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fanfic-obsessed · 10 months ago

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How Old?!?!?!

Remember Folks, disregard any canon that contradicts this.

Timothy Wayne Drake disappeared when he was 16. He was taken captive in Eastern Europe at a WE event. A magical shield cut off all electronic communication, sight, and sound of the building for 6 minutes. According to every Super consulted, Tim’s heartbeat vanished at that time, and never reappeared. No facial recognition ever showed him again. No magical spell could find him, or his remains. Eight years later he is presumed dead by most of those who knew him, though his family still searches frantically for their Baby Bird. It is only the fact that they knew how much he loved Gotham, that he would want the city protected, that they did not let their obsession with finding him take them over.

According to his file, Neal Caffery has been operating since he was 18. There are no records prior to that. By the numbers he is now 34, and had been working as a CI for the feds for 2 years. He has never admitted to anyone that his earliest memories are six years ago, though Peter, El, and Moz have all figured it out. But his abilities, muscle memory, and knowledge seem to support what's in his file. That must mean something, right?

It was not a White Collar case, not really. Though there were just enough white collar elements to justify assigning it to Agent Burke and his team, this really was an Organized Crime case. However it was leading to Gotham, and no one wanted to go to Gotham.

So Agent Burke, his two junior agents, and his CI were bundled into a SUV and told to report to Gotham PD to coordinate the case. Upon arriving at the main precinct and getting out of the car; Peter, Diana and Jones all get strange looks from the locals on the street, though they do not know it, it is clear they are outsiders.

However Neal gets out with a strange look on his face, “Why does the air taste..”

“Pink?” One the pedestrian answers, suspicion washing away.

“Yes” Neal exclaimed, then paused, “That’s weird, right? I feel like that’s weird”

The pedestrian gave a half shrug, “Ivy and Scarecrow double booked downtown a few weeks ago. Made things super awkward for anyone not vaccinated against both, but the vaccines made the air taste pink for some reason. The news said that the unvaccinated shouldn’t see effects any longer and for the vaccinated the effect would be gone in two more weeks”

Then the pedestrian left and Neal, entirely unconsciously, murmured about wondering if Ivy and Harley were fighting. When Peter tried to get more information about Neal having been in Gotham as they walked into the Precinct, Neal made a joke to cover the fact that he has no idea when or where he got the vaccines/immunities to Poison Ivy’s pollen or Scarecrow's Fear Gas.

They manage to make it to the main bullpen without incident, by virtue of the fact anyone who actually looks up from what they were doing focuses on Peter, as lead agent. When they get to the Bullpen, someone notices Neal and the entire room goes dead silent. Commissioner Gordon comes charging out, eyes wild and clearly on the phone with someone (Oracle, who happened to see Neal/Tim on camera-it is important to note that the group who took Tim made it so that any facial recognition program that would run either face would skip the match between Tim and Neal, but a person looking through a camera is different) saying things like “Holy Shit” and “Yes I see him, too”.

The White Collar team, including Neal, is so confused as Commissioner Gordon ushers them to his office and closes the door (Oracle has her fathers office bugged with better cameras and wired for sound, also they do not know how much cover they have already broken for Tim-they do not want to make things worse instead of better).

Commissioner Gordon calls Neal Tim, and Neal/Tim seizes for a moment like he was hit with electricity and says, in a deadened tone, “That name cannot be used as an Alias” then slumps like he is going to fall over. Peter and Jones manage to catch him and get him into a chair that Commissioner Gordon hurriedly pulls over. The confusion that the White Collar team is exhibiting, plus questions like “What was that?” and “What did you do to Neal?” and “What did you call him?” do convince commissioner Gordon that these, at least, were not the people that took Tim. It takes a few minutes for Tim/Neal to come to. A few careful call and response questions tells Commissioner Gordon that the man with Tim’s face (and scars, from what he can see) does not remember anything. These same questions were also clearly making the White Collar team, particularly Peter, as protective as they were making Neal/Tim confused and more than a little anxious.

Then Dick Grayson burst into the room, looking like he might have run all the way from Bludhaven. He stopped dead at seeing Neal, whispered ‘Baby Bird?’ then lunged to pull Neal into a tight hug. Neal may have had no memories of being Tim, but his muscle memory remembered Dick’s hugs. That he was safe while Dick was hugging him, Neal could not help but relax into the hold.

Dick start talking about getting Neal to Leslie both to make sure he's not hurting and to verify his identity (sounding apologetic but, no matter if Dick is sure this is Tim, they have to verify it), that ‘B’ is out of contact right now (on a JL mission off planet, the watchtower is preparing to extract him, but it will take a few hours-the JLD is also preparing in case they are needed) but should be back soon. He talks about how Alfred will be waiting outside for them, but ‘everyone else’ is waiting so they don’t overwhelm him (read clustered, and pacing, on buildings around Leslie’s clinic).

Neal brings up, still wrapped in Dicks arms, that he might not be who they think he is. Dick agrees but also says that he isn’t, it is a case of mistaken identity and it is clear that Neal is not trying to trick them. Dick then says if it is Mistaken identity, Dick will apologize for the forcible cuddling and be grateful that, even if they don’t actually find him, he got a chance to hug his little brother one last time (Every single member of the White Collar Team, Neal very much included, is a little uncomfortable with this sentiment).

At Peter’s awkward insistence (these people clearly miss whoever they think Neal is, and he doesn’t know if they would think about Neal’s criminal activities) the White collar team accompanies Neal, still clutched to Dick’s side, to a car waiting with Alfed right next to it, who is clearly having an emotional reaction to seeing Neal/Tim again. Over the course of the car ride to Leslie’s clinic, Dick asks questions about who Neal is now (and reacts weirdly well to the whole Conman/FBI CI thing). Towards the end, Jones hesitantly asks why Dick is trying to get to know Neal now, wouldn’t it make more sense to wait until they were sure who Neal was.

Dick laughs and goes 1.) Even if Neal is not his long lost brother, several of his siblings are going to want to befriend him (if nothing else than being a world class master art forger would get Damian’s attention, and everyone else would 100% be encouraging the friendship to give Damian more non violent friends) and 2.) Baby Bird is notorious for trying to mold himself into who he thinks other people want him to be. Right now he does not know enough about Dick to try and tailor his answers, plus is likely convincing himself that this is a case of mistaken identity. Thus Dick is collecting information for when Baby Bird inevitably tries to fit himself into whatever weird mold he thinks their family will want him to fit.

Neal, still clutched to Dick’s side, splutters as the White Collar team cannot help but laugh at him. Also this somewhat convinces Peter that this might not be a case of mistaken identity after all.

