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DP x DC: My Brother’s Ghost
So there are a bunch of fics where Danny and Damian are twins and Danny eventually has to go to Gotham or Damian/another bat interacts with Danny as ghost king. But I do you one better. Danny faked his death because of failing a mission/he actually died and his mother brought him back. (Or maybe he revived on his own after constant Lazarus exposure over time and knew he couldn’t go back). Anyways, Danny knew that he needed to go to Bruce Wayne in Gotham if he ever needed anything but only as a last resort as they would expect him to go there. So he’s been monitoring Bruce from afar and immediately knew when Damian joined the bats. He clocked him as the new Robin and started following his hero career more closely. He was content to watch his family from afar. Even after the accident. Then something happens where Robin was said to go missing and when no news showed up after a few days, Danny got worried so figured it couldn’t hurt to do a quick trip to Gotham.
He dresses in all black and a hood made using an old ninja Halloween costume. Not nearly as much protection as his old league uniform but with his ghost powers he doesn’t really need protection. Just anonymity. He goes to Gotham in phantom form, making sure all his white hair is carefully tucked in the black hood so only his green eyes remain. He uses his old assassin training and finds Robin drugged and captured in an old warehouse by the court of owls. Robin clearly isn’t thinking straight but Danny puts him in a simple choke hold to knock him unconscious anyways. Better safe than sorry. He quickly frees the boy and drops him off in an area he knows the other bats are searching. After watching to make sure Damian is safe and a bat finds him, he leaves.
Damian could barely remember his capture but he thought he saw a figure in black with glowing green eyes. He could have sworn the future was trying to kill him but…he woke up looking at another bat (or maybe even the manor). Did his family save him?
Meanwhile, Danny can’t stop thinking about Damian. Despite his assassin training, he was drugged and hurt. Danny thought his brother could handle himself. He thought he would be safe. But what if this happened again? What if the colony of bats wasn’t enough? So Danny couldn’t help the occasional visit to Gotham to make sure his twin was ok. Most of the time he didn’t do anything, just watched. Sometimes, though, there would be an instance where Damian got out of a dangerous situation and no one knew how. A building collapsed, Damian appeared unharmed outside. A goon was about to get a lucky shot? Somehow the bullet missed or the goon got taken out when no other bats were nearby. Fear gas? Damian faintly remembers warm hands hugging him as he struggled. And while he thought it was weird he heard his brother’s comforting voice when it should be a nightmare, he chalked it up to the fear gas anyways since there was no other explanation.
Yet every time there is a particularly dangerous encounter, he swears he sees the figure in black. Damian sees the figure more and more yet none of his family do. They swore to keep an eye out anyways in case. You never know. Sometimes the figure becomes more clear and Damian has tried to chase them but always loses them quickly. One time the chase lasted at least five minutes and Damian managed to corner the figure in an alleyway only for them to pass through the wall.
The bats suspect that this could either be meta abilities or magic. The funny thing is, there were no traces. No one sees the figure except Damian. No one hears them, and there is nothing to indicate their presence, not even footprints. It’s like they were never there and no matter how hard they try, there is no footage of the figure. Sometimes cameras glitch out and sometimes they only show Robin, sometimes neither or they seem to loop on themselves. So the bats are leaning towards Magic.
They call Constantine to give Damian a thorough check and he declares that Damian shows signs of interacting with a ghost. And that stumps everyone. A ghost? If it was a friendly specter like Deadman then he would help everyone, not just Damian. If it was hostile, it would never help Damian. So why is this ghost only focusing on the youngest bat and why? Is there even someone that would come back from the afterlife to help the demon brat, let alone have the will strong enough to manifest a ghost that can affect the living? Damian was a former assassin after all and he’s hardly the friendliest bat. So who would help him that has already died?
Throughout this, Damian is silent. Because there is one person he knows to have died that might do this. One person skilled enough to avoid the other bats and evade Damian during a chase. One person Damian would acknowledge as having a will stronger than his own. But something was wrong…because he was sure that that person didn’t have green eyes.
