#Hande the Apprentice

[poetic-emptiness-fanfic]

Yeah, two of my gals (and me) have their birthday today. In real life Harriet would turn 105 years today, which feels funny, considering I’m stuck mostly in the 1940s with her when I progress her story. xD

I don’t have anything planned for this, I haven’t had spoons for that kinds of stuff. But yeah, even though I haven’t done anything for Hande in quite some time, she’s the one who opened the doors for me to get back to my Batman oc and creating Narma and Harriet, so Hande has a special place in my heart. 💜

If you want to, you can asks questions about both of them or give them birthday wishes, and I will answer as them. For possible questions you can utilise these; list 1, list 2 & list 3, or something else.

[lonelyzarquon]

[rapidhighway]

[ifyoucandaniel]

exactly one person asked and i’ve been DYING to make this, so here are all of my favorite long batman fanfics in general and for new readers @twisted-tales-told :)

cards on the table by @wesslan ! 69k, completed. this is one of my all time favorite fanfictions, it’s so funny and tim is a mastermind genius and a little liar <3 he basically pretends to be a fortune teller and gives scarily good predictions and advice by stalking the upper class and eventually gets involved with the batfam and has to maintain his lies while dealing with his issues :) 10/10, very found family, good angst, so much lying

Dark Matter by @mysterycyclone , 221k, ongoing. this is a batman fanfic rec, of course my bbg dark matter is going to be here <3 this is a MCUxDCU crossover where after infinity war (spoilers for that if you haven’t seen it!) peter parker gets sent to the DCU dimension with part of the soul stone and basically is haunted by the ghosts of the avengers while trying to survive in gotham and get back to his dimension. this is so well written i’ve read it at least three times, it’s still ongoing but trust me it is SO GOOD. i can’t properly describe it, but if you like spider-man and you are interested in batman, you’ll love.

Red is the Color of Sinners by @bluelotuswrites , series, 120k, ongoing, M. i want you to look me in my eyes when i tell you this is my favorite series on ao3. it is set after under the red hood and daredevil 3 where jason and matt meet in a church after jason loses his ability to speak following the events of UTRH. they keep running into each other both as matt and daredevil and eventually jason begins helping matt out with injuries and tech. it’s not finished yet, but there is something so compelling about their dynamic in this series as well as jason’s overall character and how he is portrayed. i’m a sucker for mute jason after UTRH and this series does so well giving him a fresh start and a place away from gotham to heal and build relationships. i cannot recommend enough.

buy back the secrets by @vinelark , 71k, ongoing, T. THIS!!! oh my god, so this is a timkon fic where kon still doesn’t know tim’s civilian identity, but whenever he’s in trouble tim calls for superboy which leads to them meeting without kon knowing. shenanigans ensure when kon starts spending more time with tim! it’s still ongoing but the author is currently working on the next part and it is so so worth the wait. chapter 4 ends on a cliffhanger though so be warned :))

Sales People Know (listening is the most important part) by Mayhem10, 77k, completed, T. this has the coolest urban magical realism ever. tim basically runs this magic shop that shows up places and people who need something find it in his shop :) it’s kinda a slow burn found family fic with magic themes and a smidge of angst!

Retrograde Motion by Lysical, 112k, completed, T. this is best de-aged kid fic ever. jason gets turned into a 7 year old and basically the outlaws, artemis and biz, join forces with the batfam to take care of him. but trust me when i say this is worth your time, it might sound tropey but in the best way possible!! and jason’s relationship with artemis is sooo important to me in this!

Hand in Unloveable Hand (a chokehold) by britishparty, 54k, completed, M. this is one of the best psychological torture/grooming fics i’ve ever read. pretty much what if while our taking photos of batman and robin, little tim gets kidnapped and black mask gets his hands on him and decides he’s the perfect size for a protege. years of psychological abuse and insane mind games ensue. also tim is a Badass™️

If He Had Come by bronwe_iris, 45k, completed, T. so i’m a little freak and i love the angst of arkham knight jason, but more specifically the aus where bruce saves jason before he becomes the arkham knight! this is an au where bruce finds jason and saves him from the joker after 9 months of torture and brings him home. focuses on his healing mentally and physically and rebuilding his relationship with his family

Banshee in a Well by liverobinreaction (bugbee), 43k, completed, T. veeeery good angst. basically what if tim couldn’t die? 43k of tim drake whump where he just dies a bajillion times and eventually his family notices <3

The Birds: Hatching a Family by Oceanera12, 81k, completed, T. this is like “what if the batkids weren’t adopted by bruce, but instead they were all foster siblings who can’t seem to stay out of gotham at night and batman happens to find them and decides obviously he can’t leave these kids to their own business, he has to stick his nose in it” and there’s some angst and heaps of found family

The Hellblazer’s Apprentice by @bluelotuswrites, 29k, ongoing, M. what can i say, im a simple woman, i love to see jason with literally any older male mentor :) basically in UTRH what if he took up an apprenticeship under constantine to learn magic to piss off batman! so good, i really love constantine so seeing him and jason interact in a long fic is so good. also ALL BLADES JASON TODD SAVE ME… ALL BLADES JASON TODD-

something in the static by bonerot19, 101k, ongoing series with three main completed works, T. this is a jason centric series where jason still lives in crime alley with his mom and dad and never stole the batmobile tires. it follows his life in crime alley with an addict mom and an abusive dad and one night when his dad is whaling on him nightwing finds him and the bats just can’t seem to leave him alone after that. steph is his neighbor and best friend also and their relationship is so good. this is a “what if jason took a different way home to the wayne’s” fic series and i love it so much <3

catch the asteroids that come your way by ThePackWantsTheD, 54k, completed, T. i don’t read a lot of ships in the batman fandom i’m sorry, but this kyle/jason one is sooo lovely. basically the two of them growing up together and falling in love and then dealing with the aftermath of A Death in the Family and finding each other again :) really sweet and nice!

hope you find something you like! i realized the majority of these are tim or jason centric, and i love them all dearly, but if anyone has any recs for long fics focusing on any of the other batkids lmk! and any other recs in general, i am a fiend for new fics

[lookin-reproachfully]

Twice-over, Ame has essentially paid Mirara a kindness.

