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[besiegedhunter]

Kal'tsit's relationship with Red and role in Siracusa's story

Red story post but with a Kal'tsit focus because you shouldn't separate them (the writers did and that's the subject of this post.

There's a few other topics I want to talk briefly about as well but I have more thoughts on how Kal'tsit's possible role in the Siracusa story, how she contrasts with Grandma as well as her thoughts on Red leaving.

Continuing below:

Grandma and the Signore dei Lupi

So firstly, I want to set the stage for this post by discussing the themes of Siracusa, being that of family and authority figures however just for this post I specifically want to talk about the Signore dei Lupi and then specifically narrowing it down to Grandma, Red and Kal'tsit.

See the main reason is that the Signori to make the most efficient killer for their game raise their Fang from a really young age, even as young as zero in Zaaro and Bernado's case. The interesting thing about this is that while for the purpose of creating a killer, it makes the Signori a guardian figure for their Fang, one that's inherently abusive.

Il Siracusano gives us Lappland rebelling against her Dad, him abusing her and her resolving herself to fully stop caring about him.

Texas coming to accept that she's a Siracusan, with all the things she despises about it and then it being affirmed that she has a healthy and happy home with Penguin Logistics at the end.

The main conflict is by Bernado, a Fang, who had his whole life decided by Zaaro. Who didn't know there was a life outside of the mafia and when he found out there was, knew he couldn't escape even though it existed. Who grew to hate his guardian in Zaaro and the mafia he forced him into and tried destroying both in the same breath.

How Agnese, another Signori, did deprive her Fang Lunacub of a normal life and is inspired by Emperor to do right and be a good guardian figure

And then Red.

Grandma, like all Signori but possibly even more than any other, is an abusive guardian figure. Red has countless issues and even Kal'tsit finds it near impossible to help her and it's all because of what Grandma put Red through and Red doesn't even know the harm that Grandma put her through. She's happy to be Grandma's weapon.

And further to this, another sad thing is that she Red likely doesn't intend on returning to Rhodes Island either:

Red is a Fang. Rhodes was a temporary stop before she went back to Siracusa. She couldn't accept the help that Kal'tsit offered her or likely acknowledge what Rhodes has done. It's awful.

But as I mentioned, Siracusa is all about authority figures, family and well guardians. Grandma was awful to Red and didn't prepare her for the rest of the world, so she broke down when she left Grandma.

However Kal'tsit took her in then and like Emperor, she gave this lone Lupo a home and a place to belong. Red's files demonstrate to me that Kal genuinely cares about Red's wellbeing even beyond that of a doctor to a genuine guardian. I also think we might see a glimmer of them being casual with each other:

And the moment before this:

To me it reads as Kal'tsit acting on how she felt in Red's Archive 4 in trying to get to acknowledge that she has a choice, that there are other paths for her as well as the price of a life, whether her own or someone else's. It's a speech on Crownslayer but large parts apply to Red as well.

But now that the Signori and Grandma have been explained, as well as a bit of Red and Kal'tsit's relationship let's get onto Kal'tsit's thoughts on Red leaving Rhodes Island and I think that the above screenshots are a good seque.

Red's Departure

So when reading IS-ST-4 the line where Red says that she promised Kal'tsit only to kill wolves struck me as that being a requirement for Red to go to Siracusa however it's actually not. In the second screenshot above Red says the exact same thing: That she will only kill wolves.

Then later I was reading Lunacub's files and read this segment:

It should be obvious that this is Kal'tsit by them referring to Red so personally but in the next archive file it's confirmed by Agnese that she talked to 'your doctor' as well.

"I know that Red went to Siracusa, I know what she did," reads like Kal'tsit wasn't aware where Red went or why. Like Red left and she previously had no clue as to why only to talk to Agnese and find out.

Now I want to circle back to earlier: the Signori are guardian figures to their Fangs. Of them all only Agnese is striving to be a good one and here she is talking to Kal'tsit who herself is a guardian to a Fang in Red.

It's not just two guardian figures talking about their wards but it's also Kal'tsit learning the truth about Red. Later in Lunacub's files Agnese, who has been a part of the Signori's game for centuries and has likely witnessed the deaths of many of the Fangs she's raised outright states she talked to Kal'tsit about Red leaving:

Red's Archive 4 shows that Kal'tsit did not know what Red was going through and specifically who Grandma is. She then talks to Agnese, another Signori and surely learns not just that Red's in Siracusa or a Fang and what that means but probably how a Fang is raised. Again, Agnese raised kids to be killers and had them die futilely. Agnese could even possibly tell Kal'tsit about Grandma specifically and what does Kal'tsit say next?

