#and THEN his father dies

[slashingdisneypasta]

I was already enjoying this book

with its tragic but fair (Non-Forgiving) takes on a few fairytale villains like the Evil Stepmother and Ugly Stepsisters

But- but but but!!

It has a poem about JAFAR!! Now I'm loving it ^^

An excerpt:

Baba told him one night When the desert storm rose high, Poor men's sons do poor men's jobs.

This is just their destiny. They have no right to dreams. No right to build sky palaces.

No right to pursue silly ideas Like magic and sorcery Or flirting with alchemy.

Yet something ancient in the boy's heart Did not allow him to give up the fact That a bigger destiny ran in his arteries.

- Nikita Gill, Fierce Fairytales and Other Stories to Stir your Soul

#talks about him a showmakers son #who is told that he would never amount to anything because he's just a shoemakers son #and then his father dies #and he's cunning and intelligent and schemes his way up the hierarchy #!!! Jafar!!! #Jafar #Disney Jafar

[novantinuum]

how is it possible for a lad to be filled with SO much emotion about a singular, possible version of the relationship between two characters who are only implied to exist

i am SO!!! FUCKING EMO!!! about the love between the version of link’s parents that live in my head!! they LOVE each other! they pick on each other! they support each other! i’m aUGHHHHH

#some people often interpret link as coming from a broken family or one of his parents being an asshole or something and i'm like #NAH their family was SO GOOD and then a fucking sword came in and destroyed everything like a cannonball #and his mother was stricken with continuous worry #and his father grew tense and meticulous in his training of him... to the point where he often forgot link wasn't an adult soldier #(it all came from a place of love and the desire to protect but that still doesn't make it right) #and his sister was v often left behind entirely... just the younger sibling of the Hero and nothing more #and THEN his father dies #and everything just gets so much worse #like it's so much more painful to me if link and his family had Everything and then it was all taken away #jen rambles #arwel #kelra #aryll #link #the ballad of aryll

[aroaceleovaldez]

Nico referring to his mom as "Mama" implies he most likely at least used to refer to Hades as "Papa" and i 100% headcanon he still does but mostly in the manner of him having the entire Underworld wrapped around his finger for being the baby of the family

#pjo #riordanverse #nico di angelo #headcanon #my art #nico flexing youngest child privilages by pulling out the most pitiful expression he can manage #anyways i find it fun to explore character word choices #cause yknow no two characters are going to select their words the same way #or even necessarily think about it to the same degree #i like to think Nico thinks about his word choice a lot #so of course every time he uses ''papa'' he fully knows he's pulling the Baby Of The Family card #Hades definitely knows this too but falls for it every time anyways #cause Nico hasnt called him ''papa'' regularly since getting his memory wiped - just detached ''father'' or at best ''dad'' #so it just reminds Hades of How Much He Just Wants His Children To Be Happy Like The Old Days #and how much poor Nico has been through and he's just the baby of the family and- #cue Nico smugly staring at the camera cause he knows how much power he holds #also i say Nico is Hades' only son cause mythologically even when Zagreus *is* Hades' son (rarely) he's. dead. #a major part of Zagreus' mythology is that he died #and im p sure every other deity said to be Hades' children are all goddesses and also are like 50% of the time not his #theres also only like 3 of them. and as far as we know in riordanverse canon one of them is implied to not be his daughter #so Nico is Hades' only son and also youngest in the family (cause Hazel is older by a month chronologically or 1 year biologically) #(and everybody else is a deity if children of hades at all)

[tracksdowna]

having dallas thoughts in regards his father and his lineage and how disconnected he feels from both those entities but what if. he had a secret name

#i will admit i was only thinking about this for. current brainrot reasons BUT #i just think.. maybe his father gave him a name before he was born #and then his father dies #and maryann gives him like. a white name for the sake of the tiny white town they live in #but what if... at home she used that name his father given him #ooooohhhhhhhhhhh #AAAAAAAAAA #i love dallas :(

[canisalbus]

Giordano please! I want to see him and young Machete.

Giordano di Calabria, the future Archbishop of Naples, and his good-for-nothing apprentice.

#own art #own characters #CanisAlbus #Machete #Giordano di Calabria #fic Separation #anonymous #answered #Machete's former mentor and the closest he's had to a father figure #highly esteemed character in his circles #pious short tempered and heavyhanded man #he financed Machete's further studies when he was made an archbishop #but then grew to resent him when Machete surpassed him and became a cardinal #from tiny shrimpy kid to spindly and haggard adult

[ghost-bxrd]

Prompt:

It’s not that Jason forgot, per se.

But between smuggling a toddler out of the League of Assassins, trekking halfway across the world, and finding a suitable hiding place that’s also child friendly… well, it kind of slipped his mind that he’s supposed to be… dead.

Something that comes back to bite him in the ass when he takes Dami out for some ice cream and just so happens to run into non other than Brucie-fucking-Wayne

#look I’ve found a new fave trope and it’s Brucie Wayne having to keep up his act while internally LOSING HIS SHIT #Jason isn’t very into the whole revenge thing here #his mind is 85 parts ‘keep Dami safe’ 5 parts ‘kill joker asap’ and 10 parts ‘avoid bats at any cost’ #Jason doesn’t know who Damian’s father is #dealer’s choice if Jason establishes himself as Dami’s dad or older brother #his build certainly makes him look old enough #if you don’t look at his baby face lol #Jason runs into Brucie and goes straight into survival mode #Damian who is very observant for a toddler immediately clocks Brucie as THREAT based on Jason’s reaction #Brucie blue screens and desperately tries not to lose Jason in the crowd #jason is absolutely trying to lose Brucie in the crowd #while clutching Damian like his life depends on it #for all he knows it does #the visceral terror that your pseudo dad will take away your little brother/baby #Bruce who just wants to know if he’s hallucinating again: W A I T #jason who is terrified of being put in Arkham for killing people: no FUCKING WAY #hm maybe Jason plays the ‘I’m not Jason’ game again #it’s not gonna hold for long #but Bruce absolutely thinks that Damian is Jason’s bio child for a while and he’s on the WARPATH #Jason was sixteen when he died and never showed any interest in dating so literally every red flag is waving in brucie’s mind simultaneousl #or maybe Jason manages to get away and all Brucie is left with is the memory of his supposedly dead son #running away from him #and clutching a tiny kid #prompts #jason todd #batfamily #Damian wayne #batdad #brucie wayne

[thegunslingerletmedrop]

#911 abc #911edit #chimney han #911 gifs #madney #kevin lee #maddie buckley #glmdedit #jee yun buckley han #albert han #henrietta wilson #karen wilson #john lee #anne lee #eddie diaz #evan buckley #ravi panikkar #bobby nash #look i hope people are as emotionally damaged by this as i was making it #we only had kevin for like 25 mins but i've never gotten over him #this guy has every reason to be a horrible miserable character but no #no he's the coolest cheeriest funniest caring man alive #sick dead mom at a young age and abandoned by an absent father and taking care of sick after her diagnosis #ideas constantly shut down for owning a business and losing his brother on the job #and also sorta losing mr lee who couldn't bear to see him without being reminded of kevin bc they were so intertwined #failing in love and getting stabbed and left for dead #oh and the rebar accident where he almost died again #losing the love of his life and then finding her but not being together with her #911 edits

[little-pondhead]

Classic "promised-at-birth-to-the-Ghost-King" story, except the contract never states how, exactly, the King is to use the offered soul. Usually, one would be offered as a bride or sacrifice. But with Pariah Dark sealed away, his retainers got a little lazy in the last few millennia. They just made some generic contracts and practically handed them out like candy.

When Danny took over as king via conquest, that included all the weird and messed up soul contracts the previous retainers had signed. And since ghost magic was a thing and seemed to have it out for Danny personally, many of these contracts updated their terms and conditions as soon as that crown hit Danny's head, reflecting the new King's subconscious desires and personality.

This caused many issues with those still around to profit from these contracts. Some people lost their power, some gained more, and some were unbound and kicked to the curb. A few special people found themselves dropping dead after their less-than-ethical abilities disappeared.

Danny was unaware of the chaos he had unintentionally caused for quite a while. It was only brought to his attention when a letter arrived on his desk one day with a copy of someone's valid contract enclosed. The new changes have been highlighted, and a separate note is attached.

