Indie AU Terry McGinnis of Batman Beyond.
Follows a What-If Phantasm killed Warren and Mary McGinnis for the Batman Beyond Project.
about. hc. verses. timeline. world building.
Rules under the cut.
noise dept.

Kaledo Art

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Misplaced Lens Cap

oozey mess

blake kathryn

titsay

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sheepfilms
🪼
taylor price
Not today Justin

pixel skylines
Keni
Monterey Bay Aquarium
d e v o n
Xuebing Du
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
dirt enthusiast
Show & Tell

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seen from United States

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Indie AU Terry McGinnis of Batman Beyond.
Follows a What-If Phantasm killed Warren and Mary McGinnis for the Batman Beyond Project.
about. hc. verses. timeline. world building.
Rules under the cut.
@baeflame for Royd!
"A little birdy told me you're the guy to go to for, uh, tech stuff?"
He started off strong... too bad the questioning lilt to the end made him sound like he wasn't sure what he was coming to the big guy for. Terry didn't let that deter him. He did know what he was coming to Royd for, and he wasn't about to let his own insecurities get in the way of that. It had been months since Wayne had said he would fix Terry's time travel module. At this rate, Terry was looking at another few years stuck in this timeline.
He didn't hate it or anything. But he didn't belong here. It was obvious from every interaction he had and he needed to get back. He needed to know if he'd fixed things or not. He needed to know if there was even a point to all of this.
"They also told me you're pretty good at keeping secrets."
ok i think i got everyone's starters right
@auroradicit for Gotham
"I think she's allowed t'have her opinions," Terry said to the drunkard daring to grab onto the woman's wrist. He'd overheard the "conversation" if it could be called one. The woman had lamented to the bartender that they just don't play good music anymore. To which the bartender shrugged, opened her mouth to respond, and then was interrupted by Drunk Dreg # 1 who looked suspiciously like a dressed down dickhead Jokerz affiliate. Terry had seen enough of them, probably all of them, to know they sometimes 'took a break' from their little cult.
Not that they used their time well.
The man was unsteady, but he still found Terry's figure behind him amidst the small group of onlookers.
"Let'er go, asshole."
@iobartach / liked for a starter
"This guy's slippery," Terry muttered into his comms. "Feel like they're usin' some kinda new tech but I ain't gettin' a read on it."
"Don't let him get too far, McGinnis. If you're right, that's something we need to find out now."
"I'm on it, I'm on it."
His boot thrusters sputtered out as he landed, wings retracting as he continued on foot into the dark alley. Terry hurried along the way he had seen the criminal disappear, keeping an eye on the various notifications sliding across his lenses. A.L.F.R.E.D commented he was "recalibrating" as Terry found his trail.
"Gotcha this time, bozo," Terry declared, throwing three batarangs at his target. Terry ran toward the criminal just in time for someone else to enter onto the scene. "Hey! Watch it!"
🎵
Professional Griefers - deadmau5
Death squad brats are in detention
Morning sickness, XYZ
Boys with bombs in NMA
Carbon lacing, spent shell casings
Photographs that I'm erasing
Bonus lives with pixel-screams
Girls with guns on LSD
--
This is less to do with Terry but just kind of Neo Gotham vibe. jokerz gangs. The mess that is Gotham City and all its cyberpunk glam.
🎵
Still Waiting - Sum 41
So am I still waiting
For this world to stop hating?
Can't find a good reason
Can't find hope to believe in
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Dont look at me, Terry's playlist is like over a decade old and so is his canon introduction :')
Kind of similar reason to the previous song, but I also associate this with his feelings for picking up the mantle of Batman.
🎵
Aggression - Palisades
Can we disarm the loaded gun
Can we survive what we've become
The hate is slowly choking me
--
I've always leaned hard into Terry's "delinquent" nature that the animated series tried to play into. I always felt it was rather weak, and I suppose that's because it's a kid show, but, and maybe I've forgotten certain things, it doesn't seem like Terry did much for Big Time's gang other than get caught as a look out when he was 14. But I suppose getting sent to juvie is pretty bad and not a good look so maybe I don't know enough delinquents (I do not). anyway long story short, I felt this song in particular first the feelings of frustration that Terry has at the way Gotham is and how it has affected him.
And that goes double for my Terry who is definitely trying to find hope and be some kind of hope for people who don't have it, like he didn't.
Terry trying his best to fit in somewhere:
Sb: what the fuck does schway mean
Terry: I. ........... Meant.... Cool.
Sb: where did you pick schway up who says that
Send “🎵“ and I’ll reply with a song that’s related to my muse and I’ll explain why
I might analyze the lyrics telling you why it’s so fitting for my character or maybe just tell what aspects of the song make me think of my muse
