#comic escapee

[mothgodofchaos]

Any thoughts on an over-protective superhero?

Jackie is absolutely the type to walk/fly/teleport you anywhere. He's so worried as you being the partner of the most famous superhero in the city, that you'll be targeted in an effort to get to him. He gave up on trying to quell the rumors about the two of you, seeing as the media is pushing the story anyways. It doesn't mean that the bad guys still won't try even if he convinces the media it's not true.

Eventually he convinces you to move in with him. Because he can better protect you. Totally not because seeing your face every day gives him another reason to keep going, keep fighting. No... not at all...

#jackieboy man #jse jackieboy man #jackieboy man x reader #jse jackieboy man x reader #septic egos #jse egos #comic escapee #chaosanswers #chaoscanons

[evilhorse]

You are, technically, an escaped mental patient. …Sorry, I didn’t mean for that to sound funny.

(Alan Scott: The Green Lantern #3)

#alan scott: the green lantern #green lantern #alan scott #the spectre #jim corrigan #escapee mental patient #uh oh #morgue #rude #buddies? #tim sheridan #cian tormey #dc comics #comics #2020s comics

[spotsupstuff]

aight bet, y'all. which is the sharpest blade

#spot says stuff #rw #oc tag #not including Fish n the other filler iterators cuz theyre either just straight up chillen or havent been explored quite yet #Dagger (the General) is connected to Orion n the dumbass mass suicide escapee basties haven't shown off much yet #Sporadic gets to participate if only cuz shes very blorbo n then her fate shows up in the notos comic n its.. Bad.

[ame-has-chalk]

i have escaped from twitter and i have very little clue how to use tumblr but HELLO!!!! i love dc , specifically batfam (i hate that name) , young justice , and btas + jlu . i’m learning to draw and i write occasionally. putting some of my wips here too!!

#new to tumblr #i’m a twitter escapee 😓😓 #i was on private on twt but i watched and giggled at dctwt #batfamily #dc comics #dick grayson #stephanie brown #tim drake #discowing #connor kent #wips

[scarletspider2the2ndpower]

“The Origin of the Thunderbolts,” Thunderbolts Annual (Vol. 1/1997), #1.

Writer: Kurt Busiek; Pencilers: Mark Bagley, Bob McLeod, Tom Grummett, Ron Randall, Gene Colan, Darick Robertson, George Perez, and Chris Marinnan; Inkers: Al Milgrom, Will Blyberg, Scott Koblish, Jim Sanders, Tom Palmer, Bruce D. Patterson, Karl Kesel, and Andrew Pepoy; Colorist: Joe Rosas; Letterer: Dave Lanphear

#Marvel #Marvel comics #Marvel 616 #Thunderbolts #Kaine #Kaine Parker #Atlas #Erik Josten #there Kaine is !!!! #and elsewhere in the issue he’s listed by name among villains who are formidable threats #implying that there are SOME records of Kaine’s existence #at least within the super powered correctional system #but I’m once again asking if Peter knows that Kaine’s at the Vault???? #Did Ben get the chance to tell him before disintegrating???? #also it’s mentioned later in this issue that all of the escapees were successfully recaptured but in Kaine’s next appearance #he’s inexplicably a free man so I wonder if he escaped here hahaha

[purpleenma]

This is not my typical art or meme post but a doubt surfaced in the Mcspirk Discord server about TarsusIV and if Kirk was on the list to die or to survive. So I made a kind of shallow dive in the net to see if I was able to find an answer, and I could say I did, but boy did I also find something I was absolutely NOT expecting.

For the record canon or alpha canon in Star Trek is what we see in the shows themselves.

(Some people may include here scriptwriters or directors publications/comments and interviews relating their work on the show and their intentions while making it, in general any of the key people that contributed to the canon we see in the shows. For others this is considered beta canon so it's a kind of grey area.)

Beta canon is all the rest under the Star Trek brand; novels, videogames, manuals, comics, etc.

