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frosty-the-killer-doll · 4 months

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What are your opinions/headcanon’s on Olivarry? Also your Arrowverse polycule Au is so cool!

thank you, i know it 💅

opinion? love it. barry being a nerd for ollie and his many vigilante codenames before he even knew the guy? barry finding out that asshole playboy famously saved from a shipwreck after a supposed 5 years on some fuckin island oliver queen is his hero? such a broken pedestal/death of a hero moment. and then this fucking dweeb oliver met once going into a coma? felicity and oliver quietly worrying about him? delicious. and then said dweeb gets superpowers and becomes a superhero right after waking up from the coma. what the fuck.

i mean, oliver is to thank for barry taking "the flash" as his name. oliver is to thank for barry becoming a superhero. oliver is to thank for barry being alive. oliver broke that pedestal and rebuilt it with his own two hands- bloody, damned hands- before barry's very eyes. they disagree, they fight, they butt heads, but they always believe in each other. barry sticks up for oliver, oliver sticks up for barry, so on and so forth.

oliver believes barry is 1/2 of "the best of us." whether oliver's talking about our arrowverse heroes or creatures in general is never established. oliver believes that barry can inspire things in a way he cannot. oliver believes in barry more than he believes in himself and because of that, barry trusts oliver with every cell in his body. because he's barry allen. and he's oliver queen. and that's all they need.

faggot behavior honestly

in the polycule au, they are married in crisis on earth x. they first officially start dating around the flash s3 and arrow s5, and that's when olicity finally join the big polycule. olivarry marry smoakwest as a complete quad officiated by dig, spontaneously as was their canon one-way marriages

in emerald archer, barry appears in the documentary episode so barry has been seen enough with oliver that ollie's fans/paparazzi know they're friends. before people know that they're polyam and fucking married, there's online theories that barry is oliver's secret boyfriend and felicity's his beard. there's ship art of their civilian identities and everything.

everyone got quite pissy when barry was spotted kissing iris- yknow, his girlfriend. and then everyone was even more mad and confused when barry was spotted also kissing cisco, ralph, patty, linda, kara, felicity... whAT is the TRUTH?? for some reason only a very few amount of oliver fans theorize that a polyamory is happening

there's also ship art of their vigilante identities, yippee. sometimes barry reads flarrow rpf out loud to him. oliver gets mad at smut fics the most. in his own words, "the green arrow isn't a sub! or a bottom!"

hard to lie about how much you sub/bottom to your husband that you have had sex with multiple times, but, hey, you do you, oliver

also do you guys remember when sara lance said "you deserve someone better, someone who can harness that light that's still inside of you" to oliver and then oliver saying "why i sacrificed myself for you, so that in all of this darkness, you could be a guiding light, a hero" to barry? ha. i fucking do. i sure remember that one. that's why to me oliver has so many light-related pet names for b, such as; sunshine, sunlight, sunny, lightning bug, firefly, supernova etc etc. oliver also has ones in russian that he generally refuses to teach barry what they mean, like; zaychik (meaning little rabbit), moya lyubov' (my love), solnyshko (little sun)...

barry loves oliver's cooking so much it's unreal. oliver regularly sends him home-cooked meals and makes sure barry's fridge is filled to the brim with his food if oliver knows they won't be able to see each other for a bit. the second thing oliver does every time he sees barry is offer him food.

the first thing is, of course, kissing him until he can't breathe

to get nsfw with it oliver very much likes when barry speed-fucks him, especially when oliver is not in flash time. one second barry is fully clothed across the room and the next barry's on him and oliver's suddenly cumming.

^ obvi they had talks abt this before they ever did it, talking abt sex stuff when ur bf is a speedster is very much needed. that bitch vibrates if he gets too excited!!

they both have survivors' guilt and other ptsd, so, sometimes one of them just... shows up at the other's house, distant and achingly quiet, and the other just sits with them and holds them and it's all so silent and when they leave they never mention it again.

okay that's all i got rn GOODBYE FOREVER!!!!!!!! 🫡

#frosty answers #arrowverse asks #arrowverse polycule au #olivarry #barry allen #oliver queen #the flash #the flash cw #cw the flash #arrow #arrow cw #cw arrow

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suzukiblu · 5 months

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Do you have any Cassie or Bart centric aus?

Lemme see . . . well, the poly Pockets AU cycles through Tim, Cassie, and Bart's POVs, though it's not technically either Cassie or Bart-centric, it's a Core Four fic in three points of view. I've also got a few Kon/Cassie WIPs but they're mostly from his perspective and I wouldn't call them particularly Cassie-centric, and same for most of my YJ polyam WIPs, though let's see what we've got otherwise!

I recently wrote this fic about Cassie grieving Kon after he's come back from being dead, which is from her POV and is about her feelings and thoughts on it.

Not-Kon/Not-Match is a WIP from Cassie's POV about Tim accidentally actually cloning Kon in his grief-spiral era and her being the first person to meet said clone.

Circe makes everything worse is also from Cassie's POV and is about her breaking up with Kon because she realizes she's a closeted lesbian, WITHOUT realizing Kon is a closested trans girl and how those facts might or might not align, and the fallout and self-discovery and angst coming from that.

My the Core Four meets Kon's objectification kink WIP is from Cassie's POV and features Bart running a D/s roleplay scene for the Core Four while they try out a new kink together.

I think that's about it, currently? And there's a couple of Bart-centric AUs I've considered taking a poke at, but I haven't yet taken the plunge on actually starting any of them so I don't think I have anything particularly focused on him right now.

. . . also this probably doesn't count as Cassie-centric, but there IS a WIP I haven't developed quiiiiite enough to start posting from yet that's from the POV of a clone of Cassie produced by the Agenda and what her showing up post-Sins of Youth does, specifically to Kon and Cassie's friendship but also to a few other bits and pieces of the superhero community and like, clone-related things in general.

#rintalk #anonymous

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mushroom-jack · 3 months

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Tompercy AU Masterpost

As I'm taking a step back from tompercy for the time being, and having just finished my main ASOR-related WIP, I thought it would be a good idea to gather all my tompercy thoughts all in one accessible place (written and non-written). This post is also linked in my pinned. I am still technically taking prompts for this ship, though no promises in terms of filling them; you can also request any AU from the unwritten section of this post, and I'll do my best to oblige since I already have thoughts for most of those :)

Also, anyone is allowed to write a fic based on any of my prompts, or transform any of my works (ie translation, writing another story in one of my established universes, write something inspired by my fics/prompts, etc; just don’t repost my fics wholesale) — I simply ask that you link it to me somehow so that I can check it out!

Written

Superhero AU: a civilian and a mercenary (mid-length; series of one-shots) Features Percy as the only civilian in a family of superheros, a Deathstroke-inspired Tom as the world's deadliest mercenary, and a something-with-benefits type relationship.

Royalty AU(s): you should see me in a crown (short; series of one-shots) Tom is the heir to the throne, and Percy is a spy on a mission to kill the king totally normal librarian. Bizarre yearning vibes.

a mask of my own face (short one-shot) Mostly platonic, but still tompercy-centric; Tom is a well-known mercenary, and Percy is his mysterious masked client.

Vampires AUs: Crimson (short one-shot) Percy is a vampire, Tom is a wizard. Unarguably erotic, but somehow not erotica.

Sanguine (even shorter one-shot) Tom is a vampire, Percy is a wizard. Spiritual successor to Crimson. Somehow even more erotic (but still not erotica).

Faerie (And Adjacent) AUs: offer me his lips (short one-shot) Percy is fae, because the the urge to make him some kinda creature is never-ending. Tom is a wizard hoping to make a deal.

monsters of a feather (short one-shot + bonus) Tom is one of the most feared pirates to still sail the seas; Percy is a siren caged in the bowels of his ship, only ever let out to lure other ships into Tom's waiting hands.

ASOR Canon Divergence: Beloved (short two-shot) AU where tompercy is roommates during the war. Bizarre vibes just in general; the first tompercy fic I ever wrote.

sworn companionship (short two-shot) Used to be called "crucio" if that tells you anything; AU where Percy becomes Tom's sworn companion at some unspecified time, presumably post-war. Bizarrely kind of erotic, but mostly fluffy.

lay all your love on me (fairly longform; it's about 30k words) ASOR alternate ending; canon divergent from the Forbidden Forest confrontation. Tom learns how to love. Featuring some of my favorite tags from any of my fics: "Percy Weasley is Bad at Feelings / 'Bad at feelings' doesn't even BEGIN to describe what's wrong with Tom Riddle". >> Now with sequel, which is about 10k words, and is mostly erotica with character study.

communing with dangerous men (shortform multi-shot) Vaguely associated with lay all your love; a Percy in some sort of post-war established relationship is thrown back in time to the late 1940s, when Tom is working at Borgin and Burke's. An even darker tompercy than I usually write, with lots of codependency, obsessive devotion, and eroticized gore.

Other/Miscellaneous: it's golden hour somewhere (collection of short one-shots) This is a collection of three one-shots featuring tompercy interacting in the sun, following the theme, "in another world, we could've been so happy". Features a professor AU, a coffee shop AU, and a bonus/missing scene canon compliant to ASOR.

it ain't love (if it don't hurt) (extremely short one-shot) unclear what universe this takes place in; basically erotica, but lacking genitalia. The intimacy of torture.

little rabbit (short pwp one-shot) An omegaverse porn w/o plot, featuring a wolf!Tom and a bunny!Percy. No heat/rut/mating cycles, if you're not into that sort of thing, but there are still cnc elements; Tom chases Percy down in the woods.

pomegranate hearts (mid-length; series of one-shots) Featuring Percy as Hades, king of the dead and the underworld, Tom as Persephone, young god of spring all growing, sprouting things, and a tangible power dynamic so skewed in Percy's favor that their relationship comes out looking something like one of equals. Also, has a wider cast of characters than my usual fics, including Abraxas, Severus, and a more fanon-flavored Harry Potter than an ASOR flavored one.

