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#Lex Luthor's Guide Memes

halfagone · 4 months

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Master List

Hyperlinks to Major Fics

lex luthor's ascent from supervillainy to fatherhood | lex luthor's guide series - Based on Father-Son Relationships between Lex Luthor and Danny Fenton.

Off With [the Demon's] Head - The hot mess that is the Al Ghul-Wayne family. Includes: Dad!Danny, Young!Ellie, my OG Danny and Ra's Paradox Fic.

what was lost, found again | lost and found series - Where Danny finds Jason digging his way out of his own grave and brings him home.

down the rabbit hole (goes the throne) - No One Knows AU, Major Canon Divergence. Amity Park has many secrets and Batman Inc. are left to discover them.

bloodlines | born from flesh and bone, clay and stardust series - Danny is the biological son of Diana (Wonder Woman) and Bruce Wayne. A prophecy is involved.

billy batson and the phantom - Adventures of Billy Batson and Danny Fenton. Oh, and Vlad is there too, I guess.

all I am to you is a tragedy, right? - In which a grieving Bruce Wayne brings a Danny Fenton from another universe back with him. This has consequences.

Insomniacs Anonymous - Three-way crossover between DC, Danny Phantom, and Miraculous Ladybug. Social media and chat fic. Now with plot!

pay your dues - An exploration of politics in the Infinite Realms, and the debts that must be paid in full.

weekend wonders - A character study into Stephanie Brown and her resolve as a hero, especially when a close friend comes into suspicion.

present, future, past - Time travel fic in which Bruce falls into the future where everything seems perfect, better than he could have hoped it would be. It doesn't last.

trust no one (trust me) - In a world where the GIW are more competent than in the show, Danny draws some unwanted attention. The people he leaves behind search for him.

bones and all - Inspired by horror films, video games, and fiction. A ghost story set in the DPxDC crossover.

Other Ongoing Series

Please note that some fics may overlap on more than one series.

Readable Arrangements - Short Works for DPxDC, mainly romance.

It's All About Presentation - A collection of gift fics.

Writing Problems? I Say Writing Solutions - A collections of works from "Who Wrote That?" games.

Martydom - Stories exploring heavy topics, such as gore, violence, etc. Must check tags for each work.

oh, the (in)humanity - Hazmat Suit AU. Now featuring multiple timelines.

Our Gentle Sin - Centered around a romance between a Danny from another universe, where the end of the world has come and gone, and Bruce Wayne who helps him relearn what it means to be human.

Blood is Thicker Than Water, But So Is Ectoplasm - In which Danny is a clone of Batman.

Co-Written Works

Born to Make History | written alongside NightShiftShenanigans (@nightshiftshenanigans) - Patrol Partner Event; No Capes AU, Ice Skating AU, featuring Enemies to Lovers Danny and Jason.

For more completed works and series, explore here:

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captain-krow-drozdov · 6 months

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Hello Hello! Lex Luthor's Ascent From Supervillainy To Fatherhood Updated And I Offer Meh Quality Memes!

As Always Link To The Beloved Fic Itself ↓

#Lex Luthor's Ascent From Supervillainy To Fatherhood #Lex Luthor's Guide Memes #my meh quality memes #dpxdc #dcxdp #danny phantom #in universe memes #dp memes

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lordgrimoire · 1 year

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The Blob Ghosts

So, basically, an idea where Blob Ghosts start turning up in the DC universe because of Danny and other Shenanigan's [Looks at Clockwork] and some ideas have been had with @captain-krow-drozdov Where we have different variants of Blob Ghosts running amok. Here is two comparisons, Metropolis and Gotham

Metropolis Blobs: Airy, Fly high, like to wrap around peoples shoulders or hover overhead, congregate high above the streets or at the ceilings of rooms. [Imagine them just acting like Birds, very domestic Birds]

Gotham: Much lower to the ground, if not under it in the sewers and tunnels that make up Gotham’s underbelly, slinking about hidden under Gothamites clothes and cloaks, hiding in shadows and slinking about, for example, one slinking out from beneath a stage to hide in Bruce Wayne’s jacket.

Danny ends up bribing Damian with a small swarm of them. [Why? Your choice!]

