#hes dealing with severe ✨️TRAUMA✨️

[cunt-boots]

Gale: *still dealing with the recent heartbreak and shunning from NOT ONLY HIS EX BUT ALSO HIS LITERAL GODDESS WHOSE HES WORSHIPPED SINCE HE WAS A CHILD, while trying to win her over he accidentally almost killed himself and is now, not only living on borrowed time, an actual bomb. Locked himself away in a depressive state and only ended up here while trying to fix his mistake. Also, was not trying to get into another relationship until you started flirting with him*

"I'm sad about Mystra"

You fuckers: OH MY GOOOOOOD STOP BRING UP YOUR EX WHILE IM TRYING TO DATE YOU

[spectral-phases]

Ghosts and Danny Phantom With the JLA

Guys, guys, I like some DP x DC as much as the next person. It's fun. It's whimsical. There are many ✨️✨️opportunities✨️✨️ for trauma and whimsy. I'm not immune to the appeal.

But can we please, please stop with the whole "Only John Constantine knows how to deal with ghosts" or "the Justice League are government shills and wouldn't help Danny" or "The JL just straight up ignored Amity Park for bad reasons and made a kid fight all this stuff on his own."

Superman can hear a cry for help in the far reaches of the solar system and smell brownies baking from space and know exactly where they are from (ask not how smell travels from Earth's atmosphere and into a vacuum and into an air tight space station; nor how sound travels through the vacuum of space in real time for him. The rules of your so-called "physics" do not apply to him). Unless there were some serious shenanigans at play, he's hearing a call for help and answering (we don't have to recognize these feats as canon, they are quite silly, but his senses are very good).

(Superman/Batman 2008 #46) (He is under the effects of silver kryptonite here...which seems to act like weed to him. He has the munchies real bad and is craving some chocolate)

(Superman 1987 #204)

You wanna talk ghosts and Justice League, there's the ghost hero Boston Brand, aka Deadman, who Batman helped solve the murder of. He was a performer who knew Dick Grayson in the circus and died similarly to the Flying Graysons (his high-risk act was sabotaged) and the early Nightwing costume looks eerily similar to Deadman's. In some versions, Deadman helped Dick when he was learning how to do high-wire acts. Deadman just starts possessing people near an experienced Gotham Vigilante, or even Jim Gordon (Oh, yeah, Batman told me about you), and it might take a second but they're very quick on the uptake of speaking to Deadman now (Damian was not because he didn't know about Deadman yet). It's very casual for them.

(Blackest Night: Batman 2009 #1)

(Blackest Night: Batman 2009 #2)

The Speedsters can move so fast they can interact with ghosts and force them out from possessing them by using the Speed force:

(The Flash 2014 #28/#29)

Batman has dealt with so many ghosts he wouldn’t be phased by anything. He has developed ways to fight ghosts on his own with Nth metal batarangs.

(Batman Eternal 2014 #6)

Batman also treats with child ghosts kindly, multiple times. Ghosts of children being dealt with by Batman is a recurring event.

Traveling from Gotham to Austria specifically to let a spirit rest by offering her the heart of her murderer (who Batman did not kill, to be clear, he just acquired it from the corpse):

(Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight 1989 #10)

The remains of a ghost of a girl that was going to be sacrificed to trap a demon in Gotham hundreds of years ago gets buried next to Bruce's parents like his sister:

(Batman 1940 #454)

Batman comforting the spirit of a child who has been possessing people and murdering people because he's angry about his death and not being able to be with his parents anymore:

(Batman: Gotham Knights 2000 #4)

Batman knows how to summon ghosts (Deadman here, to solidify him):

(Batman/Deadman: Death and Glory 1997 #1)

Ghosts in Gotham are so regular that Robins know how to check for traces of ectoplasm when dealing with the supernatural. It is on the checklist for confirming what bullshit they're dealing with today.

(DC Pride: Tim Drake Special 2022 #1)

Speaking of ghosts and Robins, did you know that one of Young Justice's first members after the founding three was Greta Hayes, aka Secret? She had several powers, including changing her form, but she initially couldn't pass through objects like a normal ghost.

(Young Justice: The Secret 1998 #1)

(Young Justice 1998 #7)

The government agency called the DEO (Department of Extranormal Operations), had been experimenting on her and asked them to find her and bring her back, but when they found her and she told them what was really going on, they told the DEO to get fucked and helped save other metas being held at the same facility Greta had been. And then she was a part of the team until she got brought back to life and could live normally as a civilian. Young Justice is hounded by APES (All Purpose Enforcement Squad) around the globe because they helped Secret.

