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the-witchhunter · 7 months
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DP x DC: The Titans and the Phantom Cat
Danny doesn't do magic. He doesn't understand it or really know about it, and frankly he'd be more skeptical about it if it hadn't explicitly been used on him several times before. His parents are scientists and engineers, and they managed to accomplish what would typically fall under the realm of magic with nothing but recycled parts, wires and Fenton ingenuity.
So, when caught in a magic spell to bind him, he didn't know what would happen if he were to intentionally mess it up. Apparently, nothing good. Danny, free from the intended mind control, is now bound to the form of a cat with minimal use of his powers.
How could this get any worse?
Turns out, no one seems to understand what he's saying, they just hear meows. And without the use of his powers, he get's caught and finds himself in an animal shelter in Jump City.
When a group of young heroes comes through on a mission, and then proceed to mess things up, Danny can't help but throw out some snide commentary. Besides, it's not like they'll hear him
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Welllllll... Turns out Raven and Beast Boy can tell what the hell he's saying. Of course the magic user and guy who can turn into animals can talk to him... Still it's nice to finally have someone to talk to, and also get him out of the cage while he's still trying to het a hold of what's left of his powers
Raven immediately clocks him as a powerful spirit bound to animal form. With a little persuasion, she ends up with a new familiar consultant and Danny the Cat gets to live in Titans Tower with them
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Magic shenanigans happen, now Danny is basically Salem the Cat living with the Teen Titans and teaching them what he knows while mainly lounging around and sassing them. The actual usefulness of his advice may vary
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hughmanbean · 2 months
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Another World
Dick had found a new indie game that had just come out, and it was pretty good. He had even gotten Tim sold on it, though that hadn't helped his sleep schedule.
It was one of those visual novels, but had really good fighting mechanics and great backgrounds and settings. The setting was really well done, with even one off characters feeling fully fleshed out.
It was a mix between romance, mystery, slice of life, and psychological horror, since you could take the romance routes or the mystery routes in any interactions, which would drastically change the rest of the gameplay.
There were many routes, and at the end you would encounter the one of or the entire Royal Family.
The High Queen, Avaricious Duke, Erratic Prince, Wandering Princess, Autumn Knight, and Advisor Time.
Depending on your choices, it could anything from a heartfelt confession, an epic battle, or the reveal of a horrid secret.
The reason why this is relevant is because they're now stuck in this game.
Not just Dick and Tim, but the rest of the family too.
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starry-bi-sky · 3 months
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for clone Danny, Clone Damian
I give you
Edit Clone Talia as somehow Girlfriend of Danny, just think of the comedy
nah brO BECAUSE LITERALLY I HAVE THOUGHT BOUT THAT. Literally since the conception of Clone Danny, I have thought about it. If only for, as you said, the COMEDY of it all. Plus I love writing romance.
Literally my motto for my aus is: A) is it plausible, B) is it FUNNY (and a secret third option C) is it ANGSTY)
Clone Talia would be an offshoot au of Clone^2 because idk how she'd fit into the original timeline, bUT, she'd exist. And to avoid confusion I'll call her Nasra - I thought about Tameka (which means twin) but I like Nasra better. "Talia and Nasra" just flows so nicely doesn't it?
Idk WHY there's a clone of Talia running around -- maybe the LoA made her, maybe n unknown organization who hates Batman and knows he has romantic ties to Talia, and started making a clone of her to fuck with him and then she got nabbed by a portal when she was still Danny's age and in the middle of training. She might be like Connor (??) and have memories and thus her training is more proficient than baby Dames.
Either way, regardless of how she was made, I think it's hilarious if she, much like baby Dames, immediately attacks Danny on sight. She falls into his city and Danny only has a moment to go "goddammit not agaIN" before he's fending off a very confused, very violent Nasra. Fortunately he's able to actually try and talk to her and be at least somewhat successful -- Nasra knows english. although even if she didn't, Danny would still be somewhat successful since he knows Arabic.
