#at least its not card games

[im-totally-not-an-alien-2]

@gilbirda Ok, so you made a snippet of on of your AUs a while back (braindead rejected! soulmate i think) and I haven't been able to think of much else since. So my brain made a little thingy for you!

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1. Tim takes a risk one day by writing back to whoever was doodling on his body, with a glittery purple gel pen, asking them to stop trying to contacting him.

All the person asked was, "Why?"

Tim never answers.

2. Danny faces constant rejection from his peers, authority figures, his parents and sister neglect him and now his own soulmate doesn't want him. They hadn't even met before he was rejected. Jazz finds out about Dannys powers and tries to reach out but Danny rejects her pretty violently due to his own pain. Then the episode where Sam and Tucker ditch him for Gregor happens and he gives up.

The two people in his life that has had pretty much complete control over his life and trajectory just abandoned him and he does not take it well. He ripped the symbol off his chest, disappeared and never came back.

3. Danny zooms into a new dimension/universe/whatever to avoid his former friends and family from being able to track him only to land in a place called Central City and immediately getting roped into helping Captain Cold who gives him a normal domino mask and they end up working together for a while.

4. Danny somehow overhears one of the speedster talking on the phone about his friends brothers soulmate issue at some point and they perfectly describe the interaction that happened between Danny and his soulmate all those years ago, down to the glittery purple gel pen and the types of doodles Danny had made as a kid and the things he said.

Danny learned one of his soulmates belonged to a group of detective vigilantes in a place called Gotham. Unfortunately he was spotted by the speedster and Danny had to bounce.

5. The Flash made reports to the Justice League about a meta teen who hes been having trouble with for a while and can't seem to pin down. He only asked for tips though as he "could handle it himself."

6. Danny leaves for Gotham and learned about Catwoman and Batmans weird Master Thief and Greatest Detective dynamic and decided that's what he wants to do. He was going to make his soulmate chase after him one way or another. Someone was going to want him even if they were wanting him behind bars.

He begins robbing bank vaults and museums, leaving no trace or clue as to what happened until he starts leaving a calling card of sorts.

7. Jason, who's been on the outs with his family lately meets this spunky white haired meta kid running around with a sci-fi mask/visor thing and giving supplies to homeless encampments and keeping the less fortunate alive and befriends him. He learns that this is the guy everyone has been searching for and just...tells no one. Jason is all for a Robin Hood vigilante, and really, its kinda funny to see his family squirm.

8. Phantom and Catwoman rob the same museum at the same time but for different things. They stare at eachother from where they're both still crouched from thier respective landings until Danny breaks the tension with "I didn't see you if you didn't see me?"

Catwoman laughs, amused. "Sure."

9. Danny finally narrowed down which of the batfam is his soulmate and introduced himself to them as Phantom.

The first thing Danny did was hit on Tim. Tim is flustered but otherwise doesn't really respond to it and tries to fight Phantom into submission, so of course Danny ghosts him by disappearing through a roof mid fight. Danny made a big show of his intangibility in that fight and made it seem like it was the only power he had but he was very skilled with it and he wanted to impress him.

10. Phantom becomes well known to the underbelly of Gotham. Mostly the homeless and nightworkers. But Danny was open and friendly. Never judging and always ready to lend a helping hand. Even better. He never came to collect on favors.

Over time, they became loyal to him.

11. Danny gets framed for a series of murders and the whole gang (minus Hood) are trying to capture him, thus, motorcycle chase scene. They use the white of his tires to tell when he's gone intangible due to all the dirt falling off the wheels. Nightwing jumps onto the bike and shocks Danny with his encrizma sticks right before Danny grits out "bye bye birdy~" and makes a big show of taking in a deep breath and holding it.

Nightwing is forced to jump off the bike as Danny runs through the concrete abutment of the overpass and coming out the other side

12. Danny meets Tim and Duke in his civilian form while he was at a Wayne tech conference. Danny had been asked about one of his inventions and was trying to show off the blueprints and explain things and thats why he was there in the first place. Duke of course, was internally screaming because that's the guy thats the guy they've been hunting for nearly a year but can find nothing on.

Red Robin confronts Phantom that night on a rooftop and Phantom laughs at him, "Thats why I was avoiding Signal for so long. He'd see my magical girl form and know instantly."

RR holds out a pair of handcuffs and says "Its over Danny." Phantom smirks and says, "I don't think it is, Tim" before jumping off onto a different roof and disappearing into the night. Tim is shook.

13. Danny over hears Robin berating RR at an old clocktower and intervenes, "Little Wayne, you do realize you were the first person I figured out, right?"

Damian proceeds to lose his mind.

14. Tim accidentally finds a material that Phantom can't phase through and quickly gets to work making things he can use against Danny. What he doesn't know is that Danny can phase through it he just pretended he couldn't because he wanted to see what would happen/what Tim would do.

