#reversed timeline AU

[gemsarejustshinyrocks]

Reverse Robins AU where everyone is their canon ages but Bruce gets them backwards

And Sooner, thus smaller

Cass: David Cain makes the mistake of letting Bruce know of Cass. Bruce comes back to Gotham with an infant while David Cain resurfaces years later with a case of broken spine. Alfred is torn between pride in his son and exasperation at his newfound hobby of dressing like a furry. (Cass's first word is "bat")

Damian: Talia looks at Bruce (and his ruthlessness in child protection), likes what she sees, and decides he's her new baby daddy. She then spends the next few years in a push-pull seduction trip with Bruce (consensually, fuck you) while simultaneously building up her power base, weeding out her father's men, and plotting his downfall. However, when she becomes pregnant she vanishes for several months only for a baby to appear in Bruce's bed; swaddled in a beautiful blanket and tucked next to the wickedly sharp knife she murdered her father with. Cass is eight years old.

Tim: Bruce doesn't adopt Dick, he doesn't become Robin, thus Tim never connects crazy acrobatics between circus child and traffic light. He's still a baby stalker with an interest in Gotham's nightlife, but here batman works alone. He eventually figures it out anyway, but not before getting involved in something he really shouldn't have which leads to Bruce looking into the Drakes much sooner. By the time they fly back from wherever the hell they've been three months later, Tim's already living with the Wayne's and Bruce has legal blackmail a mile wide. Nine year old Cass has a new little brother big enough to dance with, One Year Old Damian is decidedly unimpressed as toddlers can be, and Six Year Old Tim is starry-eyed at living with the actual batman.

Jason: is eight years old when one of Batman's rouges explodes the building he lived in with his mother and Willis. (Something that wouldn't have happened if he had another pair of hands to help and distract with a quip and a laugh) Bruce Wayne finds him stealing his converter while visiting the memorial he set up in Park Row for his parents. (Jason doesn't know what this rich idiot with more money than sense wants with him; probably as a "playmate" toy for his three spoiled brats no doubt, but at least he'll be off the streets.) One kidnapping later and Jason is of the firm belief that he's still a rich idiot with more money than sense, because all his sense was beaten out of him in that fursuit. Jason turns nine with a seven year old stalker, a two year old demon, and a ten year old shadow as siblings and he's never been happier.

Dick: Oof. The scales of fate aren't fucked with lightly. His future siblings may have happier lives, but only because he suffered instead. Here's the deal: As in canon, the Graysons came to Gotham and died when Dick was nine. However, Bruce never went. Cass was sick, so Bruce never saw the Graysons fall. The Court of Owls did. And the rest, they say, is history. (Until the Kidnapping of Jason Todd, "Street trash" sullying the Wayne name, cracks the Court's disguise and Batman finds an immortal sixteen year old Assassin in the depths of Gotham's oldest cult.

[xysidhequeen]

Take your time of answering this. No rush 😊

I’m curious after Jason been knighted as a Red Knight and first dealing with the Flash Fam screwing up the flow of time… Again…

A Flash: messes up the timestream

Jason:

Now, keep in mind Jason had been fucking with the Flash Fam prior to being formally knighted. Being knighted as Fright Knight(or Red Knight in this case) just gives him a bit of a power up and also gives him a good deal of authority in the 'Realms.

Now what was really scary was the first time Jason went after a Flash fucking with the timestream while in his Red Knight armor.

Just. This hulking suit of armor and ghostly flames running at them like the Terminator and. They're the FLASH fam. They're supposed to be the fastest people around. Yet they can't outrun this full on armored tank of a being.

When he catches up to whichever Flash is responsible he just scruffs them like misbehaving kittens and shakes them.

"Stop. Fucking. With. Time. You. Little. Shit." And a few more shakes for good measure. And whichever Flash it is just nods meekly. Because what else are you gonna do when this man who is more built than Superman, faster than you, who is coated in black and red armor literally radiating flames picks you up like you weigh nothing more than a wet paper bag and scolds you like a puppy who piddled on the carpet?

You agree and then offer to buy him chilidogs. (All of the Flash Fams know the big tank dude likes chilidogs, the skinny eldritch nightmare likes burgers)

Danny and Jason are the Flash Fam's version of those scary sea stories sailors tell each other. They're what goes bump in the night.

[transingthoseformers]

While I like the idea of OP being reincarnation of thirteen… wasn’t there a whole comic discussion between OP & Hotrod/Rodimus where he question what it felt like for Roddy and long story short: it was agonizing for Optimus but for Rodimus it was “amazing, warm, coming home” (not quote) very much chosen one energy and Optimus went “ah, of course. Same.”

