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I am incapable of finishing anything ever so have a sneak peek of this wip (last couple of scenes are all sketches)

I said this in another post, but it bears repeating:

Neil is to crime what Andrew is to Exy. Supernaturally talented and unstoppable if he wanted, but due to his general lack of interest nerfs himself.

Everyone should be grateful Neil finds crime boring and uninteresting compared to Exy cause he would have been the Kevin Day of crime, surpassing his father and mother. Nora confirmed in the EC that if the Moriyamas had messed with Andrew, Neil would have carefully and competently dismantled their empire and watched all of them burn. He was practically lab created and stress tested his whole life to fight, outlive, and outsmart criminal masterminds.

My headcannon is Ichirou is secretly relieved that Nathaniel just wants to play stick ball.

overheard foxes pt. 1/?

neil, angrily: “KATELYN IS WAY OUT OF YOUR FUCKING LEAGUE”

aaron, just as angrily: “AND WHAT ABOUT IT????”

***

nicky, horrified: “he’s lost it”

andrew, scooping pudding with oreos like chips and dip: “i never had it to begin with, nicholas” *munch munch*

***

kevin, ranting to his bestie: “and THEN he called me NARCISSTIC as if he wasn’t WRONG and i was so obviously RIGHT because i ALWAYS AM-” 

matt, the bestie: “…hm”

***

dan: “neil we’re staging an intervention” 

neil, holding a big gulp of iced coffee and full-body vibrating: “for what” 

***

allison, pointing at samples in the nail salon: “so which shade do you like more?” 

renee, lovingly: “they’re not the same shade?” 

***

aaron, reacting to renison and matt and dan both coming out as bi: “so there really are only 2 straight people here” 

kevin, also bi and feeling inspired: “yeah so about that-” 

***

dan, taking a personality quiz for neil: “name one thing you’re good at” 

andrew: “trouble.” 

***

nicky, looking at the opposing team: “i think he looks nice” 

allison: “i think he looks punchable” 

dan: “there are two kinds of people-” 

matt: “and i’m both!” 

It’s important that you all know that vampires can in-fact be filmed. Cameras are not mirrors and vampires have reflections in modern mirrors anyway.

Figuring out if that one person is a vampire or just goth is harder than that.

Hello skinny tgirl. Lately you've been complaining that your tits aren't growing. In front of you is a plate of food.

I've seen a lot of fics disappear from my bookmarks, some 10+ years old, because they were added to an unrevealed collection. It makes me wonder if people realize what your fic being added to a collection actually means and if the authors approved it automatically without realizing what would happen.

If someone adds your fic to their collection, they can hide it! They can mark the collection as unrevealed and your fic will be unreadable to anyone other than them! If you're writing works for a surprise event, like a Secret Santa, this is really nice.

But if you're just writing and someone adds your fic to a collection for their own personal use and marks it as unrevealed, that. . . really sucks.

I bookmarked this fic in 2017, almost 5 years ago. Knowing me, the fic itself was probably at least a couple years old at the time I bookmarked it.

This is a 5+ year old fic that is completely inaccessible now because it was added to a collection that, as far as I can tell, is literally just for the collection owner's own reference. There's almost 30 fics in the collection, all of them unrevealed.

Please don't blindly accept collection requests and if your works ARE in a collection, make sure that they aren't being hidden without your knowledge or consent.

First day of Ectoberhaunt 2024 👻 🎃

I don’t have a drawing for today’s prompt, but I did design the sidebar for the @ectoberhaunt blog! Good to be back for this role this year.

Excited to see everyone’s creations for this year 👀

[ID in alt text]

"you're the writer, you control how the story goes" no not really. i wrote the first sentence and then my characters said "WE WILL TAKE IT FROM HERE" and promptly swerved into an electrical fence.

there’s no shame in admitting that none of us have any concept of how big a whale is

ECTOBER HAUNT DAY1: PAST PRESENT FUTURE

Summoning the Boy King

Darkseid was rampaging through Metropolis, Superman was injured, and the Justice League was desperate. As the League hid between fallen skyscrapers, John Constantine prepared a last-ditch effort to save the Earth.

