#sentinel dick grayson

[iphoenixrising]

Hi! I just wanted to send you a message, firstly to wish you a happy new year! And secondly just to say that you’ve been providing incredible and free works of art for nearly a decade (probably longer, but it’s been nearly a decade since I first followed you!!) and I just wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the tireless work you’ve put in. I hope writing has been as much of a joy for you as reading has been for us! Wishing you a wonderful 2025 :))

Hi babe.

Ah, thank-you for the loves! It's so amazing to think you've been with me that long, you know? There's many of the fandom peeps that text me or send me messages that have literally been there since the first Tim Drake fic went out. My daughter was still a baby back then and she's in sixth grade now and is almost as tall as I am tbh. Crazy how much time has passed.

And, you know, the years I haven't been writing much because ah work and other interests as I finally spread out my fanfic wings to devour content rather than create, I still come back here and be amazed at the amount of fics and ficlets and stories and half-baked headcannons people are still finding and enjoying today. In the shitshow the US has become in the last year, it's a welcome feeling to know some of the depressed and down-trodden can find some kind of comfort in ass-kicking vigilantes, Doctors with hobbies, Omegas that can only run from what they need for so long, the real feeling of Welcome Home, the owfucks and attitudes and steamy accents, the birds that can only go forward - never back, the absolute slimy creep Ra's can turn out at the most inopportune moments, the array of named concussions to make them seem a little less bad, infinite cups of coffee and Grape Zestis, the cliffhangers that might never get finished, and a plethora of other things hidden in the dark niches of this blog.

Hopefully, someday I'll go back for my MA in Creative Writing and get out of Tech to do this, or a version of this, in real life. But, until I do, I might as well share just a bit of the next installment of the TimDick (maybe TimDickJay...?) Sentinel/Guide au, right?

Hm, why not? You can check it below the cut ;)

After turning down any attempt of his Sentinel to contact him (i.e. actually duck and dodging said stalkery behavior he is intimately familiar with), it all comes down to the basics less than a month after the disastrous discovery in a hotel room right after he'd played Wayne Enterprises CEO with the likes of Lex Luthor–

who will always and forever be King of the Douche Canoes, seriously

– the breakout at Black Gate is the most all hands on deck that's happened in Gotham in the last year.

Since several members of the Rogue Gallery teamed up to set the explosives, well, every Bat is expected to set-up in Gotham, and Red Robin, for as much as he's stayed the fuck out of their business in the last year, finds himself already in the city for a few meetings with Lucius about next quarter when the night sky outside Wayne Towers lights up with the very familiar symbol.

"Dammit," he breathes out, pretty much aware he could just ignore it. Considering Nightwing, the Red Hood, Batgirl, Black Bat, Robin, and B were all in the city tonight anyway.

(What's one more body between the people of Gotham and the baddies? Well, depends on the body, doesn't it?)

Lucius gives the usual suffering sigh he gives Brucie Wayne when the other mask falls away and leaves the vigilante behind.

"I guess we can pick this up tomorrow," the head of R&D tells him idly, scrolling through text alerts on his phone while Tim visibly reins himself back in to the new line of motherboards going into their medical cradles for military aid.

Tim just stays quiet for once because even though Lucius and Tam both know the big secrets, it's still not something they talk about unless a thorough sweep for bugs has happened in the last thirty minutes.

(Ninjas suck sometimes. #facts)

"It's fine. We still have a few more things we can cross off the list–" Tim starts, jaw tight when he turns away from the familiar symbol, when some things still fucking sting even though he's been doing his level-best to move the fuck forward.

Lucius hums at him and holds out his phone with a tight smile.

The quick update on Gotham's Track the Crime Spree app shows him exactly what's going down, and his truly epic facepalm is the loudest thing in the office.

**

The Batcomm he hacked is on mute, voices in his ear to keep up with the criminals spilling out of Blackgate and swarming the city. Not to mention some of the classics had a hand in making it happen.

The initial plan changes when the Bats start calling dibs on bad guys, throwing out their locations, heading toward the more-than-usual amount of mayhem.

He doesn't throw in on the convo, instead starts picking off the small fries that just happened to be more concerned with escaping and hiding than doing a fair amount of damage the second they hit Gotham proper.

(Really noobs)

He's running through alleyways, easy, fast, and furious to take down the low-level escapees with quick double zip ties for wrists and ankles, not even really working up a sweat.

He leaves the big times to the official night crew, deals with the small fries and enjoys the burn in his thighs as he runs.

Batgirl spots him, yelling out something before he's off again, not interested in some kind of reunion.

(And her low level shields make his back teeth ache with how vulnerable she is, how much she needs someone to strengthen them for her, how he could do it without working too hard... Dammit, the Guide in him is drawn to her with those pesky instincts he's been trying to get under control.)

His first big bad of the night comes in the form of–

Condiment King.

And just. 

This guy.

He really wishes he had the time to enjoy witty banter and a long, drawn-out fight with some heavy hits. Anything to stop him from the low-level buzz on the edge of his shields he knows is Nightwing. He zip ties Buddy Sandler to a light pole and his backpack of condiments to another, he gets one good one before it’s time to move on. 

“Well, I relish the win, but you and the rest are going back to jail. See ya next crime.”

Then he’s off, shooting a grapple, taking off into the night.

Mortimer Kadaver was already kidnapping a victim, and he gets a satisfying crunch when he breaks the guys nose after a look at the torture implements in the back seat of the stolen sedan. The citizen takes off without a look back, completely ignoring him to wait for the police.

He jumps on another stolen car, riding a few blocks at breakneck speed before he punches out the driver’s side window and steers the car himself.

(It’s fun when the low-level thugs don’t know what’s going on. “How are you not driving?!” “Tell the hand in the window to give me the wheel back!”)

He doesn’t get thrown when brains kicks in and the driving thug slams on the brakes, but it’s a close thing.

Instead, he’s trying not to smile when they tumble out the other side of the car on unsteady legs. It’s an easy KO when the city is literally going to shit over the comm in his ear.

Things get real when O calls everyone in on the West side where the bigger, badder B is apparently ready for a round 2 of the “break Batman’s back” challenge.

(It’s the worst possible time for that guy. The flash of memory, of being Dick’s Robin for the short stint, of working with him while Bruce had to train his body again to take on the mantle after Jean Paul had to admit defeat. The best times, the most painful memories. All of it swirling in his chest with the buzzing on the edge of his senses getting sharper, cutting into his shields. All the bullshit stories about True Pairs and here he is, tempting the bond with things like proximity and ass kicking.)

He hits the top of the water tower to check out the sitch, trying to stay out of sight, out of the way of the main family doing their things while Bane is hepped up on venom and swatting at Robin and Black Bat like flies.

No one has to say it while calling out strategy, but it’s a pretty obvious distraction play. Keep the Bats busy while the bulk of baddies get ghost. It’s classic Bane, really.

