#billy batson

[teehhhhhhhhhhh]

my injustice mary burnt the cookies bc she was grieving a bit too long (haha do you see what i did with the burnt cookie)

[wonderjanga]

Marvel Physically Can’t not Smile

This is related to my Barely Human Marvel post from a while ago. In that post, Marvel is basically a being that looks human, acts like a human, but isn’t a human. (Of course, Billy is human, but his Captain Marvel form is basically a doll with flesh. I don’t think I even made him able to bleed) But, in this one, Marvel’s face is literally curved into a smile all the time because Billy’s last memories of his dad all consist of him smiling.

Imagine, Black Adam is beating his face in. He’s hitting the Champion as hard as he can, and they’re literally inside of a crater that was made from Teth hitting him so hard. He’s on top of Marvel and just hitting and hitting him over and over again, and during it all, he’s still smiling. The champions nose is bleeding, and one of his eyes is bloodshot. And yet, during all the punches he’s enduring he’s still smiling. He would be lying if he said it didn’t irritate him.

Then, there was Marvel’s first run in with the Joker. The clown had come after him after Billy met him while in Gotham.

//flashback//

Marvel: “Thanks, Batman. I don’t know how bad it would’ve been if that Joker guy got his hands on the Dream Stone.”

Batman: “Hn.” (Translation: Believe me when I say I know. Now shoo.)

Marvel: “Okay, okay. I’ll get out of your hair.” *hovers off the ground and is about to leave when he does a double take* “Is that a mecha?”

Joker: *inside of giant robot Joker, looking down at them*

Batman: *sighs* “Yes. It’s a mecha.” *pulls out grappling hook and makes his way up there*

Marvel: “Huh.” *watches him go before flying away to the rock*

//flashback end//

The Joker now has a bunch of people held hostage in a little cage that’ll be filled with Joker Venom. As of yet, the Clown Prince of Crime is having a bit of a hard time deciding whether he likes or hates the fact that Marvel is still smiling in the face of many people screaming and begging for help. He decides he likes it though when Marvel tells him that he’s simply smiling because his face was made that way. Now, the reason he likes it is because he finds that hilarious because of his random ahh Joker reasons. He even burst out into laughter when Marvel told him that. He laughed harder when he found out Marvel took care of the problem by inhaling all the gas from their canisters so it couldn’t be expelled anywhere. Though, he was a little bummed to find out the gas doesn’t affect Marvel.

Speaking of the Joker, we gotta talk about Batman. At first, he thought that the whole smiling thing was just apart of his character as Captain Marvel. Then, when he met Marvel he realized it wasn’t like a role he was playing, no, he actually smiles and is positive all the time. Then, he realized, oh wait, never mind, his face is just like that. His personality on the other hand was actually sunshine and rainbows though. After about half a year of knowing the Captain though, Bruce thinks he has a pretty good read on him.

Normal big smile (normally showing teeth) = happy go lucky normal Marvel.

Normal small smile (sometimes not showing not as many teeth) = only comes out when he’s tired but seeing as Marvel, and Bruce quotes, “can’t get tired” it’s extremely rare.

Small closed smile = could be still happy, could be upset, could be annoyed. Bruce has seen it’s more associated with negative emotions though.

Wobblyish smile = definitely upset in some sort of way. It looks like he’s trying to frown but he can’t. Bruce suspects that he could frown at some point but can’t anymore for whatever reasons.

Then, there’s the time Mary nearly died and he pulled her aside to scold her. The JL decided to spy just in case anything got physical. They were then greeted to Marvel yelling. Like actually yelling. They’d never seen Cap yell. And not only that, but he was crying. While smiling. And he has one of those little wobbly smiles too. So everyone knows he’s actually really upset at this. Mary yelled back saying how he wasn’t her father and how he shouldn’t act like it. He told her he wasn’t trying to be her father. In response, he was told to stop acting like it. This caused the man to sigh and soon after the two left.