The Hellblazer drew an intricate sigil on the ground; its circular design stretching over six feet in diameter. Most of the symbols within were space-related, while the others were themed to royalty. Batman, one of the few heroes in-the-know, grunted.

"Are you sure this king ghost can help?"

Constantine sighed and pinched his nose.

"He's the High King of the Infinite Realms, Bats, an' he's bloody powerful. He'll stop Darkseid, alright, but what he does afterward is anyone's guess. Believe me, I wouldn't be doin' this if we had a choice."

Batman sighed and glanced at the smoke-filled horizon.

"Alright, get on with it, then. We're running out of time."

Constantine nodded and placed a single offering in the center of the sigil: a squishmallow of Disney's iconic blue alien, Stitch.

"I beg your finest pardon," Batman sputtered, "What on Earth is that?"

Constantine sighed again as he took his position at the edge of the sigil.

"Mate, the book was very specific. Unlike his predecessor, the new king requires a single offering of space or alien theme that is suitable for children. It's bloody strange, but beggars can't be choosers."

Batman just shook his head and looked on. Constantine raised his hands and started the summoning chant. An eerie, green glow spread across the sigil, and light fog gathered above it. Little white orbs floated up from the ground and spiraled together, forming the slowly spinning visage of a spiral galaxy.

"Incredible..." Zatanna gasped, "This summoning is on a level all its own. This king of yours is on the level of Gods."

Finally, something began to form over the small galaxy. Batman's expression quickly softened, much to the surprise of his teammates. It was mere seconds before they understood, as a black blob full of white stars formed into the shape of a boy. The blob had spiky 'bangs' if you could call them that and eerie, glowing green eyes.

The squishmallow floated into the boy's arms and he squeezed it excitedly. At the same time, he took on a far more human form, with pale skin and snowy white hair. His eyes had whites now but still glowed green. He was dressed in black and white, royal attire with green accents, a black crown floating in a green aurora, and a black ring with a green stone. A black cape flowed down his back, its underside looking as if it were cut from a clear night sky.

"Awesome offering, dude! What can I do for ya?"

The voice was a reedy tenor in the throes of puberty, and its owner was more than a little geeky. The boy's smile was infectious, or it would have been were it not for the specific circumstance.

"How old are you?" Batman asked, his tone soft, "We weren't expecting a child."

The boy waved him off like it was nothing.

"No one ever does. And, um... technically I'm fifteen. I know, I don't look it."

Constantine cut in, clearly out of patience.

"Look, this monster Darkseid is destroying our world. We need you to stop him."

The boy turned in the air and took in the destruction around him. Somehow, he seemed to understand the situation immediately.

"Okay, but I gotta get permission first. This'll take a lot of power." He paused, taking a breath, and then yelled in a strange language. "Mom!"

Constantine paled and the other heroes shrank back as a green portal tore into existence. A young woman, barely an adult herself, floated out. She had waist-length blue hair and the same glowing, green eyes. She wore a royal outfit in white and maroon, complete with a glittering, silver tiara studded with rubies.

"What's the matter, Danny? Are you okay?"

Danny nodded.

"Mhmm! These guys need me to take out this Darkseid guy, though. Can I use my full power?"

Constantine snuck a drink from his flask. He did not sign up to deal with the fucking Queen Mother of the Infinite Realms, nor had he known she existed. God, he needed a smoke...

The Queen Mother smiled softly and pressed a kiss to her son's forehead. She spoke whilst taking his new plush.

"Yes, Danny, you may. Let me hold onto this for you so it doesn't get dirty."

Danny nodded and turned away.

"Okay, thanks mom!"

The Queen Mother vanished through and with the portal she had created. Moments later, Danny shot off into the city, with the remaining able-bodied heroes hot on his trail. The young king reached Darkseid rather quickly, engaging him while the Leaguers looked on from cover. Darkseid was foolishly amused.

