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can u do headcanons off that post you made about percy opening up an aquarium?

absolutely

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okay, so, Percy lowkey thrives in college

Why??? Bc New Rome’s university is specifically catered to demigods and any issues they have with learning. He’s not gonna have to deal with asshole teachers calling him lazy like…it’s a good setup for him okay

I could see him maybe transferring in like junior year once he figured out specifically what he wanted to do with his life but also we don’t know about their departments and programs…so maybe he’d just stay idk, we know from the fact there’s like ex-legion members that are still duty bound living in the mortal world that it’s probably like an Actual Good School, so idk. Not life or death specifics wise so headcannon as you will.

Anyway, Percy and Annabeth have an apartment in New Rome and Annabeth commutes to her school (what was the sweatshirt in sotd??? I can’t remember rip). They’re cute and in love yadayada

So anyway, Percy does really well in college but also he’s a masochist, so he decides to push his luck with a double major 

Like. Okay. Percy never expected to really make it to college, so he never really put in a lot of thought of what he wanted to do with his life- but now he had to actually, you know, decide. What does he like??? Uh, basketball, skateboarding, and ocean life. Canon.

Like…the boy has literally snuck out multiple times in the middle of the night just to cut animals out of garbage or fishing nets, he’s not as outspoken as Grover but he always feels strongly about protecting the environment, that whole scene in the Atlanta Aquarium in moa??? Maybe he’d put off the idea of making a marine career at first because it feels cliché for the sea god’s kid, but he’s eventually going to figure out that this is what he’s passionate about

He’s gonna remember his promise to save those creatures from Atlanta and OH BOY

so his double major: Marine Biology and Environmental Education (with a focus in Oceanography)

He does pretty well as stated and gets a few internships at different zoos and aquariums in California to help him out (not sea world he’s gonna fight them)

So anyway by the time he graduates and everything he’s got like two relatively decent jobs bc he’s suspiciously great with the animals??? So he gets promoted from intern lmao

He keeps up there for a few years but then Annabeth gets a job offer down in Florida, right

And like…Florida isn’t exactly a Dream Land for two 26 year olds but there’s always a lot of building going on down there and this promising startup company wants Annabeth to head them which is like the deal of a lifetime tbh so she jumps right on it. They get engaged before they move there officially and Annabeth’s first paycheck from this place is enough for them to buy a spot of land for her to build their dream house like y’all….I love them 

But okay back on track: it’s Florida. Percy doesn’t exactly have any trouble finding work with his degrees lmao

But he finds himself getting a little frustrated with the people he works with?? Like. He can’t just exactly say “Hey boss we need to warm up the tank temperatures a little bit the fish keep telling me they don’t feel well”. He can’t tell the vet that the dolphin is swimming weirdly because she’s depressed by the fact a boat propeller killed her baby. And he’s really fired up about the fact that like…the animals are being kept there indefinitely. Like he doesn’t think that’s right and he can tell the animals aren’t happy

And every now and then he’s reminded off all the drugged up animals in Atlanta and he is just….angry™

So who’s to say what was the actual tipping point for him but he decides to start up his own place

To the surprise of no one, Annabeth’s company handles the construction of the place

Some of the builders get a little confused because Hazel’s on site messing with the mist for a while but once everything is finished it looks hella great

His big plan is to run a marine life sanctuary/rehabilitation center mainly- he’ll let people in for aquarium tours while the animals are healing from whatever issues they have but he sets them free once they’re in the clear. Hazel was messing with the mist during construction because there’s an entire hidden wing of the place where they can also take care of any mythical sea creatures that need help 

Obviously none of the mortal workers or tour groups know about this place but it’s fine okay it works out fight me

By this point Grover has started up his own wildlife/environment charity foundation so while Percy is still getting his sanctuary on it’s legs G-man sends some of his workers to volunteer there so that’s great

The mortal workers are all so,,,baffled by this fucking boy lmao

Like first they think he’s an intimidating boss because he wants everything done in Very Specific Ways and they’ll see him get pissed off at government reports of the ocean and shit but then someone will come into work early and find him in a pool stroking a fucking shark and softly saying “Shelia, you didn’t deserve any of that and I am so sorry you had to put up with his loser ass” asdfghhjl

The sanctuary tours become a small local success pretty quickly because Percy’s so outspoken about trying to get these animals better and it starts off as people going “okay we’ll go once and then feel good that we spent some pity money on a dolphins health” but like. When they’re just getting started out they only do a couple tours a day so Percy leads them himself and they’re SO FUNNY. All the kids love him and they’re actually Learning about stuff so when they keep begging their parents to go back no one can really resist. 

Like it’s very easy for him to make the educational lectures take on an entertaining spin, and he has an answer for almost every question ranging from Actually Informative to ‘what’s that manatee’s favorite color’. 

