Title: He’s the Black Cat Who Crosses Your Path
Genre: General
Verse: Young Justice (Earth-16)
Rating: G
Fandom: Batman/Young Justice animated series
Pairing: none
Summary: (follows “She Likes Taking In Strays”) Nearly a year after she first takes him under her wing, Selina treats a now thirteen-year old Jason to a birthday breakfast, where he receives a special present from her.
Earlier I wrote a story set in the Young Justice animated series verse, set in the time in between the first and second seasons. That story can be found here: “She Likes Taking In Strays”.
I’ve been thinking of the time period after that story… While I’ve got vague scenes in my head, I wanted to write it out as a timeline here, timing it out in the five years between seasons.
Yr 1:
(“She Likes Taking In Strays”) Selina Kyle, as Catwoman, happens up on a 12-yr old Jason Todd attempting to steal the tires off of the Batmobile as a way to get into the Royal Flush Gang in Gotham City. Selina helps him steal the tires, but on the stipulation that Jason joins her instead of the gang.
Yr 2:
Selina trained Jason abroad for over a year to become a more accomplished cat burglar like her. She gives him the official codename “Bombay” on his 13th birthday after he resoundingly rejects “cute” nicknames like “Catboy,” “Catlad,” and “Stray.” He will endure Selina calling him “Kitten,” though woe be to anyone else who dares to call him that.
While training, Selina instills in him the “code” she lives her life by. Stuff like:
Rule #5. Don’t steal from those who are worse off than you.
Rule #8. Never kill anyone unless absolutely necessary.
Rule #11. Always be specific when you lie.
Rule #17. When the job is done, walk away.
Rule #23. It’s not paranoia if they really are out to get you.
Selina never reveals her rules in any specific order, and Jason’s half convinced that she makes these things up as she goes along just to mess with him.
Yr 3:
At the start of the new school year, Selina and now 14-yr old Jason return to Gotham City, living together as an aunt and nephew in a high-rise apartment. She enrolls him in Gotham Academy, much to his displeasure, until she explains to him that by going to school with rich kids, he’ll be in a prime position to scout out potential wealthy families as marks.
While at school, Jason is your typical troublemaker, bad-boy, which of course attracts the attention of many spoiled teenage princesses in the private school. “Aunt” Selina spends a lot of time in the Headmaster’s office because of him.
Jason ends up in a fight with a then 16-yr old Dick Grayson over something pretty stupid while at school, and both boys end up in the Headmaster’s office. Selina meets Bruce Wayne during this meeting, and it’s during this meeting that Selina sensing a good mark, manages to wrangle a date out of Bruce.
While in Gotham, Catwoman and Bombay make their presences known as they begin robbing various people and places blind, while taunting Batman, Robin, and Batgirl.
(It irks Robin to no end when Bombay shamelessly flirts with Batgirl right in front of him… then confuses the crap out of him when Bombay will switch things up in the same breath and start flirting with him too!)
Yr 4:
15-yr old Bombay stumbles upon a strange boy following Batman in Gotham City one night. The boy, who looks to be only about ten or eleven, nearly gets himself kidnapped on the street by a guy Jason knows is a child prostitute trafficker. So Bombay goes out of his way to beat the tar out of the bastard and saves the kid. The boy is grateful, and lets Bombay take him home, which is in a mansion in the area where Bruce Wayne lives.
Imagine Jason’s surprise when the next morning he sees the kid again at his high school. The boy’s name is Timothy Drake, he’s only eleven, and he’s a certifiable genius. Tim’s skipped ahead several grades and is enrolled in the Academy as a sophomore. High school is hard for Tim, though, in the social aspect. He tends to get bullied frequently by the older kids. It’s interesting to note that both Jason and Dick take Tim under their respective wings to protect him, though the bullies are clearly more intimidated by Jason than by Dick.
The more Jason learns about Tim, the closer he gets to him. Jason can relate all too well to Tim being alone without his parents most of the time. As they get closer, more brotherly, Tim figures out that Jason is Bombay, and subsequently that Selina Kyle is Catwoman. Previously, he already figured out that Batman and Robin are Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson, but Tim doesn’t reveal that to Jason.
Later on that year, Tim’s parents are kidnapped on their return trip home. Despite the fact that Jason doesn’t have any fondness for the Drakes because of how they treat Tim, he joins in the search for them as Bombay for his little brother. This is against Selina’s better judgement.
Turns out her instincts were spot on because the Drakes had been kidnapped by the Joker. Bombay finds the Drakes, but not before the Joker finds him.
…The scene plays out like “A Death in the Family”, with Jason being beaten to within an inch of his life before being left for dead with the Drakes. Jason struggles to save the Drakes for Tim’s sake, manages to get Tim’s mother out of the building before it blows up, killing both Tim’s father and Jason.
Batman and Robin show up just in time to see the explosion. Batman finds Tim’s mother, badly injured from the blast, but alive. Robin, however finds Tim’s father and Bombay. He’s horrified and stunned to learn that Bombay was really Jason Todd.
Of course, Selina is told of Jason’s death, and is completely grief-stricken. Immediately, she goes out as Catwoman and starts hunting for the Joker in order to kill him. Tim finds out, and knowing Jason wouldn’t want Selina to be hurt or killed, goes to Bruce and reveals the whole truth about knowing that he’s Batman, and that Selina is Catwoman.
Batman tracks down Catwoman just in time to stop her from killing the Joker. This enrages Selina and she rejects all his attempts to console her, even though he swears that Joker will never be allowed out of Arkham.
Not being allowed to take revenge on the Joker for the loss of Jason, who she had grown to love as a son, eats away at Selina. She decides that there are some people… horrible people out there (especially those who would kill children) who deserve to die.
Yr 5:
Selina disappears for a year after Jason’s death. When she returns, she’s no longer Catwoman. Instead, she has retrained and has reinvented herself as the Huntress. She’s a colder individual now, focused solely on killing those who need to be killed.
At the same time, Vandal Savage and the Light are interested in manipulating the former Catwoman for their own purposes. Additionally, Vandal knows that a vengeance-driven vigilante willing to kill could turn into a more serious threat to his plans than many of the Justice Leaguers. He recruits Ra’s al Ghul/Lex Luthor to resurrect/clone Jason and to leverage him against her.
Title: She Likes Taking In Strays
Genre: General
Verse: Young Justice (Earth-16)
Rating: G
Fandom: Batman/Young Justice animated series
Pairing: none
Summary: A thought came to mind today while watching the latest episode of Young Justice. What if, in this verse, the reason Jason Todd isn’t/wasn’t Robin is because, when he tried to swipe the wheels off the Batmobile, he got intercepted by Catwoman before Batman? What if she helped him swipe the rest of the tires before Batman came back then decided to take him under her wing?
Title: Music Memory
Genre: General
Verse: None (DCU/pre-reboot)
Rating: G
Fandom: Batman
Pairing: none
Summary: The piano was bought for Damian, but ends up suiting a different Wayne son far better. This is a gift for Cr1mson5.
Author’s Notes:
For those of you following my story “Mockingbirds & Butterflies”, here’s a preview of the chapter I’m currently working on. I’m not sure when I’ll be done with this chapter, but I wanted to let my readers know that it is in the works and not forgotten on some backburner somewhere.
So here’s the first part of the upcoming Chapter 3…
Title: When You Wish Upon a Star
Genre: General
Verse: Paradox Lounge
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: Batman DCU (not DCnU)
Pairing: Tim/Tam
Summary: A year has passed since the most recent tragic night of Tim Drake’s life occurred. When he makes an impossible wish upon the only star he can see in Gotham’s pollution choked night sky, logically he doesn’t expect it to come true. However, when it comes to wishes and the granting thereof, “logic” is usually the first thing that goes out the window.
Came up with a new crossover concept to possibly explore later.
The idea? A Batman/Warehouse 13 (SyFy original television series) crossover exploring an alternate explanation about why Tim Drake’s parents were hardly ever in his life…
Tim Drake is furious.
While he was out of town working with the Titans, someone broke into the building where all his parents’ belongs were being stored. Mysteriously, the only thing taken was trunk containing an assortment of souvenirs they had collected on their travels around the world. It infuriates Tim because some of his few fond memories of his parents as a child were hearing all the wild, made-up stories of all the Indiana Jones-styled adventures his mom and dad had to go through to find them. He wants them back!