"A child dares oppose me? Flee, whelp."

Batman tensed as Darkseid unleashed his Omega Effect. Two red beams shot from his eyes, and yet the young king floated firm. Two eerie, green beams shot from his own eyes and, to the shock of everyone, overpowered his foe's. Darkseid shattered into many tiny pieces which then vanished into thin air.

"Man, he really wasn't smart!" Danny grinned, "Who fires a death beam at the king of the dead?"

He received no response, as the heroes were too stunned to speak. Smiling, he saluted the group before tearing open another portal.

"Oh well; villain gone, carry on. Later guys!"

Batman glared at Constantine, but the Brit had already absconded. Heaving a sigh, he resigned himself to this new reality. Darkseid was gone, but there was an incredible new power to worry about.

(Note: My only source of information is DP canon, DP fanon, and the Justice League cartoons from the early '00s. I apologize for any inaccuracies with Batman's or Constantine's behavior.)

WAIT

"with unexpected ferocity"

"Cat winced but kept her eyes on Jean"

I feel like I've overlooked this passage every time I see it. Did Jeremy's sibling kill themselves? Did they play exy? Did they die at the banquet?

Cat Winced BUT kept her eyes on Jean. She reacted directly to what Jeremy said. She. KNOWS WHAT IS UP.

When someone kills themselves, it has to be assumed a homicide as protocol (ask me how I know 😀) so family members or those in the immediate vicinity will be interviewed by police and any items at the scene that should be tested for fingerprints and stuff will be. That could be how Jeremy knows the police.

Suicides are so taboo still. For a rich politically affiliated macho family they'd be even more taboo, and in 2007? Christ no wonder he doesn't talk about it.

And of COURSE his mother would send him to therapy after THAT. Did he find the body of his sibling? Was he supposed to be with them but went to an exy banquet instead?

AND. Suicides totally break up families!! Christ, my family hasn't been the same for seven years. I'm basically estranged from my older brother because we were so busy trying to survive our trauma we stopped asking about each other's lives.

I'm, like, KINDA SOLD ON THIS THEORY RN.

Remind me later.

Remind me later.

So during a wayne gala, there was a rouge attack shocker. It was by scarecrow he was planning to flood the ballroom with his gas

Unfortunately his bomb was shoddily put together and one of the cannisters holding the gas fell and landed in the hands of one danny fenton there with his godfather

Now unfortunately all anyone could do was watch as this gas can suddenly spayed gas in this young mans face who started looking panicked and backing up before spotting vlad and stopping

Suddenly this kid who seemed like he was seconds from running is now fucking growing and preparing to pounce on vlad???

And vlad just looks resigned as if he figured this would happen

the internet is an inherently haunted place if you think about it like. it's so weird to see long abandoned discussion boards stuck in a snapshot of the past, old conversations between kids from over a decade ago who have now grown into their own lives, obituaries taking the form of half finished profiles. and the silence that fills the gaps between. there's a constant ghostly record of each generation's thoughts, fads, their sense of humour. back when the future was at their fingertips. even stranger, people you used to know exist openly in that space, and they watch you watching them. if you want, deceased musicians can play through your headphones. there's always an underlying sense of reminiscing and time escaping our ever shortening attention spans. what a fuckin graveyard

Vtk Class Differences

AKA What the Fuck is a Summoner and How are they Different from a Mage

So I can never for the life of me remember what the difference is between a Summoner and a Mage, and the little blurbs about them were uh…

Not Helpful.

So, I did a lot of worldbuilding regarding how these two are different, and that spilled over to the other classes! I was thinking specifically about the invisible skills that must underpin a class, and by invisible skills, I mean the things that ensure a Mage with a Machine Attribute is still discernibly different from an Engineer [Attribute Undefined].

So! To start!

We all know that the different classes refer to how they fight. A Striker is a hand-to-hand specialist. An Archer uses a bow and arrows. Gunners use guns. Pretty basic, right?

