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[yanmuffins]

asks 2.

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here are some more asks i'm replying to in a bulk about phineas and ferb reader!!

my favorite part in dc. vs vampires is when reader comes together with damian and damian to build a silly machine that un-vampifies people in like half a day so they can defeat the vampire king. it is canon.

@amethystjellyfish

perry really is reader's number #1 stan. they're his family, reader's had him since he was a small platypus baby!

he does his best to keep reader safe, which is why he doesn't like the batfam much. he keeps it professional on the rare occasions they go on missions together, but that's it. he hates how dismissive of reader they are in the beginning, and he hates them later on when they star showering them with attention because they found out about their inventions.

not tired, anon! i love seeing people enjoy my concepts and interact with them!! ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧

and i'm sure this has happened. more than once, actually. the power of coincidence is strong with reader. the life-saving laser beam comes from a situation involving reader's latest machine they built and tested with the help of jon.

unfortunately, one of his lasers richochets on the machine during testing, not only causing it to save batfamily's life, caught in a dangerous situation in a completely different location, but also destroys the machine so there's nothing to link it to reader.

ah, well. they'll just have to keep looking.

reader, seeing them run past her: oh! there's perry :)

i love how we have established tim is terrified of this platypus. nevermind the other pets in the manor, it's the platypus with its googly eyes that drives him insane. they don't get it, he got up to drink water at 3 a.m. and the thing was just there, looking at him. menacingly.

jason would though. meanwhile, perry is wishing he could just go back to metropolis. he didn't have to deal with reader's siblings in metropolis. he doesn't get enough hazard pay for this.

hm... good question!

i like to think that, much like with phineas and ferb, luck is on reader's side most of the time, so i don't see reader getting injured by their own inventions.

but, let's suppose they do: it's a nice sunday afternoon, the batfam has decided to gather around the living room and hang out, watch a movie, lots of popcorn and soda. they don't have to think about criminals or fighting, tim and damian are bickering, jason is around, peace reigns the manor.

until they hear an explosion. they run to the garage only to find reader on the floor, unconscious, bleeding, and an assortment of destroyed metal components to a machine they can't decipher. damian doesn't even feel good about reader finally being busted.

later, when reader is back home, awake and out of risk but with a bandage around their head and their leg in a cast, they're in for the biggest (and probably first) scolding of their entire lives. reader tries to play it off. it wasn't that big of a deal, they're fine, aren't they? and they're genuinely optimistic about it. but the entire family is talking over each other at first, until bruce signals for everyone to shut up and leave the room. he has a very serious talk with reader, and makes it very clear they're not to come near a toolbox ever again.

but he understands. it's partly his fault for not being attentive. he won't make that mistake again.

ofc reader is really upset. dick comes next, then stephanie, then cass, then duke, then barbara and they all try to convince reader in a much more amiable tone that hey, it's fine. who needs to do all that whacky stuff to have fun? just hang out with us. they can get another hobby, and this time they can make it a family thing! how's that sound? not fun? don't be like that... they're sure reader will come around.

tim is pretty much the only one who congratulates them for being awesome pulling all those stunts, one per day, it's impressive. but now it's time to step back a bit. who knows? try being careful and bruce will let you work with a welding tool again. one day. maybe.

damian and jason's reactions are more similar to bruce's. in other circumstances, damian is on reader's side and helps them sneak around to continue their shenanigans, but in the case of reader getting hurt he just wants them to not do that. any of that. ever again. and jason has to hold himself back not to snap and ask them what the hell were they thinking?! they could have died! he ends up just telling them to quit it. they're just a kid who shouldn't be messing around with that sort of stuff.

anon, i wouldn't go as far as say he'd use venom against them, but he's bit batfam before. as stated, he does not dig their vibe at all!

anon, that's a great idea! though i think p&f! reader is much too motivated by the creative process and experience that their inventions bring more than just willing them to come to life.

they have the power to create whatever they want, but what's the fun of it? what about hte process? the building? the friends they make along the way? the memories? i think reader would find the ring awesome at first, but the novelty would wear of in less than a week.

anon...

because i dig the idea of reader being friends with dipper and mabel. reader talks about their crazy inventions, and loves hearing about all the cryptids they came across during vacation.

reader invites the twins to the manor, they share their most recent summer memories. reader talks about that one time they built and drove a massive monster truck with their brother damian, but jason only comes into the room in time to hear about dipper and mable talk about the weirdmaggedon. he has several question marks around his head. aren't those kids a a little too old to be making shit up? or maybe... no, there's no way. or is there? no... he would have heard about this... but weirder things have happened. but what if...

@randomlyappearingartist

you are so right. to be honest, i don't even think the batfam would even know of his existence, since he's pretty much a very minor villain acting in metropolis. after perry joins the league, or in the rare occasion of dr. doof teaming up with another minor gotham villian like condiment man, is when they get to know he exists.

and since perry seems to have him under control, they don't even acknowledge the guy.

i love love love this sm!

they assume it's just flash mobs. it's got to be. flash mobs with really weird themes, like an entire musical number dedicated to the squirrels in damian's pants. that was strange. bruce patrolling in the middle of the night and this new crime lord just burst into a song with a band and hired back dancers, because it's apparently a new trend a minor villain in metropolis started.

and what about that one time dick took damian (and reader) to the library and some guy just started singing about how he doesn't have rhythm? and damian just started playing a trumpet? and reader started singing? i mean, it was a bop and he started dancing, but it was weird anyway.

but now i'm thinking of damian and reader singing the "summer" song together (he sings the "it's noticeably warmer" and that's it) though! wholesome.

@lazyandannoyng

not annoying at all! you're good ⸜(˙꒳​˙ )

i have this little idea in my head that reader doesn't take the wayne name when find out bruce is their dad and move to gotham, and bruce is pretty secretive about this new kid of his for purely privacy and safety reasons. so when reader does their networking, it's often not obvious they're a wayne. not sure if this will make it into the fic, but it really resonates with this concept!

it's also funny to think that a lot of people don't even know reader and the waynes are related. even if they do know reader is related to the batfam, nobody really talks about them by name (just "your sibling"), and all of those little details like never asking about where the gloves came from (because why would he) or the misunderstandings where one party means one thing and the other assumes it's another (dick has many siblings! too many!) just end up helping reader not get caught. and i just think that's neat.

[fashion-runways]

okay it's been over a year and i keep saying i'm going to make a new post and it's too exhausting to even think about the whole thing so i keep pushing it-- here's the link to the old post if you want a more detailed thing i wrote back then.

anyway, a year ago, out of the blue, our apartment got raided by the police, they broke our front door, they broke a bunch of shit inside, they took a bunch of our stuff, they barely gave us answers or an explanation, they took my dad and made it seem like he would have to sign some stuff and answer some questions and come back, but it's been over a year (since june 2022) and he hasn't come back, and his case is still up in the air. they're barely working on it. they didn't pay for all the shit they broke, they haven't returned all the shit they took, we had to spend a lot of money on that, i had to take a loan to buy a new computer so i could keep working and studying, on top of spending even more money on basic needs for my dad in jail and lawyers, plus blood pressure and anxiety medications, plus he's old and he was scheduled an eye surgery that he obviously couldn't go to so he's like, practically blind in one eye now, also new clothes for him to wear there (there's a bunch of rules for that), honestly i already lost track of how many things we had to pay for. it's been incredibly stressful and it still is even now that we've gotten used to it. he's been detained for a year for something that they still don't even know if he did and the case is barely moving, i don't know if they're like... i don't know, waiting for the man to die in there since he's already old so they don't have to admit they don't have enough proof for all the mess they made? i don't know. like i said back then, please don't ask me for details on the case or show up in my inbox trying to play tiktok true crime and guess what he did/didn't do. it happened a few times and it's extremely triggering, please don't. please.

this blog is basically my job. it's my primary source of income, i don't have anything else, no matter how many interviews i go to, in the country/city i live and in the state our economy is, if you don't have contacts it's impossible to get a job. i'm always signing up to free programs to learn new things while i don't have a job, try to make my cv bigger, but it doesn't matter. if you don't have someone saying “please hire my friend/family member” or you don't have 500 years of experience, they won't. so like i said, donations people make to this blog are how me and my mom (and my pets) stay afloat. it's what we use to pay for food, general groceries, transportation, electricity, wifi, water, gas, health insurance, stuff for my dad in jail, meds for my mom who has diabetes, food and meds for my pets. i don't go out much, i haven't gotten a haircut in a year, i barely spend money in anything that makes me happy except once in a blue moon when i stop feeling guilty lmao i had a redbubble account also that helped a little too, but last week it got suspended without an explanation as i was uploading new designs, so i don't even have that now. i made a new account on teepublic, but all my designs in high quality are locked behind redbubble and i can't even log into because of the suspension. it's... complicated, and it's a lot, but it is what it is.

i'm always keeping an eye out on new collections, new designers, new cool things. like i said, i love fashion, i studied fashion, and i know a lot of you use this blog as inspiration whether it's for yourselves or for your art, so i don't want to post all similar stuff all the time, i want to post all kinds of styles and brands as much as i can. which is why when i say if you like this blog, if you want to support me, sending even the smallest amount of money helps me keep going. living in latin america, the exchange rate is kind of insane, so truly any amount of money donated helps. unfortunately, i never stop needing money to survive and help keep my family afloat, but in the past year more than ever.

as usual, my kofi link is this one: https://ko-fi.com/fashionrunways and my (new) teepublic link is this one: https://www.teepublic.com/user/dinah-lance. if my redbubble account gets reinstated, i'll add that link eventually too. and as always, thanks for loving this blog and for loving fashion like i love fashion, even when i post crazy looking stuff, and thanks for helping. you have no idea how much your support helps, but it really does, i don't even know if i'd be alive right now if it wasn't for this blog.

