#...not that she lets it show

[shinechermont]

I present to you...

MAUD

She is the child of Aim (by @zu-is-here) and Axel (by @ari-cuno)

- In this design, she is in her late teens.

- she is a born daughter of Aim and Axel (that's why you should not hold hands with your friends)

- she is a few inches smaller than Aim (if not experienced on...she could have been as tall as him, if not taller...)

- there currently are two timelines (it is complicated, i will try to explain it better under the cut)

Maud here has two main timelines going on - one in which she meets Maim ("evil" Aim) and in the other she meets an alternative version of her family.

But let's start from the beginning.

Maud was actually a name chosen by Maud herself... she doesn't think she can be called the name her parents chose for her...because she isn't the same as before.

Regardless, she was born as the youngest child (a few years after Eve, by @ari-cuno, was born, for reference). She had a good life...

She looked up to her sisters a lot, always joining them in ever chaos they caused - for Axel's dismay - and she liked to watch her other father working on his inventions.

She liked whenever her grandpa brought her plushies...

...

But then... it happened.

Remember what Error said in Underverse about the multiverse being a notebook that couldn't have all its pages filled?

:)

...The Omega Timeline she lived - along with its multiverse - got corrupted beyond saving. It was so sudden nobody in it could do something about it...

...Maud, for some miracle, was saved by a group of scientists before the corruption hit her. She is the only one that didn't get corrupted beyond saving.

Though, the scientists didn't do it with good intentions. A descendant of three of the most powerful beings of every multiverse on the palm of your hand isn't something they would want to let go off...

Under the promise of getging help, she agreed on helping them...

Her SOUL was experimented on, her powers' limits as well...and beyond what it could be considered good for her mental and physical health.

The scientists weren't kind to her outside of the experiments too... the best way to deal with them was to make it look like their intimidation didn't get to her...or literally anything else.

At some point... everything they did didn't get to her... she was just... existing.

...until Condiment broke in to the laboratory to steal something precious to him.

Maud tried to stop him, but Condiment convinced her to change sides and...with his help, she finally escaped the lab.

But before that...something...something triggered her anger. Something that provoked her feels to the point no scientist was left in the laboratory...

...

And now, it is when things get more narratively complicated: the timelines.

Like before, timeline in which Maud meets Maim will be red and the one in which she meets an alternative version of her family will be orange.

-_-_-_-_-

Fresh out of the lab, Maud is a teen around her 13-14 years. Her spirit is fuelled with silent anger... which she only really showed in the lab.

She is wary of Condiment. She knows he isn't a good guy, but he helped her...and he is all she got if she wants to live a bit longer.

... Or is he?

...In middle of a search of a certain item for a client, Maud and Condiment get a sight of Maim's army.

Condiment tells her it isn't good to be on their way as it would only provoke a delay on their mission... even if they have some good things with them.

...Maud doesn't listen, even if Condiment is right. Why?

...it was the first time she saw the image of her dad in years. And...she wanted to see him again.

...she only wants a little peak, but nothing escapes Maim's gaze... He does an interrogatory and... invites her to his army even though she invaded its base?

...between the dubious guy who helped her and a so known violent person who isn't her father but resembles him in some ways (even in appearance)... she choses the later.

Given her context, can you blame her?

....in other timeline though, she never met Maim...so she just...stuck around.

Her relationship with Condiment is...weird. They are a weird mix of work colleagues and...siblings?

They care about each other, they are just... very dense about it - Maud has her own stuff going on and Condy...isn't the best with feelings, even for a fell-universe.

It isn't the healthiest thing ever for either of them, but Condy doesn't care about it, while Maud herself doesn't do crap because... he is the only one who saw her true colors and still chose to stay - not for the best intentions, but he is all she got in this timeline.

During a certain mission, they have to enter a Omega Timeline. Condiment tells Maud to not let herself be distracted and focus on the mission, but can she really be that apathic to everything like she has been ever since she joined him?

...we already know the answer ;3

[hwangyeddeongie]

I bring a “rumi’s patterns are a metaphor for internalised homophobia” vibe to the function that some people don’t like

[elysiuminfra]

my transfem coworker yesterday said "i can't wait to get on hrt so i can be a lesbian" and i was like hand on her shoulder. girl..... you're already a lesbian. i see you with my dyke eyes. you are already a beautiful lesbian dont let anybody take that from you.

[chloesimaginationthings]

Y’all think M3gan would beat the FNAF animatronics?

[stealingpotatoes]

i thought about the complete lack of satine in mando s3 again and i got so annoyed i had to make a comic

(commission info // tip jar!)

