I'm staring directly at you. you did this to me. you gave me ideas >:[
[it's just me being silly on my main, ToD and Termination of Desires talk]
so I was talking to my friend Fifi and I got a bunch of ideas and I'm going to babble on about them here <3 there isn't really any consistency between ideas they are just. there
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okay, so the very first idea I had was like... related to Disk's 4 different identities. Those are Disk, Nova, Elizabeth, and Eden.
Disk is... probably the most well-known of the 4??? Like, it's just Disk, the annoying little pink thing. Disk is an AI created by the Darkness and she was originally like... malware of some kind. But then she changed and became good :] you know her, you love her, you hate her, it's her :] she's a very soft and loving person. can't handle her alcohol [please look at Eden and wonder how they're the same person/lh]
Eden is definitely the other super well-known- She's like... Disk's human version! What/who Disk would be if she could be human. Eden [at least in Desires' lore] is a well-known singer who travels around a lot, and she likes to drink in her downtime. She's pretty good at defending herself and distracting others and I just think she's a funky little gal. Drunk flirt most definitely- [may or may not have a gun.]
Nova... she's basically evil disk or dark disk. Disk with no moral code. lmao
And Elizabeth... Well, Elizabeth was the name people called Disk for years in her disk game. Her AI's name was Elizabeth and all her files were named "Elizabeth.exe" but Disk doesn't think the name Elizabeth suits her.
I like to refer to them as either Disk [the AI] or Eden [the human] but all 4 names refer to the same person :] Eden is like... peak chaos because there is SO MUCH i haven't gotten to tell about Eden and she's my favorite version of Disk.
Disk can be very... innocent? Oblivious? I don't know how to describe it but Disk is just... she can say things that sound horrific or wrong without realizing it [like that one scene where she's talking to Heart and goes "but he isn't hurting anyone else, right? Isn't that supposed to be a good thing?" when Heart tries to confront Phantom about hitting Disk. In fact, a lot of the dark alters have an issue where they're saying or doing horrific things without realizing how bad it looks/sounds/is] and she kind of struggles to learn "right" from "wrong".
Meanwhile Eden is very knowing and honest, and she often understands things Disk doesn't. Eden's just built different ig
also, you'd think Eden would be younger than Disk because Eden came after Disk did but. Eden's 3 years older than Disk. Eden refers to Disk as a baby it's so funny. Not only is Disk shorter than everyone else but Disk is like 2 to 3 years [it's probably closer to 2 and a half years tbh] younger than most of the adult cast 😔
OH and Eden is taller than Disk. Disk is 5'5" and Eden's 5'8" it's so unfair. Every other human and their alter are the same height but the god who decided to grant Disk a human form did her so dirty </3 /lh AND EDEN... she's 6'0" with her heels on. Hell has no fury like an angry singer with 4-inch heels/ref
sorry Eden's such a silly character i love her. Would be very funny if Disk and Eden had a similar situation as Phantom and Heart because it would not be fighting over control of the shared body.
It would be fighting over whether or not they'd be electrocuting people and what stupid jokes they're allowed to make/lh
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I was also thinking about the idea of severing connections. Like, specifically for the dark alters after separating them from their neon counterparts because I think if they don't sever connections, that the darkness can still find and control them. And that creates a very interesting adventure in which the dark alters have to sever their own ties with the darkness while the darkness tries to drag them back-
GOD this idea is so interesting, especially with Phantom-
The darkness preying on Phantom's uncertainties and everyone's general dislike of him,,, It's got a really tight grip on Phantom that could also attribute to violent outbursts that could help make everyone hate him even more and I ahhhhhhhhh
like I definitely think that is something Phantom won't be able to clearly do with the state everyone has him in </3 can't have your redemption arc if no one's gonna give you the chance to redeem yourself and if the very thing that made you the way you are is still trying to control you/lh
He's struggling with not only a sense of morality but a sense of belonging as well and it's so... sobs
But more on severing connections... I bet the darkness makes it as hard as possible to sever connections, especially if you're on your own. [and when the people around you isolate you... makes it so much harder]
Like doors that lead to bad memories or bad times, doors that lead to nowhere, long, endless hallways, and things trying to kill you at every turn... trying to trap and consume what's left of you... sleeping gas and rooms of terror, it's all like one giant death game-
and some people will never wonder what happened to you :(
that would be a very interesting arc it's gonna be SO FUN to think about.