"this pointless conflict has gone on long enough."

To me that and 'your doctor tells me she will return, hopefully' tell me that Kal'tsit really does care about Red. Like think about it from her position:

She took in this hurting Lupo, had to convince her to let her stay and after realizing the severity and that she couldn't do anything still resolved to help her in any little way possible. Red was a founding member of S.W.E.E.P and that in turn likely was made at the beginning of Rhodes. So let's say Red did join late 1094/earlier 1095.

Up till Il Siracusano in Autumn 1099, Kal'tsit would've been protecting Red for four years just for her to randomly disappear one day only to learn sometime later that she's been groomed since a baby to participate in a killing game and the wolf doing it cared not one bit for her. That that's where she is and doing.

While buried in an operator's files and not the focus at any point it's poignant that Kal'tsit and Agnese met and talked and that Kal'tsit heard the truth about Red from a Signori striving to do the best for her ward.

It's just as important that Kal'tsit is set up to directly contrast Grandma as a guardian figure for Red. It was set up all the way back in Red's archive 4 and without Grandma being mentioned once in Il Siracusano, it's being reinforced by the themes of Il Siracusano and Agnese and her relationship with Lunacub.

"This pointless conflict has gone on long enough."

If that doesn't mean that Kal'tsit is entering Siracusa and we see Mon3tr wrestle with a giant bipedal wolf I don't know what does.

Now! :

Additional things

While we can't say when the next Siracusa event will take place (apart from the event. 5.5. This November. I beg.) we can take an educated guess. For example the latest events to come out, not including Sui events, are Rides to Lake Silbernherze in Spring of 1100 and Zwillingsturme im Herbst in September 1100.

Assuming that the next Siracusa event happens around when other new events are coming out then it's quite possible that it'll come out either Winter of 1100? Maybe early 1101? Maybe it'll even be a year after Zwillingsturme at Autumn 1101.

Uh Il Siracusano happened in 1099 Autumn so Red's probably going to be in Siracusa, not a part of Rhodes, for at least a year. Kal'tsit is going to have spent a year worrying about Red and her awful situation for a year also.

Have fun with that.

As for the last one. I've always been curious because of Ascalon's dedication to protect Theresa and Red being assigned to protect Amiya in 4-1 and the familiarity that Amiya has:

Whether Red could be intended to play a role like Ascalon to Theresa or whether they're close or how long they've known each other for.

Well it only just came to me that Red's files appear to be from around when she joined, which again late 1094 or early 1095 as one of the first things would be the medical exams and tests. And well:

Amiya approved of the classifying of Red's information back then alongside Kal'tsit and assumedly Ascalon. There's no Doctor because this is before Chernobog happened.

So after the fall of Babel, Theresa's death, Doctor being put in the sarcophagus and everything, Amiya probably did meet Red shortly after all that and knew each other for two years at least before the events of the Reunion arc or four years as of Volsinii just like Kal'tsit.

So that's interesting to me.

Thank you for reading this far and never forget the Signori's conflict is pointless and one day we'll see this happen:

[me-beef]

@strangeravatar made a great point

i was gonna focus on the spike-hotboxing-celestia aspect but i got distracted somewhere along the way and i think i forgot what joke i was trying to make

but dont you think its interesting how many guards of the exact same color/body type she's managed to accrue?? i do

ooohh you want to go look at our stickers so bad

[technically-human]

Bisexual crisis Crystal edition

[thetimelordbatgirl]

The police in Scotland have the chance to do the most funniest thing right now.

[cozylittleartblog]

Columbo and the Knight (1984)

put me in the universe where Columbo ran through the 1980s and had a crossover episode with Knight Rider. I think they deserved it, and I am not just saying that because they're my two favorite Old Shows. @telebeast wrote a little fanfic blurb about it and I HAD to visualize it into a comic (which is also the longest comic I have finished thus far at five pages...), so writing credit goes to them.

Autism W!