[suiheisen]

the energy i'm bringing to linkedin | MY LADY JANE (2024)

[donatella-ariella]

I feel like making one of those uquiz and picrew chains with these random ones I found sooo

Take this quiz and find out what instrument you are and thennnn

make a lil guy with this picrew :))))

(As a viola player I’m VERY offended. So offended, offended beyond belief. But hey kitty :)) )

@ilivebyshipping @glassesgirlies @lusxnei6

[bread-is-my-life]

Queentenna save me

[videogamelover99]

Ragatha "I don't miss my mother's yelling and berating and guilt-tripping" vs Jax "She's too nice don't you feel like she's trying to take advantage of you" FIGHT.

[crowned-as-king]

every woman in the magnus archives has tried to kill, fantastized about killing, or succeeded in killing jonathan middlename sims and i respect them for that

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

You keep telling yourself that Namari.

[on-the-clear-blue]

Down in the streets of Gotham, in the side alley next to Express Urgent Care run by one Leslie Thompkins and that was funded by the Martha Wayne Foundation was a soup kitchen.

Well...a soup kitchen of sorts. Not in any way official but if you were hungry in Crime alley you knew that the food would be safe and warm...and it was a place where *you* could be safe and warm.

Danny had left a week after his parents found out that he was Phantom, a week after he had seen their grief, the regret and pain in their eyes. The week had been spent in suspense, he knew that they needed to talk about what had happened but neither of his parents were ever able to even start bringing it up before they were sobbing.

Danny knew his parents loved him, thst his father felt soul crushing guilt, that his mother spent hours staring at herself in the mirror, as if she didn't even know who was looking back at her.

And to spare them both, Danny left.

It wasn't hard to do, not when he could turn invisible and phase through walls, a final text to Sam and Tucker to say his good byes (he knew that they would break and tell his parents where he would be going) and a particularly hard hug to leave from Jazz, Danny flew off with only a back pack.

He had traveled across the US for a few months, occasionally snagging a post card from a super store to send off home, paying only when he had the excess funds (Sam's rants about mega rich corporate billionaires let him know just which stores wouldn't miss the few bucks the cards sold for)

He had met up with Dani a few times, when she was in the country, handing him Vlads credit card and telling him to keep it (though he never did) only ever using it to book a room for a few nights at a hotel to clean himself up and sleep in a real bed.

He settled in Gotham after a while, he had briefly stayed in Faucett but that place didn't have nearly enough ecto for him to live comfortably.

Gotham on the other hand? It had everything, cops that don't question why a teen is on the streets, natural ecto up the wazoo and well...a crime rate that would dissuade his parents ever looking for him there.

He had set up a more permanent shelter in an abandoned apartment building (after chasing out the low level drug dealers that were using it) and found that he kinda liked the vibes of the place under the blatant crimes being committed in broad day light.

Sure people could see you getting mugged and look the other way, but if you were still alive and there 5 minutes later, they would come back, hand you something to clean up your now bloody nose and point out the bodega that had the best sandwiches.

It was a sense of community that Danny didn't know he had missed for the many months he traveled.

His first "cook out" wasn't even supposed to be a cook out, his apartment building was mostly wood and he didn't trust himself to not burn it down, so he came outside, setting up a portable stove and setting up a pot filled with some, water to boil up a soup mix.

As he waited for it to come to temp, he saw the group of homeless rubbing their hands together, watching him with curiosity, though that quickly turned to hunger as the smell of the soup spilled out into the alley.

Instead of turning the others away Danny only shrugged, pulled out his spare paper bowls and handed them out, taking a few bites first to show that it was safe to eat.

What followed was a sort of tradition, Danny would come out a few times a day, take out his hot plate and pot and set up a soup, others started asking if they could pitch in, and well...Danny would have loved to keep providing it freely but his food was quickly dwindling.

So his soup got add in, some jerky that Crazy Tom had got tossed in, a few herbs (re:weeds) were added in by Miss O'Connor, and Danny didn't even know where Lady Dimond pulled out some spices from, but he wasn't about to question the her, he had learned never to question where the working girls hid their things.

And it sort of grew from there, who ever was around came by, some came out of their way to share a meal, but it became a meeting place of sorts "Come by the Kitchen at noon, Tom got his hands on some steak! And it ain't even smells bad!"

Sure gangs tried to pull up on the meeting place, tried to intimidate the people there or coerce them into doing something...well that was until the host, some punk teen with hair darker than black and blue eyes that were so light they were white came up, and dished out a heavy handed fist into their jaws and sent them packing.

And so the Kitchen became a safe space, if you were hungry, if you were in danger, come by the little alley way, right next to the Express Urgent Care, the Host will take care of you there, if your willing to share, to stay peaceful with the rest of the gathered people, then you were welcome to grab a bite and relax, because the Kitchen was always safe.

---

It would be a few years since the Kitchen started, since people had brought chairs and tables, since an old grill of questionable origin was left out side it, since tarps with only a few holes were hung up to keep the place dry when it rained, since rugs covered the ground and the the alley it was in was swept clean of any needles or cigarette butts.

