#i literally hate this oop

[feyswilde]

girl ur mighty kingdom has fallen

[starry-bi-sky]

Blood Blossom Au: Baby's First Commissioner Meeting :)

TL:DR This Post: Danny (orphan) gets poisoned with blood blossom extract by Vlad. He runs away from him and ends up under the care of one Pre-Robin Battinson Batman! Starry is loudly pushing her batdad agenda.

(Also known as "Late At Night, When The Nightingale Sings" on my ao3!)

This was a fun rough idea I've been sitting on for weeks, thinking about how Commissioner Gordon and Nightingale's first meeting might go.

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Commissioner Gordon likes to think that he's adjusting to the new normal of Gotham very well, -- the new normal being grown men running around dressed like bats, in military-grade strength body armor, committing acts of vigilantism, -- and slowly, little by little, he was no longer being surprised when this new normal pops up out of the shadows like the world's most terrifying daisy. His shaving lifespan thanks him for it.

....

The kid is a surprise though.

Granted, he seemed to be a surprise to the Bat too.

There's been a string of murders lately, -- which, in Gotham, is kind of like saying there's been another storm during monsoon season. And there's just been another; in some dilapidated building down in south Gotham, with the broken, boarded-up windows and mildew-crawling walls to match. The victim is a man in his thirties, multiple gunshot wounds to the chest, left in the center of the room for the blood to pool out around him.

The place is already secured when he arrives, the building swarmed with officers and the forensic detectives. The Bat emerges shortly after he does -- or, he might've been here the whole time, hiding someplace dark and shadowy. For his own sanity, Gordon doesn't think about it too hard.

The kid is a surprise, and he appears like a bolt of lightning.

He shows up in the middle of a conversation Gordon is having with the Bat.

A whistle, sharp and loud, slicing through the air, meant for open air rather than a confined space. Gordon's ears pierce and protest the sound, and the solemn, murmured chatter floating through the room abruptly cuts off like the swing of a gavel. As he turns towards the sound -- as they all do -- he swears, up and down, that he sees Batman's shoulders jump, just slightly.

At the source, perched on the window, is a boy. A boy in a gray-blue scarf and an oversized black hoodie, one that hangs off his frame and has ace bandages wrapped around the wrists in some attempt to cinch the sleeves. The hood is up, big like the rest of it, and threatens to swallow the upper half of the boy's face whole in the fabric. What upper half Gordon can see, is smeared with some kind of opaque, black face paint. He's holding onto the side of the frame with one hand, on his hip is a grappling hook. A familiar grappling hook.

Gordon has multiple questions, and his officers tense up.

Martinez puffs up, brows furrowing as his face shapes into a frown. Shoulders rolling back. "You can't be here, kid--"

The reaction is immediate, like a spark to gunpowder, the boy yanks his fingers from his mouth and his mouth twists into a scowl. Head snapping over to Officer Martinez, his hood manages to stay on but Gordon swears that as he bares his teeth, the glint makes them look sharper than they should be. His voice is rasp and quiet and harsh; snappish in its hissing; "Put a fuckin sock in it, Martinez. I'm not stayin."

Martinez reels back, and the boy immediately veers his attention off him. Like a switch, his demeanor drops. Despite half his face being covered, his mouth twists into a cringing, apologetic smile. Slanted and off-beat, embarrassed. It'd be disarming if this wasn't Gotham, and if he didn't just hiss at Martinez like he was about to bite his head off.

"Sorry." He whispers, voice deceptively polite and softer now. Gordon has to strain his ears to hear him. "I was looking for him."

He points his finger towards-- Gordon? No, Gordon follows the direction, and finds himself looking at -- the Bat.

The Bat, who always looks stiff as a pole, now looks even stiffer. Somehow. Well, the explains the grappling hook attached to the boy's waist.

"What are you doing here?" The Bat says, gruff and unable to completely smother the stumble of surprise in his tone.

The boy still holds a sheepish smile, and slips off the window ledge. His feet hit the creaky boards with a near-silent thud, the Batman finds his feet and rapidly begins crossing the room.

Gordon notes the slight tremble in the boy's legs as he straightens. He adjusts his scarf, which droops close to his knees now that he's standing, and slings a backpack -- how long has had that? -- off his shoulders. When the Bat reaches his side, he does as he always does, and looms over the boy like a spectre. A threatening mass of shadows cloaked in all-consuming black. Standing next to him, the boy looks teeny in comparison.

The Bat is a man who terrifies even the most hardened criminals, Gordon has seen grown men shiver in fear at the mention of his name. And yet when the boy looks up at him, he doesn't even flinch.

Instead, his sheepish smile melts away like ice under the sun, holding only traces of his previous embarrassment. It remains as a shadow on his face, a small upturn at the corners of his mouth. The boy pushes his hood back just enough to reveal glinting, ice-flint eyes surrounded in tar-black face paint. He holds the backpack up with one arm. "You forgot this."

