Prompt 299
Hear me out- Ghosts have wings. They have wings, which are affected by their cores, and can make them disappear from sight if they want or need to. You got that? Good.
Ecto-contaminated people? Don’t have wings. Liminals and Halfas, who have developed cores? Do have wings, and they can’t hide said wings, because unlike ghosts? Their bodies are physical living flesh.
Now Gotham? Ecto-contaminated, there’s no doubt about it. The amount of portals that have been opened there and death pits and death cults… yeah it’d be surprising if it wasn’t. But again, no one really notices, because at most? Most just get a bit of eyeshine.
The Bats however? Oh man are they freaking out when they wake up with aches in their back and feathers starting to poke through their skin. Curse? Nope! Welcome to Liminality, enjoy the second puberty of wings, emotion-sharing, fangs, claws, and whatever else you might develop- also enjoy the whole eating fear thing. (Wait, the what-)
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a lot of ppl are telling me “but its in character that TBK would kill TRG, what else could they have done” and i need to stress that my issue is not about characterisation or in-universe justification. it's simply that this kind of writing is not narratively interesting to me! i want a plot that furthers the development of the main characters and challenges them! i want thematic engagement!
they've done it before like the bad kids faced their worst fears in fhsy and changed for the better!! in a season where rage/war is the enemy, it makes thematic sense for the solution to NOT be pure combat, IN SPITE of all the circumstances that demand it. and i didnt even really need THAT like i didn’t need TRG to be fully redeemed i just needed the barest engagement with them as character foils and the themes they present
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