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mango-mush · 18 days ago

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Merry Christmas @bandsaw-art-time

I thought it would be funny if Oliver fell prey to a few "gamer sins" I hope you enjoy!!

“youer walkin’ in circles, mun.” Mr. Drippy pointed out with as much tact as he normally had.

“No, I-” Oliver began, in an attempt to defend himself.

The seed-sprite pointed to a Mushroom in a wordless interruption, Mr drippy nodded along, “The littlie is right, I've seen that Mushroom three flippin times. In'it time to admit youer lost?”

Oliver twisted his old wand, “I'm just looking for chests.” He glanced to the side, eyes falling on a chest they opened a while ago.

“‘Looken for chests,’ he says,” Mr. Drippy said to the little familiar. It giggled softly, rising its not hands up to its mouth.

Oliver ignored the creeping itch of embarrassment on the back of his neck. He's the pure hearted one, this should fall into place soon enough. With a confidence he didn't really feel he started walking down one of the paths.

Only to freeze when Mr drippy called out, “we just flippin came from that direction!”

“Right.” Oliver turned on his heel and continued to not stomp in that direction. “I knew that.”

♡~~~~~☆

Ethster stood straighter as she noticed Oliver walking away from the Great Sage Solomon towards her and Drippy. “I'm split,” He whispered.

She hummed, tilting her head to see around Oliver. Her eye caught on the Lagoon Naiad gracefully floating in the air. It was beautiful and delicate. “I vote for the Naiad, it would be nice to have a healing familiar.”

“Nahh” Drippy intervened, “it's the tidy little Boggly-Boo.”

Oliver tilted his head, curls falling over themselves. “Why?” The ‘high lord’ shrugged. “Fair enough.” He glanced back at the dancing familiars. “The Shonky-Honker is really cute.”

She turned her head to the purple duck-like trumpet and watched it bounce about. It sung itself a little song composed of doo’s and doot’s. She glanced back down at Oliver.

“But,” he shifted his hand to gesture to the Lagoon Naiad, “a familiar that can heal might be useful.”

Ethster nodded, “Let's go with the Naiad, that way we both can heal.”

Oliver nodded. “That makes sense.” He was quiet for a moment. “Yeah.” He didn't move. He turned back to the Shonky-Honker. “But, I have Healing Touch.” He muttered.

“This is true?” Esther said, meaning it more like a question than an agreement.

He glanced back at her, “And you can play Chirpy Tune.” She nodded along wondering where this was going. “So we both can already heal.”

She crossed her arms and looked down at him. She was starting to figure out where he was going. “Yes.” His eyes shifted again, drawn by the purple familiar's doot-doots. He stepped away from her. “You're getting the Shonky-Honker, aren't you?” She asked.

“Yeah,” he said, continuing to walk away from her.

She wanted to shout, she settled for muttering “Why ask me?” Oliver, of course, didn't hear her.

Drippy patted her knee, “there there.” She sighed, this would be a long quest.

♡~~~~☆

Oliver lay on the wooden deck, breathing heavily. The ocean familiars hit way harder than they had any right to. A sandwich hovered into view; looking up, Mr drippy stood above him.

“Thanks,” he said, tiredly sitting up and reaching up for the sandwich.

“We already went over familiar types and weaknesses, yeah?” Mr. Drippy said as Oliver took his first bite. The young wizard nodded, lettuce clinging to his chin. “Tidy, why are you using the Mite?”

Oliver wiped his mouth, said “he's my familiar,” as explanation and took another bite.

Drippy propped a hand on his hip and looked at him with immense disappointment. “It's proper weak against water. you know that, right?”

“I believe in him.” Oliver smiled, standing again.

Mr Drippy, lord high lord of the fairies sighed. Kids, man. What can you do?

♡~~~☆

“You know I can heal you?” Esther asked mid fight. Oliver missed a few defenends and wasn't looking too good.

“Huh?” He asked dazely “What do you mean?”

“Just say the word,” She said, reading her finger over her harp.

“Oh,” Oliver's head lolled to the side “Uh, word."

She began to play her song, As she did Swaine saddled up beside them. “And you haven't had me steal anything, my gun’s getting rusty.”

“Oh. Right.” Oliver nodded, “sorry. You both just go mental, ok?”

