#snyderverse fics

[dorkofclanlavellan]

Echo Series Masterlist

A proper Masterlist for the Echo series

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Timeline

March 22nd, 2017 - Bruce approaches Echo about joining the Justice League

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Works

Meet Echo - An introduction to a new reader character and a new series.

Just a "Few" Extra Details - A list of headcanons outlining Echo's personality, background and relationship with Arthur.

[took-hold-of-nothing]

Tired Bat Dad™

[violent138]

I was thinking of the Snyderverse and this one Jason Todd universe-hopping post (if I ever find it again on my godforsaken dash I'll link it), but I eventually got to thinking about what if Red Hood at the very start of his return to Gotham, of wiping out the Black Mask and enacting his plot against Joker manages to accidentally get sent to a universe where he never became Robin? He runs into Bruce and Dick, who are completely perplexed by why he's got so much personal, targeted animus with them, and Bruce doesn't hate the Joker as much yet, because he hadn't lost a son to him. Thought this might be an interesting concept to flesh out if I ever stop being lazy. Or maybe Dick got killed by Joker (as per the Snyderverse) and Red Hood shows up here at just the right time. Or perhaps Dick survives the near-death and Red Hood shows up and things get hatched.

[acollectionofalpacas]

Fandom: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Superman - All Media Types Relationships: Clark Kent/Lex Luthor Jr. (DCEU) Characters: Lex Luthor Jr. (DCEU), Clark Kent, Alexander Luthor Sr. (DCEU), Bruce Wayne (Mentioned), Jonathan Crane (referenced), Mercy Graves (referenced)

Additional Tags: Past Child Abuse, Illogical Reason For Presidential Pardons, Anxiety Attacks, PTSD, Alexander Sr. is a SHIT father, Implied/Referenced Suicide, theres christopher reeve in here somewhere, Clark girlbossed the judicial system, the word faggot is said in here, i dont know if theres a specific tag for homophobic slurs, Bathing/Washing, Dinner.

Summary: A one shot about Lex’s return to his home after the events of the Darkseid War. He realizes that it is much harder than it sounds, and a friend stops by to help. 

do not repost fics. reblogs appreciated.

[dceuw0rldsfinestenjoyer]

going down memory lane…

i know you guys had to be there but the benry superbat era was crazy

[toybeluga]

there are some truly excellent superbat fics set in the Snyderverse about grief and growing and I love them very much, but somehow I always forget that at the end of the day no amount of healing overwrites the fact that Dick is dead 😭😭😭😭

[frownyalfred]

So I’ve seen your other posts about Snyderverse!Bruce, and they reminded me of an article I read recently. It mentioned that Zack Snyder‘s vision of Batman is one that suffers from trauma, and, as a result, is someone who looks for other ways to cope (I think we all understood this)

He appeared on Joe Rogan Podcast to discuss his films. At one point, he spoke at length with Rogan about Batman and he basically said this :

“It might be in the theatrical cut, but it’s definitely in the director’s cut. Where he wakes up and there’s some chick in the bed with him, from the night before,” said Snyder. “Because I always say, Batman f— to forget, for sure. Batman’s a drunk, for sure. Because he has huge trauma, and you wonder why he’s a playboy, and anybody…f—— to forget is a common, that’s a real thing. That’s a way to deal with trauma.”

So basically for Snyder, Bruce uses s*x as a drug in BvS.

I think this interpretation only fits Ben Affleck's Bruce Wayne/Batman. I honestly enjoyed watching his performance, it was refreshing to see a new side of the character.

What’s your thoughts on this ? Do you agree with him ? And do you think he understood the character well ?

I've always loved that scene in BVS because, in the span of like 2.5 seconds you see 1) Bruce waking up after sex to some random girl 2) empty bottles of wine worth a small house next to the bed from the night before 3) Bruce taking a handful of mystery pills and washing it down with the aforementioned wine in one gross swallow.

I agree that it fits this particular flavor of Bruce, and not the canon typical version. He's coping using a variety of substances/escapes, from alcohol to sex to pills to violence. He's lost it in almost every way imaginable, including lashing out at Alfred (although this one doesn't leave, though I'm not sure it's because he approves or wants to stay so much as Alfred fears for Bruce's life if he leaves).

How does an addictive personality like that mesh with the hyperfocus and rigor of being Batman? It's an interesting question. We see Bruce, as Bruce Wayne, coping via every method available. As Batman, it's largely limited to violence, fear over national security, paranoia, etc, and rigorous training and intelligence gathering. Is the fear and paranoia a drug, in a way, too? Is it keeping Bruce alive the same way as the other things?

