#— headcanons ▸ a part of the game

[thebibliosphere]

I feel like I've complained about Tim's email situation in Gotham Knights before (edit: I have), but the truth of it is just so funny.

He's signed up for so many podcasts, video game streamers, and random news alerts; it's just a constant barrage of data going straight into his constantly whirring brain. Hell, he even floats the idea of the Batfamily having their own podcast as a way to correct misinformation about them (which Jason shoots down instantly), and it's made me realize something.

Timothy Drake would be a YouTuber.

In this universe specifically, Timothy Jackson Drake, the heir to Drake Industries and the foster son of the late Bruce Wayne would be a YouTuber.

Think about it. It'd be the perfect cover. Who would ever suspect that some 16-year-old nepo baby with a YouTube channel could ever be Red Robin? You'd have to be mad. I mean, look at him.

Red Robin just dropped out of literal thin air and garotted someone four times his size, and you expect anyone to believe that's the same kid who does 24-hour Minecraft charity streams and occasionally drops 6-hour video essays (his last one was on Lex Luthor's illegal bit mining operation on the moon)?

That kid?

You think that kid is Red Robin?

Ch'yah, okay, sure. And the Joker is funny 🤡.

[reichurine]

bodyswap au but a bit of a sad take oops, pt3

pt2 here

[dragons-and-handcuffs]

Aegon Targaryen x Targ!wife!reader

Summary: The aftermath of prince Jaehaerys' death

A whole day has passed since your son was murdered right in front of your eyes. A whole day has passed since you were forced to choose between the death of your son, the heir, or the death of all your children. And only a few hours have passed since the public parade of your poor son's body before the funeral. Aegon is devastated and heartbroken, blaming himself for not being there to protect you and his son. He didn't have the heart to talk to you, let alone meet your eyes. He could only imagine the unbearable pain you are going through. All he could do is punish the ones who murdered your son and declare war. 

Aegon didn't bother to wipe the splatters of blood from his face as he exited the jail cell after bashing the head of one of the men who killed his heir. Hours before dying the man also informed that his partner for the murder was a rat catcher who worked in the palace. By Aegon orders now all the rat catchers in the city hang dead around the castle walls. With both the murderers dead, it still isn't enough to take the excruciating pain away from you and Aegon. 

“Your grace, I am worried about the queen,” Your most trusted and loyal handmaiden voiced her concerns to the king. “She hasn't eaten anything since last night and…and she refuses to leave the nursery.”

Aegon couldn't look more defeated. He just gave her a nod and walked away, ordering the others to not follow him. He didn't have the heart to face you but he is somehow pushing himself to go to you. He dreaded every step he took towards the nursery. He only went there once last night after the murder and the horrifying scene was still fresh in his mind, and to think that you are currently in that room mourning your son destroyed his heart even further. 

The door was slightly open, Aegon could see the candle light through the cracks. There were no guards near the door. His hands were shaking when he pushed open the door. 

You didn't hear your husband come in. In fact, you have been feeling numb since the moment you lost your first born. Constant tears running down your face as you hugged your son's favorite blanket which you made for him with your own hands. 

Aegon could see you are still in the black dress which you were forced to wear for the parade. He hates himself for listening to his grandfather and making you go through with the public funeral. 

He almost thought of turning back, thinking you will hate him. But he decided otherwise. 

You slightly jumped and turned around when you felt Aegon's hand on your shoulder, thinking the murderer came back. The terrified look in your face broke his heart. 

“Our son…our son is…” You broke down in tears once again. Aegon reached out to you at the same time you reached out to him, not caring about the blood on him. “He is dead, Aegon. Our son is dead.”

You both cried in each other's arms. Only you two can understand each other right now, only you two can understand the pain. 

“I want them dead,” You broke the hug and looked at your husband, tears still rolling down both of your faces. “I want them all dead. Rhaenyra, Daemon, anyone that's on their side…I want them all to meet the same fate they bestowed on our innocent son.”

Aegon nodded, feeling the same rage as you. 

“They will pay. They will all pay with their blood,” Aegon gently cupped your hand with his bloody hands. “I will rain fire on them.”

“We will rain fire on them,” You corrected him. 