Also Bruce and Danny are the battinson bat because i think that is also hilarious and 'wet rat' is STILL the perfect energy for Danny as Phantom - especially in the early days when he's running around in all but jeans and a hoodie. (and god watch me go on a rant in a separate post about his outfit and reasonings for being Phantom when he has no powers later on because it makes me go FERAL. and his active choice to look as inhuman and ghost-like through his behavior as phantom and the decision to wear such a creepy mask as possible)
(like seriously, imagine walking home late at night while danny was still in his early vigilante days (and even now when he's got damian and a better suit) and seeing a skinny figure in the shadows with sunken in black-and-glowing-green eyes, and a bone white, skull-like face, crouched on all fours like a wild animal about to pounce. THAT is the level of creepiness I was going for for clone danny)
In my head, Sam offers to house Nasra and Nasra stays with her. SAm is able to convince her parents to let her stay, or she pulls a Danny and just straight up smuggles her in and her parents are none the wiser. I also think it's funny if they have unspoken BEEF with each other. Only to later become like sisters. Nasra teaches Sam the martial arts she knows, and also Danny joins in too with Damian because goddamn he needs it even IF he's learning stuff from his mom (as per the most recent snippet post I made).
OH AND DAMIAN AND NASRA. I think it's equally as funny if they ALSO have beef with each other. Nasra is a clone of his mother (of whom he might have complicated views on due to being a clone but still is his mother) and Damian is a clone of Nasra's "son". This beef largely starts from Damian's own refusal to want to share his Danny with another clone, especially with a clone of his MOTHER.
Danny and Nasra don't become lovers for a good, long while I think. They're besties first before they even consider the idea of dating -- not only just because of the whole "uhhh our counterparts dated so it'd feel kinda weird and forced if we dated" and also because Nasra, with her newfound freedom, is busy trying to figure out herself.
A big theme here in clone^2: discovering your identity and who you are as a person when the only thing you own that's unique is your name (which isn't even the case for Damian), and figuring out if your choices are your own or because you're a clone and its something your original would have done. Nature vs Nurture and the illusion of choice and whether it really is one or not.
Also Nasra also becomes a vigilante. Danny appreciates the help but is also tearing out his hair because what the fuck is up with these assassins and becoming vigilantes?! Nasra goes by "Nesha". She's similar to Red Huntress at first where she kinda does her own thing, but is lowkey forced to team up with Danny about it because she doesn't have any proper ghost hunting equipment with her.
And then a duo becomes a trio, and Danny is spending more time with her. And they steadily become friends. Very snarky friends who are very bratty to each other, but friends. Damian still doesn't like her so Danny spends extra time during patrol keeping the two of them from making insults at each other.
"Nesha please stop fighting with a nine year old. Wraith, quit insulting Nesha."
Nasra also uses like, weaponry as Nesha which exasperates Danny a little because why are you using swords??? They're already dead its not gonna kill them,,,, If you cut off their heads its just gonna piss em off, its re-attachable. Let him ghost-proof it first too. But well, its still gonna HURT he supposes. He's still a little exasperated.
And MMM i'm sorry lmao im so focused on Nasra becoming her own person than the actual romance aspect of it all. Nasra cuts her hair short for the same/similar reasons that Danny keeps his long - to try and gain a semblance of autonomy and identity that's away from their original. Danny has his alternative rock-kinda geeky look and Nasra's got, from influence from Sam, a more alternative fashion style. Although she still leans into being feminine, which is a good challenge to Sam's belief that feminity = bad, and gets her to unlearn those bad habits since her new adoptive sister is feminine while still being an unapologetic badass.
And ykw I think Nasra gets into rollerblading and loves it. She rollerblades constantly. Damian is furious because skating is his thing (even if what he gets later on is a skateboard - skater boy damian ftw. i can see him wearing flannels and graphic tees as a teenager. very grungy/skater aesthetic. He also has a much more relaxed and teen-y speech pattern compared to DW's more formal way of talking. He also spray paints as his form of artistic medium.) and he refuses to have Nasra be a copy of him.
They will sort out their differences eventually. LMao.
Anyways they eventually do get together, but not before Danny finally has his run in with Mister Wayne. Which, they only meet because Danny starts destabilizing, and thus needs Bruce Wayne's DNA to help stabilize himself. Which that meeting in and of itself is pretty chaotic on its own, but then add clone Damian and Nasra? Bruce needs coffee.. or alcohol.
Because picture this: its late at night, you're on patrol with the rest of your family. It's like, two in the morning. You suddenly get a call in from your butler, Alfred, informing you that not one, not two, but THREE children -- two of them in their late teens and the other one not even ten yet -- showed up on your doorstep. One of them is unconscious. They are all clones.
The girl and the boy are twins - and are clones of YOU - and the girl isn't even technically YOUR clone she's a clone of your clone - and also this clone of you is your college friends' kid. And then the youngest boy is a clone of your youngest SON. Bruce is running across rooftops when he gets this call and does a literal 180 degree turn and touches the ground because he basically did a figure skating turn, and sprints back towards the manor because what the fuck? He needs to check this out.
And then half a day later a clone of your fucking ex shows up on your doorstep demanding to see the clone of you - the boy that is, not the girl - and then immediately gets into a verbal lashing with the clone of your son. Like what a fucking DAY. Your kids are equally as baffled but also laughing their asses off -- except your bio son, who is very unhappy about this turn of events and keeps getting the stink eye from his clone.
Like??? I'd quit right then and there.
While Danny recovers he's staying in Wayne manor and Damian is very reportedly not leaving his side. Ellie has to leave to help take care of Amity Park with RH, and then Nasra is also very determinedly not leaving his side either. This is her friend dammit. The first thing she does when he becomes lucid is insult him, and he insults her back - they're bantering. It's how they flirt later on. None of the Bats know how to deal with this situation.
#dpxdc#dp x dc#dp x dc crossover#dpxdc crossover#dpdc#dpdc crossover#dpdc au#dp dc#dp dc crossover#clone^2#danny fenton is a clone#danny fenton is not the ghost king#sorry this got so long and i barely even got into them falling in love with one another#satoshy you should totally reblog this so we can talk about this more i'd love to bounce ideas with you or anyone else about it 👀#this is so funny to me personally because like. im imagining nasra doesnt show up unti danny's like at least 18-19#which is a wild set of 3 years for danny because he finds out he's a clone when he's 15#acquires Damian at 16 and then meets nasra at 18#like he got one grace period where it was just him and his new little brother and then BAm another clone#damian showed up by accident but i promise you nasra was specifically clockwork's doing because its hilarious to me personally#CW loves danny but also he's a little shit. i was originally gonna call Nasra's vigilante name 'revenant' but thought it was too basic#also danny not meeting bruce until he's almost 20 is very funny to me. especially since baby dames was with the league for 6 years#beforehand#like what do you mean my clone has been living unnoticed for 18 years. he's had damian for HOW LONG? THREE YEARS?#morally gray danny has my heart ever since my post where he murdered three guys for nearly killing his brother.#nasra attacks danny and yay! he doesn't hurt his hands this time around! he's grown since he met damian. that was also a large part why dee#didn't like nasra right off the bat. she could've hurt him and made his hands even worse.
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grvyrd-drms · 7 months
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would it be SO CRINGE of me to post creepypasta romantic hcs.... would i be judged.... would i be shamed.. cast out.... exiled.......
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fishyartist · 8 months
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Oh yeah also this scrungly ass computer doodle from when I was trying (failed) to write shit today <3
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radiance1 · 8 months
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Danny accidentally pissed off an Ancient, super powerful wizard.
Ok, so maybe he should have listened to Clockwork and not going in that portal he specifically told him not to go in on multiple occasions. But he was curious ok!
Why did he have to be turned into a stuffed doll anyways!? What's with old guys and really weird ways of getting back at people!? Why is their humor so broken!?
...Ok, maybe it is just a little bit funny.
And it was even funnier when Vlad got the same treatment. Who cares if he doesn't even have vocal cords anymore, he can speak in fucking squeaks so he's going to laugh his ass off!
It's unfair that even when turned into a doll, Vlad is taller than him. What did he even do to piss of the same wizard anyway?
Vlad wasn't happy with being turned into a stuffed toy, maybe a bit happy that he's still taller, but still. He has a business to run and a married woman to woo, how the hell is going to do either now?!
Their powers surprising weren't sealed, so they could still fight. Vlad tried to go after the wizard before getting his shit rocked because, oh yea, it was a wizard of the Ancient variety. So he promptly got his ass beaten, Danny was honestly just there to watch, point, and laugh.
Why the hell is an Ancient wizard who is very much alive be living in the ghost zone anyway? The wizard said that where they are isn't in the ghost zone, but is connected to it via Clockwork's lair, also, can't an old man just have his solitude? He also pointed out how neither of them should have been here in the first place.
Which Danny supposed was fair.
Said wizard then waved his staff and shoved the two out of his house. Maybe he was still mad, but did he really have to place them above a dumpster? An open dumpster at that.
They pulled themselves out the dumpster and just sat there in that alleyway for an undetermined amount of time. Before Vlad pipped up and said it was Danny's fault he was in this mess, Danny didn't take it lying down and screamed (read, squeaked) at Vlad, to which Vlad screamed back. Along with verbal arguing they also argued in ghost speak, slamming into the other with the full brunt of their emotions and taking it to a much deeper level.
