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Pied Piper - Blog Posts
I did the million different people trend on tt a while back and it blew up so I’ll post it here too I guess
Fics in order:
Viridian: The Green Guide
Deku? I think he’s some pro…
Mastermind: Strategist For Hire
Pied Piper
Subject 7-1-5
Yesterday Upon The Stair
Multilante
Shadows: The Horror Movie Heroes
Cheat Code: Support Strategist
Naomasa whenever Midoriya:
This was a prompt I got from a friend (Hi Rook :)
mY cAbBaGes!
A Spider-man inspired series of sketches on Blackholeca’s Pied Piper :)
a modern day Pied Piper for my narrative illustration class
ListEn y’all, my best friend got me into this ship so I blame @piedpipersupremacy for this.
WE ARE SLEEPING ON HARTLEY x SNART
Hartley is canonically Gay and Snart is canonically Bi.
In this house, we live laugh love Hartley, but if y’all know his character from like the 90s to now, him dating a cop really just doesn’t make sense?? Like we KNOW he supports ACAB and defund the police campaigns. This mans is a socialist justice protester and he’s not afraid to get his hands dirty to fight for civil rights. HE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATING A POLITICAL CAMPAIGNER BECAUSE OF HIS FUCKED POLICIES I MEAN COME ON!!
He’s as morally grey as they come, and he doesn’t really play into the good/bad stereotypes. He picks whatever side will help his goals meet, whatever the cost. Even at risk of his own sanity in some cases. His best friends are Wally West, Linda West, and James Jesse. Even though his bestie is a Flash, he STILL joined the rogues and to this day he uses his powers and technology to help whatever cause he deems worthy of helping.
He sends his rats out to find missing persons. He steals money from corporations stealing the livelihood of lower class working people. He advocates for homeless, LGBTQ+, POC, pro choice, renewable energy, etc etc. He is a good person that sometimes does bad things for good reasons.
So yeah, him and David? Not a great match.
ON THE OTHER HAND!!
Leonard freaking Snart. Where to begin with this. Leader of the rogues and devout older brother. His little sister comes first, always, Just like Hartley’s little sister does for him.
Even though he starts a whole gang just to send a huge middle finger to the justice system that failed him time and time again, he sets up these rules that all of the rogues must follow or there will be severe punishment.
No killing supers or flashes. No killing women or children (generally all civilians are off limits). Don’t betray your fellow rogue.
He hand picked not only a highly skilled team of super criminals, but he also created a family.
Snart’s best friend, Mick Rory, for all the arsonist tendencies and gruff exterior he exudes, still has a soft touch. Later on in the comics, he’s even seen turning a new leaf and going on the good side, helping Hartley and James keep their friends from making a huge ass mistake. If that doesn’t tell you their judge of character, I don’t know what will.
Not only that, but Snart spends holidays DELIVERING PRESENTS TO ORPHANAGES DRESSED AS SANTA! Tell me he’s “cold hearted” after that. You can’t.
He truly does care for his community, and by having the most well respected and feared gang, he simultaneously keeps the streets clean of normal gang activity you might see because they claimed most of the terf on Central City and no one wants to mess with the crazy super powered team.
Sometimes it feels like they rob someplace just for the kick of it, or to keep up appearances. They don’t really need any more money, they’ve stolen A LOT of it and we don’t necessarily see em use it much besides when Hartley is donating it anonymously to charity.
Despite Hartley’s “betrayal” to the rogues, Snart and him still seem relatively friendly with each other. Here is a panel where Hartley is helping Wally clean up some of the chaos in the city the Rogues and instigating, and Snart even calls him “old friend” despite him working with the supposed enemy.
And, despite Hartley leaving his rogue legacy behind and he and James leave for good, there are moments where Hartley shows a bit of regret for leaving them like that and implies that he even misses them.
Snart sought out Piper because he was the first person to break out of Iron Heights, unaided. The original escapee. Both of them are wicked smart and clever, use dry humour and sarcasm, create their own weapons and keep their secrets close to their chest with hearts of bleeding gold. They do what’s right by their own accounts, even if they have to do something wrong to make ends meet.
Or having his parents outright disowning him for his sexuality
one thing i do crave is a gay little comic with hartley going to tim and jon, being like “your coming out could always be worse, i told wally i was gay and he ran down a building,” while wally runs in like “that was years ago and i apologised,” this is my one request, dc
outside of you finally confirming connor hawke is gay
Rant ahead: Bart and the Rogues Gallery.
Why is it that every speedster has some sort of relationship with the rogues except for the one that it actually would make sense if he had one. Are you seriously telling me Bart Henry Allen-Thawne II has NO correlation to them at ALL, but Wally and Barry do???
I get Barry ‘believes’ in them or whatever, but that doesn’t mean they’re automatic buddies. He has major trust issues and doesn’t even like turning his back around them!
And Wally? Wally has this weird thing against villains, no matter how small the crime. I mean, he broke up a friendship that he had for YEARS with Hartley Rathaway because Pied Piper went off book for a mission that was for A GOOD CAUSE.
Bart Allen’s half brother Owen is in the rogues. His twin clone is in the rogues. Digger knew his mother, and I’m sure he’d want to know more about her. He’s an outcasted flashfam member that needs a home because every family he’s been put into disappeared or died. First Max and then Jay, then the Titans disbanded. He doesn’t belong to any timeline, never met his father, abandoned by his mother so he wouldn’t be kidnapped by science cops, sent by his own evil Grandpa! That sounds like just about any other rogue sob story. And yet he has no connection to them. AT ALL. Which is just… Mind boggling!
And the one issue he gets with them, the rogues KILL him?? Which is totally out of character for them because one of their main rules is NO KILLING FLASHES. With time and character development, I’m sure Thad will come around and Bart will give him a chance, no matter how skeptical he is, because it’s what Max wanted for them and that was Bart’s goddamn dad, so help me! And Bart really doesn’t mind the whole villain thing either; he’s held casual conversation with the JOKER. Are you kidding me??
Do y’all understand how upsetting this is, or am I the only one???
Okay, so lemme point something out.
Bart Allen: Sassy, Sarcastic, smug little shit, will roll his eyes a lot. Neurodivergent, has a prosthetic, and a literal genius. Quiet and reserved while also being a social butterfly, hard headed and will fight for his beliefs.
Hartley Rathaway: Sassy, Sarcastic, smug little shit, scoffs at the idiocy. Him and his sister on the spectrum and he has his hearing aids. A certified genius and advocate for homeless, metas, and LGBT+. Quiet and reserved, a public figure, and strong willed.
And you’re telling me. These two. Have had ONE. INTERACTION. Where Bart DIES IN THE END. W H A T. DC YOU LITERALLY GAVE YOURSELF ONE OF THE BEST DUO’S ACCIDENTALLY AND YOU DONT EVEN— WHAT ARE YOU DOING? TELL ME HARTLEY WOULDN’T ADOPT BART IN A HEARTBEAT. DO IT, YOU CAN’T.
Snart: You know, that stuff will kill you one day.
Hartley, drinking an entire bottle of Wine: Exactly.
Owen, smoking a cigarette: We’re trying to speed this up.
Bart, eating raw cookie dough and non-stop junk food: *nodding quickly*
HAPPY HARTLEY DAY
June 22, Hartley Rathaway's Birthday
I have posted this performance more then I should
Jungkook vs mic stand in Pied Piper will forever haunt me
This video of JK singing pied piper holds so much power i cant believe-