#except it'd just be for fun this time and NOT to commit crimes

[mad-hunts]

hello, and good afternoon, y'all :D i've been seeing some of my mutuals on here post about what their muse is going to be for halloween and i thought that sounded fun so... this year, barton is going to be a zombified version of leon kennedy from resident evil because he secretly likes the games (poor leon though in this scenario AHHH)

[purpleangiie]

So, I was thinking about Dick Grayson, specifically Dick Grayson's head... when he was 7 he climbed up the stairs in the circus tend to get to the trapeze but slipped and fell down [Nightwing #114] A very funny way to get your first concussion, right? Of course, many more followed over the years (that's what happens when you become Robin!) Then, in his early 20s he was shot in the head — not as fun as a concussion. Now, that alone would be enough to ban him from any dangerous sport or activity for the rest of his life, but of course, Dick Grayson is Dick Grayson, who also happens to be Nightwing. So he kept doing his usual stuff, leaping from high buildings, doing acrobatics, punching — and getting punched — every damn night... all with just his domino mask covering his face (I mean, he got a damn head injury, you would think he would be wearing some kind of head protections, right? Wrong, because that would at least partially cover his amazing curls, and to Dick Grayson that would be equal to commit war crimes, so it's out of question) And of course he keeps getting hit in the head and getting concussions. Which leads us to our scenario:

It's a usual night out patrolling, and Dick and Tim are fighting some crooks. Nothing too big, until one of them hits Dick in the head (for the nth time!) It's a good one, but not hard enough to knock out a Batkid. Except, Dick Grayson's head is slightly more fragile than his brothers’, and the punch hits the point where he was previously shot. He gasps, and everything goes black for a moment. Dick Grayson falls, head spinning violently, his vision blurring as colors and sounds fade together. He hears Tim's distant voice calling him, to which he promptly replies with an unsteady "I'm fine", except of course he's not fine. He holds himself against the wall, his face crunched in a pained grimace, trying to stand up because Tim needs him and no way he gets knocked out so easily. But Tim shouts back, punching another guy in the face, "Stay there! Don't move!" followed by some swearing because dammit, Dick!

When the bad guys are fixed, Tim rushes to Dick, who is still miraculously awake.

"Jeez, you're bleeding."

"Am I? I didn’t realize it."

"Yeah..." Tim holds two fingers up. "How many fingers am I holding up?"

Dick smirks. "I'd say three, but there’s four of you now, so maybe a couple more?"

There's a moment of silence. Tim sighs. He opens the comms.

"Red Robin here, I'm taking Nightwing back in. He's injured. It'd only be dangerous for him to keep patrolling."

Bruce's steady voice croaks in their ears. "Copy, Red Robin. What happened?"

And Dick, leaning against his brother as they reach the batmobile, darts a pleading look at him. It's almost working, until Tim speaks again over the comms: "He got hit in the head."

And all the Bats know what that means. A chorus of sighs raises:

"Again?!"

"You never learn, hm?"

"Is he unconscious? Do you need backup?"

"You're incorrigible!"

"Please, just take my helmet next time. I'd paint it blue if you want, but take it! — I have an entire stock at home, anyway."

And Dick, stumbling with his eyes half-closed and one of the worst migraine of his life, just smiles sheepishly. "Sorry!" he manages to crack over the comms as Tim rolls his eyes next to him.

[mymoodwriting]

i don’t know if you’ve heard the saying “the hero will sacrifice you for the world, but the villain will sacrifice the world for you.”

imagine tbz as villains. they probably met you at a stand-off with the hero, as they were up to no good. but each of them has a story, a reason for committing those crimes. (normally bank robberies or stealing art pieces and artifacts)

but when you suddenly come into their lives, they find out that you’re the key to something. (i couldn’t think of what, but it’s something not good, and obviously reader is oblivious about it)

protecting you from the hero. because they know that you would give yourself up in a heartbeat if you knew you are the key to destruction.

-bookie anon

Oh babes, yes, my gosh the yandere that comes with this!!! I can imagine the world is full of magic and supernatural stuff, so there are heroes and villains.

I can imagine Sangyeon building up his little group, finding outcasts and those who had been wronged and giving them freedom and the chance to take control of their lives. So one day, when perhaps causing chaos at this big city event the group of heroes come to stop them. Now everyone they fight is pretty powerful, except for the new girl the hero has. She has some magic and can hold her own, but she definitely shouldn't be fighting villains. Then when the hero does some crazy move she gets caught in the blast and the villains wind up protecting her cause they're quite shocked the hero would do such a thing knowing they'd endanger one of their own. From there the boys retreat and take the girl with them.

