Me and my friend, Willow, were talking last night about wedding vows and stuff cause of one of our roleplays. And we got on the topic about how like "till death do we part" was just another way of saying "when you die, I'm out".
Granted, we acknowledge that's not what the phrase is intended to say, but we as "sound intellectuals" (at 4 in the god dang morning, at least for me) thought; we could do better.
So, for the vows between the king and queen of our roleplay, at the end they say; "We are in this together. Forever and always". And for the record, my king is supposed to be the antagonist who has an amazing relationship with his family and I'm sitting here resisting the urge to make him redeemable.
Then, there's what I did with Afterfall, which is something I did literal months ago in my notes and never have been the same since about it. Their vows end with "I'll love you forever, and the years that follow after that".
But it doesn't end there. See, these boys are so in love with each other that its pretty common to hear them reference their vows, but do it in a specific way thats a nod to their dynamic in the story.
Sometimes this is flipped, but you'll usually hear them go like;
Kelly: "I'll love you forever."
Silver: "And a day after that."
Spoilers for Afterfall ahead, but;
Kelly, who was supposed to die young and met Silver for the first fime when he was dead, knows that death won't take them apart. Silver is the God of Death afterall and genuinely loves and cares about him. So he tells him that he'll love him forever, because he knows there will always be a forever for eachother, either in the living realm, the Isles, or the After.
Silver obviously knows this too and while he acknowledges there's a chance Kelly might leave him for whats beyond the After, he knows he will love him long after that. He was once mortal, had friends, a sister, parents, even a girlfriend he courted after he became a God and while he didn't experience it at the time, he's grieved over the fact that he has lost them permanently. His sister might had reincarnated into Winter, but Destiny no longer exists, and the rest of them disappeared to the beyond. Its been centuries and he still loves them. So, when he says "a day after that" to his husband, its a reference to his fact.
What he doesn't expect after the events of the final arc is for his hopes to come true, that Kelly decides, with no hesitation, that he would rather exist in the After with Silver forever. This is also a parallel to another scene where Silver picks Kelly and their found family over the other Gods, who had become like his pseudo-family over the centuries of them being Gods and outliving everyone. This decision leads to him being exiled from the Isles, something that was made clear to him before he announced his choice.
Silver and Kelly love each other in a way thats gentle, but fierce, and its in a way that always makes me stim from pure joy. I think I speak for everyone who works with me on Afterfall that this ship is the true OTP of the series just because of how well they fit together.
Anyways, thanks for staying for my TED Talk.
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Damian: [brushing his teeth]
The shadow hanging over his shoulder: [Gets its teeth dangerously close to Damian's shoulder]
Damian: [Shoves a toothbrush into said shadow move and starts brush]
The shadow: [Pauses before starting to let out a contented purr]
Damian then spits out the foam and washes out his mouth, then makes the shadow do the same and then picks out pjs.
Damian: [Currently decided if he should go with the cat, dog, or knife imprinted one]
The shadow: [Starts getting dangerously close to Damian with, toxic green spirals it calls eyes]
Damian: [Throws the dog imprinted one behind him at the shadow and takes the cat imprinted one for himself and tells the shadow to put it on]
The shadow: [Stares at the clothes before hesitantly putting them on before letting out a noise of distress]
Damian: [Turning around to find the shadow somehow stuck in the pjs, lets out a sigh, then starts to help them fit]
Damian then moves over to the bed, he points to one side and tells the shadow to go there. The shadow listens, laying down as Damian also lays down, grabbing the sheets and covering them both.
It barely took a few seconds for the shadow to fall asleep, and Damian stared at it. Damian wasn't quite sure why the shadow of his dead twin was following him, nor why it was even able to and seemed to hide itself from anyone who isn't Damian.
Nobody besides him knew about it, and Damian decided that he liked it. This could have been his younger brother, if the other had survived, and they would have probably been told to fight to the death to decide an heir.
At the very least, that won't ever happen.
Even if his brother was slightly unusual.
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Danny did not remember much of the before, he remembered people with blurred faces and features, blurred colors. He remembered a lot of colors, then red, then white, then pain.
He doesn't like pain, he believes.
Then he remembered going to sleep, and then he woke up. It was dark and slimy and cramped when he woke up, especially when he realized someone else was in their with him.
Then he fell asleep again, then woke up to that same dark and slimy place, then fell asleep again, all in some weird cycle. Then, moving, and pain.
It hurt, and he was sluggish when it eventually stopped. Then came pain again, and he was asleep.
Then he woke up, again.
He didn't know what was happening, wasn't really aware of too. But he woke up next to the other who was in that dark and slimy with him, and decided he wanted to stay with them.
He wasn't aware enough for most of the things that happened when Damian grew up, but he still stayed regardless, and hide from everyone else.
Danny loves his brother, and he thinks his brother loves him too. Even if he was slightly unusual.
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Prompt 249
Danny tilts his head. The masked figure across the roof tilts their head back, a gold similar to Tucker’s eyes shimmering, though he knew it wasn’t him. He lets out a curious chirp, inaudible to the living, and the masked figure stills, as silent as a corpse for several moments before letting out two clicks.
A greeting in turn.
Danny smiles, letting green bleed into his eyes and scurrying over with a croon from his core. I’m here, I’m here, their own core clatters like metal against bone as his responds with the drone of a blackhole. I see you, I see you. I’m HereHereHere.
Yet another twitters in turn, clicking echoing across the city from shadow to shadow until it’s as though the city itself has a heartbeat. Click-click. Click-click. Click-click. I’m here, I’m here, not alone, I’m Here.
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Okay so what if Danny was the first clone of Superman instead of Connor? I see it going like this:
Danny gets reincarnated and immediately wakes up in a pod. Once his brain catches up to what's going on around him, he quickly nopes out of his pod and takes a little tour around the facility he found himself in. Along the way he discovers some major incriminating evidence but more importantly, he discovers who his donor dad is! Hooray! So Danny takes his freshly alive little butt and that incriminating evidence all the way to his donor dad's house.
Enter Clark, who is very unsure how to feel when a boy shows up at his door, claiming to be his clone and with evidence to boot! On one hand he's glad this clone doesn't appear to hurt or anything but on the other hand, his dna was taken without his permission to make an entirely new person!? He knows none of this is his fault but at the same time, why is this suddenly Clark's responsibility? But the kid just escaped a dangerous facility on his own. But what if the kid was brainwashed to believe he escaped but is really a spy after all? Is Clark supposed to take care of regardless? After all he didn't even want kids! At least not that soon but then again....
Danny takes one hard look at Clark's wishy washy bs and just goes "Yeah no bud, that's not how this works. Neither of us asked to be in this situation but we're in it now so you're just gonna have to deal." Basically, he shames Clark into taking care of him. Especially when the Justice League and the Kents find out and now he can tattle to other adults about how Clark's mistreating him. Danny doesn't ever hesitate to bring up what kind of hypocritical monster Clark and therefore Superman would be if he claimed to stand for truth justice and the American way while also leaving his own clone out in the cold.
And you know what? This actually works. Clark starts taking care of Danny to get everyone off his ass but then comes to find out this kid is actually kind of a riot to be around? And single fatherhood is kinda fun actually?
Basically by the time Kon comes around, Clark has settled nicely into his clone dad era and is willing to strangle anyone who would not only steal his DNA, but also dare to use his precious clone babies for evil gain. Because seriously how dare they?
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