Summary: They’d started out in three separate flats. Cho, close to the arena for practice. Padma, a studio apartment over a bookshop (a childhood dream), and Luna in a fourth-floor walk up that she’d chosen purely for the windows. Plants needed sunlight, she needed sunlight, it all made sense.
What made better sense was when they all came together.
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My comment: I love all the little details in this piece, and they way that they are all in contact with each other and you can feel the love between them.
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i feel like. yes as much as trans men are men and trans women are women we really all need to take a collective minute to remember that amab people are not rewarded for being feminine and afab people are not rewarded for being masculine. like we really need to get into more areas of gray in the trans community bc i s2g this shit is driving me insane. we are men and women but we are not equal to cis people and we will never have the same privileges that they do. think for 2 seconds about what you’re saying lol.
i truly hate pretty much everything that’s been changed about garth’s character post-flashpoint, but the onething that i feel like could actually be spun into something good is how they’ve changed his coming into his powers
tbh i still think the whole concept of the silent school is kinda dumb, but the fact that he enrolled (or was sent??) there at what seems like a pretty young age kind of implies that instead of manifesting his abilities later in life like he did originally, he either got them way earlier or has alwayshad them to some extent, and oh my god do you realize how fucking funny that could be if it was incorporated into his original backstory
like i cannot stop thinking about it
his whole “lived completely on his own out in in the open ocean from the time he was born until arthur found him” thing is already absolutely hilarious if you think about how that would play out in current continuity
pre52, arthur had the whole “raised by dolphins” thing, so he could at least kind of relate to garth in that respect, but now that he’s been changed back to being half-atlantean, he’s literally just some dude who had a (relatively) normal childhood and is in absolutely no way qualified to even BEGIN dealing with all the complexities that would come with trying to help garth adjust to the absolutely insane change of going from living as basically a feral child to living in a giant castle as the ward of the king
just picture, if you will, the first few weeks after arthur takes him in. just struggling harder than he’s ever struggled trying to keep this kid alive without going insane himself. like garth’s a fast learner, but he’s literally never interacted with anyonebefore this point. it would be absolutely hellish for everyone involved at first
depending on whether or not you want to go with the “atlanteans magically know languages for plot reasons” thing, he might not even be able to communicate at all at first. he’s terrified of FISH, starts screaming bloody murder every time any sea creature comes within ten feet of him, which, in the castle of the king of the seven seas, is OFTEN. and he’s got no other way of expressing his frustration so he bites. good god does he bite. his teeth are so sharp
arthur almost loses a few fingers, nearly loses his mind, probably becomes convinced garth is trying to hunt him for sport like he did in the original comics at least once, but eventually, they start to work things out. garth starts to adjust. he stops, like, chewing on the furniture. really mellows out. arthur is like “thank fuck. finally. the hard part is over. things can only get better from here”
and then BAM. he wakes up one morning to find half the west wing of the castle blasted to rubble because surprise! turns out the kid also has some wildass latent magical powers the likes of which no one has seen before and has just discovered he can shoot magical lasers out of his eyes.
