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maniacwatchestheworld · 2 months

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DPxDC story idea prompt thing #12

Dr. Victor Fries had swore both to himself and his precious wife, Nora, that he would find a cure for the both of them. He would do anything to save his wife from her terminal illness and had been keeping her in a frozen state until the day he could cure her. His precious snow angel. His most beloved ice princess.

But time is a crueler mistress than even the cold. Victor had been apart from his sweet Nora for years now, and he was no closer to finding a cure for her. For his part, Victor Fries was hardly the same man he had been when he and his wife agreed to have her cryogennically frozen until he could save her all those years ago. Victor- better known as Mr. Freeze these days- understood the cold that Nora was trapped in all too well now... But where she rested in her timeless winter slumber, Victor stayed awake.

It had been a freak accident that forced Victor to have to live this cryogenic suit or die. And he would not die. Not until his wife could be saved from the grips of death. He may have been doomed, little more than a frozen corpse spurred on to keep living for the sake of his wife, but if there was even a chance of his wife being cured and able to lead a normal life again, he would take it. There would be no cure for him. No. He didn't want one anymore. Once Nora's life had been saved, that would be enough for him. Once Nora was safe and healthy once more, he would be happy and permit himself to die at last. He often dreamed of feeling that warmth again. The warmth of Nora's hand against his skin. A feeling he could only experience when death finally came for him.

Meanwhile in the Ghost Zone, in the reaches of the Realm of the Far Frozen, something was forming. A core of ice, touched with an undying love that had never ceased nor hesitated for a moment over the long, frozen years. And from that core formed a woman, her frozen form in death just as beautiful as she was in life.

She collapsed into the soft, powdery snow, groaning as she slowly opened her eyes for the first time. "Victor...?" She asked into the air. She may have just formed, but she could feel that something was... Wrong. Like she wasn't entirely there... She shivered. She was cold. She was so, so cold... Why did she feel cold? Somehow in the center of her being she knew that this was her element... And something so dear to her shouldn't be able to hurt her... Right...? And yet she felt cold...

She looked up, but found that only one of her eyes could see. It somehow felt as if her other eye was closed and she could not open it no matter how hard she tried, even though she could feel with her fingers that her eyes were both open. No matter. "... Where am I...?" Nora asked aloud as she searched around her for her Victor. Where was he? Where was her Victor...? Had he found a cure? ... A cure for what...? ... Who was Victor?

Note: Just an idea that I came up with. Basically, Mr. Freeze is still doing his Mr. Freeze things in Gotham, but Nora has been frozen for so long in this pseudo-dead state that she half forms as a ghost in the Ghost Zone. I don't know how ghosts get born (or what the fanon says about that), so I'm making shit up here. Just roll with it. :p Nora is technically still "alive" where Victor is storing her... Or rather, she can be brought back to life relatively easily. But her illness isn't gone either, and by all accounts, she's technically dead as all of her biological functions have been perfectly frozen and are inactive. So she's both dead and not dead, you get me? So since she's technically half dead pretty much, I just wondered... What would happen if she somehow managed to form as an at least partial ghost while in this state!!!? Please use this idea and play with it all you like. I just... love Nora so much. Nora my beloved.

#dp x dc #dp x dc prompt #dpxdc #dp x dc crossover #dc x dp #dp x dc au #dc x dp crossover #dc x dp prompt #victor fries #victor freeze #mr. freeze #nora fries

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hannahhook7744 · 2 years

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My dc ocs part 2;

The Fries Family aesthetic.

Victoria Nora Fries.

Age 17.

Aka Shivers.

Powers/abilities; excellent liar, very intelligent, cold manipulation, cold immunity, and toxin immunity.

Weapons; gun that shoots ice bullets and ice blasts.

Supersuit; one piece bluish grey and white one piece with snowflake print boots, gloves, and a snow flake style mask.

The Nygma Family aesthetic.

Eleanor Kathrine Nygma.

Age 17.

Aka Mystery.

Powers/abilities; Mechanical engineering, deception, tactical analysis, computer hacking, escapology, gadgetry, electrical engineering, thievery, and basic hand to hand combat.

Weapons; a stun gun, a combat cane, traps, a riddle gun, and a Byron.

Supersuit; a royal purple, long-sleeved princess line dress with matching gloves, green tinted sunglasses, a green button up vest with matching hair bows, and a gold question mark necklace with matching earrings.

The Cutter Family aesthetic.

Aster Benvolio Cutter.

Age 16.

Aka Drawback.

Powers/abilities; enhanced vision, expert swordsmen, expert archer, expert marksmanship, slightly enhanced agility, slightly enhanced strength, stealth, and above average martial artist.

Weapons; ruby sword with heart handle, boot dagger wirh heart handle, trick arrows, and a sleeping dart gun.

Supersuit; worn out, medieval looking brown pants with matching boots and gloves, pink heart shaped sunglasses with a matching undershirt, and a hooded, lower half face chainmail overshirt.

(Son of Carrie Cutter aka Cupid).

The Thanagrian Family aesthetic.

Achilles Vernon Emerson.

Age 13.

Aka Icarus.

Powers/abilities;

Weapons; A thanagrian mace, a thanagrian bow and arrow, a thanagrian dagger, and a thanagrian staff.

Supersuit; pink pants with x suspenders, a pink flower grown, a gold heart necklace, and a pink and gold thanagrian hawk style mask.

(Son of Zizz).

Part 1 can be found here.

#dc rp #dc villains #dc fanon #dc fanfic #dc comics #zizz the thanagrian #the riddler #mr freeze #victor fries #nora fries #carrie cutter #cupid arrowverse #thanagrian #dc oc rp #dc oc #dc ocs #dc original characters #dc original character

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spacesuitsforemergency · 3 years

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Also I feel so bad for Victor, cause first his wife almost died and he spent years saving her rather than raising their daughter (Nancy had nannies for the first couple years of her life, thought he saved her mom when she was 4 so she doesn’t remember much), but then a few years later his daughter fell ill next. He thought he’d be able to cure her since he cured Nora, but it wasn’t quite the same disease so he had to figure it out all over again. Nancy was almost even cryogenically frozen like Nora was so that he had more time, but Nancy absolutely refused and said she didn’t want that to happen to her, so he was torn between spending time with her or saving her

#victor fries #mr freeze #nora fries #nancy fries #ice princess #BUT ITS FINE CAUSE BELLAMY SAVED THE DAY

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frczenhearts · 4 years

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I SAID I WAS GONNA DO IT AND BY GOLLY I’M DOING IT.

So, I’ve been wanting to write a post on something I came to realize after watching walkthroughs of Mr. Freeze’s DLC in Arkham Origins (Cold Cold Heart), how it connects to his own retelling of his origins to Hugo Strange in Arkham City, and how it connects to Batman: The Animated Series.

We were lead to believe that Victor Fries had been stealing company resources to save Nora. For YEARS it was given as a reason for him being a criminal and how he’s still “bad” even though he felt he had no choice.

Well, take a look at what Arkham Origins gives us:

What we learn is that Ferris Boyle approached Victor Fries and made a deal with him: make me weapons, and I’ll pay to save your wife. Victor HATES violence, he doesn’t believe in such things.....but he was vulnerable. He had no choice in his mind so he agreed.

