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Can you write preferences for Dianna Prince, Barry Allen, and Dick Grayson x Disabled Athlete Reader (PLATONIC ONLY).

The reader is either a random kid they met or maybe another league member kid, idk. They are not a superhero, not because of the disability but because they wanted to be a star athlete. Reader has some kind of amputation and train’s really hard to be good. How would our three react to a reader like that

How do they handle a disabled 16 year old with a goal of being a star athlete?

Warning : Talk of Medical amputation and the things that led to them.

Wonder Woman | Diana Prince

You were 13 years old when an unfortunate injury on your forearm turned into a terrible infection. It wasn’t obvious at first that the infection was any worse than any normal infection, and despite your young age you had a natural pain tolerance that made it feel weaker than it was. By the time the doctors caught on that the wound was healing abnormally, there was only so much they could do.

They tried rounds of antibiotics, but nothing was working. Eventually, you started to get pains in your elbow joint, and it was time for drastic action. You had a choice in it, but there weren’t many options. You had a trans-humeral amputation of your right arm, close to your shoulder but leaving the joint intact.

It changed your life. It changed it so that tasks were harder, expenses greater, and your high pain tolerance meant nothing in the face of phantom pain. Hard to ignore pain that your brain has made up, with no way to fight it, and your brain knowing exactly how much hurt it takes to feel.

It gave you a sense of… lacking, if that makes sense. Your disability didn’t make you any less of a person, less worthy of kindness nor help, and you were no burden to the people who loved you and chose to help you, but that doesn’t really make the feeling go away. Because you are lacking an arm, and you can feel all the things you didn’t know you’d miss before are now out of reach.

But that lit a fire in you, because you refused to let them be out of reach. You refused to let your amputation define what you could and could not do. So you can’t do it the way people with two arms do, but you can problem solve, you can make it so you can do it with one arm.

Some things will take longer than normal, but you’re still doing them. Some things took some crafty inventing to make your regular spaces easier to navigate. And learning to use a prosthetic is an entirely new challenge. A challenge you wouldn’t have had to face had you not had an amputation, but a challenge you will conquer nonetheless.

So you set a goal, you were not just going to get your normal back, you were going to excel. You didn’t have a strong drive to be an athlete before, but it was one of the first things people told you after your surgery that were out of reach. So you were going to go above and beyond and be the best.

Wonder Woman was not facing the same challenges as you, but she was facing challenges nonetheless. Themyscira is still her home, her kingdom, her people. Yes, she had left to pursue a life of heroism, to save mankind, but she also wished to do good for her kind.

She was a diplomat in name only, or at least it felt like it most of the time. She spoke for Themyscira, but rarely was she given much directive on what to say. No trade deals, no interaction, nothing. She was not able to help her people.

But she had an idea, because she was not the only Amazon that wanted to see man’s world, nor the only one with skills that could be shared with mankind.

Arete was an Amazon who excelled in Archery, and Diana approached her with the idea of sharing Amazonian Archery with the rest of the world. Arete, while hesitant, listened to the idea. And so the stage was set, Arete would come with Diana to the Themysciran Embassy in Greece, and host an Archery class. There were many takers.

One of those takers was you, the kid with no right arm. You had been practicing Archery for some time, since you were 13, and had to overcome many challenges. Now, at 16, you had managed to excel.

Despite being right handed, you taught yourself left-handed archery so that you could lock your prosthetic to hold the bow taught, while your left hand aimed and held the arrow.

You signed up for the Themysciran Archery class not only to learn more but because it was going to be prestigious, and help you be an olympian. You knew you would still have to win every contest individually to reach that goal, but the world couldn’t deny that the Amazonian taught Archer winning the Olympic gold was poetic.

Arete noticed your skill in the class, and realized you were beyond the rest of the class's level. She couldn’t teach the rest of the class at their level, and give you the instruction you deserve. So she asked Wonder Woman to help, and help she did.

So began your tutorship with Wonder Woman, being taught by the hero herself how to aim true.

There was a part of you that was in awe to be in the presence of Wonder Woman, a hero, but a larger part of you that was so focused and dedicated to your goal that you overcame your starstruck attitude. You wanted to learn and grow more skilled, and you would.

Instead, it was Wonder Woman who was in awe of you. You who jumped every hurdle, who did not take no for an answer, who persevered and strived to be the greatest. You did not join this class to learn from the Amazons, you joined to learn Archery. It was a dedication she could admire, and hoped to help grow.

Your journey has just begun, you, the one armed archer, and the Amazon Princess, ready to win the gold medal. She in awe of you, and you in awe of her, both pushing the other to be better. And better you will be.

The Flash | Barry Allen

At 14 years old, you were in a car accident. Another car had T-boned yours, and in doing so, injured your right leg beyond repair. So much damage was done that the only way for your body to heal and move forward was to sever it above the knee.

Left with a trans-femoral amputation, you struggled through the healing process, and rehab to learn to walk on a prosthetic. You struggled with a fear of cars, then being in one, then the car taking cross traffic turns, until while uneasy, you had pushed through.

But the scars were always visible, and nothing ever quite felt right or the same ever again. You could walk, but slowly, and it was hard to not to waddle when you couldn’t feel your knee.

Your physical therapist suggested that you try jogging, just to create a routine that would not only preserve the muscles left in your stump, but also familiarize you more with your prosthetics.

In truth, running was hard. The entire activity was a constant reminder of your disability, something you had to be conscious of the entire time. But at the same time, it was helping. You were getting better with your prosthetics, and you were even becoming a better runner. Greater distances, up and down hills, etc.

It finally gave you something you felt you could work with. This was something you could keep working on, and keep getting better at.

And so you did, you pursued running professionally. At first it was marathons, then 5Ks, then triathlons, and then cross-country running. It pushed you to your limits, and at times it hurt more than most. You stump chafed raw as you slowly learned what combination of padding and cream and prosthetic made it more tolerable for longer periods. But you were doing it.

You ran twenty miles in under 3 hours, that was incredible. But you didn’t stop there, you kept working, and kept going.