Swaine turned to Esther with a shrug. She shrugged back “Do you mean go all out?”

“Sure,” Oliver said distractedly as he cast healing touch on himself.

♡~~☆

“You remember what I said about me healing you, right?” Esther asked, looking down as the savior of her world stuffed sandwich after sandwich into his bag.

“In his defense,” swaine began, standing beside her. “We did kinda get wiped out twice on the boat.”

“That's not fair,” she started, turning on him. “I was out of mana, and it's not like you were much help!”

She sighed, looking back down at Oliver. He had to kneel to be at eye level with the fairy whoms stock he was empting “besides, that was a cross continental voyage. This is a short walk to check on Drippys mom.”

“You never know, we might not get another opportunity to stock up,” Oliver said. At some point during their conversation, Oliver switched from sandwiches to coffees.

“Alright, fine.” Esther sighed.

♡~☆

“Quick!” Swain shouted, “I need healing!” He got no response. He took a moment to glance away from Hurly, Oliver was a few feet away focused on his mite.

“Oliver,” he said, taking a step and a half. “Hand me a sandwich or something.”

“Uh,” Oliver glanced away from the rapidly multiplying jellyfish. “Esther, can you heal him?”

She turned to him, midway through cheering on her familiar “What? Uh.” She withdrew her Shonky-Honker, eyes still locked on the two boys. “Sure?”

Swaine nodded, having Hurly withdraw to rest while she sang. He felt a bit better, enough to send Hurly back out, but not well enough to feel confident. “Still hurting,” He complained pointedly.

“Sorry,” Esther said, beginning another song. Before she could finish lighting struck from the sky and took his health straight down to zero.

♡☆

One rough fight, two phoenix feathers, and three apologies later; they all sat around the cat's cradle in a semicircle. Swaine crossed his arms, turning his nose up at Oliver's overly apologetic expression.

Ethster sighed, “I just don't get why you didn't heal us, your bag is filled with provisions.”

Oliver looked down, fiddling with his wand. He muttered something they couldn't make out. Mr. Drippy sighed, “we can't Flippin hear youer muttering, mun!” He said, propping his hands on his hips.

He was only slightly louder this time, they all had to lean in to hear. “I was worried we would need them later.”

“We needed them right then!” Swaine snapped. Dying hurts. Alot. He deserves to be a little petty, as a treat.

“‘m sorry,” Oliver said for a fourth time.

Swaine sighed, puppy eyes always worked on him. “It's whatever. Just don't do it again.”

“I won't,” Oliver said with a ghost of a smile, “I promise.”

♡

#I'll try to upload this to ao3 later #also! the reason Ethster has the Shonky-Honker later #is because in my first play through i thought it was cute but i couldn't figure out how use it #so i dumped it on her #i just think it's funny #dad and the dog he didn't want vibes

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superbat-lmao · 3 days ago

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A Jayroy fic where Jade drops off baby Lian and they just.. retire.

There’s a really difficult conversation they have about dating and raising a kid and vigilante work and they decide screw it. It’s not safe to raise a kid around.

And by retire, I mean they disappear. Go to ground.

(Talia knows what it is to want the best for your child even if they have different opinions on what best is. She gets them off the grid and funded in some sort of suburban hellscape that takes the both of them a while to adjust to. They say they have a deep space mission and just, don’t come back.)

Roy works in a rehab clinic and Jason gets a degree in Literature. He becomes a professor at a small college, taking on graduate students and falling into academia.

They go to therapy, the make friends with other parents, they become normal people. And they have an insane security system for their house, and AI that scrapes cameras of their faces, and a modified basement that Roy compares to the Batcave exactly once that has a gym and space to work on equipment and a method of escape should it be necessary to uproot their lives again.

Because they want to be civilians, but that doesn’t mean that if their past lives come knocking, they’ll be caught unaware and too out of the game to defend themselves. In fact, because they don’t go on patrol, they’re at peak performance at all times and rarely injured more than a sprained wrist or paper cut. Gone are the days of concussions, GSWs, and stab wounds.

The superhero community doesn’t know what to do, what to think. Because all of their resources are expended elsewhere. And because space is a big place, and trying to find two humans in its vastness is an exercise in futility.

So Lian grows up normally. She’s a girl whose parents love her. And her problems are ordinary, like homework and sleepovers and playing soccer.

