#5D language chess

[barbietoiles]

Tu nu gan perd du temps

[vern-a]

Watching a (french) lesson livestream vod (in english) and ilze (from latvia) is in chat! what a small world

[thisismyideaofhumor]

According to wikipedia, the original expression is “playing 3D chess,” which surprises me bc I’ve never heard it said that way. I’ve only heard people say “playing 4D chess,” with the occasional escalation to 5D for comedic effect. How many more years before the expression expands to cover all 11 dimensions

[neige-leblanche]

also y'all

does anybody have the original japanese of this line from book 5 ch 27???

bc rereading it i was like. O_O. is he. not talking about vil.

i was thinking like "the first read through you're definitely meant to think so, and vil did absolutely change rook's life, but with context from both book 6 and his halloween vignette, what he's describing here leans more towards the latter" which is like. masterful gaybait i can't even be mad. it's like that post saying "some gaybaiting is like a box propped up with a stick and a block of cheese underneath" except this has all the intricacy of a steampunk clock.

but my VERY shoddy japanese skills r telling me the line translates more to "beauty in your eyes and the darkness, lighting up your entire life for you—in a time in your existence when you'll be able to have [such an experience] (expanding on the prev line where he says they'll be able to understand his ideology in the future)"

^ and i probably mangled this so bad but the main point is i didn't hear him refer to a "someone" like he does in the english tl & i'm wondering if i missed it or if it was in fact added!!!

[completeoveranalysis]

[5]

The wording here makes Yuuko's message a bit ambiguous. When she says they went into the Jam Jar so that “neither of them would vanish” I can’t tell if she means so THEY wouldn’t vanish, or if she means the two futures. Maybe it’s the latter? The more I read it the more it feels like the latter.

And when she moves on to the topic of herself the “And I as well” could mean Herself in terms of Not Vanishing, or that she is also doing something to prevent the Two Futures from vanishing. Probably the latter here as well? The more I read this as well it also seems like the latter.

So. They had Jam Jar time so that neither of the two futures would vanish, and Yuuko's Time moving again means she can also do something that will help with that. I think that's it?

Language is so weird.

Oh! But here we go!

Since the Yuuko’s time is moving, and because the barrier between life and death is still in place, she can finish her 5D chess move and send the Jam Jar Sakura and Syaoran into the World of Dreams. Which they APPARENTLY were not in already - CONFIRMED. That's good to know, since the last time we had a Jam Jar it kind of also WAS the world of dreams?

I constantly feel like I just need to reread everything all over again

HERE WE GO! 

JAM JAR: BROKEN!

MAGIC CIRCLE: GIANT

EVERYONE: SHOCKED

I am forcibly removed from the Jam Jar.

[moonspirit]

Reactions to Aruani baby ?!?

Chaotic, anon, chaotic xD

Armin would end up on the hospital bed next to Annie, honestly, hooked to at least 3 saline drips because he's crying so much and losing fluids. He's the only father to become an active patient in the pregnant women ward (record breaker for the most pathetic things, I'm telling you).

"Oh my god, Annie, look at her nose--that's-that's mine, and her hair is like yours, oh my god-" "Yes yes, now please stop crying for fucks' sake." "And she's a she!!! I told you it would be a girl! I told you--oh our beautiful, beautiful daughter-" "Armin. Stop. Crying. This. Instant." "A-and I'm a dad now, Annie--a *hic* a dad! A father! Me! I'm a father and she's my daught--" *machines start beeping wildly* "For fuck's sake he's going into cardiac arrest!"

Pieck is the very supportive other woman in the ward who actually knows what the fuck to do. She's seen babies before. Even looked after some. That's why when Annie's asleep and the baby's wide awake and on the verge of crying, Pieck brings out the fun games to keep baby engaged and occupied: 5D PSYCHOTIC MIND CHESS!

Connie's the morale man. Always with the good mood and great cheer. He's the bearer of no good, very bad, very terrible jokes. "Hey Annie." "?" "This means I'm technically the baby's uncle, right?" "... Sure, if you want." "Have you thought of a name yet?" "Nope." "Well... I've got a suggestion." "? Armin told me you're very bad with names and that I shouldn't listen to you." "What! That's rude! I thought of 'Denise'." "... oh. that's not half bad actually." "And then when you have another kid--a boy--, I've got a name for him too." "Really? What?" "Denephew."

