I want to get back into the habit of this but it might take a while before I do. At any rate. It's Sunday. Sentences be upon ye. :D
Barry can be a little oblivious sometimes. Not to say he’s self absorbed but he’s also not one to pay a lot of attention to strangers around him. Which is why when he gets down on one knee at Jitters and proposes to Iris at the same coffee table where they had their first date, it’s the happiest moment of his life so far. Because she said yes. Enthusiastically. So he doesn’t notice the blonde man in the back who watches in shock. In anger. And with growing resolution.
Gee, I wonder who this angry blonde man might be. And what he could be resolved to do. (This is from the fake arranged marriage AU I mentioned last night. Which I also started writing last night. hehehehe) The end goal is Westhallen here, but Eobard has to make a nuisances of himself first before Eddie even gets to meet Barry and Iris.
I'm including Laurel as a marriage law lawyer (amongst her many other specialties no doubt) because if I'm gonna have Barry and Iris consult a lawyer why would I pick anyone else?
My Jay/Tim supernatural AU has slowed progress down again, I think I jinxed myself. But I'll share a little of that here too.
At least Sheila wasn’t a ghost with him. No she’d passed on to whatever hell would have her after handing her son over to the fucking Joker. Bitch. Okay, so Jason was more than a little bitter about the kind of person his bio mom turned out to be. He’d deserved better than that. He’d deserved a lot better. But this was what Jason had. A house where his father couldn’t see him and his grandfather wouldn’t play go between for reasons that didn’t make any sense to Jason and an estranged brother whose temper was once again getting in the way of what Jason needed.
No superheroes AU with spiritual powers and ghosts on top. Bruce is a powerful spirit medium who helps with the police... or he was until Jason's murder at the hands of the Joker caused a psychological his powers. Much to ghost!Jason's irritation.
And while it'll be quite a long time before this goes far enough to actually post a fic for it, the full on Flash Arrow Full Cast Role Swap AU, lol. In which Barry is the Arrow (or will be anyway) and Iris is somehow both Laurel and Tommy as the Barry's bestie and unrequited crush.
“You sure about this?” Iris asked, giving the yacht a dubious look. “It’ll be fine, what’s the worst that could happen?” Barry retorted, rolling his eyes and knowing very well his best friend (and long time unrequited crush) would tell him exactly that. “You could find out too late you get sea sick for starters,” Iris replied. “Or that Becky isn’t the girl for you with nowhere to get away from her.” Well, Barry already knew Becky wasn’t the girl for him. And he wasn’t really the guy for her. But they were having fun together and that was good enough for a college romance in both their opinions. They both knew this wasn’t a relationship meant to last when they got into it.
Becky is doomed by the narrative (or is she? lol, if I ever get this AU into S2 Arrow territory, might she reappear as a shadow assassin???) and Barry's tempting fate. What's the worst that could happen? Stranded on an island perhaps? Paramilitary smuggler assholes shooting at him for having moral principles maybe? Long lost WW2 super soldier programs gone terribly wrong? And so so much more.
The intended ships thus far are Westhawn and Barrisco, as Iris will have met and fallen in love with Eddie Thawne while Barry was lost at sea. And of course Barry will be meeting Cisco after returning from his ordeal, over the course of setting himself up as a vigilante. Eobard will get to swap into Malcolm Merlyn's role, as Eddie's genocidal uncle who will be trying to take vengeance for the death of his beloved Jay Allen (Barry's uncle and cheerfully stolen from the 90s Flash where he was that Barry's brother, always doomed by the narrative poor Jay Allen) by blaming the murder on the entire social class in the Glades to justify himself.
That's the skeleton of the story I've got so far anyway.
And last, back over to the Batfam, another fic I'm leaning towards Jay/Tim on, but is mostly focused on Tim figuring out who he wants to be. It's an AU where Jason didn't die when the Joker tried to kill him and so Tim never became Robin. Instead he eventually put more effort trying to make his parents proud of him, only for them to constantly let him down.
Tim graduated high school at sixteen, having done everything his parents wanted. He skipped two grades and struggled socially but had near perfect grades which they nitpicked on but… they seemed proud of him. In their distant way. Smiling benevolently from afar and breaking promises to be there for his birthday or thanksgiving or new years or… But graduation was supposed to be different. They’d talked for weeks about the photo op potential and how Tim was lined up for MIT which would make a great talking point for them in interviews and… and somewhere in there they were excited for him. He was sure of it. But they aren’t there in the morning. They aren’t there when Tim has to leave or risk being late and not walking the stage. They aren’t there when Tim looks into the crowd hoping to see them in their empty seats.
They aren't there because they died and Tim hasn't been alerted yet, which kicks off the rest of the story. Tim picking up the pieces of himself he discarded trying to be the good son now that his parents aren't there to judge him for being himself anymore.