#respawn

[shiftinghoesblog]

Things I look forward to when I finally permashift/respawn

• I honestly look forward to not stressing over if I have a job or not because in this reality, why is the economy so atrocious??? Like damn so I'll truly be happy knowing that I don't have to work because I'll either be a nepo-baby or literally have unlimited money that I can manage through my LIFA app and even myself. One of my biggest motivations to get to my waiting room is this essentially and to experience my other realities waiting for me :')) just a small rant for today y'all this reality is horrific!

[star-steph06]

MORE REDRAWS!!!!

If anyone has any panel suggestions I’ll take it

[ellestrade]

Talia’s children / Green and Gold Palanquin AU

[oblique-lane]

From Anomaly Diversion For the upcoming Chapter 4.

[satoshy12]

If you ever asked Ra's who his favourite descendants is. He would tell you it's Respawn.

Not Damian as all like to think.

It wasn't even family love or so, he just liked to see the boy. As he did remember him of a old friend of his Daniel.

He had meet, that time traveller, a few times in history. He would have been a good husband to his daughter. But the Detective had worked too. And they had Damian.

He should later call Danny, and talk how his grandson should meet Danielle. A good thing he did remember to ask his phone number in the 80s.

[mimiyewaffles]

SUCCESS STORIES ON REVISING DEATH!

[Part one]

Since a lot of people came to me, asking for help about revising death, I thought why not share everything here?! So here are these. More parts are available ���

Parts: 1,2,3

[l0s3rd0wnt0wn]

waitwait guys LOL. if neglected reader goes with slade what if we dont make him evil pedo. like harsh at times but not horrible. LIKE ITS SO FUNNY TO IMAGINE HIM AS JUST THIS SAD FUCKINF DIVORCED DAD THAT LOST CUSTODY OF HIS KIDS CUS THATS WHAT HAPPENED.

Slade (after shooting some guy): *sigh* i miss my wife tails reader…

Reader living best life now away from shitty family and taken in by merc with bagillion dollars: cowabummer.

I love this idea so much! I hate when Slade is like the dream of DC Comics, because he's so much better as a villain. without being a freak.

Slade, who is crying about his life, while the reader enjoys traveling to different countries, even if it means getting the hit on someone—their relationship reminds me of Big Daddy and Hit-Girl from Kick-Ass (which should have been Slade and Rose's relationship, but I digress). The reader, who is super playful, contrasts with a sad old man who misses his wife and kids, while the reader seeks a father figure. Slade doesn't deserve the reader's kindness, their happiness, or their warm embraces, but they still offer them, even though they know what kind of man he is. Slade's whole thing is "blood is thicker than mud," but for some reason, he has close ties with a kid that's not his. He teases you for not being able to pick up an AK-47, and you tease him for not being able to bend his knees due to back pain. You often make fun of him by asking if he needs to go to a retirement home. Next thing you know, you're getting the worst training regimen of your life. You're wheezing by the time you're done, and he's there with barely a lick of sweat on his body. You’re going to hurt the old geezer, and the Batfam is having the biggest mental breakdown, especially Dick, when he catches you wearing the same suit Slade gave him when he was still in the Teen Titans (the Slade suit Dick had in the OG Teen Titans). Bruce is shocked at how the two of you are so in sync; it’s like he's getting double-teamed in an MK game. You're taunting them with Slade at your side—how dare Bruce call you his child? He doesn’t have that right! How dare Damian call you his sibling? You're closer to Respawn than he is. Steph and Cass are acting like your sisters. Please, you and Rose are closer than the braids in your hair! To add insult to injury, you dyed half of your hair white to match his. Think of Death—the kid with stripes on the left side of your hair. I mean, with his white hair, he could definitely pass for Lord Death.

[savanir]

DP x DC prompt

Damian has a bit of a crush on Phantom. It was inevitable, the boy is funny, smart and kind all the way down to his bone marrow. And apparently Damian has a bit of a thing for people who have a death theme going on.

Dick is the only one who knows and he's being a bit of a nuisance about it (as older brothers should) but overal Damian has the situation under control.

There is only one issue

"You have your own super, this one is mine!"

Respawn...

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Respawn met Phantom when he and his father were in Amity for a job.

Things got complicated when their target, Vladimir Masters, turned out to also be Phantom's nemesis Plasmius. But with some light manipulation of the truth it was rather easy to get Danny to cooperate (he didn't realise Slade is a kill for hire)

Afterwards Slade told Respawn to distract Phantom for a bit so he could "wrap things up"

Slade had not been particularly worried about any consequences at the time but now Respawn went and got attached

"Robin has a super, so it's only fair that this one is mine"

Danny was confused, "I'm not a super?"

