#playing charades

[wolfjackle-creates]

Bring Me Home Arc 2 Part 15

Happy WIP Wednesday! (Ignores the fact that it's almost an hour into Thursday my time.)

Story Summary: Tim and Danny are both neglected by parents who care more about their work than their families. They deal with this by spending too much time online and find each other playing MMORPGs. They keep up their friendship as Tim becomes Robin and Danny becomes Phantom and don't bother keeping secrets from each other.

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“Shit. Okay. I’ll fly us back. Bye Tim, everyone!” Danny picked up Tucker and flew away, turning invisible before he was more than a few yards away.

Tim sighed as he watched them. “Invisibility would be such a useful power. Paired with intangibility? Do you have any idea how much that’d help us out in Gotham?”

“Yeah, yeah,” said Cassie dismissively. “So what’re we doing for the next few hours?”

Wulf cocked his head and looked at them. Tim waved to him. “Let’s see what we can find out from our maybe-friend here.” Then, to Wulf, he asked, “Walker?”

Wulf’s bemused expression turned angry and he snarled.

Tim laughed and gave a thumbs up to show his agreement. “I’ve”—he pointed at himself—“heard”—this time his ears—“bad”—he scowled—“things about Walker.”

“Malbono,” said Wulf.

Tim grinned. “Very malbono,” he agreed.

Wulf bared his teeth, but this time, Tim thought it was more of a grin.

Cassie sat down on the ground. “So, Wulf and Danny are both targeted by this Walker ghost. How do we keep them safe?”

Tim shrugged. To Wulf, he said, “We”—pointing to him and his friends—“keep you”— pointing to Wulf—“safe. Secure. Protect.” Hopefully at least one of those words would be similar enough to the Esperanto word for the same concept.

“Protekti,” agreed Wulf.

Bart pointed at himself. “One.” Then to Conner, “Two.” Tim was called three and Cassie four. With a stick, he drew a crude figure of Danny’s ghost form, Sam, and Tucker, counting each one to seven. Then he pointed to Wulf. “Eight.” He drew the number in the dirt to reinforce the count. “Walker, how many?” He lifted his hands in an I-don’t-know gesture.

Wulf started with his hands close and slowly spread them wide. “Multaj.”

Tim’s stomach sank at the answer. They’d faced bad odds before, but it was never good.

“What does Walker want?” asked Conner.

But Wulf only looked at him in confusion and none of them could figure out how to ask that in charades.

Cassie grabbed another stick and began drawing. She started with a line and on one side, she had humanoid ghosts with tails instead of legs, on the other side she had stick figures. Then she drew arrows from the ghost side to the human side. Under the arrows, she drew question marks. Looking up, she asked, “How?”

Wulf bared his teeth again and pointed at himself. “Wulf.” He flexed his hand showing off his claws. Conner tensed at the action, but Wulf ignored him. Instead, he drew his hand down the air. Tim felt like he could hear tearing, but it was as if the sound originated in his brain, bypassing his ears entirely.

In the path of Wulf’s claws was a glowing green portal. Another gesture and it disappeared.

Tim stared in wonder. “So, if you’re here and with us, Walker can’t send any more ghosts to Amity. That makes things so much easier.”

Wulf only grinned at him.

Bart poked Tim’s side. “Think he needs to eat?”

Tim laughed. “You’re just hungry yourself. He’s already dead.”

Bart shrugged. “We haven’t had lunch yet.”

“I’m with Bart,” said Cassie. “I’m getting hungry. And it’d be rude to not offer anything to him. Bart, get us stuff from that burger place Danny took us to. And grab extra in case our new friend wants anything.”

Tim rummaged around in his bag and pulled out two hundred dollars cash. All three of his friends had metabolisms to match their powers. “Here, get as much as you want. Simple cheeseburger and fries for me.”

The others gave their orders and Bart was off.

The rest of the afternoon was spent mostly hanging out in the woods with Wulf. When Bart had offered him a burger, he’d sniffed it before pulling a face and giving it back. Bart just shrugged and ate it himself.

“Shouldn’t you be doing homework?” Conner asked Tim after a while. They’d run through most of the questions they could ask via pantomime and Bart and Cassie had taken to pointing at things and asking what they were called in Esperanto. “Bruce won’t be happy with you.”

