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celaenaeiln · 7 months

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something i’d love to see more of is angsty rebellious teenage dick grayson. i don’t know why i enjoy the trope but the image of dick “golden boy” grayson getting plastered with roy as he slowly sinks into depression before somewhat getting his shit together is an interesting picture

also he just seems like the guy to get impulsive piercings. dunno why

oooh yeah that fantasy's a guilty a pleasure of mine.

I am 1000000000% an enforcer of Dick was not an angry robin. And he wasn't because the comics show just how happy his demeanor was and how fun he is. But angsty teen Dick? 16/17 year old Dick?

I LOVE IT.

Again throwing a little bit of canon in

"When we started this you were open and encouraging. You were my father...but these last few years...all you've been doing is trying to control me even more."

This is so loaded.

The anger Dick feels when Bruce is trying control him, trying to lock him in a cage in the batcave because of worry, has so much ao3 potential.

Like angsty teen dick is so complicated to think about because Bruce acts a bit like an alcoholic father and Dick's compartmentalization issues come from his parents' death. So what would this result in?

I have no fcking clue.

Because Dick would totally get wasted with Roy, hazy blue eyes staring emptily into space, watching with a flushed cheeks as his short black hair fans out on the back of a beaten blue couch at Roy's place, just breaking down quietly as Roy rants and screams about life's injustices in the background, slinging an arm around Dick and jostling him.

Or maybe he and Roy would also go bar hopping, both of them sloppy drunk, laughing and crying at the same time while they max out their daddies' credit cards and then crash somewhere in someone's pool. Maybe they end up inadvertently on Katy Perry's Friday Night music video.

Or maybe Dick would be a hurricane of disaster, lashing out with knives of sharpened words stabbing the deepest, sorest spots of pain in people, his anger alighting a fire in all. He would be magnificent, ferocious, and catastrophic.

He could be any of these three and all three at once.

He would feel the need to act out if Bruce was becoming more controlling.

BUT AT THE SAME TIME, Dick raised Bruce and that perpetually sense of responsibility he's instilled into himself from a young age as well as his self-sufficiency is never erased so one night he would be blacked out from the excessive alcohol but next morning 6'o clock his body's walking up and he's going through his morning routine like a machine and out the door to work. He just keeps going like this day and day until he collapses and the titans intervene or Bruce drags him back to the manor, screaming in love and fear and Dick screams back and the cycle begins.

Nightwing (1996) Issue #135

Like canonically Dick ran away from home at 16, got a job, got caught up in a major anarchist group, and did a whole freaking investigation while Bruce sulked in the cave because Dick ran away.

There's so much angsty dick potential that could go in so many ways because he's such a complex character that all of them apply.

LOL!!! I totally think he would get impulsive piercings too. Maybe when he's drunk and pissed and then the next day he would wake up be like wtf. He'd sit in turmoil and a little regret for a while and then be like whatever because these piercing are freaking cool.

Bonus: no one (except the og titans and Alfred bc Dick never keeps anything from Alfred and the titans are family) ever find out about the piercings and it's kept a tightly guarded secret until a decade later when he does something in the batcave and one of the batkids notice and they're like, "DICK YOU HAVE A PIERCING?!" The rest of them just about break their neck whipping their head around to look at him. Dick just shrugs nonchalantly because time has tempered him and goes, "oh yeah. I guess. I forgot." Bruce passes out and wakes up on the floor to Dick hovering worriedly over him while the rest of the family watches in amusement at his predicament and also half brokenly because their golden boy big brother has piercings. Plural.

Bruce gasped out a pained breath, "Piercings?"

Dick stared at him silently, gemstone eyes holding his gaze as the quiet of the cave melted the seconds into hours. His eyes slowly slid from Bruce's to where the rest of the family was standing, watching them with bated breath for his answer, before they met Bruce's hopeful ones again.

"No." Bruce, with all the strength left in his body after recovering, raised a questioning eyebrow as Dick continued, "I don't have any piercings and never did."

"Hmn." But he swore he could've seen-

The kids erupted in protests.

"Dick, come on!" Jason hollered, pushing forward. "We clearly saw it there-"

"Where?" Dick asked, spreading his arms wide and invitingly, offering them to see for themselves.

The piercing they had all gotten the barest glimpse of was gone from where they had seen it on Dick.

"But you said you! You said, 'yeah. I guess so. I forgot.'" Stephanie put her hands on her hips, "Admit it Boy Piercing!"

"Boy Piercing?!"

"Fess up, pretty boy!"