They get to Leslie’s Clinic. She runs through all the tests (Genetic and comparing previous x-rays, signs of artificial aging-for cloning, signs of the specific type of molecules that means time or dimension travel, brain scans, the few hormone tests that can detect magic-you can’t tell me that Bruce Wayne and/or Tim Drake, before he vanished, were not told at some point that there is no way to detect magic by scientific means and took it as a personal challenge). By every measure that she is able to test, Neal Caffrey is the missing Tim Drake. She is also able to tell that his memory loss was likely caused by significant and repeated electrocution reinforced by some kind of magic, but cannot tell what or if it is still active, though given Tim’s reaction to his birth name (which happened twice more during the tests) and the fact that the Supers were never able to find his heartbeat,it is likely.

By this time, Batman has now been returned to the watchtower and is being told of Tims return.

Dick tells Neal outright that their entire family’s love languages are stalking and poor boundaries (both maintaining and respecting). Dick also makes it clear that, while the Batfam is ecstatic that Neal/Tim is alive and want him in their lives, Neal is not required to attempt to get his memories back or have anything to do with them if he does not want (All of their therapists, the family could not go to just one, had worked specifically with them on how to deal with a Tim that has made a new life, how to accept that he is safe and happy but not with them-which is a realistic assumption after 8 years), but that likely Neal would be putting up with some limited stalking for the rest of his life (Look, the best we are going to get from the Batfamily is stalking from the shadows if Neal doesn’t want to interact with them-Also Oracle has already hacked the FBI for all of Neals records and files, and is the middle of arranging for the White Collar office to be bugged with her personal cameras/microphones). Dick also asks that the White Collar team come back to the Manor and to at least let the Justice League Dark look Neal over to make sure that there is nothing that is going on that will hurt him.

Now, to be clear, Neal is more than happy to at least meet the rest of the Batfam. Yes, he has a good life now, people he loves and who love him. But that is a relatively new development and there are a lot of blanks in his past. I mean at this point Neal still thinks he is 34 (as opposed to 24), and only remembers the last six years. They have not even gone far enough into the explanations to realize that there is a 2 year gap between when Tim was taken and Neal's earliest memories. Also, while Neal does not quite have the same level of abandonment issues as Tim did, there is something about how visibly happy Dick is to see him that soothing something deep inside (Because he has six years worth of memories, and for most of them he did not have anyone who would have noticed if he had vanished).

They get back to manor just in time for Bruce to come charging into the foyer, still in the batman suit but with his cowl down. Bruce also looks like he might have ran from wherever he was. He had at least absorbed enough of what he was told about Neal to not call him Tim, and pulled Neal into a hug. This also means there is a brief interlude while the White Collar team gets the ‘Bruce Wayne is Batman, we’re trusting you with this’ revelation (And absolutely everyone is going to be making fun of Bruce ‘Paranoia’ Wayne being the person who accidentally let the secret slip).

By the time they reach the main sitting room, the rest of the family has made it back to the manor (Barbara, Jason, Cass, Steph, Damian, Duke) each waiting on their own chance to hug their lost member. Neal blue screens a bit at Jason (who is both very pretty and very sarcastic, which is Neal's type). Through the discussions that follow there are at least two arguments between batfam members about who gets to have Neal to sit with them.

Neal decides that he will meet with someone from JLD to see about what magic might still be affecting him and regaining his lost memories. He and the White Collar team do decline staying at the manor and go back to the hotel rooms that the FBI rented for them (never realizing that Oracle upgraded them as soon as she realized who Neal was) as they still have a job to do. It is at this point that Neal starts whining to the others, much to their amusement (also to the amusement of Steph and Cass, who were hiding on the balcony-there is no way there will not be at least one bat/bird hiding in the shadows around Neal for a bit), about his new, hot brother Jason. Peter calls El, just so Neal can have his crisis with her instead of him (Never mind that being siblings is not as big a deal as Neal thinks it is).

Now Gotham, and its people, have a reputation at the FBI for being actually impossible to work with. Even regular citizens stonewall so effectively that most teams simply give up. They simply do not like outsiders, and Gothamites can tell if someone grew up in Gotham or not, even if the person in question does not realize it (there are unconscious ways of moving if you have lived in Gotham for a certain amount of time). This is what the White Collar team expects to go against, what they are bracing for, no matter who Neal might or might not have been. To their surprise this is not what they get. Yes, most people still peer suspiciously at Peter, Jones, and Diana at first, but even that settles down quickly (Some of it is Neal/Tim, being from Gotham, clearly trusting Peter and co gets them some good will; some is them not being sanctimonious about gotham; the rest is the batfam being vocal about liking these FBI agents-for Neal/Tim related reasons). They solve the case, which branched from White collar into one of the Mob Families (at least two of the traffickers got the choice to talk to the FBI team, or deal with The Red Hood-Red Hood plays it off as using the FBI to take a shot at that family’s territory and being personally interested in Neal Caffrey).

Before they leave Gotham, Neal does meet up with a few members of the JLD who are able to find and remove the spells that prevent Neal/Tim from being found by the Supers and the Spell keeping him from being addressed as Tim. His missing memories were not fully caused by magic (There was a lot of damage caused by electricity-no one took that news well), but the magic was preventing some of his recall. With the spells off, it is inferred that some or all of Tim’s memories may come back in time.

The White Collar team leaves Gotham with new contacts in their phones and also the bomb that Neal Caffery was a full decade younger than he thought he was (They do eventually figure out that Neal/Tim never actually committed the crimes in his file-not that the crimes were never committed but that Neal/Tim was basically went straight from where ever he was being held to being captured for ‘Neal Caffery’s’ crimes). Peter later finds a much more complete medical record for Tim Wayne Drake in his home, with an ominous note to keep this file out of the FBI records, it is for personal reference only. They also leave with the decision to keep Neal’s identity a secret (As no one knows who the ones who took them are, or what the end goal is), telling only Hughes, El and Moz. By the time the WC crew reaches New York, the Bats already have bugs/cameras in the FBI building, Neal’s apartment, and Peter’s house. They have also put trackers in every single pair of Neal’s shoes. There is also a schedule for who gets to stalk/hang out with Neal when.

As far as the rest of the FBI was concerned, White Collar gets a lot of strange new contacts for cases. Also they seem to have made an impression on the Justice League, as they become the point of contact between the Justice League and the FBI, by request of the League. Occasionally hardened criminals walk into the FBI and ask to confess their crimes specifically to Agent Burke and his team. And Apparently their CI knows the Red Hood, somehow (in that the Red Hood sometimes showed up at their crime scene to flirt outrageously with the CI, the first few times the CI got really flustered but after that he started to flirt back).