So the next time the figure shows himself Damian attacks. Not just a chase but an outright challenge. Hand to hand combat. And as Damian punches and kicks, the figure expertly parries each attack. And as the fight goes on, Damian watches. And he knows those moves. Those dodges. Those blocks. He can read this figure’s fighting stance like the back of his hand because he grew up with it.
And Damian knows without a shadow of a doubt as the figure disappears into he ground, that despite the changed eye color, the tan skin, the increased height, his brother’s ghost has come back to watch over him.
And for the first time in many years, Damian cries. That’s how the bats find him.
#Dpxdc#dcxdp#Kizzer55555 ideas#Damian thinks’s Danny’s ghost is haunting him.#Danny helps Damian as a NINJA.#A mute ninja#like a male version of Cass.#Damian only ever sees Danny’s eyes and they glow.#Eventually Danny will start helping other bats like if Damian asks for Danny to help find his brother if he’s missing.#Damian still tries to chase Danny but he maintains DISTANCE.#They’re kinda in the area where DAMAIN is aware of Danny and DANNY knows that Damian knows but he’s still pretending otherwise.#(He also doesn’t know how to interact with Damian. That stunted emotional communication was in there somewhere. It’s genetic).#So Danny sometimes becomes more visible but will always stay at least 20 feet away unless Damian’s in active danger.#Even the bats catch a flicker of him sometimes.#Bruce tries to connect with the ghost of his dead son.#Deadman comes to visit one day and they have a nice chat. Just being near Danny allowed the others to see the ghost too which was weird.#When Danny eventually takes the hood off everyone stares at the face of Damian just with soft white hair#and glowing green eyes.#It was bizarre.#That was the only time he took off the hood though.
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These were dangerous thoughts, he knew. They were the kind that crept up on a Watchman when the chase was over and it was just you and him, facing one another in that breathless little pinch between the crime and the punishment.
And maybe a Watchman had seen civilization with the skin ripped off one time too many and stopped acting like a Watchman and started acting like a normal human being and realized that the click of the crossbow or the sweep of the sword would make all the world so clean.
And you couldn't think like that, even about vampires. Even though they'd take the lives of other people because little lives don't matter and what the hell can we take away from them?
And, too, you couldn't think like that because they gave you a sword and a badge and that turned you into something else and that had to mean there were some thoughts you couldn't think.
Only crimes could take place in darkness. Punishment had to be done in the light. That was the job of a good Watchman, Carrot always said. To light a candle in the dark.
Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
#sam vimes#samuel vimes#carrot ironfoundersson#feet of clay#discworld#terry pratchett#vampires#criminals#crime#the watch#watchmen#law enforcement#morality#conscience#self control#dangerous thoughts#crime and punishment#justice#civilization#some thought you can't think#to light a candle in the dark#long quote
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Don't get me wrong, "The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite" is a quote that absolutely hits me square in the chest every time.
..But I feel like putting it in italics under an aesthetic picture is kinda neglecting the context, since Piranesi has Nearly Drowned when he first says that.