Later on, it’s brought up that there are mage hybrid classes.

These are usually marked down as the other class, not as mage classes. Based on the descriptions, I would bet that basic-Strikers/Knights/etc. all have Physical attributes, and it’s the addition of a fancier attribute, like Fire or Ice, that gets them classed as a Mage hybrid.

Much like their class’s signature fighting style (hand-to-hand, archery, etc.), they mostly seem to use their attributes in the same way. Cassian, a Striker, uses hand gestures and punches to trigger his attribute. Siwoo Kang, an Ice-attribute Gunner, generates icicles wherever her bullets land.

However, does that make Mage classes (by which I mean Mages, Summoners, Generators, and to a lesser extent Supporters) the leftover classes? You don’t fit into XYZ category, so we just slap a Mage designation on you?

(For quick clarity’s sake, when I use the term “Mage” I mean an actual Mage. When I use the term “Mage class” I mean one of the long-range classes that don’t appear to need a weapon to channel their Attribute through—in other words, it’s a catch-all term for Mages, Summoners, Generators, and Supporters.)

No, I think that there are reasons why hybrids always count as the non-Mage class, and I have decided that it’s due to an invisible class skill inherent to the Mage classes called Continuous Cast.

If you’ve read my previous VtK meta, the name should sound familiar, but as its name suggests, it allows them to use their Attribute while consuming far less mana than their non-Mage counterparts.

However! Not all Mage classes are created equal, and there are several different variants of it floating around, all affecting the “automatic off switch” for the Attribute. There are even differences between what a Mage Psyker has and a Mage Villain!

All Psyker Mage classes have the same copy of the skill. I’ve termed it Continuous Cast: Voluntary. CC:Voluntary requires the Psyker to voluntarily decide to dismiss it.

If, for example, Lyra creates a giant icicle, it will stay there, potentially for months on end without changing, until she decides to dismiss it. Of course, since Continuous Cast severely reduces the amount of mana it takes to maintain something, Lyra can keep the icicle there long past the point where Siwoo would have collapsed from mana depletion trying to keep her bullet icicles in place.

In contrast, the Villain copies of Continuous Cast change what happens to a mana construct when the Villain in question drops out of Villain form.

Villain Mages and Supporters have Continuous Cast: Dispersion. CC:Dispersion means that any use of their attribute automatically vanishes when they drop out of Villain form. If they conjure up a rose garden, the roses vanish when they return to civilian form.

Villain Summoners and Generators share the skill Continuous Cast: Hibernation. CC:Hibernation means that whatever they create (Toymaker’s boxes, Crows… something) will remain existent even after they leave Villain form, but it will become inert and useless. If, for example, Uchan’s Supporter friend hadn’t been there, and they had managed to get Toymaker with suppressants and/or tranquilizers, thereby forcing him out of Villain form, the gift boxes would have been rendered useless, the people would have woken up, and they could be safely removed from the victim’s heads and destroyed.

Villain Engineers and Enchanters (the Engineer class’ near-extinct-in-modern-day, pre-Industrial-Revolution counterpart) have Continuous Cast: Perpetual Motion. CC:Perpetual Motion means that as long as something is constructed while the Villain is in Villain form, it will continue to work even when they are out of Villain form. So Driver’s goggles—assuming they’re something he handmade and not something he summoned up as part of his Villain form—could still be worn in civilian form. Which is incidentally why people avoid areas that Enchanters set up strongholds in—it can take years, even decades, for the weave of enchantments they set up to vanish and make the place safe for travel.

(One of my favorite parts of my Gadam Gundams AU is that Driver never saw the point in making a Villain form if he couldn’t turn it into a city-sized mecha, and since A) drifting with Cassian had taught him how to throw a punch and B) per ch. 2 of VtK civilian-form Villains still hit much harder than the average civilian, he just… took over Gadam, never bothered to actually enter Villain form for anything other than Inventing Stuff, and spent most of his time in-Vilzone wearing the oil-stained actual clothes he bought from an actual store that he reserved solely for workshop time. Plus a set of steam-punk-looking gauntlets that he invented in Villain form and which therefore keep working even when he’s outside it.

