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raynewolfegirl · 14 days

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Meta Jazz, the Arkham Intern Therapist Pt1

Update 5/16/2024: Congrats guys, gals, and others! You have planted the seeds and they have grown. Today I wrote another 46 pages on this story (the first section was only 9 pages ya'll). I'm working on splitting it up into smaller sections so I can post it now because tumblr said no to doing it as one piece. I'll be using the tag #Meta Jazz Arkham Intern Therapist if you want to follow it.

Original Note: I'm going to go ahead and apologize for how OOC Bane is in this. It originally was Joker but I couldn't see Jazz tolerating his proximity for more than a single millisecond so Bane it is.

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The hardest thing about being a Meta in Gotham was responding appropriately during a Rouge's attack, Jazz mused to herself. Or perhaps that was just the hardest part about being a Meta intern at Arkham while studying psychology at Gotham University. Or maybe it was just her, she considered watching the guards and Dr. Rylie whom she'd been shadowing for the past 2 weeks wide eyed, pale, and shaking as theybstared at Bane behind her. It must just be her, Jazz decided, newbie guard Kyle Jennings was definitely a Meta after all. She should probably give him some tips on hiding his enhanced strength considering how often he broke mugs, door handles, and other delicate items used in daily life.

"Weapons down or I'll snap her skinny little neck." Bane growled out, shaking her slightly for emphasis. She very much doubted that. Liminials were built different than the standard Meta, stronger, faster, better endurance, and senses even if they could mostly appear to be standard humans on the outside. As such, their bones and muscles were much were much denser than regular humans or even Meta humans. Technically, she could be considered "invulnerable" much like the Kryptonians are.

"Back up! Let him through!" Dr. Rylie shouted at the guards. "She's my student! Let him through!" His voice was higher pitched than she could recall hearing it before.

Ah. That was panic.

Jazz sighed involuntarily and glanced over her shoulder at Bane. Why the man had grabbed the only person close to his own height nearby was a mystery to her - no, nevermind, he clearly meant to use her as a shield - but it made looking him in the eye more difficult than necessary.

"Mr. Bane, remove your hands from my person, please." Jazz stated calmly, channeling what Danny called her inner mom as she spoke. "I will give you to one to comply."

Bane looked stunned for a moment then laughed.

"Five."

The laughing continued. Jazz could sense a stir of uncertainty through her colleagues as they looked on.

"Four."

"Did you really think that would work?" Bane snorted out, arms tensing more around her.

"Three." She continued, indifferent to his words from her experiences raising her brother. Once the count down starts you mustn't respond to anything the kids do or say until they comply or the count is done.

"What cab you even do if I don't?" Bane asked darkly breathing directly in her ear. She kept her face expressionless despite the urge to express disgust.

"Two."

"Jasmine..." Kyle whispered halfway across the hall from her looking on with a pained and horrified expression. Gun tilting towards the floor. Sloppy.

"One." She finished and Bane gave a derisive snort.

Then she was moving. Hauling the enormous man up and over her shoulder using the arm that had been wrapped around her neck. Bane hit the cold tile hard enough that the tiles, subfloor, structural supports, and part of the concrete foundation buckled beneath him. His shoulder popped out of joint, his wrist cracked - a hairline fracture by the sound of it - and his breath was punched out of him from the force of impact. She released his arm as soon as his was embedded in the tiles and moved forward. Kneeling over him, support most of her weight on her left foot resting on the broken ground, her right knees pressed firmly across his throat without supporting any of her weight. The position put more strain on her muscles than she would've liked but at least Bane couldn't risk fighting back without crushing his own neck in the process. He could hardly throw her while flat on his back with a mangled arm.

"Now," Jazz began, looking directly into the behemoth's pained eyes. "Do you know what you've done wrong?" She asked like she would have done with Danny as a child.

"Yes, Ma'am." Bane choked out. Jazz heard movement and murmuring behind her. She didn't turn to look.

"What did you do wrong?" She asked. It was important to make sure children correctly understood why they were in trouble after all. There was a long pause as Bane appeared to cast around for the exact right answer as if he feared getting it wrong. A bad habit Danny still uses as well, Jazz thought to herself.

"I tried to hold you hostage," He choked out in a rush, words tumbling over one another as he tried to get them all out. "I scared you coworkers and it was very disrespectful."

