#everyone else is mostly normal-ish and all of gotham is just like

[tisajest]

Anyone have recs for Dick having/doing a rich himbo socialite public persona?

I’ve already read the Neal!Dick series where he keeps getting kidnapped and it’s awesome. I’ve read others, too, but they don’t currently come to mind.

I just love Richie and Brucie so fucking much, they’re so fun!

Please and thank you!!!

[suzukiblu]

gotham

Kon's in Gotham, which would be less of a problem if it were the right Gotham.

Possibly his reality doesn't exist anymore, is the thing. He's trying very, very hard not to concentrate on that fact until he gets more information, though.

Currently, he's standing in the middle of an emergency triage center with a few hundred more refugees from varying dimensions, and he can't do anything actually superhero-ish or even too noticeably useful because he's wearing a fucking gala-quality bespoke suit that Tim bought him. So, like, way too nicely dressed for a refugee situation or really just any damn normal situation.

If he had to end up in another reality, at least he could've been wearing his superhero costume or his work clothes from the farm, but no, this particular interdimensional crisis just had to pop up during "suffer through another ridiculously fancy Wayne gala on Tim's arm in the name of charity" date night.

Why not, right?

So yes, Kon's in a triage center, waiting to get "processed" as a refugee and hoping to high hell that the local Batman doesn't hate Supers and isn't a supervillain. He'd considered sneaking out of the center altogether to go and get a better idea of what's going on firsthand, but people in the crowd keep randomly freaking out and everyone's tense as hell and he's a little bit concerned that something might be about to go down. Like, it's Gotham, and this whole setup seems like a very tempting target for people with dubious morals to swoop in and start shit.

As far as Kon knows, he's the only refugee in this specific center who's not a standard civilian, and it's hard to just clear out and leave everyone here to the tender mercies of whatever random assholes feel like making trouble for no good reason. There's just so many older people and so many kids, is the thing. Kon is . . . well, physiologically twenty-two, at least, and is a very clear outlier in the group. Mostly it's people over sixty and kids under twelve, for whatever reason. And a whole lot of the kids keep crying on and off and the older people are all clearly stressed as fuck.

Which is fair, since again, possibly all their realities are gone.

. . . technically he probably does count as under twelve, come to think.

Hm.

Eh, whatever.

Kon has spent a whole hell of a lot of time cheering up frightened little kids and soothing panicked adults in the four hours he's been in this triage center and it has been fucking exhausting. At this point, if any Gotham rogue shows their face and even looks at a single one of these people, Kon's going to just fucking deck them. Like, fuck whatever the local Batman's rules about metas and vigilantes are, Kon does not have the patience for anything else.

Right now, though, he's currently just focused on the very distressed pair of identical little girls on either side of him who are not twins and are absolutely terrified of each other.

"Hey, it's okay, Mallory," he says gently, and the girls sniffle in perfect unison.

"But she's scary!" they both blurt, and then they both whimper in fright, and then they both start crying.

Not ideal, Kon thinks. The local version of Mallory is in the awkward position of having had two alternates of herself pop up from two different realities and both land in her family's apartment, and the local versions of her parents are currently arguing with the aid workers about not separating them from their alternate daughters. Kon's half-eavesdropping–they're not that far away, the workers couldn't convince them to break line of sight–and they're both insisting on at least one of them being allowed to stay in the refugee center with the Mallorys. The local Mallory looks a little worried about things, but not as much as her displaced alternates do.

Well, she's the one currently with her actual parents and still in her own definitely-not-destroyed reality, so yeah, that makes sense. The other two Mallorys are just hiding from their other selves on either side of Kon, who can't keep his damn nose out of anything.

Really, actually, Mallory is a pretty lucky kid. Kon didn't even get this good a reception to showing up unexpectedly in his home dimension, and he's heard a lot of horror stories about people getting attacked or chased off by freaked-out locals already today.

Kon had just popped up alone in the middle of an empty ballroom, himself. He'd had to talk to a couple of security guards, but they'd had the news on already and the emergency broadcast had explained what the fuck was going on pretty quick. One of them had given him a water bottle and a candy bar while the other'd called the emergency hotline listed on the TV to figure out where to send him and they'd really both just rolled with the whole situation. That'd been pretty nice of them, Kon had thought.

People are awful, sometimes, but also amazing sometimes.

"Listen," he says reassuringly, dropping into a crouch between the Mallorys, who both clutch anxiously at his weird fancy Tim-chosen jacket as he puts a hand on both of their backs. "It really is okay. I know it's scary, but your parents are gonna make sure you get taken care of, and the aid workers are gonna help them out."