What I really like about the BVS era of Superbat fics is that the good ones really hammer home on that -- the Bruce who will fuck Clark, will take him home, and have it mean absolutely nothing. It's just another coping mechanism. It's not a pivotal reveal of intimacy and vulnerability like in other Superbat fics. You can fuck Bruce, can break his back, can drink with him and fight with him and still never know anything about him.

But that changes when Clark dies. The guilt claws at all of those coping mechanisms. Bruce could've left him in the Kansan dirt, but we see him becoming obsessed with Clark, even more so than before. And that guilt finds a link to the employees who he saw die, Robin he let die, all of it.

And all of a sudden, we see that energy being channeled into building a team. Building tech for the team. Rebuilding Wayne Manor, for the Justice League. It would be very interesting to see if Snyder intended to continue Bruce's issues with alcohol and grief through that period. Does having Clark back help? How does he recover from a period of what was essentially several addictions and massive trauma/grief?

[distort-opia]

The Clex Ao3 tag is so. You see 8k+ fics and you go "SO MUCH FOOD AHAHA" but then you remember the TV show Smallville that ate your brain as a teenager. However now you're looking for comics Clex. And a very specific brand of "Clark painfully yearns", too. You can't even afford to filter too much because if you exclude Smallville and Snyderverse stuff you've got like a couple hundred left and now you're just crying and desperately asking the internet for recs.

[3hobbitsinatrenchcoat]

Gray's SuperBat Fic Recs

I have spent since May reading through the SuperBat tag on AO3 and have over 100 fics saved in my bookmarks but @thebibliosphere mentioned wanting some recs so I'm going to just rec a few that live in my head rent free.

(these are in no particular preference order other than they're probably in this order in my bookmarks XD) (also if you're an author and I have tagged the wrong blog let me know and I will change it)

An Innocent Cicisbeo by @mithen - This is the most recent one I've bookmarked, so it's very much so on my mind. I'm not usually one for Regency AUs but I really like how this one handled keeping everyone's powers and abilities but making them more tailored to the age. Also it's an arranged marriage AU and I am very weak for those.

Take Care of Business by @frownyalfred - A work teleconference that descends into absolute chaos in the form of the batkids, who woke up and chose violence. This one is good on it's own but there's also a podfic version by @mayonnaisetoffees that kicks that chaos up to 11.

Through a Glass Darkly by @susiecarter - An apocalypse AU of the snyderverse, this one is quite dark but slowly grows more positive over time. It features some extremely spot-on characterizations and an overall Mad Max vibe that I enjoy immensely.

This Time Around by @castlesteads - What's better than one formerly dead person trying to find their place in the world? TWO formerly dead people trying to find their place in the world. Clark helps Jason claw his way out of his grave and back to the land of the living. I love a found family where they quite literally find each other in the most heartbreaking ways possible.

Build Me A Place (we'll call it home) by @spiritsflame - I love it when Kryptonians are completely normal until they really aren't. This one features Clark completely remodeling his apartment because of courtship instincts and Bruce badly fumbling the entire situation. I just want to shake both of them.

don't know the rules but i got to win by @susiecarter - This is another weird Kryptonian trait thing... but this time it is non-standard abstract reproduction feat. gardening. Surprisingly enough this isn't even the first fandom I have come across with gardening as a reproductive vector. Always a different take though. This one features literal fruit-based flirting and innuendo, for a start.

A Common Misconception by rotasha - I have a very special place in my heart for fake dating aus, but this one is like watching two guys play an extremely slow and obvious game of chicken while not even realizing they're in a game at all. Fake dating for a whole year without catching feelings? Psh, easy. Spoiler alert, I don't entirely remember right now but I don't think they even make it a year XD

over this threshold by orphean - Another fake dating au but an entirely different vibe. Getting married for tax reasons is the oldest trick in the book but I am always here for falling in love when you're already planning on getting married. Also for someone so very smart Bruce can be extremely dumb and I love that for him.

Masking by @bombusbombus - I've read this fic like... probably more than 5 times and I am working (slowly) on a podfic of it. It heavily features both Clark and Bruce being neurodivergent together and falling in love via spending long hours in parallel play and infodumping and mutual unmasking both literal and figurative and just... I see a lot of myself in this fic.

There's a ton more I could rec, they're all in my bookmarks on AO3 but these are the ones that live in my brain the most these days. I hope others like them as much as I do.

[hmslusitania]

Hello! Long time lurker (I mean follower), I have been inspired by your recent bat family fics to get learn more about that universe but don't know where to start! I was wondering if you had a place to start?

