My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys x Jolie Ruewen on her way to death.
“Oh, here we go again, the voices in his head”: Brant has probably always been insecure as hell, being classified Talentless and a bad match didn’t help.
“Called the rain to end our days of wild”: this is Jolie talking about how he tried to make her go away when he started to feel dangerous. I’m sure he did.
“The sickest army doll, purchased at the mall”: Jolie herself, her multiple fights to try and change that world.
“Rivulets descend my plastic smile”: Jolie probably cried a lot at the unfairness. She spent all her time with Brant and suddenly they couldn’t see each other anymore, except sometimes on weekends…
“But you should’ve seen him, when he first got me”: from what we get. She’s his joy.
“My boy, only breaks his favorite toys”: only me. He cares only about Jolie.
“I’m queen, of sand castles he destroys”: Jolie trying to built up trust and durability, despite being away, locked in Foxfire, while he is getting deeper and darker into his loneliness.
“Cause it fit too right, puzzle pieces in the dead of night”: that line is about Jolie trying to understand. Discovering the Neverseen. Infiltrating. As recomposing a puzzle of what’s going on.
“I should’ve known it was a matter of time”: before she’d go down in flames cause she played with fire.
“There was a litany of reasons we could’ve played for keep this time”: all the love they shared. All the power they had. All her sweetness. But this didn’t work enough to take him out.
“I know I’m just repeating myself”: each time she goes to see him, saying the same words over and over again, he is not alone, she won’t abandon him.
“Put me back on my shelf”: more time passes, less effective her words of reassurance are.
“But first pull the string”: she loved him till the end, even knowing, even playing double-agent, so she still asks him to tell he loves her.
“And I’ll tell you that he runs because he loves me”: Brant just running away cause he doesn’t want to put her in danger, but he is danger.
“Cause I knew too much”: definitely. She’s been executed on order of the Neverseen probably, she knew too much of the organization and was seen as a traitor, a threat.
“There was danger in the heat of my touch”: *his touch. There is danger in them. In their situation, in how the world treats them.
“He saw forever so he smashed it up”: forever can be scary if you’re not used to real love, and I doubt Brant got the knowledge outside of what the Ruewens gave him
“Once I fix me, he’s gonna miss me”: she never get the chance to fix things. But he still misses her. Every day.
“Just say when, I’d play again”: never letting him down. Never. Just waiting to see him. To play with him as children.
“He was my best friend, down at the sandlot”: they’re childhood friends, childhood lovers, they were best friends before lovers.
“I felt more when we played pretend, than with all the Ken’s”: he is her special person. Her love. So whatever, even if she had the galas for her lists, she feels more with him. Even though they couldn’t get married.
“Cause he took me out of my box, stole my tortured heart”: Brant loved her too. I think he fell first, she fell harder. But he loved her. They had love.
“Left all these broken parts”: as long as they were together, till the last day, it was ok. It would be fine. The broken pieces and the sadness could be forgotten.
“Told me I’m better off”: when he tries to dissuade her to continue. Tries to push her away.
“But I’m not”: without him she doesn’t live. But with him, she died…
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i have been unmedicated for the entirety of spring break and thus have had little interest in writing this down, but i have been thinking about this for the entire week (as well as a dpdc clone danny au that resulted in it becoming its entirely separate batman au that includes a teenage vigilante bruce wayne, an ocarina, and me entirely incapable of making a batman au without making bruce dirt poor but we're not talking about that) and so i've finally went 'fuck it' and forcibly grabbed my laptop. I will get this done in one sitting even if it kills me.
BUT. This is about neither clone^2 danny nor about who i am calling Ocarina Batman. This is about my Danyal Al Ghul Au and more SPECIFICALLY it's me thinking about his relationship with Sam and Tucker specifically.
Tucker and Sam? Adore this asshole (affectionate) with every fiber of their being. And it is very much a reciprocated feeling, but Danny's thoughts will not be delved into much other than he would kill for them.
Tucker? The only person currently capable of getting a deep, loud, belly laugh out of Danny. Sam can get him to smile and to laugh, but it's the kind that's a chuckle-under-the-breath. The quiet, looks-down-while-huffing laughter. Snorts once with laughter and then grins stupidly.
But Tucker? Tucker can crack a slew of stupid jokes and Danny will be incapacitated for the next five minutes because he's laughing so hard that he can't breath. He lands one well-timed pun or quip and Danny will be close to tears. His laughter is their favorite sound in the whole world.
Sam is lowkey jealous of this ability, and she's gotten a belly laugh out of Danny a few times. But alas, it is Tucker who wields this power and has gotten it the most times out of the two of them.
