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I finally read the The Target. For anyone not familiar with this title, it heralds back to the Officer Grayson days. Dick is setup to take the fall for some dirty cops of the Blüdhaven PD and adopts the identity The Target to clear his name name for Reasons.

I came across this gem:

That’s right. They practiced throwing guns. As confirmed by Nightwing (1996) #33:

It called to mind another gun-throwing identity of Dick Grayson’s.

Flash forward to the New 52.

That’s right, Agent 37. Was is pure coincidence Agent 8 mentioned guns and targets? Or was it an Easter Egg?

Who could forget his iconic theme song?

His fellow agents may have given him grief over his choice of gun handling, but apparently Dick had lots of practice hurling those bad boys.

Finding these references is like undercovering buried treasure to me. I get way to much pleasure from it. Has anyone else found any good links from the old to the new like this?

roy, running around frantically and holding up a picture of ed to strangers on the street: HAVE YOU SEEN MY SON????? 

Here’s something for your soul: Every single time Ed is cold, Roy’s jacket is on him within seconds. Ed doesn’t even get to FINISH the complaint of “its cold/I’m cold” the jacket is already on his shoulders. It’s like a reflex or an instinct. It gets to the point Team Mustang jokes around and says “you might as well just give it to him every time he steps into the office” and flustered Dad Roy™️ is just like “I just don’t want to hear his annoying complaints, okay?!”

I pretty much answer to the philosophy that Ed stole one of Roy’s jackets and drags it around everywhere, and Roy saw that he was happy and warm so he let him keep it and got a new one. Then, SURPRISE! Alphonse gets his body back and g u e s s w h o gets THAT one.

Basically Roy has many jackets and has passed them all onto his sons

New alignment chart for gay Tony ships

Lawful Cute: Ironhusbands

Neutral Cute: Pepperony

Chaotic Cute: ScienceBros

Lawful Loving: Starkquill

Neutral Loving: Tony x Happiness

Chaotic Loving: Winteriron

Lawful Sexy: Ironstrange

Neutral Sexy: Ironthunder

Chaotic Sexy: Frostiron

english: coconut oil

french: :)

english: oh boy

french: oil of the nut of the coco

what are some things that the batkids picked up from bruce that makes them remind people of him, like the way someone smiles or a nervous tick they dont notice

To start off, every single one of them has inherited Bruce’s most prominent nervous habit: counting. Bruce counts exits, people, weapons, seconds, windows, inches, and everything else. It calms him down to know how many. It makes him feel like he’s sufficiently aware of his environment. 

The kids picked it up because Bruce quizzes them. Walk into a room with Bruce and he’s likely to ask for a few stats. It’s part of training; therefore, every kid developed the habit of counting anything Bruce might ask about. None of them ever lost the habit, so any of them can give a statistical situation report at the drop of the hat. It comes in handy. 

Obviously they also gained his ability to appear/disappear at will, but that was intentional.

When he’s annoyed or suspicious, Bruce narrows his right eye more than his left. Tim does the same thing, at about the same frequency.

Bruce wears an heirloom ring with the family crest, and he turns it absentmindedly while he’s thinking. Jason won’t wear rings because he knows that when he does, he’ll twist them too. 

Bruce and Cass have the same asymmetrical grin.

Since Duke is new on the job, he repeats Bruce’s instructions to himself while he works, including the original tone and inflection. It’s not an intentional imitation, but it’s a good one. 

Dick inherited the most. It’s only natural. After all, he’s been with Bruce the longest. Mutual friends often say that Dick and Bruce talk the same, in a way they can’t really explain. It’s a little bit of a different situation, because it’s not just that Dick picked up Bruce’s habits. They’re two people who have borrowed so many of each other’s mannerisms that they end up somewhere in the middle. Nobody quite knows who started what. 

Damian makes the “hnn” sound. Who did he pick that up from? Trick question. It was Dick, while Bruce was fake-dead, BUT Dick picked it up from Bruce, so it still counts. 

Damian actually has a lot of his father’s mannerisms and habits, because he copies them intentionally. He really wants to be like Bruce :)

Got any headcanons for mamahawk post promised day?

Riza knows Al has a growing list of foods she has made that he wants to eat, so she brings dishes to the hospital for him to eat once he is able to eat solid foods.

After they arrive home, she calls every couple of weeks to check up on them and to make sure they’re both doing well as they continue to heal.

She is the first person Ed calls to tell about his engagement to Winry. It’s only fit seeing how he realized he was in love with her after Riza mentioned it.

She is a big part of Edward and Winry’s wedding, helping them organize it and helping set up when the big day comes. She doesn’t stand in it, but she has a front row seat. She does steal a dance with Ed, though, and it’s very similar to a mother and groom dance. 

She visits the Elric-Rockbell household at least 2 times per year, more if there is a special event (such as birthdays) going on.

Riza is there when Winry gives birth to their first child and she stays with them for two weeks after her discharge from the hospital to help them out with the baby. They can’t help but notice during that time how well she does with children of all ages.

The Edwin kids are constantly in a toss-up, alternating between referring to her as their aunt and thinking of her as a grandmother-like figure because of the way she treats Ed and Uncle Al.

Alphonse visits her for tea every time he is in Central. He isn’t able to always call ahead so she always has his favorite teas on-hand.

The Elrics send her flowers every Mother’s Day, and once their kids are older they do the same. Over time, she ends up with a garden in her apartment once per year.