What if: Optimus raised to believe he was thirteen reincarnation au

Enter: Hot rod “stealing” his fate/role accidentally from underneath his pedes

I think it's complicated in the comics and I know there's an explanation somewhere but yeah there was a definite difference between the two's dynamics with the Matrix of Leadership in idwg1

(though, their general relationships with religion and leadership were also different, and that definitely affected things for them) (plus the circumstances that lead to them getting their pieces of the matrix / becoming primes)

But!

The idea of Orion/Optimus being raised with the expectation of becoming a Prime / technically being a prime but Hot Rod / Rodimus accidentally getting the matrix and becoming a Prime has to be sooooo crunchy (plus in general I feel like there's a lot of interesting interactions to be had between the two and we don't see it enough in canon)

[were-wolverine]

reverse robins au timeline

bruce meets talia while training to be Batman. damian is (unknowingly) conceived. three years later bruce becomes Batman. four years after that, talia sends damian (7) to bruce with a letter explaining everything.

two years later, damian (9) becomes Batboy

five years later, bruce finds duke (10) and takes him in. damian (14) is insecure at first but eventually grows fond of him

two years later, tim (10) starts staying at wayne manor while his parents are away. damian (16) and duke (12) both enjoy his company

a year later duke (13) becomes Signal, and tim (11) figures out their vigilante identities and helps out on comms, going by ‘T’

another year later, dami (18) becomes Leviathan and tim (12) starts going by Rumor. duke (14) is just vibing

steph (13) starts out as Spoiler when damian is 19, duke is 15 and tim is also 13

after a year working together, damian (20) and duke (16) reveal their identities to steph (14) and she meets tim (14) for the first time in-person

when damian is 21, duke is 17 and timsteph are 15, tim’s parents die in a plane crash and he is officially adopted by bruce. after this he is finally allowed in the field as Rumor (he was just doing comms/tech before)

about a year later, cass (14) shows up in gotham and bruce brings her back to the manor (damian is 22, duke is 18, and timsteph are 16)

jason (12) is found stealing the tires off the batmobile and bruce adopts him. cass (15) is the vigilante Orphan, tim (17) & steph (17) are still Spoiler & Rumor, duke (19) is still Signal and damian (23) is still Leviathan

STORY BEGINS

jason (13) takes up the Batboy mantle, and the circus comes to town. newly orphaned dick (9) is taken in by bruce. (cass is 16, timsteph are 18, duke is 20, damian is 24)

dick (10) becomes Robin, and meets babs (9) in school. they become best friends. cass (17) changes her vigilante name to Black Bat

jason (15) is killed by joker. dick is 11, cass is 18, tim & steph are 20, duke is 22, damian is 26

bruce gets lost in time. damian (27) takes over as Batman, duke (23) is still Signal, cass (19) is Leviathan in damian’s place, tim and steph (21) are still Rumor & Spoiler and dick (12) is still Robin. jason (16) is taken to the LoA and revived in the lazarus pit. dick kills the joker as Robin

jason (17) returns to gotham as Red Hood. babs is 12, dick is 13, cass is 20, timsteph are 22, duke is 24 and damian is 28. bruce is still gone so dami is still Batman and cass is still Leviathan

bruce returns. babs (13) starts out as Batgirl

[msfcatlover]

*mushes two of my favorite AUs together*

Red Hood!Steph would still be a Desolation avatar—there’s too much anger, too much destruction, too much hate & desire for the complete annihilation of the targets of that hate to be anything else—but she’s different.

RH!Jason is an earthquake.

RH!Steph would be a lightning storm. The crackle of electricity, the taste of ozone, the light of something utterly uncontrollable in her eyes. The billowing, bulging thunder cloud sweeping across the sky to blot out the sun. Wind enough to rip up trees, rain so heavy you can’t see, but lightning, lightning every few seconds, like all the electricity in the world has been stolen underneath her skin. A fire-starter (like Jason) but the blaze itself is not what you have to Fear, the blaze is merely a side effect of something much more powerful sweeping through. Her victims are not shattered bones & splattered brains, they’re bleeding ears & the reek of cooking meat.

Jason borders the Buried far closer than he’d like.

Steph would dance on the border of the Vast like a small child dances in the rain: with wild abandon & near-feral glee.

[sincerely-sofie]

Thinking about the Dark Crater confrontation in the Dugtrio Day AU... It would happen much sooner because unlike Twig, Echo would be analytical enough to see through "Cresselia" and the solution she proposes, and Darkrai would be forced to reveal his true identity as a result.

Pinna would struggle through the fire-type centric dungeon leading up to it, being a treecko who also is surprisingly weak for the point in the plot that they are, and the second they get to him Echo is garroting Darkrai on the spot for putting her friend through this.

