its hillarious how protective arthur and the knights are of merlin
whicheverone you ask, they would say that merlin is a precious angel, anyone who would dare lay a finger on him would taste their swords, merlin is the best of them all the only one worthy of love
meanwhile merlin is leaning against a nearby wall, sighing dramaticaly with hands litetally covered in blood
and as far as the knights are concerned this aint blood, what are you talking about. this is merlin. the red on his hands is the paint he uses to customise clothes for orphans because hes such a good person, they dont deserve him hes so precious look at him
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Team effort
Danny is a member of the Teen Titans!
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The team had noticed something off not soon after the raid.
Something about one of Danny's– Magpie's– old Rogues having a lab. Some investigations from Robin and Cyborg soon proved that the man had been working on human experimentation.
Not even a day later and they'd raided the place, putting it under the JL's radar alongside the wayward rogue too.
Beastboy noticed it first, the way Magpie would look around uncertain, less enthusiastic and fidgeting in his seat.
Robin tried to shield him, take the attention away and talk behind closed doors with the other afterwards.
Yeah, it didn't take a genius to figure out something was wrong.
They waved the issue off, maybe it was temporary? Danny never got distracted, it should be short right? They didn't need to worry too much.
Besides Robin was already on it.
The alarms went off however when Danny announced a break, going under for a few weeks, months maybe.
Starfire pestered him with worry, tugging him along in the air. She's speaking her native language, something about healing? They would have noticed if Magpie hid a injury however.
The protests didn't budge the decision, Robin steady when they turned to him for help.
Reassurances came in a rush. If truly needed, Danny would aid them, but he could not stay.
Raven stayed quiet, nothing unusual but surprising. Robin and her were often seen speaking in hushed whispers, it drove the other 3 members crazy at the secrecy.
It took 2 months to finally see what the cause was.
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Costume dishevelled, mask thrown to the side, Magpie enters the tower by foot. His unannounced appearance had them all unprepared.
Raven and Robin were by his sides first, closely followed by Statfire.
"Hey man," Cyborg greeted, brow knitted in concern. "Weren't you supposed to be on vacation?"
Danny gave a dry laugh at that. "Plans changed, Cy."
"How do vacation plans just change?" Beastboy asks, scratching the side of his head.
"They changed because I wasn't really on vacation."
He avoids their eyes, Starfire dint like that, cradling his head to turn to her. "Why aren't you looking at us? Why lie about vacation?"
"It's not that I wanted to lie, staying ignorant to what was happening was just better," he shrugged with a strained smile.
"I'm assuming your location was compromised?"
A nod.
"Wow wow wow," beastboy interrupts. "What do you mean compromise? You went into hiding??"
Magpie gave a sheepish laugh, which didn't lighten the mood at all.
He tried.
"Where is—?" Raven asks right as another tiny hand clamps on her cape, tugging.
The eyes of every teentitan are drawn to whatever— whoever is behind their missing member.
"Okay so don't freak out—"
"You have a child??!"
"What the hell— JESUS CHRIST!"
"A human child! A baby!"
A sharp whistling from their leader got them to shut up, eyes on Robin now.
"You're frightening her."
True to his words, tuffs of white hair peek out between Raven and Magpie, large green eyes watching.
A tiny girl, barely reaching Danny's waist, stares at them.
"Friend, who is she?"
"This," he leads her out by hand, letting her cling to his side instead now. "Is elle, she..."
A look to raven had her continue. "We found her together in the raid."
Starfire knelt down before Elle, holding her hand out in greeting. "Hello Elle, I am starfire." She tilts her head. "You seem sleepy?"
"It's been a long day— I'll talk with you guys later, okay?"
They watched him leave, returning to his room long untouched.
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Thinking about how Leo says he uses his jokes to cope and y’know, thinking harder on it I think it may very well be because of what else uses one-liners and puns and that type of humor.
Specifically, 80’s action movies and campy sci-fi. Even more specifically, the protagonists of these.
So I can imagine why, exactly, Leo leans toward this brand of humor. It’s directly linked to things he loves! But even more than that is why I think it’s used as a coping mechanism.
In these genres, these quips tend to be said by the winner - or, if not a winner, then someone who will stay alive. So there’s a confidence behind them, an assurance, almost, that even if things go wrong, things aren’t ever too serious. There’s no bad endings here! It’s all good fun, even if the stakes seem high.
Leo canonically has been known to steer his brothers away from the more brutal villains and toward more fun, lighthearted activities and not-so-dangerous criminals. So for Leo, these jokes definitely make things less heavy, make the situations they find themselves in less intense.
It’s kinda not just coping, but also can be seen as a form of escapism. A safety blanket. A way for Leo to defuse the tension of knowing just how dangerous their lives are and replace that with a levity which implies that things will be okay.
Unfortunately, levity alone does not alter reality.
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