Tim Drake secretly has owned a hero blog since before he had even first started out as Robin and maintained it long after he dropped the mantel for his own, Red Robin.
The blog itself consists mostly of theories and absurd candid shots of heroes he was able to grab discretely through the years. Nothing exposing or anything but still enough to generate interest to make his blog relatively popular.
Through this, he meets Alya Cesaire.
Another popular hero blogger who had the most INSANE theories for heroes he'd ever seen. Nothing Bernard worthy but more so insane because they were almost always right.
She also had extremely well taken videos of hero fights she collected and online interviews with small-time heroes.
The two become friends pretty quickly through their mutual love of blogging about heroes but often bump heads on who their favorite heroes are, how Tim keeps meeting all these heroes before she could even interview them and any theories they have.
With Tim trying his best to steer her away from being right and Alya being headstrong on her ideas and how they couldn't be anything but true.
(For Tim, his favorite hero is Nightwing, but for Alya, it's definitely Black Canary)
Anyways, after blogging together for a while and being annoying with each other, Alya eventually admits to her friend that she and her family are moving to France and she wouldn't be able to contact him for a bit due to the move.
Tim of course is understanding and wishes her well and the time passes as it usually does. He isn't really worried at first about his best friend, too used to her shenanigans as it is but the more time that seems to pass without any word from her, the more concerned he gets.
At some point, after a long case, Tim decides to check in on her and make sure everything is alright. And that's when he sees that suddenly, her account is just gone.
Tim panics.
Not only would Alya have never deleted her blog, but there would have been some traces of it at least somewhere despite it being deleted just from how much people interacted with her account.
But Tim just finds nothing.
Nada. Zip.
He's quick to go searching into Paris as a whole in search of her and runs into an even bigger problem. Paris as a whole city is completely ripped off the map as if it never existed at all.
And there seemed to be no way to get in touch with anyone there at all.
Tim has never been more distressed in his life and he practically pulls his hair out at not knowing anything about where his best friend is beyond the city.
Meanwhile, Alya is having the time of her life!
She's got new friends, a boyfriend, and she now lives in a city with a real life superhero duo and villian!
Yes, it sucked that the villain was an emotional terrorist and Paris is basically under military level lock down until the situation could be taken care of, but now she finally had something to hold over Tim's head.
Interviews and pictures with brand new heroes that Tim had never met!
She had never felt more excited in her life as she posted updates each time on Paris hero situation to her blog.
Alya has absolutely no clue the panic she just put Tim Drake through when he finally manages to bypass through Paris servers on the batcomputer to see a live feed video of her running towards a dangerous monster destroying the Eiffle tower on her blog.
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Or basically
Alya Cesaire and Tim Drake are online besties and (slightly) rival hero bloggers for like over 4 years, and when Paris goes on lockdown due to an emotional terrorist Alya lowkey forgets to tell him she's alive and that there's a reason why she has been basically blipped out of existence entirely
As someone whose both into Maribat (even if I haven't been as involved lately) and BatPham/DPxDC its hilarious that people have come to the conclusion that yes;
The Bats are definitely getting involved with these tired teen heroes that just so happen to have black hair and blue eyes and totally Wayne Adoption Bait TM
Both end up needing the Bats' help because of the whole World's Greatest Detective shtick regardless of the premise (Anti-Ecto Laws and Uncovering Hawkmoth's ID)
If we're going to the Shit's Already Hit the Fan Route then both parties have concluded that the best place to lay low was definitely the crime capital of America; Gotham City
(Even if they do so they try to stay under the Bats radar because of his no metas allowed rule (thats fanon btw) even if neither actually qualifies as metahuman (magic and a medical condition really)
Jason definitely has something going on because of the Pit that can be cured/treated by means of magic or ghost shit
Constantine is probably involved or is getting dragged into this mess whether he wants to or not
(If involved Captain Marvel probably has passing knowledge about the GZ or Miraculous)
Both Danny and Marinette being smol and no one expects them to be Stronk
Same duo also has been thrusted into unwanted responsibilities apart from the whole Teen Hero thing at 14 (Mari's age is unfortunately still up in the air but I'm pretty sure that's her age during the origins eps, thanks Astruc)
(Speaking of pretty sure both fandoms disregard what the showrunners/creators say about the show also but thats besides the point)
(Ghost King Danny (fanon but v good idea) and Grand Guardian Marinette (canon unfortunately for her because sure why not give this girl more anxiety))
Government is corrupt and is probably the reason why these kids get no help from experienced heroes
I just find this all hilarious looking into it
Also the fact im like 75% sure that both group may have gotten hate from the main DC fandom because the crossovers were seeping into their tags too
Ok, So apparently some people agreed. I want you to introduce that is the chaos twins that Marinette and Danny will ensure, in this... au? Jason would be the one adopting them. You're not going to tell me that Jason wouldn't adopt them almost immediately after finding them.