[somerandomdudelmao]

Someone mailed me a bunch of handmade tiny orcas..I….oh, MY GOD, hahahaha. Whoever it was, I hope you're having a reeeeally great day because you absolutely made mine

[skunkes]

quick non joke to practice anatomyyyy real quickkkk

[stars-obsession-pit]

A cult has been causing trouble for the Infinite Realms in their search for power and eternal life. And to make things worse, the Observants suspect that they have at least one actual ghost—or possibly even a traitorous Observant—working with them and interfering with their view. This could become a major problem…

However, as Observants, they’ve sworn not to intervene directly, so they have to pick someone else to look deeper into the situation for them. And, if necessary, to deal with it.

They choose Phantom for this role, since his half-human nature means he’ll have an easier time operating in the living world. Danny’s not entirely happy with the assignment, but the situation does seem like a genuine issue so he’s willing to look into it (if in his own way).

Since he doesn’t know how prepared the cult is for ghosts, he decides that infiltration would be the best way to gather info. Thus, he takes on a new identity in his human form and approaches the cult, expressing interest in the publicly known part of their group. Then, a bit later, he manages to successfully gain admittance into some of the more private meetings. Everything is progressing as planned!

…Though he didn’t expect to like one of his fellow initiates so much. He hopes he can change their mind on things and bring them out of the cult with him when he’s done.

Meanwhile, a hero from the Justice League has also been sent to infiltrate the cult and investigate the rumors about it. It’s gone off without a hitch so far, but they’ve gained a potential entanglement in the form of one of the other new members whom they’re developing a crush on…

[myopicry]

lurking in radfem spaces has really changed my entire view of most mainstream internet spaces because once you realize just how censored women's voices and feminist thought are on these sites, and how much porn and misogynistic values are defended, you can't unsee it.

how anyone can bear to participate in an online space where porn, of all things, is lauded as the bastion of "self-expression" and yet any woman slightly critical of popular cultural opinions is demonized is wild, especially when a lot of that porn is a) violent and misogynistic b) often accessible by minors c) gross and shallow d) myriad of other reasons far better writers have probably described

fuck I'm just so tired. seeking rationality online is just opening a pandora's box of garbage and seeing the reflection of how bleak the social hegemony has become.

[forgetriestowrite]

kinda love how Nick and Taliesin are playing their characters and reminding us that Pelor is not just "Don't fucking look into the sun or you'll blind yourself" and droughts and stuff, he's also the thing that warms the earth and the thing that reminds people to keep going and daylight after a long moonless night

and Melora is not just the thing that saved Fjord and makes trees grow and is loving and kind, she's also the kind of ocean that breaks boats and she is quicksand and poison ivy and natural selection and she does not (usually) pick favorites because nature waits for no one

[tinukis]

day 5 - little brother

so incredibly self indulgent but yeah anyway... little brother w his three older brothers

(please more asl + uta/asul bros please)

[doctorwhoisadhd]

clara oswald is the only doctor who character who could have made torchwood MORE fucked up

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Bonus 8: How met your mother (CSSR design by @qourmet!)

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[brainmuncher]

The emergency

A good number of members within the Justice League have children. Not all of those kids are biological or adopted but they are their kids nonetheless. Some of those kids are even old enough to be adult heroes of their own, but even then they are still their kids. And the other kids tend to take up heroism at a very young age to most people's chagrin. Although as shown by the original child hero, now going by Nightwing, it’s not as easy as telling the kids to stop.

It was learned through intense hardship that smothering the child heroes was just asking for trouble. Despite how much the older heroes wanted to stay close to their kids, it was seen as overbearing and a show of mistrust. They would act out with even less backup in retaliation, which would only bring even more stress.

So to satisfy the need for protection without stepping on any toes, two new emergency meeting signals were introduced.

One was for the kids to send off. Each one was gifted a small device that could be hidden in their person. The device had both a mic and a tracking chip that could be activated when they were in extreme danger. As soon as the device was active a signal would be sent to the league for an emergency distress signal with the details of who sent it. Due to an outcry from the kids, the device could not be activated by the guardian of the child. The mic and locator could only be activated from the device itself. It wasn’t nearly as protective as some of the more worried leaguers would like, but it was at least something. 

The second signal was one that the leaguer with a kid in danger could activate. This signal could be activated with a single code into the communicators that every member owned. If the member who sent out the signal didn’t specify what kid was in danger, every member would receive a generalized notification of the emergency alert for one of the kids. This wasn’t ideal, but it was learned early on that the guardian of the child was often too distressed to make the code more complicated. It was best to leave it simple and answer questions at the emergency meeting.