Because he never actually entered Villain form in front of anybody not named Cassian, Lampas and the world at large miss-classify him as a Physical-attribute Striker.

So when he gets the opportunity to face down with Don King and gets enough forewarning to know that he’s coming through Lens Girl’s portal, he blips into Villain form—conveniently currently styled to look identical to his current outfit—and uses his Machine attribute to mentally order his cannons to fire.

It takes half a second for them to warm up to fire, but they’re still inside whatever hammer space non-Summoned weapons go to [ex: wherever Driver was storing those cannons during the storming of the North Hill Vilzone before he revealed them alongside his true rank] so he takes advantage of the delay to summon them—

—and Don King steps through the portal, has half a second to read the violet text around Driver that says Summon Weapon, and then he and Lens Girl get headshotted before they even have time to process that Summon Weapon is not a skill that Strikers can use and a lot of someones miscalculated somewhere along the way.

Driver de-Summons the cannons a split second later, so Barracuda and the onlookers don’t even get a good look at whatever the hell it was that just blew a gaping hole through Don King’s head and torso.)

Anyway. I digress.

Machine attributes! I thought a lot about these. We have exactly two instances of them in canon, and of those is a two-panel character working for Madpin as a trapper. The other is, well, Driver.

So what does a Machine attribute do? Something to do with Machines, clearly, but it’s got to do something other than allow them to build stuff. That’s an Engineer thing and Oil Cook Billy is a Chaser.

Let me first talk about the iconic invisible skill of Engineers—the one that defines them as a class: Disassembly. It allows them to telekinetically assemble and disassemble any man-made object. From chairs to staircases, from industrial equipment to entire castles made of stone: if Mother Nature did not produce it in exactly that form, they can disassemble it. It doesn’t matter what material it’s made out of, or how long it’s been around.

The Machine attribute then makes it easier to work with metal. To synch with machines over natural materials (which is itself one of the key differences between in and the Ore attribute). If being an Engineer is what makes Driver a technopath, then it’s the Machine attribute that lets him take over the cyber aspects of something, like when he hacked all the cameras at North Hill Vilzone.

To illustrate: if there was a bomb with a timer strapped to it, someone with a Machine attribute could reprogram the timer to give them more time, but they would be at just as much of a loss as to stop the bomb from actually exploding as anybody else. They have no actual way of stopping the wick from being lit, or for stopping chemicals with an explosive reaction to each other from being exposed to each other.

However, while an Engineer (attribute: anything except Machine) can’t reprogram the timer to give them more time, they can telekinetically disassemble the bomb so that the match never nears the wick, the red wires unplug themselves, and the explosive chemicals never come in contact.

(Side note: Driver from my Isekai Shoujou AU used Disassembly near exclusively. He came from a world that didn’t have magic or Psykers or Villains or anything; he barely even touched his magic and regarded it with mild suspicion all his second life. At the most, since he was terrified of getting into carriages—hello, inciting incident for reincarnation!—he’d disassemble the carriage every time someone tried to get him inside it. Just instant collapse, no other skills necessary.

Not helping the case was that he was reincarnated into Age of Myth-era canon, so right around when Villain forms were just beginning to manifest but before anybody really had a concept of there being two kinds of Awakened, and definitely before the rest of the world at large got to know the Engineer class existed.

In some versions of the AU, he and Cassian get reincarnated after they had a long happy life together, and Driver cements his position as Vilzone boss by disassembling entire city blocks and using the debris field as ammo by “reassembling it” elsewhere. Nobody in their right mind wanted to fight him in an urban environment! Incidentally, this also means that Lampas only knows what class he is in this ‘verse… nobody ever sees him build stuff outside of his Vilzone, so his attribute is just a blank field in their records.