It seems that in exchange for blessings of near-immortality for her infant son, a mother had offered Pariah Dark both their souls in order to ensure her child's survival during harsh times. (The souls were to be collected upon death and were to be used as soldiers in the King's Army.) The mother's soul had returned to the Keep decades ago and was recently assigned to tend to the gardens, while her son seemed to have grown into a fine gentleman and was still alive. He used his mother's gifts to serve his country and loved ones well, it seemed.

At first, Danny didn't see what any of this had to do with him. If the mother was already a part of his kingdom, and the son would be eventually, why was a letter about the whole thing showing up before him?

Then he read the revised contract, which bore his magical signature. A signature that overruled the power of Pariah and binding it to him.

'...and as such, in return for the abilities stated above, [Mary Pennyworth] and [Alfred Pennyworth] will fulfill the conditions detailed below, upon pain of Ending.

[Mary Pennyworth], when returned to the Kingdom of Dark Kingdom of Stars, will work as a lieutenant in the Skeleton Army caretaker in the Gardens of Pluto.

STATUS: COMPLETED

[Alfred Pennyworth], when returned to the Kingdom of Dark Kingdom of Stars, will work as a general in the Skeleton Army caretaker of the King and his Court.

STATUS: PENDING'

Danny had to re-read the contract several times to understand what it was saying. He now had a caretaker? What did a caretaker do? Was it like a ghost parent? Could this guy ghost-ground him??

He sighed and pressed the speed dial on his phone for Tucker. Time to find out who the hell this Alfred Pennyworth guy was, and how to break a magic contract when it wasn't even fulfilled yet.

Meanwhile, Alfred had just found the original copy of the contract amongst his mother's belongings after it glowed and drew him in. The paperwork cleared up a lot of mysteries he'd always wondered about himself, even if he disapproved of his mother's methods. Nonetheless, he smoothed out the aged paper with dark green ink, noted the fresh (sloppy, a teenager?) signature, and began preparing to meet this supposed new King and his Court.

It wouldn't hurt to make introductions before he died, after all.

#pondhead blurbs #dpxdc #alfred is now their grandpa #i just want alfred to meet danny and his group of friends and unironically call him 'your majesty' and danny HATES it #like this is the guy who's gonna be my butler/caretaker after he dies? please man just say my name #it's not a cursed name i swear #no one else knows how to feel #cause like #if the contract wasn't in place everyone was sure Alfred would haunt the manor even after death due to his devotion to the wayne family #but now he's already got a job in the afterlife #so how will the bats see their father/grandfather figure now? #Bruce: the obvious solution is to adopt these random kids who still have families so alfred never has to leave :) #alfred isn't even dead yet but the bats are speedrunning their grief in like a week

[brucewaynehater101]

I'm bad at math, but is Bruce theoretically 38 years old when he goes into the time stream?

Hear me out (and canon likes to fluncate their ages, so this is my best guess without trying to account for birthdays):

Bruce becomes the legal guardian of 9 year old Dick when he's 23. That's a 14 year difference.

Jason becomes Robin when Dick leaves at 18. Jason is 13. That's a five year difference.

Jason dies at 15, and Tim becomes Robin at 13. That's a two year difference.

The age difference between Tim and Bruce would thus be 21 years.

Tim becomes Red Robin to find Bruce at 17.

That means that Bruce had to be 38, right? Why was I imagining him closer to 50?

Adopting so many kids must have aged him

#tim was 2-3 when he watched the graysons fall #jason would have been 17 when he attacked to at titan tower #this would make dick 24 when his dad dies and he has to take up the batman mantle he never wanted #UtRH is more tragic if you think about how jason wasnt even an adult #i do love the parallels of 23 year old bruce being a father to 9 year old dick and 24 year old dick being a father to 10 year old damian #also it's definitely the continued exposure to crime and violence that gave bruce his stress lines and grey hair (or jason dying) #this is all theoretical anyways because DC writes its own rules for how to math ages #dc universe #dc comics #bruce wayne #tim drake #jason todd #dick grayson #the consequences of dc being vague on their ages is that means the characters speedrun all their trauma and can't breath through it #they are all so young

[almondcroissantsandink]

i feel the need--the need for speed!

