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You know what, I just realized that if there was a Dp x Dc crossover, then wouldn't Poison Ivy call herself the Second Daughter of the Green, not the first? 'Cause if Undergrowth claimed Sam as his daughter, then wouldn't Poison Ivy be his second daughter? Since Undergrowth is technically the Ancient of Plants, also known as the Green. And, the only reason why Undergrowth lets Poison Ivy call herself the Daughter of the Green is because she is the only one who has willingly decided that she is his daughter and truly showed his thoughts/ideas without actually meeting him.

Plus, Sam is the one who broke off his brainwashing and showed his statements and ideas in a more positive light than he and Ivy ever could. That's why Undergrowth still considers her his child, despite her choosing the witch's path.

Poison Ivy and Sam are like the yin and yang of each other. Sam uses riots and positive reinforcement to get her point across, but will use underhanded methods when it is necessary (she got that bank). Poison Ivy would kill and destroy companies, harming the Green, but now she can see that there are other options at her disposal that she can use. It's just a matter of whether she wants to use it or not.

(Funny Part) Let's just say that the way Undergrowth differentiates who is older is by who he claimed chronologically. So in Undergrowths' book, a 14-year-old Samantha Manson is older and more responsible than a 37-year-old Pamela Isley. (Of course, you can have Sam be older than Ivy, but wouldn't it be more funny if she were younger but was considered the older sister. No time shenanigans or anything, just this.)

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DC x DP Prompt — Whats_this.png

Tucker is a nerd.

He's never denied it, never argued, especially with the amount of science expos and challenges he competes in. He loves code and video games, loves to solder chips and 3D print helpful inventions.

But really? It gets him out of Amity Park and gives him something to think about other than Phantom and school work and patrols. If he wins a few awards and momentary respect and acknowledgement from Casper, then, well, he'll take that too.

He's at a Gotham competition, displaying a long-distance communicator. It's actually something he uses to communicate with Danny through the Zone, just tweaked a bit.

Here he meets a dude named Tim. He has shaggy black hair and big, shiny glasses. They immediately hit it off when Tucker sees his Star Trek pin.

He looks a lot like Tim Drake-Wayne, but the guy doesn't bring that up and Tucker decides it's rude to do so.

They both like superheroes and sci-fi and tech and they ultimately trade contact info.

Tim, on the other hand, had been scouting out potential interns and future additions to WayneTech. He comes across Tucker Foley's invention and is impressed. It's only logical to talk and get his phone number; he's definitely going to have some lawyers contact this kid about a patent.

What he didn't expect? Becoming friends. Maybe it's because their interests click, or maybe it's because he can actually bounce off coding and gadget ideas and get actually good feedback.

They share snippets of their lives, memes, funny hero edits. They trade and build off of each other's ideas and give tips when the other asks for help.

Tim admits that he's a Wayne after a few months, and Tucker replies with a 'yeah man I kinda assumed that LMAOO' instead of asking for money or favors.

It's about six months later that Tucker finds himself in a tech situation that he doesn't know how to fix. And he's desperate this time.

The Fenton's had been building a weapon for a few weeks now to combat Phantom after the last few failed. Danny is getting genuinely nervous with the amount of time his parents spend working on it. So he recruits Tucker to try and understand what it does.

The problem? Tucker doesn't know what it's purpose is. The blueprints are confusing, even to him, and when he opens up some of the panels to look, he can't understand it either.

He needs to know how to stop or otherwise disassemble it without the thing literally blowing up in his face. If he doesn't, Danny is going to be in a lot of danger. It could be— and probably was— deadly.

Time is ticking. The Fenton parents were out of town for a day, but Jazz had overheard that they were about to be finished with this project tomorrow.

So Tucker does the last thing he'd think of doing. He texts Tim, asking if he can help him figure out what this Fenton creation does.

Of course, Tim humors his friend. This isn't something new to them.

Tucker begins to send him images of the designs. It's... a cannon. What looks to be a really, really dangerous cannon-like weapon.

Huh. What is that?

Another photo is sent of the actual thing. It's actually built, not just some rough drafts.

And inside, what looks to be a power source, is something glowing a toxic, acidic green. Is that Lazarus Water?

What is THAT?

Tucker isn't exactly begging, but he sounds urgent. Anxious. When Tim asks what the actual hell is this device, he says his friend's parents made it. He's trying to dismantle it, and fast.

Which means these mystery parents are presumably use it.

And that's how Tucker gets to meet Cyborg on a Tuesday afternoon.