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Jason: What have you got there?
Danny: A knife!
Marinette: A Gun!
Jason: *Sniffs* I'm so proud..
Jason:
Jason:
Jason: WAIT STOP!
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Danny: Wait...Does this mean, we're the new RotBTD?
Marinette: *gasp* WE. ARE!!!!
Danny: Okayokayokay! You're obviously Rapunzel, cuz artist and sunshine and you have a kind of animal companion.
Marinette: You are Jack Frost!! Y'know white hair, people can't see you. Kinda depressed??
Danny: *gasp* I. AM. Jack. Frost!!
Marinette: We just need to find Merida and Hiccup!
Danny: .... Damian could be Merida.
Marinette: OH.MY.GOSH! YES!!!!
I have a question to the Maribat fandom, has an AU based on Batman Beyond been done? And I'm not talking Marinette in Terry's time during Marinette's teen years, but as an adult.
I'm watching Return to the Joker (all time favorite animated superhero movie for me) and the question came out of nowhere for me. I got the urge to watch again after seeing a "Where is/what happened to Dick/Nightwing in Batman Beyond?" video in my Youtube recommendations.
Been trying to figure out a kind of timeline to figure out who could work with this. You see the Nightwing uniform in one displays of the Hero suits, but Barbara mentions that Dick left to another city so Dick is still alive at least. And I'm guessing that this is during a time when Jason stays dead, since I didn't notice the Red Hood outfit.
I vaguely remember being told that Terry was related to Bruce in Batman Beyond, but it was basically through scientific means. I remember when I looked up Damian, Terry was listed as a "relative" and in a Trivia section, he was listed as a "prototype" for Damian in a sense. I used a fanmade wiki I think and there was like three different ones so I don't know how true this is.
I think this is supposed to be an alternative universe to I guess what is "canon" in Batman comics/cartoons/etc. So then I was thinking how could you fit an adult Marinette into this universe since it could be an AU. Make it a Timinette (despite Tim being married and having a family) or an AU where Marinette is biologically Bruce's daughter? Honestly Terry reminds me of Fanon Jason in Maribat fics so then my brain was like "Hey, why not make Terry a Jasonette kid?!"
To me, Terry looks like Fanon Jason, but minus the white streak in his hair. I mainly blame the jacket... And like I said, his personality makes me think of Jason.
Now I tried to figure out if this could work as a Daminette but... I couldn't really see it and I was trying to be different.
Here were some ideas I had:
- A Jasonette where Terry is possibly their kid, where Jason and Terry know of the Kwamis/Miraculous
- Marinette as a Wayne kid and maybe helps Terry out in secret
- Timinette where Marinette has been helping Tim recover and helps prevent Joker with the Kwamis
- Maybe a Daminette where the Miraculous Box is kept in the Wayne Manor and Damian gets a Kwami in adition to becoming the new Batman
- Terry becoming a Miraculous holder by accident or where he is trained to be a Guardian
Really I'm just trying to mainly figure out or rather just discuss how Marinette could fit into a Batman Beyond AU. Batman Beyond has always been my favorite since it felt so different when I was a kid, and hell, I'm a sucker for the Red and Black suit instead.