Eventually Neal/Tim does begin to remember his past, oddly enough the trigger was a spleen in a jar that was left on his desk in the White Collar Office (Ra’s Al Ghul was…pleased that Tim was not dead and displeased with the Organization the abducted him and tried to fry Tim’s brain).

#batman #batfamily #jason todd #tim drake #bruce wayne #white collar #neal caffrey #Neal Caffery is Tim Drake #amnesia #dick grayson #jaytim

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v-writes · 3 months ago

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Captured King snippet 3

Happy wip wednesday y'all

part 1 part 2 ao3

"Danny?" Batman asks Red Robin.

"Yup. Danny Phantom, he's using his alias as a last name."

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Phantom tenses, fists tight where the cuffs connect them to the table.

Hood saunters in, turning his chair to sit backwards, "do you know who I am?"

Phantom deliberately loosens his posture, eyes taking the same vacant stare he has adopted at every other attempt to question.

"I'm the Red Hood, an Outcast operating out of Gotham."

No response from Phantom.

"Right. Fair. Ok, how about instead we start this conversation with someone you actually want to talk to?"

A slight twitch from Phantom, oh so momentarily tilting his head to the side questioningly as Red Hood pulls a communicator from a cargo pocket.

~~~

Batman narrows his eyes as he sees Oracle's symbol flash on the screen before Hood places the phone on the table. Phantom deliberately does not look at it, until the communicator clicks, indicating the call had connected and a young feminine voice warily speaks, "hello? Red Hood?"

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Phantom's composure crumples, desperately snatching the communicator, crying out, "Ellie! Ellie is that you? Are you okay?"

"Danny! Yeah I'm" her voice cracks, and there is a wet quality to her voice when she continues, "I'm fine. Knew you'd get me out, even if you needed help."

"Hey." A second voice joins Ellie's on the call, "we need to wrap this up and get out of here."

"Right, are you two ready for a show?" Hood asks.

"Wait!" Ellie demands, "is everyone out?"

"All of ours are." Ellie's companion scoffs.

"Red! That's not all that matters, we're supposed to be better than that!"

Danny flinches in his seat.

"Oracle" Hood says, "what's the evacuation status?"

"Scans confirm what the Red Huntress said, all ghosts have been released, and the evacuation protocols we triggered have been followed, all 'employees' are accounted for outside of the facility."

"Red Huntress, Ellie, are you two a safe distance away?"

"Yes"

"Perfect. Ready whenever you are then."

~~~

Red Robin smiles, pressing a button on his wrist computer, the distinctive sound of an explosion comes over Red Hood's communicator while the Red Huntress and Ellie cheer.

"Red Robin."

"Batman."

Batman turns away from the observation window to look at Red Robin directly.

Red Robin's smile drops into a sneer, "have you even been in a GIW facility that wasn't sterilized before your arrival? Nobody was in it, I'm not sorry for destroying a building, and Ellie deserves the cheer."

Batman hadn't. He had wanted to. But when it came to prioritizing, the destructive force had ranked higher. And while the Justice League had been busy with Phantom, the rest of his team had inserted themselves. It shouldn't surprise Batman, and any shock was vastly outweighed by exasperation. Trusting others, relinquishing any ounce of control didn't come naturally to Bruce. 'Luckily' for him, he had somehow surrounded himself with hyper competent people who had no problem wresting control for themselves.

"Hn."

"Hn." Red Robin smirks, shaking his head as they turn back to face the interrogation room.

~~~

As their cheers dies down Red Huntress speaks resolutely, "Danny. We need to leave. I gave her a dose of ecto dejecto, and I'm taking her to Frostbite for a full check up. Any other update will wait until you're back with us in person. See you soon."

She hangs up before Danny can respond.

Danny stares at the communicator for a long desperate moment, before slowly looking up to Red Hood. "You helped her? The Red Huntress was with you?"

"Not initially, no. But she was the first person Ellie could name as an emergency contact. After you that is."

"And she's ok? You saw her, how is she- she's ok?"

Hood hesitates, speaking slowly, calming, "whatever the Red Huntress gave her helped, the 'ecto dejecto'? But she was in bad shape. Your Red seems confident she will be fine, but I don't know if that was sincere or for Ellie's benefit. And I would have no idea where to even begin with medical attention with her whole deal, and how 'ghost' biology works." As he speaks he opens the manila folder he had brought with him, sliding it over to Danny, who flips through the pages with shaking hands.

~~~

From the angle of the observation room Batman can't see what he is looking at, he turns slightly to Red Robin, who interrupts before Batman can ask.

"There's nothing in that file that isn't also in the upload from Oracle, if you want details you can read that, it's notes and pictures from a very relevant GIW experiment."