Maybe it'd be fun to play with a little amnesia trope so when she wakes up she's just confused and doesn't know their villains. She just thinks they have a weird house and are super rich. They take care of her, and the witch boys of the group absolutely help her work on her magic and all that. They all grow close, despite hiding their villain nature from her, and they care for her so much. Then one day they learn the truth! Perhaps on the night of a new moon their out practicing some magic and she gets her. They all quickly swarm her but are all shocked to see she has silver blood. She's bled before and it was red, so to see it change color. They just take care of her and say nothing, but the witch boys know what it means.

They tell the others she's likely a descendant of a demon and she doesn't know it. The thing is, they know her coven, and they used to serve that demon until they locked it away. In order to do some, someone from the demon's bloodline had to be used to form the spell. It's been decades since then and there's rumors that the magic keeping the demon trapped is waning. If such a creature escaped it'd surely be the end of the world since it's certainly full of wrath. Ideally their girl here could be sacrificed and used to replenish the strength of the spell, but they can't do that to her. If she knew about any of this she'd surely offer herself up knowing she could at least give the world more time to find another way to keep the demon trapped.

They all agree not to tell her and protect her, but things get a little more complicated. When they next face the heroes, keeping their girl safe and sound at home, they demand that she be returned, but they refused and play it off like their keeping her as their prisoner for fun, since they can't show they care and stuff >_< So as they continue this double life, being villains but absolute sweethearts to her, they come to realize the heroes know exactly who she was and want her back, no, they need her back cause the fate of the world hangs in the balance. They of course don't care, her life isn't worth all the shitty people who inhabit the world, so they say let it burn.

Of course as all this goes on, at one point she did regain her memories and remember who they are, but she liked being with them, so she kept quiet and stayed. Although one day she overhears them talking and discovers the truth about her past and very existence. She does try talking to them saying she should do the right thing, but they argue she shouldn't die for no reason. Even if she fights them she can't overpower them or get away. She probably tries at least once to escape but after that they kinda turn their powers on her and do whatever they can to keep her with them. Whether it's lock her up or mess with her memories, anything to keep her safe and with them.

Gosh, it's some good corruption stuff, perhaps we can go with a more twisted angle where they kinda get it in her head she's a villain too, that she was basically born one since she has demon blood in her veins. Then maybe they make her just as crazy as them so why not bring on the apocalypse and free the demon themselves. Her blood may be the key to locking him away, but it can also set him loose. Who knows, maybe by letting him out they get to survive and rule over what's left >_< I love me some good villains...

[morgenlich]

i do want to preface this by saying that overall i really did enjoy the good place, i think it's a fun show that's given me more to chew on than i expected it to. but part of that chewing is definitely me thinking about things i think it could have done better....

i already joked that it's over with supernatural in terms of things that are very deeply american protestant and seem to lack self-awareness of this.....characters keep refuting the idea that it's not christian heaven or hell, and it's not really but also the concept of an eternal Good Place where super virtuous people are rewarded forever and an eternal Bad Place where anyone shy of perfect gets tortured by demons forever. well.

i think overall though my biggest criticism of the show is that it's very....safe. this isn't necessarily a bad thing, it makes it very enjoyable to watch, but i think there's something missing in the criticism of the idea of a Good Place or Bad Place. now, mind you, i am coming at this from a perspective that totally rejects the concept of an eternal Good Place or Bad Place existing in the first place, which i'll elaborate on throughout the rest of this but yeah.

i think one of the things that gets me is that the main characters are like...none of them are really evil, except michael in the beginning and that's mostly played for laughs and it's also kind of a different situation with him being a demon and all lol. like yeah, eleanor and jason especially were kinda scummy people, and eleanor was even kind of aware of the fact that she was and jason suffers from being the idiot friend in the sitcom which means he has like zero brain cells.

anyway point is like, i don't think any of the main four humans really are going to like, really challenge people's ideas of whether or not the Bad Place should even exist at all, and the show also wasn't really going for that, and that sort of frustrates me because i'm just fundamentally opposed to the idea of Eternal Torture even for the worst of the worst. like. even if you uphold that an amount of torture as retribution for evil in the afterlife, assuming it exists, is a good and just thing (which is also something i fundamentally oppose), then like. for eternity??? that's a very long time! it feels like, even for like the Absolute Worst Humans, the sentence far far outweighs the crime!

but anyway it just doesn't feel very...challenging, that the main four humans were like, kinda scummy people, who absolutely did harm others (but pretty much only emotional harm, overall, none of them were ever violent) but like i would absolutely never call evil. like, ok, eleanor's job on earth was trying to scam old people out of money by convincing them to buy useless supplements. not exactly any points (heh) in her favor but also like idk, she had bills to pay and it was a job. not saying that it's harmless (i actually think it's worse than the show kinda makes it out to be?) but like, i don't think many people would necessarily think that she actually deserves to be in the Bad Place for it either?

