gunpoint to record themselves dressed in tight-fitting clothing. He posts close-ups of cool plays in matches (no one knows how he records these plays in different angles, with highass quality). He makes edits of his teammates, and plays up their sex appeal or their ability in front of the camera.

No one is safe from Hiruma Youichi, commander of marketing and advertising.