#lex luthor's ascent from supervillainy to fatherhood #lex luthor's guide memes #dp x dc #dc x dp #danny phantom #danny fenton #gothamites #Metropolis #Superfam #batfam #blob ghosts

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incorrectbatfam · 11 months

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What’s the best in-universe viral video/meme of each batfam member?? (In or out of costume haha). Also just thanks for your wonderful content!!

Nightwing trying to backflip off a wall but kicking a hole through it instead

Steph decorating a drip cake but it won't stop dripping

Orphan dropping a ping pong ball off a skyscraper and getting it into a cup on the ground but the part that goes viral is her victory dance that involves snapping a batarang over her knee

Bruce making a grossed-out expression in the background of Lex Luthor's red carpet interview

Damian's animal grooming ASMR being interrupted by Bat-Cow ripping a loud one

Selina sticking a straw in a gallon of milk and sipping it on the bus while wearing a 2000s polyester tracksuit with sunglasses

Oracle pretending to be a member of Anonymous

Carrie's skit where she pretends to be the Rogues in grad school, specifically the part about the "PhD to Arkham pipeline"

Alfred: "I will be your tour guide to Wayne Manor" *crashing in the background* "Excuse me for just one moment"

Cullen reading questionable Ao3 tags in the voices of the characters in the fic

Batwoman bench pressing a GCPD officer

Red Hood reciting Hamlet to the tune of Hallelujah

Duke buying a label maker and labeling people without them noticing, especially when he labels Bruce as "Not FDA-approved"

Bluebird installing a tire swing only to have Killer Croc immediately swallow it

Tim verbally tearing a Senator apart before dabbing

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metatextuality · 9 months

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first lines meme

Rules: Share the first line of your last ten published works or as many as you are able to, and see if there are any patterns!

tagged by @whetstonefires!

(Last ten published works, huh? That does rather narrow it down...)

1. The Man Who Would Not Stop for Death – a short, pulpy original noir scene for The Merry Whump of May.

The problem with discovering your payday is committing felonies — apart from the fact that they're committing felonies at all, of course — is that your odds of getting paid take a sharp downturn.

2. The Man and the Moon – a longform noir serial in which the same protagonist finds himself attempting to apply hardboiled rationalism to cosmic horrors from beyond the stars.

Chicago is an improvement over Hoboken, which should paint a sufficiently damning picture of both cities.

3. To Serve Satan: Miss deManners' Guide to the Heavenly Host – a Good Omens short about Crowley's methods that came to me fully-formed in a dream, so I'm not sure I should be counting it, but it did probably come from my brain technically so what the hell.

"Would either of you like something off the dessert trolley, sirs?"

For once, it was Crowley who looked up with such sudden diamond-bright joy that it cut.

4. But Be the Serpent Under ’t – an AU of my own pirate noncon epic in which Captain Crowley possesses one of his captors.

When Crowley finally died, it came almost as an anticlimax.

5. The Seas Incarnadine – the aforementioned epic pirate noncon fic, which I stg I am going to finish one of these days. (This sentiment also applies to every other unfinished fic on this list.)

This whole piracy lark had, in retrospect, gone a bit further than intended.

6. Conversant With Terrible Objects – DC mirrorverse character study of Owlman in the form of filthy, filthy phone sex with Superwoman.

The Crime Syndicate believed that Owlman loved Gotham City, when they credited him with the ability to love at all.

7. Black-Clad Bats and Making Money – the one where John Mulaney becomes the Riddler™

You may recognise me as the man who programmed — because that’s what being a game programmer gets you, instant celebrity, like Shigeru Miyamoto and the guy who invented Tetris — you may recognise me as Edward Nigma, the man who programmed Labyrinth of the Minotaur, a bestselling game whose apparent claim to fame is that it is unwinnable.

8. Crowskin – the one where Owlman catches an Australian magpie like a fuckin' baseball.

“What,” uttered Johnny Quick, “the fuck.”

9. Those Who Fight Monsters – a casefic wherein the mirror-universe Riddler deals with the moral dilemma of rescuing Owlman's favorite child assassin.

You would think, thought Edward Nigma, crouching behind the wall of shipping containers he’d scaled partway up for a better vantage point, that criminals would find somewhere else to conduct their business.

