#so much generational trauma

[coldslaws-gear-station]

Okay putting this in an ask so we don't create an overly long thread but IM SO HAPPY YOU ASKED THE FAMILY QUESTION!!!

Buckle up

Azrael and Lady aren't related to N or Penny by blood, however they are related by name. Both Azrael and Lady were made with Ghetsis' DNA, cuz like if you were an evil tyrant and trying to create a weapon you'd wanna take credit for it by being related to it

Lady however was made with both Ghetsis' DNA and a certain Pokemon's DNA to basically create this being with massive amounts of psychic power that can level a city with a flick of a wrist (hense why when she scare Iolanthe her first reaction was to say "I'm not dangerous"). However she proved to be too sympathetic and emotional so they decided to go with plan B

Getting the DNA for Lady was horrifically expensive so they had to go a cheaper way, why not mix together the DNA of the most powerful trainers of Unova so we can create somebody with lethal amounts of battling talent? Ghetsis automatically put himself in one slot because he's self absorbed like that, but since Alder was renowned for how powerful he was in his younger years along with being the champion with the longest lasting title, they used him.

This obviously created Azrael, he does indeed show massive amounts of talent but he's horrifically cruel and rude to the other grunts. Not only that but he rarely follows his orders as he shows a disturbing lack of care and sympathy, he runs solely on apathy in a way. So they decided to say "fuck it, let's go with the dragon that's less trouble at this point!"

Though I suppose Lady, Azrael, and Penny are all technically related to each other by the clause of being artificially created by Colress, not sure about Paulo though

The only reason why Lady didn't lash out from the abuse and terror she was experiencing (since she didn't live up to her expections they decided to use her as more of a scientific research material thing, think RH Hydreigon but human) was because Ghetsis cemented to her very early on in her mental awareness that she may NEVER harm her family, nor put any of her family in harms way

This is why she's such a stickler for family, why she gives bows to all of her "family." Alder didn't do anything wrong to her in order to not get a bow, he's just not related to her. She never knew about N until Ghetsis was hanging off that cliff and she bolted, I don't think she's in the wrong for bolting. I mean, if you were horrifically abused for about a year, had pins and needles shoved in your skin, etc, and saw a way out, you'd take it.

That's why Azrael hates her so much, with her abilities she could've easily teleported him away or made sure he safely landed, but she ran away instead. Between her and Azzy he was definitely the favourite, he was treated in a much more kinder way than Lady was as he had some use still. If anything he loved Ghetsis as a father, hense why he's so upset he died, it's also why he hates RH Ghetsis because he will never be like him

The world's worst family indeed

FINALLY. FULL LORE DROP 🔥 WIN

this is SO cool btw i love this idea. and i love the fact that both of us decided col and ghetsis totally would decide to play with artificial human life because of course they would. and it's hilarious to think they failed this THREE TIMES before turning to the dragon. like alright gang give it a rest.

i think lady and azrael being kinda opposites is fun thematically with the whole dragon splitting truth vs ideals story. idk if that's what you were going for but it came to mind

i feel bad for lady though. penny is essentially the same boat. too sweet but also he didn't even give the desired results, which was to recreate n's ability. but (cutting off heeere for spoilers)

colress was actually too attached to mistreat penny in any way similar to lady. which is funny because colress quite obviously does not give a shit about n, and had no qualms in mistreating her, but penny was special to him. maybe because of vanity (click is His creation afterall) or maybe because he had to partially raise the kid himself. but either way you can see this in the fact that penny is upset hearing about colress going to jail, clack liked him and colress liked clack

penny wasn't raised from a baby though, he essentially manifested into existence at age 7 when n was (if im doing good math. which idk bc im running on E rn LMAO) around 15, because n didn't dream of being a baby obvi. she dreamt of the life she had back to the forest before ghetsis found her

which would put them around that age

also i don't blame lady at all for bolting. go queen. sorry azrael but he really had it coming . if anything rh peepaw is one hell of an improvement but i guess to him it would be a downgrade if you preferred tyrannical abuser

though this does beg the question of why lady didn't do anything for penny if they were aware of each other ... penny ended up dematerializing because upon colress's arrest and ghetsis's death there was no one to maintain click and click was stuck in the lab. my poor guy. im assuming she just panicked or she assumed he got out on his own or smth. or hell maybe click was already gone by the time lady saw an out... that's actually SUCH a sad concept to see this little guy you liked fizzle out of existence while you can't do anything

i know lady doesn't blink but does she sleep? or dream? bc if not then penny couldn't even reach her to say smth...

also all this begs the question. ik you mentioned story canon vs other canon. is all of the above applied in the world of nhp and rh? just asking cuz obvi it would drastically change penny lore and i may have to do some finagling to fit it all in

[mynnthia]

was talking with a friend about how some of dunmeshi fаndom misunderstands kabru's initial feelings towards laios.

to sum up kabru's situation via a self-contained modernized metaphor:

kabru is like a guy who lost his entire family in a highly traumatic car accident. years later he joins a discord server and takes note of laios, another server member who seems interesting, so they start chatting. then laios reveals his special interest and favorite movie of all time is David Cronenberg's Crash (1996), and invites kabru to go watch a demolition derby with him

[lylahammar]

someone give this man some support right this instant

[ghostysword]

And then the Lans named a kid “letting go of earthly connections.” GEE, Qingheng-Jun, I WONDER WHY.

Who gave Wei Wuxian his courtesy name, Without Envy?

Was it Wei Changze, wishing his son would never know a hurt like the pain he saw in his best friend's eyes when he and Cangse Sanren left Lotus Pier on their donkey, free to love and to seek adventure?

Was it Cangse Sanren dreaming of a life for her son and family free from the poisonous envies of sect politics, laughing off one more sect’s attempts to recruit her?

Or was it Jiang Fengmian, after a fight with Yu Ziyuan over his latest praise for the orphan boy, hoping (even as his favoritism made it less likely) that Jiang Cheng and Wei Ying might have a brotherhood untainted by jealousy?

[secretly-a-catamount]

tim drake would rather die than kill innocent people and tim drake killed hundreds of supervillain henchpeople with long-range detonation explosives that one time are two separate headcanons that, contrary to what the fandom discourse would have you believe, can actually coexist at the same time.

there’s even a psychologist term for it.

it’s called compartmentalization!

[vingler-mirror]

Farewell Rayashki text post meme because I'm not immune to the Russian yuri and their adopted son

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

[silverwhittlingknife]

dick vs. apartment organization, a story in three parts

new teen titans 10, new titans 65, nightwing: target

"i can't believe this place." "i thought you were moving." "you live like a slob."

everybody's a critic dsfsfdsf

[turtleblogatlast]

Headcanon that Leo really loved to give his family massages growing up. We know that he’s good at them from the episode “You Got Served” and we know he likes spas and relaxation and getting massages himself from when he tried to get these in “Bad Hair Day” and from when Donnie made a tennis ball massage machine in “Smart Lair.”

So I think it’d be cute to think that maybe one day Leo overheard Splinter complaining about a bad back and immediately Leo thinks back to a comic or movie or something he saw where a massage helped so he offers to give one and it actually ends up helping Splinter.

Then April swings by the Lair at a later time and mentions her back hurting because of her backpack from school and Leo’s all like “I gotcha!”

From there, he occasionally manages to convince Donnie to sit for one because Donnie’s shrimp posture does not help him any (Leo pokes fun at how sandpaper-y Donnie’s shell is despite knowing it’s always like that and Donnie smacks him for it.) Donnie usually prefers hand massages instead however as all his typing and inventing adds up over time, and shoulder massages too once he starts wearing his battle shells more. Leo also figures out how to give massages to Raph and Mikey’s shells as well, though it’s a struggle at first to not scratch his hands on Raph’s spikes.

I think since Leo has such bad luck with spas and the like, he tries giving himself massages (though it’s not as helpful.) Like, with how his abilities work his legs are probably always aching from his portal jumping and one foot landings, so maybe he branches past back massages out of a need to help his own aches too. (Though he really wants a shell massage himself, the same way he’d give them…the one time with Donnie’s tennis ball massage machine was but a short moment of what Leo’s been missing out on and what he’ll continue missing out on…)

I don’t know, I just think it’d be cute to think Leo could have honed his massaging skill this way in order to help out his family (and also partially because he wants a massage himself.)

