always---wrong
Trans, Aroace, He/Him, Autistic, Artist, Writer. Lover of one-sided ships
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Thank you for adding some much to this post @yikesy
I think Apollo from toa is really autistic-coded, both as Lester and as godly Apollo. That thing that he does where he lies even tho it goes his natural instincts, yeah, that's masking I've decided.
One of his domains is order and structure? Autism.
Has a bunch special interests as domain then has a domain specifically for 'knowledge'? Autism.
God of prophecy? That's practically pattern recognition. Autism.
God of truth? Autisic folks are known to be brutally honest.
Autism.
Gets especially attached to objects and things? Autism. (Cows, instruments, ext)
Talks really formall with a mix of slang? Autism. It does not matter that he is over 4000 years old this is how I speak so autism.
We all know he has a strong sense of justice that he ignored too often as a god.
Forgets things as Lester? ADHD. That's right. He's actually Audhd-coded.
I think Apollo from toa is really autistic-coded, both as Lester and as godly Apollo. That thing that he does where he lies even tho it goes his natural instincts, yeah, that's masking I've decided.
One of his domains is order and structure? Autism.
Has a bunch special interests as domain then has a domain specifically for 'knowledge'? Autism.
God of prophecy? That's practically pattern recognition. Autism.
God of truth? Autisic folks are known to be brutally honest.
Autism.
Gets especially attached to objects and things? Autism. (Cows, instruments, ext)
Talks really formall with a mix of slang? Autism. It does not matter that he is over 4000 years old this is how I speak so autism.
We all know he has a strong sense of justice that he ignored too often as a god.
Forgets things as Lester? ADHD. That's right. He's actually Audhd-coded.
HOUGH I NEED a fic with TOA Apollo (god of truth, prophecy, medicine, hunting) having a stint as a Private Investigator in a very overdramatic, eccentrically “him” way with Meg McCaffery as his partner (and muscle. And person with connections to the Triumvirate’s whole crime deal) being assigned stuff by the police being rude and nasty who clearly just want him to incriminate someone specific / close the case / cover up their shady stuff, so he goofs around, casually breaks reality and mocks old detective shows and Film Noir stuff to mess with them and generally waste their time and money BUT comes to the actual conclusion with incredible detail and accuracy so that they can’t COMPLAIN or argue against him AND THEN is very purposefully empathetic, gentle and efficient with cases for other people who are looking for and need help (in a very Columbo way. ACTUALLY OML INSTEAD OF REFERENCING HIS WIFE APOLLO CONSTANTLY REFERS TO HIS HUSBAND HYACINTHUS AND IT’S VERY UNCLEAR WHETHER HE’S ALIVE OR NOT (TOA paradox of Hyacinthus tuxedo)!)
it works really well! He would:
have good knowledge of analysing a crime scene bc medicine,
find people and put himself in suspects’ shoes bc hunting,
interrogate very very easily bc truth (again mostly he just messes with the actual culprit),
have hunches about where they might be bc prophecy,
be dramatic enough to loudly announce twists,
knows plenty of interesting people to “know a guy” (other gods, his children old and young, exes),
be beautiful enough and slutty enough (with love) to sustain a romantic subplot / inevitable tension (divorced) with “guys he knows” that he must dramatically call in despite their “complicated past” because he has “no other choice”. I could go on.
and Meg constantly resisting his dramatics and as the plot convenient way to resolve any emotional drama with Apollo (“but Meg, what if he hates me!” “Shut up. Do it.” “Okay! 😊”) and stop him going off on tangents if he drifts TOO far. It’s great!
Day 17 - Scapegoat / A Repeat of History
Y’all can we talk about how Apollo is canonically faster than Hermes
Dick being a happy older brother…
It's the first time in a long time that I do this, it's like learning to draw again.
Im giving it my all and thank you very much for your nice comments and love! You guys are very good to me 🌷
Why is this so cute???? I love them
The Homeric Hymn to Hermes is so fucking funny of an origin story. It really just goes
Maia sighing about this whole baby nonsense and going back to sleep: I did not ask for this
Hermes running off to kill a turtle invent a lyre and steal Apollo's cows before noon: alright good timing Apollo will notice any minute now
Maia waking up: why do you smell like beef -_-
Baby Hermes born twelve hours ago: Mom we are Not living in this cave anymore
Maia: What's this we shit you stole Apollo's cows that's a you problem get lost ! (she literally tried to kick him out of the cave right before Apollo shows up)
Apollo: Hey you ! I know you stole my cows !
Baby Hermes: ME ! But I am just a little baby in my blankies who wants my mother's milk how could I so weak and new born have stolen anything
Apollo: real babies don't talk dumbass let's go see Zeus
Zeus definitely laughing his ass off: Well Hermes what do you have to say for yourself
Hermes god of Lies: I can not tell a lie not to you who claims to be my father. Now you see I never took those cattle... across a threshold. And I will confess to my blame nesses
Zeus and Apollo very much aware he didn't swear to anything just then: Okay just show us the cows kid
Apollo walking with Hermes thirty hours old now a young boy not a baby: You are growing very fast I am actually terrified for your power when you're full grown, slayer of Argus.... don't worry about who Argus is
Hermes singing on his brand new lyre: Okay. Hey do you want this Apollo I knowww you love music
Apollo taking it: YES !