When a nine-year-old Billy Batson heard very loud squeaking coming from an alleyway, he didn't know what to expect. Maybe a dog playing with a squeaky toy, or something, not two stuffed dolls- who are very animated and very much alive- to be having what looked like an argument with each other.
Three years later, when Billy Batson awoke to find himself in a subway, he was very much surprised to find out that both his two best friends had history with the guy who then proceeded to give him superpowers.
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dannyphantomiscool · 8 months
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Ok this DP x DC prompt hasn't stopped haunting me for days so-
Danny is Superman's grandfather.
It's the classic setting; Danny is overworked and overwhelmed from his Ghost King duties, so Clockwork kicks him off to another dimension for a vacation.
Danny ends up on Krypton.
Danny falls in love and has a child.
Danny is forced to let everyone he loves die, only able to help save his grandson, bc interfering here would cause even worse things in the time-stream.
(Danny never forgives Clockwork for putting him somewhere with a time-limit.)
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pekodayz · 3 months
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i forgot to share these😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅. from last year (yes i am a genius). first one is a comm from jean and second was an art trade with ghost
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rebelmist · 11 days
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DPXDC Prompt 2
I want to preface this post by saying, I freaking thrive off of morally-gray Danny so this what it shall be pertaining towards. Also omg I’ve have like 3 different versions of this idea, at least, but holy fuck does it come up at inconvenient times.
Not to mention my memory loss issues. So some parts maybe be freaking missing but I need to put this somewhere so I digress.
TW:Suicidal thoughts, self-dehumanization
It had been a good few years since Danny’s gotten lost in the Realms, far from his home, his normal, and his fraid. But, what else really was there left back in Amity…it had been all too good to be true. Danny had grown into finding a balance in heroics and personal life towards the later half of his junior year; he had even sat his parents down to confess about his identity as Phantom alongside the support from Jazz, Sam, and Tucker. His parents had been stunned to say the least until it all boiled down to tears of anguish and loud apologies from both of the older Fentons.
“Mom, Dad, …I don’t think I can safely say that it didn’t have it’s lasting effects but in the end think about this way. I’m definitely a Fenton cause I did get that portal to work after all, and survived. Fenton luck, you know how it is.”
Safe to say that while he was immediately chastised after by everyone, they definitely appreciated the joke to lighten the air. Maddie cracked a bit of a small smile and Jack let out a loud snort.
He was 17.
Oh it was just going so well, but nothing ever really stays that way, does it? Reminiscing felt bittersweet and all too raw, but then it all blossomed to sheer anger at his next memory. He, alongside many other Amity Parkers had become too compliant or carefree towards the GIW. They had created a concoction of sorts with Blood Blossoms to slowly smoke him out of his haunt, as they had taken a particular interest with him being vastly different compared to the other ghosts. There wasn’t much he could do, and while the actual flower had a less than desired effect on him being half-human still, they had somehow made it effect the people he protected to have to avoid him less he started to become weak, even for a second as they sent out ghostly beasts that he had to fight. He really should’ve trust his gut that there was more to it than that, they had figured out his identity then turned their interest to his fraid, as though to dissect what exactly made him special and became the way he is.
If it was his blood (the blood was everywhere, the broken pair of googles and pieces of a headband), if it was his bonds that held the closest towards his friends, (the fallen locks of black hair and shattered pda beside a dark-skinned hand) or if it was the location of his haunt itself, (his city had become ruins, a former shell of what it once was, toppled buildings and destruction galore). In the end, he been weakened and actively suffering from the cracks in his core as there was death after death in his home, enough to the point where he had been captured.
He distinctly remembers every slash, cut, blunt force, stabbing, drugging and so much more as he went under their examination. He was gagged, silenced, and used as their guinea pig to test weapons and tools to go after the other ghosts. He was put under a constant hazy fog but that didn’t stop him from hearing their words; their lips always become loose around him, treating him as if he was just air. The longer he stayed there, the more he lost faith in his own humanity. He lived in a constant state of self-contempt and guilt, which was at times encouraged by the other agents when they become too arrogant. He responded back with bites to their flesh in the past until they created a work-around. Overtime he became detached and distant in his nature, but the revenge for his haunt dug it’s claws deep into his soul. The whispers from the ectoplasm fueling him with powers to end this farce soon, there was nothing holding him back anymore.
