#and gave her his blessing :)

[bluerosefox]

Our Well Deserved Break

Its

Shenanigans (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

Time again!~

-x-x-

Danny, our boy the Ghost King, looking over a small team going over relic's given or 'offered' to Pariah Dark over the years both before and after he was sealed away. As they're taking inventory of the chaotic offering room, they stumble across a certain artifact.

This artifact is able to summon a set number of people (it does have its limits) of the users wishes to them and it sets up a barrier around the surrounding place so no one summoned gets out. You know, those kinds of artifact's certain people use to summon heroes and or villains into a room and have them fight to see whose the strongest or for a tournament, Yeah that kind of artifact!

Danny, who found the item, takes a look at after being told what it does. Then out of the corner of his eye he spots himself in a mirror in the room and see's his crown floating above his head and feels the full weight of his responsibility since before and after his crowning. Yes he had help with his advisor, despite how cryptid he can be at times, and of his council but still the weight was a bit too much for a teenager like him.

An idea struck his mind when he hears the ticking of a clock behind him. Without saying a word Danny looks back and raises an eyebrow at Clockwork whose staring at him in silence as well. He glances at the item, tilts his head a bit before...

Smiles in only the way CW knows would both be good for Danny and amusing for him. He nods and says "One weekend should be fine. All timelines will be paused for them. I suggest telling your friends to help prepare for your guests. Enjoy and have fun my King."

"YES!" Danny's voice echoing in the offering room made many ghosts in the room jump for a bit.

This was totally going to be fun!

-x-x-

When the following weekend arrived, young and very stressed teen heroes from across the multiverse are suddenly pulled from their worlds and are summoned into the Infinite Realms. Before any of them can panic or start fights a voice rang out above them and when they looked they could see a young teen, with a crown floating above his head, white hair, and glowing green eyes sitting on a throne.

He smiled and said

"Welcome fellow stressed out Heroes and Heroines to Phantom's Keep! I'm King Phantom, recently crowned fifteen year old, and this is the Infinite Realms! The birth and ending of the multiverse afterlife! Now don't worry none of you are dead or anything like that. I summoned you all here for one reason and one reason only..."

Here Danny paused, just to troll a tiny bit, and could see some of the more tense heroes readying up for a fight or at least argue to let them go. He grinned though and then said.

"And thats.... TO HAVE FUN!"

After that he floated out of his throne and with a flourish in the air he waved his hands and his throne room changed with party decor all around. Tables off to the side appeared with food and drinks from well everywhere and anywhere the multiverse, balloons rose from the ground and floated upwards, streamers flew across above to attach themselves to the other sides, the castle lights shifted to a dim and music began playing from somewhere.

Danny grinned brightly down at them and their shocked faces. oh that's funny, thank goodness Tucker is recording this and Jazz is gonna scrapbook this party for him (she plans on making them for all the guests as a party gift later, you know to remember how fun the party was)

"Now all of you are stressed out teen heroes with a lot of responsibilities on their shoulders! Believe me, I know that feeling, been there done that still doing it even now! But! My advisor says this will be both fun for me and good for you guys to spend one whole weekend here to de-stress and have fun! I do have some ground rules though. One your timelines are in fact PAUSED, you don't have to worry about calling your parents or if you got mentors to let them know where you are at. Two you are all heroes here, many of you are from different worlds and if you are from the same world they already know or CAN be trusted with your real identities but you are NOT required to remove any masks or de-transform or anything like that, if you wish there are masks on that green table over there you can stick on if you want to keep your identities hidden and are spelled to stay on and fuzz the minds of anyone trying to remember your looks once its on, even if they catch a good look at you right now it'll fuzz their memories of you once the mask is on and even after the party don't worry we thought of the time. Three, boys and girls rooms will be at different wings within the Keep! Just ask any of the maid or butler ghosts that will be joining us shortly and they will guide you to the rooms! Fourthly! There are sparing rooms if you wanna test your strengths with others, I only ask please don't get too carried away. We are here to have fun not make enemies! and lastly PLEASE DO NOT try to leave the castle, we are in the very afterlife of the multiverse people, its like the ocean and even I find it hard to navigate it sometimes. Portals can open up to any and all worlds, different timelines, etc etc. I have key items here in the castle that can pinpoint YOUR timeline and world so when the party is over I can send you home no problem, so again please do not attempt to leave."

