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Britain’s warm mid-eighties temperatures dredge up old baggage.
I'm hearing a lot of things about how prologues are bad and that you should never put protagonist backstory in the prologue but that causes a problem for me. My character's hatred for the antagonist is explained in the prologue along with the urgency of their rivalry. What should I do?
Take that information and weave it into the story like you would with any backstory info. Unless it’s necessary to explain something that can’t be woven in (like an event that the protag knows nothing about), scrap your prologue.
As storytelling goes, which is more intriguing?
“My sister hates this kid in her class because he teases her best friend and also stole her Fruit Roll-Up, so today during recess she punched him.”
or
“My sister punched some kid at recess today.”
The first one tells the whole story in one go and allows for limited response. The second one leaves the listener thinking “Oh my god, why? Tell me more.”
Likewise, the rivalry and the urgency should be included within your story, not wasted in the prologue. The reader doesn’t even know your characters yet to care that they hate each other. If you saw two strangers in the street and someone told you “Oh yeah, they hate each other because of this and that…” you’d be thinking, “That sucks, but like, who are they and why should I care?”
That’s your readers when you try to tell the story before it starts.
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please kill this idea that just because a female character is not physically strong and does not physically fight that her very existence is, by default, a sexist portrayal of women in media.
the “damsel in distress” trope is only harmful when that aspect of the character is all there is to the character. if the writers give attention to her backstory, her feelings, her struggles, and her development, then she’s not a faceless prop just being used for male empowerment. she’s a person. a person who happens to not fight.
there’s nothing wrong with that. and to push this notion that this is somehow bad and wrong and that women should never need saving, even in war and crime fiction, is ludicrous. it swings the pendulum too far in the other direction and creates the problem of only showcasing women who are physically fit, or butch, or masculine.
people come in all shapes, sizes, temperaments, and ideologies. stop worrying about stupid tropes and focus that energy on questioning whether or not a character is actually well-written and cared for by the author instead.
Mad bombers, matchmaking, magic spells—what’s a butler to do?
Meet Bostwick von Dogsbody, a sardonic door-to-door magician, and his white rabbit, Emmaline, who just happens to be a cursed human princess. The two are traveling through the goblin-run continent of Ataxia in search of the legendary Domino of Nonpareil—a mask that allows the wearer to become anything he desires—in order to return Emmaline to normal. Their journey has finally led them to Styx Castle, where they meet Millicent, a human maid who wound up in Styx due to mysterious (and embarrassing) circumstances, and Delilah, a goblin queen with a taste for the chaotic.
But Bostwick’s theft of the Domino does not go unnoticed. To avoid a harsher punishment, he agrees to be Delilah’s butler for a hundred years. Before he can escape the queen’s clutches, he’ll have to face mad bombers, an all-bugbear police force, romantic schemes gone awry, and a mysterious goblin-turned-cat named Sebastian who also has designs on the Domino. And as if that wasn’t enough, he soon learns that Millicent is also a magician—and needs him to teach her!
Read more at rosecorcoranwrites.com
VIDEO FROM THE SURFACE OF A COMET
This is truly incredible.
Details:
Remember Rosetta? That comet-chasing European Space Agency (ESA) probe that deployed (and accidentally bounced) its lander Philae on the surface of Comet 67P? This GIF is made up of images Rosetta beamed back to Earth, which have been freely available online for a while. But it took Twitter user landru79 processing and assembling them into this short, looped clip to reveal the drama they contained.
If you’re European, in a couple of weeks you will be denied any and all access to fandom contents on Tumblr and everywhere else on the internet. Here’s why.
On June, 20th the JURI of European Parliament approved of the articles 11 and 13 of the new Copyright Law. These articles are also known as the “Link Tax” and the “Censorship Machines” articles.
Articles 13 in particular forces every internet platform to filter all the contents we upload online, ending once and for all the fandom culture. Which means you won’t be able to upload any type of fandom works like fan arts, fan fictions, gif sets from your favourite films and series, edits, because it’s all copyrighted material. And you won’t also be able to share, enjoy or download other’s contents, because the use of links will be completely restricted.
But not everything’s lost yet. There’s another round of voting scheduled for the early days of July.