i think the show would have been more interesting if there had been someone who had actually been more, like, hashtag problematic in the main cast who of course ends up learning and growing and so on, but someone who seems to really belong in the Bad Place (i think this would also make the initial Torture Scheme--which i did think was a brilliant way to write psychological torture btw lmao--more interesting. someone who is both bad and self aware enough to really think from the beginning that they shouldn't be allowed into the Good Place, and trying desperately to cover that up...maybe confronting their guilt over like the murder or whatever that they committed....). i think it'd make the tone of the show a bit less goofy, but imo that's not necessarily a bad thing either

[timdrakebiter]

i’m of the opinion that jason todd’s current characterisation + the absolutely violently irritating fandom he has means he is unfixable as a character and honestly we should just phase him back out of comics and fandom, because my life is never easier than when i consume media made while he was DEAD

sorry this got a little rambly bc I have a lot of thoughts,,,,

before I start, my first comic book fandom was transformers which largely tends to overwrite and rewrite characterizations and has frankencanon AND frankenfanon. so I'm honestly willing to give a lot more leeway to characterization even though I love complaining about characterization. my favorite little guy from the 80s comics got hard villainized by mtmte (2012) and I defend him every day. so I'm coming at this as a guy who has suffered at the hands of god (the writers) before.

I think jason suffers a lot from writers not knowing what to do with him honestly. like it's super telling that his best post-resurrection story is widely considered the first one he was back in. but like, jason hasn't had a good track record of being consistent and given something to do.

I think his current characterization makes him a little redundant almost solely BECAUSE there are other bats that have long filled the roles he's taken up. he's much more interesting as a villain to me because of the unique place he gets in the story and the unique dynamic it provides him with bruce and the rest of the bats. helena and jpv and selina took up a lot of the space he now occupies in the 90s/early 2000s.

honestly, I think dc should just let him be unhinged and commit crimes. he's more interesting that way and he gets to be the ghost of the narrative. also like his philosophy is a lot more interesting when he just. doesn't feel bad about it.

whether or not jason is unfixable? he's really not BUT I think it'd take a soft reboot to put him back in a place where he has more narrative weight. and I don't think some people are willing to bear with jason being a villain to get narrative weight and importance or to explore all the ways that he should have utterly ruined his relationships. a lot of modern fandom has a weird thing about liking bad/villain characters to the point of being genuinely awful about it.

I do also agree the fandom tends to just... not know the canon. and I think since dc DOESN'T have over 50 hard reboots like other comic book media (see transformers, tmnt, sonic the hedgehog), it's a lot more difficult to forgive.

also just, in general, the batman fandom is sort of difficult to be in when you care about canon material. this is nothing against people bc I think participating in fandom is the gateway some people need to get into comics. but with all the content being made by people who have never actually touched any batman media it's like a really awful game of telephone. like I am a jason does not cook truther until I die and it's solely bc I a) think it's funny and b) have never seen that man cook except in gotham knights which yanks a lot from the fun batfam vibe (but gotham knights IS a love letter to the comics. I have the art book and the creators love batman. its like when tf gets a new thing. roll with the punches).

but as a direct result a lot of people are telephoning in their jason characterization and knowledge and it comes at the expense of not knowing the source at all.

jason being dead again does make him the ghost of the narrative though and I love a good ghost of the narrative. I love when he haunts those who came after him. also I think everyone should be cracking "I'm not jason todd" to bruce's face again. every time they do it it's so out of left field. I respect it

[rumeysawrites]

Thank you @imsoveryveryconfusedatlife for the tag!

Here're the headcanons I got forsome of my characters in this generator.

Rosena can kill you in an instant, but won't.

For the early books, not really because she isn't really deadly (except being able to freeze people with her power), later on, probably.

Shan knocks people over by bugging them.

Not really, mostly. He'll try his best to not bother anyone. Despite this, his upbeat attitude can seem annoying, but not too much he'd knock them over.

If someone they knew commited a crime, Kent would cover for them.

Nope. He would encourage them to admit their guilt. He's the biggest law-follower among the Legendaries. If the serson in qiestion is someone he cares about, he will try to convince them to admitting. If not, he'll probably be the one turning them over.

Faren believes in ghosts and insists on trying to summon one at every sleepover.

I mean, spirits are a common knowledge among the people of Eight Alters. So she does believe in them. I'm not sure if she tries to summon them at sleepovers though. She'd probably be up for that and thinks it'd be fun.

Tom watched the Sonic movie.

100%. He had to watch the movie after Miracate told him for the hundredth time (and joking that he might as well be Tom from the movie in the future :D). He did have a good time with his friend group while watching though.

Miyuki believes in Santa.

Nope. She's the least unlikely person to believe in Santa.

Elvis has an incredible short-term memory, but an awful long term memory.

Quite the opposite. His long term memory is great, but he struggles with things requiring shorter term nemory like studying.

Marcelino got hit by a bus once.

