#battic

All of my s/is are Tea bats (or blood cuz vamp lol)

Empress: Neither. Blood is her only source of beverage cuz its a Creature

Mukago:

-> Canon: Neither. Similar Empress, she can only drink blood because she's a demon

-> My Modern AU: Both. I see her drinking coffee in the morning to prepare for the bullshit at her job. But she loves a nice afternoon tea on her off days

N Gin:

-> IAT: Neither. Dude can't drink coffee and tea takes too long. He's an impatient fuck. Kerosene or petroleum in his cup is all he needs to help him power through

-> Radical: Tea. Dude shouldn't be trusted with coffee. He's already energetic enough. He doesn't need more energy.

Nic: Coffee. She gives me a black coffee or straight espresso kinda vibe. Nice and classy

Oswald: Coffee. His canon coffee order is black coffee with two lumps of sugar

Peri and Gale: probably tea. Not a lot is known about them (plural)

Reala: Tea. Cuz brit lol. And since they're connected to dreams and more teas help with sleep than coffee does. Although dealing with NiGHTS makes him wish she could have a taste of coffee.

Zavok: Blood or tea. "I prefer blood over water." And his master is very shifu/sensei coded and has most likely drilled the proper way to make and prepare tea into Zavok's skull

Lovely battic art I got from @nuitdelapin during an art trade

Eeeee!!! My girls are so cute!!!!

And for the record, I drew their AU of Fang and his loyal partner Metal

Now, to this month's subject: Disability Pride. I have a lot of f/os who are canonically or I headcanon as disabled

N Gin canonically has severe brain damage and chronic migraines. That rocket destroyed a solid portion of the right half of his brain. And he has a cybernetic arm in the most modern two games (IAT and Team Rumble). Also his brain damage is much MUCH worse in the Radical Era, too. I'm toying with the idea of him having some kind of personality disorder (caused by both his past and worsened by the rocket) or just simply brain damage-induced psychosis, as well, but that's not set in stone rn.

Nic is blind in one eye. In canon (or what was supposed to be canon but didn't make the cut), she was killed off screen from a shoot off with her brother. She survived it in my take but lost an eye.

Most takes of Penguin are disabled in some way shape or form. Be it a limp (from a fucked up leg or hip), lack of dexterity in his hands cuz of syndactyly, or simply being too short for every day life. DCAU and Returns Oswald have the limp and syndactyly (ignoring the fact that TNBA Oz has normal hands. People headcanon he got surgery on his hands). But 04 Penguin has the syndactyly and lack of height problem. He's half a foot shorter than the other two birds. He can't even drive without the Kabuki Twins. And uses his ravens to help him with daily tasks. I say he doesn't have the limp because he is just too damn dexterous.

Peri and Gale are both on the mute spectrum. They speak through morse code with their claws tapping and scratching on surfaces or soft hisses.

Reala, to me, had C-PTSD and chronic pain. With how much trauma that Wizeman put them through both physically and mentally, they aren't coming out completely unscathed even with the fact they can bounce back after every single encounter. And I say chronic pain because I've seen a few headcanons regarding the grey bandages on their Journey of Dreams design being compression tape used to deal with chronic pain.

(If anyone in the comments who have any of the disabilities that could tell me their experiences with them in the comments that would be awesome. I really want to learn more about it so I can write it as best as I could. I only have ADHD and Autism and some experience with people with PTSD, severe migraines, and chronic pain; immediately family suffers from all three)

Empress, ace at least, aroace at most (still deciding). Creatures are not sexual creatures at all. And she is more focused on taking down its targets than anything else. And with her targets out of the way (James and Kate won and escaped but Empress somehow came back. She survived so much gunshot from two uzis and a few grenades to the eyes. I think she can handle getting knocked out by an oncoming train. Just unconcious for a long time.

Mukago, bisexual. I always loved the ships of her and the other lower moons, all of which are men.

N Gin (au not dependant) is a disaster bi. If you played any of the games, you know how smitten he is with Cortex despite all the man put him through. And he was still smitten when he saw a woman... who was actually Cortex in disguise. The dude's a walking disaster through and through as well.

Nic is a lesbian. The only ship I've seen her that's legal is with Fiona the Fox. Plus she never gave me the vibe that she was into men.

Oswald, it depends on the version of the character. DCAU gives me straight ally vibes but I also wouldn't put it past him if he actually was bi or anything more. Plus, I'm genderfluid so he's automatically queer. And I've seen so many headcanons of him being like a Stonewall-era or earlier gay man and I'm all for that take. Returns DEFINITELY BI OR PAN! Dude was so into women that I wouldn't be surprised if he was into some kind of man too. Bro has definitely smashed all of his gang members at least once. Also a walking disaster, just like N Gin. And 04 Ozzy is Bisexual and Polyamerous. With how he flirts with the Kabuki Twins and Catwoman, dude likes having multiple partners. Also I like seeing art of him and 04 Riddler and I like.

