#well this grew legs

[dark-elf-writes]

Ok so Hojo half sibling au what happens when cloud tells mama Strife about his new brother?

Cloud didn’t call often.

It was a sad truth that Claudia had learned to live with. Long distance calls were expensive, and a trooper’s salary only went so far. She certainly couldn’t afford to call as often as she liked even as the closest thing to a medical professional in Nibelheim (the others in the village only came to her as a last resort, like she was something tainted. A witch of old waiting to swoop down and steal their souls. It didn’t matter she had been seventeen when she got pregnant with her son. Didn’t matter that she had been an intern and scared of losing her job. Didn’t matter that she had lost her job anyway and become the village pariah all at once.) Still they wrote often enough that it dulled the worst of the ache in her chest when she looked to her son’s empty bed, still waiting for him should he come home.

So it was a surprise when her rarely used landline rang with no mention in Cloud’s most recent letter that he was calling.

First came the dread. The terror that those monsters she had let her son go to wouldn’t even grace her with a face to face discussion to tell her the worst had happened. But Claudia Strife had always been stubborn.

“Mama?” Cloud’s voice was strained when she picked up the phone, like it always sounded when he was trying to pretend everything was okay. “How are you?”

“I’ll be better when my son tells me what is going on. You never call out of the blue, Stormcloud. Are you okay? Were you hurt? Did those basta—“

“Ma. Mama! I’m fine!” Cloud huffed a quiet laugh. “It’s good news, really it’s just. A lot, ma. I don’t know where to start.”

“If you got some girl pregnant, Cloud.”

There was a laugh on the other end of the line, too deep to be her son’s. Oh. Oh.

(Suddenly Cloud’s childhood fixation on the shining stars of Shinra’s SOLDIER program made a lot of sense… and why her sweet boy wouldn’t act on those feelings until he had left their home far behind. Nibelheim was anything but open minded.)

“Cloud, are you—“

“I have a brother!”

A paragon of tact, her son was not.

Claudia pulled the towel from her shoulder and dropped it to the counter as she leaned back on it for support. How many other bright eyed girls had been ruined like she had? How many experiments ran on the most vulnerable? How many—

“Ma? Ma are you there?! Ma!”

“Here, baby. I’m here. In that who’s with you? Your brother?”

Cloud sighed. “Yeah and he promised to be quiet.” The last word was hissed in a tone so familiar that Claudia couldn’t help but laugh. She could almost see the narrow eyed look of annoyance her baby was shooting his half-brother.

“It’s a bit hard for us to meet if he’s quiet, Stormcloud.”

“Yeah, well, that’s not all.”

“Oh?”

“We… allegedly and completely unable to be proven... might have committed some slight arson.”

“Cloud Strife.”

“It was allegedly against our… fuck, I don’t know what to call him. No way it’s going to be ‘father.’”

“Donor perhaps?” That voice offered again. Familiar in a way she couldn’t place.

“… Good boys.”

That deeper voice from before choked. Claudia could hear the smug satisfaction in Cloud’s voice when he spoke again. “There’s more still.”

Claudia laughed almost hysterically. “If you’ve allegedly committed mur—“

“Sephiroth is my brother!”

Everything in Claudia froze.

Sephiroth.

Shinra’s Silver General.

The boy who had been dropped into the middle of a war and come out a blooded hero. A child made into a killer too young.

The perfect experiment.

She wanted to throw up. She wanted to scream. She wanted to cry.

Instead she forced a smile with no kindness. No gentleness. A mother wolf baring her teeth. “I’m coming to Midgar.”

“Ma!”

“I have enough saved up for this, Stormcloud. I need to see my sons.”

“Sons?” Sephiroth’s voice was carefully neutral. A brilliant mask that would have fooled the world. A mask that did nothing against a mother’s intuition. (Under that careful calm Claudia could hear the tremble of a child, alone and scared even now that he had grown larger than life. A little boy who desperately wanted to be loved. It only made her more certain of her choice.)

“Sons,” She confirmed. “I’ll be there as soon as I can.”

Cloud sputtered. “At least let me buy your ticket ma! I’m a SOLDIER now! They gave me a sign on bonus.”

“I know Shinra bonuses as well as you do, young man. Save it for yourself.”

“Then let me pay,” Sephiroth offered. “Firsts make far more than new recruits and I can hardly allow my… allow you to be put in a difficult position, Ms. Strife.”

