#shes 100% flirting with caine

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Pomctober Day 5: The Amazing Digital Carnival

LOOK AT HER!!! GOD I IMPROVED SO MUCH ON HOW I DREW HER COMPARED TO THE LAST TIME!!!

Anyway I wanted to draw flirty Pomni for pomctober!! She was a lot of fun!! Also at this point its just gonna be a thing that I post it the next days 3 am. I had the sketch made yesterday I just took too long to color it and then forgot to post it /silly

(Pomctober by @tadc-funfair-au Carnival is by @sm-baby)

[insertcoolusernamehereee]

The Wayne Family is a mess

Dick:-

Parental figure is Bruce, but calls Clark ‘dad’ sometimes just piss Bruce off <3 (Ignore Gotham War, Ignore Gotham War)

Favourite sibling is he doesn’t have one :3. Okay, he likes Jason a teeny bit more, but he’s pretty fair to all of them.

He sees Damian as his son, but they both refuse to acknowledge it completely. They’re comfortable with how they are now.

He is SO older sister coded. Feels like he is responsible for everyone, and tries to hide when he’s mad/sad, but most of the time his siblings force him to tell them how he’s feeling.

Him and Cass CONSTANTLY exchange ‘I swear to god, these losers’ looks when everyone is fighting/doing something stupid.

While his favourite is Jason, and views Damian as a son, he spoils Tim and Duke HORRENDOUSLY.

Him and Steph gossip about different celebrities 24/7

Is currently dating Babs :3

Him and Selina have more ‘friendsies’ relationship, than mom-son type relationship. When one of them get into a argument with Bruce they start slandering him SO BADLY.

Jason:-

I can hear you guys from on the other side of my screen, but him and Bruce are not on Father-Son relationship stance right now. Bruce sees him as a son, but he doesn’t view him as a father (anymore). But he can talk to him without fighting now. (Ignore Gotham War, Ignore Gotham War)

Favourite siblings are Duke, Cass and Tim. Because yes. He makes it obvious too lol.

Dislikes Damian, but helps him get away with shit just to give Bruce grey hairs.

Jason ‘I hate modern technology’ Todd

Him and Dick teaming up give people HEADACHES. If Bruce/Alfred want to scold them, they MUST be separated.

Stephanie and him are besties and bully Tim mercilessly, since he luvs to steal everyone’s friends. (Damian ur next)

He gets Alfred presents on both Father’s Day and Grandfathers day, and everything in between.

Spoils Cass tbh. It’s all with Bruce’s card, but what people don’t know won’t hurt them :D

He is constantly like ‘Selina u can do SO much better’ but he does like her. Just not as strong of a relationship.

Cass:-

100% Views Bruce as a father figure. Hates David Cain, and just does not care about Lady Shiva.

Favourite sibling is Tim, and is best friends with Stephanie.

People constantly think that Damian and her are biological siblings, so when they ask, she looks them dead in the eyes and tells them ‘He’s my dad’. It gets the reporters confused every time.

Obnoxiously acts like a little Angel, but everyone knows she’s not. “Cass. We all know you crashed the Batmobile. No, you smiling will not change my mind. Yes, your smile is very pretty, BUT STILL.”

Her and Dick are forced to be the responsible ones when everyone is hanging out. With Cass in charge of Dick, and Dick in charge of Cass. It oddly works out.

Loves spoiling Damian, it’s getting concerning. In turn, Damian’s pets love her.

Stephanie spills tea about EVERYONE to her. Even about her classmates, who Cass has never even met. Fake dating Steph as well so that nobody tries to flirt with her during galas, and to explain why Steph is so close with the family.

Babs is a major role model in her life. When Cass needs advice, Babs is the first number on her phone.

She loves Selina. But sometimes doesn’t trust her. Otherwise, she approves of Batcat :) Not that strong of a mother-daughter relationship, but she buys Selina a gift for Mother’s Day, just because she can.

Tim:-

Yes, he does view Bruce as a father figure. He also still views Jack as a father figure but he’s dead now <333 As for Janet…she’s a complicated situation.

Favourite siblings are Dick and Cass. He’s besties with Stephanie, basically tells her almost everything.

Both him and Damian are petty, so they trade insults a lot, but it’s more bantering than fighting lol. They do go out to places together, but they are always acting like they are forced to, or that they would be anywhere else (even though they like hanging with each other)

He will not stop with the ‘middle child’ jokes. He will purposefully make Bruce ignore him just so he give a long monologue about being the middle child. He will then ask Bruce to give Damian up for adoption to redeem himself. Damian is still here :D

Cass is Tim’s wingman. (Which is why it took so long for TimKon/Timber to get together)

Tim gives the best Christmas gifts, followed by Damian. This is mostly because he’s a STALKER.

He likes Babs a lot, but acts like a CHILD, because she’s better at hacking than he his and therefore she stops him from doing a few things. He threw a tantrum once when she activated CHILD-LOCK on his computer.

He adores Selina. Sometimes suspicious of her, but mostly trusts her. Selina spoils him, Duke and Damian to no limits.

Stephanie:-

Bruce is NOT her parent figure, but she still views his kids as her siblings. Crystal is her mom, she does not consider Arthur her dad.

Favourite siblings are Damian and Tim, Cass and Jason are her besties.

When Jason is mad at the family and going someplace without telling them, he only tells Steph where he is going.

Once, Tim asked how they were her siblings when Bruce or Selina aren’t her parents, so she declared that Talia was her other mom, and made weird stories connecting each of them :D

Cass knows ALL of Steph secrets, because Steph keeps venting to her 24/7.

When Tim and her are together, they start collectively working on a singular brain cell, making the other person next to them having to be the responsible one. On one memorable occasion, it turned out to be Damian.

Stephanie, Dick and Tim love stalking there siblings when they get a date. Just for fun <333. Stephanie and Dick however are the quote on quote ‘embarrassing parents’ energy when it comes to dates. (Tim and Duke are pretty chill when it comes to dates, Bruce, Damian and Jason are the ones who do the shovel talk, and Cass is just staring at you menacingly during the first family dinner.)

Stephanie and Duke are the ones who sneak off to do underage drinking. Tim and Jason are the ones trying to stop them LMAO.

Stephanie likes Selina a lot. She is constantly pestering her to let her see Harley and Poison Ivy. Selina let her one time, and they caused SO MUCH chaos. (Steph is Selina’s second favourite)

Duke:-

He doesn’t see Bruce as a father figure fully yet, but he does love him. He still considers his parents (minus the weird god dad) as his parents.

Favourite siblings are Damian and Jason. Because, in Tim’s words, he’s weird like that. Him and Damian go to movies every month, and we’re especially excited for the FNAF movie. (They LOVE FNAF.)

Duke is also super younger-sibling coded. If everyone gets super defensive of Damian, then he’s the one who can say ANYTHING and get away with it. As a joke, Jason starts referring to him and Damian as twins because when people ask who they’re ‘youngest sibling’ is, everyone keeps alternating between Duke and Damian.

At first he was downright TERRIFIED of Cass. Like he was scared to be in the same room as her. Now they team up to scare everyone else. (Duke is just recording, Cass does the scaring)

Damian only does ‘puppy eyes’ VERY rarely, and it works effectively every time. Duke? He does it for Every. Little. Thing. And most of the time? He gets it. Tim and Cass are the only one who can resist it. Sometimes.

Dick is Dukes idol. He wants to be like Dick in the future :3

Jason and Duke call each other ‘narrows’ and ‘alley’ respectively. Duke also does a lot of shit, just Bruce never finds out because nobody tells on him, so Jason is JELLY of that.

Stephanie and Duke have the most similar taste in food out of everyone else. VERY, VERY sugary. Nobody listens to them when they suggest to eat something. It’s too sugary.

Selina acts like Duke is her biological son as a joke to the press. The press still thinks it’s true. It’s downright hilarious.

Damian:-

Parental figures are Bruce and Dick, though they don’t acknowledge it :) (Ignore Gotham War, Ignore Gotham War) The relationship with Talia…is messy, to say the least.

Favourite siblings are Stephanie and Duke (because obviously???) They use there gremlin nature to a MAX to prank everyone else.

He is the most younger sibling coded person ever. He’s a little gremlin-demon, but if you mess with him, you’re messing with ALL OF THEM.

Upset that Tim and Stephanie broke up, and started shipping Steph and Cass (for shit and giggles, they are the type of besties who act like there in a relationship, and Damian knows this) and constantly asks Cass when she’s proposing so that Steph can be his sister legally as well <33

Constantly bantering with Tim, but they love each other. They just have weird ways of showing it :3

Dislike-Dislike relationship with Jason, but can and will team up with each other to ruin everyone’s day. They also don’t want each other dead ig :)

Only accepts Babs as Dicks girlfriend. No in between. But he will respect Kori. Begrudgingly.

Respects Jim Gordon so much lmaooo.

Has learned the Alfred eyebrow raise. He is now tormenting everyone with it.

Selina is Bruce’s fiancé, but they have a ‘chaotic aunt, and chaotic nephew’ type of bond. Damian is 100% Selina’s fav.

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batfamily fic recs where original characters are main characters

The Pros and Cons to Digging Your Own Grave by vermillion_crown

[+] Well, at least you know where it is.

[-] Like you don't have enough to do already.

Or another tough debate on which is worse: falling to your death from about 100 ft up onto wet concrete, or experiencing the still nebulous but unspeakable horrors of child trafficking?

Given the bluff profile of the average 10-year-old, maybe the terminal velocity can be increased significantly if that 10-year-old curls up during descent? While undesirable, instantaneous death still ranked higher than drawn-out suffering and mental trauma (if not also death). At least, that's the personal evaluation here. No prescribing this scenario's weightings onto anyone else.

So, the only thing left to do with that solved is to start climbing; bat-people have a schedule to keep, after all.

(The smart thing to do, when in way over your head, is to avoid trouble when you see it—animal-themed vigilantes first and foremost. But sometimes, they are the lesser evil.)

(Dick Grayson pulls a Bruce, gets bullied by a child, more at 11.)

T | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Dick Grayson & Original Male Character(s), Barbara Gordon & Dick Grayson, Barbara Gordon & Original Male Character(s), Tim Drake & Original Male Character(s), Undisclosed Relationship(s)

Singing in the Dead of Night by shesgotthespirit

Bodies are dropping in Gotham--children, brain dead and tortured, numbered and tagged like cattle. The Bats are on the case, but with little to no physical evidence left behind, they’re faced with more questions than answers. But when a mysterious metahuman involves herself in the case, the investigation turns in a new, disturbing direction--and it turns out she might need their help just as much as they need hers.

OR

“Has anyone else noticed that the cooling-off period between Bruce’s dubiously-legal child acquisitions seems to be getting exponentially shorter?”