(Young Justice 1998 #4)

In summary, the DC heroes would not say "oh, ghosts, yeah, you’re a prank caller, bye-bye." Or help the guys in white. Or for one goddamn second believe ghosts don’t have sentience. Or not be immediately seeing red over the "Anti-Ecto Control Act." Hell, when the JL is contacted by the DEO whining about Young Justice's involvement with Secret, Batman's very clear that he does not trust the DEO. I doubt Batman, of Gotham "every government official is dirty" City, would just trust the guys in white at all.

(Young Justice: The Secret 1998 #1)

Danny would not be some marvelously weird and super special guy to them. The ghosts in Danny Phantom are a little weird compared to ghosts normally seen in DC (being more tangible, physical, and powerful), but it's not mind blowing or impossible to wrap their heads around (new species of ghost they have to learn about). He would just be another kid hero, ghost king au or not. Captain Marvel is a 14 year old boy who can look like a guy in his 30s through the 'Wisdom of Solomon.' Martian Manhunter can fly and turn invisible and shape-shift (and read minds). They have fought the concept of Death itself, Nekron, and an army of undead:

(Blackest Night 2009 #8)

Like yes, they would like to help Danny, ofc, and they would be upset if he had been captured and tortured, obviously, but nothing he could say would phase them in an earth-shattering way, alright? So many heroes and villains have died and come back to life. They've been tortured and hurt. They're just going to trauma share with Danny ("yeah, that reminds me of the time..." or "Oh, that sounds like something so and so talked about..."). They aren't going to cower before the Ghost King, or whatever title he has in the ghost king au.

You cannot have Danny be young enough to be equal to any of the Teen Titans/Young Justice and have him be this super weird thing to them. You cannot have a fully formed Justice League and have them ignore calls for help from Amity Park. It's just. It's not how they work.

Justice League Dark, the supernatural/occult branch of the JLA, is led by Wonder freaking Woman in some instances, and do you think this warrior woman who squares up with any conquering god on the regular with her god/spirit-containing Lasso of Truth is going to ignore Danny/Amity Park for "safety"? Pfffft. Nope. Pariah Dark pops up and she wants to get tagged in on the fight. Hell, she's tagging herself in for the fight.

(Wonder Woman 2016 #62) (She is trash-talking Ares, God of War, on how to use her Lasso of Truth. I love her so much.)

(Wonder Woman 1942 #607) (oh, look, her being kind to a dead spirit of a dangerous creature her allies want dead)

Justice League Dark also has the Spectre, the avenging angel of God (yes, that God. Judeo-Christian God, aka The Presence). The Spectre is a spirit, so the most powerful ghost they know.

(Detective Comics 1937 #1006) (Notice, how Batman does not give a singular flying fuck about how strong the Spectre is while arguing against the Spectre's Old Testament style vengeance?)

If you wanna go the route of Amity Park being ignored, you need to get creative with it. There was a period of time where Lex Luthor was president trying to outlaw being a superhero and Amanda Waller was in charge of the DEO, and so you can have them do some bullshit that Vlad can even get in on to isolate Amity Park, maybe that's when the Anti-Ecto Acts became a thing because Lex and Waller are meanaces. Hell, maybe even the Reality Gauntlet or DC magic using villains are the deus ex here. Or weird timeline shit after Clockwork fixes things in a Glitch in Time and the worlds are suddenly merged and believe they always were originally. Or. Maybe it's Clockwork meddling trying to mold Danny for a ghost king au. There are limitless possibilities that don't involve making the JL complete assholes/incompetent morons in ways they never would be.

There's even room for funny shenanigans. The Bat of whatever team meets Danny is told "the ghost boy in Amity is violent and dangerous" and they're suddenly there trying to help him solve his murder so he can move on and Danny’s just "???"

Maybe the guys hounding Young Justice for Secret are actually the GIW. Maybe the facility she was in had files on Danny too. Maybe Clark, Conner, Jon, or Kara get hit with silver kryptonite and track down the Fenton residence for fudge. Maybe that's how they break through whatever is shielding Amity from the world, a Kryptonian got sent to space on a silver kryptonite trip. Idfk. Bring the whimsy into it. Please. I'm so tired of the "you left us to rot because you thought we were joking" posts.

Please. Just some whimsy. Or some creativity. Or just blame it all on Clockwork. I beg of you. You can have your angst, god knows we need our angst, but just don't destroy the DC characters in the process. They're so much fun, and have such rich histories, and ghosts have been such a long standing part of their world that I would appreciate that not being ignored, even if canon is a sandbox and you can do whatever you want. I'm just tired of it, especially since some of these things predate the Justice League itself.