But it wasn’t the only thing you did. You did keep working, hoping to win a professional cross-country race, but you also had a life to live at 16. You interned at the forensics lab, and it turned out to be good exercise as well. You were the go-for after all.

That’s where you met Barry Allen, the previous Go-for of the office who felt bad all of his duties were given to you with what seemed like no care for your disability. You actually had an argument with him about it when he tried to step in too often.

You were a human being too, and he needed to respect you. Respect you to know your limits, to ask for help when you need it, and respect that you are capable.

It knocked some sense into him, making him realize he had been viewing your injury too much through his own lens. What would he do if had an amputation? He was the Flash, could he even keep being a hero if that happened? But you weren’t him, you weren’t the Flash, and that did not matter to you. How you deal with the situation is completely different from how he would, and that's something he has to respect.

What changed his worldview even more is when The Flash stumbled on you practicing, and running, and slowed down to run alongside you.

The Flash is almost always witty with his villains, flirty with civilians, and kind with children. But with you, he was quiet, and he let you talk.

You talk about how you didn’t understand runner’s high before you lost your leg. You hadn’t really liked running before it was something out of your reach, before it was a challenge. When it was just an option, a chore, you hated it. But now, when it seemed like it couldn’t be possible, it became a need.

You felt accomplished while running, like you were actively winning and overcoming something. So you didn’t win every race, not yet, but in a way you had your own victory. And the finish line was something you weren’t ready to give up chasing.

And that made the Flash pause, and think, because he’s never felt slower in this moment.

He’s had slow moments before, where he just wasn’t fast enough to save everyone, or stop this one thing. But here, and right now, you seem faster. He’s always running to catch up, to make up time, to beat the clock, but you run beyond it.

You’re going forward with a goal, and it’s not a goal you’ll ever run out of time to reach. So you can keep running, ramping and speeding up at your own pace.

And imagine that, you lost your leg two years ago, and now you're running on it next to the Flash.

He got his powers a decade ago, and he’s never felt as at home with them as you do while running.

He hopes, that one day, he can be as fast as you.

Nightwing | Richard “Dick” Grayson

When you were 8 years old you had a terrible incident. You were a reckless kid, and had gone to explore the wilderness around your family home. The thing was, it was the middle of winter, just past the solstice.

You were being the curious child you were, and tested the ice on the river to feel if it was thick enough to stand on. It was not, and you fell through quickly and before you could call out or recover. It swept you a little ways down stream, but you didn’t drown, and were able to crawl out. But you were chilled to the bone, and it was a long way back home.

You made it, you did. But by the time you got home, it was long past after dark, and you were sick with pneumonia. Not only that, but your feet were in bad shape with severe frostbite.

The doctors and your parents made the hard call for a duel amputation, both trans-tibial, removing your legs below your knees.

It was tough after that, as you were young and scared. And you were also still growing, leaving it hard to find permanent prosthetics because you just kept growing out of them. This led to a reliance on wheelchairs for much of your childhood, and a greater reliance on your arms to get you around.

You developed a penchant for walking on your hands when you were younger, until about 10 when it became harder to do with your size, but you never lost the feeling of success that came with it.

As you grew into a teenager, you thought a lot more about your situation and how to handle it. You wanted to take your mobility into your own hands, and really try with it. You searched around, and found some acrobatics classes that would accept amputees.

Hard to trust things like this in Gotham, but it was run by Richie Grayson, ward of a famous philanthropist, so you took your chance. 16 year old, partially bound to your wheelchair most of the time and unsteady on prosthetics, you tackled aerial balance. Perhaps one hell of a gamble, but one you were willing to take.

Dick Grayson didn’t really know how to train you as an acrobat when you first attended his classes. He knew how to treat someone in a wheelchair, but paralysis and amputation are two very different cases. Most of his introductory lessons relied on ankles, on standing and stretching, and he didn’t know how to change his curriculum.

That was until he first saw you dismount from your wheelchair, and use so much of your arm strength to walk around. You had mostly tried to wheel into class with prosthetics on, and stand up from there. But your stumps have always hurt, and you hate having to put your weight on them for more strenuous activities. So that day, you just gave up on prosthetic legs, and held your legs off the ground with hip strength and used your arms to walk.

That is how Dick got the idea to teach you.

He focused more on Arm based tricks, and introduced you into gymnastics. He did still teach you acrobatics, as your strength lended itself well to silk tricks, but you thrived on gymnastics. Pommel Horse, Still Rings, Parallel Bars, Horizontal and Uneven Bars, and even eventually Balance Beam.

He led you through, and helped you find a passion, as this was something you had unknowingly been setting yourself up to be good at. You had been strength training your arms your whole life to lift you up, and now you could do it in ways most people with full legs couldn’t! It was a breathtaking feeling

When you told him about a 9 year old you doing walking handstands, he even helped you practice to be able to do that again.

It was through acrobatics, and then gymnastics classes with Dick Grayson that you felt a fire in you start, an urge to keep doing this until you were the greatest. You were going to be a professional at this.

And Dick Grayson watched proudly from the bleachers as you did just that.

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cryptonymdc · 4 months ago

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Can you write Prefrences for Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne, and John Stewart x Robot reader, maybe Angst to Fluff. So the reader is a robot who like works for the justice league, but there not sentient and can't feel emotions, they don't even look human either. But Clark, Bruce, and John can't help but fall deeply in love with Android reader despite them not being alive, the angst!!!!

My god the pinning, and longing stares that everyone else can see but the reader, because they have never felt what it means to be longed for. But I want this to have a happy ending so by some miracle or magic or whatever the reader ends up becoming sentient( not human). Just that they have the ability to feel real things afterwards

Love how creative this is! I hope I delivered. Here you go! Thank you for being the first requester.

Superman | Clark Kent

T. O. Marrow is not a scientist concerned with humanity. He does create androids to mimic humanity, nor to better them. They are all created to serve and complete a purpose. Infiltrate the Justice League, steal this or that, protect him, etc. But rarely is a creator ever able to fully control its creation. T. O. Marrow was not able to remain in control of Red Tornado and Tomorrow Woman, he was not able to remain in control of Y - N.

