#eave but she does because she doesn't want to keep thinking about it she wants to move on and Percy feeling so powerless and angry at his

[persefoneshalott]

real mourning Ginny Weasley’s potential hours.

#sortinghatchats #related? #that last post made me think about how like #the chamber of secrets was probably one of the things that made Percy start to distrust Dumbledore #and it'd be interesting to explore that Ginny x Percy dynamic like Percy acts like the parent to heir siblings we know this #and he probably blamed himself for Ginny and he wanted to protect her and I just imagine like #if we believe this idea of the weasley family just avoiding conflict. just not mentioning it. and Percy feeling so ??? what the hell why #aren't his parents doing anything you know #why is ginny going back to hogwarts the next year without any sort of security measure #so I can imagine that starting the rift and I can imagine Ginny ending up angry at Percy because she doesn't want to feel like the 'victim' #she doesn't want to feel like people have to protect her #(which tbh I do think that is part of her character and could be attributed to this I remember the whole why she broke up with... Dean was #it? they argued because she thought he was helping her to go through the portrait which I think that's not why she broke up with him prob #an excuse more like but she still was really mad about it because it made her feel weak I assume) #and it'd bring a whole new. thing into their dynamic when Percy is fully not speaking to his family and she seems to be so angry with him #eave but she does because she doesn't want to keep thinking about it she wants to move on and Percy feeling so powerless and angry at his #parents angry at Dumbledorelike I'm not saying it was solely because of this but I think it could be part of it the reason why he's like fuc #fuck this why should I trust these people? Aren't they supposed to keep us safe? #nd then after he's stranged he hears about his dad risking his life for Dumbledore again #I mean even if the parents did talk with Ginny and try to help... I don't know that they'd know what to do and the vibe you get from her #very badly written character development is that she learned to toughen up and protect herself and not trust anyone #so I think Percy was probably doing the most but he'd still very overwhelmed understandably #Ginny being the warmest towards Bill when he and Charlie were also the only ones who weren't in Hogwarts when that all happened is also #something to think about because if she felt any sort of resentment she wouldn't towars him and we don't know how much he knows about it #she probably feels the most 'normal' around him and like she doesn't have to.. filter herself yknow #anyway idhkjshkjfdhshdhkjjmade up this whole story in my head huh #now I want to read about them : ' #I don't think this is actually sortinghatchats related sorry but hey they're both snakes #uhhhh alsooo #Percy and Ginny having vastly different views on Arthur? Percy probably having been his mom's confidant and so having this very negative vie

[themandylion]

Jaytim 70+54?? (Secret relationship+locked in a room)? 👀👀 Love your work!!!!! Have a wonderful day <3

Aww, thank you, you're very sweet. 😊

70 (Locked in a Room) + 54 (Secret Relationship) + JayTim

I like twists, so actually the secret relationship would be that Jason is, in fact… getting therapy! Because he realizes that this is a thing he should be doing, what with all the baggage he has (it's so much baggage) over the dying and the coming back but also, like. He was orphaned?? He lived on the streets?? He suddenly got adopted by one of the richest men in the country just out of nowhere?? He can't talk about the danger he experienced as Robin because civilian therapist, but he does admit that he really wanted to reconnect with his birth mom, but that didn't go well and she ended up dying after selling him out to a very bad man and getting him killed. (He can talk about the fact that he literally died and came back because this is DC universe and that's just. Tuesday. Everyone kinda knows at least one resurrected person, it's the in-universe equivalent of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.)

Anyway. Part of this whole therapy thing is Jason realizing that oh shit. He really shafted Tim while he was a frothing hot mess of Pit rage and hormones and oh no. He literally beat up a child?? Nearly killed him? On multiple occasions??? He's the worst ever, can never be allowed near Tim again, nearly sends himself to prison, but Bruce stops him. (Bruce doesn't want to deal with the headache of constantly monitoring Jason to make sure he doesn't kill any of the other inmates. That was such a pain, last time!)

