#duke posting

[wildergrrrl]

10/10 game btw

[millylotus]

When I was younger my mom was the boss at finding affordable extracurriculars for me and my siblings. And although they're like wildly different people to me I think Elaine & Doug would do the same for Duke.

They'd have him signed up for multiple sports at the rec center and have him singing choir with the other church kids (Doug's the christian between the two parents). He'd be in boy scouts and learning new instruments and what not.

Duke would pick and choose favorites out of each, I don't think he'd like choir all that much, but I do think he'd love the violin. He'd stick with boy scouts for a minute because he made friends and he'd go with whatever sport those friends like which would probably be baseball/softball & he liked that well enough.

He'd be the type of adult to rattle off a bunch of random clubs he was in as a kid honestly. Like yeah he did synchronized swimming for a summer, but that was cut short because of some infection in the pipes and he never really got back into it.

I think Elaine & Doug just want to see their son do well, to have all the possible options in the world and not spend all his day reading alone (no matter how much Duke may adore that he needs social interactions). This of course only lasted until he was like 12, but every second of it mattered and Duke appreciates it all to this day.

[hiddenintheyard]

One thing that is so weird for me, from the "Pop Hater Prog Snobs/everything bad after Gabriel or Hackett leaves Genesis fans", that they lot of times held the Lamb in a really high regard (which I agree with, btw, greatest album ever made) BUT this album - for me - is honestly closer to Duke (and to Trick of the tail), than to Foxtrot or even Selling England by the Pound. The writing, the way the song are structured, the "conceptual" thinking makes them a little bit sibling albums in the Genesis discography. Yet, lot of these people will insist Lamb is prog and Duke is pop. (How Hairless Heart, Counting out time, Carpet Crawlers, Chamber 32, Lilywhite Lilith etc. are prog songs in their strict sense of the word, is honestly beyond me.)

Pre-Lamb Genesis stiches song parts together; they don't let them "breath" on their own; they usually have several movements. Lamb lets its songs stay in mostly the same mood, it has shorther songs*, it has ballads, it has almost pop rocky songs. Lot of the songs came are from jamming. They are athmospheric. Lamb & Duke are siblings made in different times, adapted to the changing times and sounds, with different lyricist behind the helm.

*pre-Lamb albums also have shorter songs, but with most songs, the different musical part are crammed together, sometimes a little too unnaturally. the whole songwriting is more natural for me from this album

[collectedselves]

Steamy selfie

what i love about top surgery for us who do not identify at all with manhood is how we still have breast tissue and we can choose to keep a fair amount for shape and such

I could still lactate all whilst being able to be topless without legal repercussions honestly the whole experience is a liberation of patriarchy whilst also a very deep lesson in one whilst also teaching everyone else just with your image...

really like this hair length style and stimulation wise but also I never want to cut my hair

The fact that cutting black curls like mine was a colonisers practice for eons makes me physically sick tbh and that much more connected soul deep reasonings to not cutting mine

[breadandblankets]

ya know, if Duke can see in the UV spectrum he basically has permanent black light vision which means he can See Your Sins

[thinwhiteduke-unofficial]

I swear to God, Ziggy you are the most annoying and lovable creature out there

And I love you

[millylotus]

I like to think Duke looks alot like his Mom. Like in cannon he kind of really just looks like Doug & Gnomon [cause i'm pretty sure Gnomon wasn't really planned until later]. But I think with the stuff we know about cannon he should look like his mom.

Nobody would suspect him of not being Doug's if he was a lil clone of Elaine, and also Elaine's really pretty I think that just needs to be acknowledge more. And also Duke compares himself to his parents alot and I think this would make it hurt a bit more.

He's short like her, like 5'5, chubbier, and bigger maybe to 5'7 as he gets older. More muscled/toned because of vigilant things. Rounder features in general, with a bigger nose and full lips, and his mother's eye shape and hair and lisp that she only remembered having when Duke started speaking. He even makes a lot of faces like her.

He acts lot like his Dad though, Doug was in the house during the day so he's had a really big impact on his son. They have the same grooming habits, and they have the same taste in food. And they both get pissy about losing board games. They even talk the same, though Elaine's own input aside Duke sounds just like his Dad. Doug loves his son and seeing that boy act like his double just makes his heart bloom.

The only things he has from Gnomon are his powers, and the bright gold of his eyes when he uses them. It kind of feels like Gnomon is infecting him, no matter how much Duke reminds himself that that part of himself had always been there.

Duke looks in the mirror and he sees his mother's smile, he hears his father's laugh, he feels the warm sun of his other parent behind his eyes. But that's just a bit of what makes him him.