Cassian in this version, on the other hand, gets recruited to Lampas at age 12, and it takes a whopping ten years to classify him properly. An entire lifetime of swordplay expertise and a specialty in fine temperature control—itself an extension of his desire to make sure his food was always the right temperature—means that at first he’s miss-classed as a particularly underpowered Knight.

Then, three years into his career, he uses his temperature control to heat up the air directly around him, allowing the laws of thermodynamics to do their thing and transfer the heat to the cooler parts of the surrounding battlefield even as he pumped out more—effectively turning the place into a sauna and weaponizing heat exhaustion and a Striker’s innate heat resistance (more on this in a minute!) to win by attrition without ever having to land a blow, and he gets reclassed… to a Mage.

Apparently long-range tactics are uncommon in Strikers, and it’s not until he and Driver team up to kill Moran (Disassembling city blocks both to stop his advance and to provide Cassian with a wealth of heat-conductive material to warm until a glancing touch against the concrete cauterizes and the air literally baked Morgan’s lungs with each inhale.)

Still, credit where credit was due—Moran fought back anyway, dying as he was, and Cassian used the only skill he had that produced an open flame: Cremation. Which did exactly as its name suggested.

This is what got him finally reclassed as a Striker.)

Also, a side note since I’m thinking about it: people in-universe can’t see the little blurbs that we the audience see, labeling what class and attribute they are. They certainly don’t have a handy-dandy Moros there to provide an in-depth profile of any given person. What they do have to help classify people is skill text—the giant Studio Trigger-esque subtitles that pop up whenever someone uses a skill.

However, it doesn’t make sense in-universe for it to always appear as one language (English for us English translation readers) when someone like Driver or Crow wouldn’t be using English often.

So, the skill text always shows up in whatever language the person was writing in most often when the skill was acquired. So, if someone spoke English every day but wrote in Korean, then when they get skill A, the text would show up in Korean. Fast forward three years though, and now they’re speaking and writing in English all the time, and they acquire skill B. Skill A’s text is still in Korean, but B is now in English.

Which means that if you were an illiterate peasant way back in the day, since you couldn’t write, your skills never produced any text at all. They were all considered invisible.

This definitely creates a lot of confusion when scouring historical records. Different people would describe the same skill with different labels, so trying to discern what skills any given person had is like pulling teeth.

Anyway, let’s go back to the invisible class skills inherent to a class. We’ve already discussed the classes that do possess Continuous Cast, now let’s talk about other skills inherent to multiple classes!

And to talk about that, let’s talk about what I like to call the Range v Resistance principle!

Range v. Resistance measures how far away from your body you summon your attribute against how much resistance you have to your attribute. The further away from your body your class summons your attribute, the less resistance you have to your attribute.

So, I broke down all of the classes into three rough groups based on how they summon their attribute.

The Mage classes are, as stated before, the long-range classes that don’t require a weapon to serve as vessel for their attribute.

Then there’s the Tool classes, which have every class that requires some kind of tool to channel their Attribute through. This includes Knights, Archers, Gunners, Engineers, and Enchanters.

Then there’s the Close classes, which use their attribute either directly on their skin or in very close contact. This includes Strikers and Chasers for certain, and I have tentatively placed Assassins in this group as well, since their description makes more note of their stealth capabilities than any particular weapon requirements.

I’m going to use fire as an example, because it’s easiest. When an Awakened summons fire, regardless of their class, they do so by superheating the air around them until it reaches the ignition point of oxygen, at which it point it burns. Boom, fire.

So, with the Close classes, when they do this, they are producing super hot air right on their skin. Obviously this would burn them, and Strikers would definitely burn themselves, carrying around a fistful of flame like that.

So, an invisible skill shared by all three classes is Fireproof, which renders them entirely fireproof. They also get Heat Resistance which makes them heat resistant up until the ignition point of oxygen. It’s only after that point that they start to feel hot. Which is why Fire Attribute Strikers, Chasers, etc. can often be seen working out outside even at noon on a hot summer day—the heat isn’t as noticeable to them. They can notice and be affected by lower-than-the-ignition-point-of-oxygen-but-still-high temperatures, but they have to stuck in them for a long period of time.

