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Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.57 (Temporary End)

On the mortal plane, Destruction wandered. He did so because he was tired. Utterly exhausted. Fed up, really, with the very concept that made up his being. Destruction was not a kind master. And while he was not so limited to just the act of destroying, it was all he’d come to be associated with.

Truthfully, it was merely one side of the coin. As all things must fade, so too must they shine into existence. Creation and Destruction went hand in hand. Destruction — like all of ...

Announcement Post (Dead End and Future Projects)

Hello, everyone :]

I suppose I should just get this out of the way. This next chapter is going to be the last Dead End chapter for a while. The story ran much, much longer than I thought it would (it'll likely be almost 420k words after this next chapter). While I still enjoy the story and characters very much, I've just about burned myself out on them for the time being.

Like 'The Grind', I'll almost certainly be returning to the Dead End in the future. The way I se...

Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.56

It took quite a bit to calm Didi down from her completely justified rage. Rizevim Lucifer had crossed a line for her, impressively managing to piss off the usually placid Death. Not only had he been responsible for Sean’s demise in that world, but he’d also spat in the face of family. That… was unforgivable in Didi’s eyes.

He was quickly written out of the family. Didi took pleasure in striking his name across all dimensions. If-… No, when she and Sean visited that worl...

Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.55

“It was a brisk day in Hell when I awoke and returned to the world…” I intoned with a heavy voice. “The sky bloomed a bright, alien purple with each day. Darkness under an artificial moon claimed each night. A vast, familiar landscape stretched out before me, a whole other world beneath the mortal plane.

“Across the entirety of Hell, creatures of Sin lived surprisingly normal lives. They lived and loved. They thrived parallel to the realms of Man and Heaven. They formed...

Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.54

“So… Cain, huh?” Harley grinned. “Sean ‘Caine’~?”

Hades blinked in confusion, “I’m… sorry…?”

We were returning to the story, it seemed. I was more than fine with that. Hecate still needed a ‘good’ introduction to my special brand of bullshit. Well, another of my special brands. She already knew I was bullshit with my unique relationship to Magic. Now, she just got to hear about my fun that transcended reality and dimensions.

P...

Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.53

Jiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Ophis stared at me, her expression almost a glare. Anyone else would have screamed in terror and run away. Or collapsed right there on the spot. Or burst into a gibbering wreck as their brains leaked out of their ears. The weight of Infinity lurked behind those eyes. And Infinity was hungry…

“Sweets?” I asked knowingly.

Ophis didn’t answer immediately, simply staring at me for a few moments longer, “… No.”

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Gotham's Dead End Bar INTERLUDE 8

“Alright, everyone, settle down,” Clark chided gently, trying to bring order to the Justice League meeting of the day. “Yes, that means you too, John. Focus on the meeting, please.”

“Which one?” Three voices asked in synch.

One was all too serious and rigid. John Stewart — Green Lantern — quickly put his ring and the sector-wide map of alerts that begged for this attention to the side despite what he’d asked. The second ‘John’ — Constantine �...

Gotham's Dead End Bar INTERLUDE 7

David blinked in surprise, “That’s it?”

“Yeah, that’s it,” Cyborg nodded. “Just a little prick. The nanites will do the rest. I don’t really want to put you under the knife if I don’t have to.”

“If you did, you’d at least use the good drugs, right?” David joked.

It didn’t quite land like he expected it to, Cyborg just staring at him, “… Did that actually happen to you?”

David shrugged a bit awkwardly, “I m...

Gotham's Dead End Bar INTERLUDE 6

[AN: I’m not going for the standard approach to greek mythology here. Or even the DC canon approach. It’s more of a personal headcanon thing with interpretations I’ve come across and liked and some original ideas all blended together. Hopefully, the end result is relatively functional and more importantly, interesting.]

IIIII

Slightly out of synch with reality — halfway in the Sphere of Gods — The peak of Mount Olympus, Home of the Gods, could be described ...

Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.52

“What a night,” I sighed contently, shaking my head.

Kara gave a little smile beside me, “It was certainly something. I had fun though, even with the story that started tonight off.”

“I’m glad,” I returned her expression. “Everyone dealt with Yharnam much better than I expected.”

“I don’t know if I’d go that far,” Kara giggled. “There’s going to be a lot of repression in all of our futures. Just not as much as there probably...

Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.51

Long, long before anything of note — when the universe was new — Magic frolicked amongst itself. It was born with Creation, left pure and promising — left to grow. It surrounded the forming Multiverse, filling in the Changing spaces in between. Every new Change brought excitement and novelty, new opportunities for Magic to do as Magic did.

As time progressed, Magic settled. The Multiverse took shape, laid open for the aspect of existence to explore. Magic was everywhere, as...

Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.50

I shook my head fondly as I eventually convinced Simmy to bring us back down to the Dead End. It was good to see her again. Better than good. I couldn’t easily fit the entirety of my feelings on the matter into mere words.

Simmy was… well, she certainly had a special place in my history. My life in Worm was relatively early in my reincarnating career. Before Yharnam, even. It was one of my first dozen lives and it taught me quite a bit about making the best of a bad situation...

Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.49

Later on in the night, after my heavy story of Yharnam and watching Damian ‘seduce’ Ciri, everyone was in much better spirits. My story and the Eldritch horror that came with it hadn’t been forgotten. Just pushed to the side. Compartmentalized.

Everyone would eventually find their own ways of coping with the new knowledge. Of coping with the Eldritch Truth. It helped that Eldritch beings weren’t as prevalent here as in Yharnam. They still existed. But almost as an afterth...

Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.48

“Welcome. To Yharnam.”

The reactio

Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.47

“Hey, Ciri. Who’s the cute goth punk?” The short, blue-skinned girl asked Ciri as Harley, Ivy, Kara, and I came back into the Dead End.

Harley immediately jumped to my defense, playing it up as she usually did, “Hey~! That’s cute goth-BOY to you, Little Miss Gremlin~!”

“You tryna rock or something, Clown?! I won’t take no shit from some Bozo ganger!” The young woman shouted back, matching Harley inch for inch.

“I don’t know what tha...

Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.46

Raven bit her lip to muffle a scream. She thought she was ready. She wasn’t. She so wasn’t. Everything she thought she knew — everything she’d been anticipating — paled in comparison to the ‘real’ thing. Pleasure wracked her frame, overtaking her mind — her whole world. Blissful pink clouds rained down lightning bolts that shocked her to her very core.

“Mmmmph~! Harder~! Please~…?” Raven ‘demanded’, biting back a soul-shaking moan.

She was p...

Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.45

The evacuation of everyone who mattered from the Psion homeworld was a tedious affair. Fortunately, Blackfire had brought more than enough ships to hold all of the former prisoners. And to be fair to her, she didn’t slack off in her assumed duties at all.

If Kori was the figurehead — the beacon of hope that people looked up to —, Blackfire was the leader you actually wanted running things. She was ruthless and callous at times but also efficient, with a good head for logist...

Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.44

The grin on Kori’s face hadn’t left since she was united with her new Cloud Stalker Friend Boy. She was having as much fun as she’d ever had~! It turned out that being imprisoned, enslaved, and experimented on wasn’t so bad when you were turning the tables. And turning the tables, Kori was indeed~!

Her mood had very much done the one hundred and eighty. Boy was a big part of that. Perhaps the biggest. She was such a good Boy! Truly, Kori could see why her ancestors venera...

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Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.43

The area that surrounded the star Vega existed as a complex and vastly diverse system. Its planets numbered in the dozens, races in the hundreds, cultures in the thousands, and sentient beings in the trillions. Truly, it was a place where one could spend the entirety of their life and only see a fraction of what Vega had to offer.

The system enjoyed something of a unique existence in the galaxy and the wider universe beyond. The disparate histories of its many inhabitant races we...

Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.42

Savage and I were taken before the Queen of Tamaran. And already — in the short trip from our ship to the halls of the royal palace — Savage had the local women swooning over him and eating out of the palm of his hand. A feat made only more impressive by the fact that we were being escorted by what I could only assume was the Queen’s royal guard…

“Nonsense, Shin’a!” Savage declared, working his magic on one of the guards. “A beautiful woman like you always deserve...

Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.41

Endless pinks and reds swirled somewhere in the ether, partially removed from reality. Lust and Passion, fiery Rage and cold Apathy, in that out-of-phase realm, there existed only DESIRE.

Scenes from the ether sprung into being only to fade just as quickly. Ghostly bodies writhed in carnal intimacy. Roses bloomed, spreading open until they burst into a constant rain of lovely rose petals. Traditional vices and untraditional temptations whispered to the winds. Reality itself seeme...

Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.40

Back in the Dead End, Cyborg said it best, “Holy. Fucking. Shit.”

Shock and silence reigned. The events they saw unfold before their very eyes, dimensions away in reality, were simply too much. None of the young heroes were used to power of this scale. Nor the violence or the permanent end that Trigon had come to.

The initial sight of a colossal Trigon had been enough to throw their grasp on reality into question. Even with the somewhat ridiculous things they wit...

Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.39

I couldn’t help but feel that tonight would be an eventful one. Whether that’s because every night at the Dead End was eventful in its own right or because something new would be happening tonight, I didn’t quite know. Perhaps both could be true at the same time.

Tonight’s cast wasn’t particularly unique. Just the usual Gothamites. Notably, there weren’t any heroes who showed up tonight. Just my villainous regulars. Even Barbara and Kara were busy with something or an...

Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.38

“Azarath Metrion Zinthos…”

Calm. She was calm. She was the mistress of her emotions. She was in control. NOTHING would take that away from her. From within or from without. Time would pass. The world would change around her. And through it all, Raven would maintain the same homeostasis. She HAD to. There was no other choice…

Raven’s time on Earth had changed many things. She had friends now. People who enjoyed her company, who weren’t (rightfully...

Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.37

Though Damian would never admit it, he missed Gotham when he wasn’t there. The city had grown on him. Slightly. Only enough that he didn’t hate EVERYONE in it like most places he visited. Just most people.

Gotham still had nothing on the city of his birth — ‘Eth Alth’eban. But then again, not many cities could claim the benefits of having been built by an immortal like his grandfather. While Gotham lacked the adventures he’d grown used to during his childhood with the...