The other JL members with kids were sympathetic, but the next day Marvel was back to being himself. (Mary and him made up afterwords)

[toobytoobs]

Excuses (lies) Billy Batson could use to explain why he’s a kid.

He just takes the form of a child like Klarion the Witch Boy

It’s his power save mode

He was born with the knowledge of the gods and has the mind of an adult

He uses the form because people are more likely to talk to a homeless little orphan kid rather than a 7ft Demi-god superhero.

His body just ages more slowly than his mind.

He was made of magic not very long ago so his non-magic form is how old he’d be if he was normal.

He died at this age and his magic makes him look how old he should be.

He just looks that way

“Fuck off, it’s magic” (persuasion)

“What? Are you seeing straight? Obviously I’m an adult” (straight up lying)

[lady-ace]

Mitosis

(set in an AU where Mary and Freddy are both small in their champion form, and Billy doesn't work for Whiz yet.)

Almost everyone knew the marvels. The magical sunny trio, who always seemed joined at the hip. Where one went, the other two were never too far behind.

Of course, with Captain Marvel being the oldest and looking very similar to the other two (Black hair, blue eyes, you get the idea) everyone thought the same thing; “Cap is the father of Mary Marvel and Captain Marvel Jr. Come on, it's even in the name!”

No one, from the public or the superhero community ever brought it up with them, because 'Well, it's obvious!'

..And then the Captain told them they were completely wrong.

/ / /

Superman, while in a casual conversation with the other leaguers, refers to Marvel Jr. As Captain Marvel's son.

Cap, who happened to overhear: “Son? Jr is my older brother.”

[Shocked pause]

GA, gobsmacked: “Why is he called Jr then?”

Cap, a little taken aback by the apparent shock this was to the others: “Well, to be honest, when Jr was coming up with a name, i suggested Jr, because he was smaller than me, and the name stuck.”

GA, still blue screening the fact that Jr was not Cap's son: “Wow.”

GL, waving his hands frantically to accentuate his point: “Are we just gonna pass over the fact Cap just said Jr was older than him?”

Plastic man, jokingly: “Next he's gonna tell us Mary Marvel isn't his daughter either.”

[Cap shoots Plas a look, and before he can speak up, Plastic man continues, his joking tone nowhere to be seen, now in it's place, an almost disbelieving one.]

Plastic man, incredulous: “Oh my God, you are.”

Cap, nodding in agreement: “She's my twin.

[Que various noises of surprise all around the table.]

/ / /

After a few days of Marvel trying to clear up the misunderstanding, it was quite clear a lot of the leaguers simply didn't believe him. Either chalking it up to magic shenanigans or just really doubting he could be younger than Freddy, even though it was so apparent he 'wasn't.'

So, they decided to pull a prank.

With the help of a spell, he aged his Champion form down to the age of his siblings, and dressed up as Mary.

They couldn't wait to see their faces when they saw not one, but two 'Mary Marvels' flying around the watchtower.

After all, they were twins. And what better way to prove it than the classic twin switch-up?

/ / /

Flash, rubbing his eyes before looking again: “I'm not seeing things, am i? Please tell me i've not gone crazy.”

WW, shaking her head: “No. You are seeing things correctly. There's two of our friend present.”

Flash, now a bit worried: “Has Mary been cloned, or is being followed by a doppelganger?”

WW, tilting her head a bit, trying to remember something: “Not that i recall. Maybe you could ask her about it? She doesn't seem concerned about the 'clone'.”

Flash, slapping his forehead in a 'why didn't i do that earlier?' way: “Good idea.”

[Flash goes over to the two Marys (Maries?). When he arrives, one of them beams.]

Billy: “Hi, Flash! How are you doing?”

Flash: “Good! Well, i've been meaning to ask you.. uh, something.”

Mary, grinning: “Well, go ahead.”

Flash, a bit too bluntly: “Why are there two of you?”

Billy, with the most cheerful voice ever: “Mitosis!”

Flash: “Mitosis?!”

