elmi

✧ I think we could do it if we tried if only to say you’re mine ✧

[tiramistars]

˗ˋˏ ♡ ˎˊ˗ rami / elmi - #5 selina kyle stan !! he him ꪔ̤̥ it its 🇸🇴

I like Catwoman, Superboy Prime, and Jason Todd. Also getting a bit into marvel— specifically Gwenpool & Blade

[stupidboyprime]

really obsessed with how masters of the universe tries to distract you from how shredded adam is with a kitten sweatshirt that says “alpha male”. superboy prime should do this

[skppstr]

if only there was a kind gentleman who could tell me what time it was

[astudyintheburningofhearts02]

um so my brain did a thing-

Alright, so I couldn’t sleep until like 8:30 in the morning yesterday, but somehow I half-dreamed of this idea where Prime races to check on Jason the moment he snaps out of the last illusion Manchester Black puts him in during Superman #39. So… uh I hope you enjoy reading it 😅😅

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His knuckles still tingle from punching reality. He looks up and around him, still panicking, tears still pricking the corner of his eyes. Wait — none of that was real?

He looks up at Manchester Black, who looks… more alive. Less apparitional and more corporeal.

He’s speaking, talking about how he had the reality punching directed towards him or something, but Prime isn’t listening. He’s still panicking.

He looks down at his hands and finds them shaking. There was blood on them a moment ago. Blue Beetle’s blood. Batman’s. Jason’s.

Oh, god — Jason.

Suddenly Prime’s speeding out of there as fast as he can, hurtling towards Gotham.

He’d only met Jason in passing once. They’d spoken a little, but it hadn’t been much. Well, not to Jason, anyway. For Prime, well, if you asked him, it’d been one of the best days in Prime’s redemption arc so far.

Now all he could think about was the image Manchester Black had put in his head. Jason leaning against Batman, barely able to stand. His shoulder bleeding, and his head hung low — almost as if he were about to lose consciousness due to blood loss. Prime remembered the panel from Under the Red Hood where Jason brags about how effective shoulder wounds are. Why can’t I fly any faster?!

Before he knows it, he’s crashing through the window of the safehouse he knew Jason was currently staying in (he’d basically followed him home the night they met, he’d been curious, so sue him).

For a second, his ears are ringing, so he doesn’t register the heartbeat present in the house alongside his; doesn’t catch the way it spiked the moment they heard the window break.

Prime stumbles onto his feet and is about to search the house when he’s face to face with a gun that has an eerie green halo surrounding its barrel. “Don’t move an inch.”

His eyes trace the line of the gun down an outstretched arm until he’s staring into Jason’s.

He knew that Jason’s eyes were green, but he hadn’t thought they’d reflect the light the way they were right now.

“Jason,” Prime whispered mostly to himself. His voice was shaky.

“How the hell did you know where I stay,” Jason spat in response, gun unmoved from its original position.

“You’re okay,” he whispered again, his eyes shifting from Jason’s face to his left shoulder, the one that had been injured in his vision. He reached his arm up, and Jason’s own arm faltered.

“What- what are you doing?”

Prime’s hand came up and stopped in front of Jason’s shoulder, “Can I?”

Jason swallowed, pausing to consider, before he nodded once. He lowered his arm, and Prime put a hand on his shoulder.

He brushed a thumb over the spot where the wound should have been, only to find none. “Oh thank god you’re ok,” Prime gasped, tears springing to his eyes once more.

Jason furrowed his eyebrows in confusion then. He leaned down to catch Prime’s eyes again, his voice gentler when he spoke this time. “Hey, it’s alright. Like you said, I’m ok, why wouldn’t I be?”

Prime looked up at him and smoothed his fingers over his shoulder again. No wound. No blood. He was alright.

Just as he gathered his bearings and was about to open his mouth to explain, he felt himself being dragged through the page yet again. Fuck.

No games this time, he promised himself. Not after what Manchester Black did.

If it’s a fight he wanted, it was a fight he’d get.

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I didn’t wanna post it on ao3 cuz then I’d spend more than a week overthinking it and trying to polish it 😓😓 I might come back and edit it a bit later tho idk we’ll see. If you’ve gotten this far tho, congratulations and ty for reading!! Likes/rbs are appreciated!! And if anyone has any corrections or constructive criticism please lmk :))

[binary-bird]

happy birthday ya big nerd 🥳

[ratzua]

Some kind of pony nobody wants to be

[sillyzsketches]

sigh

[vennshine]

Hello little Kon Kon

[pseudowriter69]

Alright, primehood fans. In light of Superman 39, it's time for a poll. And don't worry if you're clueless because this poll needs no prior context, really. (though a bit would help TBH)

Which of these things that Superboy-Prime did in relation to Jason Todd is the gayest?

resurrect him from the dead

basically admitted he kins him

wore cute merch (x2) of jason at his job (which has a uniform)

got a forced hallucination that included an injured jason and broke down

Voting ended onJul 2

honorable mention is him referring to Jason as Jason Todd when almost everyone else gets superhero alias treatment (ex. Conner only gets "the other/fake Superboy"), and it's in a positive way. The only other person who has received this honor from Prime is SUPERMAN, and I thiiiiiiiiink Lois. That's it. Superman. Lois. Jason Todd.

Also, they have never spoken to each other once.

*Please reblog for a larger sample size :) And if you do, please tag with whatever reasoning you wish to include

[obligatorygutz]

DC comics making fun of Tom King

[ginkodraws]

someone help me escape primehood hell because im i'm too deep

[ginkodraws]

my headcanon is that usually prime fucks jason but hes really bottom about it

[binary-bird]

Here’s an interesting thought.