Aegon nodded before pressing his forehead against yours. His hand found the blanket you are holding and immediately grasped it tightly, thinking it will disappear just like his son. His thumb gently felt the soft material. He remembered how happy the prince was when you tucked him under the blanket for the first time. He remembered how the prince talked about sharing the blanket with his dragon once it hatched from the egg. The memories only brought tears. 

The next morning you were nowhere to be found. Aegon was panicking and so were anyone who cared about you or were scared of Aegon's rage. 

Aegon panicked even more when a guard came running and informed him that he saw you in full armor early in the morning  and that you left with your dragon. No one knew where you went. 

Soon news came that six Velaryon ships were burned to ashes and no one was left alive. Aegon knew it was you. It's your rage. It's the beginning of the revenge. 

The small council was not pleased by your actions, especially Otto Hightower, and when the hand voiced his disappointments Aegon immediately removed him from his position and from the council. 

All Aegon could do was either wait for you to come home or join you with his dragon. He chose the latter. There is no way he will let you avenge your son alone. 

[wh0re4elliewilliams]

WHY DID THEY CUT ME OUT OF THE FRAME?!

[blondehya]

abby who arrived from patrol, saw you resting on the bed and threw herself on top of you.

“abs! you are heavy!”

“jshdksjdjg… let’s sleep, i’m tired…”

[alicenotalice]

A favorite Tangoism of mine is when he comes across some Ridiculous Doc Nonsense (the hourglass, the flood, etc) while streaming and just rolls his eyes, calls it “compensating” and moves on without further comment

[lucy-gray1075]

finnick odair who's always picking you up like it's second nature to him. he doesn't even have to expend any energy, he just wraps one big arm around your waist and tugs you into him, lifting your feet off the floor. he grabs your thigh with his other arm, hand squeezing your ass as he encourages you to wrap your legs around his torso so he can kiss you harder.

[eggsandramem]

on top of the Nadine doodle, i also come to present more selkie!frin art <33

first? me projecting my body shape onto them cutely

next? jus a silly lil meme redraw

and finally we just have some lil sprite edits i did a while back!! we got siffrin_blep and siffrin_despair_3 respectively :]

[adastra121]

Not too many thoughts on this, just...

Kuras dealing with phantom pains of the wings he no longer has. The scars on his back have long healed over and faded with time, but occasionally, he still feels a tingling or a sharp throb where his wings should be. It shouldn't make sense, but the human form is odd like that. He encounters so many of these bizarre phenomena in his own facsimile of humanity. He's had centuries to grow accustomed to these pains — and in some ways, he has — but they continue to catch him off guard, makes him feel almost…mortal.

Leander's scar, the one that stretches over his arm to a good part of his chest and shoulder, and ends at the side of his face, continues to give him trouble even though it is healed. Most days, he feels a certain tightness in the scar tissue of his left arm and shoulder and most days, the discomfort is manageable. He doesn't even notice it most of the time. And on the days he is actually bothered by the pain, he tends to conceal that suffering from others. He's used to wearing a mask, after all.

Vere's heightened sense of smell and hearing gives him a deadly edge over his prey and he revels in his mastery of those senses. But having a sensitive nose and ears can also lead to an overstimulation that borders on pain, especially in a large city such as Eridia, constantly bombarding one with a racket of sounds and jumbled voices, strong offensive odours stinging your nostrils, and everyone's souls are too bright and suddenly, the shadows are too loud and restless. Unfortunately, he can’t always choose where he goes when he is leashed and those are the days that the fox is far more brutal on his hunts.

Ais dealing with the occasional migraines that come from having an eldritch entity and entire hivemind locked into one’s head. It's a never-ending cacophony that slams against the walls of his skull as if it means to burst out. The pain comes in waves, pulses, almost like the push and pull of a tide, or the beat of a collective heart. When it happens, he usually isolates until the worst of the headache passes. He's used to getting through things alone now, as ironic as that sounds with his link to an ever present Groupmind.

Mhin on bad pain days where it’s not the imminent-transformation kind of pain — but it’s one of those days where their bones don’t feel like they fit beneath their skin. They are cursed with a monster inside of them, and some days, the condition feels agonizingly literal, like there is a physical beast writhing inside them, knocking against their organs and making their bones creak from the strain until they are forced to break and knit back together in the wrong way.

Just the Touchstarved LIs dealing with pain.

[buggiebite]

The Mockingjay - Sketches

Primarily after-Mockingjay. A snippet of getting better and growing back together.

