You guys ever think about Franziska Von Karma?
I do.
I think about her a lot. I think about how much of her life was spent working on other people. How she spent years just trying to get her brother to smile. How she spent years living up to her father's expectations. How she spent so long trying to keep her happy little family happy.
I think about how she wasn't abused or manipulated into these things. She didn't have someone else forcing her hand. She did it out of love. She did it because she loves her brother. She loves her father. She shows that love with dedication, fierce loyalty, and an adherence to the perfection she was raised under.
Franziska shows love through time. Through effort. Through energy. She won't tell you she loves you, but she will stay up for nights in a row to make sure she can be there for you. She'll spend an entire night after she already hasn't slept trying to break the locks to set you free. She'll fly from one country to another just because someone she loves asks her to.
She will never say the words "I love you" to someone because she's much better at dragging them by the ear and telling them every way they suck so they can get better. She was taught to let her actions speak louder than her words, yet the words she says are scathing and true, whether you like it or not. Her actions and her words working tandem to say something she never can.
She'll call you a fool one day, but do right by her and her family and she might be willing to do a favor for you the next. Franziska is full of love, of cherished memories of her family, and she is capable of loving. You just have to speak her language.
I'm just. thinking about that.
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Between Hawke and Buzzard (dp x dc)
"So why do you need me again?" Connor asked Damian as they stood on the rooftops overlooking the darkened street.
Damian tsked and did not elaborate, and Connor had to resist the urge to push him off the roof.
Look, Connor would be the first person to tell you that the bonds forged through fighting each other in a death tournament to determine who would be sacrificed to a demon were unbreakable. But being woken up at 3 am to then be asked to do some kind of reconnaissance mission he was told next to nothing about was getting awfully close all the same.
"Here," Damian said, tearing Connor from his thoughts.
Immediately, the archer nocked an arrow, keeping it facing the ground.
"Put that away," Damian hissed and Connor wanted to hiss back in annoyance. How was he supposed to know what Damian wanted, he didn't even know what they were doing!
Then, he stilled as he caught sight of a red-clad figure sneaking around the side of the building they'd been stalking for at least twenty minutes.
Connor flexed, but Damian held out a hand discreetly. The figure looked around before turning towards the building, and with a few running steps, managed to scale up the brick wall all the way to the small window a few meters off the ground, and disappeared inside.
Damian waited a few breath before grappling over to the building and landing softly on the roof. Connor followed with a sigh. Carefully, Damian lowered himself to the window and after a quick check to insure the coast was clear, he slipped inside, and Connor followed suit.
They found themselves in a darkened passageway, bordered by metallic handrail, that bordered the four walls, leaving the middle part open, with a full view of the wide space left in the middle. From up there, they caught sight of the suspicious person again. In the slightly better lightning, Connor could determine the figure was probably a woman, but most importantly he could see she had unclipped what Connor now recognized as a modified huge gun of some kind and was now holding it in front of her.
Silently, Connor nocked an arrow once again, and this time, Damian didn't stop him.
There was a sound like something falling and the red-clad figure swivelled towards the sound, raising their gun. Connor tensed in anticipation and then-
"Dan-" the red-clad figure started just as Damian yelled, "put the gun down!"
The woman whipped around and threw herself to the side, Connor's arrow whizzing just past her shoulder. She was still in the air as Connor's went back to his quiver. He nocked another arrow, but unfortunately, the woman had fall-hidden behind one of the crates, and Connor couldn't get a good line of sight. Damian had jumped down, his sword drawn, ready to take the fight to her when-
"Time out!" yelled some random-looking civilian who had just popped up with his arms raised. All three of the fighters froze. "Time out, people!"
"Danny, get down!" Connor heard the woman hiss.
"I think we're all on the same side here," the newly-dubbed-Danny continued, as if this was completely normal, "so why don't we put our weapons down and just talk it out."
"Move," Damian grunted, his sword still raised.
The kid ignored Damian, and turned towards the red-clad vigilante. "Now, Red Huntress, what are you doing here?"
There was sigh from behind the crates and Connor could really relate, but there was barely any time before she answered the guy. "I was following Phantom, I got a tipoff he would be here."
Danny nodded sagely "Thank you for telling us." He turned towards Damian. "Now, who are you and why are you here?"
Damian just glared at the kid, who just looked back steadily, patiently awaiting an answer. After a few seconds, Connor lowered his bow with a sigh.
"This is Robin, he was following Red over there," Connor said as the kid nodded again. "And I'm following him."
"Great!" the kid chirped.
Red slowly rose from behind her crate-cover to address Damian directly.
"This doesn't make sense," she said. "I didn't know I was going to be here until an hour ago, how did you follow me?"
The civilian turned expecting eyes on Damian, and Connor couldn't help but follow suit. Damian straightened under the attention before he seemed to decide to share.
"I also got a tipoff."
"Wow, what a coincidence," the kid said brightly. His tone reminded Connor of a camp councillor he had met as Green Arrow, bright and peppy. "Maybe it was even from the same person!"
Damian tilted his head as his eyes narrowed on Red. "Was yours written on a green sticky note?"
The kid's smile went stiff.
"A green sticky what now?"
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cardcaptor sakura au with Desmond as Sakura, Altaïr as Syaoran, Ezio as Kero, Rebecca or Clay as Tomoyo maybe, maybe Ratonhnhaké:ton as Yuki and Shay as Toya?? that'd be interesting! Leonardo would make a great Tomoyo too. oh oh, maybe Kadar as Yuki?? that'd make sense with Altaïr as Syaoran
can't remember if you’ve done something for this idea before!
(I've not done something like this before and we’re going to focus on the first season on this one so no Eriol and his cohorts)
Okay, that’s such a fun cast but hear me out:
Instead of Kero, Ezio should be Desmond’s Tomoyo. He’s rich af and would definitely shower his best friend/second cousin with cute clothes to go along with his miserable life as a sorta magical girl and videotape it. He’d also be shameless in calling how cute and adorable Desmond is. Leonardo can be the older man who makes Ezio’s vague outfit ideas into reality.
Altaïr as Syaoran is so spot on. A total badass with a character development of adorkable.
Kadar being Desmond and Altaïr’s Yuki would be so funny because, this time around, it would be Altaïr having a crush on Kadar. XD
You know what would be fun? If Kadar and Malik are the same ‘person’. Kadar is the Yuki persona while Malik is the Yue persona. And the twist is Altaïr has a crush on Kadar but absolutely thinks Malik is annoying af (although, to be fair, Malik would start to show up during the time that Altaïr’s feelings for Desmond would be developing and Malik is a bit of a dick to Desmond due to him being loyal to the person who created the cards)
Speaking of which… how about Clow Reed is someone like Bayek? Or maybe Basim if you want to go for the ‘is he good? Is he not?’ kind of vibe.
The annoying older brother who cares dynamic between the Kinomoto siblings would be a bit hard to do with Ratonhnhaké:ton and Desmond, unless you want to change it up to cool older brother who shows he cares for his younger brother quietly. Plus, the idea of Kadar and Ratonhnhaké:ton together sounds like a fun pairing.
Haytham can be their father, I guess. He’d be more interesting to add than Bill anyway.
Clay needs to be Kero. Just imagine his snarkiness in all that cute mascot glory XD
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