Danny paused to take a breath, okay ground rules set up and warnings given. He could see the absolute bewildered looks on all the heroes faces and held back a laugh. He smiled however when one of the teens, mask on his face already and dressed in green, yellow, and red asked 'Why?'

"Why? Well... I think its time us teens get to have some fun without worrying about the next big bad or world ending event. Even if just for a weekend, we do deserve a break. So... Lets have some fun for once!" Danny responded.

[scintillyyy]

robin #127

batman #416

dick 🤝 tim

finding out there's a new robin through the newspaper

[fantastic-nonsense]

Wasn’t it Alfred who’d made Damian Robin in Battle for the Cowl? Dick must have agreed after the fact, but Alfred was the one who set it in motion.

Nominally yes, in the sense that Alfred is the person who first put the cape in Damian's hands:

"You can't keep me here." "I'll do no such thing. But understand that you've been injured. Severely so." ......."What the hell are you pulling here, Al?" "It's time to earn your keep. If you're up for it." "So long as I'm not wasting any more time in here, whatever." -Battle for the Cowl #3

However, the reality is "not really." Three things to note about this:

One: no one in the story who actually knows what Damian's gotten up to while Dick was tracking down Tim and fighting Jason actually treats Damian as Robin. For the purposes of the narrative and everyone in it, Tim is still Robin, as Squire points out:

"I'm sure Nightwing could use a hand finding Robin. This way, then." -Battle for the Cowl #3

We don't really see anyone else's reaction to Damian wearing the cape in BftC. Even when Damian saves Tim while wearing the symbol, Tim has no actual reaction besides a single exclamation of Damian's name, and he seems more bewildered that Damian is there at all than he is about Damian wearing the Robin tunic. But the people we do see? Don't treat him as Robin. They treat him as an ally who happens to be wearing the Robin tunic for convenience.

Two: within the bounds of BftC, Damian is explicitly framed as being "Dick's responsibility" with Bruce gone. After Jason shoots Damian, Dick has the same conversation with Alfred that Bruce often did whenever one of his Robins was hurt, framed in a way that made it obvious where things were heading:

"Damian...this child...I could have gotten him killed tonight. I have a responsibility to him now. I let him down, Alfred." "Bruce also said the same of you...and Master Timothy, many times over the years." "And of Jason Todd." "Him as well." -Battle for the Cowl #2

Dick has already implicitly accepted Damian as his Robin at this point. And though Dick and Tim have not explicitly discussed it (as we see via their argument in Red Robin #1), it was also fairly clear that Tim would not be Dick's Robin based on how Dick thought of Tim by that point (as his brother, as his equal, as someone who should not be taking orders from him full-time). Tim had already spent time as the Robin to Dick's Batman back in Prodigal, and both boys had come a long way since then. Once Dick decided to take up the cowl at the end of BftC #2, it was inevitable that Damian would be his Robin rather than Tim (for a whole host of reasons I won't get into here). Alfred just hastened that inevitability.

Three: simply wearing the cape does not make you Robin. You are Robin if and only if two things happen: you have been explicitly accepted by Batman as his partner and Dick Grayson has given his blessing. You are a potential Robin. You are an ally wearing a Robin costume. But you are not Robin until those things happen.

Tim was not Robin in A Lonely Place of Dying even though he stole the costume with Alfred's help to save Bruce and Dick. Tim did not become Robin until after both Bruce and Dick had accepted him as such and he went through a training period (he was known as "Little Bat" until then, btw). The same is true of Damian, who wore the Robin tunic at least three times prior to actually becoming Robin (Bruce briefly took him out while wearing it in Batman and Son and he famously wore it during the events of Resurrection of Ra's al Ghul); he was no more Robin then than he was in BtfC.

