#batfamau

[aerofae]

Angst AU

So let me tell you guys about my favorite angst (yet still fluffy at times) AU. Fair warning: lots of angst and macabre and the overall splatter punk vibes when it comes to actually writing it out (I'm writing a fic in bits and pieces).

The Bat Who Laughs... Stick with me. He's not the main focus but is the big bad.

In his popping in and out of alternate universes, he's slowly been collecting what he sees as the perfect alternatives to his the family he had killed after being Joker-fied. He's cycled through a few different versions of the boys, but we're going to talk about his final group.

Dick (roughly 16) has been there the longest. He was trained to be a Talon after his parents were murdered, having been kidnapped by Cobb during all the commotion. When Batman finally found the missing Grayson boy, the BWL swooped in to claim him (killing both Cobb and this universe's Batman in the process)

Jason (around 14) is the third Jason the BWL has had under his wing. In this Jason's timeline, he was also beaten within an inch of his life by the Joker, but Batman made it just in time to take the impact of the bomb in place of his ward. Alfred did everything he could to keep Jason from following the same path Bruce had in vengeance, but Red Hood was well underway when the BWL decided to give him a shot.

Tim is the second Tim. You guessed it, Joker Junior. The first Tim (14, same as Jason) was “too old” and “too independent” for the BWL. Too much like Tim still (he had been found and was recovering when the BWL stole him). New Tim (around 11) is younger and freshly pulled from the vat of Ace Chemicals. Freshly broken, the perfect puppet (or so the BWL thinks).

Damian (7) has been with the BWL the second longest. The BWL's original Damian (the one that had twisted and conformed to the BWL's morals) had died in combat (against another Damian—go figure). It took the BWL a while to come around to replacing him, but when he did he had been compelled to take a toddler aged version straight from Talia's arms. Damian is oddly coddled compared to his brothers. He doesn't go on missions with them. He barely even trains. He's essentially just a kid being forced to watch his found brothers go through Hell universe after universe after universe. Naturally, he's very close with Dick who essentially is raising him in place of the BWL.

But the twist is that in their universe hoping (where the boys have been front line against their counterparts), they come across a Bruce who eventually rescues them. By complete accident at first of course, and with much confusion. Consider this Bruce a year five or so Batman, a little broken in but not quite versed in the concept of parallel universe's actually being real. Pre Justice League, but Gotham for sure knows who Batman is. In his universe Dick Grayson had died with his parents, Jason Todd was a finally identified John Doe found beaten to death in in the Narrows, Tim Drake was collateral damage in a hit gone wrong, and Damian Wayne was nonexistent—so who exactly where these kids? Why did their DNA and finger prints match with the dead? Who the fuck was Damian Wayne?

Anyway, I'mma be posting some stuff about them. Little snippets and slice of life moments. I don't have a rp partner anymore (TLDR, we were dating and it didn't work out) so Tumblr is now subject to my AU.. Enjoy :)

[good-rwbyaus]

Currently stopped at March 24, 2021. Will continue going through them. These are organized by mod and put in reverse chronological order (most recent). Once I see writings of a mod, I'll add the mod name there such as Mod Red, Mod Violet, Mod Pink etc.

Posts I've reviewed will have the mod name tagged in if it wasn't already added.

Warning that I don't know a lot of the crossovers.

I may start putting like a tag for post length cause some are like less than 30 words while some are huge. Any ideas for a good cutoff for small, medium, large?

Posts under the cut. - mod lilac

Mod Green:

Ozcury AU - Mercury mentoring Ruby in a kick-based style

Berta Beef - (LetterKenny reference)

Ozcury AU - Watching Penny and Ruby interact has Mercury convinced they're dating

Ozcury AU - Mercury whacking Cinder while pulling off SAO Abridged Kirito's "humans are a write-off as a species" lines

Mercury and Emerald with a kid AU - Mercury's bad choice of movie material for his daughter

Kobayashi Dragon Maid AU starring Saphron and Terra Cotta-Arc

Vampire Mercury Black AU - Emercury

Crack Ship One-Shot Neo x Penny

Dog Faunus Jaune AU One-Shot

Mercury Meets Deadpool instead of Cinder after killing Marcus AU

KonosubaAU! character's comments on Darkness!Pyrrha's masochism

Yang embarassing Ruby at her wedding.

Crack!Alternate ending of the Fall of Beacon for Pyrrha discovering she's a Salem clone.

Star Trek Fan AU

Vampire Mercury Black AU - Mercury's casual convo with Emerald about hunting

Vampire Mercury Black AU - Mercury on Witches and Necromancers

Vampire Mercury Black AU - Meeting Tyrian

Ozcury AU - Sass-off while fighting back to back with Ironwood

Salem finds it awkward and disconcerting to talk to Oscar

Ozcury AU - Not quite fully in control.

