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So I had an AU Idea-

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Embrace the cringe.

Write weird fanfic.

Read weird fanfic.

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Prompt 289

While Bruce was lost in time, he made a Deal. 

He doesn’t exactly mention it to his family when he comes back- he was more than a little busy trying to figure out what he missed, where his children were, what the fuck had even happened. Besides, he’d put it in the report that he’d encountered some sort of primordial time being- even if he was still investigating that on his down time. 

So he thinks he can be forgiven for forgetting to mention anything until Clark drops a cup while staring at him with a pale expression and shakily asks why there’s a second, slower heartbeat in his chest. He just also wishes it wasn’t in the middle of a League meeting. 

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@the-metropolis-marvel don't apologize, it's fine lol

Oh man so where to start. So Gotham itself? Really ecto-contaminated, like that's a given with how many portals have opened in Arkham alone, being built on top of several death pits, and everything else. But most people only have like, eye-shine, maybe a hint of better night vision then Outsiders.

The Bats though? They are like, constantly near-death, even more so with the Rogues with how they have a no-kill rule. Not to mention that in some continuities there's a Lazarus Pit in part of the Batcave.

So that Bats? Way more ecto-contaminated than even your average Gothamite. They give off very uncanny-valley, near fae-ish vibes in their civilian identity. Because no one can be that pretty right? Definitely not, but again, Gotham is used to this.

The thing is, they become so ecto-contaminated that when they die, they just sort of, don't stay that way. It's almost like a mixture of the two canon halfas we know came into existence. Completely drenched in ectoplasm throughout the years that they've formed a core, which can actually produce its own ecto upon death.

Which, they will admit? So very useful. Because they already have two perceived forms, of their civilian identity, and their vigilante ones. And the vigilantes of Gotham are already seen as something Else, seeing as Liminality doesn't need to be pushed down while they're doing their vigilante work.

So their vigilante costumes? Already off- but once they push over the edge into something completely Other? Oh it is horrific. No bones, just ectoplasm, and they can float so no footsteps, not to mention that their presence itself is unsettling, without even starting on their appearances.

This is also why they don't age, at least in their human forms. Because a corpse doesn't grow any older.

Which does mean that there are of course rules to this whole half-dead thing. Like they are very much supposed to try not to die, especially when they're younger. Damian shouldn't have died, and now he's twelve forever. How did Jason age then? Well he didn't- he was suffering from childhood malnutrition, but the Lazarus Pit fixing that? Meant that with his genetics and lifestyle he shot up and bulked out, a lot.

This is also why there's never been really any Batfam clones, or at least none that work- there was that one Batman clone but it was a dead body with no brain activity, and there's several Damian clones, but that was before he became a halfa. Liminals, annoying to clone but doable. Halfas? Nearly impossible.

But back to the Batfam being cryptids, enough about that.

Their ghost forms are pretty much their vigilante selves, but there's something Very Wrong. Limbs a hint too long, too gnarled like bones were broken at one point and never healed. They almost seem to glow, while other times it's like the shadows reach towards them, darkening the entire room.

Teeth too sharp, eyes too intense, like a predator sizing up prey. No breath, no heartbeat, nothing human about it. In fact, a predator is exactly what they feel like to everyone else. There is something hunting, and you don't know where it is, only that it's somewhere nearby, and looking at you.

Sorry I should've specified my bad lol, I was referring to the batfam cryptid one

I assume you're talking about the Liminal one as that's the one I've posted about today, but I will have to ask you to tell me if I'm correct lol. I have... well, if you include the oneshot project I'm working on about 200 cryptid batfam aus lol. No I don't have a problem-

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Oneshot Project: Which of these should I work on or would you wish for a WIP of? [If you wish to be tagged for a writing WIP reply/comment so, also feel free to send in asks if you want to know more about any of them]

Dragon Au Unreliable Narrators, curtesy of Tim, with semi-dark Batfam thanks to them well, not being human. Includes Jason getting dragged back home kicking and screaming and human Tim eventually also becoming dragon.

