#huntress year one

[fantastic-nonsense]

the Big Two need to hire more women to write comics not just for gender parity's sake or so we can get better-written female characters or any of the other dozen completely valid reasons why we need more women in comics, but also because the perspective a lot of women bring to the superhero genre is fundamentally different from the mostly middle-class white men who dominate the genre

like Ivory Madison portraying the cycle of violence and abuse through the parallel institutions of marriage and the mob in Huntress: Year One to showcase how Helena is both a victim and freedom fighter in the context of her family and cultural history....what man would have thought of that? even Greg Rucka didn't do that, and he basically wrote the book on how to write traumatized religious female vigilantes who have complex relationships with their families

#like I'm not going to say that perspective can ONLY come from a woman (that would be dumb) #(and also to be fair Joey Cavalieri did work with the concept somewhat so I know it can be done) #but that perspective and storytelling narrative is *MUCH* MORE LIKELY to come from a woman than a man #dc comics #helena bertinelli #ivory madison #huntress year one #cry for blood my beloved of all time of course but even that comic didn't do what Huntress Year One did!

[armed-with-a-waffle-iron]

Get him, Helena!🥰

Huntress: Year One

#bruce is such an entitled white man holy god i think it's time to retire old man #justice for helena #helena bertinelli #huntress #batman #huntress year one #dc comics #comics #batfam #bat family #ivory madison #bruce wayne #anti bruce wayne #fuck batman #batgirl

[somewherefornow]

HUNTRESS: YEAR ONE (2008)

#helena/tony is beyond messy but something abt how they talk abt faith in relationship to each other is crazy #helena can’t think of god when she looks at tony because he makes her feel sinful #and tony can only think of helena when he’s meant to think of god bc to him she’s holy #tony is a pos and helena shouldn’t go anywhere near that mess but the contrast of their thoughts abt one another is interesting #helena bertinelli #tony angelo #huntress year one #*panelsandpages

[astearisms]

Huntress’s Moon 🌕

#did you know one of the many names of October’s moon is the Hunter’s Moon #I wanted to do this last month but didn’t have time until now #anyhow I thought it would be cool this year to do a Huntress version and I was also inspired by seeing a deeply golden yellow moon twice #in that month #it was lovely #last year my Hunter’s Moon themed art was with Hunter (haha) from TOH #my art #adventure time #huntress wizard #adventure time fanart #AT #also I really wanted to use fall colors in this piece and I’m pretty happy with it

[i-am-l-ananas]

hallowed be thy ween

#dbd #dead by daylight #dbd huntress #mask and axes made from papermache and drywall paste!! #back on the shelf for another year hallo ween and farewell ween #hopefully I'll have more time for shenanigans next year #once again genuine motivation to get beefier to complete the look #one can dream

[yuriwarrior]

im obsessed with this panel. the blood also looking like sauce and being a part of the food. the death of family as well childhood. gone is the comfort of someone else cooking for you. its a symbolic transformation childhood to adulthood.

(Huntress: Year One #1)

#helena bertinelli #the huntress #huntress: year one #dc #hollering numbers into the void #dc comics

[haveyoureadthiscomic-poll]

#huntress: year one #huntress #the huntress #helena bertinelli #ivory madison #dc #dcu #dc comics #poll

[villainsidestep]

living up to the villain sidestep name (thinking of a Third puppet)

#gideon shut the hell up challenge #on one hand. never in a million years would we let fawn have THREE puppets that we just alternate between #esp when eden and yaz are both canon and cannot be erased or replaced #HOWEVER. on the other hand. fawn w mirror puppet....? #fawn who is so caught up on The Good Old Days? finding a mirror of back then? having a visual reminder of when they were Good? #hiding in plain sight. despite everything it's still you (positive). despite everything it's still you (negative). #bonus evil points for 'hey ric why are u dating the girl version of fawn? that's so fucked up' and #'hey daniel and chen why don't u like this non-evil (aka not corrupted) version of fawn as much? that's so fucked up' #pov u are fawn becker abt 2 blame the corpse ur piloting for choosing a life of evil except that it's your face and choices and fate #oh right fate motive. there's smth there abt the fate of being doomed to be puppeted (regardless of if it's Them or just a lookalike) but #anyway we're not gonna do it but if we Were going to do it we'd specifically give them a name meaning hunter/huntress. just for the comedy #@ me think more abt how fawn considers themselves corrupted bc of how they're bad now tyyy