"You have super strength, can fly and you can shoot lasers, you're a super"

This is going to cause problems later isn't it...

[veliya01]

First time doctor and patient

Yes, this is damians half sibling, respawn. Yes his father is that half eye guy. No I will not believe hes dead.

[stomachbooks]

Spawn pixels because i couldn’t find any

Recolors ok! Credit not needed but appreciated

[faitherinhicks]

I got stupidly hyperfixated on Respawn’s Star Wars game Jedi Survivor and in an attempt to purge my fixation, I’ve drawn a bunch of fan art over the holiday. Enjoy!

Three guess as to what ship I’m into hahahahah IT’S FINE I’M FINE. Also thought it would be good & nice if Trilla survived the end of Fallen Order and joined the gang. Ofc she’d immediately suss out what Bode is up to (and then everything will work out fine and everyone lives!!!!1 ugh)

And a few more sketches:

IT’S FINE I’M FINE. Thanks to all the fanfic writers who wrote fix it AU to heal my broken heart <3

[star-steph06]

Art dump 😭😭 so sorry but the long awaited Respawn and WW and Talia art. I actually fuck with these two ladies together heavy idk why but it’s sooo cunt.

I’ll probably do more Respawn in the future though because he’s cool. The Jason one was for fun the shirt made me giggle.

At this point Talia is literally becoming my muse I draw her so much I love her and Damian down!!

[yandere-wishes]

I have an idea for my Batwoman-family Au.

So we know that Damian's darling was born into the League of Assassins to be Damian's wife, before getting adopted by Kate, right?

And we know that Respawn was basically made to harvest organs for Damian right?

So what if Respawn knew of the reader's existence and felt like they had a special bond because they were both created for Damian and both had their lives ruined because of him. He's in love with her and thinks she's rightfully his.

Flash forward to Respawn escaping and finding his dad. One night Deathstroke and Respawn are in town and have to face off against Batwoman and Corvid Reader. While their parents fight Respawn tells the reader everything and they kinda start a weird trauma-induced friendship.

Now you would expect Damian to be jealous BUT (hear me out) remember in the comics how happy and utterly thrilled he is when he realizes he has a blood brother? While I don't really think he would mind sharing darling with Respawn.

And I guess Respawn will eventually come to understand that Damian isn't to blame for all this pain and anguish and start seeing him as a brother.

Meanwhile, the reader is like. I loathe one of you and the other is only a friend… But of course, we know how that will go down lol.

All this being said I'd love to also write some love triangles featuring the Superman family too. Maybe Bruce and Clark fighting over Kate's eldest daughter? Before deciding to share. Or Yandere! Tim Drake x catgirl!Reader x Yandere Conner kent. That would be fun too.

[arsenalsroy]

unfinished/unposted little works

[oblique-lane]

"RED and BLU mercs look the same because of the game mechanic! They represent different people while using the same models! YOU are the player, so YOU are the mercenary too!"

Fair, but. Even if it is just a game limitation... I can't help but be confused as to WHY those game characters are SO UNIQUE IN PERSONALITIES if they are meant to be a representative mass?

I have to questions to hl1 scientist. No question no hl2 citizens. To CS characters. They are plain and faceless, they are meant to be background masses.

Tf2 mercs, however? SO unique and distinct. Their shapes and bodies, their movements, their voicelines - even with no particular story about them, there's SO MUCH personality! They have to be heroes! Not JUST classes!

I've never understood the explanation "they are different people who look similar to eachother" because eeehh... Have fun as you want, but I'm personally not convinced. Even with a rhetoric "Heavies have to be strong af and scouts have to be fast and small and all medics are insane and Germans" that's still not it.

Obviously I don't think about it while playing the game, but when it's time to think about the lore... The comics never answered the question of who the teams are - retconed and ignored.

I was surprised and confused as to why it was never brought up anywhere in canon. Maybe because this case is so exceptional and unique to tf2, it was actually cursed by it's own greatness?

Let's be real, tf2 characters are heroes. Yet unlike Overwatch and such, players ARE allowed to have as many repeating classes as they want. Moreso - the opposite team is designed to be the same characters.

What the fuck.

Tf2 mercs exist in a superposition where they are more than just classes but not enough humans to be heroes.

And that brings us to my other point...

Now you might say "but the lore is goofy, they WOULD hire people with very specific features –" shhhhh. Don't you see? That's part of the issue.

The mercs are constantly dehumanized.

For whatever reason people think is useful. In the comics they are shown to be absolute idiots for comedic effect, sometimes flanderizing them even, reducing any human feature that isn't funny enough.

