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Divine Twitch Chat come through 🤺

Also B/W version cause they kinda slap

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Batman and Robin Eternal #3

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Billy Batson/Captain Marvel as the first Superhero

I think it would be really cool if Captain Marvel was the first superhero to start operating in the DC universe.

When he receives his powers at 7, he's supposed to be just protecting the Rock of Eternity and dealing with certain magic threats as the past Champions have, but he can't resist helping people so he also begins watching over Fawcett City.

He sticks to his city for the most part, but every once in a while he'll see a disaster on the news and go help. He's busy with being the Champion of Magic and a homeless kid so he never sticks around for interviews. He's something of a mystery to the world at large.

Five years after he becomes Captain Marvel, Batman and Superman come onto the scene. Superman actually seeks Marvel out for advice when he's getting started. (I love the idea of Captain Marvel being an inspiration for Superman in this universe.)

Eventually when the Justice League forms they invite Captain Marvel to join. He asks for a rain check but gives them a magic mirror to contact him with. He helps them out occasionally and is something of a mentor/advisor to them.

When Robin comes on the scene the League is surprised that Marvel doesn't get upset and Batman. Marvel does however pull him aside and talk to him about the importance of balancing his roles as a mentor and family to the kid.

"He needs to know that being loved and having a home doesn't hinge on how he does as a hero," He tells Batman firmly. "Or if he even chooses to stay a hero."

In this universe Dick and Bruce end up having a better relationship.

He makes sure Robin and then each of the other young heroes that rise up in his wake have an emergency summoning charm for him. The younger heroes view him an honorary grandfather of sorts. They often go to him for advice, especially if they are having a problem with their mentors, since he seems to just get it.

No one's quite sure how old he is. He doesn't visibly age. When asked about depictions of the previous Champions he tells the other heroes that they are and aren't him. (As Marvel Billy has all the memories of the past Champions, but it doesn't quite carry over to his mortal form). When other heroes invite him to share a beer he says he's not old enough. They think he's joking or perhaps that it hasn't been 21 years since he formed (They figure he's weird enough to count it that way).

I'm torn between having him aging normally as Billy and the League not finding out until he's legally and adult or some sort of shenanigans happening in Fawcett resulting in time being messed up there so he's forever 7 (or his age shifts around but he's always a kid.) Both possibilities are interesting.

Either way I love the idea that he's not really hiding the fact that he's a kid from them, he just doesn't view it as relevant. All remarks that he makes that could reveal him as a kid tend to get dismissed as him being a magical being created by the gods or just his odd personality. Bruce hasn't looked for Marvel's secret id because he thinks he doesn't have one. This misunderstanding comes from him taking the League to the Rock of Eternity one time. He has a nice little living area set up where he hangs out sometimes. (Not too often though because time at the Rock of Eternity is weird.) They all just assume he lives there.

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His siblings would have way too much fun with that if they ever find out.

Imagine: Tim and Jason are visiting and someone comes to get his help. As they leave they say something like "Thank-you Jar-man!"

Dick turns around to see Tim and Jason are smirking and have The Look™ in their eyes. "Oh no" He thinks.

Within a week Tim has created a Jar-man costume and is working on the Jar-car.

Jason keeps requesting Jar-man when he's on patrol.

It spreads of course.

Bruce in some good nature ribbing starts adding "jar" to words when referring to things in Dicks house (Dick being the culprit behind the Bat- prefix getting added to all Bruce's gear).

Bruce: To the refridge-jar-ator!

Cass just shows up and silently hands him things to open occasionally. Stares at him and then leaves with her open item.

Duke made a Jar-man T-shirt for himself.

Barbara creates a Jar-signal.

Stephanie has created a petition for Jar-man to become a member of the Justice League.

Damian initially dislikes the whole thing but eventually comes around and creates a short "Jar-man" comic strip for Dick.

By that time Dick has accepted that this is just his life now and frames it to hang it up on his wall.

Au where somehow dick ends up becoming the apartment complex’s community jar opener

The first time it happens his neighbor is supposed to be hosting dinner for her boss but just can’t get the damn lid off of the maraschino cherries. It’s supposed to be on the cake because they’re her bosses favorite and she really needs this promotion. So she desperately knocks on doors looking for help and dick (half asleep from working three jobs) is the only one that answers. Then he takes one look at this near tears woman holding a jar of candy cherries like a lifeline, notes the red marks on her hands and the knife marks on the lid, then silently gestures for her to give it to him. It’s literally open in seconds and he jokes about her loosening it up for him. If she wasn’t so grateful she’d be infuriated at how easy it was for him.

Still she tells her gardening friend about what happened (an elderly man on the floor above hers who has the least green thumb she has ever seen) and a week later dick has him at his door holding up two pints of Talenti ice cream. Apparently he usually just saws through the plastic containers with a knife since he can never get the lids off and figured he might as well ask first this time. Bemused, dick pops the lids off effortlessly and gets a pint as payment. Dick agrees but only if they eat it together. That day he learns some truly fascinating things about plants that may or may not help him during a case.

After that it just keeps happening? A kid shows up at his door holding up a pickle jar and he find out that the kids mom is pregnant and has been having all kinds of cravings. When he walks the kid back home, the mom just tugs him inside and tells him to loosen all the jar. He’s honestly too surprised not to do it

Then an old woman that’s keeps trying to set dick up with her grandchildren. Then two teenagers sheepishly holding up a flint stone gummies vitamin bottle (how were we supposed to know you had to press down on the tab while twisting the top!). Then a little girl with a mason jar who tells him she’s going to catch a carpenter ant and make it the ruler of Barbie land.

Just dick accidentally becoming a very beloved members of every community he’s a part of

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EVERYONE shut the FACK UP IM ON PUTER

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Dick's mob era happening around the same time as Jason building himself up as a crime lord has so much entertainment potential.

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Duke and damian are best brothers. I will die on this hill

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I honestly love this idea.

I imagine it as something that happens gradually. Clark (as Superman) writes several books on Kryptonian myths and history. People immediately recognize the name "Nightwing".

Most people assume that he must have gotten the name from Superman, but a few start whispering that he's the deity taken human form. That perhaps in the wake of Krypton's destruction it followed her last son to Earth.

The rumor is slow but persistent. The thing is this: in a world were Diana was given life by Zeus' lightning striking clay, gods are very real. Why should it be only Earth's gods?

The diety!Nightwing fell into slumber after the destruction of Krypton, but as belief in Dick being his human form spreads, he awakens and turns his gaze toward Earth. He watches Dick and the mortal pleases him.

The diety blesses Dick and slowly starts transferring power into him. At first Dick doesn't know why he's suddenly developing powers (depending on when this happens he might seek help from other heroes or not), but eventually he starts to be able to sense the deity.

Diety!Nightwing doesn't quite get why this is alarming to Dick as the mortal had taken on its name and is doing tribute to it by fighting evil in the shadows. They have a rough period where Dick is fighting what's happening to him, but eventually they manage to find something that works for both of them.

So my favourite version of the Nightwing name origin is from Action Comics #886, where Nightwing is a dragon-like deity from a Kryptonian myth. He was created by Rao "to seek out evil and corruption that hides in the shadows; to pursue it and destroy it."

Very cool.

Anyway, it gave me an idea for an AU: what if, through some comic book shenanigans, Dick became the vessel for Nightwing of Krypton? ...You know, kind of Naruto-style? (Because apparently those old hyperfixations never really leave you xD)

Maybe it would have happened when he took on the name? Idk I just think it'd be neat

Tl;dr: lock up a giant dragon in that boy