#shazam hc

[the-fyre-flie]

Billy, who's headspace is split between Greek and Roman deities (and Solomon), showing interest in the arts from ancient Greece and Roman.

Aka theater kid Billy who's also in debate club and is taking art classes for mosaic tile art and sculpting, who's learning the lyre on the side cuz somehow being a part time hero isn't enough for him.

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Billy, messing around with a small clay figure: ....

Zeus: I knew the guy who made humans out of clay. Talented dude.

Billy, pausing, wracking his brain for what he just learned in class: You banished Prometheus for giving us fire.

Zeus: I said he was a good sculptor, not that I treated him fairly.

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Hes actually getting pretty good at the lyre and on slow hero-ing days, there's been reports of Captain Marvel sitting on rooftops staring at sheet music that looks to have been written by hand playing songs that history have no record of from a bygone era of Greece when myths walked among men.

[colossrat]

marvel likes storms :) Batman grimaced when he received an informational pin on his communicator that a magic user had entered his city at high speed, but only sighed when he noticed that it was a member of the league. one that, despite being friendly, shouldn't be there. He threw himself back and forth between the rooftops until he reached the superhero's location. He was sitting on the edge of a considerably tall building that gave a good view of the city, but the Big Red Cheese was looking up intently to the sky, his legs swinging excitedly.

Batman: Marvel, what are you doing here in Gotham?!

Marvel: Ah, Mr. Batman! Sorry, I know you don't like visitors, but I promise I'm not here to bother you. I'm not even here on business. I'm here because of the storm that's coming!

Batman: Explain.

Marvel: Well? I just like storms. You know, flying through the heavy clouds, feeling the rain, the smell of ozone and the static. It's natural that I love this environment, you know? How when humans feel comfortable in the fetal position? Because they remember their mother's womb, or something like that. Batman saved this information to analyze later, especially the "when humans..." part which may be indicating that the captain was born from a storm.

Batman: Hmn. Don't cause trouble, and if trouble comes to you, call me first.

Marvel: ok mister! will do. And the captain salutes with a big smile. Not even Batman can deny his friendly charm, especially when he comes up with strangely interesting facts like this Now, every time Gotham is hit by a nasty storm, everyone will be ready and waiting for Marvel to be there, chasing thunder, laughing as he flies through the sky, diving head first into the drops of water and static only to fly back up again later. Every now and then he accidentally gets in the way of some evil plan (he absorbed all the rays that the villains wanted to channel to energize a weapon or bring someone back to life, perhaps) and batman just kinda dont want to comment about it Or theres Cap absorbing the most dangerous thunder, the number of accidents throughout the city greatly decreased. like trees catching fire, poles falling, generators breaking down and so on. There are several posts on the internet, even a reddit just with people saying that they saw the big red cheese playing in the storm out there, being hit by thunder on purpose and stuff Eventually he starts to feel comfortable enough in the bats city to help the citizens a little. just a little so as not to irritate his boss. He cuts holes in the clouds to create a gap of light to help a lady look for the keys she dropped on the ground. he shares some electricity for the hospital generators in case they have a problem during the storm. A large branch fell on the street and is blocking traffic? in a red blur, the branch will have been dumped in a safe environment.

Batman actually begins to enjoy the small gestures around the city, even more so because Marvel doesn't try to change her his way, just lend a hand, appreciating what she has to offer, even if that is dark and foggy skies with aggressive rays of buzzing electricity. Bruce is very happy to have someone else who likes Gotham's dark skies.

part 1 of strange facts about the captain that fill the league with "he's silly, I like him" maybe

[the-fyre-flie]

Ouu this is great

Billy, intentionally wandering around the worst parts of Gotham at night alone, thin hoodie and beat up sneakers making it obvious he wouldn't have anyone looking for him if he went missing. He's totally ready to be kidnapped or for someone to offer him a shady job as a goon. And it works! Sorta...

Billy: Uh... what do you want?

Red Hood, gruff but sounding genuinly concerned: Are you alone out here, kid? Where's your parents?

