Tyrantrum
I, honestly, need Jason picking up Bruce's arguments during fights and using them back on him. In the most unexpected moments. Just imagine Bruce getting mad during another of their patrols, and in the middle of the screaming session, Jason just switches and doubles him with his own phrases.
Jason: Okay, that's enough. You are benched from being my side-kick.
Bruce, flabbergasted: Excuse me?
Jason: You heard me. This is unspeakable violence you are displaying here, by the way.
Bruce: ???
Bruce: You are not going to berate me for smashing CRANE to the wall a few times.
Jason: Oh, why not?
Bruce: That wasâ That is justified.
Jason: Well, who do you think you are to decide what is justified and what is not? Huh, lad?
Bruce:
Bruce: Hood, that'sâ
Jason: Am I right, boys?
Tim, chewing on the popcorn: Yep, yep. Also hit him with a "What example are you showing to your little brother?" line for me.
Jason: Noted.
Bruce: ???????
Bruce: This is ridiculous. I can't stress enough howâ
Jason: I am not your father to deal with this, B.
Bruce: Iâ
Bruce: Wait, when did I say something like that to you?
Jason: Before I ran away and died? Lol
Bruce: ...
Bruce: Oh. Shit.
TRICK OR TREAT!!! Studio Ghibli? Or atla? I've never been able to participate in your prompt fills, hopefully this gets in on time!! Love your writing, love you!
Sophie is a talented witch, so she doesnât have to do more than glance at Howl before she sighs. âThat poor boy is missing his heart.âÂ
âLike youâre one to talk,â her fire demon grumbles beside her, âYou gave me your youth to save me. Which was very stupid, by the way.â
âSo youâve said,â she says, amused. âMany times.âÂ
She scowls and shrugs, saying, âMaybe we should stick our nose in. Maybe we can help each other, figure out a way to break the otherâs curse.â
âAnd if not, at least your get to talk to another fallen star for a while?â Sophie asks, and before her demon can respond, she barrels forward, âYes, fine, I suppose we donât have anything better to do.â
"If I were orpheus I wouldn't look back"
But we look back everyday- rechecking emails, making sure a friend is still behind you, checking to see if you remebered to pick up your keys. It's second nature, a habit of care.
It was second nature for him too. He looked back, not out of weakness, but love. For what is love, if not to look back?
*kicks down door* Have I ever mentioned that my gremlin brain came up with an explanation for why the characters treat Lucis like a continent when the map is so weird and so oddly small in proportions, even when taking into account the (large) part of it we canât go?
Because gremlin brain did that.
Admittedly partly inspired by a throwaway line in the fic Nocturne but like-
War of the Astrals.
Big deal.
Bahamut alone made a HUGE rift in the continent that stretches for miles and is probably like- roughly grand canyon sized.
So here we have the god of fire, and the god of the SEA among others, all duking it out prior to Bahamut carving his rift and âkillingâ Ifrit and like-
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A VOLCANO ERUPTS. I mean the big ones. The Krakatoas and Santoriniâs of the world.
STUFF SINKS.
Sure itâs just an island in RL but when you have EMBODIMENTS OF THOSE FORCES OF NATURE all trying to kill each other then STUFF WILL REALLYÂ SINK.
So gremlin brain was like: what if the reason the map is weird is because it IS really that small. What if Lucis is roughly the size of a really large RL ISLAND while Niflheim/Tenebraeâs continent is MAYBE Australia sized at absolute most and the reason nobody bats an eye is because the rest of the continents SUNK WHEN SOLHEIM FELL. Leviathan threw hands so hard with Ifrit while Titan was busy stopping a meteor or something that a huge swathe of land just- sunk. Straight up. Galahd probably used to be a freaking mountain range before the oceans rose up so high they almost drowned and Ramuh had to stop spamming lightning long enough to hastily save what would later become the islands (and oh look a reason for the Galahdians to revere Ramuh as their patron astral, he saved them from the wrath of the burning sea).
So the survivors of solheim, when they were picking up the pieces, would have known that a ton of land was lost, but its still all the land they have left, so they keep calling it the âcontinentâ and then over time people just forget that continent used to mean anything larger than what they currently have, and thatâs why the characters are like âitâs a whole world out thereâ and we the players are like âwhy map so small?????â
It would also explain why Ravatogh takes up such a large chunk of the map? Like- volcanos can be Tol, so the ocean didnât manage to swallow it up.
Am I making any sense? It made sense in my head.
Honestly this has probably already occurred to a lot of people in this fandom but it finally occurred to me like- a month ago and I finally got around to sharing so there.