Living Armor Au Semi-modern fantasy Au thing, with the batfam being more than a little oblivious to the fact that their allies think they are people in armor, not supernatural creatures. This also leads to misunderstandings when Bruce mentions they're getting a new family member.

Merfolk Au Gotham's version of merfolk is like a specialized super predator. Or maybe that's just the Bats, because despite most of them being based off of not exactly aggressive or even large fish, they Can take off someone's hand. It also doesn't help that no one thinks to mention the fact that Gotham is the sea's Eldritch Dead Zone.

Griffon Au Mostly fluff and found family, and Bruce with his kids as young kids. Includes him desperately trying to convince them to do Anything other than vigilantism, Please, and them just laughing at him. Also includes Alfred in shorts during the winter because he's built different.

Kobold-Dog Au Batfam, but they're lizard dog people with apposable thumbs. Includes baby Damian and some inspiration from the kobold of german folklore as well.

Kitsune Au Magical batfamily who might just specialize in more illusionary magic? Yeah, and some of them even count as holy creatures. Also, as kitsune can act as mediums between the mortal and celestial? They might interact with a few ghosts. Also Sentient Gotham City.

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HYPOTHETICALLY. If I were to write a oneshot with meta batfamily, but they couldn't have shadow powers, what powers would you give each of them?

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A comic (?) about my love of weird little bats for this halloween

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Sorry I should've specified my bad lol, I was referring to the batfam cryptid one

I assume you're talking about the Liminal one as that's the one I've posted about today, but I will have to ask you to tell me if I'm correct lol. I have... well, if you include the oneshot project I'm working on about 200 cryptid batfam aus lol. No I don't have a problem-

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Deep breath. Okay I love this. I absolutely love this. Also absolutely adore the idea of the entirety of Gotham being utterly horrified of a Pup having No Scent, because they should have something, even their own type of scent.

And I bet Danny's scent? Definitely sickly. His heartbeat is slower than should be, his veins stand out just a bit too much in pale skin and this general scent of death clinging to him.

But no Pack? Even the street kids keep watch over each other (helped further when Red Hood burst onto the scene & double checked on every street pack and made sure they had supplies and food and such) so for no scent?

That's like if someone has never touched someone, never experienced any type of physical contact like, ever. And that, as a concept is horrific already. But for a child?

All of Gotham is with their dear Brucie (and the terrifying Batman) on this, they need to find this scrawny sickly pup yesterday. Especially before a more violent rogue does.

dc x dp prompt

So I just got into the dc x dp fandom very head strong and I’ve been reading dc x dp fics left and right, some of the fics containing a/b/o dynamics and I just had a thought what if Danny one day took a trip to the DC universe and this universe had the a/b/o dynamics

Danny: I am a traumatized teenager that is alone and is totally normal

Adopting orphans left and right Bruce Wayne: don’t worry pup I’ll take care of you, you’re obviously neglected due to you’re having no parental scent

Danny: STRANGER DANGER, There’s a child sniffing pervert on the loose protect your childern(runs away)

Bruce Wayne: ???

Bruce Wayne: was it something I said.

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Prompt 288

Once more, Dredge Inspiration, because I am weak. 

See, the Realms may be Infinite, but Amity? Definitely not. So all that energy has to go somewhere- sinks into the cracks and into the ground and air and waters in the city and around it. And then? Not only is there ambient energy, but then literal Ancients come through. 

Great storms and earthquakes tearing through the already cracked and ecto-soaked ground. According to official records? Amity Park sank into a sinkhole after a series of heavy flooding after several natural disasters. 

Which sure, there was a sinkhole, but they sure as fuck wouldn’t have sank if there wasn’t a damn ghost shield up thanks to the GIW. It would have taken at least several more years for most to get ecto-contaminated as much as they were, but no, let’s add a shield that prevents the ecto from leaving and instead bounces it right back into the city. 

