#YJ! mammoth

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I’m curious if you have any thoughts or headcanons about Onslaught and alcohol. I imagine being a semi-functioning evil team is stressful and if Psimon is chucking everyone’s vapes then cigs and 420 isn’t an option, then alcohol is the second best thing right? Besides drinking together is team building and leads to this wonderful thing called “actually talking about your trauma instead of bottling it up for once”.

AAAA sorry about taking so long to get around to this.

I need to stop checking my inbox until I’m FULLY ready to yap and ramble. I need that lil blue dot reminding me I have asks so bad.

That IS a good question and I’m so flattered that y’all bother with my content. <3 I think they’d be at least somewhat different about alcohol.

(Sorry for any typos in advance, I wrote this mostly at various doctor’s appointments. ALSO. Last thing to apologize for. I’ve never vaped or smoked when I wrote the last part, but I also have never consumed alcohol and that fact may be more evident in this one)

Cw: Alcohol and some references to alcoholism, uh…references to angst but maybe more comfort than angst, kinda all over the place <\3

Okay so, in the beginning, Onslaught was Mostly teens. Psimon was BARELY even old enough to drink in America at the ripe young age of 21, flat. And I thinnkkkkkk Psimon is American? Even if he’s not, it seems the rest of Onslaught is, so I think  Psimon would probably step up and be all “No, no,” confiscate all the bottles and cans and it’d make the teens so mad and indignant. Literal felons are being BABYSAT. Even when they travel where the drinking age is lower. 

But when the teenagers turn old enough to drink, they have a whole little birthday celebration with what they can get, and of course, offer the first taste of alcohol. Their choice for what it is, as long as the team could afford it. Of course, they laugh and tease if they recoil from the taste. 

Most of the team is pretty fond of drinking, usually together. It’s nice bonding.

Devastation is the only exception to the “Psimon Says no alcohol until you’re 21” rule from the beginning. The team can argue “She is LITERALLY one (1) year old” all they want. She is LITERALLY built different, Psimon is fine with her drinking. 

Idk if she particularly has a preference for any kind. She’s probably one of those who subscribe to the belief of “It ain’t right if it doesn’t burn a bit going down”. Wine is probably somewhat…nostalgic. For some reason. Takes her back to someplace she can’t name, someplace she’s never been, but I think that’d be one of the only reasons she might prefer wine. Her taste may be all over. May be whatever’s strong and good. I’m no alcohol savant, what do I know? 

She likes to drink to celebrate and to bond, sometimes to ebb at stress. It takes a LOT to get her drunk, but that’s not gonna stop her from getting drunk when she has the time and money burn on it. She gets drunk and gets even more jovial and warm and open, though she’s usually relatively open. Also, haphazard. She becomes a big fan of violating people’s personal space. Hugs, patting backs, throwing her arm around them, leaning on people shorter than her, etc.

It can annoy a lot of people if she does it too much, Psimon strangely doesn’t seem to mind too much tho…aheem…

Besides that, Psimon’s generally against the team drinking to the point of drunkenness, but there’s little to actually do about it; he struggles to track all of their limits, and when he’s focusing on one, that leaves all the others alone. He tries to avoid getting drunk himself instead. Someone has to stay sober, and his psionic powers don’t mix well with too much alcohol. And he’s the leader. It makes the most sense that it’d be him to keep his wits about him.

The Terror Twins are hearty drinkers; they also can drink a lot and get very warm and jovial when drinking, like Devastation. Any outing to a bar feels celebratory with them. They decided they don’t like to get fully drunk though, not too regularly. First Tuppence decided this, then Tommy when she pointed it out to him. They don’t want to open up more quickly than they intend. Psimon can relate to that, so he defends them when they drop out. That doesn’t stop them from having fun with everyone else though, or helping when things get bad. They’re usually decent at opening up on their own time anyway. 

Shimmer and Mammoth like to follow Psimon’s lead and keep excess drinking to a minimum. A couple of shots, a glass or maybe two, it really depends on what it is, but that’s it. Mammoth can take more than his sister, just by merit of him being so much larger, but he doesn’t like the taste of alcohol at all while his sister does. However, the second either of them get any kind of buzz ebbing at their senses is the second they quit. 

If they’re found sitting down and downing drinks, something is wrong. They’d only let go so much if they’re trying to drown their problems. Then, they can use some company. Someone lending an ear to their sorrows doesn’t sound half bad. 

