Gotham starts attracting a new type of baddie after Jason's resurrection.
At first they just see little green blobs, strange but harmless, but then they turn to strange green creatures, human and animal and transparent and intangible.
At first they don't do much damage, but gradually things get worse and worse.
Crime Alley sees the worst of it, the Red Hood's underlings are targeted more than anyone else, and it all comes to a head when the Jason Todd Memorial Children's Shelter is attacked by a towering green golem.
The Bats can't hold it off at all, they're all focused on getting the children evacuated, but Red Hood is actually able to land some hits.
Not enough though.
The thing grabs his head in one massive hand and cracks his helmet, pressure increasing until Jason's sure his skull is going to shatter and then-
"Cease."
The golem drops him, and Jason lands on his knees, watching as a white-gloved hand waves carelessly through the beast, dissolving it into motes of green light that flicker and fade.
A man floats before him, middle-aged and dignified, dressed in otherworldly clothing, as fine as anything he's ever seen.
Jason can't quite breathe. He almost died again just a moment ago, he can't breathe.
The man grips his shoulder.
"It's alright, young one."
His hand is cool and refreshing, washing through Jason's bones and muscle, pushing away his weariness and worry and leaving him relaxed and unnaturally calm.
Jason shudders. He looks up for his family. There's a green force field between them, and he can see them shouting for him, watches their weapons bounce off the light and leave no damage behind.
"So you're the one drawing in the restless dead, hm?"
The man crouches before him, hand still on his shoulder. Jason thinks it might be the only thing holding him upright at the moment. The golem, the shambling monsters, the green things that have been attacking his territory, his people... He's the one they're after? Distantly, beneath the man's smothering presence, a sense of horror starts to rise.
"They'll keep coming as long as you're here, child," the man says. "The dead belong with the dead. They know you're not where you're supposed to be."
Jason shakes, soul-deep fear breaking through the calm the man put him under. He wishes his family were with him on this side of the light. He looks back to the man in front of him, and the man's steady gaze compels him to speak truthfully.
"I don't want to go," he finds himself whispering.
The man smiles, sad but kind.
"You don't have to," he comforts him.
Jason feels tears leak from the corners of his open eyes, and he can see his family's assault on the force field redouble.
The man waves a hand and a small covered table and two chairs appear beside them, the tablecloth holding a high tea spread that reminds Jason of his monthly teas with Alfred.
"Care to join me?" The man asks, standing and offering Jason his hand. "I find discussions like this are best had in comfort."
Jason takes the man's hand, feels a sense of welcome and peace, and stands.
You might not understand how wonderful that is to be able to say again, but I'm definitely back to loving my writing.
It's so nice to be writing just for myself again and not writing for the people who already dislike my work.
I talked to my therapist about it on Thursday when I'd already spent four days of April not writing, and she helped me work through the realization that I don't write because I want people to read it. I write because I enjoy it and I want to.
I post it because I want to give people a gift of a fun story or an emotional short story or a thoughtful or beautiful poem.
I share because I want people to have fun like I'm having fun, but sharing isn't why I write, and it should never be that way.
It's something I'm probably going to have to relearn again later, but I'm so thankful to have learned it now.
That's all to say that I'm still writing and I'm truly enjoying it now!
Look forward to the next chapter, because I'm loving it so far and I can't wait to gift it to you all! :D
I put my dialogue scripts and rambles under the cut as usual ✌️
Intro
(CW: Sexually suggestive, R-15 implicit warning)
(EDIT: 8/09/2024)
I also added rambles to this in the meantime <3
Had a jumpscare moment cuz I accidentally clicked the Delete button but thankfully didn't click Yes 😭
God I can't delete one of the most based things I've ever written!!!
Also, rereading back JuAli's scenes together in the Kou Empire, it's really so funny how empty Judar's threats and insults towards Alibaba are.
Sure, he tried to kill him before.
He'll get all hissy like a fussy moody cat towards him. But it's not out of genuine hatred.
JuAli are true opposites in terms of their personalities, morals/ideals/world views...
In JuAli's chapters together, I think it's sexy how Judar expressed his frustrations with Alibaba's character, basically, what he perceived as Alibaba's naivety.
Like, Judar is clearly frustrated by Alibaba's whole deal, being unable to understand Alibaba or really get what's going on with him (despite Alibaba being really straightforward as a person)
Especially when he has such a childish personality and black and white morals and worldview of boxing people into Strong vs. Weak.
It's like... At that moment, he (Judar) is not ready to face that.
Alibaba is someone that he clearly sees and perceives as "weak and naive" but also challenges his world views, cuz he just... does not get Alibaba's humble nature, at all.
In the sense of being frustrated by someone's bright (dazzling) radiance.
He understands and recognizes that Alibaba draws others to him, but just can't seem to understand why. It frustrates him how he doesn't get it. And that in itself shows a form of inner curiosity, a desire to know more.
