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JUST A GIRL IN THE WORLD
ace & she/her pronouns, btw
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Ok so here’s the scene
You’re currently being chased by the Batman, it’s terrifying, he’s like a damn freight train. But you’re fast, real fast
You think you’re gonna make it, you think you can loose him. You almost feel glee as you start to hear his steps get further in the distance
Then you hear it
The sound of something heavy hitting the ground. It was his cape
He dropped his cape
Now you hear him quickly coming up behind you, he’s going at least 30% faster
Then you realize it
He turned on sports mode
@t4t-ricstar you’ve killed me
And that was the inspiration 😌
@interplanetary-redacted NO WAIT NEW DAD BRUCE WOULD FUCKING DO THIS THE DUMBASS WOULD FORGET HE HAD DICKWITH HIM
@small-helm SROP WHY AM I IMAGINING ROBIN TURNING INTO A BALL LIKE SONIC AND GOING AFTER THE BAD GUY
Batman with Robins under his cape is like Rock Lee with his weights. Once remove, he tenfolds the speed.
“Robins” in this case can be a full-size adult Red Hood or Nightwing, in which case you are fucked.
He just fuckin…….. Keeps all his kids in baby carriers on his back SOMEHOW …..and theyre hidden by his cape SOMEHOW….. And he deploys them at will depending on the situation……
Also correct
Also, if robin wasn’t there, it’d be wind resistance. So still fast
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consider: Jason Todd, son of Bruce Wayne, is way more of a cryptid than Batman, so far as Gotham is concerned
basically, this is what the average Gothamite knows:
Jason Todd, the first adopted son of Bruce Wayne – while he did adopt Dick Grayson, his first ward, it wasn’t until Grayson was well into adulthood – was presumed dead following a tragic incident while he was studying abroad in the Middle East. Then, many years later, Todd returned to Gotham, revealing that he had survived, and took over ownership of the Iceberg Lounge for a few months, and then promptly vanished again. (Everything in this paragraph is canon, btw. Most of it is from RHatO 2016, particularly issue 32.)
Was his death faked? Did Wayne know he survived? Where is he now???? Nobody knows.
If you want to include preboot canon, you can add “Bruce Wayne lost custody of him for a time and he was briefly adopted by Natalia Knight, who was secretly the villain Nocturna; Wayne regained custody after her criminal activities were exposed. Did his disappearance have something to do with her?”
Somehow, Jason’s civilian identity is literally a bigger cryptid than any of their vigilante identities, including Red Hood. The entire family is like “thanks, I hate it!” Jason himself can’t decide if he thinks it’s hilarious or if he hates it.
He nonetheless makes a point to use his actual name for some innocuous thing about once a year, always in completely random places scattered around the globe. Generally he lets one (1) person get a semi-decent picture of him, and then he vanishes again. The internet always blows up over the sighting of the cryptid Wayne son. Jason is enjoying it more than he should. (Barbara will never admit it, but as Oracle, she finds it incredibly funny.)
Vicki Vale is suffering.
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today i’m sad about that one line from the creator’s commetary about how zuko is a tsungi horn prodigy and the little letter zuko, aged 7, sends iroh in “legacy of the fire nation” where he very politely requests that iroh come home and teach him pai sho tricks, because that casts such a different light on their interactions in book one. it was never iroh trying to push his own favorite things - pai sho and music night - on an uninterested zuko, it was iroh desperately trying to reconnect with zuko by recreating the activities he knows zuko used to enjoy. zuko, aged 7, once begged iroh to come home and play board games with him and now zuko wants nothing to do with him and you know that eats iroh up alive
NO THANK YOU. THIS IS TOO SAD FOR A FRIDAY MORNING.
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horror movie from the perspective of someone who just watched a scary movie & is really anxious afterwards so every scene is framed like its gonna be scary but nothing happens & they just go to bed
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Candyman is such a hard villain to dislike cause you literally gotta ask him to kill you. You’re gonna pick up the supernatural phone, dial the number of a supernatural murderer, file what you know is a murder request, then get upset when he murders you?
“‘I didn’t think the Candyman would murder ME!’ says person who submitted Candyman murder victim application”
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they buy each others merch not to be supportive but to clown on their friends
(audio from monster factory)
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i know there’s more than this out there but it really is incredible that people will look at a fictional character someone else wrote and collectively say “I will write you a hundred happy endings.”
