#sleepyspeedster

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64659928

Summary:

A game of chess between Orion and Lightray leads to confessions and unexpected hair pulling. (See notes for the comic page that inspired this fic.)

Authour: @sleepyspeedster

Subfandom: New Gods

Media: Comics

Relationships: Shippy (Lightray/Orion)

Year: 2025

Rating: Mature

Warnings: None

Summary:

A game of chess between Orion and Lightray leads to confessions and unexpected hair pulling. (See notes for the comic page that inspired this fic.)

Submitted by @Conner

Submitter's comment:

Rating: Teen

Fandom: Impulse, DC Comics, The Flash (comics)

Word Count: 1452

Summary:

Set after his death, Thad returns to the 31st Century and talks with Meloni about his past actions and their experiences within their family, the Thawne family.

Excerpt:

 One has to come before the other doesn’t it? Were you ruined first? Or did you ruin everything?

 Does it even matter?

 Those question haunt Thad as he sits at the small white kitchen table unfamiliar to him. His hands are clenched upon it, his knuckles white on one hand, and scuffed an irritated bright red with open wounds on the other. His eyes glance around the kitchen. He’s not looking for anything in particular. He only wants to avoid staring at her back, but inevitably he sees everything else in this place that could only loosely be called a home. The color seemed gone from the kitchen. The walls, the cabinets, the fridge, everything.  It was stark white like a laboratory, and didn’t feel like a choice in decor she would make. It felt too clean, too bright, too fake, and too much like President Thawne had thrown his own daughter in a pretty birdcage.

Notes:

I've always wanted to have Thad and Meloni meet and talk, and potentially bond/come to an understanding over having the worst father/father figure ever. I was also inspired to write this fic after finding a comic panel with Meloni where she says her father, President Thawne, ruined her life and happiness with a vengeance. It reminded me so much of Thad and how that was also his life thanks to President Thawne.

Inspired by this comic panel: