The Wayne doll house
Have some haunted doll au, since it's been bubbling away in my mind.
The bat cave is large and sprawling, many layers and tunnels and hollowed out cracks in the walls. It takes many years to fully reinforce to prevent stray kids from tripping into stagnant waters or fall down crags as he once did. The doll cave, as it becomes known, is in one of the deepest, darkest corners, one where the lights of the furnished caverns above don't reach.
It's one late night sitting at the computer when it suddenly occurs to Bruce that his first encounter with a doll was at the well entrance, many levels above.
There was nothing there when he went back.
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The justice league stared at the subaru. The subaru, having no eyes, did not stare back.
The seven of them had just finished a very long, arduous mission, and narrowly escaped government censure after the base they'd been raiding had turned out to belong to some corrupt official. With the alert up, they couldn't escape through city airspace, or even in their hero suits.
So civilian it was.
Batman had hotwired some bloke's car while the rest of them ducked into alleys and shop bathrooms, but the problem remained. There was seven of them. And five seats.
"I can shift into something more suitable for being carried," suggested j'onn, "but I believe one of us might have to hide."
"Foot well?" Hal tried, and everyone looked around at the tall, bulky, broad heroes.
"Think they'd have to go in the boot," Barry finally said. Everyone immediately turned to him. "No."
Batman spoke up before the discussion could devolve.
"I think.... I would be best for that."
The team stared.
"Batsy?"
Having no lungs meant he could not drag in the tired sigh he wished, but whatever force allowed this body to talk was capable of approximating something suitably resigned.
"As I am, I am... incapable of fully passing as human. It would be best if I remained out of sight."
"So just? Go change? I swear we won't be weird about whoever you are under the mask. Even if you're like, bald."
"Thank you, Wally, but I'm afraid I'm being serious." Reaching for the mask in broad daylight was unpleasant, but the glue and wires held as he gave it a few thorough tugs. "It doesn't detach."
Everyone stared. Clark reached out as if he wanted to check, but withdrew.
"Do you even have a civilian identity??" Oliver eventually asked. "Because at this point I'm genuinely not sure."
Wayne Enterprises and Queen Industries had a meeting that same evening. "Hn."
"Can we go back to the 'incapable of passing as human' part?!"
"We can discuss it in the car," he snapped, stalking past Barry and popping the boot. "In case you haven't forgotten, we're on a time limit."
For once, that seemed to encourage them, and batman, with great dignity, folded his joints and cape into the small space, ignoring Hal's mutter of 'what kind of contortionist -' as he slammed the lid. With a little shuffling he managed to activate his comms.
"I will inform the watchtower of our delay."
"Batman, they're tapping all outgoing signals, you can't -"
"It won't trigger," he interrupted, before he twisted his consciousness and sent it spiralling across the country.
Bruce awoke with a groan, stretching his limbs and taking a moment to marinate in his annoyance before he reached for the comm and voice modulator on the beside table.
"Batman to watchtower, we've encountered delays. If the Texan state government calls we haven't entered the state in six weeks. Batman out."
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"Alien?"
"No."
"Reanimated corpse?"
"No."
"Uh... Demon?"
"Hm. No."
"You're not just a meta human, are you?"
"No."
"Vampire?"
"No."
"Robot??"
"No."
"Batsy, please, someone's got to win the bet eventually. How do we even know you're not lying?!"
"You don't," Batman said, not looking up from his paperwork and Flash groaned, letting his sticky notes fall to the floor as he buried his head in his arms.
"One day," he bemoaned to the keyboard, "one day we'll figure it out."
"Until then please keep your eyes on the monitors."
Flash groaned again.
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Robin ducked under superman's arm as he scuttled down the corridor, laden with the night's haul of snacks. The real problem wasn't getting them - stopping league members from raiding the kitchen would be extremely counterproductive - but keeping them until he could return home to his human body to eat them. Batman had started searching him each time they left and it was really cutting into his daily sugar intake. Unfair! Just because he didn't actually use energy to stay up my night to fight crime, it felt like he did!!
'Oh, you're broken, Robin, oh, don't go out until the glue has fully set, Robin' his arm was fine! It wasn't like there was much crime to be fought on the watchtower anyway! At least not physically.
