#they’re semi canon btw

[astro-can]

I THINK IM ACTUALLY GLITCHING OUT

OMG

THE NEW TBHK CHAPTER

I’m breathing so heavily rn I’m not even joking

KOU AND MITSUBA ARE SO CUTE

[potato-an0n]

Haven’t been here for a hot min but while re-entering my huntlow brainrot while still currently on ateez brainrot, i was watching a lyric vid to “be with you” and uhhhh…..it really pulled on my heart strings 🥹 no it YANKED my heart strings thinking abt huntlow. Anyways, just watch this and you’ll get wat i mean

[wyervan]

(I deeply apologize, my mysterious anons, for how old these messages are and I hope this response finds you in both in good health and spirits. @zenkaiankoku reminded me that I had similar asks sitting in my inbox)

I keep seeing this sentiment in tags, asks and comments! I personally LOVE many different artists’ and writers’ humanized DCA designs, but I do also understand why they aren’t for everybody.

Even those who enjoy other transformative AUs (mer, cryptid, etc.) may not find human designs especially compelling. I saw a post circulating around a while ago (can’t find it now for the life of me) with some interesting discussion on the matter, how human designs might lack a certain otherness that many in the fandom revel in. The DCA crechur as a concept, for me, is a one with deeply relatable humanistic traits but also one that remains alien and strange despite how closely we come to know them.

In the case of my own AU, they may be human but you can say they’re still very much other because of their little slashing habit. They’re always going to be different and strange and dangerous to those around them because of the moral line they’ve crossed, no matter their motivations.

Visually-speaking, when I first started drawing them, it was very important for me to not “de-weird” the DCA if I could avoid it. I wanted to translate as many of the physical characteristics of their canon design to their human one as I semi-realistically could: long noses, sharp angularity, unsettling smiles, big hands, snatched waists, stretched gangly limbs. Basically I emphasized the same characteristics in the human design as I do when I draw them canon. And ofc I added a couple fun bits I just like to draw on people :3c.

(Also, btw, I worry that people just think I’m yassifying them or something 😭🙏 i mean yaaa they’re weird pretty birds but I hope you guys can tell that they mean I lot more to me than that. Love your thirsty comments though—they thoroughly tickle me.)

Just also wanted to point people in the direction to some other amazing artists with really cool humanoid DCA designs: @/lynaferns @/karoochui @/molc8 and @/ohno-the-sun

[shakespearean-dream]

TW!!! — blood, scarring and mild body horror ahead 🥲

benny’s turn!

before i start i wanna clarify i hesitated a bit on posting this because lovely mutual @vor-leser just posted his benny interpretation (go look at it and follow him btw), and idk if we like mind melded or smth but our human benny’s are super similar LOL. i damn near scrapped the whole thing out of fear someone would get mad at me but i Would Not be able to start over and get this done ever so this is as good as we’re gonna get. 😭 my apologies niko love u /p

this has been like a full 7 days in the making 😭😭 the art block that i felt coming on while doing ellen and ted hit me like an optimus prime sized semi truck this week along with a depressive episode so i definitely appreciate that happening and i am not upset about it at all! /s i’m totally good so don’t worry or anything /gen, mental health is just weird and i also wanted to explain the gap in my posts 😔

i do not know how to feel about this drawing if i’m so fr with you; i’m proud of myself for AM-ified benny cause i think i got the slowly rotting from the inside out primal freak energy down pretty good, but on the other hand this feels kinda empty?? i usually have a lot more commentary squished in here but i think my brain’s a little fried 🤦‍♂️ i love drawing me some beautiful buff men though so drawing normal ben was familiar territory. however his wack ass haircut i gave him is his punishment for being a PRICK!!! go sit in the corner and think about ur actions benjamin.

like ted n the rest of the sillies i’m not straying too far from canon with his personality, he’s an ass and a murderer and a hella smart dickhead who desperately needs to be punished by the universe (thank you for that one AM). hot take i did not like his “redemption arc” in his game scenario and i don’t think with how he was throughout the entirety of his life (and also throughout the game, main example his inner dialogue) he would actually go out of his way to help the kid because he means it??? n prove he changed to the guys he killed cause he means it??? i dunno maybe AM torturing him made him have a main character “omg i’ve been in the wrong this whole time!!1” moment like the game suggests i’m just not buying it 💀 i’m sure it’s just cause bennys scenario couldn’t be too long and they couldn’t fully flesh him out which i won’t fault the game makers for. i’m a steven universe fan, i know what time constrictions can do to a plot and redemption arc 😭 looking at you white diamond…

his wife n kids are up top and they’re kinda neat to me— i was considering the hc that part of the reason manya (his canon wife) left him is because she realized she was a lesbian which would be funny as fuck considering benny’s also One Of Them Queers 😭. i think during the brief times he was home and able to parent his daughters they got really scared and tired of him, one because he’s just a very threatening powerful and overbearing man, but also because i feel like he would’ve been on their ASS about everything. grades, extracurriculars, friends, wardrobe, this guy was micromanaging his family to an annoying extreme (ofc because of his perfectionist complex). he probably loved manya and the kids in his own weird way, but it was more contractual to him than any real personal relationship. maybe he inherited that from his own parents?? i doubt he ever talked to them after he moved out.

that’s about the end of my thoughts on this fucker. 🥲 funny storyyyy i just remembered i have laundry to finish so im gonna go do that, lord help me. thank you for reading all this if you did!!!!! we’re over halfway through so who do yall want next? wanna save AM or nimdok for last? i’ll see u guys later :]]]

[elainsgirl]

It’s actually been really comforting seeing elucien and gwynriel theories and realizing that they have zero basis in canon and reality. There hasn’t been a single prediction from that side that makes sense to the actual story. They can’t even agree on who the next book should be. Everything they say is based solely on their own headcanons and willful misinterpretation of the text and it shows how doomed they really are whenever they post a new one.

At the end of the day, the only story moving forward that makes sense is elriel. We don’t have to come up with insane theories and twist the narrative to make it work; the author, SJM has already done that for us and that’s why I’m not worried, despite how loud and aggressive the other side might be. And when every single hint that’s come out this year has pointed towards elriel, it makes it that much better

This is so real. I think when you first see Gwynriels/Elucien’s theories they can be daunting as they always get so many likes, making you doubt yourself yet when you actually sit down and read their arguements….it becomes so clear how biased, nitpicked and contradictory it is.

Tbf - 2021-2022 was peak anti era where they were coming out with semi-logical arguements. Now they don’t bother to put any effort in, can’t even blame them. There’s only so many times you can twist and lie about canon. I will say though - its come to a point where antis are just discrediting themselves the more they speak. If you’re with a straight face telling me you saw 0 romantic foreshadowing between elriel but Az glancing at Gwyn during training was enough for you to believe they’re endgame - how am I suppose to take that seriously? You literally can’t because its just ridiculous. Eluciens yapping about how the rejected fates storyline will be between loa/helion/beron - when Sjm specifically mentioned bonds being wrong in a conversation about elucien/elriel…like. Once you actually start thinking about each theory/point/HC it all unravels very quickly.

4 years later - do we still know wtf an elucien/gwynriel book will be about? Like, they say random plot points but never connect them to each other or explain how one book would lead to another etc.

So I fully agree with you. When I come across an elucien/gwynriel point - these are my reactions: 🤨 🙄 💀

Their posts just makes me even more sure of elriel being endgame.

Look, im being frl - ask any elriel what they believe the general gist of the next book will be about and we all have the same ideas and theories - reaching to a similar conclusion. Ask gwynriels/eluciens and they differ from each other, each year it’s something new.

LMFAO You know its a win for elriels when antis start making fun off us and acting all bitter trying to prove us wrong. Spotify commented under an elriel video about guilty as sin?

“Omg elriels are soooooo desperate, they’d rather believe the word of a random person running the Spotify account whose job is to get attention then actually pay attention to the author”

next day? You have an anti lying about how spotify/audible commented under gwynriel/elucien videos’ as well…yet no SS to back up that claim. You have another one trying to show how guilty as sin is actually gwynriel by making up a HC out of nothing about Gwyn thinking of Az and it being wrong - which btw, why would it be.

Not to mention, Sjm literally worked with spotify and shared a tidbit about the next book.

We always win and thats the best part about being an elriel. Everything is coming together and all the signs point to Elain and Az. As we all knew it would.

[chocostrwberry]

Since in your AU there's less seasons, plot changes, and some different akumas than canon, do you have an idea of what the order of the episodes would be? Or how many episodes are in each season?

Speaking of episodes, are you also planning on writing your AU and posting it as well? Or are you just drawing it out?

I love your art style and your AU (especially as a huge fan of the reverse crush and a marichat stan HAHA)

I have a semi-idea,, Not too much on filler episodes, but it’s paced like Gravity Falls and Danny Phantom in my head; there are fillers, but most of the episodes are plot driven. So maybe 20 episodes each season? Hypothetically?

AND TO BE DEAD HONEST… I DONT KNOW WHAT IM DOING ABAHAHAH

I hadn’t expected so many people to be interested in my au?? I’m sure the art helped tons but I expected people to be more into my illustrations than actually asking about the concept behind it WHICH I AM ETERNALLY GRATEFUL FOR BTW!! 🥹🫶

So,, once I completely flush out my AU (create the masterpost list, make sure everything you could ever know about it is on my blog, etc.) I think I’ll start making more mini-comics!! My dream is to turn it into a webtoon of some sort, but I have little experience with webcomic-making.

Even though all the spoilers for it will be on here and probably already common knowledge, that’s most likely the path I’ll be going down!!

(DW FELLOW MARICHAT STAN, IM WORKING ON MORE INFO ON THEM TOO!! I’m not very good at creating romantic dynamics 👉👈 so I’m struggling a bit on how I want to portray Marichat, since they’re so in love in my AU AHSJWH curse my limited knowledge in romance-)

[musicalmoritz]

Yamabuki Lemon??

General thoughts… also lemonakane???

Also I’ve always had this headcanon of Lemon and Aoi early in the series getting really annoyed with like what the heck are Nene and Akane up to after school and trying to find out but they can’t so they just hang out and sulk.

Best civilian character by far!! (Unless Tiara counts as a civilian in which case she solos). I know there are some theories abt him becoming plot important later on and I wouldn’t mind that, but I kinda like that he’s just Some Dude. He’s such a vibe, I love his name and how he actually wears lemons on his clothing. He’s like a Strawberry Shortcake character. And I love the gag of him being addicted to his phone, most relatable character by far. I strongly headcanon that he’s the school weed dealer, I don’t think we’ve ever seen this dude sober. He gives me Jesse Pinkman vibes

And Lemonkane is such a good ship! I don’t think abt them often but I would probably write a fic for them. I love that they casually dated, personally I take that as confirmation that they’re both mlm bcuz if one of them was a girl, no one would question it as a semi-serious thing despite a love spell being involved. So yes they are very much semi-canon to me. And I love that it’s a consistent gag too, AidaIro obviously ship them. I find it kinda funny that this isn’t the go-to mlm Akane ship but ofc Teru has to steal the spotlight (love him for that)

Peak headcanon btw, ik you meant it in a platonic way but I must add that LemonAoi is one of my favorite rarepairs. I could see them both being frustrated that their besties have gotten too busy for them and developing a closer friendship through that. Lemon probably thinks Akane is Spider-Man or smth

[themushroomprince03]

Well I got “mediocre”-to-“good” reception for my Prof. X design and so I am legally obligated to show my Magneto design also (from my personal au again btw)

Ignore how fucked up i drew his fingers haha

Anyways extra info about him:

- His hair used to be a lot longer (projecting my hairstyle onto him haha)

- His father is German (canon) but his mother is Polish because I am of Polish descent and I am projecting again✨✨✨get Polished old man

- Native languages are German, Polish, and Yiddish, but he also speaks a bunch of other languages (he learned a bit of Japanese because Charles speaks it and he wanted to impress him)

- Uses a cane because of an old ankle injury (The boots with heels do not help.) The cane is also made entirely of metal, and he can bend it into whatever tool or weapon he needs

- In canon he flies using his helmet but that sounds really painful??? So in this AU he also has metal boots and a belt that help him fly without breaking his spine

- His powers are getting quite a bit weaker and he has no idea why (Unrelated but mutants can lose their powers if they’re sick or depressed🙂)

- Wildly over-dramatic about everything (this is canon already but it’s important to me)

- He uses his cloak as a blanket sometimes

- Loves German Football except his team keeps losing

- His favourite colour is white or silver

- His favourite food is bread dipped in soup. The type of soup doesn’t really matter

- Sneaks into Charles’s room in the X mansion sometimes and then Charles makes him watch space documentaries. In return, whenever Charles comes over, Erik makes him watch anything in the Lord of the Rings franchise

- As implied above, his favourite book is the Fellowship of the Ring (semi-canon) and his favourite movie is the film adaptation of Fellowship of the Ring (same actor haha Gandalf is NOT his fictional crush) His favourite book pre-1954 (when Fellowship of the Ring came out) was The Hobbit

- Every time Pietro visits he uses Gen Z lingo and leaves Erik confused and scared because wtf is his son talking about

- His kids got him a Wii and are trying to teach him how to play video games. His favourite game is Wii Party (until one of his children inevitably rages and breaks the TV while playing it)

[ms-moonlight-inn]

“Shame-proof” DVD Commentary

Thank you to @shamelessdvdcommentary & to the anon to requested us (whoever you are, we love you!). My bestie @notherenewjersey & I are here to answer all of your burning questions (do you have the syph? why's it burning? it's not supposed to burn.)

Anyway, here's our stuff... hopefully it'll help with that itchy burny.

Which fanfic is your DVD commentary about?

“Shame-proof” is about two childhood actors who lose contact with each other after their series wraps. Quickly, we find out that Ian had been harboring a deep crush on Mickey, who had basically been bullying Ian the whole time. Confessions & apologies ensue.

Also, a friend called it an undercover RPF... and if that’s how you choose to look at it, well we’re not gonna stop you.

NJ–  it COULD be RPF but that’s not how it was written. We weren’t imagining Cam or Noel’s childhoods here, aside from what we stole of Mickey’s back canon that Ian watches as he pines.

Give us some stats - (when you wrote it, word count, how long it took to finish, is it a one-shot/multi-chapter, etc)

The outline started on 4/16/24. 22887 words posted. Posted for the Summer Camp project on 8/3 but we were done before that.  Moonlight was convinced it would be 10k but I knew it was bigger. And this was without us going down every rabbit hole we saw. It’s 8 chapters, most of the chapters start with a flashback to the past and then jump to the “present.”

Moonlight– seriously, NJ dragged me away from some other HC I had kicking around, & we dove into this one instead.

What was the initial inspiration for your story?

I read Jeanette McCurdy’s book, and as with any time I read anything, my brain said “What if this was Gallavich?” I know Moonlight is an L.A. girl, so I knew I wanted her input. I think I had a rough outline already when I looped her in, but she immediately took what I had and expanded and deepened it, as she always does.

Moonlight– God it’s so much fun to talk trash about all the things you grew up with & around. Los Angeles is filled with opportunities for trash talking. LOL 

If the story is written from a character’s POV, why did you choose this character?

This didn’t start out as either of us deciding to stay in Ian’s POV, but in order to keep Mickey’s motivations a little more opaque, we landed there. Until the latter chapters, at least. For the drama.

Moonlight– No further comment.

What was your favourite scene to write?

All of them? I like Sue so much, and I love writing Frank’s bullshit. RuPaul is fun, too. 

Moonlight– I’ve got two favorite scenes. The first is the scene where they’re kids doing the campground episode. I adored the moments of discovery Ian had there –figuring out that trees existed in southern California, figuring out that he had a serious crush on Mickey, and then the boy he meets on set as he’s running away from his problems. (BTW, 10 punk rock points to anyone who knew the song before I remembered to add a link).

The other scene I loved writing was the rimming scene. In the outline NJ said, “they get together in the sexiest and most romantic way.�� And I wanted to throw my laptop at her face. SERIOUSLY, what the actual fuck?! So I got them all the way up to the part where Ian’s naked and stalled out for, like, two weeks. I was on a call with @mybrainismelted saying, “I’m stuck on this scene. I’ve managed to get one dick out, but I haven’t quite figured out how the other one’s gonna get naked AND STILL KEEP THIS BULLSHIT SEXY AND ROMANTIC.” Needless to say, I figured it out. 😁

NJ– Yup! That was, I think, the entire outline for that chapter, originally. One line. I knew that’s what happened at that point in the story, why bother with details? LOL

How did you come up with the title?

Oh geez. Trying to come up with both an AU of Shameless AND a reboot name, both of which would sound semi-natural was tough! But Shame-proof is more than just the title of a fake TV show. It also speaks to how Ian and Mickey were able to finally live wholly as themselves. No more hiding, nothing left unsaid. Without shame, shameless in the very best ways.

Are there any little moments or references you hope readers will notice?

I always throw things in. We both do. But hopefully, readers who haven’t read either our individual or joint back canon can still enjoy the story.

Moonlight– See easter egg question.

Was there anything you struggled to write? If so, how did you overcome this?

No.

NJ– if one of us is stuck, the other usually isn’t or can jostle the other into being unstuck. We’re good like that.

Favorite line in the story?

NJ– @gallavichgeek pointed out two of my favorite lines, but I will repeat them here because … yeah. 

“Hey, come back,” Mickey says softly.

“I’m still here,” Ian answers, a little confused.

“Yeah, but all of you. M’ not ready to let any of you go a moment sooner than I hafta.”

***

“I’d say,” he hesitates, then goes on, “that someday you’re gonna get everything you ever wanted. That all the bad shit, the bullshit, and the pain, it’ll all be worth it.” 

***

If I crash, I’m coming back to haunt you, Ian had answered.

If you crash, I’m diving in after you.

***

Moonlight– “What the fuck? How ‘bout double-dutch no with a cherry on top.” Mickey steadily refuses. (Anytime Mickey is being creative with his cursing & curses is a good time. Bad language & mockery are his love languages.)

What are you most proud about in the story? (plot, characterisation, dialogue, twist/cliffhanger, etc) 

All of it? It’s a great story. 

Moonlight– I’m also proud of the structure we used. It was NJ’s choice to do what basically amounted to two mini chapters in one –past & present colliding, if you will. And it worked so well for this storyline. 

Are there any deleted scenes that didn’t make it to the final story?

Not deleted, so much as we had ideas that didn’t make it to fully fleshed for the final draft.

Are there any ‘behind the scenes’ info you’d like to share - e.g. what’s going on in a character’s head in a certain scene or how you came to write a certain line?

NJ– It’s important for people to know that Mickey in the past was protecting Ian so much more than he was protecting himself, with his bullying behavior. 

Moonlight– God, yes. 

Reading back the story now, is there anything you’d change or add?

NJ– I want more of Ray, more of Sue, more of the Random Studio Infant now grown up. More of Sheila and of Kermit. I want the world to be fuller. And maybe it will, eventually.

Moonlight– Def’ more Ray, he’s funny & I’m sure he & Ian had so many stupid adventures. I think I’d like to see a few of the conversations between Ian & Mickey, but I struggle with that ‘cause I love when there is that air of mystery to a storyline. I don’t necessarily want to be told everything. But I think at least one of those late night conversations we reference would be nice to see.

NJ– yeah, we did have a time limit so some of the scope got condensed. I agree, those conversations would be incredible to see/hear. 

Would you ever write a sequel to this story?

Well…. This story has legs. It has scope beyond what you’ve seen. I have believed, since the outline began, that this was the fic that would make the leap to traditional publishing. Moonlight and I are hoping to expand it and bring it to a publisher. “It’s a crossover between Shameless, I’m Glad My Mom Died, and RWRB.” Who wouldn’t wanna read that? LOL The Gallagher family will shrink a little, Terry will still be his monstrous self. So no, there won’t be a traditional fic sequel. But if we’re all very, very lucky, there will be an expanded version that scratches the same itch.

Are there any ‘easter eggs’ in your story - e.g. references to other stories you’ve written, a trope you often use etc?

The Saint Christopher’s medallion that Ian receives from Mickey? Yeah, the person I wrote that for knows it was for them. 🫶 

If you’ve chosen your most popular story, are you surprised by the popularity?

By far NOT our most popular story. Yet.

Were you nervous or excited to post this story?

I HATE waiting to post- posting a fic like this where it’s all done upfront is hard for me, emotionally. So I was beyond excited for people to read it and love it as much as we do!

Moonlight– NJ really hates not posting immediately. Like, really hates it. This fic was written for the @gallavich-fic-club Summer Camp Event & we had to wait our turn. Which she HATED. 🤣 

Did you have a beta or a friend who helped you as you wrote?

Can we count each other? I’m a genuine writing freak- fast, thoughtless, and I rarely edit beyond typos. (many of which elude me and still end up in the final draft.) Moonlight is the opposite- she’s incredibly deliberate and also deeply and passionately devoted to the editing process. When we edit together, it can look a little argumentative, but we trust each other, so a lot of those conversations end up like, “I don’t see the issue, but I trust your judgment.” We both say it all the time.

Moonlight– D’aw, bb. You’re making me blush. You’re right, I am a meticulous asshole, but your brain is fast & witty. Together, we write good shit. 

NJ-- Also, god the verb tenses in this story gave me fits. I am a grammar nerd, so is Moonlight. But skipping between tenses for the past and present when we wrote straight through- she never had an issue but I regularly was in the wrong tense and had to go back and fix, cursing my own self the whole time. Loudly. Often on the phone with Moonlight. 

Moonlight– 🤣🤣🤣 yeah…

If any one has any comments, words of praise, complaints you’d like to register with our headquarters, please let us know. 

NJ - in the greatest detail, if you’d be so kind.

Anything else you’d like the readers to know about the story?

Moonlight– Yes, the cheese sledding story is based on semi-true events. The guys at my high school used to carry large blocks of ice to the top hill of the local golf course & ride them down. Years later, a dorm mate I knew in grad school told us about his Vermont cheese tour where he saw “giant wheels of cheese” that he swore he could use as a mode of transportation. And so, the cheese sledding story was born. 

NJ-- And I made sure it was at Trump’s golf course because a few years back, a man in New Jersey did some fun vandalism like that and I find it deeply satisfying.

🧀🛷 

[valleyfthdolls]

Movie!Cassidy is an Afton - an entirely speculative theory

(CW FOR DISCUSSION OF CANON TYPICAL HARM AGAINST CHILDREN)

A starting note

I do believe our little boy in Golden Freddy is named Cassidy, because Cassidy in the game universe is not confirmed female. Again I remind you all that Scott does not confirm fuck about these games. Fans have a tendency to claim their headcanons or whatever new fanon theories get popular have been confirmed to be canon. This is basically never true. Look at the semi-recent "Gregory is Scott's favorite" ordeal for an idea of how this information is shared in good faith and gets twisted nonetheless. Look at the comments under a fnaf au gacha life video for an idea of how people just straight up lie about that.

Cassidy in the games refers to himself as "he" and "him", we never see his physical appearance enough to make any judgment calls on his gender- any idea of his appearance is totally speculative, just like this theory- and most importantly, Cassidy is not exclusively a girls' name- it's actually a unisex name that started as a masculine one! It derives from the Irish surname Caiside, then became a masculine forename, then as it became anglicized as Cassidy it became unisex. In both modern day and the 80s, it is and was applicable as a boys' name.

Now, with that in mind, on to actual discussion of the Afton theory, and why I think movie Cassidy is one.

They look strikingly similar

Compare, for a moment, the appearances of Vanessa, William, and Cassidy. I'm using pictures of their actors because the pictures of them I could find online SUCKED.

William: Light skin, straight(?) brown hair, blue eyes. Vanessa: Light skin, straight blonde hair (though it's wavy in this picture, it's definitely straight for Vanessa), blue/maybe green eyes. Cassidy: Light skin, straight blonde hair, blue eyes.

The movie does suggest that Vanessa colors her hair blonde from brown (see: the brown roots), however, when she shows the photo of her childhood self and her father off to Mike, young Vanessa clearly has blonde hair as well.

And notably, her roots are just as blonde, suggesting that blonde was her natural hair color, but that it darkened as she got older, only for her to begin bleaching it back to its original color.

Now, blonde hair and blue/green eyes are both quite rare, but not rare enough that it's a dead ringer for a genetic connection. Hell, the Chica girl has blonde hair and blue eyes. However, Susie in the games has blonde hair and blue eyes, and Cassidy in the games very clearly has brown, and likely dark hair as well.

This makes the change to blonde with blue eyes very noticeable, and very noteworthy. And it’s a set of traits that he shares with Vanessa, as well as the notable blue eyes with William, as well as appearing to have a similar face shape.

Cassidy is inexplicably special

Cassidy is the first person who shares the image of Afton as Spring Bonnie with Mike when asked about who took Garrett. He seems more aware than anyone else of William, Garrett, William’s crimes, and what they’re doing.

When Mike asks who took Garrett, Cassidy responds by drawing a rabbit in the dirt- Spring Bonnie. (I will come back to this momentarily.) While the other kids believe Spring Bonnie is their friend, Cassidy seems to know the truth. He knows Garrett is dead, and offers Mike the chance to essentially see his ghost in exchange for Abby.

Furthermore, Cassidy doesn’t ever attack Abby, he doesn’t respond when William tells the children to wake up and go after her, and most interestingly-

Look at this image.