If another team member is in a similar situation and needs someone to simply sit next to them and just be, or listen, Baran and Selinda are quick to be there for them.

Junior drinks for fun, he’ll seize any opportunity to drink. That man is getting “Krunk” as the kids say. He doesn’t know his limits and if he did, there’s no telling if he’d actually adhere to them. He WILL blackout if no one keeps an eye on him. He will be puking in the trashcan. The rest of the team has to steer him away from opportunities to drink lest he develop alcoholism at the tender age of 5-minutes-into-being-able-to-legally-drink. 

His mood becomes turbulent and fragile. He’ll typically be happy, loud, reckless, aggressive; but at the mention of the wrong thing or at the sight of something that takes him way back, he can breakdown rather easily. It’s actually pretty common for his drunken stints, when they get out of hand, to end in tears. Junior has to be one of the least repressed members of Onslaught, due in no small part to moments like these; where he lets his emotions run rampant and they go down a bad path. 

He’d expect ridicule, but Onslaught is actually very sympathetic to his struggles and complaints, whatever they may be. He can air his dirty laundry as much as he wants with little to no judgement, something he’s not used to. Once he starts, it’s hard to stop, but the team will listen until the end and it’s something he’s really grateful for. Despite being a troublemaker and general criminal, he tries to pay the team’s kindness towards him forward as much as he can.

If Psimon does end up drinking to lose his troubles, he usually does it alone, when everyone else is asleep. Or at least when he thinks everyone else is asleep. Sometimes someone will wander about looking for a late night snack or a glass of water, or even search for him himself. He dislikes being caught like that, dislikes not being so impervious and put-together for the team. 

Without fail, they’ll sit with him awhile. They’ll ask, they’ll listen, they’ll joke or comfort or sit in silence. Psimon will wither in place or try to get them to leave him be, but they’re a stubborn lot. They’re far from the most “upstanding” of company, but they treat him with the same care, empathy, and concern he tries to treats them with; and Psimon finds afterwards that, despite not enjoying being caught in a state of weakness or forced to open up, he wouldn’t have rather it have gone any other way.

[thingsasbarcodes]

Young Justice 1x04 - Drop-Zone

[lazypanartist]

While you’re in the onslaught brainrot mood, can you provide terms of affection for there SO?

YESSS

Wasn't expecting this to take so long to write 🙃 Got the ask a few days ago, started it, then got busy & fixated on other tasks & asks

Nicknames for their S/o

Featuring Onslaught

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Tommy Terror

Sweetheart and variations (sweetie, my sweet-)

I know that "Sweetheart - Derogatory" is a southern thing, but I can't see him using other nicknames, really

Expect to be used as an armrest; have him lean down to call you sweetie

Will RARELY use it when he's upset; if he's in a bad mood, it sounds super condescending

If he's upset, he'll just refer to you as "love"; just so if he's angry, you still know he loves you

Tuppence Terror

Doll or Dolly

Face it; she's stronger than you are

It's her power!

So to her, you're kinda just a lil ragdoll

She'll emphasize it by picking you up & squishing you

Psimon

Love

Simple and to the point, as he seems to be

He'll call you any others he gleans from your thoughts, but his go to is always "My love"

Typically not in public, but if he's working with new members of the Light and you're around?

He wants everyone to know that you're his

Devastation

Darling

Almost in the Yandere sense

Now that you're her partner, you're pretty much hers, period

Ofc she lets you do your thing and whatever, she truly loves and cares about you

But if she ever sees you being threatened or whatever, it's on sight

Icicle Jr.

Snowflake

Not in the Fight Club way that most people use it

You're so precious to him!

One of a kind!

..and, y'know. The ice thing

Typically calls you "My snowflake" when talking to others

Shimmer

Ember

Not to get poetic on main, but you're the key to lighting up her world

She's a pretty reserved person, so only expect nicknames in private

Also expect things like love of darling

Cheesy, but at least she's connecting with people ^-^

Mammoth

Dove

It's just a cute little nickname, he told you

Helpless little bird

Really, though?

Doves are a symbol of peace

To him, you are the calm of the storm; one of the only things that can ground him, a sign that there are still good things out there

[pin-crusher2000]

Earth 66 Headcanon Asks

1) Who do the New Young Justice consider their greatest arch enemies?

2) Similar to above but for Young Titans?

3) Since Robert and Jake dated for a while, what was their best date they ever had?

4) What was also Chris and Mar’i best date?

