#god queen of clones Elle

[spacedace]

Here be the first little bit of the new DP x DC AU I warned about earlier where Tim, due to his constant repeated attempts at cloning Bart & Kon, accidentally summons slightly eldritch Elle who is very interested in what he’s up to.

As always feel free to run with this as a prompt if yall find anything here interesting :D

*

Tim didn’t mean to summon her.

He’d been in the lab, staring at the data on the latest failed attempts at cloning Kon and Bart and feeling like he was cracking in two. Eyes burning, chest tight, world spinning out into shifting impossible shadows around him as his mind and body struggled to push him forward into another day without sleep. The hush of water in the tanks, his unsteady steps on the cement floor, the chill seeping into his bones.

He stumbled and swayed through the maze of the lab, numbers dripping like blood down the screen as he tried to stare at the figures. He needed to try again, needed to bring them back, in whatever capacity he could. This time would work. This time he’d get it right.

When he saw her, feet clumsy as he rounded a corner, he thought she was just another hallucination.

How could she be anything else?

Skin like a polished mirror, hair like the white-hot flash of lightning, eyes as green as the depths of the Lazarus Pits. She floated before a tank, spectral and strange with a long wisping tail that drifted off into nothingness in place of legs, body shifting and changing before his eyes in ways that bodies should not be able to. Outside of the eyes the face was…not there. An impression of the shapes that you’d expect to see in a human face, like the Question’s. Sometimes though the features defined, sharpened. Mirror bright skin crackling as faces took shape in the glass.

In the low light of the lab, he almost imaged one of those faces was Kon’s. Dimples and freckles and high cheek bones and the slant of a silhouette that haunted Tim’s dreams at night. A flicker of her lightining hair and it was gone. Smoothed back into soft blankness once more.

He watched from the of the aisle as she lifted too-long mirror shard fingers and rest them gently on the glass as she seemed to peer in at the lifeless body inside.

Attempt 76.

One of his tries with Bart. The organs hadn’t grown right during the age-up process. Tim had cried for that one as he had for all the others. As he had for Bart and Kon when they had died. As he still did as the fact that it was more maddened grief than hope that kept him pushing forward anyway.

He closed his eyes to the hallucination at the end of the aisle. Breathed deep and steady. It might be gone when he opened his eyes again. It might not be. It might be something - someone - else when he dares look next. He’d been through this time and time again over the days and weeks he’d been throwing himself at this agonizing wall. The only difference this time was the intricate strangeness, the total lack of recognition he had for the figure, baring the moment he almost saw Kon in its face.

Coffee. Maybe some harder stimulants, if he had any left. New data to review, new attempts to be made. He didn’t have time for the effects of sleep deprivation.

Tim opened his eyes.

He jerked back as he came face to face with himself, warped and strange and green in the reflective face of the being where it now hovered so close that if it breathed he would feel it upon his face.

She tilted her head at him, curious. Hands rose to cup his face, rest on his shoulders, wrap around his arms, cradle his hands. More hands than he’d seen before. More hands than he was able to truly comprehend, stomach souring as his eyes stung and strained in the attempt to look at the impossible warping of her body. Despite the glint of shattered glass that made up her fractured palms and splintered silver fingers, her hands were soft and warm where they curled around him. Almost human in the way they held him in place, the hold pleasantly firm.

He’d never had a doting elder aunt to pinch his cheeks and demand to get a look at him, but he imagined this might be what that felt like. The way the being shifted her head from side to side, his reflection warping in the curved reflection of the planes of her featureless face, added to the strange idea. His hallucinations didn’t normally touch him, though. And never so…kindly.

Tim felt his blood go cold as he realized it might not be a figment of his fracturing mind floating before him.

Swallowing nervously, he tried to shift backwards, to slip out of the many grasping hands before the softness turned sharp and began to cut into him. He felt something cool against the back of his legs, hair standing on end as static electricity built up on his skin where he brushed the trailing tail he hadn’t noticed her curl around him. The entity leaned in close, the depthless green of her glowing eyes consuming Tim’s entire field of vision, and he was flooded by the sudden, horrible awareness of being Known.

The world fell away from him, his stomach lurching with the sick-sweet feel of free fall that used to exhilarate him when he’d first become Robin and had flown from rooftops dangling by his grapple and his belief in the magic being Robin instilled in him. The lab, the equipment, the piles of data and desperate scribbles, the failed clones, Tim himself. All swept away in the flood of green and the roar of lightning and the cool press of glass.

He came to would could have been minutes or centuries later. Gasping and sick on the cold cement floor, shivering as he dry heaved. His mouth full of salt and copper and the burning crackle of ozone at the back of his throat.

For a moment, disoriented and dizzy, he thought it had all been a hallucination after all. Or some fractious dream visited upon him by his torn and tattered mind after he’d finally collapsed from exhaustion on the lab floor. That the entity truly had been just in his mind, a consequence of his refusal to rest until his work was done.

Then he felt the glass-cool fingers running through his hair, the warm hand rubbing at his back, heard the low murmurs of reassurance in a voice that was almost, almost human.

He spasmed as he tried to jerk away, hissing with the sharp sting of pins and needles dancing over every nerve. His limbs were heavy and clumsy, and he was crashing back to the cold floor under his own weight before he could even try and drag himself away. His breathing came in short, aching gasps as he tried to twist away, only managing to roll to his back to see the entity where it sat calmly looking down at him.

She had a face now. A solid, steady one that fit her in a way that made him think it must be her real one, though what that meant exactly he didn’t know. The glowing eyes had dimmed and shifted, more human looking with black pupils and white sclera. Button nose marked with silver-tarnish freckles that spread over her cheeks too. A mouth, with lips curled into an apologetic smile. Her hair, still shifting as if caught in a wind that wasn’t there, was still the bright white it’d been before, but the lighting of the locks had settled into faint crackles between the curls. Whatever she was, whatever she’d done to him, he could look at her without feeling like his mind might just crack in two.

“Wha-“ His voice cracked, painful and hoarse like he’d been screaming. Maybe he had been. Swallowing around the burn in his throat, he choked out a hissed, “What are you?”

Her head tilted in that curious slant again, more human features giving her a bright, youthful look as she peered down at him questioningly. “You summoned me, Little Gaffer, shouldn’t you know?”

*

Gaffer is a term used for a glass crafter, as well as light technicians for stage/movie productions. I’m using it as the term for the person who creates a Clone, with the clone themselves being a Mirrorborn, and the person they are cloned from being called the clone’s Reflected. Gaffer is probably a bit of a stretch for this, technically I think someone who makes mirrors would be called a Glazier (Glaziers are glassmakers) but I wasn’t vibing that as much. Besides I like the vibe of glass + light = mirror in a way.

Anyway, opening volley of a new AU where Tim ends up becoming like a warlock to Elle to get his loved ones back, while Elle is just having the time of her sorta eldritch little life watching this absolute mess of a human wreck shit and cause so much chaos even without the powers she starts giving him.

(Elle in this is both the God Queen of Clones/Mirrorborn as well as the Ancient of the Speedforce (which I’ve decided is called the Ever Onward in the Infinite Realms, because I literally can’t be stopped from trying to make normal DC things sound mystical because spooky Infinite Realms aesthetics haha)

Have a tiny bit more written for this, but don’t know how much I’ll end up writing for it with all the other projects I have currently lol, so if anyone is interested feel free to run with it as you so desire haha

[tsuki-sennin]

With a brand new and perhaps even more audacious PreCure team on the horizon, we have only so much time left with our heroes here. What is the bizarre connection between the princesses of the past and present? What torments the Empress Underg so? What glory awaits our beloved Hirogaru Cures at the finish line? Only time may tell today~!

Spoilers, I guess...

-"Princess..."

-She wanders on...

-Hello, God.

-Ohhhhhhh, it's you!

-Hello, Uppercase Elle.

-"I've come bearing a present of my own... Teenhood~!"

-Oh god, she looks so weird all huge like that

-Tsubasa's terror is unmatched.

-"Easy there, boy! Think I found the baby right here..."

-"Hi Cure Wing :)"

-Age~! Yay~!

-Ellelain's hip and cool with the kids.

-Sora and Mashiro's influence led to peace... but really there was only one way it could've gone, huh?

-Birthdaaaaay~!

-Completely shut down...

-Oh wow, she got quite old.

-"W-wait a sec, I can't..."

-10s across the board!

-"...Oh Strich, I'm gonna nuke the whole planet as Cure Majesty... Tsubasa-kuuuuun, I'm in charge now~!"

-Nobility descends into Majesty.

-Oh thanks, Mom.

-"Be free, my clone. I wasn't long for this world anyway..."

-Like Kami and Piccolo.

-Farewell, Morning Star Ellelain.

-"OH GOD NOT AGAAAAAAAAIN-"

-Skipped straight to being taller than both the King and Queen.

-Oh God, I can't imagine the hormone trip.

-Alright, Sora-chan... best roll for initiative.

-"Fuck you, no."

-Skearhead's deadset on this, huh?

-"Drown in darkness."

-"Tone Connect~! Hirogaru Change~! Kirameki Hop~! Sawayakana Step~! Harebare Jump~!"

-Hooooohoooohooooooooooo boy~!

-"So... this is Cure Noble's power... Not worth it..."

-"C'mooooooooooon, tell us!"

-"No."

-Man, you know he's desperate when he's downgraded to Ranborgs.

-"Captain, what the hell!?"

-I see she's got the God Split Cut now too.

-"You... you didn't kill me...!"

-Oh, he's doin' this

-"You'll both die! I can take comfort in knowing I've done that, at least."

-she ourple

-Present~!

-All poor Skearhead accomplished was blowing himself up.

-...man...

-How badly must things have gone for this guy to hold onto this social darwinist philosophy for 300 years?

-Oh man, she's pissed now.

-Oh damn

-Fraaaaaaaaagh gotta wait again fuck

-Oh well I can wait

-Final Episode time maybe~! One last siege upon the capital of Sky Land, and one last chance to bring peace to our poor Empress. ...at least, I'm decently sure next week is the finale, and if not oops~!

[punkscowardschampions]

