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[cha1nbreak]

puts cal in a jar and shakes her around. she's so interesting to me bc she is both intensely unrepentant about and fully aware of the fact she's doing bad things and will not apologize for the hand she had in almost ending the world post game - - - literally the only reason she drops corypheus is because he was going to actively harm her & reneg on his promises to help end slavery in tevinter - - - but also so intensely manipulated into the position she is in and aware of that post game, too.

like. corypheus is the first person of status to treat her like a person, in her eyes. he teaches her how to use magic beyond the bare necessities to not become an abomination. he puts trust and faith in her, lets her lead things without constantly checking up on her, believes in her. but he's using her and the fact he can dangle a future that will never happen like a carrot in order to get her to do his bidding. there is also imo canon evidence that wide swaths of what the venatori do aren't actually under calpernia's command/are happening without her knowledge - there is no way she would be okay with or even able to look the other way with the use of slaves in lyrium mining that you find, not to mention the red lyrium smuggling into tevinter with the plan of using it on slaves there to use as an army against the qunari in seheron. like it's just so blatantly against everything she stands for/the driving force of her character that i have to assume these things were hidden from her and she has less general control over the venatori than she/the inquisition is led to believe.

on that note post game calpernia hunts down each and every other venatori leader who had a hand in any slave labor at all and turns them to ash.

[30wyn]

thinking again abt éowyn's near mythic status after she slays the witch-king and lives. how she emerges from the houses of healing and people murmur about her, about how she killed the unkillable and lived to tell the tale. she is adamant about making sure merry's deeds are known but even then people speak of the white lady of ithilien as more than a woman, more than a shieldmaiden or noble or even princess, because she did what no man was meant to be able to do.

[hvmelander]

My theory/headcanon is that Homelander is Teddy Stillwell's biological father. We know from season 3 that Homelander is biologically Soldier Boy's son, yet he has entirely different powers from him. The way Compound V and superpowers work seems to be pretty wishy washy. Blue juice = powers, but also some supes can be natural born and the supe gene(s) can be passed down from just 1 supe parent to a child.

After killing Madelyn Stillwell, Teddy is found miles away. Only one person could have managed to do that in time, unless Teddy's powers of teleportation kicked in right at that moment (which is possible). For the sake of argument, let's say his powers hadn't developed yet or weren't responsible for that outcome. I do think it would be possible that Homelander spared Teddy Stillwell out of the nagging thought that he could be his son. Considering the resentment he had towards her baby for taking attention away from him, he should have let him just die but he didn't. At this point, he knows he has a child and is capable of fathering children. I think he might have suspected based on the nature of his relationship with Stillwell that there was a possibility the kid was his, but wasn't certain enough to do more than transport him to safety. In season 3, Teddy is at the Red River Institute, confirming he does indeed have superpowers. Unless Stillwell dosed him with V, which I'm not sure she did, then she was exposed while pregnant or breastfeeding which is possible but doesn't seem likely since she wouldn't be in Vought's Labs all that much. This leaves one remaining possibility: Teddy's father is a supe. The supe that Stillwell had a known sexual relationship with was Homelander, the same person who ended up keeping Teddy alive when there was no incentive to do so. Teddy could have a different father, but the available evidence could suggest that Homelander has 2 children.

EDIT/PS: also, even if Teddy teleported himself, the question of where he got his powers from would remain. I doubt Stillwell would dose her kid with V knowing it doesn't always work. She's not exactly in a position where she needs the money for experimenting with Vought either. I think Teddy is most likely a natural born supe, and I would think Homelander is likely one of the few if only supes on her personal roster at Vought that she would have this kind of relationship with. It seems to me that her motivation was mostly to keep Homelander pacified and malleable. If Teddy has a supe father, that person is still most likely Homelander.

If Teddy is dosed with V after Stillwell is killed, the question then remains why would Homelander save him (since now Teddy can't teleport yet)? That and I doubt Stillwell has absolutely 0 other people, friends or family, that would take Teddy in the event of her death resulting in him being surrendered to the Red River Institute.

[hrker]

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i imagine jon’s voice to be deep and soft, a sound which comes from the depths of his chest rather than his throat. to some he might sound snobbish but, when getting to know him better or, at the very least, after listening to him talk for long periods of time, mr. harker sounds like someone who ought to cry easily. it is as if his voice originates from a place of feeling, not from the lungs but from the heart. a sound of someone who is in control but is only being held by the thinest of strings.

[8thaverted]

i will not apologise for my actions.

[astromechs]

Headcanon question (could be writing prompt) but how do you think Peter (and Gamora if you want) react to pictures of Rich as a teen. His fashion sense in particular. Also the hair. Who shows it to them and how embarrassed would Rich be?

one day i may take this and run with it as a whole fic, but —

peter finds this absolutely delightful. from then on, he never lets rich hear the end of it; there's probably some moment when they're, like, in the middle of a battle, and he's like, "hey, watch your hair, big ponytail!" or something like that, and rich about falls out of the sky in embarrassment. also, peter probably keeps one of those old photos for himself just so he can look at it whenever he wants. maybe for potential blackmail purposes, too.

gamora just gives rich a deadpan stare because she's never seen anything so hideous in her life and she has no words fhdhdhd

as for who showed? if robbie's back from outer space from the fraternity of raptors, he definitely isn't missing any opportunity to embarrass his brother. i'd say maybe chris, but... looks at canon now. honestly, though, any of rich's friends from that time in his life are game; they, too, would jump on the opportunity to embarrass him.

[fightwing]

I think its fan canon that Dick is a really good flirt but how does your Dick Grayson flirt? Is he more shy or confident? Does he blush when talking to crush?

OOF good question, i feel like its really hit or miss. like when dick’s not actually trying/not being himself he’s really good at it--- so like playing as dickie grayson at a gala or how dick was as agent 37, but i feel like dick as dick grayson is either a STRONG friends to lovers (meaning he doesnt really have much game they just slow burned into this) or like with bea and shawn: he’s confident but not a player. I feel like most of dick’s relationships have just grown naturally and that dick is good on picking up interest without being like necessarily smooth or anything. he’ll strike up a conversation, be his usual confident, nice self, making his interest known without being overbearing or anything. THAT BEING SAID when dick falls he falls so fucking hard so all of this is rip when they’re already dating this man loses all of his chill