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Peter idolized Mysterio extremely fast, because Beck knew exactly how to manipulate the kid.

He watched him, did his research. He knew who what Peter needed.

Tony Stark.

The entire world was asking Spider-Man if he was the new Tony Stark. Captain America, Black Widow, Iron Man, all gone. the Avengers had been ripped apart when they saved the world, and now civilians were scared. Who would protect them if things like that were out there? Spider-Man was the only one standing up and still fighting for his city, he was mentored by Iron Man. Surely he would step up.

Peter felt the pressure, the questions. Even Fury was trying to push him to be the next Tony, fulfill his duty as an Avenger.

But Beck stood up for him.

"He's not bored, he's just thinking about how you kidnapped him"

He understands Peter wants to enjoy time with his friends, with MJ.

"You're not a jerk for wanting a normal life kid"

Everyone else was adamant though.

"Stark chose you. He made you an Avenger. I need that, the world needs that. Maybe Stark was wrong."

Here Fury is telling him that not stepping up would be failing the world, failing Stark. Putting words into the mouth of Peter's dead mentor.

Everyone knows that Tony Stark is Peter's weak spot-

"Tony did a lot for me so, I owe it to him. To everybody"

But Beck is always a step ahead.

He sets himself up as the knight in shining arming, showing up right when the world needs him, after all the heroes had fought and died and disappeared. (Iron Man was the first superhero the world had seen since Captain America. Peter worshipped him since he was a little kid. He burst into Peter's life, gave him an incredible suit, and cleaned up his messes).

He lifts Peter up when he's down. "Don't ever apologize for being the smartest in the room" "a part of me wants me to tell you to turn around, run away from all this". (Tony was the only one smart enough to understand how smart Peter was, too. Told him to stay away from the big stuff and help the little guy. He followed Mr. Stark onto that spaceship after being told to go home over and over).

He becomes a mentor. "It's really nice to have someone to talk to about superhero stuff, y'know" Peter tells him. It's painfully reminiscent of being 15, blowing up the phone with texts and voicemails because Mr. Stark was the only one who knew his identity and knew what it was like to be a hero. The way he'd look at Tony with eager eyes every time they were face to face, just happy to be seen. He'd had to fight so hard for Tony to listen to him, and losing it was... harder than he realized.

So here Beck is, a better hero than Spider-Man, more supportive than Fury- and then he asks the perfect question:

"What do you want, Peter?"

He lets the kid imagine a better life, a life where he isn't the next Iron Man. He looks up at Beck and sees his escape, sees someone far more qualified. Not only would it be an out for Peter, but the world would simply be better off with Mysterio.

"the world needs the next Iron Man, it needs to be an adult with some experience, who's good like Tony Stark, like you"

Everyone made it so easy for Beck- they broke Peter's self-esteem down till he was certain he couldn't be the next Iron Man. Denied him at every turn a piece of a normal life, any balance. Everyone was so desperate for a hero that no one questioned when Beck strolled in, charmed everyone, and proved himself the only solution.

Peter is 16. He's a kid. He lost so many years already; with his parents, his uncle, with gaining super powers. He lost Tony, his support system. He's desperate for an adult to take this burden from him.

For the next Tony Stark.

So he takes Edith, the physical symbol of his responsibility, and hands it to the nearest capable adult.

I just wanted to be like you!

And I wanted you to be better.

Peter Parker is not Tony Stark.

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Obi-wan with the skywalker twins <3

(from an unfinished piece from ages ago that i found on my iPad, other than the weirdly small baby heads, im impressed with how it looks considering my art skillz at the time!)

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Tony and his PPs (forgot to post this one too)

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Daredevil: Born Again (2025 - ) 1.01 - 1.02 + text posts

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😂😂😂

Hooray nobody won!

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Talon Dick via Tim AU

@hisaribi came up with the initial AU and helped flesh this idea out!

To start out, most of the timeline is the same up to just before Jason comes back as Red Hood. Here are the two main differences to the OG timeline:

Before Dick's parents died, the Court of Owls experimented slightly on Dick. He was a candidate they were considering for the Talon program. They injected him a few times to monitor results before deciding whether to initiate fully. They brainwashed him with some latent codes and were planning to take him after his parents' deaths. Obviously, Bruce stopped the second part of their plot. The codes and serum still existed in him as he grew up, though.

