Yeah this is actually pretty much exactly what is going on. It’s why anti-oxidants are such a big deal. Bonus fact: oxygen oxidizes stuff in your cells or, in other words, it’s not toxic, just setting you on fire very very slowly.
What if there are aliens out there but they subsist on entirely different substances and they’re just scared as shit of us and our crazy ass hell planet? Once in a while some alien anthropologist type suggests checking out the people on this inhabited planet out towards the galaxy’s edge. The other aliens just look at the naive academic with horror. No!! We do not go to that world. That is where the DEATH BREATHERS live. They recreationally consume poisons and are more or less composed of biological fire. Their atmosphere is made of rocket fuel. We must leave the DEATH BREATHERS in peace. Do not go there. Do not.
okay but…that is actually what went down on earth about 2.5 billion years ago.
Earth was doing just fine with a mostly nitrogen/carbon dioxide atmosphere and everyone was happy to go on living in anaerobic bliss and then cyanobacteria suddenly hit the scene, altered the atmosphere composition so that there was a ton of oxygen gas and killed practically everything (97% or more of all species on earth).
We are literally descendants of the DEATH BREATHERS and cyanobacteria is our deadly mother.
The cyanobacteria holocaust is so big, it doesn’t even have a cool name; it’s just called “The Great Oxygenation Event”; the *second* most apocalyptic extinction event in our planet’s history is the one that’s called THE GREAT DYING (the Permian-Triassic event, about 252 million years ago).
This shit makes like the rock-throwing that wiped out the dinosaurs look like kindergarten.
Danny has found out that he tends to stay awake for weeks, if not months, at a time.
However, when he does sleep, he needs to sleep for a way longer time than people sleep.
Usually about one or three thousand years.
Clockwork and he figure it has to do with his body starting to absorb the Time Amulet that he shoved into his chest; his core, still growing, started to think that this foreign power source was supposed to be taken in, and has started to do so.
Danny's core is still ice, but it's also adapting the power of the Time Amulet to that; basically, Danny is mostly immune to time shenanigans naturally, and the other side effect is a huge influx of power to his core.
Problem; that is a lot of power, and Danny's body needs a lot of time to rest in ghost form to handle it without destabilizing.
So because he doesn't want to miss living his life with his family, he and Clockwork figure something out.
When he gets sleepy, and it's time for him to Sleep frfr instead of just an 8 hour catnap, Clockwork sends him to a different dimension that works on a different timeframe.
He gets a room especially made, hidden from the denizens of that world, full of never-rotting timeless comforts like pillows and blankets, and he gets to sleep.
They repurpose some of the Skeleton Army he won from Pariah Dark to serve him while he rests; they make sure he's clean, that the sheets and pillows are clean, and that snacks and drinks are available for his brief moments of wakefulness.
In this particular world, however, his sleeping chambers have been found, and he's being worshipped as the god of a cult.
They've carved a hole above his chambers, and for the most part haven't been too obtrusive, so the Skeleton Army lets them keep that hole. The cult has been sending food and treasure down, and since the Skeleton Army's primary purpose is to ensure Danny is well-fed whenever he wakes up and comfortable, they allow this.
Then the cult drops Bart Allen in the sleeping chambers, deliberately angling him so that he lands on Danny's pillow-bed, fully intending to use him to both wake up their sleeping god and be a sacrifice.
By the time Wally gets down there, ready to save Bart and defend him, the Skeleton Army is gently trying to pry the sleeping gods arms off of Bart, who has apparently become a living teddy bear for this thing.
"Uh..."
"I think they're trying to save me? This god likes to cuddle, I guess."
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I think he's just super tired. He might let go if you find a good enough replacement."
"Why can't you just phase out?"
"What if I wake him up and he starts searching for me? We gotta find something else he can cuddle with."
So Wally leaves on a quest, darting all over the world and bringing back huge stuffed animals in an attempt to find one that the god will accept as a substitute for Bart.
Bart, meanwhile, is living it up.
The Skeleton Army makes sure he's fed, there's like, a lot of video games that the cult threw down here, and while he is antsy cuz he can't move, at least this is actually the most comfortable bed he's ever been on.
But he is getting kinda bored, and none of the stuffed animals Wally is bringing in are working.
in my experience nobody stops having a favorite animal when they grow up but people DO stop asking. well now i'm asking. what's everyone's favorite animal mine is the noble manatee
Danny Fenton is reborn as Danyal al Ghul, Damian's older brother. He dies young and returns with memories of his past life in tact, which leads him on a long journey away from one home and to another.
Damian, meanwhile, is searching for his long lost brother while trying to care for Ellie, the niece left to him by Danyal before his second disappearance, and the rest of the family is struggling to hold things together.
all parts will be linked on this post! please don't ask to be tagged, just check here occasionally for new updates
the beginning - danny
the lost brother - damian
title from this excerpt of Ada Limón's "To the Busted Among Us"
For one reason or another, Danny is now living in Gotham and working in a coffeeshop. For one reason or another, Tim frequents the same coffeeshop.
Now, both of them are honest to god messes who treat sleep like a grave enemy. Meaning they both survive on coffee, spite, energy drinks, and their respective hyperfocuses.
They don't even talk, really, they just see each other from time to time: Tim knows the barista who looks like he's been dead for weeks is named Danny, and Danny knows how to make Tim's Death Wish with his eyes closed, but other than that, they are just strangers who largely don't care about each other.
That is, until one time after his patrol, Tim comes to the said coffeeshop in his Red Robin gear. He doesn't even think about it, he simply needs coffee. He comes to the counter. He orders. His voice is tired and emotionless. He just wants his coffee and maybe stare at a wall for a few hours until his brain reboots. Danny takes his order without even looking at him. He has been sitting and staring at a wall for a few hours, night shifts are literally killing him.
They are both so done.
Red Robin waits for his coffee. Danny makes it almost automatically, his mind elsewhere. The coffeeshop is empty, save for them two. It's four in the morning. Nothing feels real.
Danny sets the cup on the counter.
"One Death Wish for Tim," he says out of a habit, not fully registering they are alone, and he doesn't need to do that.
Tim takes the coffee without thinking, nods a silent 'thank you'. Brings the cup up to his mouth-
And notices a glove on his own hand.
He is in Red Robin get up.
He freezes and looks at the barista, who is cleaning the coffeemachine. Danny, noticing him looking, also looks back at him. Did he make the wrong order? He knows Tim's soul, he's seen it a lot, he couldn't have mistaken him for anyone else, but maybe he forgot to add syrup?..
There's a domino mask on Tim's face. A vigilante domino mask.
They stare at each other. No one moves. No one blinks. The sun is rising somewhere over the city.
Tim takes a sip of his coffee. Danny goes back to cleaning the coffeemachine.
They never speak of this again, but Tim becomes a regular here in both of his personas.
Its been a few months since 'the incident.' Tim has gotten to know Danny a bit more, just to make sure his secret is safe. No other reason.
Danny is a veritable prodigy of engineering. He can do things with an old microwave and a bit of loose wire that Tim can't even comprehend. It's really saying a lot when Danny has to explain things step-by-step for Tim to understand, and he even makes sure he's less than 24 hours of running awake before their meetings!
Needless to say, Tim got Danny an internship at WE before Danny could finish stating that it was required for his college degree. In practically a blink of an eye, Danny was moved to work directly under Lucius Fox, in the 'fun lab.'
Danny has already submitted half-a-dozen proposals to improve various bat tech. Tim knows. He's spent hours pouring over Danny's blueprints before approving them for development and testing stage. What little sleep he gets, he dreams of danny's chicken-scratch notes plastered over everything around him, suggesting improvements, jotting down quick math with physics equations applied in creative ways.
On the vigilante side of things, the newest justice league member phantom is settling in. One of his stipulations for joining the league (after the atrocious anti-ecto acts that were deliberately designed to target him were abolished) was that every member of the league, including civilian staff, would learn proper weapons handling of ghost hunting tech, and best practice for handling ghosts. He also needed to join the engineering department to properly upgrade the watchtowers' defenses against any malicious ghosts.
Batman, the ever-paranoid, was all for new defenses and contingencies, long-since trusting Phantom for his remarkably selfless actions, saving lives and protecting people even while being actively hunted. He, Tim, and various other members of the engineering department, both hero and civilian contractors, gave Phantom a very thorough tour of the watchtower so he could come up with a plan for adding ghost defenses in a way that wouldnt interfere with any of the other tech or hinder any of their more supernatural-leaning members.
Tim was almost dreading having to review Phantom's blueprints for the new shields and alarms that needed to be installed. Danny's chicken-scratch was terrible enough that Tim had to treat it like learning a new language, but his actual designs?
A work of art. Engineering perfection.