And when she’s in middle school, the same age as Roy and Jason were when they started superhero training, they tell her about their past lives. About the danger it will bring if they’re found. Because they promised never to lie to her, and to never let her get wrapped up in the vigilante scene.

They’re well adjusted people raising a normal daughter.

And they explain to Lian that they came from very large and complicated families. Families that did dangerous work, work that put anyone who knew about it at risk. And that Lian was a baby, and that all of that risk of their jobs, was not worth her life. That they loved her more than their families, their jobs, their previous lives. But that it meant they could be discovered, and that those old lives would be dragged back up again and she could get hurt.

Lian thinks of it like witness protection.

So Lian memorizes code names and pictures of people that may try and approach her. She learns the differences between friendlies and uglies. Between ex-family, and rogues. And she doesn’t ask questions, doesn’t look into things when her parents ask her not to. Because she trusts them to protect her. She trusts them like a well adjusted young girl who could very well ask her parents for more information, but doesn’t care about the answers because she trusts they’re not important. That it doesn’t change how much they love her or what their lives are.

There are a couple of versions of this:

1. Jason, Roy and Lian live out their lives happily and away from their families. They are never again vigilantes or found out by them.

A) Alfred dies and that is the only thing that almost breaks Jason, that he didn’t get to see the man again before he died.

2. The Bats track them down, ask them what they hell they were thinking, that they thought they were dead. To come home, be part of the family again. They’re told no - and the three of them disappear again to somewhere they’ll never be found.

3. Alfred finds them, says nothing to anyone and once a year, on Lian’s birthday, goes to visit. None of the Bats ever figure it out.

4. Alfred knows where they’re going from the beginning, he keeps them updated on their families and helps hide them from everyone. He never once tells a soul that Jason and Roy are alive. He is allowed to visit Lian sometimes and they are all happier for it.

A) When Alfred gets old enough, he tells Bruce he will be retiring. He asks that he is not followed, that no one from the super hero community is allowed to keep tabs on him. He tells him he’s sorry, but that it has to be this way. Alfred goes and lives the end of his life with Jason, they speak about literature every day, about Alfred’s parents about anything he wants to. Jason buries Alfred in England and Bruce Wayne gets an unmarked alert to its location.

5. The Bats find them, and never approach them. Each Bat basically figures out that Jason is alive, doesn’t say anything to the rest of the family, and keeps tabs on him and Roy. Once they realize that Lian exists, none of them ever breach that level of trust, even as they all grow into old age and move on with their lives.

6. Bruce finds them.

A) He waits for Jason in a cafe, watches him realize who he is and turn to look at the Roy Harper, who nods once and walks away. Jason approaches him and sits down. He asks how he found them. Bruce doesn’t say anything, just looks at his son, alive, seemingly happy. Tells him it was an accident, he had genuinely still thought they were in space, maybe dead, until someone plagiarized Jason’s work, submitted it through a Wayne Enterprises competition of some sort, and it flagged the system. It had been entirely work related, pure coincidence. No capes.

B) And Jason laughs and it’s lighter than Bruce has heard it in years. Jason asks how much Bruce knows about him now, how much intel he gathered before approaching him. Bruce says he knows about their marriage, their daughter, their jobs and habits. Jason nods and he’s smiling. Bruce doesn’t know what to do. He had checked the area, and there were no reports of anything approaching vigilantism, no anonymous casework, no decrease in crime, nothing to suggest the presence of the Red Hood and Arsenal. He hasn’t spoken to Jason outside of business in years, isn’t sure he knows how to anymore. And he looks happy, he’s alive, he’s a civilian.

C) He wants to ask him everything, ask him to come home, wants to know the man his son became. He asks Jason why. Why they disappeared. And Jason is still smiling and it’s honest and Bruce can’t stand to look at him and can’t help it either. So Jason tells him that they will never let their daughter into vigilantism. That they quit, and needed it to be absolute. That he and Roy couldn’t do this halfway, that if they loved their daughter they had to do only what was best for her, and that meant burning their old lives entirely, becoming civilians.