[uris9158]

do you ever think about how lsk loved kdj more than anything, so much that not only did she throw away her freedom to protect him but also was even willing to bear his resentment and sacrifice her very relationship with her own son, to protect him? (and how kdj did the same to his loved ones like yjh and kimcom, willing to bear their resentment to save them?)

do you ever think about how kdj, too, loved his mother so much, and so much of him is made of his mother - she taught him to read, gave him his love of stories, taught him to read again, taught him love-as-sacrifice... how incredibly similar they are, like mirrors of one another... how they both hurt each other so badly but underneath all that is so much profound love?

do you also ever think about how orv is about love, and about stories, and how those two are the same thing. and kdj and lsk.. their story was always about love all along! what would you do to protect the people you love? what would you sacrifice? what if you grew up and had loved ones of your own to protect and found yourself making the same kind of decisions your mother did to protect the people you love?

[whumpacabra]

Whump that is about change. Whump that is about acceptance. Whump that is about adapting to loss. Whump where there is no rehabilitation, no getting back what’s gone. Sometimes things happen and there is no going back, there is no getting better. Sometimes the person that comes out the other side is different and they will never be the same again. Sometimes you need to grapple with the reality that most people don’t bounce back from traumatic brain injuries, from severe burns, from lost limbs and are their old selves ever again.

Whump that is about change, with no going back, and how the world won’t end because of it.

[fandomsnrambles]

Huh, found an older art piece of the FSM as a child

My anatomy is meh here but oh well. The eyes around him are basically the onis and the dragons. Its the pressure he felt when they were making him chose sides in a war… yikes.

Rambling below cut (and sketch!)

I hc he ran away when he was 14-15. This is him as a kid, basically 14. Also, i thought it’d be fun if he looked like both his sons hence the two toned hair (personally think he made his kids asexually btw cause its hilarious)

I also like to think hes a lot like BOTH his sons personality wise.

ANYWAY that moment when trauma hits you like a truck. As a child soldier, you are robbed of your childhood (lloyd parallel fr) and then you run away making 16 realms, 2 kids and possibly humans as well. You ingrain it into your everyday life and never realise your coping methods are unhealthy until you suddenly realise you’ve hurt your sons, but its too late by then.

My angst material is focusing on the generational trauma here btw

I mean FSM runs from the pressure from everyone around him -> Wu and Garmadon feel pressure to uphold their fathers expectations and everyone elses -> Lloyd trying to uphold expectations from everyone around him…

(Also, so fun cause my lloyd design looks like his grandfather, OOF think of the parallels is what i’m saying)

This family makes me crazy…

Bonus,, sketch

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Bestie Deficiency

[First] Prev <–-> Next

[neon-impressions]

I AM SOFT AND KIND AND FULL OF LOVE

[archaeologysucks]

I’m working on putting together four volumes of my family’s history, one for each grandparent, broken down by generation. I’m using 20 years of emails from family, letters, newspaper articles, vital and land records, regional histories, and personal memories of my older relatives to comprehensively present the results of my own research in a format everyone else in my family can understand and enjoy. I want to infuse each biography with as much detailed information as possible about the person and the context of their life, so that even those who never had a chance to meet them will have a sense of who they were as people, beyond the when and where of their existence. This will also include sections for family photos, family recipes, and an extensive bibliography detailing where every piece of information came from. This should keep me busy for the next 20 years or so.

[demigod-shenanigans]

Yeah we spend a lot of time making fun of Jason for getting knocked out so much and there are a lot of brick jokes in this fandom (and I get why) but can we pause briefly to talk about how traumatic that whole incident was for Leo? He spends several pages thinking he’s responsible for his best friend getting severely injured and potentially dying and I. Don’t find that very funny actually

[add1ctedt0you]

The Untamed - Episode 11 - Episode 15

The woman had creamy skin and was rather beautiful, though her delicate features displayed some fierceness. The corners of her lips lay between a frown and a smile - she was a natural at sneering, just like Jiang Cheng. Her flowing purple robes wrapped around her thin waist. Both her face and her right hand, which rested on the hilt of her sword, were as cold as jade stone. A ring embellished with amethyst was worn on the index finger of her right hand.

Jiang Cheng smiled as he saw her, "Mom!"

The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation - Chapter 51- Courage- Part 1

Madam Yu stared at his face. Suddenly she embraced him and kissed his hair a few times. With him in her arms, she murmured, "Good boy."

She hugged him so tight that it seemed as if she wanted turn Jiang Cheng into a baby and stuff him back into her stomach, so that nobody could hurt him, nobody could tear them apart. Jiang Cheng had never been hugged by his mother like this, much less kissed. His head was buried in her chest but his eyes were wide open, not knowing what to do.

The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation- Chapter 58 - Poisons- Part 3