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Kris's yearning: the believe they are a terrible person so seeing the two together makes them believe that they are better off without them

Noelle's yearning: she trapped in the past with desire to go back to the past with Kris, and yet wish to be in the present with Susie making her believe that she has no future with either of them

So, Jason is super excited to go see his girlfriend during the Walpurgis Night festival. So excited that he has entirely thrown caution out the window and has been gushing about this festival to his henchmen.

Gotham being Gotham, word makes it back to the Rogues. While some of the meta Rogues are planning to cause havoc while the Bats are without a heavy hitter, some of the Rogues more involved in organized crime (Penguin, Two-Face, Black Mask) decide to try and take out Hood while his guard is down.

The City Spirit of Amity apparently finds this hilarious as it does nothing to stop them from crossing its borders and actually giggles at them.

Thoroughly creeped out by the disembodied laughter, the Rogues spread out to find Hood.

Penguin gets accosted by his Cousin Jack and is dragged off screen. Two-Face somehow starts a fist fight with Box Ghost over whether the number 2 or the number 4 is better. Black Mask actully holds Hood at gun point for all of 3 minutes before he gets bowled over by the brawling duo.

The Amity residents consider this is as good a reason as any to kick off the festivities a couple hours early.

The next three days proceed like the chorus of The Irish Drinking Song. The fighting is only interrupted by offers of food and alcohol.

Oswald made the mistake of showing up at his cousins' hometown once and no amount of excuses are going to stop the Fentons from dragging him to their family gatherings.

There is no escape, the cousins with superstrength will stuff you into a burlap sack if you don't come quietly.

The Riddler mocks him for this and gets dragged to the Roast Turkey Hunt as "Cousin Oz's Boyfriend."

They were not dating before.

Ed steals a Peking duck and somehow smuggled it back to Gotham.

Bane: Dios los mio, what happened to you two?!

Both: THANKSGIVING

Harley: What the FUCK Ed?

Ed: Meet Goobler. Oz's cousins made him. Also apparently we give of couple energy? I got dragged to thanksgiving as his partner.

Oz: No matter how hard I tried to explain I was still single they wouldn't believe me. We got forced to share a room.

Ivy: There was only one bed?

Ed nodded solemnly.

Oz: Only if you're willing to put up with excessive amounts of violence.

Harley: DEAL!!!

*Bane shares a look with Killer Croc. They are SO sneaking along!*

Ed: Should we want them?

Harley: Yeah! We can be a bit much!

Oz: ... No. No we don't need to earn them. They'll do just fine!

Harley:... I get the feelin I'm missin something?

New years on the other hand....

The Blessed Bash is yet another city-wide brawl. This one sees high attendance from Spirits, Gods, and other Embodiments.

The mortals and ghosts spar and whoever wins the match receives a "blessing" from the loser. This can mean actual divine blessings on the ghost side of things, but the mortals have introduced them to the concept of 'token blessings' as a substitute.

Token blessings are pieces of candy or toy doublooms inscribed with an inspirational quote or small goodwill message.

Obviously all of the rogues leaving en masse. At the same time? To the same place? Raised some red flags. Jason's off hand mention of the 'Blessed Bash'? Does not help. Jason, what the fuck? What do you mean? Do you know where they're going? Why do you know? What do you mean don't worry about it? Jason get back here?!?!

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Meanwhile, this year's Bash? Has been even better! Sam got to fight Poison Ivy! Poison Ivy! She got to fight her idol!?!?! Tucker? Got to fight Killer Croc. And Danny? He threw down with Bane. All three have had a great time! And they got to fight other Gotham Rogues!

Danny takes advantage of Uncle Oz's connections shamelessly. He wants to fight them all! Uncle Oz! Introduce me to your friends!!!!!

The rogues? Are pretty charmed by the troublesome trio. All three just hitting 18-19 and already like this? Fantastic! Hey, if you ever wanna commit a crime? We would be happy to let you run with us for a bit! Now now Oz. It's only polite to offer!

SHE GOT TO TALK TO HARLEEN QUINZEL AND JOHNATHAN CRANE!!! TWO OF HER PSYCHOLOGY IDOLS!!! BEST LATE CHRISTMAS PRESENT EVER!!!

The only one not invited to the Brawl is the Joker.

So, of course, he decides to crash the party!

Bad idea.

The Amity Parkers and the other Rogues (plus Red Hood) stop just short of actually killing him, saying it would make Batman mad and they might not be able to come back next time.

Glass houses and shit, ya know? Some oh those deity are not exactly squeaky clean. But! And this was his undoing~

Fucker thought he was Too Good for the Rules. Nuh Uh, you lose, you bless! Where is there Blessing Candy or something?

He? Probably tried to hand them a "Funny" poisoned candy.

Whiiiich? Is a CURSE!