From My Ideas Folder (Unwritten):

a civilian and a mercenary AU: Percy is trying to get a coffee when the shop is suddenly being held up. He's fully ready to go along with the hostage situation, just wanting to get his coffee and then go to work, but Tom shows up out of the blue and is having absolutely none of it.

Alternative relationship reveal: 5 times someone found out about Percy and Tom, and 1 time Percy actually told them. Featuring, probably, Tonks, Severus, and various Weasleys.

Time Travel AU(s): Percy time travels to the early 1940s and beats the shit out of someone for calling Tom a mudblood.

Literally any Percy as a Knight of Walpurgis AU.

Time Traveler's Wife-esque AU where the sworn companionship ritual between Percy and Voldemort goes wrong or gets interrupted; a Percy who's soul is fundamentally attached to Tom's gets flung through time, appearing to young Tom at various points in his life (either involving scenes at Wool's Orphanage, Hogwarts, while Tom is working at Borgin and Burke's, while he is traveling the world, etc... OR Percy is transported to Tom immediately after he makes each horcrux, for a total of 7 times).

ASOR Canon Divergence: Alternate ending where Tom wins the war, but Percy dies and comes back as a ghost (but Wrong; possibly soul-related complications, something sworn companionship related???). Percy has some form of amnesia, and either follows Tom around like a lost dog or haunts their flat, which Tom refuses to move out of for some reason.

Alternate ending where post-war Percy is told that all physical forms of Voldemort have been successfully destroyed, but a remnant remains harmlessly attached to his soul, mostly powerless, destined to die once he does. This results in a benevolent possession, Venom-esque dynamic where Tom is a snarky asshole living in Percy's head and occasionally taking over his body, and Percy just has to deal with that now.

Lay all your love adjacent t4t AU, with a transmasc!Tom who transitioned in childhood + promptly obliviated everyone into believing he was always male, and a very repressed transfem!Percy that Tom is slowly manipulating and coercing into being more feminine. I myself am genderqueer, but I find that I rarely write trans characters, so this would ultimately be an interrogation of that habit, a joyful study of transgender identity, and a massive fuck you to JK Rowling.

Other/Miscellaneous: Selkie!Percy AU tentatively named Salinity. Percy saves a young, orphanage-era Tom, they interact throughout the years, and Tom eventually returns to steal Percy's coat.

Animal hybrid AU with a bunny!Percy living in a cottage doing wizard stuff, and a wolf!Tom who breaks and enters in order to steal a magical artifact (I'm thinking a horcrux that Percy found by complete accident). And then he accidentally gets dog adopted. And then Percy has to contend with the fact that his new wolf familiar is actually a particularly attractive dark wizard. This one would be really funny honestly, it just seems kinda long. Also, Percy has massive glasses and velvety ears, by necessity of the AU.

Percy is a wizard who traveled a long ways to learn arcane magics from the immortal sage he heard is living in this mountaintop cave. Tom is a dragon that lives in a mountaintop cave, and who is not against adding this plucky young wizard to his hoard.

Short one-shot; Tom is a professional duelist, and Percy is very impressed.

Some sort of mixed-generation AU where Tom and Percy have been together since Hogwarts; after graduation they move in together, and Percy provides for the two of them with his Prewett heirship and ministry job. Tom is promiscuous and disloyal, Percy is devoted and willfully ignorant of Tom's various affairs – when he eventually confronts Tom, Tom casually leaves him for one of the many purebloods he's been courting, leaving Percy searching for a way to win him back. Vaguely inspired by the novel Naomi by Junichiro Tanizaki.

Kink community AU where Tom is an event host in the local community and Percy has stumbled upon the scene by complete accident at age 18-19. Drawn to Percy's naivete and vulnerability, Tom takes care to portray himself as being trustworthy (as he's something of a community leader), and takes Percy under his wing in order to take advantage of him.

Trafficlight SMP/death games AU with Tom as an extremely prolific killer on his red life, and Percy on his green life but nonetheless absolutely dedicated to serving Tom. Featuring red life bloodlust, irrational loyalty to what should've been a temporary alliance, betrayal, and reluctant affection/devotion. Tentatively named I bet on losing dogs.

#tompercy #a study of resonance

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deusvervewrites · 8 months

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What I meant, is how should I plan the writing, like reading the manga or looking for inspiration in different stories?

Ah.

Generally, yes, I would suggest being familiar with the source material if you intend on changing it. Whether that's the anime or manga or binging the wiki is up to you--I personally have a the wiki and a fan translation of the manga up at all times for reference.

Now, over time and thanks to asks on this blog and my various projects, I've become extremely familiar with various parts of canon, but an encyclopedic knowledge is not required so long as you can quickly find any information you need.

This is important for a few reasons. Chiefly, many readers will be familiar with canon and will notice discrepancies, which can be both a good and bad thing. For example, I greatly enjoy using canon events as a form of Dramatic Irony, like in Haigha when the Hosu Noumu attack never happens.

Being familiar with canon is also important for characterization purposes. If you really know how a character acts in canon it's easier to know how they'll respond to changes, making their personalities feel more fleshed out.

(Note that something feeling fleshed out is not always the same as it actually being fleshed out. Both is better, but the first is all you strictly need, and you rarely want to only have the second.)

More crucially to this ask, it makes the planning easier.

I'm assuming if you're rewriting canon and asking about planning things out, you aren't strictly following the way that things went in canon, and are doing something closer to my fics, where I cascade a single change into many more. This is the reason I'm personally so acquainted with canon. Knowing how each event in canon led to others makes it easier to see how changing any event will change the rest.

For example, the League attacked the Forest Camp to discredit Heroes, to acquire Search, and to recruit Bakugou. Either the League could have gone after Ragdoll at any time (presumably, it's possible they couldn't find her, though that seems unlikely), but waited until the Training Camp so they could also deal a blow to UA's reputation and acquire Bakugou. And they only wanted Bakugou because of how the Sports Festival ended. In other words, if the League doesn't have a way to find the camp, doesn't want Bakugou, doesn't want Search, and/or doesn't care about UA, there is no Forest Camp Attack.

As for inspiration, it can come from anywhere. Canon, fanfic, other works of media, random things you see in your day-to-day life, literally anywhere. I generally recommend that writers read lots of things--not just fanfic, either, but consume all kinds of media--to see more plots, narrative voices, technical writing, pacing, etc.

You can learn so, so much by reading books or watching tv or movies or playing games that don't even seem related to what you're actually planning on writing.

For example, here's HK47 in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 teaching you how to kill superheroes Jedi

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I'm not sure looking for inspiration is necessarily the best way to put it. I find that ideas are fickle things, much like cats. They rarely show themselves when you actively seek them out, but come to you on their own terms.

The more stories you read/watch/play, the more familiar you will be with storytelling and common narrative beats, and the easier it will be to see the connections between ideas. This is as true with fanfic as with any canon material.

Here's a practical example. As of writing this, I'm running a series of polls titled Let's Make A Shonen! where I had various selections of tropes, settings, and plot devices necessary to create the barebones of a hypothetical shonen series. At the end of which, I'll write up the plot synopsis of the resulting series. At this moment, Magic is winning the Power System poll by a landslide at more than twice the second-place option, and in the How Does The Protagonist Learn Their Powers poll, the front-runner is the the powers themselves are sentient.

With about 50 hours left in the poll, I've agonized a bit over how I wanted to combine these plot points, before the answer came to me. Magacite from Final Fantasy 6--where Espers are turned into crystal upon death which can be used as a means of summoning that Esper or to teach magic to the party member equipped with that Magacite. By taking this idea and tweaking it, I can fit it neatly into place as the combination of those two polls, and by extreme coincidence I can tie it into several other polls as well, such as the main antagonist being The Government and the first arc being a Fetch Quest. The protagonist needs to get the Legally-Distinct-Magacite before the government does. Easy.

This is something I'd never have thought of if I hadn't known about the plot of Final Fantasy 6, which, while overlapping, isn't a shonen at all.

#asks #writing advice

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film-in-my-soul · 2 years

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Top Gun/Top Gun Maverick Superhero AU Headcanons

This has been my brain rot for the last few days. So instead of writing the Gahan fic I promised I would, I did this...

Here is some worldbuilding for an AU I will never write, but I hope you guys like it. Be warned, the majority of the headcanons will be IceMav and Hangster related.

Superheros Universe:

Superpowers have been developing for years now. Starting as small advancements in human physicality/mentality (theorized to have been a government experiment gone wrong) and moving through generations, evolving and spreading. They have now taken on stronger genetic mutations that are an intricate part of society and, more importantly, national security.

SFTI program (Super Fighter Tactics Instructor program), more popularly known as TOPGUN, is an elite school for Heroes and Sidekicks organized by the United States joint militant task force with the singular goal of pushing their super soldiers' abilities and team working skills to make them the best they possibly can be.

(See under the cut for powers/headcanons)

Characters/Powers:

Pete "Maverick" Mitchell [Hero]

Gravity Manipulation: Maverick can affect the gravity surrounding himself and others in contact with him. By increasing the force of gravity above him while lessening the force beneath him, Maverick is able to generate a tunnel that essentially allows him “flight.” Once in the air, he can maintain the force of gravity beneath him to keep himself afloat.

Limitation: Maverick, if overusing his power, can cause himself to go into vertigo and or pass out midair. He can only maintain so many different layers of gravitation manipulation and, therefore, can only affect, outside himself, two people at once, depending on mass.