Tim was resigned to the fact that nothing and nobody else's work would ever compare.
Not even his own.
At least, that's what Tim thought right up until Phantom waltzed into his Watchtower office with a USB and Tim plugged it in and opened the files.
He glanced back at phantom, then back at his computer screen. Then his hands, to double-check he was in his suit, out the window to a view of earth to see if he was still on the watchtower. Back at the computer screen.
The chicken-scratch notes all over the blueprints were extremely familiar.
Back at Phantom again, who was now holding a coffee thermos (definitely a normal thermos, not one of his weapons of choice).
"One deathwish coffee for Tim," Phantom said with a smile, gently placing the thermos down on the desk.
tim: i’m a seventeen year old CEO of course i do drugs sometimes
bruce: tim i cannot describe how disappointed—
alfred: very hypocritical of you, master bruce. considering at 17 you and that harvey dent were running lines at that boarding school when you thought i wouldn’t find out
Constantine takes a deep, concerned breath. "I don't think that's a good idea. The Ghost king...." Batman frowns at Constantine's reticence, "surely they can't be that bad."
A grimace crosses the magician's face, "it is that bad, actually. The last king was Pariah Dark and he was so terrifying his subjects ran the fuck away- subjects more powerful than some of our heaviest hitters, mind you- an entire race of the immortal and overpowered dead, terrified of one man. And the new king defeated him... in single combat."
The league exchanged looks. Yeah, ok, that didn't sound too great.
Wondewoman huffed, "Well is there any other choice? Or do you still need to summon him?" Constantine stared at her for a moment, before glancing at the monitors, where various different scenes of Undergrowth collapsing citities play on loop. A begrudjing sigh leaves his lips and he takes a swig from the flask at his hip, before rolling his lip between his teeth. "I suppose not." He glances around at the table of heroes, and Zatanna meets his gaze with a matching look of fear-horror-concern.
For a moment, he merely fidgets, the cigarette in his hands a prop, the alcohol in his flask gently swaying, before he sighs again. "If we're going to do this, it's better thay we go to him. Summoning the ghost king..... there'd be no greater dishonour, and we really don't want to piss him off more than our mere mortal presence will. We'll have to... well have to go to him, and hope that he'll let us go, and maybe even help."
Once again, the League share concerned looks, increasingly wary.
"That's not how things are normally done, is it? Don't you normally just summon the entity here?" Flash asks.
Constantine huffs. "Yeah, for normal entities. Not for the bloody king of the Infinite Realms, overseer of the dead, alive, and those in all the Realms of the in between, before and after. Summoning him here without prior permission would be a death scentence- or worse, minding he controls what happens after, as well. No. No, we'll have to go to him- a sign of submission. Meet him in his home court and be as polite as fucking possible to the fucker in the hopes he'll let us out in one piece, willing to help."
Wary looks are exchanged once again, but after a moment of murmuring and a loud CRASH from the monitors showcasing Undergrowth's attempted reign of terror upon New York, the Justice Leage agree.
Ten minutes of debate, Constantine drawing up the reverse summoning circle, and Zatamna explaining the little knowledge Justice Leage Dark have of the Ghost King's court, and what to expect when arriving at the presumably extravagant exterior, outlined by ghostly henchmen, and finally they turn to the topic of who is actually going to meet the King.
It takes another five minutes of debate over who exactly should go with, until finally Wonfer Woman, The Flash, Batman and Superman are stepping up beside Constantine in a carefully drawn circle, leaving the rest of the League to watch in concerned anticipation, and to hold the line if they never return. A final nodd in farewell, and Constantine's changing pulls the five into a whirling cylinder of light, sound and rushing colours.
They arrive with a harsh THUMP, wooden floorboards creaking under their feet, and to an unexpected screech, with Wonder Woman catching a batarang to her head on reflex.
The five heroes stare down in shock as three heads pop up from the covers of a large bed, nestled into the wooden walls of Rook, the world's second greatest Detective (and, depending upon who you asked, the world's first greatest Detective), CEO of Wayne Enterprises' gently floating boat. In the middle of Gotham's definitely toxic marina. Not the Infinite Realms.
For a moment, they all just stared. The league found their Mouths falling open I'm slight shock at the sight of a three men- one with blond hair, another with black, and the last recognisable as Rook himself- stared back.
Taking a deep breathe from his cigarette, Constantine grimaced. "Hi. So, we want to talk to the Ghost King. And my summoning circles are practically never wrong. Who exactly will we be speaking to?"
The three men in the bed exchange looks, a silent conversation passing between them, before Tim and Danny gesture towards Bernard, cuddled up against them.
Taking a deep breath, Constantine nods. "Right. Well then, your majesty..."
If Desmond ever ended up in the Persona 5 universe, I wonder what he would think of the Phantom Thieves? Would he be a confidant for Akira/Ren/Joker, be a neutral party? Become a Phantom Thief himself? I can't help but think that because of his Bleeds, he'd end up having his ancestors show up as Personas to help him fight in the Metaverse.
Ngl, I wanna make Desmond the Sun because of my penchant of giving Desmond something related to the very thing that killed him but based on his ‘situation’, these are the Arcanas that Desmond can be part of in my opinion:
Aeon (many of the Aeon Personas have an affinity to light and a common theme for Aeon representatives are that they are unfamiliar with the world they are in and are struggling to find their place in this world which describes Desmond’s current predicament and also… there’s no Aeon confidant in P5 so Desmond won’t be sharing this spot with anyone or, worse, won’t be removing an existing confidant)
Sun (A character in a lonely and most of the time terribly situation, signifying the hopelessness of them succeeding with the end results being them having to reflect on their situation and coming to peace with themselves and what is happening to them)
Moon (being attuned subconsciously to the world around someone, gaining the ability to sense things without being told about them, or without anyone else knowing, this arcana is also sometimes called the Arcana of Lies and Deceit which Desmond would be doing anyway because there’s no way he’ll tell the truth)
Death (metamorphosis and deep change, regeneration and cycles… which can also hint on Desmond’s origin as someone not from this world)
Personally, I do see Desmond as a Phantom Thief and acting like the cool older brother type to these teenagers. But being a neutral party seems more like his style, considering… everything.
So I would suggest we make Desmond a neutral party the Phantom Thieves meet up with in the Metaverse from time to time, mostly in Mementos because, in his own words ‘something calls to me here’.
The Phantom Thieves don’t know he’s the same bartender that works at Crossroads who would always give Joker a Shirley Temple whenever he’s on break. Lala told Joker that Desmond looked ‘lost’ so she helped him out (in more ways than one, Lala actually thinks Desmond is undocumented and helped him be an ‘upstanding citizen’…)
Desmond, for his part, is just happy that, for some reason, he knows Japanese? He has a feeling it’s one of his Bleed and many people tell him he speaks like he’s from a period drama so yeah, there’s that (it’s one of his Ibn-La'Ahad ancestors who knew Japanese because they chased the Mongols to Japan)
As for Desmond’s Persona…
It would be funny to give him Minerva or Juno as a Persona but we’re not that evil. Another idea would be to give him Dionysus for our usual ‘Desmond could totally be Dionysus’ Sage’ idea that pops in and out XD
Although…
So we’re going to make Desmond special because he’s our blorbo and we’ll use the Persona 1 and 2 plot of how the characters get their Persona.
He does the Persona game because he was bored one day XD
And that’s how he starts to hear Mementos’ call.
And while he journeys in Mementos by himself, that’s when he encounters the Shadows… of his Bleeds.
Confronting them (which always ends in a boss fight) ends with him receiving their Arcana and his Bleeds become his Personas.
His Bleeds’ Arcanas:
Altaïr: Hermit (wisdom, introspection, solitude, retreat and philosophical searches)
Ezio: Judgment (associated with realizing one's calling, gaining a deep understanding of life and a feeling of acceptance and absolution)
Ratonhnhaké:ton: Hanged Man (sometimes self-sacrificial or self-loathing, but are more often notable for being caught between two different extremes, parties or stages in life of which they have little to no control – always in the middle of two opposing forces and he’s doing his best to protect his people given what’s happening) or Strength (associated with the morality about the stronger power of self-control, gentleness, courage and virtue over brute force)
Haytham: Emperor (desire to control one's surroundings, and its appearance could suggest that one is trying too hard to achieve this, possibly causing trouble for others; some elements in life are just not controllable)
Desmond’s real Arcana and his own Persona (which may or may not be some biblically accurate angel-like figure with all of his Bleeds around a small orb similar to the Apple of Eden in the same veins of the Norns design) will only awaken after Joker reaches max level with him.