But it's all a lot to deal with and he definitely goes out of his way to be nowhere near Tim. Problematic because Tim is living in his fancy-shmancy apartment on Park Row and Jason really wants to get after him for trying to gentrify the neighborhood, but that would involve face-to-face interaction!! So instead he just sabotages Tim's water. And power. Sewage. Internet.

His crowning glory is when he successfully seed-bombs Tim's roof (idiot doesn't rake out his eaves as often as he should) and then calls in a few favors to get Ivy to hurry things up a little. Within a week, Tim has several full-grown ficus trees breaking through his ceilings and walls and everything and the theater house is a lost cause. Thank god he saved his fish.

Tim isn't as much of an idiot as Jason thinks, though, and he knows this has to somehow be the handiwork of Poison Ivy. He drops in to visit Harley and they have a great big gossip fest where he lets her do his nails and they both bitch about obnoxious controlling bosses and Harley admits that Red Hood asked Ivy to take care of that rich kid's place over in Crime Alley.

Tim is just like, "O RLY" and starts plotting. He plots so hard. It's not particularly good or effective plotting because he's currently back at the manor and Damian keeps trying to murder him in his sleep and any time he tries to complain Dick and Bruce just laugh and say Damian's still adjusting and puberty is very difficult for some people. Tim would beg to differ. Most people can handle puberty without resorting to actual-fact murder attempts and it is hard to get enough sleep when he has to always keep one eye open and wear a gas mask at night after the unfortunate incident with the chlorine gas. Hilarious.

Eventually, he ends up outsourcing his plotting to Babs, who comes up with the brilliant idea of asking Jason to visit, having Tim come at the same time, and trapping them in the elevator of her building together. She and Tim think that this will for sure net answers for why Jason destroyed Tim's home, but instead Jason escapes through the ceiling of the elevator, Tim has to follow, and they end up making out on the roof. She isn't sure how this happened, she doesn't have cameras in the elevator shaft, but she is very curious.

The mystery is never solved.

#JayTim #ask meme #cheetahleopard #themandylion writes #trope mash up

[itsbenedict]

Two-Faced Jewel: Session 13

The Morning After

A half-elf conwoman (and the moth tasked with keeping her out of trouble) travel the Jewel in search of, uh, whatever a fashionable accessory is pointing them at. [Campaign log]

Last time, while waiting in Barley for the high-level adventuring party to slay a dragon for them, the party found themselves in the middle of a small apocalypse wherein they had to fight an army of barley-monsters animated by echoes of ambient blood-feud hatred. They handled that just fine, though! Saelhen only almost died.

This time... well, with everything dealt with more or less smoothly, it's time to get back out on the road. This is a pretty short one (because my second vaccine kicked in halfway through and I had to break.)

They'd like to get on the road immediately, if they can- they've got cover of darkness and plenty of distracted and tired villagers under which to, uh, kidnap a child. Only problem is... Vayen has just slipped into drunken unconsciousness, and part of their kidnapping plan was to have him turn Kensa invisible.

But it's fine! Looseleaf has a plan! She's a spirit mage- she can magically heal people's wounds, right? Surely she can handle a little bit of alcohol poisoning! It'll just take a little arcane improvization...

Saelhen du Fishercrown: WELP Looseleaf: i'm drunk too now Benedict I. (GM): Okay, so, what does a critical failure on trying to undrunk Vayen look like...

So Looseleaf's like, okay, just identify the foreign contaminant in his bloodstream and tell it that it wants to get out, right? Ain't nothing can go wrong with that!

What goes wrong with that is that Vayen vomits all over the bar- and what comes out is not vomit. Or alcohol, for that matter. It's some sort of... pitch-black, sticky substance. And he's still not waking up.

Benedict I. (GM): So I think now you quite conclusively have the problem of "Vayen is out cold". You have technically never had a better opportunity to just ditch the guy, I guess! Looseleaf: Yeeeeah, let's, uh, get him upstairs. I think ditchin' him is out of the question right now. Saelhen du Fishercrown: Oh he's way too narratively interesting for that now Boy is stuck in the roller coaster called player curiosity

As they take him up to bed, they- well, of course they go through his pockets. They have to, to find his room key! And if they just happen to find notes written in indecipherable rectangles of opalescent black ink, and a diagram of the circle on Saelhen's bracer- well, that's just unavoidable.