Tom "Iceman" Kazansky [Hero]

Ice Powers: (I know this is very on the nose, but do you have anything better?) Can generate and manipulate ice/frost/general cold. It’s fairly self-explanatory. Iceman has a move called “time out” where he can essentially freeze the surrounding area up to a radius of 20 feet (the standard radius of a carousel).

Limitation: The larger the distance Iceman stretches his powers or the denser the ice, the weaker the structure or the less time it lasts. Ice’s ice manipulation can be more of a subconscious power, so he has to exercise complete control or risk hurting others. He can also hurt himself if he goes “subzero” for too long.

Nick "Goose" Bradshaw [Sidekick]

Flight: He can fly. He does not have wings. His primary role was Maverick’s sidekick, an extra pair of eyes in the air. He and Maverick also used Goose as a conduit for Maverick's gravity manipulation and allowed Goose faster flight. He was Maverick’s “eyes in the sky.”

Limitation: Little to no use in head-to-head combat situations. Flight has a maximum altitude, and use in ground conflicts was limited.

Ron “Slider” Kerner [Sidekick]

Short Range Portals: Slider can open portals up to fifteen feet apart. They can be held for up to two minutes, allowing the average mass of two people to travel at a time. He is particularly useful as Iceman’s sidekick for Ice’s projectiles or for surprise attacks.

Limitation: Portals can not be one-sided; a second portal must always be opened along with the first. If more mass goes through a portal than Slider’s current ability allows, the portals can become unstable and either collapse or distort the mass that goes through. Velocity of an object does not change when going through a portal.

Carole Bradshaw [Civilian]

Ultrasonic Vocality: Carole can burst anyone's eardrums with an accidental scream or a jubilant cheer. Her power allows her to amplify her vocality up to 180 decibels. She never went into hero work cause it simply wasn’t for her.

Limitation: Carole’s power can activate without intention if she’s surprised or doesn’t actively think to keep herself lowered. Too loud of a sound can cause temporary muteness.

Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw [Hero]

Flight/Ultrasonic: Rooster inherited both his parent's powers (a rarity) and, thus, can fly and emit ultrasonic sounds. He often uses his flight to disorient his opponents before taking them by surprise with his secondary power.

Limitation: Rooster’s flight is his less stable ability, and he often finds himself slipping out of his concentration and losing air. His vocal weaknesses mimic his mother's. Also, because aiming one’s voice is harder than it seems, Rooster often hesitates to use his Ultrasonic ability if there’s potential for his teammates to get caught in the crosshairs.

Jake "Hangman" Seresin [Hero]

Mimicry: (It was a toss-up between this and him just being your standard Superman-esc superhero. Chose this one because of the interview where Glen said something like: “you can swap out the vowels, you can make it an ‘a’, a ‘u’, whatever you want. So yeah…) Hangman can copy the powers of those he touches. He’s able to replicate them at about 85% effectiveness, and his ability has forced him to learn to adapt, pay attention, and become one of the most versatile active heroes. It’s also made him cocksure and forced him to act first since he needs the upper hand if he’s going into a battle without his sidekick.

Limitation: Jake can only copy up to four powers at a time, and the more he has, the less effective they are and the shorter the time period he has to use them. With two powers, he can use them both at full capacity for roughly 4 hours. With four, it reduces to 50% and 2 hours.

Javy "Coyote" Machado [Hero]

Animal Shifting: Coyote can shapeshift into an animal that doesn’t disproportionally warp his mass. He often takes the form of big dogs or cats since they’re easier and don’t stretch his mass too much. He takes on the physical ability and properties of the animals he copies and can copy any animal he’s seen in person.

Limitation: Anything smaller than a german shepherd or larger than a brown bear takes a heavy physical toll on Javy, as a smaller animal condenses his mass to an uncomfortable amount and a larger one stretches it. He can only shift into one animal at a time and cannot mix and match attributes or use only one attribute at a time. Unless it’s his special suit, his clothes do not turn with him.

Natasha "Phoenix" Trace [Hero]

Rebirth: Phoenix, technically, cannot die. When she dies, she returns and enters “berserk” mode because her body is jump-started with adrenaline and at peak performance. The rebirth states can last up to thirty minutes. Due to the nature of her power, she is highly trained in hand-to-hand combat, as she has to risk herself to fully utilize her power.

Limitation: If the villain won’t kill her or can’t, she has to do it herself, so… trauma. Also, the more rebirths she has in a twenty-four-hour period, the longer it takes for her to be “reborn,” and the less effective the “berserk” mode is. Her maxim rebirths are three within one day.

Robert "Bob" Floyd [Sidekick]

Ultra Stealth: Bob, unless using an external object, cannot be heard or, oftentimes, perceived. His entire presence can blend into the background. He’s a frontline sidekick for recon and stealth attacks, often paired with Phoenix.

Limitation: Bob’s powers are innate, and so it’s more like they are his state of being. It’s a lonely power, forcing him to make himself known actively. He must wear a reflective patch or a sound maker to be actively noticed.

Reuben "Payback" Fitch [Hero]

Rebound: Payback can take any damage dealt to him and throw it right back. If he gets cut, he can reflect that same cut back. He can give back energy as well.

Limitation: He can’t throw something back if it kills him, meaning he can’t just take any hit or damage. Because of this, he has a suit that absorbs a lot of damage which he can then convert into kinetic energy. His powers force him to use his body as collateral, though, and can take him down a lot of the time.

Mickey "Fanboy" Garcia [Sidekick]

Temporary Mania: Fanboy, if he can look his opponent in the eye, can cause them temporary mania, like a fanatic. The mania lasts for roughly 10 minutes and completely disorients the enemy. There is no limit to how many times Fanboy can activate his mania on a singular villain.

Limitation: It’s an up close and personal power that doesn’t allow much in the way of a physical advantage. A trained opponent can also minimize the time spent in mania, or if an intense physical stimulant is introduced, the mania can be broken. The more times mania is used, the easier it is to break out of.

Beau "Cyclone" Simpson [Hero/North Island CO]

Cyclones: (Stop judging me… these callsigns don’t always leave much for the imagination.) Cyclone can generate and control up to category EF4 tornadoes. The smaller in size, the more intense the wind speeds. He can create a tornado large enough to have an “eye,” effectively entrapping his opponent.

Limitation: The larger the tornado, the weaker the wind speed. The more tornadoes he generates, the less control and the less strength they have, so he is often limited to three at a time, typically category E2. Regardless of his powers, he cannot affect weather or atmospheric conditions as his tornadoes also have a maximum height.

Solomon "Warlock" Bates [Sidekick]

Illusions: Warlock can conjure light distortions or sometimes fully formed illusions that often look like “magic.” His powers are most suited in a support/distraction role.

Limitation: What he conjures are not physical and cannot do actual damage. The sunnier the day, his solid illusions are less effective since they are based on light.

Bernie "Hondo" Coleman [Sidekick/Professional Maverick Handler]

Telepathy: (Literally, I spent 20 minutes trying to learn what Hondo means and got nothing helpful, so… this is what I got.) He can telepathically communicate with anyone and multiple people as long as they are within a thirty feet radius. His largest asset is acting as a multiway radio between heroes in active combat without the fear of radio lines being tapped since Hondo is the radio.

Limitation: The more people on the “radio channel,” the more confusing it can get for Hondo. The longer he keeps his channels open, the worse the fallout will be, full migraine to basically going into a small coma.

Before TGM Headcanons:

The night Bradley learns Maverik pulled his papers for the National Security Heroics Institute Program, he blew up. Almost literally. He went off the rails so badly that he blew out all the glass in Maverik's house with his shouting and didn't even realize he'd caused Maverick's ears to bleed.

Maverick was deaf in his left ear for almost a month after the fight, and that wasn't even what hurt the most. That had been Bradley walking out the door and never looking back.

After Goose died in a TOPGUN exercise (Ice's wall of ice, Maverick attempting to slow Goose's flight by force so he wouldn't hit it, Slider's ill-timed portal, Goose not being able to stop his spinning and get control... an accident all around) Carole never wanted Bradley following in her late husband's footsteps and asked Mav (who had to ask his husband) to pull Bradley's papers.

Ice and Maverick don't actually get together until after Goose's death, after Ice comes back from the gulf, while Maverick opts to stay stateside and help Carole and Bradley.

Once upon a time, Goose was talking about Carole, the lovesick fool he was. "My honey's got the voice of an angel." "Bradshaw, your wife could shatter eardrums with hardly a whistle." "An angel, Wolfman."

Carole used to get teased a lot in high school because she'd always had lousy control over her voice and just got too darn excited, but Goose never made her feel silly for it, taking all her loud energy for himself and making sure everyone knew he was the winner for it. Ringing ears and all when Carole said yes when he asked her to marry him.

Maverick had been wearing earplugs cause he wasn't an idiot.

Mav and Ice aren't enemies anymore. Not after the "you can be my sidekick any time," "bullshit, you can be mine." But neither had planned that it would go beyond a one-night stand (which somehow turned into a weekend stand and breakfast the Monday morning). It had.

Ice couldn't stay stateside like Maverick, and Maverick didn't ask him to. They send letters. They make calls. They somehow make it work, even with the distance and the potential death always hanging over their heads, especially as the villains start getting more overt.

Ice calls him six months later to tell him he's docked on the East port, so close yet so far. Six hours later, when the sun sets, Ice hangs out on the flight deck, trying not to frost over the metal too badly. A shadow crosses over him. It's Maverick. He's hovering like he's not risking getting shot out of the fucking sky by using his powers around a carrier he's not assigned to.

It's dangerous and ballsy and so fucking stupid. It's the first time Ice tells Mav he loves him.

Sometimes when Ice and Maverick kiss, Ice loses control, and it has given Mav a cold once or twice.