[partywithoutsmiling]

Alright darling (can i call you that?) the Rock Beast AU just became my new ✨️hyperfixation✨️ so prepare! Please tell us how does John reacts to his bitty B becoming a Monster

Once he actually finds out who the great Beast is, not very well obviously XD

But if that AU would be a fic, it would be at least couple chapters down the line. My idea for Poppy's and Branch's escape is that while at first they crossed quite a distance through air, soon they were forced to travel by foot, as Branch's wing becomes injured and trying to take flight again would be foolish.

A blessing in disguise it turns out, as the Rock Trolls under Barb's command do not think to stop and search the ground, not that close to their territory, and our duo hides out of sight in the undegrowth, just to see their Angler Ships pass overhead, clearly heading towards the Pop territory

(the thought for this AU being that Barb is convinced that Pop poses exactly the same amount of threat as it did in the ancient past, where they were the most numerous, and seeing the pitiful number of Pop trolls rounded up, figures there must be more Pop villages hidden deep inside the woods that make their territory- so it would make sense to her to think Poppy and Branch went to get more back up- which is correct in a way, as Branch's intention was to fly them all the way to Bergentown, as having giants for allies would become handy in this case)

Meeting John Dory was a complete accident. Headcanoning that he had bad business with the Rock Trolls in the past, he probably decided to skeddadle into the wilderness once he saw the activity in the sky, not wanting to deal with that business- and I liked the idea that the Neverglades were actually a sort of natural border between Pop and Rock, a contested piece of land for both. Usually quite content to sleep out and about, either under stars or in Rhonda, the storm and all the chaos happening around him has him relocate to well known and explored caves- in which he finds Poppy and Branch, who sort of unanimously decide to keep their travelling to the night time, where it gives them less chance to be spotted.

Neither group is thrilled to be discovered by the other, at first- John Dory simply on the principle that lone trolls seems to be bounty hunters more often than not (and this one has a literal monster by her side!) and Poppy... well, for the exact same reason really XD she had been burned by her trust in a stranger- one that led her into this mess she is in- and the source of her major guilt is standing right behind her.

However, compared to JD, she is injured; an unexpected dip in the lake left her feeling sickly, and she is starving- and Branch is hardly doing any better. So it all ends up in a rather tense stand off, where Branch is the only one spiralling, because holy shit that's his brother

And he wants to wail and he wants to sink his claws into JD's face and tear that smug ass grin off his face- and it's the shock of that thought that has him to do neither of those things, and instead forces him to evaluate the situation a bit better.

Because for all JD's abandonment, he is a Pop Troll- and that means a potential ally- and so it is with a gentle nuzzle that he sooths Poppy's unvoiced fears and worries, and encourages her to ask JD for help

The introductions come, of course- but Poppy doesnt mention that Branch is a troll-turned-beast, and while JD's expression turns rather strained at hearing Branch's name, there is nothing that would clue him in that Branch is *his* Branch (His precious baby brother, who he thinks is dead for several years, and being an expert at avoidance of painful truths, there is no way he is sharing that with a complete stranger)

So as far he knows, Poppy's "pet" just has a rather unfortunate name, and Branch's colours are again rather washed out.

Branch just doesnt want to deal with the mess that is his familial trauma and is quite relieved JD doesnt have a clue to his original identity

(of course Poppy, desperate to socialize after being locked up with no-one but mute Branch for company, ends up bonding with JD rather quickly- especially after he treats her wounds and offers her a safe shelter- and finding his collection of memorabilia snowballs into discovering his identity as THE John Dory- and Branch's connection to it all, when John Dory, unable to resist the force that is Poppy, eventually talks about all his brothers- including Bitty B)

Also, this isn't connected to that scene, but even then I think you would enjoy this little treat:

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Branch was injured.

That much Poppy could observe, from the simple way he was carrying himself.

The rush of their escape didn’t seem to want to pass; the pink troll felt like every breath came out with accompanied tremble, and her heart was keen on making itself as loud as possible- it drummed hard in her ears and pulsed in tandem with the ache that throbbed mutely through her sore arm.

The sudden dive and crash into the murky depths of the lake jostled it- but at the time, her mind was hardly crystal clear enough to focus on anything but uncoordinated flailing as she panicked from the shock of the chilling water, trying to instinctively kick herself up to get to the surface. A great deal of her attention had also been overtaken by fear; for her life, yes, but also for Branch, as she had seen him seize up in one blink and then start falling out of the sky in another, his grip on her- previously strong and secure- now limp and weak, a puppet losing all motion as if its strings were suddenly cut.

