Tournament Of Elements, But Kai Gets Really Carried Away. It's Definitely One Of My Favourite Seasons

"You were acting out of self-preservation, but you didn't have enough determination!"

I had the idea in my head to draw the Rise turtles be swept in the violence, in B.E.A.S.T. I think it turned out well ^^

aximili-esgarrouth-isthil is living the fucking nightmare though tbh 

and I don’t even mean the thing about how he got trapped in a crashed ship miles under the ocean only to be informed upon rescue that while he was down there his big brother got eaten alive

I mean imagine you got stranded on an alien planet 

and all that stood in the path of galactic annihilation

was your PERSONAL ability to remember perfectly the contents of the class you had at 7:35 your freshman year of high school. the one you passed with a C. the one you mostly spent goofing off in the back with your best friend because it was the only class you had together. or, alternatively, the class RIGHT before lunch (so you were always hungry) that you had with your crush (so you were always kind of distracted watching her)

Your name is Aximili you have Space ADHD and every week you have to take a pop quiz about your high school theoretical physics class and if you ever get a question wrong everyone you know dies.

Also, while you were trapped in a crashed ship miles under the ocean slowly running out of air, your big brother got eaten alive.

so like, what if you were the last surviving animorph but it's been canonically established that you still had your best friend's DNA in your body

Loser baby emos ;)

thinking. and. there’s a very specific kind of bond you get with. friends raising friends, you know? like i always say that yj had huge parts in raising each other vs the original titans who had already been raised and who really . discovered who they were beyond that within each other and like. MAN. there’s of course the trauma and messy relationship of a parentified sibling and whatnot but the messy dynamics of a group of friends raising each other is also so very complex

i do think to some degree the titans helped each other but it wasn’t. raising each other it was carving out a home for them all in each other and whatnot but yj were really just kids and that bond is So Very Strong especially with the core four who continued to go on helping each other become people

not enough people talk about how much work the titans had to do to even be recognized by the league also. and they had to like. basically fight? tooth and nail? against their own mentors to be recognized as something in themselves and not just additions to their mentors. and they only had each other for that!!! dick grieved jason with the titans!!!! donna went through some of the most traumatizing self identity ass shit with the titans!!!!!!!!!! raven found a home with the titans!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i’m so

i just have lots of thoughts about friends raising each other + friends helping each other heal from the way they were raised

that’s also why i think it’s important people know the difference between the kind of teams the titans are + young justice was

with the titans. they were the originals! they built themselves a name, a safe space, a reputation and a family with each other. but they were the original younger heroes. while what they had was special to Just them, they also wanted to make the titans a safe space for all the younger heroes who needed a home and a family like they did. they looked back at their history and decided to try to help other young heroes avoid it. they added BRANCHES of the team. the original titans wanted to do everything in their power to prevent other young heroes from making their mistakes. what they have will always be special to them, but they’re willing to open the doors to what they built to every other young hero. they don’t have to, but they will. dick grayson, donna troy, roy harper, garth and wally west (and eventually, raven, garfield, kory and vic) built the kind of team that’s a legacy that many, many other young heroes can add to over the years. they’re not the league, but they can be and ARE mentors for young heroes, whether they’re personally involved in their lives or not.

with young justice? they raised each other. they depended on each other and trusted each other in ways they didn’t even realize. they bonded through it all. that’s not to say the titans didn’t, but it’s very different. whether it’s because of the people or the ages, it’s different. the titans have become a legacy with different branches but young justice was never going to be that. the core four are what’s left of young justice and they’re holding it too closely to their chests for there to ever really be another young justice that really involves them. greta’s not a ghost, cissie’s not a hero, slobo is gone and anita is basically gone. the four of them are all that’s left and whether they realize it or not (which i believe they do), they don’t WANT another team without those people. they can work with them, but it will never be like it was. the titans are a legacy, but young justice was just a family.

and like. i’m not saying the core four are wrong for that! i think they can be dicks about it but they aren’t inherently wrong for wanting to protect something so dear to them. tim isn’t dick, cassie isn’t donna, bart isn’t wally. they aren’t interested in building up a network of teams based on what they went through. they just aren’t. people have titans for that, young justice is for them. and i think that’s SUCH a solid difference in characterization for all of the characters involved. and it’s not like they’re selfish for it?? i’d argue they’re valid for it. the titans are also valid but man. it just. phew. things were so very different. i think the titans might have done it anyway, but if things were different, if there was another team and the roles were reversed (i.e young justice came before titans), they would be a little more hesitant to open up the titans to others.

that’s why in reverse robin aus where tim comes before dick and he has yj and it operates as essentially the titans, it doesn’t really work, imho. I JUST HAVE LOTS OF THOUGHTS

Don't Think About It (3)

Don’t think of Odalia being willing to abandon her children to save her own skin

Don’t think of the kids running out of food and giving the last bits to the younger kids

Don’t think of these kids, abandoned in a world-changing without them, trying to raise other kids

Don’t think of the kids comforting the younger kids, so sad and scared, unable to understand why their parents have left them

Don’t think about Edric’s body never being quite right after all that’s happened

Don’t think about his wrists clicking or locking or how he limps when it rains

Don’t think of Emira painstakingly bandaging him, her hands shaking horribly, thinking of if her baby sister was hurt just as bad or worse

Don’t think of Boscha, watching her loved ones be possessed, and suddenly being in charge of everyone else

Don’t think of how lonely and abandoned she felt

Don’t think of how the kids have the weight of the world on their shoulders

Don’t think of how out of control Hunter and Willow felt

Don’t think of how tired Luz is

Don’t think of how worried Amity has been

Don’t think of how the weight of all the secrets he keeps was slowly crushing Gus

Don’t think of Camila realizing for the first time how out of their element her kids were in her home

Don’t think of how betrayed the Collector felt

fnaf au i made a few days ago c: !! this doesn’t necessarily follow the actual lore it was just something I did for fun,, had to throw in some style angst too and if you’re wondering what stan is saying: “kyle? kyle can you hear me. please wake up ky.” (I’ll post some cute teen style later to make up for this :3)

“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

Seo Changbin, son of Hades

Fic

“You’ve no right to starve people, to punish them for no reason. No right to take away their life and freedom. Those are things everyone is born with, and they’re not yours for the taking. Winning a war doesn’t give you that right. Having more weapons doesn’t give you that right. Being from the Capitol doesn’t give you that right. Nothing does.” ― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes