#billy batson

[billybatsonbrainrot]

Captain Imposter WIP

Bruce Wayne is a billionaire, a well-known one at that. He should be able to get whatever he wants, whenever he wants. Whether it was for him or anyone in his household, gods know he can afford it. He always gets his way somehow. Which is why he feels like tearing his hair out trying to plan this birthday party.

Everything was perfect… except for one thing,

One person.

Captain fucking Marvel.

His new kid, Billy, was obsessed with him. It was no surprise to him that Billy's favorite hero just so happens to be the one from his hometown. A hero who was also in the Justice League.

Unlike other parents, who get their children a random person to show up in a costume, the real Captain Marvel could be guaranteed to come to this birthday party, Bruce will make sure of it. Bruce was always determined to make his kids’ first birthday with him absolutely perfect. And Billy was the sweetest of them all. He deserved nothing less.

He can actually make this happen.

He would’ve made this happen.

It shouldn't have been hard to do. In fact, it should have been the easiest part to do in all the party planning. The Captain was always delighted to be invited to places, especially birthday parties. The one time Batman asks for a favor from Captain Marvel, the man who says yes to everything, he had been told no.

No?

No.

Maybe he will get a random person to show up in Captain Marvel’s costume. Billy is still too young to tell the difference, right?

“Clark, are you doing anything this Saturday?”

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Billy can’t help it if his merch is just that good. The red-white-gold color scheme is just pure perfection. Ask Barry, he’ll tell you the same thing.

[batsandbirdbrains]

Inspired by the one anon who asked abt fics where Dick turns out to be younger than people think he is and the recs that were given:

What if it’s like a scenario where Dick’s parents / the circus changed his age in documents so he could perform. And his age changed all the time on paper because different countries had different rules, even different cities/counties might not be the same as the one next to it. And so Dick sort of forgets how old he actually is most of the time, he just sticks with whatever his parents last told him.

And he was told he was eight when they were in Gotham. He was just short for his age because he’s a gymnast, that’s what they told anyone who questioned them.

In reality, Dick was five years old.

And by the time he remembered he should probably tell Bruce that, it’s already been too long. It’s several months after Bruce has taken him in, after he already has been Robin, and it just hits him one day that he’s going to be turning six in March. Bruce thinks he’s turning nine.

And Dick gets this horrible terrible no good idea in his head that if Bruce finds out he lied about his age, that Bruce will get rid of him. Won’t want him anymore. Will call him a dirty liar and kick him to the curb.

And Dick can’t lose his new home. He loves Bruce. He loves Alfred. And he loves being Robin. So he keeps it a secret and tries to forget that he’s three years younger than he’s supposed to be.

It’s a damn good thing Dick’s parents were rigorous in his schooling, and by some miracle he tests into the proper grade for his age when Bruce starts him at Gotham Academy. It’s a bumpy start, but it’s easily explained away by the slight language barrier. Dick actually speaks and reads English just fine, he learned it the same time he learned French and Romani and Arabic, but it’s a good excuse for why his penmanship is clumsy and why he starts out just slightly behind his peers.

He puts so much extra effort into his school work that by the time he’s supposed to be 13, it’s recommended he skip a grade. Bruce is so proud. Dick is somehow managing to get by as a ten year old in high school, and he cannot figure out how he’s pulling this shit off. Talk about being a showman, because it feels like he’s playing the world’s most impossible role.

But then something happens when Robin is on a team mission with the young justice season 1 team. Some magic shit. Maybe Klarion does something, maybe it’s like the episode where the adults get separated from the kids, but instead of it being everyone over 18 is separated from everyone under 18, it’s anyone who’s a teenager and up being separated from the kids who are all 12 and under.

And no one can figure out where Robin is. And also Captain Marvel is missing. What the fuck.

Bruce is fucking freaking out because he cannot figure out why Dick isn’t anywhere, why he can’t get ahold of him. He’s convinced Klarion must be holding him hostage or something.

