Wahhhluigi

if ever you are writing child characters i entreat you to allow them to be 1) intelligent 2) assholes 3) intelligent about being assholes. you might think "theyre too young for calculated menace!" and so, i raise you an anecdote wherein me and a friend i played horses with at recess (normal 7 year old girl behavior) were talking and she told me she lived on a farm with 60 horses. now. i was immediately suspicious. 6 i would have let slide. 60 was a bald-faced lie that i clocked immediately. i was pissed that she lied to me and i was pissed she thought i would believe it. i did not call her out on it. instead i waited for a classmate's birthday and once her parent arrived to pick her up, i ran up to them and put on my best earnest voice and asked, "do you really have 60 horses?!" and they turned around and bit her head off. i didn't have the word for it at the time but the emotion i felt was vindication. it was unequivocally an asshole move though. im not saying children are manipulators i'm saying maybe that 11 year old protagonist has a higher capacity for vengefulness than a toddler. you know? and that's how i approach writing tim drake.

Young Justice '98 is wild. Boob joke! The ending of classic children's movie Air Bud (1997) but with a car instead of a dog! An out-of-options suburban father shoots his 17 year old son because he's terrified of any harm coming to his wife! Sick pop culture reference! A local PTA hires the team to throw a safe, substance-free party! Superboy is unable to age and it terrifies him utterly when he thinks about all his friends aging and then dying and leaving him all alone! 70's disco hell!