"Hn."

~~~

"Thank you. For getting her out."

"It was the right thing to do."

"I don't think the GIW would agree with you there."

"Good. From where I'm sitting, standing against them is the right side to fight for. If not for Ellie's insistence that 'we're supposed to be better than that' I can't say I would have stuck to your MO of clearing the building before destroying it."

"I can't say I would blame you. Or that I would have been able to stick to my MO if I arrived too late. But it's, it's important to me to be able to say we aren't the monsters they say we are. Thank you for that as well."

"You didn't see her when I first found her-" Danny glances quickly between a picture from the folder and Hood, raising an eyebrow, "I don't mean that. That that doesn't surprise you is its own kind of concerning. She was in a holding cell. She thought I was one of them and-"

"You don't like being seen as a monster."

Red Hood freezes for a moment. "Sometimes I do. But never by kids and not-" Hood laughs, interrupting himself before continuing, "gods, the change in her demeanor when I said your name and she thought you had sent me. That sister of yours has a lot of faith in you."

#captured king #I've got enough typed that I wanted to share something and I chose Captured King over Best Foot Forward bc I didn't want to open another wi #dpxdc #wip wednesday #If you're wondering how I chose where to end this snippet the previous 2 parts were both around 1k so I wanted to do about 1k #while also not interrupting the scene too bad

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catcas22 · 7 months ago

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Maedros in Troy AU

Long, long post about my very niche obsession. Original AU by @sweetteaanddragons can be found here.

Every so often when I'm listening to EPIC, my mind will play six-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon and I'll end up back at this AU. This particular addition was inspired by my remembering that Achilles was a redhead (Or maybe strawberry-blonde, idk enough about the Greek language to say for sure. His son was a redhead, and he once went by the alias of "the redheaded girl.")

The morning after the sack of Troy is a somber affair, even, surprisingly, amongst the victors. The surviving Achaean princes limp their way back to the feet of the horse, finally able to take a headcount. Odysseus and Ajax the Lesser are missing, Neoptolemus is nursing a nasty leg-wound, and less concerning but equally inconvenient, Menelaus and Helen have absconded to Sparta to start their second honeymoon.

Neoptolemus, in particular, has been having a day. First he got paired with Odysseus, which he has come to learn means he's going to be acting as the muscle while the Ithacan takes the credit. Then Odysseus was granted the honor of ending Hector's bloodline, and Neo couldn't even say anything because the order came directly from the mouth of Zeus. (Odysseus already took his father's armor. Could Neo not at least be allowed his vengeance?) Then Hector's woman took a swipe at him with a dagger, which Neo handled quite easily, then a madman burst out of the crypts and nearly cut his leg off, which presented a bit more of a challenge.

The princes compare notes, slowly piecing together a picture of The Stranger who carved a bloody swath through their armies and then disappeared as quickly as he materialized. Finally, Eurylochus says what everyone else has been thinking (fearing). Towering in stature, redhaired, wearing armor that turned their blades and wielding a sword that pierced through bronze like soft clay? They all know who that sounds like.

Yes, the others reluctantly admit, The Stranger is most definitely the ghost of Achilles, returned from the grave to once again punish them all for the sake of some personal slight. (Neo can't stop thinking about the look in the man's eyes, that look of pity or maybe disappointment before he left the youth bleeding on the steps of Hector's tomb).

Diomedes is the only one to object. Aside from Neo, he was the only one to get a good look at The Stranger and live to tell about it. That wasn't Achilles. In fact, he made the man bleed, so he wasn't a ghost either. No one else seems convinced.

Neo confirms that Odysseus went into Hector's tomb alone, and only The Stranger emerged. Sage nods are exchanged amongst the other princes -- Achilles must have returned to avenge his old comrade, Greater Ajax. But then why would he kill so many Achaeans after presumably taking his vengeance on Odysseus? (Agamemnon scoffs. As if Achilles ever needed a reason to be a pain.)

Then a messenger arrives, breathlessly announcing that Ajax the Lesser has been found. Specifically, he has been found dead by a blow from The Stranger's magic sword, lying at the feet of a toppled statue of Athena.

Now that's clearly an omen of some sort, though no one can agree on what message to take from it. Athena is Odysseus's patron, but is the toppled statue a sign of judgement or of disrespect? Does this have anything to do with The Lesser's cousin The Greater? Nestor suggests consulting the Trojan oracle Helenus. They left the boy tied up on Agamemnon's ship after Odysseus finished with him, and he was still alive the last time they checked. Perhaps he can interpret the omen.

This plan only makes it as far as the beach, where the gang discovers that both the oracle and Agamemnon's flagship have been stolen.

Suddenly it all makes perfect sense. Diomedes explodes -- yet again, Achilles is punishing them all for the sake of his feud with Agamemnon. The High King sputters out a denial -- he and Achilles were square when the man died. His conscience is perfectly clean. He still looks as if he is actively having a heart attack.

Nestor attempts to intervene. Diomedes shouldn't jump to conclusions... But if Agamemnon knows of anything that might have brought a vengeful Achilles back from the grave, he really should tell them. They promise they won't be mad.

Agamemnon has the horrible, sinking feeling that this might be about the fact that he took a leak on the ashes of Achille's funeral pyre. But he's certainly not going to admit to that. Wounded or no, Neo has a good couple of inches on him, and the kid is built like he strangles oxen for a hobby. He has that same twitchy look in his eye that his father always had.

This man cannot have been Achilles, he insists, and Agamemnon is going to bring back his head to prove it! (No one else is willing to set sail while the son of a Nereid might be after their heads, and Agamemnon is quite sure that they're one more bad omen away from sacrificing him to appease Achilles. It's what he would do, were he in their position.) Eurylochus and his crew quickly get pressed into service -- they need a captain, and Agamemnon needs a boat. And don't they want to avenge their fallen king?

Neo insists on coming along, much to Agamemnon's horror.

Maedhros isn't ready to panic just yet. Disorienting as that first night was, he's now fairly certain that he knows where he is. He's on the eastern side of the Sea of Rhûn. This is an inland sea, and the climate and general look of the people suggest that he's somewhere south and east of Dorwinion. He's a long way from home, to be sure, but at least he knows how to get back. He takes a moment to privately curse that storm Maia for dragging him so far out of his way.

He's fairly certain that the woman he rescued is the baby's mother. At least, she seemed very relieved to have him back. So if he recalls the storm Maia's threats correctly, that would make her the prince's widow. The others seem to tentatively consider her to be in charge, and she's at least attempted to communicate with him. Maybe she can help him get his bearings.