Y - N was created to serve and protect T. O. Marrow during his research and wherever he went. A glorified maid with a few subroutines in combat. Y - N too grew beyond what their creator imagined. A care for caring for things, a feeling they did not understand, something that did not fit their programing. Y - N began to care more about maintaining the cleanliness of the lab rather than the life that worked there.

Red Tornado, ever curious about his creation and humanity overall, strove to find T. O. Marrow. He was the first to find and confront Y - N. He was able to talk them through rerouting their circuitry to form free will and free thought. They chose to pursue their first directive, to preserve a space. The Justice League offered Y - N the Watchtower, and they agreed.

Y - N has free thought and free will, they can choose their purpose. But that does not translate to emotional awareness, nor understanding. Even Red Tornado still struggles to comprehend, to feel human emotions no matter what his fellow heroes tell him. Y - N is much the same. That does not stop others from feeling for them.

Superman, despite his alien biology, is perhaps the most human of the Justice League. It is important to him in a way it isn’t to others. Either they aren’t human and don’t care, or are human and don’t question it in the same way he does. He’s always had to struggle with wondering if he is or isn’t human, despite being raised human from near birth.

He sympathized with the plight of T. O. Marrow’s creations on a very real level. So he cares, like one does, and makes an effort to spend time with Y - N and help them explore life outside of purpose. That there is more than a reason, than a drive, to live. There is just existence, something you can bask in. A day in the sun, as it were.

This reaches Y - N in an unexpected way. They strive to preserve a space, as is their purpose, and while not understanding it, learn to enjoy those spaces in some way. So while in a digitally projected human disguise, Y - N walks alongside Clark Kent through human spaces, and appreciates them in a way most humans don’t.

They see a space as the sum of its parts. A building by man, the earth but nature, the river by time. And they appreciate it. They appreciate that something was built, that something is here, that time has passed. It’s a space, and it is here with intention in some way, like them.

This is what begins to change Y - N, starts to imbue a need to choose in them. They too can build their own space, and can have intentions. They too could be something that they choose.

The entire time this tour of humankind is happening, Clark can’t help but admire Y - N’s perspective. They lack context for so many things, that it is easy for them to view something with no bias. It makes Clark look around and see things he didn’t before. The little marks of humanity, the way every brick and stone was placed was a choice by someone.

It makes him appreciate his own humanity, to realise that he really is human at heart. This is his world, his planet, because everything does have context to him, does have a meaning, and a reason. In turn this turns his appreciating gaze to Y - N. They can learn to be human, to appreciate humanity, and they care. They choose to care, to be human.

It’s hard to know when you’re in love. Sometimes it’s an obvious feeling, sometimes it’s a red herring, sometimes it’s a slow realization that someone in your life is your priority above all else. Clark realizes he loves Y - N slowly, as he slowly starts to make more of an unconscious effort to introduce them to the world more and more. Flying them around the world to explore more spaces.

Clark doesn’t believe that love is possible at first, as theirs the question of what he would be loving. As an alien himself he’s not going to count Y - N physical appearance as unlovable or unlovable, as that purely depends on the person one would say. But what, or rather who is Y - N? Are they a person to love? Or a character that was created by a Roboticst. Is it right or wrong isn’t really the question, more is it or is it not possible?

But that question seems to answer itself, as Clark does fall in love with Y - N. He falls in love with the way they care about the little things. The things that don’t make a space messy, something outside their purpose, to place a plant pot a certain way because that’s what felt right to them. He falls in love with the way Y - N is curious to see the rest of the world, that sense of exploration and excitement that Y - N can’t see in themselves, but Clark can. He falls in love with the way Y - N in awe of the world, how they appreciate it. It’s a passion Clark can’t help but love.

And that’s the kicker, in the end. When he overhears other league members talking with Y - N, asking them questions. Assessing how much human sentience that they’ve grown to have, and through Y - N’s own answers, Clark learns he sees more in them than they see in themselves. Y - N doesn’t think themselves human, but Clark absolutely does.

And that moves him to start to try and help Y - N recognise their own humanity. This is where everyone else starts to notice, to notice how much Superman has fallen in love with Y - N. They see how Clark spends every lunch hovering beside Y - N as they pick up dishes, offering to help and carrying an ever growing pile of trays. They notice how Clark makes an effort to include Y - N in everyday conversations, asking for their opinion. They notice when Clark asks other members about their thoughts on Y - N more often, just probing to see if anyone else has noticed the changes.

And the truth is, they do. They notice how Y - N offers comments more often, mostly just about interior design to maximise utility, but slowly the utility reasons lesson, and they just offer their opinion on what would look best. Y - N starts to ask questions, to ask league members their thoughts on the architecture and natural parks of the world, the environments, the sights they see. Y - N starts to go out on their own, just taking walks to see the world. It's hard to tell if Y - N also has growing feelings for Clark, but it’s not hard to see how they are growing more human.

Y - N can feel, they can think, and they are. So not all hope is lost, and perhaps the League's only son of Krypton has a chance. They hope he does.

Batman | Bruce Wayne

Lonnie Machin, first known as Moneyspider, but better known as the first Anarky was a brilliant but shortsighted inventor. He first invented the S_O bots, a collection of small robots that could work as a collective hive mind to hack into tech companies to steal their bank details. But not only did his S_O bots lack some critical firewalls to protect them, they were slow and easily reprogrammed by the Batman to reveal Lonnie’s location.

With his plan thwarted, Lonnie never cared to think about his S_O bots again. Just another failed scheme. Batman on the other hand, had more concerns about the S_O bots. They were a fairly comprehensive prototype, which in the wrong hands could grow into a more dangerous and capable adversary.

So Batman kept the S_O bots in the Batcave in a glass container to study, and also just to keep them out of the wrong hands. While the S_O bots failed at retrieving information rapidly from digital sources, their observational skills of the physical world were greater than first thought.

For months they watched Batman and Agent A walk around the Batcave, and slowly learned what the human form looked like. They would use their collective bodies to hold onto each other, and slowly build a humanoid form. Batman noticed of course, and became concerned. But there neither seemed a way to shut it off, nor did it seem to be antagonistic, and so despite his paranoia, he let it be.

