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@thrownsoul
high above the smokestacks, throwing my soul, throwing my soul.
original character inspired by dc's blue beetle. written by zoe (90s kid, white, she/they). est. 2015.
inconsistent activity and slow reply. 21+.
🦋 rules. about. verses. 🪲 where to find. memes. wishlist. 🌻 nav. pinterest. spotify 1, 2.
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blue beetle.
dialogue prompts from blue beetle (2023).
i've searched for _____ years, i don't want to wait another second.
even good news sounds like bad news when you deliver it.
it's good to know some things don't change.
i could have done something. i could have been here.
you always land on your feet. you're [name].
i was supposed to get all of us out of here.
we're invisible to people like _____.
i won't let you do this.
back away. i'm not afraid of you.
i think it's time to find a new job.
i appreciate the chivalry.
i can take care of myself, okay?
we're not all dicks.
give me your phone. let me give you my number.
i feel like i failed you.
this is just a stop in the journey. it's not the destination.
everyone has a purpose. you just haven't found yours.
you look like an asshole, just like everybody else.
you don't hear that?
no police. they work for _____.
i know who you are. what are you doing here?
it doesn't look that bad.
we're gonna figure it out. we always do.
to be honest, i didn't think this would work.
i'm not a killer.
you should've finished me when you had the chance.
please, just don't hurt my family.
you can call me whatever you want, i don't care.
your house is full of love. a family. that's a home.
i haven't talked about this in a very long time.
you're a good listener.
i'm gonna go for a walk.
it's not lost on me that your situation is a little out of the ordinary.
when we get hit, we only get stronger.
the universe has sent you a gift. you have to figure out what to do with it.
i know how you feel, but you have to be brave.
there will be a time to cry. this is not that time. now is the time to fight.
everything we've done was for this moment.
there's plenty you don't know about your _____.
you're sorry? what does that even mean?
sacrifices have to be made for the greater good.
my destiny was to be here with you in this moment.
this look really suits you.
you got this. you can do this.
where did you learn to shoot like that?
what a mess you have made.
use the pain you're feeling and turn it into power.
i thought i'd never see you again.
i told you i wasn't going anywhere.
i cannot protect you anymore. i'm sorry.
you are still a scared little _____.
do you remember everything i've done for you?
now we can cry.
how about i walk you out?
syrin's commentary on blue beetle (2023). i BARKED
what to expect from shipping with alice: a study in memes
and most of all:
helena shrugs her shoulders, casual yet armoured with something sturdy and steel and reinforced with kevlar at the seams.
“i have my biases. i hold grudges all too well, alice,” she sighs. “i am not shy to admit i hold a rather cynical opinion of many of our colleagues and associates; if it weren’t for the handful that i fortunately got to know as well, i’d say i don’t like heroes in general.”
“what’s there to be proud of in this role? the pretend-authority we don to cope with the state of the world and the sheer incompetence in it?” the huntress rests her hands on her hips. “i don’t know your whole story, admittedly. i have no reason to hold you in less than high regard,” and she does mean it, of course; she has no intention to make alice feel bad in particular, but helena doesn’t let anybody off the hook — they should be held to higher standards, in her perspective, if they truly wish to dedicate themselves to helping people. otherwise, there is no shortage of entryways to fame and nobility. “i just know why i do what i do. trying to look good is a meaningless pursuit in this line of work, anyway.”
“say, do we have anything going on here today?” hel asks, rolling her shrugs a little, easing out the mild tension from standing near-still and upright since dawn. “‘cause if we’re going to kill the time with chitchat anyhow, then you can tell me how you and jamie met.”
a pause, then a reassuring, casual wave of her hand — “if you want to, of course.”
alice lets huntress explain herself without interruption. she's satisfied that the comment about playing both sides wasn't personally targeted, even if she's not convinced that she's started at the other vigilante's top rung when it comes to regard.
that's fine, though. she doesn't really need a high opinion, as long as it's honest.
"i can respect that. it's a principled stance." alice tilts her head, looking huntress in the face again. "i don't think it's me, though. and i don't think the good role model is me, either. i think..."
she trails off, still getting her thoughts in order. why i do what i do. what is there to be proud of.
"i think... part of me still hopes that if i fight this fight, one day we'll make a world where there's no more need for us. or, maybe—i don't know. hope isn't even the right word. more like a pipe dream. but i want it."
she could trust someone who didn't have that hope, but she couldn't trust someone who didn't want that world.
"jaime?" the use of his first name, no alias, catches her off guard more than the invitation. "there's not a lot to tell."
@helraising
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if he were wearing his helmet, his HUD would be flashing red with warnings as the unauthorised connection breaks through. as it is, FRIDAY doesn’t have a chance to say anything useful before it’s too late. tony jumps, visibly, as his earpiece crackles and there’s a voice in his ear that he doesn’t recognise.
no, he does recognise it. but by the time he recognises it, she’s already explained herself.
well, he was right about coincidences. what exactly were the chances of julie’s roommate being a superhero? definitely higher than they fucking should be.
they were meant to be having a conversation about trips into outer space, weren't they? goddammit.
his eyes are wide. shock plastered all over his face for a second before he dials it back. he had not been even close to putting two and two together.
"that's time sensitive? why couldn't you just tell me that later?"
yes, tony is definitely focusing on the important part of this revelation. don't worry, there's a thousand and one other questions he has that he's managed to bite back. emotions being held in an iron-tight grip.