When Abby shows the missing kids what happened to them (in a scene I actually loved, btw, and I will take absolutely no criticism), you can see Jeremy in blue, Gabriel in the top hat, Fritz with the hook hand, Susie with long blonde hair, and… what I believe might actually be Garrett with dark hair and a red shirt. Because one thing is clear- that is not Cassidy.

Cassidy is not being controlled. He is fully aware, and he is angry. Hell, if you listen to his tone when he says “we want Abby,” it’s angry. Forceful. “We. Want. Abby.”

Again, Cassidy knows what is happening. He is angry and vengeful, and he’s the only one. So… why?

Well, honestly, this was my big qualm with the movie. Why was Cassidy special? In my eyes, there are four answers to this. He has a direct connection to William, a direct connection to Fazbear, a direct connection to every missing child that is unique to him, or he was the first or last of the missing kids. These would all set him apart. But we have no reason to believe he has a connection to FE, he was the fourth of the five missing kids as seen in the opening, and it seemed like the five of them were a group of friends. So what makes him special? He obviously knows or has something that sets him apart.

The imagery

Let me rewind now to when Mike first gets his answer about who took Garrett. He finds Cassidy in the woods and asks him for help remembering Garrett’s kidnapper. Cassidy responds by showing Mike a drawing of Spring Bonnie. Again, he knows that Spring Bonnie is evil, but more importantly here, he knows that Spring Bonnie took Garrett. Now, there are three ways he could know. One, process of elimination- the rabbit took him, so it took Garrett too. Two, assuming a relation to Afton, he saw or knew when this happened. Three, it was a matter of association.

Well, I actually doubt it was either of the first two. (You will see why this is not self contradictory in a second.) One, if it was because Spring Bonnie took Cassidy, well, Mike asked about Garrett, not Cassidy. For someone as obviously aware as Cassidy is, this is an obvious logical gap I doubt he’d make.

Two, Vanessa- Afton’s known daughter- didn’t know what happened to Garrett. When Mike asked- "asked"- if she knew, she said "not about Garrett." And while we don't have a clear timeline here (thanks Vanessa for your very ambiguous "in the 80s, kids went missing", we. we know), this was likely Afton's first kill. Meaning Cassidy was even younger then than he was when he died.

So, what do I mean by "it was a matter of association"? And how is this not self contradictory?

Well, assuming Cassidy didn't just. know Afton did it, what might have happened instead actually works even better with the idea that he knew Afton.

Compare the imagery here to that of the photo Vanessa shows Mike.

Spring Bonnie and the toy plane. If he saw Spring Bonnie and Vanessa with Garrett’s toy, seeing Garrett with that toy, he could assume that Spring Bonnie got it from him. Therefore, Garrett was taken by Spring Bonnie- Vanessa and Cassidy’s dad in the costume.

Their relationship

This one I’ll keep short. We only see Cassidy and William interact once. And it’s a very bizarre scene.

William is struggling, clinging to life, and Cassidy is standing, watching. Someone else said he was crying here, but I didn’t see it. Maybe, maybe not. I’m leaving that there. Either way, William reaches out to Cassidy, seemingly for help, and Cassidy shuts the door on him.

Watching the movie back and realizing Cassidy was never under William’s influence, this scene is… confusing, to say the least. Why would William reach for the help of the one child who was never under his thumb? What is he trying to appeal to? And why does Cassidy get the moment of being the one to shut the door on him?

Well, it’s obvious to see through Vanessa and the four missing children under his control that he is very clearly abusive to his children. Which isn’t a surprise to most, but anyway. Through the few minutes he and Vanessa are together, he berates her, strangles her, stabs her in the stomach and leaves her for dead, and Mike remarks that William “really messed [her] up”. He similarly berates and insults the missing kids, calling them pathetic and small. At the same time, however, he relies on his children to back him up. Vanessa is supposed to keep Mike from knowing anything and kill him if he gets too close. The animatronics are supposed to kill children and adults alike on his command. He leans on them. They are supposed to back him up.

And this would extend even to the one who he never controlled entirely if Cassidy was his son. His daughter let him down. His victims turned on him. But he still has one child left who hasn’t let him down. One who wasn’t there for him, but should be. Because that is the job of William’s children.

He reaches for Cassidy, the boy shuts the door on his murderer. The man who abused, betrayed, and slaughtered him all while he was meant to be his dad. William’s son is not going to clean up his messes now. He’s going to make him pay for them.

(ENDING DISCLAIMER THAT THIS IS ALL SPECULATION! I know there are many other explanations. This is just the one I like and I wanted to share it!)

[zichiwatchesyou]

Yeepee I finished II 17!!!!

Anyways incredibly dumb recap for people who doesn’t want to have a heart attack when they’re watching (spoilers under cut and I wrote this at 1am because I live in Taiwan)

MePhone can freeze time wtf (only things created by MeLife I think)

WHY ARE MY BOYS THE SECOND ONES OUT COME ON!!!!!

Payjay semi canon?!?! Paper seems to be extremely defensive when Salt said OJ was her boyfriend

Test tube died and Fan got it all figured out (Fan’s the mvp in this ep to me), died because he knew to much

Toilet was controlling MePhone X that’s cool (semi mvp btw for pulling the plug)

Paintbrush DIDN’T die, lightbulbs out instead (poor painty)

Cobs controlled MePhoneX and killed all the people in the hotel (except for some of them since they were saved by mepad, who’s another semi mvp)

Knife and Suitcase acted like they’re fighting but they were actually wasting Cob’s time so Apple(Bow) and Toilet to pull the plug

Anyways everything MePhone4 created were gone (including the contestants) so they could save the Shimmers so yeah everyone bites the dust

Surprisingly depressing ending ngl thought it would have been dramatic but this ending is a lot better than what I imagined.

This episode is OBVIOUSLY not the end of II why are people freaking out

[shrinkthisviolet]

Has your OC ever made (canon character) laugh? / What about cry? Which canon character doesn’t respect your OC whatsoever?Who does your OC love? (platonic)What is your OC’s ‘‘darkness moment’’ in the plot?

For Morgan and her semi-evil doppelganger

Has your OC ever made (Cisco Ramon) laugh? / What about cry?

Morgan and RF!Morgan have both made Cisco laugh, yeah! They’ve done so in similar ways—by teasing him in pre-s1 situations. Morgan continues doing this in s1 and beyond…meanwhile RF!Morgan isn’t really able to, because of Eowells tearing them apart 🥺

As for crying…RF!Morgan has definitely made Cisco cry more. Seeing the girl he once considered a little sister now emulating the Man in Yellow/Reverse Flash is gutting, Cisco cries every time he thinks about it. He wonders what happened to the sweet girl who used to play pranks on Caitlin with him and was always so thoughtful 🥺

Morgan’s made Cisco cry too, but usually for happy/prideful reasons. Though post-s1, Cisco and Morgan both cry for each other, about what Eowells has put them both through

Which canon character doesn’t respect your OC whatsoever?