There was a few of the more impressionable agents they had, that sometimes looked at him with pity and so he played them, made them let their guard down and manipulated them into loosen some restraints. He made them think they broke him.
He waited and waited until the time was right, and at last, the whispers said to let go, to raise hell and he did. For the first time in his life, he killed, maimed, and demolished the bodies—human bodies, until there’s was nothing left. He hunted down each and every station, and burned their research to the ground before he finally returned back to his haunt.
There has been nobody left there, either they were able to escape or dead, he had no idea but he was met with an empty and eerie feeling as he looked around the desolate area. Danny stumbled back towards his old house to see that remains of the carnage was still left there, his fraid left unburied and unmourned by anyone else but him within his core and mind. He couldn’t take it anymore, the cracks they had left behind still ached their spots in his core.
And so with what little semblance of sanity and humanity left in him, he dug their graves—his hands trembling the entire time. Once he buried what he could, and laid down what little flowers from weeds were left, he did the same to those he couldn’t save. He dug and dug graves for days, until the last was mourned and given an apologetic goodbye.
He never thought he’d find a time where he cursed himself for being half-alive but then he stood there, among the rubble and broke apart. He wailed the rest of his haunt away; piece by piece, memory by memory until he returned back to the building (his home) and made one final grave for his name to lay against his fraid. He laid there next to their gravestones and wept. Tears ran out and he soon fell into exhaustion, the next time he woke up, he dismantled what was left of the smaller projects until he was met by the very bane of his existence.
The portal funny enough was still standing, the agents hadn’t been successful in creating their own so they left it as is. All it could do was stare at it with a sneer, and with every step towards the closed portal, it started to feel more enticed into the Realms. The portal could stand for a few seconds while the frame self-destructed and that’s exactly what it wanted. It packed what little memorabilia that had survived the destruction; some pictures, materialistic items, and all of the documents left of it’s parents’ work.
There was officially nothing that tied it to this place and it couldn’t just end it’s own life, that’d be too simple, simply too merciful for the likes of it. So it started the self-destruct sequence and walked through, to ‘live’ in eternal suffering as that’s what it deserves.
It was freshly 22.
Now all it was is a pawn—one loyal to the League. It had drifted to a particular spot of the Realms that both seemed foreign and radiated anguish, and decided the spot would be where it will reside till it’s afterlife. Soon it had fallen through the Lazarus waters and fueled with something likeliness to a drug from the waters and it clung into it’s cracks with it’s core.
Later it was met by the one, that calls himself, Ra’s Al Ghul. Seemingly fascinated by it’s emergence, he called out for it to serve him and give ever-lasting undying loyalty.
It agreed.
It was now 29.
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boneinator · 9 days
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can we request a jealous Tony 🐬
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He thinks he's being sooo subtle
(reblogs > likes !!)
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zamjd · 1 month
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Doodles that took an unnecessarily long time to make bcs I keep forgetting their designs ^^
(Happy valentines btw :DD)
Tested sum stuff, some bad some better, really like the gradient I did w/ Virus doe :>>
Close-ups undercut + bonus doodles
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gelthefunkyblob · 4 months
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the president of lucifenia
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rexwrendraws · 1 year
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i have so much art i want to do for this fic but time keeps escaping me so. some old sketches (from oct 2022) for the first dreamling fic i ever read, back last august. literally blew my tiny mind i love it so much and reread it very often. i always pictured hob in that fic as a combination of comic hob and tv hob :)
We have all the time in the world (on Ao3) by @anthrossandman !!
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lol would you believe i've had a rant on wulbren and barcus bouncing around my head for ages but then i realized it was just the EXACT same rant i've already done at length about gale vs peeta thehungergames and marco vs drummer theexpanse ANYWAYS it's telling that modern "morally grey" stories about war and revolution will portray imperialist rulers in a sympathetic (or at least tortured and "complex") light and get a million words of backstory into their origins but the freedom fighter from the oppressed people who goes all out for violent resistance of their oppressors is demonized by both the construction of the world and the plot and by the fans who vocally hate them and will not hesitate to condemn them as irredeemably evil (but it's fine and actually very obviously intended because why else would the writers give you this nice comfortable safe Good Guy alternative who is also oppressed and wishing to be free but, like, nicer about it). hm… surely the pervasiveness of this kind of narrative and this exact moral dynamic/dichotomy in popular mainstream narratives about revolution and fighting oppression isn't having any very tangible obvious real world impacts on how liberal americans and europeans think about those things in real life right now at this exact moment… anyways! i dnf the game after the blowing up the cop robot factory plotline ended like this so good thing i don't have my actual rant properly articulated huh
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grvyrd-drms · 6 months
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https://www.tumblr.com/grvyrd-drms/728382423313924096/hey-followers-do-i-write-some-lame-toby
YESS PLS. I NEED LOSER TOBY CONTENT ☹️
toby rogers being a loser (himself)
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A/N: my boy !!!
