#the lazurus effect

[theconjurervfx]

The Lazarus Effect (2015) dir. David Gelb.

[dc-jxsontxdd]

Thinking about Dating Jason Todd as Robin. How he's absolutely in love like a teenage boy. Plans your wedding in his head, thinking of the gifts he wants to get you now he has disposable Wayne money. I mean boy is obsessed with you. being with him feels straight out of the romance novels he reads to you (he also underlines the parts that remind him of you).

He's attentive, understanding, perhaps a bit cocky but he is the boy wonder, so he can get away with it.

You're his favorite topic of conversation. Praising, adoring, and pride radiates out of him purely from hearing the sound of your name.

He gives you a promise ring maybe 6 months in because he's that sort of crazy. Any of your gifts are stored in a safe place or tucked in his pocket for good luck. He definitely has pictures of u in his wallet.

Jason wants nothing more than to be your prince in shining armor.

Thinking about Dating Jason Todd post resurrection. He's seen and did things he couldn't possibly speak out loud fully. He's been dead and resurrected, that's not something someone gets over easily. He's quieter now. He used to be someone who took up as much space as he could. Who would fill the room with chatter and laughter.

Now it's different. Not worse. Not better. Different.

On the nights you two can spend together are filled with whispers and soft touches. The comfortable silence is something he admires. A contrast to the noise that lives in his mind.

If Jason was ever insecure he is more now than ever. You can tell from the way he holds you in his arms that he's scared you'll disappear. He's been through loss, he's been through death, but on the other side has always been you.

He can think of no one else he'd go through life than with you. Jason is not a people person, he's not even really a relationship person, but despite that he can't ignore how his heart aches when he's been away from you for too long. He can feel himself get antsy when he doesn't have at least some form a physical touch with you. Jason, despite being large and muscular, runs cold. A side effect of being dead, something that the lazurus pit wasn't able to fully heal. It's triggering for him, the warmth of your bodies held together grounds him better.

He wonders what he ever did to deserve this. To deserve you in both of his life times

Jason wants nothing more to be your knight and protector

A/n : this was written sm better but the draft didn't save lmao

[plagueislost]

I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR YOUR THOUGHTS ON JASON WING AU THE WAY HIS WINGS CHANGED AND SUCH

do other people who use the lazurus pit experience changes in their wings or was it bc he changed as a person before/after his death

do you think people who go through trauma experience changes in their wings

also what does family preening look like

i am obsessed with the wing au

THANK YOU FOR ASKING I LOVE TALKING ABOUT THIS AU.

i originally got the idea of his wings turning white from that streak in his hair that appeared after the resurrection. i figured hey, if the lazarus waters can do that to someone’s hair, it can probably do that to their wings too, right? it allows for Bruce to not realize Jason is Red Hood for a little bit longer, and it lets you visually separate these two halves of Jason’s life.

I honestly got pretty lucky that pigeons and doves are the same type of bird, and that their symbolic meanings are so contrasting. Jason was a street rat before the resurrection. even after becoming robin, his entire outlook on life was informed by his experience on the streets, and his wings reflected that.

after the resurrection, he becomes in a way haunted by his previous life, and is stuck in a state of grief over what he lost and what he can never again be (robin, bruce wayne’s son, whatever). doves are a symbol of peace, which is a nice contrast to the red hood persona, but they’re also a symbol of grief and mourning (well, technically mourning doves are but shhhhh).

I imagine that since Jason is the first to be revived fully from the dead by the lazarus pits, he is the only one to have experienced significant change in his wings. it’s possible Ra’s might have some white speckling from frequent exposure to the pits, but i honestly haven’t decided yet.

about the trauma causing changes in wings thing, most likely it wouldn’t be anything so drastic like Jason’s change but it can definitely leave lasting effects. i heard somewhere that birds in very stressful situations will over-preen themselves, essentially plucking out perfectly healthy feathers until skin is exposed. This is probably a behavior that would manifest in people in this world too, as a form of self harm. It’d be pretty hard to hide, though, so if someone were trying to keep up appearances they’d likely search for other avenues.

lastly, family preening i’d say is similar to social grooming behaviors in apes or birds. I’m not sure about the social structures behind preening in birds, but i know a lot of species will groom each other in order to bond. We don’t see a lot of social grooming in humans because we’re able to stay rather clean on our own, but i’m sure that would be a different story if we had large appendages in hard to reach places covered in feathers that won’t necessarily fall out on their own when they need to.

social preening would look different on a case-by-case basis, depending on living situations and interpersonal relationships. for example, someone who lives alone would probably invite friends over so they can preen one another in a giant pile on the floor, but a group of people living together wouldn’t need to make an event of it and would just idly groom each other while watching tv or something. people probably sell tools that allow you to get to those hard to reach place on your own if you don’t have anyone to preen you, but they aren’t a huge industry. also, you can go a while without preening before it gets dangerous, but it’s uncomfortable and itchy the whole time. with the Wayne foundation, theres likely preening centers across Gotham where individuals (homeless or otherwise) can get their wings preened if they don’t have anyone to preen them and can’t afford the tools.

Jason is still pretty testy about preening now, but before he reconciled with Bruce, his wings were in a constant state of disrepair. He had the money (from crimelord-ing) to pay for the tools to preen himself, but he wasn’t taking very good care of himself overall during that period, so it took a back seat.

thanks for indulging me with this au you guys have been very kind about it :)

[valiantothello]

I really liked ur post about "Dick grayson has a temper" and I had a question about another panel I've seen people use to say he has a bad temper

I never read the comic it came from, but I've seen the panel and it's him saying to Barbara to not make him regret putting an elevator in his apartment, do you know if he was mind controlled during that or something? Or was he just being written wrong etc

Thank you very much 🙃 Now I feel conflicted about this moment so I'll walk you through my thought process here. I have to split this into two parts as I reached the image limit.

Disclaimer, I very much dislike Barbara as a character BUT I will do my best to be as objective as possible here and avoid any bashing.

