#fuzzy timelines

[batsandbirdbrains]

The Flock

Based on this lovely addition by @lemonfizzyy

Dick is Peregrine (18)

Jason is Rook (15)

Tim is Sparrow (11)

Damian is Robin (still in training) (7)

Timeline for yj moves way up. Dick was 13 when all the season 2 shit happened, it was still just the og team but the reach shit was happening. Dick ends up getting ripped apart by the JL for plans he came up with that saved everyone, and even though no one died, they’re so hard on him for what happened. And Dick just gets pissed. And he packs his shit in the middle of the night and leaves. Goes back to Haly’s Circus, who mostly tours Europe and Asia now. They stop in America every couple years.

And while he’s performing in the circus, he becomes the Skydancer, named after his mom’s act before she became a Grayson. He’s an instant hit. Everyone loves him.

And on the side? He takes on a new hero name: Peregrine. He mostly protects the circus and anything that might harm them. Stops smuggling rings, human trafficking rings, mob families that try to extort businesses like the circus. Things like that. He's careful about when/where he goes out - it's not at every stop the circus makes, and sometimes he hacks a zeta to go to a different city, especially if it's to revisit a previous stop because he hadn't quite wrapped up all his business there.

Then after a year, he runs into a kid named Jason. He ran away to join the circus, and Dick takes him in. Teaches him how to be an acrobat, and eventually Jason joins the circus and the two have an act together. Dick is still mostly solo as the Skydancer, but he has some duet stuff with Jason to get him on the roster. He informally adopts Jason, and everyone in the circus refers to Jason as a Grayson now.

Jason eventually finds out about Peregrine, and insists he help. Dick trains him, passing on the name Robin while he’s still in training. He trains as Robin for a few months before Dick allows him to come out with him at night.

Once Jason is ready to soar, he picks the name Rook. He likes that a rook is both a bird and a chess piece.

Then a little boy named Tim is forgotten by his parents at a stop near the circus. Dick and Jason spend days trying to figure out how to get him home, but Tim doesn’t actually want to leave. This is the most fun he’s ever had. Plus, his parents left him in a foreign country, and their vacation was supposed to end shortly after Tim got left at the circus. They aren't coming back. Tim doesn't really want them to come back. He's happier with Dick and Jason. They end up adopting him too, and now there's a third Grayson brother in circus. He doesn't join the acrobat act right away, Dick wants to train him properly before allowing him to perform in case he gets hurt. For the most part, Tim helps out the workers who sell popcorn and souvenirs.

Tim is Robin for longer, considering he’s so much younger. After at least a year and a half of training, he too graduates from the Robin mantle. He becomes Sparrow.

Then there’s another little boy who’s running from something horrible. His name is Damian and he’s five and he’s terrified. The brothers take him in without question. A fourth Grayson brother now roams the circus, and no one bats an eye. Dick takes care of his brothers, looks after them, and treats them as if he's known them all their lives. They all return the favor.

Damian is still Robin, because he’s so little, and Dick can’t wrap his head around how Bruce ever let him out when he was only a few years older than Damian. It’s absurd.

But it's now been two years since Damian joined the family, and the League of Assassins is after them. Damian is the son of Talia al Ghul, they figure that much out fairly quickly. But Damian had never actually met his mother, not that he could remember. It's why he had no problem leaving the League and latching onto Dick. Dick is nice. Jason is nice. Tim is nice. Dick trains him to be an acrobat and to work on his self-defense and never ever hits him or screams at him. Sometimes Dick might raise his voice, but it's usually because he's scared one of them will get hurt. He gets angry sometimes, but very rarely is it at one his brothers. And if it is at one of the brothers, it's usually because they were doing something stupid that they knew they weren't supposed to be doing in the first place.

But Dick is now only 18, and he has no legal claim over any of the boys, and he certainly isn't a match for the entire League of Assassins. As much as he loathes to do it, he eventually packs the boys up and hacks a zeta to get them all to the Watchtower. They need help. They just had a brutal fight with the League of Assassins the night before, and they'd been on the run for weeks, not wanting to drag the circus into any of this mess. Dick is tired and he's hurt and he's desperate to keep his brothers safe, and even if the heroes in the Justice League can't stand him, he likes to think that they won't turn his brothers away just because of him. They're innocent, after all. They don't deserve to be hunted like animals.

