Reblogging Because This Is Adorable And More People Deserve To See It

He protects Crime Alley. He might help you, he might have no idea what to do.

You have entered Gotham city. Find Red Hood. He's one of the few people who might be able to help you return to Ithica and wouldn't totally freak out at you for killing the suitors who attempted to harm your family. He's chill. The other bats are less chill.

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The red hood?

Danny had discovered that he was adopted. That in of itself would be fine, except his biological parents are a thirty one year old trans man and a centuries old assassin. However, he does want to meet the man who gave birth to him, so he takes a trip to Gotham. He really only goes to observe, staying invisible and undetected,

Except he's not undetected. He's there less than a day before Tim realizes he's there and turns.

"Who's there? Show yourself."

Danny is surprised but fades into the visible spectrum.

"Uh... Hi? I'm Danny. I think... You might have given up a baby around sixteen years ago?"

At Tim's shocked expression, Danny starts to spiral. "I didn't mean to bring up any bad memories or anything! I just... Wanted to know the person who gave birth to me..."

Tim takes a moment to respond.

"You're not bringing up bad memories. Are you really my... Geez, I don't even know what your name is... I've always just been thinking of you as Baby."

It takes a moment for Danny to process. Once he does, he responds, "Danny. My name is Danny. I... I'm sorry I tried to stalk you! I just didn't know if you'd be okay with... Meeting me. I just..."

"It's okay! It's okay. Not the weirdest way I've met a relative, believe it or not. I'm... Honestly just relieved the stalking wasn't someone trying to hurt me. How'd you hide like that, by the way? No one's snuck up on me like that in years."

Danny laughs at that, surprised and relieved. They spend a few hours just talking. Danny already trusts Tim enough to share his ghostly secret, and Tim in turn tells Danny about his youth chasing criminals with Batman. When Danny is brave enough to ask about his conception, he's horrified at the answer.

"That's... Kind of a funny story... I, well my mentor kind of got lost in an interdimentional... Thing, and everyone thought he was dead. So I went to find him, and the only person who believed me was the leader of a death cult who wanted sex in exchange for his resources. It wasn't until later that I realized I was pregnant and then you were born. I gave you up because my family system wasn't exactly healthy and I didn't want Ra's to find out about you because he's freaking crazy and absolutely would kidnap you."

Danny has no response for that.

Danny is Ra’s and Tim’s child go

Well sort of

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Part 2: Doesn't work. Danny's parents are freaking out, they already failed once with Vlad (which is how AFO became aware of their work) and if it doesn't work, there is going to be dire consequences (like being turned into Nomus). So Danny goes inside the portal and to fix it (maybe he has some small energy quirk that he thinks will power it/or he's just quirkless), and gets ghost powers. Danny sees what AFO is doing is wrong and keeps his powers a secret so he can start putting a stop to him

the best part about this is actually how it ties to DP and sets itself in the BNHA universe. I could see this happening and it seems perfect!

Ha ha Danny gets to not be normal still

One human can feed thousands of mesquetoes over their lifetime. The food chain at work

So, I saw this image on Facebook, and it was supposedly showing what Queen Nefertiti would have looked like in real life:

Now, I thought this AI generated garbage was just truly terrible on a number of levels; first off, she looks wayyyyyy too modern - her makeup is very “Hollywood glamour”, she looks airbrushed and de-aged, and as far as I’m aware, Ancient Egyptians didn’t have mascara, glitter-based eyeshadows and lip gloss. Secondly, her features are exceptionally whitewashed in every sense - this is pretty standard for AI as racial bias is prevalent in feeding AI algorithms, but I genuinely thought a depiction of such a known individual would not exhibit such euro-centric features. Thirdly, the outfit was massively desaturated and didn’t take pigment loss into consideration, and while I *do* like the look of the neck attire, it's not at all accurate (plus, again, AI confusion on the detailing is evident).

So, this inspired me to alter the image on the left to be more accurate based off the sculpture’s features. I looked into Ancient Egyptian makeup and looked at references for kohl eyeliner and clay-based facial pigment (rouge was used on cheeks, charcoal-based powder/paste was used to darken and elongate eyebrows), and I looked at pre-existing images of Nefertiti, both her mummy and other reconstructions. While doing this, I found photos of a 3D scanned sculpture made by scientists at the University of Bristol and chose to collage the neck jewellery over the painting (and edited the lighting and shadows as best as I could).

Something I see a lot of in facial recreations of mummies is maintaining the elongated and skinny facial features as seen on preserved bodies - however, fat, muscle and cartilage shrink/disappear post mortem, regardless of preservation quality; Queen Nefertiti had art created of her in life, and these pieces are invaluable to developing an accurate portrayal of her, whether stylistic or realistic in nature.

And hey, while I don't think my adjustments are perfect (especially the neck area), I *do* believe it is a huge improvement to the original image I chose to work on top of.

I really liked working on this project for the last few days, and I think I may continue to work on it further to perfect it. But, until then, I hope you enjoy!

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I want him. He's adorable