But that is not where the S_O bots stopped learning. They also overheard Batman and Agent A talk, as well as the many hours of security footage they combed over together. Through this, the S_O bots learned to talk, and while at first they only repeated what they heard, much like a parrot, they slowly learned to create sentences, and then full thoughts. They mostly asked questions.

Batman mostly refused to answer, growing concerned with the rabid change of the S_O bots, until one fateful case. The Calculator was raising terror as an information broker, and Batman was scrambling to find his next target before the Calculator enacted his plan.

S_O bots helpfully, although without any intentions, offered some of the information they had. As it so happened, Noah Kuttler AKA the Calculator was the man whose servers they had been tested on before being let loose by Anarky to hunt for information. S_O bots still had their comprehensive file on the Calculator, and thus had all of the blackmail that the Calculator had. Batman was able to turn the right people into the police, and protect others from being swindled by Kuttler at the same time.

It did not change Bruce’s opinion on the S_O bots immediately, but it started to make Bruce realise that the S_O bots were more than their creator. In fact, they were possibly entirely separate. This caused Bruce to start actually talking with the S_O bots.

At first the S_O bots were just asking questions on things they had heard, and depending on the severity of the case changed how much Bruce would share, but little by little, share he did. Agent A, or Alfred as the S_O bots learned, would turn on music in the cave in the absence of either Bruce or himself. The S_O bots learned much more rapidly from that, and not only asked endless questions on the songs, but also began to request certain music.

It was a fateful day when the S_O bots, for the first time, offered an opinion instead of just a question or a fact. The S_O bots noticed that Bruce was tired, and said that they thought he should sleep. It was unprecedented before this point, as using the information they had was not part of their original programming. Just take in information, not use it. But use it they had.

That woke Bruce, not just in the moment, but also for the future. This hivemind of a robot could learn, and could go beyond their original programming.

Batman began to engage with the S_O bots as an exercise, presenting thought experiments, and turning on more than music, but documentaries as well. Together, they worked towards a goal. He taught the S_O bots actual human anatomy, as well as a database of many things to choose from, and allowed the S_O bots to choose what they looked like. And with that human shape, he took them out of their container, and to the watchtower.

S_O bots, now with their new understanding of sentience and information, took in a new space for the first time. They took in the view of space, the plants in the tower, and suddenly grew a hunger for knowledge not just as a binary stream of facts, but as experience. To take in information and choose how to interpret it.

When they returned to the Batcave, the S_O bots expressed their desire to experience things to Bruce Wayne.

Having been there to witness the S_O bots' entire journey to this point, Batman felt some sort of responsibility, as well as a wish to see where this goes. So he offered the S_O bots an identity, and a place in the mansion as staff. They would work as a secretary for him at Wayne Tech, and could retreat to the mansion, and live, so long as they checked in.

The S_O bots readily explored Gotham, and did indeed choose to do what they wanted with their information. Having learned from the Calculator case, they began to help Batman as an extension of his computer and comms system. The Oracle before Oracle, as it were.

Alfred had noticed Bruce’s intense attention that was given to the S_O bots, and at first wondered if it was healthy to care so much about a machine's existence. But he too watched the S_O bots gain humanity, watched them become a person. He endeavored to aid in this, sharing media with the S_O bots beyond that of factual inquiry. The fiction of the world, the concepts that are not taught but experienced.

He watched as Bruce’s attention became more infatuation, and he watched as Bruce set the S_O bots free. Yes, he still kept constant vigil to make sure there was no influence in them from Anarky, but Alfred watched as Bruce grew to trust a machine.

Perhaps it was healthy, for it was clear at this point that the S_O bots were no mere machines, but a thinking creature all on their own. It was best that they be free, so that Bruce and them could have a relationship on an equal level.

Alfred was not worried about Bruce’s infatuation with the S_O bots.

Green Lantern | John Stewart

John Stewart is a Green Lantern with incredible conviction to his own principles, and thus no matter how strange, he will not turn down a mission from Oa. The Lantern Corps had accepted a new member, one they did not know how to handle. A ring had chosen a robot. And they needed a mentor.

L_N1 was an engineer robot. Built by and to help the sole living alien on a desert planet. One of many robots built to help the alien do a multitude of tasks on the homestead to survive. L_N1’s purpose was to build structures that could withstand the sandstorms of the planet's surface, and many other things. They didn’t do the heavy lifting per se, but more so the strategic designing of it. Quite the computer.

The alien passed naturally of old age, and the robots of the planet were left without instruction. Save L_N1. Their directive still stood, to build things that would endure. And so they took charge, directing the other robots to continue their duties and continue to build. And build they did, lasting decades past the death of their creator.

So great was the will of L_N1, that when a Green Lantern landed in their homestead and died despite the best efforts of the nurse robots, L_N1 inherited the ring. It’s will was beyond its programming, and luckily is programmed to be creative as well as follow orders. When the ring directed it to go to Oa, L_N1 did.

Now Oa and the Guardians were responsible for this machine, and this machine is now responsible for its ring. The guardians deemed it a full Green Lantern, and tasked Green Lantern John Stewart of Earth in guiding them in their new role. So guide them he did.

In the early days of their partnership it was mostly John Stewart ordering them and L_N1 following, which was not really changing them anything. They were outside their original purpose and directive, and so did little without orders. They had to be told when to fight the bad guys, when to let someone go, etc. John Stewart really struggled to guide them.

That was until both were deployed to help a small community of Aliens living in a floating city on a crowded planet facing annihilation from unnatural weather phenomena. While John went to discover the origin of the unnatural weather, L_N1 took initiative to follow their directive, and build a shelter that would endure. They worked with the local alien population to design and build protection for the floating city. When John failed to stop the weather, the alien community survived thanks to the actions of L_N1.

This was where John started to see what the Guardians saw in L_N1, someone willing to help no matter what. John changed how he was trying to guide L_N1 after that, explaining things to them in a way they started to understand.

