So I noticed something in Harrow the Ninth. In chapter two, when John is trying to console Harrow over having lost Gideon, he puts his hands on her shoulders, and he says "Gideon Nav did not die for nothing."
Harrow feels "a hot whistle of pain run down
[her] temporal bone," which is, we know now, Harrow having a stroke as her skull alters her brain so that she hears him say 'Ortus Nigenad' instead. And she replies to him in kind, using Ortus' name. So the interesting bit is John's reaction, look:
He had his hands on her shoulders the whole time. Physical touch negates lyctoral blindness, and she had a stroke while he was touching her. That look on his face. Is he working out an emotionally taxing anagram, or is he taking a good look at her and working out what the hell just happened? Then he says Gideon's name again, like he's running a test, and Harrow has another stroke. That's exactly the same test Mercy performed to figure out what Harrow did to her brain in chapter twenty-nine.
He knows. He's known about the lobotomy since chapter two. He thinks she did it to forget her grief and guilt, and he thinks he understands.
Which means when he 'notices' the lobotomy in this scene:
He's not really noticing it for the first time at all. He's calling attention to it. He's just told Harrow that she didn't open the Tomb, that she's wrong about the events of her own life, and then he deliberately 'discovers' and points out her brain damage to seal the deal.
John Gaius uses: Gaslight! It's super effective.
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The original batkid age differences still work in the current comic era, and I'm gonna keep assuming they're canon unless they tell me otherwise. (sequel to this post)
Damian is canonically 14 (as of 2021).
This makes Tim about 21, which fits with his recent 'college dropout who lives alone on a houseboat' character arc (also 2021). A comic in 2015 said Tim was 16 when Damian was at least 10, but since it's a minor difference I'm gonna stick with the ~7 year gap they had pre-n52.
So Jason must be 23 — as far as I know, no canon contradicts this.
And Dick is about 29. This causes some minor issues, actually — in 2014 he was supposedly 21 when he should have been about 24, and in 2018 he's described as 'mid-20s,' which could be a stretch depending on how much in-universe time passed between 2018 and 2021. Overall though, not too messy.
So that makes Cass 24, Steph 21-22, and Babs around 30.
Honestly I have no idea how old Duke is beyond 'high school age" — from at least 2015 to present. Which actually kinda screws things up, if we assume that all the other characters aged 4 years in that time. Like, in 2015 he was closer to Tim's age, and now he seems to be closer to Damian's. For what it's worth tho, I think of him as ~17.
Anyway, point is DC DOES let their characters age (at least since the Rebirth era started in 2016. pretty sure n52 was like, a stasis bubble or something). I'm sure the timeline will continue to get wonkier as the youngest generation of heroes grows up, but for now the Bats seem to be doing alright.
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ITS ATREBODA NIGHT FOLKS!!!!!!!! BECAUSE I MISS THEM SO DEARLY AND IM COPING FOR NOT BEING ABLE TO PLAY VALHALLA RAAAAAAAAHGHHHHHHH
anyways that one scene where atreus asked if fireflies were dangerous lmao
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Links: slippdipp | demilypyro | splatbit | beanybread
Image ID under the cut.
[ image ID: A series of five tweets.
The first tweet is by COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN @ slippdipp and reads,
GENDER IS NO MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Attached is a zoomed-in image from the Splatoon 3 trailer showing serveral hairstyles.
The second tweet is by Demily Pyro 🍓 ENVtuber @ DemilyPyro and reads,
Wait did Splatoon 3 just completely remove gender?
Attached is a screenshot of the character customization screen from the Splatoon 3 trailer. It says, "Hair time" and all six hairstyles are shown as options rather than being gender-locked.
The third and fourth tweets are by bit @ splatbit and read,
WAIT THERES NO GENDER OPTION IN SPLATOON 3 ALL SQUID KIDS ARE NON-BINARY CONFIRMED
just for clarification:
• select a “style”
• no gender locked hair
• cry about it
Attached are two screenshots of the character customization screen from the Splatoon 3 trailer. The first says, "Select a style" with four options, two squid and two octopus, and the second says "Hair time" with all hairstyles given as options irregardless of previously associated gender.
The fifth tweet is by 🌸•♡bread♡•🌸 ⚢ @ beanybread and reads,
SPLATOON 3 SAID NONBINARY RIGHTS
Attached are two images, the first of the Splatoon 3 logo and the second of the non-binary flag; both the logo and the flag are colored black, white, purple, and yellow.
/end ID. ]
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