Flat Whites & JJ

Mia: Mum can take four of us, so three of you are still going to need to find your way there, Dad's away on a Golf weekend 🤷 Grace: I'll ask if any of the fam can take the rest of us 🤞💜 Mia: Aw, thanks so much, babe Mia: so you're cool not coming with us then? Grace: there's like 1000s of them so 🤷🙄 someone'll will totally be talked or bribed into doing it 💅 Grace: oh yeah sure, it's like not even a problem, babes Mia: 😂😂😂 for real, got to have some upsides, yeah? Mia: Great 💗 Mia: the rest of you, you can only bring what you can hold on your laps, Dad took the range so we're in the sports, the boot is like non-existent 💁🙄 Grace: ugh IKR?! 😂😂😂 Grace: at least we can take SO MUCH of the stuff whoever's behind the wheel, you're so welcome huns Mia: Love a helpful queen Mia: Asia, are you even coming with us or are you going to ditch us for your boyfriend, again 💅 Asia: Of course I'm coming!!! Asia: Literally just got my hair done 👌👌✂ Asia: [and a million pics that nobody asked for] Jimmy: 😍😍😍😍😍 Grace: WOW! SO CUTE Mia: Yeah, but are you coming with us or coming with us like Maya's party where you left SO early with him instead of having a good time with your besties Ella: 😏🍵 Hollie: wasn't so early she didn't have a good time with ME tho! 💃💘 views to prove it Asia: UM like isn't it LAW that what happens at parties stays there?! 🤫🤫 Asia: & he doesn't even wanna come with soooooooo Jimmy: 💔 Ella: Oh, so we're your 2nd choice? 🤔🤔 Mia: 💔 is right, so rude Asia: ???!! Asia: not even Mia: We all heard you, you can't deny it Mia: at least own it, babe, omg Asia: you asked if he was coming?? Mia: Literally no one is concerned about him but you 😂 Mia: shame he's not, I might need your seat, actually Mia: but that's cool, yeah? seeing as you've got so many options Asia: ?????????? Mia: 🤫🤫 Grace: Why might you need her seat though? Spill on who you're trying to bring, thank you Mia: I'm not trying to make this convo all about me Mia: so cringe Mia: we're meant to be planning, thank you Jimmy: Go on, we're obvs all DYING to know Mia: Have to wait and 👀 Mia: be a nice surprise for you all Janis: How will we ever bear the suspense? Jimmy: there's only one of you who's getting mouth to mouth if you stop breathing, soz Janis: Things are looking up, Asia 🤞 Jimmy: I'm SO not going if Asia's not going, FYI Janis: 💔 Mia: There'll be room in whatever you're showing up in Mia: assuming she doesn't ditch you too, it's her thing rn Jimmy: put her on my lap ✔ you don't mind, do you, babe? Ella: 🤢 Jimmy: green's right Jimmy: no need to be jealous, El Ella: Don't ever call me that Jimmy: Babe 💔 come on Jimmy: this TENSION between us Ella: Repulsive and delusional, cute 🙄 Ella: Why are you even in this chat, though 👏 it's not nice to make fun of Asia, or helpful rn Jimmy: Bit rude to chuck me out of a chat she started Jimmy: but alright we can plan without her Jimmy: Mia* Mia: You aren't funny, new boy Jimmy: is that @ Asia's boyfriend or? Jimmy: he's got a name Janis: You aren't funny, babe Janis: what's to plan anyway, we have tents, we have lifts, sorted Hollie: Is Asia coming? Mia: Grace, can you please explain to your sister how much more there is left to do Mia: and Asia why are you like making people ask after you??? hello, answer a question, would you, silence ain't cute Grace: Janis does lowkey have a point, babes, it is chill Grace: she doesn't need or want to be involved in our outfit planning, obvs 😂😂 Asia: I LITERALLY SAID I'M COMING Ella: 🔉 Ella: Why are you shouting though Asia: why are you the volume police, Ells?? OH MY GOD Mia: Obviously Mia: but there's actually important stuff still to do, thanks, like who's getting the drink, for one Mia: Asia needs to calm down and find herself a seat, and a whole new tent if she's going to bring everyone down with her attitude??? Mia: don't take your relationship drama out on us tbh Jimmy: The unfunny dickhead with the unflattering fake ID, duh 👋 Jimmy: Love me again now, don't you? Mia: Don't get excited Mia: I want 2 bottles of vodka Jimmy: You gonna put me on a timeout, an' all? Cute Mia: El? Ella: Same Janis: You know it's a weekend Janis: you two don't need 4 bottles between you Janis: and you aren't even meant to have glass anyway Mia: You suddenly care about the rules? Mia: We'll pay you now, chill out 😂😂 Jimmy: I was waiting for the #flex Jimmy: can rest easy and count my 💰 now Mia: 🙄 you wanna pay for us Mia: literally none of us will be impressed Jimmy: and live off bread and water for the foreseeable? You're alright Jimmy: So poor, me, you just put the reminder out yourself Mia: 💔 Mia: like we're all SOOOO rich Jimmy: 🙄 Mia: like, bang on about it more, so not boring Mia: is anyone else going to order or are you just going to keep him waiting forever? Mia: what's wrong with you lots, like are you being shy Hollie: you bringing up Maya's party has me 🤔🤔🤔 maybe we should chill out with the 🍾🍾 idk Mia: You make those little videos sober, don't think you need to worry about being any more cringe, babe Mia: why are we going if to not have fun, come on now Hollie: WOW, ILY too babe Mia: it is what we 💗 about you Mia: so funny Hollie: 👌👌👌 Mia: OMG, this MOOD Mia: you're all stressing me out, actually over this Grace: Vodka is like totally fine for all of us, okay? Just get enough to have fun with, like Mia said Grace: without getting CRAZY like Hollie warned Grace: then we can all just move on Jimmy: 👍 Mia: Yeah, this is so much fun Mia: 🙄 Mia: I'm over this convo Jimmy: 💔 Mia: El, be ready in 15, okay? Grace: Is that everything? Mia: 🤷 Mia: Like I'm doing all the work for what? Mia: You wanna be boring, you'll have to work it out yourselves Grace: I'm literally asking so you don't have to do it all yourself, honey Mia: I said, I'm over it Mia: We're going shopping, you can all do what you want Grace: Ugh Grace: everyone stop Ella: The problem is you're doing nothing though? 💁 Grace: Excuse you? Ella: What? 😂 Grace: That's like the opposite of helping Grace: I'm trying to sort everything out Ella: 👌👌👌 Grace: Do you wanna talk to Asia rn? cos I don't think you appreciate how upset she is Grace: That's what I'm doing Ella: Such a saint 🙏 Ella: she's got nothing to be upset about, just like the rest of you, this is such a joke Grace: mhmmm Grace: we all know you wanna call the whole thing off, Ella Grace: but maybe the rest of us wanna go, so like ?? Don't be so rude Ella: That's why me and Mia are the only ones who have made any suggestions in this chat??? Ella: Okay Grace: 4 bottles of vodka isn't a suggestion, it's a shopping list Ella: We all know you can't handle your drink Ella: so why don't you ask for some cocktails in a can and get realistic about it Grace: 🙄🙄🙄 Mia: El, leave it Mia: this chat is so hormonal Grace: Call off your clone please, so over her Ella: Ha, now who's excused Ella: what was that about green? Grace: yeah cos I was so in favour before Grace: okay Grace: I literally don't care, count me out if this is how it's going to be the whole time Ella: The tantrums 😂 Ella: your sister finally invites you to something and this is how you act Grace: my sister isn't the one being a total bitch, you are Grace: eat something, you'll feel better Ella: Seen enough changing room meltdowns to know that's not worked for you, hun 😚 Mia: This is so toxic and we all know why Asia: I don't Mia: 🙄🙄🙄 Mia: God 😂 Mia: she speaks Hollie: stop shading her Mia: And another one Hollie: her and her bf will be done before the tents are set up, like hello? Hollie: it's not worth dragging her over Asia: 😱😱😱 Asia: Hollie! Mia: Wow Mia: it says so much about you that you only pipe up when things get bitchy Mia: both of you, where was this enthusiasm earlier? Damn, say how you really feel, Hols Hollie: I have to do my own dirty work 🤷 Hollie: if Ells had a twin too, I could sit back and get comfy too Mia: No one's asked you to be such a bitch Mia: this is why people don't fuck with you, so uncomfortable 😬 Hollie: yeah cos only you two are allowed, isn't it? Hollie: is it a boy you've invited? Mia: 😂 show me where Hollie: maybe where Ells is about to pull Gracie's weave out? Hollie: or when you uninvited Asia cos you're so salty that she has a bf Mia: Grace is trying to threaten she's not coming and Asia is clearly doing the same since no one uninvited her Mia: like, try to hide your drama behind us some more Mia: we're shopping for outfits, MY mum is driving us, I've paid for my drinks? Mia: sort your lives, honestly Hollie: my drama is you, you're being cringey bitches and I'm so done 👌 Asia: So I can come with you? Ella: Mime to a sad song, you'll feel better Ella: duh, Asia Hollie: I'll feel better when that boy you have a crush on, who I won't name to the entire chat cos I'm not that bitch, slides into my DMs again Hollie: thanks so much though, Ells Ella: It's tragic you think that means anything Ella: as if you've ever made it to the tent being put up Hollie: It's sooooooo funny that you think that's going to get to me Hollie: I don't want a 💍 and you know it Ella: that's lucky Ella: don't think they do engagement rings in man-sized Jimmy: Well I'm fucked then Jimmy: soz babe, the proposal's cancelled Mia: Are you two legit still here? Mia: That's even more pathetic than you three, you're in luck Jimmy: waiting on my shopping invite, no manners, you Mia: You've got your list Jimmy: But how can I join the cult if you don't tell me the dress code Jimmy: Kool-Aid's on order, like Mia: 🦗🦗 Mia: less reaction than your fake proposal bombshell, I am SO sorry, sweetie Jimmy: I proper felt that, you should go to drama school Ella: and Brits are meant to be decent at sarcasm Ella: try harder, new boy Jimmy: What's sarcasm? Please tell us, attack dog #1 Ella: Get Grace to, seeing as she's such a martyr Ella: Asia's stopped blubbing now Grace: Get over yourself and my name out of your mouth, hun Grace: your changing room meltdown atm isn't my problem Ella: OMG, a real-life 👼 Ella: deigning to talk to us commoners for a sec Ella: you wanna talk about names in your mouth, be sure to tell Asia what you said about her after she left Maya's, k 😘 Grace: Jesus loves everyone babes, even you Mia: 💁 so true Mia: make sure your hands are clean before you start pointing the finger, Gracie Grace: Oh please, I was drunk after I left that party cos OBVS I can NEVER handle my drink, DUH Grace: Do we wanna take a moment to talk about what you both said about my sister and her boyfriend after they invited us to this festival or no? Mia: Try on another excuse, see if that one fits Ella: 😏 Ella: doubt it Grace: we for sure don't wanna take any moments to discuss body image, unless of course you really would like to leave the chat and focus on your ootds Ella: 🐢🌵💚 Asia: ??? Asia: what does that even mean?? Ella: She knows Ella: Asia are you at home? Asia: not my home Asia: why? Ella: to pick you up Ella: you still need to get stuff too, right? Asia: OH Asia: I'll get him to drop me off rn Ella: 🙌 we'll wait 💗 Asia: 👌💗 Mia: We'll do nails and tan after, Dad's paying Asia: I can't tan too dark tho it'll clash with 💇 Mia: 'course, babe, that'd be so cringe Mia: you'll look amazing 😘 Asia: 💗💗💗 Mia: k, toodles 👋 Asia: SO excited Ella: Us too 💃🍾 Hollie: 🙄🙄🙄 Ella: Your negative energy is really draining Ella: speak up if you've got a problem, Hols, maybe we can help Hollie: I just can't remember stepping into a time machine and popping out again when we were like 12 tbh Ella: Your backne is acting up again? Ella: Worst timing, the sun will do it wonders though, don't worry Hollie: 😂 Ella: See, that's more like it Ella: positivity, ladies Hollie: Mia, are you really doing this? Mia: Doing what, babe? Hollie: you know Hollie: 🥶🥶🥶🥶 Mia: I really don't, though Mia: sorry 😕 Mia: DM me if you don't want to say it in front of them, yeah Hollie: okay Hollie: be really cool if you could swat Ells off your shoulder first though Hollie: just saying Mia: Why are you being like, jealous Mia: so weird Mia: we're all friends, 'cos we're not 12 😂 Hollie: check your inbox Hollie: you won't be BFFs with her when you read that Ella: Beg an invite harder Hollie: you'll be begging to keep yours, babes Hollie: gonna have to do your own tan, uh oh Ella: You'd know all about that Ella: 🍊🍪😷 Asia: OMG yay! I understood that time Ella: 😂 it'd be hard to miss, right babe Ella: bless Asia: 😂😂

[kms-art]

Almost out (2/3)

if Ava didn’t wake up right after Sara (4x12)

if there is more to Ava being a clone

words: 868

Sara kept on crying, she doesn’t even know how long was she in this position, lying next to her unconscious girlfriend. She buried her face on Ava’s neck, still whispering ‘come back please’ softly into the taller woman’s ears.

It has been hours since she woke up, but Ava never once opened her eyes. She wasn’t even responding to any stimuli introduced to her, and then Constantine said the inevitable that maybe the demon may now have Ava’s soul. No Sara refused to belief that fact. Ava will come back to her, they will live many years together.

Hours passed and never once did she leave Ava’s side, she felt asleep beside her after crying for hours. Gary left hours before, and the legends checking her from time to time. “sara?” she heard Zari’s voice from the door.

“I am not leaving her” Sara said without even looking at the hacker. She just kept on rubbing her thumb on Ava’s cheek.

“I’m not saying that you do. Here I bring food, you can eat here, so you don’t have to leave her and be here when she wakes up” Now Zari has her full attention. Unlike any other legend, she didn’t saw pity in Zari’s eyes- she saw support.

“I’m not hungry, can you just put it there?” she said sadly. Zari have done what she was told. Before she walked out of the room, she placed her hand by Sara’s shoulder but didn’t say anything. She just wanted to let her know that she’s there for her friend. The captain held Zari’s hand and cried again, Zari didn’t hesitate for a second and hugged her captain. “I should’ve been there for her. I shouldn’t have left that night” she said in between sobs.

Zari hugged her tighter, rubbing Sara’s arm “It is not your fault. You didn’t know what will happen when you walked out that door.”

“two weeks Zari. She’s been kidnapped, tortured, and sent to purgatory in that two weeks. And where am I? going on road trips? singing on bollywood musicals? God Zari I don’t want to lose her.” All that is heard in that room was the captain’s sobs, something that breaks the heart of all the legends on board.

  “You’re way passed purgatory dear. This is your subconscious yes, but this isn’t purgatory.” The unnamed man told Ava. By her reaction he knew the next question “Something tells me you still have no idea who am I” he reached out his hand “call me Mike” all she did was look at his hand. Mike gave a small smile at her rejection, looking like he expected it.

“I am here due to magic, am from the future, and you my dear came from the same timeline as I” Ava asked if he came from 2213 as well but he shook his head “No. Listen, I know you told me to never let you remember what you choose to forget. But I know that if you know what’s at risk you’ll probably tell me to give everything back to you. Ava you are not a clone, believe me in that”

“Yeah right because all those clones are my twins and the ant queen gave birth to at least a thousand of us all in one go” she replied sarcastically.

“Clones don’t bleed. AVA corp. designed them like that” Ava’s mind immediately went back to the time where she bleeds for cutting and injuring herself. “Ava clones obey everything just say it they do it” she never did what she was told that easily, she always thinks of the pros and cons. “Ava’s cannot be pregnant; Cannot disobey; if defective they just shut down and sends signals to AVA corp; Oh lastly Ava’s doesn’t love, nor has a soul.”

“What are you trying to say?” Ava cannot say it herself, wishing so bad that what she thought was the point of this conversation is true.

“You were never a clone. You are very much human Ava or should I call you by your real name?” Their conversation was interrupted by a loud beeping coming from his wrist- a futuristic time courier. Ava noted how his expression changes “We have no time. When you wake up, go to 2133. Gideon knows what to do and how to get you there. Just tell her the code 354Z.” Ava nodded.