First, appealing to their programming. Fitting the situation to fit their directive. Then Second, slowly expanding their directive to focus more on helping people endure rather than just structure. After that, L_N1 was able to learn on their own. L_N1 found their creative thought began to translate into personal thought, opinionated thought.

Opinions they would share unprompted at any and all parts of their journey with John. Sometimes this annoyed him, as the middle of a galactic diplomacy meeting between two very volatile sides was not the time to learn that L_N1 thought green was a pretty color. But most of the time, it more often endeared L_N1 to him. As their little thoughts they shared brightened their flights through the cosmos.

It was then that his fellow Corpsman started to notice John’s feelings for L_N1, well before he recognised them himself. Guy noticed how John made an effort to invite L_N1 to bar nights, and engaged them in conversation when no one else would. Hal noticed how John would defend L_N1’s slow acclimation to the duties of being a Lantern to their more juvenile comrades. Hal thought about teasing John, but then John might recognise his feelings, and that’s half the entertainment, so Hal kept his mouth shut. Kyle noticed how well John worked with L_N1 in the field. While he certainly followed orders, John usually had little patience for theatrics. But no matter how complex or strange L_N1’s plans or constructs, John made an effort to follow their lead or patiently help them.

John himself didn’t notice his feelings until L_N1’s first trip to earth. He felt nervous for the first time, but also giddy to share a part of himself. And when he realised he had never felt this before, and wanted to impress L_N1 with Earth, he realised he had feelings for them.

The question was, did L_N1 have feelings for him?

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cryptonymdc · 4 months ago

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What you Suspect (You don’t suspect they are the heros, but you hope the heros are something like them.)

Superman | Clark Kent

It’s hard to think that Clark Kent could be Superman.

It’s not that they are incomparable. Same hair, same eyes, same build. But there is something that makes Clark Kent so much more real to you than Superman. By no means do you think Superman is a hack, or a fake, but he’s not a hero because you’ve met him. He’s a hero because he saves people, and that’s enough.

Clark Kent is kind in a tangible way. He holds doors open, not just for you, but everyone. More times than you can count Clark has gotten stuck holding the door open for a train of people rushing in, and he just laughs it off with an understanding smile. His eyes are always sincere whenever you surprise him at work with his lunch or just a friendly visit, his face flushing with bashfulness, but still smiling bright as the sun and giving you a tight hug.

And speaking of work, Clark is fearless in a way you think most heroes might not be. Heroes go into battle armed, prepared, and ready. They tackle consequences because they know they can take it, at least you hope they can. But Clark… he goes into work armed with his pen and paper, in a suit with no armor, and regardless of consequences. Because he can, wants to, and it’s the right thing.

He writes article after article exposing organized crime, blue collar crime, and more. He exposes people not in tight costumes, but people with guns and lawyers, people who would come after him for this. But he does it anyway, and perhaps that's braver than Superman, you think. Not better, but braver. There isn’t really a better in a selfless act, and both are.

Clark does a lot of things like that. In scary moments, when danger is near, he stands in front of you. He stops hunching over, and makes himself the biggest thing in the room, the biggest target, and shields anybody he can even though he knows he could get hurt. He’s brave.

You don’t think Clark Kent could be Superman, because why would he need to be? He already is kind, and courteous. He already fights crime in his actual job. He already protects people without hesitation. He doesn't need to be Superman, he’s already a hero to you.

But you think, if Superman is the question, you hope is somebody like Clark. You hope he isn’t some guy who gets off on the fame, and the compliments, and instead is saving people because he can, for the sake of doing the right thing. You hope he’s as kind as Clark, as real as him.

You don’t think Clark Kent is Superman, but you hope Superman is something like Clark Kent.

Batman | Bruce Wayne

It’s difficult to think that Bruce Wayne is Batman.

The Batman is a local legend, a myth with a few too many pieces of evidence. You’ve never seen the Batman, you’ve never talked to him. The reports of him vary, from wildly terrifying to kinder than god. You don’t know the Batman.

But you know Bruce Wayne, you like to think you know him more than most. You know him beyond the ‘Brucie’ persona, the bumbling idiot the public sees.

You know the Bruce Wayne who spends hours at night doing work to make sure his company is doing good, honest work. And you’ve sat with him, either on his couch, in a chair pulled up, or even on his lap, just keeping him company. And he is really working, he’s a hard worker. He’s checking employee complaints and surveys, trying to make it a better workplace.

And the amount of time you’ve spent on Bruce’s arm at a Gala as he tries to sweet talk the 1% into donating to any charity, not even just his, but any is beyond measure. You maybe get a dance or two out of him, before he is off playing the room to try and guide them to good, to do better.

He’s not oblivious to the world, either. You watch the news with him in the mornings, listening to radio articles as you two do your morning routine. You two talk about it, you engage with it. Not just platitudes about the way the world fails and falls apart, but things you could do to change it, to do better. You two talk about the events, you debate the morals, the sides, etc.

Bruce Wayne isn’t just an idiot, but he’s also a hard worker, principled, and present.

And, he’s so sweet, and adorable, and dorky, all the time. He calls to check in on you, ask you how your day is, if you're staying safe. Gotham is a helluva city to live in. He smiles at you, even when you’re not looking. He just enjoys being with you, even if it’s in silence. You two have fallen asleep on the couch watching the news more times than you can count.

So why would you think that your sweet, hard working boyfriend is a possibly made up vigilante?

No, you don’t suspect a thing. But if the Batman is real, if he’s out there, please let him be a man like Bruce Wayne. Someone with principles, who’s willing to work to upkeep them.

It’s a lot of work, being Batman or Bruce Wayne, hopefully he’s up to the challenge.

The Flash | Barry Allen

It feels odd to think that Barry Allen might be the Flash.

The only thing you can really see that they have in common is a sense of humour. But beyond that, the Flash is far too fast to get a good look at. There's neither enough evidence to support he is the Flash, and not enough evidence to fully disprove it. That’s the trick with speedesters, they’re hard to catch.

So like any normal person in Central City, unless you’ve been right next to them and saw the Flash at the same time, anyone could be the Flash. It’s normal to let passing thoughts be hypothetical hypotheses on who the red blur could be. So of course you’ve pondered whether or not Barry could be the Flash.