Mary, saying this as if it was the most obvious thing: “Why do you think there's only one big Marvel, and the rest of us are small? We separated from the captain recently.”

Billy, holding in a laugh: “But keep it secret, okay? Me and the others trust you to never tell anyone our secret.”

Flash, who is like 'WTF did i just hear': “Uhh.. sure. I won't tell anyone.”

[The two proceed to tell everyone the supposed 'Secret.' Only years later the League would find out it was a prank, when Billy and Mary showed them their civillian forms. They still use the 'Mitosis' as a inside joke when a new member joins the League.]

[shrugsinchinese]

Captain Marvel collecting all the pieces of Constantine's soul not to be nice but because he's still pissed about that time Constantine stole the Living Lightning

John Constantine: Wait, you gathered all the fragments of my soul? How?

Captain Marvel (inspecting his nails) : Oh, you know, the wardens of hell have monthly poker nights. Been going I've aver since they invited me.

JC: And you what, just won all the fragments?

CM: What, like it's hard? I occasionally lost a few shards but I eventually won it all back. Besides, one of them was actually a gift for an unrelated favor.

JC: ..well then.

CM: Well, what?

JC (withering glare): Well, what's it gonna take for you to give me the shards?

CM (cheerfully unwithered): I dunno... they seem much safer with me, to be honest. Considering that, you know, you were the on that lost them in the first place.

JC: Don't be a fucking wanker, it's my soul, I can decide what / want to do with it— (realization sets in)

CM (eyebrow raise, shit eating grin): Oh? Doesn't feel great, does it, when an integral part of your being is in the hands of someone else? And that someone else decides that they can wield your soul better than you—

JC: Alright, alright, I get it. You can stop being a bloody knob about it.

CM: Pot, meet kettle.

(Does Billy return the pieces of Constantine’s soul? Idk it’s up to you)

[im-not-buying-it-ether]

Thinking about how in a lot of Billys deaths he’s never given a replacement to his duties as the Champion of magic, the line ends with him and in the theories DC likes to put out then the order of magic in the world would go with him as the line of Champions dies out

So now I’m thinking about a death in some big fight where Billy can feel his death coming, he can feel his own magic fading with it and is terrified of leaving the world at its disadvantage. The first person to get to him Billy mourns his next course of action, knowing he can’t save himself but he can save his magic

[helps-the-writing-brain-go]

Divine Twitch Chat but make it horror.

The Patrons are always watching but now one of their characters is Aware.

Billy is their favourite little scrumbly. He has his powers, but Marvel or not, there are always eyes upon eyes upon eyes on him now.

Even worse, ever cursed at your TV show? The Patrons can change it, they're viewers but they're also directors now- if they don't like the plot, they can make Billy / Marvel different.

On the one hand, the aspects that are helping him, due to the strict choice of having a Pure of Heart Chamion, are their kinder, gentler aspects. For a given value of kinder.

Their first resort is simple verbal instructions. Gentle encouragements on the way they want things to go and in general this works out because aren't they supposed to guide him anyway?

Slightly more pressure in persuasion is them bribing him, giving him powers when he's Billy, toying with the weather, with luck, with strength and cantrips on bullies to give him a good day.

Harder still, shouting directly in his brain, he can't ignore. A body made of Living Lightning, so powerful, so invincible and yet-

Crafted by Their hands, it is thus so so easy for Them to back-seat drive, to puppet.

Billy goes along with it. He has no choice.

He has to be good, so the ones helping him to do good must be good as well, yes?

"And as always, the Young are sacrificed at the altars of the Powerful."

[moonlightcycle571]

My Take On Evil Captain Marvel / Shazam / Shazamily

In an AU where all the heroes are villains, and all the villains are heroes, I like to think Captain Marvel is like the Poison Ivy but for the Magical Community.