Having established that more or less, here we go:

In alpha canon the answer to if Kirk was in the list to die or survive is; "it's tricky" xD

Memory Alpha in all accounts points to him being one of the other 4000 people that survived the mass execution, although it is not exactly specified that he was on any list to survive. There were previous scripts where Jim says he was, but it was scrapped among other things. Still, if Kodos executed the 4000 colonists all together in the antimatter chamber, and we haven't heard of any escapees or switches between people, I think it's safe to say he was on the list of survivors. However, I think it's important to note that we don't know if later Kodos just chilled, ordered more people killed or there were more deaths due to his ruling the more the situation became dire. And we also don't know how long he lasted in charge, since I couldn't find an exact time when help arrived either; it just states it arrived earlier than expected but too late to save the 4000 killed. So we can't be certain how much time elapsed from the mass execution till help finally got there.

Kirk is listed as a survivor of the TarsusIV Massacre, that encompasses all the struggle since what would be the uprise of Kodos and ordering those executions, till the unknown time later when help finally arrived. But we seem to be left to wonder if he could have been sought for later executions or persued in any way. In fact when we think back at what happened to his friend Tom Leighton, who was also a survivor and one of the nine witnesses, it is understood the damage to the side of his face either was caused by Kodos himself or took place during the massacre at least, maybe caused by Kodos enforcers.

Since we don't know exactly what happened and for how long after the mass execution, we can't be sure what or who was the cause. Like most of it, it's left to interpretation. But when you get into account that him, along with Jim and Kevin Riley, who were all rather young then, are from the few people who could identify Kodos because they saw his face, added to his wounds, makes you think that at least there was some big turmoil and, be it on purpose or not, these kids ended either in Kodos presence himself when most didn't even know his face, or could retrieve that photo we see in the TOS episode from Kodos' headquarters or some other important place that may store such data. As one ST Discovery novel (beta canon) suggests and also tells us more of what transpired after the execution.

So yes, alpha canon, or "the" canon left it ambiguous on purpose, since any intent to specify was scrapped before the TOS episode Conscience of the King was produced.

But here is where it gets juicy; beta canon (specifically Memory Beta) tells a very different story, one that made me have to read the paragraph twice and fact check because wtf xD

Two novels you'll see listed in the screenshot detail that Kirk was, in fact, on the list to die, but he escaped, saving Kevin Riley while he was at it. And not only that, but that Kirk was saved by SAREK who MELDED with him to erase the memory, because he also saved KODOS and gave him his new identity (wtf Sarek? You did that because you thought it was the logical thing to do or how come?? This could have tremendous implications...)

I don't know if any of you guys knew this but I sure didn't and the fic potential for this is unimaginable xD Maybe many of those that made Tarsus fics including Spock and/or Sarek there are based on this piece of beta canon but yeah, shocking.

I'm aware that Shatner touches on more about what happened in TarsusIV in some of the ST novels he wrote, like "Star Trek: Academy #1 Collision Course" and the "Autobiography of James T Kirk". For the latter I believe I read an excerpt some time ago that talked about riots and the situation getting really violent, but I couldn't find any information in this small search and I don't have the spoons to read the book right now, so take it with a grain of salt.

In the end it is all up for interpretation and you can go either way, but you sure get some interesting details in the various levels of canon xD

#star trek #star trek tos #tarsusiv #kodos #james t kirk #jim kirk #sarek #alpha canon #beta canon #the tarsusiv massacre #shallow dive #purpleenma #star trek analysis #makes me think of what did Sarek think of Jim when he saw him again in Journey to Babel after all those years and what he did

[sev-arts]

What the webcomic is and why YOU should be reading...

(i.e. a promotional post by the Author @sev-wildfang/@sev-arts herself)

The story of how vampires used Christianity ahem, The Church to enslave humans and steal their Souls, and one sexy Devil's quest to reclaim them... repossess them in a way... if only there was a catchy two-word phrase for that

Starring two trans women who put on the horns and skin of Demons to fight the power - homophobes get pummeled, transphobes get zapped, fascists are blown to smithereens, and at least one alpha male grifter gets his mojo permanently turned off.