In the morning... well, first I ask them a bunch of suspiciously-detailed questions about exactly how they disposed of the black goo Vayen vomited up, which ratchets up their paranoia a few levels. Turns out they just wiped it up with some old rags and threw them in the trash.

So when he wakes up, and Looseleaf asks him about the black stuff he threw up... well, first, he pulls some of his notes out of his pocket, stares at them in confusion, then panics and demands to know what happened to the goo. On being told, he rushes down to the kitchen, stares horrified at the contents of the trashcan, and then steels himself to begin sucking furiously on the nasty goo rags. He's barely able to suppress his disgust, but apparently this is really important.

So, Vayen's got problems. What else is new?

Well, Kevin's back, and gives them the lowdown on what happened with the dragon:

They set up camp inside the bedroom, using a lead-lined duck hide sort of situation, and waited for the dragon to show up for the scheduled corpse drop with Arnie. When the dragon arrived, they sealed the whole tower in a forcecage, and got to town with "patented methods". The dragon managed to use some sort of magic item, though- a weird straw doll looking thing that they weren't sure about the effect of. They tried burning it, but it didn't seem to help that there was an army of weird plant golems charging the tower and trying to break down the forcecage. Lady Greatholder's maids were just barely able to fend off the attack- one half of the invading forces was strangely more meager, and they were able to concentrate their attacks on the ones attacking from the east. He mentions that if they'd had to deal with just a few more of them, the barrier might've broken and the dragon could've escaped.

So, Doon's been sent off to track down the dragon's lair (and thereby hoard), but the rest are headed back today. As for Arnie...

Benedict I. (GM): The contact, he says, has decided to come quietly. And he says it funny, like he's implying something else. Saelhen du Fishercrown: 3 - INSIGHT (1) Benedict I. (GM): Not sure what, though. Saelhen du Fishercrown: can't read into it! Benedict I. (GM): Yeah, he might've been assuming you knew what he meant- oh well.

Since the Deathseekers are to be their ride back, and sneaking a child onto a "horse" without the high-level adventurers noticing seems... difficult at best, Looseleaf opts for honesty- explaining that "there's a child in this village who has expressed the desire to flee an abusive household", and that Saelhen wants to bring her. Kevin doesn't pry too much into this, and agrees- he probably assumed they'd done their due diligence on that.

The party comes up with a pretty simple plan for getting Kensa out: the town is surrounded by fields of tall barley, which means getting out of town without being seen is just a matter of making it to the fields and going the long way around. Delivering Kensa's letters is similarly pretty easy after some thought- they leave the pile in the care of the general store, to be discovered after they've fled town.

So, they meet up with the Deathseekers, who're all chuffed about their successful dragonslaying. The maids are kind of bandaged up from their scrap with the Justice Echoes, and Arnie is... tied up on Lady Greatholder's back like a backpack, seemingly pleased as punch about his circumstances. What... exactly... do they have planned for him?

Orluthe and Looseleaf offer some magical healing to the maids- who seem relieved and thankful for it, since apparently they've turned down magical healing from John Human. That guy does healing, apparently! There's something intensely unpleasant about it, apparently! Which is unfair, John claims, because "wasps never hurt anyone", apparently.

Also there's a colony of parasitic wasps under the eaves of the tower that wasn't there before, apparently!

Those things being utterly unimportant, the party gets back on the road. And immediately runs into... the forest. Remember the forest? The one with lots of weird identical trees that Looseleaf's spirit-senses determined weren't, like, exactly alive?

After poking the trees and determining that they're not coming to life and attacking anyone, they decide- eh, this can be a problem for later, or perhaps for someone else. The high-level adventurers know about it now, so it'll be fine!

That thing being utterly unimportant, the party gets back on the road. The trip to Cauterdale is pretty uneventful, and on arrival... well. First, Arnie is thrown in jail.

Looseleaf gets some demonsbane seeds from Kevin's garden, and next time... it's time to catch a boat!

#tfj log #twofaced jewel