M | Graphic Depictions Of Violence | Cassandra Cain & Tim Drake & Dick Grayson & Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne & Damian Wayne, Cassandra Cain & Tim Drake & Dick Grayson & Jason Todd & Damian Wayne, Bruce Wayne & Damian Wayne, Dick Grayson & Damian Wayne, Stephanie Brown & Cassandra Cain, Tim Drake & Original Female Character(s), Bruce Wayne & Original Female Character(s), Cassandra Cain & Original Character(s), Dick Grayson & Original Female Character(s), Damian Wayne & Original Character(s), Batfamily Members & Original Female Character(s), Tim Drake & Bruce Wayne, Jason Todd & Original Female Character(s)

Mama's gonna buy you a Mockingbird by Blazonix

Your name is Catherine Todd. It’s not the name you went to sleep with last night, but that’s the name printed on the ID card tucked away in your bra. It took a while to find because you were a bit distracted by the fact you have a completely different face.

Not Rated | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Catherine Todd & Jason Todd

oh, well imagine by blenderfullasarcasm

A union.

For goons.

A goon union.

A…goonion?

…Eh, beats customer service.

T | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | No Relationships

Reddit Posts of a Crime Alley Kid by Beachfox

Conrad's just your average 20 year old Crime Alley street-rat. He's no one special. Just another (Second) Robin worshiping, baseball bat wielding, Hench Work avoiding, homeless kid wrangling, street patrolling, Red Hood work for-ing, formerly homeless gay street-punk thug.

And sure, there's that time Robin slammed him off a wall hard enough to change his life, and that time he accused Batman of murder, and the time his sister Joker Gas bombed a playground. And sure, most of his family are active Henchmen for various Rogues, and sure Red Hood seems like he might be flirting with him, and sure despite his best efforts the Bats keep showing up in his life more and more often. But he's still just a normal average guy.

He also has a crippling Reddit addiction.

Alternatively

A character study of a hot trashfire of a human being in the DCUniverse as told through his many many Reddit posts.

T | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Jason Todd/Original Male Character(s), Batman & Robin - Relationship

Nay, I Can't Resist Thee by Gement

"If that's what you're up for, 'kay." Oh god, he'd embarrassed Batman. Zach was too far gone on adrenaline and panic to shut up. "But I'm a masochist, and you're Batman. Look, I'm sorry. I know that makes it weird."

The one where a total stranger asks Batman to hit him in the face and, against all odds, this is an effective meet-cute strategy. It spirals out from there. Way, way out.

(Come on in, the water's fluffy-kinky-queer.)

E | No Archive Warnings Apply | Bruce Wayne/OMC, side Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne, side Selina Kyle/Bruce Wayne

[storiesofsvu]

Second Chair Spark Ch 6

Warnings: Language, talk of the job, smuuuuutttt!!

I already suck at thinking up my own cases, so the case I 100% stolen from 15….3? Barba’s first episode, 25 acts, just altered to include our girls and not him.

** You’d expected Novak to come storming into your office screaming about how incredibly unprofessional you were that morning (which you would of course fire back that not only had she started it, but she brought your personal life into work) but all you got was a text saying she needed you in her office to start working on the case. You were surprised, you’d legitimately thought she was going to throw you off the case after the outburst at the 16th, though…there was still time.

“What’d’you need?” Your voice was hard as you entered Casey’s office, approaching her desk. She reached off to the side, tossing a case file towards you, “Get digging.” Her gaze didn’t meet yours as she gestured towards the table, you huffed, picking up the file, pulling your I-pad and legal pad out of your bag before you settled in at the table. Jocelyn Paley, author of the newest erotic novel ’Twenty-Five Acts’ had appeared on Adam Cain’s talk show the night before. The file said that they’d gone for drinks, she’d been flirting with him, but when they got to her hotel room, he crossed a line, choking her out with his belt before anally penetrating her, much against her will. You knew Cain’s life was already openly spread across the media, so you took to Jocelyn’s. Periodically checking in with SVU who had someone speed reading through the book to try and figure things out. The next night Jocelyn was at an event party when Cain came after her again, assaulting her in an elevator. You and Novak had a meeting with her, explaining that she needed to be honest with you about everything, she went over her story with you again, thankfully not varying from what she’d told the detectives

.After Jocelyn left you both buried yourself into the case, you low key hated the fact that you were stuck in Novak’s office instead of your own where you could at least loosen up a little bit while you worked. You’d been working on how to really get to Jocelyn and Cain when they took the stand, and Novak questioned them, switching back to your I-pad, moving through her social media before letting out a grunt of a huff.

“What?” The other lawyer practically barked out, annoyed at the interruption.

“Something’s not right��”

“And that means what exactly?”

“Jocelyn…there’s something she’s not telling us. I’ve combed through all of her social media accounts, there is nothing to even make a joke that she’s even the slightest above vanilla. I’m starting to think the only sex position this girl knows is missionary.” Casey practically snorted,  “So?”

“So if a girl doesn’t have any knowledge of that kind of sex life how does she write an entire book on it.”

“People aren’t always that open about it Gerard.” You quirked a brow, giving a small chuckle,

“Some of these sites are unbelievable anonymous, you could send a post and no one could know who it was without tracing your IP address.” You sighed, “Besides, people with asphyxiation kinks usually cover the bruising with scarves or turtlenecks, there’s not a single picture anywhere of Jocelyn wearing either or with any bruising.” Casey certainly raised a brow at that, “We need to send someone to talk to her ex boyfriend, check out her apartment….I really don’t think she wrote this book.”

“And plagiarism helps our case how?” 

“If Jocelyn didn’t write the book, then she doesn’t have these yearnings in the bedroom, which mean Cain jumped the gun, assuming she was super kinky, it means she really didn’t want it when he choked her out and forced himself on her.” Casey pondered over what you were saying, she knew you were smart, and your social media digs usually brought up more than the perp or victim could even imagine.

“Call Rollins…” She actually met your eye this time, “And Gerard…if you’re right…you can take the questioning period.” You smirked at that, she only let you take them when she had a feeling you were right. Plus you were still pissed about the whole Nikki thing, and were more than willing to take the opportunity to showboat, pissing her off even further

***** As it turned out, you were more than 100% right, a professor of Jocelyn’s at college had pen’d the book, wanting someone young and innocent to claim they wrote it to help with the sales, Jocelyn or course would lose the book deal and all of her money with it if she ever told the truth. 

 The jury still seemed to be not convinced as Cain took the stand for the defence, he of course claimed that he had no idea, figuring that she was into that kind of thing, she’d slipped him her underwear at dinner and invited her up to her hotel room. All that seemed fairly consensual. When Rita turned to your table saying she had no more questions, she spotted the devilish grin on your face and she knew instantly she was about to lose.

“Mr Cain…do you normally choke out your sexual partners?” You began, moving closer to him, placing a gentle hand down on the barrister of the stand.

“Only if that’s what they’re into.” He replied, a feigned sense of innocence on his face.

“Really? Because we’ve gathered Ms Paley is not actually in to that kind of thing, yet…” Your hand moved out, turning on the t.v. to display the images of her darkly bruised neck, “She somehow came out of a night with you bruised this badly? Yet never in her life before had she been bruised, we all know how hard it can be to hide something like that with make up, a scarf is much easier, but she doesn’t seem to be a fan of those either.”

“She wanted it.”

“Are you sure?” You quirked a brow, “Or did you just lose control?”

“I have no idea what you’re talking about.”

“Tell me,” Both your hands were on the railing now as you store down Cain, “How’d the belt feel in your hand as you choked her out….where was the buckle?” You quirked a brow, you felt him tense, you pushed off the stand, keeping eye contact as you moved backwards.

“What? You want me to show you?” His voice was laced with hate, and he was playing right into your game. Your hand slid behind you, grabbing the a spare belt out of your bag, the smirk evident on your face.

”You know what…that sounds like a pretty good idea…” You moved the belt into his view, practically feeling Rita’s protests coming, yet she didn’t call for an objection. You laced it around your neck, “You know, leaving the buckle against someone’s spine isn’t exactly ideal…it can leave damage…” You slid a finger between the buckle and the back of your neck, tossing the length to Cain, “So…show me how you choked her..” He barely tugged on the belt, “Oh come on Cain, you can do better than that, show me exactly what your like Sir!”

 You felt the belt constrict in his rage against you, you were more than quick to flip around, managing to slide it off your neck and onto your wrist as he pulled it so tight it constricted the blood flow into your hand, his eyes glaring into yours. You’d expected that, you hadn’t expected him to lunge at you with his free hand, closing around your exposed throat, screaming obscenities at you as the court officers pulled him off you. Casey felt her heart jump, and a spark of…something.  You were barely phased, a smirk evident on your face as you took in the shaken faces of the jury, you dropped the belt from your wrist, 

“The people rest Your Honour.

”**** Donnelly had taken a recess after the shenanigans in the courtroom had completed the trial, leaving it up to the jury, and Novak was quick to make sure that your next stop was her office, blazer’s shed, buttons undone buttons exposing more than inside the courtroom. Your arguing was so fast there was barely a moment for breath between your words, 

“What the actual fuck were you thinking Gerard!?”

“Uh..maybe that there was a pretty high chance our case was going down the toilet, easily more than half that jury was on Cain’s side!”

“I SAID NO MORE SHOWBOATING!”

“AND WHAT IF IT WINS THE FUCKING CASE?!”

“You had the audacity to do that in front of all of my coworkers, you practically sandbagged your own team!! WHAT THE FUCK?!”

“I’M JUST TRYING TO MAKE SURE THE RIGHT PEOPLE GET FUCKING JUSTICE, FOR FUCK’S—“ You were cut off when the tension in the room shifted back from anger to sexual, Casey’s lips met yours in a fiery kiss, you practically melted against her. She caged you in her arms, pressing you against the wall of her office, a hand digging its way into your hair, tugging at the roots, causing you to moan against her mouth. Taking advantage she plunged her tongue into you, you whimpered, aching between your legs at actually being able to finally taste something that was so uniquely her. 

As she rolled her hips against yours, you let out a breathy moan,

“Casey…” Fuck she nearly drenched herself at that, you’d submitted to her, and there was nothing fucking hotter than that. Her lips moved back to yours, she nipped at your bottom lip, pulling it away from your mouth as she gently walked backwards until her knees hit the couch, biting at your neck as she collapsed against it, pulling you down into her lap. You were quick to straddle her lap, fingers burying themselves into her hair, lips moving against each other like they were truly the only ones meant for each other. Your hips ground against each other, whimpers and groans filling the room.

You gasped away from her mouth, burying your head into her neck as her hand found its way up your skirt, cupping your heat.

“Yes baby girl?” She quirked a brow at your, slowly tantalizing you through your panties, letting her fingers graze gently against your most sensitive parts as you whined in her lap. “You know…you’ve been such a fucking brat today I don’t know if you deserve to cum.” You practically sobbed against her she spanked your ass, “I feel like I should spend the rest of the day making you as wet as fucking possible before I finally fuck the shit out of you tonight.” 