(Pieck cackles so hard she ruptures a lung and ends up on the other hospital bed next to Armin).

Jean is lowkey extremely freaked out about the baby. Armin offers the baby for him to hold and he. is. freaked. out. This thing has legs!! Hands! A face! It's giggling at his hair! What! It's like a very small spider! A chubby spider! Oh... oh no, it's actually quite adorable... oh fuck, wait- how much money does he have? He should buy the baby a toy... or two... or seven... or twenty...

Reiner's already adopted the role of nanny/baby-sitter/governess what-have-you. He assures Aruani he's going to teach the baby how to read and write at the ripe age of 5 days old. He's HYPED. He's EXCITED! He's EMOTIONAL but HAPPY! This is his purpose in life! This is why he's alive! This is what Eren meant, by letting him survive! Once he sits down, coloring books and writing paper in hand, he forgets how to spell his own name in Old Eldian and then has a mental breakdown about it. (RIP marleyan language, you will haunt Reiner for the rest of eternity).

Levi doesn't care. Straight up doesn't care. That's why he has a catalogue from a high-end dressmaker hidden inside his coat pocket- because he doesn't care. No he hasn't circled the small pastel-blue baby-sized cravat. No he hasn't already put in five orders for very cute baby girl clothes and that's not the bill sticking out from his trouser pocket. Nope. He doesn't care. Babies? Tch.

[gallifreyinstituteforlearning]

Does Gallifrey have anything in the way of football (or uh. Soccer apparently. That's a very silly name) or any other sports?

What sports and games are there on Gallifrey?

Gallifreyans have an absolute drought when it comes to physical/contact sports. The only real physical sport is ...

🏀 Zero-Grav Hyperball: Played with balls and rackets in a zero-gravity environment, Zero-Grav Hyperball probably resembles racquetball, space-style.

Other games and board games include ...

🎩 Perigosto Stick Game: A form of Time Lord juggling where players use their powers to keep a 4-dimensional rod with a sphere or cube at the end in motion, preventing it from falling back into normal space-time. Playing with it over the age of 90 is considered a bit lame.

♟️ Gallifreyan 4D Chess: Pieces move on three vertically stacked boards and can also move forwards and backwards in time. Forcing the opponent into creating a paradox is a common way to win.

🎴 Gallifreyan Chequers: Played with red and white pieces, including unique roles like President's Cardinal and Chancellor's Castellan.

🃏Gallifreyan Playing Cards: These have the suits Flames, Owls, Clouds, Souls, Deeps, Mesmers, and Dominoes, with the face cards being the Hand, the Duke, and the Rogue. A popular game is 5D Cribbage.

🧠 Mindbending (Time Lord Wrestling): A telepathic battle where contestants try to regress each other through their previous incarnations. Although a game, it can end in a deathlock if a contestant is pushed back to the point of looming, so it is considered dangerous.

🧩 Gallifreyan Labyrinth Game: The goal is to get opponents lost in a dimensionally transcendental maze and manipulate their movements by subconsciously training them to make certain turns. Gallifrey once had labyrinth games on every street corner.

🎲 Sepulchasm: Played on a board shaped like a mountain range, players use psychic powers to keep their pieces suspended over a chasm created by certain dice rolls. To win, you need to keep pieces in the air longer than your opponent.

🔮 Eighth Man Bound: An extreme rite of passage where students at the Academy use a symbiosonic generator to predict their future incarnations while their classmates chant their name ominously. It claims the lives of 15 Gallifreyan students every macrosemester.

🪐 Scratchin: Details unspecified, but it’s another popular Gallifreyan game.

🏫So ...

They don't engage in physical sports much; their focus is more on the mind and using their chronopsionic powers. Their games also have a bit of a fatality rate. Play safe.

Related:

What is Gallifreyan music like?: Musical instruments and genres on Gallifrey.

What’s on Time Lord TV?: Visual entertainment on Gallifrey.