Since the venom is highly flammable and there’s a lot of vigilantes he doesn’t want to face, he does the next best thing - makes a plan.

It easy to drive KG Beast and the Baffler right up his grill without ever being seen by the Bats as the three big baddies smack into one another on the down swing of some stunning blows. 

A combination of smoke pellets, knockout gas, and bo to the back of the head puts them out for the count in a move even he didn’t think was crazy enough to work.

Slam dunk. It’s buy two and get one free day.

Even better, Black B and Rob were back far enough to miss him through the smoke even though his rebound was a top notch move even for a season vigilante.

Which is why it sucks when Polka-Dot Man actually gets the drop on him because honestly, that guy. He does deliver a stunning back kick to put the B-lister down, but it does make him see double for an important enough second.

“Daw, takin’ alla the fun outta my night, Pretender,” the Red Hood drawls from a rooftop above him, the glint off shiny .45s too bright in his spotty vision. “Nice a�� ya ta actually show the fuck up fer once.”

“Honestly,” he banters back while the woozy sensation fades to a low grade headache, “how many asses in spandex does one city need?”

He gets a chuckle rather than a bullet to the head, so that is most certainly a win.

The drawback of gaining attention of the Red Hood, however, is the lack of duck and dodge that really is part of his new pseud.

Hood literally throws him over a shoulder and dives off the Wallstone Apartments while Red is still reeling from the blow, bellowing out when a meaty arm clamps on the back of his kicking legs in a very subtle warning.

“Leggo!”

“My ass. Stop yer squirming, fucker.”

“How about we compromise. Let me go and you can kick someone else’s ass?”

“Nice try. Like I dunno who yer really running from?”

“I’m fighting crime, not running you asshole!”

“Sure, sure. Ya know what they say. De Nile ain’t just a river in Egypt.”

“I don’t even live here anymore!”

“Oh? Can’t wait ta tell B ya just said that, Timmer.”

“I’m not his responsibility, didn’t you get the memo?”

Wind in his hair over the bad section of bail bondsmen and sleazy villain insurance. The plan forms while Red Hood arches his back to throw them both high in the air before the second grapple *zings* and latches on.

“I said th’ same thing at one time. Ya already know bout that shit, an’ how B didn’t give one fuck ‘bout what I hadda say.”

“The difference is you’re actually part of the fucking family, Jason!”

“Mmhm. Keep onnit, Replacement. M’comm is gettin’ alla this, n’ ya know it.”

“So what? No one’s bothered giving a crap  so far!”

Did he get hit with a truth serum or is this just the concussion talking? 

(R - Randal, Randal the concussion is awful and he should really stop this messy truth shit no one needs to hear.)

“Come off’n it, Timmy. Like ya don’t already know B gotcha tracked within an incha yer life? Think he just gonna let the smart one run off wi’ Shiva fer fuck’s sake?”

Even with Randal being a pain in the ass, Red has a terrifying moment of panic. They know. They all know.

“I-I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“Sure, sure. Tell that ta Dickie why dontcha? I ain’t seen ‘in that pissed off inna hot minute.”

“He already knows-“

“Does he really now? Why don’tcha tell ole’ Jace all ‘bout it, hm?”

His voice through the synths sounds very not inviting.

“Randall is a fucker and he needs to lay off,” which has Hood laughing even if he doesn’t know what Red means by any of it.

They land it with a jolt — right in the middle of a brawl.

Which is just about the speed he really needs right now anyway.

Black Bat swings by with a screaming escapee dangling from one hand by his ankle while she smiles under the stitched-up mask and gives him a happy wave. The comm in his ear hasn’t fallen out so he knows the others are spaced out, corralling the others with the help of GCPD.

So, the fight is on a little more than he originally thought.

But still, the burn feels better than the low-grade concussion and the pulsing heat of Sentinels (of his Sentinel), close by. He knows Jason’s shields are fractured, held together by pure stubborn will. He knows Steph is a few blocks down, whooping it up with her shields scarily open for her senses to reach far enough out to track stragglers. B is held together the best of them all, but Dami is developing his senses now and his control is sporadic at best.

Punching the shit out of thugs takes some of the weight off the knowledge, doesn’t completely distract him from his own instincts, but distracts his brain just enough.

Leg sweeps, palm to the nose, kick to the back of the knees, a spinning whirlwind of ass kicking, back-to-back with Hood, spit blood when he takes a hit, clench his teeth when he feels the strain on Nightwing close enough to make his skin burn with it.

His chest is heaving by the time the groaning pile of bodies is down for the count and the red and blue is lighting up the night on their way. He scrambles for a grapple gun while Black B and Hood are finishing up the zip ties. But when he points it the way he wants to go, his finger won’t squeeze the trigger.

“Clean-up’s goin’ all right,” Hood reports, nudging his shoulder with the hand still holding the .45. “Lookin’ like B’s gotch some a’ th’ bomb residue ‘case ya wanna get in on that, nerd.”

“Like you’re much better,” Red rasps out, grapple in his lowered hand trembling, the pounding in his head worse than any concussion.

He knows what this is, the only thing it can be.

“Mmhm. ‘Least I don’t need a fuckin’ engraved invitation ta come back ta the Cave.”

Red’s head whips around, the whiteouts on the mask narrow in a who the fuck are you talking to? kind of way.

Hood crosses his arms over his massive chest because the guy knows when he’s feeding someone a line.

Welp, since everyone already knows apparently.

Right in front of the helmet, Red Robin shoves the grapple back in his belt and deactivates the right gauntlet with his left hand. The helmet cocks to the side in question, but Red moves with fluid grace and speed, even with Randall riding his cape, and slaps his palm on the only bare skin available, on the side of the Red Hood’s neck.

His instincts jump immediately and reach out to the dangerous cracks and crumbles in the Red Hood’s shields, the painful red throbbing of shields crumbling.

He might hear a noise out of the synths, might imagine it because what does Jason Todd owe him really?

But it’s easy, just like putting together the pieces of evidence from a crime scene. The fractured plates protecting Hood are hot to work with, a sharp sting across his brain pan (something that could be from the Pit or be just natural Jason Todd, zombie Sentinel extrodinaire), eases down with the pieces coming together, strengthening, forming a stronger metaphysical shield to give Jason a measure of peace from his own overwhelming senses. It’s a  the relief of relaxing a clenched fist after the fight.

The reason Sentinels need Guides.

(Well, there’s more to it than just that, isn’t there? And Red’s brain can’t help but flinch back to those dreams, to a voice in his ear and hands on him — Guide mapping, his dream Sentinel whispered against skin.)

Red doesn’t manage to stop Hood from sinking to his knees in the aftermath, downed criminals, things on fire, GCPD almost on top them, and Black B nearly vibrating out of her mask next to them, hands hovering and afraid to touch.

Instead, he feels the reverberation of that deep noise coming straight out of the Red Hood’s chest. The relief under the constructed shield thick between them while they stand in the middle of the street.

That growling purr is almost enough, almost enough, to stop him from turning on his heel.

But the gloved hand snags the hem of his cape stops him in his tracks. his eyes blow wide behind the whiteouts and he sees a second of Hood's emblem before his literal savior, Cass, snaps him up and throws him over her shoulder before she takes off.

The night takes a turn for a "what the fuck?" when he and Black B take a few pauses to double team some of the baddies when the Red Hood loses them close to Robinson Park.

Things got more dicey when N spots them taking out Joyful Noise before the sonic blaster destroys yet another pointless sculpture. The comms erupt in a whole lot more noise in the shit show his "duck and cover crime fighting" night has devolved into.

(He's not going to focus on how his head is just a little sore instead of Randall being a right pain in the ass, isn't going to think about the implications here. He can't focus and keep moving through the baddies if he has a sane moment to wonder if it was that easy because he also...Jason-)

They manage to evade the Bats (mostly), ignoring the cajoling and usual back-and-forth once they realize Red Robin is part of crime time.

Cass does him an absolutely solid, driving them to his other, other underground bunker, letting him hang his head against her back while the air hitting them reeks of smoke, burning plastic, and gasoline. He doesn't get the underlying tinge of metal, blood, and fear -- that was from Jason's head while those shields were coming together nicely.

(When he's a full continent away, he'll have him moment of panic, but until then, Cass is totally not addressing the very obvious elephant in the bunker.)

She stays for post-patrol snacks, producing a family-sized box of Cheez-Its and some Alfred sandwiches that are somehow still cold.

They do the usual throwing off sweaty top layers, domino and mask, stare at two episodes of The Office with Zestis from the mini-fridge in the corner.

One-handed signs while they chew, hit a quick patch up job, and the night is finally over.

Cass checks the Batchat to make sure everyone made it out of the city after one hell of a night and gives no reply to the questions about Tim, much to everyone’s dismay.

The next shift of GCPD is coming on, so the city is secured for another day. She produces a backpack and changes into soft leggins, runners, and a hoodie he's pretty sure is Bruce's.

Tim does a good job on her knuckles, and she gives him a kiss on the forehead, makes him promise to stay away from screens and not to sleep for a few hours yet.

After she takes off, he breathes out a long, breath, collapses on the overstuffed couch a minute before going to the lower levels, thinking about catching up on paperwork before he's got to meet with Lucius again. A nice shower, some coffee, and he could do some work, take an actual moment --

("True Pairs, an honest Sentinel and Guide relationship, can include sharing such effects of injuries.")

He shakes the thought out, rolls his neck, and picks up his discarded utility belt, trying to find as many things to divert his attention to as possible.

The door to his lower levels slides silently open under his fingerprint and an intensive alphanumeric code, but some premonition sends a familiar chill down his spine, the vestiges of the old Robin instincts.

[ufonaut]

DC'S I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST CRISIS #1

Written by DAN DiDIO, REX OGLE, DAVE WIELGOSZ, RACHEL PINNELAS, MATTHEW LEVINE, and others Art by M.L. SANAPO, ADAM GRAPHITE, SID KOTIAN, WILL ROBSON, JORDI TARRAGONA, and others Cover by DAN HIPP Variant covers by EJIKURE and NICOLA SCOTT $9.99 US | 80 pages | Prestige | Variant $9.99 US (card stock) ON SALE 10/2/24

In the blackest night, when the darkness feels infinite, the very fabric of the universe begins to tear…as every major crisis in DCU history rises once again! These eight chilling tales, set during the events of crises past, serve to warn you, dear reader: when in crisis, watch your back. In the fractured world of Flashpoint, Professor Pyg is stalking Gotham City’s nightclubs, sniffing out victims! During Blackest Night, Scarecrow lurks outside a movie theater, recruiting new test subjects to perfect his fear toxin! Even heroes like Nightwing aren’t safe when his death might just have the power to reverse the damage of Infinite Crisis! All these, plus new stories from Crisis on Infinite Earths, Millennium, Zero Hour, The Final Night, and Final Crisis are collected in DC’s I Know What You Did Last Crisis, a deadly new horror anthology coming to haunt you this fall!

[c-m-li-s-fanfic-corner]

WIP Lineup 11/26/24

Rip Out the Threads

A Song of Ice and Fire / Fire & Blood

Story# 2 in the Change the Fate's Design Duology.

Daemon Targaryen/Gael Targaryen

Baelon starts making changes with the foreknowledge from his descendants and everyone around him reaps the consequences for good and ill.

Bashing on Viserys and Otto and anything else who would be Team Green.

* * *

The Sun Comes Up and the Dark is Gone

Avatar: the Last Airbender

Story# 2 in the You Were a Vision When the Light Came Through trilogy

Sokka/Zuko

Soulmate AU

Sokka and Zuko are once again separated, but this time they both have a mission and they're not alone anymore.

* * *

So You Wanna Be Immortal?

Harry Potter / Marauders Era

Story# 2 in the In the Age of Icons duology

Sirius Black/Dorcas Meadowes

Sirius Black enters his sixth year of Hogwarts with his newly united family at his back, but the danger has only grown while they have been away from Britain.

Bashing on Dumbledore, Peter Pettigrew, Severus Snape, and Walburga and Orion Black.

* * *

She and I Went On the Run, I'm Gonna Marry the Woman I Love

Star Wars

Obi-Wan/Cody

Rule 63 for Obi-Wan, Quinlan, Feemor, Cody and all the assorted clones.

No clone wars AU, and the clones are actually Jango Fett's children/assorted relatives.

Obi-Wan and Cody meet, and neither of them are willing to let the other go afterwards.

Bashing on Jango Fett, Anakin Skywalker, Qui-Gin Jinn, and Yoda.

* * *

Closer Now Still, Let Me Be Understood

DC Comics / Nightwing

Dick Grayson/Jason Todd

Sentinel/Guide AU

No capes AU

Dick arrives back in Gotham to meet his potential match only to find that the guide has gone missing. Jason is aggravated to have been kidnapped for the second time in as many months.

[marshthemarsh]

I agree so much, having DC characters in marvel is so much more interesting and there's barely any content on it. If a DC character does end up in marvel I think it'd be such a whiplash for them, almost no hero has a secret identity and those who do are typically not treated well within the media/ public opinion.

There are also multiple hero groups that have a secret organization funding or controlling them and even then most of the heroes in said group are never a constant.

Also just the idea of a DC character being dropped in the middle of Marvel's civil war arc?? Or even with the X-Men and the Sentinels?? Untapped potential, the DC heroes might disagree and fight with each other but never to the point of a civil war.

There's just so much potential with DC characters in Marvel and I'm tired of seeing Spidey in Gotham since all of it is mostly the same storyline with nothing new to tell.

"*insert marvel character, usually Peter* in gotham!" WHY DO THE DC CHARACTERS NEVER GO TO THE MARVEL UNIVERSE.

Like I know 9/10 any dc crossover is more like a batman crossover even when it would be much more interesting to see it with any of the other hundreds of DC characters, but can we get some variation? Would it not be interesting to see how they handle NYC's numerous villains and vigilantes?

Just a thought...

[deadsetobsessions]

Bruce didn’t come here often. Perhaps that was terrible of him but he couldn’t bear to visit his son’s resting place. It was difficult to equate his high-spirited son, bright as the sun itself and endlessly brilliant despite the more he grew up in, to the cold and lifeless stone engraved with his name and words that did not encompass everything his son was to him.

His hands were full of flowers, Jason’s favorite books, a round rock, and his son’s favorite foods.

Bruce didn’t come here often, because it broke his heart even more when he did, but today was a day that love and grief triumphed over his need to avoid.

He walked down the winding pathway, Alfred a silent sentinel behind him. He hated it, but he understood. Today was the only day Alfred allowed himself to be emotionally closed off. He’d lost a grandson.

Bruce didn’t come here often, but his son’s birthday was a day Bruce would remember how to love and live again, just for Jason.

“I will be over here, Master Bruce.” Alfred stopped at his designated spot, where Bruce had added a bench and a draping tree to shade Alfred as he stood vigil.

The first time they’d- it was April, and the sun- after the funeral, Bruce was lost in the throes of grief and had kneeled over the freshly tilled dirt for hours. Alfred had stood there, in that same spot, in the city’s rare blazing sun until Bruce came back to himself.

Bruce had almost lost his second father that day, and what good was wealth if it could not prevent that? And so, water, shade, a bench, and a space heater was added.

Bruce knows better than anyone how stubborn Alfred can be, when it comes to matters of the heart. After all, he didn’t have to raise Bruce after Martha and Thomas died.

“Alright, Alfred.”

Bruce splits from the haggard butler with pointed looks at the water bottles he’d prepared for today for Alfred (who manages, this time, a faint but amused raise of an eyebrow) and walks towards Jason Todd’s grave.

Here where his son is buried, the grass is kept green. In April, Forget-Me-Nots bloomed and dotted the place where Bruce’s world collapsed with bright colors. In August, it is still green, but the tin engraved with the names of the deceased stood out without the flowers.

Bruce kneeled and quietly arranged the flowers before placing them in the tin. He set the platters of food down and uncovered them. The scent of chili dogs made his heart stutter, flashes of a bright smile and book references blinding Bruce with their nostalgia.

He swallowed, grief building, and placed the stone he’d brought atop the gravestone. He sat back, gripping Jason’s book with white knuckles.

Bruce didn’t turn around when clothing rustled behind him. Alfred would have verbally cut down anyone that dared to approach them today, especially here. That he didn’t do so was telling of who it would be.

“I’m still mad at you, for not telling me as soon as you knew.” Dick Grayson sat down, hand over one of Jason’s school bag pins he had carefully attached to the front of his jacket.

“I know. I’m sorry.”

“He deserved better. I should have been there.” Dick whispered, placing another bundle of flowers into the tin. It fit, but barely. “I would have dropped everything to come find him. Even if it wasn’t on time, even if it wasn’t enough, I deserved to be there when he was buried. We were family.”

“I know.” Bruce repeated, no less regretful. In his grief, he had wronged his loved ones. “I’m sorry.”

Dick casted a quiet, assessing eye at him. Bruce stayed quiet.

“It’s too dreary,” Dick said. He took out paints, little statutes of robins, bright birds, and bits and bobs Bruce knew Jason would have loved had he been alive out of his pockets.

“It should be more colorful,” Dick murmured as he placed them artfully against the headstone.

They sat there, for a while. Dick glanced at… at Bruce’s hand, and settled down.

It’d been a while since they’ve spoken, but he knew what the man intentioned to do today. This will be the most Dick will have heard Bruce speak outside of his civilian obligations.

Bruce took the cue and gently opened Jason’s book. He’d bought it for Jason- the first gift- and he’d read it to Jason every night. Dick had a similar book.

“Call me Ishmael. Some years ago- never mind how long precisely- having little or no money in my purse…”

——

A boy with black hair and blue eyes wandered amongst the graveyard. They’ve been here for a while, and the man’s low rumble was soothing to listen to. The shades that hung about the graveyard settled as he read out loud from the book as his son sat quietly beside him.

As the boy, invisible and intangible, brushed his hand against the gravestone, he wondered why they were reading to an empty grave.

——

Dick had left long before Bruce did.

And when it was time to go, as stars began to climb and as the cold began to nip at his fingers, Bruce heard a quiet voice.

“Do not stand at his grave and weep,” and Bruce turned, recognizing the poem. “He is not there. He does not sleep.”

But there was no-one.

[fastestmanalive333]

Rundown on my AU Earth-1987

Heavily based around New Earth.. a continuation in a sense accept for a few changes

-Bart Allen is the big resurrection instead of Barry, Conners resurrection in Legion of 3 Worlds stays intact Bart continues as the flash and gets the title but keeps his impulse and old personality unlike fastest man alive, Wally gives him a made up oath and goes goes to retire to be a dad and raise the twins, Bart is unsure of his New position.. he reconnects with Carol Bucklen..

-Roy Harper continues as Red Arrow Cry of Justice simply does not happen and Lian is still alive, he will even go on to join the Justice League

-The Justice League will be very much led by Dick Grayson the line up will consist of

-Nightwing, Superman, Martian Manhunter, Troia, Red Arrow, Jade, Obsidian, The Atom (Ryan Choi), The Flash (Bart Allen), and a New Green Lantern (Terry Berg) more on him later, Firestorm (Ronnie/Jason), Kendra Saunders(Hawkgirl) and Cyborg(Victor Stone)

-Titans will mostly consist of the YJ characters except Bart the line up will consist of Red Robin, Sentinel (Kon-El) he will now move on from the superboy moniker and become his own hero, Fury(Cassie Sandsmark) will be trained by Lyta Trevor the Fury of the newly reformed Earth Two and the daughter of Wonder Woman and Steve trevor her and Conner will be dating once again, Ravager (Rose Wilson), Red Devil(Eddie Bloomberg), Blue Beetle(Jaime Reyes), Static (Virgil Hawkins), Aquawoman(Lorena Marquez)

-Gar and Raven will join JL Dark along with Zatanna and others

-Batman: Batman will run batman incorporated Duke Thomas will be in this canon and will have met batman during no man's land as opposed to Zero Year, he will be Cass' best friend and will become The Signal, Gothams day protector unlike main continuity he will not be in the Batfamily, he will be his own unique hero, Jason Todd will have his pre crisis origin and hair color.. controversial ik.. but for the sake of preference that will be so, he will be an anti-villain crime boss controlling the drug trade, him and Bruce won't be at odds with each other, he simply does not approve of the path Jay has taken and it saddens him, Jay cares about Bruce too.. but he has chosen this life he will still be with Scarlet, Stephanie Brown will still be Batgirl, Barbara will still act as Oracle, Joker will have the doll maker remove his face and the court of owls will be introduced as Justice League villains instead of batman villains, they will very much be a worldwide illuminati type organization Damian will still act as Robin the bat fam will just be smaller and have Bruce, Dick, Damian, and Steph

-Green Lantern: Hal Jordan will marry Carol and Kyle Rayner will lead the corps, the mythos will be explored more, Terry Berg will be given kyles ring after kyle becomes a white lantern, Terry is Kyle Rayners assistant in Winicks run he will become The fifth earth lantern, kyle and Terry will get more bonding moments.. Kyle and Jade will get back together and marry for real this time, Terry's character will be explored more

-Superman: Kal will lead the Supermen of America a new team, Chris will be living with Clark and Lois again, he will be attending college classes with Thara and will be best friends with Duke Thomas, their dynamic will be like a swapped version of batman and superman.. Chris being the more serious super and Duke being the lighthearted bat, Chris will be able to control shadows and darkness, Duke controls light, him and Thara will be members of the JL Dark, Thara will assume the civillian identity, Claire Connor Lang acting as Karas sister, Kara Zor El/Linda Lang will still be living with lana and be on her last year of high school she will meet and team up with Linda Danvers her predecessor and they will quickly become friends, Conner will still be in Smallville now going to school at Kansas State.. the same college Chris goes too Kon will see him as a brother/Cousin, and they will be a duo in themselves they will all deal with the repercussions of zods war on earth

-The JSA: It will very much feature mostly the children and grandchildren of the jsa.. the remaining founding members will pass on.. except Jay and Carter Jay will act as mayor of NYC quitting the team giving guidance when needed, the JSA Hawkman will continue on with the JSA

Flash: Bart Allen will now be the main flash.. he will not be so sure he can do it again.. he failed.. he died.. and failed.. he will reconnect with his old friends in Manchester now all adults, him and Carol's relationship will spark, now working for Star Labs, Bart will get a job as a reporter at Picture News with Iris and we will see their relationship more Rival will return still possessing Max's body he will be the first big bad and it will give Bart and Max the closure they deserve, him and Bart will speak in the speed force where he will call him son before passing on, we will establish his rogues, the old rogues will still be on, barts old villains will hoin in too including White Lightning, Irey will become Barts Kid Flash

Wonder Woman: Diana will be working for the government and working to rebuild themysciras connection to earth, the amazons tactics have changed no visitors are welcome, Cassie will unleash her Olympian abilities more, she will cross over to earth two and meet Hippolyta Trevor the Daughter of Earth Two Wonder Woman, she will take on the name Fury, while Donna has uncovered a prophecy.. depicting the rise of an old God long defeated known as Typhon the Enemy of the Gods

Green Arrow: Ollie will still be married to Dinah, Robert Queen II will join the arrow family, Roy will gain a bigger role, Olivia Queen will be born

Aquaman: Arthur will retire with Mera, Garth will now be the king of atlantis, but he will not be the Aquaman.. Koryak will be the new Aquaman, a more brutal aquaman, although meaning well, it will feel like a tale of two brothers, Garth and Koryak will constantly butt heads.. Dolphin and Cerdian will be revealed to have not died but survived the destruction of atlantis in infinite crisis having been taken by atlan, Cerdian will have aged to 10 having been in the pocket dimension with atlan so long... the family will be reunited at last.. Cerdian will become Aqualad

Captain Marvel: Billy and Mary go on a quest to get their powers back which they do successfully, Freddy and Kit Freeman reunite the long lost freeman Brothers together at last they go on a journey through hell together

[ao3feed-jaydick]

Tether

read it on the AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/61725502 by Anonymous In walks a man in crisply creased slacks and a pressed white button down. His hands are in his pockets, projecting a practiced casual demeanor, but his blue eyes are sharp and settle on Jason immediately. He leans against the desk a few inches from Jason's knees. "Jason Todd? I'm Detective Dick Grayson," the man says. "I'm a Sentinel." Words: 2735, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: M/M Characters: Jason Todd, Dick Grayson Relationships: Dick Grayson/Jason Todd Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Sentinels & Guides, Getting Together, Mild Language, Emotional Hurt/Comfort read it on the AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/61725502

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

On the Borderline

by Realm_Of_Red_Shadows "This bond? This bond was what had been the main feature in Tim’s dreams. And he finally had it. But he had nothing that he wanted with it; not the affection of Dick or Jason nor their choice in giving him this opportunity. It was just a taunt." ___ Or: Even in a world of Sentinels and Guides, Tim--in a utterly shocking turn of events--doesn't believe he's worth loving. And since you can't survive off of unrequited love, you might as well choose spite as the alternative. Words: 3727, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: M/M Characters: Tim Drake (DCU), Jason Todd, Dick Grayson, Damian Wayne, Stephanie Brown, Cassandra Cain, Duke Thomas, Bruce Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth, Members of the Team (Young Justice) Relationships: Tim Drake/Dick Grayson/Jason Todd, Dick Grayson/Jason Todd, Tim Drake/Dick Grayson, Tim Drake/Jason Todd, Cassandra Cain & Tim Drake & Dick Grayson & Duke Thomas & Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne & Damian Wayne, Bart Allen & Tim Drake & Kon-El | Conner Kent & Cassie Sandsmark Additional Tags: Tim Drake Needs a Hug (DCU), Tim Drake Gets a Hug (DCU), Tim Drake-centric (DCU), Requited Unrequited Love, Alternate Universe - Sentinels & Guides, Angst with a Happy Ending, Tim Drake is Red Robin (DCU), Tim Drake has the survival instincts of a wet paper bag, Tim Drake Has a Crush, Tim Drake has Denial as well, Batfamily Dynamics (DCU), Caring Batfamily (DCU), Mildly Dubious Consent, but not really, If you read this you'll understand, Polyamory via https://ift.tt/f4twHy9

[kriosv]

Know My Interests

Favorite Movies

Oscar(1991)

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Godzilla Minus One

A Goofy Movie

Shazam!

Jingle All The Way

Missing

The Tale of the Princess Kaguya

Kung Fu Panda

50 1st Dates

Favorite Video Games

Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth

Mortal Kombat(2011)

Saints Row IV

Luigi's Manion

F Zero GX

Star Fox 64

Tekken 7

Injustice

Skyrim

Marvel Ultimate Alliance

Favorite Superheroes

Superman(Clark Kent)

Green Lantern(Jessica Cruz)

Robin(Damian Wayne)

Superman(Jon Kent)

Wonder Woman(Diana Prince)

Ms. Marvel(Kamala Khan)

Blue Beetle(Jaime Reyes)

Spider-man(Peter Parker)

Nightwing(Dick Grayson)

Flash(Barry Allen)

Favorite Visual Novel/Adjacent Categories

13 Sentinels

Steins;Gate

Danganronpa

Zero Escape

Persona 5

Favorite Anime

Akudama Drive

Kaguya-sama: Love is War

Mob Psycho 100

Assassination Classroom

My Love Story!!

Spy x Family

Angel Beats!

Chio's School Road

My Hero Academia

Black Clover

Favorite TV Shows

Game of Thrones

Smallville

Agents of Shield

Star Trek Enterprise

Once Upon A Time

Heroes

Dr. Who

Legends of Tomorrow

Hercules The Legendary Journies

Hotel Del Luna

Favorite Songs

Keep You To Myself

In The End

Every Storm

Stupid Cupid

Dream of the Sky

How Do You Like Me Now

Remember The Name

Angel With A Shotgun

Kryptonite

This Ain't My Day

Comic Book Writers

Tom Taylor

Ryan North

Peter J Tomasi

Brian Buccellato

Eve Ewing

Geoff Johns

John Byrne

Comic Book Artists

Dan Mora

Jim Lee

Jorge Jimenez

Daniele Di Nicuolo

Iban Coello

RB Silva

Francesco Mortarino

Daniel Sampere

Jim Cheung

Favorite Musicals

The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals

Thrones! The Musical Parody

Epic The Musical

Event;Horizon

We Are Tigers

Heathers

Twisted

Turnabout Encounters

Little Shop of Horrors

Black Friday

Galavant

West Side Story

Midnight Channel

Prom

Me and My Dick

Favorite Bands/Artists

Sheepwave

Bowling for Soup

Sinewave Fox

Seckond Chaynce

Linkin Park

Queen

Halestorm

Avril Lavigne

Beach Boys

Alex Melton

[dc-marvel-crossovers]

Fic rec: Winter Quarters by @teeelsie-posts

Clint Barton/Dick Grayson

52,000 words, mature

Why it’s great: A gorgeous whumpy super-slow burn in which Dick and Clint spend winters together while their respective circuses stay in the same place. It starts when they’re 11 and 12, which means that you get to really see them grow up together and see the characters change. There are some fun changes to both of their canon backstories, so it feels familiar without getting predictable. And the characterizations are great. This is one of those Clints you just want to wrap in a blanket and protect from the entire world.

An excerpt:

It turns out Clint isn’t ten, he’s a year older than Dick - so twelve - just slight for his age. And like Dick, he likes to climb. Dick had planned to coax Clint into joining them in whatever game commenced during recess, but instead, he follows Clint, who scales the tallest tree in the park. It’s an oak, a lone sentinel in the sea of surrounding orange trees. From here they can see and hear the other kids, who don’t seem to know they’re being watched.

Clint climbs to the tip-top, the highest branch bowing a little under his weight, but it doesn’t seem to bother him. Dick settles comfortably into the ‘V’ of two branches just below. “You’re not afraid of heights.”

“I like being up high.”

Dick can see his eyes scanning the horizon. “How come?”

Clint looks thoughtful before he replies. “From a distance, you can see things coming.”

Well, that’s true, but Dick isn’t sure why it matters or why Clint says it so seriously.

[definitelynotthedarklord]

Kind of want to start writing a DC/Marvel mash up fanfic and put it online but I'm not sure about some of the fusions I've thought up, so I'm putting them on here so I can get some feedback.

Warren Pryce, a.k.a. The Night Spider. Pretty typical Spiderman/Batman fusion. Son of a pair of brilliant scientists who founded a tech company but were murdered by a business rival who wanted them to make super soldiers, and made their deaths look like a lab accident while Warren watched from a cabinet be was hiding in. The only person Warren ever told was his Uncle, who revealed that the day before their deaths, Warren's parents sent him a USB that said "Warren is the key," which led Warren and his uncle to discovering a secret labin the Pryce manor where they find out Warren's parents had, under duress, been working on a ways to make super soldiers, one way being a way to give human spider abilities, but they stopped because they knew that if they had the power to change the world, they had the responsibility to do so for good. Warren spent the next 20 years training his body and mind to do just that, to use the super soldier spider serum to save people, and one day bring justice to the man who killed his parents, if he ever found him.

Also adding fusions of other characters, and yes, realize some of these are fairly redundant, but what can I say, there are parallels

Miles Morales and Dick Grayson

Gwen Stacy and Barbara Gordon

The Penguin and the Kingpin (Mr. Emperor)

Green Goblin and the Joker (The Gremlin Man)

Poison Ivy and Scorpion

Jason Todd and Agent Venom

Ra's Al Ghul and the Symbiotes

Clayface and Sandman

Lizard and killer croc

Scarecrow and Mysterio

Hobgoblin and the Creeper

Dr. Octopus and Mr. Freeze

Vulture and Firefly

Rhino and Bane

Lucius Fox and Aunt May

Batwoman and Spiderwoman

Tim Drake and Iron Spider

Peni Parker and Luke Fox

Spoiler and Silk

MJ Watson and Vicki Vale

Daredevil and Azrael

Damien Wayne and Scarlet Spider

Kraven the Hunter and Huntress

I'm not sure if I want to fuse Electro and Two Face, like half his face is scarred from electricity, or Electro and Harley Quinn, like she was electrocuted into insanity by The Gremlin Man, or fuse Harley with Black Cat, or I saw someone fuse Black Cat and Riddler and I thought that'd be pretty cool, call her Sphinx.

As for other heroes

Captain America + Wonder Woman = Achilles. Cursed for his hubris and attack on Troy, the Judges of the Underworld ordered Achilles to guard the ghost city of Troy, and to never again pick up a sword, only the Aegis. Then when Nazis showed up during ww2 looking for magic, Achilles was granted leave, arguing that the best way to protect Troy was to venture out into the modern world. The Winter Soldier and Falcon are now The Eidolon (who is secretly Achilles boyfriend Patroclus) and a man wielding the wings of Icarus.

Superman + Captain Marvel = ?

Namor + Aquaman = The Pacific Man. Rather than Atlantis, The Pacific Man rules over the city on the back of a giant sea turtle from various mythologies in the Pacific ocean, and instead of a trident, he wields the naginata from Japanese mythology that created Japan.

Black Panther + Hawkman and Woman = The Black Hawks. A pair of winged aliens crash land in the Amazon and using their alien tech and a metal called Vibranianth Steel, they form the city of gold, El Dorado, ruling over it as warrior king and queen, and when they die, they pass on their mantles and memories to worthy successors.

X Men + Green Lanterns = ? Green meteor crashes onto Earth imbueing certain people with powers, Prof X would be like the Guardians. This would also make Magneto Sinestro, and other mutants other lanterns, and the Sentinels like the Manhunters.

Fantastic 4 + Doom Patrol = ?

Dr. Strange + John Constantine = ?

Blue Beetle + Moon Knight = ? Found a piece of alien technology left by the aliens the Egyptians considered gods, this one specifically was built by Khepri, the God with the head of a beetle.

Flash + Hulk = ? Gamma radiation gave him super speed

[rose-of-oz]

oc masterlist — superhero media

𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐧.

name: adam kelleher. fic: goodnight gotham. alias: arachnid. pronouns: he/him. ship: bruce wayne. powers/abilities: engineering and weapons making, s highly skilled in gymnastics and hand-to-hand combat. faceclaim: andrew garfield.

𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐲𝐬.

name: michael “micky” goe. fic: sucker for pain. alias: n/a. pronouns: he/him. ship: billy butcher. powers/abilities: mild telekinesis. faceclaim: steven yeun.

𝐝𝐜 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬.

name: donald “donnie” carver. fic: bleeding out. alias: sentinel. pronouns: he/him. ship: diana of themyscira. powers/abilities: enhanced strength, endurance, and senses. faceclaim: charlie cox.

name: paisley harlow. fic: the archer. alias: sagittarius. pronouns: they/she. ship: jason todd. powers/abilities: highly skilled in archery and hand-to-hand combat. faceclaim: hailee steinfeld.

name: ivana morozova. fic: gasoline. alias: whisper. pronouns: she/her. ship: dick grayson. powers/abilities: highly trained assassin. faceclaim: florence pugh.

𝐝𝐜 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞.

name: elena isley. fic: sunflower. alias: persephone. pronouns: she/her. ship: barry allen. powers/abilities: chlorokinesis, toxokinesis, trained in hand-to-hand combat. faceclaim: paulina chávez.

𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞.

name: theodore “theo” ester. fic: demons. alias: n/a. pronouns: he/him. ship: bruce banner. powers/abilities: n/a. faceclaim: hugh dancy.

name: elin eriksdottir. fic: don’t blame me. alias: goddess of chaos. pronouns: she/her. ship: darcy lewis. powers/abilities: asgardian physiology, chaos manipulation, skilled in dagger wielding. faceclaim: sofia boutella.

name: daniel garcía. fic: strange magic. alias: master garcía. pronouns: he/him. ship: stephen strange. powers/abilities: highly skilled in the mystic arts. faceclaim: diego luna.

name: helios. fic: time in a bottle. alias: n/a. pronouns: he/him. ship: kingo. powers/abilities: eternal physiology, heliokinesis, lumiokinesis. faceclaim: leslie odom jr.

name: dev kahtri. fic: superheroes. alias: n/a. pronouns: he/him. ship: sam wilson + bucky barnes. powers/abilities: aerokinesis. faceclaim: rahul kohli.

name: annabelle “annie” liu. fic: can’t fight the moonlight. alias: n/a. pronouns: she/her. ship: steven grant/marc spector/jake lockley. powers/abilities: n/a. faceclaim: phillipa soo.

𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚 𝐚𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐲.

name: robin hargreeves. fic: family line. alias: the pusher. pronouns: she/they. ship: tbd. powers/abilities: force manipulation, trained in strategy and multiple forms of combat and weapons. faceclaim: chloe bennet.

𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐦.

name: riordan “rio” varma. fic: heathens. alias: detonator. pronouns: he/they. ship: eddie brock. powers/abilities: technokinesis. faceclaim: avan jogia.

[dew1s]

FINALLY SOMEONE SAYS IT

I HATE THE JOKER

and now im going to rant.

the joker's lazy. the writing's lazy, the plot is lazy and all in all it just preys upon tired topres, cliches and really, just boring plot points.

oh wow, a clown themed prince of crime. okay, not bad, not bad. but then you have this simply TERRIBLE mix of goofy and deadly-like, oh please, he kidnaps a boat of people or something and threatans to burn them all. this is also very cloely tied to my disgust for batman. if there was a venn diagram of my hatred of joker and my hatred for batman, there'd be one circle.

i must admit, i do like the idea of the villain making the hero and the hero the villain. cool concept. should've endded thirty years ago.

the horse is simply dead, and dc's still hitting it. i mean this with all sincerity-DC SHOULD MOVE ON.

KILL THE JOKER.

CHOP HIM UP.

THROW THE SLURRY OF THE BRIDGE.

MAKE A NEW VILLAIN.

PLEASE.

(and hey, maybe we could finally move onto firefly) i mean, joker was cool. the ultimate villain.super insane. very possible a homoerotic relationship. i get it. it's cool. but that was fifty years ago, just STOP.

make some new villain and short of leaving the joker in the dust-LEAVE THE JOKER IN THE DUST. you know how the x-men have moved on from magneto and apocolypse? they went to sentinels and now they're onto (checks comics) some avalon thing? whatever, it keeps it new. im simply so SICK of seeing joker everywhere and don't get me started on his FANBASE. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-

point is. i want dc to kill the joker. mayke him retire. put him in a nursing home. make him into a green lantern. I DONT CARE. JUST BE DONE WITH HIM. WASH YOUR HANDS. AND GET A NEW VILLAIN.

let me know if you share the same thoughts and all.

and, all of that to come to one question-what is your least favorite part of the batfam fandom?

have a wonderful day! :)

Yes!!! Just the other day I was talking to my friend about who should be the main villain of the next batman film and both of us said we don't want joker.

I think the most frustrating thing about him is that he gets so much attention when there are other villains that are much more interesting and have so much more to do that could be used.

Also the convoluted nature of this character is so annoying. We don't even know if he's the original guy who fell into that vat of acid (or atleast I don't know because almost every comic I've read with joker in it is so confusing to me).

Batman has the coolest rogues gallery, let's pick someone new pls!!!

Anyway to answer your question about my least favourite part of the batfam fandom.

I don't think this is controversial but nothing annoys me more than people who refuse to read the comics and only indulge in fanon works and proceed to pretend as though that's a worthy substitute.

I don't have a problem with fanon works. I dabble in fanfic myself but I acknowledge that most fanfics are very out of character. I think these people have such a skewed perception of the actual characters and that leads to so much mischaracterisation and more fanon works that are ooc.

Also I read wayne family adventures but we have to realise that it's not canon. I know a lot of people love it and while it's not my favourite, it is a cute wholesome thing to read once in a while. But when I say pick up a comic I don't mean wfa. To me wfa is fanon as well.

The himbo-fication of dick grayson is my worst enemy and it all comes back to fanon. You don't even need to pick up a comic to see that's wrong. Just watch young justice.

Because they can often be the loudest voice, it also ends up leaking into actual comics and canon because writers think that's what the people want.

The amount of times I see someone go on the Internet and just make something up about a character is insane.

I think if you only want to indulge in fanon works that's fine but only as long as you acknowledge that comics and fanfics are not one in the same.