Traditionally? If you are expected to give blessing but DONT? You are Rude.

Bruce lost Damian the second his youngest saw that glowing green dog. (Cujo)

Dick ran off to join a circus trope. (Circus Gothica-dans freakshow)

Tim is bartering with horned being with a night sky robe to see if he can find a way to lose his need to sleep. (Nocturn)

Cass is trying to teach an anthropomorphic wolf ASL (Wulf)

Stephanie ran off with a tiny pirate that he can’t see. (Youngblood)

Duke won’t get out of the car because the people are “too bright”.

Barbara is talking with a floating green man who resembles Nicolas Tesla (Technus)

Harper and Cullen seem to be talking gadget with a couple in hazmat suits (Jack and Maddie)

Alfred is having tea with a living shadow that looks like Bruce’s mother and a blue man with a clock in his chest and a teenager in odd clothes who keeps looking at Bruce strangely. (Lady Gotham, Clockwork and Terry McGinnis)

At least Bruce still had Jarro

He feels a little better once the match ends with no serious injuries and every kid smiling and laughing.

Amity is always strange, but it's much more toned down outside of Holidays. Fights are mostly restricted to between 3 and 7 pm on Weekdays and are much smaller than the festive free-for-alls.

He gets in Box Ghost to go over the town's rules. Once Bruce has agreed he understands the local customs he is released with Box Ghost as a native guide. Box Lunch wanders up to show her Papa her new friend Jarro. And Bruce gets to play proud Papa with his new guide.

Jarro and Box Lunch? Are being absolute terrors in the best way. And Bruce? Is loving that his best boy can have fun in this town safely. Box Ghost is glad his baby has a new friend as well. And of course! This means when Phantom shows up? He gets introduced. Because Box Lunch is his little sister! She decided and he didn't deny it! So it's true!

Is Jarro toddling along next to Box Lunch holding her hand, or is he wrapped around her arm starfish-style due to a size difference?  

Are the kids bouncing excitedly as they tell the story of how they became friends?

Are baby ghost brawls more like actual fights or really enthusiastic tackle hugs?

How happy is Batman to see Jarro making a friend?  

Baby Ghost brawls are very much how toddlers and kids fight. Scrappy and with lots of rolling around on the floor and tackling each other.

Bruce is beyond pleased that Jarro has somewhere No one even looks at him twice. That just goes, ok. Do you need anything special! No? Ok carry on then. Bruce adores that his baby can wander about safely and make ffriends and be social to his hearts content. Bruce likes this town. For all its weirdness.

Bruce is absolutely going to be bringing his kids here more often. Heck he might even see if he can install a zeta tube so Jarro can go to school here.

it's a town where superpowers are commonplace and acceptance is universal.

There is no being ostracized for your appearance or automatically vilified powers. Where you can find support for any of needs.

So you can shape-shift? There's a club for that every Wednesday at the community theater.

Cat powers made you an obligate carnivore? Sounds tough, luckily the youngest Foley opened a restaurant for inverse vegans.

Ptsd? There's like 30 different support groups for various religious and political affiliations.

But the crime rate is pretty much non existent. No one is a bastard about who you are or how you look. Having powers will not stop you getting a job. Unless said power makes you doing the job dangerous. For you or others. Pretty much everyone has a job. The housing prices are cheap. Because houses kinda.. Grow overnight at times.

There is a prank over the holiday.

Specifically, she would have been the fighting game equivalent of Kirby. Allow me to explain.

Alright, so the biggest thing about Kirby games is that the lore is surprisingly deep and dark and full of ancient evils and long dead heroes and wish granting living stars and all that junk, while Kirby himself remains blissfully oblivious to all of it.

The reason being that he’s a basically good hearted kid with a relatively simple view of the world who is, coincidentally, the latest, and possibly last, in a long long line of super powerful warriors. So he just sees a bunch of jerks who steal his cake or wreck his house or make his friends sad so he just saddles up to make ‘em quit it. And he does make ‘em quit it. Every single time.  

And because he always makes ‘em quit it he continues to be his happy jolly oblivious self, while he makes the lives of the people around him better just by being positive and friendly. He’s surrounded by people more serious or selfish than him, but they all defer to and trust in him because he’s proven himself, over and over, as a good and capable person. He’s their friend, Kirby, he’ll find a way to sort this all out just fine.

There’s a bunch of similarities between Tao and Kirby; they’re both big eaters, neither of them have any clue about the wider lore of their setting (Kirby because he’s a naïve kid and Tao because she’s naïve but also…kinda dumb), both of them are a part of a lineage of great warriors (Kirby is a Star Warrior while Tao is the clone of Jubei, one of the Six Heroes who fought the Black Beast), and both of them take a relaxed view on life.