Signature

It’s a few days following the Promised Day. Al is regaining his strength, although it happens slowly. Ed, save for the occasional spike of pain through the puncture wound in his arm and the dull soreness in his body, is more or less back to normal. He still has a lot to do before the two of them can leave for good—accounts to close, resignation forms to hand in to the military, personal budgets to balance, tabs to pay. What may be weeks’ worth of paperwork he needs to get sorted out before he can finally close the military chapter of his life. He plans to get the jump on it while Al recovers, so the two can return to Resembool as soon as Al’s ready.

So hardly 72 hours following his defeat of Father, Ed is standing at the hospital check-out desk, running through a mental laundry list of loose ends he has to tie up. He flies through the hospital check-out form—name and date of birth and signature and home town. The secretary at the desk takes the papers and makes a small noise. It stops Ed just as he turns to leave. “You’re not 18 yet, are you?” she asks.

“No. Why?” “Then you need someone to sign the parent or guardian line. You can’t check yourself out until you’re 18.” “I’m a state alchemist. I’m pretty sure that qualifies me to check myself out of a hospital if I want.” “Sorry. These are different rules.”

Biting back a comment, Ed twists back down the hallway. He keeps his eyes peeled for the names on the door, hoping (though he knows he’s wrong) that maybe Hohenheim stuck around for a suture or two. He passes Mustang, who can’t help but comment, “You’re in a rush today.” “Of course I am. I’ve got about 800 different forms to sign before the military cuts me loose, and I can’t even check myself out without a parent’s signature. Where’s my stupid excuse for a father?”

He doesn’t stop to gauge Mustang’s reaction. He rounds corners, climbs stairs, sharp eyes bouncing back and forth from room card to room card. Nothing with “Hohenheim” on it. Nothing even close. His arm aches—both do, actually—but he hardly notices past the aggravation brewing in his mind.

And after 20 minutes of rounds, he ends up back at the secretary’s desk, more flushed than before, arms folded over his chest. “My dad’s not here. How much do I have to pay you off to let me go?” She looks up at him, somewhat confused, and somehow much more tired than before. She blinks behind dusty glasses. “Oh…No, you’re free to leave now. …I guess.”

“Well why didn’t you tell me before?” Ed asks. She pulls his form out and pushes it back to him. Ed takes it, turns it, scans it. All the parts he’d filled out are still there, but the bottom has changed since he last saw it. On the line, in tight blue ink, is “Col. R. Mustang, (Military Commander)” Ed blinks, brow knitted, because the line goes on: “Lt. R. Hawkeye” is looped in neat cursive beside it. Black ink below: “Izumi Curtis” then in thick blockish letters, just the word “Sig”. Taking up the most space, and done in the neatest, most brilliant cursive font: “Major Alexander Louis Armstrong”. To its right is an almost flat line, with just enough bumps to perhaps say “Gen. Olivier Armstrong”. A flowery “Maria Ross” and a messy “Denny Brosh” (both in to visit Major Armstrong). A “Zampano”. A “Jerso”. A “Heinkel”. A “Darius”. “Tim Marcoh” is squished in the paper’s dwindling space. “Kain Fury” “Heymans Breda” “Vato Falman”…

Ed glances up to the secretary, who looks suddenly so tired. “We just… At least one of those is…probably valid. You’re free to go. You’re released.” Ed nods, smiling and peddling backwards. His one metal leg clanks with each step. “Right, thank you!”

The secretary leans over her desk, shouting to keep up with his happily retreating figure. “Just so you know, these are official documents. Patient protocol is not a game. It doesn’t reflect well on me if your Colonel thinks it’s okay to round up half the hospital to sign–this is not a “get well” card–just…Please tell him not to do this again!”

“Oh sure thing,” Ed shouts back. “But that depends on how difficult you plan to be with Al.”

Ironhusbands?

wOW okay these got really long and specific lmao (I love me some ironhusbands they are so underappreciated)

Who said “I love you” first

Tony, as he falls asleep the day of his parents funeral when he was drunk. Rhodey didn’t think anything of it because it’s Tony and he always gets super affectionate when he’s drunk and he’s emotional and it probably didn’t mean what he thought it did. Tony never mentioned that night afterwards, so Rhodey thought he didn’t remember. Over the years Tony will say it to him casually, in a seemingly friendly manner and Rhodey will respond in kind. Every time Rhodey sees another tabloid talk about Tony’s recent conquests and  drunken spectacle he’ll think of that night. And the first time Rhodey really tells Tony he loves him is when he’s holding Tony after he woke up from a nightmare of Afganistan, and he keeps saying it and kissing him until Tony stops shaking in his arms.

Who would have the other’s picture as their phone background

Both of them would, but they would be really dumb, ugly picutres of each other that would make anyone else go “????” but when they see them they are like “yes this is the love of my life look at how perfect-”

Who leaves notes written in fog on the bathroom mirror

They both do. Though, Rhodey’s tend to be more of the cute, romantic kind. He’ll leave little hearts, smily faces, I love you, etc.

Tony will write in the fog but usually what he writes are notes or equations about a project he’d been stuck on for awhile that he had inspiration for while in the shower. Rhodey will shake his head fondly whenever he sees these (and he makes sure JARVIS takes a picture for Tony to look at later)

((on one notible occasion, Tony had drawn a crude, full bodied war machine armor doing finger guns and written “WARMACHINEROX” at the bottom with a winky face. Rhodey will get revenge for this one of these days))

Who buys the other cheesy gifts

Whenever Rhodey comes back from deployment he brings Tony all kinds of stupid, touristy souviners. Tony’s favorite is the flamingo pen wearing sunglasses with a pink afro that says “Bon Voyage!” on the base of it. He has no idea where Rhodey even got that monstrocety, but it sits proudly on his desk next to the picture of Jarvis and Ana. (fun fact this is an actual pen my sister bought me when she studied abroad in France in 2011)

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