Tucker - Blog Posts

Finally something Hey Arnold related that has nothing to do with my fan character! I l know it's not near Valentine's day yet, but I’ve been making shipping art of underrated to nonexistent HA ships that I figured I might as well make it into Valentine's day thing. Plus I go back to my college course on the third of February so wanted to put this out quickly. I wanted to do this because I see no art for SidxSheena, ArniexGloria, and LorenzoxNadine that I wanted to do my part so I can say there is at least one. I suppose the wording of some of these cards I have a feeling it shouldn’t be used as actual cards, but I prefer attempting to be funny over being overly mushy with Valentine's stuff. Either way, I hope at least one of these gave you a chuckle or two. Thank you for taking the time to read this. Credit: Hey Arnold - Craig Bartlett

DCxDP Idea - Tucker x Tim Soulmate AU:

So the Justice League believes the Fentons and the GIW. Not completely, but enough. That’s the bad news. The worse news is that they have Danny, and are apparently planning to use him in some kind of spell to banish all the ghosts from the living plane. Which, okay, sure, not the worst idea, except that trying to banish a Liminal is a great way to kill them instead, and guess what everyone in Amity Park is? Not to mention what powering such a ritual could do to Danny.

Tucker is not having a panic attack. He might have one later, but right now he has a job to do.

So the thing about the Justice League is that they’re powerful and together they cover each other’s weaknesses, but individually they are, if not manageable, then at least survivable. They can’t take on the entire league, but Ghosts and their ilk have fangs for a reason, and every predator knows how to divide and conquer.

Technus and Skulker are using Lex Luthor’s tech to deal with the Supers. Jazz has got emotional manipulation and FrightKnight’s sword to take down the Flashes. Desiree agreed to start a mage’s duel with the Justice League Dark. Sam, Ember, Johnny, and Kitty hopefully have the watchtower in hand, with Walker playing backup to get Danny free.

Tucker has two jobs. One, work with Technus to take down the Justice League communications without making it look like anything is up. Two, for the love of the Ancients, do not let the Bats realize something is wrong.

And you know what? He’s got this. Duul Aman was the most feared sorcerer of his time. Tucker isn’t him, not really, but he’s no slouch in the magic department. Egyptian magic, the way Duul Aman knew it, was almost like code. Relearning it was as easy as breathing, but the real reason Tucker’s job is to deal with the bats is because he took it further than his last life ever could. Sure, he’s a dab hand at illusions, his curses are almost as nasty as Sam’s, and instant sandstorms are never not useful, but where he really thrives is with tech. Afterall, if ectoplasm can be combined with computers, why can’t magic?

Tucker is the world's first technomage and he’s goddamn proud of it.

It’s his saving grace now. Infiltrating Oracle’s system took weeks, and he still wasn’t able to look at or do anything important, but it was enough of an opening for his magic. He wormed his illusion through every single piece of bat-tech he could reach, whispering in their ear, Gotham needs you. The Justice League is fine. Gotham is where the problems are. 

Weeks of work and sleepless nights, and he still doubts he’ll be able to keep them from noticing anything for more than a few hours. Luckily, by that time Danny will be free and Tucker will be long gone from Gotham.

This confidence lasts until he brushes hands with another guy in the cafe. He can feel the bond snap into place, a soulmark crawling across his body. Tim Drake stares at him, eyes wide but sharp. 

Tim Drake.

Red Robin.

Shit.

Time to see whether fighting ghosts extends to fighting humans, because he is not letting this asshole mess up Danny’s rescue.

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The first thing Tim notices when he meets his soulmate is the rage in the man’s eyes.

They’re really pretty eyes. A bright, glowing gold, lined in kohl. Almost certainly a sign of magic. 

They look at him like the man wants to turn him inside out and burn the remains. Tim’s a little offended, beneath the shock and awe.

“Fuck,” the man hisses. Tim’s offense is starting to supersede his surprise. He’s a catch, thank you very much.

He says as much. The man laughs, and it’s almost friendly.  The cafe is empty. The people of Gotham have good instincts, and there’s something in the air around this man that puts Tim’s hackles up.

“You know, I think that’d be more believable if you hadn’t started this.”

Tim’s brow wrinkled. He felt like he’d remember starting something with his soulmate though? What was he supposed to have started, anyway? Saying ‘this’ wasn’t very specific. 

He rolled and dodged to avoid the sudden lash of golden sand. Ah. A fight. He could do that. Figure out why his soulmate was angry later, defeat him now.

He reached up to call for backup and only got static.

Shit.

He was on his own. Time to show this bastard why underestimating a bat was a bad idea.

“Common enemies are how allies always begin."  The most notorious allies in the show…. yeah… well, technically this is not all that cannon cuz *cough cough* Dan and Fright Knight…. but me boy! me story arc! Here is another thing. To do this piece, every character was sketched on the full canvas, but to help the program process all the information much faster and without any possible crashes, I took each character’s sketch and colored them on a new file. This means, I have every character as a full body drawing stored separately. What Im going to do is every day starting tomorrow, I’ll post each character, so you can have a better preview of them. Today marks another year for #Dannyversary For those that are new, 16 years ago (man!) Danny Phantom aired on Nickelodeon.

“Common enemies are how allies always begin."  The most notorious allies in the show…. yeah… well, technically this is not all that cannon cuz *cough cough* Dan and Fright Knight…. but me boy! me story arc! Here is another thing. To do this piece, every character was sketched on the full canvas, but to help the program process all the information much faster and without any possible crashes, I took each character’s sketch and colored them on a new file. This means, I have every character as a full body drawing stored separately. What Im going to do is every day starting tomorrow, I’ll post each character, so you can have a better preview of them. Today marks another year for #Dannyversary For those that are new, 16 years ago (man!) Danny Phantom aired on Nickelodeon.

PRACTICE.

Some quick sketches. (notice the dates on the pics…) I used characoal pencil.

——————2019.03.28.