Let you in my home, let you in my pictures
I was your pedestal and all I got was splinters
Should've seen it in the way you hate your sister
You love a strong woman, until it makes you bitter
If wе were vampires, and death was a joke
We'd go out on the sidewalk and smoke
And laugh at all the lovers and their plans
I wouldn't feel the need to hold your hand
Maybe time running out is a gift
I'll work hard 'til the end of my shift
And give you every second I can find
And hope it isn't me who's left behind
I am late getting to these but we love talking about next gen. So any questions you have feel free to drop them in the box.
A little overall backstory. The arrowverse next gen was started way back on January 14th 2018. It started as a 'hey let's make more girl superheroes', then 'wait why are all my faves dead. not on my watch', and of course 'if we drown oliver queen with love and support will he know he's the best?'. And now it is roughly 247 additional characters.
We love them all and remember most of their backstories.
Thank you so much! While I can't promise there will be more Aliyah or JJ soon. I did just post a ficlet for other characters in the verse. And I feel like between the pair of us Nikki and I both have ideas for other stories flying around
He doesn’t want to jump, not really. He knows that he shouldn’t be there, he knows deep down there’s somewhere else he needs to be. But still he let’s the tip of his sneaker graze against the edge of the roof. He could do it. He could just do it and then the thoughts and the pain would stop.
He hears the scrap of the roof door and knows his window is shrinking with each step towards him.
“Nathaniel.”
Only two people ever called him by his full name. And one of them had already been wheeled down to the morgue.
Still he doesn’t turn to look at him. He can’t. He’s not too stubborn to admit he’s afraid to see what might be waiting for him if he meets his best friend’s eyes.
“I know what you’re gonna say.” He is surprised at how hard it is to get the words out. How long had he been up here crying anyway? Long enough for his throat to feel like it had been clawed raw.
“Do you?” Rylan swings himself over the railing, sitting himself there next to Nate.
“I can’t do this without her.”
Ry doesn’t say anything but Nate knows what he wants to say. He knows what should be said.
“And I know, okay? I know how shitty that is,” he loosens his grip long enough to run a hand down his face. “I’m a fucking mess, Ry. And I don’t think I can get past this.”
Nate knows how he sounds. He knows that he’s angry and sad and fucking desperate to feel anything other than the soul crushing grief that’s settled in over the last few weeks of Luna’s life. He knew when the treatment’s stopped working it was only a matter of time until he lost her.
If he wanted to be really honest, he’d admit he had been preparing for the end since the moment Luna’s doctors told them the cancer had come back. She had been tired, more tired than they knew she should be that far into her pregnancy. And hell he was a doctor himself after all. The signs had been there. But they were happy. Finally something had been going right for them, until it wasn’t.
He can feel the exhaustion settle in his limps, he was so tired. He could just take a couple steps forward, let his foot just slide forward.
“What about Sailor?”
The words do the trick, he freezes. His mind is flooded with his sweet baby girl. She’s barely been home from the NICU for a couple months, hadn’t even gotten more than a few weeks of nights spent in her home with her mother before Luna’s cancer had progressed enough to land her in the hospital.
A sick trade, Nate thinks. His daughter gets to go home and live in time for his wife to head back and die. Cosmic bullshit is what it is.
He finally gains the courage to look at Rylan, expecting pity or compassion. What he finds instead is closer to fury.
“You fucking think this is gonna make shit better?” Ry asks, shaking his head. “Like anyone wants to explain to that little girl that she lost her mother and father on the same day? She needs you Nate.”
“I needed Luna.” And he hates how the words feel as he says them.
“And life is fucking unfair and cruel, but that doesn’t mean you leaving that girl parentless and alone is the way to make any of this better.”
“You don’t get it.” Because he’s sad and in pain, and he doesn’t see any of that going away, not soon enough to help him raise his daughter.
“I get that you’re hurting, and you don’t see a way past it. But if you do this,” Nate sees Rylan as he glances at the roof’s edge. “Then you really won’t ever see the way past it. And neither will Sailor.”