The Justice League members are called barely minutes after Victor gets to 'Amity Park' because the radiation is off the charts. It's a "ghost" infested town that doesn't formally exist, says the Internet.

The more they investigate, the more horrifying it becomes. It seems a lone, dead teenager is the protector of thousands of citizens. There's hundreds of calls from here to the JL emergency line spanning back months.

Who is Phantom? And why is this civilian— STEM prodigy or not— know how to deconstruct devices like this?

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So Dani’s character isn’t really explored as far as I can tell, a fact that I have bemoaned multiple times

Also I have no idea how the Lanterns Corps work, so please correct me if I’m wrong

Ghost are reliant on emotions. Strong emotions that ghost have. That dani has

So she’s a black lantern.

Dani gets a ring, but when she’s in ghost form fighting the GIW out of the country, but when he turns human, she doesn’t out on the ring and just carries it around with her. She hardly uses it cuss she hardly goes ghost with the GIW acts legal

The black power ring doesn’t really control her, it affects her emotions, but control her? No. She’s still part human and ghost royalty.

She ends up exploring Coast City while traveling, and she bumps into an out of suit green lantern. She drops the ring, and the lantern sees. They inform the other lanterns.

Now everyone is on the hunt for a 13 yo girl with a black power ring. But the problem is that they don’t know she half alive, so they’re kinda looking for a dead girl.

Dani thinks they’re hunting her because she a dead girl and they will tune her into the GIW, so she’s not making the search easy for them.

That’s all I have for now, but any suggestions or corrections would make my day :)

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EDDIE. EDDIE IT’S PEOPLE. EDDIE WE’RE EATING PEOPLE.

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mysticalAU

*In this AU their weapons are represented in the form of light and all the robins have different specialties.

*jaybird has two sworts of light (It's a reference to when Jay was given those weapons for being worthy)

*jay was the frirts heir of bruce (bc dick refused the title)

*when he died the only thing that could recoverd was a little yellon wing (bruce has it in a santuary)

*he cannot fly but is a exellent hunter; he can shot down anything with wings

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DC x DP Prompt — Is It Kidnapping If They're a Zombie? (PT1)

At the ripe age of fourteen, Danny works at Gotham Cemetery. It's not anything aesthetic, and he probably wouldn't be doing it if he and Jazz didn't need the money, but it's at least fun.

No one asks questions— well, at least the humans don't— and it isn't too hard. He cleans up the tombstones and takes photos to transcript into a database so family members can find their relatives.

Of course, there's some shades and even a few blob ghosts, but they quickly dissipate or don't stay long.

It's some cloudy, dour Tuesday afternoon after school and Danny is working on one portion of the cemetery when his ghost sense goes off.

He's curious, and not one to ignore the spirits of the dead, so he weaves through the weathered graves in a random direction.

It's basically empty at this hour, and after a good fifteen minutes of wandering, Danny is about to give up trying to find whatever ghost was around here.

But there's movement. Underneath a tree. He remembers that section. There's a mother and a kid, probably around fifteen, buried right there. Always with fresh bouquet or gifts. It's tragic, but there's no lack of inscriptions with barely days apart of birth and death in this graveyard.

He's almost at the plaque and tombstone when he sees what has to be a hand claw up through the freshly toiled dirt.

Danny screams. Loudly.

He starts to dig with his hands as well, taking large hunks of dirt with desperation because someone was buried alive. That's horrifying, even to a half-dead kid.

His ghost sense goes off again and Danny is confused and appalled and many other emotions as he finally hauls up another teen from out of a coffin.

The boy's— Jasons?— fingers are a mess, they're both covered in dirt and mud and it's starting to rain. He should've, by all accounts, immediately called 911.

But with the sinking suspicion that it's something more than a normal, living human. And he definitely can't have the Guys in White or even Batman involved with some innocent ambiguous undead creature...

Danny tried to explain that thought process to a half-hysterical Jazz when she came back from her shift at the library to find an open-eyed, catatonic teenager in a bloody, filthy funeral suit.

Ultimately, the siblings bandage his wounds. They're both aware that he needs professional medical care, but for now, it's stopping the blood. Jazz uses their leaky shower and Danny's extra clothes to clean "The Zombie Boy" up.

He doesn't reply to any questions, not to his name, doesn't walk unless they sort of drag him, and barely even blinks.

Issue one of many?

