#but they are not older than the infinite

[ghostbsuter]

John Constantine was in prison.

No, not a normal, mortal prison. Those wouldn't be able to hold him like this one does.

No, he's imprisoned in the Infinity Realm.

The warden of the establishment is Walker, someone whose blood sings Witch Hunter.

If that wasn't bad enough, with every second, it gets worse. Angels decided to interfere in a realm not in possession of their God.

Who's idea was it to go against the Infintiy Realm? Are they nuts?

"John Constantine," One of the messangers steps forward. There is no weapon in sight, yet.

"Under the scrutiny of Heaven, we were sent to retrieve you for a trial." Their voice clipped, blond hair shimmering a soft green and John is sweating buckets.

"Your deals with various demon folk and such shall be judged unter gods court and—"

A loud bang echoes through the hall, Walker's men are surrounding the beings of heaven and particular brave soul steps forward.

The lad is young, can't be older than Bat's Robin. He walks with an air of authority, white hair floating against gravity's rules and towering before the flock of messangers.

"How dare—"

The boy, the godling– growls.

He blocks their view of Constantine, staring them down.

Some of the angels fall back, wings arched and ready for a fight, weapons still not in sight however.

"I am Phantom, King of God's of the Infinity Realm." The child with a title too much for such small shoulders bear, introduces himself.

It sends the flock into mild panic. Constantine is just a bit satisfied at the change.

"Returns to your god and tell him this, every Constantine bearing the title Laughing Magician is under my protection."

For such a small stature, his voice is booming, the command thinly veiled as a threat and icicles forming around him.

"Tell him that if he ever dares to breach my territory once more, I will not hesitate to call war upon heaven."

The main angel of the flock, the one that had read out Constantines sentence, hesitated only for a moment before urging the others to leave.

Posture stiff and movements jerky.

They didn't expect to be told off like this, John muses.

He only slightly dreads when phantoms attention drifts to him finally, a light knock on the metal bars and the whole wall was gone.

"Follow me, John Constantine."

And John does.

He'll sweet talk himself out of this on the way to his doom. Like always.

—

("Unpopular belief, but I actually quite like you." Danny had stated once in the garden, sitting on a table and drinking tea. John hadn't touched his cup nor desert at all, cannot trust those of the infinite after all.)

(A rip into the green before them had created a portal, a gateway.

"Leave, Laughing Magician. Hold onto that necklace, it will ward off anyone with the intent to harm and deals as a warning to those working for the immortal."

And as John steps forward, his eyes meet toxic green.

"We will see one another again, sooner or later. Farewell, Jester."

The portal spat him out in his apartment in New York, if it wasn't for the protection charm, Constantine would have believed it to be a mere dream. A warning.)

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 71

Klarion is delighted, excited, impatient, and so very happy. He’s found a friend, not the justice league baby-crew who don’t know how to make friends properly or the order-magician who doesn’t play right, but another realm-being his age! They’re even around the same death-date, his is just a couple years earlier! But to beings who aren’t adults until they’re well into the hundreds that’s practically nothing!

His new friend even has a familiar too- even if he has to explain what a familiar is- and, and even shares his two other friends with him! 

He’s been in this world for what feels like so long trying to make friends and he’s made three in just a month! And they even know how to properly play and wrestle without targeting Teekl like a certain order lord who he doesn’t like. 

Oh! Hey it’s the justice league kiddy-crew! Were they feeling neglected or something?

[randomminty]

If pokemon wont give me bea and allister siblingisms ill just make it MYSELF

[phoenixyfriend]

I’m always a little Meh on people making Cody the same age (or older) than Obi-Wan in AUs that don’t take place in the gffa. Because. Listen.

Hot fresh grad Cody with some impressive job as like... a newscaster or a male model or some military thing... dating a bedraggled rumpled wet cat of a middle-aged Bug Scientist, and thinking this easily-distracted disaster is the hottest shit ever, while his brothers look on in absolute confusion and mild horror.

