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ghost-kings-court-jester Ā· 1 year ago
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Hua Cheng essentially cockblocking himself for possibly all of eternity will literally never not be the funniest thing MXTX ever wrote.
Xie Lian was pretty much completely in love with him the second he saw those lanterns (and completely oblivious about it) and then we get the wonderful first kiss underwater moment and Xie Lian is basically drawing hearts around Hua Cheng every time he sees him. While like quietly dying cause he literally has no idea what to do with it. Like at this point he doesn’t even really understand that he is head over heels totally gone for this man.
Until Hua Cheng is like I have a beloved I just haven’t won them over yet. Which he thinks is perfectly reasonable because his self esteem is the worst and he doesn’t understand how he could have won Xie Lian over yet. (He’s only on step 22 of his Marrying Dianxia 3000 step Master Plan ((that he debates throwing out on a regular basis because he doesn’t deserve to even dream about wanting Xie Lian)). So course he’s like yeah I have this wonderful noble beautiful beloved I just haven’t won them over yet wink wink nudge nudge.
But Xie Lian is like oh of course obviously I don’t deserve nice things and fuck I actually wanted him so badly I’m actually in love with him and now I will resign myself to never being happy for his sake. (Their combined self esteem is truly a so low it’s a hole in the ground which is hilarious because they think the other person is to good for them and unattainable forever because they literally have the same neurosis.) So he starts boxing up his feelings forever constantly wanting Hua Cheng and feeling guilty about it and literally dying inside because he wants Hua Cheng like he’s never wanted anyone.
Like essentially books 3 and 5 only happen because Hua Cheng has now cursed them both by saying he has a beloved because Xie Lian believes he isn’t wanted and therefore any nice thing Hua Cheng does is just him being nice and not Hua Cheng pulling out steps 23-34 of his plan thinking he still hasn’t won Xie Lian over. (He has he so has but he shot himself in the foot so badly it’s painful to read).
Like thank the Gods Hua Cheng is so unhinged and created the cave of 10000 Gods cause Xie Lian would literally be at his own wedding to Hua Cheng still convinced he wanted someone else and this was in fact a thing they were doing to solve a case together otherwise.
Like he needed something that unhinged to put 2 and 2 together otherwise he never would have caught on he’s Hua Cheng’s beloved. Meanwhile Hua cheng is like 🄺 he’s going to think I’m a weirdo now and I’m only on step 50 of the plan 🄺 like the two of them wouldn’t have been fucking nasty 2 books ago if he just kept his mouth shut and didn’t cockblock himself so violently.
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tariah23 Ā· 1 year ago
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The manga industry, especially JUMP, needs to hurry up and do away with weekly scheduling for mangaka. There needs to better regulations put into place for their health and safety because this is pitiful. Two weeks - monthly updates should’ve already been the standard for the manga industry at this point. These money grabbers will only continue to put the lives of these artists at stake for the sake of capitalism unless some serious changes are implemented.
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poorly-drawn-mdzs Ā· 2 months ago
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Sunrise, Parabellum.
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#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#wei wuxian#'Good morning. Prepare for war'.#At a glance it may seem like my interest in crossing over Disco Elysium and MDZS is based on the surface parallels.#Protagonists with a bad reputation who find themselves waking up in an unknown location?#The alcoholism? The murder mystery? The stoic and yet deeply patient companion?#Easily tied together. A crossover that writes itself.#But that is not what inspires me to draw parellels between these two stories.#It is about the places at the edge of the world riddled with bomb craters and bullet holes - to serve as a reminder of a lost war.#It is about a dream that was worth fighting for being crushed by larger powers who feared losing that power.#They wanted to build something beautiful and hopeful. It almost was. They lined them up in front of the firing line.#Nearly all the dreamers are gone. Yet the dream lives. Small and patient. It was a worthy dream to live and die for.#And it will wait; thousands of nights and thousands of sunrises.#The bombs may rain down at night but there will always be a sunrise tomorrow. You lived. Keep fighting.#Light your match and set the message ablaze: Un jour je serai de retour prĆØs de toi.#For the dead and departed who believed in it. For those we loved and lost. For the future we hoped for.#One day; I will return to your side.#Anyways. I am once again begging you to play Disco Elysium. Especially if you’re a MDZS fan.#They are stories that have something to say about the value of small kindnesses in big sacrifices.#And about hope at the very end of the world.#(EDIT: I thought this flopped hard but I scheduled it way too far in advance. Oops! Midnight Parabellum it is!)
