#capeshit

"...The pie and punch are free, right?"

i preffer when Batman's parents deaths are 1. a mystery and 2. undeniably connected to one or more of the mafia bosses in Gotham. this sets up two things about Batman: he's a detective, and he's not just beating up random criminals, he's dismantling organized crime, fighting people sometimes richer than himself, people that use poor kids as cannon fodder, in contrast to Bruce, who sometimes takes those kids in and gives them a better life, or sometimes just convinces them not to continue on the path of crime. i really like that one Alex Ross sequence where Bruce talks down a child from shooting him.

second opinion: the killing joke and it's consequences have been a disaster to the Joker mythos. the Joker works as a foil for Batman because he's an irredemable force of chaos that, unlike Bruce, isn't defined by his past. giving him a backstory takes away both of these. also, him having a main philosophy of why he acts the way he acts, the whole "one bad day" thing sucks. he shouldn't have an agenda, he should be the only Batman rogue that is evil for the sake of it. while Batman might have the hope of redeeming Killer Croc, Mr. Freeze or Poison Ivy, Joker's redemption should be unatainable.

now some lighter ones: i like when Lex is a childhood friend of Clark. i have this au idea where they were raised together and i hope i get to do something with it someday.

jaime reyes is an insanely interesting character and i hope they keep blue beetle in the dcu. i thought his movie was decent.

jason todd should be completely socially inept since he was dead for his teenage years. for the same reason, and not because he was poor like some fans imply, he should also be a little dumb, or at least out of touch with some world events.

let tim graduate from robin for the love of god. even "drake" was better than this (no it wasn't but that's real world drake's fault)

i did not care for the new gods. did not care for them. they insist upon themselves.

the justice league needs to be more diverse, both in terms of characters and of gender/race. look at the avengers right now, the only two founding members are Thor and Iron Man, they have 4 characters of color (more than the number of white characters, which is huge). the trinity doesn't always need to be there! sometimes superman is out in space! sometimes gotham is too fucked up for Batman to come help! sometimes Wonder Woman has to deal with the god's bullshit!

basically, i think i remember that it's a spider-man video game where the conceit is that. it's a spider-man video game. as in. you are not peter parker, you are entering into this world that is like. devoid a peter parker? and either possessing the existing peter or sort fo injecting your own self insert, i really can't remember the details, but it focused around this girl named jenny temple. i remember that i (the viewpoint character) was staying at her house for a while for dream reasons not adequately explained, but she had a big family with two moms and a dad for ??? dream reasons but if you asked me to justify it probably a weird divorce process, and her grandma, and siblings, it was a whole big multigenerational thing. AH the spider-man stuff came after and is leaking into the front of the dream let me try to drill down to the core.

you and jenny both play the same online video game. thinking about it may have been influenced by my playing of warframe because the movement was very warframe like. same MMO. you are internet friends and then you get to stay at jenny's house. then jenny dies. there was a whole part in the middle about me having a nervous breakdown because i had to leave her loving family home. anyway, so, the online game was literally cursed with creepypasta shit and it turned out jenny was a character from inside the game that was getting like inserted a level up, sort of serial experiments lain style? and she disappeared because the game was just reclaiming her and everyone in the air quotes "real world" forgot about her because she was always just an NPC in the literal sense. but then the day time looped and it became clear to me, not in like a "the goal of the video game" sense but like a *moral* sense that it was my duty to save jenny before the day ended, because i had fallen totally head over heels in love with her, because she was just very kind and pretty and like. nice.

anyway. so. we are in "base dream", jenny is from one level down, inside the video game in base dream, which had a very sort of spiderman/warframe kind of movement, ok? but the vibe is also a little summer wars too.

anyway so part of it involved showing jenny like. the creepy ARG video that was like "yeah so we investigated this trailer for the next expansion pack and it's referring to some person named jenny who we figured out is this npc in this random neighborhood named jenny temple and how she needs to "come home now"". and so i had to have the conversation with jenny - every day, because she kept forgetting - that she was an NPC from a video game and more importantly that i was trying to figure out a way to get her to be real real.

and THEN the spider-man stuff started adding into it. i do remember that there were a couple of notable bosses. iron man. captain america. you were being framed for something and it was a very new canon. i am not sure if this is a different dream that got stapled onto the jenny dream or not but they sort of blurred together into my head and i wrote up thinking "i should write a worm-style spiderman ratfic". so. that's where that went. OH and there was a crossover with whichever comic family spawn and the violator are from. they were there too.