But it just feels weird, because the Flash seems so unserious. It’s not that Barry doesn’t know how to joke, but he’s so much more serious in dire situations. Sometimes he gets so caught up in work in the lab that you can’t reach him, he’s just so focused on cracking the case and finding the forensic clues.

Barry laughs all the time, and really does have a familiar sense of humor, but it’s so endearing when he does it. He’s laughing with you, not at you like the Flash does for his villains. But that begs the question doesn’t it. You’re not a villain. Why would Barry treat you like one, if he was the Flash? It’s not really a distinction between their sense of humor when the two situations are so different.

But you don’t think about it for long. It just feels odd. It’s like you're missing the last key bit of information, that would anchor all your thoughts to one answer. You just can’t seem to catch the whole picture.

Barry is not shy nor nervous, but he doesn’t exude the smug confidence that the Flash does. But… on a certain level, if you consider it, they do the same thing. They both fight crime, they both solve mysteries, and they both work to make Central City safer. Barry does only have nice things to say about the Flash, save a few existential comments on the terrifying implications of increased metabolism and also getting stuck going full speed, Barry is a fan of the Flash.

Still. It’s just odd. Barry and the Flash are more alike than they seem at first glance, and that’s an odd thought, isn’t it?

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Masterlist ->

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Oldest (Top) → Newest (Bottom)

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Headcanons -> How they Hide their Identity from you (GN Reader)

Pt. 1 → Superman, Batman, The Flash

Pt. 2 → Green Arrow, Green Lantern (Hal), The Question

Pt. 3 → Hawk and Dove

Pt. 4 → Arsenal / Red Arrow, Nightwing

Headcanons -> What you Suspect

Superman, Batman, The Flash

Request : Robot Reader

Superman, Batman, Green Lantern (John)

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Headcanons -> How they Hide their Identity from you (GN Reader)

Pt. 4

Warning : Talks of drug addiction and family deaths.

Arsenal / Red Arrow | Roy Harper

With the power of the truth. Roy Harper has lived a life outside of vigilantism, and when told without the hero, the story looks like the whole picture. So Roy tells you the truth, minus the crime fighting, and you don’t have any reason to think there's more to it. The story is already a lot.

I mean, being raised by a single dad who dies, getting adopted by a dad who dies, and then adopted by another dad, and then becoming a single dad. It’s a lot. He told you a bit about his biological dad, and how he never knew what happened to his mother. He doesn’t like to talk about his death, just because it was so long ago and it feels odd to open that wound now.

He tells you a lot more about his first adoptive father, Raymond Begay, better known as Brave Bow. He’s who gave Roy his Navajo heritage, at least he thinks so since he never knew his mother, and if he told you about being Arsenal then you’d learn it was Raymond who inspired him to be a hero. But you don’t know that part, and instead you comfort him over the events of the Forest Fire.

His story of Oliver Queen, his current father figure is much different. There's both a connection and an estrangement there, and it’s hard to untangle. Roy confesses to you about his struggles with addiction, which colors a lot of his actions today. The help groups, the charity, the volunteer work, it’s clear he feels guilt on an incredible level and is trying to make up for it somehow. You try to reassure him that his addiction was not a crime to the world, only to himself, but since you don’t know about his work as Red Arrow, he can’t take your words to heart. You don’t know what happened, really, even though it feels like you know everything, that he’s shared everything.

And being a single father to boot, it’s a lot of responsibility. And he is so involved and present in Lian’s life, taking care of her every single day, it’s hard to imagine him anywhere else. It’s amazing to hear his life story and see the support system he still has, and his gaggle of friends who jump to help him whenever he asks.

And after all of that, how could Roy Harper be Arsenal, or even Red Arrow?

Nightwing | Richard “Dick” Grayson

With the power of practiced, boyish charm. What can he say, he learned a thing or two from his dad. The only difference is that it’s less of a practiced facade and more just him, minus one or two details. He actually relies a lot on his dad as an excuse for why he isn’t Nightwing. Everyone knows Nightwing was the first Robin by now, and if he was Nightwing, well then he would have had to be Robin, and that would mean Bruce Wayne would have to be Batman. And Bruce Wayne could never be Batman.

Nightwing is known for acrobatics? And Dick was not only born an acrobat, but shows off how flexible he is to you all the time? Yeah, who’s to say Nightwing wasn’t trained in it as he became a hero? There are tons of acrobats, why would Dick just so happen to be Nightwing? If it comes to it, Dick will diss Nightwing’s skills as an acrobat. Because Dick would like not to look like an idiot or less skilled to his partner, and they don’t need to think Nightwing is cool as long as they think Dick is cool. Same thing really.

As for the various bruises and wounds that he gets, well, you can’t forget his occupation. Rich gothamite? Kidnapped all the time, that’s where all the old scars are from. And the new ones? He is a police officer. He gets into combat all the time on duty. That’s the easy part to explain.

The hard part to explain is why he’s never in bed before 1:00 AM. He tried to use talking with his brothers as an excuse, and while that works for weekend trips to visit them, it doesn’t last. In the end he has managed to convince you he has ADHD and insomnia because of it, he just has to tire himself out before bed. You're not entirely convinced it’s not a sugar addiction, or cereal to be exact, instead, but oh well. It works, and that's what matters.

He’s luckily had a lot of practice keeping his identity secret, and that’s his biggest advantage in this. He’s kept this secret from countless others before you, you’re not a new challenge. Although, that doesn’t make it any less uncomfortable a secret to keep. He’d love to tell you, but he’s been burned before, and he needs to be sure.

So Nightwing isn’t Dick Grayson, for now.

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Headcanons -> How they Hide their Identity from you (GN Reader)

Pt. 3

Dove | Donald “Don” Hall

With the power of going against his principles. Don hates to lie to you. It goes against literally everything he stands for. He would much rather be upfront with you. But that would put you in danger and distress, and he hates that more than lying.