Every single one of your senses were on fire as you ground against her hand, letting out an audible moan as she finally slipped a finger in, “Quiet…” Her lips met yours again, silencing your moans as her finger continued their torturous assault on your pussy. She could feel it clenching around her fingers, you about to come before she pulled it out, gaining eye contact with you as she sucked them clean

.“Can I please touch you?” You whispered into the room, Casey nodded, kissing you softly, letting you push her down onto the couch, moving against your body, her skin on fire, expectant on what was to come….until both your phones started going off. She groaned heavily while you loudly yelled ‘fuck’. 

As it turned out, your little show in the courtroom had won over the jury and they were a little too fast to come back with a verdict. Casey and you promptly fixed your appearances before heading down to the courtroom, happy with the verdict, not so happy when Donnelly called both of you into her chambers.

“Listen…” She started, “I don’t know what’s going on with the two of you but Cragen’s been updating me on how much you’ve been fighting, and frankly I don’t give a shit. Figure out what’s going on in between the two of you and fight it out already, preferably off work property. You work fantastically together and in this department, I’d hate for whatever this is to screw that up.”

[autumnfangirler]

IM FINALLY GETTING AROUND TO THAT CAINE POST WITH HIS RELATIONSHIPS TO THE RANGERS LETS GO

long post so as per usual im throwing this under the cut

Caine & Ortega:

Ortega is caines best friend of years, even after the farm. In fact, caines had a crush on him since their sidestep days, but only realized it in retri lol. He finds his static soothing, its a reprieve from the constant chatter around them, even if it comes with the cost of not being able to read his mind. The problem is that caine is really good at following orders, and during his sidestep days, when they first got all their freedom, he kind of subconciously latched on to ortega as the nearest authority figure because they likened his static to the numbers used at the farm. Even post second escape, they still regard him as an authority(though hes starting to chafe against ortegas influence a little bit more). Part of the reason caine is a no-kill saving step is because, even if they dont realize it, theyre doing what ortega told them to do. if ortega had asked him to kill somebody, hed do it 100%. and if that somebody just so happened to be a near-mythical kingpin ruling over los diablos, well... let's just say theres more than one reason caine agreed to HGs deal unthreaded

Caine & Chen:

Oh, caine has a thing for the marshal and they are throwing a fit about it. This was NOT supposed to happen. Chen was supposed to be the vaguely-tolerable side effect to getting spoon. But then he found out that chens well-shielded mind is actually really nice for the same reasons ortegas mind is, and that he could relate to the feeling of being forced into a role he doesnt want to play. Back in the day, caine was always frustrated that chen didnt trust what he brought to the team, but now that theyre "retired", it doesnt matter and they can relax together as individuals. It was a surprisingly nice development. The two are more similar than they think– nowadays, the main conflict between the two is caine being lycan, because chen is absolutely aware of that fact and caine is just about clear-headed enough to note that thats probably a bad thing. Caine and chen are both very (for lack of better term) career focused, and even if caine doesnt like being villainous, theyre willing to do whatevers needed for the job(over 80% drive babyyy). So yeah, those two are going to butt heads when That conversation finally comes up

Caine & Herald:

Caine is WORKING that 66% strength of mind whenever herald is around. They find him intense, overly curious, and far too forgetful of boundaries, all of which they Do Not appreciate. But he still cant help liking the kid. Hes legitimately proud of how far heralds come along, and hes interested in his potential as a threat since hes shown how perceptive he can be. Currently, theyre trying to round out heralds skills as part of the team, as well as pushing him to analyze and use what he notices against an opponent. Plus, training herald has been more of a lifeline than theyd like to admit(i wrote something about it, but idk if ill post it rip). Its a schedule, hes a good coach, and he just likes fighting for fun lmfao. The whole thing would be great if herald could get some shields for the love of god

Caine & Argent:

Fun fact, caine used to have a small crush on argent between rebirth and retribution. It was a mix of admiration for her skills, the constant attention and the fact that argent is just pretty lol. It faded quick (quickly enough that he panicked in the bridge fight when he realized she was flirting with him lmfao), but they continued to hold a healthy amount of respect for her afterwards, even if they didnt approve of her teamwork. And then the casino happened! Caine had gone through the whole casino infiltration entirely untouched, but when they noticed the fight between argent and shroud, they couldnt help but give into curiosity and see what was happening. That was. a bad decision. He watched shroud attempt and fail to devour argent, and they ended up getting a panic attack and fleeing. He is now scared as shit of her :D! He avoids her like the plague, and whenever hes given an opportunity to escape a room with her in it, hes taking it. They dont know what she is, and they have a bad feeling about finding out

[fangaminghell]

Totally Normal Au thoughts.

Leo is a mess. But what else is new.

Team Meteor is one of the biggest companies in Reborn. They've almost formed a monopoly, if it weren't for the likes of Ame and her own company.

Leo isn't actually a part of either in this au. He works at a smaller company, to keep that "normal" exterior.

It's actually where he meets Cain, who has a rumor going around that he used to work for Ame.

Cain and Leo become friends, naturally. Though they both are secretive about their respective pasts. Neither of them push the other of course. They both understand wanting the past to stay in the past.

There's other rumors going around Cain but we don't need to worry about that.

Cain loves flirting with Leo , as in canon , and Leo is not flustered by it at all. Nope. Not one bit.

The kids obliviously aren't working for any company. They're kids. But given they all have ties to people who do, it's natural they get into shenanigans ™.

I'm just remembering that this au involved Leo hiding his psychic powers so there's gotta be something supernatural afoot.

Maybe since this is inspired by mob psycho 100, there's spirits running around? Leo can sense them but is actively looking away. He sees nothing. He is Normal.

Anna however definitely sees these spirits and is actively looking at them. She is getting involved and dragging her friends with her.

Leo is unfortunate to, somehow, constantly be around when the kids are up to something.

I think Lin in this au is either a human taken by the spirits and practically becomes one with it. Or she is a spirit herself. Probably the latter.

Okay going to Meteor. Taka is obviously the heir to the company and is obviously not thrilled about it.

Maybe, unlike in the mermaid au, team meteor wants all the spirits to be released, going back to the "natural order of things". This is bad for a whole lot of reasons.

This is definitely a conspiracy in the background. I can see Shelly and Heather trying to sneak into the company to get done info, since Cal and Corey work in the company. Not sure about Radmodus though.

Anyway who cares about secret conspiracies, we only care about the romantic drama lmao.

Leo meets Taka and Cal, individually, by chance. Taka was in incognito mode, since he's kinda forced to present differently when in public with his father or anyone in team meteor( Company Meteor?). Their first meeting is incredibly awkward, but still very charming. They keep meeting by chance after that, which then resulted in the two just hanging out together. This does NOT evoke feelings within Leo. Nope, nu-uh, nada.

Cal probably has a bit more edge to him. Honestly I can semi see Cal being distrustful of Leo, assuming he's the one causing Shelly to get into Meteor's business. So they don't get off on the best terms ( poor Leo does not want any part of this and now he has a guy who hates him). The only way I can see them developing their relationship is exactly how everything goes in this au: Leo meeting up with him by chance. Many times. They definitely have teamed up to get Shelly and co out of trouble. But again. Leo DOES NOT have feelings for this man!!!! He is as straight as an arrow!!!!! And he's not a psychic either!!!!

I feel like they both just look at each other and go " oh hey his hairs dyed".

Okay more drama. Leo's self sabotage. I feel like Leo effectively "ruins" ( I put this in quotation marks cause it's not really permanent, but it does lead to them not talking for a while) his relationship with his future bf trio. Especially when he finds out everything going on with Taka and Company Meteor and stuff. He desperately clings onto this need to be Normal that not only is he regretting his homosexuality , but also the part of him that actually wants to get involved and help out in any way he can. He's too scared to take that step, so he attempts to burn the bridges while he can.

In doing that, his psychic powers become more and more hard to keep down, to the point where it physically hurts him to do so.

He's constantly on the verge of a breakdown, and what's worse is that he might be attacking spirits too bc of it.

Thinking about a very betrayed, sad and angry, but above all heartbroken bf trio is just *chef kiss*. It hurts so much, I love it.

This probably applies to Shelly and co too. Maybe Leo snaps at them to leave him alone or stop the bullshit. Again, the self sabotage is strong in this one.

I don't know exactly how to incorporate Suraya, Blair n Lilith and Richard in this au. That's always the hard part, since I tend to make them Leo centric. If anyone has any ideas pls share!

And yeah! Normal au so far!

[bloodiedmedic]

For muns with multiple muses, past and present, on any blog.

Rules: Fill out the form according to which muse suits each title best. (The same muse can have multiple titles.) Repost and tag. Feel free to add more!

Filling this out for Alexis Ogata (obviously since this is Alexis’ blog) and Cassandra Cain because I’ve been thinking about my Cass lately and I miss her.

Favourite Muse: Hate to say it, but Cassandra Cain. I’ve spent so much time with her that I adore her just so much. I’m tempted to just bring her back, and see if I can get any traction with her but I already have Silco/Sevika/Jinx/Alexis soooo….I dunno that I need another muse active. But out of Alexis and Cass, it’d be Cass.

Most Character Development: Cassandra Cain just because I haven’t written Alexis for long enough. It’s possible that eventually Alexis will outpace her, buuuuut that requires actually getting more interaction going on Alexis so /shrug

Trash Muse: I really don’t know what this means really. I guess Alexis cause they really something else?

The Meme-Lord: Neither. Cass doesn’t get most memes, and Alexis was gone for 7 years give or take so they out of date with everything.

Most Likely to Start a War: Ahhhh neither? Cass hates killing, and Alexis doesn’t run at that level. I guess if I had to pick one Cassandra cause I could see her beating the hell out of the wrong person cause they a bad person, and it causing a war some how.

Worst Personality: Alexis. Sorry Alexis you are awesome, but… Cassandra has the nicer personality. She just does.

Best Singer: Alexis is the better singer. Cassandra can barely talk.

Most Attractive Muse: Matter of taste. Alexis fucks with gender as much as possible. Cassandra is really fit with lots of scars, a tight ass and small chest so… what are you into?

Biggest Heart: Ohhhh good question…. I’ma say Cassandra. She’s been through so much, and still is out here doing her best.

Falls in Love Quickest: Neither does it quickly, but maybe Cassandra because of how good she is at reading body language and telling if someone is lying or not so she responds quickly to the right person’s affections.

Most Likely to Drop Their Phone in the Toilet: Alexis. Probably while high, or drunk to be honest.

Ice Ruler: Neither is a ruler so...neither? I don’t know.

The Edgelord: oooffff….. I think Alexis. Cassandra mostly just tries to vibe, and she loves dance so I think Alexis.

Most Tragic Backstory: Both have SUCH a tragic Backstory, but I’ma say Cass takes the “prize” here because most of her stuff happened during childhood.

Best Case of Puberty: I…. have NO idea. Alexis? Cause they taller? /shrug

Most Awkward: Cassandra is. For a multitude of reasons. She’s 100% the most awkward. Probably out of all of my muses actually.