[miqo-tia]

Thinking about how FC mates often drop the li from Tohr'li's name, basically just calling him by his mom's name, and as a player I get it, but on a lore level I just wonder about a Miqo kid on the market with his mom, and someone who doesn't quite know how Keeper names work keeps shortening the kid's name, and once when they call to the kid the kid's mom looks up and wonders who this child is that's yelling for her across the street

#kid goes home like 'ma me and tohr had fun!' and then proceeds to describe playing in the mud #and the kid's mum just pauses to imagine the 40 year old huntress splashing in puddles and poking at bugs #goes 'actually that sounds like her' and the misunderstanding is not resolved until a few more meetings after #...damn now i want this story i think it'd be a cute story #i could probably give Tohr'li a childhood friend like that... #update: said friend has been made #maybe I'll even make tgem one day in-game as an alt

[fantastic-nonsense]

okay starting a new thread for the back half of liveblogging my re-read of Huntress: Year One because my original one was getting a bit long...

#huntress year one #personal

[armed-with-a-waffle-iron]

The Beginning of Babs and Helena's Homoerotic Dynamic 💖💜💙 (Huntress: Year One)

I absolutely adore Ivory Maddison's writing. I also love that Helena and Babs had a homoerotic thing going from the get-go! So I'll talk about both.

A young Barbara Gordon was the perfect foil to Helena. She's just as resolute and stubborn as Helena. They both stand at 5'11" and tenaciously establish themselves in male spaces. but she holds different ideals of justice, which will of course change over time. Babs is a more traditional superhero, concerned with a rather binary of justice; there's only good and bad actions. Good guys should be revered and bad guys aren't really worthy of respect. It's ironic that Helena protests Babs's toasting to Mandragora's death considering she's his killer. Helena has a complicated relationship to justice. She maintains her devotion to and faith in god but has found herself on a lonely quest for vengeance in a world where blood only cries for more blood. She's lost but who's to say that Babs isn't also?

On the note of foils, I love how differently they're drawn. Helena has darker hair, skin and clothes than Babs. And Babs wears her hair up, painted her nails, and wears a suit and shirt. Babs represents a status quo-upholding good-doer while Helena's vigilante crusade is shrouded in the history of horror and blood that she was born into.

"We get the most upset at others when they mirror what we hate about ourselves."

In what ways does Babs mirror Helena? She's a legal librarian and, as we know, she's Batgirl. She's committed to serving justice, albeit a possibly different type to Helena's. She's also pleased by the death of Mandragora, who Helena chose to kill. The reason Helena dismisses Babs as naïve is because Helena senses a sheen of hubris, dogma and even aimlessness around Barbara's actions and words. And Helena resentfully recognises these traits in herself and condescends Babs to compensate. And Babs sees through this too, to an extent, because she also became defensive for the same reasons.

Helena makes a crude joke and, humoured, Babs seems to think they could be friends. But unfortunately more similarities pop up. Not only is Babs a fellow American but she's a fellow Gothamite. Helena has to take a drink.

"...I'm increasingly favouring kevlar and body armor[.] I'm sure we'd have a lot in common."

I find Maddison hilarious. But also, it's kinda important that the humour comes from the dramatic irony of the scene. We know one's Huntress and one's Batgirl but they don't! We know how similar they really are while they're just learning it and they've not even scratched the surface. That's how you write an origin story, like wow!

Moreover, the uncanny familiarity they feel instantly ends up drawing them apart. Helena is scared to get to know Babs because it might force her to face herself. So she retreats, not like Babs would knows anything about being a vigilante, right? That "ciao" is also attempt at creating between her and this (fellow) American. Babs on the other hand overcompensates and unitentionally pushes Helena away. No way this girl's like me, maybe she's more girlie-- I could try to act more girly. The "unlike you, us Italians are always going to funerals" line is super ironic considering that Babs lost both her biological parents to a car crash and that this story is set just months before Jason Todd dies.

Anyways, pretty homosexual, huh? :)

"Someone needs to teach you right from wrong..."