Danny can sense the material and it feels really wierd to him, but doesn't harm him at all.

15. RR manages to knock Phantoms visor off his face and realizing it was made of tech he swipes it and brings it back to the cave for study.

He wasn't ready for all the information on the computer. Not only was his nemesis(?) from another plain of reality (he thinks Danny is from the ghost zone) but he was once a superhero with his own Rogues Gallery and human city to protect. Which begs the question, why did he become a Phantom thief?

16. The Joker hears about Phantom giving the bats the run around and comes to a misunderstanding about which bat he's been messing with which ultimately ends with Joker saying that he is Batmans ultimate nemesis and Phantom asking what that had to do with him? The misunderstanding is cleared up when Phantom complained about Joker even thinking that he was flirting with Batman because "Ew! He's an old man!"

Joker still got a few shots in for the heck of it but so did our ghost boy but they were no longer enemies.

17. The whole batfam had been freaking out about finally capturing Phantom and celebrating and plotting on how they were gonna get him to keep his mouth shut about thier identities until Jason came in,

Jason: Need help?

Phantom: Please?

Jason: *escapes with Danny*

Batfam: What?! No!!! Why?!

18. The batfam have only a vague idea of the Robin Hood thing going on. They know he's doing it just not to the extent its gone to. They find out later on that Phantom had been working with RH and his gang to sell off the items and most of the profits go to helping people. Other times he strait up gives jewelry and whatnot to children and working girls because "Everyone deserves something pretty, and even if its not your style you can keep it for a rainy day"

Phantom quickly gains a following and Danny doesn't even know about it. Clueless indeed.

19. Dannys main motivation in this is essentially just playing Cops and Robbers with Red Robin. Nothing else really matters to him. Not the robberies, not the fact he's working with a crime lord, not even his own safety matters much to him anymore. Hes readily zooming down the path of self destruction and Hood starts telling his family stuff, but only because he was genuinely worried about "Casper" crashing and burning.

20. No one knows why Phantom is fixated on Red Robin. He refuses to tell them. Red thinks its just because he's the smartest of the bats and he's not entirely wrong.

21. Danny legit started scheduling his heists with Tim to ensure they're both free after one couldn't make it too many times which blew the birds mind. Phantom must have been just that confident that he would always win. The bats eventually think Danny will stop stealing if RR isn't in the city for a long period of time. Danny more or less followed him and stole stuff from whatever city Tim was in. If there wasn't any museums or banks then Danny would steal a local landmark. Tim still wasn't sure how Phantom stole an entire building that one time but it had never been seen since.

22. Hood grows to be very protective of our favorite ghost boy. They bond and are actually really close. Danny admits he always wanted an older brother.

23. Tim goes off world for a while to see how Danny would react and Danny just...drops off the radar. No one knows where he is and after a week or two they start getting worried.

Tim returns after three months and Danny reappears two weeks after him with a tan and keepsakes from the places he visited on his vacation. Tim later screams into his pillow.

24. Tim has made it his personal mission to figure out who Danny really is, why he's fixated on him, where he came from, ect. Hes trying so hard but can't find anything. Its almost like he didn't exist before. Tim suddenly got an idea after Phantom accidentally got hit in the face and got a nosebleed. Tim saw green blood and immediately realized Danny might not even be human. Fortunately for our little ghost, he thinks he's an alien. A Martian specifically. Tim manages to snag a good sample from treating Phantoms wounds. Ghostboy was so focus on his core thrumming and mentally comparing it to his heart racing that he didn't even notice.

25. Tim later freaks out because the meta is freaking made out of Lazarus water.

The entire batfam was not happy to discover this and decided to work together to pressure Phantom into telling them what he was and what exactly he wanted.

[b4kuch1n]

you’re created with hands circling your wrists. there’s never any offense meant, you must understand - it’s simply that you’re a story, and someone’s come by this desperate need to learn how to let the hell go.

[chalkeater]

Istg every time POC try to bring up a concern on racism. People will call US racist for connecting the dots. Like. Im sorry youre oblivious?

“youre racist for thinking this is racist / for connecting this to racism” hello??

[aroaceofthesea]

Learning how to code apps bc i want to play a very specific game of cards with my friends and there isnt anything online thats good enough to play

[lynettethemadscientist]

I really resent the fact that Sole just nonchalantly says "would you consider being more than friends?" when you want to romance a companion. I should have the option to make a tearfully desperate confession of love to my intended.

