#magical girl billy batson

[rad-batson]

Headcanon that Billy is not only immune to the magical lightning that helps him transform, but he’s also immune to normal lightning and all other forms of electricity.

At first, the realization is super cool. Billy doesn’t get hurt by static electricity anymore. He’s immune to Freddy’s hand buzzer pranks. He even gets 200 bucks from some big shot teenagers that dared him to touch an electric fence.

The problem comes when he tries to catch the bus in the rain one day and gets struck by REAL lightning. In front of dozens of people. Who are not supposed to know he’s immune to lightning. And Billy is very bad at improv.

Billy: *gets struck by lightning*

Billy: WHAT THE F—

Everyone: O_O

Billy: Oooo ouchh

Billy: I am in so much pain

[ratking-reads]

Thinkin about magical girl billy batson with a weapon like mjolnir but like something that shapeshifter

Ex: it’s in the form of a chainsaw, someone’s trying to baby billy so out of spite and sass he’s like “fine here you deal with it” and hands the person the chainsaw

It drops out there hands immediately and leaves a crater in the floor

[dcmainlybillythoughts]

So do you guys look at your favorite character and spend days making them a magical girl wardrobe or are you normal

Billy deserves only the best. I had more ideas but I'm burnt out now

[teehhhhhhhhhhh]

haha finally debuting my magical girl marvels au! i was thinking of a manga cover while making this; i really wanted it to have a kinda hyperpop and sailor moon style.

So! In my version of this AU, the Marvels travel through different dimensions to fight the forces of evil to balance the multiversal scale! They do this, via train! The train is usually a subway, but it magically adapts to the dimensions they are in. (Ex. Submarine Looking Train for a mainly water dimension, an old style train for a dimension with a earlier timeline.)

Billy Batson is a Train Conductor! I based his outfit on those train conductor uniforms and I really like it. His main base powers are, of course, lighting, and the ability to make portals! He uses the portals in his fighting style, dodging with portals instead of blocking attacks. Billy can only teleport to a mirror dimension without the aid of the train, so he actually teleports to the mirror dimension in fights when he dodges, then portals back to the og dimension. The train boosts his powers so his ability to travel to the mirror dimension is enhanced, and he can travel to other dimensions when using the train. (Other then that, its a basic portal power lol)

Mary’s design was inspired by fairy tale princes, which is actually really random but I made it work. I wanted the three of them to be different genres of magical girls, but still fit look like they are in the same style. Her base powers in this AU is basically charisma (yes, literal charms), and lightning. So, her charisma powers are pretty much just that people will be more inclined to do things her way; she lets off an aura of power + confidence that no one can say no to (besides Billy and Freddy, they are immune). She also will look extremely intimidating to people when she wants to. So in a nutshell, her power is to change the way people perceive her, and use that to her advantage. Mary often uses this to do undercover work, or info gathering about the dimension they are in.

Freddy, is a mermaid based magical girl. He can shift between having a mermaid tail and his legs. His base powers are hydrokinesis (ability to control water) and (can you guess it?) lightning! Though not shown here, Freddy actually uses water to float himself around. The water is thinly covered over his body and he uses that to get around without his crutches. He learned how to do this after seeing how he can float in the water when swimming. Freddy doesn’t do this all the time because it requires a lot of control and it can tire himself out. He used to do it all the time, but once in a battle, he shifted all his focus into the fight and lost control of the water that makes him float. Freddy learnt to not completely rely on his powers all the time after that. I’ll go more into this specific event later bc I think this scenario would really impact how Freddy sees his disability, and how he learns to accept it. I imagine this Freddy is more recently disabled and that he still has bitter feelings about it. The thing with Freddy’s dad in the boat still happened (they got attacked by one of Billy’s enemies), and that’s when he got his leg injury. He met Billy that way and got his powers. (Basically just how CM3 got his powers.. idk why im explaining it)

The thing is that I, myself, am not disabled so I need a bit of help understanding what that would be like to accurately write Freddy’s struggles with his disability. 😭

Another thing is that I’m not sure what their hero names would be? I tried doing those precure names like ‘Cure Marvel!’ but that would only work for one of them and I would still need names. Marvel *insert something here* or *something* Marvel is an idea but I wouldn’t know what to put.

yeah, theres my au lol maybe i’ll post more about it

edit: i did post more about it! heres the linked posts!

