#lazarus was brother

[icaruspendragon]

hiii, this might be weird, but who is Lazarus? I'm not religious, so I've tried searching for who he is, but I can't seem to get a clear answer and was wondering if you could explain him?

ah yes, lazarus of bethany. a man i consider to be equal parts friend and foe.

lazarus lived in bethany with his two sisters, mary and martha. and when we meet him, he’s sick. so much so that his sisters send for jesus of nazareth saying, “lord, your dear friend is very sick.”

jesus of nazareth was in jerusalem when he received the message. and despite being only a few miles from bethany, and despite jesus loving martha and mary and lazarus, he waited. he didn’t go to them straight away. he waited. he waited until lazarus died and then said, “lazarus’ sickness will not end in death. no, it happened for the glory of god so that the son of god will receive glory from this.”  

and when jesus finally made it to bethany he was told lazarus had already died. that he has already been in the grave for four days. and when martha, sister of lazarus got word that jesus was coming, she went to meet him. and mary, sister of lazarus did not. and when martha saw jesus she said to him, “lord, if only you had been here, my brother would not have died.”

and jesus said to her, “your brother will rise again.”

but then mary arrived and she saw jesus and she fell at his feet and she said, “lord, if only you had been here, my brother would not have died.” and she wept over her brother. because she loved him and he was gone. and jesus should have been there. because if jesus had been there, her brother would not have died.

and jesus saw her weeping. and he saw the other people wailing with her. because lazarus was deeply loved. and now he was gone. and they had sent for jesus. they had prayed for a miracle. and that miracle didn’t come until it was four days too late. and they didn’t know that jesus was going to bring lazarus back. they didn’t know that jesus had waited that long to teach a lesson. to prove a point. they just knew jesus was too late. and now they were forced to grieve.

and then a deep anger welled up in jesus. and he was deeply troubled. and jesus asks, “where have you put him?” and the people say, “lord, come and see.” and he does. and when he sees, jesus weeps. when he sees, we get the shortest verse in the bible. a mere two words to sum up an entire town’s grief. two words to convey the loss of a sibling. two words are offered for the preventable death of a loved man.

jesus is four days too late. and jesus?

jesus wept.

and the people who loved lazarus turned to him and said to jesus, “see how much he loved him!”

jesus loved lazarus. and then he let him die.

and some of the people said about jesus “this man healed a blind man. couldn’t he have kept lazarus from dying?”

and then jesus, who knew all along that he would revive lazarus. jesus, who let all those people mourn. jesus, who let those sisters lose their brother. jesus, who let them weep. jesus, who wept with them. that very same jesus said to those who loved lazarus, who mourned him, jesus of nazareth said to them, “didn’t i tell you that you would see god’s glory if you believe?”

and then the stone of lazarus’ tomb was rolled aside. and then jesus looked up to heaven and said, “father, thank you for hearing me. you always hear me, but i said it out loud for the sake of all these people standing here, so that they will believe you sent me.” and then jesus shouted, “lazarus, come out!” and he did.

lazarus the dead man came out, his hands and feet and face wrapped still in burial cloth. and then jesus of nazareth told them, “unwrap him and let him go!”

and then lazarus of bethany became lazarus of the grave. lazarus of the grave that will never be left behind even though he has risen and relinquished. lazarus of the grave who did not make good his escape unscathed. lazarus of the grave who will now check each darkened doorway as death and his sting is keenly felt.

lazarus was a man. a man whose family loved him. a man whose sisters sent for a miracle. a man whose sisters mourned him in the four days it took for that miracle to show up. a man who was made an example for no reason other than being loved by jesus. a thing that we are all told to be. loved by our savior.

lazarus is a man who makes me wonder three things. firstly, if jesus had been there that my brother may not have died. secondly, if jesus of nazareth too weeps for me. and thirdly, if jesus loves us and we in turn love him too like the scriptures command, why does he use us in the lessons he teaches.

why must we be the men he makes believers of?

so lazarus was just a man whose crime was loving jesus. and martha was just a girl whose crime was loving her brother. and they both suffered a miracle because of it.