He went on to build Ferris Boyle several cryoguns and cryocannons, but while HE was fulfilling his end of the bargain in spades, Ferris purposely dodged Victor’s questions regarding Nora’s research. He kept BEGGING to know what was going on, and Ferris kept saying “ it’s too soon we need more time you’re asking too much” blah blah blah.

Now, it seems to me that Ferris NEVER intended on saving Nora. Victor was making him a TREMENDOUS amount of money through creating these dangerous weapons and like Hell was he going to blow money on a woman he thought was a lost cause anyways. Most likely.....he planned on wasting time to the point that it was too late to cure Nora, and just go the whole “sorry it’s too late we can’t help her just let her go.”

Victor wasn’t the one breaking the law.....Ferris was. Victor honored his contract while his boss refused to honor his side of things, expecting Nora to die so he didn’t have to blow money on her while her husband was slaving away, desperately doing something he didn’t believe in in the false hopes that Gotham’s humanitarian would help save his wife. Victor was angry, so he decided to do the research himself. Ferris found out, and, in Victor’s words, claimed Nora was HIS property.

Victor used company resources, ergo, his wife was now GothCorp property and he could do whatever the Hell he wanted to her and had his guards basically steal her body right in front of her husband. Victor went ballistic, but was beaten back and knocked into the cryofluids that mutated him. Ferris never intended on helping Nora or Victor, and now saw Nora as yet another way to make money on the black market.

There are a few lines Freeze says to Batman in Arkham Origins that really chills me to the bone:

"I won't allow my wife to be subjected to any more tests. Do you understand!?"

"Do you have any idea what Boyle was doing to her!?"

Seems to me that Ferris Boyle was torturing Nora. He was using her as a guinea pig for his own sick experiments. And we wonder why Freeze is so damn angry in Arkham Origins. Wouldn’t you be angry too if your spouse was reduced to a lab experiment?

The DLC in question takes what Batman: The Animated Series gave us and made it better. There isn’t that stupid need to turn Freeze into an angry decapitated head that whines about being alone, and the games expand on his potential to be a hero by having him learn to trust and even help Batman.

Really freaking stinks that all his work ended up for nothing, because man......Nora should have been cured (Freeze was DAYS AWAY when Scarecrow apparently kidnapped her), and even if Freeze couldn’t go back to being himself again, just knowing she was alive would have made his miserable existence just that tiny bit better.

That is....if he allowed himself to live. Seems to me that he had always planned on taking off his helmet once Nora was saved. It’s too late to save him......only Nora meant anything to him. Not even his own life mattered compared to hers. :(

#Baby It's Cold Outside ( Headcannons)#Ice Princess ( Nora Fries)#MY HEART ;A;#Mister Freeze #Frost King ( Victor Fries/Mister Freeze)#Mr. Freeze #mr freeze #Victor Fries #victor freeze #nora fries #Batman #Batman Arkham Asylum #arkham asylum #Arkham City #Arkham Origins #Arkham Knight #Cold cold heart #heart of ice #DC Comics

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cleoradays · 2 years

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AND THE SUN WENT OUT:

F/O RELATED:

MOTI - platonic tag: [⌚: grow as we go]

A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE:

F/O RELATED:

TYRION LANNISTER - ship tag: [🍋: for the marriage of the lamb has come - and his bride has made herself ready]

S/I RELATED:

S/I (for TYRION): [🥞: i must become a lion hearted girl]

OC RELATED:

NAERELLA - general tag: [🍯: the bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail]

NAERELLA - x daenerys targaryen, ship tag: [🐉: i miss you more than anything]

ARREL - general tag: [🐕: and the sun bear gazed to the stars]

ARREL - x tyrion lannister: [🌕: kiss by kiss - i move across your small infinity]

JOENNE - general tag: [🐆: and i will teach my daughter to plunge her claws]

MYRGA - general tag: [🦣: she looks for her omens in the colors of stones]

BLACK BUTLER:

FOUND FAMILY - alois & ciel & elizabeth & soma & sieglinde & sebastian & agni & mey-rin & finnian & bard & snake & tanaka & grelle & ronald, family tag: [♟: at your service]

ADULT S/I - general tag: [🐈‍⬛: if it means i can protect you]

CHILD S/I - general tag: [🎶: all things were glad and flourishing]

BREAKING BAD:

F/O RELATED:

JIMMY MCGILL / SAUL GOODMAN - ship tag: [⚖️: malewife]

JESSE PINKMAN (& JANE MARGOLIS) - ship tag: [🌭: i wish that i had jessie’s girl]

S/I RELATED:

LIZBETH “LIZZY” “LIZ” (for SAUL) - general tag: [💅🏻: bikini bimbette]

CAGER MYERS (for JESSE & JANE) - general tag: [🧷: you wish a lot of things]

CATCH-22:

F/O RELATED:

IVOR ORR - ship tag: [🔧: i’ll listen]

JOHN YOSSARIAN - family tag: [✈️: steady on]

CREEPYPASTA:

CREEPYPASTA FAMILY - general tag: [🌲: people of the forest]

F/O RELATED:

JEFFREY WOODS / JEFF THE KILLER - ship tag: [🪦: kittywood]

NINA HOPKINS / NINA THE KILLER - ship tag: [🔪: ninakitty]

TOBIAS ROGERS / TICCI TOBY - ship tag: [🪓: kittyrogers]

JACK NICHOLS / EYELESS JACK - ship tag: [🌌: eyeless kitty]

TIM WRIGHT / MASKY & BRIAN THOMAS / HOODIE - family tag: [🐻: defend and conquer]

SLENDERMAN - family tag: [🐑: the lion and the lamb]

KATE MILENS / KATE THE CHASER - family tag: [🔦: lost and found]

BENJAMIN / BEN DROWNED - family tag: [👾: sleepin’ in the middle of a summer afternoon]

JANE ARKENSAW / JANE THE KILLER - family tag: [🌬: snow and seams]

NATHALIE OUELLETTE / CLOCKWORK - family tag: [🕰️: clock kitty]

LAUGHING JACK - family tag: [🎪: carnie cats]

SALLY WILLIAMS - family tag: [🧸: come little children]

SPLENDORMAN - family tag: [🌈: my little jelly bean]

LAUGHING JILL - family tag: [🕷: you can be my imaginary friend!]

