#ari batchelder

[definitely-not-a-wasp]

Y’know what? I think there should have been MORE Fang Ari rivalry.

Because Ari knows that he and Max are siblings from the beginning. He never makes much of an effort to hide that. And he also knows, between himself and Max, Jeb will always pick Max. He doesn’t understand why, and he doesn’t understand that Jeb’s version of love is going to hurt no matter what, but he knows that Jeb loves Max more than him. That’s fine, because it has to be fine, because he’s not allowed to be angry at Jeb.

But the flip side of knowing Max is his sister is knowing that he’s her brother. And knowing that he’s not her only brother. And knowing that, between himself and her siblings— this specific sibling, more often than not, because Max and Fang have always depended on each other— she will pick her sibling every. Single. Time. Jeb picking Max is fine, he’s okay with that, but there’s no way in hell that Max should be allowed to pick this asshole over her flesh and blood brother.

(Max does not know that Ari is her brother. Ari is seven, so this fact is irrelevant.)

So yeah. He can be mad at his sister all he wants, and he is, he’s always angry, but he hates Fang. This person who got to spend a whole lifetime with his sister, who keeps turning her against her family, who she so obviously loves more than she loves her father or her real brother. Things would be a lot better for all of them if Fang didn’t exist, and if Fang is alone and in pain and terrified when they die? Well, that’s just a bonus.

And on Fang’s side... this seven-year-old with sharp teeth keeps trying to kill them. They try not to think about how they nearly fell out of the sky, or their hospital stay, or how their body still hurts and will never be the same, but it creeps up on them at night, like bile in their throat, and Ari doesn’t stop trying to kill them. Once is a coincidence, twice is a pattern, three times is a vendetta, and Fang is not going to lay down and die. Maybe killing Ari will finally let them sleep at night.

Max treats them like a monster when they try to hurt Ari. Truly hurt him, not just to incapacitate, because she knows Ari’s name and that means he’s more important than all of the other Erasers they put in the ground. Never mind that all of them were also kids, and that this specific kid keeps trying to kill Fang. And he can’t be mad at Max, because they need them and Max to be okay, they need to stick together, so that’s all the more reason to get their would-be-murderer out of the picture.

So they keep trying to kill each other, until Max (finally, finally, Ari knew it could happen) sides with Ari, and Fang leaves. Ari always knew that he could only be Max’s favorite if Fang was out of the picture, and Fang only now realizes that they’re playing for favorites, and they’re not a seven-year-old, they know that’s not how the world works, but—

But they know that they can’t both live under the same roof. Knows that Ari has a date on the back of his neck that marks him for death, and that Fang has been dancing around death for so long that it’s going to come to collect eventually, so it’s just a matter of who cracks first.

Fang leaves, because they were never good at dealing with conflict. If Max has decided that blood means more than they do, then that’s her choice.

Ari dies. Not too long after, Fang dies, and apparently neither are allowed to rest because the next time they see each other, they’re both breathing, even if neither would call each other alive. Neither would call themselves alive, but if they say that out loud then they have to admit that something’s wrong, so it’s a whole lot easier to look at the other and call them a ghost that needs to be put down.

They keep trying to kill each other. They somehow get more violent, more bloody, because neither really remember how to fear death anymore. They’re both on borrowed time, and there’s no point in being precious with it. And if one of them gets a good enough shot in and puts the other in the ground, then that means one of their bodies will be put right.

(It feels like some divine joke, or perhaps a punishment for a sin neither of them committed, that the one person who would understand what it feels like— that they’re moving and speaking but never actually came back, that something pulled them out of their broken bodies and shoved them back in all wrong— would be the same person who they hate.)

#yes I know Fax exists in canon but when have I EVER done a Max Ride analysis that took Fax into account? Never. #Fang (Maximum Ride) #ari batchelder #well I thought I was just going to cover Ari blaming Fang for Max's coldness towards him #And Fang's anger that their trauma was overlooked for the sake of this person who wasn't any more special than the other erasers #but yeah they're both corpses #they're corpses and they know that neither of them should be alive #but maybe if they kill the other then that can fix whatever's wrong with them #it's classic self recognition through the other (derogatory) #I really need to do that piece on Fang coming back to life and being fucked up about it #maximum ride on main #maximum ride

[maxtothemax]

the most realistic thing about ari is that he sounds like he got all his lines from studying cartoon villains or bad guys in old hollywood movies. like, yeah this actually does sound like a 7-year-old trying to sound like a villain

i only wish max had taunted him for it, because that just seems like something she'd do