She started to panic when she saw the place started to crumble, wall cracking, windows breaking. She held him tight afraid of being alone “What is it?” she shouts as the sound of the house falling apart gets louder and louder. Elle looked at her clearly he didn’t understand what she said. “My name! what is it?” he pulled her towards him, only inches apart he smiled and said it out loud “Michelle. Michelle Carter”

After hearing that Ava felt like her lungs had been compressed, she cannot breathe causing her to fall on the ground, holding her neck. When she looked up he wasn’t there, she was alone as the house continue falling.  At that moment she was sure she’ll die, and she regrets not telling Sara how much she loves her even for the last time.

[shinobicyrus]

“Spiders”

A bit late, but here’s Ectober’s Prompt for October 29th: Spiders. I did the best I could to stay on topic (ie poorly). Warnings for copious nerdy-references.

“I always forget that you guys can do that,” Sam said, unable to look away.

Danielle, walking along the ceiling of Sam’s basement in her homemade Halloween Costume, continued to sing off-key. “Spider-Dan, Spider-Dan, does whatever a Spider-Dan does.”

Danny shrugged. “Yeah, we don’t really need to use it really often, what with the flying and all.”

“Can she swing, from a web? Even better: she can fly.”

“This is painful to listen to,” Danny informed her.

“More painful than the Amazing Spider Man 2?” Danielle asked.

“I thought we swore a clone-cousin blood pact to never speak of that again.”

“Y’know,” Sam said. “As hilarious as the thought of one of my nosy parents seeing you and having a heart attack, you should probably come down eventually.”

She flapped a dismissive hand. “Psht, relax, Sam. I know how to-”

Everyone turned to the the footsteps pounding down the stairs by twos. Sam exhaled with relief as Tucker hopped down the last two steps, grinning proudly in his crisp Starfleet Uniform. “’Sup, local lifeforms.”

“Oh my God,” Sam gaped. “Just when I thought he couldn’t be any more of a nerd, he’s boldly nerding where no one has nerded before.”

“That joke really doesn’t help your case, Sam,” Danny said. 

Tucker put his hands on his hips in mock affront. “Hey yeah, glass houses, Sam!” He looked admiringly around the Manson’s fully decked out basement. “Even ridiculously expensive imported glass houses.”

“Point taken.” 

Tucker kept glancing around the basement. “Hey Danny, wasn’t Elle supposed to be-”

“HI TUCKER,” she reappeared on the ceiling, two inches from his face.

Tucker shrieked and jumped back, nearly falling in his panic. Sam quietly noted just eerily similar Danielle and Danny’s cackles were. 

“Ha-Ha very funny.” Tucker adjusted his uniform. “Hey Elle. What’s up.”

Even through the mask, it was obvious she was grinning. “Me.”

“I keep forgetting you and Danny can do the ghost-wall walk thing.” He nudged his glasses back up his nose. “Is that a Scarlet Spider costume? Nice.”

“Thank you!” Danielle threw up her arms. Or down, depending on perspective. “See, Danny? Tucker knew!”

The costume itself was a red Fentonworks jumpsuit, a mask, and one of Danielle’s ratty old blue hoodies, sleeves cut and decaled with a black spider emblem on the chest and back. 

“Hey, I love Spider-Man as much as the next guy-”

“Just not as much as the next girl, it looks like,” Sam smirked. 

“Seriously, dude?” Tucker looked almost pained. “Scarlet Spider? Spider-Man’s clone? Doesn’t ring any bells?”

 “How are we even related?”  Danielle shook her head sadly.

“Mad science gone too far.”

She pulled up (down?) her mask, flashing green eyes and wolfish smile all the more disturbing for being upside down. “Or not far enough. Muhahahaha.”

“Okay, okay, fine,” Danny conceded. “You win Danielle, I am the inferior ghost-cousin when it comes to Spider-Man. Happy?”

She had to consider it. “Yes.”

“Great. Can we start the scary movie marathon, yet?”

“Not yet, we’re still missing one more,” Sam checked her phone. “I invited Valerie over too. She said she was on her way.”

“I saw her flying in,” Tucker said. “Think she was just looking for a place to land discreetly.” 

Upstairs, the doorbell rang.

“I’M NOT HERE.” Danielle pulled down her mask and went invisible again.

“Ugh, why didn’t she call instead of ringing the doorbell,” Sam scowled. “Now my mother is going to answer the door instead.”

“Actually, it was your grandma,” Valerie’s footfalls were lighter on the stairs than Tucker’s had been. “Hell of a lady. Said she ‘accidentally’ ran over some toes to get to the door first.” 

“Heh. Yeah, that sounds like Bubbeh, alright. Happy Halloween, Numbah 5.”

Valerie titled her red Gatsby cap in a solute. “Thanks for the invite, Princess.”

“That’s Firelord to you, peasant.”

“Fenton.” Valerie stared at Danny, looking utterly appalled. “What the hell are you wearing?”

He posed dramatically. “I’m Danny Phantom!” 

“Yes to my eternal regret but what are you wearing.”

“I’ll have you know I worked very hard on this Danny Phantom costume. Finding the right cheap wig was the hardest part.”

“I still can’t believe you got away with that,” Tucker marveled. 

“The best part is I managed to convince people that I was Wes,” Danny’s wicked smile was downright gleeful. 

Valerie crossed her arms. “What is it with you two, anyway? Half the time I think you’re trying to drive him legit crazy, the other half it’s almost like you’re almost fl-”

“HI VAL!”

“Oh,” Valerie said, barely raising an eyebrow. “There you are.”

Danielle pulled her mask down to her forehead and whined. “Aww man! Didn’t I scare you even a little bit?”

“Sure, Elle. Just look at me,” Valerie said, her face a stony mask. “I’m so scared.”

“Spoilsport.”

“What the hell, I call hax!” Tucker crowed.

“Foley, I had this little gremlin living in my apartment for a year. At this point I’m immune.”

“Hey Danielle,” Sam called, voice teasing. “It looks like you two are about to do a Spider-Man kiss from here.”

Valerie snorted. Something like a squeak came from Danielle’s throat and she stumble-fell onto the carpeting at Valerie’s feet, who calmly watched her all the way down.

Danny chortled and said something in ghost-speak that had Danielle more red-faced and sputtering than she already was. “I wasn’t tryin’ ta- we weren’t...I-”

“Get your costumes straight, Manson.” Valerie said. “She’s the Scarlet Spider, not Spider-Man.”

“Oh come on!” Danny threw up his arms in abject outrage. “Now Valerie’s a bigger Spider-Man fan than me?”

“Only because she hasn’t shut up about the costume for the past two months,” Valerie rolled her eyes. “Unclench, Fenton.”

“Okay, fair enough,” Danny said.

“Gee, thanks for the permission.”

“Not what I- ugh,” he huffed a frustrated breath of cold. “No offense, Elle, but it’s still a weird choice for a costume.”

Pulling herself to her feet, Danielle pointed at the spider-logo on her chest. “Listen cuz, do you know how many non-evil clones there are in comic books and TV?”

Danny shrugged. “Uh...Superboy?”

Tucker suggested. “X-23?”

“Spider-Woman,” Sam said.

Tucker asked. “Jessica Drew or April Parker?” 

“Yes.”

Danny snapped his fingers. “Oh! The Clone Troopers in Star Wars!”

“Kinda iffy since they worked for the Empire and killed all the Jedi,” Dani gestured a flimsy middle ground. “But yeah I was this close to being Captain Rex, instead.”

“Ya’ll are nerds.” Valerie told them. “For real. And you forgot the entire cast of Orphan Black.”

“Orphan Black!” The entire room echoed. 

“I get what you mean,” Sam nodded. “You’re embracing your clone-heritage and railing against all the negative anti-clone stereotypes the media peddles out.”

“I mean...kinda?” Danielle shrugged. “It’s not like I can go on an internet message boards and tell people: hey I’m a clone and I found Supergirl’s evil clone Galatea super-offensive?”

“The invisible minority,” Tucker shook his head sadly.

“I forget: which one was Galatea?” Sam said.

Danny, Tucker, and Danielle chorused: “Boob window.”

“Oh, right.”

Valerie sighed. “Sayin’ again: Nerds.”

Tucker puffed out his chest. “And proud.”

“Hey Elle,” Danny asked tentatively. “You wanna...maybe do Star Wars next year? Like...together?”

“Hell yeah, clone pride!” Danielle whooped. “Anyone up for a super-nerdy Halloween next year?”

“I’m game,” Tucker said.

“Ohh,” Sam smirked evilly. “I could totally do Asajj Ventress.”

“Okay, first Azula and now Ventress?” Tucker asked.

“What? I like strong female characters in all-black.”

“How about you Val?” Danielle looked up at her hopefully. “I’m sure there’s at least one Star Wars character you’ll like.”

“Sorry, not really my scene.” She said. “I was kind of already planning to be my favorite Disney Princess next year.”

“Dare I ask?” Tucker still asked anyway.

Valerie put her hands in her pockets and looked over at something in the corner of the room. “Uh...y’know. The Warrior-Queen from that Atlantis Movie.”

“You mean Kida?!” Danielle blurted. 

“What?” Valerie shuffled her feet. “I...always thought she was cool.”

“You would be too,” Tucker waggled his eyebrows. “In that outfit.”

“YoushouldtotallydoitI’llhelpyoushop,” Danielle whispered breathlessly.

“Hey guys,” Sam called over from the basement’s shelves. “Aren’t we forgetting why we’re all down here in the first place?”

“Not now Sam,” Danielle hissed. 

“Silence, peasant, the Firelord has spoken,” Sam held up a stack of DVD cases. “Now, to start our spooky all-hallows marathon: Poltergeist...or Eight-Legged-Freaks?”

[em-exceeds-change-zearu]

List the first lines of your last 20 stories. See if there are any patterns. Then tag as many authors as you like!

I wasn’t actually tagged on this, but someone else on my timeline did it so I decided to give it a whirl! even if i write so little these days all the fics i’m pulling out are quite old at this point. it’s mostly a reminder to myself to actually sit down and write when i get the chance and doing an essay every few weeks isn’t wearing my will to write down to nothing :Y

1. Even with the gratuitous use of bones to help him drag his luggage up to the Tops, Kiryu distantly found himself thanking everything for the existence of elevators.

- Black and Blue (Ccapacsei AU), Chapter 98

2. Jackie-sensei had lost no time in putting Gori and Hyde through their paces.

- Ryuusei no Redux - Tribe!, Chapter 10: “Episode 17 - Aim for the Top! Let’s go, Genin!”

3. The first time Mewtwo returned to pay his respects to the trainer who had shattered his worldview and reason for existence,  he was surprised to see a small shock of yellow nestled next to the boy’s stone corpse. 

- languere

4. “You do not have what it truly takes to be Queen. Until you realize what that is, you can’t win over Elle.”

- Determination and Drive, Chapter 1: “Determination”

5. It wasn’t often that Subaru actually reserved a weekend for hanging out with Luna and the others. 

- Ryuusei no Redux - Tribe!, Chapter 9: “Episode 16 - Training, de osaru!”

6. The sword was raised up, and they couldn’t move.

- Ryuusei no Redux - Tribe!, Chapter 8: “Episode 15 - Between Heaven and Earth! The Tale Engraved in the Lines!”

7. The interior of the temple was stark, almost plain, really.

- Ryuusei no Redux- Tribe!, Chapter 7: “Episode 14 - Terror of God!”

8.  Kazusa had been told many times that she was the splitting image of her father.

- five lies told to five children (lima syndrome AU sidestory)

9.  Honestly, Rick’s surprised they turned out so well, considering the pictures were taken with his mobile phone, at the pinnacle of drunken revelry before it spiraled downward into a haze of questionable decisions and dubious shenaniganry, and with the lit candles sitting on the bar table it even gave the images some class (or, as much class as a naked man with a bright orange mohawk can have).

- TFLN text prompt askfic: (303): I'm glad your nude photos turned out "classy" but you cannot hang them in the living room. 

10.  It was strange, seeing Gonta and Kizamaro without the Class President.

- Ryuusei no Redux - Tribe! Chapter 6: “Episode 13 - Kizamaro’s Plea!”

11.  Coming home was surprisingly uneventful, considering all the troubles they’d gone through at the other airport.

- Black and Blue (Ccapacsei AU), Chapter 97

12.  This wasn’t supposed to happen.

- Purgatorio

13. Biip. Biip...

- Ryuusei no Redux, Tribe! Chapter 5: “Episode 12 - Rockman’s Day Off?!”

14.  He doesn’t really know how he ended up in charge (sort of) of this important area in the library.

- The Unwritten Files (a YGO Dressing Room Dangan Ronpa Event sidestory)

15.  He doesn’t sleep.

- Night (Extemporization AU)

16.  It’s late at night when Laplace decides promptly in the middle of a round of Burger Quest that he’s hungry.

- ask prompt: “Human Laplace, Acid, and War-Rock trying to order something at the drive through at some unholy hour of the night.”

17. Remember.

- ask prompt: “arcus, donny, and yuma.”

18. This child was far too needy.

- Sylvanshine (Lima Syndrome AU)

19. Vector’s clones are a strange creation.

- Earth’s Shadow (Lima Syndrome AU)

20. “Eeehhh?!” both Rockman and Harp Note yelped.

