#amnesiac joker

[mr-viwick]

inherently doomed

[komero-otus]

amnesia arc brainrot (PLAYLIST LINK)

[kimathywimathy]

Am I a fake Radiohead fan If I have friends?

Anyway listen to this it's very scrummy

[gffa]

How dare anyone not love Tim Drake, the CITY IS ON FIRE, they're in the middle of a WAR WITH THE JOKER, it's fucking go time and it's ALL HANDS ON DECK, even the recent amnesiac over there, SHIT IS SERIOUS NOW and meanwhile this unhinged gremlin is NOT standing for this shit, he's slouching while everyone else poses dramatically and literally chewing gum to blow bubbles, HOW DARE ANYONE THINK THIS GUY IS ANYTHING LESS THAN THE KING OF BEING WEIRD AND UNHINGED, he's the best.

[distort-opia]

Is amnesia joker never went back to going joker would bruce stalk him or let him be ?

[cough] What an interesting hypothetical. Almost like I know a friend and fellow writer with whom I have discussed this extensively, and who might be writing a fic akin to it. (Frac if you see this, it is a SIGN--)

But seriously, it's a hypothetical I love and one that's been hinted at by DC itself? Twice. The first time is in Batman: Going Sane, in which Joker turns into a completely different guy (pretty much having self induced amnesia) after he thinks he killed Batman. He's got a wife and a job and everything. Except Batman is not actually dead, he's been recovering with a nice kind woman too (sigh) and it's fascinating how he's sort of begging himself not to notice where Joker might have gone, so that he wouldn't be forced to follow:

Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #67

Then there's the question of what exactly happened between Batman (2011) #48-49 and Dark Days: The Forge. Amnesiac Joker goes from sitting on a bench begging Bruce not to revive Batman, because Joker will have to follow (sound familiar?) to being in Batman's super-secret underground prison. And we never find out how it happened. Bruce just says "I needed him." There's a distinct possibility that, instead of letting Joker be a regular guy, Batman tracked him down as part of the Nth metal investigation... and in the process likely triggered the amnesiac man into becoming Joker again, because that's who he actually needed Joker to be in order to get answers. While even as an amnesiac Joker felt "the call", he fought it. And there's not really any explanation as to how Joker went from looking normal to white bleached skin and green hair again:

Batman (2011) #51

Dark Days: The Casting

And there's also Batman: Joker Time and Batman: Secrets, two rare stories that deal with the idea of Joker potentially rehabilitating... and Batman not even conceiving of it being a possibility. He stalks Joker even more intensely than before (which is a feat). It's interesting when you contrast this behavior against Bruce's offer to help Joker in The Killing Joke... it's almost like he trusts no one else but himself to try and rehabilitate Joker.

But I have massively digressed! The point is, canon itself supports Batman not leaving Joker alone to live in peace even if he chose to, because he would (rightfully, let's be honest) not trust it. But also because he's compelled by sheer obsession to chase Joker, wherever he goes.

[imtired-likerllytired]

YALL DONT UNDERSTAND

My favorite part of Bruce and Dicks relationship isn’t the unending loyalty and devotion and the self assured destruction of loving a man who hates himself on Dicks part and using an eternally flying man as a your stable ground on Bruce’s part

It’s not the adoration that feels like shackles or the unending trust that feels like raking hot coals over your back

It’s the fact that Dick Grayson will always love Bruce Wayne

And also

Always want to kick the absolute shit out of him

Violently

Like Dick has pent up rage and we see him lash out at people but almost never has he ever attacked any loved ones physically with the exception of Roy Harper after the women who they both loved more than life itself passed.

But with Bruce?

Yeah no

Dick not only hits to hurt

He hits with the aim of getting Bruce down and keeping him there.

