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I think Hal would actually adjust faster to being in the Batfamily (in the context of getting with Bruce) because he grew up with brothers, and did just about everything Mom Jessica Jordan did when her boys got rowdy
Dick and Tim are arguing over who messed up what during a recon mission while Hal is nearby, clearly nursing space-lag? Hal stomps over, slams a knife between them and glares at them hard, daring them to say something, and they meekly apologize to each other before stalking off
Cass whining "JASON CALLED ME A DUMBASS 😡" and instead of asking Jason to apologize, Hall tells her "Okay???? Do you want suggestions on what to call him back? Call him a motherfucker then" without even looking up from what he's doing, and it stuns both Jason and Cass that they both forget what they were fighting about
Damian whining about not being able to go out with his older siblings on a mission to a bar despite having had a few sips of bear and age restrictions are a fascist invention!!, and Hal just tells him "And why would you want to go to a cave full of stds?" and Damian actually goes "you know what? I never thought of it that way"
A few months with Hal living in the manor, the family had never been more amicable and (relatively) more behaved
Bruce has started calling Hal a divine blessing, a gift from heaven, an angel of light.
But the kids know.
They are afraid (and begrudgingly respectful) of Mom Hal Jordan.
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Leverage AU where Nate does go into the priesthood … but still ends up doing the same thing.
“Bless me, father, for I have sinned.”
“Go on.”
“I knocked over a liquor store.”
“And why did you do that?”
“Well my mom’s sick. We can’t afford the pain medication, and I know alcohol is a bad pain reliever, but I don’t know how to break into a pharmacy, so …”
“OK, my son, what we’re going to do is, we’re going to get your mom her medicine. But I’m going to need your help. I need you to call the health insurance company, and tell them —“
“Is… is this my penance?”
“Uh yeah. Sure. Penance. Yeah.”
Now I need an au of this where Nate has like ... a circle of other religious authority figures as his crew.
Oh hell yeah.
Eliot in the Swiss Guard
Hardison hasn’t taken vows or anything but he runs IT for the church and it’s fascinating how much easier it is to stay under budget since he joined. I guess those computers just must be very efficient. 🤷
Parker was sent off to a convent as an inconvenient child. She’s technically a student at the Catholic school, but she also never leaves the grounds? Or at least, no one ever sees her leave. No one ever sees her around, either, so it’s kinda hard to say.
Sister Mary Sophia 😇 is absolutely a genuine nun and you cannot prove otherwise 😏
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Tips for Writing Grief! (AGAIN)
the five stages of grief were never meant to be a checklist your character moves through in chronological order across three chapters. Let me save you from writing a grieving character who is simply having scheduled emotions:
⊹ Grief is not primarily crying. i know that sounds wrong but hear me out. a lot of grief looks like doing laundry. cooking something the person liked and then not being able to eat it. watching a show they recommended and never told anyone you finished it. grief goes very quiet and very domestic for long stretches and then ambushes you at completely unreasonable moments like a petrol station or a Friday at 4pm for no reason at all.
⊹ people who are grieving often seem fine. not because they're suppressing or being brave or in denial, but because humans are genuinely capable of functioning and being devastated at the same time. your grieving character can make jokes. can go to work. can have a good day. can feel guilty about the good day. can feel guilty about not feeling guilty. grief has a very active internal bureaucracy that has nothing to do with what's visible on the outside.
⊹ Grief also changes shape over time in ways that aren't necessarily about getting better. the first year is often adrenaline, there are things to do, people around, ritual and structure. year two is frequently harder because the adrenaline is gone and the world has moved on and expects you to have moved on with it. your character being more visibly undone eighteen months later than at the funeral is not a pacing problem. it's accurate.
⊹ The relationship with the dead person doesn't stop. this is the one writers get most wrong. your grieving character is still in a relationship , still arguing with the person in their head, still updating them on things, still furious about something left unsaid, still finding out new things about them from other people and having to integrate a version of them they didn't fully know. grief is not the end of the relationship. it's the relationship continuing without any new information coming in.
BruHal announces relationship to the public, no capes, to solidify the permanence of their relationship
Their love is hard earned and they will not be quiet about it
The family and the PR team are all geared up to prepare for the worst to come out of the announcement — something picking at Hal's background, vindictive ex lovers stirring up a scandal...
Well, no one could've possibly foreseen some of the headlines that would come after the fact
"Hal Jordan: Jason Todd's biological mother revealed!? EXES TO LOVERS ROMANCE OF THE CENTURY!"