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hailsatanacab Ā· 2 years ago
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Family Dinners - dpxdc
"Holy shit, you're Bruce Wayne!" Danny gaped, jabbing a finger at the man sitting at the head of the table.
The bustling dining room goes silent as everyone turns to look at him.
"Danny, who did you think was going to be here?" Tim asks, disbelief plain in his voice and Danny feels his face flush red.
"Sorry, I, uh, I guess I just never put it together. Tim Drake-Wayne. Wayne Manor. It, uh, makes sense now." He laughs sheepishly and scrubs at his neck before slumping back down into his chair.
"Well," Tim says with an indulgent sigh, "at least I know you're not just friends with me for my connections."
"Yeah, I'm really sorry, I just never thought about it, I guess."
Danny sinks lower as everyone around him laughs. Come to dinner, he said, the food is the best, he said, ignore the family, he said. Danny really wishes he'd listened to Tim and just ignored them—almost as much as he's regretting accepting the offer in the first place—but... he's having dinner with Batman.
Ancients, that's so weird!
The last time he saw Batman was in the future and, suffice it to say, it was not going well. There hadn't really been time for family dinners there.
Wait. Family dinners?
He peers around the table, openly gawking at everyone as it all clicks into place.
"Everything alright, Danny? Now realising who everyone else is?" Tim asks with a roll of his eyes.
"Uh... something like that..." Danny mumbles as everyone laughs again.
From further down the table, the smallest Wayne scoffs and clicks his tongue.
"I thought you said he was smart, Drake?"
"So, you all do it, too, then?" he asks, ignoring the jibe. Danny's only a little bit jealous as he thinks of how much easier they must have it, how much easier it'd be if his family had been on his side, too. "You all work together?"
"Nah," Dick says from across the table with a brilliant grin. "Tim's the only one that works with Bruce, we all have different jobs. I'm a police officer in Bludhaven."
"Disgusting." Danny blurts out without thinking—because seriously, what kind of self-respecting vigilante would also be a police officer?—before clapping a hand over his mouth. "Sorry."
The whole table laughs again, the loudest being the blonde girl a few spaces down from Dick. Look, Danny wasn't really paying attention to names when they were all paraded in front of him. Dick only gets remembered because his name is a joke.
Come on, Danny, recover!
"That's, uh, not what I meant, though."
"Oh?" Dick asks, cocking his head slightly to the side. Is it Danny's imagination or does his smile tense slightly?
"Yeah, I mean like, you know, in costume. It must make it so much easier to have everyone together like this."
"Costume? What do you mean?"
Yeah, Danny's not imagining it, everyone tenses up at that. It's really only now that he's realising that this probably isn't how he should bring up that he knows about their... night time activities. In fact, he probably shouldn't be bringing it up at all.
"Uuhhh..." Danny looks wildly around the table as he continues making his stupid noise. Think, think, think! There must be a way out of this!
"Danny?" Tim asks, looking concerned.
"Oh, Ancients, this isn't how I wanted it to go at all," he mutters, slipping even further into his chair. He's almost on the floor now and he so, so wishes it could just swallow him up.
His real first meeting with Batman was meant to be cool! He had planned to be Phantom, maybe save them from a tight spot, prove his worth as a mysterious and powerful ally as thanks for the help Batman gave him in the future.
"Danny, what are you talking about?" Tim starts tugging on his sleeve in an attempt to pull him back up from his pit of despair.
Eventually, Danny relents and sits up straighter, hiding his face in his hands and whining all the while.
"I'm sorry, I just didn't expect him to be here and it threw me off so now I look stupid and it's so embarrassing!" he wails, flailing his arms wide. "Why wouldn't you warn me that Batman was your adopted dad, Tim? Couldn't you have let me know?"
"I'm sorry, what? Danny are you alright? There's no way Bruce can be Batman, look at him!"
"Yeah," the blonde girl laughs from the bottom of the table, "look at him! That's a wet noodle of a man! Batman can actually do things, B is incapable of pretty much everything."
"Thank you, Stephanie," Bruce sighs, massaging his forehead.
It's... Those are the first words Danny's heard Batman say since everything went down and it's enough to knock him out of his embarrassment.
It's really good to hear his voice again. Especially now, when it's strong and healthy and full of personality—even if that personality is little more than a tired father right now—far better than how it had been, at the end.
