meili-sheep
3 months ago

So I need people to hear me out for a second.

I'm a fan of Jason actually being Lady Shiva's kid for a couple of reasons. Mostly because I think it would set up some really fun and interesting dynamics between Cass, Jason and well Shiva and Talia. But generally it's a guilty pleasure of mine as I can't typically justify in my head how Jason ended up in Gotham with Willis (Or how Willis would even know Shiva). But this is where you need to hear me out there is one universe where i think it would work though and that's Batman the Adventures Continue the spin off comic of Batman the animated Series.

Jason's story is already so different in that because well... Tim kind is Jason in BTAS. Any Jason is introduced to us by fighting off a gang by himself. And we aren't given a lot on Jason's background other then he was an orphan and had a brother who died because of the gang he decided to beat up. So that ambiguity does give more room for things to be reworked and Jason being more naturally good at fighting would lend a little more creditability to being Shiva's son here.

Now you might counter point me with Jason having a brother. One he clearly cared about because he decided to take on a whole street gang for him and eventually named himself after (The Red Hood) but we could just give ourselves another little Catherine situation where Jason just ended up with his brother and/or his brother's family before they passed.

To my memory Shive doesn't show up in BTAS or any of the DC Animated Universe. But think about it. Red Son Rising ends ends with Jason telling Bruce to be with the Robin who needs him and getting carried away by a current only to end up with Slade. There is already potential there with Slade pretty clearly wanting take over Batman's mentor role and potentially even get to Batman through Jason based on what happened in Mentors.

And I hope your still with me here because here is how I'm thinking it would go. Slade starts noticing things about Jason's skill and natural ability. And Having already heard about Shiva having a kid starts looking into it. Tell Jason all this trying to play on Jason's desire for a family who would accept him as is and trying to earn his trust through this. You could also at the same time have Cass appearing in Gotham. And having Bruce being reminded of Jason in Cass's natural gifts. You could have Bruce running her DNA and having a sibling match to Jason here and you could work in an angle of Cass feeling the need to bring Jason back not for just herself but to fully be accepted by Bruce. You could just do so much with the conflicts between Slade and Batman, then Jason and Batman and Slade and Jason. Because I think Jason wouldn't be that trusting of Slade here but Jason remembering his brother and learning of more family I think he'd go for it regardless, then is conflicted with Shiva and Cass being with Bruce.

So lot of good character conflict. Lots of new dynamics and to me a pretty reasonable set up for it. And Jason's dad can be who ever! Some random thug, Willis or Joe Todd, David Cain, Richard Dragon pick your poison. I just need more Cass and Jason (And letting me ignore how they went THE ANGRY ROBIN route again.)

Anonymous:

Got interested in your diluc content, stayed because I genuinely like and respect you. And you should not feel bad for being interested in something else. Post about whatever you like. 👍👍👍👍

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Aww Thank you! I’m glad! I know I tend to be intense in some ways and I do my best do mitigate that. I really have kind of an off button when I find people doing some morally wrong. And well Hoyo’s racism slammed that button and nothing was helped by Natlan’s being writing very… bad (Of what i played).

And I know it hasn’t looked like I’ve been around a ton but I’ve been doing longer writing on a different blog. If you are interested. It is more comic focused, but I am doing more short thoughts here because I do appercaite everyone who follows me and everyone who likes that Diluc Harem art i did a while back with the seelies lol.

Anonymous:

What's a trope you dislike?

I really hate the trope where Character A likes Character B, and to get their attention they decide to flirt with other people or sleep with other people just to get Character B's attention. And it actually works 😑

I also don't like it when Authors punish a Character for not being able to express their feelings correctly. Like, Character B likes to Character A, but they are too shy to tell their feelings. But no! They are supposed tell their feelings now, they are SUCH a coward, despite Character A also being too shy to express their feelings. And then the author proceeds to bash Character B by having everyone call them out, insulting them, etc. 😑

I read a fic where the author was Character B gets punished for not being able to tell Character A they love them. And in the tags, 'Character B is Autistic'.

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Ok… But I’m autistic and I do my best to be very clear with people. Now I know autism is a spectrum and manifest in different ways but bro… I’m a bit insult and very concerned that it leans into infantilizing autistic people.

Which is a big no no troupe for me, is kinda of generally when on Character gets infantilized and the other must protect them. PLEASE I WANT TWO GROWN ASS ADULTS PLEASE

And still on that line I hate miscommunication/liar revealed trope. I have dropped SO MANY romances because both of those. Liar revealed actually has a specially place of hate in my heart because half the time the lies are SO STUPID and just make the character look like a selfish asshole. And they can’t actually learn anything about NOT FUCKING LYING because they still get their reward/win in the end because they are ‘sorry’. There are a few exceptions to this I think like Disney’s Aladdin I think Is the trope actually done well because well Aladdin’s lie was better for Jasmine in the start not just for himself, it also gave a chance to show Jasmine’s intelligence by having her clock in a lie to get something closer to the truth out of him. Aladdin’s second lie is a little less forgivable, because it was clear she would have liked him as a beggar, but there still feels like a decent enough reason behind it all.

I also really don’t like jealousy troupes for the same reasons you described. It really speaks to a weak character who has no respect for their partner. And that’s the core of it. In my head if you really love someone, you’ll respect them enough not to treat them in these ways.

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If one more person asks for role queue. I will flipped out. This Isn’t comp. Just let people play and practice with characters they love.

I play support. I gen do not care if the other five auto lock duelist. Is the game easier? Yeah Maybe. But if I was serious about this game I wouldn’t be playing with randos.