Lee Donghyuck, Number Four
The ability to communicate with the dead.
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
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don't think about Alador not knowing where any of his kids are
don't think about Edric and Emira gripping onto each other as their world falls apart around them with no idea where the rest of their family is, if they're even safe
don't think about the fact they might not even be together
don't think about Darius feeling the pain of the draining spell but all he can think about is the sixteen-year-old kid he cares about despite himself feeling the same pain
don't think about all the other children with coven sigils, in so so much pain as the man everyone trusts betrays them
don't think of Gus' dad learning no one knows where his twelve-year-old son is
don't think of people running for cover as their world falls apart and rebuilds around them
don't think about the ones who couldn't get away in time
don't think of King, so young and so scared, alone with the collector
don't think about Willow's dads patiently waiting for their daughter to come home and their bone-deep grief when she doesn't
don't think about the twins screaming and wailing when Alador tells them he doesn't know where Amity is and the last time he saw her, she was going to fight Belos, the most dangerous man on the Isle
don't think about Eda realizing that despite her best efforts in the end she couldn't protect either of her kids
don't think about Eda reuniting with Lilith and both of their faces falling realizing the other doesn't have the kids
don't think about Camila opening the doors and being so relieved to see her daughter but so worried when she sees how tired and sad all the kids huddled together at her front door are
don't think about the kids quietly but surely patching each other up, older and much more exhausted than they should be
don't think about the fact none of them are going to be to get a good night's sleep for a while
don't think about the kids huddled together mourning people that may be alive because they just don't know
the thing I love most about the “Bruce and Jason are both TANKS” supremacy is that it means, in all likelihood, that Nightwing, Red Hood and Batman went on a joint patrol together at least once and some out of towner goon, in a panic, called Nightwing — all 5’10 180 lbs of him — the “skinny one.”
Had to explain the plot of all for the game to someone who had no prior knowledge and holy shit. (Spoilers) Here’s some of my favorite footnotes from our texts:
To start with it is about a bastardized version of lacrosse called exy
And the yakuza
What
Does the yakuza have to do with lacrosse
The only joy he has is playing exy after his mom died and he burned her body in the first few pages of the book
Ah yes
Hillbilly cremation
10/10 for the environment
I’m honestly scared to actually read it
It made my mental health worse I think
Their mom decided to give up one and keep the other so one grew up in the foster system and one grew up with their abusive mother and they didn’t know abt each other until they were like 13ish? At which point one already had a SEVERE self harm addiction and the other had a severe drug addiction
Bro what 😭😭😭
And was HEAVILY abusive to them and their moms sibling was extremely religious (which sucked for their gay cousin, Nicky-he’s also on the exy team) and forced her to raise Andrew again after abandoning him as a baby and Andrew caught her abusing Aaron so he murdered her at 15ish
MURDER
A VALID MURDER
BUT MURDER
YEAH
AARON WAS NOT STOKED
I CAN IMAGINE
ALSO ANDREW LOCKED AARON IN A BATHRROM COMPLETELY ALONE FOR LIKE A WEEK AND FORCED HIM TO DETOX COLD TURKEY
WTF😭😭😭
Oh also Neil is like 5’4? There’s a lot of short kings in these books
Napoleon syndrome goes hard ig
Also I forgot to mention Kevin and Neil were childhood friends because Neil is technically supposed to be a raven (the ones who brand children) but his mom ran away from him and Neil knows who Kevin is but if I remember right Kevin doesn’t know who Neil is
Someone get these kids therapy
Please
They’d have to admit to all the murder
Get a mob boss therapist idk
TO BE PART OF THE TEAM BC THEY HAVE TO COME FROM FUCKED UP CIRCUMSTANCES THEY SEE BETSY DOBSON
Maybe it’s time to change religions
Atp I don’t see any other solution 😭
I need you to know everything I detailed happened in the first book and THERES FIVE
Fuck religions
Just death
They also go clubbing at a club called Eden’s like all the time
Ah yes, I’m mentally unstable, let me go to a club, shake some ass, grab a dick, and do a joint in the bathroom. Fun Friday night yall.
Also the older members call the younger members “the monsters” bc they’re good at exy but also because they don’t really view them as people
Again you’ve rendered me speechless and not in the fun way
Atp just burn down the school
THE YAKUZA TRIED 😭😭😭
TRY HARDER
ARSON ISNT ROCKET SCIENCE
Russian sleep experiment this author
Please
That summary makes it sound INTERESTING the points you described to me makes me think I should join a JIGSAW GAME I’d walk out of it with less trauma
Please comment some of your favorite fucked up things that happened in aftg 😭
You remind me of someone I know from the past. The face, the look, and the stance. Someone I want to forget about. Not to think about. Not to talk about. And you sit across me, only to remind me in the remaining days of what I want to forget the most. -Keerthana Muthiah
I have a head cannon that sometimes JJ kinda takes over every once in a while and Jason is the only one who can talk to Tim without him freaking out because all Tim can process in those moments is the voice and face of his Robin, his hero, who’s there to protect him. That’s very lightly digging into the depths of these head cannons but I don’t have enough time to go super into detail.
the fact that tim, bart & kon literally annoyed red tornado out of hibernation is still the funniest shit to me and i think about it daily
lfls human au fanart? eerrmmm that doesnt sound like something id do…
idk this was one of those doodles (original doodle under the cut) that kind of got away from me. there is a multitude of inaccuracies between this and the original text that i did not fix for one reason or another, and ill list them below. i hope!!! you guys enjoy!!! :D
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saw someone point out that Tim wasn’t immediately jumping to become Robin, and that he had gone to Dick multiple times before deciding that he himself had to step in. I don’t think Tim blames Dick but I do think there’s a tiny bit of resentment because he doesn’t fully understand why Dick couldn’t just come back to Gotham in order to help Bruce instead of a complete stranger doing it.