I wanted to convey that feeling in my own dialogue scripts.
Judar's insults… They don't hold true weight.
Like the insults he throws are so empty.
It's so funny like he (Judar) says it with his whole chest.
...
I can't hide the image like you can on Discord with spoiler marks. So here you go!
I really love them so much... That's why I wanna draw and write for them more.
Recently revamped a JuAli dialogue script idea I had. Judar and Alibaba kiss with banter ❤️ 💛 I added more to it. I last updated it in December, so I might as well post it again since I added some new lines.
It's just them kissing but just gonna put a warning cuz it's kinda suggestive/sexually implicit though.
Yeah I think my moots know why I mainly post rambles on Insta and Tumblr, it's cuz I usually do long rambles for character thoughts + analysis, and Twitter's character limit is super annoying for that. I tend to post discussions cuz my friends have insightful things to say (and I feel like it flows more naturally in convo format than just to summarize what they said)
I need to talk more about my Magi faves on here (I miss them) because I had many thoughts while reading, so I just roughly drafted ideas right now. I need to write my character/ship ideas down before I forget.
JuAli core ship posts
Rambles
Anyways I made the 1st image's meme edit myself <33
JuAli with tan Alibaba so true~~
Me: I wanna say this tweet is JuAli but none of them would talk like that. They would so do this though
C: No this is literally Judar he just words it differently lmao
Me: YEAH HE'D JUST WORD IT DIFFERENTLY LMAOOO
C: YEA
Friend: PLEASE POST THIS PUBLICALLY SEN OMFG
Me: I'll consider it... Tbh I want it to be in drawn form if I post it publically. I could post the meme along with my arts in the future
The inspo for this idea
Me: It's based off this tweet LMFAO
Seeing this made me go like "Oh that makes me want to write dialogue now." Oh yeah I can draft some Judar stuff then. Then I wrote some ideas based on that tweet.
C: Omg
R: 😭 THIS MEME IS ALWAYS FUNNY
Me: Thinking about this again so I wrote a thing kinda based off it
JuAli but warning cuz it's kinda suggestive/implicit though
C: VALID
LMAO THIS IS PERFECT
Completely in-character for Judar
Me: THE WAY I'M IMAGINING IT IS SO. SPICY. NOW KISS!!!
C: VALID VALID!!
I imagine Judar wears something VERY similar to this hanfu (that I bought because it has Judar colours)
Me: I actually originally wrote Judar's last line as "Show me the kind of spark that charmed Hakuryuu so much." Because Judar makes a note in Ch. 266 that Hakuryuu is charmed by Alibaba in the fan-TL :) And also the official EN TL by Viz. They still keep it (whews) but remove the 1st mention of it, "What about Alibaba charmed Hakuryuu…"
But I don't tend to reference other ships in my ship stuff since I usually focus on ships solo. Like in my AU stuff, I tend to focus on just the ship/characters itself. Like I would rather deal with my multiships in their own separate AUs, since it’s easier for me to work with. I do love AliHaku though. But I liked that line so I still tried to include it though. NGNGNNG.
C: OOOH I SEE…. Valid as heck. It's a good one
My fave ship tropes <33
JuAli's "Love-Hate" relationship is soooo interesting to me <33 They're so sen-core.
Obviously they're more complicated than that but "Love-Hate" is just to simplify it
They're Enemies to Lovers too, but very different from LimGuda (Douman/Ritsuka) obviously. But they share most of the Sen-core ship tropes I love. I think JuAli has HoroRen (SK) kinda~ish vibes.
Like y'know. Yin/Yang. Light/Darkness. Protagonist/Antagonist. Angel/Devil. Enemies to Lovers. And then JuAli also has Fire/Ice going on with them. Sen-core meow meow mf/ship strikes again. I really adore JuAli and AliHaku, heehee. It's very typical Sen-ship trope core with their Sun/Moon/Eclipse symbolism going on.
My most favourite ships are usually Opposites Attract (the good kind). There are bad Opposites Attract ships out there obviously (charas who just bicker and literally nothing else). I'm just built different though. JuAli and HoroRen just fall into my kind of rather rough and violent end of Opposites Attract ships. Twink on twink violence is their love language /lh
I love Opposites Attract ships that are also combined with any of these tropes: Narrative parallelism (Yin/Yang, Light/Darkness, Sun/Moon tropes), Protagonist x Rival/Antagonist/Opposing Figure, Apoptosis, Reconciliation of Opposites, Fated Enemies/Rivals, etc.
JuAli rambles continued
Me: For JuAli, I feel like at first, Judar hates Alibaba with so much love. Like when you hate someone so much it’s love. And Judar would just constantly be like "I really don't get this guy at all" and "I don't understand what he's thinking at all!"