The costume isn't what makes you Robin. Batman saying you're Robin and Dick giving the blessing of his parents' legacy to you makes you Robin (which. I will freely admit that's a loaded, complicated topic given the history of how the Robin mantle has been passed down over the years. but it generally holds true). Damian properly becoming Robin after BftC was clearly Dick's choice; Alfred can't "make" anyone Robin if Batman doesn't agree.

The core conceptual problem with Battle for the Cowl (well. there's about 5000 problems with BtfC. but you know what I mean) is that it tries to deal with about fifty different things at once, most of which all ordinarily would have gotten their own dedicated space across multiple books or tie-in comics to deal with. Instead, all of these things are smushed into a single massive threeshot event comic with awful characterization and a near-incomprehensible chain of events. In a perfect world, we would have gotten the same kind of build-up and transition between Tim and Damian that we did in the 90s when Tim became Robin after Jason's death. Unfortunately that's not what we got, so we're left to fill in the gaps ourselves.

But textually, Alfred did not make Damian Robin. Alfred handed an ally to the cause a Robin tunic during a crisis specifically for the purpose of rescuing Robin. After that crisis was over, Batman chose to make that same ally his Robin for reasons entirely unrelated to his wearing the symbol during that specific crisis. Dick chose Damian to be his Robin, and that choice should not be looked over just because removing it conveniently lifts some of the hurt feelings and messiness of that transition off of Dick's shoulders.

Dick handled his own legacy, as he should have. And while he did not handle it with as much communication and grace as he should have or probably would have liked to, it was his mantle and legacy to handle at the end of the day. For once, he had complete agency over choosing a successor to his heroing legacy (and his parents' legacy), not Bruce or Alfred or anyone who self-appointed themselves as a successor, and we should acknowledge and respect that.

He didn't pick Damian because Alfred unilaterally gave him a battlefield promotion; he picked Damian because he thought Tim was grown and independent enough to thrive without taking his orders every day and believed Damian needed his direct oversight and the growth opportunity being Robin would provide more than Tim did. Allow Dick the dignity of his choices instead of acting like he had no input or say in the matter of who his Robin was going to be.

[fabuloustrash05]

If you think the 2012 April x Donnie romance was bad then just know that in the very first draft/concept for the 2012 show ALL of the Turtles were gonna be in love with April as well as having her being an “emotional substitute” for the boys cause the story was gonna take place after Splinter's death.

[1071png]

xillia pokemon teams ^.^

(left my long ass comments about the teams in the notes for the curious)

[babblingeccentric]

Zoro knows what transgender is because he drunkenly lets drag queens and butches try to explain gender to him in gay bars and at parties

Sanji knows what transgender is because the brave citizens of the Kamabaka Kingdom forcibly educated him

Luffy does not know what transgender is because he thought you would grow a dick when you hit puberty if you wanted to be a boy (what sabo and ace told him when they were nine) and assumed tits worked the same way

[lloonlloon]

She runs so fast when she’s angry

[trees-to-meet-you]

I just really really love Tangled so much

[bumblingbabooshka]

Tuvok’s daughter is two things and two things only: 1) Trans 2) Not tired

[falllpoutboy]

show ares saying he hates his kids...

[afairerplace]

My impression of how strongly Taylor felt about Harry Styles is VASTLY different after hearing the vault tracks

[emmafallsinlove]

it’s should consider a crime that rory best looks were when she had dated logan (her bangs in s6 / s7) and not jess.

[hussyknee]

Moment of silence for all the incredibly hot people who have no idea they're hot and won't believe it no matter how many people tell them and never will until they look at photos of themselves 20 years later and go "holy fuck I looked like THAT??"

Another moment of silence for their best friends tasked with beating back every single dickhead pestering them after every single mixer to set them up with Hot Friend, including people who were hitting on them until they saw Hot Friend.

