#replaying that part when it ends

[starry-bi-sky]

a Single(1) miscellaneous danyal al ghul thing:

Sam and Tucker gave Danny the song "Just a Man" from the musical Epic as a song recommendation because one of them heard it somewhere (probably tiktok) and wanted to share it with him.

Danny then proceeded to listen to that song and only that song for an entire week. Sam and Tucker were not expecting him to like it so much. (Danny was not expecting to resonate with it so much. They gave him the emotional equivalent of a punch to the gut and didn't even realize.)

miscellaneous danyal al ghul things

specifically about the danyal al ghul from my post/prompt here and i wanna get my misc. headcanons/thoughts on him (especially in his early stay with the fentons) out here before i make any other danyal al ghul aus

list under the cut because whoops this got longer than i expected. which really i should have expected

the Fentons are unaffiliated with the League, which was perfect for Danny faking his death.

he struggles with empathy. Empathy was not taught nor encouraged while he was with the League, so it's a skill that's been pretty stunted. At 15 he's better at empathizing with people, but he still struggles with it. He's pretty bad at reassuring/comforting people and usually acts as an emotional rubber duck for Sam and Tucker to vent to if need be. He sometimes offers blunt and sometimes mean opinions, especially if its about another person.

Sam and Tucker do not know he's an ex-assassin, they are however, pretty positive that he used to be part of an eco-fascist cult with a focus on martial arts?? They've been helping him tone down some of his more,,, extreme views on humanity ever since they caught wind of his more extreme ideologies.

He and Sam are still avid environmentalists and feed into each other quite a bit. They spend plenty of time at protests and pestering the school into more eco-friendly options.

Dash is not dead on the sole fact that Danny knew he had to lay low in Amity Park and killing someone was not, in fact, 'laying low'.

he did, however, traumatize him when Dash first tried to bully him. Safe to say, Danny is not bullied at school and neither are Sam and Tucker.

Danny didn't make any friends in his first year at Amity Park. He was surly, grumpy, standoffish, more stubborn than Sam, and pretty self-important about himself. Jazz was trying to teach him against these things, but she is a 12 year old unaffiliated with the League. Danny did not respect her nor listen to a word she said. It wasn't until like, year two that he finally started paying to mind what she was saying and slowly started to improve on himself

Sam approached him first, he rebuffed her quite harshly, and then Danny approached her sometime afterward when he overheard her talking about environmental rights. Sam completely ignored him though when he agreed with her, and Danny had to later learn that he needed to apologize for being rude to her when they first met. He did so eventually, and they started to talk more with Tucker and Sam.

Danny's a bit more reserved than he is in canon, although he steadily learns how to act as a regular teenager when he's out in public. He's a bit more friendlier at least, although when he's around Sam and Tucker he drops the act. He still has a somewhat formal way of talking, it's just become more casual after a lot of ribbing from Sam and Tucker. When he's angry or annoyed he starts talking poshly though.

His humor is relatively the same as in canon, if somehow dryer and more insulting at some points

Those rare moments where he gets really pissed usually ends up with him insulting someone in arabic or any of the other languages he picked up from the league. He is the go-to for Tucker's Spanish homework. (Tucker makes that mistake and learns that Danny is a very strict teacher)

while Danny doesn't view the Fentons as his parents, even five years after living with them, he does respect them to some amount. He respects them enough at least that when Vlad Masters comes sniffing around, he is suitably offended on both Maddie and Jack's behalf. And when he finds out Vlad was the one who tried to kill Jack and tried to tell him to renounce him as his father/parental guardian, danny threw a suitably sharp object at him and insulted him quite horrendously

Vlad still wants him as his kid. In fact perhaps even moreso after this.

Danny trains with Maddie to keep up with his training. It's not quite the same but it prevents him from getting completely rusty

Sam and Tucker know that Danny has a little brother, but nothing else beyond that other than Danny cares about him quite a lot and that he got his facial scar from keeping him safe.

Danny cares about Sam, Tucker, and Jazz quite a bit, but he struggles to convey it. Especially early on when he realized he cared about them and like instinct started being harsher to them and more critical of their actions. This resulted in quite a few arguments with Sam and Tucker and Jazz until he got sat down and told outright that the way he was treating them wasn't okay. It's a process he's still trying to unlearn even at 15. He has become kinder towards them as a result, and has begun looking for what they did right rather than what they did wrong.

He harbors a lot of guilt over how he treated Damian in the League, and its a pretty big conflict he has with himself since he's torn between telling himself it was for the best to make sure Damian survived the League, and feeling like crap over how harsh/critical of Damian he was and realizing that he probably could have come up with a better way of training him despite being a child himself at the time. Danny comes to the realization that more than anything, that he just wants to apologize.