#Piranesi#I could make a whole rant about this#I don't wish to claim the house isn't beautiful. However.#One does have to wonder how much of its sentience kindness and grace is projected onto it BY Piranesi#Because it isn't always kind is it?#The winters are hard. The collapsed floors are dangerous. My guy is talking to birds and dead people#Also he Nearly Fcking Drowns in the first scene#But I don't wish to be a negative nancy either#What matters is that Piranesi sees that kindness#I suppose it's the same way the statues capital-r-Represent concepts while also being unmoving stone...#Or maybe its that Piranesi is so kind he can't help seeing that quality in everyone and everything#I fear I'm rambling.#Just wanted to get it off my chest.#I wonder how many people reading that quote out of context know that it's the thought of a drenched man clinging to the legs of a statue#Susanna Clarke#(edit: realized that the call-back to this line does knock me off my feet.)#(I cried physical tears reading the final chapter)#(anyway okay so yeah it's just the First time that that line is written where the narrator has narrowly brushed past death)#(wait.... The way that it puts the “house” in a whole new context...#The way that “world” and “house” are interchangeable....bro I need to lie down this BOOK.)#(It is 2am and I am unwell about this story)
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actually it's really offensive that i can't give rodney mckay a god complex
#lemme worship that man#i would encourage him to make the Worst Decisions#he'd be so fucking dangerous#like omg babe you blew up a solar system??? can you do it again 😍😍😍😍#show me how smart and destructive that brain of yours is 😍😍😍😍#hes sooooooooo hot#and i want to worship the ground he walks on#let me kiss his feet#pls#i WANT TO#i deserve it actually!!!!!#and so does rodney tbh#let that man have a god complex#he deserves to be worshiped#i said what i said#this is a rodney mckay account first and foremost#divinity kink#rodney mckay#sga#stargate atlantis
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[ID: Two drawings of Five in the centaur au. He is actually thirteen years old and living in the apocalypse, In the first drawing, he is contorted into an uncomfortable looking position in order to pick his back hoof. In the other, he is soaking his two front hooves in some suspicious water that is leaking out a pipe, while he is tying makeshift shoes to his back feet. End ID.]
its time for the tiniest saddest horse in the whole wide world 😔
today's theme is "hoof angst"
#tua#the umbrella academy#five hargreeves#centaur au#i think often about horse hooves vs the apocalypse#he would have to do so much walking#and hurt his feet so badly if he doesnt have any shoes!!#but how is he supposed to get shoes? put them on himself?#sounds dangerous!#he has to improvise but its just not as good as just Actually Having Shoes#so his feet just hurt All The Time and are also probably Not In Great Shape#poor guy#also picking ur hooves when you are attached to the top/front of you#that is Gymnastics. and becomes even more Gymnastics once youre actually an adult#rip five#probably i should have put all of that in the actual post since it pertains to the au. oh well whatever#my art
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It is never enough Kayla Jane Danger
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As a fun exercise, I went over all the standard banner characters and attempted to think of actual in-universe reasons for each of them to be featured in this group and make us lose the 50/50 by randomly spawning.
Turns out it's quite wholesome!
Jean
Well, for starters, she probably feels a deep sense of gratitude for the Traveler's help with Stormterror, and still thinks they deserve more than just a few posters for their sibling (especially since the knights were already going to do that anyway). Also, she probably stays up at night (not that she actually even sleeps, she's just stressing while doing paperwork) thinking about how Traveler doesn't have a roof over their head, and is traversing a completely unfamiliar world with only Paimon by his side, "What if they get hurt? Can they even heal themselves?"
We get a 50/50 when the worry gets the best of her.
Diluc
Similarly to Jean, he's also worried about the Traveler's well-being and would like to repay them for their help with Stormterror and the Darknight Hero's Alibi. Also he's extremely invested in the Traveler's quest to find their twin.
And he KNOWS the Traveler is going to end up fighting most harbingers, so he's looking for a rematch, and maybe even a chance to punch whoever decided to leave a kid in a foreign land to act as a spy, in the rain, I might add.
His chances of coming home tend to increase whenever he realizes we're befriending the Fatui (I literally lost the 50/50 to him for the first time during Lyney's banner lol).
Mona
She was practicing hydromancy when she foresaw the Traveler was about to suffer a great loss. Despite knowing she can't change the future, she wanted to at least be there for them, maybe try to shield them from the worst of it.
The "loss" she foresaw was the 50/50, thus creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
She's also low on mora and wanted to help out with a few comissions or ley lines.
Qiqi
She once heard Dr. Baizhu go on an hour-long rant about how the Traveler has no regard for their well-being (Chansheng: Pot, meet kettle), stressing over the Traveler potentially dying a gruesome death with their allies being none the wiser, be it from an enemy or simply a disease left unchecked. The fact that they're outlanders who may not have developed immunity for most of Teyvat's illnesses is another concern of his.