Heat stroke and heat exhaustion do not come easily to them.

(Incidentally, this is what I mean by Isekai Shoujou Cassian weaponized heat stroke to become an area-of-effect Striker.

A basic how-to-turn-your-attribute-off-and-on-again control exercise for Fire attributes involves heating the air up until it’s not quite at ignition but definitely hot enough to produce a heat shimmer.

Cassian is just very good at sitting on that border, and since he reacts slower to heat, and often chases people around his battlefield with an increasingly hot piece of metal in his hand, they attribute the sweatiness and growing lethargy to exhaustion brought on by a prolonged fight, rather than the heat. So they don’t notice the symptoms in time to stop.

Since it’s technically a control exercise and not an actual skill, Cassian does not produce skill text for it, which makes him very deadly—but he has acquired, entirely by accident, several passive skills that make him much more heat tolerant and burn resistant than the average Striker.)

Now, Tool classes should never actually come in contact with their own flame. It should always be at the other end of their weapon. Unfortunately, for most of human history—and thus, for most of their class’s evolutionary period—humans have been using weapons made partially by wood, either for practice or for real. And wood burns.

So, Tool classes get Fire Resistance, as opposed to Fireproof, which only makes them more resistant to fire than the average person rather than completely immune. To compensate, they get Heatproof instead. After all, heat travels to cooler areas until everything is one uniform temperature, and most weapons are made of materials that conduct heat very well. Not burning yourself holding your own weapon is important!

To further illustrate the difference between a Fire attributed Knight and Striker, consider this example: there is a gas stove and one burner is lit. On the burner is a metal pot, full of boiling water.

The Striker could touch the fire without being harmed, because they’re fireproof entirely, but because they’re only heat resistant, both brushing up against the hot pot and touching the boiling water would burn them.

Meanwhile, the Knight could stick their arm in the boiling water and take the pot off the stovetop barehanded without getting hurt, because they’re heatproof, but because they’re only fire resistant, outright touching the flame would burn them.

Tool classes also get a very important skill called Safe Channel, which allows them to channel their attribute through their weapon without destroying it in the process. Otherwise, how would you set that arrow tip on fire without also setting the wooden shaft on fire?

(Isekai Shoujou Cassian uses a sword in conjunction with his temperature control because he lacks Safe Channel. The most major weakness of his fighting style is that Fire Attribute Close classes and Tool classes are more resistant to heat, they don’t fall as easily to heat exhaustion.

However, just because his class can’t safely channel their attribute through their weapons doesn’t mean that they can’t channel them—they’ll just damage them. Technically, Cassian is setting fire to something he is making direct contact with, which is what Strikers do; that that something just happens to be a sharp pointy chunk of metal he intends to stab someone with is wholly irrelevant. All he needs to worry about is the fact that the heat will eventually warp his sword and he’ll have to get a new one far sooner than any actual Knight would.

Anyway, Tool classes are not immune to being stabbed, let alone being stabbed with fire, so that’s one major flaw compensated for.

As for Close combat classes? Since the heat produced actually affects his weapon, he can turn it into one big chunk of hot metal that will inflict contact burn damage on them—plus, the asphalt and metal cars/traffic lights/trash cans in the area will also absorb a lot of heat and make the entire battlefield not only a sauna but a minefield of burns.)

It should be noted that Villains and Villains only can use Summon Weapon because it requires them to generate a weapon out of their mana supply—essentially the same trick that allows them to generate their Villain form. The exception to this process is the Engineer class, which instead produce a hammer space that their machines—which are not generated by Villain form—are stored in when not in use.

Villain Archers and Gunners also have a skill called Extend Manifestation, which allows them to extend the range from their bodies that their Villain form can, well, be sustained. Their ammo is generated by their Villain form, after all, and once it’s sufficiently far enough away from their body—where their mana is generated—the ammo will just disintegrate.