[staardustkisses]

woe, curse of kukugumi be upon ye

[egggargler]

Guys is this kiss kiss fall in love⁉️

[starsandscars81]

favorite Kuwei headcanons! (is this because im trying to write him right now and am struggling and i know you actually appreciate him? maybe. but also im just curious)

Okay I lied earlier but didn’t realize it. I’ve been waiting for an excuse to talk about Kuwei.

Once he got to Ravka, he uses his powers a lot, he’s very proud and shows off(which isn’t usually great for his surroundings due to the nature of his powers, but he doesn’t think through things like that, which yk is how I think he ended up setting that forest on fire in king of scars)

He gossips. Like a lot. (He’ll sit there, pretending not to listen when people talk and then go to his friends, I like to believe he made friends in Ravka, and then tells them everything he heard)

He was miserable when he worked to create an antidote to parem bc it reminded him of working with his father(which he already didn’t get much time to mourn)

He’s short, like it’s already canon he’s shorter than Wylan but my dude is only a couple of inches taller than Inej short

Messy handwriting. Idk it’s the vibes. He’s that smart kid in class whose notes are pretty much illegible

In modern aus I make him Chinese bc yes I will make it so my favorite characters have things in common with me(Shu Han is based on China and Mongolia so…)

Anyway I literally NEED this fandom to talk about Kuwei outside of his crush on Jesper and Wylan’s “hate” for him PLEASE 🙏

[vampire-nyx]

Honestly really disappointing and upsetting that just after I found the pills that make you green comics the creator turned out to very much extremely hate people like me

[butwhatifidothis]

I LOVED To Be a Creature, and it genuinely creeped me out to see the things Edelgard and Hubert said to Byleth (though it's the same as the game, stripped out of its voice acting and background music, the dialogue is so much more horrifying). Really makes me wonder if Edelgard's love for Byleth is genuine in any way. Do you think there's any real love there or is it just obsession?

Thank you!!! I had a feeling that placing Edelgard and Hubert's words in a context that isn't meant to make them look flattering would really let their casual racism shine, and I'm glad it's seeming like that is in fact the impression people are getting lol. SO sorry for the late answer btw 😭😭😭

As for whether Edelgard's love is genuine... I got opinions lmao.

got a bit long lmao under the cut it goes

If Edelgard felt the way she does for Byleth on exclusively SS and CF, I could maybe see how this is a "genuine" love (insofar as a love steeped in "I may hate your race but you're special and Not Like The Other Ones because I think you're special to me" can, uh, ever be genuine, in any case). But because Edelgard still feels as strongly towards Byleth on AM and VW where she quite literally never talks to them directly in any meaningful way, it becomes waaaaay more like she's just weirdly obsessed with this person who saved her one singular time ever five years ago from an attack Edelgard set up. It makes the "love" way more forced and contrived and obviously trying to squeeze tears out of the player for standing up against the cute girly trying to murder them. Or, alternatively, it makes Edelgard come off as manipulative, saying that she just wanted to walk with Byleth and it makes her so sad to HAVE to fight Byleth because BYLETH wouldn't stand by HER - and she's saying this on AM/VW to a person she's talked to in conversation a cumulative, what? Hour? Two? Maybe a few days, being nice? Over the course of, being as absolutely generous as physically possible and not counting the five years Byleth was missing... two fucking years? She's shitting herself over fighting this stranger she doesn't fucking know? Yeah, sure buddy, whatever you say - you see what I mean?

And honestly even outside of those two routes, I think it's more that she sees Byleth as being hers rather than actually liking them for who they are. A body to stand next to her and tell her how right she is and comfort her - who doesn't have the background of "I was literally raised to think this is my only purpose in life" muddying the sincerity of the brown-nosing - who also happens to also act as The Perfect Fighter and The Perfect Strategist to actively help her get what she wants. That view of Byleth being a tool doesn't really go away unless they marry her, seen by how they quite literally get nothing for all they've done for Edelgard should they go unmarried to a noble (guess they just weren't meritable enough once their use to her was done).

As well as how much more Edelgard doesn't like Byleth disagreeing with her or otherwise going against her flow than pretty much anyone else in the game - you lose supports points if you don't think the Black Eagle Strike Force name she made is good, she quickly denies the notion that Byleth isn't detached from others/emotions and insists they are just like she is, she gives them the same callous and thoughtless words she was apparently given once in her life while they are in the midst of mourning their recently murdered father so that they get over it already and get back to being useful to her (directly saying she will only reach out her hand when it's time for HER to move forward, not when BYLETH heals from WATCHING THEIR DAD DIE IN THEIR FUCKING ARMS MAYBE A WEEK AGO). She never treats Byleth kindly unless they do everything she wants, which like. Isn't love???? At all????