Yet it was him who dragged her out of the lake in the end, his great head going under her belly and chest and lifting her high above the surface, leaving her clutching onto his mane with painful grip, gasping and sputtering, a sob roughly tearing through her throat before she could stop it. The sudden relief of air filling her lungs once more was not enough to mask the sudden pain that laced through her right arm, and Poppy had sobbed once more, clenching her eyes shut, burying her face into the soggy mess of Branch’s hair.

Low rumbling moan echoed from the beast under her, the strength of it- for all that it was quiet- reaching all the way to her core- but she was unable to do anything but breathe, the action shallow and painful, as her arm throbbed throbbed throbbed.

Vaguely, she felt the chilling water lapping at her legs, and her ears twitched at the sound of soft splashes- the body under her rocking forward, Branch’s breath just as shallow as hers, but clearly now moving, swimming, towards what she hoped was dry land.

The sky crackled, a thunder left in the wake of it, and she shivered when a first drop splashed against her back, bringing a shock of ice to her already drenched body. Another moan and Branch lurched forward, his swimming now gaining urgency- even in this shape, he was well aware of the danger that rain possessed for species as small as theirs, especially when it caught them on a lake. The prickle of unease was what had her force herself to lift her herself up, her good arm gripping Branch’s mane more firmly while held the other more securely to her chest.

Already the drops were breaking the surface apart, the water splashing up and sending waves that clearly impeded her friend’s progress; one that seemed to be made difficult simply for the fact that Branch had extra set of limbs that were hardly made for swimming- with one wing flapping or paddling awkwardly to help propel forward, while her other followed at much slower pace. It was the trembles and shakes that seemed to run through the appendage that caused Poppy’s heart to plummet to the depths of her stomach.

“Branch..?”

He voice was a pathetically weak and wobbly thing- there has been a shock, followed by euphoria, when her companion suddenly ripped through the bars dividing their cells like knife through butter. His cell had been a dark and dreary place, cut away from any natural light- hers had a large barred window that showed nothing but the menacing glow of the volcano, its fiery tones casting orange hues into the grim, cloudy looking sky. She had often caught him watching through the gaps of his cell, great glowing red eyes focused intently on the singular glimpse of freedom, and many times wondered if his sudden critter like instincts urged him to take flight. He did many things in the time they had nothing but each other for company, that could hardly hint that his interest could have other reasons. He prowled around, as much as his chains allowed him, and quite often his wings would flap. His claws would flex and his limbs would stretch- and Poppy had thought it a simple restlessness of a trapped animal, frustrated at the lack of necessary space.

She had thought. She didn’t expect it to be a slow exploration and familiarization of foreign limbs and muscles- not until she had been scooped up like kittenbug, and not until they were hurling face first through the window, Branch simply tucking his head closer to his body and tearing through it like a single-troll battering ram.

“Branch,” she whispered again, the sound trailing into a low moan, not unlike his own- but he didn’t respond, not even with a growl- not until she let go of his mane so she could gingerly touch the trembling wing.

The limb flinched and Branch went stiff under her for a moment, soft warning hiss audible even through the loudness of the storm- and though he didn’t stop his swimming, Poppy withdrew her hand as if burned, realizing that now perhaps wasn’t the best time to find out where his hurts were coming from.

“I’m sorry,” her apology was quick and strained ,“I’m sorry, Branch, I’m sorry-“ and the water was now blurring her vision, and perhaps it was her tears and not the rain, and perhaps her ill timed touch was not what she was apologizing for.

But Branch suddenly made a soft chuff, and his head twisted to peer back at her, the lamp like glow of his red eyes more comforting than one would expect. But Poppy hardly felt unnerved by the sight of them- not when she couldn’t feel any drop of malice, and the pink troll heaved a shuddering breath, bowing forward so she could reach and gently rub one of the Beast’s long ears. The appendage flicked, and his eyes blinked slowly, another chuff falling from his lips, before he turned to face forward again, his swimming seemingly becoming more determined.

Poppy swallowed and closed her eyes, her exhale a tad less shaky than before.

They will be okay. They have to be.

[lyss-overcomplicates-everything]

aa. Small tangent because I'm sick. Talking about Scarlett (an oc in the Deck)

I can't fuckin. Think about her for too long because then I'll add more trauma and I think she's had enough. This is one of my most developed and oldest characters, and by 'developed', I mean, made her and her backstory while I was ✨️depressed✨️ so she has so much fuggin trauma. Just going to explain her.

