#VERSE. robin hood with an attitude problem.

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rai in main verse: *literally* saving the world, in the most obvious way imaginable. fighting evil, saving people, circumventing natural disasters to save towns, as well as affecting change closer to home - fighting for equality at the temple and putting his foot down on bigotry (especially sexism), striving for fairer working conditions etc

rai in futebol au: SO. MUCH. PHILANTHROPY. rai probably keeps like... 10-20% of his wage. the rest of it he uses to support his large family and various charities, including underprivileged children, the environment, issues within his community, etc etc etc. is also outspoken about his sexuality and strives to be a positive role model to his fans, especially LGBT+ and POC fans. continues raising awareness and being very vocally supportive of marginalised groups even after his futebol days. provides jobs for those in need of work in poor communities. funds and helps build rec centres for disadvantaged youth. buys a chunk of rainforest just so he can keep it from being developed. donates part of his property for wildlife rehab purposes. the list goes on !!!!

rai in bodyguard au: nowhere near as rich as in futebol au but still comfortable, helps support his family and gives to charity as much as he can. volunteers here and there when he has time (which isn’t often but like. the thought is there)

‘villain’ rai: often rescues victims of trafficking, is a vigilante and regularly takes out corrupt politicians/police/etc, definitely a thief but only tends to rob major corporations rather than small businesses. would commit deicide if the opportunity arose

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; Verse || If I am the Fool or What Not (Swap AU) ♟️

In this verse Goro takes over the position as the protagonist. Still a child within the foster care system, he’s cast out of his current family’s home and forced to move out to Tokyo. His, now former, guardians quickly deeming him a problem child from his attitude alone. Hurt, misunderstood, and so incredibly alone made Goro not give a damn what they thought of him. But it never stopped him from trying to have good grades and made himself scarce most days. It was enough to keep him from being passed off into another’s care until the day he catches sight of a man forcing himself onto another woman.

The sight of it reminds him of what happened to his mother ––– or at the very least what she told him and what distant relatives would say in order to accuse Goro of being a burden. So it doesn’t take much thought before he’s on the man in an effort to separate them. And such a display is the final push before his foster family kicks him out and sends him on his way. They even seemed so desperate that they paid someone to take care of Goro until he could either go off on his own or be brought in by some other unfortunate family.

It shocks Goro, but only minimally. Most would bring him back to where they adopted him from. But he supposes that this is preferable since now that he has a record no one would ever attempt trying to adopt him again. Hell, maybe they wouldn’t even let him back in the system to begin with. So he can handle living in some shabby attic of a cafe that smells of coffee, curry, and stale cigarettes. He can handle being labeled a pain in the ass and a delinquent until he’s able to get some money to truly be on his own.

But when has life ever been so simple? He never imagined being pulled into another world where he meets some monster cat. He never even thought he’d be forced into a costume of a roguish prince ––– a medieval Robin Hood ––– just to be stealing distorted desires.

It’s certainly not what Goro would’ve ever imagined for himself, but it only further ignites his rebellious spirit. Maybe it will one day lead him to his father so he can take his heart too.

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For the Mun ABOUT the Muse

< All answers under the cut because some people love to watch the world burn... Also might have deleted some questions cause I didn’t know how to answer them. >

What makes you the most emotional about your muse?

There’s a lot of things going on in current comics that have gotten me wanting to kidnap him and lock him in a box, but I won’t go into any of that. What makes me the most emotional is how badly this boy wants friends and a family and at every turn he is being shoved back into the darkness. Sure most of the time he does it to protect the people he cares about, but just once I’d love for someone to jump into it with him and be all ‘I’m here till the end’. Hell even just one of his family members to step up and be all: “we know you’ve got some serious issues and need someone to talk to. So how about we go and have some milkshakes and talk through stuff”. But of course he’s a member of the Batfam and they communicate with fists to the face. 

What made you decide to write this muse?

So a long time ago there was this comic book story line that came out. Batman: Under the Hood. The basis of it was that someone who KNEW the bats was causing hell throughout Gotham and starting to kill the mob. I grew attached to this sassy, snarky, devil may care attitude, bastard of a man known as the Red Hood. When it was revealed to be the Robin that I had first read in comics (Death in the Family still makes me cry okay), I knew I had to have him. I used him through out my various RP years, finally making my way here to tumblr like maybe eight years ago. I can’t really pin point the WHY I’ve kept him around as long as I have. He’s always been the loudest muse I’ve ever had. 