#cw religion #yeah it’s always time to religious trauma post on main #lazarus was just a man #lazarus was brother #and my brother was a man #and i am a sister #and i too loved jesus as martha and mary did #so why did he get to come back when my brother did not? #i also tend to think of lazarus as dean winchester before i think of him as lazarus from the bible lmao #hence the title of my book being ‘lazarus rises (amongst other things)’ #bc of hit cw show supernatural #and the bible too ig #but mainly supernatural

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 111

Y’all know H2O? Where some people get cursed to turn into merfolk whenever they get water on them? That, but replace water with ectoplasm and merfolk with naga. 

No, Bruce has no idea how they managed to get cursed or how he ended up with an armful of baby snake-person creature thing. At least this one isn’t black-hair and blue-eyes so his kids can’t complain at him. And it’s not his fault they all fell into this, this was supposed to be a vacation while Lucious, Alfred, and Gordon kept an eye on things back in Gotham. 

On the bright side, his children want to snuggle up for once, which he supposes is nice. And Damian seems pleased about it judging by his rambles about snakes. So there’s that. 

#batman au #dcxdp #dpxdc #prompts #naga au #batman #cryptid batfam #This is what happens the One time they go on vacation #“Damian do not drip lazarus water on yourself to get free venom” #“No Jason you can't turn into a giant snake for 'intimidation purposes' do not” #“Duke stop encouraging your brothers” #“Somebody grab the baby *please*” #Danny has no idea what's goin on either #He's a baby #a lil baby halfa who has found himself in this stranger's arms but they're warm and there's other kids who feel content-safe sooo #“Master Bruce that had better not be another child without any prior warning-” #“Alfred I didn't get prior warning either they literally appeared out of nowhere” #I might draw this actually #Do whatever types of snakes you want #but i am picturing #Bruce- Rinkhals #Barbara- Purple-Glossed Snake #Dick- Bluestripe Garter #Cass- Banded Krait #Jason- Blood Python #Steph- Taipan #Tim- Coral Snake #Duke- Eyelash Viper #Damian- Boomslang #Helena- Black Mamba

[ky-landfill]

#jason todd #dick grayson #early hood days #trope dick was a dick pre Ethopia but wants a chance to be a better big brother #Lazarus #batbros #in their natural angsty state

[dyinggirldied]

Oh my god oh my god but wait:

Imagine Danny in Gotham (don'task, reasons can be anything), who was merrily on his way till he stopped, blue mist curled.

His eyes landed on the siblings over there, specifically on the tallest one, with white streak in his dark hair and green eyes like his Phantom form.

Something in his core was saying that's a dangerous one, dangerous one, he needs to appeal to him.

Danny, brain cells gone, grabbed the nearest, available stuff nearby and speed up to where the man was.

Jason was just enjoying his day with Dick, Tim and Damiab till a twink high schooler came up to his face, fidging and looking nervously at him.

Before he could ask the other boy (who was Batman's prime adoption bait) shoved something onto him then stayed a bit further back, red face, expression full of of expectation.

Jason hold the colorful bouquet in his hands, dumbfounded. His other brothers were just as confused as he was.

Did Jason just get asked out by a kid?

#an au where lazarus water is like higher level ectoclamp stuff that can be dangerous #combined with somewhat halfa status of jason #you have a beast #that explain all the anger issues before #but now comes the delicious misunderstandings #batfam thought they were getting a new brother #wrong its a brother in law #dead on main #danny phantom #danny fenton #jason todd #red hood #dp x dc #batfam

[magnoliasandarson]

"he came back wrong"

Dick Grayson was many things, a hero, a performer, a lover, a son, but of all of the things he was, he was most proud of being a brother.

He was gone when his baby brother, his Little Wing, was murdered.

He was gone when Bruce buried a five-foot casket six feet down.

He was gone when his brother needed him most.

He was there for Tim, though. Dick wasn't ready to see the Robin costume on another too-small bright-eyed kid, but he tried for Tim. He taught him how to fly, how to be brave, and how to defuse a bomb. Dick never stopped grieving for his lost Wing, but he tried to live for Tim.