“Claudia or mom, or ‘ma’ I suppose if you’re impatient like our little stormcloud.” Claudia was rewarded with a flustered squawk of ‘Ma’ from her son… her youngest son. She smiled even through the ache in her chest. “And no, Sephiroth dear, you don’t need to spend money on me. It’s your money to use for yourself, sweetheart. Now I need to pack, boys! I’ll call when I have a set date of arrival!”

“Ma!”

“M— Claudia, I must insist—“

Claudia hung up the phone before they could try to push further about paying. This had to be her choice. Had to be her money. Had to be her doing. After all, they had confirmed it. Hojo was in Midgar, and Claudia was allegedly going to greet him as she should have all those years ago. With her boot knife to his throat and the assurance of exactly what she would do to him if he touched her boys.

Maybe she should take a look at some of those old files in the Manor before she left. Hojo was always a squirrelly bastard. It would be just like him to stash away some of his previous findings in the labs deep underground and she would bet her life that the information on Sephiroth’s past would be down there too along with gods only knew what other demons lurked in Hojo’s past.

[emacrow]

Alfred's new ward making sure everyone is having great day during their day off from crime whether they want to or not.

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Damian knew from day one of meeting alfred's new ward that he was going to be trouble..

He may have been stalking the kid doing alfred's work while alfred sat down in a comfy couch with a plate of fresh jasmine tea, his prescription medince bottle at ready and a raspberry strudel to nibble on.

He ain't going to replace his favorite Butler, not now, not ever. So Damian got Tim and Dick to help sabotage this heathen from taking over...Not knowing this kid was expecting their over the top sabotages. They tried scaring him with Titus but the little traitor lay there on his back getting belly rubs like it was heaven itself.

Changing the plumbing in his shower to freezing cold, but he walk out there refreshed. Tim trying to look of anything to blackmail him only for the batcomputer to go off the frizz with a virus.

Alfred did make sure to have his work sort out alphabetical because he is the Glue that keep these Wayne Manor going and everyone living in it not because caveman style creatures of the night.

Danny made sure Bruce didn't escape to his batcave on his supposed day off after 96 hours without sleep and spite driven nature, and don't even come with Justice never sleep excuses is going to run by him. He got Alfred's speical Bruce's tranquilizer gun at ready and he is not hesitating to shot you Bruce.

He does kept Tim from overdoing with the coffee addiction, giving him a better offer of coffee as long as he goes to sleep. Dick will still talk about Saturday night when Tim tries to sneak out to do some more investigating in the batcave only to see Danny dragged a unconscious Tim back to his room, a two tranquilizers to the back and one of his arm, though he didn't mention the Danny's glowing cat light green eyes that shine in the dark.

Danny's funny puns neon ghost stickers made dick's days, every morning as he goes to get his lunch, and he really want to know where he get them from.

Danny did actually helped a lot with the Wayne Manor as it never been cleaner before, Jason visited one time even mentioned that the chandelier never feel so clean to hang on from, not a speck of dust on it.

Damian getting a new animals book/documentaries, a new knifes for the collection or art supplies that match his demands in a way that keep his stabby nature at sate and bay for now.

Barb, Cass and Duke are amused by the fact that Bruce, Tim and Damian are having a little mid crisis that danny making them have day off on certain days such as holidays.

All this free time actually had alfred's going back to old hobbies that were nearly long forgotten such as conversations with old dear friends, practicing his old shooting skills, and having well deserved rest. Once his arm was healed, he stil did his duty along side with Danny as it was much quicker to do together as two people at hand.

What they will probably find out later on in the future that danny is actually Bruce's great grand uncle from his older sister side, and that he had disappeared when he was 20 years old in a old spooky town that vanished and still on today uneXplained series after his great grandmother moved to gotham. (But that another story for next post)

[somethingsomethingrenga]

I really wanted to draw them in Miya's school uniform :3 Also baby version, because middle schoolers are basically babies to me anyways

Poor Langa forgot he doesn't need his winter wear at his new school - but Reki saw they were both wearing green and decided they were besties!

[sergle]

I think every person who asks you a question about your boobs before you've even recovered from surgery should have to give you 20 dollars

PONY UP BITCHES

[jamiesfootball]

Word Game Wednesday

Question

Greg cocked his head like an inquisitive barn owl watching a classroom full of mice take a test. “The same is true for what we do for the people around us. Could be that what one person sees as help, another sees as enabling. And what looks like good advice looks for someone, someone else might see as–”

“‘Feeding him to the lions,’” quoted Ted. “That’s what my friend – not my old friend; my other friend, Roy – that’s what he said when he called. That I’d fed Jamie to the fudging lions, although he painted that  picture with a much more explicit brush.”