#they speak #maximum ride #ari batchelder #this is mostly true in books 1/2 #i think by book 3 his dialogue was a bit more serious

[totalsupremacy]

baby. baby boy who has done no wrong

#WHAT IF IT WAS STAR WARS!!!!! #maximum ride #ari batchelder #red.art #open for better quality

[vampirefurbymom]

Hello! For your fandom character opinion bingo, if you’re still doing it:

- Hunter, King, and Eda from The Owl House

- Ari from Maximum Ride

dude thanks!! ok here is hunter:

king

eda

and ari!

tysm for the ask!!! have a nice day :>

#character opinion bingo #the owl house #toh #maximum ride #ari batchelder #toh hunter #king clawthorne #eda clawthorne

[anne-lida]

10 characters, 10 media, 10 tags

Thank you for tagging me, @rumor-imbris! ^^

(Btw, here's her awesome list!)

Okay, since I have lightyears more than 10 characters in my heart, I'll try not to include the media that I have mentioned in any ways in this blog (because "not including the characters that I have mentioned in this blog" is still too easy xD).

Oswald Mandus - Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs

Ari Batchelder - Maximum Ride (book)

Alan Gado - Bloody Roar II

Claudio Serafino - Tekken 7

Marianne - Strange Magic

Carter Slade - Ghost Rider (film)

Phunsukh Wangdu - 3 Idiots

Hammer Girl - The Raid 2: Berandal

Terror Mask - Splatterhouse (2010)

Varian - Tangled: The Series

Tagging: @arkhangelske, @calmlystressingout, and whoever else who reads this and wants to join! ^^

#lida's rambling #tag game #10 characters 10 media 10 tags #...except that I always break the tagging part of the rules xD #that extra limitation made me travelled down my old memory lane #rediscovering my favorites who were forgotten in mind but still embraced by heart :') #maybe except mandus because new year is coming in less than a week (:O) #New Year's Eve is the night of AMFP. the night when the Machine might consider to spare us from the horror of the rest of 21st century. #and the night when we evaluate ourselves and try not to hurt each other for the rest of the century so the Machine won't consider that. #btw I only played Bloody Roar II so I got attached only with that version of Gado xD #also idk why but I giggled every time I see the name Phunsukh Wangdu on my list xD

[hiddenwashington]

anonymous said : mw ‘villains’?

members have requested richie kirsch, quinn bailey, and ethan landry from scream; rodulphus lestrange, travers, barty crouch jr, peter pettigrew, and the carrow twins from harry potter; anna ripley, silas briarwood, and delilah briarwood from critical role; hela or magneto from marvel; camille belcourt from shadowhunters; jeb and ari batchelder from maximum ride; uther and mordred from bbc merlin; and the master from doctor who!

#multifandom rp #fandom rp #mumu rp #fandom roleplay #appless rp #anonymous #mw #admin ollie

[ao3feed-deckerstar]

As Innocence Dies

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/rNBGa0f

by Sunniva95

Landon never imagine he'd find that missing piece. Even more, he didn't believe his date with Hope would turn out so well. That is, until he's met face to face with a eraser by the name of Ryan Clarke.

Hoever, with Hope at his side, and possibly in imminant danger, will he have the courage to reveal himself? Risking the bond with the girl he truly likes? Or was this relationship doomed from the start?

Words: 493, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 8 of One Hundred Percent Devil, Ninety Eight Percent Human, Two Percent Avian

Fandoms: Maximum Ride (2016), Legacies (TV 2018), Lucifer (TV), The Originals (TV)

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/M

Characters: Landon Kirby, Hope Mikaelson, Ryan Clarke (Legacies), Ari Batchelder

Relationships: Landon Kirby/Hope Mikaelson, Ryan Clarke & Landon Kirby, Chloe Decker/Lucifer Morningstar, The Flock & Maximum "Max" Ride, Caroline Forbes/Klaus Mikaelson, Ari Batchelder & Maximum "Max" Ride, Trixie Espinoza & Landon Kirby, Trixie Espinoza & Rory Morningstar

Additional Tags: Dead Hayley Marshall

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/rNBGa0f

#deckerstar fanfiction #lucifer fanfiction #lucifer morningstar #chloe decker #IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic

[sweetpeauserboxes]

[id: a white userbox with a pastel blue border, and pastel blue text that reads “this user likes maximum ride.” on the left is an image of  ari batchelder from maximum ride. /end id]

#ari batchelder #maximum ride #soft aesthetic #softcore #soft userbox #soft userboxes #soft #pastel aesthetic #pastel userbox #pastel userboxes #pastelcore #pastel #cute userboxes #cutecore #cute aesthetic #cute userbox #cute #userbox #userboxes

[advxnturer]

Sometimes I think about Ari and I just want to cry because of how tragic a figure he is.

