I neeeed to get back to SUYF, but maybe in order to do that, I should get some of the plot bunnies bugging me out into the open. Apparently reading too much Wonder Woman in one sitting will do that.
🔲Powerless crossover. Jackie has a dark secret. She was one of several civilians who died in Bludhaven, but was resurrected (and de-undeaded, if that’s a thing) during the blight of the Black Lanterns. Unlike most people who tried to simply return to their lives, Jackie also suffered from amnesia, and had no idea who she had been before.
Despite her lack of past, she built a new life for herself in Charm City by having a daughter and becoming the secretary for Van. She had things mostly figured out until the young CEO of Wayne Tech came to visit. Jackie’s world turned upside-down when Timothy Drake-Wayne grabbed her shoulders with shaking hands and whispered, “Dana… is it really you?”
Now Jackie finds herself with a forgotten step(?)son who’s known too much loss to forget he saw her. Her life is about to get complicated.
🔲Tim/Cassie Childhood Friends AU (That could be in the Young Justice Cartoon ‘verse). Jack and Janet prepare go to an archeologist expo and find that the theme of “legacy” is encouraging all the attendees to to bring their children. So for once, they take their son. Helena Sandsmark also attends and brings Cassie and thus she and Tim meet, and get along swimmingly.
The Drakes do not bother to bring Tim to other events, much to Cassie’s eternal disappointment. Fast forward to a couple years later, Nightwing is apologizing to Cassie about all the protocols of secrecy that prevent him from telling her his name or the name of the Robin she’s about to meet. But she finds… it’s him.
Tim privately freaks out and tries to warn Cassie of Batman’s paranoia and now the REAL secret is that Cassie has already figured out half the bat-fam’s ID’s through her childhood friend.
🔲 Tim/Cassie Lazarus Pit AU. Post OYL, Tim wakes up and something feels utterly horribly WRONG. Cassie is crying and apologizing, and Tim can feel something horrible practically trying to rise up out of him. It’s the bloodlust of the Lazarus pit. Tim died on a Titan’s mission, and Cassie couldn’t bear it. While the pit wouldn’t work for bringing back any of the others they lost, Tim’s body was enough in one piece that Cassie could cut a deal with Ra’s al Ghul and bring Tim back. Cassie must now perform labors for the immortal like the demigods of old, and Tim remains with her as they both struggle together with the debt and the madness.
🔲Tim/Cassie Midsummer Night’s Dream Curse. Post OYL. Circe is out to mess with the wonder-fam and Tim is helping Cassie when he get hit with a potion of cupid’s tears, making him doomed to fall embarrassingly head-over heels for the first person he lays eyes on. Smart boy that he is, Tim immediately blindfolds himself so he won’t lay eyes on anyone.
But danger and frustration occur, and Tim eventually figures what the heck, he’s gonna have to work out how to get un-cursed anyway and he trusts Cassie, so he undoes the blindfold to help her.
The result is initially anticlimactic. Tim’s ostensible passionate devotion doesn’t look much different from his friendship. And Cassie… Cassie is suffering from incredible loneliness and abandonment at this point in time, so a Tim who’s a little extra clingy, a little more inclined to kiss and cuddle, and prefers to stay at the Tower rather than return to Gotham is… addictive.
But when problems escalate in Gotham, and Tim still refuses to leave to help his family, it becomes a stark reminder that his curse is actually a problem that needs fixing.
🔲Tim/Tam protection detail. When a stalker targets Tam specifically, she decides to forgive Tim enough to call on him for help. The new villain, however, is hard to trap. Circumstances call for Tim to guard Tam closely. Very closely. Living in her apartment levels of closely.
🔲Tim/Tam (Not Entirely) Fake Wedding Date. Tam has a longstanding rivalry with her cousin who is getting married. She must have a date for the wedding, and no date is going to be more impressive than her CEO boss. She tells Tim that things will be square between them if he helps her. He readily agrees, though it quickly becomes clear that he doesn't know what the heck he's doing. Tam was not prepared for him to be so cute while trying so hard.
🔲 OYL Jason/Donna. A recently-resurrected Jason is running an errand for Talia outside of Gotham, when he get’s stopped by Wonder Woman. Who, at the time, is Donna Troy. Somehow, arrest becomes intercession, which ends up morphing into a date.
🔲Flash S3 finale Angst AU. (spoilers!!!!!) Savitar agrees to reform, and Barry sacrifices himself to the speed force to live up to his word that Savitar will not be treated as disposable again. Devastated as she is, Iris is the only one willing to open her home to Barry's formerly evil double. The nights are lonely. Except when they're riddled with guilt instead.
🔲Flash S3 finale Crack AU. (spoilers!!!!!) Barry is not summoned into the speed force. Savitar again gives Barry's reformation idea an actual try. He decides after the first awkward night of sleeping on Barry and Iris's couch that if he can't be murderous about his fate, he can still be obnoxious about it. Cue publicly introducing himself as Barry's edgier long-lost twin and dating all of Barry's exes. "What's the deal, Barry? I'm just giving more people a second chance."
