#a deal and a puppet

[squshymarsh]

DCxDP Prompt #5

For the bit(we’ll be cultists)

When Danny won the title of Ghost King, he wasn’t expecting some of his more ghostly attributes to seep over into his human form.

Or to be unable to control his powers like at all for a month or two after gaining his new title.

He’s still 14-15 though and has to be in Highschool to make sure his grades don’t fall any further. Even if he did just save the town with only his piers in his grade know about him.

It’s no surprise when he accidentally walks through a door after trying to open it only to find himself intangible or to start floating away with no way to control it and need one of his classmates to save him from floating into the stratosphere.

It’s all fine for a while, people help him. Those who used to bully him now lend a hand when he needs it. They aren’t kind about it but they aren’t shoving him into lockers anymore.

But that doesn’t last.

People start to notice the strange things that keep happening as his powers grow and become harder and harder to hide even with help. He had made an entire class take place on the ceiling one day. Another he made half the town float.

The Fenton parents and the GIW start working together to figure it out. It’s only a matter of time if no one does anything

So what is Danny, his friends and his class going to do to hide the real reason of what’s going on?

They pretend to be a cult. Full on cartoonishly cult like. The chanting, the robes, the sneaking out to an old building on the edge of town to have a ritual kind of cult. Playing off Danny’s fluctuating powers as the results of their work.

This gets the opposition to back off a bit. Not their circus not their monkeys. And the rituals release some of Danny’s pent up power.

Danny just had to lay in a circle, surrounded by the faces of friends and classmates while they chant and his powers gets released a little at a time.

It’s a great deal.

Until Danny is found out one day unable to use the cult as an excuse and has to bounce out of town. And the rest of his Casper High Class, ever committed to the bit, follow him since the GIW and the Fentons are laying waste to the town and it’s just not safe.

Where do they go?

To the Crime Capital of the world of course!

Gotham is the perfect place to continue the bit. Their ‘cult’ runs all the way to Gotham, looking out for one another and the such. Not because they care about each other, of course.

They all tell themselves that but there’s only so much chanting in ghost speak and Latin a frenemy relationship can take.

They are tight knit by time they settle in a collection of old buildings on the edge of Gotham. Danny’s powers are starting to settle, but he still has bad days. Those days the cult gathers and ‘performs a ritual’ but really they just have a little get together, sitting in a big room set up with a circle with Danny laying and meditating in the middle and chat in Latin or Ghost speak.

For the bit, they preform a fake ritual. Headed by Sam since she has all the knowledge on what cults do. For the bit, the give offerings to Danny in exchange for him protecting them both back in Amity and in Gotham. For the bit, they make it a monthly thing or as needed.

Sure Danny doesn’t realize he’s given each of his friends and classmates blessing from a literal King of Gods and Beings Beyond Human Comprehension.

It was for the bit.

What wasn’t for the bit was getting caught by the local furries.

Danny hadn’t had a ritual in a month, his powers were building up but he was stressed with work and school.

His cult of friends decided he needed a ritual and pseudo-kidnap him to sacrifice his own power to himself.

Don’t ask them, it just works.

Mid ‘ritual’ Danny is trapped in the circle while they keep his powers contained as it’s released. He could destroy the building if he so much as blinks. They are nearly through with it. Can return to the party after they’re done and he’s ‘normal’ again.

So when the Bat and Co. crash the ritual, right before the end. Danny can’t do anything while his classmates both defend him, each other, and those trying to finish the ritual.

It’s looking bad but the ritual finishes. Danny is freed from the circle and starts helping his friends defend themselves and escape. Of course, he knows what this looks like. And he knows that the Bats and Birds are just trying to keep their own city safe from a perceived threat.

So he apologizes to them while he takes down the Bats and Birds then absconds with his Cult&Co. hoping they would understand. No one was hurt and there was no loss on either side. Alls well ends well?

To the Bats and Birds.

They find a group of robed cultists that established themselves quickly and then they see the cult gather, having a party until another group come in dragging Adoption Bait behind them. They start the ritual. Bats and Co. think kid is getting sacrificed and step in. Only to be nearly fought off and the ritual to complete.

They then have to watch as some entity controls the kids body to fight them off. The kid looks terrified, apologizing while he is forced to fight for the cult.

Then they all get away.

(I have the flu, have this lil idea/drabble while I try not to die)

[egophiliac]

LET THE BOY HAVE AN EDUCATION

officially at the point where we're starting to see where it's all headed and I am just going NYEEHEEHEE in delight at it all. ahhh...next week can't come soon enough...

[r0semultiverse]

The code at the end of the credits in the FNAF movie spells "COME FIND ME" btw for those without captions.

[shima-draws]

THEY ARE SO SILLY I CARE THEM SM 🥺💕

[basilbots]

Actually adore that Solar got huffy hearing Eclipse is taking over the theatre in the eaps dimension that’s HIS job >:(

I know it’s like a fun fanon concept that Eclipses are territorial Solar included, but no he literally is real and canon Solar engages in their rivalry even when Eclipse isn’t in the room egging him on I love them

[toonyangel]

ACK!!! sorry about no artwork! The last two weeks have been INSANE in my life!!

but take THIS!!!!

And the ear movements from before some detailing was done!

[puppetmaker40]

The toast is to the master puppeteer.