He doesn't even get to monologue or pull the nightmare shtick. They enter the boss room and she wordlessly strangles him with all four ribbons as well as her paws while staring him in the eyes as she does it.

[virgil-is-a-cutie]

AU Where Stanford runs into a Stanley who fell into the portal in a different timeline, but it's like River Song and The Doctor where they meet up in different times.

When 28 yr old Ford meets Stanley he meets a 58 yr old Stanley who's a hardened man, who has a prosthetic arm a new eye, and some deep scars on his face as if he had his eye scratched out.

While Stanford goes forward, Stanley is going backwards, meaning time is wonky for Ford

Just imagine it and the angst

[frobby]

one of my favorite senarios to imagine to put yukio in is sending him 10 years into the future (with the exwires usually) and everyone from their class are like chill adults including himself working their boring ass exorcist job and hes trying to assert dominance over them as the teacher™ but they're all like bro why so serious?

[llumimoon]

TFW ur shitty dad decides to prank ur whole school to teach you to be more chaotic but instead you just realize how attached you've become to certain people. This is the EAH AU's version of Spring Unsprung!!

Gotta give credit where credit is due, @silverlistenstothings really helped out with this arc !!! So many good Hermie thoughts as always ough <333

We decided this happens like right before the Big Plot Shit happens in the AU and instead of being a festival it's Hermie's Birthday !!! The cursed riddlebook is a gift from Scam that Hermie gives to Scary instead bc he doesn't rlly care about it, which . turns out to be a very bad idea. The curse quickly spreads throughout the school reversing everyone's personalities and causing Normal to try and pretty much end the world.

This arc is Hermie and Taylor focused !!! :D Although it is really fun to think about the reverse teens running rampant NWVEGWHAAHA reverse norm is a little treat for me <3 but reverse Link is SO INCREDIBLY FUNNY . shoutout to this message from @happi-tree bc it's been burned into my memory and I cant stop laughing about it

When it comes to the curse we decided that bonds and skills stay the same but the personalities are inverted, which means reverse Scary being sooo attached and clingy to Hermie is just her personality changing the way she decides to communicate her affection for who she sees as her best friend. Its cute <3

Herm is SUPER on edge due to being incredibly irritated with his dad and feeling insecure about his friendship with Taylor, who's having a bit of a crisis on his own about his feeling about Link. Toss in their shared homesickness for Wonderland, a realm they can't go back to, and Taylor panicking over a gift his mom left him going missing, well it's not good for anyone. How are they gonna figure things out enough to save Ever After from destruction?

(EAH AU is by me, @rindomness & @kaseyskat !!)

Image Description is under the cut

[ID: Image 1: Normal smirking evilly with a hand up to his chin and the other on his hip. His eyes are a light purple and he's saying "Hey." To his right is Scary happily waving while smiling, her eyes similarly a light purple. She's saying "OMG hiiii Herm!! <3"

Image 2: Hermie with a stunned and mad expression on their face and trying to pout tea from a teapot into a teacup but missing the cup by a lot. Their cat ears are turned downward and tucked against their head while their tail behind them is stuck straight up with fur sticking out in all directions. They have a thought bubble that says "I'm gonna KILL my dad." there's text in the bottom left that has an arrow pointing off the canvas and is labeled "Scam giggling off screen."

Image 3: Link doing the fuck boy expression, his eyes half lidded and biting the corner of his lip with a pointed hand on his chin, with his other hand with the thumb tucked into the top of his belt. His eyes are similarly a light purple and he's looking at Taylor. There's text with an arrow pointing at Link that says, "turned into a shitty fuck boi liar because of the curse" To his right stands Taylor who has his arms by his side in a dinosaur like pose and a grossed out and devastated expression on his face. His bunny ears are sticking straight up. There's an arrow pointing to him that says "Fucking Appalled" in all caps.

Image 4: Scary smiling with her eyes closed and hugging Hermie with one of her legs posed upward behind her. Hermie is standing still with their eyes obscured due to the shine of their glasses with a neutral expression on their face and their cat ears turned downward and their tail puffed up and sticking up. To their right stands Taylor with both his hands up to clutch his face and his bunny ears pointed downward. Scary is saying "Haha yaaaay besties forever after!!" with flowers and hearts drawn around her. There is an arrow pointed at her labeled "still cursed". Hermie has a thought bubble that says "MY DAD IS A DICK." and an arrow pointed at them that's labeled "so touch starved". Under that is an arrow pointing at Taylor that is labeled "having a gay crisis" and he is surrounded by question marks. He has a large thought bubble that says "Why am I so jealous that Link is flirting with everybody ohmygod do I have a crush on my best friend forever after holy shit what"

Image 5: Normal looking down with an evil smirk and light purple eyes with his hand out to hold something. Hermie looks up with a frustrated expression on their face and their pupil's sharpened and is clutching Normal's arm as his hand holds Hermie's chin. Normal is saying "Shame you've decided to get in my way kitten, I really did like you. Well whatever. It's not going to matter in a moment, nothing is. You're too late." the word "nothing" is underlined for emphasis.