He’s this chubby cheeked clumsy three year old and his dad abandons him with people who have no issue experimenting on kids. he’s three years old and he’s forced to undergo these procedures that make him look like a grown man and a monster. 

it’s very clear that people try to stomp the childishness out of him, but he’s still just a child. he’s only five when jeb comes back to the school. he’s only seven when the book series starts.

he’s seven when max breaks his neck and he’s seven when he’s resurrected. he’s seven when he undergoes a painful procedure that results in wings being grafted onto him.

he’s just a child. he loves getting mistaken for wolverine because its the one time people aren’t afraid of him. he just wants to be a kid and play a red gameboy. 

he’s seven years old and his “expiration date” arrives and suddenly he’s like a toy the school just got rid of. the people he tried to kill are the only people who keep him safe. 

he’s just a kid when he dies in max’s arms. he had only just learned how to read a little and how to spell his own name, thanks to her.

and then he doesn’t even get the right to stay dead, or to be at peace- jeb clones him and his memories and makes him into a weapon, again.

and he’s still just seven. only a year older than angel.

#maximum ride #saving the world and other extreme sports #ari batchelder

[emorish-avian]

literally the fact that fang was almost murdered by a seven year old

#a fucked up experimented on seven year old BUT STILL #without the context it’s like #yes this teenager got fuckin destroyed by a seven year old kid and nearly fucking DIED #LMAOOOOOOOOOO #ari batchelder #fang #maximum ride

[anakinskywalkerisfave]

Jeb’s Parenting: A Summary

#maximum ride #max ride #ari batchelder #maximum ride shitpost #maximum ride shitposts #maximum ride meme #maximum ride memes #textpost meme #textpost memes

[envy555]

Okay, so, you guys remember this classic Ari POV chapter from MR: School's Out—Forever, right? Well, I didn't grow up with video games or care about Game Boys when I read this book ages ago, but I've been scheming for "Retrograde" and thought it would be fun to reference Ari's old red Game Boy, so I did some research. Long story short, Ari stole a Game Boy Advance SP, and I know that for sure because I found the exact set of [extremely 2000s] commercials referenced in this chapter.

And, just so you know, the blue one does go surfing, the red one does try to break out through the screen, and the silver one does get a tattoo.  

I would bet money that James Patterson's son Jack (who would've been seven/ eight when this book was written/ released) had some influence over Ari’s characterization.

#maximum ride #max ride #mr #ari batchelder #ari #maximum ride: school's out forever #game boy #2000s commercials #james patterson #my hyperfixations are strange and unpredictable #this chapter is iconic and absolutely terrible #ari really said: treat yo' self

[faxness]

Max nonchalance abt aris death while jeb is shaking and crying is hilarious

#maximum ride #max ride #jeb batchelder #ari batchelder #death tw #blood tw

[probablyjustamagpie]

Quick question for the Maximum Ride fandom:

Can we talk about how we all collectively ignore Ari’s characterization in book 2. Like. I get it. It’s gross. But also we should probably talk about it??? He wants Max to be his slave??? And he wants to steal her away to do so?? And he’s like, actually attracted to her and gets jealous at one point if I remember correctly????? Bro that is your SISTER. EW.

I’m all for the ‘Ari deservered better’ stuff but I seriously cannot get over this. JP what the hell. What was that. Why. He was like, mentally 7 years old. And it only happens in the one book as far as I can remember???

#maximum ride #james patterson #ari batchelder #max ride

[definitely-not-a-wasp]

Half-dead, 7-year-old, Lanky Dog Boy. 

#Maximum Ride on Main #Maximum Ride #Ari Batchelder #I took Erasers and took them from 'evil' to 'aggressively military' #He should have a lot more fur but ITEX has hygiene requirements #All Erasers have regulation hair/fur lengths and Ari is no exception #I didn't find a lyric quote for him but I already scanned it so I'm not fixing it

[your-fave-is-pupy]

Ari Batchelder from Maximum Ride is pupy!

For @gorgugplushie

#maximum ride #ari batchelder #requested #your fave is pupy #this character is apparently 7 so. can't argue with this one