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toothybat · 2 years

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Angel/Demon Batjokes AU

Don’t mind me, I’m just gonna transplant all my AU ideas from discord to tumblr.

Imagine an AU where Bruce is a demon trying to be good and receive redemption, and Joker is a fallen angel trying to get in his way and convince him it’s pointless to do so. Something something fallen angel / fell into a vat of acid parallel Something something Batman in bat costume / demon parallel

Alfred is also a priest in this.

Lore

The divine and demonic have had an ongoing truce since the death and resurrection of Christ. They are no longer allowed to interfere with mortal lives. This is why miracles haven’t visibly happened for around 2000 years, and why many humans don’t even believe in angels and demons anymore.

Some Truce stipulations:

No demon may interfere with mortal lives for the purpose of corruption.

No angel may interfere with mortals lives the purpose of redemption.

Demons and Angels may not enter each other’s realms.

Angels and demons inhabit a realm of moral paradigm based on a set of True Rules which governs where human souls end up after death. The more souls inhabiting their realm, the more power each individual demon/angel has. And of course, the better they can beat each other. So they each have a vested interest in gathering souls. This explains why they even care about humans at all.

There are rule-breakers on both sides. Angels trying to redeem humans, demons trying to corrupt them. There are also exceptions to the rules: there are those who are basically the police and try to stop rule breakers from interfering with mortals. And then there’s grey areas: demons and angels who don’t try for redemption/corruption, but live among humans because they are bored and they feel like it.

The divine and demonic are impossible to kill while inhabiting their respective realms. But on Earth, while they are still harder to kill than the average human, they are vulnerable. As a result, it is very rare for divine and demonic beings to actually live on Earth. If they die on Earth, they die permanently.

They wear human disguises to blend in with the human world. But the disguises make them even more vulnerable while on Earth than their true forms, so the disguises can break/blur when they feel threatened. They can kind of shift from looking fully human, to human with angelic/demonic traits... or actual demonic monsters & biblically accurate angels.

Bruce

Bruce is a demon seeking redemption, which is something entirely unheard of for the demonic. His parents were both demons living as humans, and so Bruce was raised in the human world and kind of accidentally adopted human values. When his parents were murdered, Bruce eventually wandered into a church and was taken under the (metaphorical) wing of human priest!Alfred, who believes everyone can be redeemed. Even a demon.

Bruce wants to redeem people. Bruce wants to redeem himself. He experiences a lot of internalized shame over what he is. He wants to be better. Bruce rigidly lives by the True Rules, and he would like others to live by them too. Because he wants people to go to heaven, and he would also eventually like to be allowed there too.

Bruce takes up the mantel of the Batman. He drops his human disguise somewhat when gliding around skyscrapers. He also doesn’t have many Batman gadgets like in canon, but his demonic powers compensate for this a lot. He dislikes using them though, because Bruce has internalized racism(?) about being a demon. He is capable of going full cryptid monster, but it’s extremely rare that he does this. He fears people figuring out he’s a literal demon instead of human. And he views angels as being literal superior beings. In a moral sense and cosmic sense. He thus, has really strange feelings about the Joker lmao.

Joker

Joker was an angel cop on a mission on Earth. He was disguised as a human in a gang of humans, because he’d heard rumors that a demon was out here interfering with mortals — which is against the rules. The demonic are not supposed to try to corrupt mortals by interfering with their lives.

This demon, was of course, Bruce. And neither demonic or divine had figured out wtf he was doing yet.

Here’s the thing; there’s a hilarious loophole to the rules. Angels cannot try and redeem humans. Demons cannot try and corrupt them. But there’s no rule that says an angel can’t corrupt, and a demon can’t redeem LMAO.

It concept wasn’t even considered because it’s antithetical to the natures of the divine and demonic to seek such a thing.

Until Bruce came on the scene, of course.

So it was a misunderstanding that fell out of hand very fast. Joker thought a demon was corrupting humans, when actually Bruce was doing his Batman thing. Batman was unaware that one of the humans in the gang was an angel in disguise. Joker was unaware that this mysterious potential demon wasn’t actually an evil entity.