Uh sure. I'm still figuring out his backstory anyways.

Nour does intricate and expensive cosplays.

She...doesn't do cosplays.

Mert hacks their stats in every video game they play.

Not really. He gets thrill out of competition and the challenge, even though he gets irritated when his luck goes to negatives.

If Frank was presented with an intergalactic portal, they'd enter it without question.

Of course. That's just another day of work for him.

Itzal stole a lollipop at the checkout when they were 5, and they still feel guilty about it.

He has more things to feel guilty about than just a lollipop. Trust me.

Chromos is the gay cousin.

Did Frank take control of the generator?😅 Honestly, I still don't know what Chromos' sexuality is going to be. But the stereotypical "gay cousin" attitude is kind of opposite of his personality.

Alondra wears Hello Kitty socks.

She probably used to. She loves cute things like that. But being both a hero and a music artist who performs, she tries to look more fashionable, and like the (young) adult she is.

Tarrence sings in the shower.

This is not a headcanon. This is 200% canon.

Tania is an olddst child.

No she's a middle child. Acts a bit like a younger sibling sometimes though.

Toby is not allowed to drink energy drinks.

Duh, he's an energetic 8 year old, so if course. But there's a funny reason why this is canon .

Shuang has an intense fear of spiders.

She's disgusted by them and can act a little panicky when she sees one, but I wouldn't say she has a fear of them. She might develop such a fear later on though.

Miracate was dropped out of a window as a child.

Sure. This won't make her backstory any more complicated. Besides, bith her and Mather were troublesome enough to walk on windowsills as kids as well. So that might explain it.

Mather's favorite subject in school was Math.

Nope! Not at all! Also, shout-out to the headcanon generator for making the third ever Math-er pun!

Faryal listens to 80s music.

I...don't think Faryal knows much about the music in our world. She might have heard songs during her Academy years, but then, would more likely be interested in listening to classical music, opera, or traditional music.

Acer has a pet lizard.

He would probably love the idea. But anyone else besides him and Faren might not. Just make sure that lizard isn't a wild dragon.

Eirlys screams like an anime girl.

Sirry what? I mean...she does take screaming breaks every now and then but not like that-

Stefinis was forced to eat cement as a child.

Quite the oppisite happened actually. Him (as a Merasian elf whose entire family disguising as humans), tried to eat plants & minerals edible to most folks in Meras, but not to humans, and his parents would have to constantly have to keep an eye on him to make sure he didn't eat something like cement or a crystal, in front of his friends.

Blyss sleeps in until noon.

Nope! The fire princess is an early bird who likes to get things done as soon as possible.

Jake watches My Little Pony.

Pretty sure his father got DVDs for the MLP movies, especially for Claire (Jake's younger sister). But Jake himself might join, claiming he's only there to make sure there's no harmful content in the movies.

Maerwynn is very good at using chopsticks.

Probably. She's a royal who'd be trained in all sorts of etiquette, including using utensils after all.

Arwyn chews their nails when nervous.

Not when nervous, but when stressed. Which is like half of all the time.

Aelwen can't handle criticism.

Probanly, if she cared enough about the criticizing person's opinioms at least. Fot 9 times out of 10, she doesn't care.

It would not take much for Vlad to turn evilm

Nope! He's been living with The Villains for over a hundred years, and still has kept a bigger good side to him than most others.

Vesta nearly drowned in a river as a child.

Probably...

Botolfe can't spell resturaunt.

Quite the opposite. He's probably one of the three people in his group who can actually spell with no oroblem.

Vanora is smart, but also very stupid.

Vanora would dusagree, but yes. This is accurate.

Of Ignacius likes someone, thy willl give them a pretty rock.

It's 100% true if those pretty rocks also hapoen to be dragon eggs..

Nihynia forgets to eat sometimes.

I mean, she's a goddess who doesn't need to eat. So I'm pretty sure she doesn't care about eating much. Naybe sometimes to enjoy the taste though.

Anyways! Here're the no pressure tags: @dearunreliablenarrator @heycerulean @writeblrfantasy @author-a-holmes @the-ellia-west @thecomfywriter @mudkissedgirl @yomikunp and an open tag!

Tag Game: Random Headcanon Generator

Thanks @tildeathiwillwrite for the tag here!

Tagging @xenon-writes-sometimes, @illarian-rambling, @kaylinalexanderbooks, @mudkissedgirl, @rumeysawrites,

@agirlandherquill, @clearcloudlesssky and an open tag!

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Rules: use this headcanon generator to make headcanons for your OCs! Then talk about how accurate they are.

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Odi reads AO3

Yes.

Dee is an oldest child

Unfortunately, that’s just incorrect. I don’t think they give oldest child energy either

Azzy makes your mom jokes

Certainly not in polite company. But at home, maybe, especially if she was drunk. It’s possible

Eika has been cancelled on twitter

And he wears that badge with fucking pride

Atalanta tells dad jokes.

