Apprentice - Blog Posts

Enough of the trope where memory loss undoes the damage or the corruption or whatever. More content where removing memories just removes the context.

The tragedy of needing to grieve and not knowing what or who you lost or why. The angst of having trauma and being denied the awareness that it's trauma. The suspense of being different somehow and left to wonder how and when. The tension of knowing that something is off and you can't find where it hurts. The Adventure Zone gets it. Kingdom Hearts gets it.

There is an aching inside you and you don't know how it got there.

Apprenticember Day 2

Double posting to catch up with @ghoulfriendfangs apprenticember 

Who is his love interest? What is their relationship like?

Andrzej’s love interest is Asra for sure! They share a deep connection that Andrzej can’t explain (until the plot unfolds that is hehehe). They have a problem about being a little too codependent with one another because they are both happiest when they are in their own world (and because I'm a sucker for yanderes). Before the resurrection I imagine Andrzej loved Asra a normal amount but afterwards their connection is so strong that it can get a bit obsessive...I love Asra so much I can see them ending up with either Asra’s upright or reversed ending, but they are so possessive of each other I imagine the reversed ending as their canon story....

Apprenticember Day 1

I know it’s actually day 2 of @ghoulfriendfangs apprenticember but I didn’t have time to post the day one prompt yesterday oooops

Here is my apprentice Andrzej (an absolute self insert of myself) he is an apprentice with an insatiable hunger to know as much about magic as he can! He has an uncanny similarity to the deceased count, but he is so bubbly and friendly that his expressions make him look less like Lucio.

He likes practicing magic, dancing, singing, and enjoying his favorite foods. He dislikes being told what to do, unkind people, and fake politeness

Teen padawan Luminara Unduli.

The backround is from Revenge of the Sith.

*insert every Marina and the Diamonds song here* let me into ur rp groups it'll be funny Pretty girl who is graduating to pretty WOMAN status soon!! SnowflakePaw is the worst creature and I love her for that < 3 (That funky little homie in the corner is GalePaw, who belongs to the lovely @systemraboot!

For @solsticewcrp

:) reblogging to look at later!

Do you have a recs for fics based on the Apprentice arc?

Ooohohoho yesss, you've come to the right person. I have quite a lot of fics to rec (ive been obsessively consuming and hyperfixating like mad on the apprentice arc in particular):

(Also i consider haunted to be part of the overall apprentice arc so there are a few fics based on and set after that episode)

First you can look at the tag "dick grayson as slade wilson's apprentice" on ao3 and there are hundreds of fics, with every dynamic and characters you could want, these are just my favorites ive read (put very very vaguely in an order going down from my most favorites):

Never Alone

My favorite, its a masterpiece, its amazing! After haunted robin continues to have hallucinations and its a finished longfic that gives a really good look into robin's mental illness and how he is still only a human. I made a whole post about this fic and how its perfect in every way, i have not binged a longfic this long in forever but i did this one in a single reading session because i was completely and utterly gripped

More coherent and detailed but completely spoiler free rambles about what makes this fic so good here i cannot stress enough how this is a must read if you like the arc. I like, really really want you to read this one

The voice and gears of sunset

Oneshot set right after robin is rescued from slade in the apprentice arc. It hits so hard and hurts. Robin's recovery and him trying to connect again with the titans after what he had gone through, the titans being there to help every step of the way. The ending melts my heart

Emotional motion sickness

Oneshot set many years later when the batfam is fully formed and robin is nightwing. A good fic with dick and damian's brotherly relationship and discovering new ways to cope. There is an encounter with slade and that scene fills me with so much undescribable emotion

The fight and the war

Oneshot with the batfam. After an encounter with slade, dick is interogated with his family about the way he responded to slade's commands in the battle and how it could have gotten him killed. Dick is forced to admit what happened back when he was with the titans in the apprentice arc. Very good protective batsiblings in a different way to the other fics

Bedeviled

Oneshot set right after haunted. The spores have a lingering effect and robin presses an emergency distress signal to batman who is there for him

To pick at a scab

Years later with the batfam dick comes to the batcave and his younger brothers have some questions about a sound recording from his time with slade. Dick is thrown into a vivid flashback and the batfam break him out of it and help him talk through it. Oneshot

Just the same

Robin deals with stockholm syndrome and cant help but compare how similar or even better slade is than batman. The titans are there to help him figure things out. Oneshot.

Reforming Nightwing

Unfinished longfic. The titans never find iut about the nanobots and dick is forced to be slade's apprentice for 9 years. After Slade is killed and dick is able to excape, he goes to bludhaven where he picks up a new civillian name and the new identity nightwing. Meanwhile tim and steph want to figure out who this new "nightwing" and what his connection is to the villian "renegade"

Do you think batman will give me partial custody?

Oneshot. After the apprentice arc, robin returns to gotham. Unable to figure out how he feels about the situation he goes to his parents' graves where he encounters harely who helps him start a conversation with him about the abuse they both faced

The apprentice

Unfinished longfic where the titans dont discover the nanobots and robin has to continue being slade's apprentice. He spends his time figuring out how to get a message to the titans or to batman or to anyone without slade knowing

Next to my robin and some matchsticks

Oneshot set after apprentice part 2 where the titans patch up robin's wounds and talk about some scars he has, some from his time before the titans and some from slade

Here comes dat vamp

*slams the table* Just give this boy slavic accent so I can die in peace !!!

So,yeah,it's a piece for an art challenge in Arcana Amino. Tbh,I kinda like it and a bonus with my apprentice,dressed up as a vampire hunter.

Goat man,take me by the hand

First things first, shout out to this amazing and marvelous fic writer === > http://aminoapps.com/p/h7lvix that ,by my request,wrote an amazing one-shot about Lucio and Saechka http://aminoapps.com/p/t1zrl3

The basic witch is here to save y'all✨

My Arcana Amino === > http://aminoapps.com/p/mwq265

Sooooo....There's some art I've spent an 1,5 hours of my life. It based on the moment in Julian's route in the Hanged Man realm(ik,that the colors palette was different. Let's pretend that nobody's know this*winky face*)

And ma dudeees~ I'm still looking for an rp partner to play as Saechka. RP call post here === > http://aminoapps.com/p/uo2432

The good old days

Gimme a sec and I'll upload something big. But rn,here the pre-Lucio's death Saechka with Volta.