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They're also both physically affectionate with Danny as much as possible. It started roughly around when they were 12-ish, a year since they befriended Danny, and they noticed that he sought after touch but never seemed to initiate (and was in some ways repulsed by it). They started slowly being more touchy with him. Hooking a finger around his to lead him somewhere, tapping his wrist, looping arms. Little touches, grabs, etc, to get him used to it, and once he started doing it back they started increasing it.
It's gotten to a point where he will now just. Lay on them. Like a lizard sunbathing on a rock. Leaning on their backs when they're sitting in class before the bell rings, his chin on their heads. He'll talk about anything with his arms looped around their shoulders.
If they're sitting on a couch at either of their houses, he'll lay his legs on theirs. Him and Tucker will press their feet against the other's and try and push against them (newsflash: Danny always wins, Tucker claims its the ghost strength but Danny's been winning since before his accident)
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Naturally, both Sam and Tucker know where Danny keeps his weapons on his person, and are allowed to grab them off of him if they need it. His only requirement is that they don't lose his weapons if they take it and forget to return it immediately.
They both understand how big of a thing this is from Danny, and so they do their best to treat his weapons with a lot of respect and care because they know its his way of saying he trusts them.
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Sam and Tucker are so fond of Danny it's insane. Like fr. That's their goddamn best friend, and they are so protective of him. Emotionally, physically, you name it. They will tear the head off a grown man if they need to, Danny's had scars since he arrived in Amity Park and Sam and Tucker both are going to find the person who put them there and make them pay for it.
One time, Tucker overheard a bunch of upperclass girls speaking nastily about Danny and about the rumors surrounding him, calling him names like 'freak', 'monster', etc. Danny was with him and heard it, and seemingly appeared unbothered by it, even telling Tucker that he was used to such rumors.
Tucker was so furious that hacked into the school system later that night and tanked those girls grades. They were kicked out of their clubs and had to go to mandatory tutoring for the rest of the year. He made sure to leave some way of letting them know it was him who did it.
And Sam doesn't like using her money for things, doesn't like abusing that wealth. So instead, whenever her parents talk bad about Danny, she causes a media incident that has her parents scrambling to deal with. She does something wild, outrageous by her parents' standards.
She heard some boys on the basketball team making fun of Danny once, similar to those girls had. She kicks up a fuss about something eco-unfriendly at school and forcibly holds a protest on the same day of the big home basketball game, forcing them to cancel the event and reschedule to a visiting school.
She anonymously donates money so that there's new uniforms for the team but oops! Looks like she "forgot" to donate enough money for them to get uniforms for all the team members, and strangely enough those boys in particular didn't get them! Looks like they'll have to wait until more money gets donated for the basketball team to get their new, nice uniforms. The old ones look so ratty in comparison, right?
And since the football team gets most of the sport money, that might just take awhile. And if (and when) they kick up a fuss? oops! Off the basketball team you go, :) such unsportsman-like behavior is unfit for the team.
(The only good thing about how corrupt the school system is is that she can use it to her advantage too.)
The both of them know that Danny suspects them for the sudden misfortune falling on these people, but he doesn't call them out on it. He's kinder than he used to be, but not kind enough to vouch for people who speak badly of him. Sometimes, he might just congratulate them on not getting caught.
Because Danny is their wonderful, hurt friend with a "slightly" Blue and Orange Moral code, and enough scars that people have been calling him a criminal (and worse) since he arrived in Amity Park when he was ten. And they'll be damned if he gets hurt anymore.
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also the way you're losing me is just the advanced version of say don't go like
the waiting is a sadness, fading into madness -> now i just sit in the dark and wonder if it's time
i'm standing on a tightrope alone -> front lines, don't you ignore me
halfway out the door but it won't close -> do i throw out everything we built or keep it?
i would stay forever if you say don't go -> you don't know what you got until it's gone
strike a match and you blow it out -> i'm getting tired even for a phoenix, always rising from the ashes, mending all her gashes, you just might have dealt the final blow
i'm yours but you're not mine -> i gave you all my best mes, my endless empathy, but all i did was bleed as i tried to be the bravest soldier
trying to see the cards that you won't show, i'm about to fold -> do something, babe, say something / lose something, babe, risk something / choose something, babe, i've got nothing to believe unless you're choosing me
i said i love you, you say nothing back -> i wouldn't marry me either, a pathological people pleaser, who only wanted you to see her
it's not a relationship that happened in a vacuum, it's a repeating pattern of giving yourself more and more and more to people who shove it back in your face. can confirm that is extremely traumatic. it's embarrassing and painful when just the people in your immediate life see it, i can't imagine living it out on a widespread scale AND having people trying to capitalize on rumors to the contrary (when that's all you want in the first place!!!)
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