It feels like vindication to him

He borderline revels in it

I mean look at the hits he landed during the Gotham War run or Forever Evil/Spyral

And then there’s Bruce

Who knows

Because he is not an idiot

And he knows he fucked up with Dick more than the rest as Robin (nothing can really compare to how he treats Jason as the red hood)

But do you think Batman feels guilt over the fact that Dick HAS this much rage and bitterness over the things Bruce has done

Like Dick in unendingly Kind and forgiving but he’s also and pardon my French, a dick (lowercase) so he absolutely holds resentment over the stuff Bruce did to him even if it’s water under the bridge in his day to day

But he’s still mad

He’s still mad over the loss of Robin

The gauntlet

The death of Jason Todd

The court of the owls

The reveal of Damian Wayne

The fact that Dick had to be Batman

The fact that Bruce died

The fact that Bruce told Dick he never should’ve been Batman

The fact that dick had to continue the cycle of orphans raising orphans

(no he doesn’t count Talia as a parent cuz then he’d have to view her as human and human life has value and in his opinion she has no value and should go find a nice comfy corner to die in like an old cat)

The fact that he was basically pushed into a pseudo father role with all the kids past Jason

Letting him kill the Joker

Bringing the joker back to life

Damian’s death

Steph’s fake death

Spyral

Losing his memories and leaving Dick alone at spyral

Showing Dick a video of him getting shot in the head when he’s mentally a 12 year old and also an amnesiac

And about 6 million other heart wrenching things

So yeah Dick hits to hurt and those times where Bruce has lost control (mind control, clone, fight etc) and Dick has Carte Blanche to cause harm to Bruce

He

Does

[yoonjae20]

Ric(hard) Fenton; Part 5

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“What- How-“ Danny sputters, arms flailing. “How did you get in here?”

“Through the door like you did,” Dick quips back, making Danny groan, exasperated as the man steps over the passed out scientist. 

“What about the guards?” Bruce asks and Dick glances at him — assessing him, Bruce now realizes. When he concludes that Danny doesn’t seem uncomfortable around Bruce, not flinching away from his voice like he had been when he first arrived at the manor, he finally answers.

“Only unconscious, not dead.” 

Bruce sighs but accepts the answer.

Dick turns back to the Fentons.

“Where did you guys leave Sam and Tucker?”

“We splitted up, they went down, we went up,” Danny’s father says and Dick blanches.

“Jazz!” he exclaims with horror and the girl holds up her hands in surrender.

“They wouldn’t listen to me,” Jazz defends herself with a wince. “I didn’t want to be colleterial or else I would have gone with them.”

Dick groans and pinches the bridge of his nose.

“What’s the problem?” Bruce dares asking, glancing between the pair.

“Against all odds, Danny is their impulse control,” Dick answers, defeated as Danny grins at the news. “There’s a 50% chance this building is gonna blow up.”

“Meh, we’ll be fine,” Danny states with a throw away hand gesture, smirk still on his lips.

“The last time we let the two loose unsupervised they exploded Vlad’s house.”

“Unimportant,” Danny deadpans, rolling his eyes and Bruce makes a note to ask Tim and Oracle if they have some information on whoever Vlad is.   

“Danny,” Jazz chides but it doesn’t seem to deter the boy. 

“He’s literally a billionaire, no one cares,” Danny counters and slowly starts sinking into the floor. “Now that the reunion is over, I’m gonna go save Jason.”

He’s gone before Bruce can blink and Dick curses. 

“Should I be worried?” Bruce questions, concerned as Dick stares at the ceiling, collecting himself.

“For Jason? No,” Dick replies and Bruce slightly relaxes at that. “My sanity, however? Yes.”

Jazz goes over to Dick, patting his shoulder consolingly like she is used to Dick being overly dramatic — and she probably is, considering Tim’s theory that Dick met Danny and by extension the Fentons during his amnesiac year. (Bruce can admit that he is jealous just how easy they seem to interact with each other — with a sort of openness, Bruce knows they will never be truly able to achieve.)

“Should I go or do you want to?”

“I’ll do it,” Dick sighs and without any warning also sinks through the floor, leaving Bruce standing with Jazz and her parents. The only reason why Bruce doesn’t externally freak out is because the Fentons seem to treat this like it’s normal behaviour for the man. 

The Fentons sans their daughter turn to Bruce with sparkles in their eyes, putting Bruce slightly on edge. 

“What do you know about Ghosts in Gotham?”

Jason floats.

