#jaytim ghost hunters

[ladytauria]

hiiiii G4 and W4 for the ask game if you're still doing it

yes i’m still doing it <3

answering these out of order bc i’m really bad at picking just one line haha

W4. Is there a fandom you haven’t before but want to try in 2025? (Or a fandom you’d like to go back and write more for in 2025?)

TBH, I’ve never been good at participating in more than one fandom at a time. I can read for multiple fandoms but writing… Just one. I’ve never known why that is, haha. So, I’d like to keep sticking around in DC for a while longer, I think

But… If I could write for more than one fandom, I would love to go back & finish the fic I’d started for SRMTHFG. I also have several unfinished fics for other fandoms, but IDK if I would ever actually end up having them see the light of day ahskjd

G4. Give me your favorite line from a current WIP.

I love the dialogue from the opening scene for my ghost hunters wip. It’s loosely based on buzzfeed unsolved, though more the fandom joke that the skeptic of the two ghost hunters is actually a demon in disguise shskjdk

“No,” Jason says flatly. “Absolutely not.”

“C’mon,” Tim wheedles. There’s a stubborn set to his jaw, his shoulders. He’s not the kind of person to let go of an idea, once it lodges in his brain. Jason admires it; the sheer force of will packed into all five feet and eight inches of him. He also hates it, especially when it leads to scenarios like this, the two of them on opposite sides, and unwilling to back down.

Because Jason is stubborn too. “No, Tim,” Jason says firmly, digging his metaphorical heels in. “I can think of oh, about a dozen better ways for us to spend our time.”

Tim frowns at him. Jason hates how adorable he finds it; hates the irrepressible urge he feels to smooth it away, perhaps with his own mouth. Tim jabs a finger at Jason’s chest, though the diner table between them keeps him from making contact. “You’re just afraid we’ll find proof, and you’ll have to eat your words.”

Jason scoffs. “Hardly.” He bats Tim’s hand away.

Tim isn’t actually far off the mark. He wants to go ghost hunting—no, more than that, he wants to start a ghost hunting show, exploring Gotham’s more haunted areas, and Jason… well. Jason is worried that they’ll find something. Not because he’ll have to eat his words, though, but because it could be dangerous.

If they stick to the locations that most people considered “active”, they’ll be fine. Those places aren’t haunted, not really. Maybe they had been once, but now it’s all residual energy, brought to life by overactive imaginations and nerves.

But Jason knows Tim—has gotten to know him quite well, over the past couple of years—and he knows that, while he may start with the popular locales, he won’t be satisfied with them forever. That’s charted territory. Tim prefers the unknown; the unexplained. So he’ll go digging, and probably find reports of places that are actually haunted.

And considering that this is Tim, who can find trouble just by walking down the street… well. It’s a recipe for disaster.

Not that Jason can say any of that. As far as Tim knows, Jason doesn’t believe in any of that bullshit. (Honestly, most of the stuff Tim talks about is bullshit, so it isn’t even that hard to pretend.) Jason wants to keep it that way.

Is it cruel, to lie to his best friend the way he’s doing?

Yeah, probably.

But it’s keeping Tim safe, so Jason never lets himself feel bad about it.

“I’m actually worried about you, I dunno, tripping over a raised floorboard and ending up with tetanus, or something,” Jason says. Which, to be fair, also a real fear, if less pressing.

Tim scowls at him and kicks Jason’s knee under the table. “I’m not that bad,” he protests. “And, anyway, even if I was, that’s what you’d be there for. To keep me from getting tetanus.” Tim smiles winningly, and Jason knows he’s lost.

[ladytauria]

for the "5+ headcanons" I'd like to hear about the buzzfeed unsolved au you posted a wip of recently!

❤️💖🥰 thank you for indulging me, candy!

this is inspired by binging buzzfeed unsolved, & also all the comments on the videos that are like “shane is a demon protecting ryan.”

Tim is a hardcore believer, who desperately wants to find proof of the paranormal. Jason IS the paranormal, but plays hardcore skeptic. (While secretly batting the actual ghosts/demons/whatever away with a metaphorical broom.)

Tim is REALLY good at sniffing out actually haunted places. Jason was v much hoping Tim’s quest would take them to places people THOUGHT were haunted, but weren’t. But no. Tim is good at what he does, damn him.

Tim is also a supernatural magnet. Places with only mild activity become way more active when he’s around. Jason is going to go completely white if this keeps up.

Jason may or may not have died in this AU, I haven’t decided yet. (I lean towards yes.) Before, he was a medium—much like Bruce. After, well. Now that he’s touched the other side, he’s more connected than ever.