Also, the Phantom Thieves don’t know it’s him because his form in the Metaverse is always hooded with the robes changing depending on which Persona he uses (at the start, they thought it was different dudes until Desmond changed Personas in midbattle)… and yes, that includes Haytham. Desmond gets a hood too even when he’s using Haytham but he also has Haytham’s tacohat. Them’s the rules.
Holy shit it’s finally ending.
Altaïr do something (is on his last persona)
(Altaïr rip the sword of Altaïr out of his chest)
Wtf???
hope you dont mind that i designed a persona for Altaïr
I him have his own sword in his chest because his fella went through so much shit throughout his life
bonus:
Text in image: “Don’t ever do that again- why did you put it back in???”
would it be fun if you can also talk to your personas even in the real world? And like personas have personalities so Altaïr can enjoy the joys of a microwave.
I love the Phantom Thieves’ reaction. Even Joker can’t be stoic in the face of what is the equivalent to a ‘fourth’ form boss fight. And I love the design! Altaïr is really living up to the Eagle motif (although, if you want it to be an actual ‘myth’/historical reference, his Persona name could be the ‘Old Man of the Mountain’ which refers to both Hassan-i Sabbah and Al Mualim)
(I don’t know if I’m seeing it right but I kinda like the idea that taking out the sword also pulls down the wing covering his left eye. Shows how serious Altaïr is now XD)
It would be funny if Desmond actually started with Altaïr and changed to Ezio when everyone realized Altaïr is weak to Ice (it should have been water but P5 doesn’t have Water affinity. Only P2 has Water affinity XD).
Altaïr’s 2nd form makes him able to use different elements that he shouldn’t be able to in order to make use of repeat turns but there’s a limit to how many elements he can cast (the hint is how many pages the Codex has left). When the Codex no longer has any pages, the Codex will disappear. This might seemed like he’s grown weaker but this actually means that he can finally use his Hidden Blade that all three of Desmond’s Persona can use. Hidden Blade counts as a bonus action that can only be performed in melee range and ignores Def and Res as it counts as Almighty skill (it does leave him and Desmond defenseless as they are in melee range).
As for Persona being able to come to the real world… well… I had Desmond start his ‘Persona journey’ by playing the Persona game like in P1 and P2. Which means, if Desmond’s Personas were triggered by the Persona game, we can make an argument that he’s playing by P1 and P2 rules and P1 and P2 Personas can be summoned in the real world. So yeah, we can totally have Desmond’s Personas interacting with modern technology :)
From @mysticalbasementwitch
We could have teach joker how to sneak around places better
Just imagine a scene where Joker and the party are sneaking in a palace and Desmond just sneaks up to them, scaring the hell out of them when he goes “Your sneaking skills are so basic it’s embarrassing me.”
From @blue-cat-ter-flies-blog
If you wanna pair Desmond with someone then he can always hook up with Joker's uncle. Which is hilarious because Desmond has the kinda attitude/appearance people think would fit in more with a cafe owner/worker while the Uncle has an attitude/appearance that seems to suit a bar owner.
Oh, oh, oh. If he hooks up with Sojiro, this would mean Futaba would have another person in her life that would care for her! And another adult who would actually side with her and try to understand her! Futaba deserves to have a family! (And also… an adult who could easily be persuaded to do pranks and much more legally dubious things)
From @decaffeinedduck
Sae: how do you sneak around so good
joker: well you see there was this bartender-
… I mean… Will Desmond even let Joker be caught in the first place? That man would have sussed out Akechi sooner than he can say pancakes and would unintentionally stop the whole dead target subplot later on XD
Dude, this is so cool! I LOVE how Altair's Persona form looks! Makes me wonder what Ezio and Connor/Ratohnhake:ton's would look like as well.
I also couldn't help but wonder if Desmond would get Edward as a Persona as well, given how in Valhalla, there was a recording of him talking about how for a brief moment, he had a memory of Edward's pop up in his head?
I bet his reaction to seeing Mona in the Metaverse would be like "... now I've seen everything."
Would his codename in the Metaverse be 'Assassin', or something else?
Here is Persona!Ezio. I went full on out with the divine prophet motif, i couldn't help myself.
Text in picture: The Prophet (Justice)
Listen, im not good at naming stuff. btw only Ac revelation Ezio doesn't have his eyes blindfolded. Its based off his quote of :
"When I Was A Young Man, I Had Liberty, But I Did Not See It. I Had Time, But I Did Not Know It. And I Had Love, But I Did Not Feel It."
Text in picture: "you know Leonardo Da Vinci?" "of course, we were best friends"
(the other two heads only appear in combat)
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Yusuke def freaked out, its Leonardo da Vinci how could he not!
also personas are so much bigger. Imagine you apartment is already cramp because of how everything in japan is scaled down and you also have this huge persona taking up so much space.
Desmond and the gang trying not to murder Junya Kaneshiro challenge (impossible)
You cannot convince me that Desmond and his four personas didn't at least think about murdering Kaneshiro at least a lil once he knows about him
FUTABA AND DESMOND!!! These two would be up to no goods together. These two would have absolutely minimal impulse control when it comes to pranks
gosh, hidden blades would be hell to deal with. Desmond is legit an endgame boss fight Fr Fr.
imagine if Desmond got mistaken as black mask first. I’m tempted to have Desmond’s Haytham outfit have a black mask just to fuck shit up.
Akechi prob either hates Desmond or become bffs by bonding over childhood trauma together. These two have no morals.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Desmond would be more like Morgan than a human because how he got yeeted into the p5 universe. Like they’re born out of the cognitive realm n stuff.
Desmond prob sussed Akechi out so fast. Like first meeting he’s already sus and second meeting he knows. Desmond would never allow joker to go through the shit in the interrogation room prob, it’s his lil brother c’mon!!!! They prob think of another way together.
(cue Desmond offering to assassinate Shido but the team reasoned that would be bad for media/public relationships and Shidos party can spin that around to campaign even more)
Ooohhh, Ezio could be Justice Arcana too. The whole “The story of the Justice Arcana revolves around them settling with the natural unfairness of the world, which includes how other people act and even how they treat them”. That sounds like Ezio in AC2 and, in some ways, Brotherhood.
The design is so cool. We couldn’t pick which robes to use for the Persona so we used each one.
Ooohhhh, what if during the Desmond boss fight, Ezio’s a puzzle boss and the Persona ‘body’ will turn after Ezio’s every turn. Each body will have a specific weakness that can be exploited and it also shows what attack Ezio will do next. And it’s kinda like the weapon triangle of FE with:
Body with the scales: elemental attack, weakness: physical
Body with a crossbow: physical attack, weakness: gun
Body with hidden gun: gun attack, weakness: elemental
And you have to hit the weakness to ‘silence’ Ezio otherwise Desmond’s next turn will have him have 2 turns not counting any one more turn he can have.
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Can confirm, the cheaper the apartment is, the smaller it is. And considering this is set in Tokyo, the cost of living would be much more expensive than smaller towns (compared to if this was set in Inaba). He would probably get a small apartment because he has limited options on what jobs he can get (or maybe Lala hooked him up with something okay?)
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Desmond definitely has thought about assassinations, that’s for sure, but he saw how the whole ‘palace stealing treasure’ thing seems to be working for now so he backs away. Although… if Black Mask did manage to kill someone, there’s a possibility that the Phantom Thieves would think it was him since he’s been very casual about thinking of killing someone.
Oooohhh, a confrontation between him and the Phantom Thieves (maybe with Akechi already in the party?) could happen during that time and that’s how the Phantom Thieves would have a boss (puzzle) fight with Desmond in the first place. (And yes, Haytham having a black mask with a red cross to show his Templar ‘face’ would make things more fun)
You say he’s an endgame boss fight and I would like to suggest that instead of an endgame boss fight, he’s the optional Atlus hard boss fight. Sure, the boss fight with him is mandatory but winning it isn’t. Winning it is possible, sure, but he’s on the level of the optional Atlus hard boss fights that it’s not advisable during the first playthrough (think Demifiend in DDS or Caroline and Justine/Lavenza boss fights). Defeating him unlock him as a playable character as well as takes you the alternate route with becoming a major character instead of a ‘bystander’.
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It would be funny if Akechi is the ‘I sorta kinda adopted him but more like in a ‘recruit and mentor’ kind of way to keep an eye on him and also because I don’t mind morally ambiguous people in general anyway?’ but Futaba sees this as Akechi becoming her possible future older brother and why did it had to be him? Why not Joker??? Desmond placates her easily by joining her pranks though XD
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Oooohhh, I was thinking his Personas are special because of his ‘special’ cognition. Like, because he’s new in this world, his palace is not yet ready but because he didn’t exist before he came in this world, he gravitates towards the collective consciousness of humanity.
