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Okay, I know I have at least a few international people on my flist. This question is actually for all y'all, or anyone else that wants to weigh if you've got something to add.

I love DC comics (or at least, I love the DCU [current editorial and I aren't talking]), but some days the gaps in how the mythos is set up gets really exasperating, and I'd like some help figuring out how to fill in a particular set of those gaps.

Over in the 'Uncle Sam' corner of the DCU, we've got Uncle Sam and Columbia (at least currently. Billy Yank and whoever 'Bea was then, and Johnny Reb and Dixie... they went back to sleep a while back). The UK, they've got Britannia and have for a real long time (Canada too? Or do y'all Canadians have your own? for that matter, Australia?). France has Marianne, even if supposedly she's very weak. Russia has the Bear -- and Mother Russia, come on, DC, get it right, would you? Italy should have Italia (Roma Mater in a new guise), not that we saw that.

But, um. There's rather a lot more countries than that. So any of you from places not the USofA... What would yours be? (ETA for clarity: What would your national personification be? I can hunt wiki for DC heroes of various nations, I don't trust it for a second to get national mythologies right.)

Or, even if you are US based, anyone know enough other national mythologies to lend me a hand?

Title: Magical Accidents
Word count: 1428
Continuity: It's me, come on. Graduation Day? What Graduation Day? Or, roughly translated, late in The Titans. Also, post BoP 25 at least, if not 46.
Summary: Sometimes Deathstroke's cases and the Titans' problems don't run so far apart. ...That generally doesn't end well. But then, sometimes it does, too.

Please visit the following URL for the fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/1319968

New Slade AU fic over at Merfilly's journal.

Separate Ways

This bit, even if I do say so myself, is a really good example of why I frequently call Slade Wilson a very stupid, broken man. So if you're interested... Really it's Wintergreen fic.

Or Rose fic, for that matter.

Title: Another Chance, part ten
Co-writer: merfilly
Fandom: DCU/Pern Crossover
Characters: Slade Wilson, Dinah Lance, Roy Harper, Dick Grayson, Vic Stone, the entire cast of Dragonsdawn by Anne McCaffrey
Word count this part: 4,722; 51,192 words total
Warning/Notes: You all know us. You know our OTPs. Hopefully by this point you know who's in the verse. We still really hope you enjoy it.
Note the second: Any "misspellings" or altered words are deliberate, in order to mimic language drift, and no disrespect is intended towards the canonical birth culture of our favorite redhead and brunette.
Note the third: Um. We have an issue or two with McCaffrey. Sorry?

part one

part two

part three

part four

part five

part six

part seven

part eight

part nine

( part 10 )

part 11

1. Comment to this post.
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Think of 5 fictional characters and post their names and your comments on these characters in your LJ.

So, icarus_chained gave me "D".

( D folks I'm fond of )

And then merfilly gave me A.

( A folks I'm fond of )

courtcat79 Apparently decided to try and stump me with a U. But I persevered.

( U folks I'm fond of )

stalinglim wrote me poetry for 'We Hold These Truths'.

EEEE!!!

Go here and read!

To bed with me now.

Well. It's been a few weeks since I've done this, but Slade has some more TM prompts he finally answered for me.

Two ficlets, three prefect drabbles... He's such an odd thing.

41 Who has had the most influence on your life?

( If I knew... )Words: 177

42 Does heartache make you stronger?

I'm still breathing, right?

43 If you won the equivalent of $2,000, and had to spend it, what would you spend it on?

What was I doing, playing pool in a local bar? A $2K offer isn't even worth my time.

Ammunition, probably. Unless I see something I'd rather have.

44 What happened the first time you got drunk?

( no-one say a word about being underage... )Words:187

45 What makes you feel vulnerable and what makes you feel invulnerable, and why?

*snort*

46 What would you place in a personal ad if you were making one?

I wouldn't, thank you. I have very little need of them, at least in that sense. Now, as far as the prevalence of several people in my business using them to arrange contracts... Well. It would be just a little stupid of me to admit to that in a public forum, wouldn't it?

47 What is the biggest lie you ever told? What were the consequences?

This is about enough times for this question to come up in one way or another. (Re: 15, 26, 27.)

48 Describe the best 24 hours you ever had.

( best day of my life... )Words:100

49 Who would you like to see get their final comeuppance? Who is it and just what would you do with them?

( Best served cold )Word:100

50 What do you have to be thankful for?

( ...it's been a long time since I've counted my blessings... )Words:100