He’s Jason — hiding from his father and watching his mother give out under her addiction. There’s no one to help him. He’s Robin — bleeding out in a warehouse that is rigged to explode with a woman that couldn't be farther from his mother. Help isn’t coming. He’s Red Hood — making B choose between the Joker and him, and getting out with a bat shaped scar on his throat. Help deserted him. 

He feels too small and too big for the world at the same time — like he’ll break apart any minute. Whenever he comes across the Birds and the Bats on patrol he feels like an outsider. Like there is an invisible wall separating him from them. The symbol on his chest doesn’t really belong to him anymore — not in any way that matters. He will always be different. Always just the Robin that died. 

And Crime Alley loves him, but some days it’s not enough. Some days the echo of hysterical laughter haunts him and green swims in his vision and he doesn’t feel like himself — doesn’t feel like he’s actually alive, like the Joker took more from him in a way he can’t even start to describe. (If Jason ever saw his younger self, would he even recognize himself?)

When Jason first saw Danny, it was like looking into the mirror. By now he knows that it couldn’t be further from the truth — Danny has a family that actually cares about him, a support net that catches him no matter what, (that wouldn’t care if he used real bullets instead of rubber bullets) — but that self-loathing? The solemn resignation to sacrifice himself over and over again just to get accepted? He hates that he knows exactly how the boy feels. 

And he hates that he still yearns for what the boy has. The fond way he and Dick talked about his parents, the inside jokes, the trust — it’s staggering, it’s… it’s everything Jason wants. Would Dick have ever returned if it hadn’t been for the GIW? Would he have stayed Ric Fenton if he had the chance? (He knows the answer. And he can’t even blame Dick for it. He would have done the same.)

He comes to himself, body aching and head pulsing, blurry green coloring his vision to the sound of angry, heated voices. One moment he is laying on something hard and the next he is in the arms of someone blissfully cold, the green receding. 

“Dick?” he mumbles out, slightly delirious and tongue not complying, heavy as lead in his mouth.

“I’m here, I’m here,” a soothing voice whispers and he gets handed to another set of hands, those more warm. He leans into the touch as a hand runs through his hair.

“Oh Jay,” the voice continues murmuring as they move, “why are you always so recklessly selfless.” 

“You… the one to talk,” Jason brings out and Dick snorts, laughing softly.

“I guess I deserve that,” Dick admits before he shifts to support Jason better. “Come on, work with me, or else B will have an aneurysm if he sees you like this.” 

“What’s the old man doing here?” Jason questions, staggering a bit as he stumbles over the floor under his feet. A hand around his shoulder steadies him. 

“You know how paranoid he is, he wouldn't have let either me or you go off like this.”

The harshness in his tone from when he had talked about B when he recruited Jason for help is gone, replaced with resigned fondness. Something must have happened while Jason was out. 

“You good?” Jason asks, referring to Bruce and the man understands as he lets out a sigh.

“Better at least,” he says truthfully. “Danny told me he apologized and everything.”

Jason knits his eyebrows together, still baffled as to why (or more like what Bruce did again so)  there was bad blood between them — bad enough that Dick had been angry on the boy’s behalf. He’ll have to ask later.

“Good,” he hums nevertheless. “Serves him right.”

Dick snickers and Jason grins, crooked. 

“Where’s Danny?” Jason follows up, surroundings finally becoming clearer around him and not seeing the black haired boy next to them. His body still feels like it was run over with a truck. 

“He’s wrangling Sam and Tucker,” Dick answers and Jason confused look he adds, “Don’t worry, if anyone is going to be hurt, it’ll be the GIW.”

They walk past several unconscious…actually Jason can’t really tell if they are even alive, people in white suits as well as more than a several holes in the walls and Jason blinks at the chaos.

“Case in point,” Dick states when he sees Jason look at the carnage. 

“We can’t let them meet Tim,” the thought suddenly comes to Jason’s mind as he remembers how they only found out that the boy exploded several of the League of Assassin’s bases and apparently knows Ra’s when the older man came to snoop on Tim calling him “Detective” and Tim asked him where his spleen is. (Tim and Jason might have their differences and their relationship is still more than rough around the edges, but Jason would have gladly beaten up Ra’s if Tim asked him to.) 

Dick chuckles.