This happens soon after the Joker: last laugh arc. In the tail end of said arc, Dick has freshly killed the Joker and Bruce revives him soon after via CPR. A common interpretation I see suggests that Bruce revives for Dick's sake, I personally disagree. I think Bruce saves the Joker out of the moral obligation of not allowing someone to die if he is able to save them. Bruce does not go out of his way to save the Joker through the Lazurus Pit or other methods at this time.

"NIGHTWING?"

"WHAT...WHAT HAVE I DONE?"

"OMIGOD...HE'S DEAD." "I... I KILLED HIM."

Joker: Last laugh #6 (Jan, 2001)

Nightwing is clearly very distraught. His moral code is very important to him. He sees this as a massive moral failure to himself. The next panels shows Joker "seeing the light" and Bruce resuscitating him.

"WOW. THIS CAN'T BE RIGHT."

"JOKER..."

"HUH?"

"DON'T GO INTO THE LIGHT."

"THAT YOU, GOD? I WANT MY LAWYER."

Joker: Last laugh #6 (Jan, 2001)

The Joker medically "dies" but Bruce brings him back.

"SO...WH...WHO GAVE ME MOUTH-TO-MOUTH?"

"WE SHOULD HAVE LET HIM DIE."

"WE DON'T DO THAT. NOT EVEN FOR HIM."

"I DID IT. I KILLED HIM."

"BUT JOKER'S ALIVE, HE'S OKAY."

"AND ROBIN'S ALIVE! SEE?"

"THAT DOESN'T CHANGE ANYTHING. I LOST ALL CONTROL. I LET ANGER CARRY ME. HE WAS DEAD AND I WAS... I WAS HAPPY ABOUT IT. HE WON."

Joker: Last laugh #6 (Jan, 2001)

"THE JOKER WON BECAUSE OF ME."

"NIGHTWING, DON'T..."

"LET HIM GO, ROBIN. HE HAS TO FACE WHAT HE'S DONE."

Joker: Last Last #6 (Jan, 2001)

It's clear as day that Dick is facing deep emotional turmoil right now. He feels like a failure to Bruce and to himself. He is a perfectionist - if he makes the slightest mistake, he agnosises over it.

Next time we see him is in Nightwing, Volume 2 #63. Barbara is sending him a video message which he does not answer.

"THIS VIGILANTE DEAL HAS ITS DOWNSIDE." "DICK? I KNOW YOU'RE THERE, DICK. YOU CAN'T GO ON LIKE THIS. YOU CAN'T KEEP BLAMING YOURSELF. YOU CAN'T PLAY "WHAT IF?" IT'S POINTLESS, IT'S DESTRUCTIVE."

Nightwing Vol 2 #63 (Nov, 2001)

"I KNOW. I PLAYED THAT NIGHT OVER AND OVER. WHAT IF I HADN'T GONE TO THE DOOR? WHAT IF MY FATHER ANSWERED IT? BUT THAT'S HOW THE JOKER WINS. YOU LET HIM INTO YOUR HEAD. DAMN IT, GRAYSON! YOU CAN'T QUIT JUST BECAUSE YOU DID WHAT ALL OF US HAVE DREAMED OF A MILLION TIMES BEFORE! EVEN BRUCE WOULD ADMIT IT. THE WORLD WOULD BE BETTER OFF IF THE JOKER WERE DEAD. SO DON'T LET THIS DESTROY YOU."

Nightwing Vol 2 #63 (Nov, 2001)

Barbara sends in Wally to speak to him in hopes that he'll open up.

"DICK... BONEHEAD. WON'T LISTEN TO ME, HUH? I'LL FIND SOMEONE YOU WILL LISTEN TO."

Nightwing Vol 2 #63 (Nov, 2001)

"WE BOTH KNOW THE BUSINESS WE'RE IN. THE MASK IS A DISGUISE, IT'S NOT A SHIELD. THIS STUFF TOUCHES US SOMETIMES. IT HAS TO. SO YOU ALMOST KILLED THE JOKER. THAT DOESN'T MAKE YOU--" "HE DIED! HE WAS DEAD AND I KILLED HIM IF BATMAN WASN'T THERE... "I KNOW YOU, DICK. THAT'S NOT YOU." "YOU BELIEVED IN BARRY TOO, REMEMBER?"

Nightwing Vol 2 #63 (Nov, 2001)

Two things I want to point out here.

One, Dick cannot accept the fact that he DID NOT kill the Joker. He almost did. He stopped his heart and the Joker was medically dead for a moment. But the Joker was brought back simply through CPR. There was no lasting effect on Dick "killing" the Joker, and yet he still internalises the idea that there was. That he made some grand, irreversible mistake. He is going through a deeper spiral that most realise, in this moment and the main problem is his DENIAL.

Two, Dick brings up Barry at the end of the conversation as a jab towards Wally. This shows that Dick does lash out and hurt people at times, my last post doesn't deny that. But it usually isn't without provocation or a sign he is going through something terrible.

Wally leaves the conversation after this and Dick looks sorrowfully at a picture of him and Jason.

Nightwing Vol 2 #63 (Nov, 2001)

Barbara tries to reach out once again.

'GRAYSON, RICHARD XXX dgray113@havennet.net'

"DICK? ARE YOU HOME? WE REALLY NEED TO TALK. REMEMBER THE GUY WHO CALLED HIMSELF CONDIMENT KING? I FORGOT ABOUT HIM, TOO. BUT I'LL NEVER FORGET THAT NIGHT. YOU REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED THEN?"

Nightwing Vol 2 #63 (Nov, 2001)

*To be continued in next post*

[thebucketpail]

I think a funny thing regarding Damian in dpxdc fics, is when they're like "Ooh Damian has a core/is liminal because of exposure to lazurus pits" when he has literally died.

Not like Steph faking her death or anything, bro legit got impaled and dunked in a pit that turned out wasn't actually a pit (it was portal to the ghost zone netherworld) and then his corpse got shuffled around abit before getting revived by a fancy rock from apokolips.

Yeah sure the pits didn't technically revive him, but getting dunked in a ghost zone portal while dead had to have some lasting effects ykyk.