- Ryuusei no Redux, Tribe! Chapter 4: “Episode 11 - The Battle to Save Rockman! Roar, Dinosaur!”

okay so clearly Tribe anime rewrite is practically the only thing i’ve been writing these days, considering my limited writing time. :Y

also i seem to enjoy starting in media res. or at least with some sort of odd quote to settle the atmosphere or reveal a character’s inner thought process. as such they tend to be rather short and/or snarky, if they’re not a rambling long running sentence.

anyways i can’t remember who writes fic on my timeline so if you wanna do it go do it

[thedeviantsrp-blog]

Codename: Emote

→ ABOUT

Name: Eleanor Genevieve Chavez

Gender, Age & Birthday: Female, 25, March 2nd

Hometown: Memphis, TN

Previous Occupation: Law Student

Ability: Empathic Manipulation

Status: Taken

Faceclaim: Emily Browning

→ BACKGROUND

There was an overwhelming amount of pressure to be the perfect daughter and sister on you. There always had been, and even messing one thing up would make you emotional. You knew you couldn’t disappoint others. You can’t keep things from your family either, and were the one that ended up ratting out on your brother. But tattling was always the right thing to do, right? Being able to manipulate other’s feelings never felt more personal.

→ CONNECTIONS

[COPYCAT]: Copycat is eternally frightened by the thought of Emote using the emotions of all of her clones against her.

[DREAMCAST]: Emote is the older twin sister of Dreamcast, and the two have come to the facilities together.

[REDEYE]: There is an unspoken rivalry between Emote and Redeye, something that may stem from wanting things to be in your control.

→ DESCRIPTION

There is a world that hides behind the eyes of someone, resting deeply inside their minds. A scape of a world that they created, hiding away from the eyes and hands of those that wander the world. Depending on the person, a light glows from the iris and others stare so blankly. For Eleanor, it had shifted between the two her entire life; an eclipse of thought and heart through each chapter of her life.

Growing up in Memphis, Eleanor had always believed with the right tune and key, you could cure the world with a heartfelt song. While her parents didn’t always agree, it was the music and the streets excited by that thought that pushed her eager mind into writing from a young age. Every emotion she had inside provoked an adjective to coincide. And when she knew exactly how she felt, a rehearsed poem would be written along white sheets of paper in a series of colored pens, all matching the emotions she felt. Memphis inspired her every day though she lived in a white house with a perfectly cut family. The moment she stepped out the door, the world erupted in color that matched how she felt every minute.

As this girl, Eleanor had been built simply on her emotions. While some are run by their head and the logical way of doing things, she was always ran by the heart. When she needed to cry, she did and the same went for when she smiled. It was that which made her one of the most honest people her friends knew, and one of the only trustworthy advocates of the Chavez name. Though as time continued on, time showed that her emotions could fix very little, just as crying when someone else cried only seemed to make things worse. So then as the world grew around her, cold and hard like her family did, something that pushed those emotions back. So what happens when the store closes its door? Or God turns off the lights? The dark haze that sat behind Elle’s eyes began to settle as she slowly learned how to cope with the darkness that clouded the part of her she ceased to listen to. All she could do was to look in the mirror, mimicking the glass that altered her reflection.

That perhaps is what developed Eleanor into the woman she became. When the fog came in, there was still a voice of reason through each emotional pull, begging to turn the lights back on. To the girl who radiated the warmth of emotions in the cold world, she no longer wanted to settle for her own flame. Instead, she learned how to deal with the ice, to break through the fog and to listen to something new, something that wouldn’t hurt her as her heart did. It seemed that her mind, like her parents, knew what was best. And so she coped with logic and reason closely, using it as a weapon instead of the emotions that rattled in her chest.

There was no doubt that Elle was made to be the girl her parents wanted her to be. It wasn’t just the personality and charm she had achieved that was perfect, but with dark eyes and perfect locks of thin hair, she looked as though she could be sold as a porcelain doll. Each feature of hers was sharply cold, reflecting the ivory glass of a doll’s skin with the vacant shine in her eyes as well. Each time she looked in a mirror, it reminded her that she was made to be her family’s puppet; a charming toy that brought them joy and entertainment with each movement.

Slowly but surely, she became everything they had wanted her to be; a perfect student, a model citizen, and everything in between. Eleanor had become the dream daughter, a girl whom many envied and very few understood. Elle was no longer the girl that cried when a pin dropped, but was the one to pick it up and fix whatever it had broken from. And as she grew into the ideal they desired, she slowly manipulated herself to be that girl as well. With that growth, so did the volume of the voice. It told her what to do when people did wrong and what to do when people did right, which for her brother seemed to be the worst end of it. If she could change herself through a series of personal tests, then why couldn’t someone do the same? Her brother soon began to take a nostalgic form as what she hated most; herself.

Through the years, Elle followed her parents’ footsteps, pursuing a future in law. As both always were logical, finding the rules of life easy to play by, she found herself diving into piles of law books, immersing herself in their world. And here, she learned that the manipulation she used on herself, creating the girl she became, could also be used as her own strength. The court would be her battle field, her personality a weapon, together making her an unstoppable force, just as her parents had speculated. That was the biggest difference between the twins; while one then grew with the law, the other against. For every glorious party dress and curled blonde locks, her brother had a matching set of black eyes and street scars. The two were as opposite as a could be, both mentally and physically.

It was in law school that she first noticed what she could do. When her empathy struck with a case she worked with, suddenly others began to feel the same emotions. These feelings that she had tucked away had seemed to take a mind of their own, growing and spreading into a room. This had been every lawyers’ dream in having the ability to conjure people’s feelings to their side. It was that which could manipulate a court room to feel remorse for a cold blooded killer all at the hands of Elle. From a simple girl who wanted nothing more than to write and help the people around her soon turned into one of the most notorious law students as she reached for her parents goals. It wasn’t until their arrival in New York that Eleanor began to feel the empathy sink back in.

So what now? As the ice queen begins to melt, will she be able to mend the broken past between her brother and her? Or will her skill of manipulation push her empathy back in through her own personal desires? Only time will tell if Eleanor’s brain and heart will work together in tandem to reach the next level of her abilities or if she will crumble with the power of her own emotions, controlled or not.

→ ETHOS

Elle's strengths are that through her wit and ambition, she is able to achieve anything she truly desires. It is her minds manipulation that pulls her forward and convinces herself that anything is possible, something of which she learned from her mother.

On the other hand, while Elle's power lies in empathy, she had a great deal of apathetic nature that comes out from her loyalty to her family and their desires. With this, she can act quite ignorant to other people’s feelings.

[throwingideasatthewall]

Clone Wars       A Friend in Need

Well let’s see you at the main cast            who has friends?

    Obi-Wan           a “girlfriend,”.         and apparently no one else

     Anakin 

      Padme

         - Who          does have the one person who most prominently featured the word           “friend”

                -Clovis

   But he’s been gone           since..

     Ahsoka;   

I mean does         Barisse count

 Oh wait I forgot a CP3PO        and R2D2

  So our, candidates are generally down to,       Clovis, Barisse, the droids           (CP3PO & R2D2)                       Or an unknown character                      coming from under the table                          (Which is always                            on the table)

                   (Oh and Jar Jar Binks,  who I don’t think classifies as a        friend ?)

  Which is why none of the characters have it           “ In response”           (To quote)

          Oh

       Mandalore?

        O-             kay?             ...              A

         I’m not sure I get the        whole design    thing- 

   Still slightly nope-    about it         -      Con-tinuing          -            ?         -        Um        -      What?         -            Also   isn’t he supposed to be a       kid?

    Like           he was one of the better kid representations in the show  just barely scraping over the hump around that time..

    I’m taking a break from the live commentary         just to see how          this plays out;

   [Random stranger shows up without an invitation and irritates literally everyone yeah sure let them stay

     - no       invitation

    -no    explanation      needed-

   - Not         like           this         could            Quite-          literally            fu- 

         An-             Way,

         See,

Also,     Dear-    God      ,

  [Skip      button       used           at        nausuem]

      Yeah,  I couldn’t stand        that,

      [It just, didn’t-]

       ?

     They’re just escorting him back to his        ship

           ,right

    [Oh so yeah whatever happened to that kid considering his mother was dead and his father is informed to be dead,

         How is he               alive?

         [also I will give it that it is still staying within the margins of       reasonable          child behavior or just            decent enough that it stays under the radar,         Though it does get me nervous,

       [That or I’m just kind of numb to it,         Focus,]

    Also yeah       what was         expected to happen?              -

        -          Ok seriously       who gave the kid the order is though           (Okay who gave the kids the orders though because I’m               little sus.            Nothing serious        yet just a bit skittish,”

         Okay,

        Es-              Cape

          Oh gosh they’re doing the Boba Fett thing                  aren’t                    they?

            Sen-ator?

          Whoa, whoa                the fuck?                      .                   Dude                       is like 12.                     (16 maybe)

                    Like,                          No,

                     (Unless that was a bit      At his involvement in      politics,)

       Also what is up with his size when we last saw him he was a- l- significantly smaller and clearly a child

    [The scales          a little off       in that frame.

      Why,

       -

         X

       Whelp,     A war just broke out,               -           And Ahsoka       just dragged the Mandalorians           into a war,

        .

       Wha-

    (Also pardon     me but in the queen say something about        subtle ?)

      -          Whe-

     Co-rousant

     Also yeah the council is going to love that

       “ Hey cancel I found a separatist, can I keep it               ?”

            Re-               P-ublic.                 -                   Is he a spy?

          [Like yeah   admittedly that seems like a lot of work to go through,]

           Oh so yeah that was pretty good the expression,                 , stayed neutral and non-emotional

          Amen-               sty-

         W-ell

          That-      just came out of nowhere,

   .

   Pl-an

   Children don’t have plans,

   And adults don’t have         such un- even tone          -           -Gun

   Ah, you know literally nothing about him

   You had a five minute conversation while he just repeated        Pro-paganda,        And order        s-

   Talking points

     Also he’s a Sep-artist

   You don’t know he’s not a fighter        -         Well then you’ll      -starve-             -         The di-

       Okay seriously what was with that tone?

   Everything you’ve been through,

     Again, that’s teasing             If it’s             a child,

       And             adult?        (The context really         doesn’t support it)

        Okay, what is with the        eyes?

         Okay,            No,

         Children can’t do           outright emotion like that-               -                Certain things might cause an automated      reaction-               But       their face stays blank,                And, it doesn’t           reach their voice,

           Adults     well they have a lot even-er                  tone-

            They’re purposeful

             And this should have a lot more weight                 and the narr-a-tive treat them like equals

         [I’m            going               to               go                use                 the                 skip              button]

             cause       this is getting                    Hella                    quasi-

                Wait.

                 Okay...  

                 [Sk   ip]

       Like seriously this kid that should be dead like 50 things over because kids can only follow orders and at the mercy of adults

       If he’s an adult, A) Ahsoka may very well be an enabler,           And B) Narr-ative needs to get its tone right and treat them like      eq-uals

     Dude-            Movie          -          ?

    What?

   H-

   [I am at         6:30           Btw           (With the brief.            indication that he just knocked her out with some thing,)

            What??

[i’ve       talked       about         the         Evil          Child         trope;              it          needs            to          burn,]         Is-

        Mr.     Bontierre

       So yelling at an         in-nocent         child,

       Oh reasonable anger at                 a malicious adult,             (And an attack).           that likely could’ve been prevented,

           Be-cause yeah he stabbed her in the back

           But,

         (Malicious science is not something         I often            dabble in,)

           This works,

            W-

            Quasi my two least favorite things quasi      and the deathwatch,

          (I don’t even remember if there was a         con-           fron-          tation,              And they were assumed gone

       Or...

    Or, just a bunch of reenactors that like putting on their         helmets,

    (Or people with similar       helmet    designs,) 

    Like seriously that.          seemed very chill for people that have like this 

     blood vendetta against Jedi,

       -            Snoop

       How

     Where?

     Okay?

      Me

    Be-trothed

       Movie?

        What the fuck?

  [Like       ok just hold on a second though,

    That is a          child           [imp-       lied to be one the last time we saw this dude]

    -

    Either

       -         He’s not an         adult-

   As clear by the lack of        emotion(s)

      And just feckin everything

            Huh?

Okay,     no just no,

   “Old, “.         is more so the concern here,

   Like dude doesn’t talk            or act like an        adult..

    I-

    -

  Cele          brate  

(Are we sure these guys are deathwatch        they don’t seem to have the same          insignia,  or any            indication?

    Is every thug that hangs out in the woods          Wear         Ing            armor       deathwatch now?

    A-i

    Why, would he think that?

      A-g

   Ser-ious-ly that makes them no more assholes         than literally anyone else

      Like they’re not sentient,

      I’m more concerned with the asshole that program them to feel fear and general although human emotions

      Like if the practice robot I was            using         suddenly gave a scream of human like pain        I would stop immediately,

       Doesn’t matter if some asshole continue-d to             program it

             If there’s any indication,                  you stop

              Yeah you could say these guys are assholes              for practicing on it,

               (And yeah obviously don’t enable that shit,)

               Un-less,             it’s like an acting droid?

                 I don’t-

          Like don’t get me wrong the         “woman comment could’ve been kind of a dick move

        Actually, no          it totally was,           Because it was totally            un-wanted

          And                 No

      But.

