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[a-spectacular-pigeon]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

So @itsfrenchfornothankyou and I are writing a very normal fic together. The Villain's Code fans should come read our very normal Ricky Rocket fic.

[itsfrenchfornothankyou]

Hi! Do you like Villains Code? I like villains code too! :)

YES book series of all timeeee I'm soooo normal about this series

[drewhayesalyzer]

Aren't we all. I love those books so friggin much.

[a-spectacular-pigeon]

Hi hi hi!!! I saw your beautiful beautiful ridge city simulator. It was perfect and beautiful. Would you like to talk more about villains code and Drew Hayes?

- @drewhayesalyzer

Thank you! It was built with help by @itsfrenchfornothankyou, who is too funny for his own good.

And honestly, if you want me to pop off on the villain's code you'll have to narrow it down, I've had literally hours long conversations about it. As a treat though, I'll tell you about my theory on Lodestar's power. Under the cut so as to avoid spoilers.

So my theory is that Lodestar isn't just the most powerful being in the universe, or the lynch pin holding it together, I think that she actually IS the universe, manifested through a person.

If you've ever watched the starstruck odyssey season of dimension 20, they introduce the idea of a holofract, which is simultaneously a piece of something bigger, but is also the entire thing. I think that's what Lodestar is. That's why nothing can ever defeat her, because she contains all the power that's IN the universe, so no other power within it can be greater. She also can't leave the universe, for the same reason you can't leave your own body. And she also struggles with magic, which by definition defies the laws of the universe. And when she decides something is too wrong to stand? She literally changes the rules.

A small piece of evidence for this; at the beginning of chilling reflections when the nova is being described, the narrative mentions universes protected by a golden glow, which is obviously the lodestar universes. But it specifically refers to them as "universes that have fully manifested". I think that means that the universe has manifested itself through an avatar that can wield all of its power.

Now, I don't know what having the avatar protects the universe from outside influences. And also, I might just be wrong. That happens a lot. But I really like the idea. She literally bears the weight of the universe. That's some goddamn narrative right there.

[drewhayesalyzer]

Tori Rivas needs silly goggles.

I think it will add to her vibe.

[shap3shifter-witch]

I think they’re the ones she made for the group at the beginning of Bones of the Past

[fosterchild4]

Tachyonic

First of all; I love Villains’ Code. I love the increasingly ridiculous dynamic between Tachyonic and Hephaestus. And I adore the moment in Chilling Reflections when the security suddenly stops shooting at Hephaestus at she turns to see Tachyonic casually leaning against the wall with zero fear of her. Kyle thinks he’s so cool in that moment for stopping the security measures with his mere presence and acting all friendly with the “villain” who’s been weirdly helpful in the past. Meanwhile, Tori just thinks he’s an idiot for assuming she’s not a threat. Like, “he’s right of course, but he doesn’t KNOW that!”. It’s so funny! Second of all; You don’t realize how vague a book description is until you try to draw it. The entire description of Tachyonic’s costume was basically “blue”. So I had to design this super suit, which I imagine you can clearly see is not my forte. So, uh… yeah. That exists now. Third of all; Short hair is evil to draw. Specifically masculine haircut kind of short. Anything chin length or longer is simple. It’s heavy enough to be bound by the laws of gravity and I know exactly where each hair is going. Down. Even if you get a full ‘fro that doesn’t really obey gravity, you still know where it’s going. Everywhere. I can figure out braids, buns, etc. But short masculine hairstyles? I have no clue what the heck any of those are doing. Nor do I know anything about different masculine hairstyles. So basically, if you’re wondering why Kyle’s hair is still in pencil when everything else is colored, it’s because I haven’t the slightest clue how to draw anything on his stupid head that doesn’t look ridiculous.

[shap3shifter-witch]

WOAH this is the first Tachyonic fanart i've seen, this is awesome!!

[toririvas]

i drew my favorite guy Donald because i relistened to the mass evaluation at work today and the scene still makes me get goosebumps because look at my rookies go. i love him he's my boy best friend fr. it helps that i just sort of look like him too. i hope i find a magician gf that falls for me.

