In celebration of my new writing sideblog, I decided to share a snippet of the expanded version of my first prompt fill. Original can be found here. Brief synopsis: Tim and Danny became online friends when they were both neglected and lonely ten/eleven-year-olds. Before Robin and before Phantom. They have been fully open with each other since they first met and that doesn't change, even after it probably should. (This segment is a chat fic.)
Prompt from @gremlin-bot
IKnowYourSecrets = Tim's username
-xXPolarisXx- = Danny's username
Typos in chat are intentional.
Edit: I don't know why the color text is being weird. Each time I get everything to work, new random letters are black.
Edit 2: formatting finally fixed. That took way too long.
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Danny had been playing mindlessly when he got a message from Secrets.
IKnowYourSecrets: Thank god your on
That was odd. Secrets was always laid back and chill.
-xXPolarisXx-: Secrets? Whats up
IKnowYourSecrets: something big has happened
IKnowYourSecrets: like top secret big
IKnowYourSecrets: and I need advice
IKnowYourSecrets: ive set up a private chat
IKnowYourSecrets: one that cant be hacked so easily
-xXPolarisXx-: dude youre freaking me out
-xXPolarisXx-: whats going on?
IKnowYourSecrets: :sends link:
IKnowYourSecrets: not here. Ill explain
Danny clicked the link and put in his username when prompted. He had never even seen this chat room server before. Not that he spent a lot of time on chat rooms. He preferred in-game chats.
-xXPolarisXx-: ok dude spill
-xXPolarisXx-: wth is going on
IKnowYourSecrets: I know who Batman is
“What!” Danny couldn’t hold back the shout. He started typing a reply, deleted, started typing again.
“Danny?” asked Jazz from the kitchen table where she was doing her homework. “Everything ok?”
He waved his hand at her. “Yeah! Everything is fine! My friend and I were just killed by something I didn’t even know could be dangerous.”
“Don’t play too long. You still have homework.”
“I know! I’ll be good.”
-xXPolarisXx-: good one secrets
-xXPolarisXx-: you got me for a minute
IKnowYourSecrets: :image attachment:
IKnowYourSecrets: :image attachment:
IKnowYourSecrets: :news link:
IKnowYourSecrets: :news link:
IKnowYourSecrets: :image attachment:
The links and pictures started coming through even faster. The first was a picture of a family of acrobats and one of the links was to the story about how the parents died in an accident while performing.
The next link was about Bruce Wayne adopting a child followed by one only a few months later discussing Batman’s new side kick, Robin. Then a picture of the Graysons’ son in his circus costume next to a picture of the first Robin. Which were entirely too similar.
“Holy…” whispered Danny. But the links and images were still coming.
Robin stopped being spotted when Dick Grayson moved out. And not much later Nightwing appeared. And then there was a new Robin and a new adoption. And then Jason Todd-Wayne died and Robin disappeared.
-xXPolarisXx-: what. The fuck
-xXPolarisXx-: why are you even looking into this
-xXPolarisXx-: Secrets! ????
IKnowYourSecrets: your a real friend, right?
IKnowYourSecrets: I mean weve known each other for like 2 years now
IKnowYourSecrets: no catfisher’d stick around this long
-xXPolarisXx-: course I’m real
-xXPolarisXx-: though thats also what a catfisherd say
IKnowYourSecrets: I live in gotham
IKnowYourSecrets: Batmans changed since Robin
IKnowYourSecrets: Since Jason died
IKnowYourSecrets: he needs a robin I think
IKnowYourSecrets: hes mean and harsh and people dont feel safe
-xXPolarisXx-: …
-xXPolarisXx-: youre planning something
IKnowYourSecrets: help me figure out how to convince dick to go back to being robin
IKnowYourSecrets: I think they had a fight
IKnowYourSecrets: from what i can find online their last several meetings have ended in fights
Danny stared at his screen, mouth open. Secrets couldn’t be serious. This was too much. But he knew his friend. He might joke during a gaming battle, but he’d never joke about this. Not to Danny, or well, Polaris.
-xXPolarisXx-: Youre gonna chase down Nightwing??
-xXPolarisXx-: isnt he only out at night???
-xXPolarisXx-: dude youre gonna get yourself killed
-xXPolarisXx-: how’ll you even find him?
-xXPolarisXx-: do NOT tell him you know his secret identity
-xXPolarisXx-: what do vigilantes do to ppl who learn their identities?
Danny watched as the dots appeared to indicate Secrets was typing. They stopped. Picked up again.
IKnowYourSecrets: awww
IKnowYourSecrets: you like me ❤
IKnowYourSecrets: im not gonna die!