[10yrsyart]

(alternative music only video)

"Can anything separate us from Christ's love? Does it mean He no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? (-) No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loves us.

And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God's love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our fears about tomorrow- not even the powers of hell can separate us from God's love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below- indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord." -Romans 8:35,37-39

transcript:

Suddenly the world seems such a perfect place Suddenly it moves with such a perfect grace Suddenly my life doesn't seem such a waste It all revolves around you And there's no mountain too high No river too wide Sing out this song and I'll be there by your side Storm clouds may gather And stars may collide But I love you Until the end of time Come what may Come what may I will love you Until my dying day

[levitheeldritch]

4 dreamtale redesigns done!

A bunch of words explaining designs and everything below the cut.

Also plz forgive me for misconceptions, I'm writing this at almost 4:am and I'm not well versed in dreamtale lore.

I see nothing wrong with the original designs, they just don't fit with my style. Dream's colors didn't really sit with my art well, and I always felt unsatisfied with the results, so I changed it a bit. Plus, the little... Glove/shoe cuff things???? Took too many layers and were a bit hard to add, so I wanted a design without cuffs... At the expense of overcomplicating Nightmare because I had my mind deadset on giving him cool whispy cape things. There were also the crowns... Circlets... Whatever.

I personally didn't like Nightmare's crown designs, but I dislike even more that it doesn't parallel Dream's crown. One's a moon, and the other... Isn't. Even though they have a sun and moon motif. So, I just made them a bit different, to both make them parallel visually, and fit with the rest of the redesign.

I also just really wanted to draw shawls and ponchos.

Ok, separate explanations.

Dream's palette was designed to be a bit softer, less of a stand out yellow. Like a warm sunny day. Still a happy, light color scheme, but more subdued and mature than his more playful younger self, which, while it has similar colors, was meant to portray much more of a stand out color scheme. At the same time, I did want the older and younger outfits to pay homage to each other. There's the crown, sure, but there's also the shoes, similar stripes on the shirt, and the poncho » shawl change is meant to look somewhat similar.

Nightmare time!

His Corrupted form is meant to mimic his younger self much less. I feel as though Nightmare would try to disconnect himself from his younger counterpart. No crown. No shoe apples. No matching colors.

His passive colors are meant to portray a much more quiet and subdued feel to him. Someone who doesn't want to stand out. It was also meant to be what I perceive as sleepy colors (I feel sleepy writing this, I'm going to pass out so hard as soon as I hit post).

HOWEVER, you may notice that Nightmare's shawl is pretty close, save for the colors. That's the only connection I wanted there to be, just a general shape that's consistent over both designs, connecting them without being super obvious.

Edit: sorry for the cut off, I fell asleep while writing this. Editing in the morning.

In conclusion, the hardest part of drawing these, was trying not to post them one by one.

[bl0rbohandbag]

– some vampire the masquerade x changeling the lost concepts that will not leave me alone.

"but vtm and ctl are from different settings–" shhhhhh :)

— part 2.

before i begin: i have been dabbling in vampire the masquerade and changeling the lost content for a while, i am not a fan of changeling the dreaming and vampire the requiem is unfamiliar to me. anyway! buckle up, enjoy the ride, this is kind of long.

trigger warning for abuse/unhealthy parental relationships because vamps i guess.

first of all: i recently read vtm: bloodstained love. while it focus on the more romantic and sexual aspects of kindred relationships with a lot of references to obsessive/posessive behavior and grotesque acts of love, it also made me wonder how those would translate to platonic or familial relationships. add some changeling shenanigans to that and we have some interesting concepts to play with! and with that being said...

– you're a changeling. kidnapped into arcadia and trapped there for who knows how long. in your durance, you dream of going back home, of reuniting with your friends and family, escaping your keeper to finally, finally enjoy freedom in the world you were born in.

– and one day, you do escape. back into your world, never feeling completely safe with your keeper looking to get you back and huntsmen being a very real threat, but you're ready to rebuild your life and enjoy your newfound freedom.

– there are various mentions throughout the ctl books on how unsuspecting or heedless changelings might have their freedom stolen again, this time by kindred. so, as it turns out, you'll have to deal with creatures other than the true fae who are more than willing to keep you caged!

the angst potential in a changeling reuniting with ther parent(s) only to find out they've become something inhuman, and not all that different from their keeper is unmatched.

maybe you watch them from a distance first. maybe you excitedly seek them out. maybe you just randomly bump into your parent by complete chance, after presuming them dead or deciding to abandon your old life. maybe they find you.

but the point is: they're kindred. so different from when you last saw them, as a teenager, as a child, before you were taken. as if having huntsmen and your keeper after you wasn't trying enough, a vampire parent comes (back) into your life to make it even more complicated.

a ventrue dad will make his ghouls your bodyguards, following you day and night. it makes you insanely uncomfortable, as you liken them to changelings serving true fae back in arcadia. he says it's because of his own dangerous kindred affairs that might affect you, but after an unplesant encounter with the huntsmen he might just decide you shouldn't be out and about at all.

your parent is either a neonate or an ancilla by the time your return from arcadia. your fetch is dead for whatever reason, expired, after living a life in your stead, automatically making the vampire believe their child is dead– now imagine their surprise and confusion when they see you– real you, living and breathing. and maybe you're distraught, too, seeing that they haven't aged a day or should, depeding on how long you've been gone, be most definetly dead.

(this is absolutely NOT going to send the vampire parent into a mental breakdown and spiral into obsession upon discovering the child they have lost and buried was literally a soulless copy of their real child who got kidnapped by faeries. a clone made out of twigs and a cat's eyes that stole their child's place and they never noticed. everything is just fine. it does not them affect them mentally at all :3)

(bonus points if the fetch was killed by the vampire parent's enemies after being entagled in their mess. they feel like they are getting a second chance and will absolutely not screw it up! cue you, poor changeling, being locked away or put under heavy surveillance.)

on the other hand, a kindred parent who currently has a living fetch of their child just being EXTREMELY distraught when they keep spotting someone who looks exactly like their kid at random places they definetly shouldn't be at is very funny and kind of unsettling!

(a vampire mom just feeding on mortals at the club, socializing with other kindred, perhaps dealing with some unresolved issues with her sire, etc. Then she spots you, her real kid, unbeknownst to her, just chilling, among all those dangerous vampires, when you're supposed to be in your dorm room at least a thousand miles from there. she calls the fetch's phone, expecting you to pick up and start explaining yourself. your fetch answers the phone, talks to her, sleep-drunk and confused as to why she's calling so late, but the person she's looking at has made no motion at all. they're not talking. they have not picked up the phone. but that's her kid's face, she's sure. what the fuck?)

for low-humanity ancillae/elder kindred, having their child back might bring about long-forgotten mortal feelings of genuine parental love, although they might express in the very unorthodox way kindred would. they simply do not understand why their child does not want to be around them. they just want to bond with you and keep you safe where kindred and fae can't get to you, make up for lost time. what do you mean they're "just like your keeeper"?

i think a lot of kindred parents will leave you be, mostly brujah or gangrel, knowing you'll be safer if they keep you away from their world. provided there was no fetch to replace you, they think it's amazing enough you were found alive and well after years of being a missing person. you don't like talking about what happened in your... "durance"... fine, they'll keep the investigators off your back, too. they might not even know you're no longer human. but they are going to check on you once in a while, or keep tabs on you, or even have some of their people watch you from a distance. just to make sure.

(just don't let them catch wind of all the changeling shenanigans or huntsmen attacks on your person. that might just change their mind...)

kindred parents might believe you're safer away from their world, yes, but they can just as easily bring you into the mess of kindred society without a second thought.

not very fun being a fairest when your toreador mother insists you show your mien to impress her fellow clan mates and other kindred with your overwhelming beauty. she's always been a pageant mom, so this shouldn't surprise you. there's several layers of wrongness to this, from having your changeling identity exposed to multiple vampires to further your mother's social status to this very situation bringing back so many unpleasant memories from your durance, and it's bound to end badly.

(the toreador pageant mom could very easily be a nosferatu pageant mom, a cleopatra now living vicariously through your fae-given beauty.)

(she will realize how terrible a mistake that was when vampires start really paying attention to you. or not. who knows.)

