#canon!jason was pointing out his neck tattoos

[vermillioncrown]

compelled to doodle adult!korvin as teased by whfagt

[m00nslippers]

Jason is actually in-character in RHATO Issue #35!?

Wow, we got so much about the All-Caste in this issue. On the one hand, it kind of feels like it was pulled out of Lobdell’s ass, but on the other hand it’s badass and cool and the visuals are beautiful so I don’t even give a shit. Also like, there is just so much of Jason being Jason in the best and most pure way possible in this issue that it’s crazy? Let’s jump into the review and you’ll see what I mean.

We open on Jason in the midst of some kind of charity fundraiser with Isabel. Jason is looking awesome in his suit. The shoulder pads are toned down in most scenes finally, and he doesn’t look like he’s cosplaying Jafar anymore thank goodness.

First off, Jason doing a charity gala for Gotham’s poor is freaking canon now and I love that. Despite his new money and his fame, it doesn’t go to his head, he sees himself as separate from the rich people who didn’t have his experiences living poor on the streets. He still remembers that desperation and wants to help people. He’s a truly giving person that cares about others, always has and always will. Second of all, Jason is hanging out on the balcony being broody which is just Classic Jason™. He’s a loner, an introvert, he doesn’t like crowds. Especially crowds of rich kiss-asses. And he dislikes rich people. It’s so great when characters are written in-character, isn’t it?

And third of all, I love Isabel’s dress. It’s so classy, cream lace on black with a bow at the neck? Nice. You got style, girl.

So Jason opens up to Isabel and is unusually vocal about his thoughts regarding his negative feelings about Gotham and the rich and his father(s). It’s interesting to me because she’s the only person he’s ever really opened up to and spoken about this with. He’s not sharing his plans or involving her with his machinations, but he’s definitely sharing his thoughts, complaining even. This is unusually healthy behavior from Jason, to be honest. He usually bottles it all up and doesn’t say more than a few snide words out loud. Any insight into his feelings are usually given in thoughts, not dialogue. That said, it really shows how much Jason trusts Isabel with his emotions unlike anyone else, maybe even Roy.

The more I read with Isabel, the less I think she’s going to turn on Jason. I never believed that idea to begin with and I still don’t see it. She seems genuinely kind and loving. The only problem is that Jason isn’t as out of the game as he pretends to be and she’s going to be pretty upset with him when she finds out he lied, so I can’t see them lasting. I also still have a bet on that she’s going to die. I’m less confident in that prediction as I was before, but we’ll just have to see what happens.

So Isabel leaves the party because she has to work the next morning and we catch back up with Jason after the gala, getting into his fancy car with James/Wingman as his driver. We get the slightest little bit more of James identity reveal--more like clarification really. Wingman’s name isn’t James, or probably isn’t James, and Jason doesn’t know or care who he really is. Jason tells James that it doesn’t matter, that if he betrays him Jason will just kill him. And again this is just so reflective of Jason’s kind of apathetic view about how others think of him. He really just assumes people are thinking the worst of him, are going to betray him, so there’s no point getting worked up about it--if Wingman turns on him, Jason will be ready, it’s as simple as that. Jason has had too many people betray his trust for him to even care about trust at this point.

Now when it comes to Wingman, I am more and more convinced that James is Jason’s dad in a different body. I am like eighty percent certain now. James knows who Jason is and is loyal to him out of nowhere. James is concealing his true identity. James talks with a rougher accent and calls himself ‘a dope’, suggesting he’s just an average Gotham street thug. He hedges on his belief that Jason should have returned to Gotham, as if sympathetic to how much it bothers Jason to stay there. It just fits, in my opinion. I believe that in the experiments that Jason's dad was a part of when he was in prison, the same ones that created Solitary and mixed up his consciousness and memories with other inmates, Willis's mind was either fully or partially transferred to a different body as well and that is James. Wingman is either Willis’s mind in a different body, or a different person who got Jason’s dad’s memories. I also feel Jason’s Dad’s bat tattoo is going to come into play again somehow. We can only wait and see though.

