A Silly Thought

Superman Fic Idea

So, I’ve seen plenty of fic where Batman is depicted as the most paranoid member of the Justice League where no one knows his identity n the whole team and maybe don’t even know he has kids. (I hate fics where the justice league meet the Batfamily for several reasons) And, for the most part, I do think Batman would be more paranoid then other members when it comes to contingency plans, but I don’t actually think he’d be the most paranoid about his actual identity. Pretty much everyone Batman knows and cares for is some kind of super or super-affiliated. He’d be careful, but I don’t think he’s the most motivated to make sure his identity stays secret.

You know who has a lot more incentive to want his secret identity locked down right? Superman. This almost invincible hero who can really only be hurt by going after his loved ones, of which he has plenty. Superman has his parents, his friends, the Daily Planet and Smallville, all of whom would be in danger if it got out that who he was. Not to mention, Superman doesn’t where a mask, his biggest protection on his identity is that no one thinks he has one. You don’t suspect the random reporter guy to be Superman unless you have reason to believe Superman has an actual job.

I think Superman would actually be one of the most careful heroes in regard to his identity. And it would be pretty easy for him to do, especially since he has an actual name to give them to use.

Moving to the actual fic idea. A story about the Justice League founding and growing together through the framing of how much Superman shares about himself. I like the idea of the Justice League being taken in by the Kal-El came to earth as a teenager-adult and using his birth name. I think Superman might drop hints about himself mixed with info he learned from ai Joe-El. I just think it would be a fun story, maybe play with expectations in a bit with Batman and Superman.

Star Wars Thoughts

I feel like, since Obi-Wan is such a beloved character, he kind of gets put on this pedestal by a lot of the fan base and, as a result, Anakin tends to get shafted. People don’t seem to understand how Anakin’s fall really works, there always seems to be just the most superficial understanding of how his Turn happened. No one seems to want to think about it, but Obi-Wan had a pretty big role in Anakin’s Fall, actually.

Because, here’s the thing, Obi-Wan is a good Jedi, and a good friend, it’s clear he loves Anakin, but he is not a good teacher. And Anakin suffered for it.

Anakin is exceptionally skilled at the physical aspects of using the Force and being a Jedi, but when it comes to understanding their core tenants and philosophies, he’s detached. Obi-Wan failed to make Anakin feel at home with the Jedi, likely imitating his own training and that of others with limited thought to how Anakin’s background as a slave might change his perspective on these teachings.

Of course, part of the problem is that the Jedi Code is terribly flawed but that just exacerbates the problem. Obi-Wan is a negative enforcement type of teacher, he critiques Anakin’s actions and scolds him far more than he gives positive feedback and validation that Anakin desperately needs. So Anakin has to get that validation elsewhere, namely from Palpatine. Who on top of the regular kind of grooming and gaslighting, also has probably been spreading a miasma of Darkness around him, encouraging Anakin’s worse thoughts and feelings.

Then, of course, there’s what happened with Shmi, I’m of the opinion that Anakin’s visions, both with Shmi and then Padme, were planted by Palpatine. He showed no other signs of having any kind of prophetic abilities outside those two situations. Actually Palpatine is probably behind Shmi’s death all together, it’s just a little too convenient.

But those machinations don’t change how Obi-Wan was completely dismissive of Anakin’s fears and that led to drastic consequences. Obi-Wan as Anakin’s teacher was a terrible idea, why the Council though a recently knighted and traumatized young man would be the perfect caretaker for a recently freed slave kid is beyond me. It’s like they were setting him up to fail.

As for the actual Fall itself, another headcannon of mine is that Anakin was probably exhausted, he’d been on nonstop campaigns in the war for who knows how long, had been having constant nightmares that left him unable to sleep through the night, had most of his support base taken away except the corrupt one and another who had her own issues keeping her busy, and on top of that was under a ton of stress from being torn between Palpatine and the Jedi Council, Palpatine timed the whole thing just right to get the results he wanted. Unsurprising seeing as he managed to play both sides of the War. By the end Anakin was probably clinging to the Light by his fingertips.

Code Geass Problem

There are a lot of things wrong with the alternate history in the Code Geass world, it’s like the authors just threw together a few key points in history they thought were interesting and said they went differently without any real follow through. For one, Britannia apparently exists because the Roman Empire never managed to permanently conquer the British isles, or something. That’s a huge fricken deal, it would have caused everything in the Western Hemisphere to go differently but somehow most of the world apparently progressed a lot like the real world. Napoleon as the first president of the EU or whatever really doesn’t make any sense considering who the man actually was and his beliefs but whatever, not to mention Washington’s Rebellion. How did the thirteen colonies even form when all the empires that took over the Americas are fundamentally different? The BS about Benjamin Franklin always manages to make me incredibly angry, of all the founding fathers they could have chosen to be the traitor they managed to pick one of the least likely candidates. Whatever, I’m not going into all the many problems, but the one thing that really bothers me for reasons I don’t really get, why does pre-invasion Tokyo look like the Tokyo of today? That city only exists as is because the original one was burnt down by the American bombing in WWII and then rebuilt, there’s no reasons for it to look like that when it took a very precise series of events to make it, events that didn’t happen in the Code Geass universe. Nothing is more irritating than ill thought out worldbuilding, especially in products I actually like.

