#but that doesn't make him an anti hero

[fandomsarefamily1966]

"I'll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror

It must be exhausting, always rooting for the anti-hero"

#the lord of the rings #taylor swift #anti hero #I actually think about this a lot #how Frodo doesn't really see himself as a hero and blames himself for his 'failure' #and how even seventy ish years later #people are still debating over whether or not he should be considered a hero #I myself don't really think of him as an anti hero #mainly because anti heros do bad things for a good cause #and Frodo doesn't fit the typical hero mold #but that doesn't make him an anti hero #it just makes him more grounded and relatable #he tried his hardest to do what he needed to #and it broke him in the end #and more often than not he needed someone's help to get the job done #and that's not something we should be ashamed of #this got really long I'm sorry #but my point is I love Frodo and I wish people would understand him better #and I wish I could hug him and tell him he did the best he could #my poor baby #😢 #💔

[herssian]

#art #ffxiv #xau #zenos #zenos yae galvus #final fantasy xiv #comic #honestly truly truthfully by my own truth i think she keeps him as a bodyguard hound for the scions #but doesn't tell either side #just drills it into him that he's to protect the scions even if it means an innocent won't be saved #i don't characterize her as anything close to an anti hero because protecting people is always no.1 priority #...but that's when it comes to her. HE'S to make sure the people she loves the most never come to harm #saving alphinaud even if it means fifteen innocents will have to die is easier to coparmentalize because it's not her who made the decision #sometimes being the hero is is very close to playing god and sometimes god has clear favorites and that's a bit toxic #to be so heroic it turns borderline evil is very warrior of light ask elidibus

[short-wooloo]

Either learn what that means or you can't use that term anymore

(Thanks to @rogueleader14 for showing me this)

An anti hero is not an antagonist who is likable or sympathetic, an anti hero is a protagonist who is unheroic in their motivations, someone who does/fights for good, but not necessarily for good reasons, fighting for things like profit or to save their own skin, basically their on the good guys side for selfish reasons, a good example of this would be Han pre character development

(Also I sincerely doubt Baylan is our first Force sensitive anti hero, pretty sure Ventress fits into that category after she split with Dooku, and there are probably others)

I'll grant that we don't precisely know what Baylan's motivations are yet

But he's trying to bring back thrawn, a fascist, so that thrawn can restore the fascist empire

That's not very heroic

And even if Baylan's motivation is a belief that the galaxy needs a strong hand to force it to be peaceful, that still doesn't make him an anti hero

Because y'know what? That's what Dooku and Anakin believed

In other words, Baylan, like Dooku and Anakin, is a fascist, or at least a fascist enabler

#wooloo-writes #wooloo writes #star wars #sw #baylan skoll #i am begging y'all #learn what anti hero means #a villain being polite and honorable doesn't make them an anti hero #ahsoka show #ahsoka series #ahsoka spoilers #at best he's an anti villain #but that's still a villain #honestly this is probably born out of that dumb “thrawn's not reeeeeeaaaaally a villain” take #because if thrawn not a villain #then clearly no one working with him can be one 😒

[beevean]

I loved that scene where Annette and Maria are contemplating killing the Abbot, who we as the AUDIENCE know is sided with the vampires, but the heroes don't know yet and their reasoning is literally "oh but the Church has been corrupt for centuries so he's probably evil anyway".

You're contemplating murdering a potentially innocent man on the basis of his religion and because he was a bit of a cunt to you. The Church Bad is just off the charts here wow

Fans and journalists: oh the show is so deep, so nuanced! The games have a simplistic black and white morality, but the show actually fleshes out its characters, heroes and villains alike, and presents philosophical questions!

Show: man of the church automatically bad because church bad (they're right)

This is the sort of dialogue touted as Deep:

Listen my girl, I know you just downloaded Twitter and all the hot takes seem so fascinating to you, but there is a huge jump from "the Church is an organization of power and as such it attracts corrupt people who have the freedom to commit terrible crimes" and "yeah ofc the church would ally itself with demonic creatures affiliated with hell! just look at their history! they're evil to the core! insert revolutionary slogan here!"

mfw the games, even if accidentally, managed to paint a more morally grey, dynamic in time portrait of the church

#anti netflixvania #richter is the only braincell of the heroes #he's the only one who doesn't want to kill random people #which makes the way maria and annette disrespect him even more insulting

[annalyticall]

Do not engage with bad takes, I say, quietly seething as complete strangers character assassinate my favorite fictional guy

