Persephone captain marvel au. Hear me out.
Associated with duality, reincarnation, resurrection, childhood innocence (and it getting ripped away by adults), and her 'counterpart' Kore, which is her in her returning aspect of spring, youthfulness, new life... Come on. Is that not the closest thing to Billy you've ever seen in ancient Greece? Where he gets his powers?
It all starts with Teth Adam, and his devastation at the death of his son. He finds the old paths, breaks them open, and storms down into the underworld to demand him back. His is not a new story.
But where Persephone might ordinarily be inclined to ease her husband's scorn, give the troubled mourner a chance, she is speaking to the champion of magic, the world's mightiest mortal. The chance of success is too high. The challenge would not be enough. The death was too high profile and would risk too many attempting to follow in his footsteps. The man is too unstable, too powerful, too close to the heart of magic for it to be safe - for any of him - to grant his wish and risk his false hope.
They deny him.
Enraged, implacable, Teth Adam lashes out. The battle is long and drawn out, neither side tiring even as both weaken, but Persephone, in either form, is not one of war, and she is felled as her curses shatter, her furies tossed aside like dolls. The sound of Hades' scream as Adam's surprise leaves him open flattens the rubble of their throne room.
The wounded champion escapes, hounded by cerberus and skeletons instead of his son's shade, as her husband crashes to his knees beside her. She has not a mortal soul, and thus will be going where even Death cannot reach.
But Adam killed the goddess of reincarnation, and Billy has odd dreams. He's pretty sure he needs to ease up on the stress. He's restless in winter and distracted in summer, he can sleep outside in howling storms as long as he's tucked snug in the boughs of a tree, he's had the luck of never tasting a rotten fruit. Sometimes it feels like there's ghosts in his hideouts and the kids at school try and bribe him to curse their enemies.
When he chosen to be Captain Marvel the wizard chokes on his own speech when the smoke clears. They stare at each other.
"Well," says Persephone, "that was unexpected. Hullo."
"Hello," the wizard replies, "I was under the impression..."
"I don't think the laws of interference quite apply until I'm immortal again," he says.
The wizard's relief is palpable. It's understandable, he looks ready to keel over from old age. "Can I ask...?" he gestures at the new body. It takes a second to understand.
"Oh, I'm a boy now. For a while."
And that's that.
Until green lantern is killed in battle.
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Name: Cyril Reed
Nickname/Alias: Reed, Cy(limited to Mercy only), Whisper(RR call name)
Gender: Trans man
Star sign: Scorpio(November 13, 2049)
Height: 5'9"/175cm
Orientation: Bi + poly
Nationality: American
Favorite fruit: Apple
Favorite season: Autumn
Favorite flower: Wildflowers
Favorite scent: Petrichor
Coffee, tea, or hot chocolate: coffee
Average hours of sleep: 4-6 on a good day
Dog or cat person: He'd actually really enjoy having a cat, but he's definitely a dog person first and foremost
Dream trip: He’d love to go back to his hometown in upstate New York at some point just to see how much things have changed, but more than likely wouldn’t go back without another reason- he’d just figure the area was hit hard and would either be hard to get to or heavily irradiated like the Glowing Sea
Number of blankets they'd choose to sleep with: At least 2-3 heavy blankets, he’d commit so many crimes for a good weighted blanket
Random fact: Margot’s actually his first pet- he didn’t have any pets growing up or while he was in the army prior to being assigned to her.
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the dad: remus
the mom (why am i the mom? what gender roles are we pushing here?): peter
not the son, but the gay, emo cousin: marlene
the son, the hotshot, who's only dream is to be a star: james
the fresh-out-of-jail uncle: sirius
the sassy aunt, who talks shit about everybody: mary
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Thinking about Post-TEC Jon and Evil Tim again.
Perhaps a potential motive on Tim’s account for ‘joining forces’ (taking over Fission Chips) beyond simply wanting a company of his own is using their communications infrastructure (particularly the data tucked away on the criminal underworld’ side) to hunt down ever-elusive Britva once and for all. To take what he’s owed in paid pain, and get rid of what’s been a ghostly thorn in his side for far too long.
(And, perhaps, he uses such as persuasion for Butler to join in on the evil enterprise? The Major deserves to be avenged, certainly…)
In kind, of course, he’s more than happy to put his might behind taking Valentine out, too. Jon has a company and resources alike with Phonetix’s own, but no more access (and very little will) to use them after his fall in the public eye. Between he and Valentine, it’s never been a fair fight regardless. But who needs a fair fight when one has a Butler at their command?
All in due time, of course- first, they must go to Russia.
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idk if you're into hypmic but this is so funny felix on hypmictwt feels like a fever dream 😭😭😭
CRIES . HE REALLY LOOKS LIKE SAMATOKI IN THAT PIC
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Realized I didn't ever make a ref page thingy for my boi so tried my best to fit wot I could for em lolz
Zivir was messing around in magical fields he shouldn't have and with no self preservation, ended up nuking his core. It got supercharged making him neither mortal nor like any demi god core, is more like a zombie that needs to fuel itself by absorbing energy from leylines or magic rich items. There's a lot of fam drama for him to, but I'll jus say he has found himself in a better place later though still has his struggles from his past and the present. (Would be way too big a rant lol)
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Monkey King reborn Wukong enjoyer oHOHOHO?? Yk what's so good with his hands? THE NAILS. IT'S BLACK. IT'S GIVING,,,, 💅✨ Y'KNOW????
And then??? That one scene– the way he almost dropped his staff after getting called handsome is SENDING ME 😭
IT DEFINITELY DOES. I’m so happy to find more MK Reborn enjoyers omg
The scene where he almost drops his staff is kind of funny because like,,, I, too, would fumble with my staff if I was suddenly complimented. AND I AGREE WITH THAT MOUNTAIN GOD. HE’S VERY HANDSOME.
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