By the way, would Marinette at least appreciate Terry's suit in looks as in like "It's better than the Old Batsuits and Robin Batsuits" or would she be "NOT AGAIN! DAMMIT BRUCE!! I TOLD YOU TO LET ME HANDLE THE SUIT DESIGNING!!" Honestly I think she would probably hate the suit and maybe the aesthetics. But then again, red is her color as Ladybug...
The being of darkness loomed over the sorcerer just enough to make the magic air out a chillness around them both.
"You owe me a boon. And I am here to collect."
John didn't really panic, persay.
He simply stared up at the being made of pure shades and sighed, recognizing the magic surrounding them and feeling his soul sink down in annoyance.
Beside him, John felt the rest of the usual JL Dark members straighten up in attention towards the figure. They obviously felt the overwhelming power oozing out from the ancient concept but seemed content to let John deal with the situation until they were needed.
Bastards.
John only turned his attention towards the familiar Concept and huffed out a reply in between smokes.
"Plagg if you're going to be an arse about owing favors at least give me the pleasure of not acting so formally."
The shadow being looked down at the man in silence, making the entire room of magic users tense further. John could even feel Zatannas eyes on his back, probing him on what the hell he was thinking challenging a being, obviously of the Gods, disrespectfully.
Silence lingered for a moment longer before the being finally allowed his green eyes to be visible within the inky black darkness of his form, eyeing John with dancing mirth and humor.
"I request sanctuary." Plagg spoke up, his eyes returning to look over John and the group critically again.
The only difference now being the voice going from looming God to the squeaky annoyance John was used to.
"Sanctuary?" Diana spoke up from behind him, curiosity escaping in her voice.
Plaggs new form nodded towards her, eyeing her just as curiously before returning to face John.
"For my kit. He is unsafe in the bounds he was born into, and... I refuse to allow him to remain there."
John hesitated as he looked up at his old friend, concerned for the soft tone he was displaying while mentioning this 'kit'.
It raised so many alarm bells in his head that he almost thought, just for a moment, that Plagg might actually be bringing him a kitten of some sort.
"Your heir?" Zatanna whispered out, taking a step forward out of concern. It brought John out of his thoughts and back to the present, facing Destruction itself.
Plagg simply turned over to face her now, eyes sparking.
"My charge," He corrected gently.
"He is the wielder and holder of my magic. The magic that surrounds him in his original home is attempting to chase after mine, wanting to grant a wish"
Plaggs voice grew dimmer as he spoke of the wish, fading into something akin to hurt and grief. Something not usually found within the pure concept of destruction.
It made John feel confused. What the hell had this charge been through to cause this kind of reaction?
"Hes lost much and that is why I am entrusting you, John Constantine. And by extension, your team and those you trust, with his safety."
He had never heard Plagg so serious over anything, especially considering he never did take things seriously usually.
This was the same ancient that had destroyed the dinosaurs for the fun of it.
"We accept," Diana spoke with pride again, and everyone else was quick to agree in succession. John could feel eyes on his backside as the only one not to immediately agree to the task, which just makes him sigh exasperatedly.
"Fine." He sighed out, running his fingers through his hair roughly. What a crummy way to start the weekend.
"So it shall be done."
Plagg in his shadow form, grinned down at him impishly, showing off all his canines. It made the hairs on his arms stand up underneath his trench coat.
"So mote it be." Destruction parroted back, fufilling the boons promise.
The shadowy form began to whisp into nothingness, fading itself out of the JL office room as if it were simply dust and air flowing around the room.
"Take care of my charge, John. Til we meet again."
