“And It Is Up To You To Decide If You Want To Be Remembered, Or Disappear Without A Trace, Like A Pitiful

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Similar to most judicial systems! You need to prove Actus Reus and Mens Rea (Guilty Action AND Guilty Mind) to be able to convict someone of a crime! The courts need to prove that there was intention and knowledge of wrong doing. Which would explain why despite being ‘tangled up’ in her family’s web of crime, Molly ended up in heaven.

I think I figured out what makes a soul go to either Heaven or Hell!!

In the latest episode Welcome to Heaven, we see a moment during the trial where Charlie asks Adam what he thinks it takes to get into Heaven. And he doesn’t actually seem to know. He makes a list of what he thinks got him there, but when provided evidence of a demon doing the same thing, defaults you “then why isn’t he here?”.

We realize that NONE of Heaven actually knows what gets someone to Heaven, and the characters acknowledge that angels are free to be as sinful as they want, but they still get to stay.

Which got me thinking, yeah, how did Adam get into Heaven? He’s awful. Then it hit me: he’s there because he thinks he deserves to be. Think of the demons we know. Alastor, Angel, Husker, Cherri, Valentino. These are all people who have done wrong and they know it. If you were to ask them, I think they’d tell you they deserve to be in Hell.

Isn’t it strange? That we’ve never met a demon who thinks there’s been some mistake? That they deserve to be in Heaven and they shouldn’t be in Hell? Hell should be chock full of people like that, but it isn’t.

I think it’s because if you think you deserve to be in Heaven, that’s where you go. And if you think you deserve to go to Hell? That’s where you stay. It explains why Adam is an angel-despite being a horrible person, he’s completely self righteous, even saying “I’ve never made a mistake in my fucking life.” Of course he’d think he deserves to go to Heaven! It’s how Molly went to Heaven and Angel went to hell, despite them leading similar lives-she thought she should go there.

If this is the case, then all the good deeds in the world won’t redeem a sinner. The only thing that will is repairing them and their mental state enough that they truly feel they deserve better. And I’d be fascinated to see how that goes!

So one of the most common problems people have with DC is that they won’t let their characters stay dead, it makes something that’s supposed to be a big thing that will permanently change other characters and the world around them feel like a pointless footnote. The obvious solution is to let them stay dead, however I would like to offer another option that is specifically geared toward the Robins.

They die but they don’t stay dead, it happens over and over again, their loved ones are stuck watching them suffer and die again and again only to come back and have the cycle repeat. No matter what they do death always finds them.

They lose sight of what life actually means because their own seems to mean nothing, they start struggling to understand things that use to make so much sense, like why people fight so hard to survive or why death scares so many, because they know they’ll never get to actually be dead.

The public starts to view them as demons or gods or something, because they’ve seen Redhood be stabbed through the heart, they’ve seen Nightwing fall and break himself on the concrete, they’ve seen Signal overload his powers and burn from the inside out, they’ve seen Red Robin’s head be crushed by block of stone, they’ve seen Robin choke and spit up blood before falling still because he was dosed with poison, they’ve seen Batgirls throat be slit, they’ve seen the birds die in dozens of horrific ways and they’ve seen the affect it has on the bats, but the birds come back, again and again, but every time they come back they look sadder, like less came back.

The birds don’t view themselves as the gods the public does, they view themselves as servants, servants of Gotham, of the people, of justice and vengeance, they can only pray that when their job is done they will be able to rest.

if somebody hasn't already asked: may we please hear about your gotham rogues inferno placements? (sincerely, this sounds awesome)

Thank you! ❤️🥰 So i've been mulling it over in my head all day and here's what I have:

First Circle (Limbo) - Catwoman & Red Hood.

Placing both Selina and Jason in limbo is very representative of their duality in how they straddle the line between hero and villain. Both have a tendency to do the right thing where it counts but that shouldn't wipe out their other sins and the wrong they are willing to do to get ahead in their wants.

Second Circle (Lust) - Harley Quinn & Mad Hatter.

Both characters are driven by their desires. Harley is a victim of her own desires, her need for a strong figure to help shape and guide her actions and that has led her to her relationships with both Joker and Ivy and the carnage each have caused. Hatter is often guided by his delusional lust for an unobtainable ideal, his perfect Alice, and this goal has led to much of his evils.

Third Circle (Gluttony) - Penguin & Killer Croc.

Oswald is a man who values and enjoys the finer things in life. He has tasted hardship and he commits unspeakable acts to ensure that he never has to settle for the very best, be it his wine or his meals. Croc is being put here for his habit of human consumption. While it's not gluttony in the purest sense, I think it fits better than many of the other circles.

Fourth Circle (Greed) - Deadshot & Riddler.

Deadshot is an assassin for hire which makes his crimes a direct result of his greed and so this is most fitting for him. Riddler's greed comes more from his incessant desire to have everything which he feels is due to him. He craves attention, money, power, being the very best in what he does. His greed is relentless.