So he'd gone for the grab-bag response. It wasn't wrong per sey but it did indicate a past history of abuse. The type of answer given by someone who expected to be harmed or ignored if they gave the "wrong" answer. Danny tended to use that method also and their parents had always been negligent at best.

"And are you going to do it again?" She asked giving him a Look as she did. Bane's eyes widened and he tried to frantically shake his head as much as possible with the pressure on his neck.

"No, Ma'am." He promised fervently.

"Alright then," Jazz said giving him a warm smile. She gestured vaguely towards the guards without turning to look at them. "Kyle here is going to take you to see the nurse and then back to your room then. I'm sure you'll behave for him?"

"Yes, Ma'am. I'll behave." Bane said. Jazz stood slowly asking sure not to put any additional pressure on his neck as she did. Kyle came and stood next to her as the giant of a man slowly pulled himself to his feet then led him away with 5 other guards.

Jazz heaved a sigh. Well, time to find out whether or not she could play all that off as normal, non-Meta human behavior.

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mirokuna-hime · 3 months

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Alhaitham and Dr. Ratio aren't same, they are actually each other's antithesis. They couldn't be any more different once you look past their bluntness and smart brains.

Alhaitham doesn't care about people as a collective, just very much about those he has a close relationship with -> Kaveh (and Cynari after the archon quest). He wants to live a simple, comfortable and easy life without overexerting himself (based tbh). He doesn't really care much about his own achievements and the moment he got promoted to acting grand sage he already couldn't wait to leave that position.

Dr. Ratio is someone who dedicated his whole life to spreading knowledge across the universe to cure people from ignorance. He believes everyone has the potential to achieve amazing things and he made it his life goal to help them and give them a push in the right direction. He get's frustrated with people who believe only geniuses can leave their mark on the world and don't acknowledge their own potential.

Ratio got 8 PhDs, 1 First Class Honor degree, solved a planet's energy crisis on his own, cured lithogenesis whicb was called the king of diseases and achieved a lot more yet was never recognized by Nous which hurts him.

Do you think Alhaitham would feel similarly? He wouldn't. He just wants to do his own thing. He's secure in who he is and doesn't need anyones praise or approval.

#honkai star rail #genshin impact #dr ratio #alhaitham #veritas ratio #genshin alhaitham #hsr dr ratio #also dr ratio talks...A LOT #I honestly didn't think people would misinterpret them both that badly #same goes for Kaveh and Aventurine #and like I get where the comparisons comes from #ratiorine and Haikaveh have similar tropes attached to them #but they are each still their own thing

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goldencorecrunches · 11 months

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my secret wangji-yanli besties backstory idea is that one time in the cloud recesses she gave him a midol and it made his headache go away and ever since he's been ready to take 10,000 blades for her at any moment

#the untamed #cql #mdzs #lan wangji #jiang yanli #shame he didn't get the chance before- *sniper takes me out*#besties seems too floofy a word but yanli doesn't really fight.....#what's a gender neutral phrase that holds the same impact as 'warrior's bond'#that's what they have. to Me.

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purecommemasolitude · 9 months

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man. i've been diamond-mining bad-to-mediocre books for so long that i've forgotten how good pb can be when they actually put their minds to it

#blades 2 as expected is fantastic so far #a bit sad that it doesn't look like we'll be able to get skills we didn't earn in the first book but it's so great that we can still use th #ones that we did because a lot of choices books do a complete reset of earned skills/assets/similar items #so i'm really happy the blades ones carried over #and there are new ones to learn!!!#and our choices have actual impact instead of just being “how would you like to phrase the same sentiment”!!!!!#when choices is bad it's *bad* but when it's good it's *so* good #playchoices #bolas #bolas 2 #there are too many tags for this thing #choices bolas #blades of light and shadow #og

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hydrodragons · 4 months

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genshin impact gif challenge ✦

[1/?] archon quests → interlude chapter, act iii: inversion of genesis

“do you think there are any differences between your present self and your previous and future incarnations? if not, then what are the differences between humans and puppets? whoever has tasted the joys and sorrows of life in the human realm is human. whoever has loved and lost, cried with grief, howled with rage at the tragedy of death that eclipses the miracle of life... they are human too."