"But–" they both start, and then both make frightened noises again and cover their mouths with their free hands. Whatever realities they happen to be from, they are clearly very similar ones. The local Mallory wasn't talking in unison with either of them, but they keep overlapping each other without meaning to, and she's wearing a pink corduroy dress but they're both in the same black denim overalls. Different shirts, at least, but their hair's identically braided and beaded where hers is in afro puffs.

"This is weird and crazy, but you're not alone," Kon says firmly, patting their backs. "Your mom and dad have your backs."

He wonders what that would be like, having not only parents but parents who'd just roll with alternate dimension versions of you to the point that they wouldn't leave them in a government-sponsored refugee center, but quickly shoves the thought aside to focus on the actual issue.

Maybe Ma and Pa would come get him if they knew, he thinks for a moment, the thought slipping through the cracks, and then feels like an idiot. He's not a teenager anymore. Was never even a kid, technically. And also he's a literal superhero anyway.

That'd be stupid, for them to bother doing that for an alternate version of the guy who spent a couple years crashing in their real kid's old room before running off to San Francisco.

Hell, for all he knows, this reality's version of them doesn't even know him at all.

Seems likelier than not.

[yutaya]

Headcanon: Batwoman WAS actually on another Earth(???)

When Kara and Barry were going around exclaiming over all being on the same Earth now I was like "lol Barry you were already on the same Earth as all these people (except Black Lightning I guess) Kara's the only one who was elsewhere - I love how excited you are for your friend that she's on the same Earth as you and Oliver and all your other friends now!" And when Kara was all "IT'S KATE KATE'S HERE TOO!!1!" I assumed it was more of the same. Kara's just excited to be with all her friends.

But!

Something else that was bothering me during crisis: what the hell even is batwoman's timeline?

Like, it seems to me like not that much time has passed in Batwoman. When she showed up in Elseworlds it was sometime after she'd gotten semi comfortable with the whole Batwoman gig, so that had to have happened somewhere... Mid season ish?

But they kept referring to Elseworlds as "last year" during crisis. Which. Fair. Elseworlds happened last year for Barry, Kara and Oliver. But it was before batwoman's show even premiered, so we didn't see a whole lot happen in Batwoman "after" that, comparatively.

During Elseworlds, both Barry and Oliver (Earth 1) and Kara (Earth 38) made reference to knowing about Batman. Barry and Oliver arguing about whether Batman was real or a myth, Kara dropping hints about "my cousin knows Bruce" with a *wink wink nudge nudge* kind of tone, the GCPD knew Oliver Queen, and they travelled to Gotham from Barry and Oliver's Earth 1. I assumed at the time this meant Batwoman was also on Earth 1, and maybe Bruce Wayne just had an Earth 38 doppelganger - wouldn't be the first time we deal with cross-Earth doppelgangers. Heck, it's what all the new show arcs seem to be right now.

But! Elseworlds was an altered reality event to start with! Maybe part of the altered reality was letting them bleed into Batwoman's world. Maybe in their original Earth 1 batman existed more in shadows as a myth-like figure without ever really coming into the spotlight or being captured on camera etc the way he's implied to be in Batwoman. Maybe in the original Earth 38 Batman had some Justice League esque dealings with Superman but like, whatever, that's ancient history by the time Kara emerges as Supergirl, apparently. (Or he just decides to stay in his city every time there's some National City crisis. if Clark wants to go help just cause Kara's his cousin - that's his problem; ain't got nothing to do with Bruce.) Maybe the GCPD and the gossipy radio host lady either knew some alter Oliver Queen (like how Earth 2 Oliver Queen was mostly the same playboy Oliver as Earth 1 Oliver) or maybe it was part of the Elseworlds meld, making them face challenges as part of the monitor's test.

I mean, Elseworlds was the only time we saw Kate + Earth 1 so much as hinted at. Maybe she was on her own Earth all along. Elseworlds was a reality altering event that blended them temporarily, and then it went back to normal, and possibly they didn't even notice bc they didn't bother trying to talk to each other. Why would they? Those guys were just some Gotham gate crashers Kate kicked out of her city once.

I mean, the other option is to believe an entire year passed somewhere between Kate adding the wig to the outfit and Alice killing Catherine. I grant that clearly there is some amount of timeskip we don't see in batwoman - she becomes the city's favorite vigilante awfully quickly otherwise - but still. It didn't feel THAT long to me. Like, if it took an entire YEAR Alice must have been sitting on her laurels a lot more than I thought, and also both the Crows and the Bat Team must be really bad at their jobs, since they seem to make very little to no search progress in between episodes. If some of those eps had MONTHS passing in between, the way they would had to have for Elseworlds to have taken place an entire YEAR before crisis, you'd think there'd at least be some sort of establishing "it's been months, and we're still no closer to finding Alice and now we have to wait for her to come out of hiding to get any new info" dialogue every now and then.

