Hound55

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Nah, I've given up on any pretense of being a respectable, successful adult at this point.

@Eddie Brock

Hope is for the young.

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"The word: Consume."

"It’s origins, like our good friend Mr Duchamp, come from France, with heavy influence from the Roman Empire prior. 'Consumer'."

"...and not as in 'one who consumes'."

"'Consumer', as I just explained so eloquently, can be broken down to it’s Latin parts."

"'Con-' For 'altogether' or 'all in one bunch' or something of that ilk, and the verb 'sumere'… 'to take up'. As in 'sumo', 'I take up'. 'Sumis', 'You, individually, take up'. 'Sumit', 'He, she or it takes up'. 'Sumimus', 'We take--”

"You know what..? Sorry. I tend to get carried away with my Latin. Beautiful language. It has a mathematical precision… But back to the point at hand."

"You might be asking yourself at this point, 'Well, yes. To consume means just that. To lay waste and devour the whole thing.' Perhaps you are even drawn to the phrase 'to have one’s cake and eat it too' which deals with this nature of consumption, perhaps more aptly the phrase should be 'to eat one’s cake and have it too', but we needn't delve into the inaccuracies and inadaquacies of man here and now. The main point I'm making is that the sentiment generally being expressed in modern times is that some things are a digital 'either/or' situation and that if you consume a thing you can not still have the item with you to use again later."

"But there is a reason why before the Latin used it in a sense of 'to take up'..."

"Understand that many early civilizations often dealt with the nature of cannibalism as a cultural tradition. Understandably, to many members of modern civilizations - say, Jack Russell for instance as a particularly pertinent example - the thought of which may leave something of a bad taste in the mouth..."

"But to these people cannibalism can serve a somewhat respectful cause. To many early tribes it would be unthinkable to allow a relative to be lost without a trace. Without a morsel to be found for his descendants. This is because many of these early civilizations believed that in the consumption of the flesh, attributes of the deceased can be passed on to the eater. Whether this be some concept of a “soul” or merely the admirable attributes of the deceased - such as, say, desirable hunting or gathering traits, keen eyesight, the ability to wage war or defend the tribe. A relative, or occasionally a member of a foreign tribe, all taken up completely, for the benefit of the consumer."

"Again, not the frenchman DuChamp..."

"Having a little something to do with the path to the next world myself, I feel qualified to inform you of the role of consumption for those seeking safe travels between worlds."

"But I’ll try to remain humble, however much that means for one of my station. Sometimes, for a god, attempts at humility are themselves a condescension..."

"Again we’ll consider Khonshu, and the role of one such as him. To aid those traversing worlds beyond this mortal coil. You may remember I mentioned previously how he would capture and kill other gods for the benefit of those travellers."

"To immortals such as gods, death is often a very fickle thing and seldom means the end."

"Particularly beyond your mortal world in the cosmos of the Othervoid and Overvoid."

"The attributes of a god become valuable commodities in these worlds. And for gods capable of rejuvenation and resurrection, the cost of having the eyes and will of Horus, the mind of the mighty Thoth, the dignity of Osiris, the aesthetics of Hathor or the radiance of Ra himself are largely inconvenience."

"So we see that consumption is not always negative, nor an ends of itself. Sometimes it can be it’s own means."

"Of course sometimes that is still the case... Take it from a god of the moon and one who is familiar with Ammut..."

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<Snipped quote by Superboy>

I think it's an economical issue. Do you know how much makeup remover you need to reverse permanent and bizarrely specific chemical bleaching?

@Master Bruce

"Yes. Yes, I do."

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Yeah, well... that's what your guy gets for taking some of my guy's shit in the first place. Two can play at the sampling game, you moon-a-rang wielding, cape wearing, nocturnal billionaire vigilante motherfucker...

@Master Bruce

Batman glider-capes away to fight his Scott Snyder-version Joker with his face carved off...

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With a little over a month to go to the end of Season 1, how do you all feel about your Character's development and progress at this point? Are you accomplishing the story you've wanted to tell? Did you hope to be further along? What are some of the things you're looking forward to for next season that you didn't get to accomplish this season?

@Lord Wraith

I'm more than a little mixed on how and where I've taken Bruce for the season, if I'm to be honest. For one thing, I do take pride in the fact that unlike many, many, way too many attempts in the past, I've yet to stop or really bail out on this version of Batman for whatever reason. The sheer fact that I've pushed ahead and told myself to just keep writing no matter what is a pretty shocking thing, if you know my track record for burning out fairly quickly. That tells me that I'm in it for the long-haul, and leaves me excited to explore future seasons.