Your new blorbos: Reah, orphanage escapee and former nun on a quest for revenge, and Tabitha, ex-cop drag queen on the path of atonement

Will they? Won't they? Can they settle their differences and work as a team? Will the past they thought they had left behind come back to haunt them?

Tasteful amounts of graphic nudity and bloody violence, language that does not sugarcoat social stigmas around gender diversity, and frequent use of hateful language by characters who would say those kinds of things IRL too - this is a comic for readers 18+ ONLY *

Rendered in gorgeous black and white ink and select splashes of color, entirely hand-lettered, with labyrinthine detailing that make every single page worth dwelling on, with hidden extras to find - the Devil's in the Details!

Alluring nonstandard panel layouts inspired by stained glass windows, photo collages, fever dreams, art nouveau advertisements, underground comix, etc.

An astonishing archive of over 700 pages as of right now (DEC 2023)

Seriously, look at them:

Where can YOU read this comic right now?

On its ComicFury site

On its tumblr mirror @souls-foreclosed

On its own website

Technically you could buy the physical books off of me, but you wouldn't be reading a web-comic then

Paging @readwebcomicsgdi for some extra eyes on this!

* You'd be surprised how difficult this comic is to host online with any sort of reach these days. Tapas (mobile app) and WebToon don't want it. And that's not even getting into the fact a lot of platforms treat ANY kind of trans content as sexual and unwanted in the first place.

#souls foreclosed #webcomic #queer comics #dark fantasy #comics on tumblr

[dccomicsbracket]

Motivations:

Bart Allen (Impulse), Kon-El (Superboy), Greta Hayes (Secret), & Cassandra Cain (Batgirl)

Three kids who missed out on a childhood. Three lab escapees. Evil family member havers. They all have different relationships to killing also. Cass at one end and Greta at the other. Plenty of reasons to be close and reasons to be in conflict as well. Exploring the nature of predetermined paths based on your circumstances. Thawne, Luthor, Cain and being sacrificed.

Dick Grayson (Nightwing) & Donna Troy (Troia)

THE duo of all time. Also @lomakes has amazing cover designs for a series about them.

#dc comics #poll #next of dc poll #impulse #superboy #dc secret #batgirl #bart allen #kon-el #greta hayes #cassandra cain #dick grayson #nightwing #donna troy #troia

[whump-card]

Okay listen... (rambling below the cut)

I had a fucking CRAZY dream last light. I was, coincidentally, trying to induce lucid dreaming which didn't work BUT I still had a wild dream. There was a lab escapee. A tracking collar. TERRIFYING HUMAN HUNTING "DOGS." A chase scene through an autumnal forest. A military airship. Sick-ass aerial stunts.

I don't know if I could ever to it justice in writing.

There's a very overambitious, hubris-filled part of me that wants to make a comic.

As you can see, the art wouldn't be as polished as my work usually is! I may even have to change up my style! It wouldn't be, like... very good, probably? I don't know! I just don't know! I will probably try, I may or may not share it, we'll see. But I wanted to share just this little bit that genuinely took me all day, nonstop... I'm very excited about it.

I do also understand that making comics is very demanding. This could totally go nowhere.

I'm going to tag my regular art taglist here, but if I continue to post about this comic I'll be starting a new taglist, so let me know if you want onto that. I just don't want to bug anyone who only wants to see my more polished stuff.

@angst-after-dark, @whumpsday, @flowersarefreetherapy, @rainydaywhump, @softvampirewhump, @burnticedlatte, @whump-me, @honeybees-125

#whump #whump art #whump comic #my art #I got so excited about this that I 3d modeled a plane. so I could have infinite reference photos. sir.....

[writergeekrhw]

Hello Tumblr

Hey all,

I’m Robert Hewitt Wolfe, writer of things like #Elementary #StarTrek #DS9 #Andromeda, etc etc, and author of the BILLY SMITH AND THE GOBLINS books.

I may end up moving here from Twitter if Grimes’ Baby Daddy lets the Orange Menace back onto Twitter. Because eff that noise. I’m not providing content to support that nonsense.