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[heckity-heck-snap-my-neck-blog]

Magical boy Billy and Magical girl Mary

[im-not-buying-it-ether]

More Shazamily/Marvel Family headcanons

Billy has a deep seated hatred for the Indiana Jones movies, there is no force on earth that can get him to watch any of the movies the whole way through

Normal magic rules don’t really apply to them in practice, they break and bend the rules a lot without realizing it. It’s one of the many perks of being champions and guardians of eternity, magic just goes with them and what they want to do

Have used spells from fantasy media’s to see if they work in real life; They do work but only for them, so each member of the Shazamily has a trump card in the form of random spells from random kids tv shows but they all use wands when they remember to just incase a spell backfires

Darla copied Star vs the forces of evil’s spells, no Fawcett villain likes admitting that they got beat by a Narwal Blast or a Warnicorn Stampede. Uses her wide array of princess and fairy wands she already has

Eugene, as seen in the first Shazam! movie, copy’s mortal combat moves and phrases. Doesn’t use a wand or a stand in for one much but uses a classic magicians wand from a magic kit he got

Billy binge watched every episode of Ben 10 and made a spread sheet of magical attacks shown in the show with Freddy to copy. Both use “Scribo in incendia” to multitask with homework and “Somus” to fall right asleep after patrol. Freddy uses his foam Wonder Woman sword and Billy just has a stick he picked up one day when he was 9 and hasn’t let go of since

Mary has copied some phrases from Sabrina the Teenage witch with varying levels of success, in part due to her not having full confidence in every attempt she makes. Bought one of those fancy wands with a gemstone at the end of them to cast spells

Pedro took a page out of Harry Potter and started using Latin to come up with his own spells. Uses whatever he has on hand as a wand, be it a pencil or the spork he was eating his lunch with

Billy has an older portable movie player he got as a hand me down gift from a foster sibling and a CD booklet with some kids movies in it that he’s held onto, its how he passed his rare instances of downtime when he was still homeless. Liked borrowing movies from local libraries to watch on it, some of the discs he actually owns are Matilda, the Night at the Museum trilogy, the Iron Giant, Tangled, Atlantis: the Lost Empire, and a CD copy of the second season of The Worlds Greatest Animal Detective; Tawky Tawny.

Freddy spends the first few years of his hero career pretending to be able bodied, constantly using his flight as a mobility aid, but decides later on to utilize a Wizards staff formed in a way to double as a crutch for him.

Followed by pidgins relentlessly. If a pidgin can go there they follow the Marvels everywhere. They’re chill, don’t steal their food or land on them, but they follow them everywhere. They all collectively blame Hermes influence as a patron god of messengers since pidgins are messenger birds (and yes it is the fault of his divine influence on them)

Billy got permission from the Wizard and other greek goddesses to have separate blessings for his sisters (Agility of Selene, Strength of Hippolyta, Stamina of Artemis, Flight of Zephyrus, Invulnerability of Aurora, and the Wisdom of Minerva) for the sole reason of keeping the influence and voices of Billy’s patrons out of their heads and away from them. (Because there’s no way in any form of hell he’s cursing Mary or Darla with Zeus to be in their heads)

They can talk to animals with the omnilinguistics the Wisdom of Solomon gives them, if anyone on the mortal plane can understand the language so can they. This has led to people seeing Captain Marvel coo back and forth with pidgins like they’re having a conversation (they’re talking about favorite snacks) and the one time he interrogated a rat through small squeaks to know which way a group of smugglers went.

Billy is an awesome gift giver, every year when the justice league has their annual white elephant on Dec 20th people pray they get their names drawn by him. He got Wally a bunch of shoes that were enchanted to not wear down from his speeding (dress shoes, running shoes, slippers, flip flops, the works), did some dimension hopping and time traveling to get a box full of Kryptonian books for Clark (including a collection of folklore with English translations so he can read a bedtime story to Jon), and a crud ton of sweets from the Funlands for J’onzz (including a giant Choco’s cookie big enough to sleep on.)

