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gatorbites-imagines · 18 days

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I'm back wayy too early, Just as promised!👍🏻

How are you?

Would you like to explain, in the Reader of your choice that "Flaxans' king is kinda..", mister?🤨📸

Aaand that's It for now, drink some water mr. Allig-author, I'll do the same.

See you in the close future! ~💙🌺✨

Flaxan Leader x antihero male reader

Headcanons

straight up cant find any flaxan gifs

What do you mean 🤨📸 I said what I said 🗣️

Reader is kinda based on Deadpool, but with some tweaks. Insert also flaxan headcanons, cuz I thought it was funny.

Working with teen team had never really been something you planned to do. You were more of an antihero than an outright hero. Majority of the public didn’t even know about your existence, since most of your dirty work was done in the shadows.

But seeing as the guardians of the globe weren’t responsive, and you had been in this business for a long time, Cecil called in a favor you owed him, which lead to you fighting alongside this group of young heroes.

To you it felt like being a caretaker or kindergarten teacher, since you were older than all of them with a lot more knowledge and experience. Your lack of care about spilling blood and killing seemed to unnerve a few of them, invincible being one of them.

Your regeneration seemed to shock the flaxans you fought, as they’d blow your head off with their blasters, or would slice your limbs off, only for them to regrow in seconds as your damaged body kept on fighting.

Invincible may have scarred his face, but you were the one the one who would become the flaxan leader fought head on. You may not have super strength like some of the others, but your expertise made you even more of a bother to fight.

Since we know nothing about flaxans, let’s say that they flirt through sparring or fighting, so you being your joking usual Deadpool self could be seen as advances of some kind. The kiss you blow him as they flee the first time doesn’t help your case.

After the first invasion, I can already imagine the likes of invincible freaking out a little or a lot about how easily you kill and how you make a joke out of everything. It results in you having to give these young heroes a reality check, that being a hero isn’t easy, and that they’ll probably end up killing more people than they save. That’s your feelings about it anyways.

The second invasion has you involved again, since your extreme healing factor also means you barely need to sleep, eat or drink, as your body keeps itself going without issue. And once again you end up fighting the flaxan leader, whose now got a different look.

The first words that leave your mouth is ooing and awing, purring that you like em a little grey so you are happy to see him. All the talking you did during your first battle also meant that the flaxans, or maybe rather the leader, has a much better understanding of human speech.

The second invasion ends like the first, except the leader is too busy fighting with you to focus on invincible and atom eve, so Robot ends up finding their weakness on his own. Sometime during the fight your mask also ends up getting ripped off, letting you plant a big kiss on the flaxan leader’s forehead before they flee.

When members of the teen team ask why the hell you did that, you just shrug and make some comment about how you two “have a connection”. Its clearly a joke, because you take nothing seriously, but the flaxan leader seems to see it as legit.

The third invasion goes differently from the show, since the leaders risen up to rule all of his people, and instead of wanting to invade earth this time he comes through to court you, much to everyone’s surprise, both you, the teen team, and the media that’s been watching the entire time.

Imagine your surprise when the flaxan leader, now a good deal older and in a powersuit, rocking up to you with flowers native to his planet and what looks like a bracelet made out of similar material to his armor.

It takes some translation and some help from Cecil and his people to figure out what its all about, and honestly you feel a little chuffed at this big guy pretty much proposing to you after two fights. It seems completely out of the norm for humanity, but apparently its normal in flaxan culture.

In the end it helps create more of an allyship with the flaxans than them getting eradicated by omni-man. And you end up scoring a hot older guy who doesn’t seem to mind your many many scars. Its not everyone who can say their husband developed technology strictly to be able to exist in your world, is it? you definitely brag online about it, “if he wanted too, he would” and all that.

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cryptovalid · 3 years

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Invincible and the Mastery of Stakes

If you’ve been keeping an eye out for superhero media like I have, you’ve probably heard the buzz around the comic book adaptation ‘Invincible’ on Amazon Prime, created by Robert Kirkman.

If you haven’t seen the first four episodes, you really should. It’s one of my favorite reconstructions of superhero fiction. I’m not going to say it’s perfect, but it’s well-produced, phenominally paced, with a stellar cast and a great soundtrack, and an engaging whydunnit mystery surrounding likeable, relatable or at least fun-to-hate characters.

Invincible stars Steven Yuen as Mark Grayson; the son of Deborah, a human realtor voiced by Sandra Oh, and Nolan, a veteran alien superhero voiced by JK Simmons. When Mark inherits his father’s Superman-like abilities, he takes the codename Invincible to follow in his footsteps. He quickly learns that all his prodigious superpowers won’t help him achieve his goals if he doesn’t grow up fast. Especially because forces he knows nothing about are conspiring behind his back.

What Invincible -the show, not the dude- does best, aside from its central mystery and dramatic execution, is establishing stakes and delivering on the tension they build.

One of the persistent complaints about Superman as a franchise is that it’s boring because Superman will never lose, let alone die. He’s invulnerable. Invincible, even. As a show, Invincible shows us how much a character like that has to lose. The tension in this show is nailbiting, even though the main character is objectively one of the strongest, fastest and most invulnerable beings on earth.

There are so many threats to this young, overpowered boy. Go see for yourself. From here on there be spoilers. I haven’t read the comic and don’t want spoilers for episodes after no. 4, but I will be discussing some of the setups and payoffs in those early episodes.

Of course there’s the relatable, personal drama of high school love triangles, but I hate that stuff and so far, the real threat comes mostly in the show’s willingness to brutally kill off characters.

The death of the Guardians of the Globe is appropriately dramatic for several reasons. First, because it shows that Nolan could easily kill anyone on the show, and that we have no reason to doubt that he would. Suddenly, everyone is in extreme danger from the person they trust in most.

Second, because the deaths are appropriately brutal

And third, because they are appropriately tragic. These heroes are not just a parody of the justice league. They are not just here to show off how powerful Omni-Man is. They all had setups for future developments and arcs. They were the only heroes to effectively prioritize the safety of bystanders. Something that most superhero shows only focus on sporadically, but realistically takes most of their effort and time. Darkwing even almost dies sacrificing himself for a bystander. We love these people with their high-minded ideals, their relationship troubles, their little relatable vignets. We were so sure we would see them later. And when we do, it’s for the last time. We are asked to imagine what that would be like, only so it hurts more when Omni-man crushes their skulls beneath his gloved hands.

Fourth, and finally, these deaths feel permanent. This show feels like it’s building to a climax. It’s not meant to run forever. Sure, it’s theoretically possible that someone will clone these characters or resurrect Immortal, but that would never bring back the status quo. It would be a grim reminder of how existentially horrifying and futile their lives are.

But innocent bystanders are also a very important way to raise the stakes for an immortal superhero. We see how easily Mark can hurt, kill or simply fail to save innocent people by his actions and inactions, and we are made to care about it. Not just because Mark himself cares a whole lot, showing his anxiety and survivor’s guilt as real trauma, but also because we are shown their private conversations, their daily lives and relationships. We learn their names. So when they are saved, we truly care. And we know for a fact they could die. The show is not committed to making evrery death meaningful. The senselessness is what makes the death so traumatic, and a lot of superhero media tends to only highlight deaths are are meaningful or heroic in some way. Invincible reminds us that people die regardless of what they deserve, unexpectedly and with unfinished business. Even the imperialistic Flaxans deserve our sympathy, as they are eradicated by a wrathful God for the sins of their leaders.

That’s not even spreaking about the stakes involved in Mark’s hopes and dreams. This boy wants to save the world, like his father does. And from the very first episode we know that dream will turn to tragedy. This boy’s heart will break. His father is a killer and a threat to everything he loves. And he will probably try to convince Mark to join his side.

Even Mark’s life isn’t completely secure. I wouldn’t think it’s out of character for this show to end with the death of its main... character. We know that he’s not immortal, and there are other Viltrumites out there. I’m excited to know this series will have a finale, if only in the comics.

So despite the main character being as ‘overpowered‘ as Superman, Invincible shows us how the real stakes don’t rely on his enemies necessarily being stronger. Threaten his ideals, his sense of self, his support network, the people he cares about (or that the audience cares about), and I am invested in all those stakes.

Can’t wait for the rest of the season!

#mark grayson #Invincible #Invincible show #Invincible review

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gatorbites-imagines · 1 month

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you guys should send me invincible requests *blinks cutely*

ive only finished season 1 but im already watching season 2, so feel free to send requests about the characters.

i have also only read like the first 13 issues of the comics, so most if not all my knowledge is based on the show and the wiki.

Note that my fave is def Mark at this point, but many of the characters have grown on me, especially Darkwing 1 and 2, Immortal, Rex, etc. ill even write about the flaxans at this point, cuz why the flaxan leader kindaaaa.... also a big fan of the evil versions of invincible.

Ive already had a few ideas, like a reader thats kinda based around mysterio from marvel. Or maybe the reader being green ghost, or even some viltrumite reader stuff.

and yes, of course i write smut too 🔥

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