So this soon becomes the Town Hotspot and the place starts Thriving 

Most of his workers are marine vets, volunteers from Grover’s foundation, and young adult demigods who are in the ‘I Didn’t Think I’d Live This Long What Do I Do Now’ stage. He literally worked out a program with Camp Halfblood to send people down there if they didn’t want to stay at camp but also didn’t really know what to do, and since they’d mostly be working in the mythical creatures wing that Hazel misted up, they wouldn’t really have to worry too much about monster attacks while trying to get their lives together

Percy’s sanctuary makes it’s first splash in the news when he decides it’s finally time to Fight The Atlanta Aquarium 

Grover’s foundation is a Pretty Big Deal by this point so when he gets Grover’s help on it the media lowkey starts following it because like…what is this little sanctuary doing trying to take on an accredited aquarium 

But he’s too fired up about those drugged up creatures being forced to perform so he goes hard okay

And listen don’t @ me with Frank got those fish centaur guys to go rescue everyone like….that was a HUGE exhibit lead by two corrupt gods and was also situated on dry land like…nah. Plus Percy is pretty sure that if they were mistreating mythical creatures (that were literally the gods’ children), they were probably mistreating the normal animals too. So he won’t drop this fight and Phorcys and Keto can’t exactly just, kill him flat out now that Grover’s got the media involved because it would look to suspicious, and then fucking Poseidon hears about this and decides to Get Involved and helps Percy dig up enough receipts on them so he wins in the court of public opinion, and it’s a whole thing but they ultimately quit and hand over the animals. 

And once they get all the animals there and situated…Woo Boy

Practically everyone’s working overtime because they’re ever so slightly short staffed on vets so he’s looking for new volunteers every day

They were f u c k e d by the amount of mythical creatures and there’s like. Not exactly a branch of veterinary school that covers them??? So he calls Frank down there, Grover shows up with a couple other satyrs and Poseidon sends a few Nereids to help out and they just gotta. Fucking help these animals withdraw from the sedatives and then try to get them to talk omg. It takes some time for all of them to calm down and actually trust Percy and his workers but it eventually works out. 

Frank finds that as stressful as the whole thing was he actually really enjoyed helping out, and he’s been a little lost figuring out what he wants to do as a career so he just…lowkey doesn’t leave Florida and starts showing up every day lmao. Percy’s not exactly gonna turn him away, you know?

They had to stop tours while they were getting all the new animals in and figuring out what was wrong with them, but once they open their doors again the people are WILD 

Because of the press and everything. Suddenly their little local fish rehab was saving animals from bad people in other states!!! Everyone wanted to see the new animals!!! So that ended up bringing in a lot of money 

And then people from out of state were coming in because they really wanted to see if the animals were actually being treated better

So suddenly Percy’s little sanctuary is like. On the Map™

And Percy has never been fond of being in the spotlight or anything, but he’s not a dumbass- he knows that the more well known the place gets, the more money they’ll make, which will lead to them being able to help even more animals

So he makes a point to donate some percentage of all money to Grover’s foundation 

Starts getting vocal on social media about the EPA and everything going on with the environment and stuff. One time he very passive aggressively @-ed trump in a bunch of tweets about climate change and it trended for like a week lmao (’Percy….you can’t just do that’ ‘I have literally looked Zeus in the eye and told him to go fuck himself before, the president has no power over me’)

Every now and then the place will host protecting the planet seminars for like, preschool or kindergarten classes on field trips like they’ll talk all about things they can do to Help Out and he’ll tell them all about how marine life is effected by what humans do and he’ll go out of his way to show them animals with injuries from like those plastic six-pack holders and shit it’s a whole thing

I’m sorry I’m just imagining Percy taking a tour group into a huge amphitheater with a pool in the center and going ‘and this is where we’d keep and show off our whales….IF WE WERE ASSHOLES’ lmao

Like yeah, they do get an occasional injured whale but he always gives them top priority when that happens bc he doesn’t want them there too long. More than once he’s discreetly used some ~sea powers~ to try and get them out in under a day. They put trackers on the whales though- the mortal vets believe it’s just to make sure they make it back to their pods when released, but it’s really so that if a dolphin or something swims up to Percy like ‘hey bitch whatever your guys did the other day stopped working come help’ he can find them fairly easily lol

One of the Hip Young Teen Demigods™ working for him convinces Percy to make those trackers into one of those fun apps where anyone can go on and see where certain whales are and learn some little fun facts and shit. Annabeth sets that up and adds a little feature where like each month there’ll be a new quiz and depending on how well you do you could get like cheaper or free tickets for the tours and stuff

Sorry I just imagined Percy taking Estelle on a behind the scenes tour and letting her swim with some dolphins and now I’m crying 

She comes down to visit whenever she can….we know this

One day her teacher is covering current events and is like ‘the government wants to get rid of the Environmental Protection Agency’ and she’s like ‘my big brother Percy said he and Mr. Grover are gonna get in a fist fight with the president if that happens’ asdfgghj

Oh my G o d she reaches the little mermaid phase that every child has so he takes her to the mythical wing to meet some actual mermaids- there’s a few staying there because after they got captured by the Atlanta place they were too scared to go back to the open ocean and he and the other workers haven’t managed to talk them down about it yet. They REALLY liked seeing Estelle though and went out of their way to make her laugh. Estelle loved it and told Percy it was much better than the mermaid actresses the aquarium her school went to had and Percy was like B O I. 

So he’s been feeling bad about these mermaids being stuck in one tank anyway so he talked to them about swimming around with the other animals during tours (you know the mortals would just think they’re just actresses bc of the mist…like damn they though Mrs. O’Leary was a poodle lmao), and the mermaids are a little nervous but decide to do it

It’s a HIT with the tour groups and it works out really well!! because!! The mermaids start socializing with other ocean creatures again and get used to everything, so after a while most of them finally feel comfortable going back to the actual ocean!! 