Unfortunately, she doesn't speak any of the Easterling tongues he learned from Bór. That's not terribly surprising. Rhûn is a land of many nations, and this particular clan must be rather isolated if they're still casting weapons out of bronze. That's fine. He might not invent new languages on a whim as his father did, but he does enjoy learning them.

The golden-haired girl hasn't stopped watching him. She looks away with a pained expression every time he catches her at it, but even now he can feel her eyes boring into the back of his head. He saw eyes like that once before -- the first time he saw a mirror after Thangorodrim.

The others give her a wide berth, though she does nothing apart from sit curled under the mast, arms around her knees. During their flight, she broke from her stupor long enough to lead them to this ship -- the same ship where they found the prisoner who Maedhros assumes to be her twin brother. It almost seemed as if she knew where...

But that would be ridiculous. She couldn't have known. Maedhros rather forcibly shrugs the notion off. They're twins. He's seen Amrod and Amras do far stranger.

On his first night, Maedhros was too preoccupied to look up. Even had he chanced to look at the sky, the smoke of the city's burning would have blotted out the stars. He spends the following day tending to the wounded, despite having nothing but torn clothing and seawater, and offering what comfort he can, despite speaking not a word of their language. When the sun sets, he forces himself to stay awake. One look at the stars will give him his heading, and from there he can plan the route home...

Oh. Maedhros doesn't know those stars.

Maedhros is beginning to suspect that he isn't in Rhûn.

More coming soon, by request of @sweetteaanddragons !

#maedhros in troy au #tolkien legendarium #epic: the musical #the illiad #maedhros #andromache of troy #astyanax #scamandrius #neoptolemus #agamemnon #diomedes #nestor #eurylochus #cassandra of troy

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heros-paradox · 6 months ago

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¡Hola!

Este post será una especie de guía de los 12 Links que conforman la historia. No especificaré sus edades exactas, sino un aproximado.

Puedes leer la trama aquí

Aventuras: Skyward Sword

Edad: 20-21 [Joven adulto]

Ahora vive tranquilamente con Zelda en la superficie, donde ha encontrado la felicidad en una vida pacífica.

Pasa sus días ayudando a Zelda, tocando música o tallando madera.

Aunque ya no tiene en su poder la Espada Maestra, suele visitar el lugar de descanso de Fi, aunque nunca reciba una respuesta.

Aventuras: The Minish Cap

Edad: 11-12 [Niño]

Después de sellar a Vaati, ya no empuña la Four Sword.

No dejes que su juventud o pequeña estatura te engañen; subestimarlo sería un error.

De corazón bondadoso, honesto y dulce, nunca duda en ayudar a quien lo necesite.

Es el más joven (y el más bajo) del grupo.

Aventuras: Ocarina of Time & Majora's Mask

Edad: 20-21 [Joven adulto]

Tras salvar Hyrule y Termina, ahora vive como un viajero y ayuda en el Rancho Lon Lon.

A pesar de todo lo que ha enfrentado, nunca ha dejado de buscar a Navi.

Está considerando unirse a la Guardia Real.

Aún no lo entiende del todo, pero tiene un pequeño enamoramiento por Malon, su amiga de la infancia.

Aventuras: Wind Waker & Phantom Hourglass

Edad: 13-14 [Adolescente]

Pasa gran parte de su tiempo explorando nuevos lugares con Tetra y siempre regresa con regalos para su hermanita.

Es el más expresivo y hablador de todos.

Le gusta unirse a los demás cuando tocan música.

Aventuras: Spirit Tracks

Edad: 13-14 [Adolescente]

Es físicamente muy parecido al Héroe de los Vientos.

Tan pronto como New Hyrule estuvo a salvo, finalmente pudo dedicarse a su pasión: los trenes.

Suele ser muy olvidadizo y algo distraído. Su constante cansancio por el trabajo no ayuda, pero a pesar de eso, realmente lo disfruta.

Aventuras: Twilight Princess

Alias: Bestia de Ojos Azules, Héroe del Crepúsculo Edad: 19-21 [Joven adulto]

Extraña profundamente a Midna, más que a nada ni nadie.

Tras sus aventuras, regresó a Ordon, donde se dedica a cuidar animales y velar por sus amigos.

Lleva consigo una espada todo el tiempo, por si acaso.

Aventuras: Four Swords/Adventures (Combinados)

Edad: 13-15 [Adolescente]

Es quien más recientemente terminó su aventura; estaba en camino de devolver la Four Sword a su pedestal, pero terminó junto a los demás antes de poder hacerlo.

Hijo de un caballero, era un soldado en entrenamiento antes de embarcarse en su misión para derrotar a Vaati.

La Four Sword ha tenido algunos efectos secundarios misteriosos en él...

Aventuras: A Link to the Past, Oracle of Seasons & Ages, Link’s Awakening

Edad: 17-19 [Adolescente]

Suele llevar una flor, no porque le gusten particularmente, sino porque le recuerdan a Marin.

Tras su viaje a la isla Koholint, finalmente tomó un descanso de buscar aventuras; necesitaba tiempo para procesar todo lo que había vivido.

Pasa sus días cuidando su colección de artefactos.

Aventuras: A Link Between Worlds & Tri Force Heroes

Edad: [Adolescente]

Comparte con Wild el gusto por la ropa y tiene una docena de atuendos ridículos para cada ocasión.

Conserva con cariño el brazalete que le regaló Ravio; al final, aprendió a apreciar al avaro conejo cobarde.

Es animado y tiene un sentido del humor peculiar. De todos, es quien mejor se ha adaptado al trabajo en equipo.

Aventuras: Zelda I & Zelda II

Edad: 16-18 [Adolescente]

Tiene dificultades para bajar la guardia y relajarse, producto de vivir en un Hyrule hostil y enfrentar amenazas constantes.

Prefiere usar magia y hechizos, pero no duda en demostrar que es un espadachín formidable.

Aunque no lo diga en voz alta, para él convertirse en un hada es probablemente lo más divertido que hay.

Aventuras: Hyrule Warriors

Edad: 20-21 [Joven adulto]

De todo el grupo, probablemente sea quien mejor comprende la situación que están enfrentando; para él, es extrañamente familiar.

En el pasado, permitió que el exceso de confianza y ego casi le costaran la vida, y está decidido a que no vuelva a suceder.

Puede parecer arrogante al principio, pero no es más que una broma; en los momentos serios, es sensato y se preocupa profundamente por todos.

Actualmente, dedica su vida a su carrera militar.

Aventuras: Breath of the Wild & Tears of the Kingdom

Alias: Campeón Hylian, Campeón de Hyrule, Héroe Edad: 20-23 [Joven adulto]

A los cuatro años ya era un espadachín prodigio, capaz de vencer a caballeros entrenados.

Amaba silenciosamente a Mipha, viendo en ella un alma amable que lo amaba por quien era, no por su destino como héroe. Lamentablemente, nunca tuvieron la oportunidad de confesarse sus sentimientos.

Tras despertar, se volvió mucho más hablador y expresivo. Aunque aún carga con la culpa de sus amigos caídos y su reino destruido, ya no siente el aplastante peso de las expectativas del mundo sobre él.

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Alturas

Gracias por leer

#the legend of zelda #four swords link #link #hero's paradox #hyrule warriors #legend of zelda #loz #links meet au #loz totk #botw #tloz fanart #tloz link #phantom hourglass #spirit tracks

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soulsforsales · 4 days ago

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ECLIPSE

"Your life has taken a new turn. New family, new symbols, new goals, and new feelings. A lot of which you aren't sure how to navigate. You're trying, but things are never as easy as they seem when you have a Bat Symbol plastered to your chest. The present is novel, but the ghosts of your past might not be ready to let you go just yet."

contains: blood, gore, talk of death and drugs, angst, fluff (kind of), reader is not an OC but goes by "Eclipse" as her alias (bcs I needed to name her something and I refuse to use y/n), fem reader.