Those are fighting words to Atalanta. I think the implication she would tell dad jokes would seriously damage her friendship with you.

Kika gets bullied on Roblox

Absolutely. Probably by his own brother too.

Mel would succumb to the fog

?? I think I’m missing a reference

Shethla knows the lyrics to every Britney Spears song by heart.

He’s absolutely the type to be blasting something in the car. Its a 50/50 between it being an absurd death metal indie no one has heard of or Britney Spears

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[dragoneyes618]

So, for your application series. I have a request. Can you do one for my oc, Hannah Hook? This would be for if she hadn't come with the core four in the first movie and I think it'd be interesting.

Name: Hannah Artemis Hook.

Known Aliases: Captain of the Storm Bringer.

Does that count as an alias?

Yes.

Angel of Vengeance, Fairy Child, the Alchemy Pirate

Nicknames or Other: None.

What do you mean, none? You have a lot of nicknames!

None that I am listing here because they are embarrassing. You really expect me to write "Hannahbelle" on this official Auradon Application?

Date of Birth or Best Guess: December 2. I'm 14.

Place of Birth: The Jolly Roger, the Port, the Isle of the Lost.

Favorite Color: White, blue, red, silver, yellow.

Favorite Activity: Swordfighting, spending time with my crew.

Favorite School Subject: Swordfighting and pirate history (I'm homeschooled).

Father's Name (or alias): Captain James Hook.

Mother's Name (or alias): Zarina Sidhe Hook.

Father's Profession: Pirate captain.

Mother's Profession: None, she is no longer alive. Amazing what happens to magical beings in a place with no magic, huh?

Who is your favorite of the first wave of VKs? There is no wrong answer. If by "first wave of VKs" you mean "any VKs who got off the Isle before the rest of us," then my older sister CJ. Don't tell her I said that, though, I'll never live it down.

They probably mean from Mal, Evie, Carlos, or Jay, Hannah.

FINE, Harriet.

If not, then I guess Evie, since she's friends with my friend's little sister.

In your own words, tell us why you want to come to Auradon. There is no wrong answer. Well, I don't want to come to Auradon if you're not going to take my crew off the Isle too. I have a whole crew, you know, I can't abandon them. But we're all sending in applications so you know we exist. And I'm the captain so I'm going first.

But if you would take all of us off the Isle? Well. I want to come to Auradon so we could all be free and not trapped for crimes we didn't commit. There are laws about this, you know. My oldest sister's really smart and reads about these things, we know our rights. And also so I could have access to, like, decent food and clothing and stuff. And so the members of my crew who have terrible parents can get away from said terrible parents. And also so me and my siblings can access our magic that we were born with, because to be magic, even partly magic, and then to be born behind the barrier-it's stifling us. Well except CJ who's already out in Auradon. CJ, if you're reading this, Harriet is going to ground you for life.

Signature: Hannah Artemis Hook.

Thanks for sending this! This was fun to write!

Just imagine Harriet reading over Hannah's shoulder and making corrections.

[karamell-sweetz]

you know what proseka should do?

A MILGRAM COLLAB.

because you know. deco*27

it'd be so so SO. SO cool.

i can literally think of like. several people who could sing each song (just the first trial ones bc the second trial isn't out yet)

so. HERE YOU GO

es (undercover) - i feel like... shiho or ichika (since she's the mc sort of)? or just the miku cover

haruka (weakness) - toya! tsukasa would be pretty lit tho ngl

yuno (umbilical) - minori?? or airi? or haruka even, i think her lower voice would refresh the song a little

fuuta (bring it on) - AKITO AKITO AKITO. they should let him be growly and expressive, he'd be so good (side note sega pls put mozaik role in proseka it doesn't sound very rhythm gamey but it'd SLAP like a WET FISH)

mu (after pain) - either kohane or kanade because they'd both be cool. OR NENE!!

shidou (throw down) - RUI. the song would really fit his floaty tone of voice (and this is a stretch but like. THE LIAR DANCE COVER. THE LIL MADMAN LAUGH BEFORE THE INSTRUMENTAL BRIDGE. HELLO)

mahiru (this is how to be in love with you) - shizuku or airi... or ena, maybe. yeah, maybe ena, the whole fashion magazine would fit her vibe (or mizuki's vibe too! but i don't think their voice would fit this song as well as ena's, idk) actually i'll put saki here too, because she's ✨fashionable✨ and ✨up with the times✨

kazui (half) - tsukasa or rui, the theatre aesthetic fits tsukasa more but the slow tempo feels more like a rui thing BUT ALSO. toya would be cool

amane (magic) - EMUUUUUUUU like PLEASE it just GOES. THE MAGICAL GIRL TRANSFORMATION. KIGURUMI-SAN CULT OR STH. it'd be so fun. she even SOUNDS like amane tbh (oh and THE POSITIVE PARADE COVER. HELLO?)