Image 6: A discord screenshot of 'willy KILLER MAIMER DESTROYER' saying "Link: babe you’re being so fucking silly but hey at least you’re also hot. Wanna kiss maybe. That’s gotta fix you or whatever

Taylor: ???????????????? OK ACTUALLY I FORGOT I WAS GETTING LUNCH WITH HERMIE GOTTA GO under his breath wtf wtf wtf"/end ID]

[yanderelinkeduniverse]

So I remember the au where y/n was left to explore wilds hyrule for awhile and I like the idea of them coming across the giant horse and the white horse and just adopting them for company

Oh yeah the reverse timeline two AU! Where (y/n) was the one to remember everything and decided not to go along with the Chain! It was short lived but I personally thought it was interesting.

Anyways adopting two of the coolest looking horses in the game for shits and giggles is absolutely something (y/n) would, completely unaware that one of technically Princess Zelda’s and the other is descended from the horse Ganondorf rode.

She’d just be like “heh heh, pretty horses” and go about her way with them now as her kids.

When the Chain inevitably finds (y/n) again and make her come back with them, they(Time and Twilight) would be shocked to see her with such a massive horse(especially one that’s so familiar).

She’d want to keep both but they tell her that they can only take the white horse because it’s normal sized, so with a heavy heart she leaves the big one in the care of the stables.

But before that she lets Twilight and the others sit on him because she’s got a cool horse and they wanna feel tall!

[befuddled-calico-whump]

😭😭 will they ever re-unite?! Ander my poor bby🥺💔

one way or another :)

since T$$ is my designated AU space, I can say that in some timelines they do, and some timelines they don't. Can't say exactly what the canon one is yet though

[dayurno]

riko in kayleigh’s care au yeahh…

riko: KEVIN WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME FREAK LEAVE ME ALONE??? *terrified for his life*

kevin, an autistic 7 year old: i have this rock in my pocket. for you

AND HE DOES............ riko he has this rock in his pocket. for you.

its cute to me it really is i think they're so funny and kevin is seriously so autistic. riko at this point hasn't interacted with any other children his age outside of little league and kevin is not just patently unusual he's also 1) super intense 2) loud 3) excited beyond belief over having someone to play with. SO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW HAPPY HE IS. most children would be happy to get a brother no matter what but this child in specifically has spent a lot of time with nannies or in adult-world events with his mother so of course he's happy to have a friend to accompany him!!! are you crazy!!!!!! the way i see it on riko's first day with the days (heh) kevin teaches him approximately three hundred different games in a span of two hours that riko either brutally rejects for not being exy (which kevin agrees with but also says they have to play other games because not all children know exy) (he's shocked by this too) or just outright doesn't understand because kevin's accent is so thick :)

BUT I THINK despite riko's fragile state and the ghosts that will inevitably follow him well into adulthood, it is a happy childhood.......... it's hard and at points feels hopeless, but when riko grows older he does look back and understands kevin's intentions and maybe even is a little grateful that someone was willing to reach out to his angry terrified traumatized 7 year old self. i think this k & r are not as close as they were in canon for a myriad of reasons, the biggest one being that riko's relationship to kevin and kayleigh is pretty complex because he feels like an outsider, but they're also a lot more well-meaning towards each other. they don't understand the other as well as they'd like to (i'd wager kevin will spend years and years trying to understand riko and failing to) but i do think they get impossibly closer after (sorry) kayleigh dies, which i can imagine happening in their late 30s to mid 40s. they'll always be brothers <3:)

[lavenoon]

Dawn, a Victorian Lady, scandalously exposing his ankle rolling up his sleeves: Will they notice my flirting?

Robin: *simp crisis, but like, also in denial*

Based on this

[deltarune-au-domain]

Honeycomb and Ello are gonna be in Christmas AU 2023!

Along with a few others!

[arikihalloween]

Ariki......

is it ok if I made an opposite au version of Peacekeeper-

like based of Henney's and Jace's Opposite AU's............

I mean

There is already an opposite of Keeper, which is reverse Keeper ( we never shared art of it, but since it's not canon ig I can show it to you now :3 )

But if you feel like making an other opposite one for fun, sure !

As long as you credit me, Henney and Jace for the characters and concepts

Anyway, reverse Keeper and Stitcher (non canon, this is just concept art)

[sesamenom]

currently out of art-inspiration for the reverse gondolin au so i might do a handful of au-specific requests if you guys are interested?