notes: I know I am supposed to complete my other fics but I could not get this idea out of my head even when I tried, and I've been wanting to write something with the Bat Family for so long (I mean, I always imagine what it would be like if I was a member!!!). I'm sorry about the mischaracterization, if any, though I tried hard to grab the characters' essence. It was so much fun to write this and I hope you guys enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it <3

CHAPTER 1

Sometimes, you feel like you spend more time in your head than you do outside. Especially in moments like these.

You sit on the ledge of an old building in Gotham, earpiece plugged in, waiting for the next signal from Oracle. Your new tactical gear still feels too... new. The spandex is too tight, your utility belt is heavier than it appears, the Bat symbol on your chest is a constant reminder of who you are now, and let's not discuss the heels in your boots.

Why did you need them again? Oh, right, the aesthetic - as Dick had so conveniently mentioned.

You exhale, hair flying with the chilly wind. The moon dances across the black, foggy sky. And if you were being honest with yourself, which you rarely are, you had never planned on joining the notorious Bat family.

Apparently, Batman owed your deceased mother a favor, and she had asked him to take care of you once she was dead, which is, by the way, exactly what happens to people who run an illegal drug deal for Black Mask.

You shake your head, flexing your hands at your sides, and the new gloves make a squeaky noise. This isn't what you wanted to think about right now.

The point is, you had never planned on becoming a vigilante. Sure, you did a thing or two now and then, that's how Bruce-Batman had found you. While you were fighting a thug all by yourself and he had taken you in without a second thought.

You weren't even sure what it meant until you were standing in front of Wayne Manor. Bruce Wayne is Batman. Huh, who could've thought?

But even though everything that has happened to you since your mother's death is... bizarre, to say the least. One thing still takes you by surprise, one thing that clashes everything you thought you knew about yourself.

Your own damn feelings.

Your own damn feelings for Jason freaking Todd.

A crunch of gravel behind you has your neck whipping around fast, your muscles coiling for action. You prop one foot up, ready to stand with fists already clenched until the red helmet glints under the moonlight, and despite knowing better, you relax.

And okay, yeah, you summoned him. There you go, thinking about the devil, and the devil appears, or however that saying goes.

Jason tsks, walking over to you, "And I wonder what the Bat sees in you." He remarks, though you don't sense any real judgment in his tone. If you were any more delusional, you'd say he even sounds concerned.

You sit back, your body slumping against the concrete, and Jason takes a seat beside you. You try and fail not to notice how his jacket sleeves are pulled up, how his forearms flex without any effort. You look away.

"I didn't hear you." You mutter, frowning. The mask over your eyes makes them twitch, or maybe it's because of your heart beating faster.

The red helmet tilts in your direction, accompanied by a scoff, "That's pretty much the point. You're in your head, trouble. You need to be more alert."

Trouble. Your breath catches. That stupid nickname. Jason had insisted on calling you that when he saw you take down a man twice your size with a grin on your face for the first time.

He'd whistled lowly with a crooked, amused smile. Then turned to Dick, "She's trouble, this one." Jason had remarked, and for some reason, you felt your stomach lurch; it was a weird feeling, if anything. Like the kind you feel on roller coasters, or when you jump off a building in your dreams.

It wasn't 'butterflies' (as Tim and Steph argued), but more like... fear.

"I was alert." You argue, mocking his scoff and tilt of head with your own, "For actual danger, not you creeping up on me to prove a point."

Jason is wearing a helmet, but you swear, you hear him roll his eyes, "Actual danger? If you knew me, you'd know I fit in the category too well, princess."

Your lips part, and you're glad it's too dark for him to see the way your cheeks heat up.

Princess? Seriously? Who does he think he is?

You immediately pull your lips into a fake smile, "Maybe my mind doesn't register you as a threat. Or, maybe I just didn't hear you. Again - no actual danger."

Jason stares at you for a long moment, all the while your heart rate increases, and then he chuckles. "Your mind doesn't what now? That's the stupidest thing I've heard tonight and I just spent two hours with Dick."

You scoff, offended, "You did not just say that to me."

The helmet tilts again, and you can imagine Jason's smug expression, "Why not? What are you gonna do about it?"

And there it is, the frustration picking at your skin. How can you like someone who makes you want to punch them in the face? You have to be making up things.

"I-" You're interrupted when your comm pings and Oracle's voice cuts through.

"Hood? Eclipse? You two still out?" She asks, and somewhere in the back, you hear what sounds suspiciously like Tim's voice, "They are out together again? I wonder why..."

You roll your eyes, beside you Jason shifts.

"What's up?" He asks into the comms, all business suddenly. You spare him a fleeting glance before looking away again.

"Uh... something is going down by the South Bridge. Since you two are the only ones still out, I want you to check on it once."

Jason and you arrive at the location given by Oracle in about five minutes. Thanks to Jason's reckless driving and ignoring the fact that you almost fell off his bike.

You get down with a huff, brushing dust from your costume. Jason follows suit.

"Not my fault you didn't hold tight enough," He mutters, leaning against his bike, and you don't need to see his face to know he's grinning under his helmet.

Honestly, you don't know why he gets on your nerves so much - oh wait, it's probably the shitty attitude.

You turn to face him, "Not your fault? You drive like you're being chased by zombies."

Jason shrugs, "I drive how it's necessary. We're here, aren't we? And hey, you survived."

"Barely." You mutter, narrowing your eyes at him before thinking better of it and turning around.

Not like you could actually win an argument against Jason Peter Todd.

The location doesn't look shady... mostly. It's an abandoned warehouse, probably just another unsupervised area where illegal shipments take place, but there's something about it that feels... wrong. Maybe it's the vibe. Or maybe... a smell?

You look around. Yeah, you know that smell. It smells like... blood. A lot of it.

You turn to look for Jason, but he's already beside you, arm brushing yours, and your body reacts in less than... acceptable ways. He's tense, the white slits of his helmet fixed at the warehouse.

You step away, planting your feet in the overgrown, muddy grass, but it slips and you lose balance. Damn, heels.

You yelp, hands clawing at the air helplessly, and Jason is quick to bolt forward. He grips your elbow, pulling you flush against him. Your eyes go wide, lips parting in mild shock.

Jason looks down at you, and you can't help but be hyper-aware of the way he almost wraps you in. The scent of gunpowder and leather invades your senses. One of his hands stays on your arm, the other hovering above your waist as if to make sure you're okay. He doesn't ask the words, but you feel them in the way he doesn't let go instantly.

Or not. Because while your heart speeds up faster than his bike does. Jason snickers. Snickers.

"Falling for me already?" He mutters, tilting his head lower.