mikoto (MeMe) - this one is a bit of a stretch as well but... mafuyu. hear me out, she could use the dead mafuyu voice for the heavy bits and the one she uses in hello/how are you for the light slow bits. you get me? yeah you get me

kotoko (harrow) - mizuki or shiho or an, they have the stronger voices imo.

and miku would be jackalope.

like. imagine.

you're ichika. you wake up in a prison, with no recollection of your past except your name, and then you see hatsune miku in front of you with deer antlers and rabbit ears. and now you're also the prison guard for ten deranged teenagers who have apparently all committed the murk, and you have to decide whether you forgive them or not based on some weird box that plays their feelings/memories about the murk in a song. and you have to do that three times before you find out what happens to the prisoners... who are all TEENAGERS. imagine.

i mean... the prison situation probably wouldn't feature in-game but it'd be fun to think about what crimes these children have committed.

don't take that out of context please, moidah is not fun and neither is prison

[julystorms]

Do you think it'd be ethically correct if the Scouting Legion offered free citizenship to underground dwellers if they joined the Legion, but were bound by contract to stay lest they lose citizenship? Maybe with some other intensives like no remittance tax if they want to send money home. It just drives me crazy when I think of how few members there are in the Scouting Legion 눈‸눈

Oh yes, definitely!

This completely goes against canon as we understand it, but I’ve had a headcanon for a long time that criminals of a certain caliber are sent to the SC. It works nicely in several regards, like lower crime rates in certain areas, but it has a lot of downsides, too. If you want to do the “poor widdle Survey Corps” spiel that Isayama’s always trying to push, this is, imo, a more effective and believable way to push it. (The saddest thing about it is that people who can’t read might commit crimes on purpose to get put into the SC since they can’t cut it in regular military training.)

Anyway, I think it might be nice for Isayama to implement something like this in his own canon just to bolster the numbers. Nobody would have to pass three years of training; it would probably be a much faster course to join the SC--where all learning is tailored to the issues the Survey Corps deals with, like military information (rankings, respect, procedure), and 3DMG training. It would, if nothing else, give people an opportunity to leave their bad situations and get three square meals a day. 

And post-ocean, most of the titans have been wiped out with, it seemed, just the occasional exception (on the way to the ocean they passed a titan, remember), so for at least three years, it’s a fairly safe option/good way to get some money back to your family/feed your kids.

I’ve always been fond of this headcanon--and I think @bossard shares it, too--because it has some interesting in-Survey Corps worldbuilding potential all on its own, like: how many defectors do they have outside the walls? Who is put into a position where they have to be direct supervisors to criminal additions who don’t want to be there/are there against their will? Are these people mixed into the rest of the Survey Corps for balance of skill, or are they put into units and kept on the edges of the Survey Corps to be used as a shield wall between the titans and the more valuable/experienced/non-criminal members? Do they have separate barracks? 

And to be clear, at least for me, major crimes would get you executed. These kinds of crimes are probably worse than, say, being caught pickpocketing, but not as bad as killing someone. (But hey, that brings with it all kinds of problems, too, and then more worldbuilding. If Paradis executes murderers, what do they do with rapists? Do they have justifiable homicides?)

The only problem I can think of when it comes to pulling people from the Underground is that you might get a really mixed bag of soldiers. Some people are probably just squatters (legally speaking), but how do you know who might be a serial killer and who hasn’t actually done anything to hurt other people? You don’t. Blind recruitment (or, uh, a draft) could be a mistake when you’re pulling from what is essentially a crime-infested zone. It’s still worth thinking about, though, and makes for some fun thought processes. :D

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It's ideas like this that remind you that Bruce is so young when he becomes batman.

Like he goes off at 18 to start his training and is gone for a handful of years (let's say a conservative 4 years so he returns at 22 because DC time logic makes no sense) and then let's say Sam is his baby cousin, around a year old when Martha and Thomas die so we have wiggle room.

So, 9 years between them. 22-9 = 13.

So Sam is 13 when Bruce becomes Batman.

Comic wise, Bruce had I think 7 issues on his own before Dick was introduced? Like I know Dick was there before even Alfred so... a year lets say into being Batman he adopts Dick. That gives us enough time for Bruce to be somewhat established in Gotham; at least as like a presence people know about. He wouldn't have many if any rogues yet - Penguine probably since he's a mob boss. Kite Man at a push.

I clarify this because Sam needs to be able to come to be in a position where its safe for her to come to Gotham. We see in DP how her parents get worried about her I doubt they'd let her into a rogue infested Gotham. Anyway.