Even more mysteriously, the theft attracts the attention of two federal secret service agents, Agent Myka Bering and Agent Peter Lattimer.
While trying to run his own investigation as Red Robin, while at the same time being forced to work with Myka and Peter, Tim inadvertently learns about Warehouse 13. When he goes searching for answers and eventually meets Artie (Arthur Neilsen), the Warehouse’s custodian…
Artie: Timothy Drake? You’re Jack and Janet’s son, right?
Tim: *confused* You knew my parents?
Artie: Of course I did. They were two of the finest agents I ever had the pleasure of working with. They were two of my dearest friends.
Turns out, the reason Jack and Janet were constantly traveling around the world wasn’t for their business. In reality, they were Warehouse 13 agents. The two of them had originally met when they were first assigned to the Warehouse and fell in love there. After marrying, they both “retired”. However after Tim was born and had gotten older, there was a sudden influx of active artifacts and they were reactivated by Mrs. Fredric herself because the Warehouse had become very short-staffed in those years. Jack and Janet also secretly harbored a desire to bring Tim into their work and the Warehouse once he was older.
Artie: *sighing* Janet always wanted you all to work together as a family here. She was literally counting the days until she could bring you to the Warehouse.
When Janet died and Jack was paralyzed, they were on a Warehouse assignment to recover an artifact from a voodoo witchdoctor. That particular artifact was never recovered.
After losing Janet, Jack retired for good from the Warehouse. No further contact was made between Jack and Artie. Arthur only learned of Jack’s death through a news report years later.
The “souvenirs” that were stolen from Tim’s storage were supposedly benign artifacts that his parents never brought back for storage at the Warehouse. They were going to use those things to eventually introduce Tim to the existence of artifacts and their work.
While trying to process everything he’s just learned about his parents’ secret life, Mrs. Fredric approaches Tim in private. Somehow, mysteriously, she knows about his own dual life as Red Robin, and his history working with Batman. She believes the combination of the skills he’s developed as a crime-fighter and detective as well as his own pedigree as the son of two stellar Warehouse agents would make him an ideal candidate to become an agent himself. Tim is firm in his refusal, at first, but Mrs. Fredric is very good at planting tempting seeds of doubt.
Tim: I don’t have time to work for you people. I have too many responsibilities in Gotham.
Mrs. Fredrick: But it is what your parents wanted for you.
Tim: …
Mrs. Fredrick: You could use this opportunity to learn more about them. Learn about who your mother and father really were. *waves to the greater interior of the warehouse* Everything they were, all the things you never knew about them, is on those shelves out there.
This is all I have in my head right now. We’ll see if I take it anywhere later…
Today I got a set of “cease and desist” anonymous messages in the inboxes of both my personal journal and my writing one:
Anonymous asked:
Your DC/WoW crossover idea is just… horrible. They’re not even remotely compatable, and the DC universe is riddled with “everyone is related to everyone else” and “this person has died a million times” drama, that again, doesn’t mesh with the WoW universe at all. Just, stop. Or make it private. These ideas are horrible and you’re embarrassing yourself.And…
Anonymous asked:
No, no no no. Stop. The DC universe/WoW crossover is just a horrible idea. I’ve read it, and it just doesn’t mesh at all, unless you’re ignoring all of the character’s personalities and backstories and replacing them with your own childish fantasy. It’s really very bad. Please cease and desist, you’re embarrassing yourself. Really. Make it private and go away.To that person, I say simply this.
If you don’t like what I’m writing, then simply don’t read it. Either skip over them, remove my journals from your watch list so they don’t show up on your dashboard, or you can block my journals specifically so none of my posts show up on your tag watch list.
Ultimately, I’m writing for my own pleasure.
I write fanfiction because I want to create new stories in my favorite fandoms. If I crossover two completely unrelated fandoms, it’s because I’m curious to see what happens when they are meshed together. When I share my stories, it’s because I want to make my stories available to those readers who might actually enjoy them. I do this knowing full well that there will also be people who won’t. However, I’ve been doing this long enough to realize that if anyone doesn’t want to read something I write, they have the freedom to move along to the next writer/story and see if they prefer that one instead.