[camo-wolf]

So I got more of an idea for Al ghuls being mind controlled by lazurus pit sense it’s been told to me that Talia probably doesn’t use the lazurus pit as often as Ra’s I’m saying it can be passed on to the next gen but sense Damian is 3rd gen it didn’t effect him as much so when dick takes care of him his control is easier broken from love from dick Ra’s has it worse obviously because he was the first Talia is a little bad but also not that bad

[teecupangel]

You know I have my own wonderful idea and this takes place specifically in the young justice universe around season 1 since that has the best time frame to include this now we all know The Light was vandal savage attempt to rule the world again but have you noticed that the league of assassins philosophy of killing corruption and ra's being immortal too with lazurus pit, And vandal desire for control fits perfectly with the constant battle between Templars and assassins, so what if the league was originally the brotherhood and the templars was originally founded by vandal savage and I'm not talking about the weird backstory we got in AC origins with Julius Cesar though those events still happened but vandal is the one who formalized the templars into what they are, however here's where the assassins come in and especially ra's see while vandal was more than willing to fake his death every now and than to let the templars grow on their own if necessary, and to make the assassins think they won for a bit before coming back with a new name and because of that he's been able to rule the world the same way he's always did in the normal comics just this time he has a secret army at his beck and call during that entire time.

Then the assassins finally got a true victory with ra's becoming an assassin and eventually grandmaster who found, wait for it, an isu artifact that allows anyone who had died to come back to life but of course as we all know isu bullshit tends to have side effects and the Lazarus pit was no different but thanks to ra's leadership and the Lazarus pit the assassins for the first time in decades have finally won a final victory against the vandal and his templars at least until vandal waited for the day he can recreate his templars under a new name one where everyone will see the light of his leadership and the world will be his to control again.

So my point to all of this is, what if all the events of the assassins creed games up until the modern day before 2012 and before the start of season 1 of young justice all happened and that the moment vandal and his light start making moves, the league of assassins hear about it and catch the justice league and definitely batman off gaurd with a partnership and when the team is given a liason and new support in the form of Desmond, Shaun, and Rebecca.

So, in this one, we’re setting up Ra’s Al Ghul as the mentor of the League of Assassins and not a member of The Light?

Or are we going for the ‘things are different in this AU’ then go psyche! Ra’s Al Ghul is our Al Mualim and he’s a member of the Light!

Honestly, I wanna go for the second idea because, this way, we can set up Ra’s Al Ghul as a parental figure of Desmond who raised him because he was an orphan and he would act as both his master and his mentor, mirroring Altaïr’s relationship with Al Mualim.

So when Ra’s Al Ghul is finally shown as a member of The Light, it would hammer in how Ra’s and Desmond’s relationship mirroring Altaïr and Al Mualim’s relationship was a hint of Ra’s true ‘allegiance’.

Also, this would give Desmond an easier time to befriend Dick as they both got… uuhh… ‘complicated’ relationship with their father-figure (although Desmond having Ra’s as his father figure makes Dick think “atleast Bruce wasn’t as bad…”).

Although, by Leagues of Assassin standards, Ra’s does act like a good father to Desmond and he cares for Desmond like he does for Talia so when the truth of his allegiance to The Light comes to… well… light… there’s gonna be some sweet, sweet angst, not just between Desmond and Ra’s but with the team (especially Dick) and Desmond on how loyal Desmond is to Ra’s.

Unorganized Notes (I’m messing up the timeline XD):

Yeah, I’m doubling down on it because the Desmond is Talia’s twin ask has some really good ideas on Desmond’s relationship with the League members.

Talia treats Desmond as a little brother and even tells Batman to look after him because, in her own words, he’s still naive. This makes Batman believe that Desmond is a good person.

He is but he was raised to be an Assassin so he has no qualms killing bad guys. Shaun and Rebecca actually act more as his moral compass and remind him that the team won’t like it if you kill this person or something.

Desmond is known as Ra’s son although some of the League members say it in a more derogatory way as he isn’t related to Ra’s by blood.

Soooo… in the end, Desmond is the one who ‘kills’ Ra’s although he does mention that Ra’s won’t say dead to the team. He leaves Young Justice afterward to take care of the League. This though, does end up splitting the League between Desmond and Deathstroke but Desmond and his League will pop in and out to help the Young Justice every now and then.

Vandal Savage calls Desmond ‘mentor’ after Desmond takes over half of the League. He talks about Desmond as if he was a completely different person, saying how he always knew that Desmond would assassinate Ra’s. No matter what trickery Ra’s do to him, his blood will always guide him to be the thorn in the Templars’ side.

Desmond doesn’t remember it but he has been drowned in the Lazarus Pit… by Ra’s himself. Talia would imply it happened multiple times because Desmond’s mind is ‘fragile’.

Depending on how old Desmond is supposed to be in this AU, he either acts as Cassandra’s older brother or her father figure. He’s the reason why Cassandra was able to get away from Lady Shiva (honestly, I don’t like how Young Justice merged Lady Shiva and David Cain and made Lady Shiva more evil in this one but I'll use it for the plot). Whether Cassandra stays with Desmond or she becomes Orphan is up to you.

Red-Hooded Ninja is also close to Desmond who pretty much taught him after he lost his memories. Desmond has no idea who Jason Todd was and that’s why he didn’t know Red-Hooded Ninja’s real identity.

Later on, Desmond would start remembering memories that don’t feel like his own at all. Talia sees this and tells him to use the Lazarus Pit, implying that the reason why Ra’s always ‘drown’ Desmond in the pit was because of these memories.

So Desmond doesn’t. Instead, he tries to make sense of the memories he’s getting.

This is the part where you can go: (1) Those memories are Desmond’s ‘erased’ memories from when he was actually Ra’s younger brother whose Creed made him butt heads with his older brother ending with Ra’s using the Lazarus Pit to make Desmond forget about the Creed he had and become more easily controlled to do Ra’s wishes, (2) Desmond was actually Ra’s father who he usurped and took the League from (which was called the Brotherhood before) after they found the Lazarus Pit, or (3) Desmond was found floating in the Pit without his memories and Ra’s made use of that with Desmond’s actually memories being either (3.1) Desmond is part of the Isu race who survived because he was dunked in the Lazarus Pit which he had created or (3.2) he’s the real Desmond Miles from the AC world that got transported to the Young Justice world together with the Lazarus Pit.