Sandman Fic

I’m getting pretty annoyed with the trope in fic that Morpheus is out of touch with the modern day. I get that he talks pretty formally and is an ancient being, but he’s also the personification of every living thing’s collective unconsciousness. He’s going to know all the same everyday stuff of any modern person that’s in their unconscious mind. The fact that he was trapped for a century, or 80 years depending, wouldn’t change that. Especially if you consider the comic canon that he’s Dream for the universe, not just Earth. Just because he missed humanity’s jump in tech doesn’t mean any of it is new to him. There are probably plenty of alien planets with similar and more advanced technology he would have known before he was imprisoned in the first place. I just don’t like that idea and I see it way too often.

Hetalia - Hogwarts

I don’t actually have much interest in the Harry Potter fandom, not anymore. I think the entire series is overrated and that there are way too many Hogwarts AUs out there.

That being said, America would absolutely be sorted into Slytherin no matter what he likes to say about him being the Hero.

The Marvel Problem

So I know that the big thing with Marvel that differentiates it from DC was having it exist in the “real world” and not a bunch of made up cities and since the guys writing the characters were all from New York City, that’s where they put them because they knew it best. But I feel like things have grown to the point of ridiculousness, NYC is a big city but it’s not that big. I was watching a YouTube video about how it doesn’t make sense for Miles Morales to not have Peter Parker around to help him out and his points carry over to the overall hero community. Besides that, aside from Spider-Man, it really wouldn’t be a big deal to move most of the heroes out of New York, give them their own space. I know Daredevil was in California for a while, let him move back there, or maybe keep him in New York, he’s pretty small scale so it wouldn’t be a big deal to have both him and Spidey around. But I feel like the Avengers should definitely move to the west coast, and I mean the proper Avengers, not a separate team. I think Luke Cage, Jessica Jones and Danny Rand could probably set up shop in, like, Chicago or something, that seems a good fit for them, maybe Felicia Hardy too. The Fantastic Four could move to, like, Albany or something, keep them in New York but give some distance. I don’t know where everyone should go but I really feel Marvel would benefit from putting distance between their heroes, give them space to act. Just a thought.

Harry Potter Complaint

Okay, so I don’t even know why I care anymore because I’ve already decided that Harry Potter is overrated and I should be done with it but I can’t stop thinking about how JK Rowling messes up magic in North America. I’m not even going to bother getting into all the issues with what she said about Native American magic, that’s a whole different problem that I don’t have the knowledge to competently talk about. My biggest issue is with the political landscape of the magical community I. The United States. Does she not know anything about how Congress and our branches of government work? There is just not possible way for there to be a magical president before the United States as a country was formed. Also, there would be no magical president at all, is there a magical prime minister in her books? No, there isn’t, there is a Minister of Magic, so it should be the Secretary of Magic. Further, what the hell is with Ivermony somehow being the only school for magic between all of the United States and Canada, does she have any idea how big these two countries are? We aren’t little island Britain that can pull off having one school, we are a massive continent, it’s complete unfeasible even if we did have the same culture of boarding school as they do, which we don’t. If you aren’t going to bother doing any research about the country you’re writing about before you starts describing a secret society in their midsts, don’t write anything.

The Yu-Gi-Oh Problem

I’m going to completely ignore Zexal and on.

I really liked Yugioh 5Ds when I was younger, I don’t really know why considering it was kind of a blatant cash grab, but the English theme was really catchy and I really loved Yusei’s voice actor, I might have had a bit of a crush on Yusei in general. I guess I just totally fell for the cheap “edgy” gimmick, which is funny because it isn’t like DM and GX weren’t dark themselves, but whatever. Yusei is definitely the best protagonist of the three. Anyway, my problem.

DM anime happened in, like, the early 2000s, and GX was supposed to be 10 years later with 5Ds a couple decades after that in some nebulous future point. But all of the shows were produced in the mid to late 2000s, so all of the tech looks pretty much the same across the three shows, though 5Ds has some generic futuristic looking stuff that still manages to look out of date. This really doesn’t work with what we now understand of the progression of our tech, by the time of GX everyone should have migrated to touch screens and, like, holo decks and stuff, not still using the clunky duel disks. And who even know by 5Ds time, the digital age is making things pick up steam, fast. None of it makes sense, as driven home by Dark Side of Dimensions when Kaiba and Yugi has their ridiculous high tech VR duel, makes it look like VRAINS should be the series that comes in 10 years instead of old school GX. Whatever.

Naruto Headcanon

The Mokuton might be the Senju clan’s pure kekkai genkai but they also have something of a secondary family attribute, kind of like the Nara shadow techniques. The Senju are all predisposed to nature chakra, it’s part of what fuels the Mokuton. Tobirama’s talent for Suiton and his sensory abilities are also connected to the Senju predisposition for nature chakra.

Just a thought.