10. King's Gambit – DC mirrorverse fic where Lex Luthor and Sinestro discuss rationalism and then kiss (and then try to reverse-engineer God so they can use him as a nuke)

“Good news,” said Sinestro as he pulled away. “You’ll probably keep the eye.”

So the first thing I notice is that I like to open with an immediate, snappy Establishing Character Moment, usually in a close POV. That's probably related to the fact that my usual catalyst for writing down a scene I've been building up in my head is finding an opening hook that I like too much not to use, and which leads naturally into my mind expanding on it for another few paragraphs whether I want it to or not; also to the fact that most of my fic is character-centric, and almost always written in a POV limited to the inside of the viewpoint character's head even when it's in third person.

Something I wasn't expecting from this selection of opening lines – and possibly this is a pattern that would be broken if I included some of my many, many unpublished WIPs – is how many of these take a tongue-in-cheek jab at a significant aspect of the story itself. I don't think it's a matter of being convinced of my own metafictional cleverness, nor of being unconfident in my premise and seeking to lampshade it before the reader gets a chance to notice the cracks themselves...more that my favorite characters tend to be those that overthink everything, in part because I find it a relatable trait. Hmm.

Let's pull in a few of my closest-to-publishable WIP openings, for the hell of it:

My mother, may G-d bless her because he certainly hasn't given her much to work with so far, named me Sidney Solomon Jacobi.

"Y'know Sandra Nylund?" I ask, winding my way through the bullpen to my desk, where I navigate the organised chaos of notes and reports until I find the file I'm looking for.

The new navigator arrived on the HMS Essex's eighth day in port.

The thing about alcoholism was that it was perfectly socially acceptable to drink yourself to death.

The second time someone called him, she had Owlman tied to the bed.

Okay, yeah, I'm figuring that pattern's probably just a weird coincidence. Interesting that it worked out that way, though.

Tagging off the top of my head: @punishandenslavesuckers @anneapocalypse @weird-mcgee – and anyone else who sees this, consider yourself tagged as well!

#sai does a meme #for $8000 a month i will stop #writeblogging #a good man is hard to find (no not that one)

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aiqc · 7 years

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TV MEME: Day 11 - A show that disappointed you

TV MEME: Day 11 – A show that disappointed you

Gotta love the easy ones. I could go with the go to easy ones: The 100, Stargate: Atlantis, The Originals, Battlestar Galactica, Lost Girl, Arrow, How I Met Your Mother, The Last Ship. There are so many to choose, it’s almost unfair, but I’m gonna go with a recent disappointment. Keep it topical. Supergirl. Oh, this show. It could have given me everything I’ve wanted for so long. It could’ve been…

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Gotta love the easy ones. I could go with the go to easy ones: The 100, Stargate: Atlantis, The Originals, Battlestar Galactica, Lost Girl, Arrow, How I Met Your Mother, The Last Ship. There are so many to choose, it's almost unfair, but I'm gonna go with a recent disappointment. Keep it topical.

Supergirl.

Oh, this show. It could have given me everything I've wanted for so long. It could've been a contender. Here's the thing I love Supergirl. Kara Zor-El was the first superhero I ever encountered in that terrible-amazing 80s movie. I've loved her for so long and like a lot of members of the Superfamily, she gets overshadowed by Clark. That's fair, he's Superman, he's a DC staple and icon, but unlike the Batfamily, the Superfamily and Wonderfamily get less traction. So for me, a Supergirl stan~ I was so so happy about a show about my favourite girl. And for a while it looked like it was doing okay. It wasn't going to be ground breaking tv, it's a comic book show, and while it started off doing a lot of great things, as soon as it moved to The CW things started to implode.