ALSO this DOUBLE works out because the mortals just see them as actresses and whatnot but every now and then Percy or one of the demigod workers will hear a kid be like ‘but they have gills!!! that one’s skin is blue!!! look at their teeth!!!’ and they’ll notify Chiron to send some satyrs down 

All in all Estelle saved the day there lol

Do you think this boy’s not gonna fight Sea World??? please

Honestly if he finds anything sketchy out about any aquarium, like, anywhere, he makes a point to try and liberate the animals

He’s obviously very hands-on with the actual care of the creatures

Like asdfg I’m just imagining the vets being like ‘this shark is dangerous and agitated we need to sedate it to find out whats wrong’ and Percy just hops in the fucking pool and starts petting it and is like ‘he’s afraid of needles Carson just come over here and help me clean out his gills’ lmao

A sea lion that’s been there for a few weeks is acting weird and won’t let the Vet get near it and the vet‘s freaking out but Percy strolls in with a bucket of fish going ‘She’s upset that you forgot her birthday, you dick’ lmao

“MR. JACKSON THATS A TANK FULL OF MAN O’ WAR JELLYFISH YOU NEED TO GET OUT OF THERE IMMEDIATELY”

Percy, holding eye contact with the vet as he deliberately strokes the jellyfishes: “Some of us can handle it”

“WHAT THE F U C K”

Like the vets are just constantly so exasperated and mildly terrified by his actions but like…they all work, for no understandable reason, there’s no reason this BUFFOON should still be alive, why do all the teenage workers keep laughing at them whenever Percy pulls a new stunt??? 

lmao the demigod workers get the biggest kicks out of the mortal vets freakouts it’s so funny to them and sometimes they wanna talk about Percy’s abilities at work so instead of saying ‘son of poseidon’ they’ll call him ‘dr. dolittle’ but that spurs the vets FURTHER because he’s not even a doctor!!! he doesn’t have a veterinary degree!!! what the fuck!!!

it’s just a whole Thing

“I’m gonna sue Sea World” “Why” “…Because I hate them”

Oh my God Percy in the middle of giving a tour but Poseidon is in the fucking tour group and keeps shouting out facts before Percy can finish a sentence and Percy is just like father,,,,,,,I will ban you from the premises if I must, and they banter the whole time and the rest of the tour group thinks its fucking hilarious

someone films them arguing over Fun Octopus Trivia (’Son you CANNOT POSSIBLY be trying to tell me I don’t know what I’m talking about!!’) and it fucking trends because they’re so fucking heated about ocean facts like nerds

“I notice there’s not a single statue of fountain in the likeness of the god of the sea, even though this is an aquarium? Odd design choice.”

“DAD I WILL CALL SECURITY.”

Poseidon finally pushes Percy too far when he tries to correct his speech on sea turtles and Percy, knowing damn well his father can’t just reveal he’s a god to this group of mortals, goes “Hey, Dad…remind me again, which one of us has degrees in this field??” and Poseidon’s jaw DROPS and the tour is like oooooohhh shit!!! lmao

This leads to like a solid 15 minutes of kids going “hey yeah Percy’s saved so many sea animals!!! What have YOU ever done!!” and Poseidon is just completely flabbergasted he finally concedes and lets Percy finish in silence lmao

this was on the video,,,,,there’s a viral video of Percy letting the god of the sea get shredded by 10 year olds that think Percy’s the coolest dude around,,,,iconique 

Rachel Elizabeth Dare??? Being the sanctuary’s biggest benefactor??? It’s More Likely Than You Think

We know she’s gonna spend most of her money donating to charities and foundations and her two favorite are Grover’s thing and Percy’s sanctuary 

Every now and then one of the demigod workers will decide they Actually Like What They’re Doing There so Percy will write them college recommendation letters and help them figure out what they wanna major specifically in and if they’re staying in the area he’ll work their schedules around their school hours so they won’t have to worry about finding a new job/going back to having to worry about monster attacks 24/7

Some of the others might only be there for a little bit while they figure things out but either way it’s a safe place and relatively enjoyable work so most of them are pretty happy so the program he runs with the camp is like. Highly recommended. A lot of the kids view it as like a gap year

So what I’m saying is…it’s a sanctuary in more ways than one

Every time people try to rate like, the safest aquariums and whatnot his is always at the top of the list

He’s highly praised for how quickly and thoroughly his team is able to rehabilitate animals

They’re always providing educational information about marine life and the environment and once they get Big he’s able to start funding programs to clean up the ocean and stuff

Remember Frank was hanging around??? Percy eventually puts him as the lead on-call doctor for the mythical creatures wing. Do to Percy, Frank and the demigod workers constant working to help these guys get better there’s a significant drop in demigod-ocean-death numbers

Got shipwrecked??? Man some mermaids saved us!! A thirty foot long sea dragon winked at me!!! Some fish centaurs gave me some brownies!! 