What you can do now to save our internet, is to share these informations with all of your family members and friends, and to ask to your MEP (the members of the European Parliament from your country) to vote NO at the next round, to vote against articles 11 and 13.
Here you can find more news and all the details to contact your MEP:
https://saveyourinternet.eu
Also, sign and share this petition:
https://www.change.org/p/european-parliament-stop-the-censorship-machinery-save-the-internet?recruiter=50668942&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial
We have just a couple of weeks to stop this complete madness, don’t let them dictating the way we enjoy our internet.
#SaveYourInternet now!
Lordgenome of Krypton? I dunno, bodiless head characters are always most effective as chatterboxes for dark secrets. Still, the Dark Chatterbox who would and could kill you is an interesting take.
Good idea or bad idea: a disembodied kryptonian head, kept alive by advanced tech, who despite being, well, a head, is still a formidable combatant due to possessing superhuman durability, speed, flight, heat vision, etc. If good, what might one do with it?
VERY good, have that dude as a Zoner or other Kryptonian survivor.
judging by fan fictions, the only jobs in the world are being a teacher, lawyer, waiter, or working at a coffee shop
https://instagram.com/p/BhzNYT4FUOb/
So. We have Transformers now. *general background noises of excitement*
Something I wrote ages ago about villains and motivation from the Super Mario Games. More a meditation than a straight-up essay.
On Villains and Motivation
Since Cleanup Crew obviously isn’t written in the gag-a-day format like many if not most other webcomics, it’s given me a lot of opportunity to think about storytelling. And since I realized I have a ready-made blog for the comic here, I figured I’d file some of my thoughts here as they occur to me.
Having played every Mario Bros. RPG through Bowser’s Inside Story, I’ve come to the conclusion that one of the big flaws of these games is the villains.
More specifically, their lack of motivation.
Now, we can talk entertainment and characterization until the cows come home, about how much fun they are to watch, but the simple fact of the matter is that a villain needs a WHY, and no amount of plans or goals, the how and the what, will make up for the fact that there’s literally no reason for any of these villains to do what they do. This failure of characterization steals context and meaning from their actions.
Take Grodus, of The Thousand Year Door. As impressive as his organization is, as clever as the plot and storytelling are (that game does such tricks with the fourth wall that the couple of times it breaks it directly just barely limp along), it’s really hard to get invested in the villains because Grodus simply has no -drive- to accomplish his goals, no reason to do what he does. Given the fact that he’s a robot with a noble title and a pretend magic staff, his lack of even a token backstory is rather jarring.
On the other hand there’s Count Bleck of Super Paper Mario (which we will pretend is an RPG for conversation’s sake), who suffers from a broken heart and intends to solve that problem by committing a rather exagerrated form of suicide. THAT is a motivation, something Grodus is severely lacking. In fact, Super Paper Mario gives a lot of character to its villains, judging from what you can dig up about O'Chunks and Nastasia. Now, Dimentio hasn’t got any stated motivation, but this is deliberately done to emphasize his mystery – the game very obviously knows what it’s doing as far as the villains are concerned. (On a side note, the only real problems I have with Super Paper Mario are that it’s just a little too impressed with itself – to start with, the story is addicted to waxing melodramatic – and that it’s not actually a Mario story. It’s really about the game’s original characters – Mario has literally nothing to do with anything, Peach and Bowser are involved only for the sake of a joke, and Luigi has more involvement with the plot than all three combined, only because he’s the villains’ patsy).
But the rest of them, Cackletta and Fawful and the Shroobs (we’ve already discussed Grodus, and you could say the same about the Shadow Sirens) are devoid of motivation. You can see this in how they’re remembered less for their stories and more for their gimmicks. Cackletta is remembered primarily for being 50% of Boobser Bowletta rather than her desire to screw around with the all-powerful Beanstar; Fawful is bonkers and has a speech impediment, and “crazy narcissist” is not a decent motivation any more than “evil” is one, and then there’s the fact that the guy has no real plan except to set himself up as the local bigshot until he decides to destroy absolutely everything just for the heck of it. The Shroobs almost have a motivation that you can reverse-engineer by studying their actions (do they *need* to prey on the Mushroom Kingdom?), but putting the burden on the audience like that is bad writing for lazy authors.