Tim sighed. “No, you’re right. If we can’t research in the library, I should do something productive.”

Though it only took an hour and a half of going through his schoolwork for Tim to want to tear his own hair out. He slammed his book shut, making four pairs of eyes instantly fly to him.

“I can’t do this anymore! I can’t wait until I don’t need to be in school anymore. Who wants to spar with me?”

Conner stepped forward. “I’ll take the first round.”

“Great. I’m going to use the staff Danny gave me. I want to practice with it more.”

Wulf watched them as they sparred. Tim held his own against Conner, though ultimately the half-Kryptonian won. Cassie beat him next.

Bart sat the spars out because he won every time if allowed to fight. But he made a very good referee.

Tim and Cassie were having their third match of the day when Danny, Sam, and Tucker rejoined them.

Tim was breathing hard as he blocked another blow from Cassie with his staff. “Hey, Danny,” he said. Then he did a twist he’d learned from Dick coupled with a move he’d learned from Lady Shiva and Cassie was flat on her back. Tim grinned as he offered her a hand to help her up. “Looks like I win the last match of the day.”

“Well I won our two previous ones,” retorted Cassie as she took his hand.

Sam let out a whistle. “Damn, that was impressive. Where’d you learn to fight like that?”

“B sent me to Europe for several months to train from a bunch of different masters when I forced him to take me on.”

“Must’ve been good teachers if you can hold your own as a regular human against metas.”

Tim nodded and moved so he could nudge Danny. “I’ve been trying to convince this one to join me for a few weekends so I could get him some training, but he’d rather rely on luck and his powers.”

Danny rolled his eyes and scoffed. “You know that’s not what it is. I’m just afraid that if I leave any more often than I have to, something will happen!”

“Sure, sure,” said Tim. “But now that your parents know me and I can see just how bad it is, I’ll be coming to you to train you. No getting out of it now!”

Danny just groaned.

Tucker grinned. “Let me know when you come, and I’ll fit your training sessions into Danny’s schedule.”

“Absolutely.”

Sam pointed her thumb at Wulf. “So, how’re we gonna sneak a giant ghost through town and into my house anyway?”

Danny shrugged. “I figured he and I could fly there invisibly. I’ll drop my invisibility and enter through the door so your parents or grandma see me enter, and Wulf will drop it once we’re in private.”

“Fine, fine. Come on, then.”

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Next

In the show, there was a time skip between when Danny caught up with Wulf during his school lunch period and the four (Danny, Sam, Tucker, Wulf) all cramming into Tucker's bedroom that night. So I have no idea if Danny returned to school or not. And if he did, what did Wulf do all afternoon and evening? How did they meet up again? Or am I right and Danny skipped?

Good thing we have other people here to help out this time and it doesn't matter!

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#dpxdc #tim drake #wulf (dp) #cassie sandsmark #conner kent #bart allen #they're just chilling #playing charades #and trying to learn a new language #tim attempts some homework #he hates it more than danny #danny would be fine with school work if he didn't have ghost shenanigans to deal with #(my headcanon at least) #but tim will drop out as soon as he can

[ahappydnp]

what did they inject in this liveshow

#something about dnp and halloween like it really is Their Time #also dan playing horror movie charades with the chat :(((

[lesthowells]

#dan and phil #daniel howell #amazingphil #*andiegif #*bothgif #nothing to say other than please play charades again 🙏🏻

[writingphoenix]

Illiterate whumpee with a sore throat so bad they can’t speak vs a caretaker who is absolute garbage at charades and figuring out body language.

#whump #writing prompt #whump ideas #whump prompt #whump writing #whumpblr #whump scenario #sickfic #sore throat #my husband single-handedly made me good a charades #Because he regularly gets sore throats so bad he can’t speak #And I didn’t realize how much better I’d gotten at charades until we played with friends the other day #And I was on fire

[tj-crochets]

Hey y’all! I am once again attempting to help my dad identify an animal he saw on a walk (the last one turned out to be a woodchuck despite him describing it exactly like a pine marten lol) What kind of duck has a bright red head and a mostly white body? He described it as “bright red where a mallard is green”