I'm not saying the first season was without fault, because no show is. It could have had more POC actors and characters. James and J'onn were the only ones, both black men in key positions for the story, but it had no others. There were no women of colour at all and there was no LBGT+ characters. It also opened with a "no homo" joke that there really wasn't a need for, the writing of the James/Lucy relationship really did nothing for James' character(isation). The writing was standard with key moments of greatness in which it used the themes presented by the narrative of the show to highlight things like:

illegal alien immigration, get it? Because they're actual aliens! Ha ha!

refugees (the Syrian refugee crisis was at a high point in the news during season one)

the way black people, black men especially (because there were no black women on the show at the time), have to act in public/professionally to get respect and acknowledgement

the way women have to act in public/professionally to get respect and acknowledgement

the socio-economic differences a black man has to deal with in comparison to a white woman

the layers of complexities within a blended family

various moments about sisterhood and how complicated that relationship can be

All of this was discussed under the overall theme of the show, which was: girl power. Not a surprise since the show is called Supergirl and it was about Supergirl and Kara Danvers. It was about her heroic arc and trying to find her own way outside her cousin's shadow. It was about her trying to balance her everyday life and her superhero self. It was about the bonds of sisterhoods and how they're not always easy to traverse. It was about being an outsider, an immigrant, a refugee, with passing privilege in a world that's xenophobic and racist. It had a romance! Our romantic lead was a black man, who was struggling with his own growth and identity. James "Jimmy" Olsen is a staple in the Superman mythos and the show did the same The Flash did with the West family and cast a black actor in a previously white dominated role making it near impossible to write him aside. It had another black man in a position of power and mentorship with his own complicated backstory. It brought in the Lanes, in the shape of Lucy and Gen. Lane! I love the Super-Lane relationships! Our main, and frankly forgettable antagonist was Lex Luthor Lite, but at least they tried. Cat Grant, our other mentor, was a guide post in terms of (white) feminism and confidence. The main conflict towards the end of the season was why does the world need Supergirl when it has Superman and it did a commendable job answering that question.

And then season two came. Look, I don't want to blame it all on the change of network from CBS to The CW, but wow, you can't really look at it, see the changes that happened almost immediately and not go: well shit, The CW strikes again.

First thing first, Calista Flockhart left the show, because she made it clear in season that if the show moved to Vancouver from L.A. she wouldn't go with it. Fine, bye Cat. I liked her fine, but I wasn't going to miss her. Cat was a good mentor Kara in season one, as she helped Kara find her confidence, but I found people put more importance on Cat's influence on Kara than say other more influential and equally important people in Kara's life. Also they introduced Snapper Carr as Kara's work mentor and made him a Latinx man. I found that to be a great change, because hey! more representation, and Snapper was a bit better in terms of the kind of mentor Kara needed as a journalist. Cat was the person telling Kara: don't apologise for being a girl, which is a great message, but Cat was also the person telling Kara to sabotage another relationship to get what she wanted. (White Feminism TM.) Snapper is the person telling Kara: you gotta work had to be good journalist. This, in my honest opinion, was a good change.

It also brought in Superman. A tricky choice, the thing everyone was worried about and hilariously this was what worked out fine. Tyler Hoechlin did a great job with Clark and they even mildly explained the hilarious non-age difference. Clark is meant to be like 20 years older than Kara in this universe, Tyler Hoechlin is definitely not 20 years older than Melissa Benoist, he looks like he's barely even five years older, but a throwaway line about Kryptonian ageing on Earth and cute enough chemistry can handwave a lot of tiny nitpicks. (Though I don't know why they didn't just get Tom Welling back ;) ) And it brought in the Luthor family in the shape of Lena and Lillian Luthor, which it was excellent choice to have Supergirl's Luthor ally (and maybe future antagonist; Lena's a Luthor they're gonna play this angle and if they don't they should. Remember Tess Mercer? What a great arc.) and current villain be both women. It included Miss Martian as a minor character, played by Sharon Leal, a black actress, finally bringing in a WOC into the show, whose own story about identity and choice and morality was great, if quickly shoved aside.

One last thing it did that well before we start the quick downward spiral on how this show broke my heart. Maggie Sawyer. Maggie is a cop. Maggie is also a lesbian and in a relationship with Alex. Now, I have no problem with Maggie herself, or her character, or her relationship with Alex. I love the show went this route with Alex and Maggie. This is some of the LGBT+ representation the audience wanted. I will agree with the criticism that the relationship felt a little rushed but hey, tv, ya know. My problem lies in the casting. Floriana Lima is a beautiful woman. She lights up the screen. She's what some people call spicy white. A white person who can pass for brown, partially in part because she's Italian and hey, Hollywood has absolutely loved casting Italians as Latinx or other brown minorities. Lima could even be mixed, and she doesn't need to tell us if she is, but as it stand just saying she has Italian heritage means she's white. I'm sorry, I don't make the rules. This would have been fine, except Maggie was also said to be a Latinx woman (from Nebraska).