He thinks about her smile, she had just started doing that before Luna’s health took a turn. She smiled like Luna, his little moon.
“She deserves better,” he says, but he’s already taken a step back to feel the railing against his back.
“She deserves someone who sticks around,” Rylan replies. “Luna didn’t get that choice, so don't make my little captain go through this alone.”
He crumbles, hand still clutching the rail as he lets himself fall into his best friend’s side. Rylan wraps an arm around him, holding him up.
He doesn’t feel better, he doesn’t know if he’ll ever feel better. The idea of that feels far off. But for the first time since Luna’s heart stopped over an hour ago, he feels like maybe he wants to at least try and see tomorrow.
What a great question, and I'm happy to report he does have a favorite.
While some would think it might be his mother, since Black Siren is one of the more consistent people in his life, but while he loves his mom, even Laurel knows she's not her sons favorite.
His fave if you ask is the Green Arrow for obvious reasons. Mere man, goes out and fights for the good of the city without complaint. In fact Q isn't sure he'd even be here if it wasn't for Oliver and the reason of og team arrows impact on his mother.
But in the deepest part of him, the person Quincy looks up to as a hero the most, the one who has been there and shown him that even if you don't have fighting skills or super powers, you can still make a difference. Especially when you think you've come from the worst of the worst, is Tommy. He's the real reason Q went to medical school. Student loan debit and HS sweetheart breakup aside, he'd do it all over again just to be half the man Tommy believes he can be.
PSA: If anyone has sent in asks recently, just know it's have seen them, thank you so so much. I hope to get to them in the next few days. Work schedules are just a pain. But Nikki and I always appreciate the feedback back and support we get for this verse
It's a pain that I caught you at a bad time
It's a shame that I memorized your outline
You were straight up with me, you were so kind
But I knew what you knew, honey, great minds
It was harsh 'cause I lost what I wanted
I was brave when I kissed you in London
We're collateral here, man, we got hit
Hope you find somewhere safe for your baggage
She wanted to be bold, like her mother in the stories she told about the old Legends. She wanted to be fearless, like her father and his adventures. So she pressed her lips to his, expecting the cosmos to realign and their hearts to sync.
Instead she had JJ pulling back, placing a hand on her shoulder to hold the distance between them.
He was going to explain, she could see the guilt and pain written into every facet of his face.
What on any earths made her think this could ever work?
"Aliyah, I--"
"Don't sweat it," she cut him off, burying the hope and joy she had a second ago. And putting on a smile that was as fake and fragile as she felt. "Really, JJ. I don't need an explanation."
"I feel like i should still give you one."
She shrugged. "You're still in love with Ada, I get it."
He had the decency not to add a sorry to that. And Aliyah felt grateful for that.
"She's hiding something from me," he said, not to her really, but as if he was trying to work out a problem. "It's the only reason she'd pretend to be this into Katz."
"Maybe she is," then after a beat she added. "Hiding something I mean. But what are you gonna do about it?"
A selfish part in her wanted him to say he would give up. That being in love with someone who was clearly trying to be into someone else, was too much drama.
But unfortunately she had also had known these people most of her life. She had known better than to fall for JJ. Because in all these years she had only seen him have eyes for one person, and that person was always only looking back at him.
"What Ada and I have is worth fighting for," he replied. "And if she's getting herself involved in something that's trouble, she's gonna need back up."
What must it be like to grow up that beautiful?
With your hair falling into place like dominoes
My mind turns your life into folklore
I can't dare to dream about you anymore
That night, the stars aligned
Heaven dropped a line
Before you, I was just a flare in the sky
A kid too afraid to go to play in the light
A colorless painter, a man with no sight
Before you, I was nothing, was nothing, had nothing
I like watching you win over a new crowd
You can make 'em go wild, you can leave 'em spellbound
But you will never be
Famous to me
--
You make me homesick for places I’ve never been before
How’d you do that?
How's tomorrow so far?
jacobvanloon
dededos
dailybridgerton
theartofmadeline
origamiaround
ellievsbear
romaincrisis
blakekathryn