Regardless of whichever plot you choose, the idea is Desmond’s memories that were coming back were from his previous ‘lives’ before the Lazarus Pit erased his memories over and over again. This is the part where you can play with Desmond’s ancestors’ memories by making them memories of Desmond’s past lives before he is once again drown in the Lazarus Pit to forget everything.

[goldenthyme]

The "Jason Todd's issues are a side effect of the Lazurus Pit" fics can be kinda interesting but sometimes I just really wish there were fanfictions that just let him be fucking angry on his own. It's not like there hasn't been ample reason in recent comics for him to be.

Let him fuck up. Let him be an unreliable narrator of his own making.

[thelesbstrosity]

MY GOOD OMENS 2 LIVE REACTIONS FOR EVERY EPISODE

So ofc spoilers

Good Omens 2

Episode 1:

- THEY KNEW EACH OTHER AS ANGELS

- Crowley is so proud of his universe and nebulas

- STILL NOT GETTING HIS PRE-FALL NAME

- the reverse wing cover in comparison to season 1

- maggie is a gay disaster

- gabriel walking naked through town to the bookshop had me cry laughing

- crowley living in his car? the plants in the back seat

- myself vs ourselves 😩

- the husbands™️ are fighting 😭

- FORCED PROXIMITY LESBIANS?!

- DISABLED ANGEL I LOVE IT

- the apology dance

- them treating Gabriel like a pet you’re hiding from your parents

Episode 2

- HIS CHILDREN?!

- MORE MURIEL

- Gabriel’s hair in the past 😂

- Heaven takes part in the bystander effect fr fr

- Crowley sleeping in his Bentley

- A JUKEBOX THAT BUDDY HOLLY’S RECORDS LIKE THE BENTLEY

- Greetings “I’m Jim”

- THE FLY

- Plan “Get the lesbians together”

- STANDING IN THE RAIN LIKE IN SEASON 1, EPISODE 1

- A CLUE

- my head can’t hold all that

- “Bildad the shuhite” “sure”

- “i know you” “You don’t know me”

- HE COULDNT KILL THE GOATS

- Ennon’s a little fruity

- “I’m a demon. I lied”

- “He has a permit”

- CROWLEY IS WHY HE LIKES HUMAN FOOD

- THE LET ME TEMPT YOU vs “ARE YOU TRYING TO TEMPT ME”

- shoemaking and obstetrics

- “our car/ our bookshop”

- GOOD OMENS THE BOOK IN GOOD OMENS

- “I’m a demon. I lied” pt 2 😭😭

Episode 3:

- Jim’s mug”

- MURIEL POLICE OUTFIT

- I love her 🫶🏻😭

- HIM BRINGING HIS PLANTS INTO THE BOOKSHOP

- “For like 200 years”

- LAZURI MIRACLE SCALE FOR LAZURUS

- AZIRAPHALE DRIVING

- HIM WRITING ABOUT CROWLEY IN HIS DIARY

- David getting to be really Scottish but like pretending to be bad at it

- Crowley can feel his Bentley

- ITS YELLOW

- them fighting over the car/ Book selling threat

- gravity

- he gets drunk on poison skshsksj

- HE TURNED SMALL

- KAIJU CROWLEY

- “stunning view”

- crowley tossing books

- “we probably don’t have what you’re looking for and we wouldn’t sell it to you if we did”

- AND GRINDR

- “you have no idea”

- ARMAGEDDON 2???

- Shax must be invited in

- SHAX HAS HIS OLD APARTMENT

Episode 4

- FLASHBACK TO THE WW2 SCENE

- OMG LADIES OF CAMELOT FROM THE OPENING CREDITS

- THEY’RE BACK 😂 AND IN HELL

- “I’m fu -*piano*”

- MAGICIAN AZIRAPHALE AGAIN

- ZOMBIES

- SPIDER PUNISHMENT 😳

- that’s what…friends…do

- “Wow me with your miracles”

- the way crowley supports his little magic act

- AZIRAPHALE OWNS A GUN

- “someone you can really trust” *immediately looks to crowley*

- Same legion 😂

- HE SLIGHT OF HANDED HIM

- “you said trust me” “and you did”

- Crowley’s pet

- THE CAR FOLLOWS AZIRA

Episode 5

- Good omens is Anti-HOA

- THE FEZ

- okay shax we see your war fit

- the french

- HE DIDNT TELL HIM ABOUT SHUT YOUR STUPID MOUTH AND DIE ALREADY

- Muriel is so pure i love her istg

- you’re weird

- JIM’S SUIT

- THE DEMON LEGION IN MASKS

- a seamstress

- the dancing

- ELEVATOR TO HEAVEN AND HELL

- THE ANGLE

- ALSO NOT THE BOOKSHOP

- THE COAT

- him lining them up with the buddy system

- nina and maggie staying

- RESCUING ME MAKES HIM SO HAPPY

- Arrest me

- ah shit here we go

Episode 6

- Badass Azira has entered the chat

- Crowley’s fit change and little run

- MAGGIE NO

- Shax really said “leave and i’ll smite you”

- A THRONE OR A DOMINION OR ABOVE

- They never change their passwords

- HE WAS IN THE HIGHEST RANKS?!