Like,,,the word gets around, you know? It’s rad

Oh my God sometimes Bessie pops up and Percy’s like ‘you know damn well you’re fine’ but she misses him asdfgh

Tyson showing up every time Rainbow gets a cold 

Imagine Percy giving tours and all the creatures raptly follow him in their tanks and the group is flipping their shit but he hardly notices 

baby chase-jackson growing up around all this 

crying

takes the kid to work with him all the time I’m…..

some of the mortal workers thinking Percy’s not actually THAT good with the sea animals, he’s just good at showmanship or whatever but then they’ll sneak into work when he’s supposed to be the only one there and he’s just hand feeding an elephant seal and saying “TELL ME ABOUT IT, Janet” asdfgh

His fucking toddler is a few feet away in a pool, petting some electric eels but completely fine….these poor mortals honestly lmao

All in all though like….Percy as an environmental activist who runs a marine life sanctuary and rehab. This is what I support. This is what I’m about. This works very well like I could keep going if I wasn’t falling asleep presently

I love and miss Percy but anyway…this is canon like I’ll call Riordan myself if I gotta

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Humans have finally managed to land on Mars, only to find a locked safe buried in the Martian soil. The key is apparently on Earth, but no one knows where.

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isekai about a nyc apartment block getting teleported into a fantasy realm, and how this group of people who previously have only had incidental contact with one another come together to build a vibrant community in their new circumstances. there's a season-long arc about introducing bagels and pizza to the fantasy world that gets into the details of sourcing ingredients, developing new technologies, and learning how to work with supernatural substitutions.

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II.30

There must always be a Stark at Winterfell, but the Starks are no more. 

Jon & Aegon (future fic)

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So Lucifer Morningstar, the fourth of the fallen, (retired) ruler of hell, the Devil himself, is a character in DC comics, appearing in the Sandman comics, his own solo run and various other comics

He is absurdly powerful

The thing is, Lucifer still has access to his Divine power, unlike other fallen angels, and is actually more powerful than other angels

What does this mean?

Lucifer was the guy that shaped the matter to create the stars, an ability he still has

Enter one Danny Fenton

“Omg(oh my ghost) I’m a HUGE FAN of your work”

Just Danny fangirling over the literal Devil because of stars and space

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Lazarus Water is a special water to Ghosts. Not for drinking, but more for like...baptism. Into servitude.

Anyone who has been dunked in Lazarus Water is bound by soul contracts to serve the Ghost King, whoever it is.

The more someone has been dunked, the more binding the contracts.

Jason and Bruce? They would have to be given a direct order.

Damian? A side-minded mention would force his body to comply with the Ghost King's wishes.

Ra's? Ra's is screwed.

Because the Ghost King is now a fourteen year old boy, and Ra's has been dunked so many times that all said boy has to do is think and the Demon Head is scrambling to comply.

Danny doesn't know what he did to have ninjas at his beck and call, but they're really taking the workload off of his shoulders by fighting his rogues when he has homework to do or sleep to catch, so he's very okay with all of it.

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III.36

Jon was tired of the life he stole.

Gen (Valyrian Empire AU)

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III.39

Balance must be restored.

Jon Gen (mythology AU)

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III.48

Prince Aemon desperately wanted to know something of the North. Dark Rhaegar Won AU.

Domeric Bolton/Jon Snow.

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Aemon never asked his father for much. He knew his place, even if his father insisted he wasn't a bastard (as most of the court hissed at him), he was still a second son, who would inherit nothing, who would be lucky to be sold in marriage as a piece moving on his father's cyvasse board.

Yet, he had asked for the same thing every year for his nameday since he could remember, forcing his father to guilt over denying one of the few things Aemon ever asked for, and this year he thought he'd finally come up with a compromise that Rhaegar could not deny.

He could already see from the set of his father's shoulders, from the look in his eyes, that he was prepared to offer another excuse as to why Aemon could not go North to know the lands his mother grew up within and the family that he was a hostage against.

"My King, I would request a companion from a Northern house, so that I might learn of my mother's culture and the land of her ancestors." He was careful not to claim the North as part of himself, or those ancestors as his own as was clearly the case, sticking to the phrases he knew would relax his father's paranoia.

He often shuddered to think of what his grandfather must have been like, if everyone considered his father so different, so much better.

Rhaegar stared down at him, his expression collected, but Aemon knew he was fumbling for a response in his mind. Finally, he gave a slight smile, just a lifting of the corners of his mouth, and a regal nod.

"A fine suggestion, my son. A suitable companion will be found for you, to join your retinue."

And just like that, Aemon found himself with his first real connection to the North.

If he'd been anyone else--if his mother had been anyone else--one of the plethora of Stark boys Aemon knew existed would have surely been chosen. But instead the King considered other families from across the North, finally deciding on the heir of the second most powerful house.

Domeric had been planning to squire in the South, Aemon found out, and so his plans didn't change terribly. He was squired to Ser Arthur alongside Aemon, a much more elevated position, and the two of them quickly relaxed into a routine.

They had a similar disposition, quiet and almost brooding, but both were practiced at faking comfort in social situations. If anything, Domeric proved even better at it than Aemon, and soon the court seemed to forget he was a savage Northman (and a Bolton, no less).

It was only in private, too low for even the Kingsguard outside Aemon's door to hear, that Domeric taught Aemon of the North. Of their gods, and their customs. And Domeric taught him to look more closely at the court around them, at the insults to him and the way the Targaryens made sure he was isolated that Aemon had ignored until then.

Who told him that even Domeric's own presence was an insult against anyone with Stark blood, even if he was glad for it.

They grew ever closer, until it was only at family meetings and meals that anyone expected to see Aemon without Domeric. At first, Aemon thought what they had must be what true brothers had, a connection and care that went beyond what his ambivalent family had shown him.

But as they grew older, he realized it was more than that. When the beautiful ladies of court flirted with Domeric, Aemon felt an anger and jealousy that he locked deep within himself, sure nothing would come of it.