So James drops Jason off at the docks where he has a freaking yacht ready too take him to the Iceburg Lounge. Suzie meets him there because she heard the Euro-Bloc 'coincidentally' got hit when Jason was in Paris, last issue. Remember that these guys were investors in Penguin’s criminal empire and the casino. Suzie seems to be on to Jason and expresses her concern once again about Jason getting her family involved in something shady that's going to screw them over when this whole thing was supposed to be them going straight. Jason promises her family is going to be okay, which is just inviting trouble. She says for some reason she trusts him, which just goes to show how much Jason inspires trust in people, even his former enemies. He gets on the yacht, and speeds off.

Okay, I know that Suzie had done some really messed up stuff in the past but like...I really like her and I hope her family doesn't get screwed by what is obviously going to happen with Penguin? I didn't like her character’s actions in the New 52 version of RHATO but I've really warmed to her and her sisters here. I really hope her relationship with Jason doesn't become soured after everything goes down, but it seems inevitable.

On the yacht, Jay does some reflection. I love how in-character Jason’s internal monologue is. I know that is an odd thing to be happy about, but sometimes I honestly wonder if the Jason I love is something I made up in my head and the canon doesn't actually support how I and many fans envision him--but it does! It does so much! This is all just so very right, how Jason understands himself but when an issue is painful, when it hurts to think about and he doesn't want to consider it, he just puts it out of his mind. He focuses on action and denies his his pain. Also, Jason acknowledging his growing friendships with his new teammates shows Jason's caring nature as well as his introverted and anxious side. He never means to adopt these people he finds himself with, but he just cannot help empathizing with them and coming to see them as 'his' people, no matter how much he tries to be distant. And yet he's afraid of them being hurt, or them hurting him. I love when Jason's personality is shown off like this!

On the way to the casino Jason is confronted by Essence, who wants to stop Jason from committing ‘petty revenge’ and falling to the dark side...or something. It's very vague what the hell her problem is. I guess she thinks Jason is just running around playing crime boss and that is inherently against the All-Caste code or something and she wants him to give it up but of course Jason doesn’t do what people want him to.

As they are talking, we get a little bit of a flashback showing their relationship, just a scene of them under a tree in All-Caste outfits when Jason was young and they kiss. It seems to me that she was the one who was into him for the most part and it’s both cute and sad that young Jason seemed so surprised by her affections. She still seems into him now, saying she doesn’t know whether she should kiss or kill him but Jason makes it clear he doesn’t have feelings for her anymore, not least of all because of the events in New 52 RHATO when Essence lied to and used Jason to instigate a confrontation with the Untitled which broke their truce so they could be destroyed. Remember that?

Basically they gear up to fight and Essence draws her freaking badass red swords and Jason draws his crowbar and katana and they face off in THE FUCKING ASTRAL DIMENSION, WHAT?! 

We get just...so much about the All-Caste here.

Essence was the heir to the All-Caste but she didn't want the job, she wanted to be a warrior, not a peaceful leader.

'All' refers to the ability to see the past, present and future. Ducra, it’s leader, is omniscient.

Jason is the only human to have ever learned their techniques and not gone insane.

When Jason met Ducra, she saw his past, present and future and hoped he could overcome his destiny.

Jason and Essence seem pretty evenly matched, despite her being an immortal empowered by the Well of Sins. So yeah, Jason is a badass.

In the Astral Plane at least, Essence’s sword can make a three-eyed demon oni-looking construct thing and they can both do crazy energy blasts and flames.

So...if omniscience is part of the All-Caste arts/abilities, does this mean Jason can see the future/past if he wants?! I mean maybe he doesn’t use it because he doesn’t want to go crazy, but still that’s freaking cool. Also, this could be another explanation to hand-wave various points when Jason was acting crazy and out of character in certain preboot issues. Previously the explanation was ‘Lazarus Pit madness’, but now we have yet another thing that could make Jason go mad. Like...Jason is really just doomed to be crazy from all sides, isn’t he?

And since when the hell can Jason go into the Astral Plane?! That's it, Jason needs to do more magic stuff! I need a team up with Constantine and Zatanna, stat! No, that terrible arc in Trinity when Jason got possessed by a demon doesn't count. It doesn't even make sense with this new information, and Bizzaro still had backwards-speak like before the reboot and was really irritating, instead his of cute baby-talk. Like clearly the writer of that issue never even read RHATO.

