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♀ 𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐞𝐥 𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐮𝐞

♀ 𝐉𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐧 𝐱 𝐘𝐨𝐮 (𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞: 𝐍𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐥𝐞) 𝐱 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐰

♀ 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐲 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐭. 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭--𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟖+. 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐛𝐞 𝐮𝐩𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠. 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝟖𝟎𝐬 𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐜. 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐛𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐫𝐞, 𝐠𝐨𝐫𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐫𝐞. 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡. 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝. 𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞. 𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫. 𝐨𝐡, 𝐠𝐨𝐝, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫! 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲--𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐲 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐜. 𝐬𝐦𝐮𝐭, 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐞𝐭𝐜. 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐤!

♀ 𝐂𝐫𝐮𝐞𝐥 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 ♀ 𝐥𝐢𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐠 ♀ 𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝 ♀ 𝐂𝐫𝐮𝐞𝐥 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐎𝟑 ♀ 𝐂𝐫𝐮𝐞𝐥 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲

𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐎𝐚𝐤𝐬 𝐆𝐚𝐳𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟗𝐭𝐡, 𝟏𝟗𝟓𝟕

𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐑 𝐀𝐓 𝐂𝐀𝐌𝐏 𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐀𝐃𝐈𝐀; 𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐃, 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐄𝐄 𝐁𝐀𝐃𝐋𝐘 𝐖𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐃

𝐈𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐩 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟗𝐭𝐡, 𝟏𝟗𝟓𝟕 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐎𝐚𝐤𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐟 𝐃𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐧𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐝𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞. 𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐬 [𝐂𝐘𝐍𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐀 𝐇𝐄𝐒𝐍𝐎𝐏 𝟐𝟏, 𝐖𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐀𝐌 𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐓 𝟐𝟑, 𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐒 𝐉𝐎𝐇𝐍𝐒𝐎𝐍 𝟐𝟎, 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐔𝐒 𝐆𝐎𝐎𝐃𝐖𝐘𝐍 𝟐𝟑, 𝐁𝐑𝐔𝐂𝐄 𝐆𝐄𝐎𝐑𝐆𝐄 𝟐𝟏, 𝐂𝐑𝐀𝐈𝐆 𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐓𝐘 𝟐𝟎] 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩 𝐧𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 [𝐃𝐎𝐍𝐍𝐀 𝐀𝐁𝐁𝐎𝐓𝐓 𝟐𝟐] 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐱. 𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐲-𝐬𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞’𝐬 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞, 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐛𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝.

𝐀𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 [𝐃𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐄𝐍 𝐆𝐖𝐘𝐀𝐑 𝟒𝟐], 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐭, 𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐤, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤. 𝐆𝐰𝐲𝐚𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐢𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐰𝐲𝐚𝐫.

“𝐈’𝐯𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐧��� 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞. 𝐈’𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 [𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫] 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 ��𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫--𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫--𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭. 𝐆𝐰𝐲𝐚𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐡--𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧,” 𝐆𝐨𝐝𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬. “𝐇𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐭. 𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐩𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥. 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐜𝐚𝐥. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥.”

𝐀𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐆𝐨𝐝𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐞, 𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐎𝐚𝐤𝐬 𝐆𝐚𝐳𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐧𝐝.

“𝐖𝐞’𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐧. 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐟𝐟 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲. 𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞,” 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐩 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐚 𝐊𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬. “𝐖𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧’𝐭 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐟𝐟. 𝐖𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧’𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲’𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐞. 𝐖𝐞’𝐥𝐥 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫𝐬.”

𝐀𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐩 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐞.

𝐈𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐎𝐚𝐤𝐬, 𝐃𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐧 𝐆𝐰𝐲𝐚𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐮𝐛𝐛𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐜.

“𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠,” 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐃𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐞. “𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐟 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝--𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐜𝐚𝐥. 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐝𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐤𝐢𝐝𝐬? 𝐈𝐭 𝐚𝐢𝐧’𝐭 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐧. 𝐈𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐢𝐧’𝐭. 𝐀𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐎𝐚𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝, 𝐃𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐧 𝐆𝐰𝐲𝐚𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥.”

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So.

Jazz, Danny, and Elle move to Gotham for school. Jazz and Danny both at Gotham University while Elle decides she wants to go to high school.

Elle meets Damian and Jon and they just click. Flash forward a little and Elle is kinda crushing on Damian and Damian is trying to figure out what these feelings are toward his new friend.

The teen awkwardness is peak and the opportunity for cringe is plentiful.

Insert families’ perspective here.

