if i couldn't have any of the obvious first choice superpowers i would want my power to be the power of i can go anywhere and its not a problem. the way this power would work is that as long as im peaceful and respectful i can go anywhere and nobody will see it as weird or see me as a target for hostility. i can walk into a cool house to politely peep the decor or walk into a tall office building to politely peep the decor or walk around a city at night alone to politely peep the decor or walk into a strange facility to politely peep the decor or walk onto a plane and ride the plane to its destination and then walk around there to politely peep the decor and its fine as long as im chill. no need to make me faster or anything i can just walk at a normal pace. its good for the soul.
quirky fourth wall breaking character but theyre just fucking. wrong about the medium theyre in. they keep making references to cinematic techniques and directorial styles and the other fourth wall breaking character is like "dumbass we're in a fucking comic book" and they are in a video game.
Shout-out to aromantic people whose lives are so fucking busy that they periodically forget what day of the week it is. today is Wednesday, June 5th. Happy Aromantic Visibility Day.
Ok, hear me out. I know we have a couple of DC/Invincible crossover universes. What about one where Batman and Robin are LITERALLY Batman and Robin. Batman sees this feral eldritch horror and his adoption instincts kick in, because SOMEONE needs to teach this OP gremlin some morals. Newsflash, it doesnât work but heâs attached soâŚgive her the Jason Todd treatment and agree to disagree, thatâs his little girl now. Robin is in it for the vibes (and the now loads of cash she has full access to as the adopted daughter of Bruce Wayne). Joker kills her favorite brother and welp, guess the clownâs gotta go. Batman is like, âRobin, please. Stop. Killing is wrong.â Sheâs all âNo đâ And he just accepts it because what the hell is he gonna do? Put his cosmic entity daughter in prison? Nobody liked Joker anyway. Besides, sheâd just break out.
Robin immediately solves the entire conflict between Bruce and Jason (when he eventually comes back via Pit shenanigans) due to killing Joker, as well as wins her the favorite sibling award.
But then she meets Mark and âWait, Invincible is here too?!â (Cause sheâs also super oblivious and was so hyped over the DC side, she missed the fact that she is living in a merged universe). Attaches herself to her favorite character, Mark is head over heels, all the while the Batfam is acting real overprotective when it comes to arguably the most powerful being in the universe
(I also thought itâd be really funny if Darksied shows up, takes one look at Robin and immediately runs away because hey can somehow sense/see WHAT she is and it TERRIFIES him)
Just finished off a small snippet that is like. 90% implications of wtf is going on in this AU but I think it's fun so-
You return to the Batcave, and walk directly into an ambush.
Now, this isnât that uncommon. Youâve developed something of a reputation for strolling directly into ambushes of all kinds. Tim once showed you a graph factually proving that out of all Robins (of the costumed variety, not the birds, or the youâs), you have the most ambush-colliding missions on record. Adjusted for time spent as (that kind of) Robin, naturally.
(And revealing that he was staying off his broken ankle, instead of jumping right back into the fray like certain vigilantes whose hero-sonaâs begin with the letter N and end with ightwing.)
Also naturally, you responded by making a concentrated effort to blunder more obviously into traps, set-ups, tomfoolery and acts of sabotage. And foil them every time.
So yeah, okay, you saw this one coming from a mile off. It isnât like your weirdass form of family is particularly subtle about how much they disapprove of your boyfriend.
Thinking of Mark makes you smile like a damn teenager with their first crush. Heâs just soâŚMark.
You had a team-up with him today. He came to the outskirts of Gotham - because heâs scared of Batman despite you telling him heâs been cleared for visits - to pick you up early in the morning, so you could spend the whole day together.
Nothing serious, just whatever cropped up that could do with some heroic interference. Abso-fucking-lutely overkill to send you both in, but Cecil has made it very clear youâre always welcome to the missions he gives Invincible. Mark once complained about favourtism, to Cecilâs âIâd trade you out in a heartbeat, kid.â
Ha. As if Mark would survive working the Gotham nights.
Oh, heâs been a great help on a few big action events, but the regular chaos? The Sisyphean task of preventing the city from slouching ever deeper into a sunk-cost fallacy given ten-tonne anchors? Yeah, he doesnât quite suit the ongoing, lovable grime of this grind - or the more delicate work part and parcel with the setting.
Technically, you donât suit it either. Youâre just the adaptable sort.
Anyway. Ambush.
Given the multiple expansion packs applied to Gothamâs vigilantes, it isnât unusual to have a few milling about the Batcave. Pretty much everyone except you and Damian have their own base of operations, or betrayed you all for another city entirely, but the computer and lab here are only beat by Barbaraâs set up. Canât sneeze at the gym either, or the tech just waiting to be swiped on a refill or âoooh thatâs new, mind if I take a look?â never to be seen again.
Those are the logical reasons. The core of it is that everyoneâs so much more social than theyâd like to admit - except Dick. Heâd prefer for everyone to think heâs the most social, as if he canât brood and self-isolate with the best of them.
âThis isnât an ambush,â Dick says as he herds you away from the escape route of your bike, and over towards the family gathering.
He also prefers to think he can read you best after Cass - false, Damian and Tim have even odds on guessing whatever the fuck is wrong with you on any given day, likely assisted by the checklist of morals you three keep updated on together - which is presumably why he felt the need to lie.
Heâs usually a better liar than this. Must already know feel the impending failure of the mission these dumb smart people have assigned themselves.
âIf it quacks like a duck,â you mutter as you let him keep a too-tight grip on your shoulders. Well, too-tight by human metrics. You may not have been a very good Robin, but you did win on sheer durability. âIf this is meant to be my surprise birthday party, youâre a few months early.â
âNah, weâre still on for Vegas,â he says with a little more pep. Last year did go pretty well, even if you had to kidnap him from Bludhaven and foist his cold cases off on a few willing (blackmailed) helpers. âThis is- letâs call it a debriefing? You like debriefings.â
ââInterventionâ is more accurate,â claims Tim now youâve joined the generalised grouping of vigilantes over near the main computer.
All attempts to fake being otherwise engaged cease. You respect the bean bag and popcorn bowl Stephanie has brought down for the event; she did send you a warning text before you arrived. As much as lol gtrdy 2hearhow much ur cute boyfrind sux <3 <3 counts as a warning.
You look at Bruce, sans cowl but otherwise fully costumed, and standing stiffly near the front of the pack. His jaw clenches. Ha, didnât take him long to regret this latest awful choice, did it? What a dork.
You widen your eyes, as always adoring the flexibility of a domino mask to really make your natural inexpressiveness pop. âYou donât like my first ever boyfriend?â
And thus begins the latest attempt to make you dump your boyfriend which, ha, is never happening. Mark already passed Jasonâs interrogation a few weeks ago without being scared off (though he did ask why Jason called you his âtwinâ when the two of you are blatantly nothing alike, and you werenât quite ready to get into the âzombie robinsâ thing, so you blamed it on the fact your terms as Robin overlapped).
Given this worldâs setting too, with Omni-Man a confirmed traitor to the Viltrum Empire now he has some Earthly backupâŚYouâre feeling pretty hopeful for the future.
So, yeah. What else can you be, except fondly amused by the minor drama that is most of your found family really not liking your first ever boyfriend?
June 1st is TOMORROW. It means that GAY PEOPLE will exist, but only for ONE MONTH. Do not forget to buy your tickets to see them NOW, or else you will have to wait AN ENTIRE YEAR to be able to meet them AGAIN.
always funny to remember darth vader is anakin skywalker. the adrenaline junkie chucklefuck who used to dive head first out of speeders and built a pod racer in his yard when he was like six is now upper-middle management for the evil empire. half of his appearances in the original trilogy are Meetings. vader spends like 80% of his time dealing with bureaucratic bullshit. status updates. team meetings. holo-Zooms. budget rundowns. anakin betrayed the jedi and caused the fall of the republic and his punishment is being CC'd on every email forever. and you know what. he would hate that. the punishment fits the criminal
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