And then you have Dick and Billy saving the day on their side, and Dick convinced him to try to transform into Captain Marvel. Billy doesn’t want to, because he doesn’t want to leave Robin alone if it makes him disappear to, but Dick assures him he’ll be fine, they’ll both be fine.

And then they come up with a plan yadda yadda the world is saved Dick and Billy save the day, the rest of the episode doesn’t matter.

But Batman pulls Robin aside immediately once they’re all back together and asks him what the hell just happened.

And Dick just starts crying. He’s so stressed out. This whole situation was so scary and he wasn’t actually all that confident the plans he’d made would work he only pretended to be so sure of himself so Billy could do his part and not be scared too. And also it’s really fucking stressful being a ten year old in high school. It’s very hard. Dick’s life is very difficult, and now his dad is finding out that he’s not as old as he’s been pretending to be, and everyone else is there and going to find out to, and he’s so overwhelmed.

“I didn’t mean to,” Dick says through full on sobs, and Bruce is so concerned and he’s hugging Dick and trying to calm him down, but Dick has gotten himself all worked up. “They changed my age all the time so I could perform, I’d be six in one city and eight in the next and seven in another and I just I forgot I wasn’t really any of those and then you adopted me and I forgot I wasn’t really eight until it was almost my birthday but it was too late to tell you and you would’ve been so mad and you wouldn’t have wanted me anymore and I didn’t know what to do!”

“Hey hey hey, slow down, slow down,” Bruce tells him, “take a deep breath. You need to breathe, Robin.”

But Dick just falls against Bruce’s shoulder and cries. He doesn’t want Bruce to think his parents were bad parents. Because they weren’t, they were the best. They just had to fudge some things so Dick could perform with them, so he could have fun up in the air with them, lots of people in the circus lie about their age!

“Oh, chum,” Bruce coos, resting his cheek on top of Dick’s head, rubbing his back. “I could never not want you. I love you, it doesn’t matter how old you are.”

“You do now!”

It makes Bruce’s heart shatter into pieces. Because Dick really thinks there was ever a time he didn’t have Bruce wrapped around his little finger, he doesn’t realize that Bruce has loved him from the first moment he wrapped the tiny little acrobat in his coat and carried him away from the puddle of blood he’d been kneeling in.

“I have always loved you,” he whispers. “And I always will. But chum, this is important. I need to know how old you really are.”

Dick sobs into his shoulder one more time before he lets out in a miserable whisper that everyone manages to hear, “Ten.”

And Batman damn near breaks. He lets out a shaky gasp, and his grip tightens on Robin as his knees buckle and he falls to the floor, now holding Robin tightly in his lap.

“You were five?” he asks. “Oh my God, you were five.”

Batman has a breakdown right then and there, but he keeps it very contained. He refuses to let go of Robin, just continues hugging him close and whispering that he loves him, he’s not mad at him, he would never ever get rid of him.

Idk what would happen after this but I know for certain Dick and Billy become bffs.

[puppetwoman17]

*whispers*: The reason (SOME of) the non-Billy fans keep writing/talking about him being adopted by *insert popular dc hero* is because they can’t comprehend that he has his own supporting cast and independent life that doesn’t need the older heroes to hold it up—

WHO SAID THAT? Not me. 👀

[im-not-buying-it-ether]

Legit, all his classic villains are very alright with killing children. They just don’t like advertising that a kid anywhere between 8 and 15 is kicking their ass on a regular basis and outsmarting them, despite their constant insistence that he has divine wisdom as a power so obviously it makes sense he’s foiling the plots of the worlds greatest intellectual might and minds from beyond our solar system! Surely!

Billy’s loved ones? All know or are implied to know. His sister and brother like bestie know, his fake uncle knows, his bestie of a tiger knows. His boss is implied to know later on or totally chill with it, his girlfriend Cissie probably knows and they keep that separated in their relationship, his secretary Joanne probably knows.