Where Terry can't deal with school and lectures, if someone he likes rambles away about something they like, he will sit and listen and ask questions and learn. Because the thing is Terry doesn't dislike learning things, it's just sitting still and having to take notes that all seem... unnecessary doesn't interest him. However, loved ones telling him about their interests is necessary and interesting.
It means next time he goes out and he sees a place that sells pretty gem stones and spiritual things, he might buy something because a friend talked about how they love things like that, and x gem stone was their favorite. Someone likes cooking? He's going to try out that recipe they sent him even though he doesn't cook much. He's going to read a text book on programming because bestie was talking about computer things and he couldn't follow it and he wants to try, he's not stupid!
What if I just dropped all my incredibly difficult projects and wrote a romance-- listen not to say writing a good romance isn't hard but I think I could write a good romance faster than my current massive world building stuff you know.
me, writing a short little plot idea on my lunch break: they were long time friends and then got separated due to an incident. ... but what if she disappeared because of the incident and he's always been looking for her again after having spied strange federal agents showing up at her house when shit hit the fan--
What if I just dropped all my incredibly difficult projects and wrote a romance-- listen not to say writing a good romance isn't hard but I think I could write a good romance faster than my current massive world building stuff you know.
Note to self:
- timeline hc
- ai war / apocalypse hc
- Batman beyond project hc
Ok plotting call. Like this to plot something out. It can be ships (platonic or romantic), it can be an actual plot, it can be whatever. Just like this and I shall pop into your dms.
@taleswritten for mandy!
He felt like the second he opened his mouth he was going to say the wrong thing. Why Bruce had any faith in him to make this contact, he had no idea. Terry held back a sigh as he stared up at SDN's Torrance office building. His tie felt as if it was a noose about his throat, and the suit part of the coffin they would bury him in.
Inside, it was like any other lobby. He spokenwith the front desk and then sat down in the empty waiting area. Terry has participated in the zoom call Bruce had set up between SDN's administration and Blonde Blazer. From the tight routine smile on the hero's face, Terry had a feeling she didn't really enjoy this whole set up. His one comment throughout the two hour long SDN advertisement had been "So, you send out bodyguards for your subscription members? That's ...schway." Which earned him a glare from Wayne.
He wasn't sure how the blond superhero felt about it. Her reputation preceded her: less intense than Superman but just as intimidating. Terry stared at the numbers on the elevator and watched as they descended. The doors opened and there she stood, bright and way too shining for a creature of the night like Terry.
This was going to be a long day.
He stood with a proper smile on his face and held out a hand when she stepped closer.
"Mornin'. Terry McGinnis. Nice to meet you in person."
Suit, Time Travel and Modern Day stuff:
His suit uses nanomachine tech activated through Terry's bio signature. It works as almost a second skin that envelopes his body from a glove Terry wears on his left hand. It looks like this version. It has a closed AI named A.L.F.R.E.D-- this was not designed or made by Bruce but commissioned by Alfred himself prior to his death using only Wayne company assets.
Terry works as Bruce's personal assistant and had worked as such for almost a decade by the time of Brother Eye's takeover. He took over the previously defunct Batman Inc. project, especially when his own collection of loose partners began to join his vigilante work.
If not for A.L.F.R.E.D, Terry would have had a lot harder of a time managing in 2026. While Terry had studied all of Bruce's information through the batcomputer, it was only enough to keep up on rogue history. Not enough to know what he needed to go back in time.
Terry was sent back late 2024 and spent a year searching for the origin of Brother Eye. The reason being that the AI had been so deeply implanted by Terry's time, it wasn't easy to find the starting point. It had been called something different in the beginning.
Not only that, but Terry had to convince the League and a much younger Bruce specifically that he was telling the truth.
After his time travel module was destroyed and he recovered from his near-death (?), Terry had to come to terms with living in the "present", his past.
Dispatch Details
Terry is known as Cyberbat in Gotham.
Six months after his debut, he began officially working in Wayne Enterprises, specifically in Batman Inc.
With all the various superhero organizations, both official, unofficial, lawful and unlawful, Wayne looked into collaborating with some of them. SDN caught his attention if only because of the Phoenix Program.
Terry admitted he hadn't heard about SDN in his time, and that it may have dissolved with Brother Eye, or even before his time. This made it a good place as any for Terry to do some outreach to bolster their numbers in the off chance Brother Eye was still a threat.
Once a month, Terry visits Cali and visits SDN's Torrance branch to see how things are going. The idea is for Wayne to give the program more funding to continue helping rehabilitation efforts and hopefully expand the program further.
Terry's not much of a businessman and kind of hates the gig, but c'est la vie.