#origin story

[deadbranch]

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[wenzelsays]

Becoming Batman

dcxdp fic idea

Danny is the reason Batman has his utility belt. Why he's prepared for 'anything. everything.'

you see, when they were kids, Danny's family took a trip. To study ectoplasm in other cities. They did this alot when Danny and Jazz were little, while they were waiting for funding for the portal to come through or for contractors to finish doing repair work on their home. On this occasion they were gone longer than usual for one reason or another.

Which gave young Danny and Jazz ample time to make friends. They were in Wayne Tower. Their parents in one meeting or another. Jazz found herself an out-of-the-way office in which she could start on the classwork she was missing. Danny found himself in the basement, where all the failed projects went to die. and started tinkering, fooling around.

Eventually a morose boy named Bruce joined him. Though he didn't say much beyond his name. and seemed to do his own work. Though he kept having to stop to get one thing or another, always illprepared for the task at hand when he sat down for the day.

When it was time for the Fentons to head back to Amity, little Danny Fenton handed the forlone Bruce a toolbelt. One filled with more pockets and items than it should realistically be able to fit. One that was promised to 'always have exactly what you need, when you need it"

Years later Danny would be watching the news in his college dorm and see a man in all black with a cape and an extremely familiar vibrant yellow belt, and smile to himself.

[critterbitter]

Local pachirisu child attempts to befriend two patrats (because they know the chopsticks game, and therefore must be cool, right???)

Alas. The children do not know how to communicate. (Want comics that aren't sad child hours? Check out the masterpost for my submas content!)

[spiralplz]

Inspired by @richtrophy ‘s story how he met his first daddy

[mavisofthemoon]

so what you're saying is alex put the mechanisms in a jar with the remains of the improv troupe that joined RQG and some sound effects, shook it all up really hard and dumped it out and that's how we got the magnus archives

[echoreconcrew]

The Republic fell. The Empire rose. Somehow, in the middle of it all, Gregor and I found each other. Together, we fought to survive and discovered that love can endure even the darkest of times. This is the story of how, after losing so much, we found something worth fighting for again.

~Callie 💚

Story by: Mae/Leena

Illustrated by: Leena

Written by: Mae/Leena/CT-5645 “Boomer”

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[illyanamoonstar]

This is piggybacking off of some stuff @chanth-thara has been saying, and is so right about. If you want a mutants story that explores more of the not explicitly mutant issues X-Men characters can face, read the original New Mutants series!

It was made in the 80s/90s by predominately white creators, and therefore has its very real shortcomings, such as the Vietnamese character Xuân Cao Mạnh (aka Karma) originally being named Xi’an Coy Manh, which is not an authentic Vietnamese name and has been referred to as “gibberish” by Trung Le Nguyen, the writer behind the canon name change. (You can read more about it here if you’re interested.)

While there were real problems that came with not having a diverse writing team, the New Mutants series was doing what a lot of other comics at the time weren’t. The cast of characters was intentionally picked from scattered locations across the globe, all with varying social experiences/upbringings.

The original team consisted of:

Xuân Cao Mạnh, aka Karma, a Vietnamese teenager who experienced PTSD because of the Vietnam war. She is missing from a lot of the original run, but is a very important part of the groups origin and later story. In later series she has a prosthetic leg, and is canonically a lesbian! She gets to kiss women!! Good for her!!!

Danielle “Dani” Moonstar, aka Mirage, a Cheyenne teenager who was very proud of her cultural roots and ultimately became the leader of The New Mutants. Throughout her story, she deals with racism, the trauma of having lost her parents, having too much responsibility at a young age, and actually spends a notable portion of the series wheelchair bound after being seriously injured and has to undergo intensive physical therapy. Also she gets to have a Pegasus for a while, which is super cool. We love Dani.

Sam Guthrie, aka Cannonball, a poor southern hick from Kentucky who lost his father and had to take care of his family both emotionally and financially. Him having to leave to go to Xavier’s institute actually drove a wedge between him and his siblings, because it felt like he’d abandoned them. He starts off as a very anxious and insecure character who feels deeply responsible for his fellow team members, because he is the oldest and used to taking on familial responsibilities. You have oldest sibling trauma? You have “I feel responsible for everything ever” anxiety? Sam’s your man.

Roberto da Costa, aka Sunspot, a Brazilian boy who was the victim of racially motivated violence and had his mutant powers kick in to defend himself. He spends a long time blaming himself for the death of his girlfriend, who he lost that same day. His dad is rich and also evil. Among his many traumas, he is also constantly being bullied by Dani Moonstar for being short.

Rahne Sinclair, aka Wolfsbane, a Scottish teenager who unfortunately has severe religious trauma. Did the church think she was communing with the devil and that’s why she was a mutant? …maybe! The original series actually takes a lot of time delving into her conflicted feelings about religion. She has to relearn how to hold onto her faith when she, unwillingly, has become the very thing she was taught to hate and fear. Yes, that storyline has insane impacts on the psyches of those who grew up religious and realized they were queer.

The team eventually evolves to also include Illyana Rasputin, a Russian teen with the most PTSD and weird girl vibes you’ve ever seen in your life, Doug Ramsey, an American teen who is representation for all the little nerdy computer geeks out there, and Amara. Amara is there too.

There are storylines about trauma processing, about growing up and having to let your friends go, about making your own family, about standing up for your friends when they experience discrimination, about grief and loss and all the things that make growing up so hard, and also the plot line of “what if my friend had an alien rockstar girlfriend and we went to concerts all the time.”