But anyway, the two continue their fight, Jason with his kickass glowing swords and Essence with her red ones in the crystalline Astral Plane. There are crystal looking formations everywhere and asian-style clouds and they float on nothing, it’s pretty cool. The colorist does an amazing job as always, and the art is awesome in this issue, much better than it has been in my opinion. Essence seems to have the upper hand when she suddenly stabs Jason through the chest! 

Is this the end for our hero?! Yeah naw.

It's revealed that Essence's sword is called the 'Blood Blade' and works kind of like Katana's cursed sword, it absorbs the soul of evil people it stabs--but if you stab someone innocent (or just not evil) your soul gets sucked in instead. And that is exactly what happens.

I don't think any of us were fooled into thinking Jason was actually going to die for even a moment. As it turned out Jason was playing her, pretending to be rusty at swordplay and the All-Caste magic and mad with revenge on Penguin (that last he didn't do the best job of being convincing, but she already thought the worst of him so it didn't really need much selling I guess.) He just wanted her to stab him with the blade so she would get sucked into it. I like that Jason's strategic ability is being shown off here, but I feel like stabbing him was her plan to begin with so I don't get why Jason needed to fight back at all? Eh, maybe she would have been suspicious if he just stood there and let her stab him.

So Essence is sucked into the sword because Jason isn't evil--surprise! Or not, I think it was pretty obvious Jason isn’t evil. He organized a charity in the first page of the issue for godssake!

Jason explains to Essence as she gets sucked into her sword that he isn't good or bad, he's “just practical as hell.” Which is just so freaking validating. Jason isn't evil, he isn't a bad person, in fact he is a good person with good intentions but you can't make the world a better place on good intentions alone. Sometimes you have to walk the line to get results and Jason draws that line further out than most, further out than Bruce, but his methods are necessary and they work and that's more than most can say.

I still don't know what the heck Essence's problem with Jason was, I guess she shares Bruce's terrible viewpoint, always believing the worst of our Jay, maybe she just had a grudge over Jason leaving the All-Caste, but at least this means my feelings from the beginning were probably intentional and not bad writing--those feelings being confusion as to what reason anyone could have to object to Jason's actions, because he wasn't doing anything wrong! All he did was lock up Penguin, when if he had been arrested for his crimes and not wiggled out of them with all his money, he would have been locked up anyway! His safe room was probably way nicer than a jail cell, to be honest.

So Jason takes Essence's sword and locks it up in his safe back at the Iceberg Lounge when who should appear but Penguin, back in black after having been released by Miguel last issue! It seems like Cobblpot has won Miguel to his side, probably by spinning some sob story that conveniently leaves out that he is a crime lord that uses his money to stay out of jail and oh, also he framed Jason's dad and tried to have Jason murdered and sent goons after him and was trafficking illegal weapons. Yeah, I bet he didn’t mention that part. Miguel is getting played, the poor kid. He’s too innocent.

Oh man, I really enjoyed this issue, there were so many parts when I was just like, "Yes! That is exactly what Jason would do!" and I'm not sure why I am so surprised when he acts in character, but I just am and pleasantly so. The art was also really great, I love with All-Caste stuff shows up because their aesthetic is just cool, and Pete Woods, the artist stepped it up. The fights were great, Jason’s faces looked a lot better than they have, he actually looks like a good looking twenty-something adult and not a snakey thug in most of the panels. Hopefully that trend continues. Also the colorist, I love this colorist, he does such a good job, kudos to Rex Lokus who really brought out Dexter Soy’s art too. I think his consistently really does help tie the run together even with the artist change.

Well, that’s it I'm excited to see the confrontation with Penguin and Miguel next issue and see where it goes! I think we get the Annual later this month? Or next month, that will also be awesome, and I’ll be here for it.

[hoodedmenace]

CHARACTER SHEET repost. do not reblog.

𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐬 !

FULL NAME.     jason peter todd wayne NICKNAME / ALIAS.     red hood, jay, jaybird, little wing (only dick and occasionally bruce gets away with that one; barbara if he’s feeling some type of way) GENDER.     cis man HEIGHT.     6′ AGE.    24/25 ZODIAC.     leo LANGUAGES.    english, spanish, german, french, russian, filipino, asl, some arabic and japanese, terrible cantonese, mandarin, and portugeuse

𝐩𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 !