Morgan: Hartley (at least for now 👀). Amunet later, and the feeling will very much be mutual

RF!Morgan: probably Barry tbh. He never gets a chance to really befriend her, by Eowells’s design, so he’s more inclined to see the worst in her

Who does your OC love? (platonic)

Morgan: Tina, Barry, Iris, Cisco, Caitlin! Also Eowells 😭 tragically

(also putting James here tentatively even tho they’re still together romantically at this point in time 🫣)

RF!Morgan: Tina, Iris, Cisco, Caitlin. Also a little bit Eowells (less so after she learns he killed her (god)mother, but…it still lingers. She hates it)

yes, ik a number of these are familial relationships, and that's a different prompt on this list, but idc, platonic encompasses familial so it counts

What is your OC’s “darkness moment” in the plot?

Morgan: As of right now…I guess threatening Hartley after he hurts Barry/wanting to truly kill him? She doesn’t say it outright, but Hartley clocks it. And it’s quite shocking coming from someone with a no-kill code.

RF!Morgan: Killing Eowells is the immediate answer I thought of, but there is something darker: when she’s rescuing Caitlin from Zoom, Morgan intentionally breaks Caitlin’s suppression necklace to forcibly unleash Killer Frost. Hey, at the end of the day, she’s still a villain 🤷‍♀️ and she wants Zoom dealt with quickly, and she’s not stupid enough to take on Zoom without a backup plan. Who better than an ice-wielder to defeat a speedster?

(In this fic, I mentioned that Caitlin’s powers manifest post-s1 in this AU, so s2 is when she’s having a ton of paranoia over it and trying to conceal it. Morgan saw Caitlin's frosty side* peak out at her when she begged Caitlin for help post-s1 (in this fic), so she knows Caitlin has ice powers…so she unleashes Caitlin's ice powers by force, dismissing Caitlin's fear as childish. Which...okay, at least Caitlin doesn't have to deal with having an alter, but still RF!Morgan, you can't just do that smh

It's okay tho, I support her wrongs 💞)

*KF is just Caitlin btw, in every (...or almost every, at least) fic I'll write about her. I personally find that more compelling

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[shelly-vision]

screw it, making a prediction for the rest of the season here. Spoilers I guess since the episode descriptions leaked some stuff.

okay so we know that Zee is safe next episode and that Priya, Caleb, and Julia all make final six. From there, here’s my predictions. First off, Wayne goes next episode. I just can’t see him making it much further. After that, either Zee or Ripaxel double elimination. I feel like both could happen, and whichever doesn’t probably is gonna be the next episode. From there, I think that since that’s the last episode that mentions Priya and Caleb’s plotline, I think that’s where Priya goes. In the final five, I think either Raj or Caleb will go. Julia in fourth, (this is where they’d canonize MKulia if they do it please please please please please), then the final three would be Damien, MK, and Raj/Caleb. Raj/Caleb goes third, and Damien wins.

Btw, I’m basically certain Damien and MK are gonna be the finalists because it feels like they have just the right amount of similarities and differences that this has probably been set up since season one. They both wear hats, they both played a role in the storyline of the season one finalist, they were both pre-merge fan favorite boots who went out back to back in episodes where they were certain of their safety, and if they were finalists would be back to back again, and are both underestimated. The differences are that MK’s strategy was to make herself underestimated by the rest of the cast to intentionally fly under the radar, whereas Damien flies under the radar unintentionally due to him being new to the show. They’re on opposite sides of the morality system, with Damien going out last season for his something overtly heroic and MK going out for something overtly villainous. Even in the most recent episode, MK is punished for cheating at the game, something overtly unsportsmanlike and disloyal to the rules of the game (and also her teammates that didn’t want to), while also in that episode, Damien talked about wanting to be like a true knight, which often portrayed as fair, loyal, and chivalrous. They are such perfect counterparts to be finalists that I will be genuinely baffled if this was unintentional.

(Oh, and also MK is unironically the most important character of this cast. Like most of the main plot lines trace back to her. She’s the one who recorded the confessionals, thus allowing Julia to be exposed as her real self, allowing Bowie to learn about Millie’s notebook, which broke Millie and Priya’s friendship and allowed Bowie to make final two, and in this season, she’s the one who found the intern outfit, she’s the one who cheated and therefore brought was the main factor in Millie and Emma’s eliminations and semi relevant to Nichelle’s, she’s the one who went down the slide at the same time Damien and Millie had to, which led to Millie’s elimination in the next episode, she’s the one who made an alliance with Julia that prevented her from going home early, almost all of the main plotline could not progress without MK. So yeah, I think she’s more than deserving of a finalist spot.)

[eeclare]

Something that I’ve noticed in bobs burgers is that they seem to be hinting at the passage of time starting around season 10-11 ish??

Like hear me out:

It really feels like they’re hinting that almost a year has passed since the first season

in s11 when they make the trip to the airport to see gloria and al, Bob is all excited about it because that means they don’t have to go on their trip to florida “this year” and we know that they visit Linda’s parents yearly

And we have only had one episode in which they actually visit them lol

Not to mention the fact that Tina has now had two “bday”episodes (s12 wasn’t rlly birthday related, but it takes place in the weeks before her bday and it is a minor side plot) which heavily indicates that they are trying to imply the passage of time in which all of these episodes kind of take place in the same year

Obvi Christmas and thanksgiving eps are repeated a ton but you (as in the collective you) have to keep in mind the fact that this is a tv show and tv shows typically have to follow certain rules and such esp if disney/fox is in charge

And the movie takes place in the summer time (which comes after Tina’s bday, as i just learned)

+ the summer also happens in the first season after Tina’s birthday yet again

So after saying all this, there’s just one thing that I DO NOT understand at alllllllll which is the fact that they didn’t make s13 or 14 have Tina starting high school or the kids going into dif grades and such

Like fr people THINK of the possibilities

There would be soo many emotions with gene and louise navigating going to a different school than tina and tina just starting high school in general

UGH and all of the high school experiences she could have

And tbh we could keep her as a 9th grader forever and I would be just as happy

Okay obviously I do actually understand WHY they chose not to do that, bcs sometimes when they age characters up in shows like that it bombs