“There’s no way Tim isn’t already involved,” Dick breaks the news with a raised eyebrow. “You know how he is about mysteries.”

Jason sighs. 

“Yeah okay, I should have expected that.”

“You should,” Dick teases and Jason rolls his eyes, shoving his grinning face away as they go up a level. 

“Ric, please tell me he isn’t emotionally constipated all the time,” an auburn-haired young woman pleads, perking up when she sees them and pointing her thumb into the direction of Bruce who is still donning his cowl. Jason can tell the man feels a little bit insulted. “Ancients, and here I thought Danny was bad.”

“Then don’t ask,” Dick remarks in jest and she narrows her eyes at the man, glaring at him, but Jason can tell it’s all in good fun.

“Don’t make me talk about the S incident-”

“Okay, okay, no need to pack out the big guns,” Dick interrupts, flailing a little bit and Jason commits to somehow find out what they are talking about. That sounds like good blackmail material. Steph is gonna love it.

Dick must notice his evil grin because he points a finger at Jason.

“Don’t even think about it.”

Jason grins just wider.

“I have no idea what you are talking about.”

“Oh, are we talking about the time Ric accidently phased out of his pants in the middle of the street and was left standing in his Superman boxers?” Danny exclaims, mischief in his voice.  

“You traitor!” Dick screeches and flings himself at Danny who just cackles and tries hiding behind a goth girl and a boy with brown skin in glasses — probably Sam and Tucker, who just shake their heads at the display.

“Boys!” Danny’s father calls and Dick stops where he is giving Danny a noogie, still grumbling even as Danny laughs, delighted. He doesn’t quite release the boy, leaving an arm around the smaller boy’s shoulders as they both straighten. 

The man raises an eyebrow at both of them before he breaks into a big smile and pulls them into a hug that both melt into. The man inspects Dick’s face, eyebrows crinkling.

“Did you get thinner?” he questions, gently grasping Dick’s chin as he rotates the man’s face to get a look at his cheekbones.

“I’ve only been gone for 2 months, Dad,” Dick’s voice comes out slightly muffled as the man squeezes his cheeks with a worried look. 

“You are smothering him, dear,” Danny’s mother interrupts, putting a warning hand on the man’s arm. The man lets Dick and Danny go with a slight grumble. “Well Ric, is there someone you want to introduce to us?”

She gives him an expectant look and Dick coughs, obviously awkward. To no surprise he turns to Jason first.

“This is Jason, he’s- he’s my brother,” he starts and Danny’s mother hums, giving Jason an appreciative look before Dick cringes as he turns to Bruce. “And…well…”

“Batman, I am aware,” she finishes for him, lips perking up into smirk. “We had a quite enlightening conversation.”

Dick closes his eyes as Danny smothers a laugh at his dejected expression and leans into his friends. The man lets out a deep sigh.

“I guess we are doing this,” Dick murmurs before he continues in a louder voice. “B these are Maddie and Jack Fenton along with their daughter Jazz as you might be aware.” All three of them wave at that. “They are-” He struggles with finding his words and it’s Jack who cuts in with a proud grin. “We are his adopted family. I have to say, Ric might be our favorite son.” He winks, over exaggerated.

“Hey!” Danny complains, but he is laughing as he punches his father’s upper arm. 

“And of course Danny-o is our favorite son too,” Jack says, ruffling the boy’s hair as Maddie fondly rolls her eyes over her husband's way over the top behavior while Jazz shakes her head. Sam snorts while Tucker just smiles. “And Jason too if he wants to be.”

The man’s smile is warm and Jason startles a little at being addressed, surprised by Jack’s openness. He’s not the only one. Jason knows Bruce long enough to recognize the man is brooding as he crosses his arms, letting out a grunt in response. 

“B is…” Dick trails off, grimacing slightly as Bruce’s attention turns back to him and he minutely perks up, reminding Jason of an overexcited puppy. Jason has to turn away from the sight, holding back his laughter with Danny whose own lips are twitching. “is…” 

Dick’s mouth closes and opens but no words come out. If Bruce’s cowl were his actual ears, they would be drooping by now. It gives Jason the rest as he breaks out in guffawing laughter, hitting Danny’s arm as he wheezes — slightly in pain as his ribs ache, but mostly from how hilarious this whole situation is.