Then his Jay Bird came back. Sure, he had murderous tendencies, but Dick had hunted down Tony Zucco when he was ten. And yeah, the thing with Tim pissed him off, but Dick had hardly been a golden example of brotherhood in the beginning. It took one look at poisonous green eyes that used to be bright blue for Dick to forgive Jason for everything. 

It was difficult to understand why his Baby Bird wouldn't come home, but Dick wasn't stupid, and he recognized League fighting when he saw it. It wasn't hard to connect the dots. He told Bruce what he thought happened to Jay and how he must've been brought back.

Bruce didn't care, "He came back wrong."

Dick was many things, but his blood sang with violence and vengeance that even Batman couldn't match. It took Tim and Alfred to pull him off of the man he once thought of as a father.

#dick grayson #good brother dick grayson #nightwing is batmans contingency for a reason #nightwing #robin #batman #batfam #dc comics #dc universe #jason todd #tim drake #dc robin #dick grayson isnt stupid #he literally fought ras #he wouldve noticed pit madness #lazarus pit #bruce wayne

[welcometosasakiworld]

DPXDC prompt #4

Justice League and the batfamily had been investigating an abandoned city, or as it was more known… The Second Chernobyl, Amity Park.

They had been standing in the middle for a while, the only interesting thing being a strange stone statue of a teen hero sitting on the ground while staring at the sky, looking resigned and sadly accepting his fate. The creepy thing about it was that the statue looked too real to be an ordinary thing, and the heroes agreed with Red Hood when he said he had a feeling the thing was alive.

Everything seemed normal, and no explanation for why people abandoned the city in a hurry 50 years ago.

Until Red Hood got hurt while playing with one of his knives, his blood hitting the statue.

The stone started cracking and falling apart, blinding light coming out of the cracks. The heroes had to cover their eyes to not get permanently blinded when the light died.

The heroes were greeted by the sight of a glowing teen hero with white hair, tanned skin, and glowing green eyes, wearing a black and white kevlar jumpsuit. Rings of white light appeared around the teen, splitting and traveling through his body, changing him.

It looked like something out of anime.

The teen was unconscious when freed from his prison, almost falling into the ground if not for Red Hood.

Jason didn't know where this feeling came from, but he felt instantly protective of the boy.

(Idk what I'm doing... @stealingyourbones what do you think?)

#dp x dc #danny phantom #red hood #big brother jason #lazarus pit is sentient #dp au #dp x dc prompt #danny fenton #dpxdc #dc x dp #writing prompts #sasaki prompts

[flamboyant-king]

*shrugs* It's a living.

#tboi #the binding of isaac #tboi bethany #tboi lazarus #tboi azazel #tboi cain #tboi gabriel #tboi dogma #tboi uriel #comic #blood #blood tw #Brothers Keeper AU

[audhd-nightwing]

AU TIME LADS

i don’t have an official name for it yet but so far i’ve been calling it “tim’s immortal zombie brothers au” so. yeah i’ll post the actual storyline on Ao3 but here’s some stuff that i made for it:

robin (dick, 19)

shrike (jason, 17)

magpie (tim, 14)

(ipod case and taser are gifts from steph)

robin’s weapons stash / magpie’s weapons stash

photo IDs below

[ photo 1 - clothes: face mask, hoodie & cargo pants, combat boots, utility belt

armor: knee & elbow pads, armored vest, padded gloves ]

[ photo 2 - utilities: zip ties, flashlight, rebreather

extra: protein bar, lollipop (for kids), mini first aid kit, earplugs, lighter, walkie talkie, swiss army knife, blades, taser, gum, water bottle ]

[ photo 3 - clothes: hoodie, cargo pants, combat boots, utility belt, gun holster

armor: face mask, bulletproof vest, knee pads, padded gloves ]

[ photo 4 - utilities: zip ties, flashlight

extra: mini first aid kit, gas mask, gum, cigarettes, lighter, cash, pain meds

weapons: pistol, katana, taser, crowbar ]