Conner Kent and Superboy prime wearing the ‘Our get along Shirt’ together.

When Williamson confirmed in an interview that they're meeting again, I already knew I had to draw them in the shirt.

[enba-and-luka]

[vennshine]

[four-pebbles]

can we talk about the genuine meta horror of prime's whole, "they made me evil / they made me do this / they made me a villain" sentiment? as much as it's thrown around casually as proof of his immaturity and childish refusal to take the blame for his actions, he’s.. kind of right?

(very long analysis under the cut ! you’ve been warned)

even in the most recent superman issues, post-redemption, he's still insisting that all his evil actions were "an accident" or "not [his] fault." while ive seen a lot of ppl understandably critique this (because if we’re meant to believe he’s a good guy now, he needs to own up to this mistakes and stop being so dismissive of the atrocities he's committed), i think there's a lack of people talking about the fact that, in a sickeningly existential way, it’s true.

he’s a character. he knows he’s a character. everything he does—it’s not actually him, right? it’s a writer behind the scenes deciding how he needs to act to best serve the plot. obviously you can say that about every character, but the difference between every character and prime is that prime is aware of it.

i’ll admit the first few times he does the whole, “they made me do it!” thing in infinite crisis, he's clearly just talking about conner and the heroes around him for trying to stop him and therefore 'making' him hurt them. this is naive, yes. this is a misguided 15 year old freaking out over the destructive potential of his powers and out of either shock or puerility (or both) refusing to take accountability. but by the time we see him in adventure comics, after he's become aware of the fourth wall at the end of countdown, the "they" he keeps blaming for his violence shifts explicitly from characters to the dc writers themselves.

his whole vibe at this point still reads as petulant and bratty, as a purposefully easy-to-hate loser. him crashing through the dc headquarters and threatening the dc staff is supposed to be a funny fourth wall-breaking sequence, a tongue-in-cheek critique of obsessive fanboys who take comics too seriously and can't separate reality from fiction. all we're supposed to get out of it is that he’s an annoying child still blaming everyone but himself for the ways his life has gone to hell.

it works until it doesn't. because if we're looking at this solely from the level of a fictional story, sure, yeah, this is a character and his words and actions show us the kind of character he is supposed to be. but when prime is constantly acknowledging that he knows it's fictional too, the “wall” that keeps us at the story level starts to crack. prime isn't “just” a character. his whole conceit is that he is real, he is someone from the real world, who has somehow ended up in the world of a comic book. of course prime can’t tell fiction from reality; it’s not that he’s an overly invested fanboy, it’s that his whole existence blurs that line on principle. so when he cries that he's been "forced to hurt people," and that the writers have "made [him] into a villain," we end up looking at it from the level of our world. and they did make him into a villain in our world. someone from dc sat in a meeting and pitched, “hey, what if we brought those guys who sacrificed themselves to save the dc universe in the 80s back, but made them into antagonists?”

prime’s whole framing as a character that knows this turns his whiny "i wasn't supposed to be like this" lines from immature to heartbreaking. prime didn't want to be a villain. he tells us this explicitly, whispers it into an empty room in the wake of his fight with the black lanterns. but what can he do about it? characters don't choose for themselves how they’ll be written. he can slam through a comic's depiction of the dc headquarters all he wants; it's still just a depiction. the real world is untouchable. his entire existence has become an outlet for annoyed writers to point and laugh at, to make a fool out of as reparations for the hate they deal with from fans online. he's a convenient plot device. he's a lampshade personified.

it might seem kind of obvious, but i really get the sense that it’s not fully intentional by the writers? like, they showed us more and more of his backstory over time, gave us examples of him being bullied and emotional and prone to outbursts as a child, because we’re supposed to see prime as a boy who turned evil because he already had a predisposition for erraticism and then lost control of his life, not a boy who turned evil because a writer decided they wanted him to be evil. but the reality is, his agency has been stripped from him. as long as that fourth wall is being broken by prime’s awareness of his existence as a character, it feels like we can never properly blame him for the things he's being written to do. and isn’t that terrifying? that we’re watching someone the writers want us to believe was once a real boy get yanked around, forced to commit atrocities with unwilling hands?

so. do i have a point im trying to reach here? sorry, not really. i just love meta characters and wish i saw more people playing into the horror that can come from realizing the lack of control someone has in their own narrative, kris deltarune style.

also, i think it's worth mentioning i don’t think anything i’ve said here is going to end up a canon explanation for why prime is still acting so callous about his villainous past in the current superman run. stuff like this gets too close to the root of why fourth wall-breaking characters are so hard to develop. if you make them too aware of their existence, what's left? it's just depressing. it's a motivation killer. like, literally kills all possible character motivations, because they'll know those motivations were just shoved into them like doll stuffing. and how do you write a fun superhero story with a character like that?

if we were to apply this to our current prime anyway, just for the angst fun of it, i think it can still work. he’s no longer screaming, "this isn't right! ... i was supposed to be the real superboy!" instead, he's casually explaining, "[it was] not my fault. at least, that's what i'm trying to retcon." it's like he's given up on fighting it directly, recognizing he'll have to work outside the context of the story. he'll "retcon" it, rather than prove with actions within the story that he isn’t to blame, because he doesn’t really have control of those actions. he’s come to a begrudging acceptance of his own lacking autonomy.

but hey! he's finally being written as a good guy, just like he’s always wanted. maybe if he keeps reminding the writers that it's his redemption arc, that he's finally been changed, they won’t forget to write him a happy ending.

even if there’s nothing he could do to stop them, if they choose not to.

[rottingccorpsee]

hooolyy shittttt

(ref under cut!!!!!)