“His look,” he brings out and Bruce’s disappointed stare just makes Jason crack up even more, tears streaming down his face as Jason struggles to collect himself. He muffles his laugh with his hand but everytime he glances back at Bruce, his body shakes once again. Danny also seems to have given up, snickering even when his sister gives him a disapproving look. Sam and Tucker also seem amused despite probably not understanding the situation.  

Dick for his part is a lot more successful at suppressing his lips perking into a smile when Bruce glances at him. It takes Jason a good 15 minutes to calm down as he leans against a wall, not regretting laughing one bit despite how much his sides hurt.

“Please tell me Oracle recorded that,” Jason snickers.

Dick seems to have pity on the older man because he shushes Jason before he pinches the bridge of his nose.

“B used to be my sort of mentor,” he decides to go with and Bruce obviously deflates. Maddie nods with an understanding expression.

“That explains your expertise in martial arts,” she says before she turns to Bruce. “Thanks for taking care of Ric, then.”

For a moment Jason expects the man to not even spare the woman an answer but to his surprise the man stiffens slightly, before awkwardly responding with an “Yes. Of course.” 

Jason turns away before he can break into laughter again as Dick rolls his eyes at Bruce's usual emotional constipation and Jazz audibly sighs.

Yes, the Fentons are definitely a riot. 

[yourlovelyclown]

Here is the proof that Ewan Mitchell is literally amnesiac!Joker in real life

[fractualized]

I present a collection of normie Jokers (aka how Joker might look if he never fell into the vat), with the following parameters:

no masks/prosthetics

all adults grown into Joker face

limited rehashing of TKJ (only including versions I felt had different vibes)

1) Joker as Arthur Wilde — Joker (1975) #5, Irv Novick

2) Unnamed former lab assistant and struggling comedian — The Killing Joke, Brian Bolland

3) Joker disguised during "Death in the Family" — Batman (1940) #427, Jim Aparo

4) Joseph Kerr in the "Going Sane" storyline — Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight (1989) #66, Joe Staton

5) Unnamed TKJ-esque husband — JLA (1997) #35, Mark Pajarillo

6) Unnamed worker drone/comedian — Batman: It's Joker Time #3, Bob Hall

7) Jack the criminal in "Lovers and Madmen" — Batman Confidential #7, Denys Cowan

8) Unnamed mobster (at times known as Jackie, Sonny, or Hap) in "Case Study" — Batman: Black & White (Vol 2), Alex Ross

9) Unnamed criminal in Joker's own mind — The Brave and the Bold (2007) #31, Chad Hardin

10) Eric Border, Arkham Asylum orderly — Batman (2011) Annual #2, Wes Craig Batman (2011) #36, Greg Capullo

11) Alby, corrupt businessman — Detective Comics (2011) #27, Bryan Hitch

12) Unnamed amnesiac from the "Superheavy" storyline — Batman (2011) #48, Greg Capullo

13) Jack Napier in the White Knight series — Batman: White Knight #2, Sean Murphy

14) Unnamed comedian — Batman: Gotham Nights (2020) #9, Neil Edwards

15) Jack Oswald White — Flashpoint Beyond #5, Xermanico

16) Darwin Halliday, chemist and head of Halliday Industries in "The Bat-Man of Gotham" — Batman (2016) #134, Mike Hawthorne Batman (2016) #135, Jorge Jiménez

(Once again, thanks to @distort-opia for assistance!)

[mr-viwick]

stay a bit longer

[heavyreminisxing]

stuff i wrote:

ongoing—bad praxis series: 1, 2, 3 (tbd)

“The first memory Jason has is waking up on the operating table, his dose of anesthesia half what it should have been, and looking down his body at his cracked open chest.

He’s lucky to be alive, they tell him; he can’t remember his last name.”

pre-utrh amnesiac, medical resident jason todd. he fights in an underground boxing ring and can’t mind his own business to save his life.

born fighter series: part 1 here, 2 and 3 on the way

“Jason has been running into the Bat for as long as he’s been starting fights.

Jason has been running into the Bat his whole life.”

