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Have you drawn Martian Manhunter before? I think he would have been a perfect fit on The Terrifics team. Do you know if he’s coming back in some capacity soon, or if that team could expand? He would work great as a pacifist superhero or as someone dealing with depression. Last of his race. Eternally lonely. Dealing with identity. Finding a place to call home. A lot of potential there. Things like telepathy, telekinesis, shapeshfting, invisibility, intangibility, all work as relevant metaphors.

evandocshaner:

I have, just not for published work. He’s definitely a favorite of mine, and somebody I talk to Rob Williams all the time about bringing back again. For now the Terrifics you see are the Terrifics you’ll get, and it’ll stick to four members for reasons. I agree with a few of your takes on him and maybe less so the others, but he is a fantastic character, albeit a very tricky one to get a handle on in the books. I remember seeing a writer years ago refer to him as being a very internal character, and that it’s part of what makes him so difficult to write, particularly in comics. It took me years to finally realize what that meant. When I did, I realized how much I relate to J’onn, and I’ve been a big fan since.

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I’ve got a design for him in my back pocket, riffing on his New 52 look, and this is part of it. Even this is a year or so old now and I see things I might change. But just in case somebody asks me out of the blue if I’ve got a take on the guy, I’m ready to go.

He was actually part of the Outsiders pitch Rob Williams and I put together not too long ago, when I’d forgotten that he’d recently been a part of that team before.

Anyway, yes, GREAT character. And even if I don’t know that The Terrifics is really the right place for him, I’d love to work on him eventually.

Aksha – a J’onn J’onzz backstory

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jiemba:

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A thousand thanks to @jossscarter for being my go-to Mars consultant on this, to all my followers for patiently waiting for me to start writing again after months away, and particularly to @all-the-gay-feels, @hollywritessometimes, @performativezippers, @whatdoidowiththisthing @ohmywanderingsoul and @rebeccabvnch for their encouragement.

Tw for description of a genocide. Link to AO3 here. 

In 300 years, this is what you will remember.

There isn’t long left, to find them. The room pulses with an unusual stillness, filling only with the sound of your own breath as your eyes stalk its every shadow – again, again – and come up empty handed.

You could use fire. They would have no defence from you, then. Nowhere to escape to, then.

“I will find you,” you call out, voice as low and gritty as you can bear it to go.

There’s no movement. They’re not here.

You’re sure.

“If you give up now, I will show you mercy,” you continue as you step outside, a breeze of red dust coasting over your feet. “But I will not rest until I find you.”

A thin rim of light is burning the sky into a long dusk, and your eyes strain in the dying glow.

There isn’t long left. You are being called back.

The earth is one colour. The rocks all the same.

There’s no time.

You go to reach for a flaming torch on the wall.

There.

Behind the rocks on the far left.

They are running. 

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Shameless reblog coz a few people have asked for this story lately since I said it was the hardest thing I wrote last year. That, and J’onn deserves more attention in the SG fandom. (Ps @martianbat you may like this.)