(gifts that could easily have come from a true fae lord start pouring in. letters written in excessive passion, bouquets of bloody roses, dresses made out of human skin, all delivered by equally dazed-looking ghouls. perhaps your mother will know, then, she fucked up severely. or maybe she'll just tell you to be grateful for those wonderful gifts.)

on another hand, a nosferatu parent taking one look at their fairest child's mien and deciding "oh. no kindred can see you like. ever. stay away from toreador specifically". you don't know what a toreador is, but you'll try to heed the advice.

your ancilla mother meets your motley and proceeds to show them baby pictures of you, taken in the 1870s shortly before your abduction to Faerie. they are very well preserved and you look most proper in your little sailor outfit.

you have a beast/ogre seeming and your gangrel parent thinks you're pretty rad :) you go hunting together.

your tzimisce dad has living furniture made out of human skin, but it's nothing you haven't seen in arcadia before. he's a little disappointed by your lack of enthusiasm, and very offended when you tell him your keeper had better taste in couches. trying to evade a tzimisce dad after he's been made aware of your existence is a difficult task, and you will get caught and held captive at one point (for your safety, of course!). if there is a fetch currently living your life, they will be immediately killed or horribly tortured (read: vicissitude) for the crime of decieving the tzimisce and impersonating you, regardless of you already having decided to leave said fetch alone.

(tzimisce dad thinks you should be thankful. he dealt with the imposter. shouldn't you be happy?)

(if he’s got cash and has some land within his domain to spare, he might let you build a little home not too far from his own to give you a semblance of independence to try and settle you down. might.)

(on the other hand, you have the chance to become a really good escape artist. take your time in captivity with your tzimisce dad to practice your escaping and running away skills, after all, every good changeling needs it! you also get the bonus of reliving your childhood/teenagehood with all the sneaking out.)

(quick intermission: all of these concepts might result in low-clarity for the changeling?? i'm not too sure how clarity damage works yet.

update: it absolutely might!)

your malkavian mother thinks she's plagued with visions of her missing child, glimpses of what they might look nowadays, wherever they are. this is actually you, visiting her in her dreams through oneiromancy.

(everyone thought, back then, that it was just a scare. you wandered into the forest and for ten hours people searched for you, only to find you safe and sound, without a scratch in your body or a speck of dirt in your shoes hours later. but she knew better. she knew that wasn't really you. it haunted her for the rest of her life, and it haunts her unlife even now. she never made it to the hedge.)

you can't take your tremere parent ANYWHERE. you give in after endless nagging and take them to a goblin market, but their arrogance will get them roped into terrible deals if you don't keep your eyes on them full time. you do take this as an opportunity to show off your changeling capabilities. you're in your element.

(you also drop life-altering bits of Faerie lore at random or inappropriate times. it sends them spiraling. you just hope they won't share it with anyone...)

darkling changeling just chilling with their nosferatu dad in the sewers, sharing rats.

and that's all for today, folks.

[imasradiantasthesun]

Ez’s Hunger Games aesthetics, part 16: The Second Quarter Quell Generation, part 1

Jack Hawthorne, the miner’s son

Alys Everdeen, the apothecary’s daughter

Gordon Jet Everdeen, the musician’s son

Hazelle Hawthorne, the hanged man’s daughter

Leiney Undersee, the lonely twin

Maysilee Donner, the candy maker’s daughter

Nick Mellark, the baker’s son

Dahlia Mellark, the teacher’s daughter

Haymitch Abernathy, the orphan

[theglamorousferal]

Persephone's Binding Part 4

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Jazz guided Jason through the halls to the library, it seemed to be in a different wing of the castle from where the living spaces were. When they reached a split between a hallway and a set of stairs she hesitated, placing a hand on one one of the banisters and turning to face him. She looked at him considering before nodding to herself and picking up her skirts to go up the stairs.

"We'll take a shortcut over the wall, because you're death-touched you can safely breathe the air without it overwhelming you with intense emotions and obsessive behavior." She said absentmindedly to him as if air that could cause such things were normal.

"Uh, glad for that then?" He said following her. She opened the door at the top of the stairs and strode outside, not even glancing at the absurd sky.

It was eerie to say the least, swirling Lazarus and emerald green with purples and blacks making the sky look like an oil slick. He expected the air of the dimension that contains all the afterlives to be colder, but it was pleasantly warm with a gentle breeze blowing by. If he closed his eyes he could imagine standing on a hill watching the clouds go by. On one side of the wall they were atop was a courtyard containing plants that Ivy would drool for, it was nearly as overrun as her greenhouse.

He noticed one of the towers had what appears to be an observatory, though he wasn't sure what besides doors, floating islands and general terrifying shapes they would see through it. "What's with the observatory?"

She glanced at it and gained a fond smile on her face. "That's Danny's. He always wanted to be an astronaut but circumstances prevented that. That telescope can connect to any telescope in our home universe. Even the ones in deep space. He's going to IRU right now for aerospace navigation. There's a dimension he was hoping to spend a couple years in before he has to take the crown that has intergalactic space travel as the norm." She seemed to light up when she spoke of her brother, obviously proud of him.

"Wait, Danny's who you're Regent for? Not a son?" Jason wouldn't have minded if she had a kid kicking around, but to find that the kid he met earlier is the future King of Everything In-between was surprising.

"Oh, yes, Right, I'll explain everything I can once we get to the library, it's just through here." Once inside again, she took brisk steps forward to doors directly across the hall. "Here we are, my favorite spot is just this way."

They stepped out onto a second floor balcony of a three story high library. Books spanned from floor to ceiling in a room the size of a small stadium. Shelves and tables made from a purple wood polished to a shine. Deep red velvet seats on all the chairs and couches in each of the reading spaces. Jason stood flabbergasted at the sheer volume of books present. He felt a hand on his shoulder and he turned to see a conspiratorial smile in teal eyes. "I had the same reaction when I first came here. Come on, my favorite spot to talk is this way."

They made their way to a corner of the library that had a pair of chairs, a tea table between them and a small fireplace, lit with a ghostly blue flame. They sat and she looked at the fire, then at him, then back at the fire and sighed heavily. She closed her eyes, gathering her thoughts before she spoke.

"Once upon a time there were three scientists in college who wanted to build a portal to the 'Ghost Zone' as they called it so they could study an research entities they referred to as 'ghosts'. Their definition being that any entity that produces, metabolizes or consumes the substance ectoplasm is a 'ghost'." She paused here, clasping her hands together and looking down at them. "There was an accident, I'm not going to go into too many details for now, but just know that one of the scientists became something more than human. The first of his kind in a millennia, a statistical improbability. Some things happened and he believed that he lost the only woman he could ever love to the man that caused him to become something other than human, to become partially one of the creatures they sought to capture and experiment on.

She glanced up and stared into the middle distance, remembering. "Twenty years pass and the two other scientists are now married with children. They've had a lab in their home since they graduated college at the top of their field in ectoscience. They have a daughter and a son, both are born ectocontaminated though they don't know for years later. They've been working on a new portal, this time bigger, large enough to fit a car through." She laughs lightly. "I remember coming down and shoving granola bars and thermoses filled with soup when they were on work binges, determined to get 'just a little bit more done Jazzy-pants, then we'll go to bed'" She gazed wistfully at the fire. "They usually did once they finished whatever food I brought to them, not wanting to have a repeat of the last time they left something with old food in it and it gained sentience and mass enough to chew a few hazmat boots."

She seemed lost for a moment before she cleared her throat. "Sorry, um, where was I?" She blinked before raising a hand up pointing at the ceiling. "Right, the portal. So they spent a good decade start to finish on it. It was going to be their crowning achievement, but when they plugged it in they saw some sparks, but nothing else happened." She folded her hands together on her lap. "They left for a weekend. Went to search for some cryptid they had been meaning to go find for years, but had put off to work on the portal. I was in charge for the weekend, a thing I was used to from whenever they were on design binges. Danny had his friends over and I was in my room studying. I had my headphones on, I don't even remember what band was playing, and I think I was working on chem homework?" She shook herself from the thought. "Anyway, there was this power surge, I remember just thinking that I was mad that it happened right during my favorite part of the song and I was singing into my pencil. When the lights went out, I had the usual expected dread in the pit of my stomach, but something felt especially frightening in this moment. I didn't have time to dwell on it, shaking it off as just being paranoid. I was more concerned with getting my music back on after that. I should have realized something had happened." She tightened her hands until the shook, pale knuckles stood out.

"I'm not telling you details, but there was another accident with a portal, this time it was Danny. He became something more than human. He became the second halfa in a millennia."

"Halfa?"

"Yes, Half human, half ghost. An anomaly, a myth, a statistical outlier. He walks the line between life and death. He will have many titles once he takes the throne, and one of those will be the Balance."

"Damn, that's a lot to put on a kid. How'd that happen?"

"I found out all of this second-hand mind you. I may have known his secret when it all happened, but he didn't know I knew yet."

"How'd he hide suddenly having powers? I don't expect he had particularly good control over them at first, I know several supers who didn't."

Jazz hung her head in shame. "I was too deep in my own head at that point. I was neck-deep in research on how to parent troubled teens because while I missed all his slips for power usage, I did not miss his decline in grades. Especially when the chemistry teacher approached me about the fact he kept 'dropping' equipment." She held up air quotes. "Turns out not being able to control tangibility can cause mass amounts of property damage, who knew?" she shrugged her shoulders.