If you have questions about #TVWriting #NovelWriting or any of that kind of thing, feel free to ask and I’ll answer (assuming that’s even a thing on Tumblr).

I also talk about geek culture in general. Comic books, TTRPGs, all that kind of thing.

This has been a test of the Emergency Twitter Escapee Broadcasting Network.

#tv writing #star trek #deep space nine #ds9 #cbs elementary #sherlock holmes #novel writing #writing

[mothgodofchaos]

This might sting a little...

#jackieboyman #jackieboy man #jackieboy man jacksepticeye #septic egos #jse egos #jse jackieboy man #comic escapee #chaosort

[fullscoreshenanigans]

I just think about it but the whole Ray's plan at the beginning would have failed in so many ways.

Connie could have wondered where was her plushie at the moment of crossing the door.

Imagine if Emma and Norman have run into Isabella on the way to the gate (because she would have heard them by exemple) and tell "mama, Connie forget her plushie" so Isabella would have took it and say "Connie meets her parents right now. It's better to not bother her. I'll put it with his baggage"

Can you imagine if they were come back to Ray, saying "don't worry, we meet Mum on the way and she took it"

Ray: *internal screaming*

I mean Connie was the LAST shipment before Ray. It was 3 months, more or less, before his own shipment. If he had failed, what could he have done? Said the truth? Would Emma and Norman believe THAT without seeing it? Well all the others escapees believed it. But Emma was deeply attached to Isabella, she had need to see the demons to believe it.

But i understand that making his plan tro motion when let's say Hao was shipped (i think it was him before Connie?) would have given more time, and mayvbe on security if his plan had failed to re-do it the next time, but then Emma would have to accept Connie's shippement if they were not ready. Sacrifie her to save all the others. Pretty sure that she wouldn't have, and i don't even speak about Don here.

(Continued)

It's kinda sad to think that, even if the escapees managed to run away from the farm, happy to be free, happy that Ray is alive and all, their survival wasn't assured until they got in the bunker and even before, until they meet Sonju and Mujika. I mean without Sonju and Mujika, Emma could have died of infection and Ray would have been killed by demons, few hours after have been saved by Emma and few MINUTES after have decided to live for his family. (Sonju saved him just in time) The escape would be over very quickly for them. Not sure that the other kids would have managed to survive alone, without their big siblings to guide them :/ (meaning they wouldn't have reached the bunker at all or at least a lot later) (meaning that Yuugo would have killed himself) (Goldy Pond wouldn't have succeeded as well that in canon, a lot more would be dead) (and can you imagine Norman's reaction after his escape TT)

The first thing I usually think of is what a crapshoot Ray's idea is to have Emma and Norman go to the gate with Little Bunny in the first place.

On the one hand, it's a testament to his faith in them.

On the other hand, he is so disproportionately lucky on his bet that the demons wouldn’t pick up on their scents right away. He had, at best, fragmentary knowledge of demon physiology from his earliest months where maaaybe he could remember how well their sense of smell worked?

(Chapter 28; we're not going to think how they were paying special attention to him as Isabella the youngest mom in the history of the Grace Field and who's off limits to eat's child, so he's the next best thing as her progeny if he ends up not being good enough of an offering for the demon god)

The only reasons the two lackey demons don’t come after Emma and Norman right away are they’re caught up in conversation and probably a bit intoxicated off the idea of being able to eat even "just a fingertip" of Conny (and being charitable to Isabella, she probably doesn’t notice them sneak away because she’s grappling internally over seeing the life of another child she raised for five years snuffed out and having to keep up an iron façade about it.)

I like to joke that Emma is integral to the escape plan for her sheer obstinate railroading of any hiccups of probability, most egregiously expressed in it securing someone with a Minerva pen who was willing to give it up for them so they weren’t left wandering aimlessly outside the walls of Grace Field, who only got the pen in the first place because she lit off a lantern as a child that a Minerva supporter happened to come across by coincidence,

(Comic of Krone's childhood earned from completing the aptitude test on the official site; reprinted in The Promised Neverland Art Book World)

and bringing two of the only few demons in the entire demon world who won’t eat them for different reasons to their aid when they most desperately needed it, and that only happened because Leuvis was bored one day 700 years ago and decided to help his brother and his brother's new girlfriend escape the imperial capital by bringing them his horse in the third light novel. I love TPN.

