I wanted to draw a bit of Rose Wilson. This version of her is mostly feral and drives her father insane (she gets it from her mom). She’s a master of psychological and guerilla warfare, in a forest she’s nearly unbeatable.
Her mother has fun advice like -Never make a threat you can’t or won’t deliver on in some way, if you do make a bigger mess than initially threatened
-Be the crazy one in negotiations if everyone thinks you’re crazy then they will have to think how to reason with you
- go to your father for protection he makes a good meat shield
-people like to think they’re smarter than you, teach them the wrong patterns to look for let them think you’re predictable
-never fight like a man or for a man, no seduction don’t play their game make them play yours
-strike fear before you strike fast hurt their moral and make them want to give up before they even start fighting, have them begging for death before they even meet you
I’d imagine this rose would lose her eye to overexertion of her powers or she’d carve it out as a last ditch fear tactic in a desperate situation.
I also drew baby Jason and Rose. He’s a goody goody paragon she’s a daring rogue. They’re good friends and perhaps he’s in love?
I don’t know what most people’s relationship with comic canon but for me. I just…ignore… whatever I don’t like. Like I don’t generally care for ginger Jason or rapist Talia Al Ghul, so I just pretend it’s not true to my version of the DC universe. There’s some aspects that I might re adapt if I think they could be interesting but I don’t feel beholden to what is canon and what isn’t. I don’t really want to argue over what is correct pre-new 52 or post crisis or dc rebirth or future state shenanigans.
As far as how canon Slade is, He’s not as interesting as I think he could be. I know that he’s done fucked up stuff (relationship with Terra? really???) but I don’t find those to be interesting. This Slade is still a bad guy and not the best dad ever by any means, but at this point his kids are pretty fucked up in their own right and nobody in this family is sane that Slade for the most part just wants some peace and quiet and will kill to get some.
- Rose probably gets along the best with dad but has no impulse control whatsoever (she’s no longer allowed to fly any planes after crashing the 3rd one this year) - Joey talks to Ghosts and hangs out with Dick, he’s weird and a traitor - Grant…Slade isn’t sure if he’s real half the time everyone including Grant acts like he’s a ghost haunting the house, he mostly freelances or stays with mom
My Slade is a bit of a combination of Captain America and a Geralt of Rivia wannabe. He wants to be a cool and chivalrous Knight but that has never been in the cards for him. He wishes Rose could be like Ciri, Joey could have been kinda like Jaskier before the throat thing, and Grant was like Bucky Barnes before dying.
As far as I’m concerned with Slade he’s a captain America (Steve Rogers) if nobody had any expectations or respect for him because he was a symbol of truth and justice… and was treated less than human for killing people, because he could never be a proper hero. A sort of anti captain America situation where everyone has the worst idea of him believing he could never do good, and Slade is just doing what he feels like he should do anyways. Not a hero, never loved, and never respected but he’s still out here doing what he was made for and that’s pretty much all he’s ever known. He’s been trained to be practical and to be a strategist that looks at everything and anyone as pieces on a board to manage to get the job done. Sometimes people get hurt because of it. He generally tries to not feel much about it.
He has a family but they don’t care that he’s the most badass assassin and one of the top mercenaries in the world, he’s just their dad who’s a mean and stoic hard ass and nobody is afraid to call him out on it. He has a butler who doesn’t give a shit about being nice, but it always there when he most need it , like Alfred but actually an asshole. A brother who is a depressed unkillable annoying wacko that hangs around sometimes to “keep him on his toes” and he’s probably the only one who understand him. An ex-wife that he suspects might have a bigger kill count than him (she’s just better at hiding it because she doesn’t run around with bright orange to advertise) and a (mostly) one sided rivalry with Bruce Wayne and a mutual hatred of Dick Grayson (Dick would unplug his life support if given the opportunity).
I imagine Slade being a massive fan of Geralt from Witcher and being nuts about anything medieval related whenever he’s not on a job. Like the man knows the legend of King Arthur like the back of his hand. I imagine Rose rolling her eyes when Slade accept his payment after a hit and quietly under his breath saying something along the lines of “A Witcher works for coin” or whenever he ends up riding a horse on a mission he’s “secretly” calling it Roach.
I’d like to imagine him saying something like “I’m the king and everybody wants to be the court jester” whenever Wintergreen or Rose are doing something stupid or being mean to him. In my designs for Rose and Slade, Rose has orange-ish amber eyes and Slade has clear blues and he’d wish it was switched. (Wanting Rose to be the Ciri to his Geralt) Maybe even having Joey be a bit of a Jaskier before being muted.
I just want a Deathstroke to be a jealous and tired old jackass who just really wants to be an honorable knight but life has just given him the shaft, with a butler and kids that just barely respect him if at all. Like if someone just called him Sir Wilson or a great knight without mocking him it would make his day (maybe even week).
He hates that Bruce gets to be called the Dark Knight, when he’s out here wearing scale mail with a claymore by his side.
in superman adventures #19, there’s a villain named multi-face who can convincingly disguise himself as anyone, even tricking dna tests and x-ray vision. Superman initially can’t stop him
and the only reason he gets caught is because multiface decides to disguise himself as, of all people, CLARK KENT i’m screaming
why do villains always mess up so badly
Clark Kent attending Bruce Wayne’s yacht party where Bruce told Clark to wear his clothes and……
Ta-Da!
Sard borken
This bullshit needs to get into the movies, not edgy-grimdark shit
I especially love the fact that, in many depictions, Bruce Wayne somehow ended up looking similar enough to the one Kryptonian on Earth that they can Parent Trap people
*Deathstroke bursts into the Legion of Doom headquarters* “Guys, you won’t believe this, but I think Bruce Wayne is Superman!“
today I learned that Clark Kent is sloppy drunk and I am in eternal gratitude for that
sorry but i can’t get over the fact that one of the first books kyle made an appearance in that wasn’t his own solo or a team he was part of was deathstroke
like… deathstroke. deathstroke. one of his first pseudo-teamups with the titans was with fucking deathstroke. that makes slade one of the first big names in the mask business kyle ever willingly helped, which is absolutely hysterical like just take a second to think about the OPTICS of that
it was so soon after zero hour, this probably means bruce got back home after having to try to stop the previous green lantern from destroying the entire multiverse and within, like, a day got the news that the new lantern, who he knew fuck all about, was running around with slade fucking wilson
he probably spent the next hour hyperventilating into a paper bag