But making him like Morgana would be fun too. He’s not technically human because he’s an outsider but he’s not like Teddy who was a shadow. Although, maybe he thinks he could be the shadow left behind by Desmond Miles? Maybe make it vague? XD
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Desmond would argue that any campaigns Shido’s party makes would mean jack shit considering Shido is already dead. He also promises to assassinate him using a hidden blade so he wouldn’t be tied to the Phantom Thieves (this one is definitely suggested by Akechi XD)
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From @kingdomheartsrox
Dude, this is so cool! I LOVE how Altair's Persona form looks! Makes me wonder what Ezio and Connor/Ratohnhake:ton's would look like as well.
I also couldn't help but wonder if Desmond would get Edward as a Persona as well, given how in Valhalla, there was a recording of him talking about how for a brief moment, he had a memory of Edward's pop up in his head?
I bet his reaction to seeing Mona in the Metaverse would be like "... now I've seen everything."
Would his codename in the Metaverse be 'Assassin', or something else?
I mean, sure? Edward could be the fourth Persona who can only be unlocked if Joker levels his confidant up to Lv7 or 8? (I still think his Ultimate Persona unlocking at Lv10 should be his Arcana, maybe Aeon?, and it would look like a biblically accurate angel-like figure with all of his Bleeds around a small orb similar to the Apple of Eden in the same veins of the Norns design)
If there was a Water affinity in this game, I would suggest Edward have a water affinity but I guess we’ll have to do with Ice? Ice and Gun maybe?
It would be fun if his codename would be like “Hidden One” but if that sounds too long so maybe something like “Eagle”?
It would be OP if Desmond's Persona cover all elements too. Like Altaïr is Psy and Nuke because of his mastery of the Apple. Ezio is Bless and Curse because of the whole Justice concept. Ratonhnhaké:ton will be Phys and Fire (because of the fire that killed his mother XD). Haytham is Elec and Wind by process of elimination and the missing Gun and Ice is a hint that Desmond actually has another locked Persona. XD
AUGH I MEANT JUDGEMENT I WROTE THE WRONG THING 😭😭😭😭
Yeah the Codename would prob be "Hidden" or "Eagle". Assassin is a bit on the nose but again Yusuke is literally called Fox. But if its based-on masks it can also be "hood" since he got a hood with every outfit. Gotta be one word and snappy ye-know?
Desmond deserves to be OP after all the shit he went through in the AC universe and dying.
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IDK about Edward tho, maybe he just slowly dreams about this pirate dude before realizing "fuck he's the source of this family drama". But you gotta battle a bleed to gain the persona tho, maybe if Desmond dream enough the bleed would seep through.
Desmond didn't start out automatically with Altaïr and the gang (tm) so may i introduce his initial persona?
A weak ass lamb.
My reasoning for this is that he never really got to choose what he wants. The moment he is born his fate is sealed. And only in his final moments he is presented with a choice that he can choose.
But it isn't really choosing. Because there's only one choice at the end for him, that is to let himself burn.
Basically "lamb to the slaughter
But it would also be funny for Desmond to have these huge humanoid personas who can absolutely fuck you up but then he also has a little lamb with wobbly knees on fire.
its a wonder that he manages to beat Altaïr . Desmond basically had to go "stand back" to his persona and basically Charge-melee combo the Altaïr bleed to death. Thank goodness the Lamb got Charge as a move even if it's more late game.
POV I don't know anything about the mechanism of Persona since i only watch gameplays
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Joker prob suffered every weekend trying to beat Desmond. The thieves are determined. They came close a few times before they finally beat them (?) maybe? I'd imagine they are on par with Caroline and Justine/Lavenza boss fight when it comes to difficulty. Absolutely rocking the thieves' shit before they gain their footings.
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It's prob embarrassingly easy for Desmond to sneak up on the Thieves and listen in for keywords so he can also go into palaces.
Desmond offers to train them in Altaïr's outfit and they do not realize Desmond have different outfits and is like different people because he got like...5 personas and like, Joker is the only person they know who have different personas.
Altaïr-outfit-Desmond is prob like a Mentor figure /ally for them after helping em bust down the Kaneshiro's Palace. Like "no you idiots that ain't how you parkour' and teaching them how to maximize their melee combat.
He prob also had to take a job from Kaneshiro to get into his palace. or just ask Altaïr to fly him up there. It was quite awkward and anxiety inducing for everyone when they met.
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POV: Desmond after the whole sh-bang cleaning up rest of Kaneshiro's gang and making the undergrounds shit themselves
and maybe becoming bffs with Iwai and Kaoru and making sure nobody fucks with Iwai.
Lala, Ohya and Desmond in the Crossroad bar vibing and Desmond discovering Crossdressing and getting those much-needed tips. Desmond can charm people's pants off if he wanna.
He prob only uses formal japanese before learning informal ones since his bleed is old as hell and he sounds like he's from a very bad samurai movie during the first few weeks.
he also prob already obtained Ezio during this time. but mostly uses Altaïr since he need that Nuke(tm) power
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IMAGINE HOW AKWARD IT IS FOR DESMOND WHEN THEY THINK HES BLACK MASK
Like at Nijima's palace they are like "finally we meet, black mask!" at Desmond who in Haytham's outfit sneaked into the Palace for grinding and money so he can pay rent in time this month.
It doesn't help that his first instinct is to RUN.
(help i am struggling to design ratonhnhaké:ton's persona)
Well, Desmond could have an eagle mask when the Phantom Thieves saw him first so he’s known as ‘Eagle’ to them?
Yeah, Desmond deserves to be OP as part of his ‘retirement’ XD
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How about Desmond starts to dream Edward after Joker reaches Lv 3 or 4 of his confidant link? This way, Desmond won’t immediately suspect that his connection with Joker is the reason why he starts to dream of Edward. And then Edward becomes an unlockable person during his Lv8 confidant where he asks Joker to come with him to Mementos to find a missing child. The child reminded him of Jenny and she was in danger, unlocking Edward’s Persona while Joker wonder if this is supposed to be Desmond’s ultimate Persona. (it’s not)
Oooohh, yeesss. I love how the lamb has the 17 tag on his ear, really giving the ‘raised to die’ vibe.
May I suggest that the lamb is pure white with the fires being white as well? And when Desmond used the lamb, all it has as a skill is ‘Charge’. Leveling him to Lv2 grants him ‘Dia’ and his entire skill set is pure single target buffs and heals.
The lamb having Charge and Dia skills are the only reason why Desmond even beat Altaïr and, unlike his other Persona that has their own turn, this lamb can only act with Desmond to show how it doesn’t have its own ‘free will’.
(That’s fine. I’ve been playing smt games since I was a child so I can pretty much remember most of the mechanics XD)
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It would be funny if battling Desmond has become so ingrained in their schedule because of how hard he is to beat that the Phantom Thieves would come together during the weekend before realizing that they don’t have to go to Mementos to fight Desmond. In the end, one of them would just say that weekend is Mementos day and would also invite Desmond (who does have that day specifically as his day off because these kids keep trying to beat him)
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I feel like the Altaïr outfit is the mysterious man who observes them, sometimes throws an item or something and leaves before they can come close. The Ezio outfit would be the mentor figure/ally who gives them tips on how to be sneakier. The Ratonhnhaké:ton outfit is the one that show them hidden rooms and even helps out whenever they encounter enemies harder than they expected, even going as far as trying to be bait to the Reaper once or twice to let the Phantom Thieves run away. Haytham outfit is rarely used and that’s why they thought he was the Black Mask because the Haytham outfit always has Desmond leave before they can catch him.
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Yeeesss. Desmond would focus on tying the loose ends the kids can’t take care. He becomes friends with Iwai and Kaoru thinks of him as his dad’s cool friend (and maybe only friend)
Desmond tries out crossdressing once because they suggested and he didn’t mind. He got more tips than he would when he wore his usual bartender outfit so he sometimes change it up (especially when he’s close to red because he bought supplies for his solo Mementos excursions). Joker saw him crossdress once and just went “oh, okay, what should I call you when you’re wearing these?” because he’s a chill good boi.
It would be okay if Desmond was just talking with formal Japanese. People won’t bat an eye because formal Japanese should be used when one is talking to someone of higher standing than them (like a customer). What makes him strange is that he uses formal antiquated Japanese. The kind of Japanese that could be heard from 12th century period dramas. Desmond just jokes that he loves the history of certain time period and uses his knowledge from his Bleed to appear like an expert XD
He mostly uses Altaïr because he hasn’t unlocked Ratonhnhaké:ton yet and Ezio’s current skills during that time are the Hama and Mudo instant kills that sometimes doesn’t work XD (He does get Eiha and Kouha later on)
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Desmond’s first thought is… “What did Haytham do now?” which makes Haytham turn to stare at him and Desmond realized, oh right, Haytham can’t do anything without him knowing.