#naehja #The Promised Neverland #Yakusoku no Neverland #TPN #FSS Chatter #FSS Asks #The Promised Neverland Art Book World #TPN Light Novels #TPN Two Destinies #TPN Ray #TPN Emma #TPN Norman #Full Score Trio #Pre-Canon #TPN Smee #TPN Krone #TPN Demons #TPN S1 #TPN S1e01 #TPN 001 #Introduction Arc #Escape Arc #TPN 028 #Sonju #Mujika #Leuvis #Long Post #Read More

[x-poblo-x]

the Killjoy Chronicles - a rough idea

The video starts showing the Danger Days spider logo in front of a black background, before showing brief clips from the video, alongside introducing the characters,

i.e

My Chemical Romance as The Fabulous Killjoys

Steve Montano as Dr Death Defying

Grant Morrison as Korse

etc, etc before finally showing

THE KILLJOY CHRONICLES

it starts off similarly to the music video for Na Na Na, beginning with Look Alive Sunshine transitioning to the song, the only difference is The Girl doesn't get captured... yet. This part is merely an introduction for the characters

Then it goes to Bulletproof Heart, this is where things kick in, we only briefly see Korse in the previous one (a lot less than in the real vid), but here is where we find BLI searching for The Girl, as well as development of her origin (like the stuff told in the comics)

Then it goes to The Only Hope For Me Is You, here we see BLI actually capturing The Girl despite the Killjoys efforts, and where Jet Star gets his eye injury and his eyepatch

This immediately goes to SING, which is similar in part to the real one, albeit the Killjoys do not die, Killjoys never die. BLI thinks they're dead though.

Then it goes to Summertime, which gives us backstory for each Killjoy, showing their upbringing, but being intentionally vague for one of them, Fun Ghoul. This is on purpose.

Then we go to Planetary (GO!), revealing the Killjoys had faked their deaths and were currently in hiding, they make their return to let The Girl know they are alive afterwards.

This transitions to S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W, where BLI find them again, Ghoul's backstory is finally revealed, his parents wanted him to be an Exterminator before he ran away to the zones, but before he can...

Jet Star And The Kobra Kid/Traffic Report, it cuts to Dr Death Defying reporting that Jet and Kobra had died in the fight in the previous video, this immediately transitions to Party Poison, in which the namesake is bringing Ghoul with them back to Battery City, avenging their brother and their friend, Poison wants to find Korse in particular, as he killed Kobra and Jet.

But remember

Killjoys never die.

After Poison's futile second seige on BLI, Ghoul has been captured, but Jet and Kobra are alive and reunite with Poison. This goes to Save Yourself, I'll Hold Them Back, where the three get Fun Ghoul back, thanks to the help of some rogue droids, who tell them their tale once Ghoul is saved.

This tale transitions to DESTROYA, the climactic point.

The Fabulous Killjoys are presumed dead after that, and they return into hiding, their legacy being carried on by other zone runners and city escapees, this is all done to The Kids From Yesterday

it closes off with Goodnite Dr Death, and then going to the Killjoys, now performing in secret venues in the zones, as My Chemical Romance, this outro is of course to Vampire Money.