[c-m-li-s-fanfic-corner]

Evil Author Day 2025

(AO3 LINK)

Chapters: 11/11

Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV), Supernatural (TV 2005), DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America - All Media Types, X-Men - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003) - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Fire & Blood - George R. R. Martin, Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Relationships: Dick Grayson/Jason Todd, Selina Kyle/Bruce Wayne, James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier, Erik Lehnsherr & Steve Rogers, Dick Grayson & Jason Todd, Dick Grayson & Roy Harper, CC-2224 | Cody/Obi-Wan Kenobi, Daemon Targaryen/Gael Targaryen, Sokka/Zuko (Avatar), Azula & Zuko (Avatar)

Characters: Stiles Stilinski, Sheriff Stilinski (Teen Wolf), Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester, Dick Grayson, Bruce Wayne, Tim Drake (DCU), Barbara Gordon, Stephanie Brown, Jim Gordon (DCU), Selena Kim, Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes, Erik Lehnsherr, Timothy "Dum Dum" Dugan, Jim Morita, Gabe Jones, James Montgomery Falsworth, Jacques Dernier, Roy Harper, Original Dog Character(s), CC-2224 | Cody, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Quinlan Vos, Aayla Secura, Alpha-17 (Star Wars), Satine Kryze, Daemon Targaryen, Gael Targaryen, Baelon Targaryen (Son of Jaehaerys I), Zuko (Avatar), Azula (Avatar)

Additional Tags: Stiles Stilinski is a Winchester (Supernatural), Alternate Universe - Sentinels & Guides, Alternate Universe - Modern: No Powers, Post-Movie: Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), WWII Veteran Steve Rogers, World War II, Time Travel, Howling Commandos - Freeform, Former Talon Dick Grayson, Post-Lazarus Pit Jason Todd, Dimension Travel, Rule 63, Mandalorian Clone Troopers (Star Wars), Soulmates, Fire Siblings (Avatar), Implied/Referenced Torture, Modern Bucky Barnes

Series: Part 3 of Evil Author Day

Summary:

Sneak peeks of what I'm working on for 2025.

See below for my casting choices:

[cybervigilante]

she remains a silent sentinel to his dawning acceptance, watching with lamenting eyes how he sobers and picks up the fragments of his emblematic charisma, piecing them together with the final vestiges of optimism his still-beating heart could produce. of all the times she's been fortunate enough to watch him be reborn from his ashes, from the undying valor of youth which Robin so expertly wielded to the seasoned resolve of a veteran Nightwing, this was by far the most disheartening. she knows, as he does, that the mantle of his predecessor, with it's obligatory reliance on severing the heart to sharpen the mind among much darker aspects, was never what he wanted for himself but what he had always been preordained to become.

there could be no one better to wear the cowl, or to do justice to the creed at the heart of what the symbol brandished upon his chest truly stood for, and as such, dick must forsake all pleasures, whims, and personal ambitions to serve his ultimate purpose and become a myth. koriand'r understood better than most what it meant to sacrifice want for duty, giving up love for her political marriage to karras in order to assure peace for her planet ⸻ effectively driving a wedge between herself and dick, one that they never seemed to have mended very well. as she's struck by the dour reflection of their threadbare fates, and how their ties to each other seemed to loosen the more time passed, dick begins to stir, a measure of surety regained as his posture becomes heroic once more. he pulls away from her after a final firm clasp of their hold on each other, and she understands that her purpose here had been fulfilled.

koriand'r unfurls gracefully from the equally elegant dip of her neck and curve of her spine she had thoughtlessly employed to be closer to dick as he folded into himself protectively. a hand sweeps across the air like a caress as she takes a light stretch, preparing herself for yet another awkward goodbye before the conversation is continued, attention, this time, solely on her. ‵ oh. ʹ she half gasps, half exclaims with honest surprise. her ethereal beauty softens all the more, head tilting to rest upon her own shoulder as she regards him with renewed endearment. here she stood so certain of his prompt dismissal, of an immediate adoption of his mentor's callous habit of disappearing once the conversation had served it's purpose, and yet he reminds her immediately that he was still the man she considered to be the great love of her life; an extraordinary human who cared, more than any creed or oath he'd made to another man's quest for vengeance, about humanity, and life, and the belief that it deserved to be respected, honored, and especially saved time after time. dick grayson was no batman, he was resolutely, unmistakably ( at least to her ) better.

‵ i ... am well. ʹ she settles for neutrality after initial hesitation; loneliness plaguing her the same as it always had, and always would as a being from another star system living amongst those who were not of her kind and more inclined to misunderstand her than not, but it was nothing to complain about. the team, however ... her lips turn down slightly to think of their disconnect, yet knowing it had been bound to happen in light of dick's departure. how could they possibly persist for long without a head or heart ? and yet the improbability did not stop them, dismayed as they were. ‵ donna is trying to keep everyone together, and because i love her, and the titans, and have pledged myself to helping you all since our meeting, i have been at her side through the effort. we still want to help foster the youth, so our efforts have been mostly in guiding them moreso than it has been fighting our own battles. as you know, with what's happening with Roy and you having duties to attend to here in Gotham, our unity has waned but it has not withered yet ... and if i have anything to say about it, it never shall. ʹ

EVERYTHING ENDS. doesn't he know it. the good, the bad, everything in between. he's been trying to swim against the current for too long, drowning in his mistakes, maybe it was time to simply . . . float. to accept the path he himself pushed into and stop pretending like there was anyway out but through. that he'd want it any way, HE CHOOSE THIS. dick could HELP. maybe not gotham, not nearly as well as bruce at least, but bit by bit they'd escape the rubble. everything ends. it's up to them to REBUILD. his frown is small --- he's had to hide more of his emotions recently, mute himself a bit more with damian watching him & the cowl framing him, but he's slipping into old patterns more and more. dick wasn't insecure enough anymore to think the sentence ended with 'bruce didn't trust him', he was mature enough now to know bruce trusted him more than most. but the cowl, gotham, HIS LEGACY meant more than dick could EVER shoulder. . . . and he's been stuck on that, stewing in a simmering pot of anxieties, waiting patiently to overflow when kory's words tame the boil over. kory's eyes, when he looks into them for that steadfast STRENGTH that flamed even the oceans that settles his mind just enough to think past the shroud of grief. CHANGE. dick's good at that. saving gotham, he could focus on. it'll always be about HELP. maybe he can't save gotham. but maybe with some help, with the people HE trusted --- alfred, tim, steph, cass, damian, THEY could. his grip tightens on their hands before eventually, EVENTUALLY letting go. after all, every great leap started with a FALL. " i'm going to do everything i can. " because it's all he had to give. and for all the belief that kory had in him, all the impossibilities of her mind, he had to promise this would be WORTH IT. he takes a few thoughtful breaths. one hand running through his hair, maybe in an attempt to break the tension, maybe an old habit of a decidedly un-cowled vigilante before wanting to ask the same of her. how reminiscent this was of older days where they could speak this freely often. " and you? are you alright? " --- because he knows what gotham means to others. metas, especially, and dick's closest friends and confidants like kory and wally specifically. THE CITY was never their intended destination, if they could help it, and there was an ache in dick's chest at knowing he wouldn't be returing with them this time. " i haven't heard anything from the team for awhile. "

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I know it won't happen but I just really want to see Alex Danvers and Dick Grayson work together and also be friends and gush to each other about their girlfriends