Oh, how about Desmond doesn’t run. Before he could say it wasn’t him, the Reaper appears because Desmond had been grinding (lol) but the Phantom Thieves didn’t realize it because the Reaper was behind them so Desmond just books it to lead the Reaper away from the kids.
(May I suggest either a bear, wolf and eagle motif for Ratonhnhaké:ton as a reference to the DLC or simply a wolf motif as a reference to the name ‘Connor’? Maybe even design his Persona to have wounds or scratches as a reference to the meaning of his name as “life that is scratched”? Of course the animal motif works better as the Strength Arcana instead of the Hanged Man)
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From @kingdomheartsrox
Ezio looks amazing!
I can see it now, Yusuke/Fox begging the Persona Ezio to tell him everything about Leonardo, maybe even asking him to pose for him for a painting.
The chaos Futaba and Desmond would make with whatever pranks they come up with... XD
It just hit me that Joker's Third Eye ability is almost like Eagle Vision?
Would Desmond become aware of the Velvet Room like Joker is, or be in the dark as the rest of the group?
Ooh, 'Eagle' would be a nice contrast to Crow's codename.
Ice and Gun could work, the hint part makes sense. I was checking out the arcanas to try and figure out which one would suit Edward and perhaps either the Chariot or the Fool would work?
And I may not have said it before, but Desmond's Ultimate Persona sounds incredible.
Then Ezio does something better by painting the way he learned to during Renaissance Italy and Yusuke starts to get tips from him. (Maybe Ezio even get Desmond to be Yusuke’s ‘patron’ and Desmond’s like “that’s not how these things work nowadays, Ezio” “That doesn’t matter, Desmond. Have you seen how he lives? He needs someone to take care of him.”)
Joker’s Third Eye ability could be a hint of how he can have Eagle Vision, might even hint that maybe the Isus have a hand in these entire Persona business with whispers that maybe the Velvet Room’s boss (Philemon) may or may not be an Isu or a system created by the Isus.
Desmond has his own Velvet Room but he can’t use fuse nor can he see Joker’s Velvet Room. It’s an empty room and all he can hear is the Velvet Room music. The most he can do in the Velvet Room is to use Persona cards he gets after taking down mobs and using them to craft weapons, armors or accessories. Desmond can’t use Skill cards at all.
(This could be a hint that Desmond was meant to have the Fool Arcana (new beginnings) and should have his own Velvet Room but because of the plot of Persona 5, he didn’t get the perks of the Velvet Room)
Yeesss. Eagle taking in Crow and Futaba likes to jokingly call them the bird duo.
For Edward’s Arcana, I was thinking maybe
Death: symbolizes great change similar to how Edward’s change from being a pirate focused on gold to one of the best Assassin during his time (also, Desmond can joke it’s because Edward’s death led to major changes of the Kenway bloodline)
Chariot: They are typically very driven and athletic individuals who have a personal goal that they aim to achieve at any cost. Often brash but goodhearted, they struggle with weaknesses or doubts that they try to hide from everyone else
I wouldn’t suggest going for the Fool as the Fool is usually represented by the party as a whole and especially the protagonists in P5 (and P3 and P4). So yeah… to keep the symbolism of the games afloat, I wouldn’t suggest the Fool to any of Desmond’s Persona other than his initial Persona the Lamb. XD
Thank you! I like biblically accurate angel designs and also Norn is one of my favorite Persona/Demon to use in smt so yeah, I immediately remembered them XD
BEHOLD!!! Ratonhnhaké:ton my beloved!!!! i love him so much it look a long time to get a design i liked AEOgagneioa half way through my 3rd design draft i decided to just go "okay the old design is better"
Text in picture:
Imma show this to Ezio
Stop-__
Lost?
BIG WOLF MUCH FLUFF LETS GOOOOOO!!! BIG!
Ratonhnhaké:ton is prob the biggest persona. I want to make Altaïr the smallest because it would be funny + more agile. Altaïr only looks big since he's hovering/levitating. Ezio gets to be second shortest, Edward would be in the middle and Haytham would be second tallest.
The wolf is actually just slightly shorter than Ratonhnhaké:ton. It comes up to his chest.
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The wolf is used as a heater and stove when the stove broke and insulation is shit. Just snuggle up to em!
it would be difficult to arrange the wolf on the bed so they just gotta lay at the foot of it while Ratonhnhaké:ton and Desmond catch some z's
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What i'm thinking for is that Mementos and cognitive stuff are basically the programing for human mind. Like Mementos is the combined servers for the human/public mind. Palaces form when a person got too much distortion and the servers/calculations went "alright we gotta separate this into a different server"
Yaldabaoth would be an Ai that went mad and gone onto a power-trip. And velvet room attendants and Philemon are what I think would be the anti-viruses programs/ai to make sure the systems are running smoothly. They initially were that but they slowly grow to gain personalities, opinions and such over thousands of years.
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Ezio looking at Yusuke's dorm room and his two lobsters: damn girl you live like this????
I am 90% sure that's everyone's instinct when seeing twig boy is to feed him. The phantom gang and Desmond shall combine forces to break him out of the starving artist status.
wait.
does that make Desmond a sugar daddy?????
id rather not think about that- MOVING ON
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Desmond: Is there someone being mean to you at school?
Kaoru, nervous: no...?
Desmond:...
Desmond: Alright, thats it, im picking you up from school tomorrow. *pulls out his most scary looking leather jacket and torn jeans*
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Desmond have no Velvet Room is just kinda sad. Womp womp moment. Desmond had enough of being the protgaonist let him REST!
I think if he had one it would be a bar, which is pretty cool. Wait- can it just be an empty room with a bar counter so he dont need to sit on the cold floor or somethin.
Desmond when first entering the Velvet Room through a rusty door: WHERE IS THE MUSIC COMING FROM???? WHAT?
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Ratonhnhaké:ton and the gang using Twitter to obliterate misinformation and random people online while checking if this universe's history is similar to theirs. YES LEONARDO IS FRUITY AND FUCK COLONIALISM- NO SHIT DONT HAPPEN LIKE THAT IN MEDIEVAL TIMES WE AREN'T STUPID. Oh you need help with homework? alright, no problem- *turns to Haytham typing up a 1000 word response telling someone to die in a professtional passive aggressive manner *
also cat videos.
lots of cat videos.
DONT FEED THE STRA-
okay did we just become the stray cat kings?
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*Anything bad happens*
Desmond instinctively: Haytham what did you do?
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Desmond's apartment. Theres a kitchen with counters that have two seats for eating. A couch and tv. A bed. a book shelf, bathoom. and closet. Pretty good actually.
small as fuck, also relatively cheap for living downtown. he prob hide weapons in his storage/closet place.
He also prob hangs up Ezio's art pieces on the walls like a parent sticking a drawing onto the fridge. We must supply and encourage this man's only hobby/j
enrichments for the Personas. Aka going out at ass o clock to show them the modern world. They prob got seen once or twice but who's gonna believe 'em?
Ooohhh, Ratonhnhaké:ton looks so cool. I’m imagining the flames on his body connects to the flames of the wolf so, no matter how far the two of them are apart, they’re connected by the flames.
Also, just Desmond using the wolf as his means of transportation in Mementos. Morgana’s gonna be a bit annoyed because it’s a ‘dog’. As a ‘cat’ (not a cat!), his instincts are going on overdrive. Ryuji makes fun of how he has some kind of rivalry going on, not with Desmond or his Persona but with Desmond’s Persona’s wolf XD
Altaïr also looks big when his wings open but he rarely opens them.
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I feel like Desmond would just get a futon with no bedframe. This way, the wolf can snuggle with him in the futon (in reality, it’s because getting a futon is cheaper XD)
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Well, we’re going for Desmond being transported into Persona ‘verse so I’m on board on this one. Philemon might be a rogue AI too but he’s different as he decided to support humanity’s free will, instead of pushing them into an idea that the other rogue AI believe would be better for humanity. In this scenario, these AIs started breaking down because whoever made them no longer ‘maintains’ them, giving them chances to break from their programming and develop their own will.
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Iwai hears about what Desmond is doing for Yusuke and goes “Are you planning to adopt him?” and Desmond’s just like “Nooooooo, not at all.” and Iwai doesn’t believe him, thinking Desmond would have adopted him but, unfortunately, Desmond’s status as a foreigner makes that difficult.
He doesn’t stop him from picking up Kaoru to school though but he starts to wonder if Desmond just likes children because he doesn’t have one of his own (it’s not that. The children hovers around Desmond’s peripheral and he can’t just ignore them)
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Oooohhh, I didn’t go for a bar because that has already happened. The Velvet Room appears as a bar in P1 and P2.
