#I don't know how much of those lines about the letters was headcanon power vs. Nexus on both the Raven and the Dove axis...

[beyondthetemples-ooc]

It just turned xmas eve and I'm sitting here grinning like a lunatic at how I described Dove's transformation into demon!Dove, specifically because I really like what I headcanon'd about the letters!

In the climax battle scene of DDD, I gave Dove the same runes that Raven glows with in s4, except I Elaborated. I gave them Purpose besides just Look Cool and Ancient. Excerpt below (DDD, ch20).

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And when the merging was complete, Raven couldn’t believe what she saw.

What had he done to her?

She lifted herself from the dust and stood with a stance so powerful, so confident that Raven couldn’t believe it was DOVE under that cloak. The newborn demon stretched, flexing, gathering and astrally caressed the currents of energy – Suddenly she threw the scorched cloak away and revealed an outfit that swept across her curves, skirting her back and shoulders, so provocative it was barely even there; its pieces embraced at her cocked hip and accentuated her battle-ready stance.

So little of that crimson and leathery flesh was hidden, the real Dove would have fled under the covers from embarrassment. But more importantly, more frighteningly, this utterly uncharacteristic outfit revealed messages sewn into her skin like astral battlescars:

Dove was marked with dark scrawls of energy, the epistles burning in activation, scripts to keep his power in her body, runes to channel evil energies ripped from the very cosmos, letters as old as the chaos they channeled were strewn across every inch of her exposed flesh. Warnings on her arm. Triumph flooded down her back. Terms of surrender splashed across her collarbone and met at the four cauterized scars on her chest.

Trigon was gone, sealed within her by the sigil of damnation, and the magic now thriving within her was clamoring for violence - delirious to be unleashed, even as embers of the fading hellfire still lit her skin.

And here was the perfect target.

Dove’s senses, human and preternaturally enhanced, all detected Raven’s presence. She sensed the signs of heightened emotion: Raven’s calm mask was strained. She saw the subtle tension in her shoulders, heard her heart pounding a heavier rhythm than it had a moment ago. She felt the slightest shift of blood flow as Raven’s muscles tensed, preparing for battle at her instinct’s call, and she could feel the air strung tight around her as Raven's powers raged within her, the trained instinct to eliminate the threat, warring with the protectress instinct to not hurt her little sister.

And most satisfying of all, her telepath mind tasted Raven’s fear, an absolute delicacy whether the fear was for herself or her lost sister’s soul.

#ddd #rhs stories #rhs personal teen titans #tt headcanons list #(Because this really IS all headcanon; aside from the Mark of Scath we really DON'T know what the fuck it all mEANS) #I don't know how much of those lines about the letters was headcanon power vs. Nexus on both the Raven and the Dove axis... #but gods I'm proud of it WHEREVER the fuck it came from. #I'm also proud that it took me approximately 10 minutes to come up with that many words for ''letters and sentences and words''. #I'm still not sure of the CONNOTATIONS of the word ''epistle'' but I could always slap an ''unholy'' before it if I find out it's unfit. #The punctuation in this chapter is still Under Review (as is demon!Dove's outfit?) but GODS I'm proud of the verbiage! #Doylist: the outfit is to show off the glowing spell words. Obviously. #The energies of it is probably what burned off Raven's clothes. #Watsonian though??? Yeah there's a thing with ''Dove lacks confidence and demon!Dove has too much of it'' but like. #Did I have to SEXUALIZE her to show that? Like. I didn't MEAN it that way; it's supposed to be ''she's proud and doesn't mind showing skin' #but does it come off as fanservice-y or sexualizing or objectifying or equating Showing Skin with Power? #this post brought to you by a zine I just read about One of the LEsser-Flaunted Aspects of my Identity #and it had a really interesting superhero world sort of thing and I forget why it made me think of DDD....? I think I was thinking of likin #the narration style or verbiage choices or something and was like ''I like my own sometimes too. LIKE THE MARKINGS'' #--OH I was thinking about Trigon's design and having stripes sometimes for some reason (like Tony the Tiger) #and that made me think of demon!Raven and then demon!Dove.