S/I RELATED:

S/I (for EVERYONE) - general tag: [⚰: one true home]

OC RELATED:

ALICE BURNS - general tag: [☀️: go ask alice - i think she’ll know]

ALICE BURNS - x jeffrey woods, ship tag: [🪐: baby you’re a vampire]

ALICE BURNS - x nina hopkins, ship tag: [💗: i feel pink]

ALICE BURNS - & toby rogers, family tag: [🍂: we walk too close to the radar]

BEAM - general tag: [🐁: good afternoon miss - you are my second victim]

DC:

F/O RELATED:

BRUCE WAYNE / BATMAN - ship tag: [🦇: batcloud]

EDWARD NYGMA / THE RIDDLER (& MIYU TANGRAM / THE QUIZ) - ship tag: [🦖: riddlecloud]

SELINA KYLE / CATWOMAN - ship tag: [🐾: cloudcat]

HARVEY DENT & TWO-FACE - ship tag: [💕: twoclouds]

DUELA DENT - ship tag: [🍭: harlecloud]

OSWALD COBBLEPOT / THE PENGUIN - ship tag: [☂: cloudbird]

VICTOR & NORA FRIES - ship tag: [❄️: iceclouds]

JONATHAN CRANE / THE SCARECROW - ship tag: [🧪: cloudcrow]

ELLA NASHTON / ENIGMA - ship tag: [🧩: puzzlecloud]

HARLEEN QUINZEL / HARLEY QUINN - family tag: [💋: gotham’s princess]

HARLEY QUINN - platonic tag: [♠️: queens of gotham]

POISON IVY - platonic tag: [🍃: leaves from the vine]

OC RELATED:

CONSTANCE - general tag: [🍰: strip away my conscience]

CONSTANCE - x bruce wayne, ship tag: [💌: fuck your tunnels / fuck your cars]

CONSTANCE - x selina kyle, ship tag: [🎀: come come kitty kitty]

CONSTANCE - x harvey dent & two-face, ship tag: [🏩: you’re my obsession]

CONSTANCE - & harvey & duela, family tag: [🤍: trust your angels]

CYRIL BLOOM - general tag: [🦆: velvet and violins]

ELSA KING - general tag: [🦢: rubies and pearls]

ELSA X CYRIL - x oswald cobblepot, ship tag: [🥂: gotham’s finest]

PHOEBUS - general tag: [💥: not the same man i was before]

PHOEBUS - x edward nygma, ship tag: [🔥: melt with you]

PHOEBUS - & edward & ella & miyu & echo & query, family tag: [🪀: riddle!family]

DOCTOR WHO:

F/O RELATED:

THE DOCTOR “THETA” - ship tag: [🛸: and i’ll love you always - across the universe - across time]

ROSE TYLER - ship tag: [🌷: every rose has its thorn]

DURARARA!!:

F/O RELATED:

CELTY STURLUSON - platonic tag: [🏍: in the midst of that empty space - the shadow smiled]

SHIZUO HEIWAJIMA - platonic? tag: [💢: i really hate violence]

EVERYMANHYBRID:

F/O RELATED:

HABIT - ship tag: [🥩: hop hop little lop]

S/I RELATED:

S/I (for HABIT) - general tag: [🐰: run rabbit run]

GORILLAZ:

GENERAL FAMILY TAG (primarily margo & murdoc & jem & etienne & me): [🍉: niccals-green family]

F/O RELATED:

STUART POT / 2D - family tag: [🎱: you killed my tamagotchi!]

ACE COPULAR - family tag: [🌴: welcome to venice dweeb]

RUSSEL HOBBS - family tag: [🥁: time is gonna pass - so make it count]

NOODLE - family tag: [🐱: you can kid the world - but not your sister]

S/I RELATED:

S/I - general tag: [🧁: welcome to paradise]

OC RELATED:

MARGO GREEN - general tag: [🛼: she is messy - but she’s kind]

MARGO GREEN - x murdoc niccals, ship tag: [🎸: i am your music and i am your song]

MARGO GREEN - & stuart pot, platonic tag: [🦋: we are dead butterflies]

MARGO GREEN - & ace copular, platonic tag: [🤘: calling the world from isolation]

MARGO GREEN - & noodle, family tag: [🌺: everything stays]

MARGO GREEN - & marla kekoa, family tag: [🍒: forget him!]

JEM GREEN - general tag: [👙: venice vixen]

ETIENNE GREEN - general tag: [🕸: like father / like son]

ETIENNE GREEN - x kady, ship tag: [🎮: brony marriage]

MARLA KEKOA - general tag: [🐄: live-laugh-love core]

GOTHAM:

F/O RELATED:

VICTOR ZSASZ - ship tag: [🕺: won’t you take me to funkytown?]

BARBARA KEAN - family tag: [🌃: siren’s daughter]

BUTCH GILZEAN - platonic/family tag: [🐡: watch out kid!]

S/I RELATED:

S/I (for BARBARA & BUTCH) - general tag: [👡: a girl among tyrants]

OC RELATED:

GOTHAM!PHOEBUS - x victor zsasz, ship tag: [🍬: i can’t trust the fall]

HARRY POTTER:

F/O RELATED:

SEVERUS SNAPE - ship tag: [☕: the mind is not a book to be opened at will]

S/I RELATED:

S/I (for SEVERUS) - general tag: [💫: professor of ancient studies]

OC RELATED:

FREYA THRAWCLIFFE - general tag: [🕯: professor of the healing arts]

FREYA THRAWCLIFFE - x severus snape, ship tag: [🧺: this too / shall pass ]

MARBLE HORNETS:

F/O RELATED:

JAY MERRICK / SKULLY (& TIM WRIGHT) - ship tag: [📹: the ant and the dove]

ALEX KRALIE - ship tag: [📼: i’m way too young to lie here forever]

OC RELATED:

NICHOLAS HILL - general tag: [🐏: king of the road]

NICHOLAS HILL - x jay merrick, ship tag: [🪶: two birds]

NICHOLAS HILL - & tim wright, ship tag: [🚬: there’s nothing i won’t understand]

TED LASSO:

F/O RELATED:

TED LASSO - ship tag: [⚽️: how much the heart can hold]

UNDERTALE/DELTARUNE:

F/O RELATED:

TORIEL DREEMURR & SANS - ship tag: [🌨: irisoriel]

PAPYRUS - ship tag: [🌞: here comes the sun]

SPAMTON G. SPAMTON - ship tag: [🔌: cyber kitten]

QUEEN - ship tag: [💎: e-married]

S/I RELATED:

KITTY (for EVERYONE) - general tag: [⭐: the light bearer]

OC RELATED:

KITTY - x papyrus, ship tag: [💛: to the bone - with love]

KITTY - x spamton, ship tag: [📞: no flatline - what were you scared about?]

KING - general tag: [💾: who rules the cyber world?]

KING - x queen, ship tag: [🌐: king upon her throne]

WAKFU:

F/O RELATED:

PERCEDAL OF SADLYGROVE & EVANGELYNE - ship tag: [🏹: do not weep / do not wail / i am coming home to you]

NOXIMILIEN “NOX” “MILIEN” - ship tag: [⚙️: oh - father time]

RUEL STROUD - family tag: [🍳: on the road again]

YUGO - family tag: [🌾: there’s a wind alive in the valley]

RUBILAX - platonic tag: [🗡️: devil may care]

REMINGTON SMISSE - platonic tag: [⚔️: thick as thieves]

S/I RELATED:

S/I (for EVERYONE) - general tag: [🐛: a world so wide and warm]

CLEORA (for NOX) - general tag: [🌿: true peace looks like this]

OC RELATED:

FOUND FAMILY - isre & remington & rook & fionan, family tag: [🍀: soldier - poet - king]

ISRE - general tag: [🍊: there will come a ruler - whose brow is laid in thorn]

ISRE - x yugo, ?? tag: [🍓: will you greet the daylight looming - learn to love without consuming?]