5) Are the teams monitored by any of the senior Titans I.e Beast Boy, Cyborg etc, The way how Red Tornado monitored YJ back then?

Good questions @paladin-of-nerd-fandom65

1: definitely Kid Amazo (from the super-sons comic), a OC named Pain (a character based on the old YJ villain Harm) & Vandal Savage & Felix Faust.

2: Kid Brainiac (who I mention a few times) another OC called Knuckle (mention in a previous ask) Abuse (Colin Wilkes) in a au, & maybe some teen titans villains such as cinderblock & mammoth. Also the court of owls in my universe.

3: one of the best dates (sometime during 2022-2024) was a movie date: they saw Sonic the hedgehog 2, got super hype for the “teaser” character ;)

4: hmmm a date on the Eiffel Tower in Paris in their late teens early adult. & a dance & make out session in the beautiful night sky with the full moon in the background.

5:

Young Titans: besides parents; Raven, cyborg, Changling (beast boy) monitor them. (Sometimes the old YJ group watches them too, gets very chaotic XD)

(New) Young Justice: mostly Conner & Cassie, but the rest & Red tornado (sometimes for him) watches the new group.

Let me know if you got more ;)

[yjwhatif]

I absolutely love it when I see you’ve made a long post about Ed/Bart/YJ in general. A lot of the thoughts you’ve shared (especially those about Ed/Bart) are thoughts I’ve had myself but you articulate them so nicely. It just proves that the show is good at conveying certain things/getting points across even if the characters themselves didn’t have a lot of screen time/dialogue. Also when thinking about Ed’s powers I as well came to the conclusion that perhaps he needs some kind of an anchor point in order to reach unknown destinations. I hope that we do see his powers explored a bit more, considering the massive improvement he’s had with them since S2(I mean from sight lines only to another dimension is quite the jump). Anyways keep up the good work!

🥰 You have no idea how much I am beaming after reading this, honestly thank you so much @monrageo for your kind words. I can’t stop smiling!

I’m always so self conscious about how long my post get - mainly because I don’t intend for them to be so long. Also I feel like people probably get bored after a paragraph - so part of me looks at myself doing them as wasting precious time which could be spent on “important things” instead of this. But I enjoy doing this - noticing the smallest thing and realising the mammoth amount of implications it possesses or exploring the wide world of what ifs with weird thoughts which will likely wind up going nowhere. I love doing these post and to see they are enjoyed by at least one other person is enough to remind me I’m not wasting anything.

Also a lot of the time I feel like I’m rambling so much and failing to actually get my point across when I write - that’s why the posts get so long. So thank you for the reassurance that I am getting across the thoughts I’m thinking in a coherent way - it makes me feel so much better. Though I’m just pointing out what the show puts down of course - it’s genius deserves my time - and I’m just glad I’ve found my way to show my support for it. I’ve never connected to anything as much as I have to YJ (I only really discovered it about a year before S3 was released) and I’m so happy to be apart of this fandom - it honestly opened my mind to the wider world and I’m so grateful for that.

And finally on the topic of Ed and Bart, they just deserve to be talked about because they are amazing - whether it’s together or apart they are just brilliant. I will take all the content you can give me because I love them so much! I read this fic* today and OMG I needed that so badly — it was SO GOOD!! Obviously we can’t know if we’re gonna get the pair together in S4 - I have my theories but also my doubts - so we are just gonna have to wait and see — but absolutely give me more exploration of Ed’s powers and stuff… The way I see it is - S2 he wanted rid of them, S3 he’s accepted them, and s4 he loses complete control of them and chaos ensues — but maybe that’s just me.

Anyway. I’ll stop there since this is getting long again (I can’t help it) and say thanks again for like the millionth time. I’ve been feeling like nothing I’ve been doing the last couple months has had any real value whatsoever, so seeing others actually like what I’ve written here has genuinely made my month. I totally appreciate the time and energy you put in to reading my thoughts and sending me this response. It means a hell of lot. 🙏

— LB 💛

*The fic was INVULNERABLE by AILERUA on AO3 - I totally recommend checking it out if you haven’t already - the story is so simple and quiet but the relationships portrayed through the different conversations are so deep and feel straight out of the show. Definitely what you want if you’re looking for some Ed/Bart reading… Also I now really wanna see more Ed & Jaime friendship content because I’m absolutely loving that! ❤️💛💙

[azulso]

The team vs Cobra part 2 @christopherjonesart

[businesscasualart]