As a Latinx woman this burns. It burned more when I kept seeing people defend this because they were okay with the LGBT+ inclusion, so who cares if the WOC in the WLW relationship was being played by an ambiguously tan white woman? Well, I care! They should have cared too, but hey, racism and shitty production choices doesn't matter until it affects the white parts of fandom. I'll get to that in a second, but first. Being Latinx is an incredibly messy and complicated thing. It's not a race, we come in all different colours, but the majority of Latinx who get to break into Hollywood are either white latinx, pass for white, or harness the latinx stereotype Hollywood likes and make bank on it. I would have been way happier had they cast a white latinx instead of an actress who had the "right" stereotypically conceived look what they think a Latinx person is. I would also told them to do better, because there's a whole world out there of non-white latinx who deserved a shot.

But the Maggie/Alex relationship because huge in fandom and it carried a lot of people through in season two even after the erasure a WOC and of a black man's storyline, because Supergirl fandom is incredibly transparent.

Now, let's get to the show's other main problem that was foreshadow and yelled about since the season two premiere by, you guessed it, POC, namely black, fans of the show. The "slow" erasure of James Olsen as the show's main male romantic lead. Ah, let's go back to the beginning... well, end of season one. Where after a season of immediate mutual attraction, some childish jealousy, a few breakup, a couple makeup, some very cute flirting, James and Kara get to have it. Their moment. The moment that's been building up since Kara walked into James' office at Catco and went: oh shit he's hot. They kiss! And because of the drama of television, the kiss get interrupted and Kara has to go save the world. Classic superhero stuff! But hey, we had season two coming! And the show was moving was to The CW, where they were/are doing a pretty great job with the interracial relationship between Barry Allen and Iris West! Things were looking good! So what if they had brought in Mon-El to create intergalactic drama?! Intergalactic drama is good for a show with aliens! James and Kara were gonna be the Lois and Clark of National City! Magic was in the air!!!! Crops were growing! Skin was clear! etc etc

And then they broke them up in the first episode of season two a mere 12 hours after their Big Moment in canon having them state: oh it felt forced.

Can you say WTF? Because I can and I did.

Did you see what happened? Do you see it above? Where I'm going with this?

I bet you do, you guys are smart.

The CW's strikes again. The CW's habit of listen to a fandom when it shouldn't and it's preference for anti-hero angsty white male leads strikes again.

Let's hit the fandom point first because it's easy and fastest to explain: racism. It really is as simple as that. From the get go, for however much people talk about diversity, representation, equality, a lot fandom is incredibly racist, internalised or not, and usually they're very loud. In season one you could tell, you ignored it because the show seemed committed to telling the love story of James/Kara but you could tell. Maybe some people had no legitimate interest in their romance or felt their chemistry was off, but it was interesting to watch as throughout season one a lot of fandom would happily ship Kara with every other white person on the show and not with James. Shortlist: Cat (SuperCat was an incredibly transparent ship for all it's WLW activist. White lgbt+ feminism strikes again. Strike Two.), SuperLane (a ship I would be all for, and was all for, but again incredibly transparent for same reasons as before), Winn (who Kara from the first episode showcased she had no interest in romantically), that random character Melissa's IRL husband played. And while James/Kara had a strong following, it was a following that kept being drowned out by the other loud voices in fandom who had no interest in a black man being the main romantic lead of the darling white girl superhero fave. And I say this as someone who LOVES Kara Zor-El/Danvers/Kent.

So The CW, a network well know for listening to it's fandom and pandering to it (see Arrow, see The Vampire Diaries, see Supernatural) did what it did best. Now, because of James Olsen, played charmingly on the show by Mechad Brooks, is part the Superman mythos it was pretty hard to completely erase him in one go. He's Superman/Clark Kent's BFF, he's an aspiring and award winning photojournalist, he's a good guy. So they gave him a heroic arc as The Guardian to appease fans. Could have been great if outside a short 3-5 episode run we actually saw that arc develop throughout the season. You may ask why all this happened? Why didn't we see this arc for James really develop, who would now be put in position as Kara's romantic lead?