The credits roll, I'm thinking the credits song would either be FTWWW or a song from Conventional Weapons (my bets are on The Light Behind Your Eyes)

hows this for a concept, give me better ideas cuz mine suck ass

#my chemical romance #mcr #danger days #gerard way #frank iero #mikey way #ray toro

[nightwings-robin]

okay got around to actually reading The Killing Joke for the first time and

yeah I definitely think Batman killed the Joker here:

the light symbolism is pretty obvious and I'm certainly not the first person to point this out but the fact that the light goes out in the last panel makes me think the Joker died. I don't need to go into an in-depth explanation of how light symbolizes life and darkness symbolizes death. I think it's pretty obvious that Batman killed the Joker. it looks like Batman's hands are just on the Joker's shoulders and not his neck in the second panel but he could have moved his hands to the Joker's neck in that panel where we only see the lower halves of their bodies. and then the laughter stops. and the light goes out. he killed the Joker.

but my question here is why did Bruce kill him? obviously the Joker shot and tortured Barbara and Jim Gordon in this comic so that's a good reason for Bruce to want to take him down permanently but what about his no-kill rule when the Joker has tortured and murdered so many other people before this? what about this one particular interaction made Bruce cross that line?

Bruce flat out says right before the end that he doesn't want to kill or even hurt the Joker. so then why does he suddenly flip on a dime and strangle him?? well, I think the joke that the Joker tells immediately before this is the answer.

(a transcript of their dialogue is in the ALT text)

so I only just recently read the comic but I did watch the animated movie adaptation years ago. and I remember being very confused as to what this joke meant. it didn't make sense to me and I thought it was pointless. but now that I've actually read the comic and thought about it, I think I get it. or at least I have an interpretation that kind of makes sense to me.

the joke can be interpreted in many ways by different people. I'm going to go into two ways that I interpret it. feel free to disagree!

the joke is about two friends escaping an asylum together and one offers to shine a light to help the other cross a rooftop but he believes his friend will turn off the light while he's only half way across, thus dooming him. the joke, to me, seems to be about trust. the one guy doesn't trust the other that he will keep the flashlight on as he's crossing it.

the Joker as the one with the flashlight vs Batman as the one with the flashlight.

I think the two escapees are meant to represent the Joker and Batman. but which of the escapees do they each represent?

If the Joker is the one with the flashlight, I think he's saying that he will not change his ways. that he is too set in not being a good person that he would be willing to "turn off the light" knowing that it would doom his friend to his death. Batman realizes the Joker is telling him that there is no hope of the Joker being a better person so Batman decides that the Joker has to die. I think one of the many reasons why Batman doesn't kill people is because he wants to believe that people can change for the better. even the most vile and evil person can someday, with help, be a good person. and if you interpret this joke to be that Joker never intends on changing into a good person, then Batman has less of a reason to not kill him.

If Batman is the one with the flashlight, I think the Joker is saying that he doesn't trust Batman to actually help him. Batman says earlier that he doesn't want to hurt or kill the Joker and that he truly wants to help him. Batman is the one "shinning the flashlight beam" for the Joker to "walk across" to be a better person. but the Joker thinks Batman is going to "turn off the light" when he's "half-way across." he is straight up saying, "I don't trust that you really mean to help me." and if the Joker doesn't trust that Batman will help him be a better person, then the Joker will never change from the horrible murderer that he is.

what ways do you interpret the joke?

now obviously the Joker is still alive in the comics after this. it was only a few months later in real time when Joker killed Jason Todd. but iirc didn't Allen Moore mean for TKJ to be in its own separate universe? so the Joker could die in that universe but still be alive in the main universe?? if that's so, then Batman can have killed the Joker at the end of this comic without it impacting the fact the Joker is still alive in the main continuity. I don't entirely remember but I'm pretty sure it was meant to be outside of the main comics. but even if that was the case, TKJ was still made canon to the main universe pretty quickly because we do see Barbara in a wheelchair at Jason's funeral.

so even if Batman truly did kill the Joker in TKJ, it had to be retconned once it was made canon to the main comics.

any thoughts?

(okay after I already had most of this typed up, I found out that Moore actually did NOT intend for this to mean that Batman killed the Joker... but hey whatever. we can interpret things however we want ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ that's the beauty of comics)

#batman #the joker #the killing joke #dc comics #batman's no kill rule #alan moore

[odinsblog]

Batman: The Killing Joke

One possible interpretation of the joke: The joke is about Batman and the Joker. In the joke, Batman is the escapee with the flash light (he really believes his rehabilitating “light” will work and allow the Joker to walk across) and the Joker is the one who is afraid to walk across because he believes Batman will ultimately betray him, and he isn’t crazy enough to believe that he wouldn’t fall…

That’s my interpretation.