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you died alone
and that wasn’t so bad, really
i think it would have hurt more knowing that your father was watching
it was hard, though
it would have been nice, maybe, if you could have held his hand
i think you would have liked that, the comfort
you always liked it when you got to hold his hand
even if you pretended you were too grown up for that
it made you feel safe
at least he didn’t have to watch you burn,
it was good he wasn’t there,
i don’t think you would have wanted him to see that
you died alone, and in pain, and you father wasn’t there, but maybe that was for the best
you never did like to let him see you cry
and you were crying as you died
from the pain
and you knew he wasn’t there
that he wasn’t coming
you might have said goodbye, if he had been there
he might have held your hand, and you could whisper your goodbyes to him, and he could wipe away your tears
maybe he’d even tell you it was going to be okay
even if you’d both know he was lying
sometimes it’s just nice to hear the words
but
you didn’t get to say goodbye, or hold his hand
and he never told you he loved you, or wiped away your tears
you just died, alone, and hurting, and scared
you just died.
ok, so i have SO many thoughts but - the last two lines kill me, because it could be switching here between Jason and Bruce here. Like B get’s there and his kid is still warm (explosion or what) but just that thought echoes: “you just died.”
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i have been thinking about the way we, in love, give power to others. this sense - i am allowing you enough room that you could set the house on fire.
when i was younger, people used to tell me it was going to be different after-your-first-love. it has been. it’s been easier, most of the time. i know who i am. i used to think it was romantic to say i gave him everything i am. now i know that the right people will not ask for that - they don’t want to take from you, only to help you build. i used to think it was lonely, the way adults said we have our own lives. now i know what it is to have that other-life be separated - how wonderful, to have someone i can share with, and someone who celebrates my life and the way i have grown into it.
people said: after you have been hurt, it will be different.
this is true about most things, after all. my experiences were branded on my body. i don’t talk about the scars, and you’re too smart to ask, and we’re both healing. i used to be able to do certain gymnastics tricks - but i fell once, and i haven’t been able to get over the mental barrier since then.
the thing is - we learn these stop-measures because someone took advantage of us first. we learn how far is too far because someone forced us too-far. as a kid, i thought there is no too far was romantic. i didn’t know better.
it took me a very long time to rebuild parts of my life after him. it took me a very long time to rebuild parts of my character. i think i probably still have rooms without any floors. places that only go down. ceilings full of spraypainted warnings.
i have been thinking about the ways new love comes in. and we crack open each sealed door together, one-at-a-time. and i hear myself in front of her, nervous, saying if you start a fire, please keep it contained in here, it’s a place i can afford to lose.
and i hear her, time and time again, utterly confused: why would i do that? it’s beautiful in here. i don’t want to hurt you.
the way we know it can hurt, and we love anyway. the way we walk the thin ice and say - the risk is worth the skating.
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3:45 pm, time to get up and get ready for the day I guess
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never understood people who let candy melt in their mouth. ill bite down on a damn jolly rancher because i lack the patience
It’s like a dishwasher
i dont understand even a little bit thank you
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I don’t own anything here - and I am not at any way great at sound things. Just wanted to try to rip some hearts out. cw: post-Jason’s death
Poem from here: @weallbelievedinghosts weallbelievedinghosts.tumblr.com/post/628…the-ones
Song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4p_s88-4ZI
Thanks, @geminibabyhere for reblogging and making me cry.