Qiqi then wrote a reminder to check up on the Traveler's health, especially since Baizhu couldn't leave the Pharmacy for that long.
There's also an additional note about how the Traveler is always collecting herbs and other olants, so if she can't find any Violetgrass or Qingxin, chances are the Traveler took them all.
She comes to visit whenever she checks the notes and remembers. Hence the high rate of Qiqis.
Keqing
After witnessing the Traveler being 5 hours late for an important meeting because they got sidetracked with quests, seelies and treasure, she deemed it unacceptable and vowed to set them straight as soon as possible. There'll be no procrastination on her watch.
(Also she wants to repay them for saving Liyue, deciding that the posters weren't enough compensation for everything they went through).
Tighnari
He found out the Traveler is worse than Cyno at taking care of themselves and decided to take matters into his own hands.
His methods range from providing medicine and helping out with traversing the rainforest and other difficult environments to simply anihilating the enemies before they have a chance to land a hit.
He may also appear if he thinks the Traveler is getting Cyno's sense of humor.
Dehya
Like the others, she's also worried for the Traveler and wants to help them out on their journey to find their sibling. She's also completely aware that people are scamming the Traveler for commissions and would like to have a small chat with those scammers. Preferably with her fists.
Also, imagine seeing your friend off to a new region and then not even two weeks later there's news about them being arrested, and a gigantic flood. She's CONCERNED.
#genshin impact#diluc ragnvindr#jean gunnhildr#mona megistus#qiqi#baizhu#keqing#tighnari#dehya#tighnari once impulsively traversed the entire desert because he just KNEW the traveler had just made an awful pun and had to be stopped#qiqi's note: “Make sure Traveler isn't dead or dying so Doctor Baizhu won't get sick from worry”#jean in a bout of work related insomnia: “I sense the Traveler forgot to bring a healer to a domain”#dehya has already drafted a commission contract for the Traveler to use#stablishing fair prices for each dangerous activity or errand#the “please pick an flower that's three feet away from me” category just says “fuck off”#tighnari also wants to beat up dottorre whenever he gets a boss fight
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moriarty and sherlock are criminal x investigator written by straight people and hannibal and will are criminal x investigator written by gay people hope that helps
#never thought I’d be sherlock posting here hello#I’ve been watching it with my mum and y’all were right about the queerbaiting my god it’s as bad as supernatural#even my MOTHER pointed it out 😭😭#moriarty is kicking his feet and calling sherlock sexy and giving him his number only to show up like did you like it when I acted GAY#IT WAS BUT A DISGUISE like steven moffat what are you silly?#could’ve done anything with that dynamic idk there’s a whole triple foil thing going on with watson#also the trope where character a freaks out when character b is in danger (pool scene you know the one)#and moffat makes it so AWKWARD with the gay jokes like what is he doing#meanwhile hannibal is telling will that if he saw him everyday forever he’d remember this time#and that he let him know him and see him and will wonders if they could survive separation 😩#moffat ruined my life and I don’t even GO here#anyway sherlock fandom I’m so sorry for what they did to you 💔#sherlock#sherlock holmes#jim moriarty#sheriarty#nbc hannibal#hannibal#will graham#hannigram#ghost speaks
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Sidekick Selfies are hard
#Selfie#Should i split post this?#Selca#Mirror pic#Side kick#Budoblr#Martial arts#Kick#Kicks#Taekwondo#My face#Dangly earrings#Men in uniform#hoochie daddy shorts#Hoochie hoe shorts#Short shorts#Feet#Thats a dangerous tag#Flexible#Flexibility#Yoga#Stretching#me#Zenv0
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"We do so adore restricted areas, don't we?"
"We shouldn't go in there. Which is exactly why we should. Now take heed. There's a chance we could get caught."
