#batts

[dyleeart]

Concert of the BATTS 🎵

This was my work for the Hexes and O’s zine :)

[roughridingrednecks]

Batts from Georgia

[lesbianrainewhispers]

day whatever of me finally reposting my art to tumblr

this one’s for the people like me who were disappointed that the batts never got a timeskip redesign! 💜✨

[dazeddoodles]

I’m imagining mom1 immediately adoring the BATTs and mom2 hearing that Raine got them thrown in jail and she starts yelling at Raine for endangering her grandchildren

Bard mom is the one going "A team of bards?! Hell yeah! No one can underestimate us anymore!"

Potions mom is the one going "You were a spy the whole time???" (Raine lied to everyone including their parents) "And you dragged the kids into it???"

[sepublic]

I LOVE these parallels!

Finally, Raine is in on it too...!

[adriengraye]

Not too sure how y’all feel about rarepairs/this specific rarepair but a lil sneaky peak couldn’t hurt :3 [Derwin x Steve]

[avengerscompound]

Marvel Mutts Infinity Comic (2023)

[loosescrewslefty]

Hello! I want to write some fanfiction, but I want your help. How would you describe Raine's personality?

Raine strikes me as a character who knows themselves, and is comfortable in their own skin. Going through the motions of performing for others because it's demanded of them annoys and irritates them, because they don't care for attention, glory, or popularity. They aren't shy-- when something interests them, they usually are quite bold about pursuing it-- but they don't have the social spoons to play nice with people who don't interest them. They're an introvert, but not the shrinking wallflower variant that everyone assumes an introvert is and more of the person who gets begrudgingly dragged to a party by their more social friends and spends the night lurking in a dark corner with one eye on the clock counting down the seconds until this crap is over and they can go home to decompress. Their social circle is VERY small, VERY exclusive, and extremely dear to them since it's hard to find people who are tolerable for long periods of time, let alone actually LIKABLE.

I like imagine that Raine has developed two different 'faces' so to speak. The public 'face' for work, where they are a brilliant, polite, but slightly distant professional who gets things done as quickly and efficiently as possible (so they can retreat to a private space and decompress as quickly as they possibly can) and a private 'face' that only those close to them get to see, where they are goofier, cockier, and much freer with their opinions and views than they normally are. Raine also can sometimes rub people the wrong way because they don't play the Modesty Game. They know what they are good at and how to play to their strengths, and isn't afraid to be honest about that. This annoys a lot of people because rules of social engagement dictates that you have to humble yourself, because if you don’t that means you're stuck up or full of yourself and arrogance is seen as a bad trait when combined with talent. Raine isn't interested in wasting their time playing that game. They can go through the motions, to get through all the annoying parts as quickly and painlessly as possible, but they only do as much as they have to, and they are internally ROASTING everyone around them the entire time.

This is part of the reason they clicked so well with Eda so quickly. Eda is very much the same in this regard, which makes conversing with her much more enjoyable because Raine doesn't have to waste their energy trying to figure out what Eda ACTUALLY means or how she really feels, because Eda wears it all on her sleeve (until the curse came in and muddled the waters, at any rate).

Raine has a very strong sense of justice and is extremely firm on their moral compass. They don't care about the written word of Law. They judge right and wrong for themselves on a case-by-case basis, taking into account all the grey areas involved, and they do not stand by idly if something isn't fair. They are every bit as feral as Eda in this regard, but are a little better at keeping their cards close to their vest. They can actually PLAY the game, rather than immediately jumping across the table, punching their opponent in the face, then grabbing the entire pot and running out the door like someone set their hair on fire.

(They CAN do it that way. And, admittedly, it's more fun when they do get to let loose like that, but they're able to weigh the risks against the rewards and bide their time waiting for the right moment to act.)

On a personal level, I actually like considering the idea that Raine has the same type of Magical Neurodivergence we see in characters like Willow, Gus, and Alador. Magically, they are hyperfocused on a very specific field of study, excelling at that magic to the point of being considered prodigious. Socially, they are a little left of the crowd. They can be polite if the need calls for it, but for the most part they prefer to keep to a small social circle and are very choosey about who gets to be in that circle. Because of this, it wouldn't surprise me at all to find that Raine also has the ability to make their eyes glow.

A lot of this is part speculation, part projection, and part observation by watching Raine's behavior and interactions with others, which is sadly quite limited. If you are looking to write their character in a more in depth level, I fully encourage you to go back and map out their place in your story by writing out what you know to be important to them, where you can see them struggling, what their goals are, and why they are motivated to reach those goals. Having those points are usually a good place to start writing from, and once you move forward with your work, a lot of time you find yourself learning who they are as a character is while you work with them.

[possibly-a-table-or-just-gay]

What are some of your HC's for darius?

Oh ho ho I'm so glad you asked of your own free will

I don't care what canon says, mans is tall. Like The only people he's shorter than is Hettie Cutburn and Eda in her harpy form.

He's also like, so fucking buff. He carrys Eberwolf, an adult demon who can't weigh less than a fully grown golden retriever, around on his shoulder. And he absolutely weaponises this to pick up people like-

One of the BATTs (Amber probably): *blasting wonderwall on her recorder for the 23rd time in an hour*

Darius: Alright, that's it. Get out of my kitchen.

Amber: Ha! You've got nothing on me, old man! I bow down to nobody, I defeated the-

Darius: *picks her up like this:

Amber: ... I seem to have made a grave error.

[catgonerogue]

do you think theyre ok

[storyteller-aprendiz]

Okay, so another why the BAtTs are children/young adults theory:

My personal headcanon is that while Raine was a teacher for the Bards Coven, one of their students died protesting against the Emperor.

Like, student riots have always been a thing and they have always been very deadly (for the students). So it wouldnt be surprising that in a dictatorship like Belos' the student body found somethings to complain about: like only being able to study one type of magic. Ergo: protest! Ergo: repression.

And I think Raine harbors a lot of survivor's guilt because of that, wishing that they could have helped somehow.

So when they found this three young bards figthing against the emperor, they couldnt help but see history repeating itself again.

But of course "dont fight" doesnt work (they've tried that with their students). So they change tatics and go with: I'll fight with you.

[asherisawkward]

Imagine if Philip was still in the Boiling Isles after the Day of Unity and lied by saying that it all went wrong because Eda the Owl Lady and some other wild witches attacked and impersonated Coven Heads to corrupt the spell and ruin the Day of Unity. Then, when the Hexsquad got back to the BI, they’d have a crud tone of people against them.

[roughridingrednecks]

Batts

[raedazineofficial]

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[dazeddoodles]

Two inches is two inches 😔

Derwin still calls Raine munchkin and treats Raine like they’re a dwarf and Katya and Amber fully agree with this, Raine does not

Nah cause look at this blurry, crunchy, pixelated, bad quality screenshot I came across. Derwin's really hovering over Raine. The BATTs left them down there 😔

[sepublic]

Raine, a magic professor with glasses teams up with their former student(s) to commit crimes. Call that Breaking BATT.

EDIT: Or as @gender-is-a-hoax suggested, Breaking Bard.