random hyperfixations

Mark, the manager: Okay. So. We do pride ourselves on being the establishment of choice for the vigilantes of Gotham.

That means you will be serving the Bats. And there are a couple ground rules.

Now. Unfortunately this has happened enough times that it is a rule. Do not flirt with Nightwing. I know he starts it, he's joking, don't finish it. That's just an HR demand waiting to happen. And I will fire you.

Second. If Red Hood comes, don't ask him if he wants his fries jokerized. Just do it. He does want them jokerized but don't mention it.

Uhh, fair warning, the middle one will stalk you. Just for a bit. It's normal I think, he's just doing a background check. That's my bad, apparently I hired a 'Shadow' once, whatever the fuck that means.

The yellow one and the purple one, are cool. Yellow comes mostly during the day, so you don't have to worry. And if Purple drops any glitter just sweep after she leaves.

The one that looks like Batman but gender-bend is cool too, but you're not allowed to say 'yes' if she offers teaching you self defense. That's an order from Corporate.

Do not. –Listen to me– Do. Not. Serve the little one meat. I don't care if you're tired. I don't care if there aren't any veggie options left. You don't serve him meat. He's a vegetarian, last guy to get it mixed up is the reason why we have a job opening, got it?

And lastly. If ANY of them is actively bleeding or looks worse for wear, you press this button and don't say anything. It sends Batman a message and he pays us extra if we let him know his kids are hurt.

Mark, the manager: Any questions?

I was a bit concerned when Ghostblade clearly absorbed a bit of fear certian that it would result in him going off the rails and being corrupted. But as the episodes proceded he's absolutly fine. He even get to chop vegtables with his daughter and defends the Johnnies with no issues.

My next thought was that this was just demonstrating how a high trust value allows you to shrug off fear. Then Smile, a higher ranking hero, got corrupted. Nice is breaking down.

And Ghostblade doesn't seem to notice anything is wrong.

This isn't because he's emotionless and doesn't feel fear or anything either. When Professor Lou is talking about how emotionless Ghostblade clearly must be to withstand DJ Shindig's attack the shot immediately pans to Ghostblade making food with his daughter. He has a panic attack about moving back in with his family. And fear does nothing.

I didn't understand why they went out of their way to carefully animate this shot when this event was so easy to just not write and then seemingly didn't address it again. There obviously must be something I was missing. So I revisited Ghostblade's pv.

Oh boy was he being experimented on. Scaples, brain scans, and whatever this liquid is being injected into him. Yikes.

And the purple syringe is what interests me the most about the sequence even more than the hacksaw because it's purple pink shade reminds me of the affects of fear. It's not one to one. But it is close enough to be considered a prototype.

Ghostblade seems to be a young kid during this so given then the timeline of the show this even would occur 7 or nine years after Downfall. A time when people would be very interested in developing something other than trust and enough time for practical studies of it to be observed.

This experimentation would allow Ghostblade to devolop a resistance to fear enabling him to shrug off the substance in present day.

Person B: "Your petnames are awful."

-I can make my OC a worse person

-I can make my OC more miserable

-I can make my OC more repressed

-I can give my OC more issues

-I can make my OC more self loathing