ROOK - general tag: [🌙: he will slay you with his tongue]

ROOK - x remington smisse, ship tag: [🗝: please don’t lean on me - ‘cause i don’t want your heart between my teeth]

FIONAN - general tag: [🦁: he will tear your city down]

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femalechibiblogger · 4 years

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My Top 10 Most Tragic Villains

1. Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader

Anakin Skywalker is one of the most important characters in the Star Wars franchise. In the first movie, Anakin is only mentioned and is described as being a skilled Jedi Knight, a good pilot, and was also a good friend. Even in the prequels and cartoons that came years later, Anakin is shown to be kind, caring, and determined to save those closest to him. However...no one would have expected a great Jedi and friend to become the most infamous villain in the series. Anakin’s darker feelings, such as anger and jealousy, made him vulnerable to the Dark Side of the Force. When he has visions of his pregnant wife, Padme, dying in childbirth, Anakin is determined to do anything that he can to stop his vision from coming true...including betraying his friends, killing children, and helping a Sith Lord conquer the galaxy. However, Padme still dies, and Anakin becomes the Sith Lord: Darth Vader. Anakin had lost everything...his friends, his wife, everyone...and now all he had left was Emperor Palpatine and the Empire. But for many years, Anakin was unaware that his children had survived: His son Luke, and his daughter Leia. In the end, Anakin chooses to save Luke from Palpatine, and dies knowing that his son never gave-up on him.

Despite Darth Vader having been a villain, he is only a villain because he was deceived and tormented until he lost everything and everyone who loved and cared about him. For many years, Anakin was haunted by his past actions, and lived in great regret of what he had done. But in the end, we see that he still had some good left in him, as Palpatine could never destroy Anakin’s love for his children.

2. Arthur Fleck/Joker (2019)

Arthur Fleck is the main character of the original DC Comics story in the movie, Joker. Arthur is shown to be a mentally ill man who suffers from uncontrollable laughter due to a brain injury, who lives with his delusional and emotionally disturbed mother. Arthur worked as a clown, but his dream was to become a comedian. However, Arthur had been mocked by many people in Gotham, which caused him to kill three men who were harassing both him and a woman on a train. Arthur’s actions cause an uproar consisting of people who are either poor, unemployed, mentally ill, or all of the above. As the story progresses, Arthur discovers from shocking truths about his life: His mother had lied about him being the illegitimate son of her former boss, billionaire Thomas Wayne... His mother was actually his adoptive mother, and that he allowed her boyfriend to abuse Arthur...abuse that had caused him his head injury which is the reason for his uncontrollable laughing. Tired of being lied to and ridiculed all his life, Arthur kills his mother, dresses up as a clown, and kills people on live television. Not only that, but the protests that Arthur had unintentionally caused resulted in the murder of Thomas and Martha Wayne, whose murders were witnessed by their son Bruce.

This is one of the few stories that actually features Joker’s backstory. This movie is not based off of any comics, and is therefore an original story. While Joker is one of Batman’s most dangerous villains, this may be one of the greatest portrayals of his former self. Arthur Fleck had suffered his whole life, until he snapped and would become one of the Gotham’s greatest threats.

3. Simon Petrikov/Ice King

The Ice King was the main antagonist of the cartoon, Adventure Time. Throughout the series, Ice King would attempt to kidnap princesses, especially Princess Bubblegum, and would often fight the two main protagonists: Finn and Jake. However, Ice King’s past was unexpectedly revealed in the episode, Holly Jolly Secrets. At first the episode is comedic and shows videos of Ice King’s hilarity...but it all becomes serious and sad near the end. Ice King is revealed to have once been a human named ‘Simon Petrikov’, who specialized in mysterious, supernatural artifacts. Simon had a great career, and was madly in love with his fiance: Betty. But one day, Simon found a mysterious crown buried in ice and snow. When Simon put it on his head, it gave him visions that made him act insane without him even realizing it. This drove Betty away, and Simon began to slowly change physically, emotionally, and mentally. In the end, Simon was driven completely insane and lost all memories of his past. His obsession with princesses is because he used to call Betty his ‘princess’...though he did not remember calling her that. In the series finale, Simon is freed from the crown’s power and is returned to his old self.

While Ice King was introduced as a comedic villain, and was the main antagonist for most of the series...he is still a tragic villain do to him once being a sane man with a good life, but began to lose his mind because of the crown’s magic. At least he was transformed back into his old self, in the end.

4. Mr. Freeze

Mr. Freeze is one of the most famous and tragic villains in the Batman universe. Mr. Freeze is, of course, a villain who uses the cold in his crimes. But in the past, Mr. Freeze was a scientist named ‘Victor Fries’ who had a loving and caring relationship with his wife: Nora. Victor loved Nora more than anything in the world. But at some point, Nora was diagnosed with a fatal disease with not long to live. Desperate to save her, Victor had Nora cryonectically frozen in order to keep her alive until a cure for her illness was found. Unfortunately, however, the equipment malfunctioned, causing the lab to explode in ice with Victor in it. Victor survived, but the explosion caused his body to only be able to survive in extremely cold weather. Nora had also survived...but her condition was even more serious than before. Victor created a suit to help him live, and began to commit crimes so he could continue keeping his wife alive.

Mr. Freeze’s motive for his crime spree is his wife’s life. He would go to extreme lengths to save her life...even if it meant becoming a bad guy.

5. Zack Foster and Rachel Gardner

While number 5 on the list consists of a duo...Zack and Rachel make one heck of a team. Zack and Rachel are the two main characters in the anime, Angels of Death, in which all of the characters are, in fact, mentally unstable individuals who like to kill people.

As a child, Zack had lived with his mother until her boyfriend set him on fire for his own enjoyment. While Zack survived this attack, his mother abandoned him at an illegal orphanage, where many other orphans were mistreated and starved by the couple who owned the orphanage. Zack was forced to bury the bodies of the orphans who died there, and was treated as a pet by the couple. One night, Zack watched a slasher film, which gave him the idea to stab the couple to death while they slept. Afterwards, Zack left the orphanage and was soon taken in a blind, homeless man who was the first and only person to ever show him kindness. However, the man was killed by a couple of sociopaths. Zack found out and killed them. For many years...Zack would kill people who were ‘happy’ and lied to him, thus earning him the title of a serial killer.

Rachel had lived with her parents before the start of the series. Rachel’s father was a cop who had a drinking problem, which resulted in several fights between him and his wife. Both of them blamed each other for Rachel’s lack of emotions, but only stayed together because of Rachel. Rachel’s father saw her as an insane girl, and her mother hated her and would even beat her. One day, Rachel found a stray puppy and wanted to keep it, but her parents wouldn’t listen to her and just kept on fighting with each other. But later on, she went back to where the puppy was and it bit her. This caused Rachel to blackout, but when she came to...she saw that she had killed the dog without even remembering what she had done. She then “fixed” the puppy by sewing it back together, thus “making it her’s”. When Rachel returned home with the puppy that night, her father snapped and stabbed her mother to death. Rachel witnessed it and ran back to her room, with her father chasing after her with the knife. Rachel took out a gun that her mother had hidden from him, and shot her father in self-defense. Rachel then sewed her parents’ bodies together, as her way of “fixing” them and creating her “perfect family”. A week later, the police arrived at the house and saw Rachel with the sewed up puppy and her parents. The police thought that Rachel was a surviving victim who was in shock, and was sent to a mental institution for treatment.

Zack and Rachel are quite complicated, as they have both protagonist and antagonist qualities. They both kill people and use each other to escape a building full of death traps and killers...but they also care and understand each other, as they have both suffered years of abuse to the point of developing murderous instincts.

6. Dr. Doofenshmirtz

Dr. Doofenshmirtz was basically the main comedic-antagonist of the cartoon, Phineas and Ferb. Doofenshmirtz is the arch nemesis of Perry the Platypus, and is always making some kind of ‘inator’ device to conquer the Tri State Area...though many of his “evil” plans backfire and are not really THAT evil. Though the reason why Doofenshmirtz is an evil genius, is because of his bad childhood.

Both of his parents neglected him, he always lived in the shadow of his younger brother, his only friend was a balloon, no one ever came to any of his birthdays, he was forced to wear dresses after his brother was born, and he was even disowned at one point and was forced to live with ocelots. So, yeah...it’s no wonder he turned to a life on crime.

Doofenshmirtz is quite hilarious and not very evil...but his terrible childhood makes you wonder how he hasn’t killed anyone! At least his arch nemesis and teenage daughter care about him.

7. Denzel Crocker

Denzel Crocker is one of the main antagonists of the cartoon, Fairly Odd Parents. Crocker is a fourth grade teacher who is obsessed with catching fairies...which makes the people around him see him as crazy. Of course, there is a reason for his obsession with fairies.

When Crocker was a child, his single mother worked two jobs and left him with an abusive babysitter. Because of this, he had fairy godparents...just like Timmy Turner. His life with his fairies was the only time in his life when he was happy. However, after Timmy went back in time and accidentally revealed that Crocker had fairies, his fairies were taken away from him and his memory was erased several times. People even forgot all of the good things that Crocker had done with his fairies, and was now hated by the townspeople. Because his memory was erased more than once, his appearance changed...but he still did not forget the existence of fairies, only forgetting that he himself had fairy godparents as a child.

Crocker’s obsession with proving the existence of fairies has caused him to become a laughing stock, to the point where he was expelled from Harvard, was denied funding for his fairy research, lost his girlfriend, and he never moved out of his childhood home. Crocker is capable of building extraordinary machines and is quite smart, but he wastes his talents on trying to prove the existence of fairies. If only Crocker had never became obsessed with fairies, he may have been able to live a normal and decent life.

8. Wellies

Wellies are the residents of Wellington Wells in the game, We Happy Few. Wellies are known to be decent citizens in Wellington Wells...but their minds and emotional states are from from decent. They kill or throw out anyone who becomes a Downer (a person who either won’t take Joy, or cannot take Joy due to having a bad reaction towards it). But their villainous characteristics are all caused by denial and drug usage.

In an alternate timeline, England surrendered to Germany during WWII and the citizens of Wellington Wells were forced to send their under 13 children on a train to Germany. The children never returned, even after Germany lost the war, and all of the townspeople were so traumatized by what had happened that they now rely on a drug: Joy. Joy is a pill that makes people forget the past, and put them in a state of constant happiness. The Wellies are addicted to this drug, as they cannot bear to remember what had happened to the children. To make matters worse, their whole civilization is now on the verge of collapse due to many problems caused by them always being on Joy: Broken machinery, plagues caused by pollution, towns beginning to collapse due to poor maintenance, starvation due to lack of food production, and a government who cannot bear to face the reality of their situation and would rather be on Joy than solve the problem.

Because of their reliance on Joy, Wellies are completely unaware that the town is collapsing, and would rather be in denial than face reality.

9. Mary

Mary is the hidden antagonist in the game, Ib. At first, Mary appears to be an innocent girl who claims to be trapped in the Fabricated World like the main protagonists, Ib and Garry. However, it is revealed that Mary is actually a girl from a painting who wants to escape the Fabricated World by replacing either Ib or Gary in the real world.

Depending on the game’s ending, Mary either replaces Ib or Garry in the real world by leaving one of them behind in the Fabricated World, or is defeated by Ib and Garry and remains trapped in the Fabricated World.

Mary was the last painting made by the artist: Guertena. She saw him as her “father”, because she was created by him, and was devastated by his death. Mary is very lonely in the Fabricated World, and wants so desperately to exist in the real world. Mary would do anything to become real and have a friend and family of her own. Years of loneliness can make a person desperate and insane.

10. Zombies

Zombies are always the villains in anything zombie-related. They are undead humanoids who eat human flesh, and drive survivors to do questionable things and fight for survival.

However, there is something that some people seem to forget: Zombies used to be normal, ordinary humans who did not become zombies by choice. They were turned into zombies either because of a mysterious virus, or a nuclear weapon that mutated them into creatures of the undead.

Zombies do not remember who they once were, and some even end up killing and eating their own loved ones without even realizing it. They have basically been ripped of their humanity and are now walking shells of their former selves.

#top 10 list #zombie #villain #tragic #dr. doofenshmirtz #angels of death #ib #video games #cartoon #denzel crocker #we happy few #wellies #ice king #mr freeze #darth vader #joker #arthur fleck

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[Suicide Squad Scrap] Princess pt 6

self-indulgent batjokes-flavored SS/BvS/JL, installment 6. i love Gotham!Bullock to bits, and one of my favorite moments in the show was the brief argument over how to pronounce ‘Fries’—in this divergent little universe, the proper pronunciation follows Gotham, and rhymes with ‘ice,’ not ‘ease.’ also, Joker is resistant to all chemicals in canon (and radiation, depending on who’s writing him), and he seems to be more physically resilient than the average human—here, he’s got super-fast healing, as long as you give him a good night’s sleep.

the piece as a whole is rated Mature for pervasive language, varying degrees of violence, use of controlled substances, sexual references, questionable ethics, and themes of mental illness. set from Flag’s POV, with references to Birds of Prey, but not compliant with The Suicide Squad.

p.s. etymologists (those who study the histories/origins of words) broadly agree that ‘to give one gyp’ is unrelated to ‘to gyp someone,’ and that it comes from ‘gee-up’/‘geeyup,’ not from ‘gypsy’…‘to give gyp’ means ‘to bother/harass/spur,’ not ‘to cheat’/‘to make trouble.’

***

The next morning, Waller’s already got the next mark on her wish list ready, so she hands Flag the file.

Victor Fries, PhD MD, cryogenicist and costumed criminal occasionally on the payroll of LexCorp (through shell companies). ‘Costumed’ is a bit of a stretch, since it’s apparently a complex medical apparatus and his identity isn’t a secret.

“A Gotham native,” she says, as he starts to read the brief bio in the dossier. “Identity completely public. And yet the Bat only managed to catch him once, and even then only because he found the man’s ice cube of a wife.”

“He won’t work for us without the wife,” Flag immediately dismisses as he reads that Nora’s situation was the impetus behind Victor turning to a life of crime.

“I don’t need him to. I want more points against Batman, and we have the added edge of a man with inside knowledge.”

Flag flips the page.

Known associates: Nora Fries (wife), Thomas Wayne (d. coworker, Gotham Medical Center), Melody Trimble (coworker, GothCorp), Mario Maroni (d. Maroni crime family), Tino Maroni (Maroni crime family), Edward Nygma (alias “The Riddler”), Jack Napier (alias “Jack White,” alias “Mister J,” alias “The Joker”)

“I dunno he’ll be in a talking mood, after all that shit you had them pump into his veins. Speaking of, the Bat was fit to spit nails. Said he ‘knows it’s hard to tell when he’s had enough,’ but to never dose him this much again.”

“I don’t give a good goddamn how pissed off he was. I will gladly risk his lily white princess dropping dead before I risk trained medics having their faces ripped off. The damn clown is a temperamental psychotic killer with a fetish for unchecked, bloody mayhem, and we’ll have a hell of a time getting anyone to treat our pets ever again if he gets a chance to go Pennywise on somebody. Back to the topic at hand, please? We have a location for a hideout, but Blüdhaven isn’t cooperating—we have to keep it quiet and contained. Get the clown loaded onto the plane so you can get surveillance running in time to raid it tonight.”

“He’s not going on this op,” Flag growls.

“He is absolutely going on this op,” counters Waller. “He’s got inside information and local knowledge.”

“He’ll get somebody killed—he’s still got a goddamn hole in his leg!”

Waller raises one eyebrow in challenge. “Does he?”

“Fuck is that supposed to mean?”

She tips her chin at the cage. “Have a look. Tell him it’s time to change the bandage.”

With a sinking feeling, Flag grabs gauze and a roll of bandage from the guard station’s medical kit and struts to the cage. One door open—not a twitch from the Joker. First door shut, second door open—bright green eyes lock on him like a laser.

“Boy Scout. Wasn’t expecting you…forgive me for not standing, but the ol’ leg’s giving me gyp.”

“Okay, first of all, that’s an awful expression,” Flag tells him mildly. “Second, my mom’s grandparents were Romany nomads. Drop the pants so we can get that dressing changed out.”

Joker pulls a face and tosses his blanket to one side. “That’s not where that phrase comes from, but I can see where the confusion lies…that’s the trouble with a language that likes to steal homophones from multiple cultures and contexts. And aren’t you at least gonna buy me a drink first, captain?”

Flag fixes Joker with a flat, unimpressed stare. “I know you’ve seen the oak leaf on my shoulder, and I know you know it means I got promoted since you last read my dossier way back when we took Harley. As for the drink, you can strip for me or you can get pumped full of narcotics while the medics have a look. I’m the only person on premise dumb enough to be in here without you shot up like a damn junkie.”

Joker watches him for a moment, then gives a slow, smug grin. “Daddy wasn’t happy about that.”

“No, he was not,” Flag agrees easily. ‘Not happy’ is a huge understatement…he thought Batman might throttle someone when he realized just how much they’d dosed his pretty princess.

Joker pulls his pants down to his knees. More ink designs peek out from the edges of standard-issue off-white boxer briefs—a pair of playing cards behind the crest of his left hip (the most visible one is a jack or a joker, the other seems to be face-down), comedy and tragedy masks high on his right thigh (a guess; the tragedy mask is almost completely obscured by the underwear). “See something you like?” he taunts. “I got ‘Daddy’s Princess’ tattooed across my ass, if you wanna see that one, too.”

Flag rolls his eyes.

“Kidding.”

Flag laboriously unwraps the old bandage—scissors are on Waller’s ‘never while that bastard is conscious’ list, and Flag knows better than to try using his teeth with the Joker in a ‘playful’ mood.

“It actually says ‘Daddy’s Whore.’”

Under a light crust of dried blood, there’s a neat little white scar. It reminds Flag, ludicrously, of a sock that’s been darned. The stitches are stuck to the gauze pads, like they’ve been left on a week instead of thirty hours.

Joker is laughing at him, cackling, howling with mirth. “The—the look on your face!”

Flag wads up the dirty bandage and waits for the laughter to die down.

“Oh, oh shit,” Joker finally says with a sigh. “Oh, I needed that. Lemme guess: Satan didn’t tell you about that? And she probably didn’t tell you that getting me shitfaced for the docs took enough heroin to kill a hippo.”

“Yeah, yeah, laugh it up,” says Flag. “That means you get to come along on tonight’s op.”

Green eyes flash, and Joker jumps to his feet (yanking his pants up in the same movement). “Well, let’s go, then! Baby needs some more Daddy-time. Preferrably without any poppy milk, so let’s maybe not get shot at.”

Flag signals the guard at the control panel.

On the tarmac, he cues up the briefing while everybody gets geared and the auxiliary team loads equipment.

“We’re headed to Blüdhaven,” he tells them. “This op is total blackout—keep it quiet and clean. Local LEOs are heavily resistant to our presence, so let’s not let them know we were ever there. If we keep it quiet enough, we won’t have to deal with Nightwing, either. We’re after the semi-notorious Mr. Freeze, who’s been spotted in the area. We have a location that is almost definitely his current lab, but we wanna get in without him bolting. Jay, that’s where you come in.”

“Moi?” Joker says, blinking innocently.

“Nice try, princess; you’re listed as a known associate.”

Joker shrugs and applies his lipstick beyond the lines of his actual mouth, like a stereotypical clown. “Can’t blame a girl for trying. Gotta preserve a little mystique, right?”

“That better not be some slut-shaming bullshit I hear,” Ratcatcher says loudly.

“Nah, I’ll fuck anything for a laugh,” Joker dismisses. “But mysteries piss people off, and that’s funny.”

“Focus, Jay,” Flag says. “You got a goal.”

“Right, yes, fine,” growls Joker, clearly impatient.

“When we get to Blüdhaven, we’ll send out some surveillance. From there, you find us a way in that won’t let the ice man run. We get in nice and quiet, we grab the mad scientist, we get back out just as quiet. Got it? Making a ruckus is a point against you, attacking cops is a point against you, killing or lastingly damaging the package is a point against you. We’re weapons-free on everything else, as long as you don’t draw attention.”

“Just so we clear,” says Lawton, strapping his rifle on and attaching a huge suppressor to the end. “You just said we can kill people?”

“I sure did, Deadshot. None of your usual, though—nothing loud, nothing showy.”

Joker scoffs and darkens up his eyeliner. “Why bother, then? No fun killing somebody without an audience.”

Something about that tickles the back of Flag’s brain. It seems normal enough, perfectly in-character. But Waller keeps going on about how dangerous Joker is, how many people he’s killed, how little he cares about collateral damage…

“All aboard and buckle up, buttercups,” Flag tells his team.

.End.

#fanfic #scraps #Suicide Squad #CANON DIVERGENCE #universe alteration #fic series: princess

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The Keeper of the Grove (Part 86)

Weiss meditated until night fell, her stomach started rumbling, and Taiyang had sent her and Pyrrha messages telling them that dinner was ready, and “Nora said she’ll try her best to leave some sweet potato fries for you guys, but she isn’t making any promises.”

Pyrrha helped pull her up again, this time because her legs had fallen asleep from how long she’d tried and failed to stay perfectly still. “Are you going to be alright?” she asked as Weiss tried to walk on her own.

“I’ll be fine!” Weiss replied as she winced with every step. “It’s just pins and needles, I’ve had worse!”

“Well don’t overexert yourself!” Pyrrha said. “All the progress you make in one hard day of working out and pushing the limit will all go to waste if you spend the next few days unable to move.”

Weiss cringed. “I know, but thanks for the reminder. Are you going to head back to the house, too?” she asked as she thumbed to the lights of Keeper’s Hollow off in the distance.

Pyrrha shook her head. “Not ideal to workout and build an appetite after you already ate,” she replied.

Weiss nodded. “Weights are in the shed over there,” she said, pointing to it. “Don’t worry about breaking anything: Fae creations were made to last.”

Pyrrha chuckled. “So I’ve seen. Good night, Weiss.”