Busy Bee: Cassandra actually. She hates sitting still, and being bored. If there isn’t something holding her attention she will probably be wandering off, and finding something to hold her attention. Yes this means if she’s with a group of people, and they all start talking lots so she can’t understand what is being said there is a decent chance they going to look around ten minutes later and see Cass doing a hand stand on top of a wall or climbing a building or something.

Most Clueless: Neither are clueless really except in ways the other is also clueless. Both are very well aware of how evil can be. Both are SO far behind on pop culture, and the like. So I’m going to say it’s equal.

Most Likely to Forget Their Wallet at Home: I was going to say Alexis, but than I remembered something. Cassandra shop lifted for a good few years to get whatever she needed, and probably still shop lifts at times cause fuck the mega corporations. So I’m going to say Cassandra.

Best Dressed: Ohhhh…. Cassandra. She loves going to the ballet, and she absolutely gets dressed up for it. Cute lil black dress and all.

Biggest Flirt: Alexis. Just because Cass is so awkward and has issues talking. UNLESS Cass meets a cute girl who ALSO knows ASL. Because Cass gets a lot more comfortable when she can sign.

Most Dramatic: Cassandra. She worked with Batman, Batwoman, the Robins, was trained by one of the worlds best assassins. When she wants to be she is SO dramatic. Also sneaky. Dramatic, and sneaky.

Least Likely to Show Up Late: Neither really. Cassandra knows the importance of getting to your target on time. Alexis was trained as a doctor. If I have to pick I’d say Cassandra because Alexis sometimes just can’t be bothered to care much.

One with Weirdest Habit: Uhhhh…. Side eyes Alexis and their blood lust addiction and dissecting people and just kind of nervously chuckles SO ANYWAYS

Most Likely to Be Caught at the Gym: Cassandra. Absolutely. Bonus points if it’s a gym with a climbing wall, and a parkour section.

Tagged by: I stole it from my other blog

Tagging: @oculusxcaro and I already tagged people on my other blog so... see it, steal it.

[shadowsong26x]

A week or so ago, I posted a summary of a BSG fanmix I made a decade+ ago. I made two other mixes around the same time, and yeah let’s go ahead and give them the same treatment XD

This one is Heart of the Machine, and it is a (mostly) complete set of all canonical ships* involving at least one Cylon.

Full disclosure: this one, I’d found at least the tracklist awhile ago, so there weren’t any Surprises on here the way there were for Days Upon Our Knees. And...like...there are a few tracks on here that I could have done better, for various reasons, but there aren’t any that Confused me the way there were on the other mix? I more or less can figure out what I was thinking with each choice. And there are quite a few that are just. Perfect. (I particularly like tracks two, ten, twelve, and sixteen)

*So, I don’t have any of the notes involved in Constructing this mix--it was done for a fandom charity auction back in the day, i think help_japan after the earthquake?--but to the best of my recollection the rules were:

1. Canonical pairs only; meaning the couple had to have an Explicit romantic or sexual encounter On Screen.      1a. There is a pair that I apparently forgot--I haven’t gotten there in my rewatch, but I am told that this actually happened and wasn’t just made up for a TFLN blog so whoops.      1b. Presumably there was a Threshold for what counts as a ‘romantic or sexual encounter’; because there are a few I can think of that are borderline ‘was this just general flirting or could I have included it’ (and there’s another that...even if it met the threshold requirement (which I’m not sure it does) it’s. Like. I’ve built Corinne/Armistice Station Six up in my head recently but she’s not really. Uh. We don’t actually know anything about her so...yeah. but I like her and her name is Corinne in my head which is the main reason I brought it up lol)      1c. There are two others that technically count that I don’t remember being discussed; I’m not sure why Caprica/Head!Baltar was excluded (other than maybe redundancy?); the other is a Spoiler for late S4 and was doing something Very Cruel and Specific and I’m not sure I could have found a song for it anyway.      1d. There were three that were specifically excluded for squick reasons; namely Gina/Cain; Cavil/Boomer; and Cavil/Ellen.

2. The pair has to involve At Least One Cylon.      2a. Fairly self-explanatory, lol.      2b. Eleven of the twelve Cylon models are included here nobody loves Doral      2c. If we count by model, the Sixes (unsurprisingly) have the most tracks, with six (heh) total.      2d. If we count by individuals, the highest number (five tracks) is not actually a Cylon. Three guesses. The first two don’t count.

With those rules in mind, I ended up with the seventeen pairs listed below. The mix is structured in model order--the Significant Seven in number order, then the Final Five. I don’t 100% know why I ordered them the way I did, other than I think I started where I did for Alphabetical reasons but then didn’t stick with it for whatever reason. With one exception, for Cylon/Cylon pairings, I went with the lower model number. That exception made for an Excellent final track, though, so there it is. Within a model number, I went more or less chronologically in terms of when in canon the relationship starts.

...I think that covers it, lol. Lots of notes on this one XD Tracklist (complete with youtube links, as before) is behind the cut! (I should dig up the covers for these, I know I have them saved somewhere...)

1/one/tough!six - so immortal (international victim)      so this is probably the weakest on the list, mostly because...they’re a hard pair to find a song for, lol. i do think it fits, and i don’t think i could do better, but it is what it is. (also i named her vera for serenissima and the name has stuck so whenever i see her i’m like “VERA! :D :D :D” anyway i love her)

2/leoben/kara - on the street where you live (my fair lady)      tell me i’m wrong.

3/d’anna/baltar - dangerous game (jekyll and hyde)      i go back and forth on whether this one works better when it’s gender-flipped or not, but the vibe works. i do think i could do better than this for these two, but i don’t have anything specific in mind, if that makes sense?

4/d’anna/caprica - strange and beautiful (drew sarich)      yeaaaaah i cheated again on the ‘no repeating artists’ rule, like i did with the other mix. i think i did for all three mixes i made...anyway, that aside. this is another pair that’s hard to find something for, because we don’t get much that’s about them. it’s all about either the triad as a whole or the baltar/d’anna arm. that being said, i do like this song for d’anna/for what little we do get of them. (do i remember why i split the triad and picked two songs? nope! but i am glad i did; i might even--if i were doing this now--do three songs; one for each arm (other than the one accounted for Elsewhere) and then one for the triad as a whole)

5/simon/gianna - the next ten minutes (the last five years)      i love this song, and i love the...simon knows what’s coming And Yet. that whole sense of ‘for as long as this lasts’ has a Whole Different Meaning in this context and i think it’s beautiful. basically, i love them, and i think this song really fits for them.

6/caprica/baltar - measure of a man (clay aiken)      so i think this is actually one of the weaker examples on this mix. not because it doesn’t work--it does; it fits where they land at the end of the series--but because there are so many better songs for them. i don’t know why i settled on this one specifically, but i think i’d pick something else if i were doing this now.

7/gina/baltar - lithium (evanescence)      it’s hard for me to listen to this song without thinking of these two and their Extremely Fucked Up This Could Never Be A Happy Or Healthy Relationship dynamic now. not because it’s a Perfect Match necessarily, but...just...the Vibe.

8/lida/baltar - crash and burn (savage garden)      i don’t have much in the way of commentary on this one but i like it. it’s a pretty song, and it suits what’s going on in-story here.

9/boomer/chief - without you (rent)      not much to say about this one, either. but it’s a good fit for how they are in the back half of season 1, after he breaks things off.

10/athena/helo - as long as you love me (backstreet boys)      shut up it’s perfect okay

11/sweet!eight/gaeta - hallelujah (jeff buckley)      i think this works really well for the two of them (and for my best beloved most ironically named man in the universe felix gaeta in general, i think). i don’t know that there’s anything better i could pick, but i almost wish i had found something different? this song is such a heavy hitter, and i wish i’d saved it for...idk, maybe the season 4 mix i never got around to making, or a gaeta mix? ah well.

12/anders/kara - smoothie king (bowling for soup)      HOLY MOOD WHIPLASH BATMAN XD

13/anders/tory - when i’m down (chris cornell)      this is another pair that’s hard to pin down. but they’re definitely sleeping together during crossroads when sam is at his lowest and they’re being pushed towards activation and...i don’t know, it felt right? still does.

14/tory/baltar - spy (carly simon)      don’t really have all that much to say about this one either, lol. but it Works.

15/chief/cally - nothing without you (vienna teng)      this song is less Frantic and Scared and Angry than the moment it lines up with in canon, it’s more...sad. such a hard bit to watch, though, and i can’t say it doesn’t fit. ...also i know enough of the behind-the-scenes about why cally left the show that. well.

16/saul/ellen - grace is gone (dave matthews band)      SUFFER WITH ME. also, fun fact--the recording i have goes ‘take my heart/take my eyes’ (which. i’m pretty sure is taken Way more literally in this context than in the original lol). but EVERY SINGLE VERSION, whether lyrics or an actual recording, that i’ve been able to find online says ‘take my eyes/take my heart’??? and since i got my version on a burned cd and i forget who gave it to me i will Never Know the original source or why it’s different, lol. it’s definitely not because it’s a cover, i know that much for sure. his voice is Distinctive. (i do think heart-eyes flows better than eyes-heart but that’s a separate conversation)

17/saul/caprica - and so it goes (billy joel)      look, we all know this is a find-and-replace relationship. explicitly so on his end, implicit on hers (as upset as she is with the corporeal version at this point in the timeline, head!baltar is still hanging around sooooo). also it’s...just a nice song to end the mix on, i think.

[kiras-monkey-bum-face]

Questions about the Xmas party - Does James bring Caine for Yaz' benefit and to reconnect? Why does Yaz persist in blaming him for 'cottage fumblings' which makes him angry in response? Yaz' flirting with Ryan - is she trying to convince herself and ignore her attraction to James? They are mesmerised with each other when they dance - but still in self-denial?

caine is absolutely there as a wingman and james wants him to remind yaz 'you may hate me right now but this dog still loves and needs you'

yaz at this point is DEEPLY convinced by the rumours that follow james around the house and is so scared of accepting that she likes james of all people that she is set on blaming him (and the alcohol). james gets angry because they're like 'dude i literally tried to advise you against it yet still put my trust in you what the fuck'

she's 100% trying to trick herself into channelling her emotions for james into ryan instead because that's the proper thing that's supposed to happen. also I suppose part of her is kind of attracted to him

yup. I think yaz knows there's something there but she's too busy trying to deny it to notice

[wrenwinchester]

And do you know what this means for Millie Wren? I don’t entirely, but like hear me out. Okay.

1. Shawn would 100% flirt with her to get back at Dean and Juliet, of course.

2. Millie would know immediately that Shawn was full of shit and not actually psychic but her brothers wouldn’t believe her. (She’s almost never wrong about this. She too was a trained observer of the minute details, things anyone else would miss. Shawn is just more dramatic about the reveal.)

3. Gus and Millie would team up to mess with Shawn, pull pranks and what not. Just genuinely confuse the ADHD guy with random stuff.

