#ooc: to clarify

[thatoneluckybee]

Gin is right

[two-wizards-in-a-trench-coat]

the more i think about it, the more "miles and phoenix pining for each other, wondering 'is he into men? and if so, is he even ... into me? 🥺' doesnt make sense. let me finish breakfast and i'll elaborate

[swiiivet-screamathon]

"Hey-hey-hey-hey Pure Vanillaaaaa??? Why is Shadow Milk here???"

"Hm? Oh, I wanted to give him a chance through a method he might be comfortable with."

"Excuse me??? You let him follow us???"

"We needed to return home, we've spent far too long away, but I know that leaving him to simmer in the pot for however long we'll be away from Beast-Yeast was just going to get him to sour even more. I meant every word I told him at the end, I want to be his friend, but that can only happen if he does as well."

"So you put the entire kingdom in jeopardy for that insane clown!?"

"We beat him once when he was on his home turf and with his compatriots, as long as I keep an eye on him I don't assume much can go wrong for long."

"Do you not think that might still be a bit risky?"

"I'm not sure if you've considered this Wizard, but I think its worthwhile to remember that he chose to follow us. He could've left Beast-Yeast the moment he was set free, and yet he didn't. He could've left to meet up with his other beast friends at any point, and yet he didn't. And according to his companions his experience with me specifically is one of a kind for him. We never invited him to come along, we never even told him where we were going, and now he chooses to leave his former tower? I might be gullible to him, but knowing him as well as I do, I think that's enough evidence for me to think that he's not followed us purely to enact revenge."

"At least its comforting to know you've thought this through at all; but it still seems like the idea of a madman! Is there no safer way at all to-- ourgh, befriend--- him?"

"Perhaps, who's to say sharing his mindscape for so long didn't make me a madman either. I simply cannot help but not be the one to ostracize him, whenever he's ready he can come talk, but I won't treat him unequally."

"Well-- not that I think you would, but if anything goes haywire-- thats on your shoulders! AND his!"

"Of course, I never considered that I wouldn't be responsible for him. :)"

[the-better-bell]

cujo is very, very aware it just fucked up. big time.

the concussion and the gunshot wounds and what feels like a dislocated shoulder are making it hard to ignore that fact. what’s even more concerning, though, is that he doesn’t know where the fuck exfil is. there’s been complete radio silence over comms, but cujo’s still dutifully making its way to the fallback point, where it’s got a sinking feeling there isn’t going to be anyone waiting for him.

it’s not an easy trek. the concussion has cujo’s head spinning, not to mention the probably concerning amount of its own blood it can feel soaking into its tactical gear. but cujo perseveres, or at least tries. he’s got a job to do, and right now, that job is to make it to the damned exfil location.

at some point, he has to give up the ghost, slump against a filthy brick wall and pull its dark balaclava up over its nose with its less-injured-feeling arm to gasp in a few rattling breaths. the night city air tastes like gasoline and cigarette smoke. like adler.

cujo knows he needs to get back to adler. but right now, it is both hurting and extraordinarily tired. staying here and closing his eyes for a second wouldn’t hurt, right?

[theurbanmechcomesforthee]

weird ass contractors payin the boys an' I a fair bit to enter this fuckass bunker hope this loot is worth it

[scramjettracy]

Reasons New York sucks:

- Crime levels unacceptably high

- Stinks

- Rats

- Hardly any sky

- Everyone’s just rushing about not looking at anyone else

- Air’s full of poison

- Honestly how is there so much trash? We’re meant to be a zero waste society. Every time I go there I fall over a trash can or a skip or something

- Streets crammed with people

- Limited open spaces are crammed full of people

- Everything is three times the price it would be anywhere else

Redeeming Features of New York

- Food is decent

- TI headquarters building is nice

I picked up some decent bagels and both sweet and savory pastries though so, grubs up Tracy Island!

[tw1sty-b1tch]

Michael!

What A Lovely Surprise.

Is Helen Here?

OOC: @victorianflensing

s0MewHeRe, i BEliEVe.

[scarletdex]

Hey Florian! Do you have a favourite pokémon?

I'd love to have one of each wing pattern someday! I only have the Meadow, Marine, Elegant, Modern, and Fancy pattern right now, though.

[deimos-kalloway]

[😶 deimos-artefacts]

I thought this was a trans-friendly workplace, but if the Head of the Institute's taken a transphobe to brunch...

Shut up what do you mean "you can't pick and choose your employees based on what childhood trauma they have that's discrimination" I can do what I want and what I want is spider guy

[mammoth-clangen]

that ask was yikes a little invasive but I hope it was cming from a good place, but it sounds like you may be trixic :3 :3 its attraction to women or fem/fem-presenting non-binary people, I myself am trixic and aro, Also didn’t know you were ace, it’s nice to see acespectrum creators, I feel like they get erased a lot

also nice to see it being incorporated into characters

Yeah, this ask was certainly a bit... Hmm.