[trix1erose]

headcanon that jesse and lukas would have an apartment in central beacontown since their house is so far out itd probably be inconvenient with jesse’s job

[byler-alarmist]

Unpopular opinion maybe, but I don't see Byler having kids. Like, at all. 🤷

[wh0re4elliewilliams]

Theres something bout death stranding shirt that makes me go FERALLL

[jemmo]

Making sense of love for love's sake: the game

Despite all the things i absolutely adore about how the plot unravels and expands in love by love's sake, upon first watch, there's some things i couldn't piece together, which @lurkingshan echoes in their post:

'The way the author was messing with Myungha and forcing cruel choices on him really does not track with a desire to help him find happiness.'

And to preface, this is not something i fully get yet either. I think i'll need a good month and a sizeable reading list of relevant resources to understand just what/who this author/sunbae is and what his role is and how he is associated with myungha. But as always with the best shows for meta (aka bad buddy), as a plot unfolds, you can always find a better understanding by looking backwards and re-contextualising what you've already seen. so i watched ep 1, specifically the scene between myungha and his sunbae at the bar. And i will talk about how everything said in this scene has a whole new meaning now we know the full story, but for now i wanna focus on that question that they keep coming back to; "Then... will you change it for him?".

When you watch the show for the first time, your brain follows the simplest, most obvious version of the story you're being told, one where myungha has been pulled into the world of his sunbae's novel that's being turned into a game and given the opportunity to fix the thing he didn't like about it; making yeowoon happy, and thus you just think the rules of the game are imposed by the author, and so when these cruel choices first come up, you see them as the difficult roadblocks that are nevertheless necessary to any kind of game, forcing the player to make an impossible choice so that the game can continue in a certain direction and its only after that you learn whether it was the right choice or not, or there is no right choice, it simply changes the game you are playing.

And when its revealed what this game actually is, at first i tried to interpret these cruel choices, namely the choice between yeonwoon and myungha's grandma, and at best i could come up with the concept of this being a choice between staying stuck to the past aka choosing his grandma, even though he knows that choice doesn't mean she's safe bc he knows the future where he loses here, its an inevitability, but thats the small happiness he knew before it was taken away and thus that happiness is known and safe, theres no risk, versus choosing to pursue a new happiness, a love of yeowoon and thus himself, which he doesn't know, he hasn't experienced yet, and could be risky. Its a happiness that isn't guaranteed like his grandma, but its a happiness that looks to the future and has hope in it that he can find a new happiness to pursue despite what has happened in his past.

And that fits nice, okayish. But then i watched ep 1 and heard that question "Then... will you change it for him?" And watching through the rest of the eps, we come back to this scene at the bar and each time we get a new run up to the author asking this question, either new dialogue is added or we hear a different piece of the conversation entirely. It starts at the beginning of ep 1 as:

"Because Cha Yeowoon is the only one who's miserable." "It can't be helped that some people's lives are like that" "The fact that some people are destined to live that kind of life is what's vile."

Then a bit later in ep 1 we go back and its expanded.

"It can't be helped that some people's lives are like that" "The fact that some people are destined to live that kind of life is what's vile." "Why? Do you think you'd write it differently?" "Yes, definately. Someone like Cha Yeowoon, or someone like me with an awful life, can also be happy."

And then all the way on in ep 6, we get this new dialogue.

"I don't like talking about destiny." "Why?" "Because it means everything is predestined." "Then do you not believe in fate?" "Fate and destiny are the same. My grandma likes to say that. She said life is like a written book, and how you'll live and die are written in it. (...)I don't like things like this. Even if fate is already destined, I think it can still be changed. Otherwise, there's no point in trying." "Really? Then Myungha..."