Sorta…
I mean it has a piano and a chair that seemed like a stage of some kind XD
So maybe Desmond’s Velvet Room starts as empty then when he gets Altaïr, a bar counter appears where he can use the cards he get to create equipment.
When he gets Ezio, more things pop up in the Velvet Room, just simple decorations and such without any ‘gameplay’ purpose.
Then…
When Joker reached max level with his confidant and helped him evolve his Lamb to his final Persona, the Velvet Room changed.
It looked like a purple version of Bad Weather.
(The music seemed to be coming from what was meant to be the stage and it was a piano and a mic stand but no one was there…)
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Desmond accidentally needing to add a budget for ‘stray cat food’. Akechi saw it once and thought it was about Yusuke then his ‘detective’ mind got a hold of him and thinks it means him. He’s so embarrassed when he finally found out that Desmond had been feeding stray cats.
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After getting Edward, *something goes missing*
Okay, Edward, Ezio, which one of you took that?
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I’m going to be honest, that’s not small. I mean… it’s not the smallest apartment I’ve seen in Japan, that’s for sure.
For example, this is the floor plan my apartment had when I was in ****** for 11 months due to work.
(a very… Inaba-esque town, actually. The closest fast food was a 30 minute walk McDonalds. The closest KFC was an hour away XD)
LeoPalace21 is more on the cheap side when it comes to rent but they are small. I feel like this is the kind of place Desmond can rent out because it’s cheap, it works well enough and this means he has more funds for all the equipment and items he would use on his solo runs.
I’m not saying Desmond can’t have that kind of apartment as you described. I’m just saying, if Desmond got that kind of apartment in Tokyo, he probably uses his Mementos grind for living expenses too XD
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I’m just imaging Altaïr wanting to do the laundry because he’s trying to study how the washing machine works. Desmond has to keep telling Ezio to stop changing the temperature of the AC.
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From @siofreed
I want to pet the Lamb so bad, its so baby
Yeeesss, so adorable <3
From @knine-nights
Gotta love it when you find a post that looks super cool and you have a moment of “dang I wish I had any fuckin clue what they’re talking about”
Aaawww. If you’re interested, P5 has an anime as well which might be ‘faster’ to watch? XD
From @mysticalbasementwitch
Desmond unlocking Edward could happen in the middle of a fight against the pt’s while he is in haytham mode and they believe he is the true black mask cue the end of the fight when they notice that a change of persona can come with a change in costume
Oooohh, what if they all tried to ambush Desmond while he was using Haytham’s Persona and that brought back bad memories for Haytham that it forces Edward out.
Or… what if during one of his confidant events, he takes Joker alone to Mementos to train him because he believes Joker is close to activating Eagle Vision but they got ambushed along the way. The fear of losing Joker awakens Edward because of the raw emotions that seemed so close to Edward’s emotions when his family was attacked.
From @shepardking
I have read up to current, and the lamb to slaughter is my favorite bit. It also makes he wonder if Desmond's arm is burnt? And if so, would that effect the lamb or no? Maybe blood on the lamb to symbolize that the lamp has been slaughtered but still it goes on. Both alive and dead like Shroodingerz(?) cat Desmond lives and continues to live.
Spider man meme for Desmond, Joker, and Akechi lmao
Well, what can happen is that the Lamb’s fire keeps ‘dripping’. The fire is white but when it drips to the ground, it becomes red and stain the ground like blood.
Giving Desmond a burnt arm would be a constant reminder of what has happened and it could reflect on the Lamb’s flames originating from the burnt arm maybe? Or his final Persona having an arm clad in white flames?
From @shepardking
Also, I would like to put forth Joker seeing Desmond cross dressing and being "YOU CAN DO THAT?!" Not in a bad way, but in a way you realize that if this guy respect can do it that means YOU can do it too.
Gotta stand Aki-Ren "Gender is Silly Putty and damn am I down right Goofy" Joker
It would be funny if Joker is like “YOU CAN DO THAT?” on the inside but, on the outside, he just looks chill as always. It takes Joker a minute to realize that his surprise isn’t because someone can cross dress but that someone like Desmond could cross dress so wouldn’t that mean he can cross dress as well if he wanted to?
From @shepardking
And another thing! If Desmond does have the burns and the sheep is bloodied, the event to get his Ultimate arcana is Desmond telling the kids, all of them with Akechi included, how he burned to save the world. And since the Lamb is HIS arcana the evolution of his Lamb to the ultimate could be the Lamb ripping inside out before turning into the ultimate. To show how it felt for Desmond to die for the world
To make it more morbid, it’s the flames bursting out of the Lamb that turns to his final Arcana as a show of how Desmond burned from the inside.
From @shepardking
Also, Joker and Akechi are both Fool arcana's, I think. Joker being a change for the better while Akechi is a change for the worst. So Desmond's Lamb could be a more straightforward Fool, what people first think about when they hear Fool. He's foolish an stupid for having faith in humanity. A foolish for trusting Lucy and getting stabbed in the back for his trust yet still trusting Shane and Rebecca.
Desmond is a Fool that is foolish for his sacrifice.
Okay, I just remembered that Akechi’s real Persona is Loki who is part of the Fool’s Arcana so yeah, Akechi is the Fool arcana as well. (I kinda forgot because I got used to him being the Justice Confidant and the ‘negative’ Fool arcana user that I first think of is Adachi XD).
Saying the Fool means being foolish can be our way of spinning Desmond’s thoughts into not realizing the real reason why he’s the Fool.
He believes it’s because he is a fool for all the choices he made but then when he finally meets the real Igor, Igor tells what the Fool truly represent:
It is the Number 0. Zero. The Cipher.
The Fool is the start of a journey… a new beginning into the unknown.
The Fool can be whatever it wishes to be for its journey has only began.
(I still think Desmond’s confidant should be Aeon even if he’s a Fool arcana user though)
I love Ratohnhake:ton/Connor's Persona form! And the fact that they're connected by the flame is a cool conception!
Makes me wonder if Mona in his van form would challenge Desmond and the wolf to a race throughout Mementos.
And I agree, the Lamb is so cute. I wonder what its Persona name would be? Or would it just be "Lamb"?
Ooh, and also, in his Velvet Room, what if some of said decorations were references to his journey through his ancestors' memories and his journey now?
Ooh wow, the one with Edward awakening because he is worried about losing Joker in Mementos there sounds cool. The Haytham one sounds cool, too.
I do wonder what his "All Out Attack" would look like? My guess is "Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted" would appear as text behind him.
I can just imagine Ezio and Edward pointing at each other upon being asked who took it.
Damn, that evolution to the Ultimate Persona...
(Desmond's confidant as Aeon sounds great, by the way!)
Mona would definitely not want to do that but Ryuji definitely would and no one can rile up Mona more than Ryuji even if they’re on the same side.
I would suggest naming the Lamb Subject 17 just to hammer in the ‘raised for the slaughter’ vibes. His final Persona would be called “The Worlds” (as a reference to the possibility that his name Desmond came from the French word des mondes, the worlds, and the fact that he came from another world).
Yeeesss, the bar is filled with alcoholic beverages that his Bleeds recognized (especially Ezio). The walls are filled with paintings in the same style as Ezio, depicting important events in their lives (Ezio cannot look at the painting titled Burning of Cappadocia and Haytham ignores the painting titled “The End of Edward Kenway”).
The All Out Attack? Uuuhhh, I’m thinking that his All Out Attack ‘art’ changes depends on who his Persona is at the moment. All the Assassins would have “Nothing is true, everything is permitted” as the text but written in their language. Haytham would have the English language but his text would be “May the Father of Understanding Guide Us”. Each art would be Desmond having his back turned from the ‘screen’ while the Persona takes certain stage with the artwork behind them will be of similar style to what was ‘popular during their time’.
Unless it’s Lamb.
For the Lamb All Out Attack art, Desmond would actually be the ‘center’ of the art with the words “Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted” written in English (unless we have Edward taking the English text, then Desmond’s would be written in all of his Personas’ languages stitched together to create a Frankenstein language). The artwork behind him would just more or less look like the shadow backdrop of a city (has a sorta half-film noir, half-cyberpunk feel).
For the final Persona All Out Attack art, it’s similar to the Lamb All Out Attack but now the text in Isu script and the artwork is more of an apocalyptic the sun devours all feel.
(Thank you! I just like Aeon Personas hahahaha)
From @shepardking
Wjsjsn I was just thinking about this again when I got the notification of being tagged
My thoughts being Desmond being aware, in a way, about the New Game plus+
Like, first play through the game Desmond is just hanging out but when you New Game plus+ he's like "The fuck??? Joker why would you wanna do this again???"