Sometimes Maverick accidentally floats them in zero gravity. Ice will never (even though it's very obvious) tell Mav just how much he actually likes making out (and more) without the pressure of the world on them.

During wintertime in Mirimar, if Ice is on leave and Maverick isn't running errands, he will build up an icerink for them, Carol, and Bradley, just for some wintertime cheer because he remembers Maverick telling him once that Goose loved ice-skating even though he couldn't keep his ass off the ice to save his life.

Bradley gets his superhero name because while he's got his Ultrasonic power on lock, flight? Ironically. Not so much. So sometimes, instead of flying, he sort of has to come crashing to the ground.

The other hero trainees had said he was like a Rooster. Loud as hell but a terrible fucking flyer.

Bradley has broken too much glass in his life to ever repay. Sometimes, he's done it intentionally...

Jake has always gotten shit about his powers, especially from his father, because he's "just a little copycat, can't even have a power all on his own, has to ride the coattails of better heroes."

Instead of letting that define him, however, Jake took it as a challenge to take others' powers and make them better, learn to use them in new ways, superior ways, so that no one could say he wasn't worth the title of hero.

This, of course, did not earn him any favors, not that Jake minded all that much. You didn't need friends to be the best.

That changed a bit with Javy, mostly because while Jake could study and analyze and perfect human powers, animal behavior? Not so much, and it actually helped the two become friends pretty quickly.

Jake hates copying Javy's power the most because he doesn't like being in a skin that isn't his own, but Javy is his sidekick, and Jake needs a power to start off a fight.

Once, when he was practicing with Javy's power, Bradley had come in and, knowing it was Jake, had made the joke, "is this your way of telling me you're a dog, Bagman?"

Jake and Bradley did not get along at first. Since Bradley could use multiple abilities like him, Jake thought that Bradley was his best competitor. It made Bradley the biggest target for Jake's need to be better, and Bradley, seeing too much of Maverick in Jake's easy swagger and seemingly endless confidence, pretty much was always on the verge of punching the blonde in the face.

It's only after a tough fight where they have to work together (Bradley needing another body in the sky and Jake running out of possible powers to copy) that they reach a stalemate.

That is, of course, when Jake realizes that it's not just the competition he likes about Bradley. It's also because he's fiercely loyal, just as proud as he is, and is damn good-looking, even with the pornstache.

Jake doubles down on being a dickhead, but at least attempts to keep it teasing, and Bradley takes it in stride more easily.

Before graduating TOPGUN (Jake taking the trophy by half a point with Bradley and Natasha tied for second), during the celebratory drinking, Bradley actually compliments Jake, with no pretense, no double meaning, and Jake, a little too tipsy, takes it as a sign that Bradley might be interested enough to sleep with him.

It goes very poorly, mostly because the room is filled with superheroes, when Jake goes to kiss him. He brushes up against Static, another TOPGUN graduate with an electric power, and ends up zapping Bradley pretty bad instead of actually kissing him.

Bradley hadn't even realized what Jake was going to do and just let that fact he'd gotten a very literal shock go, figuring Jake was too drunk.

The moment was gone, Jake was now sober, and he chickened out from trying anything else.

They were dispatched to other sides of the world two days later.

During TGM Headcanons:

The next time Jake and Bradley see each other, Jake has a villain kill, and they've been called back to TOPGUN for a mission no one knows anything about, and they've back slid into being rivals again. At least from Bradley's point of view.

Regardless of the universe, Jake is actually, in his own stupid way, trying to goad Bradley into being better, doing what he needs to do so he doesn't die with his head up his ass, fighting Maverick for whatever fucking reason.

Phoenix is there too, and gets a new sidekick in Bob, who is cute and uncomfortably unnoteable.

He's not cute enough to stop her from deploying her trauma "joke," upon being asked what her power is. Which is to show instead of tell.

The first time she pulled that same joke on Bradley, she'd jumped off a four-story building. Bradley had thought her power had something to do with flight and only realized, the closer she got to the ground, not doing anything, that he was wrong. He couldn't get to her before she hit the ground, and it took her about a minute for all her bones to reset.

He'd asked her, through tears, because he thought she'd died for good, what the fuck she was thinking, and Natasha had laid it out for him. He was gonna have to get used to it. It was her power, and she had to die to use it.

Bob hadn't cried, but he had thrown up.

The kicker of it all is that Jake and Bradley work well together with Javy, Phoenix, and Bob, but they're both too in their own heads about everything; it's making the whole mission prep a mess.

When everything snaps and Jake brings up Bradley's dad, it's only because everyone is holding them back that Bradley doesn't pop Jake's head like a melon.

Even seeing red and spitting blood, Bradley would never willingly attempt to hurt a fellow hero, especially not when surrounded by other heroes who could also get hurt.

Bob wins them dogfight football because half the time, even with his reflector patch on his shirt, only Phoenix and Rooster can keep tabs on him.

During mission practice, a simulated energy beam almost hits Coyote, but Phoenix intercepts it. Bob is able to get a piece of her away from the blast radius, and she's able to regenerate, but it's terrifyingly touch and go.

Ice does not die.

Instead, he shows up at TOPGUN to get everyone's head set straight.

He and Mav run everyone through drills again, this time working as a team, and it seems to help, but Bradley is still holding himself back.

He's not expecting his name to be called, but it is. Maverick picks him as wingman for the mission, and it goes tits up pretty much immediately.

They manage to infiltrate and blow up the super serum refinement plant but when they leave, they're intercepted by defense systems, and villains are in pursuit.

Maveric takes a missile meant for Bradley, and instead of leaving, Bradley disregards Cyclone's orders and returns for him.

Once the formation is broken, Hondo can't keep the radio channel between the team open.

The only reason they make it back at all is because Jake is waiting with Halo.

The second he hears that Hondo had lost communication with Maverick and then Rooster, he's sprouting wings, grabbing Phoenix's power (since she'd retreated with Bob as directed and is back at the base) while he's at it, and taking off.

Jake dies twice in order to get Bradley and Maverik out of the shit storm they're in, bagging himself another villain kill.

The first time he dies is an accident. A villain intercepts him en route, but it works out in the end. He's able to get to both of them just in the nick of time, catching the projectile meant for them in the chest. He's close enough to kill the villain in the blast as well.

Bradley just about loses his mind in the calm of the aftermath because Jake's on the ground, bloody and not moving.

It's only when Maverick covers his mouth does Bradley realize he'd been screaming.

They get to Jake, and that's when he starts coming around.

"Jesus Bradshaw, I know you have pipes like that, but give a guy a warning. Almost killed me a third time." "A third- A third time?!"

It's not the time and Jake, more refreshed than Bradley or Maverick, goes on ahead of them to clear the path back to base.

After TGM Headcanons:

Iceman threatens to freeze Maverick to the bed if he ever pulls shit like that again. Maverick, of course, just replies that if Ice is in the bed with him, there's no chance of him leaving anyway.

During the "we lived" celebrations, Jake decides he's done not at the very least trying to have something with Bradley and drags him out of the bar. Bradley goes willingly, though he does question what Jake's doing.

"Didn't wanna zap you this time." This, of course, confuses Bradley, but then Jake drags him into a kiss, so he's not thinking about much else for the next little while.

When the kiss breaks, both of them realize they're not on the ground anymore, which is ridiculous and hysterical, and Bradley lowers them to the ground to kiss Jake again.

Jake admits, a few months later, after he and Bradley have talked and are together, after seemingly endless therapy appointments, that he didn't know if he'd come back a second time during the mission, that he didn't know if his mimicry of Phoenix's powers would hold after dying at least once already.

Bradley proceeds to thoroughly ravish him in a life-affirming way after breaking a window shouting at him.

Maverick is taken out of active duty and teaches full-time at TOPGUN so that he can stay close to Ice and Bradley since they've reconciled.

A year and a half later, when Jake asks Bradley to marry him, he has Iceman make him an icerink.

Maverick had given him that hint when Jake had asked for his permission.

Maverick wears earplugs again because Bradley might look like Goose, but he's still Carole's boy through and through.

Well... this was a lot, and basically just the barebones of a fanfiction I will never write. I hope whoever made it through all this had fun reading.

These headcanons and character things are completely up for grabs if anyone feels inspired by them btw.

Thank you again for reading!!

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lilyginnyblackv2 · 2 years

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Tiger & Bunny 2 - Cour 2 - Various Thoughts Post - SPOILERS!!!

I've watched Tiger & Bunny 2 Part 2/Cour 2 and now I want to write up some posts with my thoughts on the cour. Of course, SPOILER WARNING FOR TAIBANI 2 PART 2 / COUR 2! All thoughts will be placed under a Read More.

First, I'm going to start with the smaller thoughts that I have. I want to get the more misc. thoughts up first before I forget them, I'll likely also talk about the plot stuff here, since for me the action and actual plot stuff isn't as important as the thematic and character focused elements of the series.

Then I want to talk about the handling of familial relations in this part of the cour, similar to how I talked about it in regards to cour 1.

The final post I'll get up will be my thoughts on how they handled relationships in general, and how I feel about the ending.

I'll likely also discuss where I think they could take the series if they were to continue it, though, I will say right now, that how they ended this second season makes it so that I feel they could just comfortably end it here as well. Even though I would want more. Not an endless amount of content, but just a bit more. If they never do that though, I'll be okay too.

So, no to the more misc. stuff under the Read More!

1. I love how they opened with an interview with the top duo, just like they did with cour 2 for Season 1. They also focused quite a bit on FireSky this season and I loved how we got to see more of Nathan's business. Also, I fully expect a bunch of FireSky!Secretary!AU fics after this, lmao! I loved that.