And with that, the shadow was gone, leaving only a tiny teenage figure behind in its wake. The teen seemed to shrink once he noticed he was being stared at, as if not really expecting people on the other side of Plaggs form.
He stared at the group with wide eyes for a moment, twisting the ring of destruction on his finger nervously and quickly reaching down to grab something on the floor beside him.
"Um hi?"
The teen stumbled a bit as he finally stepped out from where the darkness had once stood, looking slightly ashamed for some reason.
He reached out with a small and hesitant wave with his free hand, the other clutching a Ladybug themed backpack like it was his only lifeline left in the world. There was a smile stapled onto his face as he looked over the area, obviously unsettled by it.
"I'm Adrien"
John only sighed and pinched his nose, trying not to fall into distress in front of what was very obviously a child. One who looked ready to bolt at the slightest sign of movement from anyone in the same room.
Of course, he would somehow end up playing babysitter for the concept of destructions ward.
JL Dark had to take care of an on the run Adrien Agreste because Papillion started to specifically steal destruction magic itself from his kid, and it was hurting Adrien somehow.
So Plagg just kinda is like, "Hey John Constantine, you owe me a favor. Watch my child, " and throws Adrien full force at him. Don't ask where mari is bc idk I didn't think that far ahead!
One irrefutable, widely known fact about Marinette Dupain-Cheng is that she likes to have her friends around her at all times if she can.
If Marinette wants to work on commissions, then there's at least 3 people in her room just hanging out while she finishes her work. If she wants to go look around the Louvre for inspiration, then she's usually flanked by 4 of her friends and they go find Andres' cart after.
She’s very friend orientated.
It's just a fact.
Being this way has honestly led to some interesting on the fly hangouts for the entire Miracle Court. Overall her need to have friends around constantly led to one of the funniest events that she would ever host, Miraculous Game Night.
It started originally as a pretty standard night of just hanging out and playing games. Friendship and team building pushed together into one!
Theoretically, it should have worked out.
Obviously, it didn’t end up doing that.
From board games to video games, it was a genuine mess. Everyone in the Court was just too competitive to play any of the games properly, which led to stakes being upped and bets being placed pretty frequently.
All of those bets and stakes snowballed from there into a bigger mess. The team itself were all too close to each other to NOT know any tells the other may have.
Trauma bonding tended to have that effect on people.
Somehow, even with all of that to face, a normal person who never met them would probably think, 'It couldn't possibly be any worse than that, right?'
But Mari knows better.
She also knows she'd laugh at that person before shoving them out the door, laughter trailing behind them like she was a crazy maniac.
Imagine a group of rich kids betting against each other while also being trauma-bonded, unable to lie to each other since they can read your every move and add in tiny concepts of ancient god-like beings attached to each of those rich kid players.
The problems just spiraled worse.
From a snowball to a snow avalanche.
It ALSO didn't help that these gods helped their charges to cheat each round if they felt like it. And that there was nothing anyone could do to stop them from doing just that if the Kwamis felt like it.
To combat this, Marinette had come up with a small form of punishment she liked to call the "Off Brand Geoguesser" round.
If a player in between rounds was caught cheating in any way, they were subjected to sit down in front of her computer with Google Maps opened up to a random location of their kwamis choice. The offender would have to then (in under 5 minutes) figure out where they were on Google Maps with only 3 movements in either direction.
The only one to know the true location, beyond the kwami, was the Guardian aka Marinette Dupain-Cheng. She would only reveal the answer if the cheater lost or if they somehow managed to guess right.
On top of that, their miraculi were confiscated temporarily to prevent further cheating.
If the player didn't get the answer in time then they lost whatever game they had originally been playing automatically. Even if they originally had been winning the entire game.
It added better stakes, strangely enough, and the team always needed to play the round at least once or twice on a single game night day.
The night they found out Batman's identity wasn't actually any different.