But think of All Grown Up (rugrats reboot/aged up) which I know is kinda niche(?) and an entirely different series from rugrats but still I always just loved the idea of aging characters up so that we kind of grow with them lol

(btw am i the only one that can kind of see a tina-tackling-high school spin off show being semi-successful?)

and I also feel the need to mention Boy Meets World which effectively aged their characters up AND kept it all in one show lmao

So we know it’s possible, it’s just dangerous 💀

Anyway, at end of my very long winded rant, I just want to say that the creators are just (subtly) shoving it right in our faces and we just are not acknowledging the fact that only a year as gone by in the canonical bobs burgers universe and that is just totally wild to me

thank u for your time 🤟

[epiceneandroid]

day 19 for @cocajimmycola‘s mogai icon challenge, a character that deserves everything good!

oh god cammy.

cammy white. cammy fucking white.

she deserves the world. she does not deserve any more shadaloo/illuminati/whatever the fuck jp is shenanigans but: unfortunately i feel like she’ll be on the trauma conga line and EVEN PROBABLY SEPARATED FROM HER SEMI-CANON GIRLFRIEND (juni) AND HER SISTER (decapre) AGAIN.

insane infodump from me under the cut because GOOD LORD i can write an incoherent essay about street fighter apparently!

so context: cammy white was a clone of m bison using his dna. (hence the intersex/klinefelter’s syndrome specifically trans woman headcanon, and the lesbian headcanon since m bison likely is attracted to women, being a...genderless person who cast away his womanhood to become more evil. it’s complicated. street fighter lore is complicated.) she was then abused by m bison, implied to be in multiple ways, and groomed to become a personal “doll” for his army of 15-16 year old girls that were brainwashed into becoming his bodyguards. (again. street fighter lore is REALLY weird.) she was rescued by either chun li or guile depending on the continuity, and eventually she broke free from the brainwashing and joined up with a secret agent group based in england called delta red. she worked for delta red in street fighter ii-street fighter iv, but in street fighter ii she had the issue of “i don’t remember who i am or why i am fighting for delta red”. this amnesia was due to a dissociative break of “i do NOT want to fucking remember i was a child soldier for a creepy old...genderless primordial spirit that looks like a man” and she broke when she eventually recovered her memory that she was m bison’s clone, but eventually got over it for the most part because her new mission was to rescue her close friends, the dolls, who were the other brainwashed girls who were forced to serve m bison. especially her sister, decapre, who she was also partially made from the dna of. (hence the klinefelter’s syndrome headcanon, since, again, she was made from the dna of a cis woman and a genderless primordial spirit with xy chromosomes.) in street fighter iv, she had already rescued juni, who started living with her, and they both were implied to develop romantic feelings for each other by street fighter v. afterwards, she tried to rescue decapre, who DESPISED her, and wanted her to die for not rescuing her first, but she’s also dying because of her unstable body. and m bison taunts cammy about it too. because he’s a bastard. in street fighter v, juri han eventually helps cammy rescue the rest of the dolls, along with the other world warriors (a team assembled by karin kanzuki (aka tony stark but better) consisting of ryu, ken, dhalsim, chun li, guile, birdie, rashid, charlie nash, “rainbow” mika nakanawa, ibuki, and...some others i’m forgetting), and decapre even breaks brainwashing and helps her escape shadaloo and save the other dolls. so cammy’s life seems pretty happy so far...until in street fighter 6, where she is given a NEW mission involving (the game isn’t out yet) johann petrovich, who most notably taunts her by calling her his “little doll”, implying he might be another m bison successful bodily transplant. so yeah. cammy might be fucked, but i am WISHING better for her. i’m wishing her to enter a polycule with juni and juri (juri and juni are metamours but they’re NOT dating, juni would be terrified of juri) and have a happy life taking care of her cats and being safe.

SORRY THIS WAS SO LONG. anyway, intersex (klinefelter’s syndrome, specifically) trans lesbian cammy white. best headcanon ever btw.

[pherabloom]

General stuff.

Time  for  a  big  Ivy  thought  dump.  So  to  start, yeah this is my version of Ivy so don't expect her to be like any canon Ivy. In regard to her powers  Ivy  isn't really  “naturally”  able  to  charm  anyone.  She’s  not  particularly  charming  or  manipulative. She's more of an awkward feral girl than a true femme fatale. She’s  always  been  considered  weird  and  little  off-beat.  Her  physical  beauty ?  Exceptional.  Her  social  skills  and  grace ?  Near-non  existent.   As  a  normal  human,  despite  her  also  being  incredibly  intelligent  ( Eventually  becoming  a  botanist and  toxicologist )  it  was  really  her  physical  beauty  that  has  ever  caused  anyone  to  take  interest  in  her, otherwise yeah, she was generally thought of as a weird and a little creepy. Why ? Because if its not obvious I portray Ivy as on the ASD spectrum and she came across that way to me in my fav canon portrayal of her from Gotham. Further,  she  would  be  oblivious  to  her own looks  if  she  wasn’t  forced  to  take  notice  of  it  because  people  suck  and  are  creeps. Still  previous  to  her  “transformation”  this  was  really  back-of-the-mind,  don’t  think  about  it  unless  something  explicitly  made  her  recognize  it type of thing. Ivy never once consciously used her looks to get herself anywhere.