So we all know Captain Marvel is the Champion of Magic, and as such he has duties, be it a hero or a villain. Now picture this:

Homeless Billy Batson, fresh out of being struck by a Magic Lighting, gets taken in by the magical community (be it the fae, a witches coven, magical creatures, or smt). He develops a love for the mystic realm and is thus more active as Champion. They have shown more love and kindness than any human ever has, and eventually sees himself as a magical being / well of magic more than he sees himself as human.

But then, tragedy, and he sees people hunting down members of his beloved community for the sole reason that they have magic. They see creatures under HIS domaine being captured and sold in the black market. He sees butchered remains and fur of his friends being hung as trophies.

So seeing as that there are NO magical protection laws, and knows deep down that Adults Cannot Be Trusted (if his time on the streets taught him anything, it’s that), he takes matters into his own hands.

He hunts the hunters for fun. He rips apart ANYONE who DARES hurt those under his protection. He destroys countries who normalises the destruction of the mystic. He sends plagues and lighting. Those so called ‘Heroes’ who try to stop him aren’t any better, for they stop him from doing his Duty as The Champion.

He gets noticed by a group of individuals who wish to recruit him (evil JL). He joins, not because he actually cares about their goals, but they promised to leave anything magic alone, and even help him take down his adversaries. Morality is something he has long given up on.

The Gods don’t care either. From their point of view, humanity has long forsaken them, and makes a point to destroy what they have created. Hecate is especially supportive, she created most of the magical creatures, of course she has a fondness for them.

Mary, Freddy, Tawny (who in this au might be a creature that Captain saved) and the rest of the Shazamily join in, as they too much prefer magic over humans. Maybe in this au, they were put into more abusive environments.

Fawcette becomes the center of the magical world, and is known as the most protected place if you are of the mystic.

It’s a shame that cursed Black Adam did not join them, his time trapped made him soft, and developed a fondness for people (it’s what his son would have wanted). And really, he ought to get over Kahndaq. Sure, they destroyed the country, but they had it coming! They were trapping a bunch of Gods!

Anyways, this is just me rambling. I might make a part 2 if the inspiration comes to me.

[fawcetttweets]

I drew a him! The only Billy in the world! I used a reference from Albanenechi on TikTok (amazing references, check them out if you need any) and i used a different style than normal but I think it turned out okay!

Edit: sorry, wrong account 😅 but it’s a good opportunity to ask you to check out @chaoticallyfluffy if you want to see more of my fanart!

[mistergreatbones]

Billy slowly starts picking up just little common Spanish expressions that Rosa used often after living with them for a while. Batman’s conspiracy board on Marvel just got even larger.

[kyxhiin]

Everybody's heard of uncle Clark therapy, but what about uncle cap' therapy? (Pre identity reveal.)

Whenever the batkids get tired of Bruce's 'BS' they either go to Smallville for a Relaxing time with the supes. If the kids are looking for something insane and energy making to do, they go to Fawcett for uncle Cap therapy.

They fight around goons that they will be restricted to not fight cause of Batman, Steal Donuts from the cops, fight some evil villain in the most cartoony ways possible, and just take break out of that gloomy city and go to a city where it's stuck in the 1950s, fairies and unicorns exist, and where they will be allowed and encouraged to fight slighty dirty (not slightly, they will be fighting DIRTY.)

Tiny Conv:

Damian: This is utterly ridiculous, father. He was getting away, I had to break his legs. It had to be done. This isn't fair.

Bruce: You disobeyd my orders, this is the 5th call. You'll be put on break from patrol for a while.

Damian: This is idiotic. I'm going to Fawcett.

Babian said holding an already packed bag, marching to the zeta-tube.

Bruce holding the bridge of his nose, why does he even bother punishing his kids if they were going to runaway some place else like that. (He tried to stop them so many times from going to someplace else, but they always escaped and ended up at that place so he doesn't even bother anymore.

Few days later Damian comes back, with a comically large lolipop, stolen Donuts, and a whole lotta injuries. (It's fine, it'll heal soon..)

JL meeting that night was TENSE, Broodman was staring a hole into Captain Marvel's head (injustice superman and billy ref).