You plant a palm on his chest, stepping back with an eye roll and a frown, "Real Original, Hood. You torture every poor soul with that line, or did I get lucky?"

Jason lets go, stuffing his hands in his jacket pockets instead, "Oh, you're definitely lucky, trouble. Not everyone gets the special treatment."

You only half hear Jason when you're inspecting the ground where you just slipped. Apparently, it wasn't your heels.

There's blood. You track a trail of it going inside the warehouse. Your heart drops.

"Uh... you might wanna see this." You say, gaze moving from Jason to the warehouse, and then back to the ground.

Jason's eyes follow the trail of blood and he shifts, only slightly, but you notice the way his shoulders tense, the way his hands hover over his holstered guns already.

"Huh..." He exhales, stepping closer, "Looks like we might've stepped onto something messy."

If the situation were any different, you would've rolled your eyes at his choice of words. But all you do right now is try not to lose it.

Well, maybe the others would call this a pleasant welcome into the family.

Thank you for reading. Love you all!

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hinacu-arts · 6 months ago

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Been thinking about FFPS again. Maybe after finals i'll be able to sit down a write a little. For now have this bts fact sheet

BATS 🦇

Dick

Name: Richard John "Dick" Grayson

Alias: Nightwing

Age: 26

Sexuality: TBD

Status: adopted (canon)

Jason

Jason Peter Todd

Red Hood

21 not including time spent dead. Born 3 months before Cass. They disagree on who's actually older

Gray

Adopted (canon)

Cass

Cassandra Wayne (formerly Cain)

Tbh idr what I went with in the fic. If i mentioned it at all. Think i went with Orphan because 90% of dynamics and personalities for the bats was based on WFA and she's Orphan in WFA

21. Born 3 months after Jason. They disagree on whos older post-death(s)

TBD

Adopted (only girl. Absolutely has princess privilege)

Tim

Timothy Jackson Drake-Wayne

Red Robin

Bi (canon!)

Adopted (canon)

Duke

Duke Thomas

Signal

17 or 18

Straight

Fostered (canon?)

Damian

Damian Wayne

Robin

A-spec (demi maybe?)

Biological (canon)

Steph

Stephanie Brown

Spoiler

Has a mom (canon)

Babs

Barbara Gordon

Oracle

N/A

Has a dad (canon)

Bruce

Bruce Thomas Wayne

Batman

42? 45? 50?

N/A

Legal Father (canon)

Alfred

Alfred Pennyworth

Agent A? Penny-One?

REDACTED

Honorary Grandfather (canon)

FFPS 👻

Danny

Daniel "Danny" Fenton

Danny Phantom (non-active)

20ish

Dani

Danielle "Dani" Fenton (formerly Masters. formerly Phantom)

Dani Phantom (non-active?)

Her ID says 18

Straight? Aspec?

Adopted

Tucker

Tucker Foley

I think he has one but idr

Pan

Val

Valerie Gray

Idr

TBD

Sam

Samantha "Sam" Manson

N/A?

TBD

Jazz

Dr. Jasmine "Jazz" Fenton

N/A

23? 24? Look i already aged Danny and i cant make her actual PHD aged without it being a drastic gap and its too late to un-PHD her

Straight

#hinacu dpxdc #dpxdc #dc x dp #fenton foley protection services #danny phantom #batman #danny fenton #dani phantom #dick grayson #jason todd

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dreamsy990 · 7 months ago

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rough sketches for designs of all the pt for the wof au! (also more akechi and better joker here)

thoughts + closeups under the cut

i tried to give proper justification for all the pt to have their codenames here which for a handful of them meant their names are just. shortened versions of something else. so crow is short for crow poison. aka false garlic. its a type of flower :3. i mean theororetically crow would be a valid name but hes a rainwing here and it didnt seem like a very fitting name with that in mind? but theres a couple rainwings named after flowers i think. hes a rainwing for obvious reasons i think. id like to think hed have a very light color palette that shifts to this when he gives up trying to hide who he is. youuu can see that lighter palette in the art i linked earlier.

fox! which is short for snowfox. yes i know snowfox is a real canon name but yknow what else is canon? icewings have a big list of names they go down. so his name is snowfox. i dont have anything else to say here. like ofc hes an icewing hes YUSUKE. id like to think he left the ice kingdom to go to jade mountain (bc is it a wof au without jade mountain) to "broaden his horizons as an artist". which would be how he meets the other guys

skull! is it his real name? hes not telling! i am the least happy with his design tbh.

ORACLE!! her real name is beetle but she likes to go by oracle instead. i struggled a bit on what tribe to make her actually. originally i wanted her to be either part or fully rainwing? because i thought her using her camoflauge to hide from people in crowded places could be fun. but eventually i decided i not to do that. i dont think theres any hybrids in this cast actually? might actually change my mind on that to make noir half leafwing but shh. anyways i think a bug is fitting for her. so she gets to be a hivewing. no abilities for her shes just a little guy

JOKER!! i think it would be fun if joker IS his real name but people think its an alias. his design was easy as shit. ofc hes a nightwing ofc hes got big red stars on his wings hes JOKER. not pictured is morgana also! mona is jokers """pet""" scavenger who speaks dragon. congrats mona you finally get to be human! too bad its in the dragon au. anyways might post a morgana drawing whenever i clean up his design

violet! (named after the violet copper butterfly). her sisters name and the name she uses for a while is rose (named after the common rose butterfly). i ALSO kinda considered her being a rainwing (literally changing herself to look more like her sister) but decided silkwing was a better choice,,,,, im really happy with her design ok

PANTHER!! that is her actual name btw. MY FIRST THOUGHT FOR THIS AU WAS SKYWING ANN I WOULD KILL MYSELF IF SHE WAS ANYTHING ELSE,,,, ik skywings cant have blue eyes unless theyre firescales or sky but shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i wanted to,,,,,, canon is what i want it to be.

queen is short for queenfish! she was a bit of an afterthought sorry </3. but shes a seawing! good for her <3

AND NOIIIRRRR!! i wanted her to be a mudwing as soon as i thought about it for more than a second. design wise i dont have much to say but i think storywise it might be cool if she was an only child and her father (in an incrdible rare move for a mudwing) was actually a present figure in her life. leading her to be kinda isolated from her peers and giving her a big reason to be very attached to him. idk its just thoughts rn. i dont have a clear story in mind yet. anyways those are my dragon thieves i hope you liked them

#doodles #persona 5 #goro akechi #yusuke kitagawa #ryuji sakamato #futaba sakura #akira kurusu #ren amamiya #joker #sumire yoshizawa #ann takamaki #makoto nijima #haru okumura #wings of fire #au

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zahri-melitor · 4 months ago

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So I’ve been skipping over the Power Girl solicits mostly because I bounced hard off Leah Williams’ run, but I just looked at the solicit for #20 because I was trying to check what the exact new name for PG that Williams was using was and…

Oh good, it’s the meanspirited “the fans are being demanding and horrible about the changes made to canon, so watch me rub what I’ve done in their faces” storyline. Seen that one a few too many times between 2014 and 2020 for Barbara Gordon and the concept of Oracle.

