#after the loop breaks

[superbat-lmao]

Damian Wayne stuck in a time loop.

It resets when someone dies, and since Damian is the youngest, it doesn’t matter how rocky his relationship is with the bat-siblings, each and everyone one of them sacrifices themselves for him.

And Damian is pissed off because he doesn’t understand why.

Grayson is obvious, he has made it clear that he feels affection for Damian and has made the most effort into integrating him into the family. Of course he would die for his little brother. And at first, Damian believes he finds this outcome to be the least acceptable.

There is also his Father, again, a logical expression of love. Damian can understand why his Father would die for him, even if he doesn’t want him to. Even if, in the first few loops, he wishes that anyone else would die instead. At least it’s a type of parental relationship he can understand in the abstract, even if it surprises him to see its true about himself. That even though he has several older brothers and is unsure of his place by his Father’s side, the man would do anything to protect him. It reminds him of his Mother, even though he’s sure if she were here she’d find a way for the both of them to live.

Brown is the first one to surprise him. They had worked together when Grayson was Batman and he recognized her competence, but he thought that’s all it was. A working relationship between professionals. A mutal, if grudging respect. He is shocked when she dies, how he had no clue she would go that far for him. How he refuses to let it happen again.

If Brown was a surprise, Cain was a shock. Damian thought of her as nigh invincible, unable to be touched. It was clear she was the best of all of them, that she had seen the hit miles ahead of him, had maybe even seen him brace for it. But she had chosen to let herself go down. He feels every bit his age as he begins to wonder if he’s even more powerless to stop this than he thought if his most competent sister chose to let herself fall.

Thomas was confusing. He was new, newer than Damian and not quite sure of himself. They rarely saw each other aside from school due to the mismatch in schedules. Thomas gave him a wide berth, respecting Damian’s space in a way his other siblings failed to do or intentionally disregarded. Damian didn’t think much of him. Couldn’t understand how Thomas hadn’t even paused, had taken the hit as if it was an unquestionable law of the universe. As if they were really brothers and not strangers. It was a sentiment Damian didn’t know how to return.

Todd was the worst. He had seen him, briefly, before he had come to Gotham from the league. His Mother spoke of him rarely, but with pride. He was skilled, if untamed. He avoided the manor and his brothers and their Father. The only one he usually sought was Pennyworth. That is why Todd was the worst. Because he avoided all of them. Because this family had already allowed him to die before and he had come back wrong. A painful reminder that their family has failed. And he fought so hard to remind them all of that failure, every way he chose to keep fighting to live, to prioritize his own life over their Father’s morality. Only to throw it away for Damian. To force him to watch how his brother’s second death shattered their Father and Pennyworth and Grayson in a way that Damian didn’t think they’d survive a second time.

Drake is incomprehensible. Antithetical. A cosmic error. Impossible. There is no love between them, no grudging respect, nothing. Damian can’t stand to look at the person who he feels is a disgrace to the costume Damian now wears. He is the one who dies for Damian the most. The one he can’t possibly understand. The brother he has the least time to question, who gives him the least answers as to his motivations. Who will both die for Damian and refuse to utter a word to him in the same loop. It is madness. Damian needs to prove himself above this embarrassment, and yet Drake chooses to be beneath him. To die for him. It is in spite of Damian’s skill that Drake dies, and Damian hates him for it.

[biasomnia]

1st image is stolen from Twitter, 2nd and 3rd are stolen from my instagram. As someone that was excited for Ibuki, I was disappointed (but as a HiiroP and just Amagi bro fan, unsurprised) and it was egregious enough to need to demand change. As a RyuseitaiP, this hurts me so deeply. These are the characters I can see myself most in, the unit based on holding onto what you love and never letting go of it, and protecting it. Shinobu would not wave it off, his unit wouldn’t wave it off. Not only does it mischaracterize Shinobu, but it a way that mischaracterizes the rest of the unit.

Give the superhero unit their autism back, let him love his interest deeply and cry when it’s hurt or taken away. Let us love enstars deeply and cry when you hurt it, Happy Elements.

[annasofthe11thdimension]

The Expression of Limits chatting to the version of herself NOT looping, but who's still aware of her...'gothic double' due to Limit leaving 'homework' (in the form of permanent notes in Odile's book) for the whole party so she + Siffrin (who IS the one looping in this AU) don't keep needing to explain things.

Mostly this is just poking at the question of wishes in a timeline that Odile DIDN'T learn this off Siffrin, and wondering how often someone accidentally makes a wish, because seriously that HAS to happen occasionally.

Even if it likely doesn't have the power to go as badly wrong as in Limit's case.

Also 'Satoshi' is Odile's 'other/second' name in this AU, working the reference to her having another name (not directly state) in the game. As her mother was Vaugardian the fact that she got one feminine name and one masculine one sounds reasonable enough, even if by likely naming practices of the country having two names is rare (at least if Ka Bue's naming conventions are also inspired by Japan's naming practices), and it's a bit unfortunate that the Vaugardian name was feminine one.

Limit is extremely disinterested in being called Odile at this point...or calling the other young/non-looping, version of her that name either.

Hence the compromise of Satoshi, for all that it is NOT a compromise that Odile would have agreed to, if Limit had asked.

[hmsdoodlin]

I’m so incredibly obsessed with Soul Beast Mind.

After Souls transformation and Hearts sudden absence, Mind is forced to take on everything by himself. The man once so confident he could run the ship one handed is stretched thin and forced to face that he’s not enough.

There’s no one around to impress, and yet he still takes great care in his appearance, taking time to do his hair and makeup before leaving his room. He dresses far more formally than usual, buttoning up his shirt and tying his shoes with a blank stare and a worn creaky prosthetic.