All that screws him over is his coworkers outside Whiz radio knowing! Because his Whiz radio associates that range from normal human man to a robot with dreams of being a camera man!

What I think is really fun about Billy Batson is that for everyone else, their superhero identity is their biggest secret. For Billy, his biggest secret is not that he's Captain Marvel, but that Captain Marvel is him.

Everyone else? Fucked if their loved ones find out. Fucked if their enemies find out. Billy? Fucked if his coworkers find out.

[wonderjanga]

I am very much enjoying the "bad dad cap" saga

But mayhaps i could request the Heroes assuming that Captain Marvel is just a very parentified older sibling

Batman: “So, what exactly happened to your parents?”

Marvel: “Oh, uh… they’re dead.”

Batman: “When’d they die?” *steps closer*

Marvel: *steps away* “When I was younger?”

Batman: *steps closer again* “How young?”

Marvel: “Like eight?” *steps away again*

They continue this charade of cat and mouse with Marvel stepping away and Batman stepping closer.

Batman: “I see, so you’ve been raising your children, or are they siblings, since then?”

Marvel: “Yes? And yes, they’re my siblings?”

Batman: “One of them made a reference to being homeless, you do know I can aid you all, correct?”

Marvel: “I do know that, yes. I’d rather not live with you though, if that’s what you’re suggesting, Mr Batman Sir.”

Batman: “I could always buy you a house though.”

Marvel: “And I know that, but no thank you.”

Batman: “You aren’t on the streets, right?”

Marvel: *starts speedwalking away*

Batman: *following after him* “Right??”

[toobytoobs]

It’d be so funny if instead of joining the Justice League, Billy joined one of the younger teams closer to his age range like Young Justice or the Teen Titans

Cause then you have a superhero team made up of a bunch of young teenagers and a grown ass man.

And the grown man isn’t even the leader of the team cause people have seen Captain Marvel get scolded by Robin multiple times

[rickktish]

The superior captain marvel is an immortal 8 year old newsboy who stopped aging when he received his powers and faces magical problems of the dream-logic variety while transformed into a hyper-buff version of his last memory of his father's smiling face, who hasn't had a stable home since his uncle kicked him out and stole his inheritance and is STILL as pure of heart as Snow White was in 1939 and has a magical talking stuffed animal who is sometimes a very dapper chap and sometimes a fuck you tiger. And that is simply the fact of the matter.

[colossrat]

WingsAU where Captain Marvel doesn't have wings.

Okay, many magical or supernatural creatures don't have wings like humans.

But one day, during a cleanup mission, the Captain is helping a child and, to distract him while they look for his parents, they talk.

Child: You look so much like a human…

Marvel: Well, thats probably because i am a human, buddy.

Child: Are you? then… Where are your wings?

Marvel: Well… I used to have wings. They were just like my father's… but I had an accident and lost them… Good thing I can still fly without them, huh?

Later, Batman would be the only one brave enough to ask Cap about it.

Marvel: Oh, no. I lied a little bit to the kid… It was not an accident. A relative of mine… he really didn't like the look of my wings. I think looking at them made him sad, because they reminded him of my dad… so he ripped them off before he kicked me out of the house.

He said it so nonchalantly that Batman felt a little stunted.

One day, on a mission, Captain Marvel got impaled by a huge pole. Thats ok, he healed. But not the suit. So, there was a big hole in the back of the clothes, showing some ugly nasty but healed scars where Captain's wings should be.

From Batman's analysis, he used to have 2 wings. They are so small compared to the size of his back, he must have been very young at the time… They are scarred, but their sinuousness makes it obvious how extremely violent and raw the act was. It is not a scar from something that was cut, it is a scar from something that was torn. The next time Marvel is at the WatchTower, he notices how everyone tries to be extra nice to him.