"Funny, I was just about to say that to you."

I love how fucking obsessed they are with each other. And Helena unconsciously reacts identically to how Babs did earlier: "not your best friend, apparently". We all know "friends" can't adequately really describe this.

Again, the conflict of hero vs antihero is central to their story. "[I'm] good. You're bad. End of story" says Babs; again we see her simplistic but traditional ethos of heroism. However, as Helena said we're "at the beginning of the story", not the end; justice is just more complicated than that. "Everyone thinks they're the good guys" vs "sometimes there really are good guys" is revealing of Helena's self-destructive tendency to self-isolate and look out only for herself. Babs's line foreshadows a truth Helena speaks later: "on the ground, you must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim". The fact that Helena wins this fight indicates an understanding of justice beyond that the traditional hero's but a failure to grasp the important of essentially solidarity. It's telling that Catwoman watches the fight from the shadows. Helena later demonstrates her appreciate of these themes Babs introduced, in her mission statement as she baptises herself as "The Huntress". Also these fights are the gayest things I've ever seen.

Huntress: Year One #4-6

#helena and babs being disaster bisexuals #helena bertinelli #barbara gordon #huntress #batgirl #oracle #birds of prey #bisexual #bi #bisexual disaster #batman #batfam #bat family #comics #dc comics #huntress year one #ivory maddison #lgbt #babshelena #helenababs

[somewherefornow]

HELENA BERTINELLI & SAL ASARO in HUNTRESS: YEAR ONE

#sal asaro #helena bertinelli #huntress year one #the way the first one is framed exactly like that panel from b/h:cfb breaks my heart actually #the parallel shots of her young and old but embracing her big brother the same #it’s sweet <33 #*panelsandpages

[uroborosymphony]

💭 for Calista's Huntress? mayhaps? ;;w;;

Calista to Sarang.

On a sunny evening in 1983, Santa Monica. The sun is about to set. She stands in the patio, watching Sarang from afar in the gardens.

"Eternity with her, I would let it crawl under my skin. As we share this little house in the South of America, it does feel as a summer, a season I would have forgotten the sensations of. Warm. A rotation around the sun my senses once craved, when I was human. Our centuries together, escaping, chasing, reconnecting, they do feel like a yesterday. I think. I think again. Perhaps we do have what I thought the cruelty of the night could never grant me : a sweeter taste of this infinity, of this timeless, of an undead that does not feel so harsh on my skin when I rest it against hers. And the ghosts of the witches, and the ghouls and the wolves, holwing my name in seek of revenge or worship have vanished through the epics and times. Far. Locked in a capsule of devastation that I wouldn't hold in the palm of my hand any longer. My sole purpose is for the end to seize me, for death to embrace me, I cannot keep on facing her, my head down her lap when I look at her in silence, without telling her. For the first time in a long time, my existence isn't an isolated monster caught in the web of immortality but a thread in the core of the night that hangs between our undying souls. Hers and mine."

#;EEP. #Thank you for sending this one I love them so much I'm going to convulse #Also I keep on sharpening their “30 years ago” last encounter it's just so dear to Calista #It was a time where she realized Sarang was her link in eternity #I can just picture that little house #Isolated in time away from the Order away from everything #“Calista”s Huntress“ giggles #I WANT TO WRITE IT #𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒇𝒇 𝒊 𝒄𝒂𝒏'𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒖𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓. ── calista & sarang. #셋 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐀 / the immortal. #셋 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐀 / headcanons.

[thatrandomsarahchick]

DC x DP short

I'm picturing Danny moving to Gotham once he's an adult. He came out to his parents, and it went fine. More than fine. They listened to how he was struggling at school because he kept having to chase down the ghosts they let out by leaving the portal open. Jack was super proud of his son for being a ghost hunter even as a ghost, but Maddie understood his concern and set up some new protocols for the portal.

It now automatically closes after two minutes unless a specific command is put in by Danny to keep it open while he is in the Zone, and the shielding around it actually works to stop ghosts coming trig without hurting them now.