I err on the side of politeness when answering things like that, because I'm never sure if it's just someone whose first language isn't English, or they struggle with tone, etc.

As I said in the reply to that ask, I'm not terribly bothered either way regarding labels! Though, I think I have met someone who used trixic before? Some time ago but still! I think it's a neat term and has a really pretty flag, though I don't personally self-describe as it c:

Also yay! AceSpec represent! ♠️

You better believe there will be at least one confirmed ace character in Kindred. And not just because i default to ace for everyone unless otherwise confirmed, bc im not good at writing romance n stuff lolol

[thunderfledgeling]

Ugh... She's just soooo perfect, she's just the greatest and amazing. What's the point? Why do I even try?

Wanna game with me? No I'm busy

Go on a trip? No I'm taking her on a date

Can't I just hang out with you? No because I'd rather spend all my time with her.

Ugh. She's taken my best friend, it's like he doesn't even care anymore, all he ever wants to do is be with her at her dumb fancy mansion or on some romantic luxurious holiday. No wonder the tabloids come up with all those rumours, with the way he's been acting... I'm starting to believe them too... Whatever, clearly it's best if I just don't bother him anymore... Wouldn't want to take any of his precious time away from his precious lady...

(I just don't get it... I just want my brother back. I'm sorry)

[spider-lily929]

I also have a superpowered toddler, two in fact, but I don't bring them into fights like you do with Mayday!

When it's your bday, do the other spideys try to throw a party for you? Or in general, is it advise not to do it at HQ and rather at someone's universe? I can see it can cause a bit of chaos if unplanned properly.

I’ve explicitly asked for nothing to happen at all the last couple years. Especially since the first year (and only time) I ever allowed any planning, it ended with getting milk up my nose.

[necrotic-nephilim]

for the ask game (3)

au where all robins develop a mental link after fighting some magical criminal of the week. what would they see in each other's minds? what secrets and repressed feelings do they discover? how would they deal with it?

for the ask game!

oooh, i love telepathic links that end up revealing secrets. especially with a family like the Batfam, who are usually so convinced they're good enough at reading each other to not have many secrets kept. so weird reveals are always fun

if i did this, i'd do DamiTim. just because of all the like, "deep dark feelings that are being hidden" for Robin shipping, DamiTim is the most fun for me. you expect DickTim or DickJay or JayTim, even DamiDick. but there's something that's so enjoyable about Damian having his feelings forcibly outted. not just to Tim, but to everyone. the way it'd be an active landmine none of them knowing what to say but all feeling each other's reactions. i honestly think Damian would try to punch somebody about it. (also, if you do a history of TImSteph where they've had sex, Damian would be directly linked to Steph's memories of how Tim was in bed, so that's fun as both something horrifying and enlightening just to screw with his feelings some more.) would they end up together? in my head probably, but it'd be weird and likely toxic bc how do you date someone you know inside out and know exactly what they think of all your flaws and what parts of you they obsess over. the answer is not very well but hey, the sex is good-

i think Jason *directly* feeling how everyone felt about his death would really rock him. he's heard all the apologies, but part of him isn't convinced there's truth to them. so to be crushed by Dick's *grief* over his death would be a come to jesus moment for him. but on the less fun flipside, you have him feeling how Dick feels about him *now*. because Dick doesn't really *like* Jason and deep down, sees Jason as a lost cause. that's his "deep dark secret". and Jason would feel and know that from the one person who he still wants to believe in him. i really do think Jason would have the Worst Time with all this, overwhelmed with everyone's intimate and complex feelings over his death. Jason is a very defensive person when it comes to his death and how reactionary he gets when other people make it about them, not him. so for Jason to have to constantly deal with that in his head, i truly do think he'd lash out a bit. the arguments. yelling at Dick and feeling Dick's guilt and snapping bc Dick has no right to feel guilty now. feeling that Tim viewed Jason as a failure. it's just a damaging mindspace to be in and man do i think Jason would take a While to recover.

oddly though, i think it'd be a good bonding moment for Steph and Jason. we really don't get much exploration of Steph and Jason bonding over dying. bc sure, Steph didn't actually die, but she *did* experience the social death where everyone believed she was dead and mourned her as such for a good while. she also felt *directly* responsible for her own death. a lot of blame falls on Steph for War Games (for the Doylist reasons of sexism but yk) and Jason feels responsible for his own death for walking into a trap. but unlike Jason, Steph had no suit in a case, no memorials, her name held no infamy. so i think she deserves just a bit of righteous fury about how dramatic Jason can be while she just has to move on bc hey, it's not like she *really* died. and she buries those feelings well, but not well enough to hide them from a mental link. and Jason, who hasn't really considered Steph before because he was so wrapped up in his complex over Tim, confronts those feelings with her. if anyone is going to know how he feels, it's going to be her. you could do it platonic or romantic, but i do think when Jason sinks to his lowest, she's the one who snaps him out of it, both with tough love and genuine compassion for his situation.