Parentage: her mom was an immigrant from a pretty bloody revolution (WHOLE other story that we don't have time for) long story short her mom is a bastard demigod who's specifically very good with fire and earth. Her Dad is a rich asshole. He literally only tolerated having sex with her mom (immigant from a different planet btw, crossbreeds are looked down on) because she had high levels of innate magic and he needed his offspring to have a shit ton of magic tolerance (the amount of external magic a person can take before dying) so he could do experiments on BOTH of them and have powerful children. Only had one child, Scarlett, because basically the mom's species rarely conceives.

Childhood: an illigal but highly profitable scheme (Basically give people traits of other clubs species (this is happening on a planet where you have to do rituals and shit for magic and the traits they wanted mixed in were shapeshifting)) so they could a. Understand raw (enough. Pure magic straight up kills most people) magic and give themselves magic and B. Gain advantages over the Dimond systems (the most technologically advanced) so. ✨️trauma✨️ because of her childhood being spent having magic shoved into her and only one friend, she doesn't remember it much. UNTIL. her mom dies, around the time she finds out she has two small siblings that are the result of an affair from her father.

Teenage: little siblings! Her dad is nor experimenting on them because he needs an Heir and Scarlett looks fucked up (part wolf. Because middle school me thought it was cool). Her father gets addicted to either blood/ raw magic (both of which CAN be addicting in this system because they contain high amounts of. You guessed it. Magic. Which, because of the boost of power it gives you, are functionally highly addictive steroids that kill you slowly) (cannibalisim will be relevant later 😋) but with or without addiction he's still a shitty father. After an accident at the lab when Scarlett is 14ish, the head scientist is dead and the experimentation stops. Problems this leaves for Scarlett: due to the batshit insane high levels of raw magic in her system, skin to skin contact with people gives them burns (magic in this system has physical effects similar to radiation) (if you're like. Lyss. That's fucked up. EVERYTHING is fucked up in the Spade system because she thinks it's funny) anyway. Scarlett also has a left eye that's just permanently a glowing yellow color (raw but not pure magic often takes on a yellow/ orange tint) so she wears a patch over it (I just relized. I have. At least 4 characters who have to cover/ mask their right eye and 5 who have to cover both eyes. I guess I just. Like that trope???) Anyway, she's also clearly a mixling (has heritage/ traits from more than 2 planets) instead of just a half breed. She's smart, but also has no idea how to socially interact. So she just. Doesn't.

Late teenage: so now she's actually going to school. Yay. She gains a singular friend, and said friend proceeds to get a boyfriend that grooms her and spies on Scarlett for her stepmother. (Also her dad married a 'prestigious' woman) that ends badly. Soon after that, Scarlett decides to run away. She takes her little siblings with her, steals money, and just straight up dissappears. The twins are around 10-12 at this point, so she makes them go to a public school and she lives in a shitty apartment for several years before earning money for a house. How does she earn money? The only logical way, clearly. Drug dealing and fighting rings. Because of her mixling-ness, she's HELLA physically strong and, as I said earlier, her blood is a high-class drug. She wins most of her fights (even when wearing covering for no skin to skin contact)

Early 20s: after a couple years of saving, she moves them all to a small house in the middle of nowhere. Around this time (to pay off the house) she takes up killing people for pay. Yeah. Well, she's actually really good at it! Given that her blood can be easily made deadly and touching her gives you burns. And also being able to transform into a massive mangled wolf. Unfortunately, this does get her on the radar of Evergreen, a mob/ crime boss. She gets a *little* too close to his daughter (toxin, she rarely uses her given name and her magic let's her organically make toxins) (also she's a cannibal) and Evergreen goes: hey, we should recruit her. But she won't work for us like this! So, logically, he burns her house down with her siblings inside, in the perfect way so that her mostly fireproof ass can watch them burn alive and carry their charred corpses out of the fire a little bit too late.

Crime family member: so Evergreen's like: the perpetrator left behind this lighter! If you join our crime family I'll help you find them! And before she knows it she's second hand to a powerful mob boss. It should be noted that the twins were killed on their birthday. For shits and giggles. Also, Scarlett hasn't trained anything but her shifting. Girl has prominent fire, earth, and general casting powers and she only knows how to rip a man's head off. So. While being a crime person, she meets a subject of the remake of her extermination (Sam, they turn into a massive blue snake) and Scarlett has a friend!! Yayayay! Slowly, she builds a team of Sam, Ira (an experiment from Scarlett's round of testing, crow) (Evergreen is just collecting experiments to make Scarlett like him more), Ann (who's name changes a lot ToT) (Scarlett's future gf), and Henry (he can cook).