Factoid: Gallifreyan Magazines

Hope that helped! 😃

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[tonowaritrash]

Bratty ronal x rough dom tonowari ik it’s different but HEAR ME OUT PLZ

*takes a swig of wine* nonny you’re playing 5d chess and we’re out here playing tic tac toe

now i don’t like writing rough dom wari, but if ronal’s being a brat? well…

pairing: rough dom!tonowari x bratty sub!ronal

tags: ass spanking, clit spanking, filthy language, oral (male receiving), p in v, pwp,

minors dni

“do you know why you’re here?”

tonowari had ronal lying across his knee, her ass elevated slightly. he rubbed it gently, feeling the soft flesh under his palm as he waited for her to answer.

“can’t say that i do, no.”

tonowari smacked her ass hard, the first of many that night. though ronal didn’t even flinch, taking it in stride.

“really? you can’t think of anything that might have landed you in this position?”

“you’ll have to remind me. i’ve had a long day and i just can’t seem to remember.” she’d said this innocently but tonowari could hear the smirk creeping through her voice.

he growled and grabbed the back of her neck. a small gasp escaped her and he could see that she was starting to get wet.

“you don’t remember the way you teased me? how you touched me when no one was looking? the filthy words you said to me just before i left?” he pressed her face down into the bed forcefully. “i was distracted the whole hunt because of you.”

she squirmed under his grasp, and tonowari couldn’t help but notice her rubbing her thighs together. “it takes so little for the olo’eyktan to be distracted?”

smack

the sound rang through the night, the sting making ronal gasp.

“that a tsahik would be such a slut is unbelievable,” he scolded. “and that she could be such a cheeky—”

smack

“—brat—”

smack

“—is absolutely disgraceful.”

ronal moaned, each slap being felt in her core. she desperately wanted him to get it over with and fuck her, but at the same time she was enjoying the punishment way too much.

“you need to apologise.”

tonowari smacked ronal again and he could see a trail of her arousal dripping steadily from her cunt now. it was a sight to see, that he could have her like this, squirming, almost whimpering from his touch.

stubbornly she stayed silent, her intentions of remaining a brat becoming more obvious. clearly she hadn’t learned her lesson so the olo’eyktan flipped her over and now she was on her back looking up at him.

ronal’s pupils were blown out and there was a trail of saliva running down her cheek. her breathing was haggard and tonowari watched for a moment as her beasts rose and fell. there were very few things that made her come undone as much as a good spanking did.

he rubbed her clit and lower lips, now incredibly warm under the slick against his fingers. ronal whimpered at the contact, eyes rolling just a bit as she felt him at her most intimate part.

smack

she hissed, her back arching at the sharp feeling against her clit. the feeling hurt at first but the pleasure of it spread to her body like a soft wave.

smack

she didn’t even have time to recover from the first smack before she received the next one. the shock wasn’t there anymore and she moaned.

smack

smack

smack

ronal was quivering at the three consecutive smacks. her thighs trembled and her breath stuttering.

“tonowari,” she said.

“i don’t want you make a sound unless it’s an apology,” he said before stretching his fingers in front of her. “suck.”

she did it immediately, taking three of them into her mouth and licking them enthusiastically.

“if you want to say something, tap me three times quickly okay?”

she nodded, and before he could ask her to demonstrate she tapped his arms quickly three times. he smiled. she knew this game.

with his free hand tonowari rubbed her body, from her thighs to her torso, before smacking he clit again. she jerked, tears now pricking her eyes but she was enjoying herself too much. honestly tonowari wondered whether she’d forgotten this was supposed to be a punishment.

he rubbed her cunt again, before putting two fingers inside and thrusting softly. it was hardly enough to get her to where she needed to be, just enough to tease her.

she moaned around his fingers at the feeling and he slapped her again. “i said no noise from you. you can’t even be a good slut and listen?”

she obediently became quiet and he resumed, this time thrusting more, a feeling ronal appreciated very much. but he didn’t go as hard as she wanted. as hard as she needed.

her hips jerked, trying to quicken the pace. clearly she was close to cumming.

