#i know almost nothing about creature commandos or phosphorus

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Haven't seen much more than clips of Creature Commandos but even still I can't get this dpxdc idea out of my head so here, have a peompt:

Ellie (Dani), fresh from escaping Vlad and losing all her clone brothers, ends up stumbling upon Dr Phosphorus at some point in her wandering. Maybe it's while he's still in Gotham doing his revenge/crime boss thing, maybe it's after he's in jail, maybe it's during the events of Ceature Commandos. Where/when it happens doesn't terribly matter.

What really matters is that Ellie, freshly on her own, lonely and a bit traumatized after losing her brothers, sees this blackened skeleton enveloped in glowing green energy and can't help but think of the big brother she lost and imprints on him like an undead baby duck.

Phosphorus for his part doesn't really know what to do with this sassy lost child that's latched onto him like a chaotic little lamprey, but he'll be dammed if he's gonna let anything happen to this kid who can tell when his empty skull of a face isn't smiling and who doesn't seem to have had a single decent adult around in her entirely too short life.

[holy-obsession-batman]

Thoughts on Creature Commandos' ending (4/4): the blame game

So I've seen people assassinating Weasel and Flag in particular for Nina's death, and found it... not accurate. Here's in my opinion the part of responsibility for all agents in this:

Ilana: Ironically, killing Nina is the one thing you can't, objectively, blame her for. It was strictly self-defense, and yeah, she's a cold two-faced bitch, but in here, what she did was objectively justified: Nina tries to shank, she disarms, and strikes back. Yes, there's that horrible timing that if she just dodged or just disarmed, the phone call from Waller could have maybe stopped it with nobody dying -- but she had no way of knowing at the moment; she was under a murder attempt by a member of the Creature Commandos who is supposedly a monster and experienced killer. She *couldn't* have just disarmed Nina, because Nina is a marine creature and without the knife she could 100% drown Ilana.

By that I don't mean, mind you, that you can't hate her for it, or that it was extremely satisfying to see the bride shoot her in the head, or that she didn't had it coming. But, like. Objectively. From a moral and legal standpoint, this is self defense. Supervillain potential notwithstanding.

Weasel: he's closer to a mindless beast than a rational person. His contribution is just causing a bad timing -- and if you admit he's an instinct-driven animal, (and a damn heart-warming one at that, driven by love, which makes the whole thing even more tragic) he's irresponsible, in the sense that you can't hold him accountable for his actions, because he doesn't what is doing (legit version of why the Joker never gets sentenced to death, if you will). However, the responsibility of his actions fall onto who the fuck thought it was a good idea to send him there.

Flag: the part of blame you want to put on him is irrational, fueled by anger, and in fact, not that founded. Yes, he warned Ilana about the Commandos coming to kill her. But... if the Bride's deduction are true and that she knew that Circe would out her in Belle Reve -- reason why she sent Clayface replace the Themiscyran expert -- then she already knew about it. If anything, Flag's whole manipulated investigation leading to Waller phoning the Commandos is what almost/could have saved Nina. Five minutes earlier, and the assassination was called off, the Commandos welcomed to the castle, and cue the final scene with Bride killing the princess in her office. (Yes, she said that she did it exclusively in revenge for Nina and not to save the world, but if Nina was alive, the Bride would have in her found family team a reason to protect the world, so same result)

Also get off Flag's hide already about being manipulated by Ilana. Yes, he slept with her and from then on cut out all critical analysis of her, but also I think even without the hookup Flag would have protested. I mean, trusting the supervillain Circe and immediately jumping to assassination of the person they just protected? Hello? This is justified by the narrative, but we are talking about US black ops, highly unethical all around. Hell, Nina herself protested, not because she was in love with Ilana, but because it's someone she met, fought to protect, and seemed nice with theù. She didn't want to kill the princess, because she's a not a cynical person, like Flag, unlike Waller, the Bride and Dr Phosphorus. If she could have investigated her way out of the assassination? she would have. 100%. But she had no option to do that. (and then the Commandos found the footage of Clayface)

Waller: is the one to commission the black ops assassination. She is responsible for Nina's death because she is the one to choose to send her, even though she had nothing of a killer (and was no asset to the team in general. I mean, even her underwater advantage, who the fuck could have known ahead that they were gonna conduct underwater assassination. It's fucking stupid). She is also accountable for Weasel, who made the op fail because he's literally unable to take orders. Why the fuck send him. But then again, Waller is responsible, knows it, owns it and couldn't care less.

The Bride and Phosphorus: Ooooh, blaming them feels wrong, because they are the one who cared for Nina, raged and grieved her death. But the Bride was the one to send Nina do the kill. She gave her her knife, and this very knife kills Nina. The reason why she gave the knife even tho Nina didn't need it can be only be speculated on, my guesses range from stoopid to including-Nina-in-their-we-are-monsters-found-family-dynamic, but in any case, this is symbolism. The fight the Bride sends Nina to -- with affection, not imagining things going wrong -- is what kills her.

And Phosphorus was in the same mind state.

Writing that gave me inspiration for a Creature Commandos time loop fic prompt, here

(Masterpost)