#saw a take that was like 'aizawa would have been harder on midoriya than all might was when he asked if he could be a hero quirkless' #which is fair! i think that's right. people make aizawa out to be too nice when he actuality would have been really harsh about his chances #but then people were like 'yeah aizawa would have been way worse. he would have told him to jump off a building like bakugo did' #NOOoo he would have been harsh specifically because he doesn't want a kid to get himself killed. what are you talking about #aizawa is the most anti-suicide character in this fucking show like what are you talking about #but also I'm 30 and have a mortgage. i have to let it go lol

[enbysiriusblack]

dorcas meadowes and sirius black are the anti hero marauder characters.

#if you're wondering why regulus isn't here. i shall explain my decision. #right so. an anti hero is a character who does good but has un- heroic like traits #an anti hero focuses on personal motivation above a sort of greater good. #and is generally disliked/on the outs with the clearer hero/villian characters #dorcas is on a clear side of good. but the way they go about it isn't that moral #they kill practically hundreds of people (bad people) out of more anger and grief than anything else #dorcas could be classed as a hero with more villianous qualities (acting on more selfish desires/careless about people they hurt) #sirius comes from a family of more villian characters but runs towards good #his intentions are some 'for the greater good' and just. to rebel. #they tend to act selfishly and impulsively and make bad choices #sirius strives to be a hero but his trauma and intentions land them in anti hero #whereas regulus. #he (unlike sirius and dorcas) isn't on/striving for good. #he is a very neutral character that is trapped in a villianous world #an anti hero actively does both good and bad. an anti hero thinks firstly of themsevles #regulus doesn't. his good deed is stealing the horcrux. his bad deed is joining the death eaters. #he does do both good and bad. but that just lands him as a neutral character. a morally grey victim. a complacent rebel. #dorcas and sirius do good things with bad intentions and bad things with good intentions #whilst regulus does a bad thing and a good thing. and so on. which cancels each other out. making him neutral. #marauders era #marauders #sirius black #dorcas meadowes

[apatheticlexicographer]

i just had an "oh fuck it all makes sense" moment about the m!levelogue™, specifically the line “my life started the day we found you in the woods”, and why it makes me so uncomfortable in particular.

like, obviously we know it isn’t true, but it is to a degree. the day mike found el wasn’t the day his life started, but it was the day he moved from the fishpond to the sea. all of a sudden his boring suburban reality is swept up in superpowers, monsters, other worlds and shady government organizations. for a nerdy little kid like him, it's quite literally like seeing his daydreams take form.

the thing is, though, that has absolutely nothing to do with el as a person. she's the catalyst, in that everything that happened was a chain of dominoes she tipped over when she found the demogorgon in her mindscape, but that was just her action as a tool. that was eleven, the experiment, and hawkins national laboratory, and the upside down. brenner and henry creel had more agency in that string of events than she did.

none of that has anything to do with el, the person. her appearing in mike's life wasn't what caused it to "really start", it was everything else that came by association.

if somebody told me that in a love confession i'd be pissed too.

#byler #anti m!leven #mike associates his feelings for el with the ego boost of being the hero #he doesn't know how to seperate those feelings #he hates confronting the fact that being with el doesn't actually mean nonstop action movie wish fulfilment #even if their relationship is like a romcom come to life he's pretty clearly unengaged if there's no danger #it's why he wants her to need him #he's probably mad she didn't tell him abt the bullies bc in his fantasyland he would've saved her from them #maybe i should make a followup post abt this later actually lol #stranger things meta #stranger things analysis #stranger things theory

[thecruellestmonth]

Normal Batman fans: I don't want to engage with parts of canon in which my fave is an abusive asshole. I choose to engage with other stories instead, and I ignore stories that I dislike.

Nasty toxic Batman fans: Ooh, Bruce is being totally gross again, don't mind if I do~