“bad girls don’t cum,” he said. “only good little cocksluts that do what they’re told get to cum.”

he smacked her again and ronal, clearly at her limit, tapped him three times. tonowari was almost disappointed, he loved watching her at his mercy, but he took his fingers out of her mouth.

“i’m…sorry,” she said between breaths, still squirming.

“for what?”

“for my behavior today.”

tonowari smiled. finally.

he motioned her to kneel next to him, and she did immediately. any fight she had in her was practically gone now and she was being a good girl. he took off his loin cloth and tossed it aside, revealing his large erection.

“i’m glad you’re sorry,” he said. “but you’re still gonna get punished. now suck.”

she looked like she wanted to protest out of habit, but with one look at his stern faceshe knelt down and began sucking on his cock.

tonowari grabbed her hair and put more of himself into her, thrusting. ronal moaned, holding on to his thighs as he fucked her mouth.

she looked so beautiful like this, tears in her eyes as she looked up at him. it was moments like this that he reveled, when she fully gave herself to him. when she fully submitted.

“was thinking of this the whole hunt,” he muttered. “how you’d look like when i fucked your mouth. the noises you’d make for me. bet you like being used like this. bet you’re soaking from the feeling of my cock down your throat.”

he gave a couple more thrusts before he grabbed her and moved her onto the bed. she lay on her back and he maneuvered her legs over his shoulders before he moved into her, until they were flush against each other.

at this angle he could see everything; her pathetically blissful face, her quivering thighs, her hair now messy from him tugging it earlier. the sight alone could make any man cum immediately. it wouldn’t be a lie to say he almost did so himself.

he thrusted and she nearly squealed at the sudden movement. he was reaching deep inside her, rubbing places she didn’t even know she had.

“you close?” he asked with a smirk. “ that i could render a tsahik so needy after few minutes.” he tsked before thrusting again, making her thighs tremble at the delicious friction.

it didn’t take long before the tell tale signs of her about to cum became apparent. her walls fluttered around his cock while her hips were jerking like crazy. for a moment tonowari considered not denying her climax, but that seemed almost too cruel.

“cum,” he said.

and she did, as though that were the only thing she ever needed to hear. he watched as her body trembled, how it twisted and contorted in unimaginable pleasure as she moaned.

reaching down, he rubbed her clit knowing how sensitive she got like this. ronal shook her head.

“n-no, it’s too much.”

he chuckled, picking up the pace. “i don’t care. you’re going to cum for me again.”

it didn’t take long for him to feel her body shake again. suddenly her pleads for him to stop were pleads for him to continue, to never stop. it was like she was possessed.

he didn’t stop rubbing, though he did slow down and gently asked, “do you have one more in you?”

ronal shook her head, clearly exhausted from the night’s exploits. tonowari took his hand off her clit before grabbing her hips once again and thrusting. it didn’t take long for him to cum too, in fact he’d been on edge the entire evening. it was a miracle he’d made it this far.

spent, he flopped down next to ronal and kissed her body gently. after few moments her breaths turned heavy as she began to snooze, and tonowari followed soon after.

they could deal with the mess tomorrow.

[tonya-the-chicken]

I'm not sure how I feel about this AFO having manipulated Kotaro all the way thing. Including how the reasoning for having another child sounds like Enji's reminiscence of Fuyumis.

Mmm, I feel like it was long speculated that AFO gave Tomura the quirk, and tbh the broader involvement doesn't seem that off to me. The moment with him convincing him to have a kid is weird writing. I feel like AFO acted as Kotarou's friend and pushed him in the right direction when needed, while it is almost written as if AFO is a master manipulator. Though maybe AFO does believe it all is his doing, and Kotarou never made any decisions for himself

It might feel awkward cause we barely have any conversations between them, just bits. I think if we had at least one longer convo, it would be clearer what was the relationship between them. It really does feel like Kotarou was going on secret dates with him

I think it is more believable that AFO was a "bad friend" who encouraged his messed-up parenting and gave advice that benefitted him but not that AFO is playing 5d chess with everyone's life