CW: nothing much tbh??? murder??? a little angst.
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-gets nervous around women. like yeah on the outside he's all numb and secretive and scary or whatever but lock him in a small room with like nina or kate or something and he's just,,,
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-toby wants to be in a relationship sooooo bad but refuses to let himself admit it. tries to focus on his work or go out on a walk when he starts getting all sad and mopey.
-i feel like he's really tall and lanky and has huge feet. constantly walking into stuff and stepping on things. doesn't help when his motor tics swing his arms around either.
-stepped on one of sally's crayons and broke it once. bad things ensued.
-he just looks so DORKY doing ANYTHING. like yeah he's a fucked up deranged serial killer. but also look at him brush his teeth or tie his shoes. dork.
-speaking of tying shoes, toby constantly has to redo his laces. he can't tie shoes correctly. he resorts to just tucking them inside of the shoe most of the time at this point.
-listens to midwest emo..,,,,,, 😧😧😧
-midwest emo or any 'loser music' in general tbh. car seat headrest, modern baseball, the front bottoms, lincoln, american football, pet symmetry, microwave, michael cera palin, merchant ships, tigers jaw, list goes on.
-trips going up staircases too fast
-can't make popcorn cause the kernels popping gives him anxiety. not in a sad traumatic way more like a time traveling cave man way.
-is friendlier to animals than he is to humans.
-will immediately go from heavy breathing, covered in blood hacking someone up to going "psst psst" to the nearest raccoon.
-thinks about lyra a lot. sees her in the sun, the wildflowers. hears her in running streams and girls laughing. toby misses his sister.
-has a lopsided smile!!!!
-has a chipped front tooth from getting the shit beat out of him a while ago. it's not really noticeable but he's self conscious about it.
-when toby yells his voice cracks. i think about this every time i see @crushedsweets drawing of toby and tim arguing and toby yells "get the fuck off me". that. one. piece. specifically.
-gets crushes way too easily. 100% has thought that he's had a shot with every girl his age in the manor. also gets easily obsessed with girls he sees/meets on his missions.
-nothing ever works out though (unless you count the shit show that was his relationship w/ natalie) (im a natalie lover i just feel like it went bad lol)
-and the funniest thing is toby thinks that its top secret that he has no game. everyone knows he's a loser. they all just feel too bad to say it (except jeff).
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hrbtngmrjhwahdnrn i am So Normal About Him (lie)
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starswallowingsea · 1 year
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another post inspired by the bad books book club but it's kind of concerning how a lot of popular YA books these days feature a huge power imbalance and don't like. make it clear that it's unethical and because these are popular with teenage girls it makes me concerned that they're internalizing these messages.
like the love hypothesis for example, which i have actually read and hated so fucking much, the main romance is between a phd candidate and one of the professors at her grad school. while they make it clear that he's not her advisor and can't be on her doctoral advising committee or whatever, he's in the same department first off and can still hold power over olive and in real life that could very very quickly turn sour because of the power imbalance. he very much still has power over her in ways she might not realize yet.
and then you look at......... well everything coho. like in verity the main character is sleeping with her agent which is UNETHICAL and could very very easily lead to a lot of business problems!!!! like you cant fucking do that and there's a reason why its looked down upon for agents to be romantically/sexually involved with clients. because the agent has power over the client. and while i think a fully grown 30 something adult can tell when something is just fantasy, younger adults are much much more impressionable to this kind of stuff. i'm saying this as 22yo college undergrad and i'm not immune to this either, but i'm aware of when i need to step back and ask myself what a text is saying and what it wants me to think because i've cultivated those skills. fresh 18yos who are still in high school and have had most of their high school career online or completely fucked with because of covid might not.
you can have books aimed at young adults that don't involve this type of harmful messaging romanticizing the power imbalance between characters. i see the way people talk about colleen hoover romantic leads and relationships and it's so worrying because nothing in any coho book is romantic and the romantic leads in all these books are like the brooding bad boy stereotype dialed up to abusive and people find it hot and attractive when it should be a massive red flag instead. young adults deserve better books.
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