IKnowYourSecrets: NIGHTWING will be there
IKnowYourSecrets: and I can find him bc I know his patrol routes
IKnowYourSecrets: easy peasy
IKnowYourSecrets: im going tonight
IKnowYourSecrets: just need to figure out what to say
-xXPolarisXx-: dude really???
-xXPolarisXx-: do you even know why they fought?
IKnowYourSecrets: Gotham needs batman
IKnowYourSecrets: and batman needs robin
IKnowYourSecrets: hes a hero he should want to help
-xXPolarisXx-: Well start with that, then
-xXPolarisXx-: if youre going to be an idiot
-xXPolarisXx-: and go out in gotham at night
-xXPolarisXx-: tell nightwing youre worried about batman
IKnowYourSecrets: worried about nightwing as well
IKnowYourSecrets: hes not as bad
IKnowYourSecrets: but its clear something is wrong
-xXPolarisXx-: im just a kid from a small town
-xXPolarisXx-: how am I supposed to know how to talk to superheroes?
IKnowYourSecrets: they aren’t superheroes
IKnowYourSecrets: no powers
-xXPolarisXx-: not the point
-xXPolarisXx-: I guess
-xXPolarisXx-: start by asking how hes doing
-xXPolarisXx-: and how batmans doing
-xXPolarisXx-: and say youre sorry about robins death
-xXPolarisXx-: but most importan STAY SAFE
-xXPolarisXx-: i dont even know your name to follow any news stories
IKnowYourSecrets: its Tim if you wanna know
-xXPolarisXx-: mines Danny
-xXPolarisXx-: idk why but Tim fits you
IKnowYourSecrets: dont use it on public forums
IKnowYourSecrets: but were safe here
IKnowYourSecrets: Danny. I like it
IKnowYourSecrets: thanks for the advice!!!
IKnowYourSecrets: im gonna use it
IKnowYourSecrets: ttyl
IKnowYourSecrets: gonna track down dick and talk to him
IKnowYourSecrets: he usually starts patroling in like an hour and a half
IKnowYourSecrets: and it’ll take me about that long to get to bludhaven
-xXPolarisXx-: lemme know what happens
-xXPolarisXx-: im gonna check this chat and the game any chance I have at the computer
IKnowYourSecrets: will do
IKnowYourSecrets: by danny
-xXPolarisXx-: stay safe tim
Danny stared at the chat box as Secrets, as Tim signed out. What. The. Hell.
“You all right there, Danny?” Jazz was looking at him from their kitchen table and Danny quickly closed out of the chatroom. No one could be allowed to see that information.
“Yeah, course. Just talking with my online friend Secrets.” Whose name he now knew. “He had to go, though. So I guess I’ll start my homework.”
“Were you two playing that game you like?”
He couldn’t tell the truth, so he decided to lie. “Yeah. We’re hoping to beat this boss so we can get a rune stone that’ll let us craft this super awesome weapon! Then we might stand a chance in the arena.”
Jazz smiled at him. “I’m sure you two’ll get it. What’s this arena?”
Danny described the game on autopilot as pulled out his backpack and books. Holy hell, he knew Batman’s identity.
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Part 2
I also hope to start doing WIP Wednesdays if there's any interest. Probably not every week and they won't all be for this fic, but I've got a few things I've been working on that I hope people will enjoy.
Tag List (I hope you're still all interested so many months later. XP)
@bonebrokebuddy, @britcision, @lady-time-lord-, @welcometosasakiworld, @akikkobara, @phoenixdemonqueen, @dolfay, @skulld3mort-1fan, @nutcase8691, @dreamingasters, @xysidhequeen
I'm sure there's people I'm missing. So let me know if you want to be added or if you want to be taken off the list. I won't be offended either way.
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PLOTTING THIS MESS.
A bit of context first.
As we all know, Usagi fought alongside lord Mifune during the Adachigahara Battle. Heavily inspired by the Sekigahara battle (1600) of the most important battles of Japan's history.
So it wouldn't be wrong to claim that Usagi was born during the Azuchi-Momoyama period (which is also part of the late Sengoku, that arguably ended in 1615 with the Siege of Osaka or the battle of Tennoji)
So let's say that Usagi was around 16 to 21 y/o during the Adachigahara battle. That means that he was born between 1579 and 1584.
I'm torn between bring the Siege of Osaka forward or leaving the turtles and Usagi around their 30s
and one of the biggest challenge here is to represent this prominent figures of the time like Tokugawa, Nobunaga and Hideyoshi through Mifune, Oroku Saki, and Hikiji.
Technically speaking, this AU will take place during the sengoku period within the early edo period
It'll be funny to change some parts of the UY Canon to include the TMNT cast, like Oroku Saki's intervention during Adachigahara.
Talk about the extinction of the Hamato clan during the Azuchi Momoyama period against the Oroku clan, way before the turtles birth.
