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what’s your opinions on comic fanon vs comic canon? 🤔

Oh boy… is this a safe question to answer? I’m not so sure, bahaha. I guess I’ll try to articulate myself in a way that doesn’t upset people.

For fandom spaces in general, I actually quite enjoy some fanon ideas. When canon is very cruel and unclear, there’s always the power of fan creativity and copium to fall back on. Except the problem is when fanon overwrites canon entirely. Yes, canon can be cruel and unclear, but we still do have to recognize that canon is canon. There’s nothing wrong with partaking in fanon as long as you know what’s actually canon.

Now, for comic books… fanon is very strange. I say that because, from what I’ve seen, it’s mainly operated by people who don’t actually read the comics? I genuinely don’t know how to phrase that in a way that makes me sound pretentious, baha. The fanon just feels disconnected from canon entirely, to the point where I personally find it very difficult to engage with.

Of course, if you enjoy comic fanon, I don’t mean to make you feel bad. As long as you stay in your own lane, all that matters is that you’re having fun.

And with all of that said, I still participate in fanon-y shenanigans when it comes to comic books. I love having fun with my own silly AUs and headcanons on this blog. You can probably tell that the found family trope is a favorite of mine. I also like making my favorite characters meet each other a lot. It makes me very happy when canon disappoints me.

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Had the most horrendous airline experience while doodling for this movie. Fun movie, though.

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Just playing with hair.

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If we're combining every AU, this actually has me wondering how old everyone is. I'm assuming Shoto and Tim are around the same age? And then Bobby, Johnny, and Peter? How much older is Bobby compared to Tim? Would this make Dick closer to Scott's age? ... Sorry for all the questions, this Mega AU just has me in a chokehold.

Oh boy… a question as old as time; ages of comic book characters.

Well, fortunately for this question, the Drake Brothers AU forced me and a friend of mine to painstakingly figure out ages (and approximate ages) for a lot of characters. To streamline this question, I figured it was easier to just pick a storyline and list how old characters are at that point, so the ages you see below are based off of what we have for Identity Crisis.

Disclaimer: while we tried to be as comic accurate as possible, we naturally had to do some guessing because… comics. These should not be treated as canon and are for AU purposes only.

Now, to quickly answer the questions you bring up in the ask; Tim and Shoto are born the same year (with Shoto being a little older due to being born January 11th while Tim is canonically born July 19th); Bobby, Johnny, and Peter are also around the same age; Bobby and Tim have a 6 year difference between them; Dick is slightly older than Scott by about a year.

As for the whole AU…

Identity Crisis ages.

Wolverine: (born in 1832; we’re trying to keep the setting vaguely 21st century, so he’s at least over 180 by now.)

Steve Rogers: (born in 1922; at least over 70 by now.)

Bucky Barnes: (born in 1925; also at least over 70 by now.)

Natasha Romanoff: (born in 1928; at least over 60 by now.)

Alfred Pennyworth: 64

Jim Gordon: 63

Hal Jordan: 43

Reed Richards: 40

Ben Grimm: 40

Bruce Wayne: 40

Clark Kent: 40

Charles Xavier: 40

Tony Stark: 39

Ray Palmer: 39 (Included because he’s a key figure in Identity Crisis.)

Barry Allen: 37

Bruce Banner: 35

Ralph Dibny: 35 (Also included because he’s a key figure in Identity Crisis.)

Sue Storm: 34

Zatanna Zatara: 32

Barbara Gordon: 32 (We returned her to her intended age, damnit.)

Shota Aizawa: 31

Kori’andr: 26

Wall West: 25

Dick Grayson: 25

Scott Summers: 24

Ororo Munroe: 24

Jean Grey: 24

Gambit: 23 (Could possibly be older if he’s ever taken the elixir of longevity during his time in the Thieves Guild, though this is unclear.)

Rogue: 23

Johnny Storm: 23

Bobby Drake: 22

Peter Parker: 22

Kitty Pryde: 18

Cassandra Cain: 18

Shoto Todoroki: 16

Tim Drake: 16

Ochako Uraraka: 16

Jubilee: 14

We would include Diana, but… we’re not sure how old we want her to be. We like the idea of her being a WWII figure like Steve Rogers, but we’re not sure when she would be born. Or… sculpted, I guess.

How did we get some of these ages? By A.) combing through at least 80 years worth of comics, and then B.) when we got tired of that, we turned to databases that could vaguely give us an answer, and if we turned up empty handed, we did C.) make shit up.

(For the make shit up step, we would sometimes take the character’s debut year and subtract it by 2004, which was when Identity Crisis ran. If we thought the age wasn’t fitting, we’d then go with vibes.)

To put the AU in perspective, we’re playing with the idea that the current X-Men team has Jubilee on it, who’s been an active member for about a year, and Gambit has yet to join the team. Shoto and Ochako might be apart of the X-Men by now? Or just about to join. The MHA crew is very easy to slot in just about anywhere, so we might age them down depending on how we feel. Aizawa has probably been a part of the team since the Uncanny X-Men era.

Meanwhile, Bobby is with the Teen Titans, and we’re not sure if he knows about Tim being Robin yet (despite Jack Drake knowing at this point). I won’t spoil my friend’s plans for this dynamic just in case they ever decide to post their writings, so that’s all I’ll share.

I think I covered the major parts of this AU. Things might be subject to change depending on how we feel, or if one of you guys have an interesting insight that we might adapt. Because we’re basically using the Drake Brothers AU as a starting point, everything is very Tim-centric. To be fair, his growth as a character is the easiest to follow, as his ages are very well documented with basically no contradictions (post-crisis era, anyway). Without him, my friend and I wouldn’t be able to figure out Bruce and Dick’s ages, bahaha.

I know this is a lot of yappage for an AU, but my friend and I accidentally invested a lot of time into the setting, so I figured I’d share some of our ideas. If you read this far, I hope this was at least a little bit understandable.

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I am not the other anon but I love your different aus‼️ They're also cute

Do they have any lore? Like what happened to have a DC/Marvel crossover?

But also imagine the MHA and X-Men Crossover is in the same universe as the DC Marvel crossover and you get

SPIDER-MAN POINTING MEME

I just think itd be funny lol :]

The lore behind Marvel x DC? Short answer is Tumblr ask box. I actually think that’s the answer for most of my AUs. Someone comes into my ask box and goes, “hey, what do you think of this?” Most of the AUs here are a community effort, which I quite like.

I at first thought it was the Bo Bros (Tim and Gambit) ask that started my DC x Marvel AU, but… I scrolled back, and wouldn’t you know… it’s technically the Phoenix Scott and New-52 Nightwing ask. Though I guess the Bo Bros holds more significance simply because we built off of that small AU more.

As for the newly created Marvel x DC x MHA…

I guess it was eventually going to happen, wasn’t it?

(If you’re curious about other AUs: Fantastic Five was inspired by the X-Men Marvel Snapshots issue, Gambucky was just be mashing together my Gambit obsession and Bucky obsession, and Drake brothers was just me realizing Tim and Bobby have the same last name. I think that covers the major ones.)

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I’m on my feet, I’m on the floor, I’m good to go.

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Testing things out with the Teen Titans.

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you know wat?? lets combine all the aus: dc x marvel, fantasic five (plus spidey), drake brothers, xmen x mha, gambit and bucky... am i missing any?

(Deep inhale) Okay… bring it on.

Let’s knock out DC x Marvel, F5, and X-Men x MHA;

And now a hint of the Drake brothers with some Spider Shenanigans (I’d imagine Robin and Spidey would have the occasional team up whenever Tim’s in New York);

And finally, completely unrelated to this Titans/F5 team up storyline, you have Shoto about to learn some new Gambit lore;

Honestly… this was a fun little AU mashup to speedrun. A friend of mine is a hobby writer with similar interests, so I’ll have to bring this idea up to them to see if it sparks joy. They already have some Drake Brother drafts from the time we accidentally fleshed out that entire universe, bahaha.

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Oh, wow! Todo wearing Coheed and Cambria shirts is something I never thought I'd see, but I'm glad it blessed my dash nonetheless! Emo Todoroki is so cyute. :3

Ahaha, yes. I’m not sure how much of a reach Coheed and Cambria has in Japan, so this is probably an X-Men x MHA exclusive idea. You know me and my need to alt-ify all of my favorite characters, bahaha.

If I’m being honest, I think he’d enjoy bands like Funeral for a Friend and Fall of Troy more than Coheed and Cambria, so maybe someone else introduced him to them. Who? I really don’t know… I don’t see any of the X-Men being into Coheed and Cambria.

But then I looked up at my Nendoroids on my shelf, and my Battinson and Todoroki hanging out together gave me an idea. Younger angsty emo meets older angsty emo;

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CA:WS, except they kidnapped Bucky and are currently on the run from… just about everyone.

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something about ur art makes me so happy <3 especially ur marvel/dc crossover stuff loll

sorry if this sounds weird or cringe or corny 😅

Wahhh, thank you so much. It will never be cringe or weird or corny to say these kinds of things. Hearing people actually enjoying things I create makes me feel things I can’t even describe, baha. Long time visitors of my blog will know I can’t articulate myself very well, so just know that I appreciate things like this very much. It helps when the days get tough.

As for my Marvel/DC crossover stuff, I love doing this. It’s actually a bit overwhelming whenever I want to do a doodle for this because I get overloaded with so many ideas, bahaha. Me and a friend of mine accidentally fleshed out a rough timeline for the Drake brothers AU, so you may see some doodles of that every now and then. For now, here’s just some quick doodles I did while thinking about them;

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a Tim Drake and SpideyTorch fan? Ily

You know, this would be a fun addition to the Drake brothers AU.

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Would you be willing to draw a little more for the naruto team shuffle? 🙏🙏🙏

Does Lee get the bowl cut in this AU? Hmm…

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The adventures of Gambit and Shoto (X-Men x MHA AU).

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do you have an affinity for a certain peter parker ship? id love to know :-)

How long are we gonna keep this bit up for.

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My bad.

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My friend finding out about the Winter Soldier and Deathbit ask: “Wow, toxic yaoi AU just in time for pride month.”