As a child, she gave her an earnest compliment and unprejudiced service (Straight up gave her the kitty mug to boot)

Now as a young woman, she let her off the hook by preventing the vote from coming into pass in the first place (Ame could've been petty or spiteful, but she unveiled the double conspiracy against Mirara as saved basically everyone in the coven)

Even when Grandma Wren argued against her, she never really bullied her with the other witches (they were curt in their meeting, but Wren treated her as an opposed equal)

Now, Mirara has a decision to make, does she stick with the old guard that don't really care about her as either a witch or a person? Or does she take the hand once more of the little girl that told her of all people that her dress and mask were pretty?

I wonder if underneath the skulker facade and overall stress from the situation, she genuinely considered taking Ame for herself when she rapid-fired questions at her with unadulterated wonder and curiosity.

Her crow must also be lonely, it is a very social animal, after all

(Lullabies, too, fall under the domain of night)

[hyperblue]

who'd be more scary when it comes to timkon as protective parents in your opinion bc i genuinely can't decide

[the-thursday]

halt o'carrick is tired man

[abyssal-ilk]

i have mixed feelings overall about the dialogue between vivienne and cole, mainly because cole's prodding at her (and all of the other companions, really) feels so invasive and there is nothing we can do to get him to actually stop, BUT.

i cannot get over this piece of banter. it's forever living in my head

[motherdanger]

[SPECIALZ_Hello Zepp_remix.mp3 intensifies]

[jennilah]

updated for the Logan lovers out there who have been vocal LOL

a new tallest boy has been crowned (of the jigsquad & main fandom ships jkhdfbngjn)

[myokk]

what I’ve been working on yesterday & today💓🙏💓 I’m obsessed with drawing hands, the rest was just to fill in the white space😇

[poetic-emptiness-fanfic]

Hande!

14. Are they a simple person to please or difficult?

15. What is the first thing people notice about them?

20. Does your character have a comfort item?

Thank you for the questions! 😊 14. "I'd say I'm rather easy to please, I don't need much and if someone is kind, it's guaranteed we'll get along fine."

15. "Hmmm... For me it's rather hard to think of, how others see me. Maybe my hair, because it isn't the most common hair colour in Vesuvia, or that I smile easily and often."

20. "Actually, I do! My necklase that has green and purple beads, made of agate and ceramic. I always wear it, or at least keep it in my pocket. Asra gave it to me soon after I was resurrected, and told it belongs to me. For a long time I didn't know where I got it, but when I found my parents, they revealed me it's a Karnassian talisman, that my sister, Salma, made and gifted to me many years ago."

[timetodiverge]

Shin stuck on Peridea like

Sabine: hey our wifi is down, can I come over and use your laptop

Shin: *shit shit shit shit shit*

Sabine's version here Memes: The Bad Batch | Ahsoka

[soullessseraphim]

Hey Asra what if your apprentice was even more fucked up than previously thought?

it's just a thought I've had for a while,, but like in the reverse ending, Liam becomes the new Death Arcana, and I thought to myself ; there is NO WAY a simple normal magician's apprentice could do that ; what if Liam (in this reverse ending timeline) was actually sort of chosen by good ol' Death to become their successor because Valdemar is a little too wacky (and because affinity with necromancy)? And so he didn't exactly die of the Plague, only was... reborn? because Death absolutely needs him like what if he was kind of immortal so he was protected and Death could finally make him the new one? Liam would still not remember re-assembling his carcass (or the ritual, or anything like that) and Asra would bring him back to the shop still,, but without giving him the fool's body and resurrecting him.

And so at the Lazaret Asra doesn't find Liam's remains he finds a sort of corpse-Liam re-assembling itself lich style because I do what I want

ramblings ramblings aaaah... But like that would be the reverse ending ; the upright would follow the normal storyline.

[bikananjarrus]

if yord had lived he'd be leading the hunt for qimir and osha and we would've gotten the most delicious tension between him and qimir. qimir would start out frustrated that yord got away, intent on finishing what he started. and yord, once hunted, now hunter, once an exemplary jedi, and now solely focused on revenge disguised as righteous justice (which it is also a bit of that). and qimir starts to enjoy the game, the chase. and in this timeline, sol still dies, osha still goes with qimir, but yord was unconscious, recovering in a bacta tank, so all he knows when he wakes up is that qimir is out there and took osha, his friend, away. so then you also have the tension of that confrontation, the realization that osha has willingly turned, and that maybe yord can't blame her for that, because what has he been doing these past many months, years, maybe, but give in to the selfish desire to finish what he started too?

[sketchz]

hi @ovletoak‘s roleswap au is very cool. i am thinking about it