 35 years ago, I arrived at my call for matinee only to find out that Jim Henson had passed away. I was devastated. I still miss the man and all that he could do.  I wonder what he would do with technology today to advance puppeteering. Jim, you are missed by a lot of us still

[tsams-and-co-memes]

"Did you have to be so mean to them?"

"I'm not taking chances with any other things coming here."

"Yeah, but I mean.... they seemed perfectly fine with Charlie."

"Fine or not, everybody has secrets, and I don't care to get involved in their drama."

"I suppose so. So–"

"Does she have enough friends, you think?"

"I'm.... not sure. I think she's been kinda upset with the lack of female friends. I mean, you should've seen her. She seemed really happy, being able to play with them."

"........I'll take note."

((See alt text for image credits. I'm just applying it here because it's the best thing I have that accurately conveys how I'm reacting to the ending of today's EAPS episode))

Not Eclipse, being extremely protective of his home, his friends, and his new family. Also not Eclipse, openly seeming concerned about whether or not his daughter Charlie has enough friends

If he decides to let Sunny and Moonie return in the future, for the sake of letting Charlie have more female friends, honest the god, that would be so, so sweet of him. Whether this man likes it or not, he's not just a caretaker for Charlie or the other dead kids now; he's their dad. He's a dad, and I feel like he can only deny it for so long

[thewertsearch]

AA: i believed the fragment was gibberish from a lunatic AA: after completing his rampage through our session

I guess Gamzee’s rampage wasn’t a one-off, then. He’s turned to murder in other timelines, in what appear to be substantially different circumstances.

Is this LOPAH, or Alternia? Just how early can Gamzee snap?

Edit: She does say he rampaged through the troll session, so I'm assuming the former, given that Karkat was the first one to Enter.

AA: and discovered the text which the code was recorded in AA: i decided to return to the alpha timeline with the text […] AA: in the alpha timeline this text was destroyed AA: in an explosion caused by a computer virus AA: this explosion did not take place on my timeline AA: i identified this event as the difference prompting the offshoot

Why would Karkat’s virus affect Gamzee, though? As far as I can tell, its only material effect was to kill the lusi, and I don't see why that'd cause him to snap.

...hmm. Let's see if we can work this out, actually.

OK. In this hypothetical timeline, Goatdad didn’t die at sea. He would have returned to Gamzee’s hive, and, ...potentially done something that caused him to snap early, I guess. But what?

It is still piping hot but you can't help yourself. You sneak a taste of the SOPOR SLIME PIE. You aren't supposed to eat that slime. It does funny things to a troll's head. But you were never taught that on account of a lousy upbringing. Your custodian was always out to sea.

...aww, man.

Gamzee was on the slime because Goatdad was an absent father. Maybe, in this world without the curse, Goatdad returned to his hive, decided to be a parent for once, and cut him off.

It fits extremely well, but I really don't want to dwell on the possibility. It would mean that this Gamzee became a killer because someone cared for him - and that his first victim was probably the old goat.

‘Hey, that’s a weird colour palette. Why did he....

...oh.’

This is.... I don't know what to call this. Gamzee took out all of his team's heavy hitters, completely solo. He killed Sollux, he killed Kanaya, he killed Vriska...

How? How is this guy so ridiculously fucking dangerous?

I see Snowman w-

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!

[asavt]

The Princess and her Court (Mime) Jester

Not exactly sure what moved me to make this one! But it was a fun piece anyways

[crispycreambacon]

Welcome to the Puppet History fandom! Wanna ship the main character? These are your only two options. Choose wisely.

[pentagrahamcracker738]

Puppets!

Redraw of one of my oldest pieces with these two, crazy how much I’ve improved

[weirdcoregal35]

So after ONE EPISODE, the TSBS fandom is divided. And I am here to try and fix it. Let’s make a deal.

Solar x Nebula shippers should not comment under Solar x (anyone else like Ruin or Nexus) that it’s canon. They’re probably aware and just wanna draw their ship!

That being said, the other ships shouldn’t hate on Solar x Nebula. Let them be. It’s annoying.

We can all settle our differences somehow! We don’t need to be in an awkward argument about all of this.

yes, it was a little quick for Solar x Nebula, and yes, Solar x Nexus is toxic, and YES, Same with Solar x Ruin. BUT LET PEOPLE SHIP WHAT THEY WANT! Not the pr0shippers. They’re not involved with any of this.

WHO’S WITH ME?! WHO JUST WANTS TO SHIP OUR SHIPS WITHOUT JUSTIFICATION OR SAYING ITS CANON!! WHO WANTS TO STOP THE DRAMA!!

Tag a Solar shipper of any kind in this!!

[awerzo]

Our hands are no longer tied

[grandcovenant]

who's pulling the strings of the puppet king?

[treezxu]

okay maybe i will elaborate im just thinking abt the soul like. the game starts w us making a vessel we dont get to use. and then we're told that we dont have a choice about who we get to be. we're put in the position we're in against our will. if you choose to not play, then in the story the world ends. also chalking it up to just "you chose to play tje game" is lame and stupid. even without that fact. and we do have to acknowledge that the soul is not a 100% equal to our will. if i wanted to reveal myself as the soul to susie and noelle, i cant. bc thats not how the story goes. we are the soul but the soul can't be 100% us. and the reason i bring this up is because again you can't just boil it down to "you're playing the game therefore willingly taking kris's free will" no!!! im playing as a tiny heart inside a teenager!! its not player=bad!!