Greg overlooked the joke with the same calm patience that Dr. Sharon Fieldstone herself wielded. It must be one of the prerequisites that came with signing up for a job that involved listening to people natter on to you about their problems.

Ted dropped his gaze to his coffee. “I thought I was helping.”

“Alright then.” Greg waved his cup, broadly gesturing to the world at large. “Tell me, Ted. How did you help?”

And ooh, boy, wasn’t that a loaded question. How did a fellow even begin to explain the tricky puzzle book that was one Mr. Jamie Tartt?

[jomeimei421]

GYAAHHH people are reblogging ANCIENT art of mine

[charrchan]

In memory of my pet phasmids, it's been a few years now but I still miss them.

[nomsfaultau]

The Nymph

[aggressionbread]

I got a G3 Lagoona on sale 💖 I'm gonna make her into a scene girl

[dark-elf-writes]

Thinking about the possibility of MOD Harry in the Astoria AU and how I could in theory twist it into a god thing with not a lot of effort but with Tommy being defeated early and mostly by MC and Alex I was wondering how Harry could actually get the hallows and:

The Cloak - the usual way. Alex and MC have some very strongly worded letters planned to Albus for giving an eleven year old and invisibility cloak but neither of them can deny that it is dead useful and can protect Harry so they let it slide…. Mostly. They let it mostly slide. (It does startle them at first how attached Harry is to the cloak, how he spends hours running his fingers over the silky smooth fabric like he’s petting it, but that could be that it belonged to his birth father… right?)

The stone - during the hunt for the horcruxes they find the ring pretty early on and are discussing what should be done with it in the office with Hades and Aphrodite who are the most familiar with magic (and hades had also taken one look at the ring and blanched but would not tell anyone why) when Harry walks in almost dazed. He reaches for the ring power lashing around the room making the lights flicker and the various odds and ends around Alex’s office rattle. The others move to stop Harry but it’s a purple aura that lashes out at the ring, breaking it and separating the stone with one howling wail. The stone flies into Harry’s reaching hand a moment later and everything goes still.

(Hades assures them and Aphrodite that the stone and cloak will cause Harry no lasting harm but there’s something in his expression that looks almost… haunted. Like he’s seen a ghost. He only shakes his head when they ask and tells them he needs to do more research. That it would be… cruel if he guessed on this and was wrong. No one knows what to make of it but they all trust Hades enough to know that he wouldn’t let anything happen to Harry that would hurt him.)

The wand - complete and utter accident. Harry was coming back to school with Ron and Hermione after a trip to Hogsmead in their seventh year that got a little… rowdy and didn’t notice Dumbledore waiting for them in the door to the castle. He made some “disappointed but secretly amused grandfather” comment about the state of the three of them that startled Harry and his magic lashed out in response, accidentally disarming him and leaving Harry blinking through the haze of what drinks he had had in the broomsticks and the pull of the wand now in his hand. Around all of them they can feel the pull of his magic the pull of something more than magic that crackles with green light. It’s overwhelming the power pouring off of Harry, almost suffocating. No one is particularly surprised when Harry’s grandmother and “some bloke in a suit” as Ron says shows up and disappears to… somewhere with Harry in tow but they are incredibly alarmed by it.

(In Hades’ defense, he truly had no idea that the owner of the final hallow was the headmaster of Harry’s school, nor that Harry would accidentally disarm the man and claim the final piece while seventeen and more than a little intoxicated. That… doesn’t mean he is looking forward to explaining to Alex and MC that he knew there was a very real possibility that their adopted child was a reborn god that had scattered their artifacts to the wind centuries ago, but suggesting their child could be immortal and being wrong about it would have been so much worse for all three of them.)

[innko]

japanese medical negligence will drive you to american without health insurance behaviors

[leslieseveride]

why do i write smut so much better when i'm high????

[kimteume]

Twitter update from Hyunsuk and Junghwan

[arolesbianism]

Nvm feminism cancelled I'm having ideas for a different nugget now hashtag misogyny

[sproutoast]

ALSO HAPPU (LATE) BIRTHDAY im. like 3 days late ouhhhkggf

acceot this as an apology

THAMK YOU :33

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[neverendingford]

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