So he was pretty pleased with himself until he went to set the snacks down and found that the tar like glue they used had soaked through the sleeve and gotten all over his chocolates.
With his other hand, he tried to pry them off, wincing as the wrappers tore and stuck. He tried to shake it, ignoring the way his elbow rattled in the joint.
"Come on, come on - aw, cheezits."
The arm fell off. Robin stared despondently at the limb, surrounded by torn wrappers and dripping black glue where it connected to the elbow. The sour stink of formaldehyde filled the air.
He was going to be in such trouble with Bruce.
The click of the door jerked his head up.
Flash stood in the doorway, wide eyed. Robin stared back.
Flash screamed.
Oh yeah @dehydratedmockingbird have a thing
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Obey Me! Scenario : When Insults Backfire
! Trigger Warning ! - mild suggestion of verbal degradation/degradation kink
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*MC compliments Solomon in front of Barbatos*
Barbatos : You are simply hopeless, aren’t you?
MC : What did you just call me?
Barbatos : Though I suppose I can't expect much more from a naïve human.
MC : Hopeless? Naïve? Hehehe....
Solomon : You really shouldn’t insult my adorable apprentice like that, Barbatos.
MC : Well now, let’s not get ahead of ourselves-
Barbatos : Shall I insult you instead then? Imbecile.
MC : I beg to differ. Solomon is far from being an imbecile.
Barbatos : *looks at Solomon* It appears your apprentice isn’t very bright either. Why else would they choose to defend someone like you?
MC : He’s a wonderful teacher and an amazing friend, I trust him implicitly.
Barbatos : How foolishly misguided…
MC : Thank you
Barbatos : Quite dense, too.
MC : Aww, you’re too kind
Barbatos : It appears I have two imbeciles on my hands.
MC : Say it again. What am I?
Barbatos : I believe I just called you an imbecile.
MC : Elaborate.
Solomon : That's not necessary-
Barbatos : A moron.
MC : Hmm...
Barbatos : Dolt.
MC : Ohhh...
Barbatos : Simpleton.
MC : Ahhh...
Barbatos : Idiot. Or are you just too dim-witted to understand?
MC : Yes, keep going. More. Please degrade me more~
Barbatos : ….
Solomon : ….
Barbatos : I’ve changed my mind. I believe “pervert” is a much more fitting way to describe you.
MC : Mmmm, yessss~
Solomon : I really need to keep you away from Asmodeus…
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Eepy shenanigans in Prague
Gotta share a bit with you because it was the funnest thing.
Some of us arrived before the band, meaning when the bus came, we unintentionally trapped them in there.
Entertain the mental image of them staring thru the windows being like: Shite mate, we done fucked up. Bloody bastards are here already.
We were moved aside so the band could load in, during which you'd think the boys get in as well, so we don't see them.
NO! Bastards began walking in much later, being the most suspicious people ever.
Which would be fine, cuz no one ran to them, we were all calm and respectful and they had their faces covered.
AT FIRST! But Mr Token the Second and Third decided to stop giving fuck and kept walking around completely unmasked. (Sir, take everything out of the bus in one go!)
On accident I exchanged eye contact with II while shoving my face full of lunch, that fucker had the audacity to grin about my "deer in the headlights expression" XD
Each time they walked past we were like "Don't be suspicious, don't be suspicious" while covering our faces and looking away. Must have been quite the experience for the guys too XD
The concert was amazing, the crowd was lovely and so was the security. But dang was it the funniest mess.
What prompted IV to leave the venue and hour before the door opened, I have no idea. Man still did. SIR, wtf?!
Only Ves stayed hidden to us the whole time. Good for him, good for him.
Also the security guy during the day, being like "I don't know this band, but even I could tell when the performers walked in." and his "Are you here this early for photos and autographs?" to which we had to explain that "No, we actually don't wanna see the band. We are trying really hard not to see them! But someone is not at all trying to not be seen!"
Bonus: Photo of my Vessel mask on my shoulder from Adam Rossi' reel. I know this man is hiding more photos of me as tiny Ves at the barricade
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