#genshin impact #genshinedit #genshinimpactedit #genshinet #scaramouche #wanderer #mine*#scaramouche*#gifchallenge*#tw flashing #i finally found a way to format quests!!#it hit me yesterday as i was finding a quote to put for raiden then boom here we are #i was gonna make the whole thing black and white and blue hence the first two gifs #but i didn't end up liking how it looked so more colours it is 🫶🏻#also chose a long ass quote for the caption (it's two separate voicelines into one)#but i felt it was important to emphasize the puppet and human description that nahida tells scara #ahhhhh i love this quest a lot i remember having mixed feelings about him erasing his identity when i first played through it #but then i rewatched it again later and ended up liking it more bc it shows that not everyone can just erase themselves from irminsul #the same way rukkhadevata did #god i just miss sumeru so much it's still my fave of all the nations when are we going back y'all 😩#pls give me more scara and nahida interactions i beg they're my favourite platonic pairing ever (besides kazuven ofc)

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daz4i · 11 months

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dazai approaches life with the idea that wanting anything is pointless because it will be taken from you

chuuya keeps losing everyone important to him and yet he keeps going, he finds new friends, he keeps living as his own person

in a way, chuuya's life is like a confirmation of dazai's bias; any time he has something good, someone important to him, a connection, it gets taken away from him

and yet unlike dazai, he doesn't give in to despair

and i think that might be one of the reasons dazai finds him interesting enough to care about. because chuuya actively challenges the way he sees life itself just by doing his own thing. he doesn't go out of his way to talk dazai into seeing value in life, and i think this is the sort of language dazai has an easier time speaking

#just an observation. i could be wrong. i could be projecting. feel free to disagree #also i think this is why dazai thinks he hates chuuya #bc i mean. even if he's interesting. it's still annoying as hell when someone challenges your world view constantly #especially when they're not doing it on purpose. but at the same time this is smth that's good for dazai i think #and i think that now post oda's death and as an adult who's been away from the mafia for awhile. he might know it too #i also think knowing atsushi who also challenges his world view - by wanting to cling to life no matter what - may also help #like. help him figure things out and sort his thoughts on the matter. seeing atsushi have a good impact on him -#- and realizing chuuya had a good impact on him too even if he didn't realize it at the time. maybe.#but now I'm just rambling and speculating lol ignore me 👍

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disast3rtransp0rt · 1 year

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rip to the people who grew up enjoying Harry Potter and then decided the safety-blanket of nostalgia is worth more than actual human lives but I’m different.

#like don't get me twisted #the prisoner of azkaban poster with emma watson in the pink hoodie was over my bed for years #and had a fundamental role in my psychosexual development #but that being said #fuck terfs #fuck jk rowling #fuck hogwarts legacy #you can say 'this piece of media impacted me' and also 'this author sucks' in the same sentence #but it's time to stop acting #like this colonialist piece of shit #is worth her fuckin' platform #hogwarts legacy #harry potter #jk rowling #my state didn't write a very potter musical to have the source material suck so bad

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thefirstanomally · 1 year

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Professors are so funny. "How has this book I made you read changed you fundamentally as a person?"

Lol. My dude. I will write this report and then never think of it again.

#I was already a kind person who cared about the environment #I didn't need some guys published diary to make me so #Which is not to say that I do not enjoy reading #Nor that I think no book could have an impact on me #Or even that this particular book couldn't have an impact on others #But like...#The book report prompt is how did it change me as a person #And in all honesty I am the same person as I was #Very Tired #T1A Speaks

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pitske · 3 months

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ROTZBACKE! HAKENZAHN! OI! OI! OI!

#I know some people will disagree with me here and that is totally okay :#I grew up watching httyd and I absolutely prefer the german version over the og (which doesn't happen often)#I think it is so undeniably better in my opinion because it 1) is what I am used to #and 2) because I'm a northern german and the way they talk seems so close to home its just nice-#um's auf gut deutsch zu sagen: die hamburgern so schön /lh #of course in my family we mostly speak like that for emphasis or whatever but I JUST AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH I LOVE IT SO MUCH #I can speak along with the movie in its entirety in german I just-only piece of media that had more of an impact on my life than Undertale #I will say I am sadly not a third movie enjoyer. I'm sorry I just didn't like it very much but I respect the people who do #I also have only watched it once while I've watched rtte like... idk 3 times?#also finally getting to the drawing- I LOVE SNOTLOUT AND HOOKFANG SO MUCCH #also Rotzbacke's Synchronsprecher is just so damn funny-#oh btw Planzin and Tectco watched me go through the five stages of grief when I realized the reason why angel dust sounded so familiar #in the german dub was because the voice actor is the same guy who voice acts fishlegs in german #pitske’s art #pitskederdoenerhaendler #so much shit going down guys I need to draw the entire dragon rider crew #httyd fanart #httyd #snotlout #snotlout jorgenson #hookfang #how to train your dragon

