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artemis32 · 4 months

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vagabond

my batfam obsession has finally come in handy (reader is like, late teens, early twenties??)

This was meant to be a drabble, but I went a teeny tiny bit overboard, and by overboard, I mean this is 5.6k words - there will also definitely be a part two <33

Enjoy :)) Or don't. I can't tell you what to do

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dc masterlist

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“Okay,

Let’s do this one last time

My name?? You don’t need to know my name. All you need to know is that I was bitten by a radioactive spider, and for the last six years, I’ve been the one, and only, Recluse.

….what? Spiderman?

No, no, none of that nonsense. That’s so overused. Plus, I’m a woman, and Spiderwoman just feels like a bit of a mouthful.

Yeah… Recluse. I was bitten by a recluse spider.

…ironically, I hate spiders.”

****

Hear me out.

You’re a Spider person(??), involved in the Spider verse. You have the usual Spiderman backstory (sort of), and you’ve got the same incredible senses and abilities. I imagine you having a slightly superior spider sense and speed compared to other Spiders – think Cindy Moon. And obviously, the name, Recluse, means you were bitten by a recluse spider (I fucking hate spiders), but that also means that you get all the qualities of a recluse spider. Mainly necrotic venom and the ability to camouflage. You can’t exactly turn invisible, you just have the uncanny ability of blending in like a chameleon. It’s kind of creepy, I won’t lie.

Regardless of your abilities, you were there when Miguel lost his temper and when Miles ran away.

Except you made the mistake of trying to help Miles. Why wouldn’t you? He was just a child, and he only wanted to keep his family safe. Anyone else would’ve done the same in his position. Suffice it to say, that pissed Miguel off. Majorly.

And while Miles managed to get away without a dimension-travelling watch, you weren't as fortunate. You fought tooth and nail with other Spiders, not wanting to hurt them and not wanting to get caught. You barely managed to escape with your life as you tapped a random location into your watch and zapped off to another earth without a second thought or a proper plan. But not before the Spiders giving chase had managed to damage your watch (and you - they’re strong as fuck, of course they managed to do some damage).

Now, as you stand on an empty rooftop, examining your watch in the rain, you're beginning to think you may have fucked up.

Slightly.

The watch still prevents you from glitching, you've confirmed that much. Thank goodness.

But it is broken. You know it is. Because you can't reach anyone else in the Spider verse. And you can't see what universe you're in. You feel like you’ve been thrown in the deep end, and the fact that you can barely stand doesn’t help.

****

Stood in the rain on a rooftop in the middle of nowhere, injured and all but stranded, was not how you had planned on spending your Saturday night.

As you distractedly tinker with the watch in a pathetic attempt to fix it, grumbling to yourself about your ruined weekend place, your spider sense goes haywire, ringing so loudly in your ears that your head spins.

You're so disoriented that you barely manage to dodge the dagger thrown your way.

A dagger that's... shaped like a plane? No, it looked more like a bird?

You step back cautiously as a man emerges from the shadows, jumping down from a ledge just above your head.

He’s dressed strangely, which is one hell of a statement coming from you, someone dressed in a skintight spider suit. But-

“Really? A cape? Isn’t that, like, super impractical?”

The question leaves your mouth before you can think about it, but really – did Edna Mode teach people nothing?

He walks closer without a word. His silence is almost as unsettling as his gaze. It feels as if he’s dissecting you. He keeps a safe distance between the two of you.

Hm, he’s not completely lacking in the common-sense department, at least.

Then, after much deliberation, he speaks.

“That light- you fell from the sky?”

His voice was cautious, every word measured and serious. His eyes scanned you from top to bottom, taking in your appearance without a word.

You sigh and prop a hand on your hip, trying to appear nonchalant, trying desperately not to wince at the flaring pain in your ribs. You were in no position to fight, so you’d either have to run, or talk your way to safety.

If there was one thing you were good at, it was talking.

“Yep. You’re so observant.”

He scowls, his mouth pinching slightly at the corners.

Okay, maybe sassing the man with a dorky superhero cape isn’t a great idea… At least, not while I can barely stand.

So you change tactics.

“I’m sorry, I just- Look, uh, where exactly am I?”

The look on his face tells you that that was not the right question to ask.

Great. A sceptic. That’s exactly what I needed.

So you backtrack, laughing awkwardly as you wave your hands dismissively.

“That was a… a joke- A terribly timed joke. I apologise. Uh, your suit is… nice?”

Now he seems more exasperated than cautious, and he takes a step closer, reaching a hand out towards you.

Your spider sense flares, and you know that something about this man is dangerous. He appears young and relatively harmless, but appearances can be deceiving, you of all people know that.

So, you do the only thing you can think of at that moment. The only command your instincts give you. You jump away.

You jump.

And, naturally, you stick to the wall.

It’s nothing. It’s such a small action, one you’re more than accustomed to. You do it all the time, climbing walls and ceilings, scaling the sides of buildings. Other Spiders do it too. Even the civilians back on your own earth are used to it.

But it’s not nothing.

The man before you seems stunned beyond words, his outstretched hand hanging in midair as his jaw drops. He stares at you as you stand there, exactly perpendicular to him, sticking to the wall and defying all laws of nature as if it’s nothing.

His hand clenches in a fist and he reaches for a bo staff, the metal snapping loudly as he swings it outwards, the leather of his glove creaking as he tightens his grip.

“Who are you? Your name. Now.” he demands, his jaw clenched tightly.

You tilt your head.

Was this guy an idiot? The first rule of secret identities is that they’re, y’know, secret?

“Oh, well, I’m Recluse. Who are you?”

He ignores your question, slowly approaching you again, looking at you curiously. It might have seemed innocent to a third party, but your head was still ringing. You couldn’t let this man get too close to you.

You sigh heavily.

Running it is.

You point your arm outwards, startling the man, who takes a wary step back. Before he can react or reach for you, you shoot a web out and swing away. His bo staff slams against the wall seconds after you leapt from it, the wall denting and crumbling from the force of his swing.

The look on his face was priceless, first fear at the sight of you jumping over the edge of the building, then surprise, then a flash of anger as you mockingly saluted him as you swung away. You’d laugh if your ribs didn’t feel like they were seconds away from shattering.

You swing through the unfamiliar city, the buildings passing by you in a flash. Coming to a stop is painful, your head swimming as you nearly slam into the side of an apartment building.

Thank God for spider-like adhesion.

You sit there for a long moment, taking a second to catch your breath and gather your bearings.

After you've managed to shake the dizziness away, you swing to the street down below.

While you think over your piss poor plan of finding some civilian clothing and learning more about this universe, you try to ignore the aching throb in your ribs. You weren’t too concerned about the injury – one advantage of being Spiderwoman was that you healed at an incredible rate. You’d just have to grin and bear until you healed.

****

Wayne Enterprises.

They specialised in a whole lot, but all that really interested you was their science division. In particular, the tech and biotech sector. The company seemed eerily similar to variations of other mega corporations you’d seen in your time travelling through the multiverse.

Stark Enterprises. Alchemax. Oscorp Industries. Roxxon Energy Corporation.

The list was endless, but you’d decided, after hours spent in a cramped internet café doing informal research on the strange dimension you found yourself in, that investigating Wayne Enterprises was the best place to start if you hoped to ever fix the watch and return home.

Your plan of action was simple. Scratch that, it was terrible - held together with little more than hopes and prayers. But with your abilities, you were confident you could pull it off.

That’s how you found yourself confidently walking through the foyer of Wayne Enterprises, acting as if you were supposed to be there. Swiping an access card off of some poor, unsuspecting office worker was easier than it should have been.

You wandered around the reception area for a while, carefully surveying the room before approaching the elevator with the air of someone who knew where they were going.

There’ll be signs for each division… Right?

Wrong.

Twenty minutes later, you’re still wandering aimlessly through corridors, hoping the right room would magically present itself to you.

So caught up in your own frustrated musings, you nearly miss the department you’d spent almost an hour looking for.

The sign above the door is pathetic - faded and barely visible, peeling and yellowed at the edges, like some old poster left out in the sun to age.

Shoving your irritation to the back of your mind, you quietly open the door, wincing as it creaks. Popping your head through the gap, you peek around the small room, and-

Nothing.

It’s completely empty, the thick layer of dust settled over the countertops seeming to mock your failure of a heist.

A silent huff of annoyance is all you allow yourself, quickly shutting the door and continuing on your way. Determination fuels your every step, intent to find something, anything, so that your breaking-and-entering excursion wouldn’t be for nothing.

****

Success.

You definitely weren’t supposed to be in here. Not that you were supposed to be in the building in general, but this?

‘This’ being what appeared to be the CEO’s personal office, if the floor to ceiling windows and expensive leather furniture was anything to go by.

You’d long since discarded any pretence of searching for the biotech department. Now, you were just snooping around, curious to see what exactly the CEO of Wayne Enterprises had laying around.

Naturally, you’d come across a few pictures of him in your investigation of Wayne Enterprises, and all you’d thought about the moment you’d seen his photo, was that Bruce Wayne was undoubtedly one of the most attractive men you’d ever met.

If you weren’t caught in such a dire situation, you might have taken the time to fawn over him a while longer.

The office is odd. There’s something about it that you can’t quite put your finger on, something uncanny. Maybe it’s that lack of colour or warmth, or the lack of any personal effects.

But that couldn’t be it. You’d seen plenty of rooms similarly decorated, but there was something about this in particular that set your hair on end. Not your spider sense, but your unconscious mind.

It almost felt as if you were being… observed. As if an unseen force was breathing down your neck, pinning you in place.

You distract yourself from your ever growing unease, pulling open drawers and rifling through cabinets.

What an obscene amount of paperwork.

Truly, you don’t expect to find anything exciting or noteworthy. Maybe an office cellarette, maybe a Courtesan cigar.

What you don’t expect is to find the parts you needed to fix your watch.