"Steph," Dick visibly bit his lip to keep from laughing, "I was joking. You guys should've see your reactions - they were so funny!! Dick has a piercing. OMG. You people were hilarious."

Damian clicked his tongue. "Enough Richard! Did you implement metal into you skin like a heathen? Richard, how could you?! Who dare touch-"

"No Dami!" Dick quickly interfered to prevent a possible murder on his behalf, "I was just kidding, okay? Besides, did you guys even really see it? Like full on?"

Harper crossed her arms. "Close enough."

Dick quirked his eyebrow at that. "But you didn't actually see it right? You thought you saw something shining and turned to look. C'mon you guys know what it is - peripheral vision hallucinations. Things you see in your peripheral vision that aren't real because you are tired," He pinned a look at each other, emphasizing the words, "and stressed."

Dick pressed his lips together and folded his arms. "Time for bed. Now. I know you all haven't been sleeping for the past few days so you all are going to bed. At the manor." Dick finished, shooting Jason a look when he tried secretly shuffling toward his bike.

The rest of them were unmoved for a moment but quickly caved under Dick's patented "I'm mom-ing you."™ stare as Jason liked to call it.

They trudged upstairs while Bruce and Dick watched in companionable silence.

Bruce turned to look at Dick as the sounds of their bickering and footsteps faded away.

"How did you do it?"

Dick hummed distractedly and tilted his head to look down at Bruce still sitting on the floor. "Do what?"

Bruce growled, impatience, annoyance, and apprehension swimming in his voice, "Don't lie. To me. How did you hide it? Now. And for so long?"

Bruce watched tensed as the tip of Dick's tongue ran over the ridges of his top row of teeth, the first sign of anger he had seen from him in weeks. The pink flesh of his tongue barely avoiding cutting itself on the slightly too sharp canines that Dick loved to call his vampire teeth since he was little. He had even threw a veteran-dentist-scaring-tantrum in the dentist's office when the man suggested shaving them down once.

Bruce watched warily as Dick crouched down, balancing on his balls of his feet like a cat on a fence, and forcefully tamped down the sudden urge to pull out a hidden batarang when the boy grinned, eyes lighting with the wild fire of joy and madness from his robin days that still had Bruce on edge for decades.

"How did you it?" He asked again, not sure if he really wanted to know anymore but the principle remained. There was no way Dick's activities could be hidden for so long. He didn't invest in his detective following skills for something like this to escape his observation. But at the same time Dick had evaded his tracking skills when he was seventeen and ran away from him. But something so obvious as a piercing would never escape his notice. But a whole 17 year old boy also shouldn't have escaped his notice. However, Bruce had improved. He had gotten better at his job and his skills. Right? Right, of course, he was the best in the world. Dick definitely did have a piercing. But...on the off chance...what if he really had just seen a flash of light? Sweat on a body? The edge of a birdarang? Peripheral vision hallucinations? "Do you?"

"Do I what?"

You already know what I'm asking. Bruce thought, frustrated with Dick for lying. Frustrated with himself for not knowing if Dick was lying.

"Do you have piercings?" Bruce ground out.

Dick laughed, his voice echoing like choir bells in the spacious cave and bouncing off the stalactites to create a ringing, haunting melody as he leaned in closer to Bruce.

"C'mon, B! You know every showman's got his own tricks," Dick grinned brightly.

And you're the whole damn circus. Bruce hissed viciously in his mind.

Dick's eyes twinkled back at him.

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gamamaro · 2 years

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#hi :) im coping #i read the new updates and i just #:)))))#the chokehold they have over me #just...the thought of genos being the thing that makes saitama snap and grow exponentially from 'an emption he has never experienced'.....#i mean its from grief BUT OH MY GOD #saitama: i have no fear *genos dying* saitama: ONE FEAR #anyways #myart #opm spoilers #one punch man spoilers #opm #one punch man #saigenos #genosai #genos #saitama

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the-owl-tree · 7 months

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these books have always been abysmal at sending off their female characters (looking at sandstorm, we should've mauled the new team for killing her off like that) but man. what a disrespectful way to kill off leafpool.

she's a main character that's been relevant to the main plotline for multiple arc and they choose to have her die, be belittled and humiliated in a trial scene then told she has to "earn her place", and then just decides to stick around. not even in a main line book but in a side book.

#deer reads squirrelflight's hope #asc spoilers #<- because im going to take in the tags #it does not give me much hope for squilf #im like so worried theyre gonna kill her off just to “snap” bramblestar out of his issues #and consider theyre new fridging record! no reason not to think they will!