Young Bruce, with his recently acquired son who informed his extended family the main Wayne line had a new member so surviving family pile in on the next gala they have to meet little Richard!! Bruce was such a troubled child but he seems to be doing better recently; he's taken control of the company, he's adopted a child and that little smiling boy has come back, though dear Brucie seems to be having fun making everyone think he's a bit daft. Good lad, people will think he just delegate's to everyone else so they won't know what hit them!! The extended Wayne family includes Sam who despite the age gap has a decent relationship with her cousin.

She brings along Danny and Tucker because it'd the only compromise to get her to wear a dress and honestly with how Gothams historical crime seems to be getting worse her parents can at least say that more teens means Sam should theoretically be safer. And well, the Fenton boy isn't their favourite and his parents are certified nutjobs but he's also been shown plenty capable of handling incredibly stressful and volatile situations and keeps their Samantha safe in all these ghost attacks so they'll let it be. That Tucker boy also may annoy them because he's always glued to that damned phone of his, but they've also seen how much of a scaredy cat he is and can trust if something goes wrong he'll be the first to phone for help and drag the other two in the safest direction.

(They can begrudgingly admit that their Samantha picked decent friends. If only they had another girl in the group!)

Dick is utterly infatuated with Sam and her friends; I will die on the hill of mathlete Dick Grayson that was introduced to me through Young Justice season 1. And even if he's 9 he's still incredibly intelligent, if still very angry and moody so he gets along great with his Goth 2nd cousin, her techno geek best friend and son of scientists best friend.

Sam keeps in contact with Dick as well now, and everything goes according to both canons (except Phantom Planet. Never phantom planet.) with Sam being like, the cool aunt figure almost to the batkids? Like yeah she's Bruce's cousin but now that she's grown she's moved out and her and her best friends/partners (nobody really... noticed the change when they got together and nobody is really sure if it's a life commitment type of relationship or a romantic one) she visits MUCH more now that she doesn't have to dress up for Galas to see them.

I'd say Dick is closest to her, since he's known her longest AND they're the closest in age out of all of them - and I think realising that there's like 5 years between Sam and dick puts into perspective the age gap between Bruce and Dick is. Like the other batkids are young enough they could theoretically BE Bruce's kids, but Dick is closer to being his baby brother than his kid, even if their relationship has also been Father son. Like, in this particular age assumption there's what 14 years between Dick and bruce? Anyway.

Jason and her probably had a good relationship that got cut short, Tim might remind her of Danny - squirrely kid who's parents don't pay enough attention to their kid when they should who still thinks the world of them. Who is going out at night and doing stupid things to satisfy his innate desire to be doing SOMETHING that isn't rotting at home wondering why people don't care.- and Damien probably comes as a bit of a shock, since you know stabby stabby. But.

I propose that Sam, who Damien holds respect for since she's of the same blood as his Father, takes one look at this moody murder child who's just barely presenting as a normal Wayne childTM and not recently released child assassin and turns to Bruce with full emotion and goes, "You can tell he's your son. He acts just like you did at that age."

And now EVERYONE but Alfred and Bruce are confused bc wtf do you mean Bruce acted like this???? But Sam's just like "I may have been a toddler Brucie but please I remember how you acted. Total menace of a child, you stabbed Harvey with a steak knife if I remember, told him you were going to 'cut [his] goolies off' if he didn't stop touching Auntie Martha's bead cushion."

(All Wayne children think of the only bead cushion in the manor which Bruce used as their "hug this and cry" cushion throughout the years.)

"Anyway, Damien was it? Do you like the occult," batfam in the background who don't know that Bruce told Sam years ago and thinks they all know she knows they're the bat and birds, trying to dissuade this line of questioning, "of course you like the occult why do I bother asking, would you like to come watch about your namesake?"

The others don't see Sam's partners as much now that they're older, like they KNOW they exist and see how utterly besotted all of them are with each other, but they're not as present as Sam. Jason and Damien LOVE Danny though they'renot quite sure why they feel the most at ease around him but they do, and Dick is still Obsessed with winning chess against him since he never can (I make the argument Clockwork let's him use time outs to mess with dick because it's funny and Clockwork should get to fuck about) and Tim would like to have Tucker please? Please Sam, can't you let him steal your boyfriend? He won't give him back but like he'll just be whereever Lucius puts him so he won't be too far PLEASE.

Steph I think doesn't have much of an opinion, like they're nice to each other!! But like to Steph, Sam is just Bruce's cool cousin who buys her birthday presents like she does the rest of the gaggle of kids Bruce has. She doesn't impose into her life because she can see that Steph doesn't need her like the other kids do. They're cool. Duke is a new addition as well and like, they're cool with each other, he thinks she's like in the same vein as Alfred tho. She knows what she's doing, don't fuck with her and you're fine. Also she has too much info at any given time but will also be ready to defend you if needed. Also her boyfriends glow and its weird as fuck but Duke can't sense ill intent so he just let her know she should be aware they glow and all is fine.