They don't know how in the Realms he's alive. By all accounts and death certificates, Jason was really and truly killed. Dead. Permanently horizontal. Had gone on the merry-go-round of the Circle of Life.

Issue two?

Jason Todd is the famously adopted son of Bruce Wayne. And he's only been dead for three days.

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It's the name of the game to get injured being Phantom. Late nights or early mornings in different friends houses or in his own bathtub, patching up injuries with hissed exhales and clenched teeth.

Tucker has seen him missing a good chunk of his shoulder. Sam's stitched up his wounds; jutting slashes of his stomach before finals. Jazz has seen the worst— the wounds inflicted by their parents— and her fingers only shook minorly while applying ecto-burn cream.

No one outside of their friend group really notices. Long-sleeved shirts are shields and his reputation is his wielded weapon.

He just... kinda assumes it's the same everywhere as it is in Amity Park.

When Danny is forced into a Wayne gala as a begrudging plus-one to Vlad, and Sam weasels into joining them through pure spite and manipulation.

It's downright miserable, especially since he and Vlad had duked it out barely minutes before they stepped through the extravagant doors. Their usual spat made him feel weak and his hands and arms were stinging like crazy, even in human form.

Sam drags him into an empty room the moment she sees him, and only then did Danny notice that he's bleeding. His clenched fists had hid it initially, but now there's red and green tinged blood spreading and smearing on his hands.

"Where am I bleeding now?" Danny questions, almost sounding like he's whining. It's deeply resigned, exasperated, and definitely frustrated.

It's not the first time where he has millions of cuts or injuries and he doesn't know where he's bleeding from.

He instinctually removes his scratchy dress shirt to see if there's more damage on his arms. Scars criss-cross around his entire upper body, and there's more serious burns and cuts than he'd assumed from the fight with Vlad, but neither of the fifteen-year-olds are disturbed.

Why would they be? He's Phantom, and they've done patch-ups everywhere, dozens of times.

It's at this moment that Bruce Wayne stepped into a distant side room to take a call and comes across one Daniel Fenton and Samantha Manson.

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The border cuts you in two.

When you immigrate, you leave a copy of yourself behind. One person enters their new country, the other stays trapped at home.

Some instances keep in touch, call each other daily, keep their lives and minds in sync in the hopes of reintegrating and resuming a life as one person. Others, like Soyoung Rose Kang, leave home at ten and never speak to their other selves again. Rose, in America, never imagined going back to Korea until her grandfather dies and her Korean instance calls her home for the funeral. When she arrives, she discovers that Soyoung plans to steal her body and live her life whether Rose wants to reintegrate or not.

Sublimation is a literary speculative fiction novel that pits the lives we choose against the lives we leave behind. It’s an immigrant story like no other, capturing the longing for another life and twisting it into a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse.

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Marvel and Junior making sibling shit:

Superman: Marvel, don't you think you're a little immature with Junior? That's no way to raise a son!

Marvel: What? He's not my son. He's my brother. What? Is that why you and the League are always judging us? Look, I don't have any children.

Superman: what-- Is Mary your sister too?

Marvel: Yes? They all are

Batman, who was eavesdropping on their conversation: They seem pretty young compared to you, Captain. And they haven't been in the hero scene with you since the beginning. Where did they come from?

Marvel: Definitely not from me

Marvel: Look, yeah, I know. I used to work alone, but… it's hard for most of them. They still live with their foster parents, different families and all that, even though I'm sure they all do it just for the money, anyway, these families are stable, but they're not loving…

Marvel: I started letting them come with me to superhero stuff so they wouldn't be alone all the time and also so they could stay in touch with each other, since the system has divided them across the state. God knows the system doesn't care if they separate these kids, whether they're blood-related or not

Now, of course, Batman and Superman gossip about this, and everyone thinks Marvel was raised in the system, and he, as the oldest, takes care of the little ones in orphanages or foster homes. He eventually outgrew it, but he keeps in touch with them because he still sees them as family and cares

And now, each of his siblings is being raised in different foster homes, and he lets them stay close so they can see their brothers and sisters

Which makes sense because, really, Marvel takes them on very simple missions, nothing lethal or world-ending, no, no. It's just an excuse for them to be a family and do things together

One day, Flash asks why Marvel doesn't try to adopt them

Marvel: I know what I look like normally, but… I'm not exactly the profile of a father for the system. They wouldn't let them come with me. I barely make ends meet with the money I have, and even with help of the government, I don't think I could support five kids in my tiny studio apartment

Now the league also thinks Cap is BROKE, which he is, the broke little Cinderella, living inside a sardine can

Red Hood hears these thoughts and is like, "I need to meet this guy, he looks like a badass."