If you could change one event in your muse’s life (in their main or canon verse), what would you change?

Oh this is so easy it’s bad... His death. A vote of the people caused his death, and would result in the torment that he faces still today in comics. It all stems from that single vote back in the 80s when people sucked and only cared about how big their hair could get and how ‘cool’ they looked. This poor boy has suffered for all these years because some snot nosed man in his mom’s basement spam called the hotline to get Robin killed off. Congratulations you weasel, you were responsible for the death of a child and the torture and torment of his future self. Yes... I’m a bit salty.

If you could tell your muse one thing, what would you tell them?

I’d tell him that he can’t give up. He’s done horrible things sure, and people have turned their backs on him. But he will find someone (somewhere somehow) who will stick by his side. He doesn’t have to be and he won’t be alone for the rest of his life. 

If you could give your muse one gift, what would you give them?

Seeing as he’s been a crime lord and the son of a billionaire, there isn’t any material things I could give him that he probably doesn’t already have. What I’d give him instead is a hug and the reassurance that no matter what he does (or who he might kill), I’m still going to love him.

If you had to take one positive thing away from your muse, what would you take away?

I suppose the most positive thing about him is that he’s loyal as all hell (once he cares for a person). It doesn’t take too much to break his trust (after all look at how many times he’s had to deal with lying from his family). But yeah he’s very loyal and protective of the people he cares for. He’d even kill for them, which is actually not really positive (though I guess that depends on who you ask).

If you could “borrow” one aspect of your muse and apply it to yourself or your own life, what would you borrow?

Oh no. Nope. I wouldn’t borrow anything from Jason. I have enough issues as it is and I don’t really need any others. His skills with weapons and being very athletic would be cool, but I’d never be able to use either one. So yeah... he doesn’t have much I could borrow.

Do you genuinely want your muse to be happy? What do you think would make them most happy in life?

I do want to see Jason happy. He’s had such a shitty live and trash keeps getting tossed on top of him over and over again. It’d be super nice for him to be able to just kick back and look over things and be like: ‘yup... I’m happy with this’. What would make him happy? I think just having his family accept him would be a good start. Maybe having a best friend who didn’t turn on him the moment things got hard would be nice too... Just someone who loves him and accepts him for him. Hell just give this boy a friend at all and he’d be happy.

Do you enjoy putting your muse through angst? What do you think would break their heart the most?

.... This is a question? I love putting Jason through angst, and honestly it doesn’t even take that much to do it. His life is written like a bad angst fanfic. Abusive father, druggie mom, living on the street, death, torture, murdering people, being excelled from his family, having no friends, depression, attempted suicides... yeah... his life is an angst hole and I like tossing him into it every chance I get.

What do you love about your muse?

Oh where ever do I begin. Jason is intelligent, athletic, sassy, and murderous. He has a 'gives no shits’ type of attitude, and he’s a huge trouble magnet. He’s also got a huge heart buried under all that murderous rage. He isn’t a perfect person and has a ton of issues and problems that hinders him from being a “hero” and I just love that. I’ve always fell in love with characters that had issues to over come. Jason has a lot of those and more that pile on top of those ones. 

What do you hate about your muse?

He blames himself for everything. Even things that are out of his control. He piles on the blame on top of himself and it weights him down. He’s very self sacrificing as well, and sometimes I just want to shake him and tell him to STOP. Oh and he tends to push people away, even though he longs to have people close to him. He’s so afraid all the time of them getting hurt so his answer is to push them away, which in turn makes him more depressed and angry because everyone leaves him... Like dude, you do this shit to yourself... I really just want to wack him with a rolled up newspaper.

What about your muse amuses you?

It amuses me the most when Jason mouths off to people that he and I both know could totally kick his ass to the moon and back. He has died, he knows what death is like, and yet he goes running up to it and hugs it when he’s faced with it. Like: ‘what are you doing!?’ and at this point you just have to laugh because omg he has no self preservation at all!

What about your muse makes you sad?

The fact that he continues to push everyone he loves and cares about away, making him be alone forever and ever. He wants people in his life, yet at every turn he’s forcing them to make decisions that would make them leave him. Sure he does this to protect them, but it just hurts him in the end and it makes me heart ache for him.

How would you describe your muse to someone about to meet them, in person, for the first time? 