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flirt who can't handle someone flirting back with them -> Disk
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"drinking buddies" but one person in the party has never touched an alcoholic drink in their entire life.
like imagine you're at a bar and you see two people, drinking. One of them has hard liquor and the other... a cup of grape juice.
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speaking of which, Disk has not drank a day in her life and if you gave her a drink, she would just stare at it. Like, an intensive wide-eyed stare.
She won't drink it. She'll just stare. sniff it and make a face. wonder what went into the drink.
she will just.
stare.
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i'm living for the friendship between Phantom and Disk because it's just "i am going to KILL you." "i have no self-preservation skills anyways, do your worst" with the collective agreement of "heart can never find out about this"
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Eden with a sword. that's it that's all.
you will be inlaid upon this stage/ref
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Disk always refers to herself as a pretty girl and so far no one has told her otherwise.
it's not even like a narcissistic or self-image thing like that's literally Elizabeth's introduction-
"It's me, your pretty pink friend~"
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Hacker is an adult who looks like a teenager. and not even like a young adult... she's 25- and still gets people trying to drag her back to school </3
"I AM 25 AND I HHAVE A COLLEGE DEGREE-" "yeah yeah you your school dean will be glad to see you in his office, troublemaker." "I'M TWENTY FUCKING FIVE BRO LET ME GO-"
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I shared this on the dead on main server, but just for all of your brain itches also:
So there's Danny-suddenly a halfa- by definition both alive and dead. He is two things that are diametrically opposed. They cannot exist at the same time, so they don't.
Every time Danny goes ghost, he dies again. Each time the rings of light engulf him he has a moment again of being electrocuted to death. Phandom greatly enjoys giving Danny Lichtenberg scars, but electric shock has other common symptoms such as hearing loss, tremors, and seizures...
...all things Danny faces every time he comes back to life.
It takes them awhile to put it all together- that transforming and fighting makes it all worse- and by then Danny's been through rounds of medication for his seizures that do nothing and has a permanent level of hearing loss. (And Ancients does the hearing loss explain some of his troubles with school.)
Part of Danny is tempted, each and ever time, to stay a ghost where he doesn't feel the constant ache of pain and trembling muscles and muted world. Part of him is tempted to stay dead.
But he pulls through it. Things settle with the ghosts. Danny is able to hang up Phantom and being a hero and instead focusing on living. The seizures stop, the tremors and pain have good days and bad, Tucker helped him make some amazing hearing aides... he lives.
He gets an internship with the Wayne Foundation and their outreach helping children left permanently injured by the attacks in Gotham- inspired in part by Jason Todd-Wayne's own partial hearing loss from an explosion.
When they meet, neither of them quite know just how deeply the other person can understand what they've been through.
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Okay but hear me out!
Dead On Main Revolutionary Ghost Utena AU:
Canonically, Jason focuses his rage to summon the All Blade
Ghost Prince Danny would have the Ring of Rage, but not the Crown of Fire yet
I hypothesize to you that the two are connected, and not only that, but that wearing the ring allows one to draw the All Blade out of the other. Like, literally.
Because of this, summoning the All Blade of their own accord is the mark of a ghost powerful enough to be the ghost king's betrothed, and whatever other ghosts were in the running are pushed back in line as the All Blade wielder is now at the front.
It is part of ancient ceremony that predates Pariah as Ghost King and dates all the way back to the first Royal of the infinite realms, King Lazarus.
The connection itself is no more than a pull towards each other, a fascination at most to make an easier base to build a genuine and in this case, human connection.
To become actually engaged Jason would have to willingly appear before the Ghost Prince and allow him to draw the All Blade out of him, something he is not very excited for and might actually have other lasting impact besides the engagement.
Y'see Jason isn't a halfa the way Danny is, he came back twice in a short amount of time between those two instances, and while the second time was Lazarus induced, no one really knows how he woke up in his grave and broke himself out. There are theories but Clockwork was watching and even he doesn't seem to know for sure, so it's really anyone's guess.
So what the engagement ceremony could do, potentially, is either solidify his halfa status by sheer amount of ectoplasm transfered by the act, or alternatively it could just kill him on the spot and then he'd probably become a full ghost.
Now, neither of these sound great to Jason, but he also doesn't like that a bunch of ghosts have been trying to fight him for their Prince's hand in marriage, something they can only do while the Prince is still not engaged to anyone.