You know what older half-brothers are useful for? Alibi. I mean, it’s not like they go into battle without each other. So they are hanging out. They’re just not doing golf, or whatever excuse Don managed to stutter out and answer for. Hank will always back him up, so it doesn’t really matter what he says, he just feels bad anyway.

And it’s not like you suspect anything in the first place. Hawk and Dove are known heros, but not ones readily on the general public's radar. They’ve done a few cases that catch public interest, like saving judges from assassination plots, but those are few and far in between. Mostly people in the magical community know about the avatars for the Lords of Chaos and Order, and so unless you fit that category you are less than lilley to bother. The most you probably heard about them is that they joined the Justice League recently, but that’s just pleasant news. More heroes, good for you.

And if you did bother to suspect, your thoughts would quickly turn to another target. Don? A crime-fighting hero in spandex? Never. He can barely handle moving spiders outside of your home safely, because he feels so bad about evicting them. He has tried to convince you before to coexist. Never.

He couldn’t possibly be punching people on the regular, never.

Don could never be the Dove, he’s too much of a pacifist.

Hawk | Henry “Hank” Hall

With the power of Don Hall, who else? Oh, Don feels bad about abusing his partners trust and using his brother as an alibi, but Hank has no such trouble. He abuses that even when he isn’t going out as Hawk, just because he was stuck in traffic and didn’t want to confess he was late to your date because his road rage was so bad he broke the steering wheel and had to walk. No, his brother is definitely borrowing his car. Doesn’t he have his own? Maybe, but Hank’s got more trunk space. Don’t worry about it.

And like above, if you Hawk and Dove were on your radar at all, it’d be a different story. Unlike Don, Hank absolutely looks like he could be Hawk? Bit of a temper, strong sense of justice, and a propensity to punch first and ask questions later? Sounds like Hank first and Hawk second, really.

What’s really the kicker is that Hank almost reveals himself without even meaning to. He wanted to show off a bit, when the conversation about heroes came up, and he bragged that Hawk and Dove saved his father. Which made you ask, why his dad? Who are Hawk and Dove? Why is that the first appearance of them? What happened? And wow, that’s too many questions, with too many good answers that hit a little close to home.

Best call Don, or hell, even his dad. Irwin could probably explain it in his unbiased way that leaves little doubt that Hank could never be Hawk. Nah, he was too much trouble as a kid to be a hero. Has that logic ever been used before? No, it hasn’t, but it’s what Hank is sticking with.

No, Hank couldn’t be Hawk. Don would never let his brother go alone, and as long as Don isn’t Dove, how could Hank be Hawk?

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Headcanons -> How they Hide their Identity from you (GN Reader)

Pt. 2

Green Arrow | Oliver Queen

With no power of his own. God, no ones ever seen the Green Arrows Face? How could you suspect him? Has Oliver Queen ever given up a chance to show off his magnificent facial hair? No. And Green Arrow’s hood hides his face from everyone who is not his enemy. That’s not Oliver Queen’s style at all. Please ignore all the villain testimony that Green Arrow is rocking some facial hair, and very styled too. No need to heed those. (Okay, slight power of his own, he might have scrubbed the one blurry image of his face under the hood from the internet. He still had his domino mask on, but you can never be too careful.)

And yeah, he was missing for years, and has a ton of survival skills, but those are the kind of things you need to keep up. And Oliver Queen has been living in nothing but luxury since he got back, he’s not looking to rough it again anytime soon. Please ignore that one camping trip he took you on that proved his survival skills are very much intact.

Same thing for scars that you might find on him. He had a tough time out there in the wild, and these are old things. Oliver just hopes you don’t know the difference between a fresh and an old scar. And a few bruises here and there aren’t hard to excuse, really. He’s not Batman. He has the advantage of a lot of range on his opponents.

Oliver thought about taking you on an archery date, but thought better of it. He’d love to show off, but he just can’t risk it, can’t risk you. It’s not worth it, it's not worth the risk of you knowing. Because what then? Do you get involved? Do you lose sleep over it? He’d rather not do that to you.

So Oliver Queen is not Green Arrow, not to you at least, not as long as he can help it.

Green Lantern | Hal Jordan

With the power of plausible deniability. It helps that Ferris Airlines has some tight NDAs about their work and testing, and so legally Hal can’t tell you what he does at work. He may just stretch the definition of work. So he’s not paid to be Green Lantern, but it is a corps, so it’s totally a full on job. He has assignments. Will he tell you if it’s for Oa or Ferris? Probably not.

You know what also helps? Or helped rather. The fact that everyone was convinced Green Lantern was an alien from space. I mean, Superman is an alien, and he looks human. Why not Green Lantern? Right? Wrong. Especially when John Stewart became Green Lantern. Hal loves the guy, but Hal was discharged from the Airforce, and John still holds his code as a Marine very close. He feels it’s dishonest to hide his identity from the public, and so everyone knows John Stewart is Green Lantern, and he’s from earth.

And there may have been an interview, where Earth officials asked how the greater universe and Lantern Corps felt about a Lantern from earth. And because John doesn’t like to lie, he told them the truth. He wasn’t the first Green Lantern from earth, Hal was. And now Hal is loud and proud about that on Oa, and John didn’t say his name out of respect, it kinda lost him some anonymity. Now everyone knew to look on earth for Green Lantern.

But hopefully you guys were dating long before that, and you’d never suspect your boyfriend to be Green Lantern. Never. Sure, they have the same cocky attitude, and Green Lantern has a penchant for aircraft, and the same hair, but nah, not Hal, surly.

Hal usually brushes off bruises and battering marks as either workplace accidents or a bar fight with the boys. Please don’t ask who the boys are. (It’s John Stewart, the well known Green Lantern, and there was a bar fight, it just happened to be on a different planet.) And of course you believe him, Hal is cocky, and that means he either made a mistake in his hubris or pissed the wrong guy off. Not hard to believe.

No, Hal Jordan is not Green Lantern, ignore the nightlight he keeps in a safe, it’s one of a kind.

The Question | Vic Sage / Charles Victor Szazs

With the power of nobody knows who the Question is. Unless you’re a criminal who had your operation busted by the PI, the greater public is not very aware of the Question. He’s not the kind of hero who gets a lot of attention. And, to be perfectly honest, his day job is not that far off from his night one.