Good Dad Bruce™ stans: Yes, I fully acknowledge that every single one of Bruce's kids is deeply—at times suicidally—traumatized by his parenting failures in canon, but he is NOT a bad parent! Bruce LOVES his family. Sometimes COMPLICATED PARENTS make their children feel WORTHLESS and ISOLATED, and then don't do anything to fix it! It's totally NATURAL, Bruce is just a COMPLICATED parent! He's COMPLICATED! Bruce LOVES his family. COMPLICATED, I say! NOT ABUSIVE! Would an abusive parent put a hand on his child's shoulder in a vague display of warmth once every few years??? Hm??? Yeah, I DIDN'T THINK SO, YOU STUPID ABUSE VICTIMS!! Bruce LOVES his family. He does nice things—why are you ignoring all the nice things that he's done? He is just an IMPERFECT person, he has made some teeny tiny mistakes repeatedly with 5+ separately acquired children over a twenty-year period. Bruce is just a regular IMPERFECT human being—which means that you critics are the UNREASONABLE MONSTERS imposing PERFECTIONIST standards on a poor innocent middle-aged baby adult man! Bruce LOVES his family. How could we expect exceptionally privileged hyperintelligent parents NOT to regularly use their position of power to make 4-6 children feel inadequate, unsafe, and alone?? What ridiculously high standards! Bruce LOVES his family.

#I hope you impressionable youngsters are learning the warning signs of abusive families and cults during your time in this fandom. #Bruce Wayne hate club #COMPLICATED PARENT BRUCE WAYNE #You know I personally like my own cobbled version of Bruce Wayne too. I like to ignore canon as I please. #But some of you stans work overtime to come up with the cruelest most hurtful insensitive and vomit-inducing IGNORANT opinions about abuse. #So eager to sanitize decades of a grown rich white male hero living his power fantasy on the backs of vulnerable and traumatized kids #--in your zeal to make sure that the world's most popular superhero doesn't suffer a whisper of criticism-- #you choose to echo the excuses given to powerful people who use their power to hurt and control smaller people. #'He is complicated—' His behavior is abusive. #'He didn't intend to—' He did something abusive. #'But he LOVES his family!' He is an abusive piece of shit and he needs to do better. #'Well he is just an imperfect human—' Nobody is asking him to be perfect. Not everyone perpetuates abuse and refuses to change. #'But you have to understand that he had a very terrible childhood.' Every single one of his kids has had an inarguably worse childhood. #'Hm. That version of Bruce really is an abusive asshole. My homebrew isn't and he wouldn't do that.' DING DING DING! WINNER WINNER! 🥳👑👑👑 #'Bruce is an abusive asshole. He is the perfect meow meow for my fiction about toxic families and dark themes.' YES. YOU WIN. 💗👏👏👏😘😘😘 #IMPERFECT PARENT BRUCE WAYNE #negativity #fandom discourse #anti Bruce Wayne #child abuse mention cw #The funny thing is that this blog discusses Jason Todd the most but I'd say he probably suffered the least abuse. #At least he's a villain. What is Bruce's excuse for the way he mistreats and neglects the others?

[iforgottoavoidthenoid]

noid being gay doodle for the day

#🍕dearly beloved pizza hater #the noid #f/o #romantic f/o #self ship #self ship art #self shipping #doodles #charles art yay!! #cartoon art #PLEASE I LOVE DRAWING STUPID THINGS LIKE THIS #noid looks so dumb from that angle i love him #also alternate anti-hero outfit for my persona woohoo! #actually gonna draw some stuff for uuhh crossover lore too #and make a carrd explaining stuff #woohoo! #will be very busy #just gonna hope my motivation doesn't die off

[masquenoire]

You know, sometimes I wonder about villain dynamics in Gotham and who gets along with each other relatively well (aka Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy) to rogues that absolutely detest one another? Roman dislikes many people and trusts nobody but himself, but I can see him being especially unfriendly towards other ‘mobsters’ such as Two Face, Penguin and Scarface and bearing strong rivalry against them. Joker he’d absolutely despise, thanks to the clown getting the better of him in his younger days and forcing him to kill Tiffany Ambrose, his girlfriend at the time.

#( 💀 ♮ IMMACULATE INTERESTS ♮ | musings ) #Things I think about when I'm tired and hungry but can't snack bc diet and day off #I just have strong thoughts okay #Other roleplayers don't have to accept this as fact imma just thinking to myself this evening #So far Roman hasn't really 'hated' other villains #Jonathan he's been okay with so far but he hasn't met Scarecrow yet #He's okay with the Riddler/Eddie plus his girls #Very amused at Eddie's war against Carmine Falcone #Which makes Roman like him more because he's another rival crime lord #The biggest and oldest one in the city #He hates Joker but he doesn't hate Harley Quinn #I don't think he's interacted with other villains yet #We don't count Red Hood he's an anti-hero #I wonder if Batman knows about rival rogue dynamics and is either amused or uses that to his advantage #Let them fight each other first then stop them #💀 ;; OOC #;; mun rambles

[schneereggen]

I really hope that Guren made Yuu decide between the world and Mika just to trigger his powers, or for some other good reason. Because else, I might fully lose hope in this plot.