#Sebastian Sallow#Hogwarts Legacy#Sebastian Sallow ai#ai Art#“There's a special joy in going where you shouldn't.”#“I delight in a bit of danger myself.”#“I've not forgotten about our library venture.”#who can blame him for seeking more knowledge~#the things that happened in that library#man#wondering if Scribner knows#every time you enter the library she recognises you#judging you#the old Lady knows of the spicy things you did in here#maybe she doesn't say anything because it inspires her#fanfic writing Scribner#Bobby loves her writings#so detailed#makes Bobby feel like he's part of the story#“Whipped: The Beginning” is his favorite book#Bobby is very literate#but also very loud#Bobby can't quite stay calm in a library#Bobby is a passionate reader#if the book character moans and groans#so does Bobby#it's just sweeping him off of his feet#maybe Bobby will join a book club#Bobby also enjoys books about horses#such a romantic soul
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Earth Kingdom Chief Minister "Kyoshi Warrior" Azula
Kuei: Well, she met with the Council of Generals to plan the invasion, and since then, she been off with your friends, the Kyoshi Warriors.
Kuei: Look Bosco! The Kyoshi Warriors are here to protect us! Aren't you excited? [Bosco yawns.] It's been a difficult week for me. My most trusted advisor, Long Feng, and his Dai Li agents tried to take control of Ba Sing Se from me. Azula: It's terrible when you can't trust the people who are closest to you. Kuei: [Pets Bosco.] But there is good news. As we speak, the Council of Five is meeting to plan an invasion of the Fire Nation this summer, on the day of a solar eclipse .For a second, Azula's eyes slightly widen with shock and worry upon hearing this, but she quickly hides it. Azula: Really? Now that sounds like a fascinating and brilliant plan. [Glances off as Mai and Ty Lee look at each other.] Ty Lee: Maybe that's why it was so easy to beat the Kyoshi Warriors and take their clothes. [Punches the air, imitating her chi-blocking.] Mai: How much longer do we have to serve the Earth King? If I have to clean up one more pile of bear poop, I'm going to throw up. Long Feng: I want to make a deal. It's time that I regain control of Ba Sing Se and you have something I need. Azula: Oh? Long Feng: The Earth King's trust.
All the sudden I have an odd attraction to an AU where the Dangerous Ladies are just so done with the Fire Nation's bullshit, so when they infiltrate Ba Sing Se as the "Kyoshi Warriors" and find that the (incompetent) King Kuei trusts them and treats them as his chief advisors, they just kind of roll with it and Azula basically becomes his prime minister without him ever knowing who she really is. Her first order of business is neutralizing the Dai Li, and then she has to deal with administrative bullshit and reorganize the war effort. All a lot of work. But hey, it beats dealing with Ozai!
#Azula#Mai#Ty Lee#Dangerous Ladies#Kyoshi Warriors#AU idea#Long Feng probably mysteriously gets struck by lightning#100s of feet underground#the spirits must not have liked him!#no other possible explanation
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Roundcat or longcat?