So to my anonymous critic, I will end with this:
You are entitled to your own opinions. However, you are in no position to order me to “cease and desist” writing ANYTHING because you don’t like my “childish fantasies”.
Here’s what we will both do. I will continue writing whatever I want, whenever I want. You will then continue to read whatever you want, whenever you want as well. If, by some twist of fate, you read something I write that you don’t like again, you can write me another cease-and-desist message, if that’s what you want to do. I can then promise you that I will glance over it briefly, roll my eyes, and send it straight into the trash with the rest of the junk mail.
That is all.
Stuff that’s been coming to mind as my imagination plays in the DC/WoW!verse sandbox:
(I couldn’t resist… Plot bunnies have hijacked a muse for their own… DC/WoW!verse)
Prompt: Alone in Shattrath City
With my husband playing Warcraft a lot lately, and myself having been out of that particular game for long enough that I’m starting to be tempted back in, I’ve been crossing over the original DCU-verse with Warcraft-verse in my head.
1. It starts off with Tim Drake reaching the end of his rope with his life and the way it’s been with really rough with his family, friends, his work as Red Robin, and his non-existent real life. He’s extremely frustrated.
2. Late one night, while investigating a strange new cult called the Burning Shadow that has been rising up within the world, Red Robin discovers a mysterious portal at the heart of their stronghold in Gotham City. Before he can report to anyone about it, he’s attacked by a demon. Red Robin is not at all prepared to hold his own against a demon and is mortally wounded. However, before the demon can land the final killing blow, a creature of light appears from the portal and strikes down the demon. Red Robin falls unconscious.
3. When Tim wakes up, he’s in a strange place. His wounds, amazingly, have been completely healed. Eventually, he is introduced to a human wizard named Khadgar. Khadgar tells Tim that he is in a city called Shattrath, in the remnants of a planet once called Draenor. From the old man, Tim learns what happened back in Gotham…
4. An evil demonic force called the Burning Legion has been seeking other worlds to invade. From a portal located in a region within the Outlands (the remnants of Draenor), the demons had created a doorway to Tim’s world and were sending scouts ahead of them to prepare for invasion. Forces fighting the Burning Legion, called the Sha’tar, were sent to intercept the demons and close the portal. Tim had simply been in the wrong place at the wrong time. The glowing creature who’d saved him had been one of a race called the Na’ru. That Na’ru was named Xi’ri. After seeing how badly Tim had been injured, Xi’ri brought the young man to Shattrath for healing. Unfortunately, for the sake of Tim’s world, the portal had to be destroyed almost immediately afterwards. For the time being, there is no way to send Tim home.
5. Tim is shocked and dismayed to learn that he’s been stranded on an alien world. He doesn’t know what to do. Khadgar suggests that he might feel better living among humans on his own homeworld of Azeroth until he gets his bearings. He sends Tim through a portal that takes him to the human city of Stormwind, with a message from Khadgar to the King requesting sanctuary for the young man.
6. Years are spent by Tim in Azeroth. Timeline-wise, Tim enters this world during the events of the “Wrath of the Lich King”. For the first year, Tim drifts aimlessly. He feels without a purpose, and while he does strive initially to seek a way back home through science or magic, once he realizes how hopeless an endeavor it is, he sinks into depression.
7. He eventually meets Tirion Fordring, the leader of the Argent Crusade during his wandering. Tim feels more at ease around Tirion’s commanding presence than anywhere else in Azeroth. He has an inner strength that reminds Tim of Bruce, but exudes a sense of light and hope that the Batman never did. Alternatively, Tirion sees echos of his own murdered son’s spirit and desire to do good for others within Tim. When Tirion offers to take Tim under his wing and train him in the ways of the Paladin, as a way to both fight evil and heal the sick and injured, Tim accepts.
8. Tim becomes an exceptional Paladin. It suits him exceptionally to have the ability to both fight evil forces and heal others. While, in the past, he had never been a religious person, practically an atheist at times, the concept of “The Holy Light” that powers many healers in Azeroth is something that he can embrace whole-heartedly, as it doesn’t rely on the worship of any deity. He also appreciates immensely the fact that he can do good work as a Paladin, and not have to hide his identity.