Yeah so turns out, all of Gotham saw the sexy androgynous flyboy with white streaks on his hair and a natural gargantuan height....... then looked at Jason with his white streak and freakish growth spurt
and then just put 2+2 together like.......
"yep! that's a Wayne-Jordan baby! congrats on getting with the baby mama, Mr. Wayne!"
Hal is enjoying the gender euphoria, actually; he doesn't do much to mind how he presents his gender, but it is nice when people attribute his lean frame and defined curves to femininity
Bruce is mortified
Jason finds it hilarious, and maybe a little sweet, because even if just for a moment, he can pretend he has a cool mom who would sooner make the universe explode ("what?...too soon?") than sell him away
And honestly, he likes Hal. the whole family does! He's cool, and normal in a way that his billionaire dad can't be
(and if Jason starts calling Hal "mom" after his other chosen momma, Catherine, then that's for them to keep 🥹❤️)
meanwhile Damian is tweaking because now people think that even in blood, he's the youngest child
Imagining the day that gay marriage got legalized in the states, and Hal makes an off-hand joke about marrying Spooky so that he becomes his husband and so he can (a) leech off of him, and (b) legally boss him around
Bruce overhears him and says "ight bet" and makes up a marriage license for both of them. Clark and Diana catch him in the act and give him a deadpan look, and his reason is "Hal needs a cover for your Earthside life when he's off-planet and Ferris can only make so many excuses. Being my spouse would make him responsible for a lot of my business and foundation works. He also has a terrible credit score and is one missed payment to his apartment away from being homeless every other Spectrum crisis and— Diana, why are you laughing, this is serious. Clark don't join her? This is League business!"
Hal sees it and humors him because it feels like a joke. It's not like Bruce cares about him or anything. And yeah it's kinda funny when you think about it but it all makes sense. Hal needs a cover for his long disappearances from the planet. Also, Spooky literally has too many rooms on his own and his butler is probably having it too easy also the kids are fun to be around. Now I can pay back my bar tab with Ollie, and buy Helen that dollhouse she wanted. Barry, don't look at me like that, it makes sense-!
So some staged marriage photos and a license later, Hal "lives with Bruce" occasionally when he's off-planet, and Bruce has excuses to leave his galas because "my husband is calling me"
But then Hal DOES start going to the manor for the sake of it, and he swears it's because the kitchen is nice and the kids like playing videogames with him, and totally not because Bruce gives the nicest back rubs and is a good lab partner when doing engine repairs and has a funny laugh and is really warm to sleep on after such a long time spent in space
When Barry points out that Hal now has nicer clothes and has a healthier diet, Hal shamelessly says "perks of being a billionaire's pet" and Barry is just ".......buddy boy do we hear ourselves rn 🧍"
And Bruce does start leaving galas because his husband is calling him..... except Hal didn't tell him shit. He just gets texted by Alfred that Hal is home from a mission and he dips from social events to "hang out" with him (ergo tucking Hal into bed and then promptly getting pinned down because he's just a warm flesh pillow to a very space lagged Hal)
Dinah and Oliver see this happen in a gala once and give Bruce the most unimpressed look when he swears up and down that Hal needs me he just got back in orbit and I need to nurse him as a concerned colleague
Basically, Hal and Bruce are legally married for what is essentially the superhero translation for Tax Purposes™
No one is amused. Well, Diana is. She can see through their shit. She thinks their emotional constipation is the funniest thing since the moon blowing up.
Barry looks like he's having the mid-speed force crisis of a lifetime. Dinah starts a bet pool on when they fall in love while Oliver is giving her a lecture about allyship.
Clark won because he already knew they were in love, just in horrible denial about it
http://the-8-elements.deviantart.com/art/Common-Sword-Types-290730689
And this whole time i’d been picturing a longsword whenever I read broadsword.
all the refrences.
BatLantern AU where Hal and Bruce got together much earlier in their careers.
You know how Dick is basically the Superman/Batman child?
The GL/Batman child is Jason.
Hal basically helped raise Jason and he and Bruce's relationship was at its best.
And then Jason died.
Murdered by Joker.
Batman and GL both wanted revenge but Superman stopped them (Because of the whole Iranian ambassador thing that could spark a war).
They're both angry and grieving.
Then Coast City is destroyed.
Hal loses it, his mind whispers to him, he has the most powerful weapon in the universe on his finger, he just has to use it.
He could have his city back...
He could have his son back....
Parallax threatens all of creation.