Billy, thinking this is part of the weird kid recruitment strategy: Dead...

Red Hood: Oh... do you need a place to stay? I have a place you can hang at until we can find you something permanent.

Billy, thinking 'we' means the Red Hoods gang: um... yeah, actually.

Billy was expecting a dingy warehouse, maybe something super sinister like kids locked in cages. What he was led to was a... actual orphanage. Like a functional, fully fledged orphanage, with volunteer staff and hot food and everything. Turns out the missing kids in Fawcett have been ending up in Gotham and being almost instantly put into this particular orphanage after being found by Red Hood. The only reason the kids are 'missing' is because of Time Bubble Fawcett City bullshit that keeps messing up the records.

Billy, squinting at a kid he knows for a fact used to live under the overpass in Fawcett: So... Youre not kidnapping kids for a child gang?

Red Hood, who's got like 6 kids clinging to him asking for stories and play time: No??? What- why would you even think that??? I'm a drug dealer not a monster.

Billy: hmmm...

Captain Marvel, Shazam, is looking into missing children in Fawcett and surrounding areas. The trail leads him back to Gotham, with it's seedy underbelly and high number of trafficking cases.

Billy Batson goes undercover in his civilian identity to gather info, because who pays attention to a homeless kid in a bad neighborhood?

Red Hood, apparently.

[meikooo200]

Billy is constantly stopped by the League of committing murder.

But not a normal murder, murder by a strange curse.

For example:

Batman: Marvel, no!

C.Marvel: I wasn’t going to do anything! *with a random villian behind his back*

Batman: Don’t lie to me. I saw your intentions. *looking at his eyes*

C. Marvel: *visibly nervous* Which… Which intentions? *avoidong Batman’s gaze*

Batman: I know you want to turn this man on a fish in the middle of the Sahara.

Random villian: *scared* W-What?!

Batman: You can’t do that.

C. Marvel: Why?!

Batman: It’s murder.

C.Marvel:

You take the fun out of life

Or:

Flash: Hey, kiddo! *arriving to Fawcett City on one of the rare times when Billy asked for help* What do you want me to do?

C. Marvel: do you see that man? *pointing to a random villian*

Flash: yup

C. Marvel: I want you to help me to run around him until he runs out of oxygen

Flash: I beg your fucking pardon?!

C. Marvel: It’s not as bad at it sound! *looking at his nails (recently painted by Darla)* He would die by the curse of have the need of driving behind a truck with loose logs anyways

Superman: *apering out of nowhere after hearing that* What did you just said?

Superman and Flash were like:

I think he's serious

This apply for his siblings too:

Aquaman: I think I miss hear, could you repeat that?

Voltage (Freddy): Hmm… Maybe… Maybe… We cast a spell on that villian.

Wonder Woman: What kind of spell.

Circuit (Eugine): Hmm…Well…

Aquaman: Kids?

Voltage: Unlimited diarreah.

Circuit: until she dies of dehydration or lack of body mass or anything alse.

W.W and Aquaman: ….

Voltage: It was an accident (It was not)

It was the third time on the week that one of the Shazamily came for the same thing.

Diana and Arthur were also like:

You don't learn, do you?

[imnotditzy]

I cannot stop laughing at the how insane Captain looks with DTC.

Their constantly at each others throats too,

(Cap’s resting his head on his palm, the leagues talking about taxes or something — Blly asked DTC what’s their favorite animals are and Zeus said a dinosaur)

Mercury: Zeus, I believe the boy means ‘living’ animals

Zeus: 😐

Hercules: I don’t mind lions, though I had to strangle one once.

Billy: You strangled a lion?

Hercules: It was a debt of my twelve labors.

Billy: …

Billy: You’re broke? Hercules: …

Hercules: 👺

Achilles: Is that twelve more labors I see?

Solomon: I’d choose ant. Zeus: Ant?

Solomon: Yes.

Zeus: No.

Solomon: Pardon?

Zeus: No. I will not be ridiculed for my choice when you chose an Ant. An ant, Solomon. Why? It’s barely on Earth.