Wings are a very sacred part of humans, Cap was just so small that when Ebezener ripped them off, he didn't have time to attach himself to them or with what they meant he IS an optimist who always sees the glass as half full. he didn't completely lie to that kid earlier. yeah, he doesn't have wings anymore, but he can still fly with magic! only when he's transformed… but that's enough for him not to get so upset.

and maybe the trauma also made him forget 90% of the situation in favor of ignoring the agony he went through

[cakypa120]

[7arami]

Cryptic Radio Host Billy Batson

Billy would make the prefect cryptic radio host. Maybe he is from ancient Greece, cursed to be the Champion he is stuck in the body he had when he first transformed.

Billy has walked this Earth for millenniums, he was seen the rise and fall of empires. He has witnessed the mindless slaughter of man over and over again. He continues to watch as the world rots around him due to pollution. But he has also seen good, and has done his best to spread good. Even if that means being with left with the pain of watching the ones he loves die and knowing he will always be alone.

At some point Billy makes his own radio show, I think he would still be called Whiz Kid. It is on a frequency not many can reach, only pure luck will allow you find it. Billy's radio station is in the middle of nowhere, practically a wasteland. It is where he spends his time when he is not wondering or saving the world from impending doom.

Billy uses his shows to reveal things long forgotten. Historical conversations that hadn't been recorded or kept behind closed doors. He shares the Earth's secrets, unveils what lurks in the deepest depths of our seas, boasts of the mysteries within our universe. Most people think the Whiz Kid isn't real. But it's said if you do find it, the information told rattles the listeners to their core.

[aroace-madness]

I think it's absolutely hilarious that Billy Batson looks like young Jason Todd and I fully believe that if Billy came to Gotham for whatever reason pre Jason ressurection or during the Red Hood era but pre reveal Bruce would 100% shit himself from fear if he saw Billy thinking that Jasons ghost came back to haunt him and chose to look like on the day he picked him up from the street and "ruined" his life

[batsandbirdbrains]

To continue my Dick Grayson and Billy Batson bff agenda: what if it’s a young justice au where Bruce knows Dick was actually five instead of eight when he took Dick in. Or, Dick told him after maybe a month or two when he suddenly remembered he wasn’t actually eight. Bruce updates Dick’s documentation right away, but he keeps him home schooled for a few years because Dick is actually a little ahead of his age group.

But maybe Dick had already started going out as Robin before he told Bruce his actual age. He’d met the Justice League members already. Batman told everyone that Robin was eight. And now he doesn’t want to correct them when they continue to think that’s Robin’s age, because he doesn’t want Dick to feel bad, doesn’t want them to get upset with Dick for not correcting them all sooner. Because Dick really had forgotten, it had become so normal for him to change ages that he did sometimes forget what his actual age was. Bruce didn’t want Dick to feel like it was his fault, because he’s just a little boy, he didn’t have a choice.

So they keep up the misconception that Robin started out when he was eight. Bruce only takes him out on kiddie runs once he finds out - it’s just runs across rooftops so Dick has a chance to run and jump around. Get his energy out. Taunt some muggers while Batman does the actual heavy lifting.

Besides, having Robin and Dick Grayson have such different ages does wonders for their secret identities.

But then the young justice team forms, and Dick is ten years old. He’s in school now, a sixth grader at Gotham Academy Middle School. He started attending Gotham Academy the year prior and tested into fifth grade.

The team thinks he’s thirteen. No one knows Batman and Robin’s secret identities other than Superman and Wonder Woman.

But then Captain Marvel comes into the picture, and Batman clocks him immediately as a kid. He has a ten year old himself, he knows what they act like, even if they are a little mature for their age. Batman doesn’t say anything to anyone else, but he pulls Captain Marvel aside one day and asks him about it. Invites him to the Batcave to discuss it.

That’s when Bruce Wayne meets Billy Batson, followed closely by Dick Grayson then meeting Billy Batson. And they instantly click. They’re best friends immediately. Having someone else who has a secret ID about their age is something they bond over right away.