“Night, Pyrrha,” Weiss replied, before she hobbled on back to the house.

Dinner was held outside, sitting on blankets and eating off banana leaves like the barbecue a little over a week ago.

Nora, Ren, Ruby, Yang, and Penny were all sitting together, helping Jaune with his Actaeon; from how most of them were trying hard not to laugh at whatever he said, Weiss figured it wasn’t going well. Blake and Qrow quietly kept to their own side, hungrily tearing through a giant pile of meat. On the other side, Winter bonded with Zwei, alternately petting him and summoning her elementals for him to play with, chief among them Idun.

Taiyang presided over it all in the center, standing over a giant cauldron full of bubbling oil, a massive pan of breadcrumbs and cut up ingredients beside him, and a rope fence around all of that. He looked up from the pot, waved with a gloved hand as the other manned an extra long pair of tongs. She couldn’t see his grin underneath the protective mask, but like Ruby, it was just too big and radiant to ever be hidden.

“Hey Weiss!” he called out as he turned over some food in the pot. “We ran out of sweet potatoes a while back, but we still got a little bit of everything else! Anything you want in particular?”

Weiss shook her head. “I’ll just take whatever.”

He nodded. “Got it! Just sit down someplace, and I’ll bring it over in fifteen minutes or so. Don’t step into the danger zone—hot grease splatters suck a whole lot more when you’re using Valley oil!”

Weiss eyed the pot, bubbling like crazy with a roaring fire underneath it. “I’m surprised you’re deep frying dinner, considering what got you in the hospital in the first place,” she said, eyeing the “bandages” still pulsing and wrapped around his arms.

Taiyang laughed. “What can I say? I missed Valley-style fried foods! Besides, just because you can end up getting hurt doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do something—what’s life without a little danger and risk?”

Boom.

Taiyang shielded his face as a bubble of oil exploded. Weiss jumped back and made an ice shield.

“Just gotta make sure you’re prepared for it,” he said as he put his arm down, pointed at the grease stain on his apron, and the greasy patch of grass well within the rope fence.

Weiss dispelled the ice. “Right...”

“By the way, is Pyrrha coming back any time soon? Freshness charms be damned, you gotta have fried stuff fresh out of the pot!”

Weiss shook her head. “She’s training; might be an hour till she gets back.”

“Ah well, guess I’ll just restart the fire later,” Taiyang said as he started fishing food out of the pot and set them to the side to drain.

Weiss turned around and looked for someplace to sit.

Ruby caught sight of her, and suddenly stopped laughing; Yang did, too, and gave her a look that said it’d be best if she not join them. She turned to where Winter was, decided not to as she saw Zwei and her elementals showering her with wet, slobbery affection, physical or magical. She turned to Qrow and Blake, the latter’s ears perked and she waved her over.

“Hey,” Weiss said as she sat down.

“Hi,” Blake said in-between bites of a porkchop.

“Sup, princess,” Qrow said as he munched on a giant drumstick.

Then, the three of them settled down for a wordlessly, mutually agreed upon silence.

Dinner was eaten, Jaune gave up on learning Actaeon for the moment, and Winter finally ran out of magic to sustain her elementals, Idun and the others sadly nuzzling and waving goodbye to Zwei before they returned to their soul stones or dissipated into the air.

Taiyang stayed behind to clean up while waiting for Pyrrha to come back. “I just got my arms out of that tank this afternoon, let me stretch them out some more; I’ll get sick of doing chores eventually, don’t worry,” he said when a few of the others had protested.

“Well, looks like it’s time to hit the hay!” Yang said as she stood up and headed to the house. “Get it? Because most of you guys are sleeping in the barn?”

Weiss and Blake groaned.

Nora snorted. “Hah! ’Hay,’ that’s great! Seriously, though, I am beat! Don’t know about the rest of you, but I am ready to get off the black moss tea and into the dreamscape! These past few days have felt like the longest multi-episode season finale ever!” she said as she walked into the barn.

Ren nodded as he followed after her. “Even for the Valley’s standards, this has been a lot...”

“Or the Queensguard’s!” Winter said as Zwei handed her a jar of dry bath. “I’ll just go get rid of the dog and elemental slobber smell before I head inside...”

“You don’t have to, you know!” Nora called out as she went up the stairs. “We’re all used to way worse smells!”

“I’d rather it not spread to my plushies, thank you,” Winter said as she headed off to a secluded area. “My Eluna already seems to permanently smell of tears and snot...”

“And despair!” Nora added. “There’s a LOT of that too!”

“What does despair even smell like?” Weiss asked.

“Like a combination of helplessness, terror, and regret,” Ren replied.

Weiss looked at him, before she shook her head and began to head inside, too.

“Hey Weiss?”

Weiss froze. She slowly turned around. “Y-Yes, Ruby...?” she asked as she forced a smile on her face.

Ruby hesitated for a moment. “Can we talk for a while? Alone? It’s really important stuff...”

“Can it wait till morning?”

Ruby shook her head. “It’s about your parole. Elder Goodwitch said I should tell you ASAP because she won’t have much time for anything once the Council kicks the fight against the Heralds into high gear.

“I also really want to talk to you about some other important stuff.”

Weiss reluctantly. “Uh, sure… where to?”

“Well, I’d say my room, but Yang’s sleeping over tonight, and I was going to say the barn, but then your sister might make that difficult, so you mind if we take a boat out to the water?”

Winter and Yang looked back from where they were, eyes wide in alarm.

Nora ran down the stairs and peered over the side. “Oooh, snap, I see dramatic build-up to a highly emotionally-charged scene that’s going to change everything!”

Weiss ignored her. “Could you let me change first? My clothes are all muddy.”

Ruby nodded. “Sure! I’ll just be waiting by the Tube station”

Ruby left the Hollow, Weiss headed back to the house to change. She tensed up as she neared Yang.

Yang raised her finger at her. “Just so you know: I promised Ruby I wouldn’t say or do anything about whatever you two are going to talk about, so say whatever you need to say. You’re safe—for now.”

Weiss nodded, before she headed up to the house, wondering just what exactly was in store this time...

The original waterway leading to Keeper’s Hollow had rarely been used ever since the Tubes were invented; save for large-scale construction work, clean-up for a week after the Flood, or the system suffering a catastrophic break-down, few ever took a boat out there, and rarely the whole distance to the second most remote residential areas in the Bastion.

It was a very different kind of swamp out there, the only signs of Fae civilization being the roots and plants that had been sawed off or hacked back to keep the way mostly clear, and the signs pointing the way to Keeper’s Hollow and back. Moonlight streamed in from the breaks in the canopy; frogs and birds sang their songs; ripples traveled over the surface of the water as Ruby rowed at a slow, steady pace.

It was a peaceful, beautiful scene, marred only by the tension between them, growing ever worse as the minutes passed.

They hit the halfway point, Ruby pulled up the oars. Weiss kept on looking over the side of the boat, staring at the water, the trees, the animals that she could see. They drifted along in silence, until the tension grew too much.

“You don’t have to stay here in the Valley any more,” Ruby said.

Weiss blinked, turned to her. “Pardon…?”

“You don’t have to stay here in the Valley any more,” Ruby repeated. “I talked with Elder Goodwitch, and her secretaries are getting the paperwork ready so they can transfer you to Arethusa—it’s our biggest Fae settlement in Sekhmet. It might take a week or two because of everything else going on, and changing your identities since your family’s permanently banned there ever since the Scourge, and all.”