[ferromagnetiic]

She'd been struggling with his birthday -- debating on how to celebrate him. If she wanted to celebrate him, at all. After all, he had (not-so-kindly) put a damper on her birthday celebration, and it would take her a while to forget it. It was likely that Kid would have a good birthday, with or without her input --- it made her wonder why she cared, at all. She did, though. And for that, Kid would receive an expensive bottle of whiskey from one of the best distilleries in his homeland. Along with it, a decanter set in the shape of a skull, with matching glasses. Something about it simply screamed Eustass Kidd, and Nami knew he had to have it when she saw it. Attached, was a little note. She didn't make it a long one; simple, precise, cursive writing centered on the page:

Happy birthday, dickhead. - 🍊🧡

【 KID'S BIRTHDAY 2024. 】 @chatcambrioleur

          When Kid had first discovered the Straw Hats were in the immediate vicinity, he had been keeping a very mindful eye out for their navigator in particular. If she was going to seek revenge for the events occurring during her last birthday, today would be the best day to do it. For this reason, he told himself he would be even more on guard than usual — but she was crafty, and he didn't trust her to not try something just because she was under additional surveillance.

Several hours have passed since he was first informed of their appearance, but he has still yet to spot her. Admittedly, his attention has since been divided; with his own crew members regularly approaching him to offer him warm words coupled with cold drinks, she has had plenty of opportunities to slip by him unnoticed. His attentiveness further dwindles with every mouthful of hard liquor, and his plan to intercept her arrival on his turf ebbs further and further away from him.

By the time he has found her gift, he has all but forgotten that he was originally intending to watch out for her. The copious amount of celebratory booze has stolen the scheme away from him, and the cat burglar has already successfully slipped away. In her wake, the note attached to the present she left him exposes his blunder. It is innocently placed on a wooden crate on the main deck, somehow teasing him, playfully mocking him with its mere presence. He recognizes her handwriting even without a blatant signature; her elegant script was distinct in its meticulousness.

If she ultimately does still intend to later return and make an attempt at humiliating him today, at least the generosity of the birthday present will soften the blow. There's no doubt over him liking the items she's selected — a pair of copper irises linger over the decorative skull-shaped bottle for a long time, and his expression brightens in a way that is immediately telling. Nami was always full of surprises, but he hadn't expected any of them to be the kind that would genuinely please him.

It is rare for him to willingly share with anyone other than those who sailed under his flag, and yet, he finds himself considering that if she has not yet entirely absconded the area, he might be willing to offer her a few sips. He carries the glass skull neatly tucked under his arm, and one of the corresponding glasses in each hand. It is likely the alcohol already in his system is the culprit for this minor display of geniality, but he will not consider that now.

He looks for her, briefly. He checks in with those on his crew who had been performing guard duty, and then he asks anyone who might have noticed when the whiskey first appeared. Stealth was her profession, and in the midst of birthday merriment, there was barely a sober member of his crew now remaining. She must have found it no major feat to appear, only to then quickly bleed back into the cover of nightfall.

A shame, he thinks. He might have liked to have asked if it was bought, or stolen. He suspects he may know the answer already, but he is starting to come to terms with the fact that he may be less adept at predicting her actions than he first assumed. He will drink his own glass, and then he will have hers as well. The smooth amber liquid reflects the quality of the artistic container it is presented in. She's got good taste, but he'd figured that much out a while ago.

Regardless of how good the whiskey is, he will make sure to save some for her to try the next time they meet. The first taste will be complementary, but on the understanding that additional refills will need to be exchanged for more of her tangerines.

[tutuandscoot]

A round of applause for Mr Scott who, while Tessa is being asked about and told her costumes are the best in the competition, spends the whole time muttering (quite obviously) how no one ever comments on his costumes, all to set up the perfect moment to be able to say how beautiful Tessa is… x

[oddsnake]

dragon besties did it...!