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fracturediron · 2 months

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Honestly, if the Prathipsit family trend of misfortune is anything to go by, I really don't think New's getting out of this alive or happy. He'll probably either die in the pursuit of revenge because he doesn't feel like he's got anything else to live for, or to save Non/help Phee save Non if Non turns out to be alive.

Or if he does get out of this alive, he'll be a broken shell of a person, because nothing good ever happens for the Prathipsits.

Although New and Phee started this whole thing to just try and scare the other boys in the hopes they might find out what happened to Non, I think the difference between Phee and New is that Phee doesn't want to do any actual harm to them, while New, well. I still don't think New set out to seriously harm anyone either to begin with, but this is a man whose family has been utterly destroyed and whose life is in ruins. He's lost everything, and as far as he's concerned, these boys had something to do with it.

If that smile at the end of ep 9 was anything to go by, although he may not have gone into this with the intent to cause this level of harm, now that it's happened and everything's going to shit, I don't think he minds that it's happened either (whereas I think Phee will when he gets back). To New, these assholes are the cause of his whole family's suffering. So honestly, don't they deserve some suffering, too?

On a different note, as it really does seem that Phee and New went in just trying to investigate - and not actually do a whole murder revenge plot - surely that means they can't have been the ones to set up the spike trap to impale Por? If the point was just investigation, I can't believe they would, because the only purpose of a trap like that is to seriously injure somebody.

Which again, seems to confirm that there is an actual additional person stalking them and actually hoping to kill the OG group. As such, I really hope we get a flashback to the boys first arriving at the house, only this time from Phee and New's POV as they set their plan in motion and then talk between themselves about WTF is happening as they realise somebody else is actually out there and out to kill them.

#oh man new. this poor bastard is one hair-snap away from going off the deep end even without the drugs #dff the series #dff spoilers #dff #dead friend forever #new dff #tan dff

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sebek-zigbolt · 7 months

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#rollo so u love books too huh #guess who ur coming across in the library then #the two most annoying fucks on campus also hate eachother this is grand #malleus is slightly homoerotic w 2 ppl and sebek goes #yes my new mortal enemy #i may or may not clean this up to post on main but lmao its so funny #why am i still talking #twst spoilers #my art #ikkkkk in my minddd that rollo is a great magician n very talented but also consider #sebek can snap him like a twig #anyways i love them both sm #rollo also fo sure dislikes fae since they run on magic basically #exactly opposite beliefs these 2 #exept for hating themselves #they got that in common yippeeeee #maybe i should leave my rollo sebek analysis OUT of the tags of a shitpost

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nav-ix · 2 years

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not to draw conclusions that will probably immediately be disproven when I read nona, but I'm thinking a lot about the dynamic of the old lyctors compared to the people at canaan house

imo, this series seems to discuss the way that official and oppressive systems get turned human over time- how a harmful, twisted hierarchy (that of the necromancer and cavalier, for example) inevitably strays from the horrible trap it was designed to be (epitomized by mercy and augustine, who are still trapped within it). over time, people explore that framework, interpret it in their own ways, subvert it, turn it inside out. you get twisted versions of it, like silas and colum, but you also get new and wonderful versions of it, like abigail and magnus or cam and pal.

they didn't know what lyctorhood was designed to be! they didn't know how sinister "one flesh, one end" actually is. all they know is that they love each other, and that love kind of redefines what a necro-cav relationship COULD be, and what it is in so many instances. and the proof of that is that of ALL the houses that showed up at canaan house, none of them but ianthe would have gone through with lyctorhood.

did that mean the cavaliers were objectively worse at being cavaliers? maybe! but I think the series is arguing that love is what redefines those horrible traditions, and in light of those new definitions, the old traditions become flimsy by comparison. mercy and augustine are trapped. that's what being a lyctor means to them and it always will. but the story isn't written in stone yet for harrow and gideon, or for cam and pal! it's a tradition that has done violence to them, and they'll carry that forever. but beside that old and twisted tradition, someone like cam kind of stands out as an even more perfect cavalier than one who would see their entire purpose as sacrifice.

#also yes this is an allegory for gender #sorry if this doesn't make sense #i definitely explained it better in my freakin ESSAY #but so much about the old lyctors feels like a foil to the new ones/new characters #like their story is so sad and so final #and its mirrored SO much in people like harrow and gideon #but their story isnt set in stone yet! they still have time #anyways watch me read nona and revoke all of this #although if this series doesn't have at least a little hope in its ending. im gonna snap #tlt #the locked tomb #harrow the ninth spoilers #tlt analysis

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