HAIR COLOR.     black, white forelock that does not take to color well EYE COLOR.     grey pre-death, green post lazarus pit SKIN TONE.       olive, tons of freckles BODY TYPE.     built! like! a! linebacker! dorito! shaped! ACCENT.     he’s a city kid, and i figure gotham has a little bit of jersey, a little bit of staten island coming out in there. VOICE.     his voice is naturally pretty low. he rumbles a lot, knows how to make himself sound pissed off and scary—the other side of that spectrum is softer, quieter, a voice he’ll use with kids, or scared people he’s inevitably helping DOMINANT HAND.     right, but he’s ambidextrous. POSTURE.    unless he’s trying to prove something, he’s typically slouching a little, a little bit of the winter soldier strut without the metal arm but with similar back injuries and weight distribution. the lazarus pit healed a lot, but he still gets flare ups in his back and shoulders from the joker, and moves to compensate. also it makes him look scary as fuck. SCARS.     loads. most notable are the y-incision on his torso (it’s faint but there if you look), a scar on his left upper lip, a scar on the left of his neck from a batarang, multiple laceration scars of varying sizes, multiple gunshot wounds, notably on a shoulder that went through to his back, an arm, and his side. TATTOOS.     i like to think that he got an arrowhead tattoo for roy in some inconspicious place, like behind his ear or the inside of his thigh or on his inner ribs BIRTHMARKS.      nothing notable MOST NOTICEABLE FEATURE(S).    his eyes! they’re always a little just shy of spooky, especially at night. and his thicc biceps.

𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐝 !

PLACE OF BIRTH.   gotham city HOMETOWN.     gotham city BIRTH WEIGHT.     smol. apparently he was a sickly baby and his survival chances Weren’t Great. BIRTH HEIGHT.     see above MANNER OF BIRTH. questionable FIRST WORDS.     mama SIBLINGS.        no birth siblings PARENTS.        i literally can’t be assed to give a shit about his dad but i’m pretty sure it’s willis; and catherine todd. PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT.      parental involvement??? when your mom is a drug abuser and your dad is a raging alcoholic with a penchant for violence??? you can’t fool me dc!!!! i know jason is a mama’s boy!!!!!!!

𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 !

OCCUPATION.      vigilante bABY! CURRENT RESIDENCE.          wherever he damn well chooses thanks CLOSE FRIENDS.          roy harper, starfire RELATIONSHIP STATUS.             in canon: single / out of canon where it matters: always some vague form of taken or really taken FINANCIAL STATUS.               he’s loaded, illegally DRIVER’S LICENSE.               he died before he got one, so the one he has is absolutely faked CRIMINAL RECORD.              plenty of misdimeanors for petty theft, probably breaking and entering, vandalism, a lot that bruce has probably wiped clean or redacted from his records VICES.               violence, sex, getting into shouting matches with bruce

𝐬𝐞𝐱 & 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 !

SEXUAL ORIENTATION.               bisexual ROMANTIC ORIENTATION.               bi PREFERRED EMOTIONAL ROLE.           submissive |  dominant | switch.   PREFERRED SEXUAL ROLE.             submissive  |  dominant | switch. LIBIDO.                give him the right partner and it’s always on TURN ONS.               getting his hair pulled, hand around his throat, getting challenged, when someone fully calls his bluffs on those challenges, likes to watch, likes to order his partners around and likes it more when they listen—a lot of turn ons also go very tightly hand in hand with trust. if he doesn’t trust his partner, there isn’t much he’ll let them do to him personally, especially if he’s in the submissive role, and at that point he just wants to get railed stupid TURN OFFS.           anyone breaching his trust, especially with sex, pinning him by the back of his neck, tying him up, degradation, pain that borders on dangerous LOVE LANGUAGE.               physical. he’s not good at talking about his feelings or admitting to them, but he’s pretty obvious with how he feels based on what he does physically. he tends to show a lot of physical affection through action without really realising it RELATIONSHIP TENDENCIES.              he’s not very experienced with the relationship aspect. canon-wise, he’s only ever been in one? two? actual relationships that fizzled out. he doesn’t really perceive himself as a settled, partially because of what he does, but mostly because everything is so dangerous that he doesn’t think making the effort is worth it. occasionally he’ll stick around for a little, or circle back to an old flame, but his tendency is usually to run before things so much as smell serious. he’s not very good at opening himself up, but doesn’t realise it’s an issue.

𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐨𝐮𝐬 !

CHARACTER’S THEME SONG.     would you like a playlist? probably patd’s emperor’s new clothes? twisted by missio? (hello my name is jason todd welcome to my twisted mind) HOBBIES TO PASS TIME.               he likes to... sharpen knives... and watch shitty b-rated horror movies. if he visits the manor he will fully spend all of his time with the dogs. MENTAL ILLNESSES.             ptsd, anxiety/depression, manic episodes possibly related to bipolar disorder, all undiagonosed and exacerbated/suppressed to various degrees due to the effects of the lazarus pit PHYSICAL ILLNESSES.          none—the lazarus pit puts him right over peak physical condition, so even though he deals with some undercurrents of chronic pain, he doesn’t usually notice unless he really gets his ass handed to him LEFT OR RIGHT BRAINED.           mostly left-brained PHOBIAS.          the joker, being buried alive SELF CONFIDENCE LEVEL.           he hovers at a decent 9 most days, usually because he stubbornly believes that he’s right VULNERABILITIES.          abandonment, his own anger, his death will always be a sore point no matter how many times he jokes about it, bruce, his own moral compass in comparison to his family’s, the people he actively cares about, gotham city, his own bleeding heart

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[murphystartedthefire]

Conageddon - Richard & Luisa Panel

This is all out of order but finally sharing some notes and memories from the GLORIOUS Memori panel. I got my people. <3

UPDATE: The panel is now online! 

Firstly, they used this Memori fanvid as the intro, giving us all the feels - glad I was able to track down the song and video!

- My general thing that I said to @doortotomorrow is that honestly the whole vibe of their panel was so sincere and supportive and sweet. A lot of people commented what a switch it was from earlier in the day when Richard was being really silly with Bob and Zach, all messing around and could barely give a straight answer to a question on their panel -- which was enjoyable for other reasons! (a.k.a. Richard had just been handed a bubble maker and just spent 2/3 of the panel releasing a steady stream of bubbles and distracting Bob with it until he ran out.) But here they were talking really thoughtfully about their characters while still having funny moments. GET YOU A MAN WHO CAN DO BOTH etc.

- Re: The beer pong games from the party the night before, he was so proud of her for winning with him and she credited him for teaching her. Richard calls her his “masterpiece” lol.

- In season three when Murphy was "courting" Emori, Richard would be cute between takes and give her things like a little leaf as a gift. And then she threw it away when she thought he wasn't looking, and Richard was acting all offended. (Confirmed Soft Boy Murphy.)

- They share Memori songs with each other and listen in one earbud each while preparing for scenes. Before the rocket scene in "God Complex" they were listening to "I Will Follow You Into the Dark" by Death Cab For Cutie, she ran to him like you *have* to listen to this. Another one Luisa introduced him to was ”Scared” by The Tragically Hip ... Richard started singing it softly. I apparently willed this panel into existence with my mind. (sobs) EDIT: Thank you to @dailymemori for pointing out, Richard’s Memori song recently was “Here I Am” by The Boxer Rebellion.

- At one point Richard started talking about how he has such a close relationship with her but never felt like there was a danger of fiction blurring with reality... like Luisa is so beautiful and smart and kind and yet they never think about each other that way (romantically) and would be like "god no" if someone suggested it, she's just Lu to him. <3

- They talked about how Murphy and Emori saw something in each other immediately, that they were kindred spirits, Richard: "I get your crazy and I like it." Their first episode together, Richard said it was a test, they didn't know if a love interest could ever work for him. He emailed Jason to say how great she was and that they had to bring her back. Luisa remembers the moment where she has the knife to his neck and he looks up at her, she saw the look in his eyes like "damn."

- They were asked a question about how they come down from doing intense emotional scenes, Richard said it’s easier for him when he knows he did a good job, he’s amped up and feels good about it. Luisa said that Richard is hard on himself and his own worst critic when he thinks he's not doing well in a scene. "He can give 100% and be upset he didn't hit 101%." He was jokingly like "Well yeah, that's just one more percent, I could've done it!"

- On that note, one scene they struggled with at first was the rocket/shock collar scene in 5x06 "Exit Wounds", because they knew how important it was to the season, it's basically the time when they actually do communicate about their breakup and the reasons for it. Their timing felt off, and the people on set knew to leave them alone and let them figure it out together.