"So basically, the original halfa guy from earlier managed to gain wealth and power using his powers in increasingly shady ways. He also grew obsessed with my mom and blamed my dad for turning him into a halfa. He wanted revenge. He invited us all to a college reunion where he found out about Danny. Things happened and they became nemeses with Vlad wanting Danny to denounce our father and become his son with my mom at his side. You're allowed to say ew, it was very ew for a long time." She laughed at his scrunched up face. "Anyway, he finds out about ancient ghostly artefacts that are supposed to give the user unimaginable power, and finds out where they are. He finds out they are locked away with the former King of the Realms, and he expects to be able to just grave rob the ruler of the Infinite. He manages to get the Ring before Pariah wakes up, and somehow manages to escape back to out home dimension. All ghosts flee the Realms through the most stable portal available; the one in my family basement. This causes alerts to go out all across the town and my parents put up defenses for people to huddle under during everything. Some stuff happened and it ended up leading to Danny taking a suit our parents had built and defeating the former King Pariah Dark and sealing him away in the Sarcophagus of Forever Sleep.

"Infinite Realms Law dictates that if the leader is defeated in single combat, and the combatant continues after said encounter, then they are to be crowned High Royal and any family members gain royal titles as well. Danny is, however, too young for his classification. He is too young by human years, he must be twenty-one for that, and too young for halfa standards, he must be a halfa for a decade. He won't be of the majority for at least another five years, and then he must have it on the following solstice. Until that time, he is High Prince and must work on learning leadership and combat skills." She gazed calmly at him, resigned for her brother's fate.

"So how'd you end up Regent?" She sighed and closed her eyes, shoulders dropping.

"We had a council for a while, the Council of Ancients, new and old working alongside the Observants. It worked for a little while, but something happening in my home dimension was causing issues. You see, the ghost problem in our town after the portal opened became a pretty big issue when property damage resulted in the thousands and you can't bill the dead. Danny was doing his best to fight off as much as he could, but he wasn't trained and was very new to his powers. It didn't help that our parents were shooting at him while he was trying to save people." She grumbled and Jason's hands tightened to fists.

"What do you mean they shot at him?" He asked as evenly as he could. He could feel the tinges of old hurts coming to the surface. A Batarang to the throat.

"They never hit him, he dodged every time. They didn't know it was him. They thought it was just a ghost, and to them, all ghosts were evil. They had a lot of bias in the majority of their research, but as soon as they found out who he was they immediately changed tack. They had Danny stay at Vlad's for a weekend, which was it's own can of worms, while they disarmed the house and set everything to ignore his ecto signature." She looked thoughtful. "Apparently Vlad wasn't a complete jerk that weekend either, Danny told him what they found out and Vlad, worried for the second of his species, actually helped him through some emotions and helped him train some. I think it's what started on his redemption actually."

Jason breathed out heavily letting his rage dissipate. "You keep saying 'the second' instead of the 'the only'. There are more?" He quirked an eyebrow at her.

"Oh, yes, there's Ellie and Dante. Ellie is my younger sister, she's a clone of Danny Vlad made, and Dante is an evil alternate timeline version of Danny and Vlad that fused together and is inhabiting a clone of Danny Vlad wasn't able to pull into consciousness." She let him digest that for a moment.

Jason choked out a laugh. "Man, and I thought my sibling situation was weird."

Jazz's eyes narrowed, appraising him almost like a predator eyeing prey. "Hmm. We'll discuss your family situation later." She cleared her throat gathering her thoughts. "Anyway, so the property damage led to the government getting involved. More specifically a branch known as the Ghost Investigation Ward or GIW for short. They were founded on the first research papers my parents produced which were heavily biased against ecto-entities on a whole. They were extremely prejudiced against ghosts.

"They started out as a nuisance. Someone easily distracted by getting their suits dirty or faulty equipment. Then the Anti-Ecto Acts were ratified. Then they got bolder. They paid my parents a fake amount of money to buy the house as-is with the portal. They planned to send a nuke in to destroy the Realms believing it to be full of horrendous monsters. Thankfully the nuke was a dud model and someone definitely got fired that day in ordering. But after that they just started to get worse and worse. They were starting to go after anyone who pinged on their detectors, which were just getting more and more precise as time went on.

"Here's the thing about Amity Park, my hometown. It was founded by witches fleeing the witch trials. It sits at the crossing between ley lines, and it's always been a spot that the veil was thin. Ectoplasm would leak through natural portals that popped up from time to time. Add a stable portal to the mix? The entire town was now ectocontaminated. They were now classified as liminal. They were now death-touched enough that they pinged on the GIW's equipment. They began raiding people's homes, accusing them of harboring ghosts. Danny's entire home room got taken in for questioning one day, they had set up little interrogation rooms like a blood drive in the gymnasium." She chuckled darkly. "They got so close so many times, too many times." Her left hand clenched into a fist.

"My parents found out about Danny when the raids first started. He'd decided it was time to come clean because it was only a matter of time before they came knocking at our door. Thankfully, they came while Danny was at Vlad's and they never had the guts to storm the billionaire's house. I managed to avoid detection by wearing a Specter-Deflector and my parents were always in their hazmat suits so they didn't ping either. Things got worse, Danny had to beg the Council to make an edict to not come through the portal for the foreseeable future.

"It didn't work, various beings saw it as a challenge. They began to lose faith in their future ruler. If he couldn't protect his little town and the people in it, how was he supposed to protect them? It was a common sentiment. It was something I grew tired of hearing during one particular fight." She stared at the blue flames of the fireplace, not seeing the flickering light. "Danny was down. Mom and Dad and Vlad were fighting together to both capture the ghost before they could do more damage and stop the GIW from capturing another ghost to experiment on and dispose of. The ghost was the fourth one that week spouting the same bullshit." She spat the word out like a curse, growling before looking into the middle distance with sad eyes. Softly, she spoke, "There was an explosion." She blinked, coming back to focus. My parents were down. My youngest siblings were now fighting. I made a decision." She squared her shoulders and tightened her jaw, determination filling out her features. "I had been helping Danny study to become King, I had read up on all the important laws. I took the Specter Speeder to the council chambers. I stood before them and declared as the eldest and therefore heir and head of the Nightingale family, the Royal family, and that I was at the majority for my classification, I would be taking the title of Regent until Danny reached his majority. I took the Crown and the Ring and my own suit and went to the fight.

"I told Dante and Ellie to get Danny and go, there was nothing that could be done for our parents. I subdued and contained the ghost and then beat back the GIW until they were at the borders of Amity. Then, using power I had just gained, I pulled the entire town into the Infinite Realms." She held out her hands, gesturing to the general vicinity.

He sat with that for a moment. "Wait, wait wait, you're just gonna skim over the fact your parents died?"

Jazz's eyes hardened. "Never." Her eyes glowed yellow for a moment and her hair seemed to float a bit when she said the word. "I just met you, and it's still a sore wound, I'd rather not get into it if that's alright with you." She held herself rigid as if expecting him to press the issue.

"Whoa, it's okay, nevermind, touchy subject, I get it. Most people I know have their parents as a touchy subject. Especially dead ones." He kept his posture open, slouching a little to show he didn't mean to pry.

She hummed thoughtfully, appraising him once more. "So, I told you my story, earlier you told me some of yours. I think that's enough sharing for one day. I don't know about you, but I am very tired. If you like, you may stay here. Just ring the bell on the mantle and Jeeves will be here to assist you. If not, I'd be glad to walk you back to the guest rooms, they are down the hall from the family rooms." She stood and waited for his response.

"Um, yeah, let's walk back together. I had a couple questions about some of the books in my room?" They walked and talked together as they made their way towards the bedrooms. They parted ways with a promise to read the same book and give each other feedback on it in a week.

"Well, this is me." He said awkwardly indicating the hall his room was in, hers was in the opposite hall.

"Yup, I'm not sure when I'll get the chance to see you tomorrow, I have a full day up until dinner, but I'll see you then?" She looked inquiringly at him.

"Yeah, definitely! See you tomorrow!" He said and turned down the hall. He jogged until he got to the door, opened it and then leaned against it falling to the floor. "Okay, so I may not have entirely screwed this up, but man, she's been through a lot already. Do I want to add my shit to it?" He thought to himself, spiraling until he was clutching his hair. He growled and stood up, then stalked towards the bed and flopped down on it, back first this time.

"I mean, I might be stuck here, so would my baggage really matter that much?" He laid there for a moment before deciding to get ready for bed. Once laying down again, he kept thinking of all the different ways he as a person could fuck this or her up if he pursued a relationship. He worried himself to sleep that night.

[yoku-yukihime]

would love to know more about yuki if you're willing to share. I like how scrungly her staff is.