Charles Victor Szazs is your boyfriend, Vic Sage is his pen name as an investigative journalist, and the Question is a PI you don’t even know about. So your boyfriend is a bit messy and has a ton of investigations going at the same time, and there's always a mess of strings and cork boards around his apartment. Hub city has a lot going on, of course he’d be doing multiple stories at once.

And he’s a bit of a conspiracy theorist, but his articles haven’t been wrong so far, so who are you to judge? Vic thought about getting a separate apartment for his investigations, but correctly assumed you’d assume he was having an affair instead of connecting girl scouts to crop circles. At least, until you suggested an office or something because you just could not deal with the mess. Problem solved, really. Now you can hang pictures instead of mysteries on the wall.

And the mess, that’s his biggest clue that he struggles to cover up. He can’t erase the eyebags, and the evidence of how he hasn’t showered in three days because some corporate bigwigs were trying to do fraud with genetically altered butterflies. But maybe that’s just his charming personality you fell in love with, and you won’t think too hard about it.

A part of Vic wonders how you haven’t caught on yet, but then again, you are neither looking nor are you the Question. He’d always be looking, he always is, and is his own worst critic. He sees how he leaves out crucial files on Cadmus that you just glance over, he sees how he took off his mask but forgot to take off his iconic suit when he came home, etc.

But that’s the thing, isn’t it, you're not him. You’d have to be a conspiracy theorist to believe Vic Sage was the Question.

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Headcanons -> How they Hide their Identity from you (GN Reader)

Pt. 1

Superman | Clark Kent

With the pure power of disbelief, and a little acting skills if Clark is feeling less humble. Sure, Clark is always missing any time Superman is around, but he’s a reporter! He’s gotta get the scoop! And before Lois too, they may be friendly office rivals but rivals nonetheless. Please don’t mind how Lois always has the scoop and he always somehow missed it. But, as long as those little cracks don’t shine, it’s also a handy excuse for why he runs towards danger. At least, distant danger.

He never seems to run when the danger is right in front of you. Although, he’s something of a nervous disposition. He’ll still try to put himself between you and the gun, but if he can’t, just count yourself lucky when the bullet misses (Or he sped his hand to catch it).

And never forget, Superman gets batted around all the time, and look at Clark, not a scratch on him. Nevermind that the public has no idea how Kryptonian Biology works, and that Clark hasn’t bruised a day in life, at least not for longer than five hours. Nah. Nothing to worry about.

Plus, Clark is so clumsy. He just can’t help running into things, running into low hanging doorways, or getting his jackets hooked on one thing or another. And he’s also late, all the time. Has Superman ever been late? Does he look clumsy? I didn’t think so. At least, Clark doesn’t say so.

Plus, you’ve met Clarks parents. They may be super kind, but super strength? Nah. If that were the case, Pa Kent wouldn’t have to ask Clark to help out with getting the tractors out of ditches. And if his parents don’t have superpowers, how could he?

Clark Kent is definitely not Superman.

Batman | Bruce Wayne

With the power of gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss. Bruce Wayne and you do not move in together quickly at all, and sleepovers at his place are as rare as a blue moon. That way you don’t notice that he gets to bed at the witching hour instead of a normal time. And the Bat, if he’s even real at all as far as Gotham can tell, only works at night. And Bruce never takes non-emergency calls after 9:00 pm. He’s really serious about a good eight hours of sleep. Honest. Even if when you try to call him to join for a morning 6:00 am run, he’s somehow out like a light.

Of course he leaves events that get trashed by Gotham Rogues incredibly quickly. Perhaps even a few seconds before, like there was a warning. Any sane person would run from the rouges. And he’s Bruce Wayne, he’s high profile, and a little sick of getting kidnapped all the time. He promises, he’s just finding a broom closet to stick it out in. Why doesn’t he bring you? He’s Bruce Wayne, what if he gets caught? Then there's an even bigger target on your back, and he doesn’t want that. Please let it slip your mind that everyone in Gotham knows you’re with its Prince thanks to that curious Gazette.

Why is he always so bruised and battered when you do see him with his clothes off? He told you about the boxing, right? He’s gotta keep it up. How else does a man like him stay in shape? I know he keeps refusing your runs (Thanks to their ungodly hour), but he’s getting plenty of exercise with boxing practice. Why do none of his Boxing partners seem to pull their punches? Well it’s the principle of the thing. He’d be a sore loser if he asked them to go easy on him, and the bruises look worse than they really are.

Oh, you want to watch one of boxing matches? Maybe later. When he can arrange it. But doesn’t he do them frequently? It must be a weekly routine. Yeah, but his opponents might not like the audience, so he’ll have to ask. Sorry, Sweetheart.

Hey, at least all the trouble he gets into is boxing. It’s not like he’s Batman.

The Flash | Barry Allen

With the power of superspeed, seriously. It’s hard to catch the fastest man alive red handed, isn’t it? He could save you in your own home and you’d never know he was there. You knock something off the counter? No you didn’t, it’s back on the counter inches away from where your elbow just was. Must have been seeing things. It’s alright, makes you careful. You forgot your water bottle at home? That’s okay, Barry got it for you before you left. Why didn’t he give it to you before? Oh, he just thought he’d carry it until you wanted it. It’s no problem.

Besides, it’s not weird for Barry to know a lot about the crime in Central City, he’s a forensic scientist afterall. He’s taking care of cases all the time, fighting crime on the home front. Of course he knows about all the incidents before the newspapers do, just – don’t prod his coworkers too much. He’ll answer all your questions, no need to ask them.

And to top it all off, how could Barry Allen be the Flash? He’s always the last one there. Late with the coffee for the office, late home in the evening because he got stuck in traffic, and late to work in the mornings because he got lost, etc, etc.

The Flash is such a motormouth, with a tease or a quip on the tip of his tongue at every second. But Barry is so sweet, and all nice words. He’d never have the confidence to laugh in the face of danger, no sir.

Barry Allen can’t be the Flash, he’s too busy with his nine to five.

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