This is Jason my troublesome son. He died once, but he got better. He’s got a mouth on him but please don’t punch him in the face, even though he probably totally deserves it. Oh he was once Robin, but don’t mention Batman to him because he gets really angry and might go and kill someone. Also he hates clowns. Please don’t ask, it’s a very touchy subject. Also crowbars are a big no in his presence. 

Would you like your muse as a person if you met them in real life?

I would get very frustrated with him if I knew him in real life. The way he seems to hate himself and pushes everyone away, would really make me want to hit him. I think we’d get along though and I’d probably stick to him like glue. 

What aspect of your muse’s personality is most important to you? What aspect of your muse’s personality do you think is most important to them? Is it the same? Why or why not?

He has a moral code that he refuses to sway from. He won’t hurt women (unless they come at him first) and children are completely off limits. I think this is important to him too, and breaking this code would be the last straw for him. It’s what keeps him from thinking of himself like one of his targets.

If you had to judge your muse and sentence them to a “fair” fate, what would your judgement be? Would you punish them? Reward them? How?

Sadly I’d have to punish them. He’s a murderer. Even if he’s killing bad people, he’s still killing people. I think he needs help, mentally, and he should get that instead of sitting inside a jail cell for the rest of his life. Maybe sticking him in therapy and then a rehab of sorts would do him better. 

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people that ‘villain’ rai would have no problem yeeting off of the face of this planet (and probably literally does on a semi-regular basis):

the mega-rich

corrupt politicians

incels

corrupt police

bigots of all kinds

evangelists

people in power who aren’t actively trying to improve things

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@seaprofound​​ sent: 🍷 to invite my muse to dinner

“Dinner? Candles, meatballs, Lady and the Tramp style?” he played with a little smirk. “Kinda romantic, don’t you think?” Overt romanticism wasn’t really their vibe. Sweetness and intimacy weren’t their thing, or at least not his thing. Still, it couldn’t hurt. The conversation was always fun and it’d doubtlessly end with the two of them naked, as it always did, so he grinned. “Alright. You’re on. A dinner in, or do we need to dress up fancy and go somewhere?”

He generally preferred staying home, but he had to admit, there was something fun about getting all gussied up. Maybe it was how good she looked in those dresses of hers, or maybe it was the knowledge that he looked damn fine in his suit, or a dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up. And she could pull him in close by his tie. Heh. He liked that a lot.

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            “ you know, gatinha, we could go round in circles like this all day long.              bottom line is you can preach all you want about ‘positivity’              but that doesn’t change the fact that positivity? it’s a luxury. and not one             many can afford, lemme tell ya. not around here, that’s for sure. “

he takes another drag of his cigarette, leaning back in his seat and observing her casually. it’s a serious topic but you’d never guess from his expression. there’s impatience in the twitch of his leg, the occasional jump of a muscle in his neck, but his face? he’s calm. he’s smiling at her. not a care in the world.

             “ but ,” he slaps his knees, pushing himself to a stand and surveys her for a moment or two, hands resting at his hips and his cigarette hanging from his lower lip. “ if you wanna see for yourself, i’ll give you a tour of the streets that just need a little positivity in their lives. nothing i like better than showing rich people what’s right under their nose. “

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          part of him fully believed he’d never see this place again. most of him wanted it that way. why go backwards? there’s nothing for him in his past, and so returning to old haunts with all the weighty emotional baggage and memories and all that lame shit he avoids like the plague? noooo thank you. 

          still, a job’s a job, and he’s making a pretty penny outta this. he’s no coward. he can face a few blasts from the past for his next paycheck, especially one that size. 

          it’s the dead of night - maybe it’s a bit too typical, too OBVIOUS, but what can he say? it makes sense to him... it feels right, almost, like for some reason it’d be a step too far to stroll into the temple in the middle of the day and take their Wu. he doesn’t care enough to try and analyse why he feels that way. he never does.

          every sense is on high alert. his smell and hearing have always been stronger than an average human’s, thanks to his attunement with the wind, and what with all the training he’s been putting himself through, he can feel shifts too. someone could move, ever so slightly, 20 metres away from him and he’d feel the shift as their body displaced the air around them. he’s a hard man to pin down and an even harder man to sneak up on.