This failure to motivate the villains is especially notable in Smithy, who argues with the heroes as if Super Mario RPG had an Honest to God *theme*. Smithy’s got enough going on that you can almost piece together the motivation that should be there. He wants to take over the Mushroom Kingdom as a stepping stone to ridding the world of wishes (which suggests that it’s no accident that Exor broke the Star Road on the way in, nevermind the fact that his minions have all been collecting the pieces), but why? Well, for most of the game, all the information on Smithy is at best second hand, suggesting he’s taking a leaf out of Orcus’ book, but when we get to finally meet him face to face, we realize he’s been busy the whole time. Smithy has been building his army piece by piece, by hand, and then delegating responsibility so he can keep building. Smithy is a craftsman, achieving his goals through the work of his hands, definitely -not- making wishes to get what he wants the easy way. All this together suggests that Smithy has some kind of enmity with the stars and their habit of granting wishes, a hatred so strong that he’s willing to conquer entire planets to get a shot at completely shutting them down. But after that, everything else would be pure speculation.
Now, I admit that this sort of thing’s not easy. Bowser’s generally easier to write than coming up with new villains wholecloth, insofar as he comes with the motivations built-in, like “FINALLY succeeding where he’s failed so many times before” and “sticking it to Mario once and for all”. I generally tend to ignore the “romantic interest in Princess Peach” motivation that he’s occasionally saddled with, because the implications are creepy in ways that make “Asmodeus covets Sarah” look Appropriate for All Audiences. I’m generally more favorable to the idea that Bowser takes an interest in the Mushroom Kingdom because he’s spent his whole miserable life a corner of Hell and the Mushroom Kingdom is a place of beauty and plenty and Her Highness may figure in his eyes as an emblem of all things beautiful, hence his fascination with her, since he only knows ugly things. You could get some serious mileage if someone spent five minutes figuring out a halfway decent motivation for the King of Awesome.
Something like, say, “somebody invaded his castle and stole something from the treasury, so now he’s driven to get it back and punish whoever had the gall to penetrate his fortress security and make a goon of him and his forces”.
And now I have spent entirely too much time writing about Mario characters.
Worldbuilding Practice Sample
So, a while ago I wrote some sample dialog for Injustice 2 interactions that will never happen, and I happen to have a great affection for DC characters in general. Unsatisfied as I am with the current state of affairs in DC, I got in the habit of writing little plots and ideas on the side, and after several years basically wound up composing my own version of the DC cosmos, an Earth-J, if you will.
This is a sample of the work I've done so far.
The Living Kingdoms
The Red -- Fauna Parliament: Limbs Representatives: Animal Masters, who can use either the physical or metaphysical aspects of animals as super powers. Much to the Red's chagrin, however, they can't manage to keep a champion like the Green's Swamp-Thing; their main choice, Bernhard Baker, doesn't really care.
Bernhard "Buddy, Animal Man" Baker Supposed Champion of the Red, much to his chagrin. Also much to the Red's chagrin, since he keeps not observing his duties. His power is to trade metaphysical qualities with animals via homologous and analogous structures. (i.e. he can give his arms the power of flight, because that's what birds do with those parts). Notes: He occasionally has jam sessions with Garfield. Quotes: "You are a Champion of the Red! You bring fruition to thousands of years of prophecies!" "I AM A FAMILY MAN, FIRST!" -P.o.L. & Buddy Maxine Baker Even more powerful than Buddy, even less interested. She just likes her pretty animals. She thinks Tefé is awesome. Garfield “(Various)” Logan The Orphan, and Evolution-Master. Unloved by the Red and the Parliament of Limbs (individual members notwithstanding), Gar nonetheless wields impressive power and serves with the Doom Patrol (formerly with the Titans). Ironically, he gets along the best with the Green and its masters; there is some speculation that he may not even be totally wedded to the Red, given he has instantiated microscopic life, a distinctly Blue power. What significance this has remains currently unexplored. Mari "Vixen" McCabe The trickster. An Animal Master who received the Tantu Totem originally created by the malicious trickster god Ogo, and won it from him in a contest of wits.
Barbara Ann "Cheetah" Minerva Slave of Mafdet and enemy of Wonder Woman. Barbara lived a charmed life, born with a silver spoon in her mouth, charismatic, beautiful, enterprising, astonishingly lucky, but in her dissatisfaction grew to covet more. Inspired by Wonder Woman's godly power, she tried to steal Mafdet's Claw from an ancient pyramid to experiment on it and see if it had any divine power, which infuriated the goddess Mafdet, who punished her -- upon hearing the punishments for thievery was mutilation, flogging, or death by staking, Barbara chose the fourth option, penal servitude, and became Mafdet's executioner, the Cheetah, by having a portion of the Red injected into her. Now Barbara spends her time alternating between punishing the guilty for her goddess and conspiring to free herself. Notes: She has tried previously to rewrite her own body to shed her cheetah form, but analysis of her cells indicated she was still physiologically human, all evidence to the contrary.
Michael Payson "B'wana Beast" Maxwell
Dominic "Freedom Beast" Mndawe
Robert "Man-Bat" Langstrom
Ogo, Mafdet, and all other animal and animal-aspect gods like have connections to the Red.
The Green -- Flora Parliament: Trees Representatives: Plant Masters, who have authority over the growth and behavior of vegetation. The usage of their power is often accompanied by the bodily manifestation of plant life.
Dr. Alec Holland, the Swamp Thing Appointed champion of The Green. Due to his appointment by the Green, he is also possessed of some authority over the earth.
Tefe Holland, the Sprout. Beyond her powers as the second instance of the Swamp Thing, she also has magic due to her mother and celestial powers due to inheriting Constantine's blood. Despite terrible family issues, she eventually warms up to Maxine as a surrogate big sister. Notes: Has been considered for the Doom Patrol, though her current relationship with them is unknown.
Solomon Grundy The death of a gangster in Slaughter Swamp created an "incomplete" Swamp Thing, with limited, wild power over the wood and earth. Poison Ivy & The Floronic Man, Shadows of the Champion. Drs. Pamela Isley and Jason Woodrue, who gained access to The Green and its powers through mad science, which transformed them both into plant-humanoids. Woodrue, descended from dryads, taught Isley and the Hollands as their Professor ("Professor Plant-Master"), and sought to escape "the meat". Woodrue seeks to make the world less-frail by experimenting on them (as he constantly augments himself for their qualities and powers). Isley, who runs "Lily n' Rose" flower shop, was at one point his partner in crime, covets beautiful things and despises "the meat" for its ugliness, a "toxic" ugliness that ruins the beauty around it; in a perverse sense she considers herself a "defender of the innocent", much like her historic enemy Batman.
Yggdrasil, the first Wood elemental.
The Blue - Microbes (bacteria, protozoa, fungi, etc.) Parliament: Germs Representatives: Microbe Masters, who can both control all such life remotely and transform into huge masses of microbial life at will.
Samuel "Zookeeper" Register Obtained his access to the powers of the Kingdom by stealing from Garfield Logan's charged DNA, but while he initially dealt in animals like Garfield Logan, Register has been increasingly fascinated with transforming into infectious and disease-carrying life forms, which he uses to various purposes, including taking control of animal life. He's also been looking with increasing fascination to the Grey.
The Grey -- Viruses Parliament: None. While the Grey is no one's friend, it is generally closest to the Blue. Lacking any Parliament to manage it, responsibility is generally shared by the other three. Representatives: Plague Masters, who seed and control all viruses remotely. Anton Arcane A German field doctor from the Great War who did mad science on his patients. Helped convince Adolf Hitler to go to war so he'd have more dead to work with. He uses black magic for purposes of necromancy.
Note on All Kingdoms: The Kingdoms all traffic with each other in various ways, but generally maintain a balance of some kind. However, there are periods of violent imbalance in their history, where one color will consume too much of the others (typically but not always the Grey, due to poor management) and the whole system collapses in on itself, creating the Black.
I have a thing for Mario Castles, so this is going into reference.
In Super Paper Mario, the exterior of Fort Francis is visible for only a few frames in full during a cutscene at the beginning of Chapter 3-4. After a fraction of a second, Bowser begins talking and his speech bubble obscures the top half of the fort, after which the camera focuses on the characters and never returns to the wide shot of the area. In addition, it is impossible to watch this cutscene again on the same save file. I have taken an enhanced screenshot of the fort during the brief moment it is visible, at four times the game’s normal resolution. This should be the most high-quality image of Fort Francis possible.
For anyone even remotely interested in sci-fi, today SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launched a Tesla Roadster into space. Don’t Panic is written on the Dashboard, the radio is continuously playing David Bowie’s “Life on Mars”, and the dummy in the driver seat is called Starman. EDIT: As a bonus, here’s a livestream of the driver. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2p55BmwmJM
Good for scenery ideas.
Really good train livestream
thanks, Youtube algorithm
Friendly reminder.
Fandom has gotten very…proprietary over the years and now is a good time as any to remind y’all that you don’t own the source material.
Creators are under no obligation to make your ship canon, redeem your problematic fav, or write their characters in a way that lines up with your headcanons.
You are playing in someone else’s sandbox, so don’t get your tailfeathers twisted when the creators don’t drop their plans for their product to conform to fandom demands.
“Haltmann Works confirmed in a press release earlier today that the corporation’s R&D department suffered an unfortunate accident yesterday evening after hours. It emphatically denied any official interest in cloning technology, however, and refused to answer any questions about the sudden appearance of an army of His Majesty’s genetic duplicates in the wee hours of the morning.”
Kirby: Star Allies (2018)
@rockmiyabideusexmachina and @ingopotato have more reach than I do, so if y’all wanna pass this along, it rocks.
HEY ARTISTS!
Do you design a lot of characters living in not-modern eras and you’re tired of combing through google for the perfect outfit references? Well I got good news for you kiddo, this website has you covered! Originally @modmad made a post about it, but her link stopped working and I managed to fix it, so here’s a new post. Basically, this is a costume rental website for plays and stage shows and what not, they have outfits for several different decades from medieval to the 1980s. LOOK AT THIS SELECTION:
OPEN ANY CATEGORY AND OH LORDY–
There’s a lot of really specific stuff in here, I design a lot of 1930s characters for my ask blog and with more chapters on the way for the game it belongs to I’m gonna be designing more, and this website is going to be an invaluable reference. I hope this can be useful to my other fellow artists as well! :)
And, hey, look at that, here’re those beautiful colors that I was talking about. Thanks again to @ingopotato, who brought this to life in such a marvelous way. And thanks to @rockmiyabideusexmachina, now that I think of it, for introducing us!
Here’s the collab piece @jaybird-c and I came up with for @rockmiyabideusexmachina‘s Mega Man 30th Collab!! Jaybird-C did the amazing lineart, and I did the coloring! Jaybird-C does an awesome job describing the action of the piece in his post here!
Happy 30th Anniversary! This is the linework I did for @rockmiyabideusexmachina and his Mega Man 30th Anniversary collab event. My partner was the inestimable (and inestimably patient) @ingopotato, who did some marvelous color work with the pieces (and helped shore up those positively barren buildings). The premise of the piece is a riff on the aerial chase segments of both Mega Man 8 and Mega Man X8, swapping in the flight crew from classic in for X and company on their air speeders as they hunt down Gigabolt Man’o’War. This was a fun piece for the sheer novelty of some of these character designs and poses -- mostly I draw from other sources of inspiration, so I’m not used to playing with the classic or X characters. Not since a certain Dr. Wily Sand Castle Contest anyway.
encouragement mario
Luna Shirogane is officially meganneko. I have such happiness.
Man, it’s just a cornucopia of references and animators.
The Mama Luigi Reanimate Collab is finally here!!! View it on YouTube
The Mama Luigi Reanimate Collab! In honor of one of the most famous episodes of the animated DiC classic, Super Mario World, gets a reanimated remix! I am extremely excited and proud to present this collaboration. Over a year in the making, with over 227 participating artists and animators that helped recreate 255 total scenes! This collaboration was organized and brought to you by Andrew Dickman of ElectronicHeroes!