The League also slowly realizes that Cap is probably a mask, since he acts so differently around his brothers and sisters, and also because the system apparently doesn't consider him suitable??? Money is a problem, okay, but could this also mean that Cap in civilian life isn't a goody two shoes who reeks of good deeds?

One day, Darla needed an adult to go to an exhibition. Her foster parents agreed and signed the waiver but wouldn't go with her, so Billy disguises himself as Cap to pretend to be her adult guardian

Shit happens, a villain appears, and so does the League. The disguised Cap pales as he and the League are in the middle of a stare contest because whaaaaa

This guy in worn jeans, dirty work shoes, and an oversized, worn-out red jacket that smells of cigarettes and oil is IDENTICAL to Captain Marvel, who just happened to have the day off today

And who's that little girl he's holding by the armpits? Whom he slowly lifts to cover his face. Oh, yes, definitely his youngest and most sweet sidekick, the purple one

Marvel and Darla end up going with the League so they don't get photographed as they leave the museum. Everyone is completely silent for a few moments before anyone dares to comment

Hal: You smell like motor oil. Are you a mechanic?

Marvel:

Flash: Better question. Do you smoke??! You smell like you do.

Marvel: *embarrassed noises*

Darla: No!! He doesn't smoke! His boss does!!!

Marvel: Sweet… it's okay, you don't have to say anything for me, okay? Let's just get you home

He looked so defeated, and everyone noticed. Embarrassed, even. Oh, he must be sad because now the league sees he's no longer that big, smilly guy in the gold and red suit. He's a broke guy in old clothes who probably works in a garage. Nothing wrong with that, just obviously not how he wanted to be seen.

Btw this whas inspired by a post of parenting marvel of wonderjanga

But i got of track a little

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i have 2 separate leverage/dc crossovers that i love dearly. One is Parker breaks into cadmus to steal back somebodys scientific research and comes out with 15 year old superboy like can we keep him Please i’ll take him on walks and feed him every day “Hes not a DOG parker” people can like walks. do you like walks? ‘I like walks’ see he likes walks.

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The boy is in the vat

Hey HEY @clockwayswrites Tim in yeti healing vat enjoy

Is the hair perspective a little janky yes but he’s floating in a vat who cares

Is he also naked yes- I cannot be asked with physics of floating hospital gown

Inspired by birdritch or a thing with wings

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64200685/chapters/164761405

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Hold on Tight

One moment Hal was walking around Oa with John, Guy, and Kyle and the next he was being dragged by a giant green dog through a portal. The last thing he hears before fully entering the portal is his friends calling his name with shock and worry.

Then the next thing he knows Hal is standing in the middle of what is clearly a mad science laboratory. That's not what has his main attention though; it's the two scientists poking and prodding at the crying child strapped down to the table.

Hal doesn't know the full story about what is going on, but he knows that he doesn't like it. He's also not going to waste time fighting with the two scientists who upon seeing him and the dog start yelling something about ghosts.

Quickly, he takes the two down and pulls the kid into his arms. Being as gentle as he can with the boy's injuries. It truly breaks Hal's heart with how tightly the boy clings to him while softly begging for help; he's clearly been down here for a long time. Hal offers any reassures he can before the kid passes out.

Just as Hal is now thinking about how to get out of here the dog is once again grabbing onto him, much more gently this time he'll note, and now the three of them are standing back on Oa. Without much thought Hal is flying towards the med bay area. Ignoring the looks from the other lanterns that are being thrown his way.

Hal doesn't care, the only thing he cares about right now is making sure that this kid is alright. And maybe talking to Batman about adoption papers because this is totally his kid now.

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dpxdc prompt: Always an Angel never a God

(Dc stands for DISREGARD CANNON! I NEED ANGST!!!)

Amity Parkers(the adults mainly) started to actually like Phantom. The instances started out with a toddler getting rescued by him when she nearly drowned, the mother thanking him for saving her baby.

And him doing small things, like helping a grandma or grandpa with groceries, getting a cat out from a tree(sometimes kids themselves).

How he fed the local stray Dogs and Cats. Even befriended a murder of crows from helping one of their crow friends with a broken wing.

How he gave cold un-melting ice sheets during hot summer days to the less fortunate.

it started to become great... Danny was happy that they saw his alter as a hero...(Why does his back itch so much? His head also hurts-)

But of course... The G.i.W had to fuck it up...