Freddy’s YouTube channel has a lot of videos of the Shazamily testing their powers based on comments, it has 2.3 million followers and the ad revenue they all rake in goes to helping out with the expenses at home and buying a lot of games at a 50/50 split

They are literally the only group of child vigilantes that are home in time for curfew/bed consistently, they’re more daytime heroes. The only exception being Billy when he has to go off world or to another dimension for League/Champion business but he always tells the Vasquez’s about them so they can call him in sick from school

Billy worked out an agreement with Harley Quinn so that him and his siblings could have semi-regular therapy appointments (hero/villain work permitting), she works her degree every other Tuesday and in return she gets Superman style flights whenever she wants and access to magical plant stuff for Ivy. Victor and Rosa worried about their kids mental health with all the responsibility and horrors of hero life but had no idea how to start getting them professional support for it so they’re glad Billy was able to find someone already in that life who could help and isn’t likely to endanger their identities.

[fun-n-fashion]

Isn’t Captain Marvel/Shazam technically a male Magical Girl? like Billy Batson says the magic phrase and all of the sudden he’s 2 feet taller with powers and a totally different outfit. 

america got superheroes and japan got magical girls. i think america is the clear loser here

[ratking-reads]

I’ve decided for the magical girl au when billy detransforms the dress stays and he loses whatever he was wearing before

So Billy’s constantly trying to repurpose his ever growing dress collection and buy get new clothing

[dcmainlybillythoughts]

Hey magical girl Billy fans, I have a question. I was never made clear on something and I need to know.

So does Captain Marvel exist in this world? Like is he the one in the magical girl dress of it it Billy, because I love the idea of both.

On one hand, big muscular seven foot tall man in a frilly dress. On the other hand Billy would be really nice as a sparkly magical girl who could throw hands as a twig

[teehhhhhhhhhhh]

HAPPY HALLOWEEN PEOPLEEEEE! 👻🎃 drew @chaoticallyfluffy’s magical girl au again, since i love it sm (not me messing up the skirt again i just noticed)🫶🫶

[feebisart]

What we need now is an artist to animate sailor moon's transformation sequence on Billy Batson. Alas, I cannot. I am working on another artwork ;-;

I’ve come to a realization about the fine line that separates superheroes and magical girls, that being that most magical girls share these traits:

The way they come into their powers is typically out of their control

They are a “chosen one,” unique among their peers

They aren’t the ones who initially decide to fight evil, rather the ones bestowing their powers onto them tell them they need to fight evil

They are typically quite young, none exceeding the age of 20

They have animal/mascot companions

They have a transformation sequence into their more magical form, typically activated by a catchphrase

From these observations, I have concluded

[chaoticallyfluffy]

Just finished a white board with @teehhhhhhhhhhh and @wildglitch ! It was so much fun drawing together and seeing their progress in real time! It was also interesting seeing the whole thing slowly turn into magical girls until it became so glitchy we couldn’t draw anymore hahaha

[windybluebelles]

Trans Billy Batson getting his first period while on the streets and not knowing who to call.

Fic WIP:

He can’t call Mary,

No way- Nu Uh- Not a single chance

Firstly, Mary might not have even gotten hers yet and even if she has how could she help him? They’re both just kids, she can’t rush out at the ass crack of dawn to bring him some-IDK! Pads or something! She might as-well be wearing a massive sigh that tells her parents -“BILLY IS A GIRL”- and then the Bromfields will hate him and he’ll never see his sister again and their basically the only family he has and-

Yeah not telling Mary.

Wonder Woman says their family, could he ask her? Oh how would that go-

“Hey, yeah Yknow your Co worker? Yeah, the full grown man- hmmm well he’s actually a teenage girl whos bleeding out in an abandoned apartment. Yeahhhh help?”

No, that’s how he loses his job. Diana doesn’t want to be friends with a homeless kid. Much less one who lied about basically everything about himself.

Freddie is a boy

Mr Morris is a man and his boss

He doesn’t know Dinah that well

Anyone on Young Justice will have to tell their guardian

Zatanna-

Well, Zatanna could work.

