Episode 213 of the Letters Page: Writers’ Room: Justice Comics Vol 2 #5

Raising those kids right! It’s probably just the proper length for a thorough brushing, too.

If we go with who has Michelangelo’s actual personality, it’s Setback.

If we’re talking literal party dude, either KNYFE or Mainstay.

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I bet Guise claims to be a Party Dude but nobody takes him seriously.

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If we keep it within the Sentinels of Freedom, Setback is close enough. Though it could also be applied to Rockstar in the RPG era.

Also in the RPG era, I think Heritage fits the “teach hero teens” bit, while Legacy does indeed lead.

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Parenting win.

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It started because we asked the then-2yo what song she wanted us to sing while brushing her teeth, expecting “She’ll be coming round the mountain” or similar. When she replied “Turtle song!” we legit had no clue what she was actually asking for, and stumbled through our barely remembered version of the TMNT theme in desperation.

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raising your children right XD

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Muerto is like the least scary ghost ever. That’s like the whole point of sugar skulls. Latin America really likes making death not scary anymore.

The discussion of “not the cold force” makes me think of that XKCD strip. “There are fourteen competing standards! Here’s a fifteenth to fix everything” and it doesn’t.

Amusingly while discussing Haka hugs, they accidentally said Aeon Girl isn’t a person. Pretty sure that wasn’t intended.

PS: Exactly 100 episodes to go!

PPS: a soulmate for DS&PS would probably not naturally exist, but I could see The Fervor crafting a perfect “lover” for both of them, which probably goes wrong since passion isn’t love (see the Star Sapphire Corps in Detective Comics comics, where they use the word ‘love’ and clearly don’t know what it actually means).

PPPS: not to Americasplain the mythology of Japan, but my understanding is that yokai really aren’t anything close to demons, they’re more like what various D&D editions might call “monstrosity”, “magical beast”, or “monstrous human”, perhaps best translated as “creature”. The Japanese equivalent to “demon” as best I understand it is “bakemono”, so I find it odd that term isn’t the one they used for the thing that became Akari and which Akari now occasionally becomes under duress. (Legend of the Five Rings mostly uses “Oni” for demon while “bakemono” is treated as “monster”, but this is pretty clearly wrong, since the original mythical Oni were pretty specifically described as these tiger skinned giants with horns that are either red or blue…I think their closest equivalent in a western myth-cycle might be the Scandinavian trolls, which are likewise very definitely physical and humanoid, though they lean a little more nature-spirity. I think demon should pretty much always imply being “not of this world” in addition to fearsome or malevolent or otherwise monstrous.)