Solomon: It’s respectable; It’s one of the most hard working things on earth, yet it’s the size of a crump.

Zeus: It would get organ failure over a crumb.

*dramatic gasps like their on a reality tv show*

Billy (looking scandalized while Batman drones on about tax breaks): 😧

[jasontodddidnothingwrong]

Hc that Batman HATES Justice League social events because, as the only JL member who knows Captain Marvel's secret identity, he feels obligated to make sure the TWEEN BOY on the team doesn't drink any alcohol. He spends the entire time hiding in the shadows and swooping in to switch Marvel's champagne for lemonade.

Billy doesn't notice and gets placebo drunk. He "passes out" on the couch (it's past his bedtime).

[the-fyre-flie]

Hm.... not to hijack this too much, but perhaps Billy has his own name in small print at the very back of the notebook. The last 10 or so pages are just his name followed by *hundreds* of tally marks. All neatly written together, a representation of the hundreds of times he couldn't bear to let his friends have his blood on their hands. He couldn't let his friends become killers, he couldn't let them burden themselves. So he thought it better to do it himself. He can't really talk to anyone about how it feels to kill himself over and over and over again, and so he just copes by filling another page with lines.

The rest of the JL completely miss that part, all of them too busy grappling with the notion that in other dimensions, they are cold brutal murderers just as bad as their villians. Billy, of course, keeps his notebook and keeps assigning points after every death. It gets to the point where he's revealed to at least 30 different JLs from 30 different dimensions that he has the book. Eventually, someone sees the tallys in the back. And it just makes everything so much worse.

Aka continuation of the previous post. Conversation between the League and Marvel.

Billy didn't know that the League would go so crazy when they saw his notebook. Bruce and Clark were especially pale, staring into the depths of space for ten minutes. Diana was pacing back and forth like a caged animal. Barry was tapping his foot rapidly, nervously biting his lip. Hal looked green. Arthur looked at everyone smugly. J'onn was already eating his fifth pack of Oreos. Shayera was tapping her finger on the table and frowning. Oliver stood straight and clenched his hands into fists.

Marvel: I don't understand your frustration. You didn't do this

Barry: You don't understand?! Marvel, this is not normal!! I killed you 43 times!! This...this...

Barry pauses, tears welling up in his eyes. Billy feels awkward.

Marvel: Sorry. I'm just used to it. It's always one of you.

Bruce: It's not just the League, it's the Titans and Young Justice. Why did they kill you?

Marvel: *shrugs* Sometimes you tell them to, sometimes they do it themselves, sometimes they're mind-controlled. There's a lot going on. I like Nightwing the best. He always kills me quickly and painlessly. I didn't even realize I was dead until I took my first breath in this dimension. You can tell a pro.

Bruce covers his face with his hands.

Clark: Did John ever...

Marvel: Yeah, along with Damian. Two demons who were enjoying it way too much. I gave them a few points for cruelty.

Clark covers his face with his hands, too.

Diana: Brother... This... You need to get help!

Marvel: Who? Dinah? Should I remind you that she's seventh on the list?

Diana: Brother, throw that list and those points away! What happened... How can you react like that?! You were killed! And very cruelly! Your face was melted! Your heart was ripped out! You were poisoned! You were mobbed and killed! How can you be so calm? HOW?!

Billy didn't know what to say. Had he resigned himself? A long time ago. But that fear still lived in him. Every time he thought about how and who would kill him. To do many things so that after his death the world would continue to exist. Hell, he himself sometimes pushed them to kill, because sometimes they didn't want to kill him. They always looked at him with sadness. As if killing him was not what they wanted.

Marvel: Too many lifetimes to get used to. And this notebook is like... I don't know... a distraction? A way to understand you? To find some kind of pattern in everything? I don't know. It's just that over time all the pain has dulled, it's not gone away, but it doesn't hurt as much as the first few times.

Hal: Dude. This... this... I don't know what to say.

Oliver: Have you ever given up on being a hero?