Im honored! shes a pretty deep and complex oc all things considered tbh. so apologies if i ramble a bit! im going to try and include everything about her story wise lol. She comes from a hidden society of fox people, the society is pretty in tune with magic and stuff. very scholarly. most of the people that fall out of it become the kind of kitsunes u see that seduce people and steal spirit energy. but Yuki was a studying sorcerer. she was pretty invisible to move people, nothing fancy or stand outish. she happened to fall into a trap along her evening walk through one of the many archives and stumbled onto hidden books tucked far out of reach. forgotten memories and stories forbidden for the ages. Yuki became fascinated with dark arts and taboo mysteries. and important thing with the foxes of this society is that age is shown with tail number, often translates to wiseness. most get to nine and dont reach any more before passing from age. yuki still only had one around this time. she was maybe in her 20s. but looking upon the scripture she found, she stumbled upon legends of an ancient god that could grant a very special artifact. Yuki wanted it to show off, it promised great power. so she got Obsessed with this rabbit hole. she would spent hours, days, weeks, months wandering up the cliffsides by the ocean waiting and watching as she repeatedly tried to summon this old god. she camped out there, starved herself, almost died multiple times she hadnt been seen in the society for months and all searches were called off. she was considered dead. until it happened. one night it appeared over the ocean. It was completely inconceivable. the mere sight of it changed her world view entirely. her mind could not even begin to comprehend the higher existence this ... this thing came from the old god... was a text box. like one you'd see in an rpg game. upon laying eyes on it, yuki became aware of higher existence. it spoke to her in its beeps and text. it offers her its treasure. a red orb of endless magic. a bottomless well of mana to pull from to do whatever she liked with. this was it, what she wanted, she no longer cared after so long. she placed her hand upon the orb, and with that, the old god took over her body... but she made no resistance. she wanted this. she accepted the god inside her. they could work together. she was 100% Interested in what it wanted. and from then on, she started to call herself "The Great Witch" with the old god inside of her, she gained a special ability, being naturally aware of this Higher existence she can use an rpg menu, like dragon quest! check peoples stats, statuses, use her spells from a list instead of reciting incantations or waiting for cast times. every battle with her is Forcibly made turn based, for some reason people Cant attack if shes got her menu open. the gods rule forbids it. so she recognizes her new power, and she gets to go on a romp and do as she pleases! the forgotten young sorcerer is no more, but the soon to be greatest villain in all the land is born, Yuki never looks back and embraces the new her!

[totoochristianwolff]

HIII. I am going to watch Toto Wolff (team principal of Mercedes F1 team) | Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard and thought I'd do a little 'live' post of parts that stuck out to me (all personal so I might miss a lot of it) (this is also going to be LONGGG 😂)

The first thing that I already love is how comfortable the whole vibe is between Dax, Monica & Toto. Dax & Monica are the kind of ppl who can make anyone feel comfortable in their presence. I love how casual the talk between them is to start because it lets you know that; although this is going to be a 'deep dive' sort of podcast episode, there won't be any sort of uncomfortableness when it comes to those deeper topics/areas.

I LOVE DAX, because you can tell he did his research on Toto. He talks about how he only discovered the day of the filming that Toto isn't actually Austrian, his mother is Polish and his father was Romanian. He goes onto ask Toto whether his parents grew up in Austria, which leads to a really insightful dive into Toto's parents' lives and their own backstories.

I LOVE HOW MUCH DAX LOVES SUSIE (who he got to speak w on the phone quickly as she called Toto during the episode)

I always find it incredibly admirable when Toto shares the hardships of his childhood as well as the turmoil he felt when it came to his ill father for so many years of his young life.

He speaks about the guilty feeling he had after his father died for feeling that it was 'better for all of us, something he says he only managed to process in the last few years.

Dax makes a good point about how he was a kid at the time and Toto responds with: "yeah, so you can't, in a way, analyze the feelings in a way you could if you were an adult" and SO REAAAL.

Toto talks about his mother, who is now 79 and not well, and the forgiveness he gives her for 'not being a good mother' because "I know how difficult it was to be at home and to see the suffering" which I think speaks of the empathy he possesses within himself.

Jumping to the part I'm listening to right now and Toto is talking about how "Many people don't want to go to a psychiatrist because they fear losing their ability. Artists, writers, people that have a lot of creativity that don't want to go sort out their mental problems, don't want to go on medication because they believe it is the fuel of their creativity". imma be honest, I felt CALLED OUT w this part as someone who's always seen their mental instability as the thing that fuels their creativity 🙃

Toto telling Monica she's "very attractive" askdhsldj I LOVE THAT FOR HERRR!!! But also, what a fucking sweetheart Toto is 😭

They get onto the topic of how Toto got into motorsports and his 2009 record comes into conversation. I always die @ when he recalls how Niki Lauda talked to him about it and told him: "why do you do this? this is so stupid, so dangerous, nobody cares what you're doing on the Nürburgring" 😂 Toto then admits he was in a bit of a midlife crisis 😂

When speaking about the crash, he recalls unplugging his radio and getting out of the car but has no recollection after that.

The way Toto handles 'passion' and the expectation society puts on young ppl with his children is honestly wonderful. He's spoken often about it before but he reiterates how he finds it important to just let his children 'be', to let them follow their own paths and expectations. He finds it important to remind them, "Don't look at me. This is my 52nd chapter, this is your 23rd,".

Toto calling munchies "munchkins" 😂

Dax and Toto relating to both being 'string beans' as teenagers 😂

Dax asks Toto about whether he identifies with being handsome and "when people tell you that you're handsome, do you accept that's reality or do you still think 'ehhh you're confused?" Toto responds with, "I think you're confused". WHATTT?!?! SIR?!?! BE SERIOUS FOR A SECOND!!!

Toto talks about when he's at home with Susie and they're doing stupid posing in front of the mirror and how she tells him, "That's really turning me off. Don't do that" 😂

His son, Benedict ringing and the conversation Dax has with him as Toto shared earlier on that Benedict is studying at USC.

"I'm asleep when I'm asleep, I'm awake when I'm awake" BIG MOOD TOTO 😂

This was an absolutely BLESSED podcast episode w Toto. Not only did we get such a diverse mix of conversations but it was also nearly an hour & a half long!!! I really loved watching this episode bc it gave us such a beautiful insight into Toto's life, career and mind. I highly recommend giving it a watch whether you're a Toto fan or not bc there truly is so much wonderful stuff to learn from it ❤️

[arget-star]

Ok I’m home and have calmed down SO wbk 173 spoilers under the cut!!

I knew we'd been in for a ride this chapter but man. MAN. I DIDN'T EXPECT THIS.

Agony. Pain and suffering and sadness. Ooooo Sakura my beloved I don't even want to know what memories you're reliving in that moment.

Absolutely iconic. Get!! His!! Ass!! That's the SECOND time Kiryu called his father an embarrassment this chapter. King behavior.

The lighting? the LIGHTING? NII SENSEI WHEN I CATCH YOU!! In all seriousness this is suuuuuch a brilliant way to show how Sakura's feeling internally because of course he's not gonna actually cry in front of his friends. Not to mention all that rage and sadness has been buried soooooo deep within him for so long. We've seen Sakura pissed before but this is different. It's personal in such a heart-wrenching way. If that emotional bottle ever explodes......

Ok yes I giggled at Tsuge and Nirei clinging to/holding Sakura back. VERY Interesting to note that Sakura isn't in a fighting stance here. He's very passive. Just observing. Also something I noticed today; Suo rarely touches anyone. Even here, he's also observing, though with a more mischievous air that's in line with his character. Nonetheless, there's something going on with him but that's a discussion for another day/post

SPEAKING OF SAKURA AND BODY POSITIONING. Whenever they're in a group, and he's dealing with Emotions, he's always trailing behind them, alone. (Shout to tiny low quality Nirei. What a cutie)

Why is Sakura such a cute little angry kitten he's literally that one post: Going to the stupid store to buy some stupid plush because of my friends' stupid idea to cheer up our other friend. I love Sakura so much your honor. He's observant as hell for the people he loves!! Also what are the odds Sakura keeps the plush at his place so Kiryu has something special when he barges in comes over (sob)

LASTLY bc I want to end on a (somewhat) happy note. Sakura is so exhausted from all the socializing + emotional rollercoasters he's just like me fr. Craving a sweet little treat too like what a mood

I'm sure I'll have more to say later LMAO thank you for reading <3

[stupidiinspades]

If you could change one thing about rp on tumblr, what would it be? Why?

What’s one thing others seem to hate that doesn’t bother you?

ooc asks - accepting~!

JUST ONE THING? I have at least three immediately to hand, but the largest and most irksome that I have seen in THIS latest excursion of mine into the tumblr rpc, is how FUCKING PURITAN the kids have gotten.

I've been here, on and off, since 2012. I've lived through trends and things that would make some here grow grey hair and draw ass up to elbows.

From W.incest (understandably uncomfortable and not my cuppa either) to legitimately toxic Sh.eriarty (ahh guilty pleasure ship); to it being common to, under a read more, write visceral torment or mad science experimentation in graphic, gore-porny detail (I'm "guilty" of this last one myself).

So like, this whole fandom sanitisation is jarring to me. 'Creator/creation (think Pygmalion) is awful and gross and equivalent to parent/child-', && 'if you write (insert villain/anyone morally off-kilter) that obviously means you sympathise with them and are objectively an awful person' which- these two are WILD takes, let me tell you.

We have gotten to a point where I've even seen some blogs say 'porn isn't for the dash' (like, as in policing others) which, to each their own, and your comfort is paramount, but do not police those you write with.

I've seen takes about how writing conflict and it's resolution, or unhealthy ships (platonic or otherwise) is toxic and encourages the normalisation of abuse. Which, again, is a wild take and makes me mourn the loss of media literacy.

