He'd been on patrol, joking across the comms with Dinah, when she'd gotten into a fight.
And then she'd stopped talking.
Oliver crashes into the alleyway just in time to see a group of men in white suits shove his unconscious wife into the back of a van.
He takes one step forward to take them all out when he realizes what took his wife down.
Gas.
There's gas in the alley.
The last thing he sees before succumbing to unconsciousness is the van tearing away, and the logo GIW.
Or: The Guys in White heard about Black Canary, with a power awful similar to Phantom's.
Clearly, she's either the mother of the person Phantom based his imprint off of, or she's also a ghost in some way.
They've made two mistakes rolled into one; they've managed to piss off not only Green Arrow, but Black Canary when she wakes up.
The Flash fam has a secret. Okay so they have a lot of secrets, but there's one above all others.
A kill on sight order.
In the worst possible future (one of them there's a lot), a beast named Phantom decimated the world. He took out the entire Justice League, the entire Justice League Dark, any and all small-time heroes that stood in his way. All of it. Everyone.
If they see Phantom as a kid, to prevent the slightest possible chance of Phantom being a thing, it's kill on sight. They all have anti-ghost weapons that can destroy a ghost's core, locked away in a secure facility that they can just run to and grab real quick to get it done.
None of them like it. None of them can risk it.
Bart stumbles into a town that doesn't exist, almost gets got by a ghost that managed to possess him, and gets saved by...Phantom.
A scrawny, teenage Phantom.
He's funny, makes puns, worries about if Bart got hurt or not-he's nothing like the Bad Phantom!
He's not gonna kill his new friend! No way, no how.
But he's gotta keep it a secret from the other Speedsters now, because he doesn't know who came up with that rule but they probably won't understand, and then he'll have a speedster fight on his hands, and no one wants that.
But the government keeps sending letters of complaint to Max, and Max keeps asking why the government is mad at Bart now, and Bart can't tell him "oh it's because there's this town that is off the record and a secret and also where phantom is and i broke in" because that'd rat Phantom out, and even if he didn't mention Phantom Max would want to investigate.
The mailman doesn't understand why his letters keep disappearing but he thinks it might have something to do with the Flash, because there's always a red blur.
The Flash fam do find out and successfully kills Danny. In front of Dan.
And at this point Dan and Danny have built their relationship up to the point they see the other as weird cousin/sibling. Dan has reconnected with Jazz (who he has miss deeply) and started to hang out with Dani (when she comes by). And Danny have been a strong support in the strange awkwardness that comes with being reformed and essentially deaged to teenage-ish.
Dan has been rediscovering what he lost with Danny’s help. Dan has been discovering what he has now.
He been hurting for so long for the life he lost that any mention of it that came up burns him. And to make it stop hurting he burn it away first. It what he did to his human half, to Vlad’s mansion, to the world, to Amity Park, and it what he tried to do to the past too.
He saw a memory of a happy life he lost and wanted to not hurt at the thought of it anymore. To burn it away. Like a picture set a light.
But this wasn’t a picture he could burn. It was a mirror. A mirror that looked back, fought back, and didn’t burn. And Dan was force to look at himself. And the pain of the memories lost.
And he grieve.
And in that grief Dan got a new chance. A new beginning. It wasn’t the same. It wouldn’t ever be the same. But could look at the mirror and see a hope.
Seeing Danny was a curse blessing. Dan would never get the life he lost back. Never be Danny again. But seeing the boy he once was talk and act as a whole other person. He can’t go back to being that.
He done so much; done too much. He had too much blood on his hands, ash and debris at his feet, and a hollowness in his ribcage.
Dan was a demented funhouse mirror. Distorted over circumstance and years. Going back to the boy he once was, was like asking a black hole to not be a black hole. It should be a star again. But it can’t, it collapsed and changed. It’s a black hole now.
Danny was a curse in the sense that Dan couldn’t be Danny anymore, but Danny was a blessing in letting Dan know that’s okay. That change can be good too.
And Danny smiled and looked right at Dan one day. His hair buzzed on the sides and ears freshly pierced. Hopeful and bright eye like Jazz. Showing even small changes can matter.
And with that and his annoying persistence and some of Jazz psycho babble (“You stole one of Jazz books?” “Well how else are we going to socialize you properly!” “That for babies, actually babies, like toddlers!”), Danny became more in Dan’s eyes.
Danny wasn’t a stand in to his family. He wasn’t a still image of days lost. He was just Danny. Small annoying Danny that came to bug him and hang out and drag him out to the arcade or the park or out to eat. Danny who would babble on for hours on the new games or the newest thing NASA did and would show Dan pictures of space.
Danny who would listen to Dan talk about his day and bitch about Vlad and how he being like a helicopter parent and how he end up with two white cats named Maddie (“We need to get two Big Orange cats and name them both Jack!” “And gaslight him into thinking he always had them?” “Heck Yeah!”). Danny listens to Dan talk about the things he been trying out. And if he likes them or not. Tennis is boring, painting was fun, Dan been enjoying reading lately, knitting wasn’t bad but it not great (too much counting), and so on.