Meanwhile, Danny doesn't appreciate that as soon as he came of age all these marriage proposals started being thrown at him, he's known some of these ghosts since he was a teenager so that's really weird for one, and he gets that most of them are just trying to secure their happiness and not to mention their future safety as the mortal world seems to be moving on with the anti ecto act, which had lead many a specter to retreat back to the realms, causing a lot of unrest as the realms become more crowded and politically tense between factions who have not needed to interact for a while now.
It would seem the Amity portal and even Danny fighting the ghosts and sending them back through it was the break many of the realms' denizens desperately needed, but now with that option no longer being safe, as even their king can't protect them from the GIW when they're gaining so much support from governments across the world, tensions are running high in the realms and it seems that it's every ghost for themselves.
Danny doesn't really resent any of the ghosts for doing what they feel they must to make sure they aren't destroyed in what is shaping out to be a realms wide war at this point, even as he works overtime with his council to prevent that from happening, and he understands they obviously don't expect any actual marital kind of relationship from him, which is at least a little reassuring even if the idea of being married to any of them is still very weird, but he can't help but think there could be a better solution here that he's missing.
And then he feels it, a pull telling him he's overlooked something, someone important.
It's like a fire engulfing his ice core but not burning it somehow, just as it does not cool the fire around it.
Two opposite forces meant to cancel each other out, somehow instead keeping perfect equilibrium with one another.
He talks to Frostbite and Clockwork and finds out what that pull is and takes their advice to follow it.
Jason doesn't realize he just altered the source of all his recent problems to his location as he draws the All Blade to fend off yet another "challenger to the Prince's hand" whatever the hell that means, as finally one of them was dumb enough to try to use actual magic against him.
However, he soon feels the answering pull back from Danny as the latter decides to use the power in his ring to open the portal, feeling that this candidate should at least know he's coming to talk to him.
It's almost the opposite, he feels the fire of the pit madness flaring a bit, but instead of immediately trying to spread, to threaten to consume him unless he tempers it himself, it is still burning just as strong and wild, but kept in one place by an icy chill, an aura of cold, clear fury and calm in equal measure, it doesn't thaw from the fire anymore than his fire dies from the lack of heat around it.
They sustain each other, impossibly.
So Jason and Danny finally meet and give each other the rundown of their side of things and agree that maybe the best bet to not only stop ghosts from attacking Jason and proposing to Danny, but perhaps the key to overthrowing the GIW so the realms' denizens don't have to afterlive in fear and portals can be reinstated to allow travel through the realms and back, not to mention keeping the GIW from going after Jason himself who by their definition is certainly considered an ecto entity, is in fact to go through with the Ring and Blade ceremony.
Jason, at this point, is more of Earth than Danny, who has unfortunately had to step back from his normal mortal life when he turned 18 to take care of realms business, despite still only being Prince.
He was meant to have more time but with the GIW advancing like they had been it was in the realms' best interest as well as his own that he decree the realms going no contact with humans for the foreseeable future.
It's been nearly 3 years since then and they are still getting ghosts back from parts of the world who have been avoiding humans as much as they can.
As soon as he turned 21 all this ghost marriage nonsense has has been making his job of protecting the ghosts in all the realms a lot more difficult, so when ghosts realized he didn't want to be challenged every day for his hand, they went to the next best thing, the top candidate.
Now, Phantom was saying that he's gonna marry the guy they've all been trying to defeat (and failing, to his credit, so at least he was worthy of being top pick)
A lot of them were upset or disappointed, but he explained how this arrangement could potentially help out everyone in the long run and most got on board when they heard the new plan.
Now the only problem is that getting engaged, as mentioned previously, is a ceremony that could prove dangerous to Jason and "not to be insensitive about it, but if you die and become a ghost that sorta defeats one of the main purposes of us even doing this." Danny points out.
"So what's our plan, Your Majesty?" "It's Royal Highness, I'm not king yet, thank the ancients for that." "Yeah yeah, so what are we doing, Your Royal Whinyness?" "Rude. Anyway, there's a chance you might become a full halfa during the process, that means getting a second form and a fully developed core and powers besides the All Blade, which would be better than you dying. So the best way to ensure that outcome, as much as any outcome can be guaranteed anyway, is to start the process of making you a halfa before the ceremony."
"Okay? How do we do that?" "Well, we gotta get some ecto in you - " "aren't you made of that? This better not be a pickup line" "no, not like that! I told you, this marriage doesn't have to be anything more than a contract, I'm about as thrilled about having to get married to save my people as you are about doing this to stop ghost from kicking your ass on a weekly basis." "Excuse me? I won all those fights!" "Yeah, after getting tossed into brick walls 5 times per ghost" "not every ghost tossed me into walls. Box Bitch did throw crates at me tho, that hurt." "Holyshit, Boxy is not messing around anymore huh? Well, makes sense, he's a father now. He doesn't wanna raise his little girl in these conditions. Still glad he lost, but I'm surprised Lunch Lady even agreed to him trying."