Tim's parents were invited to the Court of Owls. Due to their travels, though, they weren't able to meet membership requirements. Tim thus knew about the CoO but wasn't a part of it.

Here's where the timeline starts to diverge. Tim's been Robin for at least a year now. Bruce and Dick are somewhat talking again. Everything is okay (not necessarily great, but Tim hopes one day it could be).

Then Bruce causes Dick to die (dealer's choice on how deliberate it was).

A second son of Bruce (and perhaps the last child he actually considers as his own) dies. Obviously, this man tries to reenact his brutality boogie through Gotham.

Tim believes it's his fault that Bruce caused Dick to die (if Tim had done his self-assigned job better, if he had healed Bruce more, if he kept a tighter leash on that man, maybe Dick wouldn't have died).

The techniques Tim had used before to pull Bruce from that ledge aren't working. The teen is barely able to restrain the Batman's more violent tendencies. He's trying, in the midst of his own grief and self-blame, to do what he became Robin for. He's really really trying.

Tim, the lovely little rascal, gets the brilliant idea to use the CoO resources to bring Dick back to life. Perhaps he can fix his failures, prevent Bruce from drowning, and have his brother back.

It somewhat works.

Due to the shit in Dick's system before he died, more injections are able to receive Dick. It changes him, but he's alive. That's what Tim cares about.

Yet, the CoO find out about their shit being used and steal Dick away.

Tim then spends almost a year rescuing him from the CoO, trying to fix all the brainwashing, and reforming Dick's sense of identity. Dick isn't fully himself, he follows orders too readily, and he spends a lot of time dissociating. He has some physical traits of Talons, but he also has more autonomy and resistance than the others.

Tim can't quite present Dick as a fresh Talon to Bruce. That wouldn't work and might make Batman even more violent. Thus, Tim spends that year juggling his mentor and Dick's wellbeing. That poor kid is stressed and going through it (he's also fighting off the CoO alone and has to hide Dick). At the very least, Talon!Dick cares for Tim. They are close, and Tim gets showered in affection by the older one.

Unfortunately for the teen, a certain red helmet starts popping up in Crime Alley.

Jason is high key pissed at Bruce. He is raging and foaming at the mouth because Dick died (and no one but CoO and Tim know otherwise). Jason has let go of some of his hatred for Dick. He's able to remember the better times and that the man was his brother. They didn't have a perfect relationship, but they were siblings.

Bruce killed him (Jason's perspective on it regardless of how purposeful Bruce was in orchestrating Dick's death). Bruce killed Dick, the original Robin, and he's got a placeholder still prancing around in stoplight colors.

So, Jason goes to beat the shit out of Tim to prove to Bruce that he obviously can't protect anyone.

When he gets to Drake Manor guns blazing, a very angry and protective Talon!Dick starts beating the shit out of him. Only by the grace of Jason's helmet being removed mid-battle is Jason saved.

Later, when a cold Dick refuses to stop hugging Jason, Red Hood raises an eyebrow in Tim's direction and asks what the fuck is going on.

Tim wants to ask him the same thing.

More snippets for this AU:

Because Dick is immortal as a Talon, he's forever as he is. One day, all of his younger siblings will grow older than him

Jason and Tim will teach each other not to base so much of their life off of Bruce. From opposite ends of the spectrum (devotion vs malice), they base their choices, demeanor, and paths according to Bruce.

Dick oscillates between the two during their arguments about Bruce (especially due to his Talon state being more or less present)

Dick struggles with his memory. Both recent and pre-Talon memories can be harder to recall some days

Jason is chill with killing, but Dick despises it. He doesn't want to kill, but, due to his programming, he's been forced to.

When Dick is forced to follow an order, he has two reactions. He either blanks out and wakes up with no memory of what he's done, or he is mentally present the entire time as he screams at himself to stop :(

When Bruce gets lost in the timestream, Jason believes Tim. However, he wants Tim to let Bruce die

I think I covered everything we chatted about! If not, I'll add more ^^

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My missing cousin was covered in this podcast. Please share her story. Someone, somewhere, knows something!

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Avoiding this via brick phone on wheels atm

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nearly forgot to post this onto my tumblr today (im so used to just posting to IG and then being done but i must now take care of my tumblr page too hehe)

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*in the lab*

Tony: Hey Pete could you stand up for a sec?