#why even bother to tell him? #we have a world to save here! #you cant let a kid make a rational decision #he doesn't have to know for the plot to continue #please tell me its nit just because he's the mc #but because he had to go rampage #Guren you aren't that dumb are you? #Also I need anti-hero Guren back #at least until he betrays bitch-sama #then he can be good guy again

[catcatb0y]

The thing that really gets me with people who say that they enjoy the leaks/spoilers/current canon is that.

Like.

I dunno man, it sounds so fucked up to say, "Yeah, I like this kid but I want them to die-" and I say that as a wholehearted 'sir, that is a fictional character' person, but I mean like. How are you going to say that you support a character, that you like a character, and then actively stop them from reaching their ONE GOAL.

Like Bakugou has been training his ENTIRE LIFE to become a Hero- even assuming that his death was somehow the epitome of sacrifices, the beau of death, contributed to every thing in the plot, especially given the blatant show of him AS A CHILD in that chapter!!

You're really going to say 'yeah, I think his death adds to the narrative, so I want it to happen/stay canon- even if that means that Bakugou will never become a Hero, never reach the goal he was striving for, never be able to reap the benefits of being a better person-"

Like

That sounds so anti-ish for one, but also it's such a huge disservice to his character. I wanted to make this post less mean than my asshole postings but I am so fucking tired from zoning in and out of reality all night on this stupid eleven hour shift.

I dunno, my main points were:

- It's reslly hypocritical from fans (especially BakuDeku fans) who have been talking about how intertwined Bakugou is with the narrative- only to all of a sudden completely flip switch and say 'yeah, no actually, the Heroes could afford to lose him just like that, and his death adds to the manga' (bitch where??? Like not even in a mean way but fucking where???)

- It's really, really shitty to Bakugou, who is a WHOLE ASS CHILD. What about his dreams? His aspirations? His hopes? His goals? Can you really say 'yeah I'm a big fan of this character, but it doesn't matter to me if they never get their own thematic ending, if they never have the chance to be a better person, see a better world, or accomplish the things that they've been going after'. Especially not when Bakugou has been training since he was a literal child!! He's one of the most phyisically fit characters, has the best hold over his quirk as a whole, and the dude can mauever mid air- like that alone shows you just how much he has put into his training.

Only for what? For him to do his absolute best and fail. Somehow manage to scavenge up even more power than THAT only to die in vain-

And I was talking with someone (not meant as like a vauge, I genuinely can't remember who I was talking to) that said 'I don't think his death (should it be permanent) is in vain' and not to the fight, yeah, not to the war.

It's anticlimatic as all fucking hell, so I really don't understand people who like/support/want it to be permacanon but still claim to like Bakugou- because wow it's just so shitty to him, specifically. Even if he is the driving force of the future narrative, even if his death is the thing that sparks the change in the war, like.

His character arc is dying in vain. All of the work that he put in to be a better person, to be a better Hero, to train harder faster swifter- everything he's done up until now... For what?

How can you support a character's growth for years- honestly even just for months- and think "Yeah, I would love to see all of his efforts wasted as he dies a brutal death; ending up nothing more than a pawn to move the narrative forward"

Which he HAS been!! Epsiode one, his Sports Festival ceremony, Kamino- like. The kid has already suffered enough. He cannot catch a fucking break and it's ALWAYS at the negligence of Heroes and (almost) ALWAYS due to failed teamwork!!

You guys just want. One last shitty hurrah? Bakugou's only point to be how Heroes fail the people they claim to protect?

Not only does it just. Erase all of Bakugou's hard work, but it makes him nothing more than just a reoccuring theme. Is that. Is that really what people want nowadays?

Like. I'm just baffled. It's disheartening and annyoing and whatever, but it's also just. Confusing. Why even say you like the character when you just like the plot. The kid hasn't even gotten a fucking hug from his goddamned mother and one of her only lines is calling him weak for not being able to stand up to grown adults when he was caught off guard.

*And BakuDekus especially, when you guys end up boiling every thing Bakugou does back down to Midoriya- I don't even want to hear the "I know Bakugou isn't dead, because Midoriya-" right as you may be, he is his own character.

His "death" is so sad to me. I truly feel no joy from the way he calls out to Midoriya (partially because of the fandom completely sidelining Bakugou as "Midoriya's closest person"), but because he has spent literal years comparing himself to Midoriya.