Marvel: Sure. Who do you think I am? But even so, I didn't even live to be fifteen. Once I was killed by Diana right in the crib, the second time I was killed by Clark on red kryptonite, the third time I was killed by Hal, who became a Yellow Lantern, oh, don't forget how Arthur chopped off my head when he was taking over dry land. By the way, the fact that the brain lives for twenty seconds after being cut off is true. I did the math myself.

Everyone looks at him strangely.

Diana: I killed you in the cradle?

Marvel: Yes. I couldn't even roll over. You killed my sister then, too.

Diana presses her lips into a thin line.

J'onn: Do you have a sister?

Marvel: Yeah, but she's currently missing. I'll find her soon and introduce her to you. She's pretty sweet.

J'onn: Has she ever killed you?

Marvel: Yeah. It's not nice to have your throat torn out by sharp fangs, but it's a lot nicer than being stabbed with arrows. Yeah, Oliver, your version of me couldn't kill the first time, so you shot me so many times.

Oliver: Thanks, I could live without that information.

Marvel: You're welcome. I need to get back to patrol. The city can't save itself.

Batman: Hold on. The meeting's not over yet.

Marvel: Come on, I already know what's going to happen. You'll swear not to kill me, you'll even create special protocols, but I'll still get killed, even with those protocols. So I suggest you calm down a bit and think with a clear head. And I'm going back to the city. Bye.

Marvel leaves. The heroes remain silent. The weight of guilt weighs on their laps, and the knowledge that they can't fix anything eats them up, depriving them of any hope. There's only one question spinning in their heads.

How dare I kill Marvel?

[omniscient3teabag]

hi guys what if billy batson had the memories of the previous champions and so to commemorate them maybe he rerecords songs the champions had heard/liked in their time

it's moreso like a cover of their songs? he can't fully replicate them since he doesn't have the proper equipment to anyways

he records them on cassette tapes,, or ipods if the time bubble popped at that time when those were invented

since some of those songs are ANCIENT ancient(because some were probably thousands of years old and like. the first written song was made 3400 years ago :p) some might think that the songs were original when they hear them play

but it sorta has this haunting sound to it?? like it's sorta when people's voices have this eerie sound to them when singing without background music?? it's kinda like that

but the previous champions really appreciate it!! especially if it's in an AU where they're practically haunting captain marvel lol

well. unless billy's tonedeaf,,, I mean the thought counts right???

[the-fyre-flie]

Batman going Father Mode for Shazam is genuine one of my favorite fan interpretations.

Bruce, who has up until this moment, adopted almost every single young hero/vigilante and is staring down Shazam mid meeting, trying to figure out if adopting Billy would throw a wrench into their work/home life relationship or not.

Bruce, post battle: All of you did horrible. No one listened to my plans and what did that get us? A half destroyed city. All of you are horribly incompetent-

Bruce, looking over at Shazam, his gaze softening: Except you. You did wonderful, Shazam. Thank you for following my directions.

Shazam: :D of course mister batman sir!

The other League members: !?

It's always so much funnier when the rest of the League has no idea about Billy. They start to question if Shazam is a result of Time Travel weirdness and is secretly Batmans future kid or something and that's why Batman doesn't chew him out.

[colossrat]

Billy is about 15-16 years old and he gets a piercing

It was free, a friend of his was training and he needed someone to start and test his skills, so Billy agreed. He was going to take out the piercings and use magic to heal the holes later, but an emergency happens and he goes into cap mode before he can do that

And then the league is lit up by a Captain Marcel with a face full of shiny piercings

Needless to say, Kon-el is the first to glow with excitement as he starts asking about each of the new jewelry

[the-fyre-flie]

Teth is left thinking about his life before being a champion. Kahndaq, his wife and child, his past. Ultimately, he settles on the idea that he wanted to be a protector. A husband, a father, a hero, a leader, a protector. And he had been for a time. And he still was trying to be one. But he would never tell Billy that. He would never let a child ruminate on an old man's idyllic thoughts about his own history.

Teth, offering Billy his half eaten cone: I suppose I would also like to be an archeologist.

Billy, happily adding the cone to his mostly empty bowl: Yeah? We could be archeologist buddies. Travel around and dig up cool stuff together.