Peter: yeah, sure

Tony: *takes chair* thanks

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Hey guys, if you want to see Percy Jackson and the Olympian without giving Disney money (like I do), use this website.

Is what I most use for series and is very complete, besides, have different subtitles if you want to read on your native language.

Stay safe guys

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The Brendok Witches - A critical breakdown

So I ran into a bit of a problem doing this breakdown, in that the episode contradicts itself so much that I'm having a hard time thinking of a way to describe what they believe at all.

To the best of my ability, and being as generous as I can reasonably be, here's what I got.

The Thread

They refer to the Force as "the Thread" and believe that it's an energy that binds everyone to each other and to their destinies. Now they seem to be under the impression that this is a teaching that the Jedi don't follow. However, it's actually one of the first things we ever learn about the Force from Obi-Wan Kenobi in A New Hope.

"The Force surrounds us, it penetrates us, and binds the Galaxy together." Being generous, I'm going to assume the witches simply don't know what the Jedi teach.

As a final note they don't seem to believe the dark side exists.

It's not a power, so what are they chanting about?

Mother Aniseya also says that the Thread "isn't a power" like "some" believe, another dig at the Jedi I'd assume. Except that "power" actually appears to central to their teachings. To the point they have whole ceremonies where they chant "the power of one, the power of two, the power of many" over and over again.

So what's this "power" they're referring to? Well, when Mother Aniseya demonstrates it she's using the Force to push people. So, the Thread is "not a power" but also "power."

The only other thing I could imagine is that they're referring to power in a abstract sense, and it's just their way of trying to say that people are stronger together?

No good and no evil, only power

However their obsession with power runs far deeper than that. According to Mother Aniseya "this isn't about good or evil, it's about power and who's allowed to use it." So I suppose the coven must follow either a "might makes right" or a "if you have might you can't be right" mindset. Either is pretty twisted, and it's a philosophy they'll use to pressure children to do bad things like lie.

So... Not a good thing to teach to children.

Destiny

Mother Aniseya first says that the Thread binds you to each other and to your destiny only to later tell Osha that "there's no anonymous Force deciding your destiny, you have to choose." Their view of destiny isn't touched on at all after it's first brought up, so I can only count this as a contradiction.

History and resentment

As part of their own ceremonies they talk about how they were persecuted and hunted, thus fostering resentment in their members.

Hostility and anger

They're quick to resort to threats or violence or use of dark side magic to harm others. Even when no threats have been issued against them.

"You're too young to choose not to spend the rest of your life here."

Mother Aniseya pressures Osha to lie to the Jedi, and basically says she's too young to choose to be one. But earlier on she was trying to get Osha and Mae to swear a lifelong oath to stay in the coven, despite knowing Osha doesn't want that. Now I can kind of get why a flawed parent wouldn't want their child to choose to leave at such a young age, but this hypocrisy goes unacknowledged.

"It's the Jedi's fault"

To be frank, what I've gathered is that their entire culture, philosophy, history, and way of life completely revolve around the Jedi. They constantly reference their beliefs in their ceremonies, they whine about them during them, and they're extremely hostile towards them when they up. If the Jedi didn't exist I can't imagine this coven would either because they've built their entire culture around "not being them."

No really, that's the only way I can explain all the contradictions. Is that they simply hate the Jedi and thus describe everything they do as somehow being the opposite of them. Even as they practice aspects of their teachings.

In brief, everything good that they teach is stuff the Jedi already do except they add a bunch of terrible teachings along with it and then phrase theirs as being superior.

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I really enjoy the theories where Satine and Obi-Wan are siblings (i enjoy their romantic tension, but I think their sniping atop mutual respect also fits neatly into a sibling dynamic), and I'd like to propose:

Duke Kyrze meets the tiny, feisty, and articulate jeti'ka who's been assigned to protect his daughter and can't resist immediately reciting the Gai Bal Manda

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ISO Tim Drake fic where he does not join the bat family. Instead, he is Bruce Wayne's personal assistant. Cue a lot of Tim being so done, copious amounts of coffee, and plausible deniability of identities.

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Watches opening scene of Star Trek (2009)

*immediately sobs

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Can someone please explain to me the entirety of Tissaia in part two of season 3? She summoned the thunder thing and did nothing with it? Then, committed suicide for some reason?