"you wanted to find out later?" her eyebrows crease, pretty clearly a ??? even in the armor. like she's looking at him not so much in disbelief but genuine puzzlement. what khaji ren would call a computational error. through scarab, again: << you wanted to go home wondering whether you could trust this anonymous stranger, then find out later that you already know me? >>
she can't imagine it would have built trust. but the chances of that are plummeting, anyway.
"it's fine if you hate me." she knows she did the right thing, helping out. she thinks she did the right thing by telling him, too. "i just wanted you to know, before—" alice shrugs. before it felt like a betrayal. "it's me going home that's time-sensitive, anyway. i'm a couple hours past due."
Forget me not
Myosotis
i've talked on and off about how alice's fear of scarab prevented her from treating it like a person (the way jaime did with khaji da) and learned more about it the hard way. but the flipside of that is that she genuinely did want to get a good grade in superhero, so being promised answers by the reach and then, you know... it catastrophically fucked up her relationship to admitting she wants any help or support ever
Alice still cleans the dishes herself, like her parents made her do before they had a dishwasher. Her washer now works just fine, but she needs something to do with her hands. The repetitive motions are soothing. Soap bubbles glitter in the light from the window, where her phone is propped on the sill. Sometimes she listens to music while she works. (A lot of Banks, lately.)
Today it's Bucky, listening to her. She has a week of library gossip to catch him up on—difficult patrons, baffling reference requests, unintentionally hilarious kids. Fynn once said that can't get a word in edgewise was a phrase made for her, when she's on a rant. That was along time ago. It's hard to imagine that she ever talked that much. Or that she laughed as much as she talked.
Maybe being back in the comfortable environment of the library is bringing it out in her. She'd like to believe that. She would like it to be true, someday. But she still feels so far from what she wants to do—who she wanted to be, when that was the person she was—and when she can't see past getting up in the morning, how can she imagine that?
But Bucky is someone completely steady. She might surprise him, or confuse him, but he never doesn't believe her. Whatever he's doing, on his side of a window to another state of being, he never leaves the frame.
"You haven't said anything in awhile." Alice pauses, trying to get her braids out of her face without touching them with sudsy hands. They swing like pendulums. "You all right?"
He doesn't answer right away. She is used to this.
@maybepeace / bucky: you are just so easy to look at.
Alice's brow furrows. She lifts a plate, then lets it slide back into the water.
Lowering herself to direct eye level with the phone, she folds her arms on the edge of the countertop. Her look is analytical, not a bit shy. It isn't impressed, either, if that was a line. Studying him in return, she doesn't think it was.
"You know where to find me."
She doesn't want to put demands on his time, doesn't want him to come just because it's easier than disappointing her. It slips out anyway, despite. "When are you coming back?"
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ftr if we've ever talked about our character dynamic at all i'm so down for a shared pinterest board. i love to collaborate on something silly and time-consuming
Not the only assholes in the universe. – He wouldn’t quite put it like that, but he couldn’t deny that there were quite a few species out there, who thought they owned the universe. Humanity did. Sometimes. It depended on the time and how far they had come with their attempts of travelling space. Considering they hadn’t managed to bring people further into the depth of the universe than the moon yet, they were still far away from the power they once would be. And even further from said power slipping through their fingers again.
“ – I don’t think I would answer you, if you did.” Still a hint of the former smile resting on his lips, he answered her question briefly with amusement tinting his words. TIME LORD. The title was pretentious and while he had used it to his advantage quite a few times, he didn’t necessarily see himself as superior to most humans. Not in this way. Some differences, of course, couldn’t be ignored, but where he held strengths, there were also weaknesses – which had always been balanced out by his companions. For example, the fact that he liked to drift off with his thoughts.
Her question did similar; it brought him back to the topic they had been talking about, while his thoughts had wandered back to the things he was running from. His people. Partially.
Briefly letting his gaze wander to the traffic light they had stopped at, he considered his answer carefully – sometimes he wouldn’t have done for everyone, as his usually answer would have been a plain and simple NO.
“ – Time Lord is as much as a title as somewhat of a different species. You earn it. You change. And not everyone on the planet I’m from will gain – the so-called privileges.”
Alice snorts a laugh. "Well, I don't know about the rest of them, Doc, but I think you're all right."
She has reached the decision of a classic bad judge of character, but she doesn't know it yet.
"Let me guess. Is the TARDIS one of those privileges?"
The Doctor's pause says as much as the brief explanation. Those comments a second ago about arrogance, about deeming other species unfit for time travel. About building their physiology around it. Hierarchy. Segregation. Eugenics.
"Sounds familiar. People are people... are people." She shrugs. "The universe over, apparently."
There's a small, unhappy silence. The light changes.
"Have you ever been to a successful anarchist planet? Maybe we should go there. After this." She tacks on the last clause as a hasty afterthought. Not assuming she'll definitely be going along, but trying to be nicer about the idea. She hasn't processed it yet, not by a long shot. "Or, hell, maybe these guys will want to come, too."
i generally operate on the understanding that alice has not met jaime personally, or very much only in passing. she knows a lot about him, and he means a lot to her, but i think it would take a lot of work to actually convince her to talk to him—and that has happened sometimes in threads, but it's not my default way of positioning her.
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alice takes the expression right off of nól's face, but that's okay, because nól has another, even more mischievous expression waiting to replace it.
"can you bee sure?"
her fingers go still, and her eyes narrow.
"i trust them implicitly." she throws the grass at nól. "honey."
"bees are notorious liars."
eyes focused on the grass blades she's idly braiding, alice makes a face that isn't exactly a frown. more of a thoughtful pout.
"they've never lied to me."