We've arrived at point two: it's preference for anti-hero angsty white male leads strikes again. Mon-El. Oh, a name I never thought I'd hate so much.

I'm not going to go into his entire story arc in season, because I don't care about the character, what's important to know is that his entrance into the show effectively turns season two into: Mon-El's journey as someone who tries to be a hero to impress a girl so she likes him more. Bonus: he's an ex-slave owning prince of a misogynist planet, who lied about who he was until his mom and dad showed back. So yes, the show changed Kara's romantic lead from a black man who struggles with his identity and wants to help people because he's inspired by the heroes around him to: a white man who lies to get the girl until he can't anymore, but it's okay, he's a better person now because she made him better. I cannot. And then it gets worse, because it's not bad enough that Mon-El surplants James' position in the show. He steals what should have the last arc of the show about Kara vs Lillian Luthor vendetta against aliens on Earth, something that was set up in the early half of season two, and is also a big overall theme of the show into Mon-El's mom wants to take over Earth and hates his new girlfriend. This isn't like in season one where it's militant Kryptonians who Kara cared about as members of family and she has to make a choice between her new and old world, an internal conflict within her. It's about her boyfriend's mom being an evil dictator who thinks slavery is a good idea an thinks Kara is not good enough because she's Kyprotian. And sure this could have worked, if it hadn't been framed around Mon-El's struggle and choices and if the overall insult and dismissing of the POC and LGBT+ characters of the show hadn't been victims to this storyline. As Mon-El gains more and more screen time, James loses screentime, Maggie loses screentime, Alex and Kara's relationship loses its central position in the narrative.

The thing is, though, a lot of this could have been avoided if the writers and producers of the show had stepped and protected their characters. If they had stuck to their guns with James as their romantic lead, if they had stuck with Kara's journey being more important another white man who's struggling with his faux heroism. The Flash has done with the Iris West and the rest of the West family, as well as Cisco. They have protected their POC characters and actors. It can be done on The CW. I've seen it. But they didn't with Supergirl and essentially made the same mistake Arrow did when it listened to a certain sector of its fandom and ended up sacrificing story and character for quick praise. Something that ended up backfiring on them big time, because fandom is mercurial and when they realised that the show had essentially become about Mon-El they kept Maggie/Alex on the backburner and made Kara's story all about her feelings towards Mon-El.

I'm not going to get into the Kara/Lena debate too deeply because the show was never going to go there, and as much as fandom loved the idea of it, it also used it the "possibility" and white women loving white women "activism" as a way to excuse James' erasure from the narrative. It certainly didn't help when at Comic-Con the cast insulted that subsect of fandom, but the fact that it wasn't until then that people called the show "bad about representation", um. Well, let's just say some people stopped watching the show once they realised they didn't care about non-white actors or characters.

Supergirl's season two honestly slowly dismantled everything that could have been truly great about the show. It took a show about one my absolute favourite superheroes, who struggles with being an immigrant, who is surrounded by people who struggle with their identity, who want to be and do good, who are minorities and made it into a show about another white man who's looking for redemption in someone else's heroism. All this while actively dismissing their LGBT+ and POC audiences and characters. It stopped being a show about inclusion and started excluding all the minorities that used to feel represented by the show. What a disappointment.

I really hope the show redeems itself somehow, but I just don't see it happening. But if the DCMU could give me Superman/Batman: Apocalypse I'd really really appreciate.

#supergirl #tv meme #tv talk

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punishandenslavesuckers · 7 years

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minific meme: a Talon of your choice + someone's greatest fear

H. Someone’sgreatest fear.

There are alot of universes out there. In this universe, Lex Luthor’s greatest enemy is anobsessive lunatic named Owlman who may or may not have designs on themulti-verse at some point in a distant future. Presently, however, he has otherresources to occupy him and Lex has nightmares (sometimes) about those strangeand feral possessions – lit up with solar fire, composed of adamantine, cuttinga fiery swath through living things in a way living things should never beafflicted.

Sometimes hewakes up because the nightmares are too much.