Breaking away from Evergreen: Scarlett, because of old photos, finds out that Evergreen lit the fire. She, like a reasonable person, goes apeshit. Basically, half of Evergreen's stuff is destroyed, and most of the people under Scarlett break off. Besides Sam. Sam was under Evergreen before she was under Scarlett, unlike the others, and she has a much stronger connection to him than to Scarlett. She ends up fucking Scarlett's right foot up, leading to a prosthetic.

Forming her own place: now, she makes her own rival thing, but it's less mob boss and more an assasins guild who also hide people from the corrupt government. Basically, life is good! She has hot gf, she has good friends, yeah. UNTIL. The 9 of Spades (conquer) takes an interest. He's. A fucked up goop man. And because the goop has unusually high amounts of magic, not many people can touch it. Scarlett can, but it causes unpredictable reactions. So Conquer basically is like: imma live in your base now. And now Scarlett and her scientists are studying his goop. For something nice? No, for weapons, and how to nutrilize it. Around this time, she picks up a historian, Peni, in her inner circle. ALSO, ALSO, she co-runs the guild with Ann because she's shit at it but Ann got that Trans girl swag and is intimation as shit. Scarlett doesn't like leading. (Probably because she's an accidental follower of Heart and Spade but WHATEVER)

Ok. Remember Sam? Well she figured out mind control (like a girlboss) so they'res a war there and it gets very intense and I don't 100% have it worked out yet.

So, because of that war, Scarlett had to make a deal with Star for more control, and in exchange, star would give her power when she deemed most interesting. Scarlett (I love her but she ain't the sharpest tool in the shed) thought that this was a bargin and not too suspicious. UNLUCKY FOR HER, Star never said when would be most interesting to give her power, the amounts she would give, and how often she would give it.

Ok now, the public has found out about the experiments (including Scarlett and Ira and sevral other people under her) AND Scarlett's organization. So people are out to get her. Luckily, she fronts as a charity, and because she actually does a lot of that (protection programs, getting people out of abusive situations, decent homeless shelters) she stays afloat, but is still on the run. THIS is where Star decides to slowly give Scarlett more power, but no more control. Because me (and by extension Star) are suckers for storylines that basically cover somone struggling with too much power.

At this time, it is also slowly revealed that Peni (Peri, but WAY before Ember and Tsuki) is a Queen of Stars, which immediately makes every one loose trust in her.

This all comes to a head, when Scarlett (barley under control) has a confrontation with the government (and her father) and basically loses control. Seen as a monster by herself and the public, she runs away to the Forest (this planet was once of Diamond, so he keeps a sacred forest there that is too high in magic content for most people, unless they are favored. Like Scarlett.)

So she let's herself become less and less 'human' looking, until she's summoned (thanks to Star still dripping MORE power into her system, she has less power to resist, and it's easier to summon her because, as a main character, and one of my favorites, she's the 9 of Stars) by Peni, trying to make up for pretending to be a 'human', and her friends.

basically. It ends in a wholesome cottage story. A different person takes over her guild. All good.

Then Scarlett outlives everyone. And she has a couple options: become a full fledged servant of a God (she's already a 9 of Stars and of high interest to Spade and Heart) or live as a social outcast. She chooses to become a full fleged servant of a god, but NOT star, and Heart had no postions BUT. The Queen of Spades (war) was ready to retire, so Scarlett takes her place.

Yeah. Uh. Scarlett's fun. I like her.

@len-the-neverending

[writing-whump]

I don't chat or DM, but I'll ask a question to get to know your characters better. For the pack-three, how would each of them describe the others, if they were being totally transparent and honest? And how would the three brothers describe each other? I just love knowing OCs inner thoughts, if you don't mind sharing.

Lis! I'm still dying of curiosity to hear your Dylan and Rip thoughts! No pressure though :)

That is a very interesting, thank you for sending this!✨️

Seline:

Matthew has no idea how much respect she has for him tbh. For her, he is very disciplined and dedicated and she admires how much he works on his shadow despite the added difficulty. And she loves how kind he is despite the scary tough guy play he enjoys so much. If she was honest, she would admit that she used to think his shadow and anger issues are his own fault for not trying enough, but she has grown a lot more empathic and understanding of them since living with him.