So they start Jason on his ecto diet and in the meantime the batfam is brought up to date about everything that's happening and they get to work, Batman gathers the JL to push back on the GIW's fuckery and all of Jason's siblings have an engagement party and a bachelor bash to plan. The girls decide to plan a Bachelorette party for Danny because he deserves to have a break as well.
Jason hates his stupid family, but Danny seems happy to be part of one again after so long, so he sucks it up and plays along.
It's possible that maybe while preparing and planning and helping each other and working together, Jason has gotten to know and developed a fondness for Danny.
Okay so maybe he's a sappy fuck who fell head over heels in love with him in the span of like a month, but this is still just a contract to Danny, and Jason isn't going to push for or expect anything more. Danny doesn't need that kind of stress in his life rn.
Danny has been freaking out since he met his soon to be husband because holyshit that's Red Hood, that is THE Red Hood! No wonder he passed the trial of the All Blade, and the way that fire burned around Danny's core, a fire he now recognized as the warmth answering from Jason's own, made him realize that this is way more than just a contract to him. Still, he'd been part of the realms for a lot longer than Jason ans he was their future king. Jason as part of this contract would be his equal but until the marriage was sealed, he was still technically Jason’s superior. And it didn't feel right to take adventage of that and suddenly change the terms of this deal, to make Jason in any way feel pressured by Danny's own feelings. No, this was just a contract, like Jason wanted it to be. He would keep that promise to him.
Jazz and Babs get together to help their idiot baby brothers figure out their unrequited love is actually very much mutual pining and they're just being stupid.
Anyway the marriage ceremony is a different ritual from the engagement ceremony, the All Blade wielder summons it and presents it to the wearer of the ring, who sheaths it back into the summoner's core, symbolizing that they both have power over the Blade but it belongs to its wielder, and even the king himself may not keep it without permission. The Blade as a manifestation of Jason's will.
(And as a bonus, we know Jason is a literary nerd so he recognizes and appreciates the romance novel tropes happening to him, especially in the high king's court, but he is not a weeb. So I don't think he'd recognize the Utena references happening to him. But you know who I think would? You know who is a weeb who loves swords and is soooo jealous of Todd and his husband right now? It's Damian. Damian's fucking seething that he doesn't get a magic sword. He's so pissed and it's very funny.)
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hey so... whats this au about (eyes emoji)
I AM TAKING YOUR QUESTION AS AN EXCUSE TO INFO DUMP ABOUT THE GENERAL IDEA
The Red Crown is treated more so as a character, than what it needed to be while being w/ TOWW, which was more so an object.
Lamb is given the crown and uses it for the purpose he had been given; killing heretics, making the cult, working on trying to get to the bishops etc. FOR A WHILE AT LEAST..
I hc my lamb as a Trans guy, and from the moment he get's sacrificed to before what I've been calling "The Blood Bond", he is without top surgery. So with dysphoria looming as well as all the pressures of running a cult, losing your entire species, and such - He gets a little depressed
After finally defeating Leshy for the first time, he is met with the realization that that TOWW's healing power only works so far, and that only the Bishops can actually cause long lasting damage.
Which like, shitty.. BUT ALSO, means that there's a way for my boy to get his t surgery, without immediately healing and making it impossible.
This thought here is what makes the crown more active, able to speak with the lamb, able to shapeshift into more than just tools! It gains a little more freedom, through an act of sin.
Losing his way, taking a whole new direction that is completely for personal gain, he commits a sin against TOWW.
AND TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION THAT IVE HAD SITTING IN MY INBOX FOR A WHILE: YES
He uses the crown to give himself top surgery, but unknowingly with this action, also causes The Blood Bond, which permanently links the lamb and the crown. Sharing thoughts, seeing visions, etc. but it also includes a bit of the ascension process to speed up.
This bond is also what makes it possible for the possession aspect of this AU to come into play, through communication there was a deal struck between the two, where at night the crown would help the lamb rest better - where that was true somewhat, the crown took this opportunity to take this willing host for a joyride basically.
Creating what the followers call, "The Sleepwalk Incidents", because it happens a lot more than just once
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