A list of all the participating artists are in this Google Document
Hesse and Yotta? This thing just keeps getting more incredible.
A team effort with Tyson Hesse and Studio Yotta. It was such an honor to help animate for the opening.
Injustice 2 Quotes
(All fake).
Just a few scenarios I dreamed up involving characters that didn’t make it into Injustice 2.
Tara "Terra" Markov
VS Deathstroke Introductions D: Well, well, if it isn't my... protege. T: Well, well, if it isn't Daddy Deathstroke. D: You were such a good study.
T: Oh, good, it's the limp fish. D: Nothing personal, but you're a liability. T: Why? Don't want me to spread it around?
T: I don't want anything to do with you. D: You have no idea what you want. T: I'll start with your head on a spike.
T: Oh, look, my teenage mistakes all in one place. D: I showed you what you could be. T: Yeah, but could you have shown me a more exciting time?
T: Garfield was right about you. The whole time. D: Ah, but is he right about you? T: ...You go to Hell.
Clashes D: So what hole'd you crawl out of? T: The one I dug myself! D: I taught you everything, brat. T: Hey, Mr. WIIILSON! This is how you PUNCTURE someone! D: I'm hard to kill. T: Hard to get rid of, anyway. T: I'm nothing like you. D: Not in the good ways. T: I'm DONE with you, Slade! D: You act like a hunted animal. VS Cyborg Introductions C: Man, if it isn't just a parade of unexpected faces. T: What, you see any other ghosts of your past? C: If I didn't know better, I'd say you look a little green.
T: Well, look who's outta the hospital! C: Don't pretend you care, witch. T: Hey, I care! Wasn't even gonna mention that new car smell.
Clashes T: Tell me where you saw Garfield! C: What, the ex got you all hot and bothered? C: Do you know why he did this to me? T: I bet you got in Garfield's way.
VS Raven Introductions T: Oh, look who it is, the one-woman pity-party. R: The advice of loved ones should not be cast aside so lightly. T: Ugh. Why does Gar care so much about your opinion?
T: Wow, and people called me a traitor. R: You mock only because you do not comprehend. T: Chicken Soup called! They want their sob story back.
Clash R: You broke Garfield's heart. T: You should let him off the leash./Oh, so he's "Garfield", now? T: Not so sexy on the inside, are you? R: I will carve out your tongue!
Rachel "Raven" Roth
VS Dr. Fate Introductions F: Wherefore does the Princess of Perdition step into the domain of Fate? R: Order is order, regardless of the binding. F: Trigon's fickleness has caused untold disaster.
R: You know of the Changeling's and Terra's arrival. Speak. F: The fault lines of reality are shifting. R: I see why Gar hates it when I don't give a straight answer.
R: You will yield your secrets to me, willingly or otherwise. F: You know nothing of my arts. You cannot hope to defeat me. R: I'm a quick study.
Clashes F: The cosmos must have order! R: Then we have no quarrel. F: The lords of order speak true. R: Not even you believe that. R: Give me the knowledge I require. F: I do not serve tyrants. R: So the helmet feeds more lies to you? F: You know nothing of these matters!
VS Changeling Introductions R: You-- you're alive? C: Surprised to see me, Rae? R: No. Illusion or Delusion, you shouldn't be here.
R: So there is some truth to your story. C: Don't worry, it weirds me out, too. R: **giggles** It does my heart good to see you, Garfield Logan.
C: So, do I pass the Official Titan Test? R: I see naught but doom in you. C: 'Course you do, Rae. I'm a Patrolman, too.
C: So you never mentioned you were living with your Dad again. R: Your safety is guaranteed here. I mean it. C: Enough to fight him if you have to?
R: So. I see you reject my hospitality. C: The fancy cell in Castle Trigon was nice, but I'm homesick. R: Garfield, I cannot allow you to confront her.
Clashes C: Loser buys lunch? R: Are you ever serious? R: Forever putting your head into the lion's jaws. C: Too bad for the lions, huh? C: Our line of work is always dangerous. R: I will not abide the loss of another friend. R: I can't lose anyone else! I won't! C: Raven, I've got to go now! R: You can't leave! NOT AGAIN! C: I'm gonna miss you, too, Rae.