- gabriel was on trial

- THE CANDLES! THE EXTINGUISHERS! HE HAS TRAUMA FROM THE FIRE

- EMOTIONAL SUPPORT ANGEL

- HE WAS REMOVED FROM OFFICE

- FOR ONE PRINCE OF HEAVEN TO BE CAST OUT…THATS DEFINITELY HIM SAYING CROWLEY WAS AN ARCHANGEL HOLY FUCK

- That’s why he showed up naked..holy shit

- OMG HIS HALO

- “I MAY HAVE JUST STARTED A WAR”

- the awkward elevator

- HIS MEMORIES

- MICHEAL AND BEELZEBUB CHATTING

- THEY LIKE EVERYDAY SO HE MADE SURE THE RECORD IS ALWAYS EVERYDAY 😩

- THEY GAVE HIM A FLY

- NEIL DELIVERED THE SHIP

- “No one’s ever given me anything before” 😭😭

- “You. Thank you”

- “I FOUND SOMETHING THAT MEANT MORE TO ME THAN CHOOSING SIDES”

- THEY SANG TOGETHER SKSJSK

- METATRON THE VOICE OF GOD

- Crowley putting the bookshop back together

- Nina saying she’d hope Maggie will be there when she’s ready

- “YOURE NOT HELPING, ANGEL” Nina pls the parallel

- “Nothing lasts forever” 😭😭😭😭

- him crying as he puts on his glasses

- “NO NIGHTINGALES “

- “WE COULD’VE BEEN US”

- THE KISS

- “I forgive you” “don’t bother”

- Muriel getting the bookshop

- THE SECOND COMING

- NOT “A NIGHTINGALE IN BERKLEY SQUARE”

- they’re both so clearly unhappy and heartbroken

[enigmaris]

Lois writes the article. The Justice League freaks out. Investigations are done, meetings are held. In the mean time, a suspected connection between ghosts and the lazurus pits means that there is a very specific person who wants a one on one with Phantom even though all of the heroes agreed to not approach phantom until the anti ecto acts are gone. Jason never follows the rules anyway:

“Daniel Phantom, do not even think about it.”

Her tone of voice made every bone in his body yearn to turn invisible immediately, Lois jumped up trying to catch him. Danny grinned and got ready to fly away, a game of tag would keep Lois from questioning him! Right before Danny’s plan could commence, the sound of Lois's phone ringing cut it off. Danny froze as Lois pulled out her phone and looked at the screen.

“It’s Batman. Wonder what he could possibly need.”

Danny let himself fly all the way to the ceiling, until his back was pushed up against it. He looked down as Lois answered her phone, helpfully putting it on speaker.

“You’re on speaker Bats, what can Lois Lane and her plucky new intern do for you?”

“Intern?” A voice Danny didn’t know answered back. “I thought Superman was the only one for you. I guess you move fast, Lois.”

“Nightwing.” Lois said. “What are you doing calling from Batman’s phone?”

“If B didn’t want me to use his phone, he should have called you himself. You know how he is, Lois. Won’t ever ask for help unless he’s about to die and not even then.” Nightwing snarked back. “Gotham’s got a bit of a supernatural concern that I think I need a consult from your intern for.”

Danny tilted his head, not moving closer to Lois when she looked up at him.

“What sort of concern? I’ll pass along your message if it's interesting enough. My intern’s got enough on his plate getting me coffee to watch after you birds.”

“Fair enough.” Nightwing allowed. “We think one of our own is ecto-contaminated. To be entirely fair we all might be a bit, not that we’ve gotten our hands on a GIW scanner. The real concern is with Red Hood though. I know your report said that ecto-contamination is harmless but Red Hood has had some interesting side effects since he took a bath in some glowing green goop.”

“A bath?” Danny asked, his voice echoing out from the ceiling.

There was a pause on the other end of the call before Nightwing spoke again.

“Yes. A bath. Do the words Lazurus Pit mean anything to you, Miss Lane’s Intern?”

“Never heard of it.” Danny said, trying not to let himself sound ashamed by it. “But I don’t like the name. Sounds spooky.”

“Aren’t you a spook?”

“Different kind of spook.” Danny defended.

“Well. We think it might actually be the same sort of spook actually. The Lazurus Pits are pools of glowing green liquid, no one knows where they came from. There are a dozen or so dotted around the planet. If a sick or dying person goes into it, they are healed sometimes with side effects. If a healthy person goes in, they die.” Nightwing said. “Sometimes if people go into, they don’t come out again.”

Danny... might actually know what those are. Huh.

“What kind of side effects?”

"Homicidal rage. Memory loss. Temporary increased strength. Glowing eyes.”

“Okay. And how long has Red Hood being dealing with this?”

“On and off for about five years.” Nightwing answered.

“I might actually know what’s going on.” Danny said. “But I’d have to see him. I’m not like a ghost doctor or anything, but if it's what I think it is, then I can fix it for sure.”

“Fix it?” Another voice from the phone asked.

Danny could hear a scuffle over the phone as two people wrestled for it. He exchanged looks with Lois until the second voice seemed to get the phone under his control completely.

“What do you mean by fix it?” the second voice demanded.

“Erm. Who is this?”

“Red Hood. Who the fuck else?”

“I don’t know who has access to Batman’s phone dude, chill.”

“Don’t tell me to chill. Tell me what you mean by fix it.”

"Dude. I have ice powers I absolutely can tell you to chill.” Danny shot back making Lois snort.

"Start. Talking.”

“He wasn’t kidding about the anger issues huh?” Danny asked Lois instead of answering. Danny grinned when he heard a growl over the phone. “Look. Red Hood. I don’t know if it is what I think it is. I need to see you in person before I can tell you anymore. Do you know how many glowing green goops there are in the universe?”

“Do you?” Nightwing asked, voice muffled as he was further from the phone. Danny listened as Red Hood told Nightwing to ‘shut the fuck up’ with a hiss.

"I’ll send Lane an address in Gotham. Meet me there in an hour.” Red Hood instructed.

“How do you know I’m free in an hour? I’m a busy intern you know. You’re not being very polite.”

Danny could hear the teeth grinding on the other end. He grinned as Red Hood took in a deep breath through his nose.

“Can we please meet in an hour?” Red Hood asked.

“Yeah sure. I’ll fly by.”

“Now what do we say to people who do nice things for us?” Lois asked. “Especially poor lowly interns who have an entire branch of the government hunting them?”

“Would you like me to blow up a GIW base for you?” Red Hood asked.

"Hood no!” Nightwing shouted.

“Hood yes.” Hood said.

The two vigilantes started arguing with each other, so Lois just rolled her eyes and ended the call.