Except that apparently Domeric felt much the same, and was not so shy as to hide it. When Aemon chanced flirting with an heir a few years older than himself he knew from the training yard, Domeric interfered. And that night, when they were alone in Aemon's rooms, he kissed him, fierce and possessive, not quite like a flame but like the ice storms Aemon had heard stories of, burning him in an entirely different way.

That all made it easier for Aemon to sway to Domeric's suggestions, to sneak into the godswood and make blood sacrifices for small things. To make Aegon unlucky before a tourney held for his nameday or Rhaenys catching an illness before she was meant to return home from Dorne. For his father to finally be shamed by something. For the Queen and her treacherous family to leave King's Landing.

At the beginning, such things were satisfying and seemed harmless, and it was so easy for Aemon, because of the blood of the Children of the Forest in his veins according to Domeric.

Life continued on, his older siblings betrothed, the King searching for a suitable match for Aemon. He was half sure he'd be sent to Dorne and Arianne, forever a hostage, but now one without Domeric beside him.

The fear of Domeric returning North without him, as the heir of the Dreadfort could hardly live out his days in Sunspear, was stressful enough that Domeric could persuade Aemon to cast more curses, greater ones.

But there were consequences, the curses were cumulative, each one lingering and made worse. Aegon with a wound from a sparring accident that festured, Rhaenys' constant illnesses losing her a betrothal as talk of her mother filled the halls. And then a Kingsguard caught Queen Cersei and her brother together, spurring on the knowledge that all of her children, which looked not at all like the King, might be bastards.

"If not for how dire her circumstances, Lady Lyanna might have been with us still today, her son is certainly as healthy and fit as can be, and undeniably the King's," he heard a lord comment to his peers in the corner of the hall, and such words seemed to catch like flame in dry timber.

They were, he'd realize, words he'd heard Domeric murmur, but he had not known anyone was listening.

Domeric, when Aemon begged him to help reverse it, at least for his true siblings, instead pressured him as to his real motivations: did he actually care for the Targaryens? Had he not wanted them to pay?

Like sweet poison, Domeric had sunk deep into Aemon, and the tattered remains of his conscience could not hold him off.

"Why do you care? What do you get out of this?" he had asked once, after the announcement of his older sister's death, knowing his older brother would not be far behind.

And Domeric had smiled, the sharp blades behind it nearly concealed, "You're mine, Aemon, and you deserve more than they would ever give you." He wrapped himself around Aemon, holding him tight. "You'll be King and no one will have the power to separate us."

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This one ended up longer than I thought it would and I almost decided to just expand it and make it a standalone piece, but think if I did it would go a little differently, so decided to just post this up.

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Wet Ink 6

Summary: Rhaenys is wed to Robert Baratheon's heir. Rhaenys survives the Rebellion AU.

Ship: Rhaenys Targaryen/Jon Snow.

Warnings: Non-consensual drug use. Nudity. Some Lyanna bashing. Slight dub-con touching.

Note: I broke off my fic where someone(s) publicly survived the Rebellion into Wet Ink. This is the first totally new part.

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Jon stared across the bed at his bride. The wedding was done: they’d said their vows and had their feast, his father in an unusually dour mood given how feasting was one of his favorite activities. Now, they simply had to…consummate it.

She stared back at him, her dark eyes less critical than earlier in the day, but still unsettling.

With a deep breath, he went straight for the decanter of wine, poured himself a glass, and downed it in a few quick gulps. If nothing else came of being his father’s son, the ability to lose himself in alcohol was surely there.

“We…should finish undressing,” he stated, uncertain hands moving up to his half-destroyed attire. “Even if…nothing happens.”

Rhaenys snorted, stripping off the rest of her clothes so quickly he barely had time to notice before her body was bare before him. His breath caught and he looked away, willing his length not to react despite how lovely that brief sight had been.

His father had said many awful things this day, about dragonspawn, about her dead family, but also about her beauty, her body. Jon did not want her to see him looking and think he was as lustful as that.

“You can look.” While he had only met her a few times over their lives, he could still catch the bemusement in her tone.

Bracing himself, he turned back to her, his own hands tugging off his clothing. She had no hesitance in studying him, her eyes seeming to darken all the more as she took in his honed form. How odd, that he wanted nothing to do with this forced marriage, but a part of him still hoped she was pleased by what she saw.

She closed the space between them, putting her hands on him and inspecting him with the detachment one might use for horse flesh. When she circled around him, he had to rely on years of court training not to tense, not to turn with her.

When she pressed up against him from behind, he still jumped, just slightly. They were of a height, Jon taking after his mother’s slight form, and she only had to tilt her head slightly to brush her lips against his ear.

“Not a drop of Baratheon in you, is there?” she breathed out, making him shiver before he registered her words.

“I take after my mother’s side, everyone knows that,” he muttered, because anyone who saw Jon and a Stark knew he had their blood in him.

She laughed. It was the first time he had ever heard her do so and it was entirely too pleasant when they were so close, her bare chest snug against his back, her arms wrapped around his waist. He almost felt dizzy from it.

Rhaenys nipped his ear lobe, giving it a gentle tug, before speaking again, “You don’t know, do you?”

Down the hall from this room–not their actual rooms but one that was more accessible during the bedding–the music of the ballroom could just be heard. Until, abruptly, it went silent, drawing Jon’s attention to the door.