As for Isaiah, this is the one man she feels internally and externally attracted to. Her friends were falling in love left and right, and she was like, where is it? Where is the big love? Why do I not feel anything? Where is the connection and conversation? She rationalizes her feelings too much. At uni, she started to admire professors, so older smart men that managed to be intellectually stimulating. Isaiah does manage this too, while being so so very kind, generous and empathetic to others. At first she thought he would be someone to let people walk over him, who doesn't respect himself enough, but she has since seen him in his powerful, magnetic and charming moments and his kind moments and his traumatic broken glimpses...and now admires and loves him a big deal. She would not admit for million years how much she is starting to rely on him or better, how much she yearns to rely on him but doesn't quite let herself yet.

Matthew:

Isaiah is like...this giant insane saint to him. Came out of nowhere, saved him once, twice, then five times, then wanted to help train him, gave him chances over and over. He doesn't get why he does it, but he feels like Isaiah let's him evolve and be his best self, and that best self is someone who can be an equal partner to him too. That's really Matthew's goal and wish in being Isaiah's second in the traditional pack roles, someone Isaiah can rely and count on, cause who will save the savior?

Seline is this stuck up little witch that rejected him on first sight, first loathing him, then being afraid of him...but she also makes such an effort to be more than just a witch by aiming for a research career, to be a worthwhile person that brings something to the world and not just her own pleasure and identity as a witch. She has no idea this is something he so deeply admires about her.

Isaiah:

Matthew is mishandled potential to him. Isaiah understands that training makes a wolf, and while his was way too brutal at the end, it was good at the start. He sees Matthew as a child completely failed by his caretakers, someone who deserved more, can do better and will always try his best. If only he knew how. Matthew would not be happy with this description, lol.

Seline is an etherical being to him. Isaiah wanted to find his purpose outside of being a wolf, when he first came into the pack and witches were flocking to him for his powerful shadow, so he stopped hoping there would be one really worth his time. He would describe her as someone who lives in several worlds at once, that doesn't need others for the complexity and beauty of what is in her mind. The fact she lives in her head too much sometimes, so she doesn't notice his secrets, doesn't push his trauma bottoms, doesn't insist on finding out the truth there and then immediately, are big things to him. She doesn't know this is something that he likes (and she would be more careful about it if she knew how much he is hiding). He is a secretive person by nature and nurture, and she is too tolerant and doesn't pry (though sometimes she maybe should).

Hector is...a very dynamic, very goal-oriented, focused and amazing child to him. He is someone of untapped potential, because Isaiah thinks he can do better and will be better, but isn't that far yet. Hector is just 2 years younger, but Isaiah keeps him out of stuff exactly for this reason - he feels too responsible, like he has to shield him, like Hector doesn't have the maturity to handle things yet, especially not if anything about Isaiah would seem imperfect. Isaiah doesn't think Hector forgives imperfection.

For Isaiah, Arnie is way too mature for his age. Knows and sees and understands way too much and isn't emotionally at the right place with it yet. He feels protective of him, because Arnie is too far ahead of his years, because he should be protected and nurtured more than he was.

Hector:

Isaiah is kind of a failed idol who is growing to be an idol after all, but in a different way. He is the perfect wolf, and the traitor of Hector's image of that perfection. He is wasted potential to him, someone who could have been powerful but decides every day to be weaker. (He doesn't yet quite accept nor respect Isaiah's way of life lol). But he is also someone to seek guidance and reassurance from, the only one Hector would actually listen to in certain matters. Hector wants to beat him more than anyone because he also admires him more than anyone (and it is very hard for Hector to respect people in the first place, he is way too judgmental and has one track mind of "strength is my biggest value" lol).

Arnie is for Hector what power without power looks like. The smartness, the boldness, the slyness, the ability to destroy people with words (I don't show this enough but in the RP this is quite the plot point). Hector is acutely aware of his loathing of humans, of Arnie's loathing of humans and of his own respect for Arnie's strength despite it. He is also protective as hell of this kid that would make such an excellent wolf, if only. Arnie is the biggest source of empathy for him.

Arnie:

Hector is a hero figure to him. Yeah he has some flaws, but they are forgettable and not worth mentioning to other people. In fact, Arnie feels like he is the only one close enough to Hector to understand the sheer capacity of Hector's awesomeness, because the sour, judgy, mean and unrelenting attitude is mostly what people get on the surface. But that's way too little. And the only one who can judge, insult or annoy him to be better is Arnie, obviously.

Isaiah is someone defined by gentlessness to Arnie. Isaiah was the main and only source of any mothering soothing reassurance in Arnie's childhood without his mother and an ignorant father. Isaiah was the only mature, understanding and patient one around. Isaiah is comfort to him in such a way that Arnie couldn't give up on the idea of him even estranged and apart from him. Maybe it was because he saw that side to Isaiah who is otherwise seen through his power and skill to everyone else that Arnie believed there had to be a good reason for Isaiah leaving and doing all those "unforgivable" things to the pack.

