so picking up Reversal Alien again
TW: death, murder and attempted kidnapping (no this is not powerpuff girls, not pulling a, sugar, spice and everything nice, i’m pulling an everything all tears here.)
Part 3 of this saga: (someone make a fanfic already goddamn, don’t force my hand and make me make a series)
Does bruce have parents? i asked myself? like what happened to Martha and Thomas wayne and i was like… good… question.
Get ready for some heartbreak folks.
So Bruce comes from a rare species of aliens like imagine the kyrptonians rich planet full of life, that but the species is far and in between, endangered one would call it, why? Because of alien hunters.
Which i believe would totally exist and have to be stopped by the GL.
because of the species being so hunted Martha and Thomas learnt how to fight obviously?? how to wrap wounds, they’re more human under the shadows then you would believe.
This doesn’t stop an alien shooting them point blank after they try to struggle from not being captured, young Bruce who wasn’t all just shadows then, his body forming to what the world shows him, he could be a being of shadows and yet a being of shadows like the moons kindness.
His shadows had formed around him like a wall of protection, like they were the sirens call, like they were to drag you under and never release you from the darkness if you so much as looked at him wrong.
Their ears entirely shaping through genetics and how the world raises them, bruce’s are sharp, his father had slightly rounded sharp ears and Martha had rounded curled ears, his are straight and sharp like he’s obsessively waiting to hear the sound of those footsteps again.
He saw firsthand how cruel the galaxy is, a stocky built alien getting too frustrated to knock out two grown aliens so he shoots them instead and runs to kidnap the cub, the guppie.
Bruce however just like his parents fights and he fights hard, just in time for a green lantern to show up and ‘save him’ but not to save his parents who are dead and wounded.
And well, nobody wants to take in an emotionally distraught and disturbed child, he’s all but alone, which is why he can only speak in chirps and coos like a bird.
His species does have a proper language, it’s a garble of more bird sounds but words do come out occasionally, unfortunately nobody was around to raise him to grow out of the stages of not just chirping like a child and trilling when he wants something and he finds comfort in not properly communicating the sounds he needs to speak.
Humans believe this is normal.
He likes that they believe it’s normal.
A mask one could call it.
He survived his child and teens barely and fled around the galaxy learning different skills much like normal human Bruce wayne had did until he met Alfred who promptly became his caretaker.
He was much younger when he met alfred but the calming voice and unknown language, the gentle hand on his shoulder reminded him far too much of his mother.
So he didn’t let alfred go.
And it became a pasttime, Gordon who was the next human to be met face to face, he wasn’t as kind as alfred but he made sarcastic? sarcastic jokes Bruce believed and joked like they were brothers.
Bruce didn’t have siblings. He liked Gordon. He swapped the cigarettes with some candy (you guys remember those candy cigarettes sticks we had as kids? if not search em up) he found in shops and Gordon despite noticing always pretended to not, just smiling ahead.
And then came along … Clark.
Finally Bruce knew why his parents always talked about having that little click in his brain go after meeting someone he’ll love, the simple urge to domesticate them and be domesticated for them.
The want to have a push and pull, let you trust them entirely and trust them back.
So maybe he let his shadows down eventually, Clark who wasn’t already planning to get Bruce acquainted with his four sets of parents— his friends like they were married.
i love how this started out as a joke prompt as well like ‘oh hey what if the roles were reversed?’ and now i’m fully immersed in it, curse you Tumblr. you can take my first born child but not my dignity
(GUYS I SWEAR TO GOD. if someone hasn’t write a fanfic i will. i’m getting that irritable itch.)
To add on: I said nothing changed much with the batkids so i’ll clarify here.
Dick found weeping after his parents death, Bruce can’t helping him self seeing a guppie immediately kidnapped the kid and took him to alfred like ‘son.’, dick was confused and entirely wary at first but when he realised bruce meant no harm he stayed.
(Don’t worry Bruce asked Dick if he wanted to go.)
Jason: Jason was trying to steal from Bruce’s cargo supplies fresh and new from the green lantern corps because hey, if you’re gonna be an alien and be an alien on this planet don’t be so obvious, Bruce just swooped him up and took him home.
(I’ll talk about how jason dies in this au later but same story, except sad alien birb dad)
Tim: Tim after writing multiple hate posts from different ips and addresses to luthor’s ‘aliens are real channel’ was actually aware aliens were real after having stalked Bruce for many years far and inbetween, he ended up in the aliens sight and somehow as his son.
Stephanie: She just kinda came out of nowhere (she saw the alien goodies and deserts and hopped onto the ship and was like, hey you’re temporarily my dad for a day) but Bruce was all too happy to have a daughter, she got spoiled lots.
Cassandra: A villainess father and being so traumatised she was too much of a hardened warrior but just, once, once Bruce let down his shadows and trusted her, had faith in her and let her into the family on her own terms in a very slow and agonising ordeal, Bruce describes.
Barbara: not actually his daughter but if she wasn’t a gordon she would already be huddled into his shadow form and preened at.
Damian: Half alien. Yes Talia did it. with an alien, believing it would make the bloodline stronger ect, ect, she genuinely did love Bruce for a bit but love does not conquer over power, well love can make you do stupid things.
And those things lead to children, Damian has the talons, his ears are more sharper (but starting to curl in) with time and love and the shadowy wisps emitting from his hands and legs but apart from that the human gene mainly won over.
However in the dead of night, in the shadows, no human form remains, Damian blends in, his green eyes the only thing to peer back out at you and when he reaches his body is amass of pure shadows and darkness.
Like a werewolf of sorts switching with the day and the night, his body becoming more known when in it’s true environment, the dark, the deep.
Jason: “that kids gotta go bruce.” (something like him.)
Overall, they have their issues, famillial issues and yes they do brush past them like Bruce brushes past his species needs and his parents but he is always begging for his children back, his heart breaking if they don’t.
(Watch duke with his metahuman light powers be dragged in by sheer coincidence and everyone joking he could defeat Bruce with a single dash of light.)
Bruce’s weakness is not light.