They’ve talked quite a bit and Billy would say they’re quite close.

AND,

She should already know his age, surely she’d be able to recognise how new his magic is, how inexperienced he is at using it. Right?

Yeahhhh, she’s also able to be contacted by his league communicator so he won’t have to dig out his shitty old phone.

He scrolls down till he finds her number,

He dials,

“Hey Z-“ His high pitched voice echo’s down the line, too late to go back now

What could go wrong?

[frothlad]

There's that post that makes the rounds, where Superman is shown being really angry that Billy Batson has been turned into Captain Marvel, chews out the old wizard, and goes to mentor the kid.

And it's a nice bit. It's a little too angry for Superman, I think; I expected more "this is a problem that has to be solved" than "how dare you do this to a child".

But it does incredible damage to Billy as a character. And I don't like it for that. It violates key principles of what kind of character Billy and Captain Marvel are and what kind of stories they tell.

Billy is, far more than Superman or Batman, a wish-fulfillment character for a child. Say a magic word and you are an adult, and powerful, and can't be hurt, and say the word again and you don't have any of an adult's boring responsibilities.

And Billy himself is an archetypical child adventurer, the same as Tintin or any of a hundred others: He goes out, finding trouble, getting into scrapes, uncovering plots, conspiracies, thefts, and schemes, and dealing with them. Cap relies on being Billy to investigate. (It is instructive to consider the variations in genre for Freddy and Mary as well; Freddy is less adventurer than social welfare investigator, while Mary is a girl and has girl adventures.)

The Superman scene's Billy is a victim, out of his depth.

The Billy I like is a champion, quick-witted, good-hearted.

It's all about what genre the characters are in. If you put Nancy Drew in a gothic, holy crap is that fucked up. If you put Scooby and the gang in Jeepers Creepers, holy crap is that fucked up. Animorphs is what happens if you put child adventurers into a realistic war story, and holy crap that is fucked up.

If you put Billy in a story where child endangerment is actually a thing, you've thrown away what the character is good at and intended for.

That is, of course, not to say that you can't genre-bend characters or that there isn't great possibility in deconstruction of genres.

But I don't have to like it. I like Billy in his native genre just fine, thank you.

(It is of course worth noting that the same Superman scene has extremely broad and extremely negative implications for Superman's relationship with Batman. You can't invoke child welfare for Billy and not for Robin.)

[bonebrokebuddy]

Unbeknownst to Wally, the notes are from Clockwork desperately trying to contact anyone who can actually influence the timestream outside the Observant’s watchful eyes.

After getting the notes to Bruce, they reveal the frantic ramblings of a [Parent? Mentor? Guardian?], desperately crying out for them to save his [word untranslatable but presumed to mean son, mentee, or child] from a government organization a few universes over.

The being, who introduces himself as Clockwork, reveals he cannot influence anything himself but can watch over the streams of time and has observed Wally’s ability to interfere and change it’s threads. If his [son?] dies, it will mean the destruction of all of the infinite realms (a cosmic foil to the speed force that’s a force of death and timelessness instead of life and the constant movement forward of the universe).

All in all, the letters are rushed, barely explain anything except location, date, what condition he’s in, and how to save the boy.

Who exactly is this boy? Why is he so important to the Infinite Realms? What are the Infinite Realms exactly? Who is this “Clockwork” and why are they so important? Who are the Observants? And so many more. All are valid questions, and all are entirely unanswered.

But regardless, with Captain Marvel confirming the existence of the Infinite Realms, that it was under attack, and the very real negative effects it would have on their universe if it collapsed; Wally must now gather a crew and embark on a rescue mission across universes to save this kid[? They actually don’t really know his status of age other than he’s younger and in the care of the mysterious “Clockwork” who sent the letters in the first place].

Batman, because… of course he’s going to go investigate what the hell is happening. Not only can his eye for strategy, stealth, hacking, and intimidation give the team an advantage in getting the most answers out of the government ages there. But Bruce also has so many damn questions, barely any of which were answered by the notes Wally received, so he needs to go into this mission to investigate not only this new alternate universe government threat but to get as much information possible before they leave, in addition to ensuring Clockwork’s child is safely rescued.