With the Fuyumi thingy. Idk, maybe it's just a cliche phrase? I sometimes give a doubt about language barrier and etc. Like, when I talk with my husband, we both think having siblings is better because you have someone to play with and aren't alone. Even if you don't get along with people outside your household, you have someone roughly your age to hang out with. Maybe this sort of thinking is what Horikoshi means by "supporting each other". The repetition is lazy though, he could have wrote it a bit differently. Like "Oh? Your wife suggested having another child? You should totally go for it! Hana would love having a little brother/sister". It doesn't really matter what arguments AFO would give in support of having another kid, it doesn't change the story

[icharchivist]

"Are you trying to manipulate me or are we just flirting"

Tor and Aglovale, probably

PROBABLYYYY

they're 5D chess each other like it's foreplay, they know each other's love language so well.

sometimes driving your boyfriend into a corner and seeing the thrill on his face as he turns the situation around to drive YOU into a corner is much more of a love display that any flowers could ever buy.

Not like it'd stop Aglovale from showing of those OTHERS display but you know-

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

hi 21, 22, and 25 for the latest questions post? for fabbylaris?

21) do they ever match in any way?

clothing wise? only if fabby makes them something matching... although i sometimes think if they lived together domestically, fabby wouldn't be opposed to wearing some of solaris' things every now and again- as oversized as they'd probably be. her beautiful nightshirt... any number of her flannels or tees would probably be great for lounging in, honestly. even girls like fabby can take a break from their preening and lounge in an oversized shirt sometimes...

what other ways can you match... um. i feel like- depending on how their life needs to differ post zoraxis- i can see the two of them getting a (much lower stakes) engineering job in the same establishment... it's highly probable that fabby would need to abandon the whole Super Famous Fashionista persona in a world where zor (or the agency, really) still runs rampant. they can go back to being coworkers somewhere much safer.

beyond that, though, i don't think they match at all. but that's fine. endearing, if anything. they listen to different music, read different books, take their coffee differently, and have drastically different hobbies aside from their shared love of engineering. but now fabby can hear about a new horror movie coming to theaters and think about solaris. and solaris can hear some new scandal in the fashion industry and tuck it away to tell fabby later. their dichotomy...

22) their own little way (or ways) to say ‘i love you’.

fabby is the one who says it verbally the most, and i do think she would say it quite often. she's not of the belief that frequency detracts from worth. she'll slather praise on solaris like butter on toast, but it's not the only way she shows it.

stealing this from you centi. you're so right that baking and cooking would be a fabby love language i think. especially when solaris has had some... admittedly rather traumatizing experiences eating. what started out as the two of them going out to eat after work has evolved into fabby making sure solaris gets something heavier than toast and coffee into her before she heads to work. delicious breakfasts and dinners, the occasional delicate pastry treat... it eases her mind to know that she's being well taken care of.

solaris rarely ever says 'i love you' at all... it doesn't mean she doesn't mean it, of course, it just... doesn't come out of her that easily. she does feel bad about it, and it isn't for a lack of trying, but it's much easier for her to show it than to say it- which the fabricator understands perfectly well.

solaris is really big on parallel play. if she's doing something in the room with you, that means- at the very least- that she enjoys your company. making an effort to do things with fabby- even things that she usually wouldn't enjoy- is the main way that she shows her commitment to her.

however, due to fabby's... history with zor, solaris makes sure to act and speak very intentionally with the fabricator. she understands full well that zor had her wrapped around her finger for... well, for years, really. and she understands that fabby's gotten used to there being a power imbalance in whatever relationship she's in. so solaris will intentionally try to remind her that things are equal between them... it feels strange and ironic to remember that fabby will often consider solaris above her (if anything, it feels like it should be the other way around), but she does her best to account for that possibility.

if fabby is hesitant about anything at all, solaris will immediately make room for her to speak her mind. accommodating is a frictionless endeavor, and she makes room for clear and open communication so as to not get fabby caught in a spiral of 5D chess zor trained her into.

she doesn't want to eat out tonight? that's totally fine... would she prefer them to order food and bring it back home to eat, or does she just want to eat what they already have? she's not feeling up to that movie they planned? would she rather the two of them do something else instead, or does she just need some time to herself right now? healthy communication was severely lacking at zoraxis, so she does her part to make room for it in their relationship post abandoning the company.