Tim starts to have suspicions about Jason by site #3 or so. He knows he saw Jason’s eyes glow, once. & it’s so weird how he never sees anything, or how activity seems to stop when he comes in. & he wanders off alone WAY too much. To say he’s not happy when he finally confronts Jason is an understatement.

& that’s what i’ve got! i have some vague thoughts on the batfam’s different psychic abilities / connections, but i haven’t figured out all of them yet.

thank u again for asking!

[ send me an au & i’ll give you 5+ headcanons about it! ]

[ladytauria]

the ghost hunting wip’s summary is better than i remember it being 

so while normally this would stay in my notes, just for me… i will post it instead xD

Gotham has long been a place of supernatural power. No one is quite sure why—if it was something the founding families awoke, or something they were drawn to all along. Regardless, she has more than her fair share of supernatural entities roaming her streets. Some are benevolent. Some are not.

The Wayne family is dedicated to the study of psychic abilities and supernatural creatures; discreetly funding their research, as many of their heirs have been blessed (or perhaps cursed) with varying abilities. After the deaths of Thomas and Martha Wayne at the hands of a malevolent creature, however, Bruce Wayne became dedicated to cleansing Gotham and keeping its people—aware and unaware of the supernatural—safe.

One of the creatures that has plagued Gotham is a trickster being known as “the Joker.” It goes through long periods of dormancy, and awoke during Bruce’s crusade. (It is also possible that it may have been responsible for the deaths of the Wayne sires.) It has a particular grudge against Bruce, seeing him as Gotham’s chosen Champion, and thus, its mortal nemesis. It desperately wants to see him suffer.

In its crusade, it targeted Bruce’s second son, Jason. It tortured him brutally before killing him.

What the spirit didn’t know, however, is that while the Waynes (and especially Bruce) are among Gotham’s favored Champions, Jason is Gotham’s favored son. Unwilling to let him stay dead, Gotham revived him, filling him with her power. In response, Jason is now more powerful than he once was, with abilities he doesn’t truly understand—and a strange hunger he isn’t sure how to sate.

Gotham wants him, like Bruce, to protect her people—to soothe the spirits caught in old webs and exorcise the malevolent beings that plague her streets. Jason will learn that eventually. Until then, however, his family is glad to have him back home—feeding the public a story about his faked death, real kidnapping, and eventual return.

Its after this miraculous return that Jason meets Tim—a fervent believer in the supernatural, despite being, by all appearances, powerless. He’s passionate, loyal, and doesn’t seem phased by Jason’s weird comments or odd aura. They become friends, and eventually, Tim talks Jason into starting a ghost hunting show with him—Gotham Ghosts. Jason isn’t enthused, but knows that Tim would do it anyway... and being a walking trouble magnet, likely end up dying or worse.

So he goes forth with the web-serial, and... well. Eventually, Tim gets too close to something dangerous, and finds out what Jason—and the rest of the Waynes—really are.

[ladytauria]

wip meme: air or water!

thank you!

i decided to search my entire wip folder and i had SO MANY for air but

Jason sighed. “Well,” he said, leaning back in his shitty booth seat, feeling the faux leather creak beneath him. “I always did like Old Gotham. S’gotta kinda charm to it, ya know?”

Tim beamed, and Jason’s heart skipped a beat. “This is going to be great!” Tim cheered, pumping a fist in the air, heedless of the way a couple other patrons glanced their way. It was Gotham, though, so they turned back to their own tables quickly enough. “I already have a ton of ideas for places we can visit. I was thinking that, in order to build up viewership, we’d start with some of the more popular places, you know? The ones everyone knows about, even if they don’t live here. Then maybe we do a couple of local gems.”

Jason hummed, feeling stirrings of fondness despite himself. “What’cha got picked out?”

i decided to go with this! i started writing this after binging all of Buzzfeed Unsolved: Supernatural.

basically: most of the Batfam are touched by the supernatural in some way---being mediums, psychics, etc.. Jason narrowly survived an encounter with the Joker (or maybe he didn't, but did manage to come back, as in canon. i haven't decided yet), & Tim hasn't joined the family. Tim IS, however, a hardcore believer, & wants to start a show exploring the huanted areas of Gotham. (& unfortunately for Jason, Tim also seems to be a supernatural magnet)

it's basically. Jason & his family are real-life mediums / psychics / in touch with the supernatural, and Tim is a hardcore believer. (&, unfortunately for Jason, a supernatural magnet)