Thus we get to the drama: they fight at ACE Chemicals like in canon. Bats thought he was fighting a human red hood gang member. Joker as Red Hood wore that big cape. By some split second of bad timing, Batman lands a hit on Joker which makes his disguise blur. In human form, Joker is more vulnerable, so when he feels truly threatened the angel form starts coming out.

It’s dark though, and while Batman has night vision demon sight, the chemical vats are pouring green steam and smoke making it hard to see. He throws batarangs at what he thinks is the cape, trying to pin Joker down and trip him up. It’s not the cape though. It was the wings. Severed. Joker screams in pain, stumbles, tumbles over the railing, yeeting himself right into the chemical vat.

Joker Forgets

Bruce tries to catch him, fails because he trips on something. He looks in horror as the man falls into the vat. Then he looks at what tripped him. Severed angel wings.

Joker falls into a vat of acid and forgets he was ever not human.

He follows canon pretty closely after that.

Since the wings are divine, they’re not like, anatomically attached to Joker’s back like normal bird wings. So he doesn’t actually have an extra set of shoulder bones in his back. They’re attached via magic or something. Doesn’t mean that they can’t get hurt, obviously. But it possibly does mean that stumps aren’t left behind. Or that there’s no scars. Or that the scars are perfectly circular.

Bruce keeps the wings along with the Red Hood in the batcave. Joker can still feel it when anyone touches his wings no matter where they are. Even though they’re not physically attached to him anymore. Bruce doesn’t often go around fondling his trophies, especially since the wings are so painful for him to look at. But sometimes he does.

Bruce: pets wings in the batcave Joker, 20 miles away in a hideout: what the F@CK?!?! Joker: involuntarily shuddering with ASMR

Joker Remembers

Alternatively: if Joker remembers, the wings may have fallen along with him into the vat and been burned away to nothing. He can’t return to heaven without his wings. Joker learns that Bruce isn’t even a bad demon. That he’s actually seeking redemption. He learns about the loophole in the rules. And he cannot stop laughing.

Joker is an agent of chaos. He knows the rules by which a human ends up in either realm. He tries to make humans break the rules deliberately so that he can kill them and they’ll end up in hell. He corrupts people not because that’s necessarily his goal, but because it opposes and annoys Bruce. Occasionally he does it because he thinks it’s funny. Corrupting the most innocent, the goodest people, because how ironic is it for someone to work so hard and be so good only to end up in hell?

Angels: do not be afraid. Angel Joker: be afraid.

Bruce knows the rules too. That’s part of why he’s so against killing.

People think Joker is human. And maybe Joker thinks Joker is human too, and so he does his best to embrace humanity as he sees it: and becomes the worst of them. Because he can no longer be the best of angels.

Other times Joker kills people whether they’ll end up in heaven or not. Joker doesn’t see why it matters where people end up. He was an angel, a divine being, and he lost his wings through no fault of his own. He ended up on Earth with the rest of these billions of worms despite his divine status. This was not supposed to happen. But it did. And it was so pointless.

And now a demon is trying to earn his way into redemption, which Joker finds hilarious because that’s also breaking the all important Rules which he has learned to completely disrespect. Following them did nothing for him — he’s Earthbound regardless. Even if Bruce did manage to redeem himself, the thing that happened to Joker could just happen to him too. All that work, for nothing. Why bother? Why not just have fun and reap all the laughs this world has to offer if working so hard could all be for nothing anyway? Bruce doesn’t know for sure if it’s even possible for a demon to earn redemption!

And maybe eventually it also turn into: Bats no... you CAN’T redeem yourself because if you did I’d be so lonely here on Earth 🥺 Don’t leave me

Robin, if he exists in this AU, is a human kid. All of them kids Bruce adopts are humans.

Joker possibly hates this because he sees humans as inferior, they don’t matter. Joker would do them a favor by killing them even, since they’d end up in heaven. And if it’s a heaven away from Bruce forever... well, two birds, one stone.

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