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lotus-pear · 1 year

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venti out here stealing archon kids

#him and xiao both didn't get their parents visions.. venti had to snatch them away before they could #also why does wanderer have the same color palette as the gay flag??? coincidence??#genshin impact #genshin impact art #genshin impact fanart #scaramouche #genshin impact scaramouche #genshin scaramouche #scaramouche genshin #scaramouche genshin impact #wanderer genshin #venti genshin impact #venti #raiden shogun #raiden ei #ei genshin impact #ei genshin #lotus draws

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narratively-doomed · 7 months

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cargo shorts scaramouche

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angelthemanspanker · 2 months

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I can't believe of all the magic gimmick episodes to make a mess of that BTVS managed to fuck up a time loop. A Buffy time loop episode should be the stuff of legend up there with The No Talky One and The Singy One but no. Life Serial time loop I'm sorry but you're nothing to me. Buffyverse magic is always vaguely defined and the rules change by the episode but the time loop spell Jonathan put on Buffy is so underexplained and overpowered that it severely takes me out of the scene

No one else in the shop but Buffy is aware that they're looping or time passing so is the spell just sending Buffy back in time and no one else? But then how can the Trio watch what's going on with the Magic Box cameras in real time with Buffy/the audience. Are they also looping? Does Jonathan's spell reset time for literally everyone except the three of them and Buffy? Because that means Jonathan, by means of magic bone, is repeatedly sending the entire world back a few minutes, keeping the memories of him, the other casters, and the target intact, until a completely arbitrary task decided by Jonathan is accomplished by Buffy.

Does that mean the awkward customer was part of the spell? Because satisfying an annoying customer was the task Jonathan set out for Buffy, did he just know that lady would be difficult? Did they just wait until a difficult customer showed up and bother Buffy to start the loop? What if none did? Is she a physical illusion or a magic homunculus being difficult under Jonathan's direction? Is she a real person playing out his script under mine control? Because unless it's the contrived coincidence option that's a lot of continuous magic to keep up while also maintaining the time loop, all with what seemed like a damn easy spell.

Why don't we know that spell? Casters' and target's memories unaffected, why didn't the gang cast it on Buffy before The Gift and make the loop breaking condition being defeating Glory without any Scoobies dying? We fail, oh well, try again. We know it doesn't need to be fixed on a room bc it covered the Magic Box and the Nerdmobile (even though trying to leave the shop just reset the loop for Buffy bc this spell just does fucking everything I guess). We know any damage done gets reset bc Buffy broke Giles' glasses and the doorbell and they were fine after a loop so no worries about racking up injuries or wasting the Dagon Sphere. And sure if Jonathan can do it, he of the only reasonably impressive abilities, then experienced Giles or Tara or especially Willow should have no problem whatsoever. And all this for one scene.

Life Serial time loop spell you are my enemy.

#i also have beef with the gadget warren puts on buffy that fucks with her perception of time #but thats more with how the scene makes it look like buffy is freezing in place while tara just ditches her which is weird and distracting #the monster of the week plots never really hit the same in s6/7 imo #they always got sidelined in favour of the big plot and so they didn't get the focus you'd need to leave an impact #im sure there are episodes that poke holes in that opinion like omwf or tabula rasa but hey i just say words #buffy summers #jonathan levinson #buffy the vampire slayer #long post

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worstloki · 29 days

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saw someone on twitter say "one of the main characters in a loki show should have been thor odinson, not some random Sylvie or Mobius.

...... It's like a written law"

wdyt do you agree

I don't think it was necessary to make Thor a main character in a Loki show, the same way it WOULD be possible to throw together a Thor movie without having Loki be a main focus.

The issue comes in the quality of the narrative itself, and writing that if evidently without intention to care for (whichever) main character's importance will not work out. Neither the Loki series nor Thor 4 cared about the arc, motivations, history, or continuity of the titular characters beyond trying to make the media marketable.

Overall messaging can add a layer to the impact a story will have. Musical score can be a bonus way to control tone or tie a story together. Supporting cast can be vital to tell a good story. Prioritising their presence over anyone's (especially Loki's) characterisation is what the Loki series suffered from, not that other, original-adjacent characters were there.