#the person behind the yarn #tj attempts to identify fauna #my dad and I register identifiable info about animals very differently #which sometimes makes either of us trying to tell the other about an animal... #well the only metaphor my brain is coming up with is 'like people playing charades in different languages' #which does not make sense??? but it's what I've got lol #for example my dad described an insect as 'like a hornet but not' #and I said 'oh! was it red?' (we get red paper wasps where we live) #and he said 'no it was like a hornet but not' #to be fair I am terrible at registering identifying info about cars and he can identify a LOT of those #I am fairly confident I have at least once pointed out a car as 'like a corvette but not'

[legalisecatboyss]

watching phil lose his mind over dan wearing a nun costume and making jokes about him being too horny to function is one thing. hearing him fully call sister daniel sexy is completely different and i feel violated after hearing him say that. keep your kinks to yourself philip

#like why would he use ‘sexy dan’ to describe sister daniel #what is wrong with him #dan and phil #danandphilgames #phan #gamingmas 2023 #dan and phil play: charades #mine

[hephaestuscrew]

It's so important to me that Minkowski and Eiffel and Hera spend December 25th together to celebrate Eiffel's birthday post-canon. And the hope that they spend that day together is a sentiment shared by Gabriel Urbina.

But Minkowski canonically cares about Christmas itself. Minkowski has people in her life whom she could spend Christmas with. And so there will probably have to be a difficult conversation at some point after the Hephaestus crew return to Earth, when someone says how good it will be to have Renée there for Christmas Day again. And Minkowski will have to look at her husband, or her relatives, or her in-laws - people who loved her and mourned her and celebrated upon her return from the dead - and she'll have to tell them that she won't be there on Christmas Day. And if the person who asks knows her at all, they'll see the look on her face and know that there's no negotiating to be done here.

It's not exactly that she doesn't want to celebrate Christmas with the people she used to celebrate Christmas with. But she can do that on any day near the end of December. Spending December 25th with Eiffel and Hera is something she absolutely cannot compromise on. 

The main reason she'd give for this is that December 25th is Eiffel's birthday. Whether or not it matters to him as much as it used to, Minkowski wants Eiffel's birthday to get the recognition it deserves, because it was so important to him and he never expected anyone else to care or remember.

A second reason - one she might never speak aloud - is that she's always thought that Christmas is a time for family, and nowadays that means that spending it with Eiffel and Hera feels right to her.

But I think there's a third, perhaps equally important, reason underneath those two. Maybe she doesn't admit it to herself consciously, but I think part of Minkowski believes that the only people who can really understand the complicated way she now feels about December 25th are the two people who were there with her when everything went to hell on Christmas Day.

It was December 25th when they realised they'd made contact with aliens, and when Hilbert locked Minkowski outside the airlock and tried to incapacitate Eiffel and tore out Hera's personality hardware, and when everything Minkowski had thought she knew about the Hephaestus mission fell apart.

How can she exchange gifts with people for whom it isn't the anniversary of the one of the worst days of their life? How can she gather round a Christmas tree with people who've never feared for their lives at the hands of Alexander Hilbert and Goddard Futuristics? How can she eat turkey and trimmings with people who weren't there when the Christmas dinner was never eaten because there was a murderous mutiny from one of the intended guests? How can she spend December 25th with people for whom it's never been a day of betrayal and fear and loss and uncertainty eight lightyears away from Earth?

Eiffel doesn't remember that awful Christmas and that brings its own kind of pain for Minkowski. But he was there, and so was Hera, and so (no matter what anyone else expects) Minkowski needs to be with them on that complicated day.

#Wolf 359 #w359 #Renée Minkowski #Renee Minkowski #I wrote this intending to schedule it to post on Christmas Day #but I'm kidding myself if I think I can do delayed gratification like that #I have to post things as soon as I write them #so you're getting it now #Apologies if it's too early in December for Christmas-related posting #I guess I'll reblog it on Christmas Day instead #I nearly fucked up this post by mentioning Christmas traditions that I don't think are celebrated in the US #But luckily I remembered just in time that Christmas crackers are not universal among Christmas-celebrators #I almost mentioned charades but idk if that has Christmas associations in the US or even if it's widely known #I do think Minkowski would absolutely love Charades though #if she played with people on the same wavelength as her that is #Eiffel would be trying to act out very specific scenes from films Minkowski has not seen and she'd get so annoyed lol #wolf 359 spoilers #w359 spoilers #the empty man posteth