Clark is elected as he is most likely to handle whatever this government organization has in store (and Clark “got injured” in the most recent supervillain battle that smashed into the Daily Planet, so he conveniently has some time off while he “recovers from his injury.” But also because he heard a kid was in danger and, well, it feels wrong to not help someone in need).

Captain Marvel (god, they gotta get to know the guy more. he’s so damn reserved but is great at this particular brand of buck-wild missions), not only because of his incredible intelligence, invulnerability, strength, and being great with kids and teenagers; but also is primarily chosen for the team due to his knowledge of the Infinite Realms. He can also give live feedback on the state of the Realm that’s apparently actively tearing apart and crumbling! If something goes wrong, Cap will be able to give them a warning before all shit breaks loose.

Next recruitment is Patrick O’Brian, aka Plastic Man. His abilities of stealth (if he can keep his mouth shut), infiltration (absolutely), invulnerability (overpowered as high hell), versatility (dear god he can literally become anything or anyone as long as it’s in his own color pallet), and because he has a particular soft-spot for kids.

(Plas and Clark are already moping to each other about having to leave their respective partners (Woozy and Lois) behind. Meanwhile Wally is biting at the chance for just a tiny break from the twins, sorry Linda.)

Lastly, brought surprisingly by Captain Marvel is Booster Gold. His additional experience in time-travel and time stream manipulation will come mighty in handy during the mission. It helps that Booster has some “Bona fide genuine ecto-weapons, dudes! Let’s go and save Phantom!” that he brought from the 25th century. And, well. At least now they had the name “Phantom” from Booster to work off of.

Kon and Thad are notified to be on-call for the Recovery Team’s arrival back as clones were mentioned in one of the hundreds of notes and Clark thought it might be nice for the boys to have another friend they can relate to. Tim and Bart are close behind because despite Bruce and Max telling them to not interfere, they want to also meet the alternate universe breaking guy who has enough trust from Clark to keep Kon and Thad on-deck in case they’re needed to help the guy make some friends his age.

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This is rushed and not super refined, I just wanted to get the basic initial idea out of my head & get it out there. So sorry if this is a tad wonky to read at times, that’s my bad

Short DPXDC Prompts #576

Wally doesn’t understand these strange messages written on bright green post-it notes that keep appearing near him. Whatever it’s trying to say, the messages keep increasing in amount every day.

[puppetwoman17]

Hey! It’s your girl, here to deliver more Billy/Batson family angst!

You know what really gets me? This family does not get to be happy.

I mean, I’m sure I don’t need to get into the basic story. Parents die apart, sister gets amnesia, brother becomes a street kid and a superhero and a magic diplomat, etc., etc..

After that, the PoS comic explores a world where the Batson parents did survive, and Mary and Billy get to grow up together. And everything is fine and dandy. But that’s just not how it’s supposed to be. The universe literally will not allow this family to be happy. CC even pleads for reconsideration after he finds out Ebenezer doesn’t honor what he asked of him before he left for his dig. And gosh, seeing Marilyn just disappear in front of her children while she tells them she loves them…

And now we jump to modern Shazam, where the Batson family is just pummeled to the ground.

This isn’t to say that I hate the Vasquez family. I love found family, and I love these kids and Victor and Rosa are great parents. But I hate that they felt the need to ruin the Batson family so much. CC in jail? Marilyn leaving her son? Mary and Billy not being biological twins?

In a world where they do get to all be alive, they STILL can’t be together.

If there’s anything I don’t like about modern Shazam, it’s that the Batson family is all but gone.

I am also a firm believer that if DC wanted Billy to still have trust issues, and be haunted by the fact that his biological family doesn’t want him, they should have kept Ebenezer Batson.

Until the modern age, you cannot tell Billy Batson’s story without a mention of uncle Ebenezer. His choices set off the chain of events of Billy being by himself and becoming the Champion. He’s the one who gives Billy his issues with family and having a stable home. If DC wanted family issues, Billy already has a lot of those.

Mary’s great as an older sister, but I miss her and Billy being close twins. It’s why I always write them like that.

I probably sound really salty. And I am. If there’s one family that never gets to be happy, it’s the Batsons🙄