   But literally everything else;

  Some reenacters just decided to set up in        a park, screw around with some effects droids,          And possibly            get drunk,             With one of them having a           history with Dooku

       (Like it’s one of the flaws with the Mandalorian arc            that I meant to bring up,                That it relies heavily on negative             ass-              ociation,  

             Aka, assuming that you assume the worst of a              situation,

             When in reality,                   no, people tend to be pretty positive and                assume    benefit of doubt,

               You’re really going to have to work at convincing me that these guys aren’t just your average brand of      asshol-ery             (Two/       Three               Times)

     Seriously,           Anakin, what the fuck

       (Or maybe just what the fuck at the scenario,

        Since Anakin probably didn’t know this would happen

          (Train-ed to detect distress in Ana-kin)

          And those guys didn’t know that it was trained to             detect distress...

           Still I really don’t like how they are por-tray-ing him as sentient in that moment

              (Semi-sentient)

               Also, how is he supposed to re-assemble anything he doesn’t really have arms

              Most of the things we’ve seen being able to be fixed by a        gear thing,

              And, yeah he can kind of pick up some things

            But I’m pretty sure this thing requires          bendable appendages,

           ?

         Okay, what’s with the hand maidens?

         When did deathwatch become         misogynistic?

        Also they’re adults,

        Kid-napp-               ed                -                 Ah, you’re still adults and could’ve you know stopped them at any             time,

          “Simple”

         No one’s less or more          intelligent than each other

          You both       produce the same amount of               energy-

          I’m really hoping they were going for simple as in they aren’t really interested in             materialistic                    .                     But the tone around these people leaves a lot to be                desired                       .                      and concerned about,

                 Trust easily

   Everyone         trusts easily       .          We’re humanity

     That’s kind of (our) thing,

     Making the world           a softer better              place.

         -

         Ah,

          ?.

          ?

          Ser-iously

    Also, wow is this several, miscommunications

     This is getting         pretty damn            boomer,

        Dead,

        -

        ?

      (Taken)

       They are people                not object           if they went          they went willingly

          (Assuming they are adults                 which is in                  worry-ing                    question,)

                 ?

                He                      re-

                  When they said         stole I thought they meant from like a village                     A few blocks over 

                  Like in the past,

                  But                      dude comes in like he just turned a corner,

                L-eave

    You can’t return            a fucking.         pe-rson,

    Oh that was nice-      though the tone awful-

   (But also still         you can’t return a person in like a              grocery bag

          O-i

        Bu-tchers

           Or this isn’t the   deathwatch          

          Or they are suffering from a serious bouts of         Clovis syndrome           (Or more so               reverse              Clovis              syndrome,                Like their actual first leader              whatever his name was,

            ?

           W-ell

           Ok, now that was just straight up murder

           Well,

         Dear fuck

        Also, this is why we assume accountability

       Also hey  that name after a very little       note,

       Great,

         Also his temperament seem to completely change,

        Went from prove yourself

         To ‘Welcome to the club buddy, ‘         with little regard,

         They kill people 

          fecking kills people

          Jedi-

           That was disgraceful

          Also I guess maybe he could’ve managed it if he fixed one thing at a time and I mean some of them had some functional with limbs and assumed fixed self capability

          -             Ai          Ght

        -

        “                ?

     Ok seriously what is with the          Tided up thing,

         Or literally,

           Ca                 -mp

          P-lease

          Honor

           He’s

            -  

         Jus-               tice

    Ok seriously what is with Ahsoka and       constantly getting her ass kicked,              And it’s portrayal as                 involuntary,

Seriously,         Hand to hand combat      shouldn’t be much of an issue for her          , either way-

  Well,     seriously     can’t she win a fight on her own-   ,merit

  Against a   boomer?

    ?

  So, they are tracked 

      Good

Why is she such an idiot this episode?

     Lux

Why is she so devastated?

  Why is he so   mature?

 Like either she should-

   Remove him from the bad situation being          an adult and         him a child

   -Who should have only orders and no initiative

  All she said was specked in adults decision and not be doing this,

  And the tone was down right      Con-    cerning-

    ?

  Ser-iously?

  No actually you were pretty un accountable for literally all the episode and then you somehow had to save her

     Be cause

   Pr-omise

  Oy, his tone needs to even        -er,

   *gag*

  Well that episode,

    Was disgusting,

     Downright                      Disturb-ing

         Due             To             It’s

        Lack of commitment to a           tone -           Going           quasi             During               a               romance

         With unfortunate implications either childify-ing an adult,               Over sexualizing a child,                Both of which                   aren’t a good look,

              On top of childify-                      ing an adult                      (woman)

*Believe      to be         accurate       identification               -                               (Several)

                        In                            Meta

   Using Quasi      tone, as        well as           Body    Lan-guage,         Portraying      No recognizable         emotion,         Befitting              of a         child              -            With the dialogue and plot generally indicating and supporting this disgusting and awful insinuation that any adult being is unable of holding them selves or others accountable, and is equal parts of       one (humanity)

               Or (complete)                        (Developed)                humanity in general

                              Coupled with slave     indications-                   (Bound       wrists)   Without the common decency of its     predecessor,         To acknowledge that          Ahsoka as an adult,           Shared no risk,        (And need not tole- rate.       outside of her own preference         and accountability)

     Showing no      self-awareness,

      And continuing the theme               into the chase                  scene              (Note you can have character      like such             play along with such scenario                   But it has to come with the              self-awareness said they are                   not in any danger                     (In universe)

   (Oh and a very forced and completely          Boomer message about not following the          crowd, that is terribly          botched, especially with what seems to be the positive influence              (Ahsoka)               Doing literally the exact thing,            Children not having the ability of              initiative,             And it not committing to adult)

     (And is essentially everything that I disliked about the Man-        dalorian arc;

                 The unaccountability          of the male leads,

                  With an extra bit of certain                         adult  childifi      -cation

                     And uncertain tone

                      (Which en-sures that if the disturbing and downright toxic message didn’t scare you off the complete lack of fun certainly will)

   (And   dis-   appointing)

                      and puts it right back to no live reactions

                      Because well this is essentially the bonus round of writer’s                          advice                          and                       “is it fun,”.                          There has to be some con-       sequence for submitting me to tox/                               Contin-uing to create                         tox long after it was excusable,

                      (Or had leniency,)

                      (Now having fully worn out as                           welcome

                                      Several episodes   -ago)

[thotyssey]

Saturday (8.18.2018)

UPTOWN 

BOXERS UES: TBA (9pm);  DJ JRoc (11pm)

CASTRO: PAPI LATIN SATURDAYS (10pm)

SUITE: Octavia Anyae (11:30pm)

HELL’S KITCHEN

BOXERS HK: Poker with Butch Cordera (6:30pm);  CAFE CON CREMA Latin dance party (10pm) 

LUCKY CHENGS @ STAGE 48: Vivacious (7pm) 

HARDWARE: Tina Burner (7pm);  DJ 2Face with Ruby Roo & Lagoona Bloo (10pm)

RITZ: DJ Scotty Rox (7pm);  DJs Dawson & Mikey Mo 10pm)

ATLAS SOCIAL CLUB: Tammy Spanx & DJ Eugene Edo *finale* (11pm) 

POSH: DJ Kamil (10pm) 

THERAPY: DJ Scott Jones (10pm)

VSBU: Chaka Khanvict & Ally Ganza (midnight)

EAST SIDE

MC 58 BAR: Sarah Glassman (8pm)

LIPS: “Glitz & Glamour” (5pm);  “The Dirty Show” (11:30pm)

UNCLE CHARLIES: Piano bar (8pm)

TOWNHOUSE: Live Doo Wop (9pm);   Gogo boys downstairs (10pm)

MIDTOWN / TIMES SQUARE

SHERATON TIMES SQUARE: FLAME CON (noon-8pm)

ROSEWOOD: NUDE Eventbrice Black Pride urban party (10pm)

CHELSEA

EAGLE NYC:  Saturday party (11pm) 

REBAR: DJ Natazu (5pm);  “Remember The Tea” feat. DJ Dan Darlington (10pm)

BOXERS CHELSEA: TIGHT END Saturdays (9pm)

WEST VILLAGE

ROCKBAR: ARCADE happy hour (3pm);  CLONE kinky party (10pm)

PIECES: Heidi Haux (5pm);  Bootsie LeFaris with Egypt & Gigi Cutina (11pm)

LE POISSON ROUGE: Bingo with Linda Simpson  TBA (7:30pm) 

MONSTER: A+ PAN-ASIAN REVUE feat. Emi Grate & Kiko Soirée with DJ Ten Yards, Juicy Liu, West Dakota, Bibingka Mama & more (8pm);   MANSTER feat. Zarria, DJ Nesto & Kashi Golean (10pm)  

STONEWALL: MADONNA WORSHIP feat. DJ Chauncey Dandridge, Hibiscus, Elle McQueen, Ari Kiki, Crimson Kitty  & more (10pm) 

HANGAR: DJs Ted Bishop Nieves & Om-Amari (10pm)

EAST VILLAGE

THE DL: DESILICIOUS Bollywood party (5pm)

IRVING PLAZA:  Black Pride NYC: The Heritage Ball (8pm)

CLUB CUMMING: HAUS OF CUMMING feat. Alan Cumming, Daniel Nardicio & Daphne Always plus DJs Sammy Jo & Darren Dryden (10pm)

THE COCK: DJs Kindbud & Aaron Cobbett (10pm)

BEAUTY BAR: DJs Michael T & Twig the Wonderkid (10pm)

PHOENIX: Ari Kiki & Alotta McGriddles with DJ T-Boy (11pm)

NOWHERE: TBA

BROOKLYN

C’MON EVERYBODY: DJ Bright Light Bright Light (3pm)

METROPOLITAN BAR: Musicians Richard Cortez & Alex Mejia  (6pm);   Frankie Sharp’s METROSENSUAL feat. F. Virtue (10pm) 

BIZARRE: JUMP SHARK open stage hosted by God Complex & Vylette Tendency (7pm)

CLUB XSTASY: Casino night (9pm)

ELSEWHERE: Susanne Bartsch’s KUNST (10pm)

LITTLEFIELD: BE CUTE feat. Horrorchata, Charlene, Miss Malice, Vigor Mortis, Ragamuffin & Mary Con (10pm)

MACRI PARK: BROWN SUGAR feat. Merrie Cherry & MoMo Shade with  Kandy Muse, Janelle No. 5, Senerio & Will Sheridan (10pm)

3 DOLLAR BILL / SUTHERLAND: DJs Ryan Smith & Joey Quiñones (10pm)

ROSEMONT: The Haus of Sterling with DJs P_A_T & Dicap (10pm)

The Haus of Sterling (Candy, Sookie and / or Tiffany Jones Sterling) perform at the Rosemont, with DJs P_A_T & Dicap

CLUB LANGSTON: Urban party (11pm) 

EXCELSIOR: CRUISING fetish party (11pm)

DEEP END: TBA

QUEENS

ALBATROSS: Flower Tortilla (8pm);  Sutton Lee Seymour (11pm)

MANHATTAN COCKTAIL LOUNGE: Karaoke with Chickie Chickie (5pm)

CLUB EVOLUTION: Latin dance party (10pm)

EL TRIO LOUNGE: Latin party & show (10pm)

ICON: Dance party (10pm) 

FIRE ISLAND

PINES BEACH: SPRAY beach party (noon-7pm)

ICE PALACE. Logan Hardcore & Brenda Dharling (3pm);  Porsche (6pm);  SPUNK with Honey Davenport & DJ Eddie Cruz (10pm)

PINES POOL: Bootsie LeFaris & Roxy Brooks (3pm)

BLUE WHALE: LOW TEA (4-8pm);  Pianist Jack Aaronson (10pm)

PINES PAVILION: Lady Bunny: Pig in a Wig (6pm);  SPRAY dance party with DJ Peter Napoli (11pm)

SIP N TWIRL: TWIRL TEA (7pm);  Dance party (11pm)

CHERRYS ON THE BAY: Dance Party (11pm) 

NEW JERSEY

PARADISE:  Country line dancing (7pm); Dane party (10pm)

TOPPS LOUNGE: VALE TODO Latin party (8pm) 

FEATHERS: Saturday party (10pm)

THE ROYAL: DJ Brian Richards (10pm)

Full List Here 

[theperfectlywise]

The curious case of Nicki Minaj: Female emcees, respect, & marketing in the streaming era

Missy Elliot’s Miss E…So Addictive was the first album by a female rapper that I bought. Or rather, that my dad bought for me the summer of 2001. Before a generation lost their innocence when those planes crashed through the World Trade Center. Before the streaming era took over and put the entire music industry’s discography on our iPhones. And when ripping the annoying plastic covering off that CD case would gave you a singular rush of anticipation. The late Purple God Prince gave us a gentle rebuke about albums at the 2016 Grammy Awards, before his untimely death: “Albums still matter. Like books and Black lives, albums still matter.”

But with time comes change, so we’ll spare the excess nostalgia for another time. And given the amount of music I consume daily, buying albums today would likely leave me homeless and penniless, with nothing but my Kate Spade bags, wigs & CDs as declared assets. So there’s that.