Danny was a strong presence in Dan’s life. Danny felt like Jazz in the way Dan missed her. Jazz was always there. Loving and caring and annoying in the way only siblings can accomplish. Danny felt like a sibling he lost. One he didn’t know was actively gone, but in the back of his mind knew wasn’t there anymore.
So Dan started to cherish his siblings. And once learned about Dani (and kicking the snot out of Vlad for not telling him he had a baby sister) he cherish her too.
Dan would never get the life he lost back. But he will love this one. And he will protect it.
Danny was melting into the concrete. He was slipping through Dan’s fingers as his eyes rolled into the back of his head.
Dan can only scream as his baby brother dissolves before his eyes.
He wasn’t quick enough. He saw the shot fire. It felt like the world moved in slow motion.
Dan have called out to Danny, to watch out, as he transform. As Dan made it to the air, the shot connected to Danny’s chest. Danny tried to block it with an ecto-shield, he really did, but it broke though.
Dan was only able to catch Danny’s falling form so he didn’t hit the ground.
Dan broken wails echoed throughout the town as his brother melted into the street. A man in a red suit with yellow accents with a yellow thunder bolt on his chest held a white gun, and horror befell him.
And imagine the Flash Fam’s reaction when they realized that they pushed Dan to the breaking point?
Like they doomed the timeline again and it was because of those damn kill on sight orders? If they had minded their own business, things would be great.
I like to think Constantine just senses the disturbance and the entire Infinite Realms shifting when it gets out that the Halfa King Phantom was assassinated and that their family seeks retribution.
I can imagine he’d be chain smoking from stress and tearing his hair out as he would tell the justice league. Plus I wonder how Batman would react to the whole Flash dooming the timeline again by killing a kid.
I have a thought. How would the DC Talons be treated in the Marvel universe? More particularly the X-Men 97 universe?
Maybe they are hand picked mutants broken down till they are essentially walking corpses, at least that's what I assume, my perception of them is like they are mind controlled. Wouldn't be far off given the fact that Logan was Weapon-X and he has memory issues.
I like to think Magneto would show them mercy once he realizes his people were turned into these walking zombies.
I can see Talons either imprinting on Logan and Magneto.
You understand what I mean they imprint on Logan because he totally understands that at the point of broken down that they are just going off of these programmed instincts and probably don't want to hurt people. That they are having severe identity issues and not remembering who they were and if they have family.
But why do I think that Talons would imprint on Magneto? It's simple really. Because Magneto can relate to the Talons, since they have their entire lives reduced to a number etched in ink on their inner wrists. They underwent torture that was supposed to break their minds and they did what they did to survive cruel conditions. He doesn't fault them for that. He reminds them that they did things with the intentions of survival. They were forced into situations where it is dubbed "me or them".
And everyone knows that Magneto was a Holocaust survivor, he understands the trauma.
And maybe the Talons imprint on Charles Xavier because they can actually communicate with the man. He has never ending empathy rather than sympathy. The man is so understanding, he's a telepath after all, and he is like that other comforting parent that just gets it. It's the aura.
Maybe if this was a DC and X-Men 97 crossover then something can be figured out. Bruce probably doesn't want the Talons in Gotham, but that doesn't mean he doesn't care. It's just god knows what triggers are associated in Gotham. And I wonder what the interactions Talons have with the X-Men as they hide with them, this would be before the Metahuman Rights Acts and such.
What if John Constantine moved to Derry, Maine to lay low for an extended period of time?
Hiding from creditors and debt collectors, not to mention whatever entity or new enemy he made, that small town that is perpetually in the 80s that just so happens to have a huge population of missing children.
Strange.
He notices it, and he would poke and prod people about it, but the townspeople aren't exactly warm to an Englishman that drinks, smokes, and swears like John does. He knows that something is fishy when he sees how children act like there is no consequences for their actions and violence is startlingly high amongst teens, something is feeding off of the fear and trauma this tiny town just seems to pump out daily.
IT sees John as a threat. And IT makes sure to leave little signs that IT knows what John is.
Bonus points if John has some adopted kid that sees IT and doesn't know how to express what they see to John. Make it his biological kid or some apprentice, its fair game. Just like how IT sees the kid as fair game, smelling the trauma from the kid that makes the kid an absolute once in a life time delicacy for merely being associated with the Hellblazer.
Possible x-over:
if Danny Phantom just so happens to be a kid that is lying low there and IT uses the definite miscommunication and makes John think Danny is making children disappear.
Lot of heartache in this weeks episode of X Men 97. Jean and Scott are further driven apart and find themselves instead being drawn to others.... Logan and Madelyn. Can't say I'm surprised. I saw this coming a mile away.
but truly today's episode was really all about the love triangle between Rogue, Gambit and Magneto. EVERYTHING was finally revealed about Rogue and Magneto's former relationship before Rogue joined the X-Men.
I was waiting to hear this story, but I was not prepared for the consequences and heartache that would follow afterwards, especially for poor Gambit. I always hated when Rogue constantly turned him down before in X-Men, but this was the absolute worst thing she ever could've done to him.
Rogue did the unthinkable and completely broke Gambit's heart. "You light up everything you touch.... but never me." OUCH!!!