Sorry to spam you I’m so sorry but listen listen Psimon catching one of Onslaught vaping 💀💀💀——

Hey, this doesn’t even qualify as spamming to me but don’t EVER worry about spamming me! I’ve had so many notifications (well…okay…I went from no notifications to a couple everyday) and I feel so loved and it’s so fun talking to y’all and just DONT SWEAT IT! Okay? <333 I love this. The only distress I received is worrying I’ll miss or forget about one.

okay okay the actual ask now, that is SO funny to me. Hm.

idk if Psimon would intervene in the earlier years of Onslaught. I think he’d be noticeably irked but consider it not his place. But as the years go by, I can absolutely see him walking past an Onslaught member who thinks they’re being sneaky vaping off to the side until Psimon uses his telekinesis to yank the vape out of their hands and chuck it into the horizon without paying them a second glance. He’d tick any vaping members of Onslaught off so much but what can they do?

Trying to think of who’d get upset in his place earlier on and like, I think Shimmer? Idk if there’s a canon answer to if she speaks or not and I’m pretty undecided, maybe she speaks a little? She’d be the one to go up to them and be all “You know that’s addictive, right?” “You know addiction kills, right?” “Don’t be making me breathe that stuff in secondhand.” Etc. But even if she can’t speak, if looks could kill, I’m sure we can agree her body count would be doubled. She’d get her point across somehow.

Now, with Devastation, I don’t even think she knows what vaping is. Like…in the beginning of the show, she’s One (1) year old and she seems to be spending most of that time in prison. The most insane prison in the world I may add. She’s probably seen some crazy stuff, some crazy stereotypes, probably eye witnessed people cooking up drugs in the prison toilets and doing substances off of each other’s bodies and whatnot but like…she sees a teeny tiny lil vape pen? I don’t think it’s gonna click immediately. She’d walk up to a vaping Onslaught member and ask them “What’s that? OuO” and they just gotta stand there like a preteen caught doing something dubious on the internet but they’re parents aren’t internet savvy so they gotta gamble if they wanna explain it or try and pass it off as something that won’t get them in trouble. They are dead meat if she finds out they lied to her tho.

Tuppence and Mammoth I feel are on the same page. Maybe Tommy too? They don’t like it but don’t do much to stop it unless it’s made their problem. They huff and roll their eyes and look all annoyed but they don’t do much about it.

Now Icicle, and maybe Tommy, make think it’s pretty rad in a “hehe rebellion >:)” kinda way…however…everyone I think could competently vape has passed, been marked off as being against vaping, whatever. Cameron and Tommy would stand there coughing and stuff, I wouldn’t put it too far beyond them to accidentally swallow the dang pen, idk what they’re doing, they’re just on some knucklehead behavior. .

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aheem…Psimon doesn’t like vaping but I think he’d have a particular disdain for the ones that are all flavored, masking the original bad smell and taste, bc it reminds him of the way hospitals smell, with the pinesol and bleach trying to desperately hide the scent of death and sickness. Okay bye-

[thingsasbarcodes]

Young Justice 2x05 - Beneath

[lazypanartist]

Bro you slayed so good on the request thank you 🫡

Also, this isn’t a request, but imagine Team Onsalught having a sleep over—like imagine the fights and cuddle piles they all have—

Pishdifbskabsk-

SO glad you liked how it turned out! I low-key love writing for 'em, the team's too underrated

But yeah. Onslaught sleepovers..

Ik that realistically they all probably share a living space, but imagine what happens when everyone's home together after a while-

Shimmer gets turned into a human popcorn machine temporarily (Iirc she has a heat-based power) If anything happens to catch on fire, Cameron's got it

They all watch movies while sitting like villains (or queer people); draped over random pieces of furniture and each other

Pillow fighting! Typically ends with pillows just being thrown at each other, and someone starting an impromptu wrestling match (usually Tuppence)

Y'know those serious chats that happen sometimes? Vent sessions with friends, whatever. Imagine that, but EVERYONE'S parentals are shitty and the friends have already killed people and would do it again for you. They've had to talk down Mammoth from actually trying to go out and kill Cameron's dad.. more than once

Pretty much everyone ends up falling asleep on top of Devastation, Tommy, and Mammoth. They're Big.

If anyone ends up having a nightmare, Psimon doesn't even wake them up, just attacks the problem at the source. Typically ends up with him and the other person leaning against each other on top of whichever Big Person has been chosen

:p I hope you like this, too ^-^ Thanks for all the ideas!