Female emcees have always had a tricky relationship with hip-hop, especially along the lines of visibility. Today, Missy’s ….So Addictive and Ms. Lauryn’s Miseducation records rest in an old black case, along with countless others by male colleagues (i.e., Jay, Mobb Deep, Outcast, Wu Tang Klan, etc.). Those two CDs are token items, like the one Black guy that always get killed first in horror movies — there to confirm that female emcees exist, but still not enough to suggest real interest in their stories. Thankfully, I’ve remedied that oversight in my adult years.

Fast forward to 2008, when an up-and-coming Queens emcee named Nicki Minaj captivated the hip-hop world with her Sucka Free mixtape and 2009 Beam Me Up Scotty follow-up.

A Lil’ Kim clone through and through down to the lingerie picture, Beam Me Up Scotty put me on notice to Nicki’s talent as a rapper — something she would later confirm when she washed two hip-hop heavyweights (Kanye West and Hov) on the same song, Monster. Nicki the Ninja would later carry the success of that mixtape, her Pink Friday album, and an eccentric and a playfully sexual Barbie aesthetic to become the highest-selling female rapper of all time. She would run unopposed with this status for years to come.

Looking at Nicki’s recent controversies and chart performance — Joe Coscarelli of The New York Times noted: “Of her [Nicki’s] two songs as a lead artist currently on the Billboard Hot 100, none is higher than number 81”— you get the sense this unopposed run has inspired complacency, if not outright arrogance on her part. Sure, we can chalk this complacency up to hip-hop’s fucked up expectation that only one woman rapper can sit on the throne. That would be a valid argument, as talented female emcees like Rapsody have not enjoyed mainstream success, despite being a Grammy-nominated artist and rapping better than the rainbow-haired, lean-drinking weirdos currently dominating the new school.

That being said, it is my observation that Nicki is currently hanging by the same rope she gladly hung Lil’ Kim with years before. That same standard that helped Nicki during her rise — and relegated Kim’s legacy to an afterthought — is slowly painting her as a “has-been” now.

Where are the receipts? Let’s look at Nicki’s 2018 so far (in chronological order):

April 3, 2018: Coming out of social media hiatus

Nicki was spotted at LAX Airport after being on a social-media hiatus since December 2017. With an all-black ensemble and over-sized shades in tow, Nicki’s airport walk-through signaled a return to the public — and created anticipation for more. Is she coming out with a new song, after all these months? A new interview? We would get this answer a little over a week later.

April 12, 2018: Zane Lowe interview, new singles, and those Cardi B/Tokyo Stylez comments

In the midst of releasing Barbie Tingz and Chun Li, Nicki gave a deep-dive on a variety of topics including her current artistic process, social media, Meek Mill’s legal troubles, and Cardi B. Given that Cardi’s Invasion of Privacy album was released the prior Friday (April 6th), her comments on Cardi grabbed the most headlines.

On Cardi B, Nicki said:

“The only thing with Cardi that really, really, really hurt my feelings was the first interview she did after ‘MotorSport’ came out… With ‘MotorSport,’ I kinda felt ambushed. Up until this recent interview she did, I had never seen her show me genuine love in an interview. And I can just imagine how many girls wished they could be on a song with Nicki Minaj.”

When asked why she didn’t appear on camera with Cardi in the MotorSportmusic video, Nicki effectively threw celebrity hair-stylist Tokyo Stylez under the bus for a scheduling conflict:

“Even with the scheduling conflict, she’s using my hairdresser now so even he can attest to the fact, Tokyo [Stylez]…He knows there really was a scheduling conflict and it was because of him. He’s the one that couldn’t show up. I texted him, ‘You know, if I don’t show up the day she’s shooting, they’re gonna act like I’m doing it to be mean with the current Nicki hate train.’ He wasn’t able to come, and that’s fine.”

I side-eyed these comments for a couple of reasons. For one, Nicki’s assertion that “many girls” wish for a Nicki collab tells me that she expected Cardi to bow down and kiss the ring. Given Nicki’s prior beefs with female rap legends (see: Lil’ Kim’s 2012 Breakfast Club interview) who believed she didn’t pay respect during her rise, it’s strange that she would take Cardi to task in this way. Also, publically blaming the lack of on-camera appearance on a celebrity hairstylist was a messy and unnecessary move. Why throw another professional under the bus for your lack of joint on-screen appearance?

May 24, 2018: Queen is pushed from June 15 to August 10

In an Instagram live-stream, Nicki announced that Queen would be released on August 10th, as opposed to the originally announced June 15 date she teased during a Vogue interview on the Met Gala red carpet. Granted, album push backs are perfectly normal. In many cases, the extra time can help an artist perfect their record and it also gives management more leeway to execute the roll-out. On the other side, album push backs can signal doubts on either:

1.) The quality of the project

2.) How much said project will sell/connect with audiences

3.) Clarity with the album roll-out strategy

In Nicki’s case, to return from hiatus in April with two singles (Barbie Tingz and Chun Li) only to push the album release from June to August points to some internal doubts about the ability of the project to compete in a summer of high-profile releases (i.e., Kanye Kardashian, Drizzy, Nas, etc.). Also, this might be a small detail, but there’s a lack of a cohesive aesthetic between Nicki’s recent singles that is hard to ignore.

Shout out to @bluekeyblade for pointing out this lack of cohesion on this Twitter thread.

The varying aesthetics here contrast with other mainstream artists. Here are some examples Twitter users pointed out under that thread:

You can argue that the increasing emphasis on singles during the streaming era has reduced the need for cohesive projects and aesthetics. However, the marketing professional in me believes these varied aesthetics points to a record label and management team that are testing different aesthetics to see what consumers will connect with. Streaming era aside, it is evident a clear aesthetic is key to a successful brand strategy. Between Mariah’s album fonts, Ariana Grande’s Dangerous Woman bunny ears, and RiRi’s red hair during the Loud era — all of these artists had a cohesive look that was synonymous with their projects. That Nicki doesn’t appear to have a cohesive aesthetic going into an album roll-out is a worrying sign for how she is being marketed in this new streaming era.

June 13, 2018: ELLE magazine interview, and those sex-work comments

With the tagline “The Queen Returns,” it’s clear this cover-story was meant to promote her new album and assert her return back to the top. You might have missed this though, as controversial comments around sex-work dominated headlines.

“Maybe I was naive, but I didn’t realize how many girls were modern-day prostitutes,” she said. “Whether you’re a stripper, or whether you’re an Instagram girl — these girls are so beautiful and they have so much to offer. But I started finding out that you give them a couple thousand dollars, and you can have sex with them.”

So I’ll start with this reaction gif of Kurt from Glee:

Upon reading these comments, I’m struck by the lack of empathy from a woman who has earned millions by selling her body and sex appeal. Maybe Nicki was simply unaware that performing sex work is often a literal means of survival for poor and disenfranchised women. Contrary to popular belief, sex work doesn’t just occur among the impossibly beautiful Instagram models who fuck rich men for Birkin bags and a trip to the Maldives. On the other side of this jet-set living are poor, LGBT women of color who perform sex work to feed and provide for their families. New York Times best-selling author and trans activist Janet Mock spoke on this very reality in a 2018 AM Tonight interview with Alicia Menendez.

Also, to have these comments come out around the same time she released Rich Sex, a song with these poetic lyrics just boggles the mind.

If you know your pussy worth a Benz truck

(Rich sex)

Don’t let homie fuck unless his bands up

(Rich sex)

Go to DR, get that fat transfer

(Rich sex)

It ain’t such a thing as broke and handsome

(Rich sex)

If you let that broke nigga fuck, we tellin’

(Rich sex)

If you let that broke nigga fuck, we tellin’

(Rich sex)

If you let that broke nigga fuck, we tellin’

(Rich sex)

If you let that broke nigga fuck, we tellin’

(Rich sex)

July 7, 2018: Wanna Thompson, Karen Civil, and those DMs

This brings us to the most recent “controversy” surrounding Onika and those Twitter DMs with Wanna Thompson, a freelance writer from Toronto. I won’t add more to this story, as much has been recently discussed related to Wanna’s original tweet, Nicki’s DM, and Wanna’s subsequent firing from Karen Civil’s website. Check out the New York Times profile on Ms.Thompson for the whole story. Needless to say, the experience has done little to promote Ms. Minaj in a positive light ahead of her album release. Also, it’s interesting that Wanna identified the need for Nicki’s artistry to evolve — a complaint other critics have noted. I mean, how many “bitches are my sons” bars can we take?

Missy Misdemeanor commented on the current state of music and female emcees during a 2012 Breakfast Club interview. When asked about Nicki Minaj — understandable given Nicki’s presence as the top-selling female rapper — Missy curiously wrapped her praise for Nicki’s hustle with the need for unity, respect for music’s predecessors, and new talent development. Judging by Nicki’s history of feuds with older female rappers (Lil’ Kim being the most prominent ) and rumors of behind-the-scenes sabotage antics against her peers, Missy seems to be alluding to some funny-style actions on Nicki’s part. When you think about Missy’s call to nurture new hip-hop talent (lest your own legacy becomes discredited by the new school) and Nicki’s current inability to produce a hit single with lasting power, her words sound that much more prophetic right now. That may soon change though, as Bed, a Ariana Grande collab and a rumored collab with Tekashi 69 are sure to capture attention ahead of the album release. And controversy aside, all press is good press, right?

Looking at Missy’s 20+ year career and the goodwill she still wields in the industry, I’m reminded of how important it is to treat people with respect. That stars are not immune to a fickle consumer base that loves them one second and discards them the next. That complacency is the killer of growth. And when all else fails — it’s alright to sit down, mind your business, and eat your food. We don’t see Beyonce giving controversy-laden interviews and clapping back at music writers on Twitter for a reason. Just saying.

[vaikarona]

Publié initialement le 12 Novembre 2015

Les assassins sont de retour (encore) ! Après un épisode plein de bug et d’erreurs colossales, la saga Assassin’s Creed revient avec son opus “Syndicate”. En tout juste un an, Ubisoft s’est mis sérieusement au boulot (on y croit…) pour nous sortir un jeu qui est censé envoyer du lourd. Et il semblerait que malgré cela, la presse vidéo-ludique ne semble pas trop apprécier cet épisode.

Suis-je d’accord avec eux? Non, et je vais vous expliquer pourquoi.

Depuis l’épisode Unity, la crédibilité de la saga a pris un sacré coup (Malgré un épisode Rogue assez réussi). Mais Assassin’s Creed Syndicate rattrape clairement les erreurs du passé. Reprenant toujours les même principes : un enchainement de missions avec des objectifs principaux comme optionnels, prenant place dans un monde ouvert truffé d’item à collecter, de manière à débloquer des pièces d’équipements pour renforcer votre personnage, aussi bien pour sa force physique, que pour son charisme. Tout ça dans un environnement temporel et spatial, à un moment-clé de l’Histoire de l’Humanité (Ici l’époque victorienne où la révolution industrielle frappe de plein fouet). Jusque là, tout va bien.

Londres: une ville… Qu’elle est bien pour y vivre.

Assassin’s Creed n’a jamais été bien célèbre pour ses progrès dans le domaine graphique. Unity, était la promesse d’un environnement soigné grâce à un effort sur des textures plus détaillées. C’était le cas, sauf que ces dernières mettaient un temps fou a charger, et causaient des ralentissement, des chutes de FPS à tout bout de champ. Syndicate lui, montre de beaux décors, et de rares baisses de FPS (tout n’est pas parfait). Du coup pour que ces textures ne soient jamais floues comme si elles apparaissaient en pleine partie, les chargements au démarrage du jeu se font toujours assez longuets mais cela en vaut la chandelle.

Au niveau des PNJ, la foule est moins nombreuse qu’avant et c’est temps mieux (aussi une raison du ralentissement). Ils ne sont plus aussi bêtes, et ne font plus la même file d’attente qu’avant pendant les combat, pour le peu que vous y prêtez attention en contrant leurs coups. Il y a tout de même son lot de problème, question IA. Souvent, lors de l’interaction “discrète” avec certaines de vos cibles, elle disparaitront totalement ! Également, un autre problème que j’ai constaté, parfois quand un ennemi grimpe en calèche pour s’enfuir, celui-ci se dresse sur son siège et devient intouchable. Malgré cela, la diligence ne manquera pas de partir comme une fusée. Des bugs qui seront certainement corrigés dans les jours futurs. En attendant, la seule méthode pour leur échapper est de réinitialiser le niveau via le menu pause. En parlant de calèche, le système de course dans ces dernières est assez brouillon. En effet, tels des PNJ à part entière, les rues en foisonnent et en débordent. Ça devient donc assez dur de circuler correctement sans péter la tronche à un passant, ou dégommer un lampadaire qui n’avait pourtant rien fait de mal. Mais au fur et a mesure que l’on conduit, ce chaos devient vite habituel, et l’on n’y prête plus attention.

Merci Batman!

Parlons Gameplay. L’année dernière, de nouvelles bases de déplacements ont été posées avec Unity. Mais la quantité monstre de bug n’avantageait pas cette nouvelle fonctionnalité.

Dans Syndicate tout est arrangé, les fenêtres parfois inaccessibles faute de bug, sont maintenant traversables grâce à L1/LB, des cheminées autrefois anarchiques à esquiver, maintenant facilement contournables, ainsi que des notifications en cas de chutes mortelles potentielles. Mais la grosse nouveauté de déplacement reste le grappin (coucou Batman). Big ben est un monument des plus minuscules maintenant, un coup de grappin et hop ! Vous voilà au sommet, un fossé béant entre deux bâtiments, tac ! vous voilà de l’autre côté. Un outil que les puristes pourront mettre de côté, la grimpette peut toujours être faite à la main.