My heart hasn't felt this broken in a long time and I just can't believe she said that. I'm so sorry for the poor guy. Rogue made a big mistake and by the time she realized it... it was too late.
Remy died, believing Rogue never loved him and that her heart belonged to Magneto and now she has has to live with it. The pain and guilt of breaking Remy's heart and even worse, the regret she now feels of everything she said to him before he sacrificed himself to save them all.
Downright the most heartbreaking episode of X Men 97.
Y'all I am losing my mind, I need to say it.
Do you know how amazingly written this scene is??? Do you understand? Rogue removes the glove and instinctively (out of raw desire and need for connection) tries to touch Magneto's face but stops herself because it's the kind of intimacy that creates tension. She realizes she doesn't want to step into muddy waters, instead she waits for his hand. And he gladly and respectfully accepts it. And not only that, he understands it's an exchange of safe, grounded intimacy that is extended to him and he proceeds not only to take her hand in his, but also to place his other hand on top of hers. And then the voice over says 'to feel another soul finally seeing yours'. Because they do. They've seen each other at their best, and they've seen each other at their worst (when one has failed the other or when they have been too quick to pass judgment on each other). And that gesture reads to me as "I see you, and I want to believe in you. And this situation in which we are now, how we got here - absolutely sucks, but I am glad you are here."
And that's always been Rogue and Magneto in a nutshell for me. I am in tears about how well handled this moment was. And if the rest of the season will descend into drama, jealous love, conflicts and it will all burn to the ground so be it (hope it won't be the case) - but you will always find me here. in this moment.
Y'all I am losing my mind, I need to say it.
Do you know how amazingly written this scene is??? Do you understand? Rogue removes the glove and instinctively (out of raw desire and need for connection) tries to touch Magneto's face but stops herself because it's the kind of intimacy that creates tension. She realizes she doesn't want to step into muddy waters, instead she waits for his hand. And he gladly and respectfully accepts it. And not only that, he understands it's an exchange of safe, grounded intimacy that is extended to him and he proceeds not only to take her hand in his, but also to place his other hand on top of hers. And then the voice over says 'to feel another soul finally seeing yours'. Because they do. They've seen each other at their best, and they've seen each other at their worst (when one has failed the other or when they have been too quick to pass judgment on each other). And that gesture reads to me as "I see you, and I want to believe in you. And this situation in which we are now, how we got here - absolutely sucks, but I am glad you are here."
And that's always been Rogue and Magneto in a nutshell for me. I am in tears about how well handled this moment was. And if the rest of the season will descend into drama, jealous love, conflicts and it will all burn to the ground so be it (hope it won't be the case) - but you will always find me here. in this moment.
Just watched x-men 97’s recent episodes and despite loving Gambit x Rogue I have an unpopular opinion……good for rogue for bagging a silver fox called Magneto who is incredibly powerful. You go girl.
Constantine makes a deal with the Spirit of Kronos.
In return for all contracts he has made regarding his soul being voided, and for Kronos himself to be John's Patron, he has to take a ghost core into himself and nurture it until it's independent.
Easy.
Infinite Realms beings are fiercely independent, and he estimates that one year of hosting and three months of looking after is nothing compared to the headache that he was going to have to go through to get those contracts voided.
The Spirit of Kronos assures him that this task will be on par, and that the payment for doing this is actually equal. He'll have to be sober, not a single drop of liquor or booze, not a single cigarette, for the entire duration.
Which. Okay, yeah, that sounds a little difficult.
So John accepts, expecting this to be kinda hard. But it's not.
The Core he houses is barely noticeable. Barely there. It takes a lot of magic, and eats a lot of ecto, and he's starting to realize that this core may have been severely damaged. This may be more than a year of hosting.
Then it starts to effect him.
He gets cravings, he's a little more emotional due to Realms Spirits being based on emotions, he sleeps more because of the little core leeching off of his magic reserves.
Other heroes start to notice.
He starts getting left out of missions, JLD and JL both checking in on him periodically. They don't know, but they know something is up.
Then he feels it one and a half years after accepting the deal; the tiny core is finally ready to come into the world. Soon, so soon, he'll be able to drink and smoke again, worry free.
The tiny ghost materializes in front of him - and John lunges forward to catch it before it falls to the floor.
Because that's not a ghost.
That's a human baby.
A green sticky note pops onto the kids forehead, and John realizes he may have just been bamboozled.
'His name is Daniel, and the deal stands until he is legally able to be independent per American Law. I look forward to our partnership.
god. hades saying, "ask me for sanctuary" after percy talks about kronos hits like a truck when you remember that he tried to do the same for maria, bianca, and nico.
THAT FIRST SITE IS EVERY WRITER’S DREAM DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY TIMES I’VE TRIED WRITING SOMETHING AND THOUGHT GOD DAMN IS THERE A SPECIFIC WORD FOR WHAT I’M USING TWO SENTENCES TO DESCRIBE AND JUST GETTING A BUNCH OF SHIT GOOGLE RESULTS
Whenever I look at my rough draft fics and think my writing is shit, I look up Colleen Hoover hate on TikTok and then remember I’m significantly better than her.
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