If Lois Lane had a nickle for every time she had to help an overpowered boy from the midwest with the power of journalism, she'd have two nickles. Which isn't a lot but its weird that its happened twice.

Danny watched as Lois pulled out her phone and pulled up a recording app.

“What are you doing?”

“You came to a journalist and are surprised to get an interview?” She asked him, her tone clearly joking. “What you’ve given me here is great kid, but newspaper clippings and copies of federal laws don’t get the public’s attention. I need a story, Phantom’s the story.”

“I’m not Phantom.”

Lois looked at him, less than impressed. Slowly, she turned the screen of her computer until it was visible to both of them. There, in full clarity, was a front-page story from his hometown newspaper. ‘Danny Phantom saves Bus Full of Children!’ and there was a picture of him in his ghost form, his face crystal clear on her screen.

"Phantom’s a ghost. I’m just a dumb kid.” Danny tried again.

Lois pinched the bridge of her nose with her right hand and muttered to herself.

“Why do all you midwestern boys have the same schtick?”

“I’m sorry?” Danny said, unsure if he should be apologizing or not.

“Changing your last name from Fenton to Phantom does not a secret identity make kid. It might work for most civilians, but anyone familiar with the hero game will clock you from a mile away.”

“I’m not Phantom.”

“Sure, kid. But I’m sure you have a way for me to interview him, right? Because I want to talk to him before I do anything else about your town.”

Danny hugged himself and looked down at his knees.

“Is it really that bad?”

“Not the worst I’ve seen. Wonder Woman’s is paper thin. I'm pretty sure most people in DC know who she is outside of the cape and just don’t say anything because she scares them.”

Danny snorted involuntarily at that, looking back up at the woman.

“What’s going on in your town, Phantom? Why come to a journalist and not the Justice League?”

“The Anti-Ecto Acts got passed like a year ago. They state that only being that produces or contains ectoplasm above a certain amount is considered non-sapient and is to be turned over to the government for disposal.” Danny said. “I put the whole thing in there for you to read, but it's long. Amity Park has a lot of ectoplasm in it. It's seeped into the air and water. Normal human people have it in them now. At first, those agents were just firing at me whenever I finished a ghost fight. I could deal with that. Their aim is terrible anyway. But then they figured out that humans can become contaminated with ectoplasm. They decided that meant the entire town was under their jurisdiction. They've decided that means that no one in town counts as human anymore, that we don’t have rights, that they’re doing us a favor by not just exterminating the entire town like the law says.”

Danny leaned forward, putting his hands on the desk in front of Lois Lane. He looked right into her bright eyes and spoke seriously.

“When it was just ghosts under attack, I didn’t think anyone would care. I’ve tried calling the Justice League for help, but they’ve brushed me off. People need to know what’s happening. Anyone can become ecto-contaminated. You just have to be in the right place at the wrong time. It’s not right what’s happening to Amity, Miss Lane. I came to you because if anyone could get the world to listen, to believe, then it's got to be you.”

And Lois Lane smiled. It was a proud, eager smile. The kind of smile Danny had seen on Sam right after she convinced the school to serve a vegan lunch. He barely held back from shivering.

“Well then, Mr. Phantom.” Lois said, before tapping onto the recording app on her phone and starting a recording. “Let’s begin.”

[theonehitwonder]

So do the Lazurus pits have no effect on a normal, uninjured human being?

uh. i guess, yeah. i think it sort of functions like a souped up spring of youth, so?

[theworldsforgottenboy]

Shows up to castiel day 10 minutes late with star bucks and a shitty doodle

[everwalldigan]

In all seriousness tho I think acting like actions of the batfamily towards Jason exist in a vacuum and are always cruelty towards him is doing him a major disservice.

Like for example dick throwing Jason in Arkham. While being a very questionable choice of psychiatric institution, what else was dick supposed to do? Jason was literally having a psychotic break, going on a murder spree and coming close to killing his own family, was dick supposed to send him a fruit basket, a handshake and send him on his merry way?

Another example is the famous Batarang incident of utrh. Let’s get it out of the way that it’s very clear that it was an accident (evident by Bruce’s surprise and horror the next panel!). Bruce, either stressed so much by, you know, gothams sister city containing his oldest son (who he didn’t know was dead or alive) literally burning down next to them while his newly resurrected son was taunting him about it, had aimed wrongly or the other interpretation that he very much expected Jason to move out of the way of the batarang (since he did that literally a couple of pages ago) but severely missed the bad mental state Jason was in.

Both of these have one thing in common: Jason pushing the people around him to their breaking point and them reacting to that pushing. While YES, dick and Bruce were in the wrong and should by all means apologise (unfortunately due to the nature of comics both of these instances are never mentioned again past their occurrence, but I do believe that at least Bruce apologised off screen), let’s not act like Jason is an innocent, poor abused baby whose family hates him for no reason at all.

In a perfect world with perfect people where mental illness isn’t stigmatised to hell and back and isn’t used as means to create drama and further the story, Jason’s family would have recognised the signs and gotten him the proper help that he needed. Unfortunately, we don’t live in that world.

Hell, even in the batfam fandom that prides itself on being more progressive than comics, we have copouts in form of “lazurus pit episodes” for Jason’s very obvious mental health issues (that very much exist irl. I’m not gonna go into diagnoses cause I’m not qualified but Jason’s behaviour could fall under multiple disorders that real people suffer from) and instead of addressing the way his behaviour affects him and the people around him, he’s simultaneously stripped of all accountability and has his “episodes” demonised and treated like a disease with no cure that is a burden on himself and everyone around him.

(While, okay, I could see that being an allegory to real life disorders, it is rarely ever done tastefully. Mostly it’s just a copout so that people don’t have to deal with Jason’s actions if they can blame it on a fictional completely made up “side effect” of the lazurus pit that has never existed in that way in DC canon. I’m well aware that there are different iterations of said canon but as far as I know, not a single one has those fanon “lazurus pit episodes” that are triggered by anger or whatever. IF the iteration even has “lazurus pit madness” its very muddy about its effects and even Ra’s al ghul doesn’t fully know its extent or how it works)

Anyways I’m very open to civil (!) discussion about this and would love to hear other people’s opinions!