- It was just... super validating to hear them talk from their perspective about Memori's S5 arc centering on that scene. Richard placed a lot of it on Murphy’s demons and headspace and with her thriving in space it felt to him like she was pulling away so he had to faster and harder.

- I’m cheating and editing this in because I’d forgotten about it, but there was a question about Emori and Raven’s relationship and Luisa tied that into talking about Emori’s disability and how she doesn’t really sit in her feelings about it; it’s actually their abilities that drew them together, them both being really capable and Emori being so amazed with what she could do with tech.

- I believe this also came up at the meet & greet but Richard is so sick of Murphy being called a cockroach, heh. It's not the animal HE associates with him... to him from the very beginning, Murphy has been a feral dog who was kicked and abused too many times, and is one who will snap back at everyone because of it rather than cowering.

- In the same/opposite way, Luisa saw Emori as a cat. (She talked with me about this a little bit at the autograph table too!) She has a workbook of things that inspire her and help her get into character, and in it she had a picture of a black jaguar or panther. It's alone and skittish and colored dark like her soul -- and now next to it, she has another picture of a lioness with her pride and that's Emori now. <3

- There was one particularly hilarious callback to the boys’ panel earlier. The guys were asked an odd question about which 3 animals they'd put together to make the most dangerous animal. Bob, Richard, and Zach were getting *extremely invested* in the question and arguing with each other & defending their animal choices. Richard had centered his answer on a hippo and kept going on a rant about how scary hippos are, even bringing it up after they moved on to the next question....

- So fast forward to the Richard/Luisa panel. I forget how it was brought up exacty, maybe moderator Jo was like "at least we're not talking about hippos anymore" or something to that effect. And Luisa immediately reacted like "oh no, hippos are the worst. They're so scary." and talking about a violent hippo video she saw. And Richard just STOOD UP, so shocked and vindicated, like, YES. THANK YOU. This is why he loves her! Lmao.

- Luisa mentioned the backstories that they come up with for their characters but nothing is canon until it's canon. Richard echoed this and said before the reveal of what Murphy's crime was, he always used to say he peed on the last tree. He figured Murphy was just a pee-er because of the scene in S1 where he peed on that kid. Luisa being snarky: "When I met him I thought, that's the man for me. A pee-er."

- One audience member brought up the point that Murphy & Emori mirror each other, like he did better as a Grounder and Emori did better in space, the places they were always banished in. They were like "whoa!" and marvelling at that idea, Luisa said she thinks they may have talked about that parallel before but forgot about it. After that insightful comment came a surprisingly simple "what superhero duo would you be" question. Richard to Luisa: "I'd be Robin to your Batman any day."

- Question: Octavia used Lincoln's tattoo as her war paint, would Murphy ever wear war paint based on Emori's tattoo? Richard whispered with her as if worried he might give away a spoiler, then cryptically said "wait and see". O_o

- Luisa said she would’ve liked to see Emori and Pike interact with her distrust of authority. Richard would’ve liked Murphy to meet Lexa since the only time they did was her death scene. Jo said Emori and Lexa would’ve been interesting too; Luisa thinks if she had reached out to bringing the mutated Grounders back Emori would be wary and not want to trust her.

- Another audience question that I *have* to give a shout-out to for its creativity, someone pointed out that if Emori had been given the nightblood & survived, it could have led to Commander Emori & Flamekeeper Murphy. Again they had no real answer because it was just like "huh I have no idea what they would do with that power, that sounds like a bad idea for Murphy." :p But I am very into this AU idea.

- What would Murphy and Emori do if they switched bodies in a Freaky Friday situation. Richard: "I'd go find me. Emori's got a cute boyfriend." XD Luisa said very innocently she'd challenge someone to a race, she wants to see what this body can do.

[irkallanprince]

SPORES (Chapter Four)

Fandom: Power Rangers (2017 movie) Rating: T Warnings: Canon typical violence, discussion of sex, FROG MONSTER! Sexual situations (nothing explicit), mild language Relationships: Billy Cranston/Jason Scott; Kimberly Hart/Trini

The spores leave Billy raging at a bar just out of town, so Jason steps in to calm him down.