Also, Iwai thinking art boy will get adopted only for Desmond to drag Akechi to stay with him after he nearly dies in his father's palace would be hilarious. Like, the only way to get Akechi to be alive at the end would be to get full relationships lvls with Desmond because of course he could get into the locked room and get the fake Detective Prince gone and Akechi out safe
And the group only learns Akechi is alive after they finish the palace completely
In other words… place Desmond in a timeloop against his will. XD
But really, we can make this work by making the first ‘game’ have the bad ending. To be more specific, the ending of Joker being shot by Akechi. Desmond wakes up after learning that Joker has died and, now, he has information of the future.
… But Joker does too.
So Joker believes that Desmond taking a more center stage is because of the changes he’s made to prevent the bad ending. Desmond believes Joker and his group are changing because of his actions. And it takes their Confidant Lv 9 for them to realize that they both returned to the ‘starting’ point.
Desmond unofficially adopts the High School Detective and Iwai’s first thought is “oh another one”. As far as the public knows, Akechi is a good kid. Desmond just wants to try and help him out since… sure, he killed people but they were ‘bad’ people and Akechi needs someone to guide him.
… maybe Edward feels like Akechi is similar to Haytham even (Haytham is offended, Akechi is offended as well).
I'm once more mentioned, lmao I wasn't thinking about this this time but reading through made me think
The fact Akechi aquires a new dad is great, Desmond would be a good dad tho
And the funny thing is… Akechi and Desmond would both deny that Desmond is now Akechi’s new dad.
Futaba refuses to call him ‘big bro’ at all until he learned how awkward Akechi feels and now she does it to annoy him.
Yusuke absolute introduces him as ‘my new brother’ in a serious tone because, as far as he’s concerned, Desmond adopted the both of them (Futaba and Joker are both joint custody thing so he calls them ‘our half-siblings’) and Akechi is getting a headache.
Desmond just assumed this is all a way for them to say that they think of Akechi as a friend.
Makoto, on the other hand, actually believes that Desmond should take responsibility and fill out the adoption papers.
Ryuji and Ann thinks this is all funny and joins in (but they don’t really think Makoto was serious about the adoption papers).
Haru knows they don’t want to be seen as dad and son. She also likes to call Akechi ‘Mister Miles’ just to fuck with him anyway. She’s 100% on board with the adoption papers plan.
Joker is the one who got Mona to believe that Akechi and Yusuke are real siblings and Desmond is their dad. To be more exact, one of his ‘other personalities’ are the dads and their dads are different. All of these is done for Joker’s own amusement because he’d rather go to prison than call Akechi his ‘brother’.
Kasumi is soooo confused. Because by the time she became a Phantom Thief, she actually thought Desmond was really Akechi’s dad. And now, hearing Futaba call Akechi ‘big bro’, she now thinks Desmond is in a relationship with Sojiro XD
I get that Altäir's design is pretty much set, but if the feathers morphed into Hidden Blades?
One of his attacks could be an AOE attack that shows up as him flapping his wings once. Feathers would fall off when he flaps his wings and they would change into the blades of a hidden blade that does Psychic damage. If the feathers don’t change, when it hits the floor, it would cause a mini explosion, damaging every enemy nearby with Nuclear damage.
These would be Altaïr’s equivalent to Mapsiodyne and Mafreidyne.
I understand the appeal of wanting every adult hero to instinctively adopt teenage Peter Parker, but can it really beat the hilarity of acknowledging that at 15 Peter was 5'10", unusually buff, went by a moniker with Man in it, wore a creepy full face mask, and had a tightly guarded secret identity and probably a Queens accent thick enough to have come out of a jello mold, and adult heroes reasonably responded to him by going, “Wow, this grown man is an immature asshole for no reason.”
Way funnier to me than adult heroes finding out Peter is a teenager and becoming Concerned is the idea of adult heroes Retroactively finding out Peter Was a teenager because he admits to being like. 22 and they’re like “Hang on you’ve been doing this for like. Seven years.” and he’s like “Haha crazy right? Anyway it’s too late for you to yell at me about that because the statue of limitations on that lecture ran out when I turned 18”
YEAH this trope is instantly more tolerable if it’s fully adult Peter being like, *listen up whippersnappers because I’ve been around the block voice* “I’m thirty, and—” and Tony Stark, who vaguely assumed Spider-Man is maybe two years older than him because he just has that energy and hasn’t reassessed this for four presidential terms, is like, *drunkenly doing math* “You’re how many”
Okay but…them trying to talk about Old People Stuff with him, not realizing that he wasn’t alive to remember xyz thing happening, never used xyz technology bc he didn’t exist yet, not expecting him to agree with the fact that some ppl were saying songs they grew up to were oldies, etc
The thing about Peter Parker is that he was raised by senior citizens the way other heroes are raised by wolves. He has the body of an Olympic gymnast and the soul of a malcontented geriatric. This likely contributed to the perpetuation of the accidental ruse.
It’s when he channels Aunt May so hard he makes it sound like he was personally and immediately affected by McCarthyism that the time traveler fringe theory starts really picking up bets.
Peter has a lot of feelings about the woman that discovered DNA and he strikes me as the kind of person that thinks that distancing yourself from notable figures of history by using their last names is stupid, so he’s going to say something like, “Rosalind worked so fucking hard to have that work snatched from her,” immediately followed by, “I woulda thumped him good,” and inspiring Tony and Banner to frantically look through the 1930s and 40s yearbooks at King’s College and theorize which one was Spider-Man. Captain America tries reminiscing about the good ole days with him. Peter, for his part, has been absently agreeing and making vague “I’m listening” noises about the Rolling Stones and Elton John for the majority of his life, so adding baseball, Duke Ellington, and Ella Fitzgerald to the list wasn’t that much of a stretch.
That’s made funnier by the fact that I feel like Steve’s natural assumption would be that Spiderman’s a non-citizen, so him jumping straight to felon is like, Peter just has such strong criminal vibes.
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀hiiii!! I have a headcanon that all ghosts see the world in negative colors (I actually want to call it sort of a colorblindness idk😭😭😭). and since Danny is a half-ghost, when he transforms all the colors around him change too. because of this, his eyes sometimes hurt and he confuses colors. and at first he often scared Jazz and she thought that he had colorblindness 😭
Danny is raised by Bats. No, not those Bats the Other Ones.
Danny is sent to Gotham and is Stuck in his Spirit Animal form (as a forced vacation by clockwork) which happens to be a little white bat. As he’s King his animal form reflects that, he has glowing eyes, the underside of his wings look like a nebula, when he flies frost or stardust trail behind him, when he ‘echoes’ its an Aurora.
So, we come to this. Danny stuck in bat form adopted by the local bats who think he’s their ‘Goddess’ Nocturna child. (If you ever seen the animated cartoon/movie Silverwing).
So they take care of him and he grows up in their care for years and is just honestly having a blast. The Ecto in Gotham makes him grow very,very,very BIG
One day the Other bats(*cough*Damian and Alfred*cough*) decide to just check on there local namesake and make sure they’re Healthy and come face to face with what they assume is the bats *Mother*
I just headcanon that due to Danny and the fact he’s leaking ecto the bat colony are smarter and faster than normal bats.
I love your writing so much but I'm here with a crack idea just imagine deage Dan is Klarion.
Dan was able to find out who he is outside of Danny then he was able to change his name Klarion Jackson Fenton/Nightingale he is still a little villain boy also now a mom boy.
Ghost King Danny is his mom young justice was so confused when Klarion you're the best gifts get your mom after not talking to him for a while to also begging them to pretend to be his friend . Justice League dark is panicking in the background about the electric being that just shows up.
Danny in full ghost king attire standing there with a plate of cookies ready to meet his son's new friends.
Thanks so much! I am glad you enjoy my writing!
Also thanks because I absolutely love this Idea/Prompt! Sooooo please enjoy this piece inspired by it! Also I haven't consumed a lot of DC material lately so i am basing this all on my memories. In other words.... I went with Tim's little team here.
Hope that's okay and that this won't disappoint.
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Dan, who was going by Klarion for some years now, had a massive problem. It was the huge kind of problem build on small bubbles of lies that then turned into this one giant bubble that was about to pop just because of one little question asked by his mom when his sister decided to throw him under the bus to deflect from herself and the fact that she was dating a demon. Don't get him wrong he still loves her, but man did he want to strangle Danielle right now.
"So Klarion, Ellie is right. When will I get to meet your friends you told me so much about?"
It was such an innocent question from his mom. And while his moms titles don't scare him, cause at some point in time they could have been his too, the happy dopey smile like nothing was wrong in the dimensions with little expectations directed at him was the scariest thing his mom could ever direct at him when he had asked THAT question.