“What was–”

“Perhaps she never told you, your whore of a mother,” he jerked at the dark tone, the angry words, but he’d have to harm Rhaenys to get away and he was not yet that angry (he was used to insults leveled against his mother). “That monster isn’t your father, prince, just the man she’s passed off as such.”

Jon’s jaw clenched, his eyes straying from the door (what was going on out there?) to the mirror in front of him, meeting her gaze over his shoulder. “That’s impossible.”

“She was with another man for months and months before she ‘escaped’, wasn’t she?” The mockery that Rhaenys normally hid behind court etiquette when she spoke to others was out in full, making Jon feel diminished despite his protests. “Why do you think I didn’t fight harder against this marriage? Why I didn’t run? Do you think I’d ever let some filthy Baratheon put his hands on me, little brother?”

The room seemed to spin as he registered her words, his heart pounding too-loud in his ears. She turned him, pushed him back onto the bed, and he realized the unsteadiness was not just shock. He hadn’t been drunk, necessarily, but now he felt drugged, like there…had been something in the wine.

“Do not worry, you’ll get a full, restful sleep. And when you wake up, our true king will be here to give us his blessing.”

Her kiss was chaste, sweet, but he still attempted to move away, eyes turning once more to the door as he strained to hear anything in the silence.

XxXxX

Notes: The background is Rhaenys is captured, not killed, and Aegon is a decoy ala the Pisswater Prince. Like in my From the Echoes of Ashes, Jon was conceived later/Lyanna was found earlier, immediately had “celebratory sex” with Robert since she feared pregnancy, then passed Rhaegar’s son off as Robert’s. Rhaenys has managed to communicate with Aegon in recent years and also realized the truth about Jon at some point, and now, on the night of her wedding, when the Usurper and his supporters think they’ve fully destroyed the Targaryen dynasty, they’ve struck.

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Ghosts Tell Me

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Ghosts gather near the place where something bad is going to happen,

Danny with his ghost sense tends to notice before anyone else and tends to react outwardly before the danger even happens, gaining a reputation of seeing the future,

Ghosts also tell Danny things, causing Danny to know more about situations and the people around him, it comes of as suspicious.

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Danny pulling away a snack from his coworker: "Careful your allergic to these ingredients!"

Coworker: "How the hell...I've never mentioned that to anyone."

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Danny on a phone call with his friends while doing his nightly walks in Gotham: "Yeah so apparently the second Robin who is now Red Hood has very personal beef with the clown here cuz he got killed by him after being sold out by his bio mom, which really sucks for the poor guy."

Oracle who has been keeping an Eye on Danny cuz he's very suspicious from an outsiders pov: "Hey B, I think we have a problem."

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Danny notices that the ghost in Gotham tends to gather where something bad is going to happen, the more they are the worse the situation will be: *glowing smoke leaves from his mouth* "Yikes! Very bad vibes here, nope!"

Gothamites who at this point recognize him and know the drill and quickly pack up their things to leave:

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Just an Idea

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DP x DC prompt #184

Danny's having trouble with his project. He's currently applying for a college grant from Wayne Enterprises. But thanks to various reasons, Danny's level of engineering skills far surpasses anything you'd see on Earth. So the problem arises from Danny having trouble making something simple and standard for Earth.

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DCxDP fanfic idea: Big Fish in Gotham Pond

Based off of @saphushia art found here. . I just loved the idea of Tucker not knowing his skill level because he grew up in the boonies

Tucker gets scouted by Wayne Enterprises after he fixes a kid's computer game while in Gotham visiting Danny.

See, Tucker always known he is passable at tech- one has to be when a technology theme ghost is consistently harassing one's best friend- but to be good at something in a small town like Amity Park didn't mean much .

It's a big fish in a small pound sort of deal. That's why he's never put much thought into it. If Tucker were ever to rank himself in terms of school grades, he would say his computer skills were about a C-.

B+ if it was just coding.

His parents also don't think much of his obsession with his PDA or phones. They thought he waste too many hours on them like the rest of his generation.

It didn't matter that Tucker's technology was about five or more years behind his classmates.

The Foley were hard-working people who barely scraped enough for bills. They were never below the property line, but they danced on it often enough that Tucker knew never to ask for unnecessary purchases.

For as long as he could remember, his parents have always worked long and hard hours. He never blamed them for missing so much of his childhood, in fact he was grateful that they worked so hard to keep the roof over his head, but he did miss them.

That's why Danny's house became a haven for him. He was always at the Fenton's place because the loud, wacky family was much better company than the home silence.

Tucker knew that his family's financial situation didn't change how Danny or Sam viewed him. They had his back through tick and thin just as he did for them, but as they got closer to graduation the difference between them became jarring.

Sam had easy picking of what she wanted to do and where she wanted to go. Her parents were so overjoyed that she wanted to go to a university that they didn't even argue about her wishing to major in botanical biochemistry.

She had started house hunting in Star City midway through senior year. Her parents would gift it to her as a graduation present. Sam would live there for the next eight years to finish her degree.

Danny's parents, while somewhat eccentric, were also certified geniuses. Between the two of them, they had five PHDs and were often freelancing for companies when not doing ghost research. They too could send their two kids to college States away with housing not being a issue.

Jazz went to Metropolis to study Physiology. She lived in a small apartment but was doing well off her scholarships and parent's funding. Last he heard, she had a part-time job at the Daily Planet as a research assistant to gain some independence.