The League has stop their former friend.
It ends with Hal's death.
In a matter of months Bruce loses his son and his love.
Part 2
Based on that (this) by them ( @bruce-wayne-enjoyer )
Dick lifts his head from the bars of his cage, squinting at the door as the screeching sound of tearing metal ricochets through the hull, and the ship they're captive on trembles with the might of the attack.
"Please tell me we aren't about to get kidnapped from our kidnapper," Tim groans.
"Great."
"Get ready, guys," Dick warns, standing. "This'll be our best shot at escape."
Or it would be, if anything happened. Instead, they're just left standing there like fools as the ship trembles and distant yelling gradually gets less distant.
Dick doesn't relax out of his stance, but he's tempted. Only, as soon as you do that, it always—
The doors burst open, and two aliens scurry in, antenna pressed low to their heads in obvious fear. Based on the panels on their robes Dick is fairly sure these are the captains, so what the hell is out there to send two of space's most respected pirates running?
"We ransom them," one suggests, using Damian's cage like a shield. "Sell them to buy our freedom."
"Threaten to kill them if he doesn't comply," the other suggests. Dick's translator croaks out it's last words, then dies as they keep arguing. His was the last one standing, after they shorted out the others trying to hotwire a beacon to Bruce a few hours ago, arguing all the while about who has to tell Bruce they were stupid enough for space pirates to get ahold of them and all of the League tech they also had on board.
It wasn't Dick's fault, that's all that matters, no matter what Cass says.
The pirates are still arguing, high, panicked, buzzing words rushing out by them both, until they go suddenly, damningly silent.
Dick glances at the door and slips back into that battle-ready pose.
The lights flicker overhead.
The walls tremble.
Someone whispers a prayer.
The door blows off its hinges, and the glass rains down on them as the bulbs overhead explode, plunging them into darkness.
A sickly, glowing green creeps around the corner, and Dick falls out of his stance in shock. Hal Jordan steps into the room, face set firmly into an expression Dick has never seen before on his face as he glowers at the aliens cowering behind their cages.
The whites of his domino crawl over them all, and eventually land at the galaxy-feared pirates reduced to snivelling messes. One of them points their sword at Cass through the bars, which she stares at impassively, and more buzzing words are hissed at Hal.
He stares back.
A construct snaps out, grabbing the sword, snapping it in two. More shoot out, grabbing that alien, and the other as it raised its weapon at Damian. Hal lifts them both into the air, and starts lecturing them in their own language, buzzes and clicks spat in a furious snarl, surpassing was Dick seemingly mistaked for the limits of human vocal cords to speak the alien tongue.
The constructs tighten, Dick wonders if the bug-like creatures are supposed to turn that colour, and are suddenly released, falling to the ground in a heap. Hal snarls one last thing, then crosses his arms and waits.
He's floating off the floor slightly, toes tipped down to it as if on pointe, arms crossed over his chest. His costume thrums with energy, a blinding green illuminating the room as he supervises the aliens move to their cages, face severe and unforgiving as he watches over them.
Dick has seen Hal Jordan in action before.
Seemingly, he's never seen Green Lantern in action before.
Dick warily steps past the alien as his cage door swings open. Cass pulls up beside him, a smirk on her face, and now they're free Dick knows it's a race to get to Bruce and blame this fiasco on someone else first.
It was not Dick's fault.
"We apologise," one simpers in English, a hand shuggling Damian out of his cage. "We did not know you were the children of Green Lantern Hal Jordan."
Dick glances at Hal, expecting a terse denial, a reassertion of his role as a space cop. He does not expect his eyes to darken, narrowing at the alien.
"And what?" He asks carefully. "If they weren't my children, that would be okay? They are kids, you think you can just snatch them from their home? They're not some commodity you stole from a Hub, you want to take them from home? To keep them away from family?"
"Apologies, Lantern Jordan," the other says, unlocking Tim's cage. Hal seems to settle, barely, watching over everything with a stern gaze.
Tim steps past his alien, and seemingly breathes in a bit of the dust that sits on this species' hard shell. He goes red, his cheeks puff, Dick grins, Jason snorts, and Tim gives up on his dignity, allowing a singular massive cough to tear out of his chest.
Dick muffles a laugh. Damian does not.
The room seems to darken even more, and he realises maybe it's not funny. Hal looks apopleptic, and starts tearing into the aliens all over again, leaving them out of the loop this time as they return to that hissing, buzzing, clicking language that is surely making the lecture sound more threatening than it is...right? Hal's not that stressed about them.