#top gun #pete maverick mitchell #nick goose bradshaw #top gun goose #top gun maverick #pete mitchell #nick bradshaw #this is NOT military propaganda i PROMISE #i ended up liking these movies way more than i thought so bear with me but know i'm not drawing these like #oh huzzah us military because i am NOT :) #we watched the first top gun and i went into it with the only thing i knew was that goose died and if i hadnt known that spoiler i wouldve #been DEVASTATED he was such a good character #also the first movie was...okay i guess #the amount of french kissing was FRIGHTENING and my entire family screamed and covered our eyes lmao because wtf was that #also i realized maverick tossed goose's dog tags into the ocean in the one scene but that means rooster lost his father and doesn't even #have his dog tags to remember him by?? idk that was whack mav lol #top gun fanart #digitial art #artists on tumblr #illustration #csp #clip studio paint #tom cruise #anthony edwards

[youregonnabeokay-kid]

“Ask me for sanctuary”

SCREAMING, CRYING, BAWLING MY EYES OUT

#SHUT THE FUCK UP #thinking about maria crushed under the rubble of a hotel because she loved her family too much #thinking about bianca crushed by talos because she loved her brother too much #thinking about nico ten years old and losing everything he loves #lost confused unable to think clearly without his mom and sister by his side #thinking about hades doing everything in his power to get nico to not leave to stay with him in the underworld where he can protect him #thinking about nico praying to his father in agony after he lost another person because he was right it’s too much no one’s safe at camp #pjo tv show #pjo spoilers #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #hades #hades pjo #maria di angelo #bianca di angelo #nico di angelo

[redrobin-detective]

I find it completely hilarious to think after Simon was freed from the crown and got to be himself in Ooo that he and Finn have a close relationship that neither of them understand.

Finn views Simon as a fellow human, someone he saw at their lowest point and now is on the upswing and now they can be buddies and go on adventures together. He also wants to do sleepovers all the time, what a bro. Simon sure is fussy with him, like Jake sometimes is, must be because they're such good friends.

Simon meanwhile is going around to people in Ooo like 'why did you let a child/teenager live alone in a treehouse with a dog and access to weaponry while making him fight monsters?' and when no one stepped up, Simon unofficially claimed Finn as his own. He checks in regularly, goes over a brings groceries, cleans up the treehouse, educates Finn as best he can on human anatomy, culture, history as well as other stuff.

Its so obvious to everyone - especially Marcy who is laughing her ass off in the background - that the former Ice King is trying to parent Finn who doesn't get it and proceeds to friendzone the hell out of his father figure.

#adventure time #fionna and cake #simon petrikov #finn the human #finn mertens #the idea of finn friendzoning a father figure is so funny #he has such bad experiences with parents in that joshua died when he was young and martin was a piece of shit #so Finn has such positive affection for Simon he just *cant* see him as a dad #Simon is dading the shit out of finn and its going over the idiots lil bear covered head #Simon and Jake (before he dies) have weekly phone calls on hows Finn doing and who gets custody this week #Simon makes sure every house he gets has a spare room for his kids #Finn crashes there a lot after Jake and Simon relishes the chance to dote and take care of his little boy #Finn meanwhile is like 'man Simon is a real bro a true friend a real good dude'

[stealingpotatoes]

Random question but what do you think would happen if S1 Ezra meets present Ezra?

adult ezra: what the hell how are you-- 14yo ezra: dad???! adult ezra: adult ezra, literally about to start crying: WHAT DO YOU MEAN DAD

#HE LOOKS LIKE HIS DAD AND EVERY TIME I THINK ABT I WANT TO THROW A BRICK THROUGH A WINDOW #LIKE DOES HE LOOK IN THE MIRROR ONE DAY AND REALISE??? #DOES HE GET BACK AND NOT HAVING SEEN A PICTURE OF HIS PARENTS IN YEARS HE SEES IT AGAIN AND GETS SMACKED OVER THE HEAD W THE REALISATION #THAT THE MAN IN THE PICTURE LOOKS LIKE THE MAN IN THE MIRROR #HE FIGHTS & ACTS LIKE ONE FATHER AND LOOKS LIKE THE OTHER. BOTH ARE GONE. BOTH ARE GHOSTS RESIDING IN EZRA'S CHEST #AND HE FEELS LIKE HIS OWN GHOST SOMETIMES GIVEN HOW MANY PPL THOUGHT HE DIED. MAN OF THREE GHOSTS #IM THROWING THE BRICK #thanks for the ask!

