#wild they phased my guy out after him getting diagnosed with a degenerative heart condition

[thenixkat]

just, i keep seeing reasons why Ted Kord didn't have to die and multiple points that could have been changed

but that's wild stop using a character at all once he becomes disabled only to bring him back to gruesomely murder him

just already I'm picturing like actually using the Scarab, going off the stuff from when it brought Dan back to life evil, and Ted seeing a mechanical entity inside his mind from the Scarab trying to tempt him with its power. In the story where Ted died, he'd put down his costume a good while ago due to the heart condition but he's back in it due to everything going to shit and having no one to help him with the conspiracy he's uncovering especially after Booster gets hospitalized by a villain trying to help Ted in a fight where Ted got jumped by the Madmen plus an extra superpowered villain. like that sounds like the kind of shit building up where maybe taking the Scarab and using it b/c he's not got many options left

like could let the dude save the world at the cost of his own alignment due to Khaji Da's influence. Like it's not completely taken over since Khaji Da is still broken and doesn't have its instruction manual downloaded into Ted, but between the stress of everything leading up to the shit it works as a push.

and like shit if we wanna take the Blood Beetle stuff from the New 52 into account you can still have Jaime gain powers from getting a sliver of Khaji's armor stuck in him that becomes a new scarab

just idk thinking about shit