[ photo 5 - clothes: hoodie, cargo pants, combat boots, face mask

armor: knee & elbow pads, army vest, padded gloves ]

[ photo 6 - utilities: lock pick kit, flashlight, taser

extra: bandages, swiss army knife, camera, tablet (for hacking), earbuds, ipod, lighter ]

[ photo 7 - weapons: push daggers, karambit knives, shuriken, escrima sticks, kunai throwing knives ]

[ photo 8 - weapons: collapsible bo-staff, shuriken, tantō knife, bagh nakh ]

#my au #my art #dc #dc comics #dick grayson #jason todd #tim drake #tim’s immortal zombie brothers au #batman comics #cw weapons #i did way too much research on the weapons btw #talon dick grayson #lazarus pit #vigilante au #i mean obviously #but like without bruce

[wondersinwaynemanor]

How Bruce and the Batboys help Jason in fighting the control of the Lazarus Pit

(I decided to cut this into parts per family member so I can fully touch into conversations in one post. I'll just link the other parts under the initial posts if you wanna read the rest of them)

Part 1 -

How Dick helps Jason

Dick and Jason are on the edge of the rooftop of one of Gotham's buildings, their legs dangling on air as they enjoy the view of the late night after patrol when Jason suddenly gasps in pain.

Dick immediately goes closer by Jason's side ; he already knows what's up. "Jay, Jay. Little Wing. How you holding up there?"

Jason is familiar with the stinging feeling as he fights the control in his system. He pushes Dick to the solid ground behind them, so he can be away from the edge (not intending to make the action harsh). "Dick, you have to go. It's happening."

Dick remains a few meters behind Jason ; not scared. "I'm not going to leave you, Jay. You hear me. I never will. So you fight it!" He walks slowly to Jason, his steps careful. "Dammit, we still have the movie to watch in your place. So fight for me, Little Wing. You're gonna be okay."

Dick reaches for Jason's arm to get him to solid ground, away from the edge ; to keep him safe. Jason stares at his brother's hand then to his face then back to his hand before taking it.

Once away from the edge, Jason fully collapses on the ground and keeps his arms and hands around himself to prevent himself from hitting Dick. But Dick joins him in a split second on the ground, wrapping his arms around the bulk figure of his younger brother.

Jason growls, "You're out of your... fucking mind, Dick."

Dick tries to lighten the mood by chuckling and Jason tries to keep himself calm with the warmth provided by Dick. "Maybe I got it from B."

Jason closes his eyes and focuses on Dick's breathing and heartbeat to keep himself grounded. "Don't.. Don't blame me if I h-hit you, you dumbass."

Dick just keeps his hold tighter, slightly rocking them like he's holding a baby when he feels Jason shaking. "Wouldn't be your first time, Little Wing. I can take it." Jason remains silent so Dick finds that as a signal to keep talking. "Remember that time when I carried you behind my back as we slid on the Manor's stairs because you wanted to fly? And Bruce got so mad at me? Then you stood up for me and told Bruce to basically shut the fuck up."

Jason finds the memory lingering in his mind. "What about it?"

Dick close his eyes and rests his chin on top of Jason's head. "From that moment I knew you were always gonna stand up for me, that you always have my back. You taught me that the younger one is stronger than the older sibling. You showed me that, Little Wing."

Jason remains silent and Dick thinks it's working. But when Jason opens his eyes, all he sees is green. "Dick, please fucking go. I don't want to hurt you." He punches Dick on the jaw. Dick tries to hold on to Jason, but he stumbles back.

Dick looks up to Jason's standing figure ; no sign of pain for himself, but for Jason instead. "You will never hurt me, Jay. You're strong. You don't let anything control you, especially not some green goo."

Jason closes his fists, ready to punch Dick some more. But he closes his eyes, screaming in agony and fighting the pit. He thinks of that time when Dick carried him on his back when they were younger, and the many times he felt like he was flying. Bruce made him Robin, but it's Dick who always knew how much Jason loved to fly.

