#mercfam

The flight of a doomed bee epitomized as a cult representing the capitalistic, egocentric allure of power, belonging and control. Their honeycomb infects you with overripe promises. To your ear they laude assurances, affirmations that which implore you. Whispered words, slander against their enemies so they may be your own. If you look into the distance, you can almost view legacy. With whose teary glare could you see vengeance, encapsulated like a prism.

See No Evil: Rose

An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind and dwelling on bad sights is only so sorrowful when it shrivels up your love moreso than it shrouds your judgements. You cannot save your father and he will do everything in his power to assure every prophecy your eye tells you could persuade no one of anything.

Speak No Evil: Joseph

Like siren to song is so cruelty to words and parameter is only so sweet when the tortured poet's fruits are greater than their tragedies. Listen to all, for it is in their promises you collect your own. With your eyes you become whomever is so lucky as to fall for your persuasions. Madness is not finite and affirmation of integrity can absolve you but it never will wash away the inheritance of sin.

Do No Evil: Slade

I did! I want it to represent what's going on on this little corner of Tumblr of mine hehe thanks for noticing!

Also!!! ASASGDJFG "I need you to update your hand measurements to get the ring resized." Meaning he already has a ring and has been constantly measuring Jason's hand throughout their childhood/teenage years, lmaoo I imagine Jason sitting there while Grant measures his hand going "lol you still on that?" While Grant very much is.

Jason being pulled the uno reverse card for once and being in the other end of "I THOUGHT YOU WERE FUCKING DEAD WHAT THE FUCK!" is so freaking funny.

Jason is still reeling on the fact that Grant came back at all, cause he had given hope he would. Jason sees his own resurrection as a curse so seeing Grant reviving gives him a new perspective and of course Grant goes, "We're soulmates, actually."

And Jason kind of believes him. Wants to believe him too.

Jason is —other than surprised Grant came back at all— is like "You meant it???"

Because he's on board, HEAVILY so, because he gets to marry the first crush he ever had, the very hetero guy who would mess around for shits and giggles, and make him flustered and red faced every time he'd throw hypotheticals at him: "I would treat you better than anyone else", "If you married me we'd never spend our nights sleeping"

All of this is especially funny immediately after Grant's resurrection, because Grant is fully convinced he came back for that one reason (it's actually way deeper than that but his obsessive streak is not gonna wind down for a while.)

Grant goes over the top with everything, the ring, the weeding, the preparations, his rich kid upbringing along his entitlement and hedonistic nature (that only amplified when he came back from dead) makes him a nightmare for anyone who gets on his way of making the Wedding anything less than perfect. This also goes along with me headcanoning him as a perfectionist (having your parents criticizing your shit since ever will do that to ya) bridezilla Grant says who lmao

And if we're going with the family dynamics...

Adeline Kane clutches her chest and almost has a heart attack because she finds out her son is alive Through a freaking Weeding Invitation.

Joey as well and his brain is balancing from wanting to beat the shit out his brother for making them go through this to go hug him and demand to be his best man.

Respawn, Alex, Rose and Wintergreen are invited as well, if only to cement the fact that Slade is very much not invited. He still shows up, though.

Jade is the bridesmaid, or best woman, or however it is. Grant shows up one day and is like "Bitch I'm getting married, you're the bridesmaid," she sighs, looks at his choice of a husband, sighs even more heavily and then they go shopping for the wedding.

The batfam on the other hand, Bruce and Dick are the ones who are having the hardest time.

Bruce is happy at first that Jason is settling and getting married, but then—

"Married to who?!"

Dick is sweating bullets, "Jason, you're still young, you don't have to settle for this one just yet!"

"No, I gotta."

Babs walks him through acceptance. When he recovers he drops Jason hints (as in, big passive aggressive hints) of him being the best man.

Jason lets him in tension for a while, at least until he decides who's gonna be the best man because he's not the first one to not-ask.

Meanwhile Steph and Tim pipe in, "can we plan your bachelor party?"

Damian is happy he gets to spend time and meet his half brother's family, (Respawn) and Jason will be there too I guess.

Jason is very much shoving in their faces, "I'm getting married before any of you losers."

Talia and Harvey are invited as well much to Bruce's dismay.

Bruce gets surprisingly along and is very supportive with Grant while he's in one of his bridezilla episodes because yes, Grant is right: Jason’s wedding deserves the best of the best.

Grant gets very intense about it too, hence, mark Jason down as scared and horny.

audio by me: sunshine state // julia wolf

banging fists on table yes yes yeyyesssSSSS!!

bcuz his mom wasn't around long enough + his dad may have done terrible things to him but was also the only actual parent Slade really remembers well enough

Adeline = Daddy's Girl

I have a whole long thing about her past, but basically once she hit her teens her and her mom just had a downward spiral of a relationship while Addy always deeply admired her father and ended up joining the military in his honor after the failure of her first marriage

Grant = Daddy's Boy

idolized Slade as a kid and his disillusionment from that idolization did not kill his admiration, it just turned it to something tragic, caustic and ugly (although, Mama's Boy by Dominic Fike is a grant song)

Joey = Mama's Boy

him and Addy were mother-son goals up until his own disillusionments and other issues. Grant also actually canonically called him a Mama's Boy [as an insult] during childhood. It's funny, because no one would ever mistake Grant for anything less than Slade's son. But the same is true for Joey. Even if you are a mama's boy, you your daddy's son.

Rose = Daddy's Girl