25) one to five tropes they embody or could pull off in an AU.

i will always lose my mind over the knight/royal trope. i think it fits fabbylaris very well, really... there's the forbidden romance. there's the status of having one class be higher than the other. there's the both of them having a vastly different skill set (one has physical power, and the other power with people) that work well when combined. there's the fact that if anyone found out about their relationship the both of them would get punished and one of them might die. really what more can you want.

i will say though, that their dynamic in our worship au of sinner/saint drives me kind of wild, even though it never crossed into 'official' fabbylaris territory. it still drives me crazy so its getting an honorable mention.

[barbietoiles]

tu viens en francais (you go) tu viens latviski (you, one)

[vern-a]

i opened discord and almost passed away kkkkkkk

mouche my beloved <3

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My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

When Sasaki texted "it's all too much. I'm going home." to his friend and actually went home, all because Miyano had accidentally kabedon-ed him. It was simultaneously both King shit and Useless Gay shit. The duality. You're gonna fail your high school exams, Sasaki my bro, but still, mood.

57 notes - Posted May 19, 2022

#4

Spy x family whispering "Maybe family isn't supposed to be about sanding away the edges of your identity to cram yourself into a pre-set mould of parent-child-sibling. Maybe family is about finding the people whose rough edges align with your own and making your own normal. Maybe family isn't a destination you plan for, but a journey you can grow safely and securely through."

Like the series really went "yes this is a spy thriller. But, it's not About That Right Now."

Spyxfamily really looked at 3 different kinds of weapons (from the perspective of their handlers) - a spy, an assassin and a mind-reading test subject, all three viewed as nothing more than tools for the greater good of world peace, and said, "Just because they are strong why must that be all they can be?

Just because she's a mind reader, why can't she also be a child and have a safe childhood with a stable support system.

Yes. They can survive alone, but why can't they thrive together?"

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#3

Shen Yuan, unironically: I was put on this airplane-forsaken world for the sole and most vital purpose of making Luo Binghe as happy and satisfied as anyone can be and I'll make that happen even over my dead body (no homo)

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#2

Me, trying to put to words in as accurate and succinct a manner as possible, the importance of fashion in not just facilitating individuality and highlighting in-group membership in specific communities, but also acting as a kind of low stakes tool for subtextual communication - much like the use of metaphor in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet which allowed Romeo to communicate his romantic interest to Juliet in a non-threatening way giving Juliet the no pressure option to fake not understanding the open invitation and as a side bonus allowing Romeo to save face with the well-meaning pretense neither believed in, but if Juliet was interested giving her the option to continue the metaphor to further their correspondence, eating the cake and having it too in a way with no major losses (... in that scene at least :/ ) - so that people In The Know (due to being in the same community) can easily identify and choose whether they want to in turn unveil themselves and continue the secret code hidden in their body language with no one else outside the community the wiser. Fashion as a vehicle with which to exercise your own agency and facilitate another's ability to choose and engage risk-free and without pressure: I like your shoelaces.

166 notes - Posted May 21, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Spy x family thoughts that I cannot stop thinking about

- "papa is a liar" (affectionate)

- the expected "spy needs a fake family" trope being flipped on its head and subverting the dynamics of the inherent power imbalance by virtue of a different kind of information asymmetry. It's like everyone is trying to play 5d chess blindfolded in good faith, but what most of them don't yet know is that the youngest and seemingly the most vulnerable member of their game has actually taken off the blindfold and replaced the chess board with uno.

- the family consists of the only people in that universe who can keep up with each other naturally and without compromising their own sense of self. Power family ahhh

- spy x family is to the spy genre what addams family was to the family sitcom genre. Get in losers, it's time for a new normal

- the very epitome of "everyone in this family is an outlier" so every time a normal person interacts with them, by virtue of majority rules, the normie starts to look around and question "... wait, am I the problem??????? This is weird, right????!" But no one validates that sentiment. Bless

- "Anya williams. Anya levski. Anya roche. Anya klein."

- Anya Forger.

