Bellatrix Star
A TaliaxDanny idea that came to me.
Damian, Bruce, and the rest of the bats discover the Talia al Ghul they had been fighting against, the one that cloned her own son, had the clone kill him, plant a control device in him when he broke his spine, etc etc was actually not the real Talia al Ghul.
Turned out Ra's had cloned her and killed the original when she discovered his little plans to take over Damain's body and she confronted him about it. Ra's had to make a clone when after tossing a dead Talia into the pits but never returned (he meant to kill her as a warning, as a "you may be my blood but will not hesitate to end you Talia.") It explains so much to Damian when remembers how out of nowhere his mother changed, her training him changed from harsh to deadly, the soft motherly love she would give him when behind closed doors suddenly stopped, the tales she would spin for him about his father no longer whispered to him for bed.
How this was find out?
Well it's hard to ignore the facts that when your foolish grandfather in his quest for immortality summons an eldritch being known as the Ghost King into the Mortal Realm and uses Damian as a sacrifice while his (not) mother watches emotionless.
When the being appeared, plunging the room from green glowing flames and the glow of the Lazarus Pits into darkness before a cosmos exploded to life, its glowing green eyes snapped open in the stars and stared at them all. Making every single one of them feel small, so very small.
It took a single glance around the room before stopping on the al Ghul's. It's eyes widen before a steel and firm look entered them. Just as quick as the cosmos sprang to life, it suddenly swirled away into a ball, putting them all back into the Lazarus room,and reformed in front of them to a more humanish height and body.
When the body, around the height and build of Batman, was done forming it took a step forward and suddenly as one blinked a man stood in front of them. Or rather floated. Snow white hair that flickered and wisped towards a crown made of fire and ice, glowing green eyes that held none of the madness but all of the power the Lazarus Pits could give. His clothing were tailored made that were tastefully a mixture of black and white with some silvers and greens, clothes fit for a King one would say. The cosmos that once engulfed the room had shifted into a cloak that hanged around his body, on one side more than the other (think like how CW wears his only the hood is down).
This, this was no doubt the Ghost King, he stood tall and regal and made everyone in the room feel the need to look down, to bow ones head for even just a moment. Even Ra's had trouble disobeying the urge to do so.
"Well..." the being said, his voice deep but not as gravely as Batman's was "What an interesting way to meet my In-Laws and Step-Son..."
He has said that as he looked towards the al Ghul's. Damian flinched back with a frown of confusion and disbelief while Ra's looked panicked for a second when the words registered into his mind, meanwhile Talia... looked emotionless and barely even twitched.
"What the fu-?" Someone began only to stop when the King lifted his hand and with a snap of his fingers a green portal appeared, it looked almost like the Lazarus Pits but it felt... cleaner? Less angry?
"My Bellatrix, my warrior star. I believe I've been summoned to your home dimension. And judging by the looks of it your father created a barely functioning Mirror of you and planned on using your son as a sacrifice to me." He spoke out towards the portal before holding his hand out.
A hand appeared from the portal, a slender hand and with green and black painted nails manicure to perfection before someone walked through it as they took hold of the Ghost King's offering hand.
Standing in front of them was another Talia, only this one looked a tad older than the one in the room. She wore clothing that matched the King to a T but even then, as always, Talia looked deadly in it. Beautiful but very deadly. From the heels she wore to the crown upon her head, a crown made of not ice and fire but of stars and black jewels. Her eyes were sharp as she stared at everyone in the room, frown on her painted lips, but her eyes lit with a small soft joy when she saw Damian only for them to turn poisonous when they landed on Ra's and the other Talia nearby.
"I should had know you would had created a Mirror of me instead of admitting to my son you killed me Father." Queen Talia spat out. "The least you could had done was not make my Mirror so cheaply, it doesn't even have a proper soul attached to it."