They're all wearing their vigilante suits (modified circus costumes, really, but Dick managed to find a tailor that would use Kevlar), and they're all wearing domino masks. Damian, as Robin, is in one of his acrobat costumes. It's green and red and yellow, and he has on a mask and one of Dick's hoodies on (bright green with a faded circus logo - it's old, and each brother has stolen it at some point to claim for himself, it's Damian's now). Dick even went so far as to hack the zeta to announce their vigilante names, but it wasn't until Robin was announced that the JL members really made themselves known.

Except, it wasn't the Robin they were expecting.

"It's the Flock," they hear someone whisper, and Dick pulls his brothers closer to him. He's seen the name before - the Flock - it's what their fans call them. What newspapers call them. He thought it was kind of dumb, really, but the boys thought it was funny. Jason, when he was still new to being Rook and the name was first thrown around, thought it was hilarious "because it sounds like fuck, Dick!" and Dick had just rolled his eyes. It had become something of an inside joke for the boys to use the phrase "what the flock" instead of the usual "what the fuck" whenever they were out on patrol. Dick will never admit he thinks it's funny; he has an image to uphold as the responsible older brother, after all.

But now Batman is standing in front of them, scowling at them. Dick pushes his brothers behind him, but he holds Damian tight in his arms. He'd figured it out fairly quickly after the Talia reveal that Bruce was Damian's father. He has no interest in passing over his baby brother, though. He's here solely for protection.

"The League of Assassins is after us," is all Dick says. "We can't take them on our own. And I refuse to let my brothers be taken by them."

"How did you even get up here?" someone asks. Dick can hear Tim and Jason huffing behind him.

"How the flock do you think?" he hates that he slipped up with that stupid phrase, because now Tim and Jason are laughing and it's going to make them look like they're taunting the Justice League. Shit.

"Robin," Batman starts, still glaring, but Dick cuts him off.

"Peregrine," Dick snaps. He hikes Damian up a little further against his hip and says, "He goes by Robin, now."

Several people seem to come to the same realization at the same time, and Dick is actually a little surprised. He didn't think he was all that subtle about graduating from Robin to Peregrine when he left and joined the circus, but it seems Batman hadn't shared all of his information. Typical.

"You've been missing for five years," Batman starts again, but Dick just shakes his head.

"Does it really count as being missing if no one wanted me around?" he questions. "I wasn't hiding. You knew exactly where I was. You just didn't want me here."

Batman says nothing. Dick almost wishes that Bruce would continue arguing with him, because the silence is worse. It means Dick was right. He had been hoping he wasn't, this whole time.

It's Superman who steps forward and asks for more information on why they're there. Dick explains again that the League of Assassins is after them, that he knows they can't take on Ra's and Talia on their own. That he wants protection for his brothers.

They're offered protection on the condition that Peregrine rejoins the team, along with his brothers. Dick isn't happy about it, but he obliges.

"Fine," he says after a long discussion with his brothers. "But Robin is still in training. He doesn't go out in the field until I say so. And that won't be for a few more years."

"He's capable, isn't he?" Batman asks. "You said he'd been trained by the League."

"He's seven," Dick spits. Then he turns to Superman. "And I want legal custody of all three of them. We've been a family for years, and I want it in writing and legally recognized."

"We can arrange that," Superman promises.

None of the brothers let anyone else know that Damian is most likely Bruce's biological son. They won't risk him trying to take custody of Damian.

A few weeks later, the brothers are all legally Graysons, and Dick has custody of all three of them. They're living at Mount Justice for now, but Dick and Jason are looking for a place in Happy Harbor to settle down. They're given a stipend by the Justice League, but Dick still wants to get a day job. There's a gymnastics studio in Happy Harbor, maybe he can be an instructor. The other three will have to start school eventually, though, even if Jason insists he can get a job and skip high school. Dick refuses to humor that idea.

[sanguine-squid]

literally drawing him dude

[thealmightytrashdump]

Would Birkins have known that Wesker was alive? Like a hunch?

Maybe thats why he just injected the G virus in himself without really thinking about it. If he thought that Wesker died in the mansion like the reports would've said, he wouldn't have done it so quickly.

Right? :v

[xannerz]

meant to come back to this but here's some cass practice

[teethpaste]

:)

[liesmyth]

so why do you think alecto and anastasia were close, so close that alecto’s vow to her passes on to Harrow, Anastasia’s descendant?