9. 5-10 years (?) after being stranded in Azeroth, shortly after the events of Shattering right before Cataclysm started, the Burning Legion manages to create another portal to Earth, this time from a location in Azeroth, not the Outlands. Due to the complexities of cleaving portals through time and space, only a few weeks have passed on Earth since Red Robin went “MIA”.
10. Tim’s family and friends had been frantically searching for him since he went missing when the first portal in Gotham City had been destroyed. When the new portal is discovered, Batman and Robin go to investigate it, but happen upon a conflict between the Legion and the Argent Crusade already in progress.
11. Batman and Robin both help the Crusaders defeat the demons, though Robin is hurt badly in the process. Tim, the Paladin leading the party, keeps his helmet drawn down hiding his face even as he heals Damian’s injuries, much to the boy’s amazement. Tim, though was initially thrilled at having finally found a portal leading back to Earth, was shocked and almost horrified to see that so little time had passed on his homeworld. He’d been gone for years, and clearly it hadn’t been that long if Damian was still 10-11 yrs old.
12. Still, when the other Crusaders try to set the charges to destroy the portal, Tim orders them not to, convincing them that they need to inform this world’s protectors of the danger of the Burning Legion, in case they (the Argent Crusade) cannot stop an invasion from happening. So, his voice distorted by his helm, Tim advises Bruce to collect a diplomatic part to come to the portal within three days’ time, while take that same time to secure the portal for their own use.
13. The diplomatic party from the Justice League is gathered and they are escorted through the portal to Azeroth and are eventually brought to the Argent Crusade base and Tirion Fordring. They are led by Tim, though he keeps his helmet on. Something about this Paladin makes Bruce and Damian suspicious, but nothing they can voice specifically.
14. After the initial meeting with Tirion, once they are guests in his home, does Bruce and Damian finally see Tim. Tirion recognizes Batman and Robin immediately, since Tim told him all about them when he was younger. The older Paladin arranges a reunion with the reluctant Tim. Bruce and Damian are both, understandably, shocked by the changes in Tim. However, Bruce is still very much relieved to see his missing son alive and well.
15. Once Tim is revealed to the others, it’s Tim who leads the others in a tour of Azeroth and Outlands to show his old friends and family exactly how big a threat the Burning Legion is to Earth.
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And that’s all I have. This plot bunny sprang to mind, and I had to write it. It’s not really a cohesive story. I’m not even sure if I’ll flesh it out into something more substantial later.
I think I’ll leave this just as a separate DCU/WoW!verse that others can possibly request short story prompts from.
In my head, as a Paladin, Tim wears a set of armor that resembles the Judgement Armor set in WoW.
He’s also traded using a bo staff for a sword and shield as his primary weapons. Tim’s strength comes from his healing, though. After all the loss he suffered in his life, learning how to heal was something he put most of his focus into during his training.
cross-posting to keep a copy of this on my writing journal.
I’ve hit a bit of writer’s block with the projects I’m working on. I need a break.
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Please send me your requests and I’ll be more than happy to try and fill them!
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I’ve been working on a new version of my writing blog at WordPress.com. Fear not, I’m not abandoning Tumblr. I just wanted a separate, but similar writing blog that allowed me more organizational control over what I posted.
You can find it here:
I’ve actually been enjoying figuring out how WordPress works, especially with themes.
I’m actually extremely tempted to create a separate community blog on WordPress just for the sole purpose of being a DCU fanfiction webzine. Invite other writers to share their completed works? Post up stories that span multiple chapters over a number of days/weeks? Conduct discussions about ships, canon vs fanon, alternate universes, crossover, etc…
It’s an idea that is starting to take root. We’ll see how far it goes…
Title: Mockingbirds & Butterflies - Chapter 2
Genre: General/Drama/Family
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: DCU
Pairing: ???
Word Count: ~2880 words
Summary: The Friday after being visited by his estranged father, Tim’s eldest brother Dick delivers the two people who are going to be sharing his home for the unforeseeable future. However, Tim was not the only one kept in the dark until the last minute regarding this development.
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