The shine of the mortal world has worn off for most of his regulars now, and those that come through have figured out compromises so they can still fulfil their obsessions without hurting others. The meta-protection act officially disbands the GIW, and Red Huntress is given a very thorough speaking to about personal bias and vendettas. She's not allowed back in the field until she comes to the realisation that ghosts are people too, and that she been the bad guy by hunting them the way she did. Phantom is officially recognised as a Hero, but he turns down working for any teams or joining the Big Leagues. He agrees to act as a back up though, in case of any world ending event.

By the time senior year rolls around, Danny has gotten his grades up enough that he can go to a pretty decent university if he wants to. He chooses Gotham University for his engineering degree because they're a feeder school for Wayne Enterprises, who in turn are a feeder company for working for the Justice League as a civilian engineer. Tucker also chooses GU for their tech program, while Sam elects not to go to university straight away.

Tucker and Danny move into an apartment right on the borders of Crime Alley and The Narrows. Tucker manages an impressive 4 months as a local hacker before Oracle notices him, but Danny only manages 3 weeks before he's spotted by a Bat.

He's lying down a foot above his building's roof, looking at the stars. It's a very rare cloudless night, and the power is out in his area. Poison Ivy had launched an attack earlier in the day that had taken cut the power lines, with her mutant plants feeding on the smog and pollution to get stronger.

Duke was up late, finishing the day shift by a quick loop of The Narrows, when he noticed a slightly glowing teenager(?) floating on one of the roofs. He takes note that the man isn't causing any harm and is just peacefully stargazing, before calling it in to Jason. He was technically supposed to be off the clock an hour ago, and besides, the building was on the Crime Alley side of this street. It's Jason's problem now.

Jason, on the other hand, is exhausted and just wants to have a quiet patrol before collapsing in bed. He hadn't been hit by Ivy's plants, but had taken a couple of tumbles while dodging them. He heads over to the address Duke gave him, to find the guy still floating there staring at the sky. He gets it, he does, he would float above the grime that coats Gotham rooftops if he could, but it's dangerous for a meta to be so unawares of his surroundings like this while obviously displaying his powers.

Danny, meanwhile, had clocked both of the vigilantes coming near him, but was really hoping that they would leave him alone. It had been a very long day for him. He'd finally managed to get to campus for his class, only to find that the place was covered in overgrown plants. He'd had to freeze a few to get into the building, and had then spent most of the afternoon in the library due to his class being cancelled. Unfortunately for him, his nearly finished assignment that he'd spent the day working on was eaten by one of the giant flowers on his way home. He'd been 'saved' by the stabby Robin, which had caused him to then also lose his laptop as they crashed to the rooftop a few streets over.

Thankfully, he had an amazing best friend in Tucker, who was doing his best to recover as much data as possible. On the downside, though, Tucker was mad at him for now having saved a backup of his files since they left Amity. He'd fled to the roof to escape his wrath, plans of bribes in the form of food running through his mind, when he'd caught sight of the Stars. Holy shit. It was so clear tonight!

He didn't even realise he'd begun to glow and float, too caught up in naming all of the stars and constellations he could see. His Obsession was feeling very satisfied tonight. Usually he had to invisibly fly above the cloud cover to see such a sight. Sure, the light pollution was still bad, but his mind was able to fill in the blanks across the sky.

The moment Jason landed on his roof, Danny heaved a great sigh. Damnit. The fun police were here. He wrenched his eyes from the sky, only to notice that - oh, shit - he was floating again. He fell to the roof with a light thump.

"Heeeyyy stranger, come here often?" Danny asked, as he rolled over to his side, propping his head up on his hand.

#now it's your turn #how does Jason respond to this? #danny just casually in a 'paint me like one of your french girls' pose without even realising #jason coming to the realisation that oh shit. he's hot. #danny and tucker move to gotham for university #in my mind Sam becomes a chef #so that she can promote healthy tasty eating that's meat free #dcxdp #dpxdc #dc x dp #dp x dc #dp x dc fanfic #dc x dp fanfic #someone please find this and add to it

[charlietheepicwriter7]

some ideas i have for the Teen Villain Alliance

Dr. Danny "I stole my PhD from Harvard at gunpoint" Fenton is Damian's best friend despite being at least six years older than him, while Crown Prince Phantom Dark is more of a father figure to Damian despite them being the same flipping person.