SAOAbridged!Kirito Mercury doing the Bridge speech.

Ozcury AU - seeing Penny in Atlas

Mama Black, the Winter Maiden

Singer Mercury

Ozcury AU - nsft - Not quite asking the right questions with Jinn

Ozcury AU - awkward meeting with Ironwood

Weiss chasing Jaune AU

Conspiracy Theorist Raven AU

Mod Yellow:

BatFamAU - Emerald after meeting the Joker the first time and the BatFam's reaction

BatFamAU - Fanart of Em from thatfreak03

BatFamAU - Batgirl Emerald facing the Joker for the first time

BatFamAU - Batgirl Emerald taught Bruce's bad tastes in companionship

BatFamAU - semblance descriptions for the BatFam

BatFamAU - Battle of Haven (I think this is Mod Yellow's but I'm not sure since it was untagged.)

BatFamAU - Emerald Wayne's first gala

BatFamAU - ModAsk: Waynes' Thoughts on the Schnees?

BatFamAU - ModAsk: Is Season 1! Ruby a fan of the Batfam?

BatFamAU - ModAsk: Lazarus Pit?

BatFamAU - ModAsk: Emerald's Thoughts on Other Batman Characters

LazyTownAU (Crack AU)! Pyrrha alternate ending to Fall of Beacon

Accidental Pun Master Raven (it puns in the family au)

Remnant saved by Salem getting a cold (Sick Salem AU)

BatFamAU - ModAsk: Did Batfam intervene at the Grimm invasion?

Bleiss AU nsft: "This isn't a nude beach!"

Redemption AU - Ruby and company unwittingly getting Emerald and Mercury to defect

CampCamp AU - Harrison is Ozpin's son.

BatFamAU - on the Fall of Beacon

BatFamAU - Emerald and thoughts on the other Batgirls

BatFamAU - ModAsk: Who is Azazel?

BatFamAU - Emerald and thoughts on the other Robins. Also, the Tim Test

BatFamAU - ModAsk: Ironwood's thoughts on Bruce Wayne

BatFamAU - ModAsk: Is Bruce part of the Ozpin's inner circle?

BatFamAU - Training and Bruce Wayne

BatFamAU - Which Kingdom is Bruce Wayne in?

Crack!The Real Reason why Salem hates Oz

Ozpin picks Nora as the Fall Maiden instead.

BatFamAU - Bad habits die hard.

Everything is the same but ruby speaks in owo and uwu UVU ovo

BatFamAU - Emerald meets the Batman

Mod Lilac:

Untitled Piece - The end of a dream and Ruby's attempt to make it right.

Accidental Cult AU - 6. Blaspheme (and maid!Ruby's reaction)

Actors and Actresses AU - The Schnees Play Monopoly

Accidental Cult AU - 5. Worship

Accidental Cult AU - 4. First Recruit

Fleeting AU - Ozma returns to the Beginning with nothing but a whisper to come. Everything changes.

Accidental Cult AU - 3. Ruby meets Weiss again

Accidental Cult AU - 2. Chance Encounter

Accidental Cult AU - the Church of Weiss Schnee / Maid Ruby AU

WinterMaiden/ Untitled Goose Game AU - picture

Dabbing is the real reason why the worlds ends Crack AU!

Persona AU picture - Ozpin as Igor

Unnamed Crack Time Travel AU Part 3 - Featuring Chronic!Backstabber!Syndrome!Cinder

Evil Ozpin AU - except Ozpin is more "this is hella inconvenient evil"

Prankster Summer Rose

Crack!Blake writes very terrible smut. Jaune likes to use it to interrogate his enemies. Poor Tyrian.

Uncle Crow AU - Intermezzo

Unnamed Crack Time Travel AU - part 2

Ozma lets Salem play out her megalomania fetish. She gets tired of it very quickly.

Unnamed Crack Time Travel AU - part 1, features ChronicBackstabber!Cinder and DonewithEverything!Ruby

Misc (Submissions, Reblogs or I don't know who wrote them aha):

Crack!Headmistress Ruby AU - unknown

Adopted Mercury Arc - submission by plaidgamer64

CosmoKyrin's collection of nuts n dolts - them as animals.

Young Headmaster Ozpin AU - "now unlock it"

No one believed that Jaune has a girlfriend, not even his family - moistmailman

[phantoms-lair]

I just imagine the Kent's being slightly reserved about the idea of raising another child because their age till they see Danny. They see a too skinny, pale kid and immediately imprint😂

"I do hate to ask this of you." Bruce put down his coffee. "You've done so much taking in Clark and Kara."

"And we'd do it again in a heartbeat." Jon said without a second of hesitation. "But you're not one to balk at taking in any child who needs you, so why come to us?"

He sighed. "Right now Danny has enemies that I am uniquely positioned to counter, which is why it's best he stays with me till they're dealt with. Unfortunately I bear some superficial similarities to one of his primary abusers."

Martha gasped, a hand flying to her mouth. "Oh Bruce."

"Danny knows we're not the same, but at the same time he can't feel truly comfortable around me, at least not yet. So I needed to find him a good home. A place where he could be unconditionally loved for being who he is, raised with kindness but given space to fly. Who could be better for him than you?"

"You do yourself a discredit. If it wasn't for a resemblance to that bastard." Jon didn't know the person in question, but knowing they had abused a child was all he needed to know in his opinion, "you would have given him a fine home."

Martha reached across the table. "This doesn't reflect on you." she said kindly.

And it felt like a stab in the heart because of how much Bruce had been trying to suppress it had hurt to have a child look on him is fear and suspicion.

"Bring him with you next time." Jon suggested. "We'll see how he feels about Smallville,"

[aerofae]

Giggle Bats (Angst AU) - Snippet 1

AU Context Here

Bruce's hand stilled mid crank of the wrench. Entirely caught off guard, his gaze lifted in the direction of the teen. “What did you just call it?” He hoped his tone wasn't too sharp. It crushed him every time Dick flinched, but the words had left him before he could remember to lighten the gruffness. He was so used to it being just Alfred and himself here, and Alfred always knew when his words were laced with anger versus genuine bewilderment—even though they sounded fairly alike.

“Hm?” Dick poked his head out from behind the computer, seemingly unfazed by the question. "The Batmobile?"

“The... Batmobile?” Bruce repeated the absurd title back to Dick.

It took a moment for the dots to connect in Dick's mind. Yes, the Batmobile. The Dark Knight's trusty steed. The harbinger of a rough night to come for every crook in Gotham from petty thief to mob boss. Surely this Bruce—“Oh shit, that's right! You've never had a Robin!”

Dick pushed against the desk so that the chair would wheel further into Bruce's direct line of sight, dragging his IV pole along with him (aided by a nudge from Alfred's foot). “That is the Batmobile.” He explained with an amused grin. “This,” Dick gestured to the computer, “is the Batcomputer.” Dick then grabbed one of the broken Batarangs from the desk, giving it a flourishing gesture. “Batarang!”

Bruce was lost. Utterly lost. Dick could feel the giddiness rising within him.

“It usually starts with me,” he explained. “A joke at first, but it sticks pretty quick. Almost everything has Bat in front of it. Officially and unofficially.” Dick leaned back into the computer chair—Batcomputer Batchair—rolling his eyes up to the ceiling as he recalled the various names he had heard versions of himself and his siblings use over the years. He counted each on a finger. “Batbelt. Batcape. Batjet. Batbike. Batglare.” Dick paused to gauge Bruce's reaction—bewildered silence. The teen's grin threatened to give-way to laughter. “What do you call it?”

Bruce's jaw had hung open. His brow was furrowed. “The car.”

“On the contrary, Sir.” Alfred hummed his own amusement. “I do believe that Gotham has begun to refer to it as the Bat-Car.”

The wrench slipped from Bruce's hand, falling with a series of mocking clanks and clatters as it bounced its way through the overly complicated engine. This was enough to finally permit himself to laugh—a foreign sound and feeling. One he felt he hadn't experienced in God knew how long. Months? Years? Dick was soon doubled over with the laughter. The motions made his stitches nag in protest, but the euphoria was too good and too overdue to stop. Dick laughed. He laughed and laughed until he began to cry. Once the crying started, the sobs were quick to follow. Almost instantaneously. One extreme to the other, both he hadn't let himself feel for too long. Too too long. All this time—all these years—he had been surviving. He had been keeping his brothers in line. He had been listening to their stories of their Bruce's. Their Batman's. Their memories. Their joy filled moments and years of Robin. Their lives as Bruce Wayne's children. A life Dick never knew, but had heard and witnessed time and time again. Always from the outside. Always longing. Always longing.

–

Bruce had sat in silent support while Dick cried himself into trembling exhaustion. He didn't know Dick's pain, not fully. But he knew heart break. He knew what it was like to watch others live the life he wanted more than anything. Parents to hold him. Laughter to be shared. Bruce couldn't fix the pain of Dick's past any more than he could fix his own—but he'd do whatever was within his power to see that Dick's pain ended here. No more universe hoping. No more slaughters. No more longing for a proper, safe home. Bruce swore it to himself as he laid Dick carefully back into his bed.

Bruce tucked the teen in, careful of his arm as to not tangle or pull on the IV cords. Once he was satisfied that Dick would be warm and comfortable for the night, Bruce sat carefully on the edge of the bed. “You know,” he spoke softly, running a hand through Dick's shaggy hair, “Batmobile isn't such a bad name after all. Do you think it'll catch on here?”

“Guaranteed.” Dick smiled. It was an exhausted and broken smile, but the most genuine Bruce had ever seen from the teen.