[sadgoosehours]

James T Kirk and Leonard McCoy, Star Trek Beyond (2016).

#here you go Rooster stans I actually included him in something #anyways it's about the parallels between Mav and Rooster #they both probably had ages where they realized they were older than their father who died young #(also would it have kiiled Rooster to have a scene where he stares at a photo of his father mournfully? would have made my life easier) #top gun #top gun maverick #pete maverick mitchell #bradley rooster bradshaw #nick goose bradshaw #duke mitchell #my post #my edit

[jedi-starbird]

No one ever tells Obi-Wan that he is his Master's padawan.

Of course, for most people who had known Qui-Gon Jinn, telling someone else they resembled the the man would in fact be a thinly veiled insult. But still, Obi-Wan feels the absence of comparisons almost as strongly as he feels the absence of his Master.

There is no one for Obi-Wan to push against now, no strong presence at his side, ready to grab him by scruff and pull him back from another reckless stunt. It's an odd feeling. He has been set loose against his wishes. There is no one to his left and Anakin at his heels, but Anakin had needed, still needs, a strong, gentle figure for his prickly but sensitive heart. For even their worst bickering could not hold a candle to the scathing remarks he and Qui-Gon had shot at each other and Obi-Wan knows he cannot push and needle Anakin in the same way.

When Qui-Gon had been alive they had been an amusing, mirrored pair, the maverick and his rule-following padawan. Opposites clashing against each other, yet working together to complete the most difficult missions. Few saw that Qui-Gon's impertinence had indeed rubbed off on his padawan, cultivated from that small, angry initiate, because the only way to rebel against the rule-breaker had been to parrot the Council fastidiously. No one would ever get to see that again. Obi-Wan is one half of a mirrored pair trying to complete a routine on his own. What once was an impish, teasing compliance is now a betrayal of all his Master's values.

"How could Qui-Gon raise such a model Jedi?" He hears them say, "It's admirable that Master Kenobi was appointed to the Council despite his Master's maverick ways."

Padawan Kenobi would have yelled and kicked and screamed. Master Kenobi is serene. It should feel like an achievement. It feels like a disappointment.

Sometimes, Obi-Wan looks at the shape of the man he has moulded himself into, and aches to be his Master's padawan.

#I am so totally normal about them. (screaming crying throwing up) #anyway yeah obi wan has daddy issues but in a very specific way that's less i want a father figure and more i require an animal handler #hence why obi wan likes both alpha 17 and cody finally someone to tell him he's being an idiot and be bitchy with him he's missed this #giving the guilt boy MORE guilt complexes over honoring his masters legacy #but god really imagine you spend a decade making yourself the opposite of your master in a funny back and forth you both indulge in but the #BUT THEN!! he fucking dies and you're left alone occupying a dynamic carved for 2 people and everyone tells you they can't see any of your #dead master within you as if it's a joke. as if that's funny. as if that's a good thing. and people say he would be proud but would he? #would he be proud when everyone always tells you that you are the opposite of him? that you are everything he was not? #obi wan kenobi #qui gon jinn #qui gon and obi wan #disaster lineage #star wars

[arthursfuckinghat]

I will never be normal about the red dead redemption protagonists getting caught in the cycle of revenge for their loved ones

#john loved arthur like a brother he wanted to honour that by killing micah #jack loved his father and wanted to get revenge for his death and for the downfall of everything his family had built #and worst of all? arthur tried to warn them #he was always telling people that revenge is a fools game #arthur didn't care about revenge #arthur almost broke the cycle #he died giving john a chance to break it #two generations of outlaws killed by their own way of life #oh man #mick squeaks #mick thinks #rdr2 #red dead redemption 2 #rdr1 #red dead redemption #arthur morgan #john marston #jack marston #red dead redemption community #oh arthur #oh john