Obi-Wan can clean up nice and be this refined professor type with perfectly coiffed hair and perfectly groomed beard and perfectly pressed sweatervest combo and a perfectly cultured accent... but then he sees a rare Parasitic Worm in the bushes by the koi pond, and suddenly he’s covered in mud and bleeding and holding up this specimen with demands for a mason jar so he can get it back to a lab and see if they can get this into that one breeding program over in the university three states over.

And 22yo ‘could have literally anyone he wants’ Cody is like 😍

[therosesfeelright]

forever obsessed with the dichotomy of scott’s and xornoth’s names in empires season 1. like, their parents decided “yes, xornoth, a perfectly normal elven name” and then they had a second child and went “scott” 

[anti-cosmofangirl]

Betrayus and Pac from @ribbondee's "Twisted Fate" AU!

[fiveminuterice]

little guy and his emotional support sibling

[dianadeadwing]

Hype hype hype happy roudise week eve.

Roudise week starts tomorrow and this didn't really fit any of the prompts so here’s a portrait of Rudy done in infinite painter.

The photo I used for reference initially is from Jennifer Burk on Unsplash.

[ID:

An expressive, messy, semi realistic portrait of Rudy Stieblitz from Bob's Burgers. His expression is neutral and he is depicted on a light blue background with purple accents.

/end ID]

[neoyi]

When I found out Seonhee would be a playable character in Infinite Wealth, I cheered. YASSSS, there she was, my Korean Queen, ready to join Ichiban and Kiryu's adventures as a main character.

I've not played any other Yakuza games sans IW's predecessor, Like a Dragon, but was immediately drawn by an important, reoccurring plot centered on three international Mafia group respectively comprised of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean members - all of them working discreetly together to keep their hometown, Ijincho, at bay from bigger, badder criminal groups who'd likely destabilize it.

Seonhee immediately drew me in for being (from what I researched anyway) the first woman mafia leader in the game without temporarily holding it for a man, AND Korean to boot.

I'm aware of the complicated relationship between Korea and Japan and it's often reflected by their media, but I've noticed the year when Like a Dragon and later, Infinite Wealth, came out, played an amazing part in their storytelling and how changes reflect its characters (and I want to talk about this in depth on another post sometime) and the world they live in.

Seonhee is a fantastic example of that. By Infinite Wealth, she's the leader of both the Geomijul (her faction), and Zhao's (who's now a civilian) Liumang, and thus the de facto head honcho in charge of keeping the peace over Ijincho. She's presented as an iron lady with marginal hints of femme fatale, but I'm amazed at how subtle her outward appearances are in light of her inner dilemmas and personality. Sure, she's dressed like a sex bomb, and sure, one of her attacks involve using a power cable as a whip, but that's not really her whole deal.

I'm compelled by her personal story, one who already has an experience as a leader, but is now grasping to maintain a new power structure she's never held before. As a young woman in a position of power, she's often stuck with elderly men who see her as a little girl playing with toy guns. That, and a need to maintain strength mean she keeps vulnerabilities to herself and refuses help because it shows weakness.

There are very few people she could really talk to about this. Her second-in-command, Joongi Han, is fortunately, her staunchest supporter (and from idle chats with her, they seem to have a cute brother-sister relationship), but I really love her interaction with the Kiryu Kazama more.

Because you DO have this older former Yakuza whom she looks up to as an example of the ideal leader: calm and fair, but with strong conviction, Kiryu is the living embodiment of Be Kind, But Take No Shit. He's her personal hero and an older gentleman who genuinely respects her and fully supports her position and what she does.

And I love that she slowly opens herself up to him. I love that she's dorky and awkward whenever they engage in casual conversation, I love that she has a subtle crush on Kiryu that she's not that shy flirting with him about while maintaining a distance (as if she knows this is just a crush and nothing more will come off of it, but she sure will indulge in their company while she can.) I love that she comes off as pretty casual when she isn't working and is prone to little idiosyncrasies as her teammates. She can unwind and relax when among friends, allowing a moment to breathe before getting back to work. It's good to see she has people who can give her that.

Kiryu understands and sympathizes the difficulties that he, an older man, could never and would never face. He's not here to undermine her and he especially knows that once people like him pass on, the younger generation will take over, and he wants to help Seonhee achieve that without undermining her.