OK SO my current theory is that Alecto was involved in Samael's death. Mostly because John rarely lies outright when he can tell a half-truth. He says that "she panicked halfway through" and "I killed him for her benefit, and she knew that at the time", and I'm inclined to believe there IS something there.

We don't know for sure that Alecto was there to witness Anastasia's failed Lyctorhood attempt, but I can't imagine she would have reacted positively if she had. Augustine and Mercy are fucking terrified of her + the fact that some of Alecto's first words to Harrow are "I'm sorry about Samael" suggest that he's on her mind whenever she thinks of Anastasia, and I sensed some guilt there. TO ME, she had a role in Anastasia's failed attempt and made it worse, and that's why she's sworn herself to the service of Anastasia's line.

Also — and this is pure speculation on my part — but in my opinion, Anastasia was one of the first ones to attempt Lyctorhood. It might have been even before Cristabel and Alfred's suicide pact, but I believe it was definitely before Pyrrha was killed by G1deon. Augustine and Mercy had their hands forced but Pyrrha went into it with clear eyes, and I really think everyone else wouldn't have followed suit killing their cavs if they didn't know for sure that there was no other choice. Anastasia took her time and reserched it thoroughly, and I can't imagine the others just committing murder while she scienced way in her lab?

I think Anastasia's failure is what made everyone else believe that there was no other choice, and that there was some time in between Samael's death and the Lyctors leaving the system / Alecto getting locked in the Tomb, while everyone else ascended and they found out about the RBs. Enough time that Alecto still being immediately concerned about Samael the moment she wakes up means that it's personal. To Me etc.

[future-boi]

What a cute and adorable dad and son. I sure hope nothing bad happens to the dad, that would really suck 🫢

Nah it’s the Hell Valley Timeline 😱😩😩😭 DUN DUN DUUNNNNN

Ik ik im terrible for this, but there’s this thing im working on that’s related to it and yeah this could be the lone/twin pines too, but i already drew it so…

Tbh I drew this up quickly after seeing scarves like those at the store 🤩😂 inspo strikes at random times

OH SHIT WAIT—

😮‍💨 aight we good. U can never know🫣

[i3utterflyeffect]

Purple having a stiff stage instead of a fluffy stage is funny

technically they had both! the chitin stage was just the earliest stage of it and the most uncomfortable one.

[wawamouse]

spent a bunch of time trying to figure out the Oz Macbeth rehearsal timelines (what with people coming and going) before i decided i don't care lol. what i did learn is that the character who plays Lady Macbeth is apparently named Stein.

Now here is a picture of Miguel reading his script:

[pricechecktranslations]

Okay so I'm pretty sure that keel was also a clone of Seth like pale Noel so wouldn't it make keel's children basically seth's children under biological point of view? I'm sorry I don't remember much from evillious Chronicles but it was on my mind for a while now haha

Talking purely genetically, probably? Although Keel does not have the same er, quirks that Pale Noel does (the rapid aging thing), so he has to have been some other model of clone, even if he's still clearly identical to Seth (suggesting Seth had improved more of the process by the time he made Keel?).

[julie-su]

Does anybody else feel like the world has changed so much in the last 10 years that it is nigh incomprehensible, even though your status quo is locked in the past? And now you're scrambling to find familiarity in a world that is brand-new to you. Almost as if the past decade has passed in a flash, as if you had simply time-travelled to this point in time. Every-so-often, there is a little pocket that strikes as recognisable and comfortable, but it just seems to make the rest of the world seem that much different.

I feel like I'm stuck in the past, and everything around me is revolving at a lightspeed. I'm sorry I haven't talked to you in six years, I did not realise that six years had passed. I think about you constantly. Do you feel the same, or does six years feel like six years to you..?

[lifeof-pink]

ok last orv poll but once again im curious bc this book is LONG

[missusfuzz]

Thinking about SOL Mika.. still needs those gloves..

[anarchypumpkincowboy]

If Porter is werewolf and J4 is werewolf I feel like this would add another good element to the torment nexus for the both of them. Porter deserves to be tormented by another alpha werewolf that hates him in a very complex way

[tam--lin]

DINO CRIME EPISODE

[atopvisenyashill]

now that i’m here at missandei i was thinking about the age ups of all the characters and they really did the 90210 casting with the oldest aged up characters where they’re casting obvious 25-30 year olds as like 19 year olds.