Teth, folding his hands in his lap, wondering if it would be selfish to suggest they go to Kahndaq first: Hm.

Im a sucker for Champion Brothers lol

Billy Batson and black Adam sitting on a rooftop in fawcett with ice cream. As they’re eating Billy stops and sets his bowl in his lap he looks up toward the setting sun.

Billy: What did you want to be when you were small

Black Adam: hm?

Billy: you didn’t want to be this I’m sure of that. No child wants to become something like you.

Billy: I wanted to be an archaeologist.

Black Adam:*small laugh* an archaeologist?

Billy: yes! They retire young: Archaeologists.

[justusingthistwice]

I was just seeing some trans!billy batson posts and I got struck with the realization that he must have felt so happy when he received his powers...

Like, imagine this:

Billy just got into a magical subway that took him to a magical, different plane of existence. He meets this Wizard that talks about how Billy is special and that he has been chosen to become something greater. Billy must be so shocked that him, a street rat, an orphan, someone that hadn't received actual love or sympathy since his parents died, could be someone important in some bigger scale.

So he says the word The Wizard told him, lightning strikes him and suddenly- he feels different. Not only he is now an adult, but he is also a biological man. And he feels powerful and strong, not just for the magic but because those awful bumps in his chest are gone. And he hasn't felt this happy in so long.

He gets to fly around Fawcett and help people. People that no longer ignore him, that not even misgender him. He feels so free and respected.

And he finally feels like he belongs in his body.

[meikooo200]

This is a mix between the Shazam movie and the animated universe

Somehow, no one has any idea of what happened.

Everything was okay… Until his sibling spoke with the League for the first time.

In theory, it was his fault for not warning his siblings.

Voltage (Freddy):Oh, yes, fighting with Sivana before having our powers was scary. *talking with Superman*

CM: *chokes with his CapriSun*

Superman: I’m sorry, you did what?

Voltage: *seeing Billy's signs* I mean… Nothing, nothing… It was nothing.

WW: No, no, we hear that, what does that mean?

CM: Well… Maybe, just maybe

Batman: Maybe, what?

Circuit (Eugene): We’re doomed.

Stormbreaker (Pedro): Yup

CM: Shut up.

WW: No, no, go on, keep talking.

CM: Well, maybe, there’s a 100% chance Sivana knows how old we are… And where we live… And who we are… And maybe he told Black Adam… And maybe they been sending a lot of explosive gift boxes full of glitter

The other six Super Seven:…

Bolt (Darla) and Miss Marvel (Mary) on the corner, without speaking so that they don't reprimand them:

Will this be the end of Spider-Man?

[imnotditzy]

Captain Marvel doesn’t know what a normal death is

(TW: mentions of death, brief mentions of murder gang violence)

No but really if you ask a street rat, literal living lighting, a bunch of ancient immortal people and a really wise king from a bajillion years ago, why would a reasonable answer be an option?

Like Billy thinks that if you’re 60 one of your feet are in the grave. Why? Because that was the life expectancy in the 50s. He's also homeless so he’s already more exposed to crime anyway, I wouldn’t doubt he thinks death by “minding someone else’s business” is common enough to be recorded as such in its own category and not murder. Also, he literally fights supervillains who try to kill him everyday? His view is skewed so much, that the damage might be irreversible. 😭

Moving on, Marvel is literally sentient magic. They can’t die, and if they can it’s not a thing that’s very easy to come by. The amount of work it takes to even do the equivalent of a paper cut is excessive, the concept of them dying would take a lot to set in. And they are a lost cause when it comes to knowing what a normal death is. The only “normal” deaths they’ve really paid attention to are the deaths of the Champions…and none of them had anything close to a normal death. (One of them literally gets hacked in two 💀)

The acronym; do I even have to explain? All of them besides Solomon, Heracles and Achilles literally haven’t died. And literally no hero in Greek mythology dies normally. Solomon is the only one who’s died of natural and normal causes, but he was alive in the BCE. That is a long time ago.