[roll4luck]

Little new year’s gift, mostly bc I forgot to post this on Christmas

[shap3shifter-witch]

LOOK AT HER SHES SO COOL

also the SUIT DESIGN?? I love it sm

[a-spectacular-pigeon]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

So @itsfrenchfornothankyou and I are writing a very normal fic together. The Villain's Code fans should come read our very normal Ricky Rocket fic.

[fosterchild4]

Tachyonic and Hephaestus

The relationship dynamic between Tachyonic and Hephaestus is so funny. The one-sided identity thing adds so many layers that mostly boil down to ridiculousness. It’s enemies-to-grudging-friends where one character comes down WAY harder of both the “grudging” part AND the “friend” part.

For Tori, she’s always know that Tachyonic was Kyle. She figured out his identity literally the day they met, and was reluctantly befriending her dorky neighbor/superhero bodyguard long before Hephaestus ever fought him. She’s able to maintain a firm mental separation between identities and can honestly say that Kyle being Tori’s friend doesn’t mean Tachyonic is Hephaestus’ friend. But she also still doesn’t want Kyle to get hurt. Because even if it took him being held hostage for her to admit it, Kyle is her friend and she would kill for him without hesitation.

So, Hephaestus goes into encounters with the New Science Sentries with a mindset of “achieve my (not very) villainous goal, keep my friends safe, pretend they’re totally not my friends and use something in The Code as an excuse for why I don’t want them to be hurt, don’t get caught.”

Meanwhile, Kyle has none of that context. He has no idea that Hephaestus is Tori (ignoring his suspicions at the end of CR though I can’t wait to see what that does to their dynamic next book). What he knows is that his first meeting with the (suspected) crook the guy breaks his nose and his tech aide, humiliating him. Not to mention apparently keeping him from stopping a slaughter just a couple miles away. Negative first impression is set. Except… every meeting since then he’s been… helping?

When his team was targeted by Alfred Settler, the “villains” evacuated the civilians, spewed some BS about this attack being an insult to their Guild, and fought tooth and nail right alongside Kyle’s friends, risking their lives in the process. When the dimensional nova started, Hephaestus immediately jumped into essentially superhero hero, first with the excuse of testing his new suit, then because the breaches had bounties. Fighting right alongside Tachyonic and the other New Science Sentries several times and showing a shocking amount of concern for the superheroes’ well being.

Eventually the “villainous” first impression is worn down to “that very help ally who gets really annoyed when we distrust him but makes fun of us when we do trust him”.

Which is how we end up with a moment when Hephaestus grumbles to the New Science Sentries something along the lines of, “If I wanted to kill you, I would have already shot you in your constantly exposed backs. Also stop exposing your backs to villains!” And the whole team laughs at his apparent failure to understand the ironic contradiction of his own words.

I love this dynamic. The identity shenanigans have allowed it to be something truly ridiculous. They’re just SO Not On The Same Page TM.

PS, Yes, I have been using “she” for Tori’s perspective and “he” for Kyle’s perspective, since Tori managed to trick the heroes into assuming Hephaestus was male.

[shap3shifter-witch]

Wanted to document/post my headcanons for the Villains Code series that I’ve been tossing about in my head for a while

No major spoilers but it does include characters/details from the most recent books

- Tori is %100 aroace all the way

- The different versions of Tori throughout the multiverse are either aroace or lesbians

- Bisexual Beverlyyyy

- Warren and Lance (Glyph and Pest Control) are so gay for each other

- Thuggernaut and J3D definitely have something going on there

- Elya from Vignettes is a trans woman

- Elya and Pearle are also so gay for each other (cmon. You can’t tell me that Drew isn’t setting up something there)

- Chloe x Ellie 👀👀 (cmon guys imagine the potential)

- VRX77 (Vicky) BIG OL’ LESBO (confirmed to be some kind of sapphic at least)

[a-spectacular-pigeon]

Ridge City dash simulator

⛅ apollosglowinggoldencrotchhair Follow

Imagine you spend weeks planning a hold up of an office building with a big burly meta and everything and you get taken down by this guy

#cyber geek #AHC #new hero debut! #(i'm just joking I love you donald)

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🌞 apollo-official Follow

Thanks for dropping in nonny, love to meet the fans! Funny you should mention That Giant Moth Guy, the bristles from his legs actually make the perfect comb for keeping the curls light and bouncy! But if you can't get hold of That Giant Moth Guy's bristles you can substitute with about two dozen regular sized moths.