However. Because I chose to go a more aimless, introductory route with my initial arc, and because that took up most of the season to complete (I didn't even plan to feature Deadshot, Ivy, or Jessica Jones), not only did I not get to a majority of what I had wanted to introduce, I also really haven't even scratched the surface of Bruce's fractured psychology. For whatever reason, the way I wrote Batman in UOU went from being a very bare-bones origin phase of the character to just being rather comfortably the character itself with sprinkles of the problems I wanted him to have. And the overall state of Gotham was meant to shift and change alot more, with the mob being phased out for the supervillains, but that's obviously not the case. Nashton was actually supposed to be the lynchpin of that and be the villain of this season, but so far he's been a background player. There was also alot more meant to be done with Selina Kyle and Barbara Gordon, who'd respectively be closer to becoming Catwoman and a legitimate ally of Batman's, but there just wasn't time. And perhaps most ambitiously, I actually wanted to do a whole origin story arc that showed Bruce going from ski-mask vigilante mode to donning the cape proper, since that's a story I've been dying to tell.

So I'm in a bit of an odd place where if I could do it all again, I'd make some serious changes. But I'm also not entirely regretful. I've had fun, and when it comes down to it, I don't think I nessescarily did a bad job at improvising an entire story. It certainly sets up interesting possibilities for Season Two. But there are many, many things that had to be moved to either a future season or scrapped entirely because of how the story panned out, and that does leave me feeling as though I didn't accomplish what I wanted to. So, eh. I'm very torn.

Though, I've got a big post coming up that'll be the first part of what sets the stage for Season Two - not to mention a crossover that I'm very excited for. And if I can throw Batman into the mix of the MME, that'll be the icing on the cake. So I'm still excited to move forward and tell these stories, they're just happening in a way and at a pace that I wish I had taken more control over.

@Master Bruce

I've clipped in MB's quote because in some ways his schizophrenic Batman has made me up the stakes on where and what Moon Knight is in this world.

I feel alright about the character progression so far... but that's mainly because I've written a bit ahead of what I have actually posted. I've also got a clearer idea in mind for who and what he is now than the broadstrokes of earlier posts which had basically a few outlines on what I originally wanted. With the existence of schizophrenic Batman I'm moving a bit deeper into Egyptian mythology and we may see some established characters spin out in nslightly different (but still workable ways).

I'm mostly telling the story I initially wanted to tell, whilst taking a few opportunities to set up established key figures in the world around the central character for future seasons. May not be completely happy with a few individual posts as I get there... but I'm getting there.

Season 2 is going to focus a bit more on how he came to be and the character delving into his past, whilst simultaneously dealing with an actual threat from the canon.

Season 3 i hope to be done with his past and have him be all about living in the moment and really going nuts with his antagonists and dragging a few in from other Marvel/DC areas and a lot more cross collaboration with the world as a whole.

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John Constantine was in love. He’d never admit it to anyone, especially to himself, but how else could he explain the feeling he got when he was with Kit Ryan?

@Byrd Man

Marriage has changed you...

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Ultimate Universe Number 2: Pushing The Next Big Movement

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I promise my next post WON'T have Marc Spector in it!

Sit on it and spin, expectations!

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You know some of this because I've mentioned it before, @Master Bruce...

Denny O'Neill is my favourite Batman writer ever. I've got his novelization of Knightfall at home and I'm chipping away at it and...

I've gotta say your Batman stuff is better than Denny's Batman prose.

You're more Batman than the man who epitomizes Batman to me.

...stupid talented prick.

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I will say, though, that while on an emotional level it will always bother me if they don't bring back "With great power...", intellectually I do love watching them squirm, right? So we had:

Raimi: "With great power comes great responsibility."

Then:

Webb: "Your father believed that if you could do something to help people, it was your duty to do those things."

And then:

MCU: "Because when you can do things I can, and you don't? And then the bad things happen? They happen because of you."

So I can only assume the next reboot will be something like: "Wherefore as a person or persons is possessed of some unique capabilities, and being so possessed has the agency with which to enact change, they should and must then comport themselves in a manner displaying all due responsibility of such a station."

@Eddie Brock

Where P = Power and R = Responsibility...

Raimi films
P ---> R

Webb films
The square root of P² ---> 2R / 2

MCU
P+P-P/1 ---> RxR / R / 1