Danny sits up, back straight, and grins. He's got this. He remembers it perfectly. Some people count sheep to fall asleep, Danny repeats his mantra to be certain that he'll never forget it.
"Gamma alpha upsilon tau iota mu epsilon, 42, 63, 28, 1 colon 65 dash 9."
Once again, the whole table falls into silence.
"Holy shit..." breathes the other D name (Duke? Danny's pretty sure he's Signal) from opposite Stephanie. "Isn't that...?"
"The time travelling code." The littlest Wayne says stiffly. "We have met in the future?"
"That's not just the time travelling code, Dami." Dick says, looking between Danny and Bruce. "That's the family time travelling code."
Danny's grin freezes in place.
"I'm sorry, what?"
"1 colon 65 dash 9." Dick explains, still flicking between him and Bruce. "It means you've been adopted into the family and we should all treat you as such, no questions asked."
"Tell you what, I'm about to ask a question." Danny says, dumbstruck. "You just told me it was a code to identify time travellers, not anything about being adopted! What the hell, B?"
Bruce looks about as shellshocked as Danny feels.
"We must have been close," he says finally, after opening and closing his mouth like a fish out of water a few times.
"No! Not that close!" Danny reels back, taking a deep breath ready to refute it all, but... "Well, I mean, you found me when I first got stuck, and you helped me get better despite being... And then we fought together against the, uh, bad guy, before he, um, he... before you couldn't."
An uncomfortable beat passes while they all pick up on what Danny tried so hard not to say.
"So, you're not from the future, then, you travelled there and came back?" Tim asks, breaking the tension and leaning forward with a glint in his eye.
"Yeah, it was a whole end of the world thing, but don't worry about it," Danny says with a hand wave, "It's all kosher now, won't ever happen."
"What did happen?"
"Seriously, don't worry about it, we cool."
"How long in the future was it?"
"About ten years? You were pretty spry for an old man, B," Danny laughs, wishing they'd get off the topic of what happened and get back to the adoption bit.
Everyone shares degrees of a cautious smile as they relax out of the shock, and Dick—whose grin is the biggest—says, "No wonder you got the family code, you're already riffing on him like one of us. How long were you there for?"
"A week, before I managed to get back to my present and stop him then."
"A week? Jeez, B, that has to set some kind of record, seriously."
"Oh!" Danny says, sitting bolt upright and blinking in surprise before pointing at Dick and bouncing in his seat. "You're Nightwing!"
"What?"
"That's exactly what Nightwing said when Batman told me the code! Makes so much more sense now."
Dick laughs and claps his hands, delighted.
"You were not formally adopted?" The grumpy small one—Dami?—asks, his face pinched.
"I didn't even know I was informally adopted."
"And your parents? Are they alive or dead?"
"Damian, stop—"
"They were dead in the future, but they're alive now." Danny says, looking down. He fiddles with the tablecloth, twisting the fabric around his fingers as he fights down the pang of sadness that he always feels when he thinks of them now. He forces a bright smile on his face and hopes it doesn’t look too strained. "I just, uh, can't talk to them much, anymore."
"Damian," Dick warns, "1 colon 65 dash 9. Treat them as family, no questions asked."
"This is Damian treating him as family, the little turd has no manners." Tim scoffs, rolling his eyes, but he gently bumps shoulders with Danny to knock him out of his funk. Danny can't help but send him a watery smile.
"I have the most exemplary manners, Drake, unlike some people." Damian spits, crossing his arms with a pout. "I was merely ascertaining his status to see how he could possibly fit into the family."
"I know this is all a bit sudden, Danny," Bruce smiles, ignoring Damian and reaching out to lay a warm hand on his arm, "for all of us. But if I felt strongly enough to give you that code after spending a week with you in the future, then you are more than welcome in this family, if you so choose it. I think I can speak for all of us when I say we'd like to get to know you a bit more."
"I know a threat when I hear it, Bruce." Danny snorts. "But, yeah, I get it. I'm sorry this is all so weird, it really wasn't how I wanted to find you again, but... I'm glad I did."
"So are we, Danny." Dick says, with a warm smile. "And formally or not, 1 colon 65 dash 9 means you're family. Welcome to the fun house! No take backs or refunds, sorry. You're stuck with us."
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frodosrings Ā· 3 months ago
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do you think Ʃowyn ever opened up to faramir about grima and how terrible he was not just to thƩoden and Ʃomer, but also to herself? about how icky and uncomfortable grima made her feel? about how he made her feel unsafe in her own home? or is it just my poor farawyn heart that yearns for a hurt/comfort farawyn fic which is beating strongly in my chest?
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hood-ex Ā· 6 months ago
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It's interesting when you unpack why Damian left the Teen Titans. Sure, Tim came back so Damian wasn't really needed anymore, and Damian had that realization, but it wasn't just that. Damian tried to be himself, and it was too much for the Teen Titans to handle. Damian tried to be a bit less like himself (or so he claimed), and it was still too much for the Teen Titans to handle. And when I say "too much to handle" I really mean they didn't have that much tolerance for Damian's behavior or attitude.
Damian wanted to go back to Gotham to work with Dick again because he considered Dick his friend, and because of this, he didn't see himself needing to make friends with the Teen Titans. And from the previous point, we can also take the implication that Damian wanted to be with Dick again because he felt like he could be himself around Dick without the contempt (that's not to say that Damian never annoyed Dick or made him mad, because he definitely did, and Dick and Damian both had trouble getting along with each other in the beginning, but they got used to each other and started having more fun together).
Damian also thought the Teen Titans were annoying "like children." At least, that's what he said to Dick. And since Damian isn't your typical kid, and he doesn't perceive himself to be like other kids his age, I think maybe he felt more comfortable working with someone older like Dick, and he'd obviously be more comfortable working with someone who had more trust and faith in him.
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mikakuna Ā· 1 year ago
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nothing would be funnier than the bats universe-hopping and finding all these different versions of jason, and shoving in their jason's face that these alternate jasons would not agree with his fatal treatment of criminals (because some of them look straight up happy and have great relationships with bruce + the others).
but then to everybody's surprise, each jason has their own variation of their jason's methods. they literally all have similar opinions, even the ones who didn't die at the joker's hands. some were robin and some were never robin, some were adopted by bruce and others weren't, some lived worse lives than their jason and others lived much better lives-- but they all became their own version of red hood either way.
and jason is just absolutely having the best time looking at the bats' disappointed faces
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letmetellyouaboutmyfeels Ā· 2 months ago
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How to Have Lightning in a Bottle and Absolutely Waste It: A Writer's Guide by Tim Minear
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royalarchivist Ā· 7 months ago
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Tubbo: The life system– In DND, when a character hits 0 health, they have to do something called a "saving throw," it's a death saving throw. If they roll under 10, they fail that death saving throw, and if you fail 3 death saving throws, your character is dead.
Tubbo: How I'm treating saving throws in the Realm SMP is basically, if you die, it's equal to you failing a death saving throw. [...] If you lose all 3 of your lives, you will be banned off the server for 24 hours, and when you come back, your stats will be reset to 0, you are a new character*, you are dead.
Tubbo: Players on the server are able to attach this to lore, if let's say they're doing a lore character, that character's dead, they can come back with a new one for things like roleplay and lore.** And storytelling! [...] I'm mainly leaving [lore] completely open-ended for the players of the server to tell the stories they want to make. I just want to make the ultimate sandbox for them, and plan events and activities that they can use to develop their own original characters, is kind of my plan.
Tubbo discussed Realm's life system earlier today during stream before Realm SMP opened!
* Not in the literal sense.
** Tubbo isn't saying players HAVE to make new characters when they die 3 times in one day. Tubbo reiterates that he wants Realms to be a sandbox for players to tell the stories they want to make.