Hermes a normal amount of pleased -> literally in the text highlighted that this is the moment he started loving Apollo forever now: Okay awesome we should go tell Zeus we're besties now and you're totally cool about the cow stealing
Apollo: Yeah about that little thief. If you swear to never steal from me again I'll love you forever and hold you dear to my heart
Hermes nodding his head and very obviously avoids invoking the styx becuase you never know when you'll want to rob big brother again
Apollo: ... Good enough I promise to love you forever and give you lots of good gifts like this golden staff here enjoy !
Zeus sending his Eagle down to oversee this bond of brotherhood: Most successful sibling bonding exercise I have ever done well done Me
Hermes: I'm still going to swindle people all of the time to be clear
Apollo: I know I'm going to sing about you a lot !
Apollo, Hermes and their friendship
just saw someone say that after toa the other gods surely lost all respect for apollo and that he'll be seen as a joke
I,, strongly disagree
I don't think you guys grasp how truly impressive apollo showed himself to be in those trials
he was meant to be fully mortal, fully. It was a blatant assassination attempt
like, zeus put his all in making apollo as mortal as he could possibly be and the result was a blatant not at all
I don't understand how you can mock apollo for being weak in toa, he was meant to have no power at all, the fact he even does is a testament to his sheer inherent divinity
he had his power and memory stolen and was thrown in a situation meant to counter Specifically Him. at full power
it was unironically an Impossible task
and the fucker did it
IN SIX MONTHS!!?!
I don't think anyone had realized he was willingly crippling himself socially until he effortlessly gained the loyalty and love of everyone he met the moment he stopped holding himself back, because he was plenty liked before, he was actively trying to make himself distasteful and he was still more popular than any of them. What. A. Doozy.
Apollo was put in a situation where he had to show how much control zeus had over him when things got real and he answered that with willing himself back to divinity and sheepishly saying "none at all, really"
can you imagine the complete WHIPLASH the gods of olympus would have with post-toa apollo? apollo who's deconstructed the facade and tossed it aside? apollo who they thought they knew but are now faced with someone so strange and unfamiliar they question if they knew him at all? or did they once know him, all those years ago, but willingly forgot that part of him in favor of the front he put up? in favor of the fake because he made himself more palatable? less threatening? because remember, apollo was a beloved god, but also a silently scary god. gods quaked in his presence the first time he stepped onto olympus. why wouldn't they eagerly attach themselves to the seemingly harmless apollo, who surely is not at all dangerous anymore!
but do you see the dichotomy. the confusion. the panic, depending on which god it is?
the guilt, if it's someone close to him?
Has this been made before?
he will use every chance he gets to be a drama queen and if he doesnt have one he will create one
conceptualising brucie wayne as like…. an ominous boomer texter. he uses a lot of ellipses. never elaborates on anything. describes events in the worst ways imaginable. he texts dick ‘the plane went down. we lost tim’ (bruce forgot to pick tim up from school after lacrosse practice) and dick tries to call and ask if bruce just told him his brother?? is dead?? and bruce just keeps replying with thumbs up emojis with no context and ‘tim passed’ (his final exams)
ic: @batfam-stuff-posts-0
based on this post :))
This is stupid, I spent too long on this lmao
... ♥
been thinking about them a lot lately
Your honor, I see no lies here.
Bruce truly hates magic with every pump and beat of his heart.
What kinda curse is Slang, anyway?
“This is the best day of my life.”
“Bro really thought he ate with that.” Bruce physically feels a full body shiver, charged with nausea and cringe. “This is level 10 cringe. Can’t have shit in Gotham.”
Dick is his earth bound angel, but he laughs like a demon at him, holding onto Jason for support, pledging his eternal loyalty to Zatana and her pettiness.
—
“Hey, old bat, hook me up with an adrenaline shot.”
What he wants to say is Jay, do not try and fight with 6 bullets in your stomach.
What comes out instead, through Bruce’s grit teeth and intense, fierce glaring, “Not you trying to go back to your corpse era. See how I only took 2 shots? Very demure. Very mindful.”
Jason passes out from blood loss, but mostly laughter.
—
“Chat, is this real?”
Stephanie barely bites back a full belly cackle. “I think he just asked us if we copied.”
“I wish I was Jason, 15.”
—
“This is not a slay environment. Killing is flop behavior.” He keeps his eyes shut and buries his face in his hands. Trying to convince Damian not to stab someone doesn’t seem to work.
Damian gives him a pat like he’s a pitiful cat. “I’ll only stab the non lethal areas.”