Then Jason calms down and when he opens his eyes, his vision is back to normal.

Dick is up on his feet already and makes his way to Jason, slowly. "Little Wing, you're back. You did it." His eyes slightly filled with tears.

Jason is the lucky one because his eyes are covered by his helmet, but he feels like crying too. "Thank you, Dick."

Dick offers a massive bear hug in which Jason gladly accepts. And if you see the famous Nightwing and Red Hood hugging on one of Gotham's tall buildings, it's none of your business.

[before I continue to write the rest, I want to see how this one goes first]

#batfamily #batboys #brothers #dick grayson #nightwing #jason todd #red hood #lazarus pit #batman #give jason all the hugs please #dc comics #batkids #prompt

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 138

Danny squints up at the blurry form cradling him, brain trying to catch up with his situation. He can feel the pulse of his siblings’ cores nearby, gently pulsing contentedly despite the chaos of his last memories. His limbs feel too small and pudgy, too-small fingers gripping onto something as his vision started to clear. 

There was a man, holding him? Cradling his too-small form like he was an infant- was he an infant? He was pretty sure he wasn’t supposed to be, he had been older but now he wasn’t. He squinted up at the stranger, green eyes meeting green. Huh. They kind of looked like he could be their dad or something. 

#dcxdp #dpxdc #prompts #league of shadows #Ras gets a trio of infants the first/second time he exits the Lazarus Pits #So very early Ras who semi recently lost his first wife #Phantom siblings are his first kids who keep him semi-sane #As far as Ras is concerned the Pits blessed him with his firstborn sons and daughter #Dusan Nyssa & Talia are grumbling whenever the trio come back home #”Ugh we don’t Want to do Family Time” #”Too bad it’s family time c’mon we brought you all presents” #Danny when Talia brings Jason home: Did you steal a child #Talia: Of course not brother but by chance would you convince Father to let the child stay #Bruce doesn't know about the trio because they were away while he was training with the league #They do know about him though- baby sisters first crush how cute! #Talia where did you get that test tube baby have you informed the other donor- TALIA #“We all know you three are the favorite children” #“No we aren't” #"Danyal you Daig & Eva can literally leave whenever you want as long as you call every week w can barely leave without him being overbearin #Daig means fire/flame #Eva means living & breathing

[tainted-esau]

Woa

#tboi #tboi fanart #tboi au #israel au #dark esau #tboi azazel #tboi lazarus #tboi abel #tboi magdalene #tboi maggie #tboi cain #jacob and esau #i don't watermark my things all that often anymore but this is something that made me go damn. i should do that #i wanted to add a few of Israel's unlockable items onto the background wings but i think this is already enough of a clusterfuck lmao #anyway i love this au sm i love building characters up just to traumatize them in the worst ways i can think of lmao #for now they're all relatively chill and having a good time #but oh man when i eventually draw the truth I'm going to feel terrible #shoutout to Esau though he's a good brother and i did him dirty he deserved better #omori au

[quickhacked]

"The outer reaches of space remain unexplored by humankind to this day, but its greed is relentless. We grasp and yearn and hunger for knowledge— answers to questions we cry out into the endless void expecting to understand, expecting the stars to respond. The stars will not, but one day something else will— and we will not like what it has to say." — Rome Solomon, Beyond the Exosphere (1965)