Luka had been subjected to the Timeout chair after it was discovered he had been using second chance to cheat in their game of uno. With Sass having chosen the location, Luka had maybe 3 more minutes to spare.
Marinette had honestly never seen him guessing faster.
She held his miraculi in her hand loosely, watching over the group as she lazily leaned against her ladder. Mari loved when they all got together for these nights.
It was something small to look forward to in the middle of a literal emotional war with a magic terrorist. As depressing as that thought was to think about.
Luka used his last click and his laugh brought her back into the moment as it echoed in the room. He had most likely noticed something that would help him narrow down the location even further.
Mari looked around his tall frame to see the Wayne Manor entrance, something she only even knew from research for their grade wide field trip next week, and can’t help but shake her head.
Of course he would somehow get lucky playing the punishment game.
She just watches as Alya immediately starts to argue with Luka, screeching about how unfair this was that he got a location so easy and that he had to have cheated a second time somehow. Adrien rolled his eyes beside her before taking a moment to smack her side with a pillow in an effort to protect Luka silently.
All that does is make the room explode into different sets of people fighting. Chloe and Nino jumped on top of Adrien to smother him with their own pillows from home from behind right after Alya was attacked.
Sabrina looked determined to fight with Chloe to defend Adrien, grinning as she continuously smacked the trio with her pillow. Luka was laughing so hard at the fighting that Mari watched as he had to catch himself from falling off her roller chair and breaking it.
His laughter earned him a pillow to the face.
Kagami and Felix were the only ones not involved in the slightest, taking their standing right next to Marinette the second it had even started.
“How long do you think they'll take this time? 5 minutes? 10?”
Kagami snorted at Marinette's question, arms folded across her chest as she watched over their group of squabbling friends.
“I'd say 20.” Felix replied dryly for the both of them, eyes sparkling with amusement despite frowning at the group below them.
It all goes wrong before Marinette can even open her mouth to reply to both of them.
"Is that fuckin Bruce Wayne?" Escapes from someone's mouth in the room, effectively cutting off any fighting from continuing and making everyone look over to the computer to see.
There, in all his rich kid glory, was Bruce Wayne. He was covered in all sorts of bruises, or at least seem to be since it was still pixelated, as he stood in front of Wayne Manor. He stood there, shining on screen in the most accurate looking Batman costume she had ever really seen.
Too accurate to be even considered a fake costume at all.
Marinette couldn't really look away from the screen at that revelation, feeling all of her life flashing before her eyes as her mind ruins through a million world ending scenarios at once.
The room stayed silent for a long while as Marinette started to mentally plan how to deal with this information before Chloe broke all her worries with a half caring shrug.
“Yeah this makes sense."
Alya jumped up shortly after to rebuttal that comment with a large "WHAT!?" and Adrien just nodded beside her in agreement, as if he had known it all along. The action just made Nino react and Alya looked burned thoroughly by his betrayal.
Bruce Wayne being Batman was very weird, but if Chloe wasn't too worried over it then Marinette wouldn't be either.
Having planning for if Batman came to deal with them over this wouldn't hurt though...
Everyone talks about how much Marinette is Wayne adoption bait in the Mirabat/Maribat au but nobody ever mentions how much Kagami is also Wayne adoption bait but on a more sensible scale.
Her mom is literally a villian (she is aware of it as of cannon but she obviously doesnt approve) and she's like an OLYMPIC LEVEL FENCER alongside Kendo and ARCHERY. She fits the Wayne bait with blueish blackish hair and obvious trauma. She absolutely has a fair amount of trauma and probably isn't dealing with her mom being Hawkmoths AND POSSIBLY CHRYSLLIS'S funder and helper.
She is literally a super-hero in her spare time and is aware of Ladybugs identity. Shes got a super intuition and honestly pays WAY more attention to you then you'd think, she also learns things ridiculous fast (in terms of skill). I think beyond Damian, Kagami would relate to Cassandra the most.
