#( brainstorming. )

[bigidiotenergytm]

hey.

I see your palace covered in red Faces of men who had long believed you're dead I see your wife with a man who is haunting A man with a trail of bodies

hey so im physically ill that this STILL applies to ody in fmtd au, even after all these years

[ghost-bxrd]

ANOTHER DAY another cool au by the ghstbird community <33 Eldritch Jason Todd u are gorg <3, random question for brainstorming since I'm too invested now

How did the adoption scene take place? The same crime alley thing? Catherine todd? Willis? AAAAA or just local eldritch being that steals car parts (he's emulating human behaviour in crime alley, maybe he just tosses them later to kids???) maybe he just has immense compassion towards humans (although he doesn't fully understand them) (all Jasons need to be made out of bleeding compassion FOR ME BUT!! depends on what characteristics we're pulling for) (AND. IF HE'S DYING FOR SHELIA? gotta be compassionate. HE'S ROBIN, he is full of love towards these fleshbags. Though... uh... nonhuman... and having messed up emotional responses)

Nonono, because Robin Jason with his bleeding compassion is so important to me as well!!!

So basically (because I’ve put too much thought into this little au as per usual) the bullet points for eldritch Jason and the things you mentioned are as follows:

Jason spontaneously came into being. Eldritch things aren’t usually born in the way humans are, and Jason used to be a concept that suddenly gained consciousness.

(There was a short period of time where the brainstorming went into the direction of “eldritch jason found a dead street kid and assumed his appearance/inhabited the body”, but this seemed a bit dark so I had to come up with an alternative)

Jason watched humans for a quite a while and—alone from the very beginning— became enamored with the concept of family and love and happiness and belonging

One way or another (no specifics as of yet) Jason ends up with Catherine and Willis. Willis isn’t too shoddy in this au, he’s just… pretty neglectful. And a criminal. He does his damndest to stay well clear of wherever Jason is because that kid— he’s not normal. Maybe he’s a meta, Willis doesn’t care, all he knows that the sense of doom he feels around him is unnatural and he’d rather make his home in prison than around Jason

Catherine loves Jason. She can’t see beyond the surface layer of humanity Jason wears, partly due to her substance abuse, and Jason… knows that humans can’t last long like this. He can see her organs failing, her brain activity dimming, but he doesn’t know how to fix it. And he’s too busy basking in the love he’s finally feeling for the first time

Jason loves being human. If he could lock everything that isn’t human about himself away, he would. He thrives on witnessing strangers showing compassion to one another, to see them struggle and overcome hardships. They’re just a blip in the cosmos, in time, but they’ve got so much to offer. But likewise, he loathes witnessing injustice

When Jason ends up on the streets he’s just a big ball of sad. No home, no love, nothing. Nothing left. At least he needs neither food nor shelter to survive, but it still sucks. He loses some of his blind eyed wonder for humanity during this time, but not enough to give up on it. He adapts, he overcomes, and like you said, he starts emulating other street kids. Collecting scraps and handing them out to the young ones. And when he sees the Batmobile just standing there… well, that’s a week’s worth of food for ten of the kids he knows

Hitting Batman with the tire iron is a knee jerk reaction borne from cautionary tales about adults. He’s not actually scared of Batman

(Batman may be a little scared of Jason. Especially when he ends up buying him a burger and, out of the corner of his eye, thinks he sees Jason unhinge his jaw only to reveal five more jaws and and an abyssal void and—)

Just… eldritch things. And the tribulations that come with pretending to be human. Wanting to be human.

[kittymittenz]

sfawtde time loop.....the king creates a time loop in its last moments in an attempt to save itself and now theyre all stuck in it....avery gets to "whatever you do at the crossroads, keep moving forward" in derek's final message but before he can read "keep moving forward" the loop restarts and hes back in the mine reading "whatever you do at the crossroads don't turn left" for the first time.....again....

[shapingworlds]

like a url suggestion or something that can help you think of a good url, if you get what i mean??

i hope you don't mind my answering this one publicly.

when thinking of a good url for your character, be it a canon muse or an original character, these are some of the things i personally like to explore. we'll start with some basics pertaining to canon, or fandom if you will, muses:

are there aspects of their name available? full, middle, last, all three and so on. would miss, mrs, mister or mr work with your character's personality?

are there songs or song lyrics that would qualify for their favorite or a song you associate with them?

are there quotes or pieces of a quote that could be used as a url and suit the character you're writing -- it could be the character's own words, another's words about said character or a literary quote.

are they part of a specified origin, culture, religion or ethnicity that you could utilize in the url? be it geographical or language based.

are they a mythological or folklore figure and are there words, flowers, symbols and so on often associated with them that you could utilize?

as for original characters, much of the above can be utilized:

actually... you can essentially ask yourself about 90% of the above for this type of muse as well.

if they are less of a mythological or folklore figure such as a deity or god and more something such as a ghoul, witch, werewolf, vampire, etc? look up the lore from varying cultures and see what you can find. you may just luck out on a variant spelling or term.

if you're writing something more like a human? think of their personality, manner and such to see what adjectives and the like would suit them and fiddle around.

as for darker things like killers or whatever, or even characters that might be police / authorities / and so on? my best suggestion is to research and see if there are terms that might feel right be it within specified interests, elements of said jobs or related occupations.

i hope this is useful to you, or rather that this is what you're asking for? if not, i hope it's just useful to someone somewhere.