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cent-scratchnsniff Ā· 4 months ago
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#library of ruina#yesod lor#yesod#netzach lor#netzach#PRETEND ITS THE 14TH FOR ME OKAY!! god this thing made me feel so tired but its over. its over. am i happy w it? no.#ahhhghg the dialog is subpar. you can see visibly where i started and stopped some days. yk what. its. done.#ill do a whole different reblog from the sideblog on just ramblings of getting through it plus choices made. tldr aroace and harder to writ#romance that feels genuine. either way its done!! i was going to have it not as detailed but since i already missed the date by a lot might#as well put more effort into it yk. the last one made me want to die though. its really iffy compaired to the others . struggled so hard to#make it look right. ended up just going w one of the other previous sketches and just giving up and shading it in. i dobnot gaf it can look#weird but be done. HUZZAH!!!#ohbright forgot#netsod#probablt will do the text reblog abouuutt ???? 2 hours after og goes up. just to properly format it and collect thoughts and write#to who ever sent that anonymous ask. hope u like it. sorry it took so long#if this isnt in order i will melt into the floor and be consumed into the earth. PLEASEPELASPELASPLEASE#i onow i will make a seperate post abt it. but also. still just very. eh? i wanted to try and be true to what i had originally come to enjoy#with lor. but also i know im not capable of replicating such aspects and works and craftsmanship. but i still want to keep to what i can or#try to express facets that drew me into it all. which makes me a bit skittish abt writing dialog or drawing them in any other situation that#isnt just like. white void or the like. but still... .. .. . ahgh. skittish and overthinking. i cant tell what is attempting to handle with#adoration and care and what is just being overly terrified of having words or intent misconstrued#rechecking and rechecking and rechecking and .. . .. ect ect. i cannot look at it lest i explode
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currentlylurking Ā· 7 months ago
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every december I abruptly remember the same fic concept I've had for literal years where Johnny 13 hosts an absolute garbage Christmas Truce party. Like just the worst party ever. It was supposed to be a potluck but there's no food aside from chip dip Danny brought and ghost weed. Everyone is bored out of their minds.
Except Danny saw on the invitation (which was written on a crumpled receipt from Johnny's pocket, purely because Kitty insisted on at least that, and thrown at him mid fight) that he can 'invite whoever'.
So he'd invited Clockwork.
And as soon as Clockwork arrives everyone loses their minds because uhhhh?? hey THE LITERAL GOD OF TIME is here???
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francy-sketches Ā· 29 days ago
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hating on game of thrones in current year is a bit cringe like girl move on etc. However my complaints are more specific than the average person so I can at least feel like I'm bringing something new to the table. Instead of writing the one bilionth 'they butchered dany we were robbed' post I'm instead going on coke rants about how they character assasinated jaime by making him unfunny and how they didn't give my favorite irrelevant minor characters enough emotional depth and actually now that I'm saying it out loud that sounds worse
#.txt#got#omg I didn't share my show myrcella coke rant on here did I...#tldr her reaction to the incest is stupid+nobody cares about her death on either an emotional or political level which is also stupid#ok cersei cares but she's also super resigned about it and doesnt blame jaime at all even tho she should bc 'I knew she would die'#girl did they lobotomize you what the hell. my beautiful princess with a disorder speak to me šŸ’” I know you're in there šŸ’”#people got kinda mad at me for the incest thing btw like 'omg you dont understand grrm at all you're so lame' ??? huh???#I just think she would realistically be less happy about being an incest baby is all. my bad I guess that makes me a puriteen šŸ˜”#also going back to the nobody cares about her thing the fact that tommen is like. completely unaffected pisses me off so bad#I get it neither of them are main characters but like. does that mean they have to not react like people#also like yeah tommen is not a main character but he does have quite a bit of screen time it'd be nice if he was written well#AND both of them are the kids of 2 mcs come on man make me gaf. I mean do gaf but not bc the writing is good. theyre just my canon ocs#getting dangerously close to 'they BUTCHERED baelon targaryen my prince would never' territory with tommen and myrcella lol#the difference is I kinda dgaf about them being book accurate I just want them 2 be well written šŸ’”#like the reason I get mad at characters not being book accurate is bc the show version is usually worse/less interesting#all the love to my beautiful children ofc but it's not like they have that much going on in the books#so whatever do what you want with them. but do it well
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lazylittledragon Ā· 6 months ago
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Random thought/question: what would your Tavs/Durge and their significant others like... legit fight about? Not bicker, not argue, but actually get mad and say things they don't mean and have to cool off and talk about it later when calmer heads prevail and they're able to apologize without it sounding forced?
this is such a great question that i needed a whole 24 hours to think about it akdhdjhd
i think gale and cyra probably have small things blow out of proportion (because honestly. kids and work and Tired) and then a Lot of stuff they haven't talked about comes up and it ends with 'how the fuck did forgetting to change the bedsheets turn into This'
i actually feel like dorian and astarion are pretty good 90% of the time but sometimes one of them is in a bad place and is like 'i actually really need to be left alone with this thing right now and i don't want to talk about it' and maybe they're not always great at taking the hint
ashe and halsin have never had a fight ever
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kurara-black-blog Ā· 8 months ago
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Damn, Light legit thought people would find it ok to set up an explosive trap in your drawer just cuz you didn't want people reading your diary—
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gothamite-rambler Ā· 26 days ago
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Stephanie: Hey Cass, I heard a story about how you became the leader of the League of Assassins and killed a lot of people.
Cass (eyes downcast, slowly putting her phone down): You cut right to the chase with that.
Stephanie: Yeah, but don’t worry I’m not judging. We all have dark pasts. I just want to hear about it cause I'm curious. What started it? How did you get your wake-up call? What happened in between or afterwards.
Cass: You’ve heard of Slade Wilson, right?
Stephanie: That goof? Yeah. Did he attack you during all of this?
Cass (starting the story): I wanted a father figure, and Bruce was missing…
After an hour of hearing the depressing story of brainwashing that her best friend (and future girlfriend) had been subjected to, Stephanie stormed down the halls. She was searching for some special people, knowing immediately where they'd be: the Batcave.
Cass chased after her, pleading for her to calm down.
Cass: Stephanie, hold on, we've buried the hatchet years ago.
Stephanie had already tuned her out, stomping down the stairs to the Batcave, striding past Jason, Tim, Damian, Kate, and Bruce until she found Dick.
Stephanie (enraged): HEY, NIGHTWING!
At first, Dick turned around, a smile brightening his face at the sight of her, but that smile vanished in an instant when she delivered a stinging slap to his cheek.
Dick (eyes wide, shocked): OW!
Stephanie: You… You! Penis! You absolute penis! How dare you mistreat Cass while she was going through all that? I knew you were too nice; something had to be buried in that chiseled jawline!
Barbara: Chiseled? Steph, it's more chipped-
Dick (over his shoulder to Barbara): You stay out of this, ex. Stephanie, what—
Stephanie lightly swiped her hand across Dick's face. It didn't have the same impact; it still wasn't something he liked receiving, but Stephanie was feeling fiery at the moment.
Dick (brows furrowed, annoyed): Quit it!
Stephanie: I'm not done giving you what for! You absolute penis, I get you were distrusting of newbies, I remember you were a bit of a penis to me, but Cass! Cass was going through true... shizz and and you .. you are a penis!
Dick (cupping his sore cheek): Stop calling me a penis!
Stephanie: Stop being one!
Dick: Bruce, you can step in at any time!
Bruce (pretending to talk to Kate): Um, I'm talking to my cousin about something.
Kate (lying to keep watching the spectacle): Just a meeting. You can handle this on your own.
Stephanie (blocking Bruce by standing in his direction): Nah, don’t look at him for help. You’re being called out for being a jerk to Cass! You could’ve made her turn to the dark side again, or, goodness, take her anger out on you! Would you feel good about that, tubby?
Dick (hugging himself, hurt): Tubby? These insults are so specific and mean! Don’t call me a penis again!
Jason (doubled over laughing): I feel bad for laughing, but this is priceless.
Bruce: I shouldn’t be laughing either, but at least it wasn’t me. What’s happening here?
Cass (hurriedly explaining as she fidgeted her hands): Steph wanted to know about the time I went insane like Jason and became the leader of the assassins. I mentioned my issues with Dick, but we made amends. I sort of didn't hold back on the tension and arguments we had. She—
Stephanie: Is pissed at this eejit!
Stephanie flicked Dick on the forehead making him wince.
Kate: Should we step in?
Bruce: Nah.
Kate nodded in agreement.
Damian (surprised): Did you just call him an idiot with an Irish inflection? You are mad.
Dick (taking accountability): I… she… this is so old! I admitted I was a jerk back then, but I'm not anymore. And stop assaulting me!
Huffing angrily, Stephanie lowered her hand as Dick instinctively took a step back.
Stephanie: You know what? Dick, I get that you didn’t want her to kill her deadbeat dad or Slade. We don’t kill, well, except Jason, but I’m starting to understand him more!
Jason nodded, continuing to read.
Stephanie: But how you treated Cass during most of her redemption journey... such a penis move!
Dick: I wasn’t… she killed… And Barbara snapped at her sometimes! Why the hell won’t you slap her?
Barbara (having silently watched the spectacle): I apologized and she likes me more. Plus I taught her how to read and write more so there.
Dick: I apologized too!
Stephanie: After Alfred stepped in! You—
Dick: You know calling me a penis cause you can't say the word dick hurts my feelings!
Stephanie (stomping): That's why I'm saying it!
Dick: Alfred is usually the voice of reason, I'm obviously going to agree with him. It's a good thing he did step in or I would've won a fight against Cass.