2. Seeing all of the heroes working together and using their own resources and smarts was really nice. T&B also handles exposition and explaining plans and ideas in a very interesting way. They don't explain anything mid-battle like a battle shounen would, but they don't do a complete all show, no tell approach either. They give you, the watchers, all the clues first, then set up situations where explanations need to be given to other characters within the show itself, so those who may not have figured things out on their own (for whatever reason) could be caught up at the same time as the characters.

3. The series did a great job of avoiding deus ex machina. Aurora easily could have been this. But they worked around that. That being said, I do feel that Barnaby's injury being okay after using Kotetsu's suit. It seemed like too easy of a fix, and a part of me really did want to see both Kotetsu and Barnaby retiring from being superheroes in the end and/or the idea of Barnaby dealing with a debilitating injury, since that is a very realistic scenario and could have provided some interesting commentary. But, I do also understand the direction they wanted to take the series in this regard. I'll talk more on this later.

4. I didn't really have any interest in the whole plot for this cour. The stuff with Gregory Sunshine and stuff was kinda meh for me. Like every time he was on screen, I just wanted him to be off it, lol. I *did* like his interactions with the Ouroboros lady (though, her backstory did feel a bit rushed and wasn't that well done, but it was sufficient enough for me). The way they handled his sexist actions and remarks, and kind of had the two characters in a power struggle with each other, though, was quite interesting and well done to me. We need more anime that do this to pathetic, gross, sexist pervert characters:

Like, please! It's also in these moments that you can really tell that the director is a woman this time as opposed to S1.

5. Agnes not ending up skinny by the end of the season was beautiful, I loved it! I also love how, like with S1, Agnes pulled through for the heroes at the end, but, like always, she isn't doing it because she necessarily cares about the heroes (though, I do think she does on some level), but because of how much blood, sweat, and tears she has put into HERO TV, lmao. It's honestly so refreshing to have an adult female character in an anime have this sort of personality.

6. I really liked the inclusion of these plush toys:

It reminded me of the toy bears from Season 1, though this time Kaede likes them too (she has one on her phone).

I also got teary eyed at Barnaby responding “Maybe,” when the doll asked, “Are you happy?” That may not seem like a positive answer, but for Barnaby it is. I feel that answer is what gives me hope that we might get some more T&B in the future. And I'll talk about that some more in a later post.

7. I'm so, so glad that they *finally* addressed Karina's crush on Kotetsu. I'll discuss this in far more detail later, but just, thank goodness. It was like they had to spell it out to all the dudebros out there that Kotetsu only ever saw Karina as a child that he cares about. He related himself to an uncle, so he views her like family - like a niece, and that is *never* going to change.

“I’ll be like your uncle that says, “Have fun, but bring her back before her curfew.”

8. This part of S2 really said ACAB. Especially when they have Agnes being like, "You're shitty ass apology and realization, and eventual help, doesn't negate the fact that you basically sabotaged the heroes and caused a lot more harm than good." She didn't say it quite like that, but that was what she meant, lol. I loved it.

9. I like the way they hadbRyan deal with Gregory Sunshine, since that was a personal matter for him. I also like that they didn't have Kotetsu use the drug. I was never a fan of that theory, because there was no way I could see it working with Kotetsu's personality without either a *very specific* set of situations or with him just being OOC. It also felt redundant and a bit pointless, since the drug was just to enhance preexisting powers, not magically fix them. So I am a big fan of how they had Kotetsu go into berserk mode instead and lose his powers completely that way. It just personally works better for me.

10. The stuff with LL Audun was okay. His character seemed a bit cheesy, but like that fits. He was like a mix of an actual X-men (appearance-wise) and that old school superhero cheesiness that we sometimes think of. The English dub gave him a voice that really fits an older era as well. It was a nice touch.

11. That being said, I didn't really care for how they had him come to the realization that the heroes were good and that he didn't need to punish them. It felt a bit like lazy writing, but I also think they did a good job of making it clear that this particular character wasn't all quite mentally there anymore.

12. Having Kotetsu confront the truth of Mr. Legend! YES! I have a lot to say about all of that, and it will be in my post on familial relationships in this cour.

13. There was another time skip and you can really see that in Kaede and her friend. They both look older and just the way Kaede was talking and corresponding with Kotetsu - so much growth on both of their ends. I’ll be discussing this some more in another, later post.

14. The angle of Gregory's powers being perceived as an unknown contagious disease was quite a choice and made me think of two things: COVID and AIDs (especially given the fact that Cour 2 takes place in the 80s, specifically 1981, which is the same year that the AIDs epidemic started).

15. Karina, Nathan, Pao-lin, and Lara all have a very physical and visible reaction when they hear that Gregory's powers are supposedly activated via hugging (all agree with the power being odd and they all mimic hugging themselves). None of the male characters do this. It's something I've never really seen before in an anime, but I appreciated that small touch. It's a small detail that I feel really highlights how a female perspective was directing this season.

16. Mattia with Saito killed me! lmao I feel we’ve all been in a situation like that, where you have trouble understanding someone, but you feel silly or embarrassed about that, so you just kinda nod your head and go with it. But Mattia is legit trying to answer Saito’s questions and it is a mess, haha.

17. Speaking of Mattia, I really like how they wrote the situation with him. It was really creative to have him be the “betrayer” character, but also not at the same time. Also, the way they incorporated him working with Saito afterwards was nicely done.

18. The main news channel spreading misinformation, discontent, and hatred...As an American with two parents who love a certain Faux News Channel (and watch a certain podcast - all a bunch of stuff that just spews misinformation everywhere)...That really hit close. Also, if I’m not mistaken, the news caster was Lara’s mother’s tennis rival (and ex-friend), which added an extra element to it. Especially when Lara’s mother told her that she was going to be changing (which I’m going to talk about more later) while her rival seems like she is just going to stew in a hateful way of thinking and viewing the world.

Finally, to end on a sweeter note, let’s talk about the flowers in the new ED (which is beautiful and has a gorgeous song to go with it) :

The flowers are daisies.

The General Flower Language Meanings: New Beginnings, Love, Hope, Affection, and more.

White: Purity, Innocence

Yellow: Friendship, Joy, Get Well

Pink: Gentle Admiration, Affection, Adoration

All of these meanings fit Kotetsu and Barnaby’s bond and the themes of S2 Cour 2.

That’s it for this section. I’ll have my post on familial relationships and then the buddy relationships (and other relationships - looking at you Antonio x Agnes) up later. So keep an eye out for them. Also, feel free to add your thoughts to these posts, as always, and thanks for reading all of this! <3

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some selections from the vault (and snippets from my wip fic)

so! for those who are not following me on twitter, i recently went through my drafts for some strifehart content that i hadn't yet shared publicly! i wanted to quickly cross post so you all can see them too :)

putting it under a cut just so i dont clutter up the tag again :)

the one i had written the most for was the more recent kink meme off dreamwidth--specifically, the prompt for a superhero/vigilante au! i hadn't written very much for it (basically just the interaction below), but i had a general idea of cloud and leon's backstories. at some point, leon would show up at cid's repair shop where cloud happens to work and there'd be some fun to be had there!

next was what i think was originally what i had planned for one of the prompts from strifehart week 2018; i think it was "witch" or "fantasy"? this one is a little more out there, sorry

but at the time, i'd recently read a fic for fire emblem fates called beyond the sea; in it, magic was kind of a rarity and the people who got power were given a brand, or star sign. i was going to do a KH-flavor twist on it for strifehart. the idea would be that cloud, squall, and tifa all worked as soldiers in a government that was hunting down these "witches" and turning them into weapons or tools of a sort. the three main ones were:

-aerith, with the mark pf phoenix; focus on healing magic -riku, sign of ifrit; mostly can only control fire as he's so young -squall, who had a rare double mark of ixion and leviathan; wind/water/lightning based magic focus, so he can basically create a hurricane at will

the idea was for cloud and tifa to find out they've been ordered to abduct a kid and defect, especially after finding out their friend aerith is also someone wanted by the government. squall, meanwhile, has had enough of hiding and kind of loses it when he finds out riku is the latest kidnap victim. they all end up traveling together, and...i had no real plans aside from that. part of why this never ended up being finished/posted, haha. the most coherent part was below, though i jumped ahead to try and write cloud seeing squall going all out with his magic

the third is a twist on spirited away/the boy and the beast/song of the sea.

kid squall ends up in a fantasy world after being separated from his sister ellone, and is found/taken in by werewolf zack and dryad/nymph aerith. they have to hide that squall is a human and pretend he's a baby werewolf and he ends up getting found out on a big festival day. but he'd end up on a quest with cloud, who was a selkie, as a way to keep him/zack/aerith from being banished. no concrete plot ideas for this one either, unfortunately, so it's not gotten anywhere, even if i had a cool scene in my mind for squall getting outed as a human :( (but i had a track off the boy and the beast ost scoring a big fight zack gets into when squall gets found out)

i had no other major fics planned aside from my current WIP, but here's a snippet from a drabble i was fiddling with where leon gets sick and doesn't realize it, just because i like how i used to write his interactions with yuffie

ANYWAY here's some snippets from/about my current WIP, a song without its melody.

first up is actually a piece i had wanted to be in my main longfic, a little bit of levity, but ended up being cut. it was intended to go after the scene i have of leon and sora in song (since it was a scene that i had to cut from levity that i managed to fit back in), but with how leon's interactions with roxas and xion have changed, i had to leave it in my scraps doc! it is, generally, the vibe i kind of want for leon's relations with roxas and xion respectively

next are just some snippets from upcoming sections, so please look forward to it! :3c

ANYWAY if you made it all the way to the end, thanks for reading and i hope you're havin a good one :)

#strifehart #strifeheart #my writing #sorry to clog the tag a tiny bit but have been in a sharing mood haha

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wolfsbanesparks · 1 year

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Wolf wolf wolf

I've been doing some research with DC animated shows for some of my WIPs, and might have started another fic idea. What do you think about a Batman Beyond AU where Terry (and Matt, since they're brothers) weren't the only results of the Beyond project created by Waller (Cadmus, is that how it's spelled??) What if the project also had subdivisions/beyond projects for other superheroes, not just batman, but after the project was abandoned, the children created by it were left undetected and their locations unknown. Like for Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, etc.