For some fucking reason they somehow convinced the Justice League that HE was the fucking villain in the story and that he took the town in some kind of mind control.

Surely they would do research? Try to see that he isn't the bad guy?

nope... Not at all...

It felt like an invasion... an invasion and attack on his haunt.

He slammed into the concrete... Staring at the heros he once looked up to... How he trained trying to follow their fight patterns... He felt tears about to break... And looked down.

... Then a shadow shielded him... and he looked back up...

The little girl he saved from drowning all those months ago... Was standing infront of him... Her cheeks puffed up, determined to protect her hero.

The hero(can be any hero) tried to talk to the girl, saying that "Phantom is a dangerous unknown-"

But the girl yelled. Saying in her squeaky voice how Phantom saved her from nearly drowning.

Crows that understood that the ghost boy that helped their friend with a wounded wing and fed them was in distress and decended on some buildings like a calvary made of feathers. The Cats basically unionising with the Dogs to be stronger in numbers.

Amity park as a whole came around.

And he heard one, he believed it was Christina, a kind, Christian, single mother of 2, who sometimes gave him some food after she saw him eating one time, yelling. "YOU WON'T TAKE THE ANGEL THAT CAME WHEN YOU DIDN'T ANSWER AWAY!"

more people yelled in unison, of how Phantom was their savior when they were silenced. Snuffed out like a flame that wanted to be a forest fire.

And then it happened...

The Words That Were Truth.

The Positivity.

The Kindness.

The Gratitude.

How Safe children felt around him

The Hope they Gained from Him.

That he was An Angel from between.

The Laughter he shared with his puns.

He was their HERO

...

Phantom was enveloped in a bright light...

Phantom opened his eyes... He had wings....

Large, and feathered, greens and blackss swirling like the zone, his other wing being purple with white swirls...

He felt his head but couldn't feel anything... But could see the bursts of colors that were the northern lights as his halo....

Always an Angel...

Never a God...

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combine ‘danny’s mad science is showing’ as a gotham u student from this au and the ‘apollo’s little helper au with a twist: danny is Dionysus’ prophet, but apollo thinks he’s neat.

Context: dionysus protected the oracle of Delphi for apollo for either a quarter or half the year. Dionysus’ ThingsTM include (but not limited too): madness, outcasts, rebellion, death and rebirth (see wine and its symbolize there) and seen as a youthful, feminine man (depending on person, this has been read as being some flavor of genderqueer).

Au largely is Danny in Gotham U adjusting to gotham and keeping his ‘Fenton tendencies’ to a minimum on his side. Outsider POV is baby rogue and there is Fear.

Problem: Danny keeps pausing and telling others ‘bad vibes, unless you want to be in a spat between the vigilantes and rogues, schooch!’

Those that dont listen keep getting caught up in attacks. Those that do? Miss the attack.

Word speads largely in Bowery about ‘apollo’s new helper’ who residents make sure to keep fed and check in on the out of state gotham U kid that’s giving them heads up on BS before it happens.

In gotham u everyone is convinced Danny is Rogue To BeTM and avoiding him besides Duke, who realized Danny is second gen mad scientist who just wants to help people with his inventions.

Danny has 2 v different reps hems unaware of: apollo’s helper in the bowery and Crime Alley, and ‘baby rogue’ in gotham u.

Stephanie knows of Baby Prophet rep and treats Danny as such. Largely by throwing snacks at him and sneak attacks to test reflexes—they are friends, and she’s in her nursing school.

Duke is Danny’s gotham u friend and the two are enabling each other’s Gremlin while trying to minimize it at the same time. Duke enables avoiding the police but tries to stop danny’s ‘gift giving’ of self defense weapons that may be able to give most demons, and possibly a minor god or two, a run for their money.

No one knows danny is Both the Baby Rogue and Apollo’s little helper.

Duke blocks the family from His Friend and has the file on lock with Babs backing him up—his friend is out of a bad childhood and doing better, fuck off.

Stephanie and a lot of gotham residents just know Danny as The Guy and cover for him to prevent rogues from targetting his midwestern ass. Bats know he exists as a meta or magic user with crazy pre-cognition for disasters and is actively preventing them but he never reports to the police just another civilian to do the report as ‘i got shit to do, and a longer commute and papers to write, the pigs can fuck off’

Danny is Vibing until he finds out his reps. He calls Amity FriendsTM and his class for ‘hey so…’ and asks for advice

Wes is screaming about Danny being ‘apollo’s brother’s not his weird ass god’s’ so Danny now has to deal with possibly deific beef over him if this keeps up on Apollo Helper Side.