“God, I wish that were me.”
people don't talk enough about how fucking funny it is that bruce can sub in his kids as batman when he's too busy. like can you imagine it from the league's perspective? imagine you have this really mysterious, geniusly scary guy that you know next to nothing about, never cracks a smile and yet always comes out on top, and one day he shows up to a league meeting and there's just something... off. about him.
you can't pin it down because he's literally acting exactly the same as usual and there's no reason to think there's anything wrong, but maybe he shifted in his seat one to many times, or he looked just a tad bit too bored during green lantern's case review, but something's just... odd. so you quietly ask superman after the meeting if anything's up with the bat bcs you know those two are closer and also clark can hear heartbeats so if something's wrong surely he'll pick it up? and without hesitation he leans over to you and mumbles 'yeah batman was busy, that's his 17 yr old son. he's a crime lord and kills people sometimes though so we're not allowed to let him into the weapons department.' and then walks away like it's normal.
like the whiplash the league must go through every time they realise that no, this is not their fearless dark and brooding leader, this is in fact one of his dipshit kids being forced to sub in bcs the real batman broke an ankle, is incredible.
wonder woman: so that's my proposed plan, what are your thoughts batman?
batman: hn. i think that- *voice raising two octaves* oh shit hold on my phones buzzing
the league:
batman, answering the phone and immediately dropping the Bat Posture™: what do you mean- aw come on little wing that's not fair! but- no, NO DON'T YOU DARE TELL ALFRED I'LL BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF YOU- IM SORRY OK I'LL BUY YOU MORE- *catches sight of the league watching him, baffled* *stiffens* ok listen i promise to replace them but i gotta go, please show me mercy iloveyoubye *hangs up*
the league:
batman:
batman: *coughs awkwardly*
superman: *sighs*
batman, to superman: ...red hood found out i ate his chocolate pretzels-
superman, shaking his head: just... just stop.
the flash: so this isn't batman either, is it?
wonder woman: if this one's also a criminal im losing my mind.
superman, tiredly: no no, this one isn't a criminal. this one's actually a cop.
batman: *sinks down in his seat* b's gonna kill me
green lantern, mystified: where does he keep GETTING you all from!?
'batman' dick, who made a pact with jason to Always Fuck With Bruce Whenever The Opportunity Arises: batman is a whore.
they think they've finally sussed out all 2 of batman's kids and then one day during a meeting 'batman' ends up on a 30 minute rant about different hacking methods this tech villain could be using that results in him half way through a sentence breaking off to say '-oh uncle clark could you pass me that pen- thanks, anyway so-' and then five minutes after that when the league have all been exchanging incredulous looks he finally freezes and is like. SHIT.
wonder woman: you're different from the other two, aren't you?
batman: maybe i am maybe i'm not, you can't prove it.
wonder woman:
green lantern: so like, are you new or have you just managed to avoid sub duty up until now?
superman, coughing: actually, this is this ones ninth occasion of replacing batman. you've just never realised before.
the league:
batman: yeah actually the other two are kinda mad i lasted longer than them...
the flash: how the fuck does he keep getting kids with the exact same build as him!??!?
'batman' tim, spent 20 minutes padding the suit out so he would look the part, still mad that bruce keeps palming WE work off on him: oh he forces us to take steroids for it.
the league, concerned:
superman, pinching the bridge of his nose: now come on red robin-
batman, fully tearing up and looking distraught: PLEASE uncle clark, it HURTS, you can't keep COVERING FOR HIM!
superman, frantically to the league: this one lies.
bonus
the league, squinting at batman:
the league: ...
superman: *head in his hands, too disappointed to do anything*
the league: *silently exchanging looks, wondering if anybody's brave enough to say anything*
duke as batman, fully aware this is fucking stupid but jason and tim fell on the floor laughing when dick came up with the idea and frankly, he wanted to see if anybody would have to guts to call him out: so, are we all ready to start the meeting?
i drew this months ago and forgot about it. this is so silly
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I love hermes and Apollo hc's. They hurt so much
rrverse! Hermes being bitter that his 'stealing-apollo's-cattle' story is his most well-known account ; because his most famous incident involves apollo, ofcourse it does. Nothing hermes does is ever good enough. It always has to be apollo, apollo, apollo. Because that's what apollo does - steal the spotlight.
What was once an iconic anecdote is now nothing more than a bitter taste in his mouth.
Aalajkansnsns I love this
could you draw litpollo please?
Lit: this sword has taken countless lives, it is my most trusted weapon. It can cut through flesh like butter–
Jo: but this is a sausage. You are using a murder weapon to cut sausage.
I LOVE and hate that the gold bands around his wrists remind me of chains
Post TOA - referance not mine, credit goes to unknow Artist on pinterest
Aaaaaaaahyhhhh they're so pretty and cute 🥰 I'm dying
i've been getting a ton of requests lately so i decided to just do one big sketch dump
Sammmmme
I think a horrifying possibility of lester dying in ton is that zeus would've breathed a sigh of relief.
the captain & the congressman spend their (very few) off days together