I definitely would need to flesh this out more. And giving Conner and Jon another sibling seems like fun (I'd find a way to rearrange some things so that certain characters exist in this timeline along with the batfam existing and being on good terms)

Also I'm really looking forward to writing a seperate fic about the Batfam meeting Terry and Matt from the future thanks to a time portal made on accident by Booster Gold.

I think it would be very cool (and logical) for Cadmus to want to make projects from as many heroes as they could. You'll have to mix and match canon to make things work but it could be really cool way to create a new generation of heroes to work alongside Terry (or butt heads with him). But thats what fanfiction is for! Maybe Terry is the first to learn about all of this stuff, and he has to go looking for these other kids, trying to help them out. It'd be a great exercise in making fun and relatable OCs!

I love batfam meeting Terry and Matt time travel stories! The fact it's Booster Gold's fault is just hilarious.

#ask me whatever you want y'all #dc comics #terry mcginnis #batman beyond #cadmus projects #it would actually be really cool to see these kids deal with their respective counterparts #some probably assume theyre regular metahumans then get hit with all of this

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are. Are we allowed to ask questions because I am SO incredibly curious about doc, tango, and stress

especially stress. is iskall involved with the reasoning of her not being one anymore perhaps??

This is SO interesting I’m so excited!!!!!

okay to clarify a few things:

this is… probably a ways out I haven’t started writing it and it’ll be a lot of chapters guys. expect it, earliest, december-ish, but my actual projection is probably january, assuming i keep to a somewhat similar to stuffed bird pace. so like. i will talk about this and post snippets probably that i like but you can’t expect this particularly soon since i like posting things I’ve already finished more than posting them as I go. i may have. hyped too soon I just want the pressure of you all knowing I’m writing it to help motivate me,

since I am planning on actually writing this I will be very cagey about spoilers to the general public/people who don’t already know until it’s out (although if you’re a friend feel free to ask and when it’s closer and I have all the tags and warnings on it you can always ask for spoilers in private if you need them to read that offer is always open for all of my fics)

however it’s not a spoiler to say the following things, since they all should come up in like, the first two chapters:

doc is a mad scientist, arrested originally for creating illegal weapons, some of which he used, human experimentation, and some general murder and property damage. he’s even experimented on himself. it has been a bit more than a year since he was brought in.

tango was also arrested for illegal weaponry, along with property damage, theft, and a number of counts against assault on superheroes (particularly like, weird jigsaw-like puzzle traps with potentially-deadly outcomes, although since they largely targeted superheroes, the actual kill rate ended up being zero. still probably not great). he simultaneously claims he was framed and that absolutely no one else could have possibly designed traps like that. he is very obviously lying about at least one of these things.

stress largely actually stole jewelry, but got tried and arrested as though she was far more dangerous due to her control over the plants around her being stupidly powerful. ren helped her out when he started trying to prove rehabilitation is possible, so she agreed to help him run security and to be a more relatable-seeming ear for his larger-scale attempt happening now.

#answered

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sableraven · 2 months

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I know this blog isn’t the most people, but I did have many people who read my fanfics (both on my old and new account), and I wouldn’t be where I’m at rn with fanfiction if it wasn’t for Akira Toriyama.

Dragon Ball Z was my first introduction to anything nerd related. I remember discovering it through Nicktoons and it leading my to Nickelodeon’s online forum they had. I read DBZ fanfiction on there which introduced me to the world of fanfiction and online fandom culture in general. DBZ was my gateway to anime and I became obsessed with Shojo animes and would write fanfictions of those animes as well. I can remember myself in elementary school crafting OCs for DBZ and writing fanfiction for it.

I became more interested in fandom culture which led me to tumblr and more nerdy media and I eventually found myself loving comic books, superheroes, the MCU, Star Trek, Star Wars, and they all shaped me to who I am today as a creator. I wrote fics for the MCU, enjoyed storytelling, enjoyed learning about characters and getting to know how to write characters, what made them think, how/why they would react the way they did. I would later learn about psychology and major in it in college. Writing and reading fics of different ships I helped made me explore my sexuality and realize I was bisexual. Being a nerd led me to making friends and enjoying new experiences and hobbies such as cosplay, drawing, sewing, sticker collections. It’s so crazy to look back on how all of this was started by Dragon Ball Z.

Now here I am now, finished writing the longest fanfic I ever made without abandoning it. I learned a lot through what I wrote and was able to cope through because of it. Idk how much of an impact my fanfic has made on people, but I really appreciate all I have done so far as a writer. I’m even now (attempting to at least) pursue a career in entertainment. All because of Akira Toriyama and the world he created.

I mainly wrote this to get this off my chest. I honestly been crying on and off throughout the day. It feels like a part of my childhood had just died, but I hope Toriyama knows how much his art impacted people. It inspired millions of people and for some, it may be a dumb anime, but it’s so much more for so many people. It changed lives, changed career paths, created tons of arts. Rest in peace Akira Toriyama. Your world was the best thing to ever happen to me.

#Dragon ball z #dbz #dragon ball #akira toriyama #rip #thank u for everything #Mcu #marvel #Fanfiction #the boys

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bitwynn · 2 years

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Hi! Ill mainly use this blog to post about my kind of maybe incredibly convoluted SAGAU fic. it will be incredibly self indulgent and i will not be surprised if literally noone other than me likes it. I'm okay with that, as im only writing for myself and if my chance you happen to enjoy it? Fucken poggers yo, welcome to the fam

Of course, that doesnt mean i wont post abt other things too-- and theyre all genshin related as well since this IS a genshin brain rot blog.

If you feel like it, feel free to send in asks abt my incredibly specific au and/or fic, or just asks in general. I wont get sick of it, i promise-- i have had that thought everytime i send an ask to a genshin impact fanfic writing blog and id love to brainrot with yall. But, if youre going to ask abt general genshin hcs and things, please do mind that i am not fully into the lore and am still stuck in Liyue as of writing this since im trying to level my characters up to 60 and am as stubborn as a goddamn mule thanks to my gacha game experience. It may take me a while to answer them though, so do keep that in mind as well.

MASTERLIST UNDER CUT (it got. l o n g .)

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SERIES:

"Behold, (holds up a dead person) a Paimon!" AU

PART ONE

PART TWO

PART THREE (IN THE MAKING)

Playlist for when you're accused of identity theft: SAGAU Impostor AU Songfics

CAST AWAY BY THE WORLD WITH YOU

NOT A FAN

SOMETHING WORTH MORE THAN THIS

ONESHOTS/ONESHOT ADJACENT WRITING:

"Behold!" AU World Study: Living in the spaces between the lines Identity Theft Playlist Snippets: Playlist Clips

HEADCANONS:

GENSHIN HC(?): WEIRD ASS THREATS AND INSULTS AND SWEARS THAT I THOUGHT OF AS GENSHIN CHARACTERS SAGAU HC: FIRST SELF AWARE CHARACTER SAGAU HC: READER AND CYNO HAVING THE SAME SENSE OF HUMOR Identity Theft Playlist HC: WANDERER'S PETNAMES SAGAU HC: WANDERER'S GRIPES ABOUT YOUR INAZUMAN SPEAKING SKILLS Identity Theft Playlist HC: WANDERER'S LIES AND THE REST OF THE "DECEIVERS" REACTIONS GENSHIN HC: TIGHNARI IS A DRUG DEALER Identity Theft Playlist HC: THEIR LIVES BEFORE AND AFTER THE DECEIVER SQUAD SAGAU HC: KAVEH INSIDE YOUR TEAPOT

SHORTS/SNIPPETS/IDEAS:

FUTURE IDEA/AU FOR "Behold!"AU: SUPERHEROES AND SUPERVILLAINS (RB-ED POST) SAGAU IDEA: DND LOGIC IN GENSHIN IMPACT GENSHIN SNIPPET: SHORT ALBELUC DIALOGUE SAGAU FIC IDEA: MONDSTADT VISION HOLDERS PLAY AMONG US SAGAU IDEA: WATCHING HIGH LEVEL GENSHIN GAMEPLAY WITH THE CHARACTERS SAGAU "Behold!" AU POSSIBLE FUTURE SCENARIO: HOW TO FIGURE OUT WHO THE REAL DILUC IS 5WIRL & 4NEMO CRACK SHORT: WHO PERFORMS Eve's "Trap For You" GENSHIN FIC IDEA: DNR MEET CUTE (morbid, i know) GENSHIN SNIPPET: WANDERER NAME SHENANIGANS SAGAU IDEA: CENSORSHIP AND THE "FORBIDDEN WORDS OF THE DIVINE" SAGAU IDEA: THE ABYSS SIBLING AND THEIR ENDLESS POTENTIAL SAGAU IDEA: CONTROLLING THE CHARACTERS AND MAKING THEM FIGHT THEIR BOSS VERSIONS (RB-ED POST) SAGAU IDEA: BOOKWORM READER SHENANIGANS (RB-ED POST) SAGAU SNIPPET: GOD READER WITH A 4-YEAR OLD'S HUMOR (RB-ED POST) SAGAU IDEA: WANDERER IN THE REAL WORLD SAGAU IDEA: CARD GAME MASTER READER SHENANIGANS SAGAU IDEA: INTEGRATING ATLA ELEMENT BENDING INTO GENSHIN SAGAU IDEA: WINDTRACE IS JUST PRACTICE IMPOSTOR AU SONGFIC IDEA: KAVEHTHAM NO CHILDREN

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I'd love to hang out with yall and hope you have as much fun as me with this whole thing. Thanks for your time :))

#introduction #blog introduction #blog intro #pinned #pinned post #genshin #genshin impact #genshin impact au #genshin impact self aware #self aware genshin impact #genshin self aware #self aware genshin #genshin sagau #genshin impact sagau #sagau #genshin fanfic #genshin impact fanfic

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stardust-3saders · 9 months

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hewwo ♡

🍩🍀 ❤️ for the oc asks please!!