Cassandra and Kagami would absolutely just be able to understand each other without words, like telepathic twins. They both grew up with expectations from their parents to be something they ultimately dont believe in and would just understand each other from that.
She'd also probably get along with Tim and Duke because they both remind her of Marinette, someone she deems to be her CLOSEST and most trusting friend due to how kind and genuine Marinette is. She sees Mari in Tim from the need to overplan everything down to the T, and it amuses her to be the voice of reason to another person again.
She sees Mari in Duke in the never ending hope he has for his family and Gotham to get better and be better, something Marinette acts as a symbol of both in and out of costume for Ladybug.
Kagami would adore them. She'd have to get used to the idea of siblings but trust me guys she would probably love them so much.
Like just imagine Kagami would read for Cass in the library or Kagami doing acrobats with Steph and Dick because she used to practice acrobatics while under her mothers care for her olympic training and she misses it or even just her and Jason being able to be in the same room for 5 minutes in comfy silence because they just are each others silent comfort people
LIKE GUYS???
hEAR ME OUT PLS
Have Kagami be adopted into the Wayne Fam in ur fics guys trust me she belongs with them too I swear wait where are you going-
I feel like Alya, as a journalist student wanting to become a reporter in the future and owning a blog in her youth, would probably know a lot about PR and keeping up with trends and keeping engagement up.
And I feel like it'd be really funny if, for some odd reason, she chose to go to Gotham-U to get her journalism degree instead of directly to Metropolis (maybe it's cheaper who knows why she went one city over lol) like she planned. But because of this decision, she has only two realistic options for internships.
One of them is the Gotham Gazette with Vicky Vale and Vicky Vale is the scariest and most demanding woman Alyas ever met (Vicky is Alyas version of Style Queen and it makes her shudder) so she honestly would rather drown in the Gotham river then work for her for a semester and/or longer.
The other is as a PR intern directly under Bruce Wayne at Wayne Enterprises.
Her choice was pretty obvious, honestly. She just wasn't expecting to somehow become a voice of reason for Bruce Wayne any time that man wanted to post anything on ANY of their official accounts.
She also wasn't expecting Bruces children, the same ones who were practically royalty to all of Gotham, to be real-life gremlins.
In a way, Alya feels like she's just back to babysitting Ella and Etta in her youth while looking over the Wayne kids social media accounts. They're constantly doing something that makes her bang her head against her desk. And she has a theory they're doing it on purpose like some strange kind of test.
(This theory is only based on the time Alya screamed in mute agony about a headline featuring Tim and Jason trying to out skate each other on a public landmark, and Tim walked by and smirked into his coffee at her reaction)
She personally hates all of them. No, she doesn't. Even Cassandra has her on her toes sometimes. So yes, she hates them.
Except for Damian, strangely enough. Damian just unnerved her because of his old kid English, but she was also way to used to it after growing up with Felix Fathom of all people.
Alya is the only thing holding Bruce Wayne and his gaggle of teenage annoyances and unhinged adult children back from tanking the company itself with the Gotham Public. They're insane and making her get gray hairs at 20 years old! Something she reminds anyone nearby while sobbing dramatically much to Marinettes amusement whenever Alya retells tales of the insanity working in that office.
But working there leads to situations like this happening often:
Alya Cesaire, recently hired pr intern at Wayne Enterprises: Mr.Wayne please-
Bruce with his blinding playboy smile: Call me Bruce, Ms.Cesaire!
Alya, exasperated: Bruce, then. We can not recreate the babies' typing answers trend and give your teenage children access to the companies official Twitter account!
Bruce: But look at them. They're basically babies!
Tim Drake (17) with the most innocent smile but feral look in his eyes, Cassandra Cain (also 17) next to him also smiling gently and waving at Alya.
Alya pinching the bridge of her nose while muttering under her breath: You get paid more here than being at Gotham Gazette. You get paid more here than being at Gotham Gazette. you get paid more here-
