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spacedace · 8 months
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Reluctant War AU Part 3
Part 1 Part 2
More of the brain worm that has taken me over, gonna probably post it to Ao3 here before too long. Already got another part started and so many ideas for additional stuff, someone please send help I've been consumed by this thing lol
Sorry if Waller seems out of character, outside of fandom I'm mostly familiar with her through Justice League the animated show & Justice League: Unlimited and her vibe there has always struck me as "deeply incredibly unlikable character that also kind of has a point but also has done so much fucked up shit in the name of her goals that you don't really care about her point anymore." So you know, complicated lol. If she's completely unrecognizable let me know, but I'm hoping she feels at least somewhat like Waller.
Forgot to say this in the last update, but still feel free to use all this as an overly long prompt if yall want. Literally anything I throw out to the void should be treated as a prompt lol If there's anything at all interesting to you in any of this nonsense go for it <3 <3 <3
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Amanda Waller was someone who did what needed to be done.
Ruthless, heartless, vicious, cruel.
She’d been called it all. Wore the words thrown as insults as a badges of pride and valor. Because at the end of the day, when it came to the problems she was given to face, the issues she was meant to solve, those words meant she’d done what others had been too squeamish or cowardly to do. Life was a never ending slog of trolley problems and she the only one unshakable enough to pull the levers that needed pulling.
It wasn’t so simple as a matter of greater good.
Greater good was what the weak willed muttered to themselves after having feelings over doing the bare minimum. A justification used by people on all sides to do what they wanted with fractured, faulty logic thrown around like truth was a thing immutable. To assuage their guilt when they were forced to make a call they didn’t want to.
It wasn’t a matter of greater good. It was a matter of preservation. Of protection. Of digging through the filth to find the threats skittering beneath and crush them with ruthless abandon. Of facing a god and not blinking because if you did it could cost the world.
Of doing what needed to be done, no matter how underhanded or atrocious it was.
Hands dirty.
Hands red.
Hands wrapped tight around the throat of something that could threaten to destroy it all.
When the Ghost Investigation Ward had been shoved her way with it’s sucking wound of a budget, it’s bloated incompetent staff, its asinine methods she’d seen a rotted limb in need of hacking off. It hadn’t been until she’d been conducting her inspection, digging through the trash for a few pearls of effective agents she could snatch up and put to work elsewhere, that she’d truly seen what they were working on. The potential.
Potential to better arm themselves with in the forms of the strange new weapons being created.
Potential for threats far greater than anything even she had thought possible before.
The GIW as it had been when she’d first come across it was a fetid waste of time and resources. A laughing stock agency only secret because no one took them seriously enough to look. Made stupid and useless with its own conceited delusions of importance it didn’t actually have. Yet.
She went to work on it. Hacking away as she’d originally intended, but this time with a different goal in mind. She ripped out the weeds with bare, calloused hands and planted proficiency and loyalty in their place. She took over as director herself, tossing the self-aggrandizing fool that had been running the place into the ground to the dogs as the culprit for misappropriate spendings, saving the agency by tweaking things until their ballooning budget was pinned neatly onto the former director as an embezzling charge.
Then she got to work.
The Fentons were brilliant, if entirely insane. But Amanda could work with that. She’d reigned Harley Quinn in - more or less - she could do the same to the two deranged scientists that so eagerly wanted to be apart of the fight against the dead. Especially when the benefit came in the form of the inventions they threw together so easily, especially when those inventions were weapons.
It took very little to get them on board with her plans for the GIW. Keeping their focus could be a chore, at times, but she didn’t even have to really do much in the way of pressing to get them back where she wanted them. They craved knowledge and understanding nearly as much as they craved the eradication of the entities themselves. Letting them have the first look at a new subject here, free reign over a vivisection there, it took so little to fuel their fervor and keep them busy working on the projects she set for them.
Things had been going smoothly.
For a time at least.
Until Phantom.