There's just this... weirdly possessive air Edelgard has around Byleth that always threw me off, especially with how easily she admits to have been willing to kill them so far into CF and how readily she cuts ties with them the second the fighting's done (which is particular because how just how clingy she was to Byleth everywhere else - you know during all that time Byleth had a use to her). Incorporating that into being an intentional part of her character is certainly interesting, but not in a way that's flattering to the idea of Edelgard genuinely being in love with Byleth lmao.

Personally tho, even disregarding almost everything else, the simple explanation is that I don't think you can really sit there and say you love someone while openly hating part of their racial heritage. Wild thought, I know lmao

[sockdooe]

Constantly thinking about how she should’ve beaten the shit out of Lotor !!!!!!!

[sees-text-shenans]

Since the p3r opening shows that the soundtrack is probably diegetic, what about sees talking about minato's (or the whole gang's) music taste?

[lilmeowmrow]

supercut

[xxplastic-cubexx]

I love evil snap

evil snap needs to be put in time out he's fucking up my file history

[vilsoo]

dont piss me off… why tf do these npcs think bayonetta is a style and label asian ppl wearing rimless glasses “bayonetta” ??? 😭😭😭😭

[phantomsf0rever]

"gambit is so much better now that he's married and is a quirky cat dad" PLEASE READ ANY COMIC PUBLISHED BEFORE 2015 PLEASE PLEQSE PLEASE

[iamespecter]

Hi Ziku, I'm the person who asked you the question about the mazercise in the VIP novel. First, thank you for responding to my random comment and second, don't worry, I like to see your opinion on these topics.

To give you context, the interactive VIP novel is released for the anniversary of the franchise and it is a canon novel since it happens long before the glamrocks were corrupted and it is the novel where as a glamrock chica fan I wanted to jump off a fifth floor since chica is given a little bit of prominence where the protagonist's little brother is a big fan of chica and I said at last chica will have a role in the boy by the way is called ikki because then I remembered that this is fnaf and that she will never have that honor that is why it was all chica she interacted very little with her fan besides that on top of that the mazercise did not even exist at that time and was never hers because originally that place belonged to monty (secondary character having the attraction of chica and mimi golf) and my heart ended up exploding to see that chica is genuinely the filler of the band overshadowed by roxy and freddy who in that novel does have a role in it again overshadowed by a murdered rabbit with too many fanboys and overshadowed by an alligator who hasn't earned things and everything is handed to him on a silver platter.

I apologize if you sense frustration in my comment. I don't want to do it on your blog or put you in a bad mood, but as a big fan of the chica, I share your frustration :(

sigh. pulling this out now chat

Scott should just hand the rights of Chica to me instead /srs I would be so unstoppable like jesus christ the disrespect!!!!!!

Like. I'm trying so damn hard not to be frustrated at Roxy because she got to be in the limelight during Ruin instead of Chica, because it'd definitely be wrong to pin the blame on her. And I admit, they handled Roxanne pretty good during Ruin..... I liked her characterization; that's why I'm redirecting this frustration at the writers themselves for fucking this writing choice up

CHICA, THE MOST RECURRING CHARACTER IN THE FRANCHISE BESIDES FREDDY. DO YOU REALIZE HOW MUCH POTENTIAL THAT HAS.

ALL THE POSSIBLE. UNTOLD. JUICY LORE. MAN.

The worst part about this is the fact that you can tell during Security Breach, THEY HAD SOMETHING PLANNED FOR HER!!!! STEEL WOOL WANTED TO DO *SOMETHING*!!!!!!!!

SHE HAD A FUCKING SHRINE IN THE TRASH DUMPS, MAN. ON TOP OF CHICA MEMORABILIA BEING SCATTERED IN VARIOUS PLACES ON THE PIZZAPLEX, AND THE CUPCAKE BAKERY. I don't know about you, but I *really* have my suspicions that Chica was supposed to be given a major spotlight in the DLC, but it was retconned because people caught on SO QUICK.

It's like Bendy and the Ink Machine Chapter 5 all over again, where people KNEW Joey Drew was the Ink Demon from the get go, but by the time the reveal was FINALLY going to pay off with Chapter 5; they changed it at the last second for fucking "shock value", then pretending the whole thing was a red herring and "everything was planned from the beginning" ooooooooo!!!!! God I hate when everything is undone for shock value

NOT TO MENTION: SHE DIDN'T EVEN SPEAK UNTIL SHE BEGAN CHASING GREGORY, AND THE WAY SHE SPEAKS IS SO SIMILAR TO VANNY, AND THE UNUSED POSSESSED FREDDY VOICELINES FOR THE BURNTRAP BATTLE.

I'M FUCKING SHAKING and CRYING I'm getting frustrated all over again this is why I don't like talking about what they did to Chica post-Security Breach. Like, I'm certainly not the best theorist, but I can most definitely smell bullshit and know if things aren't exactly adding up.

[hyacinth-sky]

🤔

[kingkat12]

currently going through the 57 chapter Roman Godfrey fic i wrote two years ago, and damn this is so fucking rough but the plot is BOMBBBB, so if i ever do a rewrite i think y'all would eat this up lol