#*very WFA but let's just have it as a little treat

[froldgapp]

Casual Batfam* scene of Jason diligently working through his favourite weekly cryptic crossword only for Tim to drift by and immediately solve a sticky, awkward and tenuous clue with a single glance**.

[cyanide-sippy-cup]

WFA opinions? Love Barbara standing up to Bruce

Ough. Bruce defenders fighting for our lives with this one.

I really like the beginning. We don't usually get nice caring moments between Bruce and Babs (specially not mundane peaceful ones), so I wish that the opening was just a little longer to give us more of that before the fight. I like how Barbara points out that he's treating her like a Robin even though she's basically her own hero who just works with Batman.

I think they're trying to ride a line this season between comic Bruce and the slice of life dad Bruce they set up over the last two seasons and this episode is a particular stumble imo. Blaming Babs for Dick's injuries just doesn't feel super in-character with this version, even if I see what they're going for. They do let him have good talking points, some of which really do sound like they're being said by Bruce Wayne.

Not sure how I feel about Bruce trying to shut down the clocktower. That's something he usually relies on pretty heavily, and shutting it down would only put Babs and his family in more danger. And like I said, she's basically a separate superhero and he's making claim over her stuff. Like how is he gonna force her to leave. They gonna fight? Is he gonna blow it up? Idk. Unfortunately, it does feel like something mainline Bruce would do, and I'm not sure how I feel about that.

This was a very good Barbara episode, but Bruce's character struggled a lot here. She feels right at home in both her normal and WFA characterization while Bruce feels split between the two in a way that just kinda leaves me feeling weird about this one.

[bereft-of-frogs]

The fic I’d like to see from you is a fic I can’t believe I haven’t seen yet and think you’d be the best fit for. “Dark World” where Loki gets still very stabbed but not quite as stabbed, so he’s super injured but isn’t dying, but they can’t go back to Asgard and Malekith has the aether and there’s a dust storm rolling it. Very whumped Loki with Thor and Jane he just saved and also the world is maybe ending and if it doesn’t he probably has to go back to jail. (Wait, can this be both memes?)

It can certainly be both. When I posted them both I was like ‘oh these are completely different, these will totally be AUs I won’t write, this is just for fun.’

Look at us now. Even the Harry Potter AU I’m like...dang I could write this though.

(Also reiterating: if anyone wants to write anything based on these headcanon AUs, please feel free, and please tag me in it so I can read them.   : D )

So, okay, Loki getting stabbed but not dying.

CW for the description of injuries

First off, I am probably going to write the one from last night - at least a small snippet - where Frigga is captured instead of killed so when Loki is wounded she’s there to take care of them. But a more canon-compliant AU, where Frigga is still dead and it’s just the three of them alone. (Also warning, I’ve seen Dark World...maybe twice? So I might be wrong on some canon stuff, I’m going off of what I see in gifsets and what I read on the wiki and in other people’s fics...):

- Loki’s injuries: so I’ve seen it going around that the reason for the black veins/ grey skin is some kind of poison on the blade, so if there’s no poison on the blade he probably doesn’t die right away. But he’s bleeding a lot, and he’s got a collapsed lung. He’s having a lot of trouble breathing, he’s in an insane amount of pain, and is convinced he’s dying. Cue the desperate apologies and deathbed confessions. At least until he’s too out of breath to talk.

- I like to headcanon that both Thor and Jane have some form of first aid training. Thor is more of field medic and Jane is more Wilderness First Aid (if you’re living in small-town New Mexico and studying astronomy, I’d imagine there’s some hiking to be done to find good stargazing spots and WFA are always good skills to have if you’re hiking in remote locations.) Between the two of them they at least can get Loki stable enough to be moved, but his condition is rapidly deteriorating. They don’t have any equipment, but at least manage to control the bleeding a bit and get him to the shelter of the cave.

- so Thor is feeling...pretty shitty about all of this. Wracked with guilt over being the one who took Loki out of his cell, where he was at least safe, being the one that Loki was hurt trying to save. Loki wakes up a bit and is like ‘it’s okay, did you really think I was going back to jail?’ and they have this horribly sad conversation about death being just another kind of freedom while Thor begs him not to let go.

- while this sob-fest is going on, Jane stumbles across an opening in the back of the cave - one that leads back to Earth. So Thor bundles Loki up again and they make it back to Earth and find Selvig who is like ‘nope nope nope, Loki’s back, don’t like this’ but they’re like ‘cool, Loki is also dying, so it’s fine.’ Selvig’s house at least has some supplies, so they’re able to at least stop more air from entering the chest cavity. (There’s this special type of dressing called an ‘occlusive dressing’ that’s coated in a wax that creates a seal over the wound so no more air can get in. Fun fact.) He’s still not doing so hot and probably needs surgery but there’s nothing to be done, they’ve still got to defeat Malekith. So they kind of bundle him in Selvig’s bed and hope he survives while they go off to end the fight.

- they do and Thor returns to find Loki thankfully still alive but unconscious and fading fast. Thor’s accepted he’s not going back to Asgard since that will find them both in a cell, or worse, but he needs help so instead he turns to SHIELD - but oops SHIELD is actually HYDRA and while they save Loki’s life they trick them and imprison them in the base in Sokovia and voilà more whump as they’re interrogated and experimented on (and who are these other two locked up in this dingy basement?) while Jane desperately looks for them and finds no trace and Sif comes down to look for them and finds no trace...

- but then Asgard does finally find them and basically threatens war on Earth if they are not returned because Odin goes into Protective Dad mode when he sees what’s being done to them and HYDRA all falls apart and Winter Soldier/Age of Ultron shake out a little differently.

(that got a bit away from me there at the end)

(basically the third act of The Dark World is where I start to lose memories of the plot. Somehow they get back to Earth? Somehow Malekith is defeated? How does this fit in with Winter Soldier? I don’t know. I’ll figure it out later.)

(Yes I ended up on PubMed this morning don’t @ me)

(If I write this you know for sure I’ll be reading a bunch of thoracic impalement trauma articles in prep because I’m just that extra)

(The problem with this is I kept being like ‘well for this injury I would do this’ and keep remembering they don’t have a fully stocked ambulance of things they would need to treat this.)

(Yup, fun fact about me, this is how I made money while I was in undergrad and thought I was going to med school, I got my EMT license at 18 and worked on an ambulance during the summers, and was a clinical research assistant in an emergency department.)

(I went into academics instead which obviously is working out...just super...)

(I’m kidding, I really like my death studies/history of medicine degree, I would just also like it if I had a job.) 

Thanks for asking!

I have...so many AU ideas now. so many. I am out of control. It’s bananas over here.