          it’s this sense, in fact, that alerts him to movement long before anyone actually comes into view. it gives him time to leap easily up onto the roof, boosted by a gust of wind and landing lighter than a falling leaf. a figure comes out of what rai knows to be the monks’ sleeping quarters. they were his sleeping quarters too, once... the figure doesn’t look familiar, though. it’s far too tall to be omi or kimiko, yet not large enough to be clay. who, then...? he’s not bothered to keep tabs on the temple - it could be anyone, he supposes. a new dragon in training?

          as the figure turns, their face catches the light - and rai actually lets out a surprised laugh. spicer?!

          oh, this just got 10x more fun. grinning, rai drops down from the roof, floating down easily, arms folded behind his head, the very picture of relaxation. you’d never guess that manipulating the wind just so to keep himself elevated this way actually requires effort. 

           “ don’t tell me, ” he begins, as if he has any right to be here and any right to be speaking so candidly to anyone. “ you’re my replacement? ha! and here i was wondering how they were gonna do x kumei without me. ”

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                                @seaprofound asked:  # !!!!!!!!!!

what your muse’s name is in mine’s phone

po (ye he’s boring, sorry)

what your muse’s picture is in mine’s phone

it’s a candid he’s taken of her when she was either a) not looking her best (rare but it happens, maybe the angle/lighting was unflaterring) or b) being completely chaotic/unhinged with that wild look in her eye

what your muse’s ringtone is in mine’s phone

often - the weeknd

my muse’s last text to your muse

[text]: yo bring rum when you come over, i’m out [text]: and potato waffles 😘 

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it’s a v short thumbnailed sequence from the animatic but it’s the one i think just sums up rai the most tbh. being threatened by another, more powerful villain on top of a skyscraper, acting concerned and all the while just walking back to what, for him, is safety??? rai core 

the thing is, he keeps his powers of flight a secret. others may be aware of his wind powers, but almost NO ONE knows he’s capable of actual flight. it makes moments like this even sweeter. 

BASICALLY the take home message is that while rai might not win the award for most powerful villain, he is definitely one of the sneakiest and potentially the smuggest out there and regularly free falls from buildings just because he can

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i’ve already decided to cut this lil’ panel from the animatic just for pacing reasons bUT i’m gonna share it here bc.. it’s cute 

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me and villain!rai both regularly walk around and have casual conversations with a small mammal on our shoulder and i think that’s very sexy of us

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bit of very very rough older rai pose practice~

wanted to try a few poses i haven’t done before (that might end up showing up in the animatic), but mostly practicing drawing fast and loose while still making the pose clear and somewhat accurate. and trying to stop my perfectionist tendencies by VERY rarely using the eraser and not going back to tidy anything up. also had no references and u can tell shshsh help

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the rich according to rai

- he says ‘ok capitalist’ the way we say ‘ok boomer’

- a group of rich people = the Brat Pack

- other ways to say ‘rich people’: 

fucking bourgees

plutocrats

people who have money bags instead of fucking ball bags

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Jack liked giving people stuff. People usually only ever gave him stuff, growing up. Gifts and gifts and gifts. It was an easy way of showing someone you cared, and as much as he denied it, Jack cared. He cared a lot, about a lot of people. Even people he probobably should not care about. No risk no reward, right? // "Sweet, I did get the right place," he said, holding a big gift bag out to him with a friendly grin, "Happy birthday, dude." --@heylindragonofmetal

it’s weird. it’s so weird. when did people start giving a shit about him or his birthday. his eyes narrow suspiciously and he nearly shuts the door in spicer’s dumb face. the gift bag, though? that catches his attention. call him materialistic (you wouldn’t be wrong) but he’s never one to turn down gifts.

“uh, ya, how did you get the right place, cara?” he asks, raising his eyebrows but stepping back to let jack in nonetheless. he can come in - that doesn’t mean raimundo’s letting his guard down, regardless of what transpired between them a couple of weeks ago. that doesn’t change a damn thing.

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I took a little journey to the unknown And I come back changed, I can feel it in my bones I fucked with the forces that our eyes can't see Now the darkness got a hold on me

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I have seen what the darkness does (Say goodbye to who I was) I ain't never been away so long (Don't look back, them days are gone)

GUYS LISTEN.  L I S T E N.. THIS??? is villain rai. it just is. so much. and i cannot get over it. the lyrics are literally moulding perfectly into the way i write villain rai and even the way i’m developing his ‘descent’ into a more villainous character and i’m so Shook over this song wow