I hated the comic book and the animated version, because I thought it was hella misogynistic to do that to Barbara Gordon, but this scene (the voice acting?) always stuck with me. And there’s still ongoing debates about whether Batman killed the Joker at the end of that scene.

Which is another reason why I disliked this adaptation. I’m from the, “Batman might permanently maim tf outta people, but he does not kill,” school of fanboys. Imma fan of the heroes who don’t kill. And I still cringe every time I see a movie adaptation that shows Batman using guns. Batman HATES guns. It’s fucking canon. It’s like the writers never read a Batman comic book in their lives.

It’s like the MCU Spider-man movie adaptations that turned Peter Parker into a middle class, high tech private school going rich kid. Peter Parker is poor. He is constantly struggling financially. He goes hungry sometimes. He doesn’t always make rent. And removing that quintessentially relatable “Everyman” aspect of him is altering the character in ways that almost make him unrecognizable.

Anyway,

#batman #the killing joke #joker #dcu #dceu #probably my least favorite batman animation #but this scene was …. something

[felassan]

Let's talk about the new short story, As We Fly!

The title is a nice reference to the phrase "As the crow flies", an idiom for the most direct route between two points. Or Crow, as the case may be. :) and our hero Crows do 'fly' in this short, on a cool zipline thing.

The accompanying art piece is a zoomed out version of the concept art piece that debuted here which is cool, as we can now see more of that scene! I love the architecture of the city and the drama of the whole scene :>

The big takeaway from this short is that the Antaam have now made good on the hints in Tevinter Nights, and have invaded Antiva. O: they have taken and are occupying Treviso, a coastal city in northern Antiva (which is an important city for the Crows, whom historically originate as a faction in the surrounding areas). so then, the Llomerryn Accords have been broken? Σ(°ロ°) that feels like a big plotbeat and major development to tell us in a short story on the website?? anyways, all nations but Tevinter signed that treaty. during the Qunari Wars, the Qunari invaded Thedas, and entrenched themselves in Antiva and Rivain for like a century. they first took Treviso in 6:35 Steel and now they're back again.

this means that this short must be set after the Crow stories in Tevinter Nights e.g. Eight Little Talons, as in Tevinter Nights we were told that:

the invasion passes Ventus (which fell in the comic Deception) and moves into Rivain

in Tevinter, the Antaam have crushed the Tevinter opposition in the east and that it was possible that everything east of Vyrantium would be under their control inside a year, and northern Antiva as well

it seemed to be a certainty that they were going to invade Antiva

a Dalish elf dispatched a messenger to warn the clans in/beyond Rivain of all this

the invading Qunari tried to make a deal with one of the Crows, saying that if he did such and such then the invasion of Antiva would be peaceful and they wouldn't be required to convert

the Talons met in a sort of Talon summit to discuss the threat and come up with a plan for Antiva's defense - to plot a course of action and discuss their country's security as, without an army, Antiva’s only line of defense is the Crows. Antiva was vulnerable, with more than half her Talons dead

[non-Solas Tevinter Nights happenings summary link]

I wonder if they arrived by land or by sea? in the first story in Tevinter Nights, when the escapees are fleeing to Arlathan Forest, it mentions their ships, and "before the Qunari land there" implies by sea. So which of the other coastal northern cities, or eastern cities, have also been taken? Brynnlaw? Ayesleigh? Afsaana? in this map red shows known taken cities (Qarinus is Ventus), purple highlights Kont-aar, which is the only Qunari settlement on the continent, pink is a guess at the Qunari forces moving into Rivain (Kont-aar as a staging ground?) and the black dotted line approximately blocks off everything east of Vyrantium, including northern Antiva.