Peri and Gale (The Kabuki Twins), bi. They're with Penguin. They're with me. What more can I say?

Reala, canonically Agender. I also see them as asexual as, like Empress with Creatures, Nightmaren aren't sexual entities. I see them as wither aromantic or cupioromantic.

This gives me that chance to rant about my selfship: Batic/Midnight Machinations

If you don't like self-ships, scroll away

If you want to stay, buckle up. It's a long one

And if you have finished reading and have questions about it, my dms and asks are wide open

But Battie and Nic's anniversary is June 13th ^^

I've been selfshipping with her for over a year. I love my pink jerboa sm

eeh-hee-hee! Thank you for the ask, Tara ^^

I have so many playlists for my selfships, some are bigger than others. Most of my ships/individuals share songs. Some I have little to no songs for so I can't make a playlist, but I digress

STRAP IN SELFSHIPPERS, CUZ THIS IS A LONG ONE!!!

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I don't have any songs for my Emprattie ship, but I have a few for Empress herself. PSYCHO by Self-Deception, Ready For Combat by Icon for Hire

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Chickago, We Fell in Love in October by Girl in Red, despite the fact the story I wrote for the ship takes place during the winter, but the mood is still there

I don't have a song for the AU of Mukago I have an established selfship with, but I do have one for her canon self, and it's Panic Room by Au/Ra

But Chickory, their song is Dead Walk by Red Hook. It actually inspired a chapter in my Chickago Fic (To Quit or Not to Quit: A New Life)

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Battic, I have SOOO many songs for: Hit and Run by Lolo, La La Lainey by Forever the Sickest Kids, She Keeps Me Up by Nickelback, to name a few

Nic, herself, also has a lot of songs: Across the Line by Linkin Park inspired her backstory (she had very little story in the comics she appeared in, so I gave her one myself), Bitch by Meredith Brooks, Delicious by Ayesha, GRRRLS by AViVA, etc

Batvok has only three T^T (With how much time I spent working on Revenge is a Dish Best Served Hot, I am astonished I only found three. ONE OF THE SONGS I SHARE WITH MY BATGIN SHIP!!!) Victim or Survivor by Citizen Soldier and Icon for Hire, Living Dead Girl by Rob Zombie, and Hardcore by Beast in Black

And Zavok, himself, I have a ton: Strike Back by We as Human, Monster by Willyecho, Enemy by Blue Stahli, and Be Prepared by Jonathan Young

Now, Battie the Little Brown Bat also has a ton. I spent a lot of time writing her from the Soiree Saga (the stories that have my Battic stuff and Batvok stuff), so of course I do: Sleepwalking by The Birthday Massacre, Cannibal by Kesha, You're So Creepy by Ghost Town, Sex Metal Barbie by In This Moment

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BatGin, I separate into two AUs (cuz I selfship with both Crash 4 N. Gin, standard BatGin, and Crash of the Titans/Mind Over Mutant N-Gin, Rad!BatGin), and those two have different songs for them.

Cyberhex by Motionless in White (It was the song, amongst other things, that inspired me to write a BatGin fic to begin with), Hardcore by Beast in Black (look at my Batvok songs for link), Daisy Cutter by 311, Not Over til We Say So by Blue Stahli, to name a few for BatGin

And Sick and Twisted Affair by My Darkest Days, Kiss Me You Animal by Burn the Ballroom, Ashes by Stellar, and Bite Me by CreepP and Ayesha, to name a few, for Rad!BatGin

Matryoshka by Lollia and Kuraiinu for both (I have a lot for this ship because music is so important to this ship)

Bite Me, in particular, comes with a funny story. I first heard that song a year ago and WASN'T during a Crash Bandicoot Hyperfixation. Hell, it was during a Batman hyperfixation. But when I heard that song, I IMMEDIATELY thought of Radical Entertainment Era N-Gin, and since that song has two singers, it's perfect for Rad!BatGin.

Despite that, there aren't many songs that make me think of just N. Gin (either versions) Only ULTRAnumb by Blue Stahli (that song fits Crash 4 N. Gin so well; it's not even funny) and Flesh by Simon Curtis for Radical N-Gin

And even less songs for Bat-Terry. Only Rad!Au Bat-Terry has a song and it's Back from the Dead by Halestorm (a song that also fits Mobian Battie)

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Batala only has one: Dreams by The Cranberries. I used to think of the NiGHTS Series as a whole with this song, but as I got older (and as Reala themself has been appearing in more and more of my dreams), I thought of the Batala ship.

Reala, as long as I've known him as a character (since childhood), and started shipping myself with her (since the start of adulthood), has very few songs that make me think of them. Shockingly, only Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode and its many covers by other artists