So perhaps the people start becoming a bit off. Perhaps there’s some parts of the Pit that has grown sentient, living and vicious in possessively protecting the people inside. So maybe it’s infected people, slowly dragging them farther away from humanity. So maybe the entire class can no longer be counted as human. 

It’s fine. It’s okay. Everything is fine and safe and no one can get inside, even if they can’t leave. So what if they can’t recall how long the barrier has been up? So what if the people who aren’t becoming liminal are becoming sick? That’s fine, they don’t need help… right? 

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Consider me very interested, infodump!

Vibrating. Okay but which AU do you wish for me to infodump about because I have several.

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Just realized this was in my drafts and not queued or reblogged lol.

Honestly yeah, the Ennead definitely just... relax. Lets themself feel the wind on their faces, sun on their scales, everything that for the last three-hundred years they've missed. If it's not been even longer.

And Klarion? He's totally fine with this, because the giant potentially world-ending threat just disappearing? Like you said, that's going to cause Chaos all on its own. And with him? Oh yeah, he's giggling so much while cradled against warm scales-fur-feathers-starlight-energy. And maybe the Ennead is just a... tiny bit overprotective of this tiny chaos lord. Could anyone blame them? They've seen so many beings destroyed- ended- for simply following their nature, unable to do anything in that damn tank. So if they don't care for laws or the complaints of mortals who do not understand that their intervention towards things they do not know only causes destruction. They do not care for the beings who tried to steal their memories of their loved ones, their family and friends and home. Who used their own life force to fuel their weapons to end others, smaller, younger of their kind. They could not care less as long as balance is not destroyed.

Though yeah, the heroes? Not pleased at all. Kind of scrambling actually. Really scrambling. This? Potentially worse than even Waller's shit, even with half the servers destroyed by the Hydras rampage. And at first? They thought it was maybe a summoning gone wrong, some sort of portal opening, anything similar to that. But the cage? The tank, the pit with literal acid and entire silos full of blood going back years? That suddenly paints a much more horrific scenario.

Prompt 232

Once more thinkin of These Series of AU/Prompts, where the Class pulls a Tiamat. Becomes Giant Hydra Dragon. But with some inspiration from @radiance1's Blob King AUs. Specifically also the dragon ones.

Now, the nine of them are admittedly far older than they once were. Far older than most of the people outside the cage they were tricked into all those years before, exhaustion seeping into their bones as their ectoplasm was siphoned away.

Yet no matter how much the GIW drains away- if they're even called as such anymore- they never run out. If anything, at least from what they've noticed, unable to do much of anything else in this pit, this tank of green and red, they seem to be making more.

Their recollection of being separate, of having separate bodies have long since slipped away in exchange for keeping memories of their families and friends long gone now. Perhaps they're in the zone, as ghosts, but perhaps not.

Days feel like both seconds and years, words falling away as their Core hums as one. Sometimes a Blob ghost manages to find its way inside- the trap designed not to stop things from getting in, but to prevent them from leaving.

They always disappear whenever the ecto is taken away, not having enough to continue holding on to a physical form. But... the blobs don't stay gone. Their own ecto brings them back, tiny forms almost mimicking their own.

It's something to distract them, something to actually do besides growl at the figures beyond the barriers around them. The blobs don't speak, don't make more than squeaks, but it's something. Almost like dozens of toddlers floating around, becoming more and more draconic in shape with every siphon.

Do their captors realize, they wonder, how they've made them all stronger than they were even before? Do they realize what they've done, creating this loop of ever-growing power?

No, Star giggled, pink and gold scales shimmering as she bobbed her head in amusement, Paulina's darker purples following.

They don't know, Wes agreed, dark amusement echoed by both Sam and Dash, fangs flashing amidst the liquid. The trap would not be able to contain them for much longer, they all knew. They could feel it, how the siphon stuttered with every run.