[leclercskiesahead]

Carlos in the Suzuka paddock (x)

he small

#also i think the tall lady was the one who played music charades with them in their AD21 C2 Challenge #carlos sainz jr #scuderia ferrari #f1 #japan 2024 #ricci and pedro talking at the side

[moeblob]

I have played one singular route and I love the "adults" of the group so much. I gotta say one of the VERY FIRST selling points on Futami was when everyone was asking about Iochi's gender and he just said "but does Iochi use he or she pronouns... that's the real question."

Man really said we ain't talking bodies here, we talking pronouns. And I respect him for that.

#charade maniacs #mizuki iochi #ryoichi futami #anyway i played the childhood friend route first and im like........... terrified for ebana like what the hell #what is going to happen to that poor boy whom i love #that is my son your honors what happens

[xplding]

you know what i want? i want a batman movie that's entirely goth music. not music made for the movie that happens to fit the goth genre, but like actual goth music from the 80s and 90s (that they get permission to use) to make up the soundtrack. imagine batman fighting one of the rogues to ligea by the witching hour. a gala with a live symphony adaptation of siouxsie and the banshee. the possibilities are endless.

#imagine how fucking cool itd be #you see arkham asylum with asylum party playing in the background #a car chase scene with this charade playing #GIVE ME GOTH BATMAN #batman #bruce wayne #xplding

[dungeons-and-dragon-age]

Charade hii!! :)

#i love her :) #laya plays dragon age #liam is absolutely taken aback when he sees her and she looks weirdly familiar #& then turns out shes. his cousin???? #its so nice though that you get to *find* family after spending all game losing family #its a shame bethany isnt around anymore i think she wouldve gotten on great with charade

[amalgamateofficial]

A Small Teaser From Ch. 21 of the DRV3 Fanfic Amalgamate

I'll put it below the cut for those who don't like to see previews, but this is just a tiny teaser for the next chapter of Amalgamate. I chose a snippet that has at least a little humor in it this time ^^ And apologies if it's rough, this draft still needs a lot of editing T-T

#amalgamate #amalgamate danganronpa #danganronpa amalgamate #danganronpa v3 #drv3 #danganronpa #amalgamate drv3 #drv3 fanfic #kokichi ouma #ouma kokichi #kaito momota #momota kaito #kaito out here acting like he hasn't been playing Kokichi Charades the entire damn fic #the only way to win a game of Kokichi Charades is to accept that you've lost before you've even started #but bless kaito he's trying

[cosmosnene]

💜🖤Charade Maniacs' Gyobu and Iochi 🖤💜

#wanted to practice that tiny chibi style again* but kinda looks like my normal one with a diff coloring buahaha #one more route to finish AND IM NOT READY TO LET GOO AAAAA #wanted to draw the long haired bois(and ?) PFF #PLAY CHARADE MANIACS AAAA #otome #charade maniacs #gyobu souta #iochi mizuki #art #myart #chibi #cute #yes they aree

[nosfelixculpa]

ur telling me these kids r the ones who save the world? these ones? bro they cant even play charades

#creations #gifs #tv #animation #storm hawks #sh #stormhawks #nerdcorps #dhx media #wildbrain #asaph fipke #radarr #aerrow #piper #finn #junko #stork #whenever they played charades it SENT #this nd the best friends forever episode #but stork performed far better in that one than this one #hes spent too long with these teenagers nd hes just Like That now; accurate portrayal of a guy in his early twenties #if they ever had to do a mission that involved charades i fear only piper would survive #this isnt even all of it but tumblr said u only get 10 gifs #if u squint u can See the brain cell jumping from one person to the other

[legalisecatboyss]

dan stop stripping on the gaming channel challenge

#why has he done that twice now #what is he doing what is wrong with him #dan and phil #danandphilgames #dan howell #gamingmas 2023 #dan and phil play: charades #mine

[notesappsoup]

I do enjoy that every week we predict coach Ben dying and every week he's going on little adventures and avoiding the atrocities

#yellowjackets #Let him play charades and hide in Javi's cave #Tbh after this long he deserves it