Sam is still Damian's favorite though, she's the one who he approached to join.

someone suggested that each "squad" of teens has a different pest as their squad name. So the inner circle (Danny, Jazz, Sam, Tuck, Dani, maybe Klarion since he was there first) are Wolves, with each having a squad under them. Phantom doesn't have a squad, but Fenton's mad science squad are called rats, Jazz has mice, Sam reclaimed bats from the batfam, tuck has his flies, etc

Phantom and Pharaoh tuck pretending that they have no idea what Tennessee is because Wally mistakes them for the Tennessee Valley Authority.

Damian is convinced that the inner circle are Prince Phantom's harem and convinces Dick of that too when he joins.

I really want to add Dick to the Everlasting Trio guys, I really do, but this is about the Teen Villain Alliance, not young adult villain alliance, so the oldest I feel like I can make the trio are 20, with Dick being 24, so if anyone has any problems with that... i guess you can leave, I've already decided on this plan of action.

The first time Red Hood encounters the TVA, they threaten him into buying them alcohol, he buys the nastiest shit he can think of to mess with the brats. Klarion throws up, Sam drinks straight faced

Red Huntress originally liked being an official justice league recognized super hero, but the stress of work and being constantly relied on to save people wears her down. She confronts Phantom for setting these ghosts on her, but he hasn’t done anything, this is the regular amount of ghosts. In fact, he asked that most of his rogues limit their visits to once every two weeks, so its actually less. Valerie has a mental breakdown and joins the TVA

#dcxdp #dp x dc #dpxdc #dc x dp #everlasting trio #plus nightwing #teen villain alliance #mad scientist danny fenton #ghost prince danny phantom #pharaoh tucker foley #badass sam manson #c: danny fenton #c: damian wayne #c: dick grayson #there's a lot of characters i'm not tagging them all

[long-live-astronerd-ghost-king]

DPXDC prompt. AU! Ultimate Enemy + Justice Lords = ?

As a child, Danny adored Superman. A super-strong hero who is also alien? It was a dream come true. Fenton did not understand paranoid adults who did not trust a stronger creature to protect themselves. Of course it was only a matter of time.  Phantom had to learn to understand them.

While standing at the Justice League welcoming meeting, the ghost can’t help but feel a tension. The alien can’t shoot lasers out of his eyes if they’re ripped out, the alien can’t hurt Valerie if he’s killed.

Everyone seems awfully friendly. And it hurts. Because he knows what they’re capable of and can’t return the favor. Can’t trust them, can’t go wrong. Because he promised himself he wouldn’t let history repeat itself.

"So, Superman or Phantom, who’s stronger?" Flash is smiling and clearly trying to break the ice.

Ectoplasm isn’t kryptonite but it’s something even more poisonous and dangerous. Danny perfectly remembers how easy it was/will for Dan to separate a head from alien’s body with one sharp motion. His new.."colleagues"..should not know too much about it yet. In case of unexpected circumstances in which Master of Time cannot help.

Danny shrugs and pretends to laugh sheepishly, exchanging glances with Kal-El. I would win. 

~~~~~

Dan Phantom was Amity Park’s nightmare, that’s true. But still, as strange as it sounds, he was the least of their problems, and he remained their protector even though he became a villain.

Amity’s government had to give a lot of money every month to pay for the damage from fights between Red Huntress and Dark Phantom but the residents were more than willing to pay taxes for it. Because out there, outside the city and the ghost shield, the Justice Lords ruled. It’s funny how the most haunted city in just ten years has become the safest from the "justice" of former heroes city.

~~~~~

The site of the Nasty Burger explosion is never empty, so citizens tend to avoid it so as not to anger the grieving ghost. The only exception to the rule is these days when the Justice Lords try to challenge their city’s independence. Many people gather near the site of the tragedy then. Fentons, though not always successful, tried to protect Amity, so their son, or rather what is left of him, always brings the bodies of the defeated enemies to their monument, showing that he's still in a family business. 

Danny Fenton was entitled to mercy on his enemies, but for Dan Phantom it's a luxury that might cost too much. Phantom is not a hero anymore but, whatever he is, it is enough for them.

#dpxdc #dcxdp #dpxdc prompt #dpxdc crossover #dpxdc prompts #dp x dc