"I tried to show superiority over you, but I always lost-" those words probably mean so much to Midoriya, who never saw his own worth; but to Bakugou? They're heartbreaking. I dunno maybe it's finally going off the deep end and getting fed up with every goddamned BakuDeku derailing conversations/theories/posts about Bakugou's death into his worth according to Midoriya. But like.

This kid has spent years comparing himself to Midoriya, years of hatred and anxiety and self doubt- and his main climax, his final moment is "Yeah, my insecurities were right all along."

I still kind of do want an SPOP CatraDora ending, but at the same time... I really don't. Because it every turn this poor kid has been watered down to just. The way that Midoriya sees him, his importance to Midoriya- and he deserves better than that. I'm glad that he did everything he could to make it up to Midoriya, but I don't want this groveling shit either. This bland comparison. Like I have feelings about Midoriya and his input, but I still do want to keep this as nice as possible, so I won't. I won't get into that.

But honestly? I genuinely don't get how you can call yourself a Bakugou fan and be okay with- dare I even say enjoy- how shit of an ending this would be for him. How underwhelming his entire prescence has become. How downplayed his stregths are. How disregarded his goals and hopes and genuine drive has been and all for what?

I still really don't see the side of anyone arguing his death has "narrative merits" other that like. Antis. Who have and continue to make all of these arguments, and yet people who claim to be fans are making the same ones, like.

The rude thing to say would be 'do you have no self awareness?' which truly, like. How. How do you have to genealize this in your head, how did you get from genuine meta and well thought out headcanons and presictions into. Anti takes, "but better," because you say that you like the character.

But it still really begs the question, like what?

Anyways, I will go to sleep and Tumblr will give me my two notes while I am gone. I will wake up and hopefully just. Get a better interest. Even if the people this is targeted towards would happen to see it, I'm pretty sure I blocked them already so it doesn't matter.

#I'm too tired to word this right #but still like #that is such a HUGE DISRESPECT to his character #to just shit on all of his hard work all of his goals all of his dreams and ideals #the only driving force making him a better person is himself he could so easily just... leave. just be the villain that they see #Bakugou's redemption arc is soley his own- he doesn't have a reason to become a better person other than his drive to be a Hero #there's nothing stopping him from just. giving up other than his own ideals #all of that just... for nothing? #is that how little you think of him? #to everybody posting jokes this doesn't apply to y'all because you are rancid af anyways?? #deadass can't tell the difference between fan blogs and anti blogs #if you quack like an anti I block you like an anti #but seriously all accounts boil down to anti takes- the jokes/Midoriya associating/stripping Bakugou of his future

[apocalyptic-dancehall]

SHADOWTRAP

#responses! #shadowtrap #he's been in only one game (and in that game a pretty short dlc) #but FUUUUCK he's got so much potential as an anti-villain/anti-hero!! #he doesn't have to appear all the time but he's the reason claptrap came back from the dead! #and he makes up several very good points about claptrap's 'friends' and oh my god i want to kiss him (platonically) #he'd probably sock me for doing it tho lmao #also he is literally OW THE EDGE the claptrap.. he's so dark and brooding i bet he likes hello kitty or smth /j #also?? he's also maybe semi-not that much better than jack morally-wise considering that he wanted to wipe out literally everyone #still a wayyyy better family member than jack'll ever be #overall: really underrated antagonist and i want more of him! #✨

[tofixtheshadows]

Sorry but Kabru is so fascinating to me as a character, in a pure mechanical sense, because of what Ryoko Kui does with him. Everything about him is a red herring. He's deliberately introduced as some kind of rival for Laios, a party leader who is hopeless against monsters but absolutely brilliant with people both in and out of combat, and who has good reason to oppose him.

By the end of chapter 31, you might even think Kabru's going to end up as some sort of anti-villain, an antagonist with the best of intentions who nevertheless tries to foil our hero's plans. He wants to defeat the Mad Mage himself, he suspects Laios of being too irresponsible to be trusted with control of the dungeon, and his crew even thinks that Laios's party stole from them (and they're kind of right!). All signs point towards an inevitable showdown.

And then ... none of that happens.

Confrontation over the stolen treasure? Kabru is literally too smart to fall for the classic miscommunication trope and correctly decides it's not worth making a big deal of.

Kabru's deadly PVP skills? Aside from trying to take down Falin, he never fights another human again.