Bibi! Hello, hello! And thank you for the ask!

Ask Game for someone’s OC(s)

🍩 -Who is your OC’s arch-nemesis or rival?

Jotaro/hj

Her main enemy/rival in SDC was obviously DIO. While in DiU she only had Rohan as her rival (in both timelines), since she never got really involved in the investigation about Kira.

You could say those two are the only relevant ones, I'm not going to name all the people she had kind of a rivalry with at school.

🍀 - What originally inspired the OC?

Oh boy. What inspired Lia as an Oc in general, not just as a Jojo OC, was me starting to play videogames and wondering "what if there was a character who had done things differently?"

From there, she was involved in almost every fandom I got into, and funny enough, I had promised myself to not involve her into Jojos (because I had been told and made believe that inserting an Oc into canon events was "cringe"). But one thing led to another, and here we are.

It was also because, when I first came to reader insert fics, most of the time I wished said reader acted differently, to the point where I started to change those fics inside my mind with a "more fitting version" for myself.

❤️ - What is one of your OC’s best memories?

Pretty cliché, but meeting the crusaders is one.

After she gained her stand, she tried to tell everyone about it. And to prevent bad opinions from other people, her mother faked believing her, but told Lia to keep it a secret, "just like how superheroes have a secret identity".

So, being able to finally be herself without having to keep some things hidden or as secret made her really happy.

Another one, and related to family, was when she first touched a piano.

She always heard her mother playing, but was told by her father to not bother adults when they're busy, so Lia will always hide close enough to watch, but far enough as to not be seen or be a distraction.

However, her mother noticed her one day. And instead of getting angry and telling her to leave (just as Lia had believed would happen), she invited her over to join, noticing her curious eyes. And so, she started to teach her, and those classes were one of the ways she and her mother spent the most time together.

#lia tyson #jojo oc #my oc #3lia #jojo original character #ask game #stardust crusaders #hand-domain #thank you for the ask!

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lymbreaksin · 10 months

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I don't usually post on this blog but anyway, I wanted to sort all of my opinion about the spiderverse movies. I'm not even a marvel or spiderman or anything but holy shit how much I liked the itsv and atsv. I'm not gonna say anything controversial just an average view on the whole thing

things I liked the most about it:

1. the protagonist

MILES IS SUCH A GOOD PROTAGONIST. at first we see him as a typical awkward teen protag but he's that and so much more!!

the creators did such a good job with showing him as a teen(which is a rare thing)! like they've actually seen teenagers irl!! he is soo relatable. the way they showed his life is really natural. all the problems he has seem like those that an average teenager would have: his parent–child relationship issues, changing schools, getting closer to his origins, finding his sense of identity, his poor flirting skills etc. etc.

he really was an average teen in the first movie and it's such a good start. it really connects him to a viewer. but in the second movie we also see him as a skilled spiderman!! he's gone through a lot tho to become one, they really showed how difficult it was to him. my man upgraded so much!! he's not only relatable but also amazing!! but it's not even the best part of him.

I WAS STUNNED BY HIS ACTIONS IN THE ENDING OF ATSV. THE WAY HE REBELS AGAINST THE WHOLE FREAKING SPIDER SOCIETY. he chooses his own path!! he's not going to be stuck in the past like Miguel, he's gonna save everyone!! he became one of the strongest and unique spidermen, the whole spider society couldn't keep up with him!!

he may look liker your average teen protagonist but he's not!! the representation is sooo good!!

2. the message

THE WAY THIS SHOW SAID "WE SHOULD NOT BE A PART OF THE HARMFUL SYSTEM" IS SOOO POWERFUL. THE MESSAGE WAS STRAIGHTFORWARD AND LOUD. the show nailed it!!

3. the animation and the artwork

it's hella amazing. goes with the storytelling really well, reflects the true colors of the characters and affects viewers in a way that no animated show would to, truly perfect.

4. the side characters

Gwen

she's so cool. her design, how graceful and confident she seems(she isn't), her vibe. the conflict with her father hit toooo close to home, honestly. the special connection she has with Miles, they really understand each other on emotional level. also I really appreciate that they didn't make this whole stupid love triangle things with other characters like Hobie and her friend Peter. their pairing with Miles is great, honestly I'm surprised there aren't many fics about them in ao3(I've searched).

Peter B Parker

he may seem like a loser: he's divorced, doesn't have a house, looks imperfect and generally isn't what you would expect from a superhero. but it's not what he is. he's also a really kind–hearted character, he and Miles have really taught each other a lot of things. he's his first mentor and without his help we Miles wouldn't be the same. he is also a really powerful Spiderman even if he doesn't look like it. kinda reminds me about one of my friends who's really alike to him. I love his character development in the 2nd movie, he overcame his fear and now we can see cute Mayday with him. the way he acts kinda obsessed with his parent role and kids is soo funny to me. are they all like that after they become parents?

Miguel

he is a rich man, spiderman wannabe, stuck in the past, he can't deal with his emotions, he's projecting onto a 15 years old boy who doesn't want to lose his father. he's exactly what you would hate about a character, he suits the antagonist role so well. I honestly don't understand the hype about him bc maybe bc I'm not straight so Idc about how he looks. for me he looks pathetic actually. but pathetic enough to be a low key interesting character

Pavitr and Hobie

these two are great too but I was kinda expecting them to have more major role in the plo, but okay we'll see it later. their designs are really cool tho and their friendship is precious

aunt May

she's soo badass, I really liked it. reminded me of mrs Hudson from Sherlock tbh, one of my fav characters. she knew all about her nephew and helped him with being a superhero?? kind of a shame we didn't really know him, I wonder what was he like. maybe we will see in the next movie??

Doctor Octavia

her design is so cool tho and damn, she looks really good. the way she and Peter B Parker interacted was hilarious tho. also were they friends with aunt May I ship them kinda?? pretty sure they're gonna tell us in the 3rd movie. can't waiit

5. the villain

I thought he was gonna be some kind of a comic relief but he upgraded and now he isn't and looks freaking terrifying?? really excited about what's gonna happen to him in the 3rd movie and how he would develop.

6. the ending

AGAIN, THE ENDING. I HAVEN'T SEEN THAT COMING. THE EARTH–42 PROWLER BEING MILES, HIM THAT SHOULD'VE BECOME A SPIDERMAN AND ALSO DOES MIGUEL NOT KNOW, WHAT THE HELL?? really broke all the expectations but in a good way

#spiderverse #spiderverse spoilers #itsv #itsv spoilers #atsv #atsv spoilers #into the spiderverse #into the spiderverse spoilers #across the spiderverse #across the spider verse spoilers #lym rants #cuz y not

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madroxed · 2 years

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re: blam and star wars, it could be either! would love to see both the essay and the fic (but only if you're so inclined of course)

oh anon, i'd be happy to. leave the fic with me; i have an idea.

as for my blam + star wars general thoughts ok, ok, so this is a wider point i want to make that's a little wishy washy and unestablished but pretty much comes down to the use of pop culture within glee and the impact that has on character dynamics so, uh, buckle up.

ok, the thing is, when you watch glee you can't for a single moment forget it's written by forty year old man. you just can't. every pop culture reference feels either too late or meant for the wrong generation, and i get that making a show that's trying to keep up with trends when you film so far in advance that they'll be long over when the episode airs can't be easy, but it also means the characters frequently feel like they're trapped in a bubble the audience can't really relate to.

the pop culture categories that actual work are:

musical theatre

everything blam has going on

and that's it. musical theatre kids knowing about musical theatre in a show designed around musical theatre kids is about as straight up safe as you can get. of course rachel would know about shows that haven't been staged in over a decade. of course kurt's references would be niche. of course they'd sing songs that first came out in the 1950s and not think twice about it. it's musical theatre, baby! knowing tony award winners and who's collabed with who and every word to every song barbra streisand's ever even contemplated singing is par for the course.

(this is why my most hated line of the show is in the new rachel when tina utters the cursed words "what rachel would sing, the song of the summer, call me maybe" and my soul immediately leaves my body never to return because who the fuck wrote that who thought that was okay did they just walk off the street with no prior knowledge of the show please god someone explain.

call me maybe is a jam.

in no literal universe would rachel choose that song what the fuck what the fuck what the fuc--)

every other pop culture reference the characters in this show make is...less convincing, like, a lot less. the sort of less that really hammers home the point that ryan murphy just woke up one morning and decided to write about teenagers and his only research was listening to the radio on his way to work.

it's better earlier in the show, but they run out of ideas/stop even trying by, like, late season two.

then there's blam. and, okay, blaine still absolutely falls into this trap alone/with other characters, but combined with sam - who's own references are actually normally pretty spot on - we can forgive it.

instead of media meant specifically for, like, three people born before 1975, sam and blaine talk about comics and nickelodeon shows and star wars and artists actually on the radio! they dress up as superheroes and play video games and read fanfiction!

all this lets us fill in the gaps, too. it tells us 'hey, these are two teenagers doing teenage things'. it's not a leap to guess they have sleepovers and spend the weekends hanging out. we know they spend time together outside of school, that their ambition isn't the thing that ties them together, and that they're both involved in extracurriculars that aren't glee. blaine's a cheerio, sam's on the (synchronised) swim team, they run the superhero club, and they're student body vice/president.

they're friends.

and i can't believe i'm saying this, but it took until season four to actually see that between characters.

sure, the others fall in and out of friendships between dramas and ambitions and/or the neglect of the writers (kurt and mercedes just stopping interacting was a particular sore spot) but for the most part we're never actually shown solid friendships between them that aren't the last five minutes of an episode in which they sing something emotional together to show the audience 'hey, look how close they are! see! this totally makes up for continuity and development!'

hell, we had two whole seasons of kurt, rachel, and santana living together in new york and i'm still convinced they all despised each other.

when the only things tying you together are talent and ambition ("gave me a chance to shiiiiiine") then, uh...i'm not sure that's actually friendship, whatever the show kept trying to hammer home.

if they'd just thrown in hints every few episodes that rachel and kurt were going to see shows together regularly and dissecting them afterwards, or that finn and puck had things in common that weren't just their terrible past of bullying, then i probably wouldn't have found the sam/blaine friendship so revolutionary.