Psyker Archers and Gunners have no such recourse and have to actually have ammo made for them.

But I have digressed again!

In the case of the Mage classes, since they should never come in contact with their attribute while it’s in use, they have the least resistance to it. A Fire attribute Mage is neither Fireproof nor Heatproof, nor even Fire Resistant or Heat Resistant. What they gained in sheer range, they gave up in attribute resistance.

And that’s the Range v Resistance principle in a nutshell.

…which is coincidentally everything I have to say about this topic as of now. Unfortunately, I did not achieve my stated goal, and define a Summoner, so if anyone else has any theories, I will happily welcome them! I hope someone enjoyed reading this!

I just started rereading villain to kill (hopefully I won’t lose interest in it again) and I just remembered a weird thing I noticed. The villains or “children of night” feel like a metaphor for people with mental illnesses. Certain emotions trigger behaviors seen as ‘dangerous’ to most of society, often live in poorer neighborhoods, have to use expensive medications in order to deal with it, are often prosecuted more harshly…the list goes on. It might be a metaphor, or I’m just reading too hard into this.

man is braving the mcclain household

DPxDC Unhinged Feral Boyfriends

The whole Batfam is under the assumption that Damian is the feral child. The assassin, the wild one, the demon brat that bites and stabs. Jason usually takes the second place, what with guns, heads in the duffelbag, and being a crime lord.

But Tim? Come on, even Duke is more feral than him. Tim is a nerd, and he keeps to his own devices most of the time, and, sure, sometimes he is plenty unhinged. But he's okay. Seventh place on the unofficial List of Feral Bats.

He's got a boyfriend lately, have you heard? Tim hadn't brought him to the manor for dinner yet, but each and every Bat and Bird have already seen the guy - in person or through the surveillance cameras or background checks, doesn't matter. Either way, Daniel Fenton is quite literally a ray of sunshine.

They look very cute together.

That is, until one day, they witness Danny and Tim rip Joker's ribcage out of his chest.

Nothing could have prepared them for it. It was just another patrol, just another night of fighting crime, nothing out of the ordinary. Sure, Joker was on the loose, but so far, no one has tracked the Clown down or seen any of his goons.

But then, Red Robin's tracker went offline. The Bats started searching for him immediately - his last recorded location, his trackers, his route, everything. But when they managed to find him...

Well.

They didn't only find him in that warehouse.

They found Joker, choking on the ground and clawing at his own neck, like trying to force some air inside his lungs. Over him, Danny was squatting on the ground, his eyes thoughtful and not worried in the slightest, tapping on his chin. And, just a step behind him, Red Robin is holding a fucking ribcage in his hands, studying it with calm curiosity.

"Should we put it back now?" Tim asks, relaxed and easy, like they are speaking about whether they should or should not get another box of cereal in a store.

Danny shrugs, "I mean, if you want to. It's not like he's gonna die in the next ten or so minutes, you've got time."

And then, as Batman makes the slightest of noises, Danny's head snaps to him, and the boy smiles, cheerful and bright. Like the ray of sunshine he is.

"Hi, Bats!" Then he blinks and looks down to Joker, who is already frothing at the mouth, "Oh, don't worry about him, he won't die. Red's just putting a tracker in his manibrium."

"I figured it'd be easier to find him next time if he can't get the tracker out," Tim nods, unbothered, as he is tinkering with the ribcage in his hands before passing it back to Danny, "Okay, done. Put it back."

Danny takes the ribcage and presses it to Joker's chest. And, before they know it, the bones sink inside the man, like a hand in a bowl of sand.

Danny wipes his hands on his jeans and stands. Tim smiles at the Bats, none of whom know what to say and where to start.

The next day, Joker is back at Arkham with a tracker in his sternum, Danny is invited to dinner in the manor, and Tim takes the first place of the Feral List, with a note 'never leave unattended when Danny is nearby'.

When you are a classical musician and the public asks you to play Queen …

Know Your Bird-Related Auguries.

Original comic post.

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