#hmmm this episode

[starry-bi-sky]

Danyal Al Ghul: Incorrect Quotes and Miscellaneous Thoughts

Incorrect quotes-style snippets specifically for my danyal al ghul au here (which i really need to come up with a unique au name for atp). Because I thought it'd be funny. And also some miscellaneous headcanons thrown into the mix. Some context for the au: - Danyal is 5 years older than Damian (so 10 and 15) - Danny faked his death when he was 10. Talia knows and helped him with it. - Jazz, Sam, and Tucker do not know he's an ex-assassin.

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Danny, dryly tapping his temple: I have, as the Americans say, irreparable psychological damage, right here.

Jazz, an older sibling first and foremost: well, it's good that you're self-aware.

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Danny, aged 10, in the American foster planning to just age out of the system: *emanating Bad Vibes. Pure, Little Orphan Tom Riddle Energy*

Jazz, aged 12, coming in to adopt a new sibling with her parents: Him. This is my brother now :)

Danny: ...what

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Lilo and Stitch is Danny's favorite Disney movie. He watched it when he was 11 with Jazz when she was attempting to connect with him, and by this point Danny was becoming receptive to her efforts. They had a movie marathon in the living room one night.

Safe to say? It resonated with his little 11 year old heart strongly, and he related very strongly with both Nani and Stitch. He got unexpectedly emotional and hid in his room for the rest of the night. Jazz felt really bad, but it had the intended (but kinda unexpected) effect of him trying to be nicer to her afterwards.

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Dash, aged 12, causing trouble again and getting intercepted by Danny: *scaling up a desk* AHHHHH! GET YOUR LITTLE FREAK, FOLEY!

Tucker: Hey! Danny is not a freak!

Dash: GET HIM TO BACK OFF

Tucker, was the kid Dash was messing with: ....whats in it for me

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Danny, saying some questionably immoral shit: What. Why are you looking at me like that.

Tucker: Bro. I mean this as kindly as possible; what the fuck?

Sam: yeah, I'm with Tuck on this one.

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Danny, ranting about Vlad: if it weren't for the laws of this land, I would have slaughtered him

Sam, painting his nails black: I'm pretty sure you'd slaughter him regardless of the laws of the land -- and quit moving, you're gonna mess me up.

Tucker: we've literally seen you debate yourself about this, Dan

Danny: ...you are correct, but it is the principle of things.

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Vlad: I have experience my child, and the money and power attained through using those powers for personal gain, you say. I could train you, teach you everything I know! And all you have to do is renounce that idiot adoptive father of yours.

Danny, was already contemplating committing a Violence: ....

Danny, internally: I'm going to stab him *turns into Phantom*

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Funny contrast I realized between Danyal and Vlad that iirc I haven't pointed out yet is that imo, Danyal doesn't rely on his powers nearly half as much as canon Danny does. He falls back instinctually on his League training, and thus sometimes forgets to use his powers in battle. This was prevalent especially early on when he was still getting used to the whole 'halfa' thing.

He incorporates them more often after a year, but still for the most part relies on his own physical hand-to-hand combat. He trusts those skills much more than he does his powers. I'm not sure where he is on a technical level compared to canon, but just to stay safe I'll say he's similar in power skill as canon Danny. Perhaps a little more finessed than him because his League training would probably have him trying to figure out his powers as soon as possible.

But in summary? Danny is strong in hand-to-hand combat, weak in powerset.

Meanwhile Vlad is the opposite. I can't recall if he even knows hand-to-hand in canon, but it makes total sense to me that Vlad Masters wouldn't because he's so confident in his monetary influence and ghost abilities that he sees no need for it.

And he's kinda got some merit behind it. He's very powerful and has 20 years of experience to experiment and fine tune his powers. He's got bite to follow up his bark. He's perfected long-range combat and his ability to phase through walls makes it impossible to corner him, but if you can manage it, then one good hit could probably knock him on his ass.

So in summary, Vlad is strong in powerset, weak in hand-to-hand combat.

And it casts a good contrast between the two of them in that regard. Danny, as a fellow halfa, can follow Vlad when he phases through walls and is fast enough to land a hit on him. His league training as an assassin, albeit rusty, is still deep ingrained enough in him that he can hold up as a rather veritable threat against Vlad without needing his powers.

But Vlad can force Danny to use his powers more often through use of his own. The duplication is the first thing to come to mind: Danny's fast enough to dispel them on his own without powers, and smart enough that he could figure out who the real one is if given a few minute. But that's not always efficient enough.

Good foils for each other that way. Also Vlad's Plasmius design mimics Ra's juuust enough that he looks like Ra's knockoff loser second cousin no one talks about, which only fuels Danny's hatred.

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Danny, ranting about Vlad for the first time: --and it's only made worse by the fact that the little ingrate resembles a cheap knock-off of my grandfather!--

Sam, choking on her water: he what--

Tucker, doing a spittake: HE DOES?

[iooiu]

teens being teens

[lilacthebooklover]

the hazbin wiki has no right to be this funny

[jackklinemybeloved]

watching game changer is great because I saw a “vfx needed” note on screen deja vu and I’m still not sure whether it was a mistake or part of the elaborate editing bit

[bloodybellycomb]

love horror as a genre because it always manages to give me a plethora of new and completely irrational fears. it's so delicious and horrible, like, yes! good! instill anxiety in me over something I didn't realize I even had to worry about in the first place. yay!

[gearbroth]

s3 theory belos doodles

[the-simple-creature]

A VERY interesting discovery.

I very recently found out (watched a video) about a very tiny but very intriguing detail from the scene in ep-5 where J breaks Tessa's chain.

This scene.

Apparently, when it breaks and one of the links flies off, there's a dollhouse with a heart on the side of it and the said link hits said heart. I didn't believe this, I didn't think GLITCH/Liam would do something THAT... direct with them.

Except of course that-

HELL

YEAH

THEY

DID

[coolestclowns]

Do you guys like my Unworthy parents designs

Also happy hermie day

[chirpsythismorning]

Batter up, get your tickets to the forced conformity show, am I right??

[halveablock]

take responsibility!

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

"Hardison, I'm gonna-I got a lump of coal with your name on it!"

Leverage S03E14 The Ho Ho Ho Job.

[blmpff]

Hmmmmm.......

OnlyOneOf is that you? (@ 2:09)

[brainrot-stitch]

Jrwi brainrot is real. Angelstone save me. Poly pd save me. Platonic ghostkicks save me. Undersea arc wya. Fizzfangs/monster energy save me. Armored pheasant save me. Whatever tf jay n lizzie is called save me. I'm rotting away but so is my mind jrwi save me also IM SO EXCITED FOR WONDERLUST WHAT THE FLIP !! Anyways I recently finished prime defenders, am currently relistening to apotheosis, and will probably resume where I'm at on riptide soon. Maybe catch up on the suckening or relisten to bitb, if I'm feeling silly. Who knows

[i-heart-scully]

Next time you need business advice, ask someone who knows what they're talking about.

What, you?

Yeah. Like me.

[bunnieswithknives]

New ONE stuff has got me thinking about my Object show idea again

[coconut530]

DIVORCE BEGIN *STARTS CRYING*