Danny wanted to go to Gotham for their engineering program. He, too, had an apartment of his own, with scholarships and equal funding from his parents. He also worked at Wayne Enterprises, but he was a receptionist. He hoped that once he graduated, he could apply for their engineering program

Not Tucker. His family could only help him get into Community College near Amity. He also couldn't afford to move out so he stayed with them, picking up a part time job to help out when he could.

Tucker is a first-generation college student so even though it wasn't much, he loved to see how his parents glowed when telling others their boy was futhering his education. He wanted to do something that paid well- and after years of patching up Danny- he figured nursing would do the trick.

Tucker would do all his basics in the community College, take a break to save up some money and then move on to the bigger schools.

The day of the graduation felt bittersweet. Team Phantom was finally adults, finally starting out in the real world, but while Danny and Sam moved on to bigger and better things, Tucker knew he would be left behind in little no-where Amity Park.

He never brought it up, but he felt a small dosage of envy the last day of summer before his friends finished packing and left.

Despite both being gone, Tucker had little to no social life even though they called, texted, and emailed often. His days blurred between class, work, and home. Even then, classes were long and tedious, work often ending with one or more customers screaming in his face to try and get free food.

His parents quickly started to nag that he should find a wife as they had married young. They couldn't figure out why he didn't want the same, even though he had no social life again.

Life became dull.

Tucker's only sparks of joy were playing online with Danny and Sam - when they found the time to log in or re-coding his old tech to try and salvage it whenever it broke down.

Soon, it became apparent that Tucker was slowly lacking motivation when he started skipping classes to sleep in and started feeling anxious when he needed to clock in for shifts.

It leads to him barely getting out of bed.

He felt horrible about it, thinking his parents sacrificed so much for him only to have him throw away the opportunities they gave him, and the cycle of not being able to get out of bed would start all over again.

It was Danny who caught on, and all but begged Tucker to come to Gotham for a weekend. He even sent money over for the plane ticket.

Tucker couldn't have gotten on that plane fast enough. He arrived early on Friday since the tickets were cheaper- and Uber over to WE headquarters to pick up Danny's keys as they agreed.

That way, Tucker could sleep and rest in the apartment while Danny worked.

Danny would finish his shift and have the weekend plus Monday and Tuesday off to spend with Tucker. When he arrived, Danny was helping a school check in for a field trip, so Tucker sat down to wait.

Next to him, a kid was growling at his laptop, frankly typing and moving his fingers over the computer's touch mouse. Tucker accidentally glimpsed his screen when the kid started swearing in a different language.

It looked like a shooting game but his lag was bad. By the time the boy pressed the buttons to have his little drone move the other flying things he was chasing were flipping though the air and out of his shooting rage.

It sucked when that happened, and since he was using WE free wifi for guests, it was probably the game. The graphics were badass, though. Seemed almost real.

"Hey try updating the system" He tells the kid after seeing the boy once again lag so bad he missed his shot.

Green eyes swing to him drenched in rage. Which yeah, Tucker knows how frustrating that could be.

"Did I ask for your help!?" The boy snaps, his words lined with an upper-class accent. Made sense since he was wearing a Gotham Academy uniform like the rest of the large school group. "Why are you even looking this way, peasant?"

"No, sorry. I just noticed the lag." Tucker raised his hand, slightly amused at the peasant insult. "I thought I could fix it for you."

The boy's face spams, "You believe you have the ability?"

"Ugh sure? I can try?"

"Here. Be quick. The fate of this city's air defenses depend on it" the boy turns his lap top to him and Tucker blinks.

Okay. So fix the game. He can do that.

And he does, quickly opening the code, analyzing the control and commands , he gets it running properly in less then twenty minutes. The boy seems utterly shock but he quickly takes control of the game and shoots down all the escaping ninjas from the sky.

"Thank you." The boy says with no more tense in his shoulders. Then he closes his laptop and dissappears with the crowd of students.

Tucker thought the kid was a cute.

Danny hands him the keys not long after and he leaves.

Never was he aware of the Boy being Damian Wayne and that the game was not a game but a actual defensive drone system that was fighting off the League of Assassins.

He only finds out how important those two facts are when Danny gets a call from Tim Drake asking if he could pass along Tucker's information because the CEO wanted him on staff as soon as possible..

Both nineteen-year-olds lost their minds after getting the call, screaming at each other in ghost shrieks of glee. They called Sam to let her know- and have her lawyers look over the contact Tim Drake sent just to make sure it wasn't a big-time company trying to screw him over.

He went to an interview three days later. He faced Tim Drake, the current seventeen-year-old CEO, Leo Noir, the current head of HR, and Jessica War, the current head of computer services. They asked him many questions about himself- some of which he felt he had answered terribly- then had him take a computer test.

Tucker thought it was busy work, so he quickly breezed through it. He fixed the problem in many of the coding for various programs, adding his flare to the final product, and after thanking them for their time, went out into the lobby.

He hadn't even reached the door before Jesssica ran after him, offering him the job. Apparently, the first two problems they had him do was the busy work. Tucker had thought they were the ones to let him get comfortable with the coding program.

Like a tutorial in video games.

The other seven were actual issues; many of their latest cellphone products failed. Tucker had solved them in an hour, which had taken the actual team of coders about a month.