And while we don't hear the author ask the same question, I feel like him getting cut off like that insinuates that the conversation leads to that same ending point. All that is to say, every time we hear this question being asked, its like we learn more and more about what this whole thing is, what the game is, what myungha is saying he will do by agreeing to do what the author asks. And every time, we see myungha being more defiant against the idea of yeowoon being resigned to his miserable ending. He starts off thinking that kind of life is destined, and while it's miserable, its not something he can fight. Then he says he'd want to write the story differently, bc yeowoon, or even him, could be happy. He challenges the idea that yeowoon, and thus himself, is fated to be miserable, and opens up the possibility for happiness for them both, but doesn't yet have the means or resolve to do it, its like he knows its possible on a fundamental level, but doesn't see it as something he can actually achieve. But then we circle back to the idea of destiny and books, both of which came up in the previous quote, and seems incredibly pertinent seen as this whole thing is about a novel this author has written. Myungha talks about how he hates the idea that life is a book where everything written is predestined to happen, from the moment you live to the moment you die. He says "Even if fate is already destined, I think it can still be changed. Otherwise, there's no point in trying." That vile way of life he described before that he said was destined, he is now saying it can be changed, and that possibility is now something he's holding onto, its what he sees hope in so that he can keep trying, bc now he finally is trying, he has the resolve, he's trying to realise this thing, this impossibility of rewriting the life he thought was destined through the way he loves yeowoon.

And coming back to those cruel choices, given this fresh context, it made me think. bc this isn't actually a game that myungha has been put into where the rules are dictated by an author completely separate from him. He said himself, he'd rewrite it, he'd change things for yeowoon. And when you start to think of it less as him fighting against a rigid, removed system and more like him being a character in a story he is trying to rewrite himself, that has both the author and his own limitations, or just his own if you're in the school of thought that the author is some figment or part of myungha himself or his conciousness, then you can start to see where these cruel choices might come from. They could be myungha, the author making edits to this new story, imposing his own doubts and limitations on himself. When he says he has to pick between Yeowoon and his grandma, what if that's the new author myungha seeing this story unfold and thinking no this isn't right, he can't have it all, i'm not deserving of this much happiness.

And what makes me like this idea even more is that when we get that second choice between ending after 14 days or getting 100 days back at the cost of resetting Yeowoon's affection to 0, that whole conversation happens in what I think the bar actually is which is this frozen moment in time where myungha is in the water with this extension of a voice in his head that is talking through these things. That conversation in itself needs its own post, but when you look at it both as a decision to break up or not or a decision to hold onto life or not, you can see how the author is just this soundboard relaying the decisions myungha is going through in his head. The author's voice is his own, weighing up his decisions. And if he is the author here, it only reinforces that the person making the rules of this game is him. You can even extend it further to the idea of the debuffs, where he puts in place this thing that makes it so he causes harm to yeowoon when he's around, and its only by garnering affection that he can prevent it. He gives himself a reason from the get go to stay away from yeowoon and reason it as him doing it for yeowoon's safety, when in fact the only way to make yeowoon safe is to increase his affection, which he can only do by being near him. Its a system that at first gives myungha a reason to stay away aka not like himself, but ultimately says the only way you're going to make yeowoon like you, or the only way you can like yourself, is if you accept risk. And that in itself screams to me of a myungha writing in these game systems that are trying to encourage his own-self love while falling at the hurdle of his own lack of self-worth.

The idea is still messy in my head even for me, but i just really like the idea that myungha could be trying to fix this thing both as a character and game master, and that both these versions of him have these flaws that manifest in their different ways to cause the events we see. It kinda is the definition of being your own worst enemy, the idea that in order to work towards loving yourself, the biggest obstacle you have to encounter is yourself, bc we are the ones holding ourselves back, making all these rules that make it harder to like ourselves and pursue our own happiness. The voices in our head telling us that we aren't good enough and aren't deserving are our own, and while the things that happen to us can inform what they say, we're the one's reinforcing those words. And what this show teaches us is that, if we're the one holding that pen all along, we can choose to change what those words are. If we make the rules, you don't have to create a game with concrete ultimatums, you can create a game where rules don't control you. Instead, you make the decisions, and you can make the ones that make you happy.

[blondehya]

introducing abby to club penguin

headcanons / abby x fem!reader

.・。.・゜✭・.・✫・゜・。. .・。.・゜✭・. .・

her nick would be something like ‘Abbys23’

unfortunately in the catalog for the month she entered the game there would be no braided hair, so she would leave her penguin bald

while showing her the map rooms you would say that there is a stadium, and she would be like: “REALLY? JUST LIKE THE WLF ONE?”

you would tell her about the swearing rule, but she would forget and get banned for 24 hours

she would propose to you on the beach and you would get married at the dojo (or at the farol, depending on the map)

she would ask some moderator (who she didn't know was) to say something shameful and she would be banned for 72 hours