Seonhee may seek Kiryu's approval, and he may impose at times, but the game understands these are two adults. Kiryu doesn't treat her condescendingly just because she is a woman and younger, and Seonhee realizes that her personal hero is also just a guy and one willing to learn from her generation just as much.

[iwonderwh0]

If there's one thing to thank anti hankcon discourse it's for the folks around their thirties gathering to tell the teens that they are, in fact, adult enough to decide for themselves who to fuck with and that they do, in fact, find older people attractive.

(And also collectively asking folks in their teens-to-early 20s to stop using the word p*dophilia when talking about literal 30+ years olds.)

Like really, throwing this words in relation to adults downplays its actual weight in its actual fucking meaning, and this is really scary. Age gap might be a controversial topic but not anywhere near it is a matter of comparable scale to what the word ped*philia stands for. Don't turn this word into a buzzword, I'm begging you.

[lazlolullaby]

Early Bats, a theory about why Terry was here in JL: crisis on Infinite Earths pt 2 when the other "future" timelines aren't.

(if I had a nickle for every time Batman Beyond showed up in the second part of a multi part series, with Batmen that aren't him teaming up, I'd have 2 nickles.)

Jokes aside. It's the floating birthday/timeline thing that comics end up doing when they've run on for so long. It's not that he's from the "Future", he's from the same time and everyone else is going through variations on his "Past".

Bruce, Bruce's family, rouge's gallery, the City of Gotham, etc. happened earlier in his world.

A little like Gotham by Gaslight, but not as drastic.

If we work backwards...

Terry is Batman, say, some time past Return of The Joker accounting for a deeper voice, then. Let's say it's 2024 and he's been Batman for...4 years, give or take.

Per creator commentary, Bruce was about 80 years old during Batman Beyond. So he would have been born in 1940, then taken up the Cowl in the 1960s. Then a good 40 years in the field before it's 2000 and he has to retire due to a heart condition.

To compare to a current comic run Bats...with 10 year old Damian and all.

This thread by @incorrectbatfam should suffice: https://incorrectbatfam.tumblr.com/post/742222682119127040/right-how-could-i-forget-about-shrek#notes

Tl;Dr: Bruce Wayne "right now" would be about 45, making him born in 1979.

So. That's a 39 year difference. DCAU Bruce could be Current Bruce's dad and genuinely the Batfamily's grandfather.

Wild how time marches on.

[sysig]

Let’s put it all on the line, see who’s victorious (Patreon)

[bitterdevil]

debated for like 20 minutes whether i should post this or not and decided yeah fuck it. why not. anyway i doodled a nice canon Calder and also. my personal little AU where he's nearly 30 and seen some shit. why? i dont know. enjoy it though.

[augustheart]

everything about mr. bones makes sense when you know he's like... twenty-seven.

[infinite-ticking-clock37]

Dumb little kitty (Also voice reveal I suppose woah)

THE CAT IS FINE BTW!!

[isagrimorie]

Doctor/Master for the ship opinions?

from this brutally honest ship ask meme

I didn’t used to ship them the first time with Simm!Master and Tenth Doctor. I was, in fact, put off by them but I have seen and even read a few fic out of curiosity but never got the appeal.

I did see glimmers of that appeal though with YANA/Jacobi!Master. Ten was so into Professor Yana!

I mean, c’mon:

And then Missy and Twelve happened and I went: Oh.

And then I saw Three and Delgado!Master

And then, of course Thirteen and Dhawan!Master

It’s the intensity. It’s the circling around. It’s the way they will always be equal and opposite reaction but also, THE SAME.

It’s the history.

It’s I’ll burn the world for you and I’ll burn you.

It’s… ‘We were friends once upon a time.’

They were there at the beginning and they’ll be there in the end. They are spatial objects with the Doctor as a hurtling object through space and the Master orbiting around the Doctor. Never far away and never gone.

It’s the biting and snarling, its the blood and the boiling.

"He’s the only one remotely like me.”

I will love this ship forever in all its messy, complicated glory. Older than civilizations, indeed.