[youngjusticeslut]

And all of the YJ asking where was the Justice League in all of their situations (Trigon, Terra's betrayal, that whole manhunt for supervillains, and other things that went bump in the night) Perhaps also bringing in the HIVE as TT Mammoth fights YJ Mammoth as Dick is like "Who am I suppose to hit!?" Or when YJ Dick and TT Dick are arguing, Artemis calls them out by their names but the two look at each other with Artemis going "....Big Dick!" As Connor and Wally lean behind her confused.

omg this is nuts 

[edjeerebeloos]

I looked up that mammoth guy lol cause I was curious after seeing some of your self insert character drawings, and I saw the lil guy like ah aw he cute I can see why they lik- *sees the bigger guy* oh.... oh wowsies.. *sweats* him big-- anyways the question I came to ask is do you like lil guy mammoth or bigger guy mammoth or is it equal?

(Asdfghkkljkl same lmao)

And it’s equal I guess?? I mean, in YJ he was injected and permanently stuck as the Big, but I have an au with a friend where he just,, injects himself before a battle and it wears off,,

I’m rambling and that ^^^ might be useless but I originally liked his “human” form, and then I watched the episode and he became this big-ass guy (which I’m not all that attracted to asjdjsb)

And at the same time, there’s different incarnations of him, but the Young Justice one is my personal favourite. (The Teen Titans ones are Very Good too,,)

This was a long and rambly answer but I’d say overall that it honestly depends on the incarnation of him, but his Young Justice “human” form is my personal fave!

(Wbsjd sorry if this is confusing and doesn’t make sense)

[businesscasualart]

Psimon: If you guys mess up this mission yOULL END UP AT MCDONALDS

Tommy, Cameron, and Baran:

IM CRYING

yess, you even got the cartoon hats to match the cartoon, I’m wheezing XD

look…failure is inevitable…it’s part of the learning process- XD

[businesscasualart]

hear me out HEAR ME OUT ONSLAUGHT AT MCDONALDS BUT THE YOUNGER MEMBERS ARE IN THE PLAYPLACE AND THEYRE TRYNA GET PSIMONS ATTENTION FROM THE WINDOW——-

PFFT I USED TO DO THAT! YESSSS Psimon tries to avoid eye contact, bc he knows his attention will just encourage them, and maybe Shimmer and/or Tuppence stop and try and tell everyone else to stop, like the one kid going "stoppp, you're going to get us into trouble!''...but most do Not stop. They get louder and louder. They break the window. A few kids get trampled. People get real mad but they go to complain to the guardians but it's like...an 11ft buff woman and a pale, hooded scrawny man with something wrong with his face. Kind of intimidating, as you can imagine. Psimon gets too mad with them and just ends up glowering in silence the whole way "home". Devastation kinda has to pick up the slack and yells at the gang, but hurts a couple of feelings and feels bad about it so she has to stumble through an apology later.

[businesscasualart]

I’m rewatching Young Justice and got to the episode “Secrets” and in disbelief that ghosts are a canon thing in this universe and only one ghost is shown ever (to my memory). So I will propose to you the sleep deprived and caffeine infused idea that has been plaguing my mind for the past few hours:

Onslaught encounters a temperamental ghost haunting there base….shenigans ensue

(Always Sunny in Philadelphia Theme Plays)

PLEASE, that’d be so fun. I gotta rewatch that episode. I don’t know the exact details, but if Greta is the only ghost we see (I’m guessing things like the spirits of people in the Fate helmet are different things and she’s our only example) …idk…ghosts can’t speak much if at all, they float, disappear, reappear, touch some things but other things go through her? Manifest images with enough effort. I’d assume they get telekinesis privileges.

That’d be chaos. Idk if a ghost could even harm Onslaught but oh, the psychological warfare would be so effective. It would drive them crazy. I don’t think any of their powers could even work on a ghost either so they just can’t do anything about it.

I honestly think it would straight up take them days to consider “Oh hey, maybe we should help the ghost rest or something.” As opposed to violence. Which is unfortunate for them since that looks to be…like…the ONLY way to fix a haunting. XD oh man it’d be chaos

[businesscasualart]

Man, I got too many clips of Onslaught in my camera roll. You know it’s bad when your phone won’t let you open your dang camera, email, glitches you delete stuff, crashes your browsers (tho that may have to do with the 1849 tabs but I digress)

I would delete them but also you just can’t find Young Justice clips anywhere. I’m assuming they got a legal team of assassins back there-