#🎪🔥.s/i [Circus Origins AU]

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AU 1: "Circus Origins" Ship: Jack Napier (The Joker) x Capricorn "Cap/Capri/Cappie" Ekko

I wrote about this one a long time ago when I was making "masterposts" (dumping all my ideas on one post w/ some visuals) of my AUs, but since it's been such a long time the details will have probably changed between that initial version and what I'll put here

As the name implies, it's an origin story AU, somewhat inspired by The Killing Joke origin for Joker

Jack and Capricorn met as circus performers, Jack as, of course, a clown, and Capricorn initially as a fake sideshow attraction; the "Goat-Headed Man," in which he'd literally just be dressed with a grotesque goat mask and put on display.

Capricorn basically grew up in the circus while Jack was picked up along their travels. They almost instantly hit it off when they met each other, and as their boss, the ringmaster, took notice of their chemistry, Capricorn was reassigned to clown duties.

Now, even before Jack became The Joker, he wasn't exactly afraid of doing criminal things. One night, he overheard that the pay of some performers and laborers who travelled with the circus would be cut in half, without notice, and all of that money would go into three people's pockets: the ringmaster, the ringmaster's nephew (who was to take over the circus when he retired), and the circus strongman, who turned out to be an ex-mercenary who was blackmailing the ringleader so his past wouldn't get out to the public. Jack decided they needed to be taught a lesson.

After the final performance of the season, Jack poisons the ringmaster, his nephew, and the strongman, then sets the main tent on fire to cover his tracks. Unfortunately, that doesn't exactly help his fellow performers. Capricorn barely makes it out of the fire alive and the two end up fleeing the scene, with Jack only confessing he was behind it when they were too far gone to do anything about it.

Capricorn, still deeply in love with Jack despite this confession, agrees to start a new life with him. They move to Gotham, where Jack is immediately drafted into the navy. Meanwhile, Capricorn begins work as a librarian.

It's not very long before Jack is discharged from the navy in a very hush-hush manner, finally giving him an opportunity to try for a job as a comedian.

Jack and Capricorn begin to regret moving to Gotham (though it was all they could afford), between the comedy career not really taking off and the high crime rates, things are getting tough. They decide to turn to low-stakes thievery to try and keep afloat.

At some point, Capricorn is caught in the crossfire of a bank bombing and he ends up in the hospital. Knowing he won't be able to cover the bills, Jack takes a risky job with some mobsters, leading to the Ace Chemicals incident that turns him into The Joker.

Joker returns to Capricorn in the hospital and promises them a new life.

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🎪🔥 | Circus Origins AU: Part Killing Joke, part my own ideas for a Joker backstory. Jack Napier and his boyfriend, Capri Ekko, were part of a clown troupe, which was part of a larger circus... note: were. When a mysterious accident caused a fire that burned down the main tent and several trailers belonging to the performers of the circus, Jack and Capri resigned, or rather fled, from the circus. After all, they owed quite a bit of debt to their boss, the ringmaster, and didn't exactly have the means to pay it back. They settled in Gotham and Jack took up a job as a stand-up comedian, while Capri stayed home and made cartoons for the Gotham Gazette. Even with his past work as a clown, Jack was not a very popular comedian in Gotham, being more suited for physical comedy than writing and telling jokes. Feeling useless, Jack spent a brief time with the US Navy, but was eventually discharged for mental health concerns. Sometime after that, he took the "job" offer that would lead to his becoming The Joker, but what of Capri? Having nothing but love for Jack, he would follow him to the dark side, though unlike my main timeline s/i he would not enter the Ace chemicals like his partner, preferring to put the make-up skills he learned in the circus to "good" use.

Batman Self Insert AU Dump

👔🤡 | Main Timeline: Hannibal Flood, aka Amadán. Disowned grandson of Carmine Falcone, journalist, and The Joker's husband.

🌆☠️ | The Dark Knight/Ledger!Joker: Corvus "Zero" Grace. Like many Gothamites, Corvus was poor and desperate. When he was given an opportunity to make some cash by some gangsters, he took it without a second thought. Little did he realize they had roped him into the (usually) deathly brief employment of The Joker. As the boss came to clean up his "evidence," that being the group that enticed Corvus into their ranks, he saw something different in Corvus the others didn't have and decided to leave him alive. Slowly, Joker allowed Corvus more intimately into his world, and it wasn't long before Gotham realized there was only one person The Joker did not find expendable: "Agent Zero."

🎙️🏥 | Joker (2019)/Phoenix!Joker: Keaton Kennedy. Keaton met Arthur in Arkham during one of Arthur's last self-admittances. For Keaton, he had been briefly admitted by his older roommate who acted as a sort of caretaker towards him but was struggling with the responsibility of it all. They reconnected after they were both released and committed themselves to helping each other feel better despite their shitty situations. I think Arthur still becomes The Joker in this AU but developments on it heavily depend on the plot of Folie Á Deux right now.

🌆🪴 | Civilian AU: Hannibal "Bill" Feather. Bill was as average of a Gothamite as one could get: working a low-income job as a bodega clerk, having a healthy wariness around Gotham's nightlife, and of course being more concerned with his oncoming rent than the latest villain scheme of the week. So when he unintentionally catches The Joker's eye, Gotham's king of criminals, he's thrown for the biggest loop of his life.

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