Weiss stared at her.

“You can take Winter with you!” Ruby added quickly. “And it’s not all hot, and dry, and full of sand like Zeal—Arethusa’s actually underground, smack dab in the middle of this HUGE oasis; it’s like an island paradise complete with a giant ocean inside a cave, and there’s plants, trees, and flowers everywhere!

“I’ve only seen holos of it, but they say it’s really nice! Elder Goodwitch even says she knows a senior water weaver who’d love to take you both on and train you.”

Weiss blinked. “Are you… are you getting rid of me...?”

“Well, not getting rid of you, exactly, since we won’t go through with the transfer unless you want to.” Ruby paused. “Do you, you know, want to move? Because—well, honestly I really don’t want you to, but it’s your choice in the end, and--”

“No.”

Ruby paused. “Sorry, what was that?”

“No!” Weiss cried. “I’m not leaving the Valley! Ruby, in case you haven’t noticed as I have, all of my attempts at fleeing from my problems in life have ended catastrophically, because it only ever seems to end with in me running smack dab into new ones that can turn out to be even worse than what I had in the first place!

“That things turned out so well for me in the Valley was only because I lucked out and ran into you, and not a Soul Eater or whatever the hell else is lurking out there that needs Keepers like you around!”

Ruby blinked, before her eyes brightened. “So you’re staying…?”

Weiss nodded. “Yes. I’m staying. My complete lack of desire to find out what sort of new problems I might run into in a place like Sekhmet aside, I’ve started to make a life for myself here, and most importantly, I don’t want to leave you guys behind here!”

“You guys are my friends!” she looked down. “… And I’ve… never really had those...”

Ruby put her hand on Weiss shoulder and smiled. “When we get back, I’ll go call Elder Goodwitch’s secretaries and tell them you’re staying.”

Weiss looked up and smiled back. “Thank you.”

“You’re welcome,” Ruby said as he pulled her hand back.

There was another long moment of silence, their smiles fading as the tension from earlier returned.

“So… since you’re staying and all… can I ask you a really personal question? About us…?”

Weiss frowned. “I… uh… sure.”

“Do you still like me, Weiss?”

Weiss blinked. “I…” she looked down and sighed. “I still don’t know. I’m sorry.”

Ruby smiled. “Don’t be.” She blushed. “But… you know, do you want to try and find out? Same way we did the first time?”

Weiss stared at her, her cheeks burning red.

Ruby began to sweat. “I mean, it’s totally okay if you don’t want to and I can understand that completely, but you know, the last time we did this in the honey dream it was really awful though I couldn’t blame you, but still I really don’t want that to be the last kiss we ever--”

“Ruby?”

“Yes?”

“Shut up.”

Ruby did.

Weiss reached out with her bare hand, cupped Ruby’s cheek as she slowly brought her lips up to hers. Sweat began to drip down her forehead, her fingers trembled, and she could feel her gloved hand aching as the runes on her gauntlet clamped down on her magic.

Ruby smiled. “We don’t have to if you don’t want to, you know...”

“I do!” Weiss cried. “I’m just… nervous, is all!”

“Want me to meet you half-way?”

“No!” Weiss barked. “You just… stay there, because I want to be 100% sure I 100% want to kiss you!”

Ruby chuckled. “Okay then...” she said a she closed her eyes and puckered up.

Weiss sucked in a breath; her whole body was trembling, sweat was pouring down all over skin, she could feel her gauntlet start to reach its limit as her magic only kept on building up.

Did she really want to do this?

Did she really want to risk finding out that she still loved Ruby?

Did she really want that fact affecting her decisions from then on out, prevent her from ever playing it safe and just assuming that she didn’t love Ruby, and then the both of them could easily move on?

Then, one of Nicholas Schnee’s most famous quotes came to mind:

“You know what? Fuck it.”

Weiss surged forward and kissed Ruby.

A lot of the romance novels she had read described a great kiss as “explosive.” In her case, it wasn’t figurative, as she could feel all of the magic body going crazy, every ounce of power inside her supercharged, and eager to escape wherever and whenever, damn the consequences.

Weiss whimpered, trembling, shaking, about to pull away before she froze their lips together again or worse.

Then Ruby took her gloved hand into hers, intertwined her fingers with hers, and pressed her palm right up to the leather. Without thinking, all that magic surged from Weiss’ body and into Ruby, ice blue tendrils arcing from her gauntlet like a blast from a fire hose, turning into a radiant silver just before they dove into the back of Ruby’s hand.

And just like that, Weiss felt completely calm, like a sea after a violent storm, the waves settling down until the surface was almost completely still. Then she felt something humming, singing with immense power, stirring the waters all over again but in a good way:

Her magic, but resonating in perfect harmony with something much, much greater.

Ruby pulled away, eyes wide open. “Holy shit!” she whispered as she let go of Weiss’ hand. “Weiss, you okay…?!”

Weiss responded by throwing herself at her, wrapping her arms around her back, pulling their bodies tight against each other as she locked lips with her once more.

She felt Ruby’s lips turn from hard like rock to soft like clay in an instant, moulding to the shape of Weiss’ mouth as she kissed back. She shivered as she felt Ruby’s muscles tensing and rippling under her clothes, more powerful than ever as every fiber of her body was infused with magic—Weiss’ magic.

Ruby sucked on her bottom lip, wrapped her arms around Weiss’ waist and made it impossible for her to pull away. Not that she wanted to—no, she wanted more, more of Ruby, find out just what she could do to her with all that strength when she didn’t pull back, while all her magic coursing through her system made every last touch and kiss all the more intense, causing all sorts of strange, interesting reactions that didn’t even come close to anything she’d ever felt before.

Weiss moaned, a low, guttural sound in her throat, telling Ruby exactly what she wanted without saying a single word. But still, she broke the kiss, straddled Ruby’s lap, and put her hands on her chest and gently pushed her back, just in case she didn’t get it.

There was a mischievous, playful look in Ruby’s eyes as she tilted back… and proceeded to lose balance, fall right off her seat and to the back of the boat.

Thud.

“Ow…!” Ruby muttered, her neck awkwardly craned for her horns catching on the edge.

Weiss’ eyes widened in horror. “Oh my gosh—are you okay?!” she cried. “I’m so sorry, I don’t know what--!”

“Weiss?”

“Yes…?”

“Could you help me up…?”

Weiss blinked, before she did, then quickly retreated to the other seat further up the boat, turned away from Ruby, her whole body shaking, and her face buried in her hands—it looked and felt like it was melting for how hard she was blushing, and all the sweat pouring down her skin.

Ruby sat back down on her seat and smiled. “Heh…” she as she rubbed the back of her neck. “I’m guessing that’s a ‘Yes, you still like me’…?”

Weiss didn’t reply.

“Should I start rowing back to Keeper’s Hollow?”

Weiss looked back at her and hurriedly shook her head, before she buried it in her hands once more.

Ruby giggled as she settled down and got comfortable. “Take your time, Weiss… I can wait.”

Note: For those curious, yes, this scene will get an alternate version when the main story ends and I begin the “Sexy Animal Noise” spin-offs.

#white rose #fanfic #the keeper of the grove #rwby

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