So I want to write some practice essays as preparation for uni next year. I want to be serious about this but I also want to have fun with it. So I thought it’d be fun to write some essays on DC comics!
I’m asking for topic suggestions. They can either be serious (e.g. an in-depth analysis of Bruce Wayne’s character) or not (e.g. an essay on which Justice League member would make the best roomate). Have fun with it!
I’ll do topics on any character, family or anything related to DC comics, really. And I’ll do persuasive, compare and contrast, and close analysis. Either give me the easiest topics or give me a challenge, it’s up to you! Additiionally, it’d be really helpful if you would also suggest what comics, show or movie to watch in order to research into the topic before writing the essay. You don’t have to! But it’d be helpful
Fury opened the door to his office, flipping on the light as he stepped inside. He seemed unphased as the light revealed someone sitting in his chair at the desk. The stranger had their head tipped back and hands behind their head, eyes closed, and their feet kicked up on the desk with their ankles crossed.
“To what do I owe the visit?” Fury asked.
“I just have some questions… Director.”
“Those questions wouldn’t have anything to do with the files that you copied from S.H.I.E.L.D. servers, would they?” He stepped further into his office, closing the door behind him.
“They might.” The person lowered their feet to the floor and sat up in the chair.
Fury stood at the corner of his desk. “Then allow me to ask a question first,” he began. “Are we playing fair?”
“That entirely depends on you, Fury,” the visitor shrugged.
Nick took his weapon out of its holster and placed it in the center of his desk. The visitor stood, placed a knife on the desk and walked around to the other side, allowing Fury to take a seat in his chair. “What questions might you have, Barton?” he asked.
“I want to know where the vials from Project Gladiator are,” Harper answered.
Fury sat back in his chair. “You won’t find them,” he responded.
“You really believe that?” she challenged.
“I can assure you,” Fury answered, leaning forward onto his desk, “That no one can find those vials.”
“I think you underestimate me,” Harper stated flatly.
“What do you want them for?”
Harper smirked. “That’s my business.”
Fury sat up straight again. “It’s going to come out, either way, Barton.”
“Maybe,” she agreed, “But on my time, not yours.”
“So… you want it for yourself,” he reasoned.
“Never said anything to the contrary, did I?” She asked.
“No,” he confirmed. “But you know as well as I do that there are plenty of people who would love to get their hands on those vials.”
She took a seat opposite him, resting her arms on the desk with her hands clasped. “You’re right; there are. But none of them matter. I’m not doing this for the money. Now, we can either do this the simple way, and you just give me what I want. Or we can do this the fun way, for me anyway, and I take what I want. The choice is yours, Fury.”
Fury sighed, knowing that he couldn’t win an argument against her without giving something away. “Let’s be honest, Barton. You wouldn’t be here if you didn’t already have an idea of where the serum is. So you don’t actually need me to give you thatinformation.”
“Fair point,” she acknowledged.
“Why come then?”
The young woman smirked again, leaning back slightly. “Call it a professional courtesy,” Harper shrugged.
“I see,” Fury nodded. “Is that why no one has been hurt?”
“Yet…” she clarified. “No one has been hurt yet.”
Harper kept her eyes locked on Fury. She could tell he was trying to process all the information he had thus far. His eyebrows furrowed, thinking about how to proceed. Eventually, his shoulders relaxed, and his gaze became less serious. “Alright, Barton. Let’s make a deal.”
A smirk crept on her lips again. “What sort of deal?”
“Call it a personal courtesy,” he countered. “You get what you want, and no one gets hurt in the process.”
“What’s in it for you?” she asked.
“Answers, Barton. I want answers.”
Harper sat up in the chair, folding her arms over her chest. “How specific do these answers have to be?”
Fury looked thoughtful for a moment before answering. “Specific enough that I can justify what I’m agreeing to.”
She nodded in agreement. “Fine. But only out of respect.”
“Fair,” he replied. “Why do you want the serum?”
“Personal use,” Harper replied shortly.
“Personal for yourself?”
“Yes.”
Fury nodded, understanding. “What for?”
“Call it precautionary.”
“And why would you need any sort of safeguard?”
Harper sighed, “What are we doing, Fury? Playing twenty questions?”
“You could give me the short version if you’re in a hurry,” he offered.
Harper considered for a moment before responding. “Someone contacted me to take out a target. They wanted me to take down someone going by the name Scorpio. I took the job without question.” She watched Fury’s eyes widen slightly. He knew exactly who she had been sent after. “Once I found out this Scorpio’s real identity, I changed my mind. Unfortunately for me, I didn’t realize the reach the original contact had. Now… the hunter has become the hunted,” she explained.
Fury raised his eyebrows slightly. He had known Harper for many years and never knew her to be the one under attack.
Harper continued, “There’s not many that can do my job better than me, Nick. You know that better than most. I can’t take that risk this time around. Not without a safety net.”
Fury sat quietly for a moment. Then he nodded in agreement. “What happens next, Barton?”
Before she could answer, a knock on the office door interrupted them. A voice came through the door, “Director Fury?”
Fury looked towards the door. “Yes?”
Agent Hill opened the door, just enough to poke her head inside. “Sorry to interrupt, but they’re back, sir.”
Fury nodded, and Hill closed the door. He turned back to Harper, “Unless you want to see your brother again, I’d suggest heading out the same way you arrived.” He wrote some information on a piece of paper and handed it to Harper. “I’ll let her know to expect you.”
