Relationships: Gen (Dick Grayson & Tim Drake, Ensemble)
Year: 2023
Rating: Gen
Warnings: Implied/Referenced Death
Summary:
Ask the GCPD about the Joker’s death, and they’ll tell you he died of natural causes. Ask the Justice League, and they’ll tell you that it’s a matter that’s been resolved internally. Ask Batman and he won’t give you an answer, because he’s Batman. The truth of the matter, however, is this: Dick Grayson beat the Joker to death.
[Or: A few months after the death of the Joker, Tim Drake comes to Haly’s Circus, looking for Dick Grayson.]
Submitted by @sasheneskywalker
Submitter's comment:
what if, after nightwing killed joker, reviving him didn’t work? what if dick turned himself in to the justice league for joker’s murder, and later tim claimed he was the one who did it so dick wouldn’t go to prison? this is such a fascinating fic, and i love how it tackles questions of justice, truth, favoritism, and corruption within the superhero community. the whole premise is incredibly compelling, and the execution lives up to it completely <3
The Kingdom of the Sky is a whole planet of floating continents with vast oceans below. Whatever buildings do exist are all ruins now, an ancient war perhaps? A disaster? Whatever the case, all that’s left are the ghosts of the past and the children of the future, all left to pick up the pieces.
The kids are curious and mischievous, getting into ridiculous hijinks and making friends, they don’t speak proper words, but you can feel every emotion and message they try to send, especially if you’re force sensitive.
They are made of light, beings the Force created to bring hope in the endless, dead space.
So what happens when those lost crash onto their planet?
They’re welcomed by swarms of excited masked children in capes that let them fly, curious and eager to explore something unknown. All of them are so small, and even the tallest have an air of innocence to them.
They mess with the ship until their visitor expresses their distress and most of the kids back off (a few have to be dragged away by the scruff of their neck to avoid disturbing their guest)
Let’s pick a specific character: how about Ezra Bridger?
After all, what better place to recoup than a planet full of beings made of light? Happy to let him stay and share their world with him, and maybe Thrawn can actually chill tf out 👀👄👀
Also: surprise! The planet has its own dangers that these two are definitely not equipped to handle, but the kids got y’all’s back! No worries ^_^
Ohh, there goes a kid, ouch, that’s… that’s gotta hurt
Okay, you can worry little
Damn krill…
(Psst, imagine if a Mandalorian crashed onto the Sky Kingdom, a planet full of BABIES!!!)
as a child being told "the moon controls the tides" with no additional explanation was like. oh okay. you want me to believe in magic? you're talking about magic right now? okay. fine
as a child being told "the moon controls the tides" with no additional explanation was like. oh okay. you want me to believe in magic? you're talking about magic right now? okay. fine
Tim: You know, Bruce is getting up there in age...maybe we should start thinking about letting him go...
Jason: What like making him retire? Hang up the cowl? I don't know about you Baby Bird but I don't think any of us have the ability to take Batman from Bruce.
Tim: Please, I'm not an idiot. I just meant more of a...peaceful...mostly permanent letting go...
Jason: ...
Jason: EUTHANASIA????
Tim: Well-
Jason: YOU WANT TO OLD YELLER BRUCE??? HE'S ONLY IN HIS 40/50s!!
Dick: Who wants to do WHAT to Bruce???
Tim: Just listen-
Jason: I knew you were cynical, but that's just down right murder Timothy. And trust me, I know murder.
Tim: Well would you rather have him go suffering? At the rate he's going he'll be in chronic pain the older he gets! I'm just saying maybe we should let him go now before that happens!
Damian: Let him go on a good day rather than a bad day. I have seen many a equine owners say this. I agree with Drake, we should not let Father suffer, he deserves to go peacefully.
Jason: Damian wha-
Dick: What the hell Tim. I mean you have a point, but still isn't it a little early to think about this? He's still got a few years left in him.
Jason: WHY ARE YOU AGREEING???
Tim: It's never too early to look at our options. I'd rather be prepped and ready than do it all last minute and risk messing up the timing.
Jason: WE ARE TALKING ABOUT BRUCE! BRUCE WAYNE! BATMAN! OUR FATHER?!?!
Dick: Expenses shouldn't be an issue, but we should also decide if we should do it ourselves or have a professional. We can make a fund for it just in case.
Jason: I'm dead. I died again and this is hell. Why am I the only one on Bruce's side here.
Tim: I'll get it set up. I'll make sure he doesn't know about it, I don't want him dreading about it.
Damian: Yes, we should try and enjoy this fickle time we have left with him.
Jason: That's it, I've finally gone insane.
(Loosely inspired by multiple recent conversations I've had about my old Mule. Stand strong Charlie, i know you still got a few years left to ya, and God knows Death is terrified of ya)
Some positives (aka ignoring the elephant in the room)
Spirits are more lively
You can also now unlock stuff with regural spirits withou entering the constelation
The cafe Has stairs leading to those two
Some questionable stuff (aka still ignoring the elephant in the room)
This looks like an unfinished entrence to somewere
The players who have the island-in-the-nowere as thier home, have been banished outside the Village???
The Minor inconvinence (aka I will get to the elephant soon...)
Literaly move the boxes more to the side, why would you left them there???
THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM WITH US
The center feels a bit too crowded, the mural I think shows the best why, its so akwardly places, theres literaly a shrine on the other side of the Village, make a flat wall there
and yes, why would those who have Aviary set as home would like their portals in the center??
And becouse Edens Gate is now an Island of its own, we lost the big flat area to goof around
I just imidetly thought of all the shared space creators that benefited from haveing a huge flat space here
Also the IAP store doesnt Exist anywere??? I think it was better when you saw what were you purchising in game on the manekins
update: IAP store sort of exists still… you have to go into the clothing center to find it hidden behind the hair salon… the only thing available there tho are Moth, Sparrow, and a couple of props that you can now buy via the carnival stand on the Carnival ship… hmm…
[One full day-cycle in Aviary lasts one full hour in the human world. One day in the world of Sky will be one hour in real time.]
Tom’s log, twenty three Seasons, Cycle 50,376.
To say that we as a species are highly unaware of the mechanics of our hibernation patterns would be an understatement. It is so commonplace to assume that nothing changes and nothing matters; that most Descendants seem completely oblivious to what happens when they grow tired and go to rest.
The truth is that skychildren ‘hibernate’ for most of their lives. Approximately 99.0009% of their lifetime. They only wake up for around a few days before hibernating for at least weeks.
Their ability to move and thrive in this world is highly dependent on their motivation to do so, characterized visually, physically, anatomically, and mentally, by their Flame. As they get more and more exhausted and demotivated, their Flame becomes less accepting of collecting Light from the world, and of spending time out in the realms.
This betrays volumes on a vastly hidden secret about Descendant biology and health. They are not the endless spouts of energy and Light that they are believed to be. They exhaust themselves completely and wholly, more quickly than it had ever previously been assumed. And once they are exhausted, they spend a dozen or more times as long to recover their energy. If the Flame is powered by the skychild’s motivation to Be, then the skychild has very little motivation at all. They grow tired of existing almost immediately.
Once they have become decidedly too tired to remain, they ascend back up into the Sky. It is unclear whether we are returning completely to Orbit, or just dematerializing into Light in the upper atmosphere, until we are ready to solidify and take form again. Some of us dematerialize and rematerialize within our nests, as a sign of our connection to our new homes. When we dematerialize into the atmosphere, our minds and souls can prepare to form again within the Mental Space we know as the Homespace. In this Space, the souls of skychildren collect together, preparing and planning where to descend back into the world again.
The younger a Descendant is, the longer their Flame burns between hibernation cycles. Descendants that have seen less than four to eight Seasons pass by are sometimes even known to spend two to three times as long within the world before hibernating. There are many factors contributing to this. Those who are with friends for all or most of the time will be Connected and retain healthy Flame, and may stay within the world longer, and have a longer complete lifetime before completely extinguishing.
As Descendants exist for longer and longer, they will appear into the world for less and less time, and require much greater hibernation periods, sometimes even lasting months, years, and even decades. This phenomenon has common correlations with previous friends fading as well or having already had been extinguished.
When we lose our form and rest within Mental Spaces beyond the world of Sky, we often will dream of countless other realities. Within these dreams are entire worlds, and sometimes entire universes; completely beyond our comprehension. Entities made of “organic flesh”. Beings that do not live directly tied to the flow of energy within their worlds. We had known of aliens from beyond the Sky that exist outside of our natural order. Yet we do not know why we dream of them, or what it might mean for us to dream of them so. These beings do not seem so immediately connected to each other as we are. They are often selfish in nature, and cannot begin to understand each other or how the other feels. This inefficiency is similar in nature to how our Ancestors had once been. Their influence within our dreams has a tendency to affect how we interact with each other when we are together in the realms. It is a dangerous phenomenon, and requires further studying.
Perhaps, then, this is the most critical yet implicit reason to study and understand the mechanics of our hibernation. For every time we go to rest, we are bombarded with dreams of the Other. It has been examined as such that these dreams of the Other can be so overwhelming, that it can bring hibernations to become longer, and for the lifespan of a skychild’s Flame to extinguish faster and faster. These dreams are dangerous. And yet while many around me pay them no mind, and avoid discussing them, I feel compelled. Almost… drawn to them. I must understand more.
Damian: Out of respect for the Robin name, I have been researching the person who originated it: Mary Grayson (nee Lloyd).
Bruce: Oh, find anything good?
Damian: Were you aware she had a criminal record?
Bruce: Yes.
Tim: Of course. I have a copy of it at home.
Jason: I mean I didn't. But I'm not surprised.
Damian: Why not?
Jason: Because I've met her son. I imagine Mary Grayson was involved in every anti-authoritarian protest she came across on her travels. What I would be more interested in is learning exactly what Janet Drake was up to to create Master Stalker over there.
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