His ghost form, specifically is outfit, is a combination of his hazmat suit and his uniform from the league, and he carries a sword with him. He also doesn't know how to react to Dani, honestly. Although it is fair to say that he figures out she's a clone instantly because of her whole 'I'm your third cousin once removed' thing and he freaks out. She spills the beans pretty quickly after that. And Danny is pretty skittish around her - or the equivalent of skittish. Her being younger than him kinda reminds him of Damian, so he's uncomfortable by her presence but learns to warm up to her.

[ryllen]

" ... as soft as talking to a new born, the voice you dream your children would hear during their bed time stories ... "

[cloudcountry]

🎃 -- halloween . . . terror is trending !

the witch of ramshackle, the guardian of diasomnia's longs...auburn.

this card is an sr. (vignette 1) (vignette 2)

summon: i wish malleus and lilia would have though to ask me if they could use my residency as their halloween set-up...

groovification: did you see diasomnia's set-up!? i can't believe they built all of that so fast!

set to home screen: let's go see everyone else's displays! i know they put lots of effort into them.

home transition 1: grim no, you can't eat that--! ugh, thank you for reigning him in. he doesn't know when to stop sometimes.

home transition 2: you know, i thought it would be kind of hard to take this seriously since it's a bunch of teenage boys, but they actually pulled this off.

home transition 3: i saved up some money and bought some candy for my friends. i put extra in some of the bags...hey, don't guess who those bags are for!

home after login: i'm not good with horror! these boys get way too rowdy during this season...i need to have a girl's night with on my own to recharge...

home transition (groovy): which display was the scariest..? give me some time to think it over!

tap home 1: you know...this purple is kinda cool! i think it looks good on me, hehe.

tap home 2: you want me to take your picture? oh, of course! what kind of angle do you want?

tap home 3: your costume is so cute! it really clicks with your dorm's theme, ehehe.

tap home 4: i don't know how our housewardens do it...they're kind of amazing. i think i would get overwhelmed with all of this. eh!? what do you mean i'm technically a housewarden too!?

tap home 5: if you want to find me tonight, don't look into the library. i've avoiding idia shroud like the plague.

tap home (groovy): those degenerates who only care about their magicam accounts have gotten on my last nerve...don't tell anyone i said this but i hope malleus zaps them.

[queenofbaws]

i will not stand here and say the quarry's writing is perfect by any means, but man. that moment. in the beginning. when chris absolutely loses his shit and you see every last one of the hacketteers freeze..............shocked, wide-eyed, so taken aback they don't move even to look at each other.............

and then, realizing what just happened, chris scrambles frantically to grab hold of the situation again. he tries to grin at ryan ("tries" being the keyword), he tosses him the keys like nothing's wrong. he tries to go back to being mr. h - he does, he tries so hard - and finally when ryan talks to him, there's what waver in his voice. that absolute lack of understanding in his eyes. ryan's not just surprised, he's not just shocked......for a second there, he is scared, and chris sees that, realizes it, and peels out of there before anyone can say anything else. just.....

JUST............

i think that moment is 100% the moment i realized UH OH I THINK I LOVE CHRIS HACKETT because that's when we see the counselors have been around this guy for two whole months (some of them even longer, possibly), and not once. not once!!!!!!!!!!! had they realized who he really was.

ugh. UGH. i LOVE IT.

[paperpeachy]

replaying spm in ur 20s is dangerous bro

[azulashengrottospiano]

🎃 -- halloween . . . terror is trending !

the witch of ramshackle, the guardian of diasomnia's longs...auburn.

this card is an sr. (vignette 1) (vignette 2)

summon: i wish malleus and lilia would have though to ask me if they could use my residency as their halloween set-up...

groovification: did you see diasomnia's set-up!? i can't believe they built all of that so fast!

set to home screen: let's go see everyone else's displays! i know they put lots of effort into them.

home transition 1: grim no, you can't eat that--! ugh, thank you for reigning him in. he doesn't know when to stop sometimes.

home transition 2: you know, i thought it would be kind of hard to take this seriously since it's a bunch of teenage boys, but they actually pulled this off.

home transition 3: i saved up some money and bought some candy for my friends. i put extra in some of the bags...hey, don't guess who those bags are for!

home after login: i'm not good with horror! these boys get way too rowdy during this season...i need to have a girl's night with on my own to recharge...

home transition (groovy): which display was the scariest..? give me some time to think it over!

tap home 1: you know...this purple is kinda cool! i think it looks good on me, hehe.

tap home 2: you want me to take your picture? oh, of course! what kind of angle do you want?

tap home 3: your costume is so cute! it really clicks with your dorm's theme, ehehe.

tap home 4: i don't know how our housewardens do it...they're kind of amazing. i think i would get overwhelmed with all of this. eh!? what do you mean i'm technically a housewarden too!?

tap home 5: if you want to find me tonight, don't look into the library. i've avoiding idia shroud like the plague.

tap home (groovy): those degenerates who only care about their magicam accounts have gotten on my last nerve...don't tell anyone i said this but i hope malleus zaps them.

duo magic: malleus, we have to protect ramshackle! || i assume that mean you're giving me permission, yes?