It wouldn't be long now. They had waited three hundred years for the chance to escape- they could wait for a few days more.

...

Though they won't complain about an early prison break if those alarms are anything to go by.

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I have a great idea for cryptid batfam but like, liminals and halfas sort of thing, and I need y'all to remind me to actually talk about it and perhaps draw it.

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You. Keep talking.

Prompt 241

Wing au? Wing Au. With perhaps a bit of a twist. Also a hint of eldritchness perhaps. For fun! 

Ghosts have wings. Sure, they aren’t normally seen, not in the visible spectrum, but they do. Scanners pick them up, and sometimes a ghost might even reveal them, which was hypothesized to be some sort of animalistic intimidation attempt. (Something more than one Amity Parker rolled their eyes at)

Everyone had seen them at least once- the motorcycle-driving ghost’s mass of shadowy feathers, the green-haired girls matching shaggy ones, the rocker’s ones that looked like pages of music before bursting into flame. Even the box ghost’s had been spotted- feathers looking more like sheets of cardboard than anything else. 

It wasn’t until the whole kidnapped to the ghost zone that anyone saw Phantom’s, but that was another tale unto itself really. Honestly the arrival of the GIW would have maybe been seen as positive before, but the fact that many of them had looked in the mirror or gone to the doctors only to find feathers beginning to sprout on their back soured it. 

Especially as the GIW continues to prattle on and on about how all ecto-contaminated scum are less than human, less than bacteria. And well, what does that make them? Them, who have been to the realms of the dead and gods and back, touched by the swirling green energy in ways incomprehensible? Changed by that energy? 

So the people silently brush hidden feathers together, quietly rebuff the white-wearing lunatics from the city as best they can, and hope to anything listening that they can stop anyone else from disappearing. That maybe they can find the few no one noticed had been taken before it’s too late, even if they have to tear down the entire government to do it. 

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Prompt 287

“Bleh,” Danny stuck his tongue out, nose scrunching at the taste of blood. “Ma’ nose ‘s bleedin’!” he complained, utterly offended that it had been from ducking into a wall and not something like a fight. But also incredibly concerned about how dripping blood everywhere meant dripping literal poison. 

Jordan snorted and Vlad cursed under his breath, a napkin already in his claws. Curse these tinier bodies, but at least it was better than being a toddler. But they were still so fragile compared to how he’d been at 14 that it was annoying! 

And okay, they didn’t have a lot of choices being on the run, but still. Could be worse with how close their cores had come to cracking. They could have shattered instead of both halves bleeding across to the other. 

And look he’d never thought he’d be on the run with Vlad and Dan and Ellie but… He didn’t want to think about it. Danny grumbled as his face was wiped, but it was better than leaving traces of their presence, crime-ridden area or no. 

Ancients this was a mess. They were all exhausted and injured and had already fled across several states, backtracking and leading false trails when they could. They hadn’t eaten much, not gotten a chance to besides what they could steal on the way, avoiding any sort of cameras or being spotted in general.

“Ellie ‘s hungry,” Dan spoke up, practically tattling on their now-younger sister who had gotten in the habit of not mentioning when she was, despite being the youngest and needing the most food of them all. And that was without even starting on her medical issues. 

Vlad cursed again under his breath, biting into his wrist. “Not too fast,” he grunted as crimson ecto dripped from the wound. Ellie latched on immediately with her own grumble, glaring at Dan before she did. The oldest halfa half picked her up onto his hip, motioning the both of them closer. 

“Both of you too,” his voice was no-nonsense, the one that promised that he would force-feed them ecto so they didn’t collapse again, despite it only happening once. Stupid Vlad somehow actually being a good caretaker during this entire bullshit. 

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Does anyone know where one could find a good text-to-speech sort of thing?

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A little reference for the Dragon oneshot. Not including true dragon forms, but also have sketch of the human form(s)