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here’s the thing about dying
it ends
and the ones who loved you grieve
and they visit your grave
(it’s a beautiful grave)
and they speak of you
of who you were
(so very young, that poor boy)
(his poor father)
and they move on, eventually
(they don’t fight anymore, your brother and father, i think you would be glad of that, if you were here)
and sometimes your memory haunts them
like a cool breeze on a warm summer night
(it hurts, it hurts, it hurts)
and they don’t blame you, for dying
(you were so young)
and they whisper of you in hushed tones,
and they share fond memories
and they put flowers on your grave
(it’s a beautiful grave)
here’s the thing about living
it hurts
and your father is so angry (so terribly sad)
and your father feels so guilty
(he was so young, your brother, just a little boy)
and it hurts in the morning, when you make your toast the way he liked it
and it hurts in the evening, when you see his face on the news
(he looks so young in the photo they use)
your father doesn’t smile anymore
and he feels so guilty
(he wasn’t there)
(he didn’t save you)
you can’t blame him, your father, he’s all you have left
he blames himself enough anyway
and you put flowers on his grave
(it’s a beautiful grave)
here’s the thing about losing a child
it’s your fault
and it hurts to remember him
(it hurts worse to forget)
and he was your little boy
so very young
and you should have been a better father
you should have protected him
(he was so smart, your boy, he was going to go to college)
you can’t forget, can’t turn away from the pain
(he wanted to do an english major)
and you put his photo on your bedside
and you look at it every night
(his memory encased in glass)
and you put flowers on his grave
(it should be your grave)
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Guys,,,,, can we have ONE normal conversation??
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Hello again. I have another question regarding Nox-verse. I was scrolling through the tag (again) and I came across the adopted/adapted hc about death/near death scars noticeably glowing when near the crystal. And I was wondering, how does everyone react the first time Nox and Ardyn are close enough to the crystal for scars(and conspicuous non-scars) to be affected? Does anyone know what that means beforehand, or do the people who know about Ardyns scar figure it out based on context clues?
Ohhhhhhhhhh tricky question. Imma probably ramble buckle up:
-Setting aside the fact that Ardyn and Nox were NOT enthused with the idea of getting within four hundred feet of the Crystal, let alone close enough for the glow, the first sign of it is from Ardyn, because he has the most scars and his brand is more than happy to go off like a lightshow near the Crystal. They see the brand glowing the closer Ardyn reluctantly inches toward the Crystal and Regis’s stomach drops a little. He doesn’t make Ardyn go closer, and Ardyn is relieved to stop just on the edge of the effect, where it … lights more than just the brand. The Brand is the only one that has a noticeable blue tint even in normal lighting, but this close older things, things the scourge mostly sealed up and ate away the glow of, start to shine too. This was the man who was tortured by LCs after all, a lot of his wounds were inflicted by LC hands if not magic-imbued weapons.
-It makes Regis feel ill, to see so many places where Ardyn glows through his layers and it makes Titus’s mouth thin in suppressed fury. They’ve seen his non-glowing scars, they “know” what Mors did to him (or so they think) but to see it outlined in magic like this is … it makes it worse somehow.
-Then they notice that Nox hasn’t stopped. He’s getting closer and closer dragged on as if in a daze toward the Crystal, and with each step his magic unspools like heavy fog.
-Every step closer and the place on his back and chest, right over his heart and lungs and vitals, but especially where his skin is conspicuously NOT scarred, begins to glow like a beacon. Far brighter than Ardyn’s, because his was not just one strike to the heart, it was the Royal Arms, each charged with the magic of an entire lifetime.
-Ardyn is the one who bolts forward to catch Nox before he can actually get in touching distance of the Crystal, primally afraid of what might happen if Nox does, but by that point he’s so close Regis can see- can see-
-Blades. Ghostly outlines of blades. Like an armiger but WRONG because these do not spin about his son in Protection-Strength-Memory, these shimmer from his skin and out of his back and chest like some kind of macabre, horrific painting. Every breathe Nox takes makes the chest not-a-wound glow and dim and dim and glow like a faltering heartbeat, every shiver of his son’s lungs make the ghostly impressions of blades and shuriken and axes and maces shift, like they are still stuck in his skin, magic slowly dripping down from where they seem to enter his skin, like blood made of blue crystals, shimmering in rivers down his back and front in streams that are blue instead of scarlet but no less terrible to behold.
-Regis is horrified. Everyone is horrified. The silence as Ardyn gently pulls Nox back to a safe distance is thick with it. With the shock and regret and outrage (who would do this? WHO WOULD DO THIS TO REGIS’S SON?)
-The ornate sword (that looks both familiar and unfamiliar, its outline too hazy for Regis to quite make it out) stabbed straight through the center of Nox’s heart and out the other side takes the longest to fade and all Regis can think of is how Phoenix Downs work and how, if applied soon enough, they will heal the wound in its entirety, leave skin unmarred and good as new.
