Imagine That One Scene From That Animated Series Justice League Where Batman Reveals Everyone's Secret

hey if u can’t drive/are a slow learner due to a disability or mental illness, just picture historical figures like pirates or the founding fathers trying to operate a car.

it’s only “easy” bc we’ve normalized it.

clownpierce cant see well through the mask, like.. at all. He can see basic shapes and when a sword is coming at his face, but not much else. This also means he has never really *seen* the faces of other lifestealers, and will definitely instantly swoon if he sees branzy without the mask in the way

-evil anon

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everyone is flabbergasted at how easily Kaboodle gets away with repeatedly pissing off Clown, none of them know that she's literally his sister and gets a special pass to be a little shit

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Nico: So, what, now I’m just supposed to do anything that Reyna does? I mean, what if she jumped off a cliff? Coach Hedge: If Reyna were to jump off a cliff, she would’ve done her due diligence regarding the height of the cliff, the depth of the water, and the angle of entry, so yes. If you see Reyna jump off a cliff, by all means, jump off a cliff. Nico: You jump off a cliff! Coach Hedge: Gladly. Provided Reyna did first.

Hylla: you can trust me! remember who pulled you out of that river when you were six?

Reyna: let’s not forget who pushed me in

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How do you personally feel about Reyna and Piper in terms of how they were handled/treated by the plot?

I don’t feel it’s my place to speak about Piper’s situation since I’m not NA, so I’ll link you to some other people’s posts (specifically from some cherokee readers), where it’s all explained: [link 1] [link 2] [link 3]

As for Reyna… yes, I have a few problems with the way she’s written, and I’m going to expand a little on it because I’ve never seen it addressed, at least not in detail.

First of all, there’s the whole attitude Riordan has going on of “she’s a strong independent woman who don’t need no man,” when abso-fucking-lutely every other character, minor or otherwise, got paired up by the end of Blood of Olympus. 

Riordan writes her as someone who’s always, always alone and being left behind: forced to kill her father, separated from her sister, dealing with a two people job by herself… her damn horse died in front of her. And she doesn’t want to be alone. She asks for help, for company more than once. Asking Percy to be preator with her in SoN, her willingness to align with Annabeth in MoA, her overall helpfulness towards all the characters that interact with her, and her relief when she’s finally on a mission with someone (as evidenced by BoO when she’s with Nico), they all show that YES she’s strong, and she can deal with all the weight she’s constantly carrying around, but she still needs someone! It takes a toll on her, as it would on anyone, and instead of having her work rewarded, she gets even more taken from her. 

Her backstory is compromised of “she had a father, who went mad, she accidentally vaporized him commiting one of the worst crimes in the eyes of the romans, she moved on to an island with her sister, where they made a home for themselves, but oops it got destroyed, so now they are separated. Oh, also, after she made it to New Rome, one of her closest friends went missing and came back months later with seemingly completely new alliances.”

Reyna is constantly being taken for granted and… that’s not as much evidence of the characters not caring about her as much as it is Riordan not caring about her. Jason is seen thinking about her more than once in TLH, yet when the greeks go to Camp Jupiter they don’t even get to catch up (yes, yes, tight schedule, w/e, but if RR could squeeze in a melodramatic Percabeth reunion then… she could spare a few pages to develop Reyna’s relationships).

Annabeth and Reyna seem to have hit it off really well in MoA, and iirc that’s all there is to it, not much more development on that front. Did she ever get to properly reunite with her sister? She doesn’t even get the consolation of maybe finding someone in the future (what with the whole “no demigod will capture her heart”-thing Bellona told her).

As for miscellaneous things related to her ethnicity… On that front I’d say she’s better off than Leo, a walking stereotype. However, she does have three last names: Reyna is fine, but Avila is a last name, as are Ramirez and Arellano. 

I’ve seen some people say that it’s “cliche” or “overdone” that she’s got so many names but imo it’s ok - I have the exact same number of them (two first names, two last names), it’s pretty common. However, I insist, Avila is a last name! Unless you want to tell me that she’s somewhat named after the city… I could only find one account of the name being anything but a surname or the name of a place, and it’s a shady site that claims that “Abyla was a wife of Hercules, with whom she had a child that named a city after her.”

The only thing this last part does, though, is prove that Riordan’s pretty damn lazy with his research when it comes to writing characters of color. “Reyna Abigail Ramirez-Arellano” sounds almost the same, and Abigail’s an actual name.

Finally, I don’t have the #receipt because Riordan seems to have deleted his tumblr, but I’m 99% sure he once said that he didn’t want to write Reyna as a lesbian for some bs reason like “I fear stereotypes” or s/t, when we all know he loves them (and even if he didn’t he’s rich enough to hire a sensitivity reader), and several lesbian/wlw bloggers have said that’s bullshit (search the blogs I linked at the top^ for evidence of that). He just doesn’t want to give her any kind of positive development.

TL;DR: Reyna deserves better.

Ok but like has anyone ever considered trans Reyna??? Just hear me out for a second:

The day his son came out to him was the day Mr. Ramirez lost his cool

Hylla always defended her now little sister, and that’s what made Mr. Ramirez absolutely lose his gosh dang mind.

Reyna’s name used to be Reynaldo (In my opinion)

Both Reyna and Hylla were really happy because on Circe’s island the siblings got to stay together (seeing how Reyna was now a girl, and wasn’t turned into a guinea pig)

Nico being the first person to know, (obviously) and she told him on their statue quest

Reyna stuffing her bra to try to stay inconspicuous, and Frank one day walking in on her doing so (cuz it’s Frank let’s be honest) and keeping her secret for YEARS before she finally comes out to the rest

Reyna trying to FORCE herself to speak with a higher voice (I’ve always imagined she had a lower voice anyway)

When she finally does come out to everyone, she’s a sobbing, shaking mess of a human being, and her friends feel so bad that she was scared to tell them and make her cookies or something idk (probably Percy and Hazel who did that)

One of my favorite variations on the “Justice League Meets the Batfam” trope is the one where Dick, as Nightwing, joins the Justice League and makes Bruce suffer for it. Nightwing is unaffiliated with Batman so for all anyone knows Nightwing at most someone copying Batman’s philosophy in the neighboring city. More likely neither of them have ever spoken before. Bruce has to pretend like he doesn’t know His Son who is running around with the League. Dick is having a grand ole time being just a liiiiitle too familiar with Batman, not enough to blow their covers immediately but enough to make people confused and Bruce grumpy. Everyone thinks Batman is in the process of literally planning the murder of their new team member meanwhile Dick is in the Batcave getting yelled at about secret identities. He is clearly not listening to the lecture. Steph is behind Bruce mimicking his speech and acting innocent whenever he turns around. It’s great.

Clark: why are you like this

Bruce, three seconds away from dropping a glass of champagne on the floor, dramatically slipping in the pieces, and falling into the lap of the senator they’re trying to get information out of in a bizarre, sleep-deprived, but likely wildly successful seduction attempt: can you just let me have this please