[sovonight]

i can’t believe i’m saying this but they might just get $90 outta me just for that t3 usb drive

and this is so stupid but for the briefest moment i was tempted by that pazaak deck. that eighty-five dollar pazaak deck. just kidding i know the $85 also goes into that miniature lightsaber and strategy guide and lithograph or whatever, but $85??? a price jump of $85???

is this even anything though??? the logo on the card backs, the awkward color palette and weathering, AND the game-inaccurate font?? they really did everything in their power not to make it an attractive in-universe deck

and a play mat, right, because people will totally play pazaak in real life, a game which was so obviously never designed to be played by real physical people that the cards aren’t even rotationally symmetric so it’s a pain to shuffle and you’re forced to sit shoulder to shoulder with your opponent so that both of you can easily read the cards--wait. is that the in-universe reason why pazaak players love the game? to get that little shoulder’s worth of contact each time they play??

and honestly, this pin puzzles me. why--out of ALL the characters and vehicles and items in the game--would they chose to make an enamel pin of G0-T0?? this is the only new art in the whole bundle, and they spend it on G0-T0???

but i have to keep my eyes on the prize. even though this is clearly a nihilus fan targeted bundle, i’m doing it for him* (*T3-M4 USB Drive - includes STAR WARS: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords)

[v1v1dstreet]

idk if you like n25...but t4t mafuzuki...? i mean i myself prefer kanafuyu. but polyamory is a delightful thing, and transmasc mafuyu is my everything

I LOVE N25!!!!!!!!!!!! they were the first group i read all the events for actually and the only other group im caught up with on global (sorry wxs ill finish curtain call and continue on... eventually) BUT YES T4T MIZUMAFU <3 tjeure so silly i heart them. honestly i adore the transmasc mafuyu hc its so awesome i really need to sneak it into something i write someday... polyamory truly is a wonderful thing tho lol polyniigo save us all /silly

[lagtrain]

i srsly cant wait for tomorrow... i need my free pulls + colourfes

[civilization-illstayrighthere]

So, tried out coral island, and it’s… kind of a fucking sham what constitutes a ‘1.0’ game to some companies. It’s not like this hasn’t plagued the industry since the earliest days of early access even being a concept but, man, thankfully i only did the trial and didn’t drop $30 on it. An extra shame too because I’m really hankering for a farming sim a la harvest moon / sdv, and I’ve heard such good things about it but… yeah if you’re on console especially don’t drop your hard-earned money on it.

[izanori]

i found a fairly obscure gacha game that closed a few years ago called Realive (REALIVE!～帝都神楽舞隊～), and theres a character in it named himur/o rei (forward slash so their 3 fans left dont see this in the searches) that looks almost exactly like testament. my jaw dropped. the shockwaves of the force caused a small earthquake in my area. real.

BUTTT the character has gray eyes, so i edited all the art where their eyes are open to be red. hehe. their eyes are closed in a lot of art. i think ill share here too some other cards that i think look a lot like testament but i didnt edit, which i wasnt planning on doing.

post is unrebloggable because on some level i feel that editing this art to pretend theyre another character is disrespectful, but its not like i can get to know this own character and love them for their own merits when their game is dead and gone. trust me, if i could i wouldve been downloaded it

these are just the other cards where their hair is down so the resemblance is impossible to ignore. you should click this link. i mean, who doesnt wanna see ponytailstament?

[ozlices]

airi momoi trans so true in her colorfes card story she a has a line that is so insanely transgender like look at this

OH MY GOD?????????

airi 🤝 mizuki

basically canonically trans fems who are iconic & pink

[sonknuxadow]

its so crazy how many people there are who are obsessed with movie eggman and think hes so cool and hot and make endless piles of fanart and fanfic about him and agent stone but dont care about anything else in the sonic movies. or the sonic franchise in general. not even other versions of eggman . hello . why are you here

[khaenriahkhaenriah]

Posted this when the banner was announced.

In over 250 pulls using freemogems and birthday money I got:

a) yoimiya (the one I actually wanted)

b) aquila favonia (yay for kaeya)

c) tighnari c1 (love him)

d) raiden c1 (first five star she deserves it)

e) two kiraras (somehow)

f) mika (phys kaeya being realised)

g) countless bennetts and saras

Wanna know who I didn't get?

FUCKING CHEVREUSE

[skeletalheartattack]

I definitely think you should revisit the idea of jailbreaking your wii. It's incredibly easy to do, virtually impossible to cause damage if you follow a guide, and will leave your wii with all its existing functionality. Before I bought a new computer earlier this year, the Wii was my main emulation machine for everything from GBA to GameCube to actual Wii games. As long as you have an SD card and an SD card reader, you can get games running on the hardware with no notable differences to using legit methods, without having to pay extortionist rates for classic games. Additionally, all the cool wii ware and discontinued stuff is made accessible again via homebrew things so really, you'd only be improving your wii with no downsides whatsoever

yknow, i think i might look into doing so at some point, especially since at the very least there are some playstation 2 games that are also on gamecube... although idk my how much they differ in content but yeah! it'd also allow me to play animal crossing city folk again.... and twilight princess......

thank you for telling me!!!

[tinfoil-catholic]

Realizing that I didn't evaluate my feelings all the way and because of that I wasn't able to express them completely, or my wants. And now I have to try to not be disappointed tomorrow