As  a  mutant  Ivy’s  dangerous.  She's  misanthropic  ( leaning  a  little  further  toward  misandry,  entirely  trauma  based ).  She’s  highly  “antisocial”  per say,  and  she’s  learned  to  harness  her  abilities  to  facilitate herself in this.  But  again  she  doesn’t  really  have  a  lot  of  natural  charm  and  becoming  a  semi-undead  mutant  didn’t  increase  this  aspect  of  her  socially,  she  just  secretes  a  potent  pheromone  that  makes  people  far  more  susceptible  to  her  suggestions  which  she’s  had  to  become  aware  of  it  because  she  can’t  seem  to  turn  it  off  naturally  ( much  to  her  dismay ). So yeah, Ivy isn't a natural seductress, its literally a chemical thing she can't control. It’s  not  only  men  that  this  effects,  btw,  but  occasionally  it  seems  more  potent  with  (*straight  or  bi)  men,  but  its  because  they’re  more  likely  to  feel  attracted  to  her  physically,  which  seems  to  make  the  pheromone  work  better  on  them.  It  inspires  devotion  to  her  and  when  there's  a  form  of  physical  attraction  present  people  tend  to  get  their  wires  crossed  and  it  can  quickly  turn  into  romantic  obsession. However this  works  on  everyone,  regardless  to  sexuality  /  gender.  For  straight  fems  and  gay  mascs  its  just  like,  more  of   feeling  very,   very  compelled  to  do  as  Ivy  wants  and  to  be  friendly / close  to  her.  Devotion,  but  without  the  common  romantic / sexual  infatuation  that  tends  to  effect  straight  and  bi  mascs  and  bi  and  lesbian  fems.  She’s  a  siren  very  much  in  the  traditional  /  mythological  sense  of  the  term,  she  uses  this  power  to  lead  people  astray  and  get  what  she  wants. This,  while  def  having  its  advantages,  has  compounded  with  her  trauma  in  making  her  extremely  distrustful  toward  others.  Since  she  can’t  naturally  turn  it  off  ( though  I  imagine  it  can  be  artificially  weakened,  as  can  her  other  powers,  just  for  the  sake  of  being  able  to  contain  her  in  Arkham )  she  can’t  often  be  sure  if  people  are  being  nice  / friendly  to  her  out  of  authenticity  or  because  of  the  pheromone  she  secretes.  I  also  follow  the  idea  that  she’s  also  highly  poisonous / venomous  but  this  seems  to  be  something  she  does  have  some  form  of  control  over.  I  like  to  keep  some  comic  canon  in  the  sense  that  this  is  something  she  is  able  to  develop  an  antidote  for,  so  that  not  everyone  who  is  kissed / bitten  by  her  has  to  die  or  become  dangerously  ill.  That  being  said  she’s  usually  the  only  one  who  possesses  the  antidote  and  its  in  limited  supply  without  her. I  also  don’t  portray  Ivy  as  like. . . Caring  about  plants  to  an  all  consuming  extent.  She’s  a  lowkey  echo  warrior  but  not  to  a  nonsensical  extreme.  The  fact  is  Ivy  has  always  loved  plants,  gardening  and  nature, herbology is her long time special interest which she transferred into botany,  but  she’s  not  entirely  illogical  about  it.  The  thing  is  however as a mutant  she  is  extremely  chlorokinetic  and  she  uses  those  powers  to  their  fullest.  She  can  and  will  influence  all  organic / plant  life  around  her.   Further, she  is  able  to  alter / mutate  plants / vegetation  and  typically  any  plant  that  has  come  in  contact  with  her  power / influence  will  be  genetically  different  to  whatever  it  started  life  as which is one of Ivy's most interesting traits as a mutant.

A  lot  of  the  plants  Ivy  influences  become  aggressive  and  are  entirely  susceptible  to  her  will  but  will also  function  in  a  monstrous / predatory  manner  entirely  on  their  own without her.  Others  simply  become  jumbo  size  and  are  extremely  strong.  They  occasionally  start  doing  really  weird  shit  that  isn’t  really  “normal”  for  plants,  or  rather,  they  do  things  that  plants  might  normally  do  but  on  a  much  smaller  scale  thus  meaning  it  doesn’t  normally  effect  or  cause  any  issues  for  the  majority,  so  suddenly  when  Ivy  amplifies  them these "normal" plant things  become  a  problem. Think  the  killer  plants  scene  from  Jumanji  amplified  by  100.  You  can  imagine  how  truly  dangerous  this  makes  Ivy  if  she's  able  to  have  any  unrestrained  contact  with  plants / vegetation.  She  can  essentially  make  biological  weapons  out  of  any  plant  life  within  an  instant. Its  more  Ivy’s  misanthropy  that  drives  her  than  her  concern  for  plant  life  however.  As  a  result  yes,  she  is  a  echo /  bio  terrorist,  yes  she  does  lash  out  under  the  pretense  of  preserving  /  aiding  the  environment  and  she  does  genuinely  believe  in  this  to  an  extent, but  the more  excessive  aspects  of  it  is  her  hatred  of  people  and  a  misguided  sense  that  she's  ultimately  helping  someone / something  in  the  process. She  uses  her  powers  to  promote  green-life  bur  given  the  way  Ivy’s  plants  are,  ie  they are  naturally  predators  they  are  actively  hostile  to  humans  /  animals  /  insects  which  is  ultimately  not  great  for  the  environment,  since  they  have  the  capacity ��to  COMPLETELY  alter  life  on  earth  as  we  know  it this is kind of shallow.   So after  experience  Ivy  does  come  to  realize  this.  She's  not  out  for  plants  to  take  over  the  world,  because  she  doesn’t  care  about  world  domination,  but  she  will  weaponize  them  for  her  own  means. Whether  for  self  defence  or  as  a  means  of  exerting  her  will / force. As  I  mentioned  the  result  of  all  this  makes  Ivy  one  of  the  most  powerful  meta-humans  known.  She's  also  an  object  of  scientific  intrigue  as  are  the  plants  she  influences.  A  few  have  probably  been  taken  and  kept  as  lab  specimens for study,  but  there  is  only  ONE  Ivy  therefore  she's  not  really  able  to  be  studied  effectively.  Theres  been  attempts,  but  they  don’t  go  anywhere  largely  because  Ivy  is  still  recognized  as  a  human  with  rights and  she  is  particularly  protected  as  such  within  Gotham  city  ( probably  a  lot  thanks  to  the  influence  of  Batsy / Bruce and Oswald,  but  I  also  think  its  fair  to  say  the  population  of  Gotham  has  grown  to  take  a  weird  pride  in  their  “home-grown  freaks” and  can  be  protective  /  supportive  of  them  in  cases  like  this anyway ) But  its  not  uncommon  for  others  to  try  and  violate  these  rights  in  the  name  of  "the  greater  good."  As  a  RESULT  and  through  experience  with  these  things,  when  Ivy  isn’t  in  Arkham  she’s  usually  left  alone  and  she  understands  the  danger  she's  in  by  acting  out  which  means  she's  very  reclusive  and  doesn’t  tend  to  associate  with  human  populations  if  she  can  help  it.  She  never  goes  far  from  Gotham  because  that  is  the  place  she  is  “protected”  but  usually  if  she's  not  in  Arkham  she’s  probably  hauled  up  somewhere  in  Gotham’s  surrounding  wilderness  in  a  personal  grove  of  protective  /  man  eating  plants.  Typically,  as  long  as  Ivy  isn’t  doing  anything  to  threaten  anyone  in  Gotham  she's  left  alone  and  the  general  consensus  is  if  you  stumble  upon  Ivy’s  grove  you  need  to  leave  asap  and  stay  away  from  her.  She's  kinda  like  a  local  and  very  real  cryptid  in  that  regard.