His boots click down the empty hallway far too early in the morning, preparing three meals three times a day for people who will never eat them. He sets the table and eats alone, staring at the food on plates he knows won’t be touched. He meticulously puts away leftovers, dating and portioning everything in little plastic containers. The fridge is full of food, throwing away perfectly good meals to make room for more.

When Soul comes home he’ll surely be hungry, thankful for his favorites after such a long time away, and there’s always a chance Heart will sneak out of his room in the middle of the night to eat. He knows Soul isn’t coming home and that Hearts been starving himself, but he can’t bring himself to stop. Just in case.

He occasionally knocks on Hearts door, asking simple questions in an attempt to check up on him.

“Dinners ready, it’s your favorite.”

“Can I come in? I need to check on your wing.”

He never gets a response.

He spends all of his time taking care of Whole, constantly keeping him stable and alive. His room has accumulated copious amounts of dust, his prized electric guitar going unpolished for weeks when just two months ago he treated it like his baby. There’s no time for hobbies or leisurely activities, ignoring his books to stare blankly at a screen and survey Wholes every waking moment for every day of his life.

He’s tired. He wants his headmates back.

[player-1]

Honestly surprised that no one thought of a post-canon story where Siffrin go to watch a play with the family (and/or Loop too for funsies) to get some stress relief in normal non-timeloop society...Only for it to a Vaugardian retelling of Groundhog Day (1993). Or the 2017 musical, which is also a adaptation of the movie so that'll work too. Mira and Isa immediately clock in that it'll be a super-not-fun-time for Sif but are too nervous to say the quiet part out loud (and/or too embarrassed to leave since they're the Saviors and want to support the production in some way). Odile wants to watch to compare the loops Sif's been through and theorizes if the play was made sometime after they beat the King and got into the rumor mill on Siffrin's timeloops. Bonnie doesn't quite like the timelooping parts (especially the darker moments), but they absolutely love the groundhog prop they use and the idea of it being able to control the weather. Siffrin would not be having a fun time at first but slowly warms up to it watching a extremely dramatized version of the loops despite the drastically different circumstances (or you know...dying from embarrassment and self-hate on all the "mistakes" they made compared to the play version). He and Mira obviously don't like the romance subplot, but Sif also dreads the future questionnaire to compare/contrast the play with the loops.

Bonus points if Loop will not stop heckling the cast even if the Universe threatens to smite them down for their hubris :)

[ojovivomotion]

Phaedra – Impossible Love and Tragedy

Phaedra, wife of the hero Theseus, is a tragic figure from Greek mythology whose story revolves around a forbidden passion. Victim of a curse imposed by Aphrodite, Phaedra falls hopelessly in love with her stepson, Hippolytus, a chaste young man who despises love and worships the goddess Artemis. Rejected by him and consumed by guilt and shame, Phaedra struggles between desire and morality until, unable to bear her pain, she decides to take her own life. Before dying, she leaves a letter falsely accusing Hippolytus of attempting to seduce her, which causes Theseus to curse his own son. The tragedy culminates with Hippolytus’s death, dragged by wild horses, and with Theseus facing the weight of a truth discovered too late. Phaedra’s story embodies the torment of unrequited desire, the self-destruction born from shame, and the fatal consequences of being unable to honestly speak about inner pain.

[eggoatt]

inspired by this thing, i needed to make my own terrible loop plushie. they are blue because i like blue

they're made of two other plushes i found at goodwill and harvested fabric from. we honor their sacrifice.

[sage-nebula]

There's a Pokémon Presents on July 22nd . . .

Maybe they'll tell us what happened to Friede then.

[torchstelechos]

Im saying this with love in my heart, I highly doubt Siffrin likes people touching their face post canon.

[apple-onigiri]

something malicious is brewing

[lailuhhh]

Thinking about how screwed up the timeline is again because canonically the timespan between Peña getting killed and Mac and Jack meeting is two weeks, but then Mac and Charlie were together for the days of a 1000 IEDs, but then we also learn Mac was in Iraq at some point and realistically, we the discord girlies have determined that Mac was only actually deployed for maybe a year but most likely less so when did he have the time to do all that stuff

[sincerely-sofie]

You're scared you'll never care about someone. You're scared you never have. You don't know how much love is held in your chest. You never will.

[angelpuns]

Any time I panic about something silly or insignificant I have to be like ' why are we panicking bout this rn' and then unfortunately my silly lil brain goes ' because what if this thing happens again' and then even more unfortunately I'm like 'damn you're right. We should panic. '

[aizawashuichi]

Aizawa's healing ability is outright superhuman and I can't decide if this is another case of Ohba does not understand injury duration, or if he is so determined to avenge L that he simply refuses to die from things that should have killed and/or incapacitated him.

Second option is the only reasonable option, and you know why, because iirc, Ohba did say that he wanted to kill Aizawa, but just couldn't and so he kept him in. I think that was the soul of the actual Aizawa that forced Ohba to keep him alive and to fight first with his boyfriend and, after his death, for his late boyfriend. I don't accept any other explanation.

[odysseys-blood]

im never getting over how belphie just...yoinked beleth's halo. like the artifact says "given" but he very much did not give it 😭

i lowkey think it was to take some of the heat off of beleth for being a fallen angel and to keep others from being too loud about it but still he did it in the most goofy manner possible. (and smthn smthn a crown symbolizing protection for his people and its from the first person he wanted to keep safe personally)

[yaraef]

More vis dev / illustration from my thesis film titled "A Snake Called Perseus."