(this is when everyone comes at me and says that kurt and rachel were best friends and, like. lol. ok. sure. season one kurt and mercedes, i'll give you. otherwise we have literally no proof that any of these kids even interacted outside of school and/or romantic relationships. even some of those were distinctly 'school hours only' let's be real, artie i'm looking at you. sam lived with kurt's family and kurt still openly dislikes him by season five. and new york was a shit show, let's not pretend otherwise.)

and i realise i haven't said a single thing about star wars yet so like ok

most of what we see of sam and blaine's friendship is in season four. sam mentioning that blaine reads him star wars fanfiction to help him fall asleep was a vital reminder in season five of their dynamic. that what we see on screen isn't all there is. that the two of them still spend large portions of time just being nerdy, loving friends. that they're still teenagers.

i'm sorry but teenagers nerding out over star wars together and reading fic and going on wiki spirals ("hey, i just read a website all about ewoks and how they're polygamists!") and treating the fact that they're sharing a room in the city like one everlasting sleepover is just about the most realistic thing glee's ever done, fight me.

that their friendship's forged over pop culture feels right and real and lasting.

so, idk. i guess star wars feels like a perfect representation of glee getting it right (for once).

it's also a throwaway line that tells us a dozen other lovely little things about their friendship that maybe we hadn't seen in a while.

so yeah. glee is 90% outdated references, 8% borderline relevant ones, and 2% blam being the saving grace of the later seasons.

(and on a headcanony note, pals, pals, blaine anderson would have crushed the ever living hell on of both han solo and obi-wan kenobi, and sam evans will one day look at a picture of hayden christensen and natalie portman and realise why he wore out his copy of revenge of the sith as a kid, i don't make the rules.)

...............it's half past midnight what the fuck is wrong with me.

#replies #anonymous #'it is two thousand nineteen you think i want to talk about glee' and all that #why am i like this

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greatwyrmgold · 2 years

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Boku no Komyoshou Academia

(Roughly, “My academia communication disorder”. Japanese is not my strong suit.)

I saw this Tumblr post from 2019, assigning extremely detailed Quirks to several Komi-san characters. I dislike most of the Quirks, but I think that comes down to philosophical differences about what Quirks should be, in relation to the characters that hold them. So try not to view this as a correction so much as an alternate take.

Also, I’m not going to go into nearly as much detail as general-thinks did. I’m not planning a fic, I’m having fun imagining how one series’s characters could mesh with another series’s mechanics. (And I’m going to fit all of this into one post.)

I really, really like GT’s Quirk for Komi. Her Quirk should be as flashily powerful as Bakugo’s, putting her as firmly at the center of attention as she is in canon (just for a different combination of reasons). Telekinesis works pretty well for that (and also I really like that power). Worrying about it going out of control feels like a pretty natural extension of Komi’s anxieties about interacting with people into the superhero genre.

Not all Quirks have backlash, and the risk of going out of control seems like a sufficient Achilles heel to me. I’d probably frame losing control as a matter of focus rather than emotions, but that has pretty similar effects from a narrative perspective.

Telepath Tadano? Good start. But GT takes that in a weird direction. Tadano’s thing is that he can read the room well, and also that he’s a boringly nice kind of guy. I could just say “he reads minds” and leave it at that, but that would be boring!

Instead, let’s refocus around the “awareness” thing. On one hand, Tadano’s Quirk makes him aware of things other than thoughts (like locked doors, traps, or broken machines). On the other hand, it only helps with things in his immediate situation; it can tell him if opening the door will trigger a bomb, but not what’s on the other side.

Also, this means that Tadano can only read certain kinds of thoughts—specifically, the ones that might get put into action. This is more than enough for dealing with supervillains, and he backs his power up with his mundane cold-reading, but this drawback allows Tadano to remain oblivious to girls with crushes on them, as long as they are too anxious to act on them.

Overuse of his Quirk makes it harder and harder for Tadano to think about anything outside his current situation. For instance, this makes it hard for him to create, remember, or follow long-term plans. (Think Denki’s brain-frying, except more specific, more gradual, and also he starts with higher base stats.)

I have no idea why the hell GT decided to focus on Najimi’s genderfuck expression over their everyone’s-childhood-friendliness, or why they decided that a hormone-based Quirk was the best way to do that, but they did all of that and I won’t do any of it. Najimi can just be genderfluid or whatever without it needing to be a superpower, dammit.

Anyways, the first thing that comes to mind is that canon!Najimi already demonstrates several low-level superpowers in canon, such as the ability to maintain several conversations at once and somehow having made roughly a thousand friends per day.

But there’s a relatively simple superpower that would make this logistically less ridiculous: Duplication. This Najimi can make more Najimis; pretty simple. Also, they can duplicate just part of their body—for instance, having three upper bodies on the same hips to let them look and talk in three directions. To state the obvious, these duplicates obviously also duplicate their clothes and such.

This has two downsides. First, Najimi has to control all of their bodies with just one mind. They can coordinate ~5 bodies better than you’d expect, especially if they’re all in one place, but by the time they have a dozen running around they’re visibly clumsier, and around 25 they stop being able to really do anything except swarm in a general direction.

The second downside is energy. All of Najimi’s copies draw on the same “pool” of energy. If they spend all day split across four bodies, they need to eat four times as much food. This affects devices that Najimi duplicates, too—if all four of them are texting, their phones run out of charge four times faster (though they would also charge four times faster if all four were plugged in).

I’m not sure how this would apply to fatigue. Mental exhaustion is easy—Najimi only has one mind—but what about physical? If all four Najimis run a mile and then recombine, does Najimi need to rest four times as long? Probably not, given how energetic Najimi is...unless they leave a couple bodies at home napping and that’s where their energy comes from?

This could have some impact on combat—like, maybe Najimi’s energy limits how long they can fight with a whole bunch of bodies at some critical juncture—but it’s mostly comedic in purpose. You know, Najimi swiping Tadano’s food and claiming they need it to power their Quirk, or spending a ridiculous sum on take-out, or just justifying how they can eat lunch five times with five different people.

Weirdly omitted by GT is Manbagi, the series tritagonist starting some time in its second school year. Why GT included Sasaki Ayami and Katou Mikuni but left out Manbagi Rumiko is beyond me.

Anyways. Manbagi is pretty genki, though obviously not to Najimi’s chaotic levels. She’s also insecure, and specifically sees herself as inferior to Komi once the love triangle rears its less-ugly-than-expected head. So I’m imagining a literally flashy, light-based power, one that’s comparable to Komi’s and seems significantly worse.

Manbagi’s Quirk creates glowing hands that can pick things up. Obviously, this is comparable to Komi’s ability to pick things up with her telekinesis, but it seems inferior because the hands are weaker than Komi’s telekinesis. They’re only as strong as Manbagi’s own arms, after all.

But she can create a lot more than two, and coordinate them pretty well—not as well as Worm’s Skitter, but far better than Najimi controls their duplicates. It also doesn’t risk going out of control if she loses focus, which is obviously an asset in combat situations. Finally, they can do other things hands do, like sign language or punching, which Komi would struggle to emulate due to her control issues.

Anyways, while Manbagi can create more than two hands, they’re still connected to her arms in a sense. Lifting heavy weights with the hands strains her arms, doing overly complicated maneuvers causes cramps, crushing several of the hands at once might break bones, etc. These drawbacks can be alleviated through training, both by increasing Manbagi’s arms’ strength and endurance and by practice that weakens the harmful sympathetic link. (Somehow. Lots of Quirks get better with overuse with no explanation except a metaphor.)

I could go farther, but this post is already too long. I'll return later for some of the supporting cast. Until then, have some quick Quirk and hero names.

Komi:

Quirk: Psychokinesis

Codename: (none). There’d probably be a comedy beat where Komi either can’t think of a hero name or is too embarrassed to share it, which everyone else (except Tadano) takes as some profound statement about the nature of superhero identities.

Tadano:

Quirk: Room-Reader

Codename: Cognizant, a word meaning “aware,” which emphasizes his cognition. Sure, it’s just an English word, but it sounds better in English than “Cellophane” or “Grape Juice”. (I’d also put it above names like “Rule,” “Vine,” “Mines,” “Spiral,” and “Emily”.)

Najimi:

Quirk: Duplicate

Codename: Tomodachiiro (Tomodachi [“friend”] + “hero”). Najimi is…not subtle.

Manbagi:

Quirk: Helping Hand

Codename: Kanzeon, the Japanese name for a compassionate bodhisattva often depicted with many arms.

#komi san can't communicate #my hero academia #komi au #the tumblr equivalent of a subtweet #superpowers #au

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