The parts that were supposed to have been in the biotech department.

Before you have much time to contemplate about why the tech worth billions is shoved behind a bookshelf, the door opens.

You’re on the ceiling before he even enters the room, your breath tight in your chest, the klystron conductor clutched firmly in your fist as you try not to make any sudden movements.

Certain abilities you’d gotten as a result of the spider that bit you came in handy more often than not, namely the capability to survive weeks, if not months without food or water, and the preternatural proficiency you had hunting at night. Most useful had to be your camouflage abilities.

And while you were able to camouflage yourself, it came with its own set of drawbacks and caveats. Specifically in the fact that it was a camouflaging ability, not invisibility.

If you moved too suddenly, even someone unaware would notice you.

It takes you a moment to realise that the man is Bruce Wayne.

He looks different than in the photos - his back is broader, his hair darker, and his eyes…

His eyes-

Your head feels like it’s being split open, a buzzing so persistent filling your ears that you almost slip off the wall, your adhesion faltering for a moment.

There had been one or two stories within the Spider Society, of moments where someone's spider sense had gone so haywire they couldn’t tell up from down. There’d been a time where, supposedly, someone had even passed out from the pounding pressure in their skull.

Initially, you’d thought it was an exaggeration, a newfound hero overplaying a fight gone wrong in an attempt to save face.

Now, as he surveys the room, his azure eyes lingering on you for a moment longer than they should, you understand what they meant.

Panic isn’t enough to describe how you feel at that moment.

You feel too exposed, your nerves raw and laid bare.

It… almost feels as if he knows you’re there.

But that’s not possible. There’s no way.

You allow yourself the slightest sigh of relief, releasing the searing breath in your chest as he turns, moving towards his desk.

His silhouette is broad and domineering as he bows over his laptop, the sound of his tapping at the keys filling the sweltering silence of the room.

With his back turned towards you, you take your chance, slowly, so slowly making your way across the room, still sticking to the ceiling all the while.

You pause for a moment, freezing when you catch a glimpse of what exactly is on his screen.

The camera feed.

There you are.

Entering his office with a wide eyed look on your face.

And-

And that’s you, barely ten minutes ago, rifling through drawers and shelves.

He pauses then, on the frame of you holding the klystron conductor with a satisfied smile and a slight sparkle in your eyes. He sighs heavily, his head dropping forward as he taps two fingers against the tabletop.

You don’t linger to see his reaction, dropping down from the ceiling and slinking out the ajar door.

****

After you’d hightailed it out of the building as soon as you could, you hadn’t dared to look back.

That man… Something about him set your nerves on edge. He wasn’t normal.

Thankfully, you’d managed to get out without much hassle, and now you were wandering somewhat aimlessly through the city, looking for a place to set up shop, so to speak.

Spying a seemingly abandoned building across the street, you decided it would have to do for now.

As you cross the road, aiming for the darkened alleyway across the road, you’re slammed off of your feet.

By a car.

Someone hit you with a goddamn car.

You lay there, in the entryway of the alley, gasping for breath as you press your forehead to the wet concrete beneath you. But no matter how deeply you breathe, you can’t seem to force yourself to your feet.

Spider sense my ass – what the fuck was that?! No warning, nothing!

The edges of your vision turn black, and you pray that you don’t pass out as a pair of polished black leather shoes approach you.

A man crouches down in front of you, his words drowned out by the ringing in your ears.

He reaches out to you, intent on pressing his palm to your shoulder.

You pass out before he can touch you.

****

You might’ve been unconscious for a few hours or or a few weeks. You weren’t sure.

All you knew was that you were in what appeared to be a medical facility, and you were restrained.

On the bright side, you felt a ton better than you had before you passed out. Though a look around proved that it might have been because of whatever concoction of drugs they’d given you to numb the pain.

Well, with your increased metabolism, that comfort probably wouldn’t last too long.

You lay back, content to stay there until a doctor or nurse came in to check on you.

Twenty minutes later, long after the medication had worn off, someone entered the room.

The man, grey-haired and dressed in an immaculately pressed tuxedo, pauses for a moment when he realises that you’re awake before continuing on his course towards you and proceeding to check your vitals.

“How long have you been awake, Miss?”

You don’t respond.

Or rather, you can’t.

Pain grips you like a vice, wrapping its fingers around your abdomen, digging its claws into your skull.

Stupid damned metabolism.

Apparently, your pain and distress are visible enough for the old gentleman to see.

He frowns, leaning closer slightly for a moment before striding towards a row of cabinets, sifting through them before returning with a needle and a small glass vial. He squints slightly as he fills the needle.

A lot of what happens after that is lost to you in your pained daze. You’re awake, aware, but barely.

The older man is gone by the time you manage to pull yourself out of the strange, aching daze.

In his stead is Bruce Wayne.

The heart monitor betrays your panic, the sharp beeping filling the echoing space of the room.

He doesn’t speak or move from his spot beside your bed, instead observing you with a flat look as your heart rate slowly evens out again.

After a long bout of silence, he hold up a hand, waving it slightly, and-

And he’s holding the klystron conductor.

Of course.

“Do you want to tell me why you were ransacking my office for a multibillion dollar piece of tech?”

Your hands clench and unclench around the stiff sheets, and you lick your lips before responding.

“No, not particularly.”

You pause.

“Do you want to tell me why you hit me with your car?”

The corner of his mouth twitches.

He finds this funny?! What a psycho.

“Well, you did steal from me.”

“So you hit me with a car?!”

He raises an eyebrow, seemingly unimpressed with your raised tone.

“Regardless… I’m guessing it has something to do with this.”

Every muscle in your body goes rigid as he holds up your watch, casually dangling it from his forefinger as he carefully observes you for any signs of a reaction.

Okay, okay, just… play it cool.

“What, a watch? Pfft, keep it, it’s not worth much. Just some piece of crap I won in a claw machine ten years ago.”

Your knuckles are white from the force of your grip as you all but strangle the bed sheets beneath your grasp.

He smirks slightly, nodding empathetically.

“Ah, of course. So, you won’t mind if I toss it in the trash, right? Since it’s just an old piece of crap and all that?”

You shrug, keeping your eyes on his and away from the watch. “Go for it.”

And he does.

He tosses it in the trash can beside your cot, still watching closely from some reaction.

You remain nonchalant.

“...hm, well. Rest up then. You’ll need all your energy- Prison in Gotham is a harsh place.”

You blanch.

“Prison? But- But technically I didn’t even steal! You got it back, didn’t you?”

His mouth quirks slightly at that.

Great. He finds amusement in my suffering.

“While that’s true, you did break into Wayne Enterprises. And my personal office. I have the evidence. That’s grounds enough for an arrest, wouldn’t you agree?”

He stands, sliding his hands into his pockets and taking a casual stance.

Fine. I can play along for a bit.

“...okay. I-I’m sorry. Fine, you can hand me over to the cops, just- Just please let me rest for a bit? I think you might’ve concussed me.”

He huffs a laugh, his eyes lighting up in amusement. He knows you’re lying. And you know he knows.

“Okay. Take all the time you need.”

He leaves without another word, not looking back.

And not a moment too soon.

As the door shuts, you glitch, painfully spasming, your cells electrified and fizzing.

You fall out the cot, collapsing onto the floor as you grip the edge of the trash can, rifling through it in your search for the watch.

Slipping it onto your wrist and tightening the clasp, you-

…this isn’t my watch.

The door opens again and in strolls the culprit, a self-satisfied look in his eyes.

“Just a piece of junk, huh?”

“Oh, fuck y-”

You almost bite your tongue off mid sentence as you glitch again, clinging to the railing of the cot as your muscles stiffen up and your blood roils in your veins.

He’s speaking, confused and panicked as he calls out to you, and then someone else, rushing towards you. You think his hands might be on your arms. You aren’t sure.

Then it’s over. You’re hunched over, all but sprawled on the sparkling white tiles, shivering and sweaty, fighting the urge to throw up.

But it’s over.

You squint up at Bruce.

His face is hazy, and so is the figure behind his.

Everything is hazy, but you can feel the strap of your watch on your wrist, his hand just above it. You can feel how dry your mouth is, and the pounding of the growing migraine in your temples. And you can feel your spider sense tickling the edge of your consciousness, slowly growing in urgency with each passing moment.

“What the hell was that?”

The voice is a new one, one you haven’t heard before. It belongs to the figure lingering behind Bruce.

His face comes into focus as the effects of your glitch wear off.

Blue eyes. Just as startling and off putting as Bruce’s.

In fact, he seems like a carbon copy. Almost. His skin seems slightly more tanned, and he’s leaner than his older companion. Shorter too, though just by a few inches.

“That…” you say in a weary manner, “was a glitch. A painful one. I don’t recommend trying it.”

“A glitch?”

You deadpan, pushing yourself into a sitting position, leaning against the wall adjacent to your cot for support.

“Yeah. I just said that. Pay attention.”

“So that watch keeps you from… ‘glitching’ then?”

Bruce and his companion sport matching expressions of intrigue and dread.

“Yep. Ten points to Gryffindor.”

“...what’s a Gryffindor?”

Good God, I should’ve let Miguel kill me.

“...doesn’t matter. I’ve overstayed my welcome.”

You get up with an embarrassing amount of difficulty, grunting as you pull yourself up using the cot’s railing. Your enhanced healing could only work so fast, it seemed, and clearly Bruce had done a number on you with the bumper of his car.

The short stride to the door is cut short as the young Bruce lookalike steps in front of you.

“Sorry, but we can’t let you leave just yet. Where exactly are you from?”

“Earth. Please move.”

“I can’t do that. You should sit back down, you don’t look too hot.”

You let out a strangled noise of disbelief.

“Excuse me, I look very hot. All the time.”

A deadpan look is all you’re granted in response.

That’s it, I’ve had enough.

“Seriously. Move.”

“No. Sit down.”

Bruce sighs, massaging the bridge of his nose as you and his mini-me engage in a stare down.

“Okay, that’s enough. Dick, back up. Miss, please, sit down before you hurt yourself.”

You pause, glancing at Bruce, then back at the man in front of you.

There’s a slight pause, and then-

You burst into a fit of giggles, clutching your pained ribs as you stumble back and collapse onto the cot.

“Your name is Dick? Dick? Seriously?”

His eyes harden at your laughter, his mouth pressed in a tight line.

“...it’s not that funny,” he mutters, unimpressed.

“Yeah it is. Who willingly allows themselves to be called Dick? I can think of six penis jokes off the top of my head. You’re practically begging for them.”

Bruce interjects before either one of you can continue, sending Dick a sharp look.

Ha. Dick.

“That’s enough. What I want to know is why you’re glitching. And you won’t be going anywhere until I find out.”

You deadpan, fixing him with an incredulous look.

“...no offence, but you can’t really keep me here.”

“I can, and I will.”

You snort, laughter bubbling up in your chest once more.

“No, I mean- You can try, but you probably won’t succeed. No hard feelings though.”

“What, you mean because of your superpowers? Trust me, they won’t do you much good around here.”

His words give you pause, and you stare up at him silently for a moment.

“I don’t- What are you talking about?”

“There’s no use playing dumb,” Dick interjects. “It won’t get you very far. We know about your abilities, and we’re telling you that we know about them so that you don’t try anything.”

“And what exactly do you plan on doing if I do try something? Money can only get you so far.”

Your words make Bruce’s mouth twitch into a small smile once again.

“I have a theory, one I hope you’ll entertain for a moment.”

He looks at you expectantly.

After a moment of deliberation, a heavy sigh, and a nod, he smiles in a self-satisfied manner and takes a seat on the foot of your bed. After a short nod to Dick, he exits the room, leaving you and Bruce alone.

“I think that you’re from Earth, like you said. Just not this Earth. I think that you’re from another universe or dimension, and you’re ‘glitching’ because you’re not meant to be here. Am I right?”

It’s an effort to hide your reaction and keep your face blank, but you manage. Barely.

“Well, that’s certainly an… interesting theory. What sparked that idea?”

He shifts, staring at you for a moment, resting his palms on his thighs.

“...you fell from the sky. Out of what I can only assume is a portal. And your cells are basically decaying without that watch- or at least, that’s what my colleagues at Star Labs tell me.”

You stiffen at his words, squinting for a beat.

“How do you know I came through a portal? The only person around then was that idiot with the cape.”

Bruce frowns at your words.

“The cape isn’t stupid. It’s practical.”

You deadpan. “It’s a deathtrap.”

“Regardless. I know about all that because…”

He pauses.

“Because I’m Batman.”

“...Batman? Is that supposed to be a superhero alias or something? That’s the dumbest name I’ve ever heard- Did you pick it yourself?”

He lets out a noise of exasperation, annoyance painting his features.

“Stop doing that.”

“Doing what?”

“Changing the topic. It’s annoying.”

“...sorry.”

He shakes his head. “So? Am I correct in my assumption?”

You take a moment to think, really think, weighing your options. He didn’t seem like a bad person. Yes, he did hit you with his car. And yes, he wouldn’t let you leave, but…

But your spider sense had gone radio silent. If you were in any danger, it’d be ringing like crazy, so…

“Yes. Yeah, you are. I’m not from this Earth. I’m from Earth 662.”

“Earth… 662?”

“I just said that. Does everyone on this Earth struggle with processing information?”

He fixes you with a stern look before continuing on.

“So I assume you’re stranded here? That’s why you were trying to steal the klystron conductor.”

“Uh uh,” you tut disapprovingly. “I was borrowing it. I would’ve returned it… Eventually.”

Bruce nods along, rolling his eyes slightly as he continues.

“...Earth 662, huh… How many variations of Earth are there then-”

“I can’t tell you that.”

Your response is immediate and stern, leaving no room for debate.

Thankfully, Bruce doesn’t kick up a fuss.

“Hm… Well then, do you know how to get back?”

“Of course I do. I just need to fix up the watch. Hence the little heist I pulled off at your office.”

“And do you know how to fix it?”

You press your mouth into a tight line, avoiding the knowing look he gives you.

“Well, I mean… how hard can it be?”

He sighs. “That’s what I thought you’d say.”

There’s a pause, a lull in the conversation, and neither of you say anything for a long while, both lost in your own thoughts.

“Okay. Here’s what I propose. You obviously don’t know what you’re doing-”

“Hey!”

“-so I’ll help you out. I’ll help fix that watch of yours, and let you stay with me while we try to find you a way back home. In exchange, you’ll tell me about things from your Earth, and about the multiverse. Sound fair?”

As much as you’d like to argue, to refuse his more than generous offer, you know you can’t. You were smart, but not in the areas needed to fix the watch.

You needed his help.

Damn it.

“...fine. Deal.”

His hand feels cool and calloused in yours, and his grip is firm and reassuring.

If only you knew then how wrong things would go. Maybe you’d have refused his deal.

****

Four months later.

“...still nothing?”

“No. I’m sorry. I’ve sent Dick to Central City to find a few more parts.”

“It’s not your fault, I just… I really want to go home.”

It had been months.

You’d been stuck on this strange Earth, so similar to your own, for months.

While the Wayne Manor was nice, and its inhabitants lovely, you missed your home. You missed your family.

But there was nothing to be done about it. You’d damaged your watch more than you’d originally thought, the travel mechanism was completely destroyed.

Initially, you’d been foolishly optimistic, believing you’d return home within a week.

But that week had passed. Then another. And another.

Time kept passing, and you were still stuck here, four months later.

At least you had decent company.

While you didn’t exactly trust them, you’d grown fond of them. You might even have begun to consider them friends.

Dick had grown on you over the months, despite the rocky start to your friendship. He was reliable in a way that reminded you too much of the many variations of Peter Parker you’d met throughout your time in the Spider Society.

Tim, who you’d discovered was the ‘idiot in the cape’ you’d met on your first night on this Earth, was just as easy to get along with. At first, he’d thrown you off a bit with his unsociable personality, but he’d slowly opened up over time. Really, he was more of a nerd than anything else.

And he’d heeded your words of wisdom regarding the cape.

Damian, Bruce’s ‘prodigee’, was someone you still had trouble getting along with. Your relationship had improved over the months, but barely. Before, he’d outright ignore your presence. Now, he at least graced you with a nod of acknowledgement or the occasional verbal greeting.

How kind of him.

Bruce had become somewhat of a parental figure after he had walked in on you crying one night. While you were embarrassed, he’d taken it in stride, comforting you as best as he could, reassuring you that they’d find a way to send you back home.

“Oh, I know, I know. We’re all trying our best, just… try to be patient. We’ll find something soon, I promise.”

His palms rest on your shoulders, patting you reassuringly.

You nod in agreement, too tired and disheartened to say anything else as you mumble something about going to bed, turning to leave the room.

****

“And you’re sure no one knows she’s here? If they found out…”

“Yes Dick, I’m sure. I’m not an idiot, I know how to wipe a hard drive.”

There’s a slight lull in conversation as the two wait for the rest of the group to arrive.

A few minutes later, Bruce enters the room, Damian trailing behind him.

He walks to where the two are seated and puts the klystron conductor on the table before them.

“That’s the last one. Have you done everything else?”

Tim nods, gesturing to a singular hard drive placed on the coffee table.

“That’s the only remaining evidence of her presence on this Earth.”

Bruce nods and sighs, looking between the three men with him before Dick interjects.

“Do you- I mean, are we really going to do this? We’re supposed to be the heroes. This… This isn’t something we can undo.”

All three of his companions hold a steely glint in their eyes as they nod.

“I’m sure. It’s better this way. She’s just a kid, she doesn’t know what she needs. She’ll thank us for this in a few years.”

There’s a tense pause for a moment before he speaks again.

“Do it.”

And just like that, the final klystron conductor is destroyed, along with any hope you’d had of returning home.

“...she’ll thank us.”

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Ok, so! I came across this post and had a thought.

It’s true not a lot of people in the Dp x Dc fandom are aware that there are multiple types of kryptonite. Or if they are they aren’t using it to it’s full potential. I know many enter this fandom from DP and not everyone has consumed every DC piece of media and some of you stumbled across this black whole and got sucked in with no knowledge of either fandom or cannon. So this is why I’m making this post.

For example, everyone knows Batman carries around a small chunk of kryptonite in a lead lined pouch on his utility belt. But everyone assumes or goes with the most common green. Which as we know cause pain aside from just stripping Superman of his powers (or does it just cause so much pain that he is incapable of moving? I forget). Batman may be all for contingencies but would he really want to cause so much pain to someone he considers a best friend? Or Tim and Damian in the cases of Conner and Jon. No, I don’t think so. Green Kryptonite is a last resort but in the case of mind control or other things out of Supes control I think Batman would use Blue Kryptonite instead. It strips Supers of their powers and renders them as dangerous as any human, which would be easier for any other powered human or Batman himself to subdue.

Specifically the Smallville version of blue kryptonite. Though there is a version that says it heals kryptonians but I prefer the Smallville one.

Think of medical uses, would they really use green kryptonite to treat a downed Super? Causing more pain, no matter how small, in an attempt to help? No, blue kryptonite has the same results with no pain. It can be used for medical needles, cuffs and anything really, that’s needed to subdue a Super.

*addition-there is such a thing as clear kryptonite which is basically neutralized and is harmless kryptonite, it has been rendered powerless but it can still pierce kryptonion skin but does not have any adverse effects. This would be perfect for making medical tools needed to treat kryptonions. *

I know the other types of kryptonite are rare but you can’t tell me Batman doesn’t have samples of all of them… some he probably stole retrieved from Lex Luthor.

I would love to see more of the effects of other kryptonite and see it more in the Dp x DC fandom. Like how do they affect ghosts? If kryptonite is candy what are their flavors. Is green grape or weed flavored kryptonite candy, do they have emotions associated with them like red kryptonite is rage/irrationality or random power addition.

Here’s some general sites with a list of kryptonite types and different abilities based on different strains of comics, films or series of DC.

Go forth and disregard canon as canon disregards itself! Use this knowledge to create unhinged fannon against the originals!

https://www.sideshow.com/blog/different-types-of-kryptonite-and-their-effects

#dc x dp #dp x dc #dpxdc #dcxdp

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radioactive-earthshine · 1 year

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A Non-Exhaustive Guide to Future and Alternative Swearing in DC Comics.

Legionnaires #23 Swears curtesy of the Legionnaire's resident potty mouth Querl Dox aka Brainiac 5.

Being that DC spans many different periods in time there are many different curses and swears that have been used with varying degrees of frequency among multiple characters.

Bart Allen and other time displaced characters are some of those in the modern timestream that use some of the following in place of English swears. Otherwise the bulk of these words are used in comics such Legion of Super-Heroes and sometimes in comics that take place off-world.

To note, most of these swear words are supposed to be taken directly from Interlac, the universal language spoken by everyone in the 31st century as a unifying interstellar language.

Interlac is a language that is many thousands of years old by the 31st century, and the same Interlac language exists in the 21st century as well. There are some references that the language does shift over the thousand years of time passage, but it is still recognizable between speakers.

Without further elaboration here is a non-exhaustive list of the most common swears, their approximate meaning, and general time/place/characters they are used in/by.

Grife

Meaning: Fuck/Shit.

An intense swear used as an expletive for surprise or frustration. Sometimes used as "fucking" where -ing is attached to the end.

Used commonly in the 31st century and by Bart Allen in the 21st century.

Sprock

Meaning: Also Fuck/Shit.

An intense swear used as an expletive for surprise or frustration. Sometimes used as "fucking" where -ing is attached to the end. Is generally interchangeable with grife. Sometimes, both grife and sprock are combined to create compound swears such as "gee-sprocking-rife" courtesy of Brainiac 5.

Used commonly in the 31st century by all Legionnaires. Has made its way into other media such as the CW's Supergirl.

Nass/Nass-Head

Meaning: Shit/Ass

An expletive used often as an insult or as as a common crass intensifier. Most commonly used as "nass-head" in place of "shit-head" or "We're going to kick nass!" or "We're stepping in nass."

Used in the 31st century.

Scroach

Meaning: Bastard/Fucker

A derogatory uncommon/rare insult directed at someone. "That person is such a sprocking scroach I want to beat the nass out of them."

Used by a future version of Bart Allen in the Impulse comics during the Dark Tomorrow story arc. As far as I know, it is exclusive to the Impulse comics.

Grokk/Grok

Meaning: Shit/Fuck/Damn

An expletive used in surprise or frustration, much like sprock or grife.

This swear is used more commonly in 21st century interlac in comics like L.E.G.I.O.N. or comics that take place off of Earth. This swear has made it into other media as an Easter Egg such as in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

#dc comics #swearing #bart allen #losh #linguistics #language #interlac #legion of super heroes #i chose not to include one bc it sounds too close to a slur against ndn women #if you want an extrapolation on that dm me

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rwbyfan1999 · 6 months

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Justice league X RWBY pt 2 thoughts

I know I’m late to the party but I’ve finally got around to watching the second JL X RWBY movie and man did I love it, I loved it so much that after watching it I watched them both back to back and I’m not gonna do a review this time I’m just gonna give you my impressions on what part 2 brought to the table.

There will be spoilers so you’ve been warned in case you didn’t see it.

So time on remnant work’s differently then earth 3 days on earth equals 3 weeks on remnant so the time gap on remnant makes sense especially to get some V8 and V9 stuff thrown in

Great to see Black Canary thrown in I just wish Green Arrow would have appeared he’s mentioned but I would’ve loved seeing these married dorks together again

It was awesome to get a taste of Vacuo even if it’s super brief

Ruby is confident again which is awesome but she was also being insanely reckless while Yang’s protective instincts are not making her fully trusting of her leadership, given everything that happened in the ever after it makes sense for Yang’s character

Dc villains helping the league against a common enemy is pretty awesome

Man I feel sad for Weiss losing Atlas in this movie

Cute seeing Jessica ask about Jaune really wish JNR could’ve gone to earth

Man team RWBY’s super hero costumes look awesome, still weird seeing Blake without her cat ears but i quickly got used to it

Weiss not having powers is interesting and makes her little arc with Batman interesting sense now the roles are reversed

So Watts helped Kilg%re super surprised to see that

Blake gets 5 points for the reference to Dr Merlot and giving us some Grimm Eclipse representation (still love that game)

Love Ruby and Clark’s talk in the training room telling her that it’s ok to honor your family just don’t be in a rush to join them

Weiss and Bruce will alway’s be fun to watch and he helps Weiss realize where her true home was by the end, in his own way of course

Flash’s PTSD from being controlled by Kilg%re in part 1 plays a big part in this movie and Yang steps in to tell him her struggles, without directly talking about Adam or Raven, just to tell him to not let kilg%re consume his thoughts

The idea of the league using the digital world against Kilg%re and Watts was an interesting twist

Ruby and Yangs heart to heart moment is sweet, Ruby just telling Yang that she can’t protect her from everything and that she’s not gonna leave her

Having the end be at the Schnee manor felt full circle for both Weiss’s arc in the movie and the Atlas trilogy in general

Kilg%ore controlled Yang was crazy and Blake new like instantly, god she knows her girlfriend crazy well which is super cute

Trapping Kilg%re and Watts in the digital realm for good was an excellent way to cap the dualogy up

Another bee kiss need I say more?

All in all I’m very satisfied with this one and can see the development done for Ruby, Weiss, and Yang carry over into V10 especially Weiss

Stay awesome

#rwby #justice league x rwby #greenlight volume 10 #ruby rose #weiss schnee #blake bellodona #yang xiao long #bumbleby

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paladin-of-nerd-fandom65 · 4 months

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I’m glad you like the rewrite for Superman & Lois! :D I’ll think some more down the road ;)

1: what’s the duo’s opinion on the whole goku vs Superman & Superman vs Batman debate?

2: in-universe, what’s the most misconception the public have of the duo? Like Nightwing Chris being the son of the Nightwing of bludhaven for example.

3: do they have a “what’s the password” entry to the starcave?

4: do you have a group name when titans of tomorrow & starknights team up all together? I recommend young titans or Star Titans

5: don’t know if I said this but what’s their tickle areas?

6: is there any honorable members on the team? Like I can see Jon & the super twins on the starknights group if gained permission.

7: who’s the leader in both groups.

Happy New Year’s Eve to you friend @pin-crusher2000

I’m looking forward to those S&L ideas you’d have XD

Anyways, on with the show

1) Those debates can be fun to watch and consider but the Duo know that it’s better to appreciate the heroes involved in said debates for what they are as people/characters rather than take it all too seriously and to the point of zealotry and fanaticism as they’ve seen online too many times.

2) The public mistaking Chris as a junior Nightwing and a literal son of the Dick Grayson one via the two splitting the mantle evenly is one common misconception the two have seen time and time again. Also, being called biological brothers, Jake getting confused as a de aged Dick Grayson and being mixed up with Robin and Superboy from YJ just smaller and with differing colors are all also commonplace on newspaper tabloids and magazines.

3) I bet they would, mainly used for special occasions including parties for their friends and relatives taking place at their base. Jake is the one answering the door and The password would be ‘Crusader-Landing-Azule’

4) Star Titans is ideal and common enough to work well with them. It’s short, sweet and to the point. Though in full it’ll be The StarBurst Titans of Tomorrow, as a nice combination of their respective names.

5) On a scale of 1 - 10, with 1 being barely any sort of tingle and 10 being guaranteed of very loud laughter and thrashing around if not being held still….

Chris;

- Sides of the Neck: 6

- Ribcage Sides: 4

- Back of his Knees: 9

- Abdomen: 5

- Tops of his Feet: 7

- Heels and Soles: 7

- Toes: 8

Jake;

- Sides of the Neck: 4

- Ribcage Sides: 5

- Back of the Knees: 3

- Abdomen: 6

- Tops of his Feet: 9

- Heels and Soles: 10

- Toes: 10

6) In particular Green Lantern Tai Pham, Baby Wildebeest, Flamebird (Thara), in a later point in time both Osul and Otho, Jarro the Starro and from alternate Earths both Johnny Grayson aka Firepattern from Earth 2 and Matt McGinnis aka Robin Beyond from Earth 12

Maybe at a later point in time, the Duo would also have an ally and friend from outside the DC multiverse or even it’s dimension….like maybe from a completely different dimension (coded for franchise) in a future crossover *hint**hint*

And oh yeah, Jon too is a frequent help for both teams whenever the help is needed, akin to how Supergirl is a big help to the Legion of Superheroes if need be

7) Both teams have de facto as opposed to officially stated leadership but often times Mar’i and Bobby share having control of the Titans of Tomorrow. The both of them inherited their respective parents’ leadership skills but Bobby a tad bit moreso from Donna and even his Grand Aunt Diana

As for the StarKnights, Chris more or less makes the most prominent decisions of them all, with both Jake and Cerdian being second in commands to him.

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Got anyTop 5 DC ships?

And by DC, I mean in Washington DC- jk jk. I obviously meant DC comics lol

#5 Rose Wilson and Edward Bloomberg

I'm going to make every other Teen Titans blog hate me by saying I think the Geoff Johns run is probably the second best Titans run? After the one year Timeskip basically the team is whittled down to the bottom of the barrel, Kid Devil and Rose being the only one who stayed. Rose is in many ways a foil to Terra, but unlike Terra who is defined by her misanthropy and aloneness Rose is just a character who is desperate to belong somewhere.

Nowhere is this more apparent in Rose and Eddie's relationship. Eddie is the one person who seems happy to have her around. THey share a lot in common, Eddie is a kidsent essentially to live away from his parents, and lost his aunt who was the only family member who overtly cared for him. Eddie feels like a nobody and feels lost just like Rose, he wanted to be a hero so badly he made a deal with the devil for superpowers. He only made it onto the Teen Titans because they were desperate for new members.

Their relationship is very teenage first love, but that's exactly what the Teen Titans are all about people with nowhere to go finding a home in each other. Eddie is also the best thing Geoff Johns ever came up with, he's so likable in the comic he loses all of his super powers and the team keeps him around anyway because they can't function without him. Eddie and Rose are just also... so teenagery. Rose pulls stupid stunts for attention all the time and has a stupid fake bad girl act. Eddie throws a party in the tower once and gets in trouble. They act like the dumbest teens.

#4 Donna Troy and Roy Harper

They're soulmates, DC just doesn't know it yet. Donna and Roy are sort of a first love who connect later in life, in the original Teen Titans Comic Donna was the only girl among several boys, so eventually she started to have a first love sort of crush on Roy. They go on to live seperate lives, have pretty disastrous first relationships.

They are just really compatible characters. I think what a lot of people don't understand about Roy, is that he's actually a pretty idealistic hero, a chivalrous nice boy type, he just had a really rough spot in the middle of his life. He has a really negative self image, but Roy actually represents the same kind of optimistic hero that Oliver represents. He would treat Donna right. Roy is also one of the few characters who has never treated Donna like a therapist friend. Lian also just loves her.

Roy and Donna also have a lot of trauma from their early twenties, which I think could help them understand each other. One ig thing about Donna is that a lot of her friends tend to put her on a pedestal and see her as "perfect" when she's actually really messy and flawed and Roy being Roy and emotionally intelligent could understand Donna in a way they can't. Also Donna and Roy have the vibes of that on again off again couple that will always be a little in love with each other.

#3 Dick / Kory

This is a dickbabs hating zone . (This is a joke please don't send me anons). I always preach that Dick should be a Titans character not a bat family character, because the Titans is where he grew up.

Kory is such a huge part of who the person Dick Grayson is now, because Batman taught Dick not to feel, and use his emotions as a weapon against crime, whereas Kory taught Dick to love life part and his loved ones and the people around him are what he should be fighting for.

Kory and Dick are like, the soap opera ship. They are just all about the highs and lows of love. Kory just kind of crashed into Dick's life and changed him because she was so unlike anyone he ever met, and Dick is the first person who gave Kory a home on earth and what ties her to the planet she's fighting for. They esentially grew up together, from a teenage first love, to a more adult relationship.

There's a lot of baggage with the relationship, but I also think Kory knows Dick Grayson the best because his time with the Titans helped Dick Grayson find out who he is outside of Batman and Robin and grow up into his own person. In fact that might be the problem with them, that they know each other so well, and are so important to each other's lives, when they break up it kind of hurts too much to lose that person.

#2 Beast Boy / Raven

I've never seen a ship more love it or hate it. You either really love Beast Boy and Raven and think they're soul mates, or you despise them. I think a lot of comics fan don't like it because it comes from the cartoon... but like comic books adapt things from cartoons and non-comics media all the time. If it weren't for BTAS we wouldn't have Harley Quinn.

Also, I can justify Beast Boy being attracted to Raven in the comics. Beast Boy's only significant other relationship is Terra, and Terra and Raven are the same person. (I refuse to elaborate on this unless you send me another ask). I like to compare Beast Boy and Raven to Dick and Kory a lot, because Dick and Kory is kind of the sweeping romantic relationship of two people who are just so in love with each other.

Beast Boy and Raven are kind of the opposite of that, they are not the pride and prejudgice couple, they are the two weird unpopular kids in class. I think what connects them more than anything else is their loneliness as they are both essentially orphans who have become superheroes and superhero teams are the only family they have now, and that kind of desire for a place to belong can draw two people too each other. They're the two weird kids who hang out together exclusively because no one else likes them and their closeness comes from the time they spend together.

Why would Raven be attracted to Beast Boy? Raven and Beast Boy have kind of the same big sweeping ideas about love. I think part of what attracted Beast Boy so much to Terra is how isolated on the team she was, and how she was really the only kid his own age, and how many walls she puts up. Beast Boy is kind of just naturally the guy who wants to give you support and be your friend. Raven on the other hand is really unfamiliar with emotions and love, she desperately wants to have normal relationships, but there is no version of her character who ever lets herself be happy. You have the girl who always tries to be alone, and the guy who wants to keep her company.

#1 Bruce Wayne and Harley Quinn

If you read Batman: White Knight then you would get it!!! A lot of people don't really like the idea of shipping Harley with men because she tries to revolve her personality around the men in her life. INCORRECT. She tries to revolve her personality on pleasing anyone regardless of gender. Harley is a chameleon. She changes her colors to fit whoever, always chasing the idea of someone loving her for who she really is, and yet always afraid to present her real self to people.

It's the most insane and unlikely ship ever, but it really works if you think about it. Like, once again read the comic. Bruce had a lot of respect for who Harleen Quinzel was as a doctor. They both have a deep understanding of losing their previous self to the trauma, Bruce will never be fully comfortable as Bruce Wayne, Harley can't really go back to being Harleen Quinzel. They both almost prefer being their costumed self, but their costumed self actually only hurts them in the long run, Batman is unhealthy for Bruce, Harley is unhealthy for Harleen.

Batman's entire character revolves around saving people in Gotham, not killing them he wants to heal the crimminals of Gotham and Harley herself is a doctor who tried to heal people too and lost their way. They both really need to integrate their past selves, their costumed identities, and their current selves into a fully integrated personality. They're both incredibly high empathy individuals, they basically bleed with empathy for other people, it literally drives Harley insane.

I like Batcat, but also Selina is never going to commit ever. Bruce is kind of scared of committment too, but he actually wants and needs to have things in his life besides Batman, he wants to build a home and have a family to come home too. That's just not going to be Selina, if anything Selina is more comfortable staying Catwoman forever because she's all about her freedom and agency.

And it's the class Sunshine x Grumpy person ship. Anyway, it's never going to happen but I'm still holding out hope. Give it ten, twenty years and you'll see. This is how Bruley could still win.

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cyb-by-lang · 1 year

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Interesting thing that randomly came into my head. The DC universe is like Earth the most, so it’s basically been a while since someone could understand Kei’s references outside of Isobu right? I mean that would make her more suspicious, but also less lonely? Or something, because people actually get it.

The BNHA crossover is also similar, but I just feel like that world is a lot more different from Earth. So less common pop culture references, compared to the DC comics at least.

I just kinda find the idea funny of Kei making a super ‘old’ reference that no one gets, except Batman. Or maybe Nightwing. And that just confuses them more.

Anon, I would like to inform you that I spent all afternoon wracking my brain looking for a reference Bruce would get that his kids wouldn't, and the only thing that came to mind was that one time the comics accidentally(?) confirmed that Batman watched Sailor Moon. If I recall correctly, he sussed out one of the Martian Manhunter's disguises because the guy made the mistake of introducing himself as "Rei Hino," also known as Sailor Mars. Which also makes the Martian Manhunter a nerd.

Incidentally, I don't think Dick and Tim and Jason are that into older anime.

My Hero Academia also has the excuse(?) of being set in what is explicitly the nebulous barely-into-the-future, so Kei didn't really look for comparison points. That calendar, beyond the extent the Japanese school year is dictated by it, was one I didn't want to even try and figure out.

Meanwhile Gotham exists in this weird comic book limbo where everything from vacuum tube AI to actual Greek gods and time travelers and demons and interstellar space travel all exist, even if people tend to stick to their own beat. You get a real different feel from each hero's little world. Noir to space opera to some Real Nonsense.

Anyway, Kei has tried to avoid making references besides those she needs to get by as "fluent speaker with an accent," but she's definitely slipped up enough for Tim to figure out. Just knowing that WWII happened was a major thread to pull.

#a ninja's guide to gotham #shell game #asks #anonymous #keisuke gekko #tim drake #batman #dc comics #dcu #crossover

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That last reblog has me now contemplating.

What if to mess with his shiny new little brother, but like....gently....when they first started hanging out Dick told Jason a couple of slight falsehoods as umm. A training exercise. That’s it. It was about helping Jason get up to speed with his information gathering skills and also his bullshit detection. So in the interest of being helpful and A Good Big Brother, Obviously....Dick sowed a few.....less-than-entirely-factual details about the more fantastical elements of their lives. The stuff that isn’t common or public knowledge to most of the DC Earth. And then he just.....waited to see how long it took Jason to realize Dick had fed him a handful of straight up lies when briefing him about All Things Superhero.

Look, it was for Science. That’s Dick’s story and he’s sticking to it.

Thus, for the first couple months of their new sibling relationship, Dick had Jason convinced that Atlanteans were actually aliens who landed here thousands of years ago, speedsters can run so fast they can travel back in time, and Superman once accidentally let out a burp so forceful it created a shockwave that shattered every glass in a quarter mile radius so whenever he starts to look....gassy....your best course of action is to hit the deck. Don’t even hesitate for a second, just dive to the ground and grab some floor until he’s got it back under control. And oh yeah, Diana has her Lasso of Truth, but Donna’s version of truth-related powers is that she can sense when people are up to no good....only, the way this manifests for her is she suddenly registers a distinct bad smell in her vicinity, alerting her that bullshit is afoot.

“You’re kidding,” Jason said flatly. “You expect me to believe that Donna can literally smell bullshit?”

Dick just raised an eyebrow. “Like that’s somehow less plausible than Gar being able to change into any kind of animal but only in shades of green? And oh yeah, speaking of green, Green Lanterns can do just about anything with their rings....except protect themselves from yellow paint? I don’t make the rules, Jace. The truth is sometimes superpowers aren’t super-glamorous and not everything related to magic or gods or other planets is as....sophisticated...as we presume. I mean, its not like these things exist just to match up to our expectations for them. Why should alien civilizations or the rules of magic be influenced by whether or not our society would find something weird or ridiculous?”

Jason chewed his lower lip contemplatively. He lacked an official bullshit detecting power himself, but he did have good instincts. Unfortunately for him, his shiny new big brother gave good Lying-to-your-face Face.

“Plus, if you really think about it, it does make a kind of sense,” Dick continued to explain helpfully. But only according to certain specific interpretations of ‘helpfully’ that actually mean ‘like a liar.’ “Our brains are constantly translating all kinds of input and stimuli into shapes or patterns we can actually process in a way that means something to us. So we can make use of that information. This is just the same thing. Donna’s power takes however many variables are involved in registering something as false or something she needs to be wary of...and just condenses it into a simple ‘red alert’ indicator that takes all that abstract, ephemeral data and makes it something actionable. Something she can actually do something with. Her power - or how her brain perceives it - just didn’t actually consult her or give her a choice of notification settings, because why would it?”

“I guess that makes sense,” Jason begrudgingly agreed, with a frown that suggested this particular ‘truth’ Offended his sensibilities.

“I mean, you can ask Donna to explain it herself if you want,” Dick said with a shrug. “Just a heads-up though....she’s not really a fan of how that power works either. Its not exactly a superpower anyone wants to be known for, and she’s heard allllll the jokes about it by now. Roy, Wally and I were perhaps....not the most sensitive when we were younger and she was honing that particular skillset? Though in our defense, I maintain that most of our jokes were hilarious. But anyway, just saying. If you wanna bring it up with her directly, go right ahead! Its definitely one of her favorite topics and Amazons are for sure known for how well they handle being self-conscious.”

And that’s the story of the three months Jason spent convinced that Atlanteans were from another planet, confusing the hell out of Garth with his occasional references to ‘your homeworld’ and his numerous questions about all the Atlantean Green Lanterns that he for some reason seemed convinced the Green Lantern Corps must obviously have a long history of.

And its also why Jason spent those same three months getting wide-eyed and nervous any time he noticed Donna’s nose so much as twitch when he was around. Which it did a lot more often than usual, thanks to how often Dick got horseradish to go with whatever he was having for lunch, knowing full well that Donna can not stand the smell of horseradish. (Dick’s actually not a fan either, and he hates how it tastes, but he’s not afraid to Suffer for the sake of Shenanigans. Its a fundamental part of the Robin experience and persona, after all.)

But it was the Donna thing that gave Dick away, ultimately. No matter how hard he tried to keep a lid on how entertaining he now found the sight of Donna’s occasional nose twitch...even a Batkid poker face can’t keep an empath and telepath from finding this a mystery worth untangling after the tenth time it happens.

(Not that Lilith or Raven are gonna apologize for prying any time soon. They had an obligation as his friends and teammates to investigate when he’s acting bizarre, y’see. What if its because he was brainwashed again? “We’re intrusive because we love,” Lilith insists with zero shame. Raven clarifies: “I was intrusive because she was already doing it so there seemed no point not to.” Lilith points out that this could also be construed as a sign of strong leadership potential. Dick glowers. Lilith waves a hand dismissively. “We can circle back to that later. That’s fine.”)

Anyway, the truth came out at last, Jason cites this as the Moral Justification for every single time and way he was a pain in the ass to Dick in the years to come, and Donna - who was Not Amused - gave a pointed sniff and called bullshit when Dick tried to claim this was an important Bonding Opportunity for he and Jason, wherein they became brothers ‘for real’ instead of just via Bruce. “There are intricate sibling rituals to be observed,” Dick insisted. “I did my research! We had so much time to make up for, I had to speedrun through my shenanigans to get us all caught up! Would I have done all this if I didn’t care?”

Every Titan in the room, familiar with the lengths he’d gone to when messing with Rogues and randos as Robin and thus distinctly unimpressed: Yes. Absolutely. One hundred percent.

Dick foraged on heroically. “Regardless! That’s not the case here, as all of this was clearly done in the name of brotherhood and bonding! We’ll laugh about this someday, you’ll see!”

Ten years later, after Jason’s returned as the Red Hood and reintegrated with the Batfamily to varying degrees, enough so that he accompanies Dick and the rest of the OG Titans on a mission where they’re ambushed, captured and trapped in a supervillain dungeon they’re now trying to escape...

Dick: Definitely kicking myself for not seeing that ambush coming. Where’s a bullshit-sniffing power when you really need it, huh?

Jason: Still not laughing yet.

Dick: Oh come on!

As far as the rest goes, Jason does get a kick out of the speedsters discovering that actually, they can run fast enough to travel through time. He’s like, despite your best efforts you accidentally got one right. And Dick’s all ‘was it an accident or did I actually know or have strong suspicions all along’....but Jason shuts that down. “Nope. Not giving you this one. Try it with someone else.”

However, that still left one last card in play, long after everyone - even Dick and Jason themselves - had all but forgotten about it.

See, every Batkid knows that the best lies contain elements of truth. And that’s why Dick only peppered in his fake trivia very, very sparingly amidst a massive info-dump of actually accurate and useful info he gave Jason about all that stuff, way back when.

So despite the handful of things Dick had told him that Jason eventually discovered to be untrue...the vast majority of it did check out.

Which means even once he did catch on to Dick’s game....that didn’t change his acceptance of the stuff that had turned out to be true or verified by others. But in the end, there was only one little fib that slipped under the radar. Because the scenario it was based on just never happened to come up until long after Jason had returned....and thus Jason never had reason to put much thought into actually questioning whether or not it was true. Not until long after he’d stopped scrutinizing stuff Dick had told him, in search of possible ‘traps.’

And THAT is the story of how Jason - on one of the rare occasions that he joined the Titans and Justice League for an all-hands-on-deck kinda teamup - just happened to be in the right wrong place at the right wrong time to notice Superman suddenly start to look queasy after trying some alien cuisine....

And without a second thought, Jason just instinctively dove for the floor. With this followed by Clark letting out an extremely normal-sounding burp and a sheepish apology.

Everyone else, staring at the infamous Red Hood ducking for cover because Clark had a moment of indigestion: umm. wut

Dick, staring wide-eyed at his brother and trying not to laugh: Oh shit. I totally forgot all about that.

Jason, almost conversationally, while climbing to his feet and stalking ominously towards his big bro: Hey can you believe that after all the shit we’ve been through and all the times we’ve fought over like...actual life and death stuff, THIS is the thing I’m actually gonna kill you for?

Dick, backing away, hands raised placatingly: Hey, c’mon now, Jace, we called a truce about all this ages ago, remember? It was a much younger, dumber me who did all that in the first place, y’know? You’re better than this!

Jason: I’m really not.

Dick: Well then can I just take this opportunity to mention again how sorry I am for any creative embellishments I might have once come up with, in the mistaken belief that I was honoring important traditions of brotherhood, and....

Jason: Hey, where’s Donna? Can anyone see if her nose is twitching?

Donna and the rest of the Titans, blatantly amused and offering no explanation to the very confused Justice League: Oh, bullshit absolutely detected. In the interests of Truth and Justice, you should totally proceed.

Dick, jabbing his finger at his teammates before dashing for the door: Betrayal! J’accuse!

Donna, shrugging: Sorry, Rob. Justice demands impartiality. Our hands are tied.

Jason, running out the door and down the hallway in pursuit of his fleeing brother: Yeah you better run! I’ve waited ten fucking years to get back at you for this shit. Where you going anyway, bro? I thought you wanted to laugh about this someday!

Dick (offscreen): I regret nothing! It was all worth it! You should have seen your face!

Jason (offscreen): You couldn’t even see my face, idiot! I’m wearing my fucking helmet!

Dick (offscreen): Semantics! If something’s funny enough, you can sense what someone’s face probably looks like! If you know, you know!

Jason (offscreen): Oh yeah, go ahead and make up some more shit, Grayson, that’s definitely the right way to go here!

Batman, looking to the Titans and waving his hand at...whatever all that is offscreen: Explain.

Roy: Hey don’t look at us. You’re the one who made them brothers. This is on you.

Batman: What does that even mean.

Lilith: If you know, you know. Dick’s right about that much at least.

The Titans all nod like an actual, self-evident truth was just expressed. Bruce pinches the bridge of his nose, and starts muttering under his breath.

“You need to encourage Dick to seek out and make like-minded friends, Alfred said. It’ll be good for him, he said. Its what he needs and definitely not the point everything starts to go downhill.”

Lilith picks it up loud and clear, because of course she does, and incidentally, the smug, obnoxious know-it-all teenage psychic who started hanging out with Dick when they were teenagers has absolutely nothing to do with Bruce’s profound dislike of telepaths, nooooo, that would be ridiculous and irrational, to bear a grudge against everyone with a particular skillset because one of your son’s childhood friends was a royal pain in the -

Lilith: Oh, that’s adorable. He thinks we’re the reason Dick’s so profoundly weird and inexplicable.

The Titans, in unison: LOL.

Roy: The self-deluding, it is strong in that family.

Bruce is suddenly extra glad he’s wearing a cowl that hides what is definitely not a pout but might be mistaken for one by the uninformed thus its better to just dodge that issue entirely. He crosses his arms and stares down the collection of his eldest son’s friends, whom he has been unfairly plagued by since most of them were pre-pubescent little demons. Literally no one has suffered like he has.

“I don’t like you,” he informs them officiously. Not sulkily. Officiously.

Several of them snort. There’s a couple giggles. An eye roll from Roy. An aborted response hastily turns into Wally coughing into his hand. Blatant dismissal from Victor, his attention clearly on whatever he’s browsing online. Three varying shades of raised eyebrows: unflappable bemusement from the sorceress, patronizing amusement from the psychic, naked incredulity from Donna. Garth gazing off into an empty corner which he has on very good authority is basically the Atlantean version of the middle finger.

“Yeah, no shit,” Roy drawls, apparently on behalf of the whole group.

Ugh, they’re just. The worst. Why couldn’t Clark have had a kid Dick’s age so he never had to go looking elsewhere for socialization? That’s it. Clearly this was all Clark’s fault. He can’t believe he never realized that before.

Dammit Clark.

#this started out as Dick and Jason shenanigans and then somehow morphed into Bruce really doesn't like his kid's friends #because I firmly believe the Bruce vs the Titans antipathy is one hundred percent a two way street #and not so deep down Bruce (super rationally) blames them for some of the distance between he and Dick over the years #the world's greatest detective is like 'well Dick and I (mostly) got along just fine until THEY came along and then all of a sudden it was #oh sorry Bruce I cant hang out cuz I gotta go play with all my friends who hate you because they're horrible little goblin children #and look I've connected the dots' because correlation is definitely causation #cut to Bruce grumpily slouched in the Watchtower's monitor room watching the Titans mop up the Fearsome Five #to loud public acclaim #Clark hovers nearby. both figuratively and literally. he is Concerned #'Bruce you do know that resenting Dick's friends and holding a grudge against a bunch of fifteen year olds because #your kid doesn't always want to hang out with you anymore is Not the solution to repairing your relationship with Dick that you're looking #for right? please tell me that you know that'#Bruce. testily. 'yes Clark I know that'#Clark: okay. good. I was just worried because it. umm. doesn't always LOOK like you know that #Bruce: well I do and you can stop bringing it up. friends dont rub their friend's irrationality in their faces #Clark: see I dont think I know that rule #Clark: Im pulling from the book that says friends dont let their friends declare a feud against teenagers they've decided #are their personal mortal nemesis in some not-super-healthy war for their son's time and attention #Bruce: well your book sounds stupid and wrong and you should throw it away and get a better book like mine #Clark. Sighing because apparently today is a day where Bruce has decided to just Be Like This and resigning himself to letting it go #for now and trying again to get through to him in a week or two instead #'Sure B. Ill get right on that.'

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cromaka3666 · 1 year

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a rant/series of ideas

So I've posted these on SB before but to put it simply, the phandom is stagnant. The same ideas are repeated over and over again mixed up but too similar to tell apart. Over on ao3s dp crossover section I've noticed a ton of these stories are created after the author reads a prompt here so I figured I'd gather the posts I've made on SB and post them here in hopes those authors can see them. I'm just copy/pasting these so they will look weird as they were originally posted on SB and I can't be bothered to edit them.

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So yall know how d.c. crossovers are really common. Well I just had a small idea to add to the list of why heroes don't usually kill, batman especially. Obsessions can help make ghosts and few people are more obsessed than villains, the heroes know this and don't want to risk powering up their rogue gallery more, especially since hell is real and as we saw with deathstroke/slade it's easy to make deals and return. Just another angle to add for those crossovers. Last thing anyone wants is a ghost/demon empowered joker running around.

We have tons of danny phantom dc crossovers but not a single one has Cujo join the super pets for adventures. This is a crime that should be rectified immediately. Best pup should be allowed to play with Ace and Krypto and fight animal crimes.

What aren't there any stories where danny is in the marvels zombies storyline, or dceased, or blackest night, or even the new dc vs vampires storyline.

Why are almost all horror stories about him being tortured when there are perfectly good zombie apocalypses he can fight in. I'd love to see danny wield a black lantern ring and be in total control because he's already dead and as such doesn't need to eat hearts to gain power.

I'd love to see danny get bite by a vampire only for them to taste what's basically deadmans blood. We need less secret sibling, torture filled, betrayal fics and more danny pulling a doomslayer and fighting trigons armies when he invades.

Pariah Dark pulling amity into the gz would have gotten international attention just like cannon. Something that's brought up but never really explored are meta humans rights clashing with the anti ecto laws, I'd love to see the various magic users testifying in congress, debunking the fentons beliefs that ghosts aren't people and as such deserve the same rights as everyone else.

Also I'd love to see walker put in control of arkham, blackgate, or Belle reve. He'd have those places on lockdown, and the thought of the joker trying to escape only for walker to toss him back in his cell is hilarious to me.

All these DC crossovers but not one shows an alternate danny in the justice lords, injustice, or crime syndicate version of the league.

I'm tired of rereading the same stuff, let me read about an evil crime boss danny or one who rules over the GZ like how the justice lords rule earth, or one that sides with superman after metropolis gets nuked. So many alternate worlds, timelines, and dimensions to choose from and they always pick the same ones.

Forget JLU, YJ, or TT let me see danny in the justice league dark apocalypse war movie as a trigon possed Dan Phantom and have him fight Darksied

The infinite realms is so underutilized in the dc crossovers, and just the phandom in general.

You have an entire dimension that can take you any when and anywhere you want/don't want and you don't use it to let superman meet his parents before krypton blows up, or any other orphan superhero for that matter.

Hell you don't have to save his family, you can set up a stable time loop where this meeting is what convinced them to send him to earth rather then any of kryptons dying colonies.

Have Pandora meet wonder women, I don't think I've seen anything more then a passing reference about her in any dc stories to date. The 4 armed ghost of a Greek Goddess would absolutely be something the Amazon's would want to meet.

I'd love to see more stories exploring the factions in the gz like make up a rivalry between the far frozen and Atlantis before the yetis died out and less stories about Lazarus pits being ectoplasm, and Danny bring the lover/secret brother to the entire bat clan.

Give me poison ivy possed by Undergrowth or the joker being terrorized by the box ghost because joker gas doesn't work on the dead. Hell weather wizard/ any other weather villain teaming up with vortex would be fun. Or have technus hijack brainiac/amazo, now that be a good threat.

Let's see Danny put on the helmet of fate and fight klarion because he's not at the same level as the cosmic forces of order and chaos rather then the gz being some super dimension that John "I sold my soul to 30 devils, 10 gods, an angel and a fae" Constantine is too scared to touch. Pariah was powerful, but he ain't Darkseid, Trigon, Child, or Nekron powerful.

Let's see more, superheroes deal with ghostly shit rather then Danny runs away/moves to Gotham for the 30th time. Like lets say the flash has to deal with Kitty and Johnny joy riding in Central city but he can't touch them or freakshow stops in Gotham and kidnaps Jason since the phandom is obsessed with making him a halfa or halfa adjacent. So much potential and none of it explored!

So, yall know how the phandom likes to make ectoplasm an emotional conduit. Where ghosts either can feel / feed on emotions and ectoplasm can have emitions without being a ghost, usually when talking about the pit rage Jason has in the DC stories. Well, let's roll with that and add the Emotional Entities that the lantern corps use.

If ghosts feed on emotions then the lanterns are basically walking snacks, if they sense emotions then the lanterns are walking flash bangs, and if ectoplasm can have emotions then let's have some ghosts get lantern rings simply because they are emotions given physical forms.

Also, yall know how the Danny defeats pariah and becomes king stories are a whole thing, why doesn't that apply to Dan?

Rant/prompt ideas done for now but I have so many more. Let's bring some life back to this half dead phandom.

#danny phantom #dc fandome #danny fenton #ghost zone #marvel #fanfiction #archive of our own #story ideas #crossover #phandom #young justice #teen titans

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insomniac-jay · 1 year

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DC OC | Powers Explained

Billie/Faerie: Billie is a Metahuman with the powers of a fairy. The most obvious part of her abilities are her wings. She's able to fly at high speeds and was able to keep up with Wally West. Her body is naturally resistant to g force and jet lag.

Another part of Billie's powers is her fairy dust. The dust is pink and has a range of abilities such as serving as a smokescreen, illusions, and more. Billie can emit fairy dust from either her wings or her body.

Billie is also resistant to magic, possibly because of the nature of her powers. This makes her a threat to magical beings as she's invincible against all types of magic. Raven recalls having trouble sparring against Billie because none of her powers worked on her.

Super strength is another power in Billie's arsenal. She can lift heavy objects and people with ease, stating that Nightwing was light like a feather when she lifted him.

Vicia/Crimson: Vicia's Metagene allows her to control blood-- whether it be her own or someone else's-- without any type of exposure such as a wound. When controlling her own blood, Vicia can use it to increase her physical abilities like speed and energy as well as using it to heal herself. When it comes to others, Vicia can control their blood to become her puppet.

While extremely powerful, it's very important that Vicia keep her emotions stable as her powers are tied to them. Too much emotional distress and she could accidentally kill someone.

Greynasha/Crypt: A survivor of the Big Bang, Greynasha's powers are something she's still getting used to. Because of the fact her broken arm was healing during the event, she gained the ability to control and manipulate her bones and the minerals inside them.

Greynasha's skin is also more durable thanks to the Q-Juice exposure so her powers aren't as painful as they would've been had her skin had been normal.

The most common thing she uses her bones for is blades. However, she has to be extremely careful when using her bones for offense or defense as doing too much could cause them to break or completely shatter.

When it's clear that her powers are going to be around forever, Greynasha creates an exoskeleton similar to her bones that she can use for combat without having to risk possibly shattering her entire skeletal structure.

Sophia/Angeknight: Sophia's powers are unique. A hybrid between an Amazon and an Angel, her mixed heritage has granted her many different abilities. The obvious is that Sophia's faster, stronger, more durable, and more agile than the average person. However, she's also semi immortal since her father relinquished half of his immortality in order to stay on Earth with her mom.

Because of her semi immortality, Sophia possesses a healing factor. It acts more rapidly when exposed to sunlight but still works just fine when not.

Other powers of hers include angel wings which allow her to fly, the ability to create and control heavenly light, and creating holy fire.

@calciumcryptid @peachyblkdemonslayer @autisticichihime

#jay's dc ocs #oc: billie/faerie #oc: vicia/crimson #oc: greynasha/crypt #oc: sophia/angeknight #dc comics oc #dc oc

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sociopathicbunnyrabbit-blog · 6 months

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So I really like comic books as like an art form, media, form of visual storytelling and sequential art and I know many people know comics via Marvel and DC superheroes so i wanted to highlight some creative fan's who's artwork, character designs and or redesigns and Au's who I really like and i think deserve some love...

P.S Im super Sorry if some of the link's are not active but im having trouble putting in Links to instagram profile's

The Anti-Apocalypse Man

There headverse au of Dc characters is a bold , colourful , pop explosion that effusively mixes all of their favourite comics with their own creative touch , no shying away from non humanoid bodies with aliens or robotic character's , piercing , cool fashion sense, big capes, long jackets, crop tops, chunky boots and gloves, belts make up some of the common design elements in their designs. Check them out, they have a great sense of style that's wholly unique to them that screams too cool for school.

There's an obvious almost infectious sense of Love present for some of the characters that always manages to improve my mood. Another facet of the art is the great background lore for their au that creatively mashes together like dozens of cool ideas from the comic's like multiversity, all-star superman, scott synders justive league, the characters of jack kirby and steve orlando.

I would recommend you take a look If you like the works of Grant Morrison, Frank Miller's Dark Knight universe, 90s teen superheroes especially, you might find this right up your alley. Lots of designs for young justice, JSA, Doom patrol, superman and batman families of characters there's a lot to love about the pop, punk, bright saturated colours and almost collage artwork/pop art feel it gives off with the sheer visual kaleidoscope of awesomeness that is on display.

JENSCIN are two people

This indonesia pair of artists share some great artostic talent their desings or classic dc character's makes them look very human and have this comforting sense of warmth. Their artwork involving their original ideas for some adorable short little dc comics with a very huggable looking superman redesign that take inspiration from more classic golden age adjacent media look a lot of cool ideas about superman experience as an immigrant, like have you ever wondered what kryptonian food tasted like I didn't used to but now I do. An amazing take on an asian american lois lane, a 10/10 mercy design, Atlantienis having pitch black eyes like that of deep sea fish from living at great depths is an amazing detail. Have I mentioned they ahve put more thought, effort and love into everyone's Extraterestile cookie monster J'onn J'onzz then Dc has done in years please take some time to read Sons of Mars, their mars au lore is just excellent and their reinterpretation of mallifalak is so much better than what's previously been done with the character. Also not having the scientist who teleported John to earth be actually alive and part of his immediate social group is great. There way of blending sci-fi elements of DC stroies with a perspective focused on exploring character's unique cultural backgrounds is absolutely fascinating. 10/10 please check them out if you have the time.

Gabriel Larragán Villalobos

He is a Costa Rican Artist I found Via instagram, art style is very sharp line work, angular designs jaws and well defined musculature. Their colour work ranges from vibrant bright primaries or metallic golds highlighting darker colour palette featuring forest greens, dark blues. Wine red, blacks.

He has a lot of great marvel redesigns in their Au he created for their Spider-sona the Night spider universe with a amazing original avengers line up and outside of that some excellent x men character artwork ( glad to see someone else liked wolverine and the x-men young cast members as well), moon knight as the leader for the 'cult of knoshu'. His DC stuff is also really great, lots of very fun Bat family designs along with some dynamic and interesting new takes on Teen titans and the Super son's and a great Outlaws Au with red hood, Roy harper and kara as a rebellious punk found family is awesome. Their Nubia and Daina are very cool. Their Black canary design is just Great (short hair). Also check out his powerpuff girls and Ninja turtle stuff.

https://instagram.com/gabriellarragan

Milkydraws

This Tumblr user's Artwork is really great in having warm tones and does redesigns for Dc characters such as the Justice League , JSA, JL international and teen titan's, DKR universe stuff. They do a very good job with clothes as well as musculature so their amazon sketches are really good, diana as a wrestler in the style of grappling wrestling they did historically in ancient greece is really fun idea, they also do a great job at non-human characters and their designs for atlanteans, starfire, trigon, martians are all appropriately horrifying in tjis artwork.

As fans I think we forget just how not like a person some of these characters should look, the scales/fins being part of aquamen rather then clothes is cool, some specific details i found i really liked were the dixie boots and retro S design for superman, diana's hair and more tiga like upper outfit, the big ears on their batman, the female flashes designs , clear glass on cyborg synthetic parts, that power girl design ( of several) with like the clunky mecha boots and gauntlets. The artists have a great use of colour, great understanding of anatomy, and some really good clothing designs. Fair warning some bare chests ( npth male and female) and some more gorey pic's among their work.

bOssu

An artist I discovered via Instagram under the account name vnskecthes that has some great marvel redesigns and DC ones in between lots of commission work and OC sketches, using the likes of spider man, dr strange, black panther, iron man, captain america, ant man, shang chi ect. They offer a lot of variety as any single character focus piece has multiple designs presented, very slick artstyle with usually small colour palette for anyone, design keeps things nice and uniform, great texture on metal. Really cool mecha looking iron man stuff , and nice difference in masks for their black pattern designs, oni mask wolverine and daredevil is pretty cool. they done some DC resigns as well really like the No cape strong body armoured Martian manhunter,dr fate as a dog, satna with a little cape and glasses ( gives off very much a dork in private life vibes), fem flash with a mask, duel sword Wonder woman. A lot of influence from anime ,manga and video games for inspiration here that creates its own unique vibe.

https://instagram.com/vnsketches

Vinícius Lopez

This artist has a lot of great Redesigns. A good fantastic four redisings, a strong more stocky built version of susan storm, a reed with a clam smile and a good amount of grey hairs and a johnny a lopsided grin. Their x men redesigns are also pretty cool, their modern x men line up has this double line motif on cyclops, accents beat's lab coat and storms stockings mixed with bright colours makes it look very slick and striking, the classic x men line up has some practical looking suits and features a non-binary angel, his justice league redesigns are pretty cool I like the variance in body type and hair styles he has, also the dr fate design is way too attractive. His batman redesigns are pretty cool pinty little shoulders and full mask, jacket and goggles catwoman ( some pre-crisis red head jason love), teen titans redesigns are cool too, prosthetic looking leg cyborg, energetic beast boy, also both of his wonder woman designs go slap so hard! The original more canon adjacent one with the Dog tags and tie back hair is super cool but the later sketches of a tall, wild free flowing hair and BUILT like a brick house are also excellent.

https://instagram.com/viniciuslopez_artwork

https://twitter.com/lopez_artwork

Taku (@Yotakuboi)

Probably the artist with the least amount of artwork out at present but quantity does not equate quality. I found them on instagram as yotaku_boi , this artists has a frantic sort of energy to their art but crisp, clean line work effective matched with effective colour schemes and some really great character redesigns for spider man related characters, a more monster looking batman, a really cool catwoman design, the best drax design I have ever seen, a really interesting look for venom with a bulbous frog like tongue and black and white used to make a skeleton accents that remind me of a de los Muertos mask. Lot of his designs feel like they belong in an animated cartoon series and there is an obvious appreciation for a bit of a horror esthetique in some of his work.

https://instagram.com/yotaku_boi

Mike Becker

This artist most easily found on deviantart has a well proportioned that depicts almost Gabriel Ba esque art styles version of these characters very well, his use of bright colours and love of zany more cosmic, high flying silver age comic vibe is evident in every artwork especially some of his OC's , hes done art of the avengers, spider man, dr strange, fantastic four and a fairly extensive list of X men characters , he has also done Justice league, teen titans, legion super heroes. New gods, super pets and some DC rogues galleries. His artwork often features status effects around the characters such as radiating Kirby krackles of energy or surrounded by flames, he also often plays with detail on characters skin such as swirling moving of magma's arms or magic's metal arm or the tattoos he gives hawkwoman. He also seems to really love animals and that's always a plus. I don't care if it's silly if we are able to say a person can fly then why can't his dog also fly too.

Link: https://instagram.com/mikebecker

LuisBajoColladoes

For anyone who's a fan of thor or DC character's I would encourage you to take the time to check out this amazing artist. He has recently done DCtober an art challenge where people redesign/draw a character a day for a month all of which are very cool, the year before he did a Marveltober where he did the same thing although those designs are monochrome but still excellent.

There are many things I can point to as to what I enjoy in his designs his batgirl home made looking costume, how cartoonish Mr Miracle looks like he's trying to escape being two dimensional, the ocean colour scheme for his aquaman and the fiery colour scheme of his ares, he also has really cool designs for high tech armour on characters like black manta, blue beetle, big barda. He has also done art based on various IP's he doen designs based off the unfinished justice league mortal film film the 2000's, flashpoint universe characters, spiderman and spider verse and X-men with a EArth X design influence.

Oni18064

Where do I even begin to describe this artist. He has a constant output of new artwork everyday. I have been following for the past two or 3 years now and can definitively say that he loves art and is always improving his already amazing skills. His character redesigns mostly Marvel stuff although his old Dc redesigns are fun too and have a great Idea of giving each big character their own fifth dimensional imp, He's done about three maybe four rounds of redesigns at this point for a lot of the different ip's like X-men, spider man, fantastic four, captain america, hulk, thor, runaways, big hero six ect. The hero in question is a lot of their rogue's gallery and their allies.

His most recent has him doing different alternate universe to his overall AU version of marvel which has some interesting features to it such as mash up of new warriors with big hero six, happy hogan in a iron suit, black peter parker, with miles morales under the alias scarlet spider and ghost spider being the gwen clone from the original 70's clone saga story, fem captain america and falcon, monica rambeau as captain marvel with kamla as her sidekick spectrum, Nick coulson as Machine Man ( for my fellow agents of shield watchers I thought this was very clever). Overall great creative energy very well versed in both the comic's themselves and other related media such as recent video games or movies. The overall influences and desing elements are taken from all over showcasing both their immense creative and technical skills and their humbling love for these comic books in every piece of artwork they post.

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