Fuck I'm bitter and rambly- but the WHY of why I want this to change, is because all of these ideas, whether they have merit or not, only serve to turn writers against each other. It encourages inter-platform abuses- judgements that are not theirs to make. It has birthed a resurgence, and new form of cyber-bullying under the guise of 'being the morally better person'.

Hyper political correctness comes to me to die, fictionally speaking. I will piss on it like a belligerent german shepherd.

FOR SOME REASON, some folks hate unformatted/non-aesthetic replies. I give absolutely no shits. What matters to ME personally is my fellow writer's creativity and readability, and if our muses have chemistry. I prefer my friends to be comfortable; never do I expect anyone to bend over backwards to do anything they can't/don't want to bother with!

You don't do small text? Excellent! No colour emphasis? Amazing, I love you~. No icons? Paint me a portrait with the watercolour of your imagination and let me get lost in the woven patchwork of your creativity.

You colour the very stars with your imagination in ways that would make Creation itself smile. Take pride in it, and don't give in to pressure to conform.

[yanmuffins]

I've been thinking and I've come to the conclusion that it wouldn't make much sense for Bruce to neglect one of his children.

Think about it, in canon, most of the mistakes he made that ended up harming his family were either because he was completely buried in work, or because he was slightly manipulated, both by the narrative and by third parties.

In addition, he also cannot fully communicate with others, both because of his early trauma, the loss of his parents, and all the loneliness caused by the grief he went through growing up. Not to mention the years of self-discipline and training he went through to become Batman. From everything he's seen and experienced, and all the scars he has, I can't imagine how much that grief and and especially a sense of justice, survived.

so I don't think he would simply neglect one of his children

What I propose is; accidental negligence. Think about it, if he is busy all the time with both Batman and his other persona, Brucie Wayne, and then the justice league, investigations, meetings of Wayne Enterprise, galas, charities, other rich people, the usual rogues gallery of Gotham, etc, etc, I don't think he has much time to spend with anyone.

He is able to spend more time with his other children because they are all vigilantes, like him, and are usually just as busy as he is. Having a civilian child in the middle of this mess wouldn't do much good, especially if that child doesn't know what they do most of the time, like, y'know, vigilantlism.

Imagine everyone's absolute horror when they realize, after the p&f reader is unfortunately busted, that they paid so little attention to that child that she managed to do all these crazy things right under their noses for the whole summer. And who's to say she hadn't been doing this before this summer? How many things have they inevitably missed in her life?

What I mean is that to counter the p&f reader's luck, everyone in the batfam is unlucky enough not to be able to spend time with her. And they are aware of it.

Their guilt would be immense and the angst would be delicious.

(And it would explain how Damian hás time to spend with p&f reader, since he's a kid and his only obligations are school, socialization and being Robin, so he would technically have more time??? If that even makes sense???)

context &. context.

YOU!! YOU GET IT!!

i wholeheartedly agree!

not that "accidental" neglect is any better, it's neglect all the same and has negative consequences in so many levels. but when we're talking about Bruce Emotionally Constipated And Terrible At Communication and Could Sometimes Make Better Choices Regarding His Kids Wayne, it could absolutely happen.

i'm not one to make character analysis because i have very shallow knowledge of Batman lore, but...

like you said, all of Bruce's children participate in vigilantism. they're all extraordinary, most have horrible trauma, and have relied on him for guidance. they are all Robin, and more relatable to him, in a way. that means he's consequently more involved in their lives, more physically there engaging with them, forming an emotional bond, acting as a mentor and father figure. on top of that, like you said, he has a whole life as Bruce Wayne and Batman going on.

which brings us to neglected! Reader, more specifically mine: P&F! Reader and Vampire! Reader.

on a... financial, material level, I believe they wouldn't want for anything. Alfred is the one managing their bank account and making sure they're well-provided for and though it's fun for angst purposes, i don't think they would have a tiny little bedroom isolated from everyone in the manor, mostly because it's our favorite butler who would select which bedroom Bruce's child would be staying at in this gigantic mansion with plenty unocuppied rooms. Alfred would NOT put you in the broom closet. it would be a bedroom that's at least as big as Damian's in Son of Batman, for example.

(i more than understand suspension of disbelief and playing around with all sorts of interesting concepts and characters, so I'm not criticizing anyone!)

in fact, i think it's kinda worse that, say, you have a bedroom that's a wall across from Tim's and he still kinda forgets you exist.

also, i believe Bruce's kid would absolutely have access to a more than generous amount of money. not broke at all.

so the only type of neglect going on here is of the emotional kind. your father and your siblings have created tight-knit bonds amongst themselves based on their shared experiences and the proximity brought by them all working as vigilantes, and you're just not a part of the club.

timing is also relevant.

P&F! Reader arrives at the manor some time after Damian, which means that not only have all relationships been formed over the years, Bruce has also experienced having kids, as well as having a biological child suddenly enter his life. they're a fish out of the water, and their dad is kinda awkward about this (apparently) normal child that showed up at his doorstep. while Damian is still kind of adapting, running around at night trying to bypass Bruce's security system and solve dangerous cases by himself, P&F! Reader is in their bedroom having a virtual sleepover with their Metropolis friends, streaming movies and eating caramelized popcorn.

fun fact: Damian and P&F! Reader are neighbors. he was not happy about Alfred placing his half-sibling on the room right beside his for the longest time. P&F! Reader has definetly caught him sneaking out, but they're no snitch. and you're right, he does have more free time, and he's also on summer break so no school and no homework to worry about. He's got free time to be his sibling's keeper.

and as we all know, the impression that P&F! Reader is just a normal regular kid that totally doesn't build ridiculous thingamabobs in their spare time, it's kinda easy to forget they're there amidst the Wayne family mayhem(s). Bruce is also kinda doesn't really know what to do with this kid or how to connect with them, but they don't really demand immediate attention and seem to be doing fine – so he probably shouldn't worry too much, right?

you could also argue that he's kinda awkward (emotionally constipated) with this kid and is very bad at consoling and accomodating them after the trauma that made them have to move in with him. he doesn't straight up forget they exist, although he starts paying more attention to them after Damian gets more involved in ther bio sibling's antics. and when it comes to siblings, it's just easier for their relationship to never evolve past more superficial interactions (with the exception of Damian who decides to mind P&F! Reader's business earlier on, more or less). P&F! Reader doesn't know about the vigilantism for a long time, so it's natural that they're excluded from any and all matters regarding that. and because everyone else is so busy with their own lives and P&F! Reader seems to be doing fine, so easy to overlook, has plenty of friends in and out of their new school and the Batfam is already a formed unit... Well, you get the picture.

there's also the matter of Damian. he is the kid that "needs more attention" because of his background. he's been through a lot. nevermind the possibility that you might also have gone throguh your own fair share of trauma, at the end of the day you're the easier kid. the "okay" kid with regular problems. which is sad and unfair, but that's what we're here for, isn't it? and Dick is the biggest offender when it comes to that.

not that P&F! Reader is bothered by any of that! They have an amazing summer ahead of them. 😎 It's definetly Batfam being unlucky that prevents them from spending time with P&F! Reader, but that allowed them to mostly enjoy summer without being smothered by their family. the guilt would be unmatched, that is for sure.

"And who's to say she hadn't been doing this before this summer?"

hehe :)

vampire! Reader (she was not mentioned but I'm talking about her anyway, spoilers for the fic because i want to rant) is a different story. again, timing. she arrived at the manor sometime between Dick leaving for Bludhaven and Jason being brought in, so she didn't really get a chance to develop a deeper emotional connection with Dick. that also means Bruce was a lot younger when he is faced with a biological child being thrown at his door, not to mention the less-than-ideal-circumstances in which she came to be in his custody.

and after trying to make her his newest sidekick didn't work, in the coming years he would dedicate most of his time to fighting crime as Batman and taking care of/mentoring Jason who had a rough past and is now his new sidekick. connecting and relating to Jason was easier than connecting with Vampire! Reader, but he always made sure to check on her and make sure she was okay (and the answer was always yes, because of course it was).

during this time Jason and Vampire! Reader were actually pretty close, but then he, uh. kinda died horrifically. so not only was Vampire! Reader dealing with the loss of her brother, her father was now full-on neglecting her, self-absorbed in his grief, so she felt the proper thing to do would be repress her emotions to accomodate her father and try to be his emotional support. not that it worked, but she was there! so we have the emotional neglect and we have Vampire! Reader starting to take a parental role for her own father because he's not being a parent for her. she was also completely alone in that huge manor with the exception of Alfred because none of the other kids were in the picture yet, and Dick had long since moved out. as you can see, not very nice :)

from then on she just kinda blends into the background. financially she's provided for. she is her father's daughter, so communication and expressing emotion are not her forté, but she tries her best to connect with the incoming batkids. it does not work. i have said this before, but she is the mature child, the (again) normal one who puts other people's needs before her, so she doesn't complain when Bruce makes time for literally every other kid who becomes Robin except her. but don't be mistaken: Bruce is definetly more controlling and aware of Vampire! Reader in comparison to P&F! Reader due to reasons (guess you can say early yandere signs?). Jason too is... Sort of complicated. the situation here is definetly darker and resonates with tone of the story better. and when Bruce realizes how terrible he was? oh, boy.

so I guess you can play around a lot with the neglectful! Reader trope, and that's what makes it so entertaining. yeah. that's all I have to say for today, I guess??