Whether Bruce ends up adopting Billy too or not, Billy is at the manor and the Batcave all the time after that. Dick and Billy play together, they do homework together, they have sleepovers together. Billy wants to be part of the young justice team, but Dick convinces him that he’s better off without the team anyway. He tells him how inexperienced the team is, how they don’t work all that well together.

Dick and Billy decide to go on their own missions as a mini team. Bruce gives them missions he thinks they’d do well on, and they actually work really well together since Billy has started training with them. They’re not going to work as well together as Dick and Bruce do, but that’s because Dick and Bruce have five years of practice working together. Billy is catching up quickly, though.

The team eventually finds out that Robin has been going on missions with Captain Marvel, but Robin shuts them all down when they start whining and complaining. He explains that he works well with Captain Marvel. That sometimes there are missions that require a smaller team.

When they start being mean about Captain Marvel? Robin is furious. He yells at all of them. Then he stomps away to go find Billy so they can go back to the Batcave together.

Then the dimension splitting thing happens with the adults and the kids being separated, and Dick and Billy work together like a well oiled machine. He’s the one who convinces Billy to transform to Captain Marvel, who comes up with most of the plan from the kids’ side of things.

Once things are all back to normal, Robin is standing next to Billy who has changed back into a kid from Captain Marvel, and they’re both a little exhausted. And Batman crushes both of them together as he hugs them, because he’d been so worried about them.

Idk I just them being buddies and Bruce being a doting dad

[puppetwoman17]

Friendly reminder that Billy’s unstable emotions can canonically shatter the universe❤️

Nothing else to say for now

[wonderjanga]

billy and mary as twin robins?

Billy: *checking out his costume* “Uh… I don’t like this Mr Batman Sir.”

Billy is wearing a costume similar to Dick and Jason’s except with shorts instead of tighty-whiteys. Mary is wearing a costume similar to Stephanie’s.

Mary: “Yeah, by the way, is this costume used?”

Spoiler: “Yes, and you look adorable!” *taking like five hundred pictures*

Robin!Damian: “Father, why exactly do we need the extra, unneeded help?”

Batman: “Don’t worry about it, Robin.” *pushes him towards Billy and Mary* “Now say cheese.”

After Bruce took a singular photo, he set them and Damian loose.

Batman: “Robins, since there are now three of you, you may go as a group.”

Robin!Damian: “I don’t have to accompany you, father?”

Batman: “No. Now go on. Stop crime. Watch your sibli— I mean, watch your partners, Robin.”

Mary and Billy: “Yes!”

Robin!Damian: “He was talking to me…” *starts walking off*

Mary and Billy: *follow after him*

Billy: *whispering to Mary* “What was that stutter from Mr Batman Sir?”

Mary: *shrugs*

Later, all three of them stood on a rooftop. Mary and Billy didn’t really know their way around Gotham nor know much about its rogues so they just let Robin take the reins of their little trio.

Robin!Damian: “Alright you both, this is a standard mugging. You both take down one man while I take the other.”

Mary and Billy: “Okay!”

Later…

Robin!Damian: *already took his guy down*

Mary and Billy: *stomping their guy out*

Robin!Damian: “Hey.”

Mary and Billy: *still stomping their guy out*

Robin!Damian: “Hey!”

Mary and Billy: *continue stomping*

Robin!Damian: “HEY!”

Mary and Billy: *both stop*

Robin!Damian: “Tie him up and move on.”

Mary and Billy: “Yes Robin!” *salute*

They mostly handled petty crimes due to Damian thinking Billy and Mary were untrained. Which, they were, in the normal forms. Damian doesn’t know that either of them are Marvels. They ended the night with a scraped knee on Billy’s side (he fumbled some parkour) and a little scratch on one of Mary’s arms. (Some guy pulled a knife and nicked her, it wasn’t a deep one.) Back at the cave, they had some cookies from Alfred and parted ways.

[jasontoddsbookmark]

omggg billy with lightning scars!! i read a fic with this once and it’s been stuck in my head since

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