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#obscura #edit:rome #nuclearocs #nuclearedits #ok so. ok hi. red and i made a new universe hi. sorry. morris quincy victor and eleanor belong to them the rest belong to meee :3 #the pictures i used are basically the patron saints of their occupation / line of work! so that's not what they look like #anyway it's a mix of paranormal stuff + lovecraftian horror + sort of zombies :^) #they're like. the domains of lucifer (demons) behemoth (zombies) and leviathan (the eldritch horrors that happen in space and oceans) #who are like. the three evils that torment the mortal realm #it's all in a historical setting kind of parallel to our world? so a bunch of historic events are the same but it's like #a little bit more advanced with technology but at the same time it's not. it's Just A Little Different y'know #rome's sister went to space for a mission and just straight up went missing which prompts him to become an astronomer #and he's the first one to start speculating the existence of leviathan as eldritch god #morris is a technician at the academy who has an angel stuck in his computer #eve is a nun and herbalist who witnesses the influence of behemoth firsthand through some sick travelers #that she and the other nuns of her convent take care of #anatoly and quincy are both from different space missions who end up as the only survivors who are not basically a plant #the other two survivors have secretly been replaced with some sort of parasites. annihilation style if you've seen that movie #eleanor is a demonologist and works together with her brother victor who's her cameraman #clarence is a blind psychic who lost her sight because of an angel trying to warn her and in return got her psychic abilities #and lazarus is one of the two most famous demonologists in the world but his wife (the other one) passed away #so now he's alone and since he's not from an upper class family like his wife was he's not all that loved as she was #there's a lot going on but it's SO fucking fun to work on so far. feel free to send any asks i would love to explain more :^) #if you've made it this far also hi i love you. kiss for you

[magimcull]

...I never earned my blessings, no matter how much people tell me otherwise. I hadn't done anything to have my life restored, and yet I stand, a dead boy walking. Every step I take aches, despite my vitality being restored. ...I see an enigma.

#tboi #the binding of isaac #tboi fanart #tboi lazarus #blood cw #blood tw #he's messed up! like brother like sister ig! #fun magi trivia: the off-white hues swap with the other forms. so like #regular enigma has off-white tinted blue #while risen enigma has off-white that's tinted red #tee hee hee

[chaoswarfare]

Brothers in Lazarus(Are Closer Than Blood)

a continuation of this prompt

He woke up to the sound of snow falling. Almost imperceptible, soft frosted puffs of ice drifting through the windless sky to brush into the flakes already covering him and the ground. It should probably have been cold. All his very limited knowledge told him that he should have frozen by now, but something cool and solid in his chest hummed at the comfort the low temperature brought.

The bland grey sky watched him, and something nagged for his attention. Craggy trees raised limbs that looked like claws to the heavens, and the only soil was mostly bare stones. It didn’t feel familiar. He sat back against the snow drift and tried to remember why that would be the case, but the further back he prodded in his memory, the more the fog clouded his senses.

Suddenly his attention snapped back to the present as a shudder rolled through his chest and rings of light washed over him, and he finally felt the cold biting into his skin properly. Fractals of light bounced off the snow and lit up the entire face of the mountain he was resting on.

That’s right. Mountain. That feels right for where he is. He… There should be something else there that he can’t remember. There is more to him. A name. But for the life of him he can’t bring it to focus.

There’s nothing there. There’s nothing there. The air seems to tremble with him as he shivers and he desperately sucks in air as he tries to push back the rising panic that he does not know who he is. Was? He doesn’t know. His mind clouds with fog as he tries to dig the knowledge of who he is, but it seems to have all but vanished completely.

He isn’t conscious long enough to register the dark robed figures picking him out of the snow and carrying him back the direction they came.

#danny phantom #danny fenton #dc x dp #crossover #dc universe #dp x dc #dp x dc crossover #writing #look at me i wrote this for once #league of assassins #danny has memory loss #brothers in lazarus(are closer than blood) #my first attempt at writing and posting anything other than a prompt

[flamboyant-king]

The Binding of Isaac has a lot of toilet humor.

TMI: It all started because I looked biblical with my two towels on the toilet, hunched over in pain with no successful outcome. And I had to draw it.

#i didnt take a reference picture of me on the toilet. i tried. and failed so i just went off of vibes #and goshdang it looks so good #the binding of isaac #tboi #tboi gabriel #tboi dogma #tboi azazel #tboi lazarus #tboi bethany #comic #inktober #shitpost #LITERALLY #brothers keeper au

[spn-rewatch-ventzone]

SAM HELD ONTO DEANS AMULET?? NO STOP THATS SO SWEET! WHY DID I FORGET THAT?

#i love these brothers #spn #supernatural #spn rewatch #lazarus rising #sam winchester #dean winchester #turnip talks