(read on ao3)

Billy was a bad, bad boy. Normally, even before he got infected by the spores, he did some amusing yet questionable things. There was a reason he knew how to so easily disable Jason’s ankle bracelet. He’d made a convincing fake I.D. a while ago, it’s just that he was always so timid to use it. He was either scared he’d get caught or his too-good conscience got in the way. But now? Now he didn’t care. Now his morals were a little more warped. So it was the perfect time to try it out.

He sat alone at a bar called ‘Fat Willy’s’, nursing his fourth or fifth beer. He’d lost count. All he had to do was show the I.D. for a split second and no questions were asked. This didn’t seem like the type of bar that really cared one way or the other.

It was also the type of bar that strangers weren’t treated too kindly. It was on an old country road somewhere between Angel Grove and Stone Canyon, and its patrons mostly consisted of bikers.

“You don’t look like you belong too much round these parts.” A husky elderly voice came from behind him. Billy turned his head and quirked an eyebrow to the older portly man with a bandana on his head and a gross Z.Z. Top beard. He was flanked on either side by other decidedly white, tattooed men wearing rebel flags on their vests. Who even had rebel flags in California? These guys apparently.

They were clearly trying to intimidate Billy. And normally they might. But this was a different Billy Cranston. This was Billy inebriated and hopped up on monster spores. So he turned on his bar stool, his legs widely stanced as he gave them an unimpressed look.

“I don’t. Your point?” He said, taking a long, slow, almost condescending swig from the beer bottle. The leader was clearly angered by it and doubled down on his intimidating voice.

“You should probably leave before there’re any problems…” He said, staring Billy down. But Billy Cranston could only laugh, finishing off his beer and cocking his head to the side.

“Free country.” He said, staring back with just as much vitriol. The older man nodded his head at his two friends, who moved to flank either side of Billy’s stool. They grabbed his arms and tried to lift, but found that they couldn’t. It was like the boy was made of steel.

“Aww, guys. You guys really shouldn’t touch me. I have a thing about that.” He said. They growled and both swung at him. He dodged easily, still sitting in his stool. One fist connected with the other’s face, while the one getting punched tried making contact with Billy’s only to have it stopped by Billy’s incredibly strong hand. Billy smirked.

* * *

“Oh he’s gonna murder those racist douchebags.” Zack laughed, watching the viewing globe. They’d

just

finally tracked down Billy’s whereabouts. It had been chaotic this afternoon. Kimberly had teleported in, crazed and crying. She had to be restrained. The boys managed to get her in a cage, but all she could do was scream about the frog. After a while they had calmed her down, but she was still spouting more expletives than they’d ever heard in their lives.

After hearing her story about the night before, Zordon and Alpha were able to cross-reference their system to a species of toad creatures they’d encountered centuries ago on a planet called Sorcery 7. They were carnivores, yes, but they didn’t eat their prey by traditional means. They had an arsenal of natural techniques to lure unfortunate souls in. Their primary tool were spores they shot out of their body, infecting their targets minds and causing them to act reckless and irrationally, making them easier to capture. They stored prey in their mouths until they got to their lair, where they would use natural secretions to plaster them against the wall where they would lay comatose until the time came to feed. Of course they fed in cycles, once every 30 years over the course of a few days. Zordon wasn’t aware that any had made it to this planet, but the fact that there only was one was good news. A couple dozen completely destroyed Sorcery 7.

Long story short, Trini was still alive. And if they wanted to snap Billy and Kimberly out of their crazed behavior they would need to snap the horn off of the toad’s back to create a serum out of it. It would seem getting Billy would be the hard part right now.

“Aye-yi-yi… he’s really giving them hell.” Alpha said in his sarcastic robotic voice, watching almost as entertained as Zack.

“I suppose we could lock on to his signal and teleport him out of there before he hurts anyone too bad?”

“Are you kidding? We may as well just have him shout ‘Oh by the way I’m a Power Ranger’ to the rest of the bar. No I got this.” Jason said, moving over to his podium.

“Input the coordinates for behind the bar. I’ll get him out of there.” Jason nodded. Alpha moved over to the control panel and pressed a few buttons, then gave him a little salute.

A small flash of red light circled his body. The next thing he knew he was landing on a bail of hay behind the old dive bar.