The aliens scurry out of the room, and Hal turns to them, feet finally touching down on the floor, the furrow in his brow smoothing out as he looks at them.
"Sorry it took me so long to get here," he says, and Dick's own brow dips. They haven't even been captive for five hours. Considering they're in space, it is a pretty quick rescue. "You kids are okay, right?"
"We're fine, Harold," Damian sniffs, pride bruised.
Hal's eyes don't leave them, and Cass suddenly slips forward, moving to him. Over her shoulder, she calls to them, and then they're all moving.
"Huh? What is a Code-FN? Do I— oh..." Hal trails off as Cass tucks herself under his arm, wrapping her arms around him. Damian takes his other side, pressing in close, and the rest of them fill in around.
Dick invented the code for Bruce.
If Hal needs it, Hal needs it.
That's all there is too it.
"Was so worried," he breathes, sagging, and lips find their way to Tim's head, ghosting over his hair. Dick smiles as he flushes bright red.
"We're safe," he assures, rather than tease his brother. "No harm done."
"The hell there wasn't." Hal's voice sharpens again, cutting. "The Lanterns next sector are in so much shit for letting these guys through the markers, making them my problem." He devolves into venemous mutterings, and Dick presses his lips together to not smile.
Three hours later, those same threats are being shouted at the big screen in the Watchtower, three very sheepish Green Lanterns getting the lecture of a lifetime from Hal. Off to the side, Dick chows down on the Batburger order Hal rattled off to a very concerned Bruce, who met them on the Watchtower with it and a plethora of hugs.
Now he's sat next to Dick, his milkshake hanging loosely from his hand as he watches Hal rant. Dick does not like that expression. Yuck. Yuck yuck yuck, he—
"Bruce, your milkshake is melting," he says, hoping to draw his attention away. "Bruce? Bruce."
"Dick," Bruce hums, tone uncomfortably breathy. "How do you feel about another sibling?"
Dick baulks.
Hal turns around from the monitors and throws Bruce a smirk and a wink before going back to shouting.
Bruce sighs into his milkshake, a blush settling onto his cheeks.
Dick wants to go back to space.
the suburban vibes, him having a lil carrier for his crowbar, call the klan "dork ass losers" OMGGG I LOVE THIS MAN DC Pride 2025 by Sam Maggs and Derek Charm
today's warm up: a well meaning ephemera vs a man regretting his husband's gift of flying lessons
countdown trio!!
Hmm depression
yk i don’t rlly like when ppl say kakashi should’ve adopted naruto right after the kyuubi attack like im sorry but i don’t think a very depressed and some what suicidal 14 year old in ninja black ops should be taking care of an infant
Personally I think we should definitely give the magical, widely hated demon baby to the 14 year old suicidal assassin with insane hang ups and complexes on every family figure he's ever had in his life + his own absolutely horrible reputation among almost every person he knows save a group of like 3-5 of his old schoolmates.
What could possibly go wrong? The answer is so, so much. And we get front row seats!
Sorry Kakashi.
Anyways my favorite versions of this au is when he finally cracks and runs away from the village with Naruto under his arm.
And also him taking care of Naruto allows Gai an excuse to further bully his way back into Kakashi's life as he offers to babysit / help with the baby, which Kakashi has no idea how to take care of and is so overwhelmed he might, for the first time ever, be forced to accept that offered hand. Only Gai,,, also isn't too sure how to take care of a baby. Luckily Genma knows, and so he's getting dragged into this mess too now. Yay!
POV you are Genma and you wake up at 3am in the morning to find 14 year old, friend killer Hatake Kakashi looming over your bed holding a baby with glowing eyes. By the time you finish your terrified reflexive screaming (very embarrassing. Genma denies this happened) you realize Kakashi is literally shaking from stress and fear, and he's here-- somehow, for some reason-- for your help. Because Genma is the only person Kakashi knows who is,
a) not close enough to Minato or Kushina to make Kakashi spiral if he's placed in a room in and forced to ask for help from
b) Has a history of being more of a neutral party back at the academy, and seems neutral on both Kakashi and Naruto's reputations
c) Kakashi has seen taking care of a baby, a tiny little cousin of Genma's Kakashi only ever saw once-- but remembered abruptly when he was sinking into his fith spiral of the day, tired and distressed and just so desperate to make Naruto stop crying
Anyways. Genma, Gai and Kakashi raising Naruto. Is my conclusion on one of the options I can see of this getting a happy ending.