So yeah. I might actually headcanon that batwoman was on a different earth before crisis. It doesn't really effect the plot at all, but it makes more sense to me. After all, I always felt like a large part of the reasoning for Supergirl to be on a different earth in the first place was bc her world's history with Superman and all having already been established would clash with the Earth 1 history of arrow being the first confirmed vigilante and all the chaos of the metahumans being created on a city wide scale for the first time. Batwoman likewise had some established preexisting Batman stuff and no mention whatsoever of either metas (Earth 1 stuff) or justice league/at least Superman (Earth 38 stuff).

Kate probably just rolled with everyone calling that time she saw them a couple months(?) ago "last year" during the crisis crossover. She didn't care at first, and then she got stuck at the vanishing point with only 5.2 other people for actual months, so she figured she can't really ever assume what was going on with them and their personal timelines.

Tl;dr: Batwoman had her own Earth before the crisis bc I prefer to view her personal timeline to be shorter than the others'. Sorry for the text wall.

[gwyvian]

Secrets about Gwyvian

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Name: Lucy/Luca (Hungarian version).

Nickname: Gwyvian/Gwyv, Widdershins/Widders/Widd (fairly old one, what I used to go by on the internet), Faewydd/Fae, crazy person (just kidding... not.) and some others.

Zodiac sign: Taurus.

Height: 163cm-ish? People keep telling me I’m wrong...

Language(s) spoken: English, Hungarian fluently (bilingual), passive conversational German, active basic Italian, started learning a gazillion other languages (Japanese, Gaelic, Polish, Finnish, French, Turkish, Spanish, Romanian, Turkish, Arabic, Norwegian, YES I’M A LANGUAGE NERD, OK)... etc. I study languages academically.

Fav fruit: can’t pick just one I love most fruits deeply! In no particular order: any and all citruses in massive quantities, blueberries, strawberries, watermelon, mango, etc.

Fav. season: spring. Love autumn, too.

Fav. scent(s): rain, lilacs, roses, cinnamon, coffee.

Fav. color(s): changes all the time, but purple and black are at the top most of the time.

Fav. animal(s): cheetahs, cats of all shapes and sizes, hummingbirds, owls, most other birds, camels, elephants, whales, geckos... I really like animals.

Fav. drink(s): water (believe it), coffee and tea (obsessed with both), orange juice.

Avg. hours of sleep: mostly 6-10 because I try to be normal and sometimes fail.

Fav. fictional character(s):  right now at the top of my list in no particular order would be Bayek (a littleextremely obsessed with Assassin’s Creed Origins right now), Evfra (of course), Akksul (of course), Jaal (shocking, I know), angarans in general (...), Iorveth, Javik, Garrus, Solas, Dorian, Abelas, Tali, Triss, Altair, Egwene (and most Wheel of Time characters), Spock, Data, Odo, Capt. Picard, Detective Joe Miller (and pretty much anyone and everyone in The Expanse), the entire Discovery crew past and present, Takeshi Kovacs, and I could go on and on and on and you’d never reach the end of this post!

Blankets: minimum one. That’s all I ask.

Dream trip: Egypt, Italy, Australia, Morocco, UK, Iceland, Turkey, I could probably list most countries in the world because I pretty much want to go everywhere and visit friends around the world, and if it were possible I totally would visit the Renaissance, Ancient Egypt, and so many other historically significant places/eras. Also if it were possible, so many fantasy/sc-fi lands I’d love to visit/inhabit because above all else I am a huge nerd.

Relationship status: wouldn’t you love to know! I’m kidding, I’m married. With benefits!

Ships: well anyone who can’t guess my top ships needs to acquaint themselves with my Tumblr, but apart from the obvious (Evfra/Akksul/angara/quarians) right now I’m (still) shipping: ShepardxJavik, CirixAvellac’h, LorcaxMichael, GeraltxIorveth, KovacsxOrtega, and so many more it would take an eternity to list. Probably my list of favorite characters is a good guide...

Last song: Sound and Vision, from the album Low by David Bowie.

Last movie: The Titan on Netflix. Honestly, I was a little disappointed; it had some truly good ideas I really liked on the surface of it, but I have issues with it.

Fav. show(s): The Expanse, Mr. Robot, Colony, Gotham, Stranger Things, all Star Trek and Stargate, The Magicians, The Good Place, Episodes, Altered Carbon, Ascension, Battlestar Galactica and Caprica, Once, Cosmos, Midsomer Murders, Death in Paradise, Vikings, Game of Thrones, Fringe, Dark Matter, The Indian Detective, I could keep going, but you get the idea.

Currently reading: A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking.

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