Hello! Thank you for asking! I definitely have an answer, but I don’t know if it’s a universal answer so we’ll see!

Batfam Et Al are part of what I would call a “supermedia” (there’s probably a proper media term for it but I don’t know it) by which I mean: it exists in basically any form of media you could want, be it the original comics, animated series, live action series, live action movies, animated movies, books, video games, and — I presume — antique radio dramas. Getting involved in that is super daunting and understandably so.

The best advice I can offer for breaking in is to figure out what type of media works best for you, and then start there. (Other people reading this who might be diehards, I am about to name check three pieces of media that tend to get heavily side-eyed by comics purists but which I think are all very beginner-friendly, so look away)

For me, the form of media that tends to give me the most effective brain worms is video games. Although I had already started my DC entry somewhat against my will, the thing that actually fully dragged me into caring intensely about the Batfam was Gotham Knights, which lets you spend intense amounts of time with Gotham as a nightmare city, Dick Grayson, Barbara Gordon, Jason Todd, and Tim Drake.

If you’re not so much into video games, the first thing in the non-Arrowverse/non-Nolanverse/non-Snyderverse DC world I spent time with was the animated Young Justice series. It does not have a focus on the Batfam in particular, but they do all make appearances at one point or another. It also has the benefit of introducing you to bunches of other characters within the DC universe, and even if some of those characterisations differ largely from their standard characterisation in other media (Kon), it does give you a good faces-to-names-to-soundbytes introduction to quite a broad yearbook of folks.

If your interest in particular is the Batfam, honestly the easiest way to get a toehold on that group is Wayne Family Adventures on webtoon. It is free to read and it’s fun and even though it does tend to actually resolve these conflicts and tensions unlike the prime universe comics, it does a decent job of naming what a lot of the interpersonal conflicts and tensions between the characters are so you can get a sense.

At which point we reach step two of “how to get involved with a supermedia” which is to identify a particular character (or two, or three) you can become unwell about, and then dig in to see what media is available for them. And as you consume said media, their adjacent characters will also clarify and you may find yourself becoming invested in them, at which point you may dig in and find more about them, and rinse and repeat.

The other thing I find particularly helpful to think about as I continue on my expedition into the jungles here (extended DC canon iterations) is that Batman (and Superman, and Wonder Woman) has existed as a character for nearly 100 years. By this point, they are all so entrenched in the cultural landscape that they are basically American folklore. And as with folklore, everyone and their mother has their own localised version of it, and they’re all correct.

[gerardpilled]

How come people never wrote fic that took place in the desolation row video world. Are you afraid of the Snyderverse

[rabbit-ina-trenchcoat]

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[solosclark]

I've read Space Between Us and I want to yelllllllllllllllllll at how good it is! I've microwaved it in my brain for days.

Bruce is clearly feeling things for Clark.

Bruce's descriptions and internal monologue are exquisite, and I could English Lit analyse it for days. However, I can't stop thinking about the beginning line about sleeping with a married person and Clark's implication. There is more underneath the surface to Clark and it's vastly intriguing. As it's the DCEU, we know about Clark's world pilgrimage and in Man of Steel we only see the ending snippets of his journey - I would love to see your interpretation of it.

Are you planning on continuing it? (No pressure, it works well as a standalone.)

Hey! Can't even begin to describe how happy this ask has made me. And I can't exactly tell you what happened after I read your message — alright, maybe I cried a little. A lot.

So good for catching Clark's affair ^^ I've gotten comments on Clark's supposed innocence, and I know why it appears like that, but I thought I was clear on the opposite. I don't mean to spoil, but it does indeed play a big part later on, though not for any predictable reasons. At least I hope it's not. (It's fine too if people guess.)

As the years went by, my understanding of DCEU (or more specifically Snyderverse) lore has expanded, and unfortunately I grew around this fic if that makes sense. I've moved on to other projects, some still batsuper and some not even within DCEU. People are free to find that frustrating, and I understand that, because I have been comfortable leaving it as a standalone while also teasing that I could possibly go back to it. Yes, I'm not saying no to completing it one day, as the story is still in my head. But make room for other stories too as I have more to share that are guaranteed to be finished ❤️ Thank you for the sweet message and being nice!

[acollectionofalpacas]

Chapters: 2/? Fandom: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Superman - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Relationships: Clark Kent/Lex Luthor Jr. (DCEU) Characters: Kal-el, Clark Kent, Lex Luthor Jr. (DCEU), Amanda Waller, Sam Lane, Dr. John Peril 

Additional Tags: Science Experiments, Alien Biology, Alien Culture, alien research, the beginning of this sounds like a scene from rio, because it is, Enemies to Lovers, but it's more like. neutral to lovers, some of these characters i have not ever written so be warned, Eventual Smut, Habitats, they put kal in a glass jar with some blades of grass, Alien Flora & Fauna, Graphic Description, Canon-Typical Violence, Size Difference, because it is canon the average krypton raised kryptonian is 7'4 

Summary: He felt like he had been walking forever. Jeez, how big was this place? And where the hell was the Kryptonian hiding? Was it getting colder or was he just nervous? Maybe the Kryptonian was nearby - he could feel eyes on him still. Maybe it was the piercing eyes of the Kryptonian. Maybe it was his imagination. Or at least it was his imagination until someone skittered through the darkness across the path. 

do not repost. reblogs appreciated.

[ordinaryschmuck]

...So, Snyder fans are just delusional, right?

Like, I get it. They want this story continued. But, like, there are other ways to do it. A graphic novel written by Zack Snyder, an animated mini-series on HBOmax, or even making fan fics and doing it yourself.

Telling other studios to buy WBD's biggest brand for the sake of finishing ONE narrative? Especially when this other studio did THIS:

This is why people call Snyder's fanbase a fucking CULT. They don't give a shit about DC as a franchise and are WAY too desperate to continue Snyder's vision that they really believe WBD will sell the IPs to Netflix and now Universal.

Look...Snyderverse is dead. I know a lot of them don't want to hear that, but it's true. It's dead and the odds of it continuing are slim. It's an unfortunate circumstance in a studio's drive to make money and get audience's attention and we lose great stories that way. But here's the thing: There are OTHER great stories out there. There are MANY OTHER great movies and shows you can watch or get excited with. Movies and shows with their stories completed. It sucks that this one story will never have its ending, but at least it got a chance to exist for a while before being cast aside.

Also, Snyder is off doing OTHER things, making some...I don't know, his version of Star Wars? I didn't give a shit about Rebel Moon enough to care.

But he's still making that. He's sharing his vision about popular ideas and making movies HIS way. Would he want to continue finishing the Snyderverse if given the chance. Maybe? But he's still fine with this direction the DC is taking, even going out to see The Flash and Blue Beetle because he's a simple dude who loves movies, even a bad and mediocre one like those two.

Snyder is doing just fine, making stories his way and accepting his loss with dignity and grace. Maybe it's time to take that as a sign and accept that this loss is still a loss, no matter how badly you don't want it to be. It's better than to just stew in disillusion.

[frownyalfred]

I follow you because of Borderline, but I've been watching your responses to asks about your a/b/o fic and it sounds like you're really trying to be respectful of the trans experience. So thank you. As a trans person, a/b/o often feels very transphobic. I know some trans people like it but to me it just feels like a way for cis people to trans their blorbos without actually dealing with what it means to be trans because "oh its just a/b/o." Maybe some people can separate the two, but I can't.

I haven't read your fic but im glad to see that someone out there is putting so much thought into this. Also it's hilarious that your solution to the Snyderverse was "fix it with a/b/o."

Cheers

Hi anon! Thank you for popping in -- let me retroactively apologize to you and all other followers who aren't into the a/b/o asks. Please know you can blacklist any of my tags (a sky of honey or a/b/o mention) at any time.

I really appreciate you sharing your perspective here. I've seen the process you mention in action before, and I can see how hurtful that can feel to trans individuals. It's a very blurry area in fanfiction, I'm learning.

I think when I started with that original shitpost, it was genuinely because I thought Bruce's somewhat erratic behavior in BVS was hilariously, if somewhat seriously, better explained by him being a defensive, nesting omega who'd lost a pup. So I teased folks with the idea that knotting would solve the Snyderverse, but it was actually more about Bruce's relationship with his own gender identity and how it interacts with Jason's loss and his mission.

I think, outside of a/b/o smut fics, authors have a lot of trouble when writing about this topic, just because we have to do so much worldbuilding. I'm not saying you have to focus on the universe's discrimination or gender roles if you don't want to, but it's kind of inevitable if you're moving outside of smut. There's just so many implications I keep running into.

Above all else, I want to tell the story I have in my mind in the most respectful and considerate way possible. I want to talk about Bruce's, Jason's, and even Lex's challenges with their dynamics without diminishing the experiences of gender and gender expression others have.

Thank you for sending this ask, and I hope you and any other anons feel comfortable sending questions, criticisms, feedback, etc. I can't promise I'll answer every single one, but I promise I read and consider them.