So now Klarion was in need of a quick solution. When his mom had asked he had mumbled out a quick: "Next week maybe. We won't be busy with hero stuff then." He had started to form a plan. First of all, he needed to remember what all he had told his mom about his new and redeemed life on Earth 43 he had build for himself with the name Klarion Jackson Fenton-Nightingale.
Which fuck. There was a lot he had told his mom just so he wouldn't worry.
Cause now he also remembers that whenever he had gone out to cause some chaos he had made it seem to his mom like he was going out to bond with his new friend or help them with their hero duty. Well, in a way maybe his chaos causing could be seen as bonding. The ghostly kind, that is. And as for helping with the hero duty... he did give them work, something to do with their hero status. Anyway Klarion tried to remember all possible names he had dropped. Shit why did he also mention to his mom that he was working with heroes to make her proud? He should have name dropped some villains instead but nearly all of them were adults. He knew his mom would have frowned if he had only adult friends and no one around his age.
He was pacing his room in their castle. He need a plan, a good one at that. He knows he name dropped Robin, now Red Robin, Superboy and Impulse on a whim once. Superboy more so cause his mom had been interested in the Alien Heros of the Earth of the dimension he was partially living on now. He had mentioned Robin for the joke of knowing that there is a Dinner in an other Dimension with the same name. And because his Grandfather didn't like the Flash-clan which meant his mom didn't like them too much because of their messing with timelines either, he had mentioned being friends with Impulse on pure spite because of a punishment one day and to see their reactions. So he had to get these three on board anyway, and because for the heck of it he would get Wonder Girl involved too. It was never bad to have a girl in a friends group.
Klarion stopped his pacing. Turning towards his demonic ghost cat companion, kind of what Cujo was to his mom now. "Teekl, I think I have a plan. I will convince these Idiots, that shouldn't be a huge problem. Most of them are normale little flesh sacks." Teekl and him stared for some time at each other and after a moment Klarion huffed turning away with crossed arms. "It's a good plan don't be so sceptical, they are heroes right? They will not refuse my request!"
Well maybe Klarion should have planned this a bit better.
The next day Red Robin blinked at the witch boy up from the ground in the living room of what looked like to be an normal apartment. He had just been in Gotham, working on a case and now he was here? Looking to the left he also noticed that Superboy (the older), Impulse and Wonder Girl were also with him. They all looked stunned he observed and partially disoriented. Additionally they hadn't heard from Klarion since the last time they had foiled his plans on raging chaos upon the earth, that had been weeks ago.
"Kla-"
"I have summoned you heroes here. For the moment it is fruitless to try to leave because of the magic barrier." Okay rude to be cut of but that explained why he suddenly wasn't where he remembered to be last anymore. It was now Superboy who opened his mouth first but before he could even make a sound Klarion decided to speak over them again. "I have presents."
Four young heroes collectively blinked, confused, stunned and weirded out. As the which boy before them waved over to wards a table filled with boxes and packages. "I come in peace today, to proof that I brought these are presents, filled with various goods from different dimensions that should be to the liking of you all. Technologie, accessories, snacks, weapons, as well as clothing styles."
Red Robin shared a glance with his friends, a silent communication but before he once again could say anything Impulse was already by the table going through the stuff. They could here his 'oh's and 'ah's, which inevitably made them curious and they wandered over too. Klarion was not acting hostile at all yet but Red Robin did not trust that so he kept the which boy in clear view the entire time.
"Rob! You gotta see this! That actual futuristic Tech!"
"Look at these snacks."
"These accessories don't look to bad..."
His eye twitched when he noticed Klarion was sporting a smug look. Red Robin had to ask now, because this was not normal for the other. "Okay usually you would have started some big shot chaos plan by now. I don't buy this peace offering act and your way to formal talking. So what is going on?"
The other three, thankfully in Red Robins opinion, finally looked away from the tempting gifts and also turned their attention fully on Klarion. Who's smug smile falter as he let out a sigh and stared at them with what they could only describe as a frustrated look.
"My mom is planning to visit me."
"And?" Impulse asked between munching on three different bags of chips that where on the table.
"And he believes I am friends with you idiots."
They stared slack jawed. Impulse was pinching himself like he couldn't believe what they had just heard. Did one of their Villains, just informed them that their mom believes they were friends? Red Robin was starting to think he might be in a sleep deprived Hallucination.
"Why would she?" Wonder Girl questioned next to which Klarion glared at her with fire in his eyes.
"First of, my mom uses the pronouns he/Him. Be rude to my mom and I will find a way to make your life a permanent hell on earth." Wonder Girl blinked lifting her hands as in a sign of peace. "Second, my mom is under the believe that i work with heroes not against them. I do not have the heart to disappoint him after everything that happened in the past. So I embellished the truth a little."
"A little?" Superboy retorted sarcastically, to which they caught a light blush dusting the which boy's cheeks.
"Look my sister threw me under the bus and my mom wants to meet my friends now! So I need you idiots to play nice with me for when he visits!"
"And we will do that because?" Red Robin crossed his arms, watching their villain sceptically still not really buying this entire act. This was to strange of an behaviour change. Something was up, and he was going to get behind it.
Klarion on the other hand was starting to panic internally. His plan was not as he had hoped. The presents he had specifically gotten from other dimensions with what he believed was their interests did not work to make them simply accept his request. This was the last time he would listen to old man Vlad on how to bribe humans, he wasted his entire week on getting all that stuff. His mom was going to show up soon enough he need to have them act as his friends by then so he could remove the magic barrier. Or else his mom would notices he faked everything.
They left him no choice. He would have to throw his pride away for the sole reason to not disappoint his mom.
All four Young Justice Heroes blinked as Klarion suddenly threw himself on the ground before them into a pleading position.
"Please! I beg you, just for the time my mom is here. Please act like my friends!"
"I didn't think Klarion was a mama's boy...." Impulse whispered to the rest of them in pure disbelief as they stared stunned at the kneeling witch boy.
Cut to the heroes that noticed their teens were missing.....
"Where is he?" Batman growled at the Constantine who was sighing tiredly.
"Look mate, the way you and the other Spandex wearing friends explained it, made it sound like they got summoned by a being of the Infinit Realms." The blond man sighed lighting another cigarette eying the four heroes, Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and Flash. Zatanna was behind him pouring over a book about the realms and trying to find a tracking spell to trace it back and to where they could have been summoned.
"Don't you have something like a tracker on your boy?" Batman only growled something under his breath to which the Brite couldn't help to arch and eyebrow. Constantine was going to say something sarcasting as Deadman suddenly appeared a panicked look on him. "The Ghost King has chosen to come to our dimension."
"Say bloody what now?" All attention that had been on the heroes and their problem of missing teenage heroes turned now to Deadman and the news he brought with him. "The ghost, shades and spirits talked, for the king has decided to visit our Dimension. They are in an uproar, no one knows of why our King is on his way."
"Bloody fucking hell!" Constantine cursed. "We are fucking screwed! Isn't that guy a fucking tyrannical eldrich war maniac?!"
Deadman nodded solemnly and Constantine uttered another hearty and colourful 'fuck'. While the heroes present exchanged worried glances, not only were their kids missing but now a, by the sounds of it, highly dangerous being decided to appear in their dimension? Batman couldn't help but think that there had to be a connection to the missing teens and this.
Meanwhile in the Infinite Realms the Ghost King Castle...
Danny smoothed out his fur trimmed cape and adjusted his crown so it was floating nicely and evenly on his head. Today was the day he would get to meet his sons friends. He needed to make a good first impression. That was why he had chosen to take on his Ghost King form for this. With the wave of his hand he made an ice mirror appear before him, checking how he was looking once again. Once satisfied he nodded to himself looking over towards Fright Knight who was holding the plate of cookies he had baked himself. It was the fifth batch, and the only one that didn't turn out burned. He had needed Jazz help for this one to turn out well. It was only proper if he brought some cookies for the kids. Also he would have loved to bring his families fudge but... the last time he had tried making them had turned into a disaster.
"Thanks Frighty. Do you think Klarion's friends will like these? Wait don't answer! If they don't like them I will just get something else to thank them for taking care of my boy." Danny rambled on as he glanced at the plate of cookies in his hands. Why was he so nervous? He was just going to get to meet his little boy's friends. Sure his boy had dropped some stories about them and his adventures with them here and there. But hearing stories and meeting the kids were two different things.
Shaking his head Danny put on his best smile as he summoned a portal to Klarions apartment in the 43th Dimension of Earth. It was time to visit his boy in the place he had made his second home and thank the people that looked after his kid.
Danny and Bruce have been dating for years before Bruce joined the JL. After the Dracula incident, Danny gave Bruce a few guardian spirits. They only come out when dealing with magical problems, so most others don't know about them.
Unknown to either of them, the whole JL think Batman is an amalgamation of shadows. Thanks to the shadows disliking how they treat the Queen.
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