4. Juliet and Millie would become instant besties as women who have to deal with their boys’ crap. They love them anyway, but still.

5. Lassiter, aka Cain, would definitely have a crush on Millie, he has a thing for strong willed women, and peoples’ sisters (I.e. Chief Vick’s sister and he definitely flirted with Gus’s sister) to top it off, Millie agrees to go out with him to mess with Sam and Dean because while Dean admires the guy (before they figure out he’s Cain) he doesn’t trust him.

6. Millie introducing Cas and Shawn when she finds out that Shawn pretended to talk to a cat for a case because she knows that Cas talked to a cat for a case.

7. Also the bee thing. Like I don’t have more of an explanation. But something about Millie with bees is key. It’s just a vibe I have.

8. Dean threatening Shawn after he flirts/goes on a single date with Millie specifically to mess with her brothers and Juliet.

9. Millie promising Shawn she would never lie to him, and either telling him monsters are real like a week later, or telling him that despite what their police records look like, it’s not what it seems, but it’s better if he doesn’t know.

10. If Millie told Shawn monsters were real, he wouldn’t believe her at first, and she’d almost leave it, let him live in ignorant bliss, he’d be safer, but he’d insist she tell him what was really going on, finally she would give in, swear on her dead mother’s soul that she was telling the truth, and she’d stare him straight in the eyes as she did it, no waver of her voice, or questioning tone. And he’d know she was telling the truth. (Gus would look at Shawn and just say “I told you so, Shawn.” In the way only Burton Guster can.) Shawn would have questions of course, and Millie’s only response would be the story of how her mother died, and that Shawn didn’t want to know anymore.

11. If Millie told him he didn’t want to know, she’d look him straight in the eyes as she did that too. She’d promise it was safer this way, and that if he knew, he wouldn’t escape it. That he was doing good in the world everyone knew and keeping people safe that way, that she and her brothers had a job to do, and the less anyone knew. The better it would be for them. Eventually Shawn would let it go, he’d see the dead look in her eyes. Young eyes haunted by loss, and pain beyond their years. (Of course. She’s been to hell and back, and time moves faster there. Her soul is older than she seems). Gus would question why Shawn who always had to know the answer to things wasn’t asking more questions, and Shawn’s only reply would be, “She’s been through some crap, and I wasn’t going to push.” And Gus would ask since when? To which Shawn would just brush him off with some joke.

12. Millie would point out the similarities between Gus and Shawn and her two brothers, the slight codependence of Shawn on Gus compared to the major codependence of Dean towards Sam and herself. Though both groups would heavily deny it, although Gus and Sam would each approach her later after realizing she’s kind of right? But not go any further than that.

13. Again, Fake FBI/Fake Psychic hijinks, with Millie running interference between Dean and Shawn until finally Dean warms up to Shawn and they become besties.

14. I just think it would be neat. Especially when they finally meet Cain and the boys are just like “Lassiter?” And Millie says “Carlton?” Ultimately causing her brothers to stare at her because why in the hell would she use his first name? (She definitely went out with him more than just to mess with her brothers, not that she would ever admit it. She knew she was on the FBI most wanted list at one point too, and Lassiter would eventually remember that. So she broke it off before it started.

15. When Shawn and Gus found out that the Winchesters knew the ghost facers who they met that one time when they got lost on the way to Hollywood, yes please. The fact that if Millie told Shawn the truth, five hours later, he would ask if she knew these to guys who came through talking about a “tulamagoo? Tulip?” Cue Gus chiming in with his, “It’s a Tulpa, Shawn.” “Right of course a Tulpa in Texas.” And Millie’s response would be “Those idiots got lost on their way to LA?” “So… that was real then?” “Damn straight it was real Shawn, dude almost killed us because of those guys.” “Huh.”

16. Dean threatening Shawn about dating Millie, while Sam sees right through that charade and threatens Lassiter instead, (Lassie doesn’t take him seriously at first, because he’d initially marked Dean as the more threatening brother/agent, but Sam makes it very clear that Millie is not to be messed with, and actually scares the crap out of him.) this is of course immediately followed by Millie coming up and saying that Sam is such a softy and barely hurts flies. (Quite literally one of the biggest lies she’s told in her life. Dude literally finished starting the biblical apocalypse after her older brother jump started it. (Lassie, who is also Cain, should and does know this, but it still unsettles him, one of the oldest Demons if not the oldest.))

Reasons Psych and Supernatural should have a crossover:

1. Woody (the coroner from Psych) being Zachariah’s vessel.

2. Shawn and Cas talking about cats, possibly talking to cats/interrogating them

3. There are so many shared actors between Psych and Supernatural (Woody/Zachariah, Lassiter/Cain and many more)

4. Just the fact that there are literally so many “references” to Supernatural in Psych and the fact that Shawn and Gus are essentially a slightly less codependent version of Sam and Dean (anything can be a supernatural reference if you try hard enough.)

5. It would mean Metatron occasionally works part time as a security guard at an old folks home as a guy named Jervis.

6. Shawn and Gus could meet the ghost facers who got lost in their way to LA and ended up in Santa Barbara.

7. It would mean at some point Cain decided to go to the Police academy and join the Santa Barbara police department. (Alternatively one of his descendants looks just like him) (However I’m going with the first option because it definitely explains Lassiter’s fascination with the Civil War.

8. Fake FBI/Fake Psychic hijinks

9. Shawn would be a role model/older brother figure for Dean (he’s two years older than him).

10. Both Shawn and Gus and Sam and Dean get mistaken as a couple occasionally.

11. Shawn likes Bees, Cas likes Bees, and Cain (thereby Lassiter) likes Bees.

12. Shawn and Dean fangirling over cowboys.

13. The dual ADHD hijinks of Dean and Shawn, mixed with Sam and Gus being over their shit.

14. Dean hitting on Juliet only to get shit from Shawn even thought they aren’t dating yet.

15. Juliet flirting back with Dean to mess with Shawn

Just Please.

P.S. I love the idea of Shawn and Dean being best friends for many reasons, however, Shawn being a passenger Princess, and Dean not allowing anyone else to drive is just too perfect.

P.P.S. Also Woody being Zachariah’s vessel is just hilarious to me.

[dickmedowndc]

WIP updates - 9.29.2022

Future Comforts - Bart Allen x Bat!Reader [Impulse]

Summary: Bart has been waiting patiently, but it must be showing, because he is sure that you’re starting to get suspicious that something is going on. He needs to ask his question soon - because hiding the ring from a detective is harder than he thought. 

Notes: Supposed to be a sequel to “Future Worries” but can likely be read as a standalone. Technically a Bat!Reader as there is reference to the Bat family, and the prior “Future Worries” was also Bat!Reader. 

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When You Come Home - Cassandra Cain x Reader [Orphan]

Summary: You would not trade Cass for anything – even if it meant anxiety when she came home a little rough from patrol or she needed to vanish for a few days at a time for a more complex mission. It never lessened the worry you felt when she walked out the door. So, when she is gone for two weeks longer, you’re almost a wreck. The reprieve comes when she makes it back in the door, just after 3am, only for you to find out she must head out again soon after for another extended trip. But Cass is facing worries of her own. 

Notes: Inspired by a “100 kisses” prompt list – number 39: “everything is going to be okay” kisses.

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Little Menace - Jaime Reyes/Khaji Da x Villain!Reader [Blue Beetle]

Summary: Blue Beetle has been handling you as a villain for ages. But what happens after he showed up expecting a fight, only to find you bloody on the ground. Against Jaime’s better judgment, Khaji Da suggested dragging you back to their apartment and getting you cleaned up – after all, they need to find out what happened. Which leads to their current predicament of getting you into the bath without them leaving you unsupervised. 

Note: Reader is not in a relationship with them (yet) but Khaji Da and Jaime are. Khaji Da is still a little shit in this and Jaime is just trying to survive for the night. Based on the prompt by @gingerly-writing, prompt #3109: “You know,” the supervillain rasped as they eased their battered body into the bath, “when you finally got me naked, I was imagining a much sexier situation.” 

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To Woo You - J'onn J'onzz x Oblivious!Reader [Martian Manhunter]

Summary: J’onn has taken interest in one of the new Watchtower workers and has been making attempts at “wooing” the reader. But his efforts seem to be in vain when you mistake his attempts as just “being nice.” Running out of options, he turns to advice from his fellow leaguers on how to flirt properly. 

Notes: A request from @Hyomy (on Tumblr). Hope you enjoy! 

[loyalshipper]

May I introduce the Tumblr DC community to one of my two favorite Batfam AUs I have created. Bruce Wayne owns a hotel/museum near an ocean cliff and still has a chronic adoption problem but doesn’t fight crime. (If anyone writes this you can make it to where heroes still exist, the Batfam are the inly no capes)

WE still exists but it isn’t run by Bruce it is run by Lucius because back in the 60s Thomas and Martha bought the hotel and wanted that to be their legacy. They still die the same way but Bruce puts all his efforts into running and blossoming the hotel which was his parent’s dream project.

I’ll get back into the hotel in a minute I’m taking about the kids now

Dick is gotten a similar way, he visits the Cape with Haly’s Circus, his parents die because of faulty wiring sold to the circus by Zucco and Dick becomes an orphan. Bruce just so happened to use his one night off in a while to go see the circus. He keeps thinking about Dick and ends up adopting him. He helps Dick and the Circus bring Zucco to justice and sues the hell out of him and shuts down his business. (Adopted at 8))

Jason was found living in one of the shut down rooms of the hotel. Because his dad left and was in prison and his mom od. So Bruce treats him like a wild animal and starts to leave food out on a regular schedule until Jason gets comfortable with him and he adopts Jason. (five years younger than Dick)

Tim was the son of two wealthy archaeologists who were gone 11 out of the 12 months. Bruce met Tim because he liked to come into the museum and take pictures of the museum exhibits and hotel architecture and shoreline which he would develop and give copies to Bruce. So he opens his house to this little boy with a penchant for photography. Until one day Tim’e parents call Tim telling him that they are staying in Egypt permanently because the archeological dig is producing wonderous results and they’ll be hiring him an around the clock sitter. Only for Tim to wait three weeks and no one shows up. They went so far as to fire Ms. Mac but never hired a sitter for their son. So he goes to Bruce in tears and explains everything, because this is it-his parents finally did abandon him, and Bruce sues them for custody of Tim. (Three years younger than Jason, adopted at 7)

Damian was the result of a relationship Bruce had in college while studying hotel management and hospitality. Talia is the daughter of a hotel conglomerate owner who is currently trying to buy Bruce’s hotel so it can be torn down and Ra’s can built a new hyper expensive hotel in its place. Damian was sent to live with Bruce to try and get Bruce to have Damian inherit the hotel so Ra’s can get it and destroy it, but that backfired because instead Damian falls in love with the hotel and his new family (reluctantly) and wants to see the hotel and museum flourish, not tear down this historical piece of architecture to replace it with a soulless hotel only available to the wealthy elite. But something available to everyone that families vacation to because there is so much history and beauty in a thing that has stood for centuries. So Damian turns against Ra’s. Due not that while Damian and Tim do have a sibling rivalry it is not as vicious and cutting as it is in canon. They love each other they just don’t mesh well while in the same room. And yes, Damian still has his variety of pets (7 years younger than Tim)

Cass came to the hotel with her “father,” David Cain, who went to the Cape for business, and just ended up leaving and forgetting Cass at the hotel. He was still abusive and Cass had trouble speaking but he wasn’t “turn Cass into the world’s greatest assassin” abusive. After Bruce finds Cass, he sues Cain for parental custody and then ruins his life unrepentantly. (Couple of months older than Jason)

After Martha and Thomas died, Alfred took over managing the hotel while Bruce was still growing up and while he was getting his degrees, now he is the grandfather to Bruce’s many kids and helps to keep them running and cared for while they run and care for the hotel. He’s also the one that helps the new kids transfer into the life of running a hotel.