Au niveau du combat, on ne change pas vraiment les habitudes, ils font peut être un peu la queue pour se faire dézinguer mais il y aura quelques courageux pour foncer vers vous. De plus, il est maintenant question de combo. Pour assassiner vos cibles avec efficacité, facilité et style choisissez vous même, et en faisant ça vous pourrez également enchainer plusieurs coups avec plusieurs de vos outils (recoucou Batman) chose impossible avant.

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S’il-vous-plait maestro

Alors là on va certainement passer par le meilleur point du jeu. La bande son est ma-gni-fique, on ressent vraiment l’ambiance londonienne. Lors des bastons on entend souvent le même refrain mais en dehors de ce détail, chaque quartier possède son morceau différent. On peut croiser des chœurs qui ne manqueront pas de vous chanter “God Save the Queen” et autres hymnes anglais de l’époque. Une superbe qualité on n’en démord pas. Le doublage est assez réussi, (pour les protagonistes en tout cas, tout ce qui n’attrait pas à l’histoire principal se retrouve en VO) mais le motion capture de plus en plus performant de nos jours ne s’adapte donc pas du tout au script. C’est juste un détail, mais un peu dérangeant cela dit. Petite note sur la bande son, lors de certaines missions, des musiques me rappelait vraiment Fable, je dis ça, je ne dis rien…

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Un bon exemple de vents et cordes, cette musique est présente lors d’une mission consistant à libérer des enfants, en évitant vraiment de se faire repérer… Je trouve que ça colle super bien!

  Père Dickens, raconte nous une histoire!

J’ai l’impression que depuis Assassin’s Creed 3, le scénario part en sucette. Même si Rogue vient pousser le vice jusqu’à le rendre fascinant voire exceptionnel (pas du tout objectif). Assassin’s Creed Syndicate raconte encore une histoire de truc d’Eden à récupérer selon des souvenirs des ancêtres, tout ça on connait et ce sera certainement le même pour tout les jeux suivants. Mais en revanche l’histoire concernant les jumeaux Jacob et Evie Phrye reste assez sympathique pour ne pas dire captivant. En effet, on s’attache très vite aux deux jumeaux, l’un est excentrique mais a de grandes valeurs et une fierté bien placée, tandis que l’autre est droite mais reste une rêveuse débordante d’imagination. Grâce à cela, on aime suivre leurs aventures, et on espère le meilleur pour ces deux joyeux lurons. On remarque également qu’ils ont une forte personnalité, lorsque l’on croise des personnages des plus étranges, dont les noms ne vous serons forcément pas inconnus: Charles Dickens, Frédéric Abberline, Charles Darwin ou autres Karl Marx. Les bouts d’histoires les concernant, sont également assez jouissif à découvrir, nombres événements clés de l’histoire seront cités en leurs compagnie.

La fin d’Assassin’s Creed Syndicate racontée par mes soins sans avis, parce que pourquoi pas :

[su_spoiler title=”Fin de Assassin’s Creed Syndicate” style=”fancy” icon=”arrow-circle-1″]Une fois que la ville de Londres sera au pieds des deux Assassins, et les grand Templiers écartés, le méchant Crawford Starrick, ira rendre visite à la reine Victoria à Buckingham Palace. Ce bâtiment cache un secret de taille: une chambre forte contenant le suaire d’Eden (une écharpe faisant office de bouclier impénétrable, ainsi qu’une amélioration de sa santé le rendant quasi invincible.) Cette chambre une fois découverte, Starrick court pour avoir le suaire et régner sur Londre Jacob court pour tuer Starrick, et Evie court pour mettre le suaire en sureté. Après un combat des plus épiques Starrick meurt de la main des deux jumeaux, et le Suaire se fit à nouveau enfermé dans la chambre ou il reposait depuis toujours. Après cela, les deux jumeaux ainsi que Raj de Big Bang Theory se firent sacrer chevalier de la couronne par la Reine Victoria elle même. De retour dans le monde réel, et la position du suaire maintenant révélée, Assassins et Templiers se ruent au même temple où Jacob et Evie se sont battu pour un combat avec une mise en scène des plus épique. Malgré les efforts des Assassins, les templiers s’accaparèrent la relique et laissèrent leurs ennemis derrière eux. Générique. Ceci fait, on retrouve un templier scientifique, faisant de drôles d’expériences sur des cobayes des plus étranges. On lui apporta le suaire, et on appris ainsi que ces cobayes ne sont autres que des clones de membres de la première civilisation. Créés grâce aux autres reliques d’Eden. Peu après, le templier chargé de livrer le suaire au scientifique, entendit une voie dans sa tête qui lui était familière. Le jeu se termine alors sur un gros plan de la tête de Junon, prononçant la phrase suivante: « Je vous guiderais tous… » [/su_spoiler]

  Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate, capuche tendance 2015 Publié initialement le 12 Novembre 2015 Les assassins sont de retour (encore) ! Après un épisode plein de bug et d'erreurs colossales, la saga…

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I know it was a prompt and u said you werent gonna do anything with it (and you so should) but i love ur two posts on the Queen of Clones Elle/Amnesiac Champion Kon AU (especially Kon's knight design (like ghost tattoos?!?!? so so cool) and Elle's relationship with him). Got anymore headcanons about this au? Who are the other clones you envisioned playing the background characters? Do Kon and Tim actually cuddle in the Only One Bed scenario? Does Elle get a cool princess/queen design(s) since Kon gets a knight one? Does Tim walk into Kon's knight practice and have a "oh no he's hot" moment? Just afagshjdksll this au is so cool please tell me all about it

The thing is, whenever I say "I'm going to put X idea here for someone else to grab since I'm never going to do anything with it" I'm lying. I'm a liar. It's still lives in my brain and is taking over all rational thought. I have at least 85% of a story written in my head when I say that, I just know that I'm never going to sit down and actually write it down lol

I have SO MANY thoughts about this AU, you have no idea what you've done asking me about it haha

(and seriously if anything at all in my ramblings here is of interest to anyone have at it, everything I post should always be considered free game to use as a writing prompt haha)

Like, between Elle getting snatched by the GIW & Kon ending up in custody with the Justice League for a bit, a lot of the clones that weren't involved in the rescue(s) who are out in the wider multiverse come pouring in to check on them and there's this huge impromptu "Congrats on Escaping a Government Agency" party for the two of them.

There are so many clones just everywhere, Tim is overwhelmed by them all (and hasn't actually realized that the whole deal of the place is that everyone there is a clone yet). But he's dealing. He's sticking close to Kon (because he's never letting Kon leave his sight again, especially since he's half convinced that Elle kidnapped & brainwashed Kon into being her loyal servant for evil purposes) and getting introduced to the most diverse group of entities he's ever seen before (humans aren't the only ones who get into cloning).

And then there's an excited whoop as some kid comes flying out of a portal and launches himself at Kon, talking a thousand miles a second, just so happy Kon is back and okay and the boy is so chipper and happy and sweet that it takes Tim a second to realize holy shit is that Damian????

The kid is the Heretic, aged down and growing up again with a fresh slate after getting sent to Elle's Haunt post however he disappeared/died in DC canon (I'm a bit fuzzy on those details). Of course that information takes a bit for Tim to figure out, becuase the kid has no memories at all of being the Heretic or of Damian or Talia or Bruce or fighting his way out of a whale fully grown. As far as he's concerned he's Antonio, Paulina Sanchez' adopted son, and like sure he's somebody's clone but that really doesn't matter to him, he only comes to Elle's haunt to hang out and tag along behind Kon because he thinks Kon is the coolest. (Kon is explaining this to Tim as a bright, cheerful, normal kid version of Damian is sitting on his shoulders. Tim is losing his god damn mind).

And the Only One Bed Thing!! Okay, so like, Kon is Elle's Champion and basically her unofficial Heir. When Elle isn't around he's in charge of her Haunt and looking after all the other clones. And even when she is there he just goes full Big Brother mode on everyone. It doesn't matter if the clones that end up in the Haunt are actually older than him, he's their big brother now.

To that end, clones end up coming to Kon all the time in the middle of the night, unable to sleep because of nightmares and stuff. And Kon is the cuddliest motherfucker. He's all about platonic cuddles to help people sleep. Just about every clone that's ever spent any time at Elle's haunt has ended up curled up in a blanket fort in Kon's room getting cuddled into feeling safe and cared for.

So for Kon? Only One Bed is no issue at all.

Oh all the clones coming over for the party has taken up all the rooms and Elle is "too weak from recovering" for her Haunt to make more? Of course Red Robin can stay in his room! His bed is so comfy and there's more than enough room for both of them (and like, sure, he's kinda panicking a little because he's never cuddled with anyone he's sorta had a tiny bit of a crush on, but he cab be cool! Besides, its hard to fully commit to the crush one Red Robin when Mystery Boy is out there somewhere, oh maybe he can ask Red Robin about him! He seems to know so much about Kon he'll know who Kon is in love with back in his old life!)

Tim, on the other hand, is just fully:

Over the prospect of having to keep his shit together while sleeping in the same bed as Kon (who sleeps without a shirt, jesus fucking christ, Kon has tattoos now since when did that happen??? why is he somehow more attractive than when he disappeared??? oh god Tim is going to have a fucking heart attack) especially after Kon drops the bomb that the only thing he can remember from before is some guy that Kon was apparently totally in love with??? Like Tim is being thrown wildly between being a Bi Disaster to being totally devistated and back again.

He mostly manages to keep himself together, at least until it's actually time for bed and it turns out that Kon is a cuddler when he sleeps (Kon did warn him! "just shove me off if I end up trying to use you as a pillow it won't wake me up" he said, and Tim thought "well it can't be that bad" he was so fucking wrong) and Tim ends up wrapped up in a cocoon of muscled and tattooed Kryptonian arms with his face smushed into Kon's chest and Kon nuzzling into Tim's hair in his sleep and it's the most comfortable Tim's ever been in his life and Kon purrs in his sleep like how is that even fair??? (I love the Kyrptonian's purr headcanon so much it has to be in here lol)

By the end of the first week Tim's has slept more and better than he has in years. He's genuinely forgotten what it's like to have a normal sleep schedule. Even with all his panicking, Kon sleepily curling up around him and hugging him like a teddy bear just knocks him out. It's insane.

And Elle! I have so many thoughts about Elle in this AU!

I mentioned it in one of my other posts on this AU that Elle gives off Vibes based off her various Epitaphs that she's gained, and I think that she'd kinda push that to the max when it came to Tim for awhile when Kon first shows up with him.

Like, she takes one look at Tim and is like "ah, this is Mystery Boy my amnesiac bestie has been on about forever" while also realizing that Kon has no idea that he's just panic-kidnapped the one person he sorta remembers from his old life. Which is the oppurtunity of so much fun matchmaking chaos. And she loves Kon, she's planning on officially making him her Heir so that he becomes Prince of Clones as well as her Champion, she wants him to be happy.

But also she's protective over him, more even than a lot of the other clones that end up in her Haunt. Kon doesn't remember his old life and he was so badly injured when he ended up in Elle's haunt that Frostbite hadn't been sure he would survive. Add in the fact that Red Robin was clearly with the people that had captured Kon while he and the other clones were getting her out of the GIW facility (and that the Justice League is sort of a government agency in it's own right) and Elle isn't totally sold on Tim.

She goes out of her way to give off extra creepy vibes while around him. Making sure he understands that she's more than strong enough to destroy him if he even thinks about hurting Kon. At least in the early days of Tim being in her haunt. She does, eventually, lighten up - especially when Kon gives her the big eyes and asks her to trust him, that he knows that Red Robin is someone he believes is good and that won't ever hurt him. She's still keeps a close eye on Tim, but does chill out a little after that.

And she does have a Queen Form (and a princess form when she's doing her Crown Princess of the Infinite Realms thing). She has a couple different forms/designs depending on which Epitaph she's invoking (and of course a fun vaguely eldritch shadow form that scares the shit out of Tim haha).

Her Clone Queen design is BIG, not quite massive Eldritch Ghost King Danny big, but definitely big. Like 20-30 feet tall big, so she can pick up and carry/hold all her clone children like little babies (if any clones are from a race/species that's bigger than that her size adjusts so she's always big enough to carry them).

She has a crown made out of mirror shards that float around and move so that it's always changing shape (I've been feeling clones being called "Mirrorborn" in the Infinite Realms since there's kind of a naming convention already with "unborn" and clones could be seen as kind of like reflections in a way. Elle's official title is actually "Queen of the Mirrorborn" though sometimes is called "Mother of Mirrors" that's why Kon's sheild reflects things, since Elle made it for him out of a piece of her crown while naming him her Champion) and wears a dress that also looks like it's covered in mirrors. It's actually very soft and comfortable and it's super common for clones to climb around or curl up in her skirts and sleep in there.

Her dress does turn into armor though if she needs to fight. And while in Clone Queen mode it's actually super easy for her to duplicate herself a bunch of times.

Knight Training!