- E L E G A N T!!!!!!!!! 🦢 🎩

473 notes - Posted May 15, 2022

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[arobinwithoutbatman]

((Lol whoops it's been 4 weeks since I did this. Onto The Search!))

Oh we're finally back in Santa Prisca and seeing wtf Bruce and Alfred have been up to!

So Bruce's wheelchair is all tricked out and thank fuck for that! Because God damn, not even a minute and he's getting attacked

Oooooo local hero! Nice!

Damn, Bruce pulled some strings and got himself 2 Justice League heroes to keep him safe though I don't like the name of one of them. Why are we still using that slur as a name?

Lol, Green Arrow is hanging out there too

...Tim is like 14 at most, why does this art style make him look 40

So miss subterfuge specialist ~~I refuse to use her actual hero name and I will die on this hill~~ just casually turns invisible, love that

And they're attacking the drugdealer hotel Bruce is staying at. I'm betting he's already left

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Called it! Bruce is fine and already playing 5D chess to keep his identity a secret

Jack isn't doing too good though and these kidnappers are fucking awful

Oh cool! Angry rabid dogs! Love that!

Oh hey Ollie! Finally revealing yourself to the others... you've really just got your whole face out like that? Shadows from your hood don't do shit, you should know better!

Setting a fire and smoking them all out, nice!

And of course Shondra ran after Jack, she's his doctor and she's a damn good doctor

Oh and Bruce has a yacht waiting anyway

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...I'm sorry, is there random vampire oneshots in this? Why? Does it have *anything* ot do with the current plot?

I don't think it did? But hte plot continued after a few pages anyway sooooo -shrug-

I'm sorry, is there some kind of hunting going on?! Jack is just there to get Shondra to agree with whatever this sicko is planning?!

Waaaiiiiitttttt the beginning was actually necessary... I got he gist tho. Bruce met up with Hood as Batman even though he's still not fully walking yet and now Hood (named after Robin Hood, Jason hasn't even come back to life yet) is helping out while Bruce and Alfred are in London

...Shondra has a power? And it's healing based? Makes sense

Oh dang, Bruce really loves Catwoman... okay Talia and Viki Vale I knew about but he actually had a bit of a fling with *Poison Ivy?!*

*O H* Shondra heals and this Asp asshole amplifies. Oooohhhhh I don't like this. She knew him as a girl? Something is *very* wrong here

I'll give comic writers this; they got the London accent and general slang right. Though I wonder how much it hurt Alfred to drop his RP dialect

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Okay but those disguises tho

Oooooooo comics entering the discussion on fox hunting~

Huh, figured out who Hood is, nice! But I'm pretty sure he's clocked Bruce and Alfed too

So Asp is looking to store Shondra's ability to eradicate disease? ...he's storing it alright but I doubt that's his end goal. Nah, if he's got files with MI5 that say he didn't exist before the age of 25, something's wrong. He's working with outside forces

CALLED IT. He's not looking to heal, he's looking to kill

And Bruce is having an identity crisis

Ah and this is when Tim calls in while Azreal's going nuts

Eeeeyyy found her! And also, Asp is awful, he just wiped out most of the surrounding village! Now was that sign language Shondra made or pure coincidence?

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Holy fuck, *he caught a mum and baby in that wave* I hate him. I utterly despise him

Shondra's gone but Jack's here and just barely alive!

Mmmmm not quite right, Bruce, she's protecting herself, she's getting threatened and smacked around, she'll say anything to keep herself and her power safe because I get the feeling she's not really been using it all that much

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Bruce is gonna be stuck in this misunderstanding, isn't he? Better to focus on that rather than focus on teh fact that he's probably stuck with chronic pain for the rest of his life

Mind control drugs now? Well damn, that's not gonna be good

Tim, wtf is going on with your hair

Shondra/Sandra is still fighting like damn... oh you bastard! He's planting false memories! Wait... those aren't false memories?! Oh fuck. Poor woman's been through hell

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Back in Gotham and apprently, a fkae name and appearance are enough to dodge this new power. Good thing too!

Oof, you know Alfred's serious when he threatens to resign

Holy shit, he actually resigned!