Barbara is the daughter of the Police Comissioner still who became friends with Dick and works, first part time at the museum/hotel and then full time. Same with Steph and Tim (1 year older than Dick)

Cullen and Harper work at the museum, Helena works at the hotel. Carrie does both. Duke is the newest acquisition. Only, his parents disappeared and no one has been able to find them yet. So Bruce currently had temporary custody of Duke who lives at the hotel with everyone. (Harper is a year older than Tim, Cullen is a year younger than Tim, Carrie is the same age as Jason, Duke is a few months younger than Tim)

Each person has different jobs. (Dick is concierge/check-in, Jason does guided history tours of the hotel/museum/grounds, Tim works in financials because he deals with the least amount of people, Helena, Carrie and Steph are both maids, Carrie also does janitorial stuff with Cullen, Barbara works hotel check-in with Dick, Barbara and Harper work cashier at the gift shop, Duke doesn’t have a job yet because he is still dealing with the disappearance of his parents, Damian does every job to see where he fits in best.

JARRO IS THE FAMILY PET STARFISH THAT TIM ADOPTED WHEN HE FIRST JOINED THE FAMILY AND RESCUED FROM BEING EATEN OFF THE BEACH

The hotel is still fully staffed with not-batkids, like grounds keepers and other hotel cleaners and janitors.

Location time!

I’m turning Gotham nicer and changing the geography of the city.

The hotel Museum rests about 200 yds from a cliff that overlooks a beach. There is a well maintained stair case put into the cliff for people to walk down, as well as a longer gravel path that follows the cliff edge down to the shoreline. It is frequented by seals, sea lions, and in the distance, dolphins and whales. The hotel it’s self has about 100 or so acres of land and a long drive but it is technically within walking distance to the city. And it’s a normal coastal town with a port and touristic areas. Kinda eerie at night when the fog rolls in but that’s part of the charm of the NorthEast.

Selina is just Bruce’s friend in this. She is Helena’s mother and Bruce was a surrogate for her. She decided she wanted a baby and Bruce offered to be a donor. So Selina had Helena and Bruce is part of her life but not as her dad, which was the agreement. Selina takes care of the stray animals on the grounds and favors the cats.

Clark is a reporter that was tasked to right an article on the hotel and it’s history, became good friends with Bruce and brings his family (Lois, Jon, Bizarro, Kon, Kara, Lena, Chris, Ma, Pa, and Lex) on vacation to it every year. Lex and Clark are divorced husbands that left on good terms and are friendly enough to coparent their son, Connor, who was made the same way as canon but less hush hush and illegally, Kara is Clark’s cousin and Lena is her fiancée, Lois is his wife, Jon and Bizarro are their two biological sons (Bizarro has autism), Chris is their foster son. Bizarro latches onto Jason in a way that he hasn’t before and always loves coming to the hotel, Jon and Chris are best friends with Damian, Connor and Tim are long distance dating.

Collin, Maya, and Maps are Damian’s best friends from school (Damian has a crush on Collin) and he’s trying to convince them to join the hotel staff like his siblings’ friends but they are a) too young and b) not interested.

Roy has all of his problems as in canon and gets help for it, so as a way to try and bring the family closer, Oliver and Dinah arrange a vacation to the hotel for them Roy and Lian. As a stepping stone kind of thing. Get away from daily stress. Roy is resistant at first until he and Jason hit it off and start talking and Jason talks sense into him and they strike up a friendship turned romance.

The Flashfam visit the museum diring a countrywide roadtrip and mad the stop because Bart is a history buff and wouldn’t stop talking about it the entire trip. He becomes fast friends with Tim and is the only person to ever get a Tim Wayne history tour. No matter what Kon tells you he is super salty about it. Wally and Dick were internet friends and used the roadtrip as a way to be able to meet up.

Thad is the obligatory complainer who doesn’t want to stay in a musty old hotel.

Ivy is the main grounds keeper and is in charge of the native wildlife sanctuary most of the land is used for, as well as taking care of the native plantlife and lives in town with her girlfriend, Harley. Harley helps the kids prank Bruce.

Harley is a children’s psychiatrist hired by Bruce to help the kids deal with their various traumas. Her coming to the hotel for sessions is how she and Ivy met.

They started dating between Dick and Jason and Dick talks up each of them to the other, but each individual kid that comes in think they’d be cute together (since they are both professional while working there isn’t immediate proof that they are dating. But they will flirt with each other if they see each other) and it’s basically a right if passage to try and convince their siblings to help them get together and then try and set them up on their own and find out the hard way that they’re already together. They love seeing all the different way the kids try and set them up. They tend to go along with it until either the kids realise or they take pity on them.

Their favorite was Damian’s where he set up an entire romantic dinner at the hotel restaurant and Dick managed to slyly convince him to set it on a certain day that turned out to be Harley and Ivy’s anniversary.

Alfred is the head chef for the hotel, making room service meals and the breakfast buffet line up. Jason will help him out if he isn’t busy with other things.

Victor Fries and his wife hold an ice cream social ever summer at the hotel with all the ice cream flavors they came up with over the last year.

Edward Nygma, famous escape room designer, is hired to make an escape room themed on the hotel and museum that is built on the grounds near the main building.

Another ritual that starts, begins with Tim, where the older siblings convince the newest one that the hotel is haunted and Jason takes them on a “haunted ghost tour” of the abandoned part of the hotel (the part that is too dilapidated and run down to remodel safely) while the others are stationed at different parts of the hotel and grounds to run whatever scenario to scare the new kid. The only one that hasn’t been done to is Cass because even after several years she still jumps a little too hard at loud noises. But one time Jason accident closed a door a little too harshly while Cass and Tim were doing something and it caused her to jump so hard she knocked over Tim and started crying. They were contemplating whether she was strong enough to do it or not and that cemented that she wasn’t.

Tim and Cass are nearly inseparable and are commonly referred to as the Wayne Twins. For Halloween they decided to go as each other.

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heyyy can you talk about kons dating history or atleast with older women? ive seen a few posts but im not sure but thats so ://///

Ahhh yes. Kon’s dating history, I've finally now finished reading all his solo comics (and had already gone through his team books a while back) so it’s a perfect time to delve into this. I’m kinda broadening it to his love interests in general, as not all of them put an official ‘dating’ label on things, but are still worth bringing up. This is kinda long so sorry in advance about that, but I tried to be as brief as possible.

TW for pedophilia (in these specific cases discussing a 23 year old dating a 16 year old, and another woman without a specifically given age [but clearly an adult] with the same 16 year old) obviously i’m not talking about it positively here but it’s unfortunately necessary to discuss with this topic.

I consider Kon as having five primary love interests in the pre-reboot comics world, which is where most of his dating happened. The ‘criteria’ I guess i’m using to separate them from the others i’ll talk about after is a combination of ‘they interacted for a long time’ and/or ‘the relationship had a big impact on his story/him as a person’. 

I’m also mainly sticking in pre-New 52 world for this because aside from the 'fake married to Lophi to protect her and her kid on Gemworld' thing in Young Justice 2019, he hasn't done much with relationships since getting officially reintroduced. Then the New 52 version of Kon was a very separate person and even so he was mainly just (sorta) involved with Cassie.

ANYWAYS the main five are:

Tana Moon - Tana was a 23 year old (as stated in Superboy #32) reporter Kon initially met during Reign of the Supermen, the story he debuted in (meaning she was one of the first people he met), who also happened to move back to Hawaii around the time he ended up there on his press tour. The two of them had an on and off relationship from basically the start of the comic until she broke up with him in Superboy #46. She briefly came back into his life in Superboy #72 after having been kidnapped by The Agenda, before being killed by Amanda Spence in Superboy #74. Kon and several others refer to her as his ‘first love’ especially after her death, which weighed very heavily on him.

Knockout/Kay - A woman we find out was originally one of the Female Furies, who works as a stripper at the 'Boom Boom Room’ in Hawaii while trying to keep a low-profile after leaving Apokolips. We don't get an exact age for her but she's very much so implied to be an adult. She hits on Kon from the moment she meets him (she also quite literally uses the term ‘jailbait’ to describe him in her first appearance in Superboy #1) and kisses him several times, insisting on working with him and training him and eventually beginning a more formal relationship with him. She kills someone and he blindly defends her thinking she couldn’t have done it, and she tries to coerce him into killing someone by promising herself to him (before killing the guy herself when Kon wouldn’t do it). The arc mainly focused on their relationship is from Superboy #22-30, but she is a presence in the comic from the start. She is arrested for the murders she committed at the end of the arc, and doesn't interact with Kon much again after as she is in a high security prison, but she is referenced multiple times.