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yeah

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me when the AHC's newest recruit saves me from a street mugging

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Fuck you, this shit is absolutely not funny at all

Medley isn't a fun character, or your newest blorbo, he is a human being who has undergone a horrific transformation against his will. My grandfather was involved in a factory accident that partially transformed him with frog-like features, and it took years of trauma counselling and support for him to come to terms with what happened to him, and to this day he still doesn't feel comfortable leaving the house.

It is unspeakably callous and insensitive to be thirsting over what is probably the most traumatic experience of this man's life. Fuck all of you.

⚫ gapingfornaxpussy Follow

multerion what's your grandad's number

🐙 malfucinors-slimy-tendrils Follow

answer the question multerion what's the number

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🐀 ridgecityratrace Follow

Can someone please rob the bank I work at I need a day off

#I prommy I won't call the capes #we're so submissive and robbable please

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2496 days since last lodestar sighting

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help the girlies are shipping Lodestar with dead mass murderers now

⚫ gapingfornaxpussy Follow

okay but I know this fic and the screenshot is not doing it justice

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🥜 ahc-deez-nuts Follow

went to a nightclub to blow off some steam and fucking NEXUS dropped a bunch of INTERDIMENSIONAL MONSTERS in the middle of the fucking dance fIoor can't have shit in Ridge City

⛅ apollosglowinggoldencrotchhair Follow

At least you had capes on the scene, when my workplace was crashed by flaming skeletal dinosaurs resurrected by a dark wizard it took two hours to get a cape response. Like, the AHC is thirty minutes away where the fuck were they did they stop for coffee??

⏰ imissthetimeloop Follow

Certainly not at my coffee shop which was trapped in a time loop for the better part of a week

👼 yaoi-ti-cas Follow

hey quick question what the FUCK is going on in Ridge City

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🐀 ridgecityratrace Follow

Do y'all ever wonder what Professor Quantum is up to these days

🍆 pqs-bulging-frontal-lobe Follow

Lab tech here! He's had his lab coat stuck under a piece of equipment for the last two hours and is too embarrassed to ask for help, he doesn't realise we can hear him begging the coat to come out

🧠 the-noble-pursuit-of-science Follow

I cannot believe how rude and disrespectful you are to a man as accomplished as Professor Quantum. Are you so embarrassed that you will never achieve even a thousandth of his accolades that you have to try pathetically to besmirch his good name? It doesn't even make sense for him to be stuck, his abilities give him enhanced physical attributes as well as a mind acute enough to solve his way out of any conundrum. You should be ashamed of yourself.

🍆 pqs-bulging-frontal-lobe Follow

Lab tech again, Dick is right he is no longer stuck. He's now going out on the town trying to flirt while hiding his stained and rumpled lab coat, but he has a twig stuck in his hair from when he walked into a tree earlier and everyone is talking about it.

🧠 the-noble-pursuit-of-science Follow

This is the most disgusting display of slander I have ever witnessed. First of all, everyone knows that Professor Quantum is working on Vomesa, furthering his research into the great mysteries of our world. He's certainly not wasting his precious time or genius "flirting" with lesser minds.

Professor Quantum is the greatest mind of any generation, and responsible for shaping the world as we know it. He is too intelligent to walk into trees or get stuck under machines, and even suggesting it is so impossibly insulting it should classify as a crime.

I hope you've enjoyed this moment of mirth before the tide of history inevitably washes over you and forgets you forever, you miserable pissant.

🐀 ridgecityratrace Follow

I looked at this guy's blog and

Bestie he is not gonna fuck you

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🌞 apollo-official Follow

they hot tho?

⛅ apollosglowinggoldencrotchhair Follow

well at least apollo-official isn't infantalising donald, unlike a bunch of fucking COWARDS I know

#cyber geek #I can't be the only one who thinks he's hot af #didn't he used to work in IT? #cause I'd let him wire my mainframe any day

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🚽 cautiously-optimistic Follow

Hey y'all, can you get meta abilities by sticking your foot just right in the toilet seat and getting stuck there for like, twenty minutes? Asking for a friend.

#metas #cape name pending #flush rush jr? #is that copyright infringement?

