“Shh, it’s alright,” the villain said. “You’re doing beautifully and I’m so proud of you. But that’s enough now. It was cruel of them to make you fight me – you could never have won. It’s not your fault.”
The ancient and powerful villain may have had a calm and gentle face as he spoke, but he was furious, not at the hero, but the gods for continually sending kids and teenagers to fight their battles.
whoa I want me the supporting villain angry about kids being forced to fight them bc the Adults refuse to gear up themselves yesss
Alex is already a superhero in my book. If she was in the batfam she’d be running around with a cowl by now.
I was going to use this concept for a later story but I’m gonna speak it into existence now. Stay with me here guys. Alex as Nightwing.
Before you start crying that Nightwing is a Batman thing let me remind you that lil’ nerd Dick Grayson named himself Nightwing after the Kryptonian god that’s associated with Flamebird.
Reasons why Alex should be Nightwing:
1) Alex has no superpowers. Is a trained federal agent and scientist. If Dick Grayson can do it with a background of a carnie, Alex could certainly pull it off.
2) The Kryptonian god Nightwing was created by Rao to hunt evils that lived beyond his light in the shadows. Being a creature of shadow itself Nightwing lived a lonely existence until it was introduced to Flamebird, it’s soulmate. Alex also lives a life in the shadows hunting evils. The shadow of her family of her parents and Kara doesn’t stop her from finding her place in the DEO.
3) It fits in thematically and aesthetically. It would be poetic to have a set of Kryptonian made villains like the Worldkillers to be stopped by a member of the house of El and the avatar of a Kryptonian god.
In peacetime, the ruler grows their hair long. In war, they cut it short.
A ruler with long hair is held in great esteem, for defending the peace.
The traditional declaration of war is for the ruler to send their cut-off hair to the enemy ruler. The statement carries greater weight the longer the hair: to receive long hair says that you have angered one who is slow to anger, that you have incurred a wrath not easily woken.
Violent war-mongering leader frantically and aggressively tries to shave just a LITTLE hair off the top of their head into an envelope.
A faraway king receives a heavy wooden crate filled with a coil of the longest hair he has ever seen.
A despised ruler finds hundreds of pounds of cut-off ponytails at her castle entrance, each one belonging to her own people.
A young emperor refuses to cut their hair and insists on trying to make peace with invaders. The enemy leader steps forward, draws their blade, and cuts the emperor’s hair themselves.
Hellen cuts her hair off and throws it in Cathy’s face at her son’s soccer scrimmage.
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