(jason-never-gets-adopted au)

so, you’ve killed the joker

“Jason’s mouth is dry and his blood just starting to clot when he shoots the Joker in the head.”

what it says on the box + immortal jason

finished—kiss your knuckles (punch me in the face)

“He’s just got the book in his hands, the feel of the velvet dust jacket on his fingertips, the smell of warm pastry from the instore cafe, when it hits him.

Jason doesn’t talk to his dad anymore, and he hasn’t really talked to him in years.”

no capes, college student jason, estranged family type beat

hit me as hard as you can

“THE BATMAN CATCHES Jason stealing the tires off his car; after that Jason’s pressing a gun to his own temple and saying, the first step to redemption is to atone.”

(fight club inspired alternate utrh)

ivan the terrible

“It’s raining still, coming down in sheets and turning grey from the ash of the bomb a city over, when the Joker lives.

And like always, Bruce is just a little too late.”

(aftermath of a—slightly to the left—utrh, bruce wayne character study)

silent spring

“Robin is dying on the floor again tonight. A rib bone juts out of his sternum. Jason, older now, years later, hood tucked under his arm, rubs the side of his abdomen: phantom pain and sympathy.”

(ghost!robin decides to stick around)

sure as the stars shine above

“Jason is freezing, and he fucking hates Christmas.”

christmas fic!

love and anger; land and sea

“‘Why do you read?’

Jason blinks from under the hood.”

my first fic! about jason and the origins of his love of reading, etc

[kailjoi]

Simon is another one of our artists for the zine! He's got some great batjokes art, but I also love his red hood gang and amnesiac joker stuff :)

@mr-viwick

[strong-with-the-sarcasm]

Revenant!Jazz ideas:

Continuing from this DPxDC prompt of mine, I’ve had some more thoughts about Jasmine Fenton and Revenants, especially where it concerns DC lore and Jason Todd in particular.

———————-

In my original post, @starlightcat04 asked whether or not Jazz’s eyes would glow toxic green too. I propose that, no, they wouldn’t.

While it’s a common head canon that Ectoplasm is heavily influenced by emotions, Jazz’s Ecto-contamination is bone deep and pure, unlike Jason’s. So no, I don’t believe her eyes would glow green.

They turn from the teal she had in life to a smoldering green that reflects light just like a feline, with a heavily damaged sclera that is perceived as black in low lighting, with ash grey veins spreading from her eye sockets down to her jaw like tears.

Her once bright hair turns from a lively orange-ish red to the color of cooling embers.

That which caused her death, a punctured artery is half-way healed by the time Jazz reanimates in the crematorium, so not only is she supposed to be dead still, she also has to be very careful with her movements otherwise she could very well bleed out again before she is fully healed.

What else changes with Revenant!Jazz?

In exchange for a higher mental processing and the high damage absorption of Revenants, Jazz loses most (almost all) of her memories of her life. What she does remember is thankfully not her death, but rather Danny’s, his death scream and ghostly wail overlap in her mind, at times causing severe headaches and nausea.

(According to his wiki page, Jason spent a year in a coma and as an amnesiac vagrant, therefore it’s not entirely without precedent that Jazz wouldn’t keep hers.)

Her Ecto-contamination has to factor in a lot though.

Jason was revived by Superboy-Prime’s Reality Shattering Punch. Jazz was reanimated by her own willpower, aided by Ecto to allow her body to heal and regress the stages of rigor mortis.

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What does Jazz need to accomplish as a Revenant?

In the original prompt I wrote that Jazz returned to keep Danny safe- broad enough for a prompt, but what exactly does “safe” for a halfa entail?

Let’s list the major threats to Danny’s health, beginning with the obvious: the Ghost Investigation Ward and The Fenton Parents.

The Fentons are capable of tracking Phantom by his Ecto-signature, creating and having created weaponry specifically designed to target the ghost in question, to which they pass that tech on to the GIW.

If Danny remains in Gotham, the ambient Ecto will scramble the tech over enough of a distance, but if Danny were in a line up of three people right next to a GIW agent he’d be clocked almost immediately.

So, the Fentons and the GIW have to go. How does this happen?

