#defense babey

[bottom-lexa]

Look I’m not saying I chose my favorite player on the team coz he looks hot af but I did kinda choose my favorite player coz he’s hot af.

[brown-little-robin]

chapter five is up on ao3!

[adhbabey]

my therapist: so yeah, these are human emotions.

me: ?! wtf i didn't know i was allowed to have those.

[alternis]

nurse got mad at me for treating something at home and said i should have come into see them a week ago but then did have to admit i handled it perfectly and it's almost totally healed and my issue now is just an allergic reaction to the glue from the wound dressings i was using. so like,

[vermillioncrown]

notable quotes during this entire process of Suffering

"you need to be a little delusional to have a thesis. at least a bit."

"oo she's starting to believe"

"barring setting your hair on fire and sitting between you and the monitor, i don't think you can be stopped"

"if you could, you'd have a beard at this point. and be balding"

"is it drugs or do you feel Things inside?"

"doesn't have to be coherent. or logical. just needs to Be"

"just write 'let's be frfr, you're skipping this chapter my esteemed committee members' in the middle"

[ambitious-tea]

Just rewatched the goes wrong show The nativity and I swear you can just SEE the moment Chris goes through all the stages of grief at once except acceptance.

Oh the set has fallen over? MIGHT AS WELL AT THIS POINT THE PIANOS ALREADY CAUGHT FIRE. Oh Robert has fireworks sTRAPPED TO HIS BACK? Cool cool cool cool cool.

Trevor closing the book on them was definitely targeted lmao.

I’ve laughed at every production of the goes wrong show but this episode, this one has me crying through hysterical laughter almost the entire time.

[samarecharm]

ann and gladio for the character meme? :D

I already did ann! So i will use this opportunity to scream about Gladio my beloved

Ffxv is a blessing and a curse bc it gives u Guys and DIFFERENT kinds of Guys and then does not let u do anything w these guys :( theres so many little details they add in the game for these guys during combat, even the animations they have for certain things like reviving each other or eating together is sooooooo good. It literally has me craving more but theres not ENOUGH!!!!

Gladio has so many little things about him….hes a bit of a soft and old soul, hes dedicated to his work and that comes above all else. It just so happens his Work is protecting Noct and co so like, hes very VERY protective of them. Hes rough w the way he teaches and its not without reason; the game very quickly shows whats at stake outside of the safety of Insomnia. Hes stern in a way that doesnt come off as belittling or scary; he gets angry quick but is also a bit of a jokester. Hes smart. Hes tactical. Hes versatile. Hes whatever u need him to be in a given situation (good and bad :) ) Grief manifests as him clamming up (news of his father) or exploding in anger (ignis going blind). Hes a delicate balance of being the Typical Masc Male Archetype while also being a Tired and Worn Down soul towards the end of the game. Theres something very sad about him being so Grown™️ and only 23.

We joke about that all the time (“squeenix wants u to believe this is what a 23 yr old looks like”) but like he is very young, as young as the rest of his team, and he carries himself like hes 30 and battle hardened. And its insane bc after world of ruin, he is OKAY!!! Hes like even More mellow than he was in his 20s! Like that mentality kind of helped him be more prepared for the grim reality of the future and thats kinda sad! Let him read cheesy romances while iggy drives him across the countryside and let him camp and eat his favorite foods and fish w noct and do morning jogs w prompto like let him have the domestic life he was SO born to live in if he didnt live in a time of war, dedicating his body and soul to the crown 😭

[thatsnotbuddies]

kyle dubas' penchant for acquiring former soo greyhounds players but it's me with a third of my fantasy league roster occupied by players who were drafted in 2015

[lmitations]

honestly just wait til T does it's fat redistribution thing again to nuke the hips and i get the sleeves taken in a bit ill b unstoppable

[applecorething]

thinking about the kind of adoring tenderness shared between men at ease with one another.

[allthebestscreennamesaregone63]

Being the Kittycat Defense Squad is a full time job, but you don't hear me whining about it.