-Unmarred and good as new.
-Even if the skin was originally covered in older scars.
-Just like Nox and his conspicuous patch of untouched skin where smaller scars stopped short and the shape was a little too perfectly blade shaped to be natural.
-Regis feels like he’s going to be sick, and Clarus and Cor are not any better off. Axis all but vibrates at Nox’s side, spitting furious and holding it back only because Nox has that Look in his eyes, like he’s about to fall into a Quiet Week rather than just a Quiet Day and Axis doesn’t want to tip him over the edge.
-Nox sags quietly against his Uncle as the last ghostly blade slowly fades away, looks so very tired as Cor, ever the one to ask the questions no one else dares to, quietly demands to know what that was about. What that meant (because only the scars inflicted by an LC’s hand glowed on Ardyn, so what does it MEAN that Nox is even WORSE???)
-”There’s a price,” Nox whispers into Ardyn’s shoulder, carefully not looking at anyone in the room, “to magic. The deeper you go, the higher the cost. They … they wanted me to go deeper. Always deeper. As deep as I could go. But when you go too far … the price is more than anyone alive can pay.”
-Anyone alive. The implication is so clear Regis wants to break something. Wants to go out and wage war, level mountains, because too many things are clicking into place about his son, about how he always seems to understand his Uncle even though Mors died the same year Nox was born and couldn’t have laid a hand on Regis’s son.
-He knows how cruel the Ring of the Lucii can be. How the memories within can reach out and touch-burn-destroy the living if they so desire, has read the stories of prices too steep and crowns too heavy. And that is with the Ring acting as a limiter, a focal point for them that also serves to keep them in check so that only someone wearing the ring will be within their reach. How much worse for someone who is forced to dive so deep into magic without that buffer, without the ring that was forged after the Founder King rather than before, that they stumble across the place where those memories lurk? Without the Ring to prove their bloodline and keep the worst of the magical memories tempers in check?
-”Who are they?” Axis growls through teeth locked tight together fury. Because Nox would not have dived so deep alone. Even if he had not already admitted as such, there was no way a child could know or want to go that deep into magic. Someone had to have forced him. Driven him and pushed him and tormented him until he reached for every scrap of power his connection to the Crystal could offer and ended up grabbing too much and attracting the wrong attentions.
-Ardyn’s gaze flashes gold before he buries his face in Nox’s hair and Nox still won’t look at anyone as he whispers the answer Regis wanted to hear the least.
-”My family. All of them but Uncle.”
-And oh Regis has to lean against Clarus, has to grip his Shield’s arm with white knuckles to keep from either collapsing or screaming under the weight of his fury. Ardyn glances up for the briefest of moments, eyes an eerie, hateful gold and Regis can see Horrible Truth in the other man’s eyes.
-Nox was had been an orphan before Regis found him for a reason.
-Ardyn was that reason.
-Somehow Regis can’t bring himself to feel regret at the thought of it. Not with this evidence, not with the sudden meaning behind Nox’s not-scar.
-”Don’t make me go near the Crystal again. Please, Dad?” It’s the first time Nox has called him “dad” instead of “father” and in any other circumstance, Regis would celebrate. But right now all he can do is tentatively approach and gingerly wrap his arms around his son and his half-brother both, trying to convey without words that they would never go through anything like that again. Not while he still breathed.
-”Of course, Nox. Neither of you have to go near it if you don’t want to.” And he means it. Blast tradition into the ether Regis is never wants to see ghostly blades in Nox’s body or crystalline magic blood drip-drip-dripping down his shirt ever again.
@secret-engima OK so this is one of my fave posts on a fave AU of yours but the thing that gets me every time is Nox calling Regis “Dad”. In a previous post on this AU, it stated that when Nox calls R “dad”, R doesn’t realize it until he’s in a meeting (or something) and he has to sit down. I mean, this is a pretty big thing - I wouldn’t be surprised if he forgot but like, both the glowy swords and being called “Dad” for the first time by his son seem like big things.
Maybe the sitting has to be done once R is called dad not under duress? Like, they’re just chilling and Nox calls him dad now but Regis doesn’t realize - at first. ;) Then he’s a big emotion.