I'm just rambling at this point... I'll leave it here.
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I've been poking around the new community here on Tumblr for Starfield, and I'll be honest, it's a little lackluster, so I'd like to do my part and share my OC!
Rowan
This is Rowan, she's a former Space Scoundrel who's trying to find her way in being a better, more legal, person. She's an empathic and caring soul who wants to do what she can to help people, but has been burned by others because of those feelings so she tries to keep it to herself. She has parents and a sister, and has caught the eye of one Adoring Fan 🥰
For the past week or so I've been working on an outline for her story. It's still very much a Work in Progress considering I'm taking my time going through the main quest, but I have a somewhat firm grasp on how it starts and her backstory, which I'll put in the cut below.
I'll be honest, it's just me reciting story beats of what all I've done in game, but hopefully in an interesting way. The further along I go the more the more I would like to insert more character and feeling into the story, but I'm pretty happy with what I have so far :)
One thing I'd like to ask y'all, have you ever seen the story of Cyrano? It may not come up in this first part, but it will be relevant 🤫 If you haven't I do seriously recommend it, it's a beautiful story.
Here's what I have figured out thus far: Pt.1/?
Rowan started out as a Space Scoundrel, running around with a spacer gang, specializing in persuading people and functioning as their getaway ship. This fell apart, however, after a series of circumstances that I'll get into later (gotta keep some mystery 😉). After she leaves them she does her best to keep moving and lay as low as possible. She's not sure if her old 'friends' will try looking for her, but it's better to be safe than sorry. Later on, she gets a job with a mining company on Vectera when she finds an artifact. Then Barrett gets there, they get raided, it's a whole ordeal... Barrett then tells her she has to make the delivery for the thing he (hopefully) paid Lin to find. Rowan put up less of a fight than she wanted to, but agreed to it nonetheless.
Rowan goes to Constellation with the intent to return their ship and robot and the funky piece of metal that Barrett commissioned Lin for, then wash her hands of the whole ordeal. it's getting way too weird, and weird could mean easily spotted... Unfortunately, things don't work out that way. Considering she's the one who first found the 'Artifact' they seem to want to keep a close eye on her.
[I'll be honest, I'm not sure how this next part should go. It pretty closely follows the MQ and the whole time Mabon is side-eyeing the whole group, not sure why they seem so intrigued to see her aside from the fact that she brought the artifact. She somehow gets roped into joining and doing the first mission with Sarah, and along the way she does an interview with SSNN about the attack on the mining colony by the Crimson Fleet.]
While she and Sarah were gone, the story about Vectera got published.
{Enter Cyrano, in a twist of the usual story, we see his and Roxanne's first meeting}
Her new Adoring Fan was a strange one indeed - Very excitable and visibly on the edge of vibration - she would have chocked it up to the copious accounts of coffee he says he normally gets, but he apparently didn't get any that day, er... at least not in the last 2-3 hours judging from his self told 3-4 cups a day. This man is going to die of heart failure if bit something specific to do with caffeine. He seems to be completely focused on her their entire conversation, and it makes her more than a little uncomfortable, and when he says that he wants to be part of her crew, she's not really sure how to take it.
For what feels like the first time since leaving her old crew she needs to be quick on her feet about how to handle the situation; she decides to make a deal with him, the two of them will do a few favors around the city for roughly a week, and if she decides he's not fit for her crew, he stays here and never speaks to her again. He agrees before she even realizes he said anything.
So, for that week they stay planetside in New Atlantis doing odd jobs and small favors for pretty much anyone. It doesn't really matter what they do, all she needs to know is how he handles himself and if he's trustworthy.
He actually surprises her. While he's not all that useful for getting insight to whatever it is they're helping someone with - he mostly likes hearing what she has to say and praises her no matter what it is - Rowan does find that it's pretty fun just having him tag along. Having a companion who seems to genuinely enjoy her presence... It's not something she's felt she had for a long time.
He also relishes in being her pack mule, which is something she kinda feels bad about but he seems to enjoy it, so what can you do I guess 🤷♀️
There were two things Rowan had to get out of the way at the start of their deal. First - considering how enamored he seemed to be with her, she had to ask, "You're not... romantically interested in me, are you?" Her fan was so quick to deny and reassure her that his (completely platonic) love for her was "unbreakable" and "unyielding", but he would "never sully something so pure, with something so ordinary". The last line in particular seemed a little weird to her, but he gave the answer she was looking for, so she let it slide and went onto her next question, "So what's you're name? I don't want to go around just calling you my 'Fan'."
His eyes shined brightly at the question before doing an overly dramatic semi-bow at the waist and answering, "My name is Adrian, my liege, and I am ever at your service!"
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