[furcoatdreamgirl]

new level of delusion unlocked today when i sent in my photos & information to Vouges open casting call

[spainkitty]

The Fiona is Secretly Alistair's Mother Scenes Part 1

Lanil's Pieces Masterlist

I knew his father a... long time ago. I would just like to know if... if he's happy. For his father's sake.

"King Alistair..." Lavellan began slowly, not quite sure where her thought was going.

Cullen looked up from the board, but she turned the next words over in her head carefully instead of continuing. She frowned, then moved her castle. Cullen smirked at her, eyebrow rising, and she scowled at him. She moved the castle back and tried the knight. Cullen nodded in approval.

"So the king, he's... you said once, he's not like other royals? Or nobles? I can't... remember." She huffed and leaned back in her chair. "I know Cailin was the previous king, I know he died in Ostagar, but I can't remember Maric having two sons."

"Officially he didn't," Cullen told her.

He surveyed the board and moved a pawn. Lavellan scowled. Minute little plays like that were fucking annoying. She couldn't figure out what he was going to do next with a play like that. She braced her elbows on her knees and glared, ignoring his chuckle.

"King Alistair's birth was a very closely guarded secret. No one knew for most of his life, not until the Landsmeet where the Warden declared him king, and her his future Queen."

"Well, that's one way to take over the world. Good for her." She raised her fist in the air.

"It was Ferelden, not all of Thedas," he said, laughing. "I met them both, briefly." She glanced up at the strange shift in tone. He was looking over the garden, but it was obvious he wasn't seeing it. "They came to the Circle to conscript the mages against the Blight, and they... saved us. What was left of us." His voice lowered and he passed a hand over his eyes. "They saw me at my worst, but her. Cousland, at the time. I'll never forget her. It was like waking out of a dream, out of a nightmare. The others, they tried to get through. Leliana was there, Wynne, a healer and enchanter I'd known for more than a year, too, but her. The Warden. She got through. I believed in her, and I was furious that she wouldn't listen. She was the only one who could... who could do what I asked." He sighed, shoulders falling. "I'm so glad she was... so much wiser, stronger, so much kinder than anyone I'd ever met. If she loves a man like our King, he must be a good man. I have to remind myself of that sometimes whenever I meet him."

Lavellan huffed in amusement. "It sounds like you had a little crush."

"No." She drew up short at how vehement that was. Cullen's look was intense, earnest, and completely genuine. "She is my Queen, and a hero. She saved my life, and then she saved my soul."

Lavellan blinked. "Oh."

"I'm sorry. This was--"

He started to get to his feet, looking too pale and shaken. Lavellan reached without thinking, wrapped her hand around his wrist, and smiled as gently as she could. As if she was trying to soothe her high-strung Ferelden Forder. He stilled immediately, eyes on her hand, and then slowly up to her face.

"I'm about to kick your ass for real this time. You can't go yet."

He slipped back into his chair, smiling weakly. "I told you, I didn't let you win last time."

"And I told you, you're a shit liar."

The answering laugh was deep, unabashed, and her heart lightened to hear it. She'd done something right, and Cullen was smiling.

"But, um, Alistair. If it was a secret, it can't be now, obviously. So who's his mother? Where did he grow up?" she asked, getting back on the original topic. She moved a cleric recklessly.

Cullen frowned thoughtfully. "I don't know details. I wasn't in the headspace to notice much at the time. What I've picked up since is that he was raised in Redcliffe until he was sent to the Chantry to be a Templar, younger than I was when I went, actually. I don't know exactly when or why the Wardens conscripted him, but it wasn't long before Ostagar."

"You were... thirteen, right?" Lavellan asked.

"I was." He glanced up, surprised. "You remembered?"

"I don't talk just to hear myself," Lavellan retorted with an eye roll. "And it's easy to remember what you tell me. Maybe because you're easy to talk to. Or maybe I just like hearing you talk."

Flirting with Cullen, even as innocently and obviously as she did, was always worth it. Just to see how easily and quickly he turned red. She smirked as it crept up to his ears He cleared his throat and moved a piece on the board. Her reckless cleric was gone and he was two moves from a check.