But he just can't seem to punish him normally, why is he tempted to treat an irresponsible grown man like a little kid and give him a grounding or something?

[teehhhhhhhhhhh]

Yeah, so Mary's now a nepo baby lmfao (It comes with the price of managing a kingdom but Mary figures it out easily)

What her powers lack, her richness makes up for it. Person who can't be swayed by her Charisma to let them into an area they shouldn't be in? Money. Bribes. Done.

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[wonderjanga]

The Way Marvel Fights

He fights goofily I think. But here’s the thing. On one hand he’ll drop an anvil on you Looney Tunes style, but on the other, he can actually fight. Like actually. And the thing is he switches between goofy fighting and actual fighting mid battle, so you never know what you’re gonna get.

Like, he was fighting with the JL one day, because all of a sudden, aliens descend from whatever planet to take over the Earth, which is a pretty common occurrence by this point. Let me set the scene, Marvel conjured up some bowling pins and is smacking aliens upside the head with them, all the while juggling them like he was a circus act. He was even humming the circus tune. Then, out of nowhere, he just drops all the pins, runs up to an alien and punches it in the throat. Completely unmotivated too. This alien was doing the same thing as the other aliens. Nothing set it apart from the other ones. Then he went right back to the bowling pins like nothing happened. Like Clark didn’t just watch him render that alien the ability to never speak again.

Then, another time, he was hopping on a pogo stick he magicked up. He was using it in this strange way that allowed him to slam into Black Adam from different directions. Now, rightfully so, Teth was annoyed at the Champion for not taking the fight seriously. He was even more annoyed a “grown man” was using a children’s toy as if he himself were a child. He was about to tell the Champion to take the fight seriously when suddenly Marvel hopped close to him, then got off the pogo stick before grabbing the it, winding it back, and smacking the fuck out of Adam. The man felt his brain shake, and if you’re wondering how the pogo didn’t bend, it’s Billy actually made it out of his magic. Then, just like with the aliens, Marvel went right back to doing what he did before.

Then, there was this time he was fighting Captain Nazi. Marvel was throwing magicked up plates like ninja stars at the other man. It was a small an annoyance to the him, not enough to do major damage, but enough to leave small cuts. Then, Marvel ran out of plates and Captain Nazi blinked and sewer lid was just flying at him. Straight for his head by the way. He caught it, but wow, he felt that in his bones. His hand was shaking for the rest of the fight and he later found out that him catching it, mildly fractured a couple bones in his hand. And guess what? Just like the other two fights, he went back to what he was doing before. As if that definitely wouldn’t have most likely landed the Nazi in a coma if he had gotten hit by the thing.

[insomiaepisode]

I’ve said this before but the world needs a PJOxBilly Batson crossover that’s just the Billy getting sympathy from the PJO kids for having Zeus and Hercules in his head

[zorilleerrant]

Imagine the Gotham Academy kids researching Olive's problem early on, before anything comes of it. They realize there's something magical going down, and who better to call for help than the Champion of Magic himself?

Billy goes: oh, I see, you have a magic fire lady in your head. Well, that's no problem because he's got all kinds of magic people in his head, right? What could one more hurt? So he fudges the summoning spell a little to bind her to him, figuring he can get her some help later. Ghosts aren't hard; you just have to help them finish their business, and of course Batman's also intent on wiping out corruption and violence in Gotham!

Only now Amity's inside Billy's head. Whispering about revenge, about the people who hurt her. About the people who hurt him, and doesn't he think it's a bit cruel that such rich people in the world as Bruce Wayne won't give him some money to eat when he has so little and they have so much?

Billy is, of course, wondering about like, Oliver Queen and Ted Kord and other people he even personally knows. Amity keeps going right, right, but especially Bruce Wayne. Especially the Waynes, right Billy? We should kill all the Waynes.

Billy is dead set against this but also now every time he tries to argue with the magic people in his head he starts lighting things on fire. And it's magical fire, so it's hard to put out.

[daydreamerdrew]

The Marvel Family (1945) #24