I wonder what this could mean for the plotbeats of DA:D?? choosing a side in Tevinter vs Qunari in an arc focused on that, assisting the Crows fighting the invasion, or the war as more of a backdrop to other stuff like the mage/Templar war in the Hinterlands in DA:I? I really want to learn more about the possible schism in the Qun, and I hope the Hero of Ferelden never meets Stenishok on the battlefield :'(

(Could the invasion of eastern Tevinter be part of why Dragon Age: Absolution is set in Nessum, a city in the west? If you don't want battle with the Qunari to be the focus or backdrop of your storyline, you'd need to pick a city out of the path of the invasion.)

Solas is also probably benefitting indirectly from the chaos of the invasion of the north. in TN, an agent of Fen'Harel hired two thieves to try and make it look like a Tevinter altus struck at and blew up a peaceful Qunari settlement (Kont-aar). this would have caused chaos as the Ben-Hassrath wouldn't have been able to sit out the Qunari invasion of the south anymore and Rivain and even other countries/groups might have gotten drawn in. Gatt said that if this scenario occurred the Qunari would have settled for nothing less than the total destruction of Tevinter. (reminiscent of Corypheus causing chaos during DA:I in order to take advantage of the confusion and weakened nations) if things are more chaotic in general, it's easier to carry out your plan. and the Ben-Hassrath will now be busy trying to blunt the strike of the Antaam (per Gatt), leaving them less free to act against the true threat as they see it, Solas. that's another point in Solas' favor as the Ben-Hassrath have more knowledge on his movements than anyone else, and they oppose him as they believe he threatens their people.

Treviso also has history - it was captured and liberated several times during the Qunari Wars and the New Exalted Marches. parts of Antiva still bear the scars of when the Qunari invaded northern Antiva 200 years ago. I wonder if the magical horn/voice-projection devices ("echoed across tiled rooftops via magical projection, devices left by long-retreated empires") were left by prior Qunari invasions or another empire, perhaps the Tevinter Empire when it was at its height, when it spread across most of Thedas? that would make the magical aspect of those devices make more sense.

I loved Neri, Noa and their sibling relationship, it would be fun to meet them in DA:D. it's always nice to see older characters in the spotlight, being badass while they do it, grey hair, walking stick/cane and all. the older Crow motif reminded me of Lessef in An Old Crow's Old Tricks. ig Crows are so cool they basically don't retire. It'd be good to have an older (older than middle aged) combat companion in DA:D!

I'll say that if you're an assassin, telegraphing that you're an assassin on your clothes isn't very stealthy, but the Crows are sometimes dramatic and showy, "performers" after all. and who are they descended from? one of the monks from Treviso? with the zipline, traps, rooftops and black ink markings, this short felt quite 'Assassin's Creed gameplay' and reminded me of Shadowmarks from Skyrim's Thieves Guild. could some of this sort of thing be gameplay features in DA:D? Joplin was about spies, stealth and heisty stuff after all.

I fell for the siblings' fakeout for a minute when reading and was legit like

since "They looked suddenly helpless, as though not just the Antaam but every one of their years had caught up to them." was a raw line. there is no surer enemy than Time right?

"Or out of time, like your city. And soon, the world. [...] And soon, stronger"?? what are the Antaam's "strange weapons"? explosives of some kind? gaatlok? in Trespasser, during Dragon's Breath Qunari were mining and processing lyrium to give to their Saarebas to strengthen them, to "save the South". are the Crow siblings simply unfamiliar personally with Qunari explosives, or is there something more going on here?

the "brutality", the "war lords", "controlled, not calm", commanding through fear - like it says in TN, there's no Ben-Hassrath present to judge or regulate the Antaam, and no workers and priests present to be a moderating influence. the Ben-Hassrath who investigated in TN were disappointed in the Antaam and believed that they were not acting in accordance with the Qun.

"And Kaathrata the Lash was left raised where Crows could peck at his eyes. // Come the morning, so would the birds." another metal line 👌

Ammazzacaffè, Treviso

"Did you hear—?"

"Did you see—?"

is it a bird? is it a plane? no it's a Crow caw caw

Trevisans as the denonym for Treviso is cute.

And lastly, who put out the contract, and who picked it up? Perhaps Lucanis and/or Illario?

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