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What do you mean theres a guild of villains operating out of the centre of ridge city and nobody said or did anything about it????

🥜 ahc-deez-nuts Follow

WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S A REGISTERED CHARITY

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🐙 malfucinors-slimy-tendrils Follow

my whole family is kind of freaking out about the whole 'theres a secret guild of villains in a ten minutes drive from our house' thing and let me tell you they did NOT think me asking if they would be interested in hooking up was appropriate

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"ooOOooh, RPF is disrespectful, why would you ship someone with their nemesis, what's wrong with you-" stfu. Fornax is dead and Lodestar's been missing for years I can do what I want

🎭 capes-and-cowls Follow

Oh fuck oh no what the fuck what the fuck

#HES SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD #STOP REBLOGGING THIS WHAT IF HE SEES

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hey what the fuck

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#what do I do??? #do I change my url???? #change my name and flee the country??? #is fornax even on tumblr???????? #I mean he's not in the ground so who fucking knows

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ZERO DAYS SINCE THE LAST LODESTAR SIGHTING

#We're so fucking back!!! #posting from the emergency bunker rn #I think our apartment was totalled by fornax

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⏰ imissthetimeloop Follow

Hey quick question has anyone ever actually fucking died ever asking for my grandfather

#fornax #doctor mechaniacal #morgana la fey #seriously has any villain ever actually died or was all of it a lie

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Big day for Apollo haters everywhere

#how we feeling y'all

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🔴 apollos-trecherous-dodgeball Follow

shit do you think I need to change my blog name?

#i swear I had this url before we knew #it wasn't even about the hero

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🐀 ridgecityratrace Follow

They didn't even blow up my fucking bank

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(made with @itsfrenchfornothankyou)

[shap3shifter-witch]

THIS. THIS IS IT. THIS IS BEAUTIFUL

[valtsv]

i think the hottest look you can give someone after they commit acts of unspeakable violence is approval. like don't get me wrong if there's lust there too that's great, but staring at someone with gore dripping down their chin and coating their hands to the wrists with undisguised appraisal and admiration. maybe giving them a little nod as if to say 'well done'. THAT'S what says "yeah we're gonna fuck nasty later".

[valtsv]

"i could fix him" well i could pat him on the head and tell him he's a good boy

[cactuskat]

thinking about Chloe and her power

do we think that her ability works for idioms that aren’t in English? like: “На воре и шапка горит” from Russia translating to “the thief has a burning hat” would that mean someone stealing from her would have their headwear caught on fire?

And if it does work, do we think she needs to say in the language? Or is the translation fine?

Further more, does that mean she can use idioms from across the universe? Other planets?

[cactuskat]

Hi!

I saw your art. When did you get into Villains Code? Who are your favorite characters?

Have you read any other of Drew's books?

@drewhayesalyzer

Hi!!

I'm a pretty new fan, I started the first book a couple weeks ago, listening to the audiobook!!

My favorite characters are Chloe cause I think she's so fun, and so silly, she's the sort of person I want to be. Also her power is so so SO cool, I like trying to interpret what she can do. I also obviously love Ivan who he is and also just thinking about the twisting path of past he had to lead him here. I love rolling him around in my brain. Then of course Tori and Beverly and Xelas, and Donald, and Wade, and AHHHH all the characters are just so good, I'm delighted by everyone, they're just so dynamic, and so cool, and the multi-perspective narrative really lets them shine in so many unique ways because we're seeing them from all these angles: Terrors, Doofs, Heroes, Goofs, etc.

I haven't read any other of Drew's books, I actually started Villains code because I was waiting for another (similiar but darker) book to release, but I might have to see his other stuff after finishing Villains Code!!!

[drewhayesalyzer]

Thats so exciting. Amy landon is also a fantastic audiobook author. I would love to hear more thoughts as you get through the rest of the book. You are in for quite a ride.

Keep enjoying!!

[ghostintheheadset]

Camille absorbing all the other girls' period cramps and projecting them onto Roy when he gets too annoying send tweet

[ghostintheheadset]

Camille absorbing all the other girls' period cramps and projecting them onto Roy when he gets too annoying send tweet

[ghostintheheadset]

Camille absorbing all the other girls' period cramps and projecting them onto Roy when he gets too annoying send tweet