He could hear the commotion from there. Shouting and shattering glass. He ran around front and into the door to see Billy pressing the old guy’s head against the bar, hissing at him.

“What you will do is respect me!” He said. And a fair point was being made. As a person with dignity with a boyfriend of color that he deeply respected, he wanted to watch Billy wipe the floor with him a little more. But as a Power Ranger… he had to take the high road.

“Enough, Billy. Come on. Let’s go.” He said in a commanding tone. Billy turned his head, dropping the man before dusting off his new vest he stole from Colt earlier in the day.

“But I’m just starting to have fun, Jase. You want me to have fun, don’t you?” Billy said in the most confident, cocksure voice he’d ever heard come out of his mouth. Jason sighed, placing his hands on his hips and tapping his foot against the ground.

“I want you to have fun, just not… like this, okay?”

“Then how? Certainly not by fucking me. Am I not attractive to you no more, Jase?” Billy said defiantly. Jason pursed his lips, watching the rednecks and townies gasp, unsure what to do with the situation.

“Can we not do this here? We can talk at home.” Jason said, nodding toward the door. That’s when Billy got angry.

“No! FUCK YOU JASON!” He shouted angrily, tossing a bottle at his head which was quickly dodged.

“Or rather don’t fuck you because I was READY AND WILLING AND YOU SAID NO! DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS FOR ME TO BE THAT COMFORTABLE?!” Billy shouted once more. It was as if the spores were just inciting him to say just… whatever was on his mind. Jason was… flummoxed? Embarrassed? His face was turning as red as his ranger color. He nodded and walked toward him, grabbing his arm.

“Okay, come on Romeo, we’ll talk in the ca--” He started, but suddenly his arm was twisted behind his back.

“Bill, you don’t wanna do this.” He said. Billy just smirked.

“Do I?” He said almost flirtatious before tossing him forward. Suddenly Billy was launching an attack toward him, swinging his fists wildly. Again, fighting like some low level street punk. Jason was able to dodge each punch, and when Billy launched a kick at his chest, he caught it with his hands.

“Billy! Stop!” He yelled. Billy just smirked and used the leg Jason held to help propel his other leg forward and kicked him across the jaw. Jason flew back as Billy cracked his own neck from side to side.

“You think I don’t know?! That all you other guys think I’m just some doe-eyed innocent child?! You don’t need to handle me with kids gloves! I’M GROWN!” He said, kicking him in the gut. He flew through the front door into the parking lot. Jason coughed a bit, looking up. Dammit. Still people watching. This would be easier if they weren’t. Alpha could port them both out. No such luck.

“Billy, we don’t… we don’t think that.” He said, moving to his feet. Billy snapped the top off of a table and flung it out the door like a frisbee toward him, to which he ducked under, hearing it lodge itself into the car behind him. Okay. Billy was causing more than a scene now. People were gonna question just how strong he really was.

“You laugh at my voice! You get irritated when I have to rearrange everything on my desk when you know I can’t concentrate if I don’t!” He said, running out, tossing a punch at him and getting his fist lodged in a truck door when Jason sidestepped it.

“And why won’t you FUCK me?!”

Jason was pinned between him and the truck, his boyfriend’s fist stuck in the metal lining. He just reacted, shaking his head.

“I’M A VIRGIN, OKAY?!” Jason shouted. He wasn’t sure why he was even defending himself. Billy was the one that would panic and talk about homework. Everyone just assumed that Jason was some big bad lothario, that he’d had ALL the sex. But honestly, he never really made time for it with football. And now being a ranger. Made out a few times before Billy, yeah but… never all the way. Still, that revelation made Billy pause, looking at him confused for a moment. He then looked at his fist that was rammed in the metal siding of a truck and hissed to himself.

“Ouch.” He said. He looked at Jason almost apologetically.

“I’m sorry. I don’t know what happened. I was angry and then… I just saw… I don’t know what I saw. I just wanted to break stuff.”

“It’s okay, Billy.” He said with a smile. Then he carefully helped him remove his hand, which was bloody and cut up. Everyone was still watching from the bar. Jason just smiled and waved, unsure of what else to do.

“Uh… all good, folks! We’re leaving! Sorry! We uh… won’t come back! Promise!” He said, waving them off before ushering Billy beyond the treeline so they could teleport back to the command center.