The Bats are suspicious why Damian is coming home late from school sometimes and why he’s acting weird. It’s Dick that gets it out of him first of course and encourages him to bring Elle over sometimes instead of always going over to her apartment. Just-

“Father, may I bring someone over after school?”

“Damian, you don’t have to ask if Jon can come over.”

“He’ll be coming as well.”

Bruce actually looking up from whatever he was working on.

“You’ve made a new friend? Someone other than Jon?”

“That is correct.”

“Who is it?” Bruce asks after some silence.

“Her name is Elle Nightingale. She is in three of my classes.”

Bruce blinks.

“‘She’?”

“Yes. Elle is a girl, obviously. I didn’t realize you were going senile in your old age.”

Cue mass teasing from all of his siblings and even from Bruce about having a crush, especially when they see how he acts around her when she visits with Jon.

They predictably will do a background check on the girl and her family, immediately raising questions. Why was she homeschooled before 10th grade? Why does the eldest sister have custody? Why did they change their last name and move halfway across the country?

Then there are the Nightingales.

When Jazz easily sees the little blushes and the side-eyed glances, she sits Elle down for The Talk much to the horror of the teenager. Other than some supervision, she just gives them small encouraging smiles every once in a while, making them blush even more.

Danny on the other hand is between teasing his little sister and laughing at the young love, and going into protective brother mode and giving Damian subtle threats if he ever hurts his baby sister. He’s actually pretty okay with Damian (the kid seems too old fashioned to pressure Elle anyway) and they surprisingly bond over the most random things like dogs, finding new vegetarian recipes, and different mechanics or weapons Danny tinkers with in his free time.

I just think it would be super cute and funny. Especially when the families meet and it’s kinda chaos.

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Nightingale

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Reference from Nan Hao and Shang Feng webtoon comic.

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Arknights “An Obscure Wanderer” stickers

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First personal art of 2023, took a few months to finish in between work and health stuff, but I finally finished something XD.

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I don't know... I think the guards are very supportive when I join the dark side...

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Nightingale is a beautiful Victorian fantasy survival adventure set within the deadly Lands of the Fae!

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Ludwig Hohlwein (1874 - 1949) - Nightingale before a Full Moon. 1910. Gouache.

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Fate/Grand Order is a wonderful story where Florence Nightingale gets into an epic DBZ fistfight with the 72 demons possessing the corpse of King Solomon.

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With the release of Chapter 11 on CN, I need to mull over the new information revealed about Shining (AND Nightingale) and thus make any connections to the wild speculation I had after Shining’s module. I know several of my speculations have been debunked with this. My thoughts and observations are all over the place, I apologize. Spoilers ahead.

(From left to right: Salus, Confessarius, Shining)

To start off, the woman on the left is a relative of both Shining and Confessarius, most likely a cousin, or someone distant. She calls them family, and belongs to the same “clan”, but I don’t think she’s a particularly close relative, if only because she looks way different and Shining’s module put emphasis on a bloodline’s purity, to the point where even her parents looked similar to each other. (Creepy implications? Yes). As we have learned, Confessors are not just an occupation, but an ancient subrace of Sarkaz.

I was wrong about the inherent Arts of Confessors being necromancy, it seems like their true ability is being able to draw out memories from the previously-established Sarkaz Collective Consciousness, and transfer them into a body, to “recreate” an individual. 

Anyway, the BIGGEST bombshell that was dropped in regards to these characters is that Nightingale was indeed confirmed to be an experiment. 

Salus: By the way, Shining, the subject that you took away... Well, what was her name again? Lisa... or was it Liz? Is she okay?

Shining: ... Liz is fine.

Salus: Is her Oripathy getting worse? She has a very special body, you know, even that... that... medical organization you found, even with Lord Kal'tsit around, they may not really be able to help her. It's great that she's back in Londinium now though, your lab is still here, you can bring her back anytime...

Shining: ...

An experiment for what? It’s not entirely clear, but the prevailing theories are either:

1) to bring people back to life. Specifically: to transfer someone’s memories into another body. Even more specific: transferring Theresa’s memories. Nightingale is a “prototype” of the resurrected Theresa.

Or 2) to transfer the power of the Lord of Fiends into a body. Because Theresa chose Amiya as her heir.

If Liz was meant to have Theresa’s memories, even as a test run, that explains why she was able to recognize Doctor despite never having met them before, as well as her saying that Amiya gives her deja vu!