Tucker and Sam Laugh. Val suggests an acting class for the mad science.

Paulina and the A Listers do bug danny for help (usually an invention or two) to handle A CreepTM and suggest he listen more to Duke on lowering his ‘Fenton-ness’ (jazz echoes this but he hates it). And to use his ‘ghost detecting bladder for good’ as he has been.

Duke begins operant conditioning with a spray bottle while Danny takes an acting elective.

Apollo, in charge of prophets, sees Danny, favored by Dionysus, accused of being Apollo and a Prophet of Apollo interchangeably at this point AND him in theatre.

He has a prank for his brother now—take that for throwing him under the bus around Hera last month!

Danny gets hit with a sunbeam while denying he’s apollo’s. He freezes. Then turns his head up and goes ‘your actual seer told me i’m not one of yours, knock it off!’ Before going off on the ‘little helper’ comment.

The little helper watch is Losing ItTM.

Duke finds out from Danny and well. Duke is staring at his meta mad science friend who apparently has divine favor of a greek god. They are now working out which one they think it is.

Danny gets Dionysus’ vines protecting him during an ivy attack on Gotham U and goes ‘wait the wine god? That’s who got custody? I thought it was pandora or does this not count ghost adoption?’

Duke shows up as signal to help and ends up spraying Danny as ‘now we have 2 things to cover up’

Steph finds out when she sees Duke and Danny later going to Danny’s place that the prophet is Baby Rogue. She and Duke do the Spiderman Pointing Meme. Danny has No Context but vibes.

Largely casual chaos and slice of life, but my god is everyone keeping Danny away from the rest. Except Stephanie wants Tim and Danny to meet for New Tech Reasons. Duke is preventing as ‘no villian arc please’

Atm dionysus’s helper au is working name. Danny is here for casual mad science and occult tendencies, vibing, and stopping major disasters.

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Anakin is not an example of a person disillusioned or hurt by a religion, he's an example of someone rejecting the teachings of a faith for his own indulgences

And i think that is what throws people off, it's a really uncommon message in mainstream media, typically you'd only see it in religious media (and you know the kind I'm referring to), most of the time when it comes to faith (read: Christianity) in media the story is of someone rejecting the faith (Christianity) out of disillusionment or harm received from it, and people expect that

But the Jedi are not Christianity, they're Buddhism, and turning his back on the Jeci/Buddhist teachings is what causes disaster for Anakin's life, it's rather subversive, and that confuses and angers people, they want things to be the way they expect them, they don't want different, so they construe a version of SW that fits their preconceived notions of religion (specifically the Christianity they grew up in) where the Jedi are oppressive and controlling over the congregation and Anakin is someone who got sick of it and broke free like they the viewer did (never mind how many of them never unlearned their mindsets born out of a Christian upbringing and just apply that mindset to other things)

This is of course a depressing misunderstanding of a fairly straightforward text, but also a concerning insight into these people's view of the world, that religion is all the same and bad and those who follow are trapped and only by abandoning faith are you free

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My toxic trait is that I am far more interested in the socio-economic and geopolitical implications of ABO settings than the smut.

For example: I can't read any ABO AUs set in England or France because while I can suspend my disbelief far enough for a gender trinary set up, I can't suspend it enough to believe those two countries would still be distinct entities in a alternate history where Richard the Lionheart could have impregnated Philip II.

If there was a viable dynastic future with Richard, Philip would have climbed him like an oak and dragged him to the altar if he had to. It's a match that makes perfect sense from both their points of view: Philip gets Aquitaine back under French rule, the best general in Europe on his council, and a powerful check on the Angevins... then unexpectedly (after Henry the Young bites it) the entire Kingdom of England for his Capetian dynasty. Richard meanwhile gets to stick it to his father, secure Aquitaine's prosperity, and gets the leverage to start pushing for his mother's release. Then when Henry kicks the bucket Richard doesn't actually have to be King of England in anything but name: Philip can run the countries and unify the Crowns and what not while Richard runs off to go Crusading.

Plus they also like, loved each other and stuff and being able to get to be together long term instead of being torn apart by politics would have been cool. But I'm mainly obsessed with the historical and dynastic implications.

All this to say any ABO au set in England or France that doesn't have them united as a singular Anglo-Frank empire is doing it wrong.