"Nitey one dollar and thirty-five cents an hour," Tim tells him tapping the hiring contact. "It would be eighty hours every paycheck. You can work here or at home. Full Benefits. What do you say?"

Tucker's jaw drops. "When do I start!?"

He calls his parents to tell them he will be staying in Gotham with Danny. He tries to explain what had happened but it was all so fast that he can only babble about certain parts.

They tell him not to worry about explaining because they understand how much this means to him.

His parents help pack everything for him and when he flies back for it they, offer him hugs and support. Tucker is so glad they aren't mad.

"I sort of knew it was coming," His dad laughs. "You and that Fenton boy have always been inseparable."

"I did the same thing, you know," His mom says, wiping tears from her eyes but smiling all the same. "I moved with your father states away with little to no plan when I turned twenty too. Drove your grandfather mad."

He loves them both so much. He promises to send money- disregarding their denials- and flies back to Gotham, where Danny has opened his apartment until he gets enough for his own place.

He plans on renting a house with three bedrooms, one for him, one for his office, and another for Danny, as soon as he can. He wants to pay his friend back for everything he did and Danny deserves a bigger living space.

And for once, he'll not have to worry about money!

For once, life is looking up!

(What Tucker is unaware of, is that his parents think he moved to the big city to be with his childhood best friend turned recent lover. They don't know that the money he is sending home is from his own payroll and not Danny's. They think he's a stay-at-home husband.

Tucker is also unaware that the Bats are closely watching him in case he goes rogue. They have been slowly "causally" running into him in the city and breaking into his place to check for supervillain activity.)

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the specific Naboo religious sect that Padme belonged to believed very strongly in reincarnation

so the first time Darth Vader is introduced to Princess Leia of Alderaan once her father finally relents and allows her to take over his position in the Senate, when he takes note of her resemblance and looks up her birth date, his first thought is not "Padme's daughter survived"

it's "Padme reincarnated as the Princess of Alderaan"

he finds this conclusion fitting, and of course immediately pledges his loyalty to her

Leia doesn't know what this menace to society's deal is, and honestly doesn't care, and decides to use this to her advantage by telling her father

Bail, of course, is biting his nails thinking that Vader has figured them out, but thankfully no

this is about the time that Sabe and her fellow handmaidens show up, so Vader introduces them to Leia and they all naturally reach the same conclusion

when Ben distantly senses the disturbance in the Force and drags the whole Lars family off to come investigate, Darth "Anakin Is Dead" Vader takes one look at young Luke and doesn't even try to ask about his birth date (or, conveniently, his last name) before assigning him as "Anakin Skywalker Reincarnated"

Ben, hidden in the next room with Bail, is face-palming as hard as possible to try to distract himself from that particular shit show

and now that 'Padme' and 'Anakin' are in the same room, Vader of course tries to ship them, with Sabe's passive support

Bail, sweating: maybe,,, we should not encourage that,,,

Vader: Why.

Bail, full of hypocritical shit: uh,,, he's not suitable, for the future Queen of Alderaan

which only serves to offend Vader, because what, Baby Me isn't good enough for Baby My Wife now?

so Bail throws in a faked relationship with a certain spice freighter captain he hired on the spot to fill the role of his daughter's secret boyfriend

before Vader can get upset about Baby Padme dating someone who isn't Baby Anakin, Sabe eyeballs this dude with no official birth records and asks, what DID happen to Kenobi? or maybe that Captain Rex fellow from the war?

causing Bail to nearly stroke out, as he KNOWS that neither of those men are even dead, and in fact one of them is choking on his spit in the other room as he listens in!

(this fake-dating effort additionally backfires, not that anyone realizes it yet, because both twins start actually dating this scruffy-looking nerf-herder)

of course Vader immediately questions why Sabe suggested that Captain Solo might be Kenobi, and got hit with Sabe's "well, Skywalker was always psychosexually fixate on Kenobi, and all of us knew he was the hot one even if Padme settled for Skywalker"

Vader: ...What. Was that thing you said. About Skywalker.

Sabe: yeah, Skywalker literally couldn't shut up about the guy, even while he was having sex with his wife, luckily she was into that if you know what I mean

Vader: ...

Vader: no, that is the perfectly normal level of interest to have in Kenobi

Sabe, remembering the way Darksiders always seemed to fixate on Kenobi: ...uh-huh, riiiight

Vader decides he's Not Dealing With That, and pours that energy into his fixation on Finding Kenobi in order to kill him about it

Ben, one too-thin wall away, is seriously considering letting that happen so he doesn't have to hear any more of this

but, of course, eventually Sidious notices Vader's interest in the young Senator Organa

and Sheev Palpatine was, interestingly enough, from the same sect as Padme

which means that he quickly puts together what Vader has concluded about Leia as a reincarnation of Padme Amidala

but unlike Sabe (and Vader, who has seriously deluded himself), he is keenly aware that Anakin Skywalker can't have actually reincarnated into that farm boy who's spending all his time with the Senator now

so he's able to (correctly, for once) conclude that Luke must be Anakin and Padme's kid, who somehow survived all these years

and since the child survived...

well, he starts to eye Sabe a little more closely, and wonder how he can fit this into his plans for the galaxy...

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Time traveled Harry gets himself into the trouble that named Tom Riddle

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I hope the post credit scene for the last PJO episode is Cerberus accidentally using the pearl Grover lost and getting sent topside to the beach/ocean and being a very confused dog