D) Their lives had been too complicated, too many people, too much history. So many ways for things to go badly, to leave Lian without parents or get her killed as leverage against them. And for as much as he and Roy had cared about the people in their lives, couldn’t stop caring about them, they knew that they would just drag Lian into all of the emotional problems that come with being a vigilante. That it wasn’t healthy, for any of them. That trying to do so would kill them. So they disappeared. And Bruce thinks of the pain he and his family had gone through over Jason, wondering how he was doing, if he was dead, hearing nothing and trying not to let it eat at them. But right now, his son is in front of him smiling, something he can’t seem to stop doing. Something Bruce never thought he’d see again.

E) And he has a son in law, a granddaughter. His son has a family, one he built himself. He looks healthy, he’s not closed off, he’s more open than Bruce thinks he’s ever seen him. It’s jarring, like Bruce is wrong footed. He doesn’t know what to say. Wants to tell him about everything that’s happened, to his brothers to their family, to Gotham and old contacts. Wants him back in the loop. Wants to ask about their lives, and college, and his wedding and his daughter. Bruce wants to know all of it. And he wants to know how he did it, how he hid himself so well in plain view.

F) And the detective in him will always prioritize the how over everything else. He wouldn’t be Bruce if he didn’t. So Bruce asks how. And Jason laughs, says he’s not going to tell him.

G) You know I can’t tell you that, old man.

H) He can’t let it go, Bruce can never let anything go, that’s his burden to bear. He tries to push old buttons, doesn’t notice he’s doing it. But Jason won’t stop smiling, won’t switch from civilian to vigilante. There is no trace of anger, of the Red Hood. He doesn’t look surprised and Bruce’s arguments, about flaws in his code, software, he’s just smiling. Won’t rise to the bait. And for once, Bruce has a feeling he’s only felt around Clark. A feeling of being outmatched. Jason knows all of his buttons, isn’t pushing a damn one. Isn’t letting Bruce push his either. It’s not even a stalemate. Bruce has no openings.

I) He starts telling him about his brothers, about missions and life developments. He tries to tell Jason everything. And Jason listens, hears everything he has to say. And Bruce asks him about himself, his life, his husband, his daughter. And he hears about NA and AA meetings, about therapy and raising an infant, and being a professor and his students about their friends and neighbors, about Lian’s friends at school. All of it. Except the how. And at some point, it’s been a couple of hours, but not very long at all, Jason gets a text. He doesn’t look at his phone. And Bruce knows that whatever spell had been cast over the cafe, whatever bubble of another universe he had crossed into, he was about to watch it close. Implode on itself with only him inside. Because Jason was about to leave. All of it, the cafe, the conversation, the smiling and the laughter, it was the one distraction that Bruce was liable to. And Jason has him right where he wanted him. It was something that wouldn’t work twice, and they both knew it.

J) And Jason says, I can’t stop you from telling anyone. I can’t stop any of you from looking for us, but this was the third life of mine that you ended. Of the two of us, I would go to greater lengths to protect my daughter. I am asking you not to make me do something you’ll regret. I am asking you not to look for us, not to tell anyone, not to put it in a report. I did not want to hurt you, any of you. And you have made that unavoidable. I know you, Bruce, and I have spent time healing from everything I’ve been through. I cannot allow you to pull me back into it, to pull the three of us back into your world. I know that this conversation won’t stop you, now that you know. So I’m sorry, I didn’t want to have to say this. I know who you are, who all of you are. It was never a question before, that I would keep your secrets. If you look for us, I will go public. It’s not just your life I’ll be placing at risk, it will be the entire league. I will burn every bridge, every alias. I have redundancies in place, you send a super my way you better be sure to send them all. You better be sure you’ve caught all my backups, all of Roy’s backups, everything. We have avoided you for years without triggering any of your, or the league’s, systems. I can’t predict another accident, but if you know what is best for you and everything you’ve built, you will prevent even that from happening. Do not force my hand.

K) Bruce stands, trying to memorize his son’s face. And then Jason is gone. Disappearing down a street and out of sight. And Roy is waiting for him, their house had been cleared of all traces, Talia has new lives set up for them and Lian is asleep in the backseat.

L) Their lives are busy for the next few weeks, traveling and covering their tracks and looking for new methods of being traced. And they change their names, change their lives, are prepared for the upheaval of being new people again. This time, it sticks. They watch Lian graduate school, college, get married, have children of her own. And the media is inescapable - they learn very little about their old families lives, but not nothing. There are funerals and weddings and probably so much more in private, things they will never know, never be part of again. And then they’re just old and together. Their grandkids visit, Lian visits, life is good and long and they are happy.