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[10yrsyart]

Connor needs more friends and Tron lost/ destroyed all his friends, so i think they should be buddies 😤👌 they have a lot in common, they can bond over their shared trauma hahah

(the crossover came to me in November and then i shot myself in the foot by deciding to do traditional instead of digital 😂 ...and it hasn't left me alone, so there may be more still)

DBH/ Tron AU

transcript:

Connor: -nothing so far. It appears to be a library archive of ENCOM's back up files. Copies of layouts and simulations. But no location of the GRID server or current status.

Markus: Alright Connor, keep me posted. And be careful.

Connor: I will, Markus.

Connor: (A corrupted security file..? Why-)

Connor: --W A K E U P--

Connor: I'm sorry. Your updated matrix was corrupt, so I had to access your base code.

Tron: Are you a User?

Connor: My name is Connor, I'm th- I'm an android.. a detective with New Jericho.

Tron: My name is Tron. To what do I owe a super computer for the rescue?

Connor: New Jericho received an anonymous tip about the existence of ISOs in ENCOM's dormant system, and I recovered your security program during my search. Perhaps you'd be able to help me?

Tron: I cannot condone any program, or AI for that matter, actively working to harm the Users or ISOs.

Connor: That's not our intent, I promise you.

Tron: ...Very well. On one condition.

Connor: Yes?

Tron: ..I'm an old program, Connor. Would you tell me.. how the User world has changed?

Connor: (smiles)

(BONUS)

Tron: Connor! It's good to see you.

Connor: Hello, Tron.

Tron: How are you?

Connor: I'm well. I was telling my friend Hank about you and the date of your origin. And he said, “For pete's sake, kid, what'cha doin with all us old guys? Ya gotta get out more, get some sun.”

Tron: He sounds like he would have enjoyed one of MY User friends.

Connor: Maybe if he knew who you were, Hank would feel differently-

Tron: NO... no, I'd rather keep my anonymity. It's better that way..

[longitudinalwaveme]

Flash Villains by Creative Team (Pre-Crisis)

In which I break down each major creative team on the Flash, from the Silver Age onwards, and detail all of the big names and also-rans that they created.

Robert Kanigher and Carmine Infantino

The Turtle Man (1956). Not the Turtle (he's a Golden Age Villain), but the Turtle Man. In spite of being the first villain Barry Allen ever fought, he's mostly unremarkable. He only appeared once in the Silver Age, appeared twice under Cary Bates in the Bronze Age, and has popped up sporadically since then. If he had had crazy technology (like Bates gave him), natural powers (like the time-stop powers Johns gave him), or a costume (I don't think a green turtleneck sweater counts as a supervillain costume) in his first appearance, maybe he would have become more prominent. As it is, most of the accolades that would normally be attributed to Turtle Man were instead given to Captain Cold (who, oddly enough, also wasn't the first villain created by his creative team).

John Broome and Carmine Infantino

Mazdan (1956). Mazdan was a thief from the future, who ended up in the present day due to complicated time-travel shenanigans. He only appeared once in the Silver Age, and was brought back for one encore performance by Cary Bates. During that story, he pretended to be the Top, and earned the wrath of the Golden Glider in the process. Mazdan hasn't been seen since.

Captain Cold (1957). Captain Cold was the first major Silver/Bronze Age Flash villain to debut. He needs very little introduction.

Albert Desmond (1958). Albert Desmond debuted sequentially as Mr. Element and Dr. Alchemy in Showcase #13 and #14. He's one of the very few villains to have two different costumed identities, and also one of the few villains to reform and remain reformed for decades. He was reasonably prominent throughout the Silver and Bronze Age, showed up infrequently but steadily for most of the Post-Crisis era, and has all but vanished from the map since the New 52. I'm not sure why he doesn't appear more often, although his unusually complicated backstory might play a role.

Katmos, the Metal Monarch (1959). Katmos was a one-shot villain from the first issue of the Silver Age Flash run. He was a despot who ruled over a civilization of iron-based lifeforms 8 million years ago (because Silver Age comics laugh at science), and was subsequently reawakened in the modern day. He attempted to take over the new civilization he discovered, but was defeated by the Flash. Katmos never appeared again, probably because he was completely overshadowed by...

Mirror Master (1959). Sam Scudder was everywhere in the Silver and Bronze Age, racking up more appearances than any other Flash villain, creating the Rogues, and having a serious claim to being Barry's archenemy. Showy, dramatic, and vain, Scudder was immensely entertaining and dynamic, and I think his relative obscurity nowadays is largely attributable to the fact that he died during Crisis on Infinite Earths and was therefore dead during the period where the Rogues received the most intense focus and character development. That, and the post-Flashpoint version of Sam is either dull as dishwater or Evan McCulloch without the Scottish accent. Poor Sam. I wish someone would bring him back to the way he was Pre-Crisis, because he used to be awesome.

Pied Piper (1959). In spite of the fact that he was one of the earliest Rogues to debut, the Pied Piper didn't get a name or a backstory until 1981, over twenty years after he first appeared! Regardless, he appeared with considerable regularity throughout the Silver and Bronze Age, and, after his reformation, became an important supporting cast member to Wally West. Post-Flashpoint, he was reduced to making very minor appearances for several years, but, upon Wally's return to the Flash mantle, he became an important supporting cast member once again.

Gorilla Grodd (1959). Grodd really needs no introduction. He was popular when he debuted (appearing in three issues back-to-back-to-back in an era where that was uncommon), and has remained popular ever since.

Weather Wizard (1959). Weather Wizard has never been the most prominent Flash villain, but he's appeared steadily in Flash comics from his debut to the present, with the only real gap in his appearances being in the early-to-mid 1990s (which was a bad time for the Rogues in general).

The Trickster (1960). James Jesse is the first Trickster, and, in spite of the fact that he was dead or erased from existence for over ten years, and the fact that Axel has been the "main" Trickster in many ways since 2002, he's still the more popular Trickster. That says a lot about how often James appeared prior to that point, and about how well-written the stories he appeared in were.

Captain Boomerang, Sr. (1960). Digger is a weird case. While he was a recurring Flash character throughout the Silver and Bronze Age, the fact that he was made a major supporting character during Ostrander's Suicide Squad run in the late 1980s and early 1990s meant that he doesn't get to appear in Flash comics much anymore. I think the last time he really appeared in a major role in a Flash comic was during Geoff Johns' Barry Allen run immediately prior to Flashpoint.

The Top (1961). The Top was a fairly prominent Flash foe until his death in 1976. That being said, his death continued to metaphorically haunt the narrative through his girlfriend, the Golden Glider....and then he would return to literally haunt the narrative as a ghost from 1981 onward. While there have been large gaps between his appearances, and he hasn't had any major roles since his most recent death (in 2005's Rogue War storyline), it seems clear that the Top will haunt Central City for years to come. Now if only he could do something besides appearing in cameos.

Abra Kadabra (1962). Abra Kadabra used to be very prominent. He was a frequently-occurring foe throughout the Silver and Bronze Age, was the last villain Barry Allen faced prior to Crisis on Infinite Earths, and was arguably Wally West's archenemy in the 1990s. He also appeared with some regularity during Geoff Johns' run...but ever since then, he hasn't had all that much to do. With the exception of one attack on Wally in the 2016 Titans run, Kadabra hasn't made any major appearances in the last fifteen years, which is really weird, given how important of a villain he's been historically.

Professor Zoom the Reverse-Flash (1963). I don't think he needs any introduction. Really, the most surprising thing about him is that he actually stayed dead for 23 years before being brought back to life (only to die like four more times).

Heat Wave (1963). Heat Wave's another very prominent Flash villain/supporting cast member. Like most of the other Rogues, he didn't have much to do in the early-to-mid 1990s, but other than that, he's appeared pretty steadily.

The Man-Missile (1964). Luke Elrod was an escaped convict who got caught in a nuclear blast. Instead of killing him or giving him nine types of cancer, this instead enabled him to shapeshift himself, and his body parts, into anything he wanted. By the end of the story, his powers wore off, and he returned to normal. And then he never appeared again (though not before he almost ruined Barry's love life by stealing his face so he could walk through crowds anonymously). The most memorable thing about him is that I always mistake the cover of the issue he appeared in with the cover of the Top's first appearance, and I'm always disappointed when I realize that it's not the issue I'm hunting for.

The Breakaway Bandit (1966). Zedabon Zarr was an alien weapons trafficker whose species' body parts could separate and move independently from one another. He and the Flash clashed after he had to dump some of the weapons he had stolen on Earth, and the Flash destroyed a few of them. Zarr is somewhat unique in that I think he's the only Silver Age alien foe that Flash fought as an individual, rather than as an invading horde, but it wasn't enough to get him any return appearances.

In addition to all of the above, Flash also fought a number of hostile armies, including the aquatic Maugites, the evil cloud creatures who lived inside volcanoes and wanted to destroy the surface world (no, seriously), and more alien invaders than you can shake a stick at. That being said, since all of these were hordes rather than individual characters, I'm not listing them individually, especially since only one of the alien species ever recurred.