Fifth Circle (Anger) - Poison Ivy & Scarecrow.

Both Ivy and Crane are creatures fueled by rage. Ivy's rage towards mankind is unmistakable and leads her to cruelty towards her own people. Crane's hatred of mankind is more subtle but just as strong. He hates what the world has taken from him and punishes those who cross his path by forcing them to feel as miserable as he does.

Sixth Circle (Heresy) - Solomun Grundy & Mr Freeze.

The heresy of both men concerns their connections with death. Grundy is a walking zombie, an abomination which straddles the line of life and death with every step. Mr Freeze is a sadder figure but he also actively cheats death by forcing his wife to exist in a state of suspended animation and that's a mortal sin.

Seventh Circle (Violence) - Bane & Victor Zsasz.

Bane thrives in violence but possesses the mental capabilities to know exactly how to wield that violence to create the most devastation and pain to those he deems worthy of it. Zsasz is driven by his needs as a serial killer and he brings nothing to the world which houses him but pain and death.

Eighth Circle (Fraud) - Hugo Strange & Hush.

Hugo Strange is a fraud because he presents himself as a man with good intentions, one who wants to 'help' people but he is only interested in his own selfish gains. Hush is a more straight forward fraud because he claims the identity of another as his own with ill-intent and seeks to destroy it's original owner.

Ninth Circle (Treachery) - Two Face & Joker.

Harvey goes in treachery because his fate was to betray everything which he stood for as a man and as DA of Gotham and a betrayal of that magnitude cannot go unpunished. Joker, in a similar vein, is a traitor of all the good values of men and delights in making choices which cause the most suffering for the widest volume of people.

Hobbs & Shaw(s): The Onion Edition

Hozier really said "aight imma write an album that requires PhDs in linguistics, Irish history, and sociology to understand, as well as the emotional vulnerability to cry and the desire to lay facedown in the dirt for several hours" and then dropped Unreal Unearth

Hey Omni! I was wondering what the Torettos crew reactions would be with working with Owen. How do you think they would feel about the scars they gave him? Do you think they would feel bad?

Oooo! I'm loving all the Owen love recently!

As for your question, the crew has a lot of mixed feelings when it comes to Owen

Letty

When she looks at Owen and sees his scares, she feels a crushing guilt. She wishes her friend hadn't been put through that much pain and grief

But she also knows that it isn't her fault

Owen chose his actions and those were the consequences of said actions. It was an accident, one that nobody saw coming, but it had been a risk that came with the life he lived

Letty keeps that guilt and sense of failure with her when she's his scars, but each time she hears his laughter and is wrapped in his arms, she knows he's alright. He's alive and back in her life, and that's more important than any scar

Dom

He has similar feelings as Letty. He feels a twisting feeling in his gut when he sees those scars on Owen's face, but it's not quite guilt

Regret, maybe. But Dom wouldn't have changed every action he took that faithful night

Owen had terrorized him and his family, even kidnapping his sister. He didn't have much remorse for Owen when it came to fighting him at that time

But Dom does have to wonder if he could have saved Owen

Could he have grabbed him in time? Could he have knocked Owen out and dragged him out of the plane and to safety? Could they have recruited Owen and have him join the crew, and then convince his siblings later on?

There's a lot of 'what ifs' that Dom could swell on, but chooses not to. That's in the past, and while he wishes that Owen and his family hadn't gone through that pain, he's not going to fret over it

Owen is on their side now, almost like a brother to Dom, and from now on, Dom's going to do all he could for him

Roman

He wasn't there when Owen fell and he didn't really think about it when he received the news of Owen being in the hospital

Owen had just been another evil villain in his eyes until he joined the crew

And once they got together, Roman feels extremely guilty

He wishes they hadn't fought Owen. He wishes Owen didn't bare the scars they gave him. He wishes Owen didn't have nightmares about dying in that coma

Instead of dwelling on it, Roman embraces it. He kisses Owen's scars whenever he can and tries to lift his spirits after those nightmares

Tej

He doesn't have many thoughts on the matter. Like Roman, he hadn't been there when Owen fell and he's best buddies with Owen

He feels bad when he hears about Owen struggling with the scars and aftermath of being in a coma, but he doesn't think about it as much as the others

Luke

While he didn't see Owen fall off the plane, he feels his heart break when he sees Owen struggling with the aftermaths

He doesn't like seeing his little brother hurting, but he also knows that Owen wouldn't have stopped. Owen would have kept going no matter what, short of being hurt that badly

Luke wishes, just like Letty, that they could have just locked Owen up and not seen him in a hospital bed and in a coma

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I hope you enjoyed friend!

I got a haircut!!!

I lost the kid.

Pony: The human body is 70% water. So we’re basically just cucumbers with anxiety.

Steve: Excuse me, with the amount of salt and alcohol that I consume, I’m more like an anxiety pickle.