The greatest irony I could possibly inflict on these anti-ghosters- becoming ghosts themselves. I won’t go into detail about what my brain jumped to when I thought about that outcome, but let’s just say it was pretty dark.

(And karmically well-deserved.)

#3 on the list depends on where Danny is when Jazz is finished with numbers 1 & 2 on her list.

If Danny is is Gotham and staying there for the long haul, then I believe this girl would take one look at Batman’s rogue gallery and nope them so hard everyone in Gotham gets the sense of their world about to be rocked, but the ones she gunning for the most?

(Joker, Bane, Manbat, Firefly, Madhatter, Riddler…)

They get the sensation that someone just walked over their non-existent graves.

(I got a little gleeful demented imagining Jazz just straight up ripping Manbat’s wings clean off, burning Firefly alive and throwing a detoxed Bane into a crowd of vengeful Gothamites.)

(Jazz learns that Joker killed a young hero with a crowbar and a bomb. She’s fully onboard with turnabout being fair play when it comes to that Pennywise reject.)

(I can’t even begin to list every rogue Jazz cuts down, it she doesn’t kill all of them, just most of their number.)

(Gotham celebrates for weeks.)

(I’m not sure whether or not Jazz kills the four mentioned previously in a couple of nights, one night or over a a few months, but it doesn’t take as long as one might think.)

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What’s next for Revenant!Jazz?

I’m still writing The Regent series, so I doubt I’ll come back to this for a while, but I’ll still be posting ideas and whatnot about Revenant!Jazz. There’s still plenty to explore here, and I have a pretty angst/bittersweet ending for Jazz in mind I want to talk about later.

If you have any ideas to add, please feel free to comment! If anyone does write this, please let me know so I can read it!

[cosmics-beings]

I'll never forget how starscream came upon an amnesiac and oblivious orion pax and never once did he resort to violence when he was aware optimus didn't know who he was. there was a gentleness from starscream that we haven't seen from him (unless we count him rescuing or attempting to rescue breakdown - and that wasn't gentleness as much as it was him doing a good deed) and deciding to be gentle to optimus was just so interesting. Such a change to him. the way he addresses him, the way he dismisses the situation as 'you just reminded me of someone i used to know', and then he just doesn't kill him.

and keep in mind, optimus is the person he hates the MOST. optimus is the person who he wants to kill so the decepticons can win the war, but megatron refuses to make that move for his own selfish reasons (i.e optimus is very much his purpose - a very batman and joker like scenario). optimus is the one who is responsible for thrawting so many of strascream's plans, even to kill Megatron.

and at optimus's most vulnerable time, he is kind to him. he is in his own way, tender to him. and starscream even is a catalyst that jerks his memory.

part of me wondered if he saw himself in optimus, but knew it was different; worse.

when starscream leaves the decepticons, megatron is through with him. he isn't looking for him and doesn't care that he's alive or dead. for optimus it's different. megatron wants to humiliate him, he wants to make him look like a fool, use him against his friends, and kill him.

maybe there is some empathy there.

i just love that interaction. and i wish that, instead of hating starscream, the writers developed on that relationship. the only reason optimus got his memories back is because starscream planted that seed of distrust in orion pax.

[rustcoloredraccoon]

Masterpost

AO3 by ship:

JayTim:

Don't touch my boy (59,385 words): Rated M, Omegaverse mpreg + prequel Meet Me Halfway & 3 drabbles

The magic trick you pull on me (17,655 words): Rated T, Hogwarts AU

Choices (54,261 words) : rated T, accidental baby acquisition

Love Language (6736 words): rated T, Fluff, Tim teaching Damian about dating with Jason assisting

DickTim:

Pillow Talk (16,736 words) : rated T, Omegaverse + 8 additions with different ratings in the Talk series

Soft Dom Dick is good for my anxiety: a series, all rated E.