[onewingedangels]

I finished ff7 rebirth

[hecksupremechips]

The best feeling in the world is when there’s a piece of media you know you love and you’ve hyped it up as your favorite thing for so long but you haven’t revisited it in a while so you start to worry if it’s really as good as you make it out to be and so you go back and revisit it and it’s like. Oh this is even better than I remembered this shit rules

[nightingaletrash]

I've had some time to digest lonesome road and Natalie's reactions to Ulysses and their shared history, and honestly this was the missing connection to the second half of the main story for me.

Natalie's a courier and a drifter with no big dreams or ambitions of her own. Her determination to make Project Purity a reality was because that was her parents' dream and neither of them lived to see it to fruition. Since then, she's just kind of existed and been content to exist. So as far as she's concerned, delivering the chip to Mr House is the extent of her responsibility and once she's done that, she's off to hunt down the guy who turned down the job to make sure she got it.

Cue her adventures in the dlcs where she wanders into two separate kidnappings and an ambush which give her the hints and threads towards the guy she's looking for until he draws her to him. He confronts her with the consequences of her actions and her carelessness, makes her walk through it and witness it all first hand. By making a simple delivery, she sealed the fate of the Divide, and she didn't even know it. Once she heard it had been destroyed - seemingly by storms and earthquakes - she just kinda shrugged and moved on, never looking any deeper into it because hey, these things happen. She never drew the connection between her delivery and the destruction of the area, just believed what she was told and carried on.

It's her confrontation with Ulysses that forces her to look at herself and realise that claiming a lack of responsibility doesn't make it so - she delivered something important to the Divide and it had devastating consequences because she didn't care enough to know what she was transporting. Now she's done it again by making an important delivery to Mr House, something that can clearly influence the fate of New Vegas, and not caring enough to know why its important and refusing to engage. And now she's being forced to grapple with the reality of what not caring can do.

By going after Ulysses and confronting the consequences of her own careless indifference, it motivates her to engage with the politics of New Vegas in the second half of the main story because while there's nothing to be done for the Divide, she can still have some influence over events in New Vegas. She can make a difference, and find a vision of her own for what the world should be.

[quietwingsinthesky]

if i ever have to play beyond two souls again im going to kill someone someone’s life ends with me

[rosehippiefield]

New unpopular browser game recommendation: One chance. It has simple pixel graphics while managing to evoke the strongest emotions. It is depressing, it is gory, it has blood. There are a few endings, but game will only allow you to play once.

Brief story: you play as scientist who has managed to discover a cure for cancer. However, this cure is actually a danger on its own, having begun wiping out entire areas. You have 6 days to find a cure, this time for this disease. Your choices matter and, moreover, you only have one chance. How will you use it?

[flash-from-the-past]

Submachine 7: the core

[luc606]

the ssum’s user interface is really depressing to me as someone who unfortunately took harry’s route very seriously

there are mysme calls that i still listen to sometimes even though i first played them six years ago. that archive is functional enough to allow that.

if i want to revisit ssum content in a few years, am i going to have to scroll through months and months of empty milky way calendars in order to do so?

[hmmwellok]

not to be dramatic but i would, with no hesitation, die for kim kitsuragi

[madegeeky]

Ah, yes, Metro Exodus totally fits with the themes of the two games that came before it:

Metro 2033: Sometimes things that scare us aren't trying to hurt us, they're trying to reach out in the only way they know how. It's important that we pay attention to the world around us, that we let it teach us to be better people, that we learn from the people around us, no matter how different they might be. Sometimes there are only wrong choices and there's nothing to do but grit our teeth and make a choice anyway.

Metro Last Light: Sometimes we will do horrible things and the only way to make up for it is to move forward despite how much easier it'd be to just stop and wallow in our guilt. The world can be cruel and awful and sometimes you'll look at it and wonder if it's worth saving but, looking at the people around you, you'll know it is. Kindness and the willingness to fight to protect the people around you are the most important things to teach, as those are the things that will change the world.

Metro Exodus: People are horrible and cruel and the only good people left are the ones traveling with you. The only people that are worth having on the journey are the (found) family you started with and people who are useful to you in some way. It's not worth helping people for the sake of it, they must be willing and able to do something useful for you. The only reason to attempt to save anyone is so that the people you care about live so that they may serve you.

God I fucking hate Metro Exodus so fucking much.

[vaugarde]

for all my gripes w psmd’s plot the one thing i absolutely have to give it is the tone. the tone is fantastic and probably the best out of any pmd game tbh