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does cinnabar find malachite?
yyyyes but no. I. got to figure out times for this which I hate 😩 but by the time she lands on the colosseum for uhhh reasons (I don't know the reasons. Probably a combination of following some sort of trail + the colosseum titan's freaky vibes) he's already dead but no one will tell her shit because everyone there SUCKS. Turns out he was defeated by rage rush who only won by pure dumb luck. She finds out about this later on when there's a whole chaos and the colosseum basically explodes so the titan's hold on everyone wavers momentarily causing a bunch of people to take the chance and finally leave (cinnabar included)
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Cognitive functions and asking questions
There are a few patterns that I’ve noticed in what kinds of questions people tend to ask. Just to be clear though: I don’t mean smalltalk questions like “do you prefer summer or winter” or something like that, but questions in response to learning new stuff. I work in academia and I don’t really have a life outside of it, so most of my social interactions are science-based, so this is all I can give you, I’m afraid. When you're at a conference, for instance, and are listening to a talk, the most interesting thing is always the discussion afterwards when people can ask the presenter some questions on their work. In general, extroverts are more likely to ask questions, but certainly not all introverts shy away from it either.
The Ne users, especially when they also have Te (so the NFPs and STJs, but sometimes also NTPs), are typically the ones who go in the direction of “great, if we take your findings and take them to this other area of research and run an experiment on that, what do you expect to find and how would you test that?” They generate ideas that project outwards into completely new directions. If the presenter is an Ne user themselves, they usually engage in the idea and have a bit of fun with all the what if questions that arise. Especially the ENFPs often start monologuing excitedly for five whole minutes that no one can follow a word they’re saying (or maybe others can, but I sadly can’t). Meanwhile, most of the non-Ne users look like they want to strangle them for asking such a question they couldn’t possibly answer and were absolutely not prepared for.
The Ti users, on the other hand, are the ones poking at your theory, your experimental design, your conclusions, the repercussions. They employ the knowledge that they have (and that you may lack) and question the validity of your work with it, ask questions if your conclusions make enough sense with the “plot holes” you left unaccounted for in your design. However, here we have to make the distinction between the TPs and the FJs because the FJs will only ask these questions if the research has not been carried out yet, the people responsible for the research are not present (like when you’re discussing a paper in class) or if the presenter is a TP (they can take it) because they are afraid of hurting the presenter’s feelings otherwise since it can come across as quite harsh to question someone’s very foundation of work just to poke the metaphorical firewall of their system with a stick, basically. TPs are less afraid of that and just ask those questions anyway, but they typically do so nicely. Though I have seen ENTPs (and one ENTJ) explain the presenter’s own research findings to them before, and particularly the FP presenters are not exactly a fan of that.
The FPs (and some Fe-doms), on the other hand, start their questions out with an emotionally loaded comment like “that was such a great talk and I’ve learned so much from you that I can use for my own research and this is all very exciting for this and this reason, so I have a question regarding ...” As presenters, when FPs are asked about something based in a research field they are not as familiar with, a lot of them feel the need to clarify that their lack of familiarity with it is not because they hate this other field in order to avoid insulting the questioner from that very field, but that’s usually met with confusion by the non-Fi users because they wouldn’t have taken it as an insult at all until the FP said it isn’t supposed to be one.
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there’s a reason why the entire story of avatar the last airbender begins and ends with katara. there’s a reason why we are introduced to katara first before we are introduced to any other character. there’s a reason why katara is the narrator. there’s a reason why the creators have emphasized over and over again that katara is just as titular to the story as aang - she’s the other main character.
when you water down katara - remove her compassion, her ability to connect with others, her nurturing role, her ANGER and RAGE and DRIVE - you water down the very fundamentals of the story. you drastically and severely alter the core dynamics of the gaang, because katara was so important to the development of every single one of them. she was the rock and glue that held team avatar together.
katara was unlike any other character to ever appear on television; she was a young brown girl who took no shit from anyone, yet at the same time remained kind and compassionate and nurturing. katara was a force of nature; proud of her heritage and culture, burdened by the responsibility of being the last southern water bender of the water tribe, angered over the death of her mother and everything that the fire nation took from her, determined to help every single person in need, determined to change the world, angry and resentful because old men and rules and laws kept telling her what she could or could not do, thus, she was determined to restructure thousands of years of patriarchy that stood against her from accomplishing her goals and dreams.
watering down katara into at most 2-3 tangible characteristics, stripping her away of all her motivation and agency and nuance, telling the audience that she wants to help and change the world only to have her stand in the background with an air of grief, demonstrates that the writers of the live action fundamentally misunderstand the spirit of avatar. and that’s something so unforgivable. no matter how many changes they decide to make, or how much they decide to stay true to the original story in other areas, no matter how many flashy VFX fight scenes we get - if you fail to properly understand katara, you fail to understand the heart and soul of avatar the last airbender, everything that makes avatar such a timeless classic.
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