[millylotus]

Gnomon's [& Duke's] Powers

So like a Gnomon is basically the stick in a clock, or a giant beam of the sun. It shows the time in hours and a lil in minutes and it moves along with the sun. Or it's a hole in the ceiling of a dark room and the light from the sun [& probs a full moon] travels across the room. They're all basically the central & necessary piece of a Sundial.

[And yeah they also exist in geometry but I just found that out as I was writing this post so we just gonna ignore that for now.]

Sundials themselves can be found all over the world, but the ones I'm thinking about are the ones from the Eurasian & African continents.

Gnomon isn't really human, in cannon he's meant to be a really powerful metahuman. But considering the Metas are all descendants of dumbasses who got to close to a fresh space rock I feel like I can take some liberties.

So my headcannon for Gnomon is that his powers come from a combination of a meta-gene and magic/belief.

Background info set lets move on!

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So you're this kid, over a millennia of years ago, right round when the first Sundial was being made.

You really like this thing it's literally so cool, you wanna study it, you're trying to study it [Mathematician in the making]. Every time you look at you get this weird feeling behind your eyes, this push in your soul, and you feel like there's something way more to this newfangled invention than anyone else sees. So you start hanging around it more.

Your friends/classmates start noticing your increased interest & decide to help you out, cause that's what buddies are for!

You all get pretty far in your research and end up building this really giant sundial and everything, using some not so non-mystical techniques to do so. The whole university and surrounding town comes to check the thing out.

But it's not quite right something's missing, it's been bugging you the months leading up to the showing of the sundial. You just have this innate feeling that it isn't complete.

And as you're presenting you & your friends' life's work, the gnomon breaks. It could have been an accident it could have been a set up from one of your rivals.

So without thinking in a desperate attempt to save all that time spent you move and stand right where the gnomon is supposed to be.

And it feels right, like your entire life was leading up to this moment. The sun light falls on you just right & the shadow you cast is not the one you've always seen, but it feels even more your own.

You keep presenting and nobody can look away, nobody can stop watching you as time goes by and your shadow & the sun work together to tell the time perfectly.

As the showing ends people are slow to leave, and when they finally do and it's just you and your friends they move around the sundial so as to not get in the way of your shadow. They speak to you with awe and reverence and they can't get enough of what you've done. It does absolute wonders for your ego.

You eventually step off the dial when the sun is fully set, reluctantly. You know if it where a full moon tonight you'd stay there.

That day onward you make a habit of being the gnomon for the sundial. Doing all your necessary work from your position, some how not losing your friends to this odd habit.

Around the second month a storm roles in and the clouds block the sun for days. Logically you know it's not gonna work, but since when have your instincts been illogical and wrong.

So you stand where you've always stood and a shadow is cast so strong it seems like it should be clear skies right then, produced by a light nobody but you can see the source of.

And things change from then on, you change.

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So that's how Gnomon gets his powers for me!

Not long after people kinda start holding him in reverence/worshiping him when he doesn't seem to die/age right and call him The Gnomon or just Gnomon.

His metahuman traits start to blossom under this worship, expanding in how gods/deities/mystical beings will have a bunch of facets to them.

This is all egged on by a sort of Tulpa/Egregore situation, where enough people believe that it's true to it becomes true.

★List of Domains:★ ★ Gnomons & Sundials: Of course ★ Time: Literally a living clock ★ Light & Shadows: Only logical ★ The Sun: It's movements across the sky, the eclipse is a weird time that I haven't thought up yet so give me a minute ★ Community: cause he was one of the main guys at the university and people tended to literally gather around him just for the hell of it ★ Geometry & Mathematics: Nerd

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Turning this to Duke himself now.

Because Duke is not Gnomon, but ya know still his son, he's got like the base of the powers, [the math stuff it purely just Gnomon being a nerd though].

He's mostly developed his powers to assist in every day life as a vigilante/the dangers of being a gothamite meta. Using a combination of the light and time domains to see into the future for warnings. Shadows solidify into weapons, and mold to Duke's wants and needs in a fight [like when he wrapped that one guy in shadow in the Outsiders]. Light made bright and blaring for stunning people but also as just an extension of his emotions.

The domain of Community coming through as his enhancement powers, cause Duke is genuinely a caring person and likes to help people, so he actively has to think of not supporting his enemies with powers.

He's basically a demigod[...i'm thinking of so many crossover ideas right now]

any way! That's Gnomon & Duke, their powers and how/why they came to be and work the way they do!