Gilded cage (2262 words): rated G, Hades/persephone one-shot

Yours for the night (4436 words): rated M, possessive Dick

A Guide for Vampire Hight Society (5179 words) : rated T, Vampire King Dick, 5 +1 format, outsider perspective

Deepest Desires (1957 words): rated T, truth serum

You and I are the universal constant (3944 words): rated T, dimension travel

Strictly hypothetically (1685 words): rated G, outsiders pov on sex pollen aftermath

Subscribe for more (10,394 words): rated E, influencer AU

Blank Slate (3207 words): rated M, dark Dick, amnesiac Tim, Dark Tim, Ambiguous/open ending

Let's say goodbye, the hundredth time / And then tomorrow we'll do it again (3762 words): rated T, Major Character Death, The major character death is only temporary, angst, time loop

heroesoncam.com (4003 words): rated E, camboy Tim

Anyone but him (3434 words): rated M, angst, fear toxin, truth serum

Obsessed (3461 words): rated E, camboy Tim

Playing Cupid (8513 words): rated T, Omegaverse, Meddling Jason

Figure you out / Wait for it (13,508 words): rated E, time travel, older Tim, Bottom Dick

Icarus (2739 words): rated T, Wing Fic, angst with happy ending

Eyes On Me: Supermodel!Dick x Photographer! Tim stories in my Portfolio series, currently only E rated

JayDickTim:

Monster (55,819 words) : Rated M, Tim kills the Joker and they hide him from Bruce

Should've turned around (glad I didn't) (6319 words): rated E, 4+1 format

Some people were just meant to die from a broken heart (12,559 words): rated T, Hanahaki disease

Keep you warm (99,203 words) : rated M, Omegaverse, Talon Dick + a deleted ending

The bed is big enough for all three of us (8543 words) : rated M, Established JayDick courting Tim, 5+1 format, fluff

Multiship:

Wayne Entertainment (73,543 words): rated E, adult entertainment AU, JayTim endgame

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DickTim

Something blue one-shot | Soft Dick headcanon | Nicknames headcanon | No Man's Land Redo idea snippet | Dick's back headcanon

JayTim:

Tim's Menagerie of Chaos concept | Size difference | Vet!Tim x Red Hood Jason concept snippet | Fake Dating AU concept | Soulmates AU concept

Multiship

Fame/Photographer Tim AU

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Hate it when DC drops something potentially interesting and then just moves on. Universes/futures in which Batman kills Joker are a dime a dozen. Happens all the time, and it's so often Joker's neck getting broken or... bitten (JLA: The Nail, The Batman Who Laughs, Batman & Dracula: Red Rain), with the wayward shooting (Countdown to Final Crisis) thrown in. But we don't really have alternate Universes in which Joker kills Batman. There's stories in which he thinks he killed Batman (like Going Sane) or in which Batman is just dead/gone (like Mother Panic: Gotham A.D. or The Dark Knight Returns) but there's not really a story, to my knowledge, that explores Joker unequivocally murdering Batman.

And then freaking Justice League (2016) #29 had to tantalize me immensely. Long story short, the kids of multiple superheroes arrive from the future to warn their parents that a horrible thing will occur if they let a sliver of the Great Darkness (a primordial cosmic entity that's existed since the birth of the Universe and which is the source of all darkness/evil) take over. If they don't stop it, all the superheroes and all the villains will go dark and fight each other until there's nothing left, leaving the planet destroyed. And in this potential future, were's shown this:

Oh okay. In the black Endgame costume no less. And can I just say, beautiful that Joker gets to suffocate or break Batman's neck for once, we call that equality.

But can I please get that story actually? Dark Batman vs. what I'm assuming is also a crazed Joker? Batman trying to kill Joker under the influence of something that brings out his worst impulses is not novel, but I'm liking the implication that Joker only kills Batman if he's taken over by a Great Darkness, by something foreign that (defined by the comic itself) takes away any compassion or goodness. And also, it's another confirmation that Batman loses to a Joker who's fully uninhibited, one who's fully consumed by hatred... that the thing keeping Joker the way he is now, relatively manageable, is his attachment to Batman. A speck of humanity that something like the Great Darkness could snuff out.

Is it not enough that the missing tie-in for how Joker went from an amnesiac to being held captive in the Batcave in Dark Days: The Forge lives in my brain rent free. Is it not enough that we were robbed of Bruce going up to his father from an alternate Universe and going "So mother turned into the Joker, huh? And you met my Joker and saved his life?" Now I gotta wonder about this too!