Roxy Leech - Roxy is the daughter of Rex Leech, Kon's agent. From the moment she meets Kon, also during Reign of the Supermen like Tana, she's got a thing for him. Her age is left a bit more unclear, as some bits of dialogue indicate she is actually close to Kon's age but other things like how she applies to the police academy, something you need to be like 20 to do, indicate she's a bit older. Regardless, she’s definitely younger than Tana as she comments on her age at least once. She actively dislikes both Tana and Knockout for being interested in Kon, and confesses her feelings to him during a 'the whole world might end tonight' situation (in Superboy #33). The two of them didn't really date, but there is a period of time where Kon feels torn between Tana and Roxy. Not too long after that she ends up volunteering herself to be used in a procedure to stabilize Kon's dna after it had been torn apart by The Agenda when they cloned him, as the method to save him required someone close in age to him be used as a genetic template. From that point on they considered each other more like siblings, ending the romantic aspect of their relationship (in Superboy #41)

Serling Roquette - Serling is a 16 year old (as first stated in Superboy #57) science prodigy who works in the genetics department of Cadmus, and is the person who manages to cure Kon's condition where he'd been stuck at age 16 (a side effect from the procedure with Roxy). Initially she had a crush on Guardian, but over time grew to like Kon, she was one of the first people at Cadmus he personally tells his name ‘Kon-El’ to. They only kinda start to get together before Tana comes back and then is killed. After a situation where Roxy came back and needed help, when he and Serling try to maybe pick things up again, Kon realizes Tana’s death is still too fresh for him to get involved in anything too serious with her and he breaks it off, leaving them very tense with one another. (Superboy #82) 

Wonder Girl/Cassie Sandsmark - Cassie had an interest in Kon before she even met him, more of a celebrity crush at first than anything else. They share their first kiss in Wonder Woman #153 after she had tried to change her look to impress him and he reassured her that she was already beautiful the way she is. Cassie was present for Tana's death in Superboy #74, and after that Kon is overly protective of her in a noticeable way that actively annoyed her (She points out to him that she can take care of herself a few times, like in Young Justice #29) but eventually at the end of Young Justice (in #55) he confesses feelings for her, and they share another kiss. Graduation Day bringing about the end of Young Justice as a team kinda throws a wrench in things, but early in Teen Titans Vol. 3 they begin to date more formally, and are getting pretty serious together (cough cough they uhh consummate their relationship in the Kent farm's barn in TT Annual #1) right before Kon is killed during Infinite Crisis. She takes his death very badly and joins a cult to try to bring him back, has her whole thing with Tim (who is coping equally poorly with the death... almost 100 cloning attempts babey), and befriends Kara as a surrogate Teen Kryptonian™, but eventually learns to accept what happened and move on. Then he comes back, and everything's a lot to process all over again. She had become the team leader and things were just different than they used to be. They tried to resume their relationship but eventually Kon decided to end it (Teen Titans Vol. 3 #91), because they both wanted different things at that point in their lives, but they remained friends and teammates.

So when people are talking about the ‘older women’ thing, it should be pretty clear from that list they’re talking about Tana and Knockout. Both were adult women dating a 16 year old boy, and neither situation did enough to handle it in a way that addressed it as the problem it was. Knockout’s situation did end up being seen as a bad thing by the end because of the murder parts at the very least, but the age difference didn’t come up nearly as much. With Tana a few people (Roxy, some of Tana’s coworkers, even Tana herself) did bring up the age difference as a potential problem, but they continued to stay together for a pretty long time regardless. The kicker is that she ultimately breaks up with him for being ‘immature’ after he gets stuck at age 16, when it’s like... he’s 16. You’re 23. No kidding you think he’s immature? It was just a whole mess and makes reading a lot of his solo incredibly uncomfortable.

Additionally he has a few other shorter-lived relationships/potential love interests. I’m categorizing them separately because they weren’t focused on in the same ways/for as much time as the girls I listed above:

Trixie (Superboy #94-100) - When Kon gets his own apartment in Suicide Slum, he repeatedly runs into Trixie and the rest of the Slaughterhouse Six, but Superboy inspires her to try to turn her life around. They didn’t formally date but that was definitely the direction things were starting to head towards before his apartment building blew up and he realized he needed to get away from the city where his presence was painting a target on innocent people, and so they decided to just be friends. (This was also when his solo ended, so possibly if the book hadn’t been ending they may have continued longer)

Batgirl/Cassandra Cain (Superboy #85, Batgirl #39-41) - They first met when Kon had been bugging Tim in Gotham, and had a little adventure together that resulted in Batman being PISSED because he didn’t want Cass interacting with Metas (especially not teenage boy ones that’ll flirt with her) and Kon volunteered to share her punishment so she didn’t have to do it alone. They later meet again shortly after Kon moved in with the Kents while on a cruise (and he’s her first kiss!) and afterwards she goes to Smallville to meet him. She’s actually like the first person outside the Kents we’re shown to know his new civilian name is ‘Conner Kent’. After their little attempt at a date they decide to just stay friends.

Lori Luthor (Various appearances with Kon in Adventure Comics (2009) & Superboy Vol. 5) - When Kon and Lori initially meet there’s definitely some interest and she kisses him, but it happens while he’s still dating Cassie so he makes it clear he’s unavailable. Afterwards he learns who she actually is and realizes ‘oh she’s sorta kinda my cousin on the Luthor side’ so he stops really being interested. She’s still interested because she feels like the cloning doesn’t make them really related, and they talk about it in Superboy Vol. 5 #4 after he and Cassie had broken up, but he still feels too raw from Cassie and too weirded out by the situation to have it go anywhere. Kon helps try to get Lex to cure Lori’s mom (Lex’s sister Lena), and eventually when Lex is an ass in the end he finds another way (Some Wayne money through Tim) to try to help her. Lori figures out Conner is Superboy and along with Simon and Sujan helps him to save Smallville from the Hollow Men.

Ravager/Rose Wilson (Teen Titans Vol. 3 #95-100, kinda some parts of Superboy Vol. 6 if ya squint) - This is another of those ‘they didn’t actually date but there was interest’ situations, in the very end of Teen Titans Vol. 3. A fake version of Rose had kissed Kon which was kinda the catalyst for it, where after that moment he became a bit more protective of her once the real her returned. They had a moment where Kon tried to trust her with something (Kryptonite to take him down if the situation arose) but she saw it more as him thinking she was the one ruthless enough to do it, rather than as a token of trust, and left upset. The reboot happened before this really went anywhere/got resolved though, but interestingly enough she became a bit of a support character in the New 52 version of Kon’s life, likely because of this connection they tried to do before the reboot. They never really dated there either, he just referred to her as cute a few times. New 52 Kon is a very separate person anyways, but it’s worth mentioning.

I might be forgetting a few other minor ones along the way (especially if there’s things that weren’t in his main books), and Kon (especially in the 90′s) was the kind of guy to flirt with pretty much every girl he saw, so bear that in mind. But yeah, I hope this helps! 

[bamfdaddio]

X-Men Abridged: 1976

The X-Men, those fiery mutants that have sworn to protect a world that hates and fears them, are a cultural juggernaut with a long, tangled history. Want to unravel this tapestry? Then read the Abridged X-Men!

(X-Men 97 - 102) - by Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum

If I ever participate in Drag Race, this will be my entrance look. (“Hear me, bitches! No longer am I the woman you knew! I am fierce! I am fashion incarnate! Now and forever, the winner of season 27!” *mugs at camera* ) (X-Men 101)

It really amazes me how quickly Claremont shifts things into high gear. One year in and he absolutely does not calm down, giving us both the Shi’ar, more Sentinels and the (motherfucking) Phoenix. SO LET'S GOOOO

You’d think that, as a telepath, Charles would be used to dreaming absolutely twisted shit, surfing everybody else´s freaky dream waves, but apparently, vividly dreaming of space is so exhausting that he needs a vacation.

To be fair, I’d be exhausted too if I dreamt of schizo space bugs on detailed splash pages. Get into it, Mr. Cockrum. (X-Men 97)

Meanwhile, Alex and Lorna have absconded to the sizzling Rio Diablo to work on their doctorates. It’s unclear what they’re studying (archaeology?) and where this Rio Diablo is (Panama, Chili, Ecuador?), but considering that Rio means River, I’m unsure whether drawing a dry dry desert is the appropriate setting. But hey, this was the pre-Google era and you’re not here for topographical nitpicking, so.

Lorna is shot by an unknown assailant and continues the long, long history of Polaris being mentally overtaken by other entities. Together with the equally not-himself Havoc, they travel back to NYC and attack the plane Xavier is boarding. The X-Men battle them, until it is revealed that these former not-quite-X-Men are in league with… Eric the Red?

Scott is all: But I was Eric the Red! Also, Eric the Red does not exist!

Xavier escapes, apparently not giving a fuck that all kinds of X-Men are demolishing the JFK airport, but the still-evil Havok and Polaris also get away. The X-Men are shook!

Some time later, The X-Men celebrate X-Mas at Rockefeller Square, where Claremont skips some steps in favour of narrative expediency. Moira and Sean are apparently in a relationship, Jean and Storm are the best of friends. It’s some pretty rough telling, not showing, but we’ll allow it, but only because the Storm/Jean-friendship is one of my favourite things.

What, you think only the movies indulged in Lee/Kirby-cameos? (X-Men 98)

Anyway, Jean and Scott are attacked by the Sentinels, who continue their trend of being way too sneaky for supersized racist robots! Xavier is kidnapped on his boat trip with super-duper scientist Peter Corbeau (seriously, he has two Nobel Prizes), while they steal away Jean, Sean and Logan in NYC. When they come to, there’s some gloating from Stephen Lang.

Jean Grey being a literal pin-up while delivering nazi-burns is such a big middle finger to everything she was in the sixties and I am here for it. (X-Men 98)

When the three kidnapped X-Men make a break for it and escape the Sentinel’s clutches, they burst through a wall, only to be greeted by the cold vacuum of space! They’re not on Earth at all: they’re on a formerly SHIELD space station! GASP! (literally)

In secret, Peter Corbeau, inventor of sliced bread, helps the X-Men back on Earth board a space shuttle, where Colossus remembers his brother Mikhail (objectively the worst Rasputin), a kosmonaut who died at the launch of another spacecraft. It’s another Future Plotline Seed©.

The X-Men dodge solar storms which sounds like a made-up contrivance but aren’t, while the Sentinels try to destroy the shuttle. In what the kids these days call a pro-gamer move, the X-Men instead ram the space station and go through to these apparently sub-par Sentinels like Magma through butter. Kurt’s showmanship and Colossus’ loyalty are highlighted, while Cyclops becomes more robotic and repressed the more Jean is in danger.

Colossus’ secondary mutation is apparently BEING THE BIGGEST DORK. (X-Men 99)

Scott almost kills Stephen Lang, but then Stephen throws his ace in the hole at them: THE OLD X-MEN? This reveal throws us right in the hallmark one hundredth issue!

And, look. Stephen, this is just a terrible plan. Instead of using most of your budget on making more impressive Sentinels, you blow half of it on making janky X-Men clones to… what? Confuse the real X-Men?

It works for a hot minute, but Kurt and Ororo quickly figure out something is wrong. This Beast, for example, isn’t hairy and this Jean doesn’t remember being in Storm’s confidence. Wolverine is the first to snap: acting on instinct, he kills ‘Jean’, proving she’s an android.

Stephen Lang, foiled by the X-Men’s logical thinking skills (which, to be fair, are notoriously unreliable), spews some hatred and accidentally blows himself up. Nothing of value is lost.

Too bad the X-Men can’t return to Earth: their space shuttle is too damaged. I actually love this: going to space is kind of a big deal for most people and the fact that the X-Men have trouble because they’re stranded in space lends them a kind of vulnerability that has been lost over the recent years. Jean steps up to the plate, herds the other X-Men into the protected life cell and assumes the pilot seat of the shuttle. This is after zapping Cyclops into unconsciousness and telling the other X-Men to kindly fuck off when they try to stop her.

As the X-Men descend onto the Earth, Jean’s telekinesis isn’t enough to protect her as she’s engulfed by solar flares. OR IS SHE?