• Or, it sticks until one day, a spell is cast in Gotham and he’s standing on a rooftop, no mask, identity on full display, surrounded by other vigilantes in mixed states of gear and civilian status. Some being or other from another universe required all hands on deck in this universe and had used a spell to summon them all here.

• Jason spotted Roy appearing near him on the rooftop, both of them stunned. No one had noticed them yet, but their moment of indecisiveness and a moment of pure awareness on the Batfam’s part, meant there would be an inescapable confrontation. Batman seemed to notice them first and looked to Jason, who shook his head. It appeared Batman was trying to talk to the person who had summoned them all here, to argue they should be sent back or ask if it was possible.

• Jason moved himself and Roy towards Batman, doing their best to avoid looking at any of the other vigilantes at all, including but especially family. They walked into a tense conversation.

• You must send them back, they are civilians.

• Batman, you of all people understand the threat we are up against, if the spell believes they are necessary to combat X then they were brought here.

• I understand perfectly well, I am telling you to send them back. Having them here is a security risk, not during the fight, but after. This is not your universe, things are different in ways you can’t know of, this is one of those circumstances.

• Jason and Roy approach, Roy tapping his shoulder in a way that means he’ll follow his lead.

• He announces, You are in violation of the Hempstead agreement. You have one hour to return us to our previous location before we are a security risk.

• They can hear intakes of breath around them, some of the arrow clan and bat clan have approached, uncertain of what exactly is happening, but not comforted by the fact that Batman seems to understand the situation without telling any of them. The argument continues, Jason standing just behind Roy, separating him from the group slowly forming around them, people pushing their way to the center to see their son or brother again. Their friends.

• A decision is reached, It will take me 10 minutes to establish a connection strong enough to send them both through. Do not interrupt me while I prepare, follow me.

• And Jason and Roy are walking away, backs turned to their families. To their friends. There are shouts behind them, their names, other things they choose not to hear. It is all held at bay by Batman.

• They are speaking with the universe hopper, giving him a location to send them while clearly stating that he is not to give out that location to any of the vigilantes here, that violation of these terms will risk the hero community at large. The closer it gets to the ten minute mark, the more the riot behind them frays between silent understanding and desperation. Neither of them turns around, they can’t allow themselves to look. It is excruciating.

• Roy looks Jason in the eye and neither of them are fully able to stand it, but the fact that they’re not alone has to be enough. Jason can see the itch start, the overwhelming feeling that can’t be tolerated, the one that motivates people to seek out something that will just stop. He reaches out his hand, taps it against Roy’s and is met with one of the worst smiles he’s ever seen. It threatens to bring Jason to his knees, but Roy threads their hands together. The portal opens before them and without turning around, they step through.

• There is a shared panic attack, a moment of grief and regret where both of them realize just how greatly they hurt all of the people they used to care about. They break apart together and rebuild each other enough to pick up Lian from school and begin the process of torching their home. Whatever fight they had been summoned for had not happened yet, so they had a larger lead time than they had when Bruce had stumbled across them. But now, the entire hero community, many more points of being able to be convinced, was now aware they were both alive and on Earth.

#jason todd #batman #bruce wayne #redhood #roy harper #jayroy #royjay #arsenal #alfred pennyworth #retirement!au #i really think that the best way jason and roy could heal is to stop being vigilantes #that’s probably true for most of the heroes and vigilantes honestly if looking at a personal scale and not global #jason specifically is stuck in some toxic web of family and vigilantes where he can’t separate them #and he never got the time other kid heros did where they figured out who they were as they grew up jason got it dumped on him #and the distinct brand of hero judgement that comes from people trying to uphold morality being leveled at you when trying to stay sober #isn’t healthy for roy so honestly both of them need new support systems and time to learn how to cope away from life threatening traumas #i don’t know how to work in jade so either she’s exempt and can see lian or she makes talia promise she’ll be safe #i think talia would absolutely go to bat for jason against bruce in this and if bruce finds out he’s alive and they’re okay she’s in for #a worse screaming match then when he figured out she put his kid in the pit i can’t imagine his rage over her stepping in twice #but jason would absolutely appreciate it and roy would be nervous as hell meeting The Talia al Ghul

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