REAL Jason Todd fans simultaneously hate and love his messy ass cause if you don’t bully him a little then what’s the point😔 like stop excusing his crimes he worked very hard on those!

[jvsons]

The difference between Jason Todd in the Arkhamverse and Red Hood and the Outlaws never fails to blow my mind.

On one hand, there’s a what, 19? year old man who’s basically seen and felt it all. On the other, there’s another who didn’t get the chance to feel and was killed before 18. The sheer difference between the two being that one was forced to live throughout over a year of torture, while the other just suffered to die. One was driven crazy by living, the other dying.

The Arkham Knight does not pull his punches with anyone except the defenseless, he forgot how to. The Arkham Knight commands an entire army yet manages to present himself a mystery to the world all for revenge. It’s his plot, he doesn’t have anything else to seek in life other than killing the one who “let” him rot in Arkham for so long.

The Red Hood is just not the same. After Jason was resurrected he didn’t blame Batman for what happened. He just wanted Joker dead, and understandably so. Batman’s refusal to kill not only the Joker, but other criminals drove Jason to that same conflict point, except he was driven by the urge to kill. This Jason is not so objectively damaged, though he is definitely under the effects of the lazurus pit that drives people insane. He made friends, set out on his own life; didn’t choose to hold a grudge and made a new way for himself.

So there you have it, one man tortured relentlessly and brainwashed into killing his own father. Another man killed and brought back to relive his past life which ultimately makes him hallucinate every day. They’re both crazy, but in such different ways that I could really talk about it for hours.

[xxgoblin-dumplingxx]

*SLAMS MY HANDS ON THE TABLE* I want to add to that hereditary white hair ask!!! I like to hc that his children would have piebaldism ! Tbh, I personally I actually prefer to pretend that jason himself has this as a hereditary trait instead of lazurus effects since no one else who takes a dip gets the white streak and it feels off on his design when he doesn't have it, but yeah

💜

[classic80sand90smovieloves2]

Meeting and Dating Casper McFadden

(Not my gif)(Requested by anonymous)

- Moving into a new home was never easy. Oftentimes, it meant packing up everything you owned, leaving a bunch of good memories behind, and traveling across the country to a new town where you’d have to make all new friends and renovate old fixtures.

- But there was something about your new house that made it both easier and harder to live in: the fact that it was haunted.

- Obviously your family didn’t find out about the ghosts until after they’d signed the papers and even if they were warned about it, they probably wouldn’t have believed the realtor, but none of that mattered now. Now you were stuck in a old house with a bunch of spirits, stuck until your parents save up enough money to move again.

- So what made the manor easier to live in, you may ask. Well, the fact that it came with a friend….

- You and Casper meet the day you move into the Whipstaff Manor. You’re wandering around, exploring the home and trying to figure out which room you want to live in, unaware that there’s a specter following you.

- The minute Casper sees you, he’s head over tail. You make his undead little heart race and have him second guessing his every action. Which is the main reason it makes him a while to formally introduce himself, he’s too scared that he’ll ruin his first impression.

- Sadly for him, his first impression still doesn’t go over well, regardless of how much he practiced.

- In his defense, it wasn’t anything that he did, it was more the fact that you were suddenly face to face with a phantom. Anyone would have freaked out in response to that, and they would have freaked out to any ghost as well; no matter how friendly.

- So, like the rational young woman that you are, you scream and take off like a rocket, dashing out of the room and down the hall to find a more secure and safe looking room to hide in until your parents get back from the store.

- He follows behind, attempting to calm you down and feeling downright awful for scaring you. Once you’ve locked yourself away into a broom closet, he gives you a minute to breathe before he calls out to you, telling you that he’s sorry and trying to coax you out so that you can talk.

- It takes you another minute to be convinced and to trust him when he says he isn’t gonna hurt you, but eventually, you do brace yourself and open the door.

- Once you do, you find that he really isn’t as scary as you’d originally though he was. In fact, he was actually sort of cute; in a cartoony sort of way, and he’s friendly to boot; so you wind up feeling a bit silly for being so frightened of him. And after you begin to think like that, the two of you begin to develop a close friendship.

- While his uncles might be incredibly obnoxious and annoying, you can’t deny that you enjoy having the ghostly presences in your home; especially when school roles around and you find yourself feeling like an alien with no one to turn to. You might not have any living friends in your town but you at least have a few see through ones at home that ensure you’re not completely alone.

- But, compared to your primarily platonic feelings, Caspers feelings for you were a lot more complicated. He valued your friendship and enjoyed having you as a pal, but he also had more romantic feelings towards you. In simpler terms: he’d had a massive crush on you from the moment you walked in.

- And though he’d have loved to confess his feelings and see if you felt the same, he knew that it was practically impossible for the two of you to be together; at least until you’d died …or until he was alive again!

- The minute he remembers the Lazurus he immediately erupts into a fit of excitement and joy. If you could get it to work, he could be alive again and the two of you could be together for the rest of your lives, either as friends or as something more, he honestly didn’t care which; though he hoped it was the second one.

- So he tells you about the invention and the two of you get to work. You take the wild trip down to his fathers lab, search around until you find what you’re looking for, load the contraption up with it’s necessary elixir, and pull the levers with bated breath.

- You don’t know what you’d expected to walk out of the machine but it certainly wasn’t this. Perfectly done blond hair, shining blue eyes, and a face that made you suddenly flustered to be in your best friends presence. He looked like a Disney prince and you were captivated.

“How do I look?” He asked nervously.

“Perfect,” you responded a little too quickly. “I mean, human, normal …living.”

- His face broke out into a smile and he threw his arms around you, pulling you into a tight hug. The action caught you off guard and made your heart race but you didn’t mind in the slightest.

- Once you’d finished hugging, he pulled away slowly and you found yourselves locking eyes. His gaze flickered to your lips and before you knew it, the two of you were leaning forward and sharing a kiss.

- His uncles may or may not have interrupted you but the “damage” was already done. You were just as hooked on him as he was on you and neither of you could be happier.