Which was great in all, until someone who doesn’t have a child involved with heroics in their care sends off a general emergency.

In places all over the globe, an emergency meeting signal message was sent by Hal Jordan, one of the lanterns. He didn’t include what child was in danger in the signal, meaning that it could be any of the underaged heroes. And considering he didn’t have a child in his care, that made multiple members panic.

When was the last time they checked in with the kids in their care? Who was the one he was sending the code for? What happened to the child he had noticed was in danger? Why is he the one that noticed? Where were their kids? Who was in danger?

Because of the nebulous nature of the call, it didn’t take long for multiple heroes to find the nearest transport to the watchtower and tumble in. What they didn’t expect was the absolute haggard appearance of their friend. He was standing in the meeting room looking like the world had been destroyed before his very eyes. The way he sat without even cracking a sarcastic remark made multiple members pause.

“Hal?” Wonder Woman called, her face pinched in concern. “What has happened?”

The aforementioned member looked over who had already arrived before settling on her face. It was at that moment she knew that he was only looking so collected through willpower alone. This wasn’t just any child of the league, this was personal.

“My nephew Danny has been captured,” He began, sending a wave of different emotions circling the room. “I’ve been trying to find where they took him for a week now and I can’t get any leads. I need your help.”

The unsaid questions and emotions were nearly palpable. Multiple members turned to one another or stared with a million questions. Nobody had known that Hal even had a nephew named Danny. Sure he mentioned someone named Jason at times, but he never indicated anything else. The fact that he hadn’t mentioned him or the fact that he’d been apparently searching for a week was strange.

“And why are you only telling us now? Why did you wait so long?” Superman asked, speaking up the question that was on multiple minds.

A fire of anger curled in Hal's eyes. It was fierce and protective. It was a mixture of appalment for being questioned on his decision and fury for the reasons why he had to do it in the first place. He stepped forward towards the center table, slamming his palms down and leaning into it.

“Because any person that goes against the group will be declared an enemy of the United States. I’ve already had my account and housing connected to Green Lantern seized,” He explained with a deceptively calm tone. “I also needed to make sure that they didn’t have any connections with the Justice League. They have their agents everywhere.”

Unsurprisingly, Batman appeared from the gathered heroes from seemingly nowhere. Despite the feud between the two of them, the Bat was completely zeroed in on the situation. While he had a decent amount of distrust in the lantern, mainly because of the parallax incident, he could tell that the man was genuine. And the Bat always did have a blind spot for children.

“Explain,” Was all Batman said, staring Hal down.

The lantern in question looked at him with a grim face. This was it. Now or never.

“They’re called the Ghost Investigation Ward, or GIW for short. They hunt down and either exterminate or experiment on anyone they deem ectocontaminated or a ghost,” Hal started to explain, his hand curling on the table in frustration. “My brother Jack faked his death and ran off to be with another woman. Those fucks deemed my nephew as ectocontaminated and tried to take him from his home. He ran from his family so that they couldn’t be arrested for knowingly harboring an ecto entity. Told me that he remembered my face from a photo his dad tried to hide in the attic and sought me out.”

If the fire in his eyes were any stronger, they would probably become physical and burn down the room. It was undeniable that Hal Jordan was understandably completely pissed off. This situation was terrible from down to the very root.

“I tried to hide him but they somehow found him anyway. Now my civilian name is being heavily monitored and Green Lantern is being hunted down,” He finished his explanation. “If you join me in this, be prepared to lose everything.”

This was so much worse than anyone could’ve predicted.

[deerspherestudios]

Hello Deersphere, I'm magical girl, and honestly I'm so happy I get to ask you a question cause real talk, I am enjoying the community of Mushroom Oasis and the Character Mychel that we adore so much, and hopefully once I get my Fanfic done, maybe I can show it to you once its in the clear.

Then again, I do have a question about Mychel, and I'm very aware that he doesn't think much about children since I read the answers, but you don't have to answer this if you don't want to, I'm just curious in general :3.

Does he have any male parts by any chance, or no?

P.S. Don't worry my Fanfiction will be Fluff 💚🍄♥️

He's not sure if he wants to answer that.

[faunandfloraas]

A month with Seungmin and Chan <3