"Fenedhis!" she cursed.

He laughed, leaning back in his chair and shoulders shaking. "So. The story goes his mother was a serving woman, and she died giving birth to him. King Maric sent him away in secret to his brother-in-law and closest advisor. Other than... well."

"Loghain, Hero of River Dane."

"Yes."

Lavellan scowled darkly, leg hopping in place, and finally moved a different castle. This time, Cullen didn't protest, both eyebrows rising in surprise.

Ha.

"You... sounded unsure," Lavellan said, interrupting Cullen's focus after a long minute. It looked as though he dragged himself back to the garden, staring at her a little too long, before the words sunk in.

"Did I? I suppose I am."

"Why? Surely kings and nobles taking advantage of pretty serving maids is a tale as old as time," Lavellan said, mouth curled in disgust. "Though, perhaps it was a love story."

"Either could be true, but King Maric... He wasn't that kind of king, or man," Cullen said, his expression mirroring hers. He saw her incredulous eyebrow and he quickly raised a hand. "I'm not saying that as a Ferelden boy who grew up on stories of our heroic King Maric, who kicked the Orlesians out and freed us all. No matter what, if a king, um," he broke off, ears red again, "tends to... take advantage of pretty serving maids," Lavellan couldn't help but laugh at his uncomfortable expression, "people find out. They may whisper about it, or joke about it, or shake their heads about it, but people know. But until King Alistair took the throne, the only thing people ever talked about was how much King Maric loved his late Queen. No other woman managed to get his attention for years afterwards."

"So if he did tip a maid a few times and got himself a bastard son,"

"Inquisitor!"

"it was probably a love thing. It would only make sense, it being such a secret." Other than her wide smirk, she completely ignored his outburst.

"It's your move, Inquisitor." Cullen sighed, then sighed again and pinched the bridge of his nose, looking so very tired.

She wanted to poke a little more. See what it would take to tip him over the edge. What would it look like, if he was already so flustered? She looked down at the board and blinked.

"Oh shit. I didn't see what you did."

"I'm not helping this time. You deserve this."

She burst into laughter.

To Part II

[ironinkpen]

The interpretation of Rise Raph as a 'perfect responsible soft boy uwu' is so BORING I'm sorry, Raph is a rowdy adrenaline junkie with anxiety and I won't take this slander any longer

Raph secretly kept an enemy soldier in their actual literal house as a sparring partner. Raph glued his brothers together and dragged them out to fight crime. Raph once asked Leo to punch him in the face to prove he 'takes damage like a boss.' Raph tried to lift a school bus, twice. Raph offered to help his favorite wrestler beat his little brother up. When Leo suggests evacuating Bullhop, Raph says no bc the best defense is a good offense babey. Raph's idea of a 'friendly chat' with April's upstairs neighbor is to put on a black ski mask and go stand menacingly at their door. It takes Raph 10 episodes to conclude that they should MAYBE start training. Raph's plan to get a potentially priceless (and potentially FRAGILE) museum artifact is to punch a car in the middle of a busy street and also cut it in half with his brother still inside.

Raph's never met a problem he wouldn't try to punch in the face and does not know the meaning of the words 'excessive force.' He roughhouses with his bros and drags them out to fight villains and thinks any plan that doesn't involve an all-out brawl is boring and lame. He'll do anything to protect his family from harm and be a hero, but also he eats wet salami off the floor and once single-handedly destroyed a library.

I just adore how, at his core, Rise Raph is such a classic Raph—impulsive and stubborn and caring and passionate. He is a very sweet, strong, honorable guy who has a very powerful sense of personal responsibility... and he is also the exact kind of jock who throws you in the pool at a party without checking if you have your phone in your pocket first.