Harper took the paper and offered a respectful nod before standing up and quickly leaving the office. Fury sat in the silence for a while, taking in all the new information. He didn’t like the thought of Harper, or anyone, having those vials, but he was sure that he chose the lesser of two evils this time around. Besides, he owed her one for turning the job down. The least he could do was help her survive the consequences.
Fury stood from his chair and left his office, locking the door behind him. As he walked the halls toward the briefing room, his mind was racing with the possibilities of who could have Harper concerned enough to seek out his help, even if it was just to confirm what she already knew. And who had tried to hire her in the first place?
Fury walked into the large meeting room, took a seat at the head of the long table, and looked around at each team member seated around him. “So,” he began, “What did you find out?”
“Well, sir, I know who has been breaking into the different S.H.I.E.L.D. locations,” Clint spoke up first.
“And it is?”
“My sister, sir,” Clint answered.
“Do we know what she is looking for?”
“Not entirely. We know she wants information on something Laura worked on when she was with S.H.I.E.L.D., but aside from the name of the project, we have no idea what it is,” Clint said.
“She wants information on something called Project Gladiator, sir,” Steve added.
“It was a project intended to try to replicate the Super Soldier Serum. After some setbacks, Laura succeeded in not only making the Super Soldier Serum but a combination serum as well. Laura and I were the only ones that knew about that accomplishment,” Fury explained.
“What could she possibly want with that?” Natasha asked. “She seems to be going through a lot of trouble if she just wants it to sell to the highest bidder.”
Fury looked between the three Avengers, not wanting to reveal more than they needed to know. “I couldn’t say. Did she mention if she is working for anyone?”
“No. Not directly anyway. She mentioned something about a client, but there’s no telling with her if it was just empty words or not,” Clint replied.
“This isn’t going to be a problem for you, is it Barton? Possibly having to take down your sister?”
“No sir,” he assured. “She and I haven’t been on the best of terms in a very long time.”
“Good,” Fury stated. “Let’s keep our guard up then until we figure out exactly what her intentions are,” Fury instructed.
“Yes, sir,” the trio answered in unison.
Once Fury was back in his office, he locked the door and sat at his desk. After several minutes of debate with himself, he picked up the landline and dialed a phone number.
“Hello?” a woman answered cautiously.
“I’m sorry to call you like this,” Fury replied.
“Is something wrong?”
“I don’t know,” he admitted. “But I’m calling to tell you that the Dark Angel will be stopping by. Whether or not she’ll stop when you are at the house, I don’t know, but she is picking up something.”
The silence on the line lasted for what seemed like an eternity. “Are we still safe with her?” the woman finally asked.
Fury hesitated before answering. “I trust her,” he said.
A small sigh could be heard from the other end of the line. “That doesn’t answer the question?” she pressed.
“The Angel won’t do anything to hurt you, you know that. I’m sure she will make it a point to show up while you’re both away. She is taking something from the safe, and that’s all,” Fury told the woman.
“Okay,” she agreed. There was no arguing against him. The woman knew he would never lie to her. “Thank you.”
After hanging up, Fury stared down at the phone for a moment. I hope I’m not wrong.
First of all I want to thank you for the massive amount of positive feedback on these, they blew up online thanks to you all, it really means the world.
Hey guys it’s been almost two years since my last post I know… and it feels like an eternity now. Currently I’m in college so I don’t have as much time as I used to but I always remember this space, this Tumblr the community with happiness even if you believe me or not this Tumblr support me in difficult times of my life and I’m grateful of what I achieve here I can’t believe I have 18.000 followers I mean I thought that by this time I will have zero but it’s nice that even if you forgot that you’re following this blog it’s still here Thanks for that
Since I have gone for Tumblr there where a lot of changes here (Tumblr) and in the MCU I can’t even describe how happy I was in avengers Infinity war and endgame they represent a lot to this geeky part of me I really enjoy them and don’t even let me start with Stan “the legend” Lee somewhere in this Tumblr there was a letter for him I guess he never even saw it but the words are here and the feeling it’s the same. So many things happen in this two year I can’t even pretend talk about all right now
Whatever, I want to tell you guys thank you for support this space, for your comments, messages and everything every single note even if you stole some idea… kidding that’s not cool hahaha but thank you I don’t really know if someday I will come back to be as active as I was or if I will return to Tumblr at all but the possibility it’s there.
There’s no specific reason why I let this space I just don’t have the time right now and well life changes… so do we, I still love marvel, game of thrones and all those things that you maybe know but I just feel like I have to say goodbye to this part of my story or at least a “see you later” and I want to say goodbye properly to you guys even if only one read this.
Here I let my twitter account you can know from me there it’s in Spanish but sometimes I tweet in English only if you’re interested in the “good old times”
In order to finish this, I will give you some tips that I learn these years and why not? they maybe will work for you
1. Be yourself (but cooler) as Tony Stark
2. Never let the disappointing feeling consume you like Thor did when he lost his powers
3. Fight! all of us have struggles but even if you are powerless like black widow or Hawkeye you must keep fighting sometimes the “powerless” ones save the world
3. Be loyal to yourself like Cap was
4. Control your anger as Hulk
5. Don’t be afraid of love as Scarlett and Vision
6. Open yourself to the world they deserve to know you! (parallelism with Wakanda)
7. BE YOUR OWN HERO.
Thank you very much, with love Teresa Jimenez aka “Wakanda entertainment”
dear batfam fans who wish the batkids were more diverse and spent more time appreciating each other as found family and fighting as a team and less time angsting and punching one another,
i’m 100% with you, but i also really hope you are both reading and going to see shazam because it legit has everything you desire