I went into bit of meta ramblings, because these aren't things the characters quite realise. If they had to answer like in an interview, would be a bit different again.

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(CW: talk of religious trauma and Christianity)

One thing I've come to think about while putting these recs together to combat the bigotry of #JesusJune has been how growing up in church shaped me as a person. From a young age, you're taught not to do certain things because you'll be judged when you die and potentially go to Hell. Don't do drugs or drink under age; don't have premarital sex; etc. Those things made sense to me. Especially not having premarital sex.

When all of my peers seemed to be engaging in relationships and alleged sexual activity in high school, I had no interest. Even when I did start toying with the idea of dating in college, I hid behind "no sex before marriage" because it was easier than examining my feelings around why sexual situations made me so uncomfortable. I didn't have the language for what I was feeling and a lot of that has to do with the lack of queer rep in media. Sure, there were gay characters at this point, but they were generally caricatures and the butt of the joke.

It wasn't until 2015 when I found a tumblr post about asexuality that things finally started to click into place. I felt a little more whole. Once I found a term for what I was feeling, it started a whole other mess of issues in my personal life. The beginning of the end for several relationships, one of the worst semesters of college, but in the end, things turned out for the best.

Seeing these bigots try to "reclaim" a symbol that's been around longer than their religion is wild to me. The rainbow means so many things to so many groups of people. It's a natural, beautiful thing. If you're dealing with religious trauma, know that you are loved and the Jesus I came to know before becoming exvangelical would support the queer community because he preached love and acceptance. 🌈✨️

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✨️Girls✨️

Hey, I'm Dani. Haven't made an intro post yet but I might as well lol

Alot of the info is under the read more cus I do NOT want this long ass list to be taking up half my page

I'm a bi lesbian and transsexual/altersex, I started my process of detransitioning from being FTM/binary transmasc a few months ago but I still consider myself apart of the trans community, and I'm also Genderqueer & GNC. use only she/he pronouns for me. Any terms are fine but rn I perfer fem & neutral publically, masc terms are often reserved for my partners & my wife.

I'm 25 in system currently, my birthday is May 13th, but bodily we are 22 years old. This account will be 18+ so MINORS DON'T INTERACT

I'm apart of a polyfragmented DID system, and I'm a subsystem myself. Having said that, this blog is meant for just me and my insane posts lol.

While being in a DID system, Me and the rest of us are fully in support of endogenics and non traumagenic systems. we believe in plurality regardless of origin so If you're anti endo stay as far away from us as possible, we won't hesitate.

My biggest interests are mechanical engineering, computer sciences, robotics, video games & a few other things.

I deal with auDHD, BPD, HPD, and P-OCD/Health OCD. If you believe that people with PDs are abusive, especially those with cluster b PDs, and ESPECIALLY for HPD, ASPD & NPD, Fuck off, and if you think those with P-OCD/Z-OCD are pedophiles/zoos, go away also. we're mentally ill and traumatized, and this is how it manifested. I am no more harmful than anyone else, and I am definitely not a pedophile for having a severe anxiety disorder around the FEAR and ANXIETY of being a pedo and being the same as our abusers. We're a grooming/online CSA victim as well, and we can not control or predict how this trauma and mental illness manifests, but we are in treatment right now for these things.

I'm polyamorous, and I'm in a relationship with @dakotakota and a couple of others apart of the Spiral System ( @the-spiral-system ) so while I will post about nsfw and kink, I will not respond to sexual and romantic advances, but some playful/non serious flirting and joking is fine, just respect me and my partners

I may post about sexual content and kinks, so as a warning you might see hornyposting on here.

My current special interests involves the band Ghost, Minecraft (Hermitcraft adjacent), Pokemon and Pizza Tower.

My DNI list is long, and I have a banner that I'll be posting on all of my original posts, but in general DNI if youre a terf or radfem, map/pedo, radqueer (like transid/pro and complex contact paraphile/proshipper/etc), yanderecore or traumacore blog, anti endo, anti mspec lesbians/gays, and in general being a bigoted shithole.

As a detransitioning/retransitioning person I understand people will have biases about us, and I understand we are often used as transphobic rhetoric by radfems and terfs, but Not every one of us are suddenly transphobic OR cisgender when we detransition/retransition. DNI if you're again detrans people OR are into detrans kink. Fuck off with that.

Hope yall enjoy my blog, just be nice to others! ^^