(I do think that yes there probably is a good story around PG’s identity issues with regards to names and who is ‘real’ and what choosing your name means, in regards to Kara vs Karen vs Paige. But I also simultaneously despise the flippant way the change occurred, especially given the character is 50 years old and had been using a steady set of Kara and Karen as her personal name and alias names for 47 of those 50 years)

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brucestalia · 6 months ago

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talia al ghul: relationships // platonic ｡ﾟ•┈꒰ა ♡ ໒꒱┈• ｡ﾟ

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diana prince

i briefly mentioned this in a previous post, but let’s dive deeper. i’m a huge fan of museum curator mlle. prince, and talia, ever the patron of the arts, must have crossed paths with her during one of her many visits to paris.

ra’s al ghul might be an international eco-terrorist and cult leader, but he also operates under (and eventually abandons) the alias of henri ducard: eccentric billionaire and environmental activist. (yes, this is a nod to nolanverse ra’s. while i’m not a fan of how the al ghuls were handled in nolan’s films, there are a few elements i’ll be borrowing for my brutalia worldbuilding.)

following in her father’s footsteps, talia adopts the alias of henrietta ducard, a french socialite and heiress. of course, she knows diana—who wouldn’t know the wonder woman, teammate to her beloved and “aunt” to jason?

their paths cross at the louvre, where diana is overjoyed to host such a cultured guest. the two end up touring the museum well past closing hours, completely engrossed in their conversation. diana’s younger colleagues are far too intimidated to interrupt the two women who seem entirely in a world of their own.

oh, and jason? he 100% calls diana “dad” whenever he’s mad at bruce.

add in girls’ nights with barbara minerva and occasional appearances from the gotham city sirens, and you’ve got a dynamic i cannot wait to explore further. 2. the birds of prey; a) dinah lance

the “i’m married to a total himbo-billionaire” club.

their interactions mostly consist of knowing looks exchanged across lavishly decorated ballrooms during charity galas hosted by wayne enterprises and q-corp—always trying to outdo the other. they sneak out for smoke breaks, share a quiet camaraderie, and occasionally spar together.

considering the plotline about ra’s almost marrying black canary (or was that just a fever dream?), i’d say they know each other by association and share a mutual understanding. not quite friendship, but something close—born from shared experiences and a begrudging respect.

when it comes to training, with lady shiva now part of the birds of prey, i can see talia attempting to cooperate with the ladies. she’s clearly got a lot of history with the group, which brings us to the next duo: b) barbara gordon and helena bertinelli

talia can be good when she wants to be.

i like the idea of talia taking on a maternal role for cassandra during her time with the league of assassins. she has the capacity for genuine care, even in the shadowy corners of the league’s operations. similarly, i can see her stepping into a similar role for a younger helena kyle (or wayne), particularly if selina is no longer in the picture (possibly dead).

talia would likely oppose bruce’s treatment of the huntress, siding with the family members who sympathise with helena’s cause—especially during the events of the hush storyline. she could even act as a mentor of sorts, helping helena find her place in the dark knight’s world, while providing the kind of guidance bruce often withholds.

for all her similarities to helena, barbara stands apart in one key way: she grew up within the dimly-lit walls of the batcave, immersed in batman’s world. over the years, talia has quietly observed the commissioner’s daughter, often alongside one very pouty dick grayson. these observations, layered with her own sense of justice, only deepen her fury against the joker after the events of the killing joke.

barbara and helena are probably the first batfamily members to know whenever talia is in gotham—after jason and damian, of course. oracle’s network would almost certainly keep tabs on talia, especially during her prolonged, unexplained absences. 3. the gotham city sirens; a) pamela isley

ivy—or rather, dr. pamela isley—superpowered eco-terrorist extraordinaire, would have been a subject of keen interest to the league of assassins. from her controversial tenure at wayne enterprises to her involvement in woodrue's experiments, talia would have kept a watchful eye on pamela’s journey.

when isley became poison ivy, the demon’s head would have undoubtedly reached out to her. sharing similar values—and at times, equally extreme methods—talia and pamela would have initially maintained a professional relationship. however, the nature of their shared work, coupled with the undeniable chaos that is harley quinn, would have eventually evolved their dynamic into a close, if unconventional, friendship.

at some point, talia becomes an honorary gotham city siren. she doesn't hesitate to crash at harley and ivy’s place when things with her detective aren’t going so well. b) harleen quinzel

harley is one of the rare individuals (alfred being the other, obviously) whom talia would truly trust with damian. over time, harley earns the title of “aunt,” though it’s anyone’s guess which side of the family she’s from.

their friendship didn’t stem from any significant shared history, allegiance, or grand cause. harley just showed up one day, decided they were friends, and that was that. talia nodded hesitantly, chalking it up to just being the gotham way of things.

unsurprisingly, dr. quinn has tried (and perhaps succeeded?) in scheduling talia and bruce for marriage counseling on multiple occasions.

c) selina kyle

without bruce in the equation, talia and selina’s relationship becomes infinitely less strained. talia might envy selina, but only in the sense that love has been far kinder to her questionable morals with a partner like kate.

in this scenario, talia is definitely closest to selina—whether it’s due to genuine fondness or simply their frequent proximity is unclear. either way, they seem to understand each other on a level few others can, especially over shared indulgences, like extravagant shopping sprees.

the moment they move into wayne manor, it’s inevitable: the place will be overrun by animals of every kind, much to the amusement (or exasperation) of the other residents.

4. john constantine & zatanna zatara

i love the idea of melisande being homo magi, which would mean talia inherits that lineage as well. being part homo magi, combined with her access to the powers of the lazarus pits and mastery of incantations, would make talia uniquely positioned to bridge gaps between her world and the other side. talia’s connection to magic would make her better suited to collaborate with heroes like those in the justice league dark, creating opportunities for uneasy alliances and reluctant partnerships that bring out the best (and worst) in everyone involved, with her being someone who walks the thin line between antihero and ally.

5. lois lane and clark kent

double dates!! :D

lois would come to like talia a lot more after the unforgettable spectacle with president luthor, and clark would absolutely demand every last detail of his definitely-not-best-friend's relationship with talia.

after jason's resurrection, talia would entrust him to the kents' care, enrolling him in metropolis university before the big reveal to bruce.

additionally, damian and jon’s friendship (though damian insists it’s more of an alliance between the supers and the bats) would require them to meet up at least once a week.

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