Tsundere catboy badboy is verbally harsh (violently tsun) and demands around verbally a LOT, like a needy cat that wants attention and affection.
I feel like in the early stages of them catching feelies they’d both be really awkward around each other and constantly headbutt each other… They'd always be pretty competitive with each other, like “Casual sex implies the existence of ranked competitive sex” vibes (LMAO) but they'd warm up to each other over time.
I'm busy so Idk when I'll sketch this all out but it was based off this idea I had in my head.
Judar is mostly verbally harsh (violently tsun) and demands around verbally, like a needy cat that wants attention and affection. And both of them are really awkward around each other. They'd always be pretty competitive with each other but they'd warm up over time.
Sen-core fave ship tropes:
Meow meow mf x ball of sunshine, morally questionable/morally bankrupt x morally agreeable, freak x freak who freaks them out (human that tames them), etc.
Because LimGuda, IdaTatsu, XanLena, and JuAli are all "Freak x human/freak who freaks them out/tames them"
LMAO
Freak x normie where the normie/more normal S/O has the freak ™️ on a leash
Re: My Writing Ideas
Me: I don't really post my writing ideas on main cuz my dialogue scripts are more like guidelines for me to practice writing dialogue for comics, and also to help me remember my art ideas. I write down my ideas so that I don't forget them (cuz they come to me spontaneously during the day), and also so that I can hopefully turn them into comics one day 🙏
My mutuals/friends can read them though! I post them because I'm not sure when I'll get the chance to turn my ideas into art form, and because I think the dialogue scripts are interesting to read.
Also me doing this still technically counts as a form of art. Even if they're written almost like play format, it's still a form of creative writing
I've definitely gotten sm better at it like I've been refining the way I write Idate's dialogue (and other WATGBS AU charas) over time
Because when I write these scenario ideas down, I think in terms of visuals. When the ideas come to my head, I imagine and see them all visually in my head. I'm a much more visual person, so I see things through visuals, and then try to turn them into words.
I think I first started critically engaging with and analyzing media at 18 (which is a good thing, because art is a form of expression and social commentary). I think I only really got good at doing media analysis at 18+ and it refined even more at 19 - 21+
It used to be so hard for me to put my thoughts into words, but I got much better at it through practice (by doing all the thought rambles)
But I'm literally so much better at analytical writing (ie. Series and character analysis, meta) than creative writing (ie. Novel and fanfic writing), so that's why I only do dialogue scripts. It'd be interesting to try and take up fanfic writing in the future though... But it definitely won't be soon, so I'll stick to my main creative form (drawing) for now
Danny is reading Pride & Prejudice in the Gotham library's reading nook, snickering quietly at first and then actually laughing aloud, catching Jason's attention from his seat in the next armchair.
"Do you mind?" Jason asks, irritated that his reading time is being interrupted, gesturing at the quiet peace of the library around them.
"Sorry," Danny manages as he covers his mouth, still laughing, "it's just, nobody told me Jane Austen was funny!"
Pandora has always been obsessed with the arena. She holds tournaments and exhibitions regularly, inviting ghosts from far and wide to compete in various ways, rewarding them with prizes and honor.
But then a newly-dead ghost claims that he knows a living soul who could win a competition.
Cue Pandora abducting various heroes to compete for prizes. When they resist, the prize becomes their life.
I post funny stuff, links to my fics, fandom stuff, interesting things, and things I think are important.
I'll be slowly writing this pinned post and filling it with helpful links!
My main tag is 'funny'. Because that's mainly what this blog is full of, lol.
Right now I'm a fan of Batman, DC in general, and DC x DP. I've also got a lot of old fandoms under my belt, and some recurring ones that pop up every now and again, namely Naruto, BNHA, Marvel, and Teen Wolf.
Here are a few links to my most popular fics:
Cold Brew - DC x DP Tim Drake/Danny Fenton series with Danny's ice powers and a heat wave in Gotham
There's Never Been a Moment You Were Forgotten - tag = TNBaMYWF - Naruto longfic with child soulmates
Small Medium at Large - Very funny DC x DP Little Baby Man Danny fic where he has an adventure in Gotham - it's also somehow Dead on Main lol
And here's the fic I'm the most proud of:
Just What He Wanted - A very heartfelt DC x DP fic featuring Battinson finding an abandoned baby Danny in a dumpster in Gotham, and Bruce and Danny's journeys through parenting and childhood in their separate corners of the world.
Feel free to ask questions about my fics and hcs and the various posts I reblog here, but please be polite.
If a fic hasn't been marked as 'Abandoned', it isn't abandoned. Please don't ask if any of my fics have been abandoned, just take it for granted that I'm continuing them.
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Itachi tightens and loosens his grip, Sasuke has the best birthday ever and meets Big Konoha, Fugaku acts like a pettable cat in public and makes some important progress, and Naruto’s disguise works better than he could’ve hoped.