He wakes upthis night because someone touches his shoulder.

Lex wouldlike to say he wakes with the alertness and clarity of mind that a long timecrime-fighter and ninth-level intellect might possess… but there’s littlecorrelation between IQ and how well one wakes at 3AM. So that’s why it takeshim a moment to register that the person standing next to his bed is not, infact, his bodyguard and partner-in-crime, Mercy Graves. The person standing byhis bed is a blue-eyed alien with retinas of banked hell-fire and Lex onlybarely resists the reflex to scream.

Instead, hebreathes slowly in, then out and says, “Hello, Talon. How did you get in?”

“I killedone of your allies. They told me where your bunker was before they died.”

“Who did youkill?”

“DoctorFries.”

Lex closeshis eyes, suppresses the well of grief. “Are you here to kill me, Talon?”

“Maybe.”

Lex, notexpecting that, momentarily isn’t sure what to say. He recovers. “You’re nothere on Owlman’s orders?”

“No.”

Lex feelshis pulse try to rise, but maintains even breathing and heart-rate. “Are youdefying your master then?”

Talon tiltshis head. The light in his retinas seems to feel the sockets of his skull insuch a way all the capillaries around his eyes are illuminated internally. Whenhe speaks, the same flame does not exist in the back of his throat, but Talon’svoice gets… alien suddenly, splitting into a tri-tonal chord, like three thingsspeaking at once and Lex can feel his heartrate coming up, his control slippingin the face of Owlman’s pet monster… suddenly off its leash.

“I’ve beenthinking,” he says.

“What haveyou been thinking about, Talon?”

“You,” saysTalon, leaning forward and tapping one slender finger against Lex’s collarbone.

Lex gritshis teeth, leaning back against his headboard, but Talon keeps his fingertip againstthe bone, like a man with this thumb on the arch of a feather, deciding whetherto press down or not. Talon’s age is a mystery. His species a mystery. Heappeared at Owlman’s side with no preamble, fully formed and unkillable fiveyears ago. He looked about fifteen then. He looks about twenty now. His hair,dark, a little wavy, is getting in his eyes when he bends down to speak to Lex.

“Thoughtabout what you said last time. In battle. What you said.”

“I saidOwlman would have to get rid of you. That you’re too dangerous even for him to control.”

“Yeaaah,”says Talon, in a way that makes Lex’s guts tighten. “That.”

“What do youwant?”

“Your help.”

“What?”

“I want yourhelp. I want… free.”

Lex’s entirebeing goes cold. “How could I help you with that?”

Talon tiltshis head again, the other way, then reaches down and take Lex’s wrist in hishand. Then, carefully, guides his fingertips to the ridge of bone in themiddle of his own chest, what would be a sternum on the human but Lex can feelthe… shape is different at the base, a little smoother skeletal configuration.Lex can feel Talon’s heartbeat, faster than a human’s a different rhythm. Talon’salmost hot to the touch. Lex can’t be sure if it’s the continual heat in hishead that’s raising his temperature or if he’s always this warm. Talon presseshis fingertips into the place just below his sternum.

“Somethingthere,” he says. “I see it. Lead casing.”

“A failsafe.”

“Yeaaaah.”

“You want meto disable it?”

“I dunno.What do you want to do?”

Lex gritshis teeth. “I want you to… I don’t like the idea of you without a leash. Owlmanmay be dangerous, but… he values functional society in some degree to furtherhis means. You… don’t value anything.”

Talonsmiles. It’s the worst thing Lex has ever seen. “You take over then.”

“What?”

“I’ll tellyou how. You take over. You can’t kill me, it’s not for killing. You take over.I’ll do what you want instead.”

Lex jerksaway finally from Talon. “No.”

Talon tiltshis head again. He always does that, animal-like. “Better you than him. Right?”

“No.”

“No?”

“Get out ofhere! Kill me or get out!”

Talon standsup straight, makes a strange… almost a sigh, but also a myriad hissing clicks. “Scared,”he says.

“I’m notscared of you.”

“Liar. You’rescared of me.” He grins. “You’re more scared of youuu.”

“GET OUT!”

But Talon’sgone. Lex doesn’t call Mercy for at least an hour afterward.

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