He’d been the main focus of the previous director’s attention, the big fish he’d so desperately wanted to catch and put up on his wall. Amanda wouldn’t lie and say it wasn’t a tempting prospect, but not one she’d put above the other projects she had set in motion since taking over. No, Phantom was powerful, enough to be a real problem one day, but she could the awkward youth in the way he held himself, the inexperience in how he handled situations. She had time to get everything else in order before focusing on getting Amity Park’s would-be hero brought to heel.
And he would be brought to heel. One way or another.
Hands dirty.
Hands red.
Hands wrapped tight around the Core of a fledgling god and bending him to her will.
An artifact, old an powerful, recovered with some effort. A means of controlling specters, of chaining them to the will of the artifact’s wielder. Dangerous in the wrong hands. Dangerous in the right hands.
It was shattered, and even whole and functional Phantom was resistant to its power. But Amanda Waller prided herself in her ability to see the potential in things. It could be repaired, be made better. Even gods could be bound, be made to kneel, with the right pieces, with the right application of force.
It was just a matter of time to gather everything needed.
Phantom didn’t know he could single handedly destroy every last member of the Justice League. The baby fat, the innocent eyes, the split-second hesitations when he fought. He knew enough to be confident in fighting the usual ghosts that haunted Amity Park, but he still very much saw himself as a little fish. Maybe it was the part of him that was still Daniel Fenton, gangly teenager not quite sure what he was truly capable of yet.
She had time before the Fenton’s son truly became an issue. Time to judge if his parents’ obsessiveness would overcome their - rather shoddy, by Amanda’s estimation - parental instincts and continue to hunt him once they knew the truth. Time to get as much out of them as she could before hand, should they falter at the idea of attacking their own son. Time for the staff to be repaired and returned to working order, to get the other items needed for the truly big fish hidden on the other side of the veil between worlds.
She had time.
Until she didn’t.
Pariah Dark had not been something she thought she’d have to account for - not yet, at least.
If he wasn’t already dead, she’d ring the Ghost King’s neck with her bare hands. His arrival had opened Phantom’s eyes to what he was capable of, of just how big of a fish he was. Worse still, Phantom’s defeat of the war mongering King changed the state of play. Phantom was no longer an impressively powerful half dead teenager.
He was King Infinite.
He was an Ancient.
He was getting on her last damn nerves.
Phantom’s rogue gallery were now firmly under the boy’s control. Still distinct nuisances around Amity Park, but no longer considered true concerns. They were loyal to their boy king, delighting in ruffling his feathers but never crossing the line into treason or attempted regicide. Which meant that the GIW was the only thing that held his attention.
Amanda took the time to send a care package to the former GIW director in his tiny, dank prison cell. As thanks for his carelessness in revealing to the entire town - both living and dead - of the agency’s existence and their intentions. Had he stuck to standard protocol, Phantom would have been none the wiser to their presence. Would have scratched his head and shrugged his shoulders at the ghost that went missing upon occasion. Would have been boredly uninterested in the people his parents had begun working with. Would have been taken by surprise when they finally came for him.
But no.
No that self-obsessed, fame chasing imbecile had to go and announce to everyone and their dead mother that the GIW existed and exactly what it was they were in Amity Park to do.
Phantom knew what they were there to do.
They could only count on his naive certainty that he could broker peace with them for so long.
Peace. As if he and his people weren’t the invading force, the monsters slipping in through the cracks between worlds, the latest threat that had to be accounted for. As if he himself hadn’t rent their world asunder himself in another world, another time. No. Peace was not something they could hash out with this baby-faced monarch with his too-big crown. Peace was the assurance of safety, security. Of control of the situation.
There could be no peace.
The higher ups were somehow surprised when Phantom took that to mean there would be war.
Amanda Waller was not.