I had previously assumed that Liz’s unexplained familiarity with them was due to the Sarkaz Collective Memory. A sort of... in-universe Cloud, that gets added to whenever a Sarkaz dies and other living Sarkaz are able to unknowingly access it to varying degrees, thereby possessing memories that aren’t necessarily their own (see Surtr). But I think... collective memory wouldn’t have worked... if Liz was already dead.

It’s currently not clear whether Liz was still alive or already a corpse before experimentation. She is very sickly, so it wouldn’t come as a surprise if she did end up dying in the process. Remember that Oripathy is not the sole cause for her current frail state.

As for what I think between the two possibilities? I think the Confessors forcibly injected Originium into Liz in order to try and transplant Theresa’s memories into her. According to the info we learned from Ptilopsis, Originium is capable of storing information.

It’s possible that Liz’s amnesia is because she is basically a reanimated corpse, or her mind got messed up somewhere during the transfer. Her Oripathy is getting worse, her body is deteriorating, falling apart (literally?).

Confessarius: Is the food not to your taste, my dear sister?

Salus: Don't be so silent, you finally came home, do you really want to be so indifferent? Salus: If this is because of what happened to Liz... I apologize. But you should know that Liz is not an ordinary infected person. Salus: Besides, from whom did her suffering and consciousness come from?And from whom did her pain and memory come from? When she recalls these things, will you still be able to get along with her? Salus: She's not our family after all, you want to—

Shining: She is my family.

Salus: ... oh... Salus: But... but if you don't come back to us, she will become an empty shell sooner or later. Don't forget why she was made the way she is. Salus: If you truly value her that much, then I sincerely hope that her end will not be too tragic. Come back, okay? Salus: You will not fail to understand.

Shining: ...

However, the Confessors say that the result wound up being flawed, imperfect. Liz’s original mind is still somewhere, possibly locked away, as written in her profile? She has some vestiges of Theresa’s memories, but isn’t wholly Theresa, like what her captors wanted her to be. Liz was an experiment on how to get a dead person’s memory (and remove emotion associated with it)

While Salus was trying to convince Shining to return to them, Confessarius adds that Liz’s body is “an archaic cage. If necessary, we can weave a new one”. Shining, of course, is having NONE of it. She will not put Liz through that again.

What’s also interesting is that both Confessarius and Salus remark on how long Confessors have been around; according to them, it’s thousands of years. And in those years, Confessors have been misunderstood in more ways than one. This could be a reference as to how resurrection is seen as heretical or sacrilegious in Sarkaz culture, because death is the final peace which must not ever be disturbed.

Moreover, going back on bloodlines, Salus’s own experiments have her trying and failing to separate emotions from memory during a transfer. Whatever progress she makes, it doesn’t last long until the memory itself vanishes. Presumably this is because her lineage isn’t as pure, whereas Shining and Confessarius are able to capture whole “moments” of memory from the collective Sarkaz consciousness.

Salus goes on to describe how “none of [Theresa and Theresis]’s ancestors have even been noticed by Confessors, and we have never collected their bloodline memories. Even if The Lord of Fiends had chosen the sister, it would not prove her brother.” 

This makes me wonder if the Confessors had also acted as Kazdel’s recordkeepers, or some sort of archivists.

The leader of the Confessors wordlessly sipped his wine.

Shining could feel that Salus had activated a spell. She can draw her sword and leave, it can be done, but then what? Will this really find her a way to save Liz? Confessarius: Shining. I allow you to act alone. I allow you not to come back to me for a while. But... don't interfere with the Regent's plans. Don't interfere with the Sarkaz's journey to our long-awaited future.

Confessarius: Shining. My sister. No one, no matter how much they spurn their bloodline and long to be free of those shackles, can ever truly deny it. There is no point in denying the Divine Right of this gift of blood.

Shining: I thought you already knew. You can't make everything happen the way you want it to... Patriarch.

Lastly SHINING JOINS THE BATTLEFIELD IN AN OFFENSIVE ROLE MEANING SHINING ALT WHEN

Confessor Guard: You still came to this battlefield. Once again you have disobeyed the will of the leader. Shining: If my actions are still subject to his control, wouldn't my departure be meaningless? Confessor Guard: You hate the leader so much? Shining: ... ...no. It was never him that I hated. I hate myself.

The mask on the guard's face cracked, and the Confessor’s scabbard reflected his expression before he fell. Shining stared at him, her eyes both calm and sad. Once again, the last flash of the fire of a creature--stained her sword forever.

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