- Casper loves pda. He loves being able to actually touch you and be out in public and show the whole town that the two of you are together; even though half of them are confused as to who he is. 

- He touches you and holds you close whenever he can. He’s waited to do it since the moment he met you and now that you’re together; and he isn’t ice cold and only semi-solid, he enjoys every little ounce of affection he can provide and obtain.

- Handholding.

- Cheek kisses. 

- Long, soft kisses. They’re sort of a contrast to his usual hyper behavior, which is why, if you ever need him to calm him down and focus, all you have to do is ask for a kiss or make it obvious that that’s what you’re going to do. He skids to a stop and happily complies as he gives you an adorable little smile.

- Pet names aren’t really his thing but he does call you by fun nicknames that he’s come up with; usually a shorter or longer version of your name.

- Cuddling is a must with Casper. He absolutely loves it, no matter how the two of you do it. Sometimes you’ll lay on his chest, other times you’ll spoon, and other times you’ll face each other on the bed and talk until one of you dozes off.

- Speaking of: he definitely watches you sleep every now and again, which sounds far more creepy than it actually is. Like, you’ll be talking late at night and you’ll fall asleep and he’ll just look at your peaceful face for a while.

- If we’re going with the assumption that Casper maintains some of the aspects of being a ghost, I think it’s safe to say that he’s occasionally at least a little cooler than a normal human, which makes him the perfect companion for hot days.

- Being carried and flown around.

- Sometimes; especially prior to him being in the Lazurus, he forgets that you’re not a ghost and gets you into some uncomfortable situations. And after he turns human again, he definitely has to get used to not being able to go through walls and have things go through him when they’re thrown or fall.

- Testing out exactly what he’s still capable of doing and if there’s any limits to his new life. Is he perfectly normal? Does he have ghostly powers? Do the effects occasionally wear off during certain times or seasons? It’s all stuff you have to figure out.

- For a while after he’s brought back to life, he spends all day experiencing everything he missed when he was still alive. All the smells, sights, and touches; he runs around like Jack Skellington while you sit back and watch with a smile.

- Going to the mall. It’s one of his favorite places to visit, he just loves the entire atmosphere of the place; especially since he wasn’t really able to go and enjoy everything about it before he turned human again.

- Tv dates.

- Playing different games with each other. Board games, pirates, video games, you name it, he’ll do it.

- Sitting on top of the lighthouse with him.

- Enjoying the view from outside of the manor. You have the perfect view of the ocean from your garden so the two of you can always throw a blanket down and stare out at the sea together.

- Just goofing off with each other. Running around the house together, sliding down the stairwell, having him push you in a chair down the halls, etc. You’ve got a huge house to mess around in, why not take advantage of it?

- Dancing together. He told you he was a good dancer.

- Late night conversations. You can always talk to him about anything you want or need to.

- Catching him watching you a lot. He always has such a loving gaze when he’s looking at you, just seeing his face when he’s watching you do something or speak is reassurance that he really cares about you.

- Always having a warm and excited greeting when you return home from school. He also probably occasionally goes with you or at least walks you there or visits during lunch.

- He loves making surprises for you. Throwing you little parties or coming up with different ways to make you smile or cheer you up after school or whenever he can see that you’re feeling down is one of his favorite hobbies.

- He wants to be with you like 25/7 so don’t be surprised if he’s constantly bothering you with his presence. It’s a good thing you love him because if you didn’t he’d become very annoying, very quickly.

- Him just appearing at random is commonplace so your parents and you definitely have to take some time to get used to it. I mean he lives in your house and now that he’s human again, it’s definitely a bit easier than when he was a ghost, but still.

- Getting chairs pulled out and doors opened for you. He likes being a gentleman.

- Him cooking for you. He definitely tries to impress you with his skills and all the inventions he uses; and he just likes doing something nice like that for you.

- Discovering all his dads inventions and letting him tell you about them. It’s really quite fascinating to see how they all work and how excited he gets while showing you how to use them.

- I have a feeling that he doesn’t like winter; for obvious reasons, and whenever it comes around, all he wants to do is stay inside with you and do indoor activities. If you were to want to go out, it’d take you a while to persuade him and even if you did; or were only going out by yourself, he’d spend forever bundling you up and making up a bunch of rules to keep you safe.

- Probably dealing with his ghostly self every now and again. I have a feeling that the Lazurus machines effects occasionally wear off for a little while from time to time so while he’s alive most of the time, you do have moments of spooky transparency as well.

- Pranking each other and other people. He might be a sweetheart but he also has a bit of a mischievous streak.

- Him always wanting to show you whatever cool thing he sees, does, finds, or hears about. Just being able to share things with you makes him happy.

- Listening to his stories from when he was alive or the decades he wasn’t.

- Fixing up his room for him and hanging out up there with all his toys.

- Being gifted some of his mothers things. Dresses, jewelry, stuff like that.

- His uncles bothering the two of you. They’re constantly harassing and teasing you; just try to pay them no mind.

- Standing up for him when his uncles are being more awful than usual.

- He might be the only person you can really bond with in your town, considering the fact that whenever you have anybody over, they’re almost always harassed by his uncles and scared away. Which Casper may or may not be sort of happy about.

- Casper gets jealous pretty easily. Anytime another guy takes interest in you, he always feels the need to mock them behind their backs or be passive aggressively not so friendly whenever they approach you when you’re out with him. It’s best to not bring up guys in your class unless it’s obvious that they only like you as a friend; but even then he’d wonder why you need friends (even if they’re girls) other than him.

- He’s sort of overprotective of you. He just got his life back so he certainly doesn’t want anything bad happening and putting yours in danger.

- He absolutely hates fighting so whenever the two of you have an argument, he’s always quick to try and settle it and apologize; even if he doesn’t really think he’s done anything wrong.

- Saying “I love you” isn’t really his forte. He prefers saying and doing other things to show you that he does.

- The two of you sort of just have to go with the flow and see where your relationship takes you. You don’t know how exactly the rest of his “life” will go so you just try to enjoy the present and what you have right now.