The Fentons, as suspected, took the right side when all was revealed. Steady hands and flinty eyes as they crafted the weapons that would be needed for the coming fight. Minds even sharper in their maddened grief, hearts set on revenge for the son lost and the entity that stole his face and friends and sister in his garish pretense at humanity. They were blinded to the reality of the situation in its entirety, the potential in what their son truly was, but at the end of the day it didn’t really matter. They did what she needed them to do, they could believe whatever it was they wanted so long as they did.
By the time the boy king and his armies marched upon the Amity park facility, preparations had been put into place. The base in Amity had been stripped back to bare essentials, everything of importance moved to more secured locations.
The weapons labs.
The artifact.
The girl.
All tucked well away from the front lines where Phantom and his motley crew could not reach. Their time to be put in play would come, but not yet. First she needed to gauge what Phantom and his people were capable of, what they were willing to do in the name of what they wanted. Amity Park was a pawn well sacrificed on that front. As were the other facilities she’d left easy to find.
The problem with making children gods, with giving them crowns and calling them King and giving them armies to play with, was that they thought there should be rules. That even in the trenches tearing apart their enemies, there was a certain level of playing fair that everyone was held to. They thought there was a way the world worked, of how things should be that blinded them to more effective options even as time stretched on and desperation set in.
It was the Dead’s problem though, not hers.
She reached out to the Justice League. Sour faced, unhappy, bitterly reluctant to accept that she needed their help. Stone faced and barely containing their rage at what little they knew of the situation, they agreed to a meeting.
She didn’t let herself smile until she was well and truly alone in her office.
Greater good. A lie people told themselves. A fairytale told to children. A means of convincing the weaker willed that they had no choice, that they had a noble duty to bend to. A belief that could be wielded like a weapon if the fantasy of the idea had dug in deep enough. And there were few it had dug into so deep as the members of the Justice League.
Amanda Waller was someone who did what needed to be done.
Hands dirty.
Hands red.
Hands clenched tight on a victory long in the making.
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Part Four
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raycatzdraws · 3 months
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An unfinished Linked Universe / Zelda 1&2 animatic.
I forgot I'd made this!!! I'd gotten to a point where I realized I wanted to understand Hyrule's games better before continuing, so I stopped. Not sure if I'll return to it but I think what's here is pretty cool and worth sharing!
Linked Universe is from @linkeduniverse. The song is Run Boy Run by Woodkid.
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The song works so well for Rulie aAAAA!!! The imagery around Hyrule is so fun to play with, too! Red, and blood, and hands, and eyes, and fire, and gold, and the triforce- it's all so good!
(made this in December 2021 lol)
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defectzim · 9 months
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LESBIAN IRKENS WITH WEAPONS 💜
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xxdyingloverxx · 4 months
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so beautiful 😖
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reliquaryofflesh · 3 months
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I wonder what he’d look like covered in blood (mine? his? both?) and straddling me, looming over me as he prods my ribs with the tip of his knife, playing with his food, wearing a blank, focused expression on his beautiful red-streaked face
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pushing500 · 5 months
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It is day 26.
Twenty. Six.
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Immediately after the wedding, Vasso set off on a quest to find a persona monosword named Fracturedivine (a very cool name) with our newly purchased donkey, Shamrock. He was getting antsy about not travelling because of his wanderlust trait, and I thought a persona monosword was as good a reason as any to go on an adventure.
It looks like the newlyweds will have to wait a while for their honeymoon.
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As Vasso was travelling, Blackdragon and Duchess (who have known each other for a grand total of four days) decided to get engaged. Nobody on this planet knows how to take things slow.
I also imagine Socks is extremely frustrated having to share a cell with these ridiculous lovebirds.
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Vasso arrived, got ambushed by a lone naked woman wielding a shiv, killed her with a headshot, and left again with Fracturedivine. I don't think I'll have anyone bond with it yet, as nobody in this colony is particularly good at melee, so perhaps we'll wait until we recruit someone more suited to such a weapon.