[brucewaynehater101]

Tim drake ruler of worlds

Ok I am an outsider but I think ppl are focused too much on the brucequest. Imagine the comedic potential of none of the batfam knowing but the loa does. Damian arrives and shows respect to Tim bc even the demons heir knows when they are outclassed (by several planets worth of people). Batfam + jl don't realize this until a force appears that overtakes planets and sees Tim. Tim says "fuck off". They promptly fuck off. What the jl doesn't know is that they only overtake weaker planets without a good defense. Planets Timmy has multiple planets to act as a defense and should not be counted. He wouldn't ask them but the second those planets hear of the threat to their beloved rulers planet???? They shall take this strain from his shoulders!!! He has done so much!!! (What if he thinks we are too much work) We can do this small act for him!!!

They hear of one (1) threat and are like but what does he get from ruling us?? (Mental health boost from millions saying how great he is, stress relief tbh, the ability to take days off while he feels like he's still being useful). We Will Keep Our Overlord!!!!

Better if they have longer lifespans and so Tim being 17 is like.. Smart Baby!! Babey so clever!! We love him!! Earth babies are clearly such good rulers!!! We should recommend?! But wait?? He tries to KILL earth?? THATS WHERE OUR BELOVED BABY RULER IS??

Tim is like people electing a bear to president because it clearly can't make anything worse right? But then he makes it BETTER?!??!??

I fucking love this so so much. I can't with them electing him for the morale boost (baby for overlord), and Tim somehow doing well anyways.

Just planets of people who love their mascot overlord who actually does really good work.

Also, you are correct that Damian (and LoA) knowing about Tim from the get-go would be such a juicy twist! Like, Damian would try to befriend Tim instead. He would try to establish a friendly relationship and connection for the purpose of having him on Damian's side when Damian takes over the LoA or Batman's mantle.

I bet Talia has trained Damian in business relations and how to manipulate people onto your side. Damian would try these tricks (there can still be some conflict with Tim being Robin) and notice months later that they somehow became brothers. Oh well. Tim's proven to be a formidable ally. For those who hurt his family? He's a terrifying opponent. It's truly better this way (and not that he'll admit it even to himself, but he also cares about Tim at this point).

Since Damian knows about the planets and they have a friendly relationship, Tim would take Damian with him sometimes when he visits. He'd show him some of the ropes (training useful for WE or LoA) and implement ideas Damian proposes.

Then! Your whole JL and invading forces ideas??? Fuuuudge. I love that shit so much. I just love dramatic reveals like that

[sciencelings-arts]

Can’t make a fem!Phoenix without a fem!Edgeworth, because no matter what gender this prosecutor is, she isn’t allowed to even slightly come off as straight

Design details and artists commentary below the cut

She is babey, and I’m absolutely convinced that she still wore a bow tie every day to school and never learned how to tie it so her dad had to every morning. It’s also important to note that this is the most saturated her hair gets, from dl6 on it gets lighter and less brown.

A lot of my bratworth design is based on the unimplemented design for PLvsPW, and I made sure to have some hellfire imagery to poke at the demon part of her reputation. This is the shortest her hair gets to represent Von Karmas control over her, after this era she keeps it longer and after the 7yg she keeps it loose to symbolize her freedom from mvk and how she slowly got more comfortable with herself so she doesn’t have to focus on controlling every part of her appearance.

Yes, Trilogy Edgeworth and Trilogy Phoenix have matching knight earrings leave me alone.

She also gets a little embroidered sunflower/defense attorney badge in this era. It’s meant to resemble the sun and represents Phoenix’s reentry into her life and her relationship with her father before she lets go a bit and leans into the whole chief prosecutor thing.

All I have to say is that her earpiece is 100% Phoenix themed

It was very important to me that she dressed so similarly to her canon version because she just gives off those vibes, maybe she wears a skirt and black tights and high heels that could puncture a bitch but that suit jacket is so mandatory. The day you see any form of this guy in something that’s not formal wear is the day she dies. She buttons up her shirt to the very top when she’s at the beach. You will never see the skin on her legs if she can help it. She only wishes she could pull off a hat so when she goes outside once a year she won’t get completely sunburnt.

It’s also important to note that I drew her facing her right and Phoenix facing her left so they would be mirroring each other because they are gay, now I just need someone to use these as icons so I can have an Edgeworth to my Phoenix 💔