Once Elle chills out on Tim a little and is fully onboard the matchmaking train with the rest of the clones (all while absolutely none of them tell Kon that Red Robin is obviously his Mystery Boy) she has Fright Knight show up more often to train Kon specifically for the purpose of Tim walking in on shirtless Tim expertly going through sword forms and sparring with various other clones. And of course Tim and Kon have to have a sparring scene, where Tim is so distracted by Kon being so fucking attractive he ends up pinned against a wall with the flat of a sword under his chin and Kon giving him a cheeky wink and then it's on and there's a whole dramatic flirty fight scene as they make their way through half of Elle's Haunt while sword fighting.

Also! Since Elle's entire court is actually there for once, a bunch of different monarchs around the Infinite Realms decide to host a tournament, so Kon gets to do official knight stuff in his best armor. And Tim gets place of honor right next to Elle during all the jousting and fighting stuff so he gets the best view of Kon kicking ass.

Tim (still wearing his mask because even if he's pretty sure that no one here is evil or would use his secret identity against him - or even care that he has one) has been all dressed up in some gorgeous clothes fit for his status as "Companion" to a Queen's Champion/future Heir. Just something absolutely insanely georgous in the colors of his Red Robin suit, with a dramatic but entirely functionless cape and Kon's crest (not Elle's but Kon's) embroidered on it and it's Kon's turn to blue screen at seeing Tim for the first time all dressed up.

And Tim is maybe finally putting together from talking with Kon that he might be Mystery Boy that Kon remembers from before and that Kon is in love with. So just before Kon is going out to joust, Tim - taking Elle's advice that he should give Kon a favor before the tournament for good luck - and wanting it to be more meaningful than just a handkerchief or something, takes his mask of and gives it to Kon as his favor.

And Kon just loses his god damn mind because Mystery Boy and Red Robin are the same person and all he wants to do is kiss Tim stupid but Fright Knight Master of Chivalry is like "nope you gotta win this tournament and bring honor to your beloved and do this whole ridiculous song and dance about it, no kissing, get out there and smash some heads together - and keep your helmet on this time!" and just yeets a disgruntled Kon out into the field before he can do anything.

And of course with all this extra incentive - Fright is serious about that whole "prove your love through combat" thing he's not going to be allowed to even kiss Tim's hand unless he wins and is perfectly chivalous while doing it - Kon wins the Tournament and is given the flower crown he's supposed to give to the most beautiful of all the observers and of course he gives it to Tim and he doesn't care if there's a forty step courting process he's supposed to follow Fright, he's fucking kissing Tim and there's nothing you can do about it!

Literally seconds away from them finally kissing is when the Justice League kick down the door to get Tim back.

The ghosts aren't even the ones that wrecks the Justice League's shit for interuppting, it's just Tim screaming at them about being cock blocks for forty minutes while Kon screams into the void in the background.

(Kon does get his memories back eventually, and he and Tim do finally get that kiss and start dating. But at that point Kon has been named Elle's heir so Fright Knight is even more rediculous about Correct Courting Steps than before because Kon is a Prince now. Elle is just relieved that it turns out that the Justice League nuked the GIW while they were looking for Tim, because they were not okay with them or the Anti-Ecto Laws. Kon is mortified at having what is effectively his adoptive mother constantly popping in to dote on him while in the middle of fights, Elle is having a great time.)

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Sat down to write more Ghosts of Gotham adn Business of Family.

Have instead written an opening bit of an AU where Tim accidentally summoned a slightly eldritch Mirrorborn (clone) Queen/Ancient of the Ever Onward (Speedforce) Elle with his whole "try to clone my two dead best friends hundreds of times" thing.

...it's slowly morphing into Tim accidentally/on purpose becoming a warlock with Elle as his equal parts delighted and confused Patron to get his loved ones back. He might unintentionally start a cult (it might be intentional I don't know how unhinged this is gonna get)

Send help, I've started world building again 😭

(Also as always take this mess as a writing prompt if any of my nonsense sounds neat to you ❤️)

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Had some more random ideas for the Accidentally God Queen of Clones Elle and her Amnesiac Knight Champion Kon AU (which really is a prompt a swear, ignore all the details/too many ideas I don't know enough about DC to be able to write this, so I'd anyone sees anything they like in any of this go wild ❤️)

- Tim doesn't take his mask off while in Elle's lair so Kon doesn't put together the fact that Tim is the mystery boy he kinda remembers. Leading to Kon saying that he hopes to one day find the boy he was in love with while Tim is trying to help him get his memories back, which then has Tim spiraling that Kon had a secret boyfriend that he never told Tim about before going missing.

- Elle and the rest of the Clone Club realizing immediately that Tim has to be The Guy and deciding to run with this chance for chaos and matchmaking. They lie about being able to send Tim back immediately and that he's gonna have to stay for awhile, but hey he can room with Kon! Ignore the fact that there are hundreds of rooms in this place, Kon has a big bed and is great at snuggles!

- When Kon became Elle's Knight, he started getting trained by Fright Knight & Pandora. He gets really good at fighting with just about every weapon (baring firearms) imaginable as a result.

- Fright Knight also insisted on teaching Kon all the other stuff outside of fighting a knight must know including the code of chivalry and the "Seven Points of Agilities" which sounded fine to Kon (learning how to ride horses/Night Mares and how to joust were both cool & expected) up until he was learning how to waltz with the giant ghost of fear as his partner. And don't get him started on having to both be able to recite and write love poetry (Elle, at least had fun, though that really came from laughing at his expense).

- He has tattoos now, some sentimental or just because he likes them, but he also has an ornate sword going down his back, and a shield split across both firearms that appears whole when he holds them together. The sword and shield are actually his (magical/ghost made) weapons that disappear from his skin when he summons them and return when he's done with them.

- Baddass and beautiful ornate (but practical and very comfortable!) Knight armor! It has filigree! And a cape!

- Instead of his sword sending people to the Nightmare Dimension, instead his shield can reflect attacks back at people (it's made to be used for ectoplasm based attacks, but can be used to deflect lazers).

- When Kon surrenders to the Justice Leage, he is wearing his armor, though sans helmet (which Pandora & Fright Knight are gonna kill him for later, helmets being a key features in the whole not dying portion of fighting has been something they've been yelling at him about for ages) and seeing Kon in ethereal knightly armor makes Tim bluescreen for a bit because damn.

- Kon falling in love with Tim and feeling conflicted because his mystery boy is out there somewhere, while Tim is just agonizing over the fact that Kon never told him about mystery boy and oh god did Kon not trust him with that?

- Elle gets Fright Knight in on the match making by telling him it'd be a good way for Kon to practice chivalry. Fright Knight takes this as an opportunity to make Kon recite his bad poetry (written about Tim both in terms of Kon writing about mystery boy and writing about Red Robin). It's truly awful. Tim loves it.

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Got another dc x dp writing prompt blurb thing for yall (this time featuring TimKon)

Elle declaring herself Queen of the Clones as a joke because Danny is the Ghost King and she should get a fun title too and accidentally making herself effectively the god of clones across all dimensions as a result.

Elle being suddenly aware of all the clones in existence in a vague way, but able to "tune in" on specific ones, or suddenly becoming aware when a clone is in serious trouble.

Elle deciding, fuck it, she's gonna take care of all the clones that need taking care of, turning her haunt in the Ghost Zone into a place of safety, using her new abilities as God Queen of Clones to make it so whenever any of them need help they get pulled to her Haunt instantly.

Connor getting mortally wounded in a fight, saving the day but getting buried in rubble away from where anyone would be able to dig him out in time to save him and suddenly being Somewhere Else.

Connor getting saved by Elle and the yetis, but having amnesia from the severe headroom (he can't remember anything except maybe the face of a boy his age, dark circles under sharp blue eyes, a wry smile, the understanding that Connor was in love with whoever the boy is or was).

Elle not being able to tell where Connor is from, her Haunt just pulls clones in trouble in when they need her help, there's no sending address or anything like that. And he was in such bad shape its not like she trusts that sending him back to where ever he's from is even safe to do.

Connor being one of the permanent residents of Elle's haunt (she always tries to find the clones that end up there a place of their own, getting Clockwork to de-age them and a good family to love them for those that want that, a spot in Amity where clones don't even register as anything weird, or just back to where they came from but now with the promise of somewhere to call home and a new family of clones to care for them) and ends up with the title of her knight or champion or something along the way, looking after everyone when Elle is off traveling and generally being vice-president of Clone Club

Elle getting captured by the GIW while out seeing the world, unable to escape but at least able to alert her family that she's in trouble.

Danny and the Pham not being able to break in because of all the upped security keeping away anything ghostly or ghost adjacent

Connor and a group of the clone club rallying to get Elle out themselves, breaking in and releasing as many ghosts as they can and destroying as much as they can and oops the Justice League has shown up

Connor not having powers in the Ghost Zone and being very freaked out when he punched Superman in the face and sent him flying a hundred yards, surprising the Clone Club with his super strength and surprising the League with his surprise about his super strength and frantic apologies to Superman for yeeting him across an open field (up to this point they assumed this was another evil clone situation Lex cooked up but now aren't so sure).

The GIW ends up closing in to attack the clones who just got Elle back and need to make a break for it before the portal back closes while that's happening and Connor decides to be self-sacrificing and give them cover, so they can escape.

Connor surrendering to the Justice League before the GIW can grab him once everyone else is free and clear, because he knows Elle and the other Clones will break him out and that's gonna be a lot easier if he's not in GIW custody

Tim and the Young Justice gang losing their God damn minds because that's Connor?? Maybe?? He doesn't remember them or the Justice League or Superman or anything but it has to be him right? They never found his body, Tim had been so sure he was still out there alive somehow - had lost weeks and months to maddening grief, desperately searching for some sign that Connor was out there somewhere - and now here he is!

Connor refusing to talk to the JL, low key trying to figure out if they actually do know who he is or if it's a trick - the Pham's stories of what they've all had to deal with and his own recent raid on the GIW has left him with a healthy suspicion of anything government related and the JL may not be with the GIW but they sure as hell are still government goons as far as he's concerned.

The main league being worried that it's mind control or a clone scheme or something like that and not really being sure what to do. There's too many questions about what happened to him, where he's been, what he was doing in that raid on that government facility - there's questions too on just what kind of facility that was, and a new case has already been opened on that whole can of worms - and Connor (if it is Connor) isn't answer their questions.

So they put him in a cell with some Kryptonite to make sure his powers are suppressed - half out of concern that him surrendering to them is a scheme, half terrified that if he really doesn't know he has powers anymore that he'll accidentally destroy the Watchtower with a sneeze. They make sure it's comfortable, he did apologize about punching Superman in the face - a lot, actually, it was pretty much the only thing he had said the entire time, along with very concerned questions on if the Man of Steel was okay - and while there's something strange going on, if it's mind control then they'd rather Connor come back to himself somewhere decent.

And no one is supposed to talk to him alone, or outside of a formal interrogation or without Wonder Woman there in case Connor gets hostile - even with the Kryptonite, they can't be too careful - but that's not going to stop Tim. His best friend is alive, there isn't a power in the universe that's going to keep him away.

Connor doesn't recognize him. Except that he does. It's weird, because his only memory has been the face of that boy, but there's also just something so familiar about Red Robin and it's the first familiar thing he's known since waking up in the Far Frozen over a year ago.

For awhile it's just Tim talking, trying to get Connor to remember, trying to do anything he can to prove (to everyone, to himself) that this really is Connor. And after over an hour he's nowhere near ready to give up, but he is maybe ready to go and have a breakdown in a supply closet for a bit, when Connor finally starts talking back.

He doesn't say much - he's suspicious, even as he becomes more and more sure that Red Robin is someone to him - but he does start talking and, it's nice. Familiar.

And just as he's considering actually telling Red Robin something - everything, really, Connor's always been a sucker for a cute boy that looked one more cup of coffee away from a psychotic break - the cavalry arrives. Ghosts everywhere, causing a distraction and looking for Connor and maybe just having a little fun fucking around for a bit while they're at it.

(Constantine is trying to sneak off to smoke somewhere he won't end up getting lectured like he's a disobedient school boy, opening a door to come face to spectral bellybutton with Fright Knight. He decides maybe Bats is right and he should quite smoking as he - fruitlessly - closes the door again without a word.)

Wulf is ready with a portal and Technus is in control of the station and the cell door opens just as Lunch Box appears to phase the cuffs off Connor (and maybe steal some of that delicious rock candy that was in those cuffs for some reason, her parents won't let her have any back at home and she's helping the royal family get one of their loyal knights back, she deserves a little treat) and it's time to go.

Tim's ready to throw down, terrified that whatever the hell these things are they're going to take Connor away again, but just as he's working out a plan on just how he's going to fight something that can walk through walls, disappear and fly (and eat fucking Kryptonite), he suddenly finds himself being thrown over Connor's shoulder and being carried through a terrifying rip in space and time to another dimension.

Conner can admit, as he lands back in Elle's haunt with all the ghosts streaming in behind him as the portal closes and the Clone Club rushing forward to check on him and Red Robin still slung over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes (a cute sake of potatoes, though) he might not have thought this one through.

Kidnapped by his amnesiac and possibly mind controlled best friend and dragged to hell(?) aside, Tim's just happy Conner brought him with him this time. Batman and the rest of the League, still reeling from what just happened, are not nearly as happy with that fact.