Cass and Sam LOVE each other. Like Cass has to learn so many things because of how she was raised and it gives Sam the opportunity to learn WITH Cass without the pressure of conformity from her parents, oh Cass likes Ballet? Well Sam's not quite interested in the dance part but the dark and macabre story's dressed up in pretty frills? All over it. And that's just like the most obvious stuff. Anyway. They have a good relationship.

Anyway, to FINALLY bring us back to the original prompt.

Let's just work out ages again.

9 years between Sam and Bruce.

5 years between Sam and Dick.

Imma say 5 years between Dick and Jason.

Only 4 years between Cass and Dick.

Three years between Jason and Tim.

And 6 between Tim and Damien.

Steph can be the same age as Tim and lets make Duke a year younger than Tim, because contrary to comics Duke is not going to be going to uni and Tim stay forever seventeen thank you VERY MUCH.

So....

Let's make Bruce 38.

Sam 29 (15 years since DP canon started)

Dick 24.

Cass 22.

Jason 21.

Tim 18 (finally he has escapes the eternally 17 curse).

Steph 18.

Duke 17.

And Damien 12.

Respectable ages everyone agrees? Okay moving on. Original prompt!

Sam just fucking shows up in the batcave. Like Alfred's serving her tea and she's full on sat at Bruce's 'bat-desk' reviewing highly confidential JL documents in the goddamn batcave when everyone gets back off patrol, to everyone's horror but Bruce's.

Well, they can't tell. He's doing his "blanking my face so you can't tell what I'm thinking" face. He's laughing inside but the kids CANNOT know this.

Anyway, she's there, everyone's frozen bc fuck fuck fuck, and then she just looks at them and drops ANOTHER bomb on them; hey hi, went to visit my parents and did you guys KNOW that Amity Park is under quarantine from this super shady government organisation? Anyway I need a Justice League embargo Brucie, Danny's little girls stuck in that shit and I actually want to see my parents.

Between the fact that Sam's way too chill to jave just figured their identities out, the fact Bruce is also way too chill for her just finding out, the whole quarantine thing and DANNY HAVING A CHILD!?! Everyone's very distraught.

There's a lot of questions thrown around, Duke asks if the fact her boyfriends glow like the bat signal has anything to do with it, and with Danny's permission tells them about the fact he's a half ghost - created not dissimilarly to the Flash. (The batkids are very much distressed bc oh shit she had that high level clearance and they DIDNT CATCH ON!?) Then it eventually devolves into "wait wait you were a teen superhero too!?" Bc I'm sorry but all of Team Phantom are teen heroes not just Danny, and then into "WTF DO YOU MEAN DANNY HAS A KID, HE CHEATED ON YOU!?" then into "WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHE WAS A CLONE FROM WHEN YOU WERE 14 AND WAS RECENTLT GOOPED INTO A TODDLER!? YOU HAVE A TODDLER!? VLAD MASTERS MADE HER!?"

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"ONE OF YOUR BOYFRIENDS IS THE REINCARNATION OF A PHARAOH AND A GOD AND THE OTHER IS THE HIGH KING OF A FUCKING DIMENSION!?"

Anyway.

Im thinking something like, political actiony or whatever, Clark and Lois write about a town being harmed in a clear violation of the meta protection acts and aliens rights acts because this rogue group breaking the law by pretending to be a government agency are deciding an entire species are non sapient and want to break the laws of non sapient testing as well as basic human decency to destroy an entire alt dimension out of fuck knows reason!

Something something happy ending of baby-fied Dani being cuddled by Tucker, Danny and Sam because their poor baby girl was visiting all three sets of grandparents (Sam's parents nearly had an aneurism when they thought Sam had hid a kid from them, then has one when they thought Danny cheated on their daughter and Tucker, and had another when they got the none clone but still heart breaking "she's the repercussion of a Desiree wish gone wrong" story they tell them) and now they're all happy.

Key scene ideas... Damien gets to stab a GIW with a ghost sword Danny gave him but they forgot to tell anyone it was a ghost sword and ppl freak out bc DAMIEN we don't kill anyone! It's been 2 years why are you relapsing!? And Danny is just giving a thumbs up in the bg bc yay nephew/partners cousin is being a good protectotve spirit!! :))

Idea; Samantha Manson is Bruce's distant cousin on his mother's side and was in attendance at the Funeral, Smol Sam hugged her sad cousin.

Que years later when Sam and her friends turn up unannounced at Wayne Manor years later, they are showing signs of stress and their hometown is under a Quarantine order by a government agency Bruce had never heard of.

I've written Sam being Jason's cousin but never Bruces! I love this a lot.

Bruce has seen her in galas all disgruntled and annoyed but never seen her this truly distraught. He is going to help her to the best of his ability.