🐈 Thebigcatsanctuaryuk on IG
#pallas cat#serval cat#cats#wild cats#wildlife#animals#stim#owl post#animal stim#servals are stupidly long#look at their big dumb ears#jk they're majestic#pallas's are dandelion fluffs with feet#danger puffs#i can't believe these two are part of the same family#that's evolution for you#servals
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something about rhaenyra and motherhood, something about the fact she’s the first of the targaryens we know of who’s death at the hands of a dragon she’s explicitly torn apart and eaten. that she died with her surviving child watching who goes onto be known as the dragonbane – the fact sunfyre showed no interest in her at first until they cut her breast. the fact aegon had to be torn from her arms and was made to watch
#her and motherhood is so fascinating because like Jesus . like she was genuinely traumatized by aemma’s fate#like it’s such a genuine tragedy that felt so needless to her if he was just going to name her anyway and she’s just so#AFRAID of the birthing bed#and her boys survive ! She has the sons she needed but they’re immediately called bastards and common looking and plain and targeted for#their illegitimacy#they come for her post partum body they come for her freshly born infant’s nose shape as if all newborn’s don’t have a pug nose#and then they become a source of strength and love and such a genuine comfort for her#the first pure feeling of joy she had in years#and then she has two more ! and she’s about to have her daughter and she loses her horrifically over a three day stillbirth#and we’re told from the jump how devastated she was by visenya#and how luke fractured her even further - how he broke her even further#and she never purposefully sends them into danger but they’re all ripped from her anyway#no matter what she does they’re ripped from her and they die#and there’s nothing left of luke. Nothing left of jace. Nothing left of viserys. Joffreys body was near decapitated they were sawing at his#feet to take his boots and at his hands for his rings there’s a sword in his belly#and then all she wants to do is go home. she wants to go home and protect her last surviving child#she wants them to be safe she sells her crown so they can be safe and walks into a trap blindly because dragonstone was always safe#and she gets torn apart. She gets torn apart#she loved them so much she loved them with everything she had it wasn’t enough#they all died
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i believe this is what xie lian imagines whenever any of the heavenly officials talk about hua cheng
#tgcf#heaven official's blessing#tian guan ci fu#xie lian#hua cheng#song lan#hualian#he’s xie lian’s poor little meow meow#he has nothing but love in his heart for him#heaven officals talking about how dangerous he is and he’s just twirling his hair and kicking his feet#mans adores him and knows he would never hurt him#i’m still reading the books (on 7) so no spoilers pls 🙏
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Me about halfway through MCRs set last night: Maybe I was wrong maybe Black Parade is my favorite MCR album
Me 30 minutes later losing my goddamn shit to Na Na Na: NO I WAS RIGHT I WAS SO FUCKING RIGHT ITS DANGER DAYS
#I had been on my feet for 14 hours#my energy was fucking DRAGGING#and then the first note of Na Na Na hit like a bump of coke#when we were young fest#when we were young 2024#my chemical romance#black parade#danger days#wwwy 2024
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Oil Rigs look god in the eyes and spits on their shoes
SERIOUSLY WHO JUST WENT:
"Ah, mhyes quite. The Number Must Climb™; sacrifice peasantry to collect the Death that coalesces in locked-away packets of the deepest underground depths. This death has rotted beyond normal decomposition, giving it undue ability to effectively reanimate inanimate matter upon combustion. "
AND THEN CONTINUED WITH:
"Furthermore, we shall build a monument to this Death; a Hell borne of jagged angles and crude iron. Behold, ye witless peons! Harvest for with me! Partake of what we know not of handling! Imbue life into our mechanical automatons; derive VIGOR from DEATH! A brutalist siphon that exchanges life quality for work quantity- directly converting my serfdom's labor into cold! Hard! Cash! This has no chance of hurting the entire species. Harvesting the energy of death is a smart and sane thing to do : ) "
#still wakes the deep#oil#oil rig#megalophobia#capitalism#military industrial complex#thoughts#tumblr#yelling into the void#idk#like IDK#oil as a concept#when you really think about it#is the fucking worst????#it's comically evil#we seek echoes of life within death that has went putrid#death has to die further to be harnessed#and THEN millions of years of temperature and pressure have to happen#THE EARTH JUST SEALS DEATH ENERGY BENEATH OUR FEET#AND WE HAVE THE GODDAMN COJONES#TO ACT LIKE WE WERE EVER SUPPOSED TO USE IT AND IT'S PRODUCTS AT ALL (I know life isn't “supposed to do” anything)#BUT DOES THAT NOT FEEL LIKE WE'RE PLAYING WITH FORCES WILDLY MORE DANGEROUS THAN WE COULD COMPREHEND#I don't think the point of cosmic horror is that cosmic horror is scary#cosmic horror becomes truly vulgar and stomach-churning when it showcases just how#fucking#STUPID#humans are#we do not comprehend how dumb it is to exploit a god#yet here we fucking are#rant in tags
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