for the less serious crack of it all: they're all going to have far too intimate knowledge of each other's sex lives. everyone's gonna know Dick has fucked Slade. everyone's gonna know Jason has fucked Talia. in my heart, i believe Tim has slept with Anarky (Lonnie, not Ulysses) and everyone would *know* that too. absolute judgment all around. it's the spider-man meme of "wait you've done WHAT with WHO" and honestly, it gives a nice distraction for the more serious feelings. it's a palette cleanser they can default to. like when the fighting gets a little too serious and they're cutting too deep for comfort, someone's going to blurt out "well at least i didn't fuck Deathstroke." and the whole moment goes awry with laughter. bc i do think, at the end of it once they get through the worst of the angst, they'd be closer for it and self-aware of the ridiculous nature of all this. it's enlightening, in a way to see how they all felt about their time as Robin and the baggage/trauma they hold. even the ugliest feelings they hold for each other don't completely suffocate the fondness/respect.

that said, knowing the baggage/trauma. oof. i don't think Dick has ever fully opened up about his history with Mirage/Tarantula/Liu and now it's forced to sit in the open. Damian has never admitted the worst of being raised in the League. Tim hasn't fully faced the suffocating image of his dead father and his deep-seated want to kill Boomerang. all those ugly truths they stamp down bc well, either you're a vigilante or you're a well adjusted person, are out in the open now. and it's ugly and gruesome to force those thoughts to be shared. they all want to comfort each other for different reasons, while simultaneously not wanting their own trauma to be acknowledged. it'd be fun to see who'd instinctively react to whose trauma first. because it's an overwhelming rush of information, and you just naturally get pulled in certain directions. i think Damian would react to Dick's history of sexual abuse first, whereas Jason would be reacting to the murderous rage TIm is trying to fight off. Tim is reacting to just how much guilt Steph carries about War Games and all of it is very crunchy. there's so much they'd all have to talk about and it'd take days for them to address it all, between the arguments about the ugly parts. would they come out stronger for it? yes. but only if they didn't kill each other in the process. i hesitate to do a "and they come out one big happy family" ending, bc it's not very in canon, but i do think the bond of the Robin mantle is something special. even when the link is broken, they hold onto a freakish understanding of each other. they react and move in sync, can fight together without needing words. are they emotionally on the same page/have they forgiven each other for the worst of it? absolutely not. but they've got each other backs. it's a very much "if you called i'd drop everything to save you. but also we don't have it in us to hang out casually." bond, which i think is deeply underrated in fanfiction. sometimes, you can care about people but you have to do it from a distance.

[kittycatred]

[ cw : slight angst & brief negative self talk, incase that bothers anyone !!!!! ]

okay cool !! rains gone !!! so now you can go !!!! thats not what im going to help you with.....

you see, red, you are really, more than what meets the eye, aren't you...?

you seem so entergetic, so put together and lively, but ive been watching you for awhile.....

you blamed yourself for the cave incident, for days....actually you thought it was all due to your own selfishness and recklessness of running off

and, when you even came back !! yet again, to your own impulsiveness, you were in another situation yet again you thought it was all your fault, for rushing in without thinking, and it made you become a small, helpless little cat

again, and again, and again, and again situation, after situation, after situation all due to your recklessness, impulsivity, lack of self control-

OKAY !! okay i get it !! is that why your here ?? to belittle me for my insecurities you found out by STALKING me ???

you know im right.... and i know, you want to change, to break free from these patterns don't you want to be able to be more in control of your emotions and thinking ??? dont you want your friends to hear your name, and not think "great, what happened now ??" dont you want to just....change....?

[akatsukis-resident-idiot]

i could be your adult romance book I MEAN WHAT WHO SAID THAT AHAHAHAHHAHAHAH

[vestansovreigntyofficial]

… Christ the Buddha. You’re a teenager. I thought I was young when I signed, you can barely be considered an adult by legal standards, at least in Union.

How young were you when you enlisted? Military training isn’t short, I should know.

-Delta

Oh yeah, I got my conscription notice like a year ago.

Training was pretty quick for me and the other Kerebos pilots though? They basically just handed out some old user's manuals and gave us a couple days to figure things out before we got deployed. I guess the program here is just more efficient than whatever Union must be doing?