Cass walked over, stepping between them and lightly pushing Stephanie away with a warm smile.
Cass: Dick, first humble yourself. I would've won that fight. Second, Stephie, I admire you defending me, but Dick and I have made amends. We replaced it with sibling bickering, and I’m not completely innocent. I did throw him out a window, which was wrong… even if I still think he deserved it a tiny bit.
Dick (raising his eyebrow): That’s the closest you’re going to admit it was wrong?
Cass: Yep.
Dick (nodding sadly accepting this: I’ll take it.
Stephanie sighed, stepping away from Dick and thinking silently.
Stephanie: Jason, can Rose stab her father for Cass?
Bruce: Excuse me for interjecting, but do you mean to kill or just maim?
Kate (chuckling): That’s legitimately a good question.
Stephanie: I want so badly for her to kill him or for you to kill him. But respecting my code and Cass’s wishes, can she just stab him to hurt him?
Jason: She might actually have a better method. I’ll get back to you on that.
Jason pulled out his phone and texted Rose. He walked away to handle this in private.
Kate (to Bruce): Aren't you glad he found someone for him?
Bruce: Shut up.
Stephanie (to Cass): It’s a start… right?
Cass: He won’t die? It’s not me plunging the knife, but I’d rather not have phantom blood on my hands.
Stephanie (placing a hand on Cass’s shoulder): I can make sure Rose lets him live afterward. Bruce, if you try to stop this, I'm sending my ma after you with a heel in her hand.
Bruce: Just make sure he lives. That’s all I ask.
Stephanie: Got you, B-Man. You can fire me again if I go against my future girlfriend’s rule.
Kate laughed more and walked upstairs to excuse herself, with Bruce following her for a drink after that show.
Dick: Right... I'm not sure how I feel about this—
Stephanie (pointing at the man): Dick, I’m not too happy with you, so your opinion means diddly squat!
Barbara (laughing, but also reasoning with Stephanie): Steph, you have to understand that we were all going through hell back then. You were there, and Dick could be a bit of a… penis.
Dick groaned as he rummaged for ice in the fridge underneath Bruce’s deck. Jason could be heard laughing at the insult, joined by Damian's snickers. Even Barbara couldn't hold back on laughing although she felt a little sympathy to Dick.
Tim mostly remained silent, deciding it was wiser to stay neutral and embrace his role as Switzerland rather than take a side.
Stephanie: I get that, and now that I’ve delivered the slap of righteous divine retribution to him, I’m cool with him. Unless he angers her again, then I’m kicking him in the penis while wearing a pointed heel.
Barbara (siding with her surrogate daughter Cass): That's a fair trade off.
Tim: Oh wow. Um, I'm going to step in front of him.
Tim walked up in front of Dick, positioning himself as a buffer. Dick appreciated the gesture, grateful for the support in the heat of the moment.
Damian (enjoying the chaos): That’s very funny to think about.
Stephanie (to Tim and Damian): As for you two… Tim, Cass actually had a lot of nice things and wild adventures to say about you. You’re cool with me too. Damian… eh, not anything scandalous.
Damian (satisfied): Alright, that’s great to hear.
Tim (hand on his chest): Cass, thank you.
Cass: It was just me being honest and venting. I tried to make it unbiased.
Dick: Didn’t work! She slapped me! Ow, by the way!
Stephanie (indifferent, crossing her arms): Sorry or whatever.
Cass: I’m sorry as well. When I spoke of our feuding, it wasn’t to paint you as a villain. I only wanted to give accurate details and I got my payback when I replaced your human shampoo with dog flea and tick shampoo.
Stephanie (surprised): You what?
Dick (shouting with a triumphant tone): I knew it!
Barbara (chuckling): That’s why your hair smelled like oatmeal for a month.
Dick: Jokes on her... that was great for my hair and I used the rest for Hayley! And yes, that is a flex for me. Cass, I forgive you. Stephanie, I choose to forgive you for now. To make it up to you both, I’ll take us all out for dinner.
Stephanie: You should probably have that wallet with you, then, cause we’re going to Applebee's.
Dick: At least it's not Ruth Chris. I’m going to rest for the next hour. Barbara…
Dick lightly slapped Barbara on the back of the head and then ran off. Barbara laughed, relieving any tension.
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TOBY!!!!!!!!! RELEASE THE RUNES!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!
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