Now, Combine all of them together and what do you get? Captain Marvel: someone who does not have a correct interpretation of typical death!

This would probably concern others around them. Especially the JL, because I feel like Captain would mention this randomly.

—

(Green Lantern [Hal] and Captain Marvel were sent to investigate a crime scene together and they stumble upon the body.)

Captain Marvel: Aw…seems like their time came. (Captain’s got a sympathetic but large smile.)

Green Lantern (looking down at the stabbed body): Um, Cap?

Captain: It’s a shame. But I guess nothing could be done…

Lantern: Captain, they were stabbed???

Captain: Oh, I know. Happens to the best of people, right?

Lantern: Uh —No? Captain this is…worrying??

Captain: They’re in a better place now. Maybe.. ☺️

—

(They’re now back at the watchtower for a debrief, but it somehow turned into Batman questioning Captain Marvel.)

Batman: Captain can you explain why the body was not concerning to you?

(Batman’s staring at Captain intensely.)

Captain (confused smiling): …because there was nothing to worry about?

Batman (raising an eyebrow): Why?

Captain (hesitant): Because there’s probably not a serial killer or whatever running around? They killed an insider, it was gang violence.

Batman: How were you sure?

(Captain looks up to the side like their remembering before shrugging)

Captain: …Oh, I’ve seen similar bodies like that before.

—

(This occurrence is reason #5738 on why Captain Marvel cannot interact with civilians. But in Captain’s defense, how was Billy supposed to know lifespans updated?)

Captain Marvel (pointing at an “old” lady): Oh, she’s 62?

Citizen: Yeah?

Captain (sympathetic): Oh. It’s good she’s still on her feet though.

Citizen: What?

Captain: She’s thriving for her age, right?

Citizen: C—Captain Marvel, she’s 60 not 99. She just retired.

Captain (confused): Really? Why would they have her working so long if she’s nearing the end? (The lady turns around with this expression on her face: 😟)

Citizen: Because she wanted to?? Captain are you ageist?

Captain (never heard that word a day in his life): Uh, I don’t think so? What does that even mean??

(The media later somehow gets ahold of the footage and it becomes such a scandal it reaches the JL; Captain Marvel is then forced to have a public statement. At the giant press conference, Mary and Freddy are there standing next to him and laughing.)

Captain Marvel (whispering): Shut up, it’s not like you thought any different.

Miss Marvel (also whispering): Yeah but we’re not stupid enough to say it to their face, Captain.

Captain Marvel (still whispering): It’s not like you guys would have any less scandals than I do if you were in the media as much as I am.

Reporter (impatiently): Ahem. Marvels?

(Both siblings look like deer in headlights while Freddy laughs at them. They both apologize in unison.)

(Captain then clears their throat, they look like they’re dreading this.)

Captain Marvel: I am terribly sorry for what I said about [62yo citizen]. I hadn’t intended to be rude, but I seemed as such because I had a gap in my…

Solomon (telling him what to say): …Knowledge. I was under the assumption that the average lifespan wasn’t much longer than a person’s 60s…

Captain (repeating what Solomon’s saying): I now know that, while once true, that information is outdated.

(Billy went on for three more minutes, only stopping because the DTC got too bored and people were starting to give him funny looks.)

[the-fyre-flie]

You're missing the most important panel btw he's such a cutie patootie

Text:

*Whistling*

*bump*

"Oops. All these powers and no X-Ray Vision..."

I'd also have dinner with space dinosaurs

[omniscient3teabag]

do you think when billy was a kid, c.c used to sing him lullabies and rock him to make him fall sleep when marilyn would be too tired to do so and that'd be one of billys core memories of his father

so like. when he gets shazamified later on in life, if his voice goes any lower/softer than his usual voice it'd make people way too sleepy and tired

but captain marvel DOESN'T know that. at ALL and finds out when in a mission with another jl member, they're in a situation where they can't talk in their usual voices, and cm is explaining their plan to the member only to turn around and see the jl member absolutely conked out

(before this, he only used his softer tones of voices for scared children, and thought they just felt safe enough with him to fall asleep)