In fandom it's enough to just dress a merc in different clothes for people to start calling them OCs. Even if you didn't mean to make an oc.

With the goddamn clone theory I've seen people often saying that since BLU are clones, they are subhuman/unworthy - authors thoughts, not just in-univrse rhetoric.

It's almost as... Tf2 mercs are not human but a species??? Creatures without autonomy?

Always been like this?

Maybe I'm the only one bothered by this, but... You know me, I'm a no fun who loves taking this kind of shit seriously.

...

I started from talking about why they look identical on different teams. I think the clone theory is very probable, even though many people say it's cringe. The clone theory would make so much sense if it was real.

Recently I've watched Mickey 17. It felt so good to be finally understood. Every point of this film is all the things I feel towards tf2.

Respawn makes you less human. And corporations treat you as expendable, always. If they find a way to dehumanize you, it will be easier to convince everyone that you deserve violence/it's not a big deal.

If in tf2 the two identical megacorps fight with eachother over power (tf2 wiki/ original game setting), it would make all the sense for them to just clone the 9 mercs and make them expendable. It's cheaper. Emesis Blue did it right.

And since everyone thinks that the mercs are subhuman, because they are stereotypes, because stupid illiterate criminals, because they're psychopaths, because they're clones, because they're expendable... No one ever thinks to look behind it and see them as people.

Cloning is inherently a horror. When I just entered the fandom, I was convinced there will be some horror level lore underneath the silly game. It made sense.

But there was none of it.

I might be the one stupid here for thinking about tf2 that way. But I can't change my perspective now. To me the whole tf2 lore situation is just a recursive mirror on itself: the whole thing almost begs to be analyzed existentially but isn't because the goofy part of it is so sacred, it cannot be destroyed. As if taking tf2 seriously is almost a taboo.

"Don't look there, there's nothing there, don't think about it, they're silly, it's just a game" then why do I keep seeing holes on this curtain???

Purposefully not thinking about the lore is constant effort. It cannot be truly silly at least because it's war. If there's no respawn, it's scary because they can die anytime. If there is respawn - it's triple scary, because they don't belong to themselves.

In-game voicelines suggest that respawn does exist. Even if they love fighting and treat it like we treat videogames - since they are practically immortal - it's still inherently horror. Even if it's a comedy, ignoring the basic technical aspects of the world and covering up with "everything is unserious and stupid" agenda... Is ironically suspicious. For me.

It's almost as if they're trying to hide something underneath all this silliness. I know they don't. But it feels like it. It feels like a propaganda so people don't dare to try explaining how this world logically works.

A second you try to dissect the lore and it crumbles apart. It contradicts itself and it overcompensates for what it's not. It crumbles. I've stumbled upon it a hundred times for all these years in the fandom...

When you play the game you see so much environmental storytelling - the coverups of spy tech, the cold war, nukes and stuff... The early wiki info told us about megacorps who want to rule the world. It's realistic and pragmatic and so fun. Close to earth. When I play on the older maps I keep wondering what it was really about. I wonder about who the characters are, how did they get on this war?

But what I got was "the mercs are very stupid, and everything in this world is stupid because old people fight over nothing, and once they die everyone lives happily ever after AFTER SACRIFICING NOTHING". The mercs aren't even the main characters. We still know fucking nothing about them, about why they fight– they don't even fight for the same thing as in game. Everything is retconed.

I feel so conflicted. I know people love the comics but I can't help but hate it, I'm sorry. The same questions I had joining the fandom almost 2 years ago - I still have them now. It's itching, it's uncomfortable to stand in a lore which is a mess and will never be explained.

I looked at the lore with a suspicious squint, trying to compromise: maybe there IS something about the worldbuilding that I've missed that would make sense. I've analysed left and right– no. There's nothing of my interest. I had to explain things myself and it only started make sense once I stopped relying on the comics, like, at all.

And once you strip away the comics, there's barely anything left. Just the game, the bits and crumbs from the wiki...

The tf2 I enjoy now is the tf2 50% of which I created in my head to overcompensate. But who am I? I'm not Valve. I'm uncomfortable with that. Because while the lore now makes sense in my head, it's still just headcanons.

People don't know it.

I feel pretty lonely in this situation.

(This post should've been be just about dehumanization in the context of tf2, but I've noticed that everything I hurt about this media is a one big thing and one doesn't go without another. Someday I will let go.)

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was walking a dog, except it wasn’t my dog, it was Iggy from Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure. I was also walking him in the Nether from Minecraft. We fell into a pool of lava and died. I had the option to respawn, and when I chose it, I woke up.