Wanting to be the one who defeats the dungeon? Turns out he was only doing that because he didn't think any other adventurer would have people's best interests at heart, and he's more than willing to play a support role in the whole affair.

Thinking Laios is up to no good? He really did just want to get to know the guy more. He has his misgivings, but ultimately ends up trusting Laios with his life.

Is Kabru going to get some sort of comeuppance for hating monsters and not appreciating their ecosystem? Well no, he has good reasons for hating monsters. He ends up wanting to learn about them through Laios's eyes, but he's never forced into any "Wow, guess I was wrong about them!" revelation.

Hell, even his implied ladykiller ways, which might lead you to think he'll end up being the stock "chivalrous lech" type of character, don't really manifest. He has a lot of opportunities to act flirtatiously around women, but doesn't. He's just a guy whose natural charisma makes him into human catnip.

And that's all hysterical to me, to pull it off. It's a fascinating way to tell a story. To introduce a character explicitly as a rival, potentially even a villain, and instead make them a deuteragonist. It's like a magician making a coin disappear, then slowing down their trick to show you the misdirection. "Did you see what I did there?" they ask with a wink. "The coin was in my other hand the entire time."

#Dungeon Meshi #Kabru #Dungeon Meshi spoilers #I will say that for the people who come out of the manga still thinking that Kabru hates Laios or that he's a bad guy in any way: #you were so busy staring at the hand where the coin disappeared that you ignored the magician explaining the trick #and yes I do think that Kabru and Marcille are the deuteragonists to Laios's protagonist #we see more of Kabru's interiority than anyone else. if you don't think he's a main character? idk. see me after class. #musings with Dea

[beevean]

cars use fuel to work

i use terrible takes about hector and n!hector :)

#there's a post in the cv tag that i really shouldn't have read because now i'm in a ranty mood again djfhdsjkfhsdkjhfk #i have *so* much to say about how n!hector is a waste of a potentially interesting interpretation of the character #and even then he doesn't compare to the real deal and how the mangas paint him as an anti hero going through a solid character arc #'ah but the fridged women' yes! yes that is bad writing i'll give you that #but i still very much love rosaly in the mangas despite her being admittedly basic in her role as a nice woman giving hector hope #and even *then* rosaly being fridged and hector replacing her with a clone *while bad* #doesn't touch the levels of repulsion i felt in n!hector's storyline #or how other women were treated #maybe with the exception of sypha she's fine #cod has serious holes in it but terribly written? nah it didn't make me nearly vomit like nfcv so that makes it inherently superior

[nerdpoe]

Kill on Sight Orders

The Flash fam has a secret. Okay so they have a lot of secrets, but there's one above all others.

A kill on sight order.

In the worst possible future (one of them there's a lot), a beast named Phantom decimated the world. He took out the entire Justice League, the entire Justice League Dark, any and all small-time heroes that stood in his way. All of it. Everyone.

If they see Phantom as a kid, to prevent the slightest possible chance of Phantom being a thing, it's kill on sight. They all have anti-ghost weapons that can destroy a ghost's core, locked away in a secure facility that they can just run to and grab real quick to get it done.

None of them like it. None of them can risk it.

Bart stumbles into a town that doesn't exist, almost gets got by a ghost that managed to possess him, and gets saved by...Phantom.

A scrawny, teenage Phantom.

He's funny, makes puns, worries about if Bart got hurt or not-he's nothing like the Bad Phantom!

He's not gonna kill his new friend! No way, no how.

But he's gotta keep it a secret from the other Speedsters now, because he doesn't know who came up with that rule but they probably won't understand, and then he'll have a speedster fight on his hands, and no one wants that.

But the government keeps sending letters of complaint to Max, and Max keeps asking why the government is mad at Bart now, and Bart can't tell him "oh it's because there's this town that is off the record and a secret and also where phantom is and i broke in" because that'd rat Phantom out, and even if he didn't mention Phantom Max would want to investigate.

The mailman doesn't understand why his letters keep disappearing but he thinks it might have something to do with the Flash, because there's always a red blur.

#dpxdc #dcxdp #dp x dc #dc x dp #phanfic #story prompt #danny nervously not mentioning that dan. the evil version of himself from the future. is actually very much in the present #but living with some psychotic cheesehead in wisconsin #he and bart kick it off #bart will protect his new ghostly friend with everything he has #wally gets a letter of complaint from the us postal service #telling him that stealing people's mail is a felony