If Tao had been the main character of Blazblue; the story would have shaken out something like so: Taokaka goes out from her village to find a way to get money to buy food. She meets Ragna, who she remembers from a wanted poster, and goes to fight him for that money. Problem; she’s hungry, so she forgets that first thing and says that if she beats him he has to buy her food. 

Ragna is like, “alright fine whatever, weird cat…”, because this is just this random weird cat girl he can beat her just fine. And than she beats him. Trounces him, really, and he can only lay on his back in disbelief. While the cat girl cheers about her victory and impending meal, Ragna can only think that that beating was…oddly familiar.

He buys her food, cause he promised and he doesn’t want to get beat up by the cat girl again, and she’s really happy about it. Really happy. Oddly happy, They finish and he leaves…and the cat follows him.

“…you got your food, what else do you want?”

“Huh? Waddya mean Good Guy? Tao wants to hang out with Tao’s friend!”

And so Taokaka hangs out with her friend. And suddenly she has to deal with a bunch of weirdos trying to fight her friend, so she steps in every time and gets them to quit it. NOL officers, Noel, Jin, all the way to Nu. She just beats them all up because they keep trying to hurt her friend and nobody hurts Taokaka’s friends.

Just, imagine she gets to Hazama/Terumi, and he takes off his hat and does his laugh and he goes on this big speech about his plan and AMATERASU and all that anime villain shit…and Taokaka just scratches the top of her head befuddled and asks “…sooo, Tao didn’t get most of that, but are you saying you’re the reason Good Guy is grumpy and sad all the time?”

And Terumi can only really blink at her slowly and go, “heh, you know what? Yeah, that’s basically the gist of it.”

And Taokaka nods cheerfully, “Okay! Tao gets it!”

And than she beats him up. Beats the absolute shit out of him. And Terumi is a mix of rage, panic, and terror. Because this is like fighting Jubei. No, this is like fighting Jubei if he had no regard for his own physical well being or for the integrity of his environment and was somehow both utterly stupid and completely mental.

And this repeats for every major villain in Blazblue. All the other Arcade Modes have each character struggle against their inner demons and these cruel villains, while the Canon Story is Tao’s Eventful Afternoon where she meets a bunch of weird guys, befriends them, and then meets a big scary nightmarish villain who she beats up with her big puffy sleeves (full of knives) until they quit trying to hurt her friends.

and just to twist the knife in a way it would not work as Taokaka would still be able to remember Ragna beacuse since the story of blazblue literally makes ragna the protagonist we can say that Taokaka stole some of that power to make herself the protagonist which follows into her having a quest to get Ragna back as her dream would not come true without him in it.

it can even carry a message

Ragna: moving forward and breaking the cycle of suffering

Danny didn’t really think it through. In his defense, there weren’t a lot of guidebooks titled “How to Deal with the Psychotic Future Version of Yourself You Accidentally Redeemed But Are Still Terrified Of.” Jazz suggested therapy. Sam suggested containment. Tucker suggested launching him into deep space. Danny, brilliant and seventeen and sleep-deprived after three days of babysitting a now mostly-reformed Dan Phantom, decided, “Screw it,” ripped open a portal to another dimension, and told him to “go make friends.” Dan grinned, sharp-toothed and wicked, and without hesitation dove through the swirling green and blue mass of unstable ectoplasmic energy.

Thus began the Marvel Universe’s greatest headache.

The first incident happened barely four hours after Dan’s arrival. New York woke up to a brand new urban legend: a demon with burning blue eyes and silver-streaked black hair beating the living shit out of Shocker in the middle of Times Square. People recorded it, of course. Viral videos showed Shocker screaming, running, trying desperately to aim his gauntlets while Dan literally phased through every attack like he was swatting a mosquito. Somewhere in the footage, Dan shouted, “C’MON, MAN! HIT HARDER, YOU’RE EMBARRASSING YOURSELF!” before drop-kicking Shocker into a halal cart.

the more you think about it it give marvel a Deus ex Machina for story writer.

your hero having a tough time fighting send in Dan saying how he wants to fight the villain, your villain is not enough of a challenge at the moment send in Dan, and we can also say that their is no true rule to when ever Dan wins or losses.

as you mention early he is fighting heroes, villains, and civilians which one could use to say that he is using various level of power at the moment

so if he wants to be street level he's street level, you want him to be fighting Thanos with a infinity gauntlet he can also do that as well

if we also take in the fact that Dan has been doing this for years he could have learned spells, techniques and fighting styles over the years so no hero or villain has a true leg up on him for he will learn a new way to fight you.

also we could use him as an excuse to help people not in the sense that hey I do this because I care, but in a way where he like "a happy healthy person is a much better fight than a sad sick one."

so he could would just randomly to either give you money to pay back some debts, or just nice after fight food.

He probably was fuming by the time he got into his car after his shades became a casualty of the attack.

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