Nothing funny. All of these panels are just beautiful. Forget those robot copy X-Men, this is why this issue is worthy of being the hundredth one. (X-Men 100)

The space shuttle crashes, rolls over JFK airport before dunking in the water. The X-Men emerge, safe, sound and very lucky and then, defying all odds, Jean emerges as the Phoenix. Fire, life incarnate, etc.

After a brief but melodramatic burst of energy, Jean collapses into unconsciousness and is hospitalized. Wolverine intends to bring her flowers (aw!), before throwing them out when he realizes the gal’s taken, establishing the X-Men’s most famous love triangle. (You can fuck right off with your Scott/Jean/Warren-bullshit.)

I’m not sure what my favorite thing is here: the absolutely bonkers everybody’s-elated-panel (special mention to Kurt’s boots and his bounce) or the subtle character beat where Kurt goes all heart-of-the-team and checks on Scott, who turns out to be not so stoic. (X-Men 101)

Charles orders all the X-Men (except Scott) to go on vacation, so he can take care of Jean. Like, Charles, you’d think they could just go hang out at the X-Mansion. Instead, they go to Ireland because Sean has conveniently inherited the ancestral Cassidy Keep.

All the X-Men dress up fancy for a welcoming feast, and it seems Kurt and Ororo are flirting? But sometimes, it also seems like Ororo and Piotr are flirting? Listen, I’m not judging: I love these polycule vibes from the early X-Men. Especially because neither Kurt nor Ororo have had particularly satisfying romantic plotlines for the past 20 years.

I’m not here to insinuate nothing, but last time I said “I enjoy being with both of you”, it ended up in a spitroast. (X-Men 101)

The soiree is interrupted by… THE JUGGERNAUT, BITCH, and Black Tom, Sean Cassidy’s evil cousin. They are hired by an unknown someone to kill the X-Men! Since nobody subtle is involved, they quickly wreck the castle and everybody tumbles into the dungeons. (Local news paper reports: gay power couple harasses ill-dressed American tourists.)

This story is mostly a vehicle to tells Ororo’s backstory: Storm, one of the few who could conceivably put up a fight to Cain Marko, feels caged by the cold rocks of Cassidy Keep and is incapacitated by her claustrophobia.

Back in the USA, Charles, who’s heard Storm’s mental anguish, is furious with Scott because he doesn’t hop in a plane to save the other X-Men, even though Scott correctly points out that he’ll never get there in time if he leaves now. Meanwhile, Jean awakens, convinced she somehow brought herself back to life. Yeah, you go girl.

While the rest of the X-Men fight the evil duo in Ireland, Claremont tells Storm’s backstory in a few gorgeous spreads.

“I could write a novel about Storm’s backstory.” “You get two pages.” “Deal.” (X-Men 102)

Another classic comics trope appears here, where family members are immune to one another’s powers. I have no idea how Black Tom is immune to Banshee’s sonic scream - he has ears.

Does Black Tom just have a voice in his ears going NEENER NEENER NEENER when Sean screams? (X-Men 102)

When Storm finally pulls herself back together, it’s too late: the Juggernaut has pummeled the other X-Men into a paste and she also falls to his onslaught. IS THIS THE END OF THE X-MEN?!

Other things introduced this year:

Kurt’s image inducer, which he abuses to look like Errol Flynn. (I would abuse it to look like an amalgam of Milo Ventimiglia (ca. Gilmore Girls) and Timothée Chardonnay. OR like Emmy Raver-Lampman.)

The fastball special!

All kinds of name confusion: Lorna is Polaris, Havok is sometimes Havoc and Piotr becomes Peter.

Best new character: Phoenix. Hit me with that iconic shit.

What to read: The Stephen Lang arc is not fully necessary, just read issue 100 and 101. Don’t skip issue 102 if you want to know all about Storm’s past.

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Hit me with some Korto Vos headcanons X

you’re my absolute favourite person ever, thanks for letting me ramble on about this

he has an undercut like quinlan in legends, because i said so and it fits the vibe

he has two lightsabers. it’s absolutely chaotic, which is added too by the fact that he doesn’t really use a single lightsaber form because quinlan tried his best but running from an empire that wants you dead isn’t exactly the best environment for teaching. he also doesn’t use a lightsaber, half the time, which... yeah, he didn’t get that from quinlan. that’s from ailyn, 100%. he is just as likely to headbutt someone in the middle of a fight as he is to stab someone with his deadly 1000 degree glowsticks.

on the topic of ailyn vel! they bonded one time when she was probably 21 and he was about 25. don’t know how, it was probably when they were in the middle of something dangerous. they now have a rock solid mlm/wlw alliance, which you can’t tell half the time because they also try to murder each other 24/7.

(it’s the cain instinct)

is very much like quinlan in that he’s actually very competent but acts like a disaster half the time so nobody ever guesses it.

he was a captain in the rebellion. i haven’t decided if he’s a spy or a pilot yet, but i’m tempted to go pilot.

he has an extensive list of people he’s flirted with that he probably shouldn’t have flirted with. some of them include starkiller (which was an accident), boba fett (which was an accident, mostly because he’s not stupid enough to flirt with ailyn’s dad because she would murder him), paz vizla (which was not an accident) and luke skywalker (which absolutely was not an accident)

he’s also been hiding the fact that he’s a jedi from luke since, oh i don’t know, the first time they met? it’s only worked because of the patented skywalker obliviousness.

he’s very close to quinlan, who also trained him.

he is a Tall Boy.

in some way, shape or form, he’s been fighting the empire his whole life.

makes jokes to deal with trauma because otherwise he just might have a breakdown and that would be really inconvenient for his schedule /s.

he’s a lot more grey than luke or ezra or any of the other jedi, mostly because, once again: spent his entire life fighting the empire and knowing in extensive detail about what happened to the jedi and force sensitive kids, and that sort of thing leaves an impact. he never falls, and he’s always a bit lighter than quinlan, but he definitely thrives in the grey areas.

he’s also a lot more realistic/pessimistic than luke. optimism doesn’t really serve you well when you’re trying to stay alive, and thinking that the inquisitors can be redeemed doesn’t go down so well when they’re actively trying to murder you and your friends.

you remember how i mentioned he’s been fighting the empire his whole life earlier? yeah, he’s been fighting it for so long that he had an identity crisis the moment the empire fell, which probably wasn’t helped by the fact that quinlan vanished at the exact same time. highlights of his wonderful adventure include having a run-in with ventress (dark disciple? never heard of her) and ended up learning some stuff from her, which probably added to the greyness, meeting ailyn (i feel like i keep bringing her into this. it’s an accident, i promise) and accidentally becoming a cryptid.

he still stays the cryptid, for context. it totally doesn’t lead to a very awkward reunion when luke comes out to investigate the trio of force sensitive cryptids, only to see his fuckbuddy who vanished the moment the empire fell, a mandalorian who— is that a black lightsaber? what the fuck? — and also that scary zabrak doctor from the rebellion.

quinlan is fine, in case you were wondering.

every single time him, ka’ra (eeth koth’s daughter, for context. all you have to know about her is that she got taken to be a part of project harvester, she’s also a jedi, and she’s four years younger than korto, the same age as ailyn) and ailyn go undercover for some reason, he’s always the eyecandy.

i feel like i may be creating the impression that quinlan was a bit of a shit dad when he was growing up. he wasn’t, but it’s a bit hard to try and spare your kid the horrors of the galaxy while also telling him enough to not get killed when you’re being hunted down by the galactic empire that wants you dead. he did his best, given the circumstances.

he’s absolutely the kind of person to say he’s fine and brush it off until he physically cannot take it anymore and breaks down. this works for both physical and mental issues.

i feel like he has a whole load of piercings. i don’t know why. i just think he’d have a nose ring and enough earrings to make metal detectors weep.

i don’t know what lightsaber colour he has, mostly because i didn’t think about it, but i think blue would probably fit.

yeah, that’s all i’ve got right now. the moment i hit post i will undoubtedly come up with/remember more things about him, but i’m all out.

[dream-girls-evil]

Zelith 🐶🐈

Who eats breakfast for dinner: Lilith. She’s the queen of Hell, she can eat whatever she wants whenever she wants. Besides, being a demon, food is more for enjoyment than sustenance anyway.

Who turns the radio volume up until their ears bleed: Probably Lilith. She prefers to sit in silence than listen to music causally, but sometimes she just needs to drown out her thoughts or an old favorite from a past era will come on, and she just lets the music carry them away. Zelda will always let her turn the radio up if they’re in the car together, and sometimes she’ll be the one to crank the volume if it’s a particular favorite of hers and she’s in the right mood, but even then she doesn’t really love the ear-splitting volume that Lilith goes for.

Who waves at random animals: Neither. Though Zelda does tend to stare lovingly at passing dogs.

Who binge-watches shows until 2 in the morning: Zelda! Honestly it’s the only time she can watch without being interrupted by the other Spellmans.

Who takes all the pillows: Zelda. She’s very particular about they’re arranged, too.

Who plays with rotating doors: Absolutely neither of them 😂

Who would 100% fight with a sword if they could: 100% Zelda. Lilith would prefer a close-range weapon like daggers.

Who forgets every little thing: Lilith. She does remember the important stuff, but between Hell and the coven, and not to mention the thousands of years of memories crammed in her head, she does sometimes let things slip her mind.

Who loves the thought of a double date: I mean, I wouldn’t say either of them love the idea, but Lilith is definitely less opposed, because she sees it as an opportunity for her and Zelda to laugh at each other’s scathing comments and eyerolls. And see how long they can get away with playing footsie under the table.

Who has to eat fast food, like, three times a week: Lilith. She does really love pizza. Almost more than pizza boy.

Who enjoys hugs: Lilith! They both enjoy them, but for Lilith that simple act of affection is really something comforting and meaningful that she craves. And Zelda loves giving them to her.

Who could kill with a stare of their partner is flirted with: Both. Both of them. Flirt at your own risk.

Who remembers all the holidays and goes above and beyond with gifts: Zelda! Especially now that she’s High Priestess and thus in charge of coordinating the coven’s holiday celebrations. She also knows that Lilith has never been shown much appreciation or consideration in life, so she tries hard to make up for that in a lot of ways, including gifts.

Who would cosplay as their favorite character: Zelda—in the lowkey way that she always dresses like an old Hollywood film star. But also, insert joke about her cosplaying Eve by just getting naked here.

Who stares dreamily at their partner like they’re the sun and stars: They both do this. A lot. With all they’ve been through, sometimes it’s hard for them to believe they’ve gotten this lucky, and they just watch each other with so much adoration and love as if they can’t believe the other is real.

Who could fall and still look annoyingly perfect: Definitely both of them. I mean, Lilith on her bathroom floor after throwing up? Zelda literally covered in dirt kneeling over the Cain Pit? Hair and makeup still flawless.

Who loves pumpkin spice, like too much: Zeldaaa🎃

Who would fight for their partner’s honor: Either of them, but as much as they both have a protective streak, they also try to let each other fight their own battles first, bc it’s pretty fun and kinda hot to watch.