As you can see, John Broome and Carmine Infantino are responsible for a tremendous proportion of the Flash's modern lineup of villains. Most of the most recognizable Flash villains come from this period.

Cary Bates and Irv Novick

Saber-Tooth I (1975). Sabre-Tooth is an assassin who also happens to be a master of disguise. He tried to kill the Flash (by posing as Dexter Myles, the curator of the Flash museum!) but failed. He was later succeeded by a woman who took the same name and identity. He was never named, although his successor was.

Mr. Originality (1975). He can switch places with anyone whose hair he has in his possession. Unfortunately for him, he gets his hair from his barbershop, which happens to be the same barbershop Barry Allen uses. This allows the Flash to defeat him, and he was never seen again.

The Electric Gang (1976). Led by Gretta, this trio of criminals used electricity to commit their crimes. They only appeared once, and are primarily noteworthy because Gretta was the first female villain that Barry Allen ever faced.

The Zinger Gang (1977). A bunch of z-listers with energy guns. They also never appeared again, and were more a distraction to the main problems (which were caused by Abra Kadabra) than anything else.

The Master Villain (1977). Barry's 13-year-old neighbor, Barney Sands, drew a comic book villain he named "Master Villain". A bored alien lifeform, which happened to be on Earth at the time, thought this seemed exciting and brought the drawing to life, becoming Master Villain. He never appeared again, but he was fun, so I wouldn't mind seeing him again.

The Golden Glider (1977). Barry's first major female villain, the Golden Glider is tremendously important both due to her relationships with the Top and Captain Cold and her eventual status as the first female member of the Rogues. In spite of her importance, however, she was actually absent from comics for over a decade, from her stupid death in 1996 until 2011. Luckily, she's back as a recurring villain nowadays. She's also undoubtedly the single most prominent villain to debut in Bates' run.

The Clown (1979). Admittedly, this is not a character who was likely to have much longevity. His name and design weren't particularly original, and while his backstory was interesting, the fact that he never spoke or got thought balloons made it hard to get a sense of him as a character. Ultimately, the most important thing about him is that he was later established to be the man who killed Hunter Zolomon's father-in-law and shot Zolomon in the knee before getting killed himself.

Clive Yorkin (1979). Clive Yorkin was a criminal who was transformed into a hideous energy-draining monstrosity as the result of human experimentation gone wrong. Dr. Nephron, the sketchy scientist who turned him into the monstrosity, was trying to cure criminality, A Clockwork Orange-style, but unsurprisingly failed. Yorkin then went on a rampage, at first to find and kill Barry Allen, who had witnessed some of the experiments (although Barry, ironically, condemned them and tried to get the experiment shut down), and then to induce and drain fear from people (since he had become addicted to negative emotions as a result of the experimental conditioning going awry). He killed some ten to fourteen people, and almost killed Heat Wave (who would reform as a result, since the Flash saved him), before ultimately dying himself. He was an effective one-shot horror villain, but since he died at the end of his first main story, he never got used again.

Cary Bates and Don Heck

Dr. Alchemy II (Alvin Desmond; 1980). Alvin Desmond is one of only three villains created by Cary Bates who went on to appear outside of his run. Unlike Golden Glider and Rainbow Raider, however, he proved to have limited longevity. While he was a good character concept, allowing for writers to use Dr. Alchemy without having to undo Albert's reformation, after he was revealed to be a construct of the Philosopher's Stone during Messner-Loebs' run in 1990, he was never used again. I know that Albert turned him to stone, but given how powerful the Stone is, there wasn't any particularly good reason for subsequent writers to not just have the Stone re-form Alvin. But they never did, a fact which ultimately led to Albert getting un-reformed (the very thing Alvin had been created to prevent in the first place). It's especially egregious because Alvin had a distinct personality from Albert, so there was no risk of people accusing him of just being an Albert clone.

Rainbow Raider (1980). After the Golden Glider, the Rainbow Raider is the second most prominent villain that Cary Bates created. Ironically, he owes his success largely to the fact that most post-Bates writers treated him like a humongous joke. But his name, costume, and powerset were impossible to ignore, and, as a result, he persisted through two different horrible deaths and is still around as a minor joke villain today. That being said, having read his original appearances in Bates' run, I don't know why everyone thinks he's such a loser. He's not as scary or competent as the Golden Glider is, but he's not useless, and his powerset is quite versatile. Admittedly, Roy G. Bivolo is a stupid name, but is it really worse than "Edward Nygma"? Poor Roy.

Cary Bates and Carmine Infantino

Colonel Computron (1981). I think Colonel Computron was doomed by his costume, which is blocky and bulky and ugly as sin. It's unfortunate that it is so unflattering, because his gimmick (weaponized electronic toys and video games) is interesting, and would have even more potential now than it did back in the 1980s. His motivations are also eerily similar to the motivations the Riddler had in B: TAS. Both of them were computer programmers whose bosses made a fortune off of their highly successful computer games while paying them very little for their work, and both turned to supervillainy to get revenge on their bosses. Colonel Computron is so obscure that I can't believe that the B: TAS writers used him as the inspiration for their highly technology-oriented Riddler, but it is bizarre how similar they ended up being. In addition to his weird Riddler parallels, there was also a mystery surrounding Colonel Computron's true identity, with Basil Nurblin, his wife, and his adult daughter all being presented as potential suspects. What's more, since Colonel Computron was never captured and unmasked during Bates' run, we'll probably never know who he was planning to have behind the mask (although later stories offhandedly confirmed that it was Nurblin himself wearing the hideous costume.) Unlike the Clown, Colonel Computron felt distinct as a character, and, unlike Yorkin, he wasn't killed off at the end of his story, so there was potential for new writers to take him up.....but no one ever did. Like I said, I think it must have been the costume.

The Eradicator (1983). Senator Creed Phillips was an upstanding, crusading senator who intended to wipe out organized crime in Central City. The mobsters, who weren't too happy about this, responded by whacking Phillips over the head and dumping his body near a nuclear waste dump. Because this is comic books, this didn't kill him....but it did give him a vengeful split personality, which sought to end crime by extrajudicially killing all criminals, as well as the ability to disintegrate living beings with a single touch. So...not exactly what the gangsters had planned. The emergence of this split personality coincided with Goldface's arrival in Central City, and quickly lead to a three-way battle between Goldface and his goons, the Eradicator, and the Flash, who wanted to stop Goldface but objected to Eradicator's murderous methods of doing so. Complicating things even further was the Senator Phillips was dating Fiona Webb, Barry Allen's neighbor and current love interest (as Iris had died a few years prior). Ultimately, Goldface was defeated before the Eradicator, who became the main problem the Flash had to deal with, both due to his extrajudicial executions of criminals and the fact that he was willing to kill innocent witnesses who discovered that he was, in fact, the split personality of Senator Phillips. (Phillips, for his part, was initially unaware of his murderous alter ego, and by the time he uncovered it, there wasn't a whole lot he could do about it.) The Eradicator killed about ten to fifteen people (including his own innocent butler and a security guard who was in the wrong place at the wrong time), almost killed Mirror Master (the first one, Sam Scudder), and then was ultimately killed by Creed Phillips, who wanted to put an end to his alter ego's murderous rampage. Since he died at the end of this story, the Eradicator never returned. It's almost too bad, since his costume was decent and I found him to be interesting as a character. Senator Phillips is sympathetic, while the Eradicator is imposing and eerily inhuman. That being said, the parallels with Two-Face are difficult to ignore. Crusading politician tries to wipe out organized crime, is attacked by said criminals and subjected to severe trauma, develops a vengeful split personality, and then goes on to play judge, jury, and executioner. Although, to be honest, Eradicator might actually predate the notion of Two-Face having a split personality, since I want to say that wasn't added to the character until the "Eye of the Beholder" storyline from 1990, and didn't become the mainstream take on Two-Face until B: TAS in 1992. (Prior to that story, Harvey Dent did still have a mental breakdown after being scarred, but he didn't really develop a second personality as a result. Instead, he was just resentful and bitter about being rejected by society as a result of his newfound ugliness, and paranoid that everyone he loved would also abandon him.) So maybe this is another weird case of obscure Cary Bates Flash villains predating and eerily paralleling important portrayals of prominent Batman villains. Or maybe somebody on one of the Batman teams in the early 1990s was secretly a superfan of Cary Bates' Flash run and decided to use as many ideas from it as they possibly could. Probably not, though.

Sabre-Tooth II (Loretta Nordan, 1983). Nordan was an apprentice of the original Sabre-Tooth, and took up his mission to kill the Flash. However, before she could accomplish this goal, she was taken out by the Reverse-Flash, who didn't want anyone else killing Barry before he could. In spite of the fact that she didn't die, we never saw her again.

Big Sir (1985). Big Sir is kind of an embarrassing character, mainly because his intellectual disability is....rather poorly handled. It also doesn't help that his costume is incredibly ugly. He's arguably not a real villain, since he was just a puppet of the Rogues, but I included him here for the sake of completion. That being said, since Big Sir's story initially ended with him teaming up with the Flash, defeating the Rogues, and going off to live a normal life, I am annoyed that later writers had him pointlessly killed off. That just seems mean.

Cary Bates really created a surprising number of Flash villains. It's just that a lot of them either died after their first story, or didn't stick.