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Also, I got this screenshot of Vasso pouting and being irate in this whimsical forest of giant flowers and thought it was funny/cute enough to share. Maybe he has hay fever, and that's why he's so grumpy. <3
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emzchaos · 11 months
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The Hartons House
Carlos: Now this is confidential, there is a basement vault as all employee’s know what no one knows is that the basement has a interrogation room to mask where the vault is. Once in the vault you will see some very valuable things and boxes, a lot of boxes.
Carlos: On the left side on the second shelf between the last two boxes I have a registered P335 pistol Peter: *Nervous* A..A-Pis..piss-tol? A real gun? Carlos: Yeah, safety of my family is no joke, especially on my side of the family Peter. Now you grab the pistol and protect my family
Carlos: Peter, this is only if something happens. If nothing happens forget what I told you Peter: *Scared* Alright, I have to admit I’m scared Carlos: I was scared when I brought it into my home, since a kid I hated violence and weapons but to protect my wife and kids from the unknown is what I must do everyday until there is no more threats. Peter: I understand that and I stand by my words as scary as that may be.
Peter: Do you need a ride to the airport? Carlos: No, I have my ride outside, you have full use of this car until I come back Peter: I will look after everything, I do need to ask why are you ok with Young master Jaidan in the Princesses bed? Carlos: *Laughs* Because he’s going to marry her one day, I had the same look when I met Kira. I approve of Jaidan King.
✨ 𝔅𝔢𝔤𝔦𝔫𝔫𝔦𝔫𝔤 | 𝔓𝔯𝔢𝔳𝔦𝔬𝔲𝔰 | 𝔑𝔢𝔵𝔱 ✨
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fanartfunart · 1 year
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[Image Description: A colored drawing of the Ocarina of Time final battle with beast Ganon. Ganon wields two large swords, one in each hand, and steps forward towards Link, swords raised to attack. Adult Link stands in front of a Young Link, shield raised and sword readied. Young Link is curled on the ground, underneath the Hylian Shield. Navi is flying in between the two version of link. The background is cast in a gold glow from the flames and backed by mountains, castle rubble around them. The second and third photos are close ups of Ganon’s face and Link respectively. End ID]
I’m just gonna say Ganon is a pain and leave it at that lol
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scuddish · 1 year
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OWEN TEAGUE as ALEC I SEE YOU 2019 | dir. Adam Randall
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casentine · 2 years
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unfinished omori sketch 
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stockholmgf · 2 years
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horror movie date but they’re leaning over and whispering in ur ear about how they’re gonna recreate the scene with u later
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duskbats · 2 years
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muse. 
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vegetablewithapencil49 · 10 months
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LINEUP OF ALL MY DATABRAWL OCS SO FAR
A determined worker, a snide gang leader, a confused security unit, a loyal warrior, a resilient helper, a mysterious survivor and an arrogant assassin, who else will there be within a world trying to rebuild itself?
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These are all my OCs at this point after 4 years of being into Databrawl. They all belong in an AU that takes place in Home Computer in an unspecified time after a malware invasion that was barely halted when The Saviour intervened. The focus mainly will be on DIGI (advanced firewall unit) and Cathy (program with a knife, it's a callback to her outdated lore where she's an edgygram in disguise but that didn't age well to me).
As for the new OC, he'll be a spyware hitman because I want more brawler type OCs in my roster. And yes, I'm in fact, SUPERSATURNELLIE.
Unrelated thing: Summer vacay has officially started so I'll post more often now yee hew 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀
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raiiny-bay · 2 years
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let the bodies hit the floor or whatever
previous // next
transcript:
[Ick enters the tavern and kills the four remaining patrons]
[Ick stands in the center of the room, surrounded by dead bodies and blood]
Ick's total kills: 4
Havoc: Ick, we have to go! There are guards coming this way!
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mestos · 1 year
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“it’s a wonderful night for a hunt, isn’t it?”
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toshidou · 1 year
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ms valeria PLEASE put your knife to my throat and say downright disgusting things about me, it would cure me of my mental illnesses
the things i have planned with her and that knife in this fic... they are purely, and utterly unholy
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