Garfield "Changeling" Logan
VS Cyborg Introductions Cy: You, there! Freeze! I order you to back it up! Ch: Whoa, chill! What's wrong? Cy: You're wearing a dead man's face.
Ch: Wow. You guys are serious about this Regime thing. Cy: I know it's not easy to understand, Gar. Ch: The only thing I don't get is how you're the good guys.
Ch: You just got outta the hospital, Vic. Cy: None of this woulda happened if you hadn't broken out. Ch: I've got bigger worries than the New World Order.
Clashes Cy: You've got some explainin' to do. Ch: Wish I could, Victor. Ch: Why can't you leave it alone? Cy: You wouldn't come peacefully! Ch: You gotta understand this ain't personal. Cy: It feels pretty damn personal.
VS Atrocitus Introductions A: You'd make a fine addition to the Corps. C: I've already served with two outfits. Three just seems greedy. A: Ahh, then I must be imagining Nekron's influence.
Clashes A: You reek of the unliving. C: I could really use a shower.
VS Mento Introductions M: So you've finally come back to the Patrol. Must be looking for some real action. C: I certainly didn't come back for the memories. M: Heh. It's certainly been gloomy without you.
C: The gauntlets are new. Something to balance the helmet? M: And what's wrong with the helmet? C: Oh, my God, Dad.
M: Things have changed since you've been gone. C: I... I heard I have a sister, now. She a good kid? M: Holly adores your every story.
C: It's weird to think I got my start here. M: You were wasted on the Titans. C: Heh. Didn't know you cared.
M: And when were you going to tell me? C: I was hoping I wouldn't ever have to. M: I'm your father. I know when you're lying to me.
Clashes M: You have no DISCIPLINE! C: YOU HAVE NO HEART! M: How can you expect to save the world? C: I just want it to be worth saving! M: If you have a job to do, then DO IT! C: You say that like it's easy! C: Would you just LAY OFF? M: Get your head in the game! C: I'm not afraid of dying! M: Because you're Doom Patrol!
VS Terra Introductions T: Don't try to stop me, Logan. It won't work. C: Sheesh, what's gotten INTO you? T: They call it a heart of stone.
T: Doctor, doctor! I feel the madness coming back! C: Cut the crap, Tara. You know exactly what you're doing. T: God, you would've been so good at roleplay.
C: If you don't stop, people are going to get hurt. T: It was 'people' who ruined my life, Garfield! C: You can stop this before it gets worse, Tara!
T: Why? Why are you so persistent? C: Time's up, Tara. We've got to go. T: I am not going back. You can't make me!
T: What kind of animal can come back to life? C: I made the arrangement to bring you back. T: Oh, now I get it! You're just a lapdog.
C: I thought that diamonds were a girl's best friend. T: Not since I created the Lazarite crystals. C: Yeah, thing is, Nekron calls that grand larceny.
Clashes C: Kicking up another fuss, Terra? T: But you know I'm noisy at night! C: I'm begging you, Tara! Stop it! T: God, I love it when you beg. T: I've got the madness in me! **cackle** C: You're not crazy, you're just blind. T: The world won't love you back, Garfield. C: It's not the world I'm worried about. C: It's time to go back, Tara. T: NO! I am not dying again! T: Tell Nekron he can kiss my ass! C: We can tell him together.
VS Black Hand Introductions BH: And what would the Red's orphan child seek of Nekron? C: The opportunity to hunt down a lost soul. BH: To act in service of death? Intriguing.
C: So I get a whole week to get the crystals back, right? BH: Fail to obtain them, and the unliving hordes will follow. C: So that's the catch.
BH: You destroyed the Lazarite crystals! You deceived Nekron! C: He don't know me very well, do he? BH: There will be nothing left of you for Heaven!
Clashes BH: And what drives you to serve Nekron? C: My beasts just want to hunt again. C: So Nekron has no interest in the stones? BH: Nekron’s plans are no concern of yours! C: And I can't ask for help? BH: We thought you a mighty hunter! BH: MONGREL! VERMIN! CUR! C: Ain't I a stinker?
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