But for one boy it had only been a few short days since his Mama died, since he had found her cold and dead in the bathroom, a belt tied around her arm and a needle still in her hand.

Jason was miserable, he had stayed with her for the a single day before he knew he would have to leave, the body of his mother would start to decompose soon, so he did what he had too, calling the police with his mother's phone that didn't have a lot of minutes left on it, telling them the address before hanging up and leaving it there so he couldn't be tracked.

He couldn't be there when the cops showed up, foster care would do shit for him, and at least his Mama would be buried, and not left to rot in their bath tub.

So a young Jason Todd, scared, alone and hungry came to the Kitchen, as his mother had told him to many times before, had told him to seek out it's Host if anything ever happened to her...and well...at the very least he would get something to eat...

[casasupernovas]

Remember ages ago when I said Freema did an interview talking about Martha and what she was and wasn't happy with in regards to the story? I found it!

Transcript:

Interviewer: ...Do you still think about her? How do you think about Martha in the year 2019.

Freema: Ah yeah I just did a convention with David [Tennant] recently actually and he said something that um, I hadn't heard before, and he was asked about that relationship between the two characters and he said 'I think that the Doctor wasn't fair on her' and I sorta looked at him and I was like...I've never heard your take on that before because I knew at the time you know she was...for me there was definitely a kind of beat that they struck on that stayed maybe a little bit too long. It was the unrequited storyline an I think they stopped exploring her as a fully rounded human being in light of that and Russell [T. Davies] did say you know, it's important to him though that people can sometimes see that...you know love doesn't always have to be reciprocated and it's okay to kind of...most of us probably have that in common that we have unreciprocated...emotions than reciprocated and I was like no that's cool I get that but people also tune in for escapism and for romance and all of the magic and the, you know, the imagination so sometimes to be like grounded back down into hard truth isn't very attractive. *Laughs* So I kind of felt like she got stuck a little bit amd when people ask me if if I would go back it would only be to explore her as a fully rounded person more and she had so much going on and then it got stuck for whatever reason. But I had the best time and I feel like there's so much more potential to that person.

[florence-pew]

bonus Jack looking up to see Samira smile:

[egophiliac]

I loved your drawing(and I love your style in general) with Leia in your recent post! If/when you have time can we see more of her in your style? I get so happy whenever I actually see people mention/talk about her and she’s not just forgotten because we didn’t get to see much of her. 😭

thank you! 💙💙💙 Leia/Leah/Lea/whatever is fascinating to me. she is the ultimate unknown. what was she like? how involved (or even aware of any details of the invasion) was she? Silver's basically a physical carbon copy of his biodad, so what did he get from her? like, I understand why the two of them kind of have to stay as these super vague and mysterious figures -- the whole point of them is that their story ended 400+ years ago and they're not really relevant anymore (and. well. the more that gets explained about them, the less that can just kinda be handwaved as "oh the politics were Very Messy") (we can sit here and theorize all day but let us acknowledge that, ultimately, canon gave us almost nothing about them post-Meleanor and we'd just be making things up). I do still wonder about her though! RIP Lea, we never knew you and we probably never will.

actually you know what, as long as we're here, I think I WILL go ahead and just make some stuff up about what Silver might've inherited from her instead.

[ambrosiagourmet]

I think one of the biggest tragedies of Laios & Falin and their relationship is how much his actions impact her life. But like. Specifically how much they WOULDN’T impact her life as much if they weren’t both stuck in such a shitty abusive situation.

This part of the Falin-tries-makeup daydream hour comic is what got me thinking about it again because truly it just... it seems like such a like an offhand comment that I'm sure Laios didn't mean to be cruel or anything. That's just like. A little kid not thinking about what they are saying. ESPECIALLY when the kid in question is Laios.

But man they depended on each other SO much as kids. Too much. It really feels like they didn't have any other source of positive reinforcement, or anyone else to share themselves with. So of course an offhand comment like that has a huge impact on Falin.

Or this little bit from one of the flashbacks:

This tears me apart. Do you think it tears him apart to think about? I think it does. I think Laios holds every small failure to care for Falin against himself.

And then there's the Bigger stuff. The way that him coping with his own trauma ended up impacting her.

Like his interest in monsters. Like him going to find a ghost, and accidentally revealing Falin's magic to the whole village in the process.

Like him needing to leave. And leaving her behind.

He shaped her life so much, and he carries so much guilt for it. And again, there should have been other people there to help. The same things that made Laios need to leave home are the things that made his leaving so hard on Falin. She ate alone after that. She shouldn't have had to eat alone just because Laios wasn't there.

She was 9 when he left for school, and he was 11.

Nine. And Laios feels like he failed her because he didn't stand by her through this better. As an eleven year old.

Both of these kids deserved so much better from the world.