And gone to Jean-Paul so that Bruce at least has a body guard... but is Jean-Paul going to care?

...Bruce are you going mad or are you trying to draw out Asp fucker?

Not going mad but might be a touch suicidal

Jean-Paul proving he's not Batman cause he almost let a wheelchair bound disguised Bruce fall... or a decoy... but at least he tried?

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So Bruce is now in the Carribean with the killer asshat and Shondra and even without a name, he's tried to redirect that anger from her upgringing to the voice she's hearing and *she's* the one thinking of both Bruce and Batman

But because she settled on Batman, Bruce is just knocked out, thank fuck

And now, Tim's chatting to Commissioner Gordon

Oh damn, getting Tim to listen in to try and help and find him. Or at the very least, bust this whole operation

He's trying for an escape! With a paralysed arm

Oh shit, she guessed! And now she's regressing and talking like a child so she's just blabbing and neither of them have realised there's a transmitter in the room oh shit!

...or he could be killed. That works for me, tbh! Bruce, you didn't kill him and tehcnically, Shondra, neither did you. It was definitely self defence. But also, with you age regressing all over hte place and somewhat in love with your patient, you both will kind of have to change things

Huh... she made sure to keep touching him and that healed a good portion of the damage while they weathered out the monsoon and it just skips to them all being back in Gotham

Shondra's got her own estate now and medical staff because she's stuck in child headspace, poor woman :(

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...Tim did you fall asleep *in your Robin uniform?!*

Awww picking up his dad from the airport... and does that porter in the background have a sign that says C Kent? Is that an Easter Egg?

Jack really wants to try... and it seems like he's definitely going to try once he's healed

And they've broken into the Batcave and holy shit WaynManor is a mess and *Alfred is still very much gone*

Oooooo car race!

That didn't end well... yeah sorry Tim, you need to leave this for the adults

And Bruce is going back to get some crash course training from... I feel like it's either gonna be Talia or Cass' mother who's name currently escapes me

[glassofsweetsalicineester]

Other characters - suppressors and affiliated

Arina / Mongoose (god I wish plural mongoose was spelled as mongeese)

Suppressor girl that developed many strategies for suppressive combat against superpowered people. She lacks superpowers, but has strong gut feeling for seeing superpowered people, especially mimics (metamorphs/shapeshifters/chameleons - names vary), but also psychics. Had some troubling decisions to make in personal and professional life, so most of time she's quite reserved and stern. Loves thrash-metal and nu-metal, has childhood nickname Rikki-Tikki-Tavi due to fear of/curiosity to snakes, most of time wears Adidas tracksuit

Pavel(Pasha) / Mastermind (does anyone perceive this name seriously?? of course not, most of time called Надмозг(Надмозги) [literal meaning - "brains from above"] as cursed 90s translation of word "Overmind")

Telepath with 5d chess personal organisation. Actually has two personalities, but not in DID sense. That's actually two conjoined twins, but one fully developed and other consists of nerve clot and couple of fingers that come out of body of his brother. The main brother posses no superpowers, parasitic has very strong and advanced telepathy. Sometimes parasitic brother takes over control on main body, but his control of motor functions is almost manual, so movements are jerky and facial expression sometimes doesn't correspond to situations. Went to technical uni, but abandoned his studies, his telepathic interventions leave OCD-like trace, has younger sister that is also telepath

Valerie (Valeria) / Peafowl / Pavlinoglazka (literal translation: eyes of peacock, but this actually common name for patterns of concentric circles, name of butterflies, fishes and stones with eye patterns) / Pavlinikha [derogatory, rude word to describe peafowl]

Main sponsor of suppressors. Valerie is the oldest in cast, born in 1994 in St. Petersburg. She has superpower - attention control (paired with attention sensing, she knows where and how people currently put their attention). In past mostly operated with her husband (don't get it wrong, she's huge